* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [Diversity and Inclusion Meeting on January 20, 2026.] [00:00:04] IS 6:04 PM UM, AND WE'LL DO ROLL CALL. OKAY. EXCUSE ME IF I GET GIRLS NAME. UM, ZEPEDA HERE. BELL LEWIS WILLIAMSON. HERE. HOLLINSWORTH NAME ZHI. HERE, NEE. OKAY. STAFF PRESENT IS CHRISTIE BARNES FROM COMMUNITY AND CULTURE OFFICER. AND ABBY PENTON, COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER. AND WE HAVE A GUEST WITH US TODAY, STAN HEIMER. HIMER IS HOW YOU PRONOUNCE IT. HIM. I KNOW IT'S SPELLED WRONG. . HELLO. FROM TOTAL ENGAGEMENT CONSULTING. AND I THINK THAT'S ALL WE GOT. THANK YOU. UM, PUBLIC COMMENT, WE DON'T HAVE ANYBODY HERE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT TODAY. UM, ALL RIGHT. GENERAL COMMENTS FROM CITY STAFF. UM, GOOD EVENING COMMISSIONERS. AND STAN, UH, JUST AS A REMINDER THAT, UH, TODAY IS MY LAST IN-PERSON COMMISSION MEETING WITH YOU ALL FOR AT LEAST THE NEXT 10 MONTHS HAPPENS. UM, SO ABBY, AS YOU KNOW, HAS TRANSITIONED, UM, INTO THE ROLE. SO I'M HERE TODAY, UM, TO HELP AS NEEDED. BUT, UM, ABBY'S GONNA BE HERE AND SHADOWING. AND THEN AT THE NEXT MEETING, UM, IT'LL BE ALL ABBY. UH, I AM NOT GONE. I'VE NOT DISAPPEARED OFF THE FACE OF THE EARTH STILL DOING THE WORK, SO PLEASE, IN ANY COMMUNICATION, UM, WHICHEVER WAY, JUST INCLUDE ME IN THE LOOP, UM, SO WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE TACKLING EVERYTHING TOGETHER. THAT'S ALL I HAD. DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING, ABBY? NO, I DON'T. I'M EXCITED TO WORK WITH YOU GUYS. THANK YOU. AND I JUST REALIZED THAT I SAID WE'RE GONNA INTRODUCE THE NEW COMMISSIONER, JUST DAMN, I JUST BULLDOZED RIGHT THROUGH IT, SO, OH, WELL, YOU HAVE A, UH, YOU CAN DO THAT ON ITEM SIX IF YOU WANT. ITEM SIX. WHAT DO WE HAVE? SIX. OH, OKAY. LET'S DO THAT. ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO ON THROUGH. UM, WE DON'T HAVE ANY CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES WITH US THIS EVENING. SO ITEM SIX, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM COMMISSION MEMBERS. LET'S START WITH THE INTRODUCTIONS, UH, SO THAT Y'ALL CAN FORMALLY MEET. WELL, HAVE YOU MET ABBY? I MEAN, YEAH. YEAH. I, I'M TRYING TO GET ORIENTAL, WHO'S, I CAME TO ONE BEFORE AND THAT'S WHEN I WAS ON SICK. THAT'S WHY I'M A LITTLE OFF, TOO. BUT GO AHEAD AND LET STAN TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HIMSELF AND HIS ROLE WITH OUR COMMISSION. Y'ALL CAN INTRODUCE YOURSELF TO HIM AND WHEN YOU GUYS JOINED US, AND I MEAN, HE'S GONNA HAVE TO BE A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER NEW PEOPLE TOO. STAN, GO AHEAD. OKAY. SO MY NAME IS STAN KIMER, AND AFTER A 31 YEAR CAREER AT IBMI FORMED MY OWN, UH, DIVERSITY, UH, UH, CONSULTING AND TRAINING COMPANY. AND I WAS ACTUALLY BROUGHT IN, UH, FIRST TO DO, UH, DIVERSITY AND EQUITY INCLUSION TRAINING, UH, FOR THIS COMMISSION, LIKE ABOUT FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO. AND THEN LATER ON, THEY BROUGHT ME TO DO SOME TRAINING, UH, WITH THE CITY COUNCIL. AND THE CITY COUNCIL KIND OF ASKED A REALLY GOOD QUESTION IS LIKE, WHAT DO WE DO FROM HERE NOW? AND WE REALIZED THAT, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO LEVERAGE, YOU KNOW, YOUR TEAM, THE COMMISSION, TO ACTUALLY DEVELOP A DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING STRATEGIC PLAN. SO I ACTUALLY LED, UH, THIS GROUP THROUGH THAT PROCESS TWO YEARS AGO, AND THEN LAST YEAR WE TOOK THAT STRATEGIC PLAN AND SAID, OKAY, NOW HOW DO WE IMPLEMENT AND EXECUTE IT? AND SO, AGAIN, I WORKED WITH THE COMMISSION TO COME UP WITH AN EXECUTION PLAN, AND NOW WE'RE KIND OF, I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF EXECUTION. WE'RE STARTING TO DO, UH, SOME OF THE TACTICS THAT SUPPORT, UH, THE STRATEGIC PLAN. AND THAT'S SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT, UH, LATER TODAY. UH, I BASICALLY HAVE SEMI-RETIRED, UH, AT THE END OF LAST YEAR, BUT I'M RETAINING LIKE FOUR OR FIVE OF MY FAVORITE CLIENTS WHO I'M DOING CONTINUING WORKFORCE. SO I'M NOT TAKING ON ANY NEW CLIENTS, BUT I'M CONTINUING TO SUPPORT THE CLIENTS THAT I'VE SUPPORTED FOR A WHILE. AND, UH, I AM LOCATED IN, UH, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. AND JUST ONE PERSONAL FACT ABOUT ME IS THAT AT THE AGE OF 59, WITHOUT ANY PRIOR EXPERIENCE, I DECIDED I WANTED TO BECOME A COMPETITIVE ADULT FIGURE SKATER. UH, SO I STARTED THAT JOURNEY, AND NOW I'M COMPETING ON THE NATIONAL CIRCUIT, UH, AS AN OLDER ADULT AND DOING REALLY WELL AND REALLY ENJOYING IT. PRETTY COOL. CONGRATULATIONS AGAIN. THAT'S REALLY NEAT. THANK YOU, MISS NICKY. UM, I'M NIKKI WILLIAMSON. I AM, UM, ORIGINALLY FROM CHARLESTON, SOUTH CAROLINA. AH, I'M ALSO, UM, AN ARMY VETERAN. UM, I'VE BEEN HERE IN TEXAS 20 SOMETHING [00:05:01] YEARS NOW. UM, AND I WORK IN HEALTHCARE, AND I AM THE CO-CHAIR OF OUR DEIB AND I, I'VE BEEN ON THE COMMISSION SINCE AUGUST. YEAH, AUGUST. AUGUST OR SEPTEMBER. NO, AUGUST, RIGHT? AUGUST OF 25. YEAH. AUGUST OF 2025. GOES BY FAST. YES. MM-HMM . ALL RIGHT. AND . HEY, UH, MY NAME IS MHI. I'M ORIGINALLY FROM INDIA. I'VE BEEN IN THE STATES FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS, UH, TEXAS, SIX YEARS, HAD TWO YEARS. UH, I'M AN ENGINEER, PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER, LICENSED IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA. . UM, YEAH, I LIVE, I GUESS, CLOSE BY. I'VE BEEN PART OF THIS BOARD FOR, UH, FOR ABOUT FOUR MONTHS NOW, STARTING IN SEPTEMBER OF LAST YEAR. WELL, I THANK BOTH YOU PUL, KITT, AND, UH, NIKKI FOR STEPPING INTO THIS IMPORTANT ROLE AND SERVING YOUR CITY IN THAT WAY. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR GETTING INVOLVED LIKE THIS. THANK YOU FOR TO WORK IMMEDIATELY. , I WARN THEM, DON'T MAKE ME THE CHAIR. SO, MOVING ON. SO, THANK YOU. UM, SO OTHER BUSINESS. SO ITEM SEVEN, THE 7.1 DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE APPROVAL OF DECEMBER 16TH MEETING MINUTES. DO WE HAVE ANY, UM, ACTION ITEMS OR COMMENTS FROM OUR DECEMBER 16TH MEETING ON THE MINUTES? OKAY. ARE YOU PULLING UP YOUR NOTES? SORRY, ARE YOU PULLING UP NOTES? DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS? YEAH, NO, UH, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING. I WAS JUST PULLING, UH, ALL RIGHT. IF THERE ARE NO REQUESTS OR CONCERNS OR COMMENTS ABOUT LAST MEETING FROM DECEMBER 16TH, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE HIM. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? THANK YOU. YOU GOT A SMALL GROUP? DO OKAY? ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY HOST, , SAY, UH, SAME. FINE. OKAY. IT LOOKS LIKE JAVI WANTS TO COME IN. OH, YEAH, THERE HE IS. HE DID ASK, SO JAVI JUST ASKED FOR THE LINK. SO GOING VIRTUALLY. GREAT. SO WE GO BACK. SO, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. GOOD EVENING. HI, JOHNNY. THANKS FOR JOINING US THERE TO BE. YEAH, IT, IT'S QUICKER FOR ME TO JOIN, JOIN THIS WAY THAN TO COME. IT'LL TAKE ME AN HOUR TO GET THERE. DOESN'T TALK ABOUT YOU THOUGH. ALL THOSE, CAN YOU SEE US? BECAUSE STAN IS ON THE CALL WITH US TODAY, AND THEN YES. YES. I CAN SEE YOU SEE STAN VERY CLEARLY. HEY, STAN. HOW YOU DOING? IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU, JAVI. YEAH. OH YEAH. ONE MOMENT. ONE MOMENT HERE. WELL, I SEE YOUR LITTLE PICTURE OF THE, OF YOUR, UH, FRATERNITY THERE, AVATAR. OH, OKAY. OKAY. UH, MOTION PASSES. THREE ZERO. SO JUDGE, YOU'RE COMING IN. WE JUST APPROVED THE, UM, MEETING MINUTES ON DECEMBER 16TH, AND WE'RE MOVING ON TO, UM, ITEM 7.2 ON OUR AGENDA, WHICH IS OPEN DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION AS IT RELATES TO ITEMS PRESENTED BY STAN KIMER FROM TOTAL ENGAGEMENT CONSULTING. SO, SO HOPEFULLY THIS IS, YEAH. SO HOPEFULLY THIS IS GONNA WORK. I'M GONNA DO SHARE. UH, ERIC'S COMING IN. DOING GOOD. DOING GOOD. GOOD. DID THEY SHOW? NO, IT'S NOT, NOT YET. NOT IN NOW. I LEARNED WE'RE GONNA GET ICE THIS WEEKEND. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE REALLY LOOKING WATCH OUT FOR. UH, DO YOU ALL SEE, DO YOU ALL SEE MY, UH, SLIDES? YES. YES, SIR. AND ARE THEY, AND, OOPS, GO ON. DID IT ADVANCE? YES. GOOD. OKAY. IT'S WORKING GREAT. MM-HMM . OKAY. SO BASICALLY ONE OF THE MAJOR STEPS IN THE EXECUTION PLAN IS TO LAUNCH AND START OUR FIRST THREE WORKING GROUPS. SO I'M GONNA TAKE YOU THROUGH A LITTLE BIT OF THE INFORMATION HERE, UH, THAT, UH, HOPEFULLY YOU ALL HAVE READ. UH, THE, THE ACTUAL STRATEGIC PLAN THAT HAS FIVE PRIORITY AREAS, AND ONE OF THE PRIORITY AREAS THERE IN THE BLACK IS TO ESTABLISH AN ONGOING SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURE FOR THE CONTINUED DEIB WORK IN [00:10:01] THE CITY OF HURO. AND SO, UH, THAT PRIORITY AREA HAD, UH, VARIOUS WORKING ITEMS AND WORKING ITEM 1.2 IN TERMS OF ESTABLISHING THAT INFRASTRUCTURE WAS TO COME UP WITH AT LEAST THREE FOCUSED WORKING GROUPS, UH, THAT CAN, YOU KNOW, HELP CONNECT WITH THE DIVERSE CITIZENS IN HURO AND, YOU KNOW, GET FEEDBACK AND INPUT FROM THEM. AND, UH, WE DECIDED THAT THE FIRST THREE GROUPS WOULD BE VETERANS, SMALL BUSINESS, AND SENIOR CITIZENS. AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE LOGIC, UH, BEHIND THOSE THREE GROUPS. AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT THE SHORT TERM DIB PLAN ACTION ITEMS, BECAUSE THE STRATEGIC PLAN, SOME OF THE ITEMS MIGHT TAKE TWO OR THREE YEARS. UH, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE IMMEDIATE ITEMS TO WORK ON FIRST, AGAIN, WAS ITEM ONE, TWO, UH, WAS TO, UH, ESTABLISH AND TRAIN, UH, THREE OF THE FIRST WORKING GROUPS. AND I DID PUT TOGETHER A WRITEUP AND IT WAS ANNOUNCED, AND, UH, AND IT, PEOPLE, VOLUNTEERS WERE SOLICITED. AND AGAIN, I'LL GO OVER THE RESULTS OF THAT, UH, IN A FEW SLIDES. SO, THE PURPOSE OF THESE WORKING GROUPS IS TO PROVIDE A CHANNEL FOR RESIDENTS TO VOICE THEIR NEEDS AND DESIRES, UH, AND ALSO TO, UH, SPONSOR ACTIVITIES THAT SUPPORT THEM IN THEIR GROWTH AND WELLBEING, BECAUSE CITIZENS APPRECIATE IT, RESIDENTS APPRECIATE IT WHEN THEY FEEL LISTENED TO, YOU KNOW, BY THEIR, BY THEIR CITY LEADERS. UH, AND WE DETERMINED THAT THE FIRST THREE GROUPS WOULD BE VETERANS, SMALL BUSINESS, AND SENIOR CITIZENS. UH, AND WE CHOSE, UH, THOSE THREE GROUPS BECAUSE PRACTICALLY ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF DIVERSITY, WHETHER YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT GENDER, TALKING ABOUT, UH, SEXUAL ORIENTATION, TALKING ABOUT RACE, TALKING ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, NATIONALITY, UH, BASICALLY, UH, THESE THREE GROUPS INTERSECT ALL OF THOSE. SO ALMOST ALL OTHER ASPECTS OF DIVERSITY CAN BE FOUND, YOU KNOW, WITHIN VETERANS, SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS AND SENIOR CITIZENS. AND, UH, AND WE WANT THOSE GROUPS TO MEET AT LEAST ONCE EVERY OTHER MONTH. AND THEN EACH OF THOSE GROUPS WOULD HAVE A, UH, DEIB COMMISSIONER AS THE INTERFACE TO THAT GROUP. UH, AND THAT IS, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE THE MAIN CONNECTION POINT BETWEEN THE COMMISSION AND THIS WORKING GROUP. UH, YOU HELP THEM RECRUIT MEMBERS, AND YOU MIGHT, UH, YOU KNOW, ATTEND SOME SELECTED MEETINGS TO PROVIDE INSIGHT AND ADVICE. YOU'RE NOT GONNA BE EXPECTED TO ATTEND EVERY MEETING. UH, SO, YOU KNOW, SO, SO YOU CAN KIND OF CHOOSE LIKE, WHEN DO THEY NEED YOU AT A MEETING? WHEN DO THEY WANT YOU AT A MEETING? YOU CAN WORK WITH THE GROUP TO SEE HOW OFTEN THEY WOULD LIKE YOU, UH, TO ATTEND. AND YOU ALSO REPRESENT AND COMMUNICATE THE GROUP NEEDS AND DESIRES, UH, IN COMMISSION MEETINGS. AND ALSO WITH THE CITY COUNCIL. THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THESE WORKING GROUPS, UH, IS TO PROVIDE INSIGHT AND ADVICE. UH, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GOING TO BE INTERACTING WITH, UH, CITIZENS WITHIN THEIR WORKING GROUP. UH, AND THEY'RE GOING TO, UH, YOU KNOW, ACTUALLY LISTEN TO THEM, FIND OUT FROM THEM, YOU KNOW, WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU FEEL MORE WELCOMED HERE IN HUDU? ARE YOU GETTING EVERYTHING YOU NEED FROM US TO FEEL LIKE YOU BELONG HERE? UH, AND THEY CAN PROVIDE, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF INSIGHT TO THE DEIB COMMISSION AND REPORT OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEY'RE HEARING FROM THEIR PARTICULAR WORKING GROUP. UH, THEY FACILITATE COMMUNICATIONS BY ACTING AS A BRIDGE, UH, BETWEEN THE CITY GOVERNMENT AND THE COMMISSION AND THE COMMUNITY. UH, THEY HELP, UH, YOU KNOW, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. THEY CAN ORGANIZE SOME PUBLIC FORUMS AND DISCUSSION GROUPS TO FOSTER DIALOGUE ON WHAT ARE THE IMPORTANT ISSUES TO THE CONSTITUENTS IN THAT WORKING GROUP. AND ALSO, UH, ORGANIZE SOME PERIODIC ACTIVITIES, UH, SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED TO CELEBRATE, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT PARTICULAR CONSTITUENCY. SO THEY FEEL INCLUDED AND THAT OTHER CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS OF HUDU GET TO APPRECIATE, UH, THESE THREE GROUPS. AND SO, UH, WE'LL BE TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME COMING, UH, TO DO A, UH, UH, DIFFERENT KINDS OF ACTIVITIES SOMETIME IN MARCH, UH, WITH THE WORKING WITH, WITH, WITH THE COMMISSION AND THE WORKING GROUPS. AND THAT WILL BE TO PROVIDE A TWO HOUR TRAINING, UH, TO THE WORKING GROUP VOLUNTEERS. AND THE PROPOSAL IS THAT I WOULD DO IT TWO DIFFERENT TIMES, AND THEY WOULD ALSO RECORD THE TRAINING SO PEOPLE WHO AREN'T ABLE TO ATTEND WOULD BE ABLE TO ACCESS IT. AND WHAT I'LL DO IS LIKE A QUICK TUTORIAL OF WHAT DO WE MEAN BY DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND BELONGING. KIND OF LIKE A-D-E-I-B 1 0 1, JUST TO INTRODUCE LIKE THE TERMINOLOGY. I WOULD GO OVER A SUMMARY OF HU DO'S, DEIB STRATEGIC PLAN, SO THEY UNDERSTAND HOW THEY FIT IN [00:15:01] AND HOW THE WORK THEY'RE DOING FITS IN WITH THE REST OF THE STRATEGIC PLAN. AND THEN WE'D GO INTO THE WORKING GROUP, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE, WHAT IS THE MISSION OF THE WORKING GROUPS? WHAT ARE YOUR ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES AS MEMBERS? WHAT DO WE EXPECT OUT OF YOU? AND WHAT CAN YOU EXPECT FROM THE CITY AND FROM THE DEIB COMMISSION? AND THEN WE WOULD JUMP INTO GETTING PRACTICAL, UH, IDEAS FOR DOING THE WORK. LIKE, UH, I WOULD BE ONE OF, ONE OF, ONE OF THE THINGS I'LL BE WORKING ON IS PUTTING TOGETHER LIKE A PLAYBOOK. HOW DO YOU RUN A MEETING? AND WHAT ARE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS YOU WOULD ASK TO GATHER INPUT? SO WE, I WOULD GO OVER GETTING PRACTICAL, WHAT ARE REAL PRACTICAL WAYS AND HOW DO YOU HOLD FORUMS SO THAT YOU CAN GET INPUT FROM YOUR WORKING GROUP? AND ALSO WE'LL DO SOME BRAINSTORMING, UH, WHAT KIND OF ACTIVITIES, YOU KNOW, CAN YOU MAYBE SPONSOR ME TWO OR THREE TIMES A YEAR, UH, FOR YOUR PARTICULAR WORKING GROUP. UH, AND WHILE SOME OF THE THINGS I'LL DO IS BETWEEN NOW AND MARCH, I'LL ALSO DO SOME OF MY OWN RESEARCH AND SEE WHAT OTHER CITIES HAVE DONE. UH, AND TO THROW, I CAN THROW OUT A BUNCH OF IDEAS THAT PEOPLE CAN CHOOSE FROM. AND THERE'LL BE TIME FOR QS AND ASS AS WELL AS THROUGHOUT THE SESSION. SO THESE, UH, JAVI? YES, SIR. STAN. I, I LIKE IT SOUNDS GREAT. QUICK QUESTION. UM MM-HMM . BECAUSE I GOT AN IDEA, I JUST WANNA THROW IT OUT THERE REAL QUICK. THAT QUICK OVERVIEW. COULD THAT BE CONDENSED TO LIKE, UH, A, A HALF A PAGER OR, OR ONE PAGER? BECAUSE WHAT I WANNA DO ONE DAY IS PRESENT IT AT A, A CITY COUNCIL MEETING IN A PARTICULAR AMOUNT WHEN WE'RE DOING ONE OF OUR PROCLAMATIONS. 'CAUSE PEOPLE DO HAVE A, A MISUNDERSTANDING EXACTLY WHAT DEIB IS. OH, YEAH. SO CAN YOU PUT THAT ON LIKE A, A ONE PAGER IN LAYMAN'S TERMS TO CLEAR? SO, UH, ONE DAY WE CAN JUST PRESENT IT TO THE, THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING AND WITH THE PUBLIC, NOT NECESSARILY FOR THE CITY COUNCIL, BUT FOR THE PUBLIC. ABSOLUTELY. UH, AND I THINK THAT I WOULD BE WILLING TO DO THAT AS PART OF THIS. 'CAUSE I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA IS TO, EVEN IF I GET, IF EACH OF THE WORKING GROUP MEMBERS, THEY'RE GONNA GET LIKE A 10 OR A 10 PAGE HANDOUT WITH THIS TRAINING. BUT HAVING LIKE A ONE PAGE SUMMARY, UH, AND IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHAT DO WE MEAN BY DEIB AND WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT FOR HUDA? UH, YOU KNOW, WHY IS THIS GOOD FOR EVERYBODY? YOU KNOW, A VERY, YOU KNOW, KIND OF VERY POSITIVE PERSPECTIVE BECAUSE OFTENTIMES PEOPLE HAVE A MISCONCEPTION OF DIVERSITY. THAT DIVERSITY IS LIKE THE DIVERSE PEOPLE VERSUS THE UNDIVERSE. UH, AND, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO MAKE THE POINT THAT DIVERSITY INCLUDES EVERY SINGLE PERSON AND THAT, THAT NOBODY IS LEFT OUT OF THIS DISCUSSION. AND DIVERSITY IS ALL OF US TOGETHER APPRECIATING THE UNIQUENESSES THAT WE BRING TO THE TABLE. SO I THINK IT'S REALLY GOOD TO TRY TO, I, I AGREE WITH DOING THAT. EXCELLENT. 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT YOU KNOW THAT, BUT, UM, MAYBE NOT EVERYONE YEAH. IN THE CITY HAVE A ACCURATE UNDERSTANDING. SO, YEAH. GREAT. THANK YEAH. SOME PEOPLE HAVE MISCONCEPTIONS. YEAH. SO THESE ARE THE KEY QUESTIONS. I THINK THIS IS MY LAST SLIDE. AND I ASKED THESE, I HAD A PRE-MEETING, UH, WITH, WITH ABBY AND CHRISTIE, AND THE FIRST QUESTION I ASKED IS, DID WE GET ENOUGH VOLUNTEERS? AND THE ANSWER IS YES. IN FACT, THIS IS LIKE THE PERFECT NUMBER. WE GOT SIX FOR VETERANS, SIX FOR SMALL BUSINESS, AND SEVEN FOR SENIORS. SO THAT'S AN EX. THAT'S EXCELLENT. AND THEN, UH, DID ANYONE VOLUNTEER TO BE LEADERS OF THE GROUP? AND NO ONE RAISED THEIR HAND TO SAY, I'LL BE THE LEADER. BUT SOME PEOPLE SAID, I WOULD THINK ABOUT IT OR WOULD CONSIDER IT. SO I THINK PART OF THIS TRAINING I'LL ADD IS THE ROLE OF THE LEADER AND ALSO TALK ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF HOW ALL THE OTHER MEMBERS SUPPORT THE LEADER. SO THE LEADER ISN'T OVERBURDENED AND EXPECTED TO DO MOST OF THE WORK. UH, BECAUSE IF WE MAKE IT MORE PALATABLE, YOU KNOW, AND MORE JUST WE MAKE IT EASIER FOR SOMEONE TO BE A LEADER, THEN MAYBE ONE OR TWO PEOPLE WILL STEP UP TO BE A LEADER OR CO-LEADER OF EACH OF THE GROUPS. AND THEN, UH, DO WE HAVE A-D-E-I-B COMMISSION MEMBER VOLUNTEERING TO BE A LIAISON TO EACH GROUP? UH, WE GOT, YES, NIKKI AGREED TO, UH, BE THE, UH, LIAISON TO THE VETERANS GROUP, BEING A VETERAN HERSELF. UH, KARINA IS GONNA BE WITH THE SENIORS, AND WE HAVE, ERIC INITIALLY VOLUNTEERED FOR THE SMALL BUSINESS, UH, BUT WE NEED TO VERIFY THAT 'CAUSE HE HASN'T BEEN AT A COMMISSION MEETING IN A WHILE. SO WE NEED TO FOLLOW UP TO SEE IF ERIC IS STILL INVOLVED AND IF HE WILL TAKE ON THAT ROLE, OR IF WE NEED TO FIND SOMEBODY ELSE TO BE THE COMMISSION LIAISON FOR SMALL BUSINESS. AND ERIC IS HERE TONIGHT. STAN. OH. OH, HE IS. [00:20:01] OH, HE WAS, OH, WHAT HAPPENED? POPPED IN. HE'S IN PERSON. DO YOU WANNA, DO YOU WANNA SAY ANYTHING NOW, ERIC, OR? YES. I, I MIGHT AS WELL. . I MIGHT AS WELL. NO, UH, STAN, THAT'S A GOOD POINT YOU BROUGHT UP. THAT'S A GOOD SEGUE OF WHY I'M HERE TONIGHT. BUT, UM, I, I DO THANK EVERYONE FOR, UH, IN MY ABSENCE, BUT IT WAS JUST ANNOUNCED WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN. UH, MY DEPARTMENT IS NOW GONNA REPORT TO OUR ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER OOH. FOR THE CITY OF AUSTIN, WHICH MEANS MY ROLE HAS BEEN INCREASED . SO I'M GONNA HAVE TO, UH, I TOLD CHRIS YOU OVER THE PHONE WHEN I WAS DRIVING HERE. I'M INITIALLY, I WAS GONNA HAVE TO STEP DOWN FROM THIS COMMISSION DUE TO, UH, YEAH. SOME GREAT THINGS ABOUT TO HAPPEN IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN. YEAH. CONGRATULATIONS. THAT IS THAT, IS THAT GOOD NEWS FOR YOUR DEPARTMENT HERE, TEAM? THAT IS, THAT IS EXCELLENT. YOU KNOW WHAT? NO, IT'S NOT. OH, . NO, IT IS NOT. BECAUSE IF YOU UNDERSTAND THE ECONOMIC CLIMATE THAT IS GOING ON WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN MM-HMM . UH, THIS WAS A MOVE MADE BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITY MANAGER. AND IT WAS JUST ANNOUNCED TO ME THIS MORNING AT NINE 30. WOW. AND SO, KNOWING THAT THIS IS GOING TO HAPPEN AND WHEN IS ALREADY IN MOTION, UM, I'M, MY NEXT STEP IS TO HANDLE A REORGANIZATION OF MY DEPARTMENT, BUT ALSO TO, UH, YOU KNOW, CARRY FORWARD SOME OTHER NEW PLANS THAT WE HAVE GOING ON WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN. AND I SAY THAT AT THE, AT THE, TO SAY THAT I JUST GETTING READY TO EXTEND AN OFFER TO THE FIRST ECONOMIST, OOH. THAT'S, HOW SERIOUS IS IT? THE FIRST ECONOMIST THAT THIS AREA HAS EVER HAD. WOW. SO, YOU KNOW, UH, I'M PROUD OF THAT. YEAH. . BUT, UH, AS FAR AS WHAT, UH, AS FAR AS LOOKING AT THE ECONOMIC, UH, CLIMATE THAT THIS REGION IS GOING THROUGH. YEAH. YEAH. IT'S, YEAH. SO YEAH. I, I HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, YEAH. FUN TIME FOR ME. I'M GONNA BE WORKING MORE HOURS. OH. UH, IS THERE ANYBODY THAT'S, IS THERE ANYBODY CURRENTLY ON THE COMMISSION WHO IS A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER OR WHO WORKS IN A SMALL BUSINESS? I'M A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER. , IS THAT WHO'S TALKING? I CAN'T SEE RIGHT NOW BECAUSE I, WHAT? OH, I AM STAN SINA. I'M A SMALL BUSINESS OWNER HERE IN HU. OH NO, BUT YOU ALREADY GOT, YOU ALREADY GOT THE SENIOR GROUP. YEAH. I'VE GOT SENIORS. I NEED DO A SWAP. YEAH. OR YOU WANNA DO A SWAP. UM, WHO ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING ONE OF THE GROUPS AS THE LIAISON ROLE? OR JAVI? ARE YOU INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING ONE AS A LIAISON TO ONE OF THE GROUPS? EITHER SMALL BUSINESS OR SENIOR CITIZENS? IT'S, IT'S JAVIE AND, UM, JAVIE. I'M SO SORRY. EVERY TIME I, ABOUT EVERY TIME SHE, YEAH. UH, YEAH. THING ABOUT THAT IS NOT THAT I DON'T WANT TO, I WOULD HELP WITH SMALL BUSINESS, BUT, UM, THE 150 COMMITTEE IS TAKING ON A BIGGER ROAD THAN I THOUGHT. MM-HMM . AND I DON'T WANNA NEGLECT, UM, THAT AND WHICH IS, 'CAUSE WE'RE GOING ALL THE WAY TO NOVEMBER WITH THAT WAS WHEN THE HUNDRED 50TH WILL CULMINATE. SO BEFORE THEN, UM, I DON'T WANNA NECESSARILY DECLINE OUR HELP. I JUST DON'T WANNA LEAD IT, IF YOU GET MY DRIFT. OH NO, IT DOES. AND THAT'S VERY UNDERSTANDABLE. THANK YOU. AND THEN, AND THEN, UM, COMMISSIONER, WELL, BODI ISN'T HERE THIS EVENING, SO, UH, WE CAN ASK HIM AS WELL. MM-HMM. ARE YOU INTERESTED IN BEING COMMISSIONER HOLSWORTH? OH YEAH. HOLLINGSWORTH. OH MY GOD, I HAVEN'T SEEN HIM. YEAH. AND ALSO BEING A LIAISON DOESN'T MEAN LEADING IT. UH, YEAH. WE HAVE TO BE, UH, WE HAVE TO BE VERY CLEAR THAT WE DON'T EXPECT THE LIAISON TO CONVENE AND LEAD THE GROUP. THAT'S TRUE. UH, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE PROVIDING INSIGHT, ADVICE AND ALSO YOU'RE THE ONE THAT THEY MIGHT SHARE WITH. SO YOU CAN REPRESENT THEIR NEEDS, YOU KNOW, TO THE, THE COMMISSION. AND JUST SO YOU KNOW, MR. I, I JUST, I JUST CAN'T TAKE ANYMORE ON ANY MORE EVENING MEETINGS AT, UH, FOR THE NEXT COUPLE MONTHS BESIDES THIS ONE AND THE ONE 50. THAT'S THE ONLY THING I WAS SAYING. I WAS JUST GONNA SAY THAT EVEN THOUGH I SIGNED ON TO SUPPORT THE SENIORS WORKING GROUP, I'M ALSO SIGNED UP TO BE A MEMBER OF THE SMALL BUSINESS GROUPS. SO WHOEVER LEAVES THE LIAISON THERE, I'LL ALSO BE THERE TO LET ADDITIONAL SUPPORT AS A MEMBER OF OKAY. I'LL DO IT THEN. IF THAT'S, IF THAT'S THE CASE, I'LL DO IT. DEFINITELY . SO THIS IS, UH, JAVI, YOU, YOU, UH, YOU, YOU AGREED TO, UH, TO SMALL [00:25:01] BUSINESS. SURE. GREAT. WONDERFUL. THAT WAS YOU. OKAY. THEN, UH, WE WANNA SET DATES AND TIMING OF THE TWO TRAINING SESSIONS AND, YOU KNOW, WE CAN MAYBE DO, YOU KNOW, WE, AND IT CAN BE, YOU KNOW, TWO DIFFERENT DAYS WITHIN, LIKE, WITHIN THE WEEK. AND WE COULD DECIDE, AND I'LL EVEN BE WILLING TO DO IT THREE TIMES IF WE WANT TO, YOU KNOW, MAYBE ONE DURING THE DAY AND TWO IN EVENINGS OR DIFFERENT TIMES. UH, SO WE CAN TRY TO COVER AS MANY OF THE VOLUNTEERS AS WE CAN. AND ALSO, UH, THE INTENT WAS THAT I WOULD ALSO DO, UH, AN OVERALL THREE HOUR, UH, MORE IN DEPTH, UH, DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING TRAINING, INCLUDING A DEEPER DIVE INTO THE STRATEGY FOR NEW, UH, COMMISSION MEMBERS. SO ALL OF YOU HAVE JOINED SINCE I WAS THERE, MAYBE A YEAR AGO. AND FOR NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, BECAUSE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR THEM TO UNDERSTAND THIS AND TO TO BE SUPPORTIVE. UH, BUT WE WOULD ALSO OPEN IT UP TO ANYBODY ELSE IN CITY LEADERSHIP OR IN ANY OF THE OTHER COMMISSIONS OR COUNCILS THAT WANTS TO COME AND ATTEND. SO THE IDEA WOULD BE, UH, TO, YOU KNOW, COME THERE FOR LIKE THREE DAYS OR TWO DAYS. AND DO YOU KNOW THE TRAINING SESSIONS FOR THE, UH, WORKING GROUPS AND ALSO THE TRAINING FOR THE NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE NEW, UH, DEIB COMMISSION MEMBERS. AND ALSO THAT TRAINING CAN BE RECORDED FOR THOSE WHO WANNA ACCESS IT LATER. AND NO, MY SCHEDULE FOR MARCH IS KIND OF GETTING FILLED UP, BUT, UH, BETWEEN, UH, YOU KNOW, MARCH 10TH THROUGH THE 18TH, THAT TIMEFRAME IS PROBABLY IDEAL FOR ME. I ALSO DID SOME RESEARCH AND MARCH 16TH THROUGH THE 20TH IS WHEN HUDU ISD HAS THEIR SPRING BREAK. AND I WAS THINKING THAT THAT MIGHT NOT BE A GOOD TIME BECAUSE I WOULD ASSUME THAT MANY FAMILIES WOULD TAKE VACATION WITH THEIR KIDS, UH, DURING THAT TIME. SO WHAT I MIGHT DO IS STOP SHARING SO I CAN SEE EVERYBODY. SO MAYBE CAN HAVE AN OPEN DISCUSSION ON WHAT DATES MIGHT REALLY WORK, UH, TO DO THIS. JUST HOW SOON WERE YOU TRYING TO, UH, DO THE FIRST ONE, STAN? I WOULD, UH, SOME, I THINK, UH, UH, THE IDEAL DATES WOULD BE, UH, SOME COMBINATION OF MARCH 10, 11, 12, AND 13, BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE A WEEK BEFORE, UH, THE HU ISD GOES ON SPRING BREAK. SINCE THE REGULAR MEETING THAT Y'ALL HAVE IS ON THE 17TH, YOU MAY WANT TO, AT THE NEXT MEETING, VOTE TO PERHAPS MOVE IT TO THE 10TH AND THEN YOU CAN KIND OF HAVE EVERYTHING ALIGNED IN THE SAME WEEK. MM-HMM . AND I CAN ATTEND THAT THEN. YEP. BEFORE WE DO THAT, STAN, I DO WANNA MAKE A REQUEST BECAUSE, UM, THE, THE NAMES ON THE LIST THAT WE HAVE NOW, THE, ALL OF THE PEOPLE, AND IT'S, WE'VE ADDED TWO MORE I THINK TODAY, RIGHT? MR. AND MS. GRAY. YEP. UM, IT'S THAT A LOT OF THEM SIGNED UP IN THE FALL. WE WANTED TO GET A GOOD HEAD START IN GETTING PEOPLE SIGNED ON AND MARKS THE WAYS OFF. SO IS THERE'S, OTHER THAN ME SENDING THEM A MESSAGE, THANKING THEM, TELLING THEM THAT ORIENTATION AND TRAINING IS COMING, IS THERE SOMETHING THAT WE COULD SEND EVERYBODY WHO'S ALREADY SIGNED UP FOR THEIR GROUPS, UM, THAT THEY CAN, UM, SO JUST TO GIVE 'EM SOMETHING TO KNOW THAT THIS IS COMING, MAYBE A BIT OF INFORMATION, MAYBE A BIT OF LIKE, HEY, GO AHEAD AND HAVE YOUR FIRST MEETING. THIS IS WHAT KIND OF A GUIDE. AND THEN WE DO THE TRAINING. I JUST DON'T WANNA CONTINUE TO LEAVE THEM HANGING, WAITING TO HEAR ABOUT WHEN THEIR ROTATION IS GONNA HAPPEN. THEN THEY LOSE INTEREST IN SERVING WHILE WE CONTINUE TO RECRUIT. UH, YOU KNOW, THE THING IS, YOU KNOW, THEY GETTING TOGETHER NOT KNOWING EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE GONNA BE DOING WITHOUT THE TRAINING WOULD BE A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT. SOME INITIAL GUIDE, JUST SOMETHING THAT THEY CAN DO IN FEBRUARY WHILE THEY WAIT FOR THEIR TRAINING. LIKE MAYBE IT'S JUST, IT'S, WE ENCOURAGE THEM TO HAVE A, LIKE A GET TO KNOW YOU OR MAYBE A SOCIAL THAT WORK. THAT WOULD BE, I THAT WOULD BE, THAT WOULD WORK REALLY WELL. AGREE. YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF THE GROUPS GETTING TOGETHER IN FEBRUARY, UH, AND HAVING JUST A, YOU KNOW, GET TO KNOW YOU SESSION IN TERMS OF SHARING A, YOU KNOW, EACH SHARING ABOUT THEIR BACKGROUNDS, WHY THEY WANNA GET INVOLVED IN THIS WORK, THEY MAYBE SHARE THEIR OWN EXPERIENCE OF, YOU KNOW, MAYBE HAVE, LIKE, I COULD PUT TOGETHER A LITTLE GUIDE, LIKE MAYBE SHARE, YOU KNOW, THREE THINGS, UH, WHAT YOU LIKE THE MOST ABOUT LIVING IN HURO AND THREE THINGS THAT YOU FIND THE MOST CHALLENGING ABOUT HATO. YOU KNOW, THAT COULD BE LIKE A GOOD ICEBREAKER AND DISCUSSION. THAT WOULD BE GOOD. JUST TO GIVE PEOPLE SHARING SO I CAN PUT TOGETHER SOME THOUGHTS [00:30:01] AND GET THAT TO YOU, UH, YOU KNOW, BY THE END OF DAY TOMORROW. YEAH, THAT WOULD BE GREAT. BECAUSE IT'S VERY TEMPTING TO JUST SAY, WELL, I WAS GONNA PUT 'EM, GET 'EM TOGETHER. UM, BUT I DON'T REALLY, WE, WE DON'T WANT THEM DOING ANY LIKE, GROUP WORK. LET'S CONSIDER WORK WITH BEFORE THEY GET THE, THE TRAINING AND GUIDANCE. 'CAUSE THEY MAY END UP JUST MAD AT EACH OTHER OR BEING FEELING DISCOURAGED. SO WE DON'T WANT THAT. SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, UM, WITHOUT ME PUTTING MY LOCAL LENS ON OR WE PUTTING OUR LOCAL LENS ON IT 'CAUSE WE'RE SO AWARE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE. I THINK IT'S GREAT TO COME FROM YOU AS A, AS A NEUTRAL CONSULTANT. SAY, HEY, HERE'S A GREAT, JUST KIND OF GET TO KNOW YOU TO KEEP EVERYBODY MOTIVATED AND PUMPED UP AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THE ACTUAL ORIENTATION AND TRAINING. YEAH. GREAT. UH, HOW WOULD BE THE LOGISTICS OF WHO WOULD, WHO WOULD, YOU KNOW, SINCE IT DOESN'T, THEY DON'T HAVE OFFICIAL LEADERS YET WHO WOULD CONVENE YEAH. AND THEY MIGHT BE ENCOURAGED AFTER SEEING EACH OTHER. THEY MIGHT, A, A LEADER MAY RISE, YOU KNOW, FOR EACH GROUP AMONG 'EM. UH, WOULD, WOULD EACH OF YOU BE WILLING AT LEAST TO BE THE CONVENER, UH, OR THE ORGANIZER FOR THAT FIRST MEETING? YEAH. YES. YES, WE CAN. YEAH. GOOD. AND I'LL PUT TOGETHER, I'LL PUT TOGETHER A LITTLE, YOU KNOW, I'LL PUT TOGETHER LIKE A LITTLE, UH, A LITTLE DISCUSSION GUIDE THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN USE IN TERMS OF JUST DOING THOSE INTRODUCTORY MEETINGS, UH, AND LIKE THE QUESTIONS THAT COULD BE ASKED. AND THEN ALSO MAYBE, UH, YOU KNOW, A DRAFT PARAGRAPH OF INVITING THEM TO THAT INITIAL SESSION SAYING, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA HAVE OUR FIRST MEETING IN FEBRUARY JUST TO GET, TO BE GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER AND DISCUSS HOW WE LIKE LIVING IN HU AND THEN WE'LL HAVE OUR TRAINING IN MARCH SO THE REAL WORK CAN BEGIN. YES. I THINK THAT'D BE GOOD. AND THEN NOW WHEN THEY COME UP WITH THE ORIENTATION, THEY'LL ALREADY HAVE MET EACH OTHER EVEN IF THEY HAD . YEAH, GREAT IDEA. AND THEN ON THE BUDGET WE HAVE, UH, I CAN'T OPEN THAT SHEET, BUT DO WE HAVE, UM, SOMETHING SO WE CAN PROVIDE REFRESHMENTS? DO WE HAVE WIGGLE ROOM ON THE BUDGET? I NEED TO BE ABLE TO OPEN IT. I HAD IT OPEN. I DON'T KNOW WHY I CLOSED IT. I THINK THERE'S LIKE 1500 FOR, FOR THE SENIOR CITIZENS RIGHT. OPEN. I PUT YEAH, YOU DID. AND I HAD IT OPEN AND THEN I LOST CONNECTION. I CLOSED EVERYTHING. I CAN'T FIND IT. WELL WE HAVE 1500 FOR, THERE'S 1500 FOR BANNERS, POSTERS, AND GIVEAWAYS. AND I GUESS THAT CAN INCLUDE FOOD FOR THAT MEETING. SO THERE'S A 1500 BUDGET FOR THAT AND A COFFEE OF DONUTS. RIGHT. RIGHT. AND THEN COULD WE BOOK A SPACE HERE? SURE. YEAH. IT WOULD JUST HAVE TO BE COORDINATED. UM, IF IT AFTER HOURS, THAT WOULD TAKE A STAFF PERSON TO BE HERE ON SITE. SO KEEP THAT IN MIND. MM. UM, IF IT'S DURING THE DAY, UM, AS LONG AS THERE'S NOTHING HAPPENING IN CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS, UM, YOU CAN, AND IF IT'S, THERE'S A CONFLICT, WE COULD ALSO HAVE IT. DO YOU THINK, UH, THE NEW LETTERS FALL? OH, RIGHT. YEAH. I CAN, UH, IAN YEAH, I WAS GONNA ASK YOU IF YOU COULD SEND ME, UM, I, I BACK HIM, BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER HIS NAME. YES. HIS INFORMATION. SO I CAN GET IN TOUCH WITH HIM. UM, I THINK DURING OFFICE HOURS WE COULD ALSO BOOK, UH, THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. RIGHT, RIGHT. THAT'S WHAT I WAS JUST WORKING ON. YEAH. AND THE LAST, ONE OF THE THINGS I FORGOT TO, UH, SHARE IN THIS SLIDE, 'CAUSE I WANNA PUT IT BACK UP, UH, IS, UH, YOU KNOW WHAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WHO WILL BE THE CITY OF HOW DO STAFF MEMBERS TO SUPPORT YOUR GROUPS OF LOGISTICS AND WHAT KIND OF SUPPORT CAN BE EXPECTED? YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD BE, UH, THAT WOULD BE ABBY AND CHRISTIE, BUT WE WANNA BE VERY CLEAR, UH, THAT THEIR STAFF SUPPORT OR TO DO THINGS LIKE HELP ARRANGE THE SPACE, ET CETERA, AND LOGISTICS. BUT, YOU KNOW, TAKING, TAKING NOTES OF THEIR MEETINGS, PUTTING TOGETHER LIKE THEIR FINDINGS AND ALL THAT, THAT'S STILL THE ROLE OF THE WORKING GROUP MEMBERS. MM-HMM. SO BASICALLY THE STAFF IS THERE TO HELP WITH SET UP IN LOGISTICS, BUT NOT REALLY TO BE ONES, TO BASICALLY CONSOLIDATE, UH, YOU KNOW, ALL THEIR WORK. WHAT I LIKE THAT. SO WE MAKE THAT VERY CLEAR TO WHAT I UNDERSTAND, WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THAT APPROACH IS THAT WE REALLY WANT THESE CITIZEN WORKING GROUPS TO UNDERSTAND THAT THESE GROUPS BELONG TO THEM. YES. THEY'RE NOT LIKE, WE'RE A COMMISSION, SO WE'RE PART OF THE CITY, SO WE HAVE TO HOLD CERTAIN STANDARDS AND WE GET DIFFERENT TYPE OF SUPPORT. AND I DON'T WANNA SAY DISCIPLINE, BUT PROCEDURES AND POLICIES. RIGHT. UM, BUT THE WORKING GROUPS, IN ORDER FOR THEM TO REALLY GIVE US HONEST, YOU KNOW, BOOTS ON THEIR GROUND FEEDBACK, WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY OWN US. WHAT, THEY KEEP THEIR OWN NOTES, THEY GIVE US THE FEEDBACK. WE'RE JUST THERE AS LIAISONS, UM, FOR THEM. THAT'S SOMETHING I'M STRESSING TO PEOPLE HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH. UM, THIS IS NOT, THEY'RE NOT GONNA BE GIVEN AN AGENDA BY THE CITY. UM, IT'S REALLY, YOU KNOW, THEY OWN THESE WORKING GROUPS. THAT'S ANOTHER WAY FOR THEM TO GIVE THEIR INPUT. SO I REALLY LIKE THAT. SO SHOULD WE PLAN ON, YOU KNOW, ME, ME COMING THERE, I SHOULD BE COMING PLAN ON COMING, YOU KNOW, SOME LIKE 11, LIKE 10, 11, 12 OR 11, 12, 13, UH, AND THAT WE CAN MOVE THE [00:35:01] COMMISSION MEETING. 'CAUSE I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE MIGHT BE ON VACATION DURING THAT WEEK WHEN SCHOOL IS OUT AND WANNA SPEND TIME WITH THEIR FAMILIES. AND SO, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT MAYBE WE CAN SOLIDIFY THAT I'LL BE COMING IN FOR ABOUT THREE DAYS THAT WEEK. OKAY. I MEAN, I'M, I'M FINE WITH THE CH 11TH AND 12TH. I WAS LOOKING FOR, UM, FOR YOU NIKKI AND FOCUS AND JAVI. UM, DO THOSE, DOES, DOES, DO THOSE DAYS WORK FOR YOU? MARCH 10TH, 11TH AND 12TH? WHAT DAYS ARE THE, WHAT DAYS OF THE WEEK ARE THE 10TH AND THE 11TH, BUT YES, IT DOES. YEAH. DO TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY OR TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY. YEAH. OH, DURING THURSDAY. OH YEAH. ARE WE TALKING ABOUT DURING THE DAY OR? WELL, I WOULD BE COMING TO, I WOULD BE COMING TO YOUR, I WOULD, I'D BE COMING TO YOUR MEETING ON TUESDAY. PROBABLY. WE CAN TRY TO SCHEDULE THE TRAINING SESSION WEDNESDAY EVENING, UH, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THE THREE HOUR SESSION OR UNLESS WE WANT TO HAVE IT DURING LIKE THE LATE AFTERNOON. UH, AND THEN WE CAN PROBABLY DO THE, UH, TWO, YOU KNOW, TRAINING SESSIONS FOR THE WORKING GROUPS, LIKE THE ONE IN THE EVENING AND ONE DURING THE DAY. YOU HAVE TO GIVE PEOPLE OPTIONS. YES. SO THE, IT WOULD REALLY, FOR THE TRAINING ORIENTATION, WOULD IT BE THE 11TH AND 12TH? IS THAT RIGHT? YEAH, THAT WOULD WORK. AND, AND, AND THE WORKING GROUP MEMBERS WOULD ONLY HAVE TO GO TO ONE OR THE OTHER. YEAH, THE 12. I DO HAVE A CONFLICT ON THE EVENING OF THE 12TH. UM, BUT IT'S LIKE, WELL, YEAH, IT'S ABOUT THIS TIME, BUT THE 10TH AND 11TH ARE COMPLETELY OPEN FOR ME. SO I COME AND SUPPORT ON THE 11TH. I'LL BE HERE FOR THE MEETING ON THE 10TH. I'LL COME AND SUPPORT THE TRAINING ON THE 11TH. YEAH. WHAT MIGHT BE A BETTER DAY FOR DOING THE THREE HOUR TRAINING FOR THE NEW, UH, DEIB COMMISSION MEMBERS AND THE NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS? WOULD IT BE BETTER TO DO THAT ON MONDAY THE 10TH? OR WEDNESDAY THE 12TH? I THINK MONDAY. I THINK TUESDAY IS THE 10TH. YEAH. OH, TUESDAY'S THE 10TH. MM-HMM . OKAY. WHOOPS. LET ME GET OUT MY CALENDAR HERE. UH, OKAY. I COULD ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, COME IN ON THE NINTH TOO, SO WE CAN DO YOU KNOW, THE TRAINING OF THE CITY COUNT? UH, THE, WE CAN DO IT ON THE, UH, MONDAY NINTH THE NINTH, WEDNESDAY NINTH THE 11TH, OR THURSDAY EVENING, THE 12TH. WHAT DO YOU THINK WOULD BE BETTER FOR THE NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE NEW COMMISSIONERS? WE'RE MISSING TWO NEW MEMBERS AND, UH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEIR SCHEDULES ARE, BUT EXCEPT FOR NINTH, I'M, I'M GOOD FOR ANY OTHER DAY FOR MONDAY. GOOD FOR ANY OTHER DAY COUNCIL, BECAUSE IT'S AN OFF WEEK FROM CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS. SO THAT MIGHT, THIS 12 MIGHT WORK FOR THEM. WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK ARE CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS NORMALLY? THURSDAY. YEAH. WHY DON'T WE TRY TO DO THE OVERALL, THE, THE TRAINING ON THURSDAY THEN THE 12TH? YEAH. SO I COME IN LIKE TUESDAY DURING, I COME IN TUESDAY DURING THE DAY DAY AND BE THERE FOR YOUR MEETING ON TUESDAY EVENING. MAYBE DOING SOME OF THE TRAINING ON WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY OF THE WORKING GROUPS AND THEN THURSDAY WITH THE, AND THEN GO, YOU KNOW, FLY OUT ON FRIDAY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WOULD BE GOOD. WHAT TIME? I WOULD PROBABLY DO IF I, YOU KNOW, I'D PROBABLY DO ONE OF THE WORKING GROUP, UH, MEETINGS LIKE WEDNESDAY EVENING, GET STARTING AT SEVEN, UH, FOR THE THREE HOUR TRAINING. A LOT OF TIMES THEY BROUGHT IN LIKE A, UH, A BOX DINNER OR LUNCH SINCE IT'S A PRETTY LONG, YOU KNOW, THREE HOURS IS PRETTY LONG WHEN I'VE DONE THE TRAINING IN THE PAST, UH, FOR THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, WE SUPPLY FOOD OR WE COULD START A LITTLE BIT LATER AND GO LIKE SIX, SIX TO NINE AND ASSUME THEY EAT AHEAD OF TIME. BUT I CAN LET Y'ALL WORK OUT THE EXACT TIMES THAT WORKS BEST FOR YOU. I WAS GONNA SAY SEVEN IS A LITTLE WAIT LATE, UH, ONLY BECAUSE I'M UP AT FOUR O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING. YEAH. AND ON WEDNESDAY I HAVE TO BE UP A LITTLE BIT EXTRA 'CAUSE I HAVE TO DRIVE INTO AUSTIN. AND THEN, UM, WEDNESDAYS ARE LIKE MY LONG DAYS, SO [00:40:02] I I KNOW WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE EVERYTHING OUT. YEAH. SO, UM, BUT, BUT SEE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO GO TO BOTH OR ATTEND THE WORKING GROUP, THE WORKING GROUP TRAINING. OKAY. WELL I THOUGHT I HAD TO WELL, THAT'S WHAT YOU, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE IN ONE. WELL, IF YOU REALLY, REALLY COULDN'T MAKE ONE , YOU CAN ALWAYS LISTEN TO THE RECORDING. BUT ARE YOU FREE ANYTIME RECORDING? ARE YOU FREE LIKE DURING THE DAY ON LIKE THURSDAY OR TUESDAY? UM, UM, I WOULD HAVE TO MAKE SURE. I DON'T HAVE MEETINGS ON THOSE ON ONE OF THOSE DAYS, SO, BUT I'LL, I'LL FIGURE IT OUT. I'LL JUST HAVE TO LIKE CLEAR MY SCHEDULE, UH, FOR WORK TO BE EITHER TAKE THE DAY OFF OR, UM, JUST CLEAR TO HAVE NO MEETINGS ON THOSE DAYS. SO WHAT I'LL DO TOMORROW IS WHEN I SEND, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE INFORMATION ON THE INTRODUCTORY MEETING FOR THE WORKING GROUPS TO GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER IN FEBRUARY, I'LL ALSO SEND A TENTATIVE SCHEDULE FOR THOSE THREE DAYS IN, UH, IN, UH, MARCH THAT YOU CAN ALL LOOK OVER AND SUGGEST ANY MODIFICATIONS OR THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT. OKAY. HOW DOES THAT WORK? THAT SOUNDS GOOD. YEAH. SOUNDS GOOD. STAN. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WORKING GROUPS AND THE PLAN? NO, I THINK WE GOT IT. YEAH, I THINK WE CAN DEFINITELY, WE CAN GO ON, YOU CAN GO ON TO THE NEXT ITEM THEN. AND I'LL PROBABLY STICK AROUND A LITTLE WHILE BECAUSE I WANNA HEAR SOME OF THE DISCUSSION. SO I MIGHT DROP OFF, YOU KNOW, PARTWAY THROUGH THE MEETING. BUT I'LL BE HERE JUST LISTENING IN THE BACKGROUND, UH, FOR A LITTLE WHILE AND I LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING THE REST OF YOU THAT I HAVEN'T MET IN PERSON BEFORE. DEFINITELY EVERYBODY IN PERSON. YEAH. YEP. AND THANK YOU FOR THAT. UM, DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON OFF STANDS SPECIFICALLY ABOUT SCHEDULING THE TRAININGS ON THE ORIENTATIONS FOR THE WORKING GROUPS? THE WEEK OF MARCH, UM, 10TH, 11TH AND 12TH. WE NEED TO HOLD THAT. THAT'S NOT SOMETHING. OKAY. THANK YOU. UM, PROGRESS TRACKER WITH BUDGET AS IT RELATES TO THROUGH THE STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN. SO I HATE THAT I CAN'T OPEN IT BACK UP. I I'LL SHARE MY SCREEN. OH, THANK YOU. UM, AND I'M GLAD YOU'RE STAYING ON FOR A LITTLE BIT. UM, YEAH. WITH US FOR THIS, DAN. ALRIGHT, SO ON OUR LAST MEETING, UM, WHICH WE MET IN DECEMBER, STAN, UM, COMMISSIONER BODE HAD A GREAT IDEA THAT WE, WE, EVERY TIME THAT WE MEET AS A COMMISSION, WE BAKED INTO OUR REGULAR MEETING AGENDA THAT WE DO A CHECK-IN AND TRACK, TRACK THE PROGRESS ON US DOING THE ITEMS THAT WE SET BUDGET LINE ITEMS FOR. RIGHT. SO THAT'S WHAT THIS IS. UM, I THINK THAT, UM, WE DID, I MEAN WE COVERED MOST OF THAT WITH THE, UM, SERVICE WORK ITEM FOR GENERAL CONSULTING. UM, WE'VE GOT ONE CHIP ALREADY COMING IN MARCH, AND WE ARE, AND WE THEN WE, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA SEND YOU GUYS THE DATES FOR THE UPDATED DIV INTRODUCTION FOR TRAINING NEW CITY COUNCIL, AND WE'VE GOT THE WORKING GROUPS. SO ITEM I, ITEM ONE TO TWO. UM, SO ON THE LISTENING POST, BECAUSE WE ARE BEHIND SCHEDULE AND GETTING THE WORKING GROUPS REALLY GOING, WE WANNA BUILD SOME CUSHION OF TIME IN BEFORE WE REALLY LAUNCH INTO THE LISTENING POST. SO IT'S NOT CONFUSING, UM, FOR PEOPLE. SO WE'RE GONNA MOVE THE LISTENING POSTS DOWN TO MAYBE IN THE FALL, UNLESS YOU HAVE ANY OTHER, UM, SUGGESTIONS OR IDEAS FROM THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS ABOUT MOVING THOSE, BECAUSE THOSE ARE GOING TO BE, OR THE WAY THAT, UM, WE UNDERSTOOD 'EM IS THAT THOSE ARE GONNA BE LESS FORMAL THAN THE WORKING GROUPS STAN, IS THAT CORRECT? UH, YES. BUT BASICALLY THE SCRIPT THAT I'M GONNA PUT TOGETHER FOR RUNNING THE LISTENING POSTS AS, I MEAN, FOR DOING THE WORKING GROUPS, A SUBSET OF THAT WILL ALSO BE THE LISTENING POSTS. SO I'LL PUT TOGETHER THE SCRIPT, UH, IN TERMS OF HOW THAT'S RUN. UH, EVEN THOUGH YOU WON'T, YOU MIGHT NOT DO THAT LATE TILL LATER. YOU'LL HAVE THE SCRIPT AND EVERYTHING PUT TOGETHER IN MARCH BECAUSE A LOT OF THAT IS OVERLAP MATERIAL WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE KIND OF RUNNING THE LISTENING POSTS IS ALMOST LIKE A SUBSET OF WHAT YOU'RE GONNA BE DOING WITH THE WORKING GROUPS. YEAH, YEAH. LESS FORMAL AND ONLY A PART OF IT. OKAY. UM, AND THAT'S GOOD. 'CAUSE THAT WAY, IF IT'S GONNA BE THAT WAY, WE'LL HAVE A GOOD I IDEA FOUNDATIONALLY THESE MAYBE SOME [00:45:01] BASE SETTING WITH THE WORKING GROUPS GETTING GOING. YES. AND WE CAN LIKE MAKE ADJUSTMENTS DEPENDING ON HOW THE WORKING GROUPS GO. AND IF YOU DON'T, AND IF YOU DON'T DO THE CITIZEN LISTENING POSTS UNTIL LIKE THE NEXT YEAR, UH, NEXT FISCAL YEAR, YOU AT LEAST HAVE GOTTEN THE WORK DONE, UH, TO HAVE THE SCRIPT, YOU KNOW, READY AND THE, YOU KNOW, AND YOU'RE READY TO LEAD THOSE GROUPS. OKAY, PERFECT. UM, THE IN-DEPTH DIB TRAINING FOR EMPLOYEES AND, UM, FOR TRAINING SESSIONS FOR ALL EMPLOYEES AND MANAGER. SO, UM, IS THIS GOING TO BE AN ANNUAL TRAINING? IS THAT, IS THAT WHERE WE WANNA GET TO FOR ALL NEW, IS IT NEW EMPLOYEES OR ARE WE TALKING ABOUT, UM, OH, JUST ANNUAL REFRESHERS FOR EVERYBODY. OKAY. THIS IS FOR EVERYBODY. UH, AND ONE OF THE IDEAS THAT I DISCUSSED WITH CHRISTIE IS I'LL MEET WITH YOUR NEW HR WHEN I'M THERE FOR THE THREE DAYS MM-HMM . I WOULD MEET WITH YOUR NEW HR DIRECTOR TO DISCUSS, YOU KNOW, POTENTIAL CONTENT WITH THEM SINCE I'M GONNA BE THERE IN HUDDLE. UH, AND THE IDEA IS THAT THESE WOULD BE SESSIONS THAT ARE BASICALLY DONE, UH, VIA ZOOM AND THEY'D BE, EACH SESSION WOULD BE OFFERED LIKE MULTIPLE TIMES. SO IT COULD BE INTERACTIVE AND THEN THEY WOULD BE RECORDED SO THAT IF YOU HAVE NEW EMPLOYEES, YOU CAN HAVE THEM TAKE THE RECORDED VERSION OF THE TRAINING. OKAY. AND IS THAT, SO BASICALLY, YES, WE NEED THAT MATERIAL GONNA BE VERY DIFFERENT FROM THE TYPE OF MATERIAL THAT WE'RE WE, THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED IN OUR ROLE AS COMMISSIONER THAT THE WORKING GROUPS WILL BE RECEIVING. LIKE, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO BE A PART OF OR THAT WE NEED TO RECEIVE COPIES SO WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME, YOU KNOW, PAGE WITH THE, WITH THE CITY STAFF. IT'LL BE, IT WOULD, THERE'D BE A GREAT, GREAT DEAL OF OVERLAP. OKAY. SO, UH, SO THE, SO BASICALLY I WOULD THINK THAT YOU WOULD NOT HAVE TO SIT IN ON IT BECAUSE YOU'RE GONNA ALREADY HAVE MOST OF THAT CONTENT, BUT WITH EACH OF THESE ONE HOUR TRAININGS, UH, THERE'S GONNA BE ABOUT A FOUR OR FIVE PAGE HANDOUT THAT IS A, THAT IS BASICALLY ALL THE MATERIAL IN WRITTEN FORM THAT YOU CAN ALL JUST THEN ACCESS AND QUICKLY READ THROUGH KIND OF TO REFRESH YOURSELF. AND SINCE IT, IT'S ALSO GONNA BE RECORDED. YOU CAN ALWAYS CHOOSE TO, TO LISTEN TO THEM TOO. I, YEAH, IT IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE ARE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE VOLUNTEERS AND WE'RE, WE ARE THROUGH OUR INTERACTION WITH OUR WORKING GROUPS AND WITH EACH OTHER, WE'RE GONNA HAVE NEW EXPECTATIONS OF WHAT WE SEE COMING OUT OF OUR CITY, WHICH IS PRODUCED RIGHT. BY OUR STAFF RIGHT. AND THEIR LEADERSHIP. SO IT'S GOOD THAT WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME, UM, PAGE AS FAR AS WHAT EXPECTATIONS ARE, WHAT TYPE OF LEVEL SETTING WE'RE DOING, WHAT TYPE OF POLICIES OR PROCEDURES ARE BEING DISCUSSED AS IT AS IT PERTAINS TO DEIV PRACTICES WITHIN THE CITY. THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING THAT QUESTION. GOOD. YES. AND THEN, UM, FIVE FOUR RESOURCE RESOURCE GUIDE. SO THAT ONE'S A TOUGH ONE FOR ME. I KNOW THAT OUR NEW COMMISSIONERS HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO, UM, DIVE INTO THAT. SO ESSENTIALLY A LITTLE BACKGROUND WAS, WE HAD A COMMISSIONER WHO WANTED TO PRODUCE, AND WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT. SHE WANTED TO PRODUCE A PRINTED GUIDE. WE, WE ACTUALLY SPENT QUITE A BIT OF TIME TALKING ABOUT IT AT ANOTHER MEETING. UM, BUT WE MET AND WE HAD SAID IT'S A GOOD IDEA, BUT NOT RIGHT NOW BECAUSE PRINTING DIS DISTRIBUTION, FOLLOWING UP ON IS THIS IMPACTFUL, HOW DO WE REPORT BACK TO CITY COUNCIL THAT WE DID, WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THAT MONEY THAT WE REQUESTED FOR THAT RESOURCE GUIDE. UM, I THINK THAT ONE NEEDS A LOT MORE THOUGHT. MM-HMM . AND WE NEED TO FLESH IT OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT HOW THIS NEW GROUP, YOU'VE GOT FRESH IDEAS, FRESH FACES, MR. BELL, COMMISSIONER BELL WILL BE LEAVING US, WE'RE GONNA HAVE ANOTHER PERSON THAT'S GONNA GET ORIENTED, BUT HAVE SOME IDEAS OF HOW WE, UM, PRODUCE A RESOURCE GUIDE. BUT ONE THING THAT WE DO, WE ARE, WILL HAVE GOING IN OUR FAVOR AT THIS POINT, IS THAT WE WILL HAVE LAUNCHED THE WORKING GROUPS AND MAYBE WE'LL BE STARTING WITH THE LISTENING GROUPS IF WE PUSH THIS OFF YEAH. UNTIL LATE FALL 26. YEAH. AND THIS ALSO, THIS 1500 WASN'T BUDGETED SPECIFICALLY FOR THE WORK THAT I'M DOING THAT, YOU KNOW, IT CAN BE INTERNAL WORK OR GETTING ANOTHER CONSULTANT. UH, BUT ONE OF THE IDEAS IS THAT, YOU KNOW, UH, THAT YOU MIGHT, THAT SOMEBODY ON THE CITY STAFF MIGHT WANNA DO SOME WORK IN TERMS OF COLLECTING WHAT ARE ALL THE RESOURCES THAT CURRENTLY EXIST AND HOW ACCESSIBLE ARE THEY? AND THEN PART OF THE WORKING GROUPS, YOU KNOW, WORKING WITH THE WORKING GROUPS IS YOU CAN ALWAYS ASK, YOU KNOW, THE WORKING GROUP, UH, WHEN THEY DO THAT, WHEN THEY POLL THE, THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY IS, YOU KNOW, DO YOU FEEL RESOURCES ARE EASY TO ACCESS? YOU KNOW, DO YOU FEEL THERE ARE RESOURCES MISSING? AND SO THAT YOU CAN GATHER SOME INTELLIGENCE, UH, FROM THE WORKING GROUPS THAT CAN MAYBE HELP STEER [00:50:01] THIS PIECE OF WORK INTO THE RIGHT DIRECTION? I GOTTA THINK ABOUT HOW WE DISTRIBUTE IT. YES, SIR. FROM MY UNDERSTANDING WITH THE RESOURCE GUIDES AND WHEN WE MET WITH THE LIBRARY, THEY'VE ALREADY KIND OF PUT TOGETHER LIKE ALMOST LIKE A CATALOG. YEAH. THEY'RE WORKING, THEY HAVE DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT RESOURCES, UH, TO THAT PERSPECTIVE. YEAH. THE OTHER QUESTION I WANT GO BACK TO, YOU SAID THAT THE SESSIONS WILL BE LIKE, THE TRAINING WILL BE RECORDED. I UNDERSTAND WHAT RECORDED RECORDING MEANS, BUT HOW DOES, AS FAR AS THE INFORMATION BEING RECORDED, HOW CAN THE CITY OF HUDDLE USE THAT INFORMATION FOR FUTURE? AH, UH, USUALLY WHEN I HAVE MY, WHEN I HAVE, WHEN I HAVE MY ACTUAL TRAINING SESSIONS RECORDED, I BASICALLY SAY THAT YOU HAVE UNLIMITED USE TO, UH, HAVING ALL OF, WITHIN THE CITY, HAVING YOUR EMPLOYEES, YOU KNOW, ACCESS THEM OR LISTEN TO THEM AT ANY TIME. AND I SEND YOU A LINK TO DOWNLOAD, UH, THE RECORDINGS SO THAT YOU HAVE THEM ACCESSIBLE THERE IN THE CITY. THE ONLY THING I SPECIFY IS THAT YOU DON'T LIKE MARKET THEM TO OTHER, TO OTHER ORGANIZATIONS OR TRY TO SELL THEM. THEY'RE BASICALLY UNLIMITED USE WITHIN THE CITY OF HUDU. THEY, THEY WOULD BE THEN THE, THE VIDEO WOULD BE A PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF HU CORRECT. BUT, BUT SPECIFY THE PROPERTY OF THE CITY OF HUDU. RIGHT. BUT, BUT FOR USE ONLY WITHIN THE CITY OF HUDU MM-HMM . RIGHT. INTERNAL USE ONLY MAYOR PARK. RIGHT. . UM, ALL RIGHT. AND THEN, UM, ACTUALLY WE HAVE A ACTION ITEM THAT PERTAINS TO FIVE DASH FIVE, I THINK YOU PUT IT ON HERE. YEAH. BUT YOU, WHICH IS ITEM 7.4. SO IS THERE A REASON WHY THERE'S FOUR SEVEN POINT TWOS? UM, I THINK THAT'S THE FORMATTING ERROR. THE 7.2 ARE KIND OF SUB ITEMS. OH, OKAY. PRODUCT CRACKER IS KIND OF NESTLED UNDER THE OVERALL MM-HMM . UM, PRESENTATION, THE SCHEDULE ORIENTATION DATES, AND THE YOUTH VOICE WORKING GROUP. WE'RE ALL KIND OF UP ITEM, UM, RUN NOW OVER MY PAPER, WHAT WE'RE DOING. SO WE'VE GOT, WE'VE GOT THAT ONE THERE. SO 7.221 DASH . UM, SO WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD. I, I HAVE, UH, I GUESS QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS. SO THE PROGRESS TRACKER OF THE, OF THE AMOUNT THAT IS SHOWN ON THERE HAVE, WELL, HOW DO WE FIND OUT HOW MUCH OF IT HAVE BE SPENT? I THINK THAT'S WHAT WOULD WANTED TO CREATE A TRACKER TO SHOW THAT. RIGHT. UM, BUT, AND SO FOR EXAMPLE, IF STAN IS WITH US IN THIS MEETING, RIGHT? IS THIS PART OF THE ALL ITEMS GENERAL PART OF THE 15 HOURS OF GENERAL CONSULTING? OR THAT'S SEPARATE OR IS THIS PART OF SOMETHING ELSE, OR? I GUESS THAT'S, THAT'S MY QUESTION. OKAY. I ACTUALLY, I ACTUALLY SUBMITTED A, UH, WRITTEN BID, UH, TO, TO, UH, CHRISTIE AND ABBY, UH, IN TERMS OF THE FIRST, THE WORK THROUGH MARCH, AND THAT WORK INCLUDES, UH, FOUR HOURS OF THE 15, UH, YOU KNOW, OF THE, OF THE GENERAL CONSULTING. SO THAT'S FOUR, THAT'S, UH, $800. IT INCLUDES, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE 1750 AND THE 12 AND THE, UH, YEAH, THE 1750 FROM THE TRAINING, UH, FOR THE WORK GROUP AND AMBASSADORS AND THE 1200 FOR THE UPDATED DIB TRAINING. AND THEN I PUT TRAVEL NOT TO EXCEED A THOUSAND DOLLARS THAT IF MY TRAVEL BILL IS OVER A THOUSAND DOLLARS, I ABSORB ANYTHING OVER A THOUSAND. SO THAT REALLY ENCOURAGES ME TO BE AS FRUGAL AS POSSIBLE. UH, AND, UH, AND I'M ALSO GONNA BE CREATING THE SCRIPT, UH, FOR, FOR RUNNING BOTH THE WORKING GROUPS AND THE FUTURE LISTENING POSTS. SO I SUBMITTED A BID FOR THIS FIRST PART OF ALL THE WORK, AND IT TOTALS UP TO $5,750. SO THE WORK THAT I'M GONNA BE DOING THROUGH THE MEETINGS IN MARCH WON'T EXCEED, UH, 57 50. AND THEN WE CAN, AND THEN AFTER MARCH, IN TERMS OF WHEN I BILL, YOU CAN KIND OF COMPARE THIS TO, TO THIS, UH, THIS BUDGET, UH, SLIDE. OKAY. SO THE NEXT UPDATE, WE'RE GONNA GET IT MARCH RIGHT. ON HOW WE'RE DOING WITH, WITH STAN'S TIME AND THE BUDGET WE SET FOR HIS, HIS SUPPORT. OKAY. SO, UH, THAT'S ALL BEEN SANCTIONED, I ASSUME, RIGHT? IS ALL OKAY. YEAH. SO THAT'S NOT, THAT SHOULD NOT BE A PROBLEM. BUT I GUESS WHAT I WOULD PROPOSE IS THEN I GUESS [00:55:01] WITH WHAT BODE SAID TO HAVE THE NEW NUMBER, OR AT LEAST HAVE SOME SORT OF, UH, ACCOUNTING THAT, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE LEFT WITH, THIS IS THE BUCKET THAT WE'RE LEFT WITH. OH YEAH. WE, BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT 17,000 AND I'M LIKE, OKAY, WE HAVE 17,000, BUT IT'S NOT, WE HAVE 12,000 OF COURSE. UH, I MEAN, WE HAVEN'T REALLY SPENT, I GUESS ALL OF THE 57 50 YET. SO, UM, YEAH, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD WAY TO JUST KEEP AN EYE ON THE NUMBER SO THAT WE ADD A COLUMN. YEAH. AND UP KEEP. YEAH. JUST, JUST A RUNNING CI THINK THAT WOULD BE THE TRACKER, UH, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T GO OVER. YEAH. AND, UH, I THINK WE DISCUSSED THIS LAST TIME, UH, THAT IF WE, SO FOR EXAMPLE, BANNERS, POSTERS, GIVE AWAY ALL THAT STUFF, IF WE HAVE SOME LEFTOVER, UM, WE DON'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO, UM, MAKE ANY OFFICIAL, UH, SUBMISSIONS OR WHATEVER. WE CAN MOVE SOME OF THE MONEY. OH, YEAH. UH, AS LONG AS WE KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, RIGHT. WHERE IT'S GOING. YES. SO WE CAN REPORT IT BACK ACCURATELY, BACK TO, TO CITY COUNCIL. AND THEN DON'T FORGET THAT OUR, OUR OVERALL, THIS IS THE MONEY PART OF OUR, HOW WE EXECUTE OUR STRATEGIC PLAN AND STRATEGIC PLAN IS A LIVING DYNAMIC THING. SO WE CAN CHANGE IT AS, YOU KNOW, THE POPULATION HUDDLE TO CHANGE IT AS OUR COMMISSIONERS CHANGE. AND MAYBE THEY'RE HAVE A DIFFERENT WAY TO EXECUTE WHAT WE'VE ALREADY COMMITTED TO EXECUTING MM-HMM . THAT, THAT THE, NOT THE WHAT, BUT HOW WE DO IT IS FLEXIBLE, RIGHT? MM-HMM . I MEAN THE PLAN TWO. BUT, UM, YES. LIKE, THAT'S A LONG ANSWER FOR A VERY QUICK QUESTION, . AND DID YOU, WERE YOU THE ONE THAT SAYING YOU'RE GONNA HELP BODHI WITH THE BUDGET CAPTURE? I THINK IT WAS JUST HIM. OH. BUT, UH, I CAN THINK OF A COUPLE WAYS TO KIND OF JUST HAVE A TRACKER. UM, SO MAYBE NEXT MEETING I CAN, UH, TALK TO BODHI AND PULL DOWN. YEAH. OKAY. SO TO CLARIFY, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, THAT COMMISSIONERS WILL BE PRODUCING IS, YEAH. OKAY. RIGHT. WELL, YOU'RE FREE TO DO THAT , AND I'LL, AND I'LL ALSO VOLUNTEERS. WE VOLUNTEERED, WE WANNA MAKE SURE IT'S WHAT YOU GUYS WANT TO READ. AND IF IT'S JUST A MATTER OF US GOING AND CALCULATING THE NUMBERS AND SAYING, THIS IS HOW MUCH YOU HAVE LEFT, FINE. BUT IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, YOU WANT IT FORMATTED A CERTAIN WAY AND YOU WANNA BE ABLE TO SEE AND UPDATE THOSE IN BETWEEN SESSIONS, THEN, RIGHT. I I'M, IN MY MIND, IT'S JUST VERY SIMPLY, THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE BUDGETED, THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE SPENT, THIS IS WHAT'S REMAINING. THAT'S ALL I'M LOOKING FOR. AND IDEALLY, THAT WOULD BE FOR EVERY SINGLE CATEGORY. BUT, UM, IF, UH, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT ME TO DEVELOP OR I COULD CERTAINLY SKETCH UP SOMETHING, UH, SOME SORT OF A RUDIMENTARY TABLE AND IF EVERYONE'S OKAY WITH THAT LITTLE, MY JEEP PUT IT ON A SHIRT. YEAH, THAT WOULD BE AMAZING. YEAH. UH, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. BECAUSE IT, IT WOULDN'T BE TOO DIFFICULT. THE ONLY THING THAT I WOULD NEED IS, WELL, I HAVE THIS, AND THEN WHATEVER BIT THAT STANDS SENT TO YOU GUYS, IF I HAVE A COPY OF THAT, I CAN PUT SOMETHING UP TOGETHER. YEAH. JUST GETTING THE UPDATES ON THE NUMBERS MM-HMM . AS WE YEAH. AS WE SPEND. YEAH. 'CAUSE IF, IF YOU'RE, IF THIS IS GONNA BE A RECURRING, UH, MEETING ITEM, THEN MIGHT AS WELL HAVE THE UPDATED NUMBER TO LOOK AT. YES. I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT IDEA. YEP. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. YEAH. THANK YOU. UM, ANYTHING ELSE ON PROGRESS TRACKER WITH BUDGET? ANY OTHER NOTES? COMMENTS? OKAY. AND THEN WE'VE GOT THE ORIENTATION FOR THE WORKING GROUP, 7.2, UM, SEVEN. THE OTHER 7.2, WHICH IS A YOUTH WORKING GROUP THAT IS A PROJECT THAT MR. HOLLINGSWORTH, UH, WANTS TO LEAD AND HE'S VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT IT. SO WE'RE GONNA MOVE THAT ONE UNTIL HE'S HERE WITH US. WE'RE GONNA SKIP YOUTH WORKING, YOUTH VOICE WORKING GROUPS, ITEM 7.2 A, BC, D, UM, SO WE CAN GET MR. LEDGE WITHIN THE CONVERSATION. YEAH. AND THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, HE CAN, HE CAN ATTEND, YOU KNOW, ALSO ONE OF THE WORKING GROUP, UH, MEETINGS BECAUSE HE CAN USE, YOU KNOW, THAT INFORMATION AND THAT TRAINING IN TERMS OF LEADING THAT, THAT, THAT, UH, THAT WORKING GROUP THAT HE'S VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. AND HE'S AN EDUCATOR, SO, AND HE'S GONNA BE RIGHT. YEAH. INSTEAD OF REINVENTING THE WHEEL, RIGHT. INSTEAD OF REINVENTING THE WHEEL. YEAH. HE CAN JUST FOLLOW THE STRUCTURE. YEP. RIGHT. HE CAN FOLLOW THE STRUCTURE AND USE THE HIT. RIGHT. SO I'LL MAKE SURE HE ATTENDS ONE OF THOSE. YEAH. GREAT. UM, ANYTHING ELSE, SOME QUESTIONS, CONCERNS [01:00:01] OR, UM, ITEMS ON THE YOUTH WORKING VOICE? YOUTH VOICE WORKING GROUP. OKAY. AND THEN MOVING ON TO 7.3, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON SETTING PROCLAMATIONS FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS TO INCLUDE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AWARENESS MONTH, WHICH IS IN MARCH. AND THAT'S IT. SO THAT'S 7.3. UM, ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR AN IDEA OR SUGGESTION FOR DOING, UM, FOR WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE DOING? WHAT DID WE SET FOR FEBRUARY? SO I WENT AHEAD AND PUT A PLACEHOLDER FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH. OKAY. 'CAUSE THAT'S BEEN WHAT WE TRADITIONALLY DO EVERY YEAR AS A COMMISSION. BUT WE WANTED TO ASK THE BLACK FAMILIES OF HURO, I MEAN, WHO, I DON'T EVEN WHO TO REACH OUT TO. I CAN CONNECT YOU TO ISHA WILLIAMS, ISHA. MM-HMM . UM, AND REALLY QUICKLY, I JUST WANT TO, SO I ADDED THE TWO INCLUDE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AWARENESS MONTH POPULATION IN MARCH BECAUSE, UM, I MET WITH, UM, THE, A REPRESENTATIVE WITH THE ARC CAPITAL AREA. I'M NOT SURE IF YOU GUYS ARE FAMILIAR WITH THAT. MM-HMM . UM, THERE IS A HU CAMPUS, AND LONG STORY SHORT, UM, SO THE CAPITAL, THE ART CAPITAL AREA IS A NONPROFIT. AND, UM, THEY SERVICE, UM, MOSTLY ADULTS WITH THE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES. UH, WE HAVE A HUDDLE CAMPUS HERE. AND, UM, ONE OF THE PROGRAMS THAT THEY OFFER IS, IS ART, CREATING ART AND, UM, HAVING ARTISTS, YOU KNOW, BEING ENGAGED AND PARTICIPATING. UM, I RECENTLY MET WITH, UH, THEIR ASSOCIATE MANAGER OF ART AND EDUCATION AND, UM, WE DISCUSSED SOME REALLY FUN IDEAS. BUT ESSENTIALLY HERE AT CITY HALL, WE HAVE THE MEZZANINE AREA, UM, WHEN YOU COME UPSTAIRS AND YOU KIND OF SEE LIKE THE HIPPOS EVERYWHERE. UM, SO WE HAVE KIND OF A GALLERY READY TO HANG. HMM. SO I CHATTED WITH HER, WENT THROUGH, YOU KNOW, THE BACKEND TO MAKE SURE THIS WAS ALL GOOD. UM, AND SO WE WOULD LOVE TO, UM, REGARDLESS OF, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A PROCLAMATION BOARD OR NOT, UM, WE WILL HAVE, UM, THE CAMPUS, UM, ATTENDEES, WE'LL HAVE SOME OF THEIR ART DISPLAYED HERE AT CITY HALL. I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE REALLY NICE IF WE COULD HOST THE RECEPTION ON MARCH 5TH AT 6:00 PM WHICH WOULD BE RIGHT BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING, AND THEN HAVE A DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AWARENESS MONTH PROCLAMATION TO TIE ALL OF THAT TOGETHER. UM, OF COURSE, I WANTED TO PRESENT THAT TO YOU ALL. UM, THE LEGWORK IS DONE AND IT'S, WE'RE STILL GOING TO HAVE A, UM, UH, AN OPENING RECEPTION FOR THE ARTIST AND ALL OF THAT. UM, IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROCLAMATION, NO WORRIES. I'LL SUBMIT IT ON BEHALF OF MY DEPARTMENT. BUT I THOUGHT IT WOULD KIND OF TIE INTO WHAT YOU GUYS ARE ALREADY DOING REALLY NICELY FOR THAT. SO THAT'S WHAT THAT SPECIFIC PIECE WAS FORWARD FOR MARCH. OKAY. AND WOULD IT BE HELPFUL IF I PULLED UP THE LINK THAT I SHARED WITH YOU ALL, OR DID ANYONE HAVE ANYTHING THEY WANTED US TO SHARE ON THE SCREEN FOR THIS ONE? WELL, THE HERITAGE MONTH MM-HMM . I MEAN, I'M, I'M LOOKING AT IT ON MY PHONE, SO IF THE REST OF THE GROUP WANTS, I WILL NOT BE AROUND ON THE FIFTH. ME EITHER. YEAH. I'LL BE IN COSTA RICA THAT WEEK. COSTA RICA? NO. I HAVE AN EVENT IN AUSTIN, UM, THAT EVENING ON THE FIFTH. SO I'M GONNA BE LEAVING FOUR IN AFTERNOON, BEING GONE ALL EVENING. DID YOU HAVE A ONE THAT YOU WANTED TO, UM, DO FOR MARCH? I MEAN, I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA, BUT I'M NOT GONNA BE HERE ON THE BID, SO I COULDN'T BE, I WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO SPONSOR ONE. BUT WE CAN DEFINITELY, ONE OF THE COMMISSION WANTS TO TAKE THE LEAD ON SPONSORING THAT. OR LIKE CHRISTIE SAID, SHE CAN, I HAVE HER, HER DEPARTMENT SPONSOR THAT PROCLAMATION. NO, WE DON'T HAVE TO DO PROCLAMATION EVERY MONTH. IT'S JUST NICE THAT WE DO, BECAUSE EVERY MONTH THE COMMUNITY THAT WE'RE HERE REMIND OURSELVES, YOU KNOW, GROUNDED WHAT WE'RE DOING. UM, AND THEN ALSO IN FEBRUARY, IF, UM, THE BLACK LIVES OF HUDDLE IS GOING TO LEAD THAT PROCLAMATION, UM, FOR, FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH, THEN WHAT [01:05:01] DO WE WANT TO PUT FORTH, UM, FOR THE CITY COUNCIL FOR FEBRUARY? IF IT'S NOT, IF THAT'S NOT GONNA BE ONE THAT WE SPONSOR, IF I CAN MAKE A NOTE. UM, YES MA'AM. IT'S HIGHLY UNLIKELY THAT THEY WILL SPONSOR THE PROCLAMATION. OKAY. UM, I'M HAPPY TO SEND AND CONNECT THEM MAYBE TO YOU DIRECTLY AND LET THEM KNOW THAT WE HAVE A PLACEHOLDER FOR IT. BUT IN THE PAST, THEY HAVE NOT SPONSORED, UM, THEY DON'T SUBMIT PROCLAMATIONS, NOT SO MUCH ANYMORE. OH, OKAY. WELL, FOR, OKAY. ARE ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT WITH THAT GROUP, THE MM-HMM . THEY, THEY HAVE, UH, THEY HAVEN'T NEVER SPONSORED. NO, THEY HAVE BEFORE. THEY HAVE BEFORE. I THINK IT'S, UM, I MEAN, YOU'D HAVE TO ASK THEM DIRECTLY AS TO WHY, BUT OH, THEY, SO LAST YEAR THEY DIDN'T? NO, THE COMMISSION DID. OH, OKAY. THE COMMISSION DID, AND WE INVITED THEM TO ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE. UM, AND THEY HAVE OFF AND ON IN THE PAST. UM, BUT LAST YEAR THEY DID NOT. OKAY. UM, IF THEY DECLINED, UM, TO DO THE PROCLAMATION FOR, UM, BLACK HISTORY, I CAN, I CAN DO IT. I CAN YOU WANNA TAKE BOTH? I CAN, I CAN, UH, WRITE IT. SO FOR FEBRUARY. YEAH. SO JUST LET ME KNOW WHAT THEY DECIDE TO DO AND I CAN, UM, I CAN GO AHEAD AND START WORKING ON IT JUST IN CASE THEY DECIDE TO NOT OKAY. I WOULD SUGGEST GOING AHEAD AND WORKING ON IT. YEAH. THEY WON'T DO IT. YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND START. THEY WON'T DO IT. THEY GONNA DO YEAH. I ALREADY KNOW THEY'RE GONNA DO THEIR OWN THING BECAUSE YOU'D HAVE TO KNOW THE HISTORY, BUT YEAH, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND START WORKING ON IT. OKAY. SO WE'LL, SO WE'LL DO IT AS A COMMISSION. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON. AND OF COURSE, WE'LL ALWAYS INVITE, INVITE ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORS TO BE A PART OF IT. AND WHEN, WHEN ARE WE GOING TO PRESENT THIS? SO IT WOULD BE, THE FIRST MEETING OF FEBRUARY WAS COMING UP PRETTY QUICKLY. UM, THAT WAS ANOTHER REASON I WOULD SAY TO GO AHEAD AND, AND JUST GO AHEAD AND DRAFT. THIS WOULD BE, SO THAT WOULD BE FEBRUARY 5TH, BUT WE WOULD NEED THAT PROCLAMATION BY LIKE THE 28TH. OKAY. THAT'S MY SON'S BIRTHDAY NEXT WEEK. YEAH. SO JUST GET IT DONE THIS WEEK. LET IT AND FORGET IT. GET IT DONE AND SEND IT TO, UM, AND I'LL GO, OR WE'LL GO BACK AND, UM, FIND LAST YEAR'S PROCLAMATION AND SEND IT OVER TO YOU. SO IF IT LOOKS GOOD, MAYBE JUST UPDATING A COUPLE OF THINGS. UM, AND THEN KEEPING IN MIND WE HAVE TO SUBMIT PROCLAMATIONS TO THE MAYOR FOR HIS APPROVAL ALSO FIRST. SO IT'S, THERE'S KIND OF ANOTHER STEP IN THE PROCESS VERSUS US JUST BEING ABLE TO UPLOAD IT. SO A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A THE TIME. SO WE NEED THAT TIME CUSHION. THIS IS JUST A CURIOSITY QUESTION. HOW LARGE IS THIS GROUP, THE BLACK FAMILIES? A HUDDLE? HOW LONG? I HAD, WHEN I FIRST MOVED , WHEN I FIRST MOVED HERE, I HAD JOINED 'CAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE FUN AND, BUT IT TURNED OUT TO BE MORE POLITICAL THAN WHAT, UH, THEN I WANTED TO BE A PART OF. SO I, IT WAS A FACEBOOK GROUP, SO I LEFT IT BECAUSE IT WAS NOT SO MUCH OF A COMMUNITY THAT I THOUGHT, I THOUGHT IT WAS GONNA BE LIKE, REALLY FUN, BUT IT TURNED OUT TO BE MORE LIKE A POLITICAL THING, SO I JUST PULLED OUT OF IT. SO I DID HAVE A, A, A RUN IN WITH, UM, THE LADY THAT YOU GUYS MENTIONED. SO I JUST, UH, I'M NOT SURPRISED IF THAT THEY WON'T, BUT I WANTED TO ASK QUESTIONS, BUT YEAH, SO, SO, SO WHAT I'M HEARING IS IT'S A FACEBOOK GROUP. IT'S NOT LIKE A 4 0 3 OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. THEY DON'T HAVE ANY CHARTERS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. IT'S JUST A GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER ON FACEBOOK. THAT'S WHAT IT STARTED AS. AND THEY HAVE BUILT UP AND THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BECOMING A 5 0 1 C3 IF THEY HAVEN'T ALREADY. I KNOW THAT THEY WERE VERY CLOSE TO THAT. SO REALLY THAT'S WHAT I HEARD AS WELL. THEY'RE, THEY HAVE DONE A LOT OF GREAT THINGS IN THE COMMUNITY TO INCLUDE THE CLEANUP OF THE, UM, BLACK CEMETERY, THE SHILOH CEMETERY THAT WAS UNNAMED FOR A REALLY LONG TIME. MM-HMM . UM, THEY ARE THE SPEARHEAD BEHIND JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION. WE AS CITY SUPPORT AND KIND OF OFFER THAT. BUT, UM, SO THERE'S THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN DONE AND THAT THEY AS A GROUP CONTRIBUTE TO OUTSIDE OF THE BEING A FACEBOOK GROUP. YEAH. I DIDN'T KNOW GROWN. AND THE, AND THE BLACK FUND JUST AWARDED 'EM $10,000 TO CONTINUE THEIR WORK. SO YEAH. THEY, THEY KIND OF DO THEIR OWN THING THAT ERIC, ERIC, I KNOW THEY HAD GROWN, BUT I WOULDN'T WHAT BESIDES THE JUNETEENTH EVENT. THE PARTNER WITH THE PARTNER WITH THE CITY TO GROW. AND I KNEW ABOUT THE CEMETERY BECAUSE I HAVE A, A CUB SCOUT OR A TROOP NOW WHO IS, UM, DOING HIS EQUAL PROJECT ON THAT, ON THAT POND, CONTINUING TO [01:10:01] RAISE FUNDS TO RAISE SOME STONES AND SOME MARKERS AND CONTINUE TO CLEAN UP PROJECT AS HIS EQUAL PROJECT. VERY COOL. HE'S MY NEIGHBOR. AND I WAS LIKE, YOU GO ELIJAH. AND I KNOW THAT HE HAD REACHED OUT TO THEM AND KIND OF CONNECTED. IT WAS VERY HELPFUL. CEMETERY, WHAT'S THAT NAME OF THAT COUNTY ROAD? IT'S WAY OUT THERE. WHAT IT'S CALLED, I CAN'T REMEMBER. ROAD. SO IT, IT'S OFF THE CEMETERY THAT'S ON THIS SIDE. WELL, MY, UH, MY SON, HE IS THAT THE MEXICANS CEMETERY, THE SCARY ONE BY TON MARIA ON TOP. SANTA MARIA THAT'S NEXT TO MY HOUSE. HE LIVES LIKE THE, WHERE THEY BURIED ALL MY PEOPLE. OKAY. YEAH. HE WENT THERE AND HE FOUND ONE IN TEXAS. YEAH. HE'S VERY OLD. YEAH. HE FELT HE, YEAH. 'CAUSE THEY HAVE LIKE, UM, THE, I GUESS REVOLUTIONARY, UH, WAR PEOPLE OUT THERE, VETERANS OR PEOPLE OUT THERE. OH. AND HE FOUND A BABY THAT WAS VERY ALONE AND, NO, NOT THE SKELETON, BUT THE, OH, I WAS GONNA SAY WHAT, BUT THE, THE HEAD SKELETON, THE HEADSTONE OF AN INFANT OF AN INFANT BEEN, IT'S A VERY, AND IT WAS LIKE BABY SOMETHING. AND HE SAID HE FELT REALLY BAD. SO, UM, I GOT HIM SOME FLOWERS TO TAKE OUT THERE AND PUT IT ON THE GRAVE. YEAH. UP THERE ON THE HILL NEXT TO THE, THE ROCKABILLY PLACE IS RIGHT NEXT TO NOW. YEAH. IT'S UP THERE. UM, IT'S A VERY ANCIENT SPACE. JUST KIDDING. I WAS LIKE, WHAT? OKAY. UM, ALL RIGHT. GETTING BACK ON TRACK. UM, SO PROCLAMATION, SO THANK YOU COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON FOR, UM, VOLUNTEERING TO SPONSOR THE, UM, BLACK HISTORY MONTH FOR FEBRUARY. MM-HMM . AND WE WILL, UM, AND THEN, I'M SORRY, DID YOU SAY YOU WANTED TO SPONSOR THE MARCH ONE OR ARE WE GONNA LEAVE THAT TO, UH, CHRISTIE'S DEPART ARE ASKING SPECIFIC. YES. PERFECT. SORRY. YOU ARE GOING TO DO IT, UH, AS PART OF THE DEIV, OR I GUESS IF YOU WANT IT TO BE, WE CAN, IT'S ALREADY KIND OF SET UP FOR YOU, FOR Y'ALL TO TAKE IT IF YOU WANT IT. UM, I'M, I THINK IT'S, IT DEFINITELY BELONGS IN THAT UMBRELLA. MM-HMM . BUT IF THERE WERE OTHER PROCLAMATIONS, LIKE IT'S ALSO WOMEN HISTORY MONTH. WOMEN HISTORY MONTH MM-HMM . AND SOME OTHERS LAST ELSE THAT YOU WANTED TO DO. UM, IT WAS JUST AN OFFERING AND A TIE IN THAT FOR SOMETHING THAT'S ALREADY SET UP AND KIND OF READY TO, TO TAKE FORWARD. RIGHT. YEAH. SO WE CAN JUST DO IT AND TAKE CREDIT FOR EVERYTHING, RIGHT? YEAH. YEAH. PERFECT. THAT'S WHAT WE'RE HERE FOR BACKGROUND. SO, UM, I DON'T, I DON'T MIND SPONSORING THAT. I THINK THAT'S A GREAT CAUSE ANYWAY, SO THAT WORKS. I CAN DO THAT. UM, BUT AND LAST YEAR I DID WIL WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH AND I SPECIFICALLY ASKED, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER LAR TO READ THAT PROCLAMATION INSTEAD OF THE MAYOR LAST YEAR BECAUSE IT WAS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH THAT SHE WAS THE ONLY WOMAN COUNCIL MEMBER, BUT I'M NOT GONNA BE HERE THIS YEAR. WELL, UH, THE EIGHTH IS THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S, UM, DAY, I GUESS. AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANNA SPONSOR AS A, AS A ASION. YEAH. UH, ON TOP OF THE DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES AWARENESS MONTH, I THINK WE SHOULD ALWAYS HONOR WOMEN'S HISTORY. RIGHT. UH, AND FROM THIS GROUP THOUGH, THAT BE PROBABLY ONE OF YOU GUYS TO DO. WELL, THAT'S THE ONLY PROBLEMS THAT FOR THAT COUNCIL MEETING, THAT 35TH, I'M NOT GONNA BE HERE, I'M GONNA BE IN AUSTIN THAT EVENING. RIGHT. THE ONE THIS COMMISSIONER WILL LISTEN, WANTS TO GO OUT THERE AND TALK ABOUT, HEY, HELP TO RECOGNIZE, SPEAK , WRITE THAT ONE AS WELL. OTHER NOTE, TYPICALLY I WANTED TO MAKE, UM, RECENTLY THE, THE MAYOR HAS, UM, BROUGHT UP IS WHEN WE HAVE PROCLAMATIONS FOR AS, AS BEST AS WHOEVER IS WRITING IT IS, OR AS THE COMMISSIONER OR A STAFF, IF WE CAN HELP TO HAVE PEOPLE THERE, NOT, MAYBE NOT JUST ONE COMMISSIONER, BUT TO HAVE THAT GROUP WHO'S REPRESENTED THERE TO ACCEPT IT AND BE VISIBLY SEEN. UM, SO AS WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THOSE PROCLAMATIONS, IF WE ALREADY HAVE GROUPS IN MIND, OR IDENTIFIED, OR PEOPLE THAT WE CAN BRING IN TO ACCEPT THE PROCLAMATION, I THINK THAT'S PART OF HOW WE WOULD KIND OF COMMUNICATE THAT TO THE MAYOR. AND THAT MIGHT PLAY INTO HIS APPROVAL AS WELL, IF PEOPLE WOULD, IF THAT GROUP WOULD BE THERE TO ACCEPT IT OR NOT. OH. OH, OKAY. I DIDN'T KNOW THERE HAD TO BE A PARTICULAR, THERE, THERE'S NOWHERE THAT SAYS THERE HAS TO BE A PARTICULAR GROUP. I'M JUST LETTING YOU KNOW. IT'S JUST A PREFERENCE OF A CURRENT, A RECENT, UM, UPDATE IN, IN MY UNDERSTANDING OF PROCLAMATIONS. I DUNNO HOW TO TURN THAT. SORRY. OH, NO, YOU'RE FINE. MM-HMM . OKAY. SO HOW, HOW WOULD I, IF I WEREN'T, IF I WAS, OKAY, SO , HOW WOULD I GO ABOUT THEN TRYING TO FIND WOMEN [01:15:02] WOMEN IN THE COMMUNITY? I MEAN, WE CAN HELP. I KNOW, I, I CAN REACH OUT. UM, I MEAN, I'M SURE THERE'S LOTS OF WOMEN, THE COMMUNITY GROUPS, YOU KNOW, EVEN JUST LIKE THE MOM GROUPS AND LIKE REALLY, REALLY THERE OUT THERE ALLIANCE. THERE'S HWA, UHHUH, , FEDERAL WOMEN'S ALLIANCE. THERE'S WOMEN THAT ARE PART OF POW WITH PROFESSIONAL WOMEN, PROFESSIONAL WOMEN OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY. ALL OF THE PEOPLE IN, WELL, NOT ALL, THE MAJORITY OF THE MEMBERS OF H WHICH IS THE ISD PART OF IT THAT DID THE FUNDRAISING. THEY'RE WOMEN LED BY CLAUDIA. UM, AND THEN WITHIN THE CHAMBER, WE CAN ALSO REACH OUT AND SAY, I JUST FEEL BAD BECAUSE I WON'T BE HERE THAT EVENING FOR THAT MEETING. BUT YES, WE CAN HELP YOU GET WOMEN THERE FROM DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE TO BE REPRESENTED. OKAY. SO WHAT, WHAT'S THE NAME OF THAT ONE? UM, WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH. IS THE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH OR THE DAY? WELL, THE EIGHTH IS THE INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY, BUT MARCH IS ALSO THE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, OR YEAH. YEAH. SO WHAT WOULD THE PROCLAMATION BE FOR? IT DIDN'T WANNA RECOGNIZE THE DAY OR THE MONTH. UM, I THINK YOU HAVE LIKE WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH. MM-HMM . TALKS ABOUT THE HISTORY OF WOMEN AND MAYBE RECOGNIZING PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY. YOU WANNA DO THAT TO WOMEN'S DAY MIGHT JUST BE MORE OF A GENERIC, LIKE GAY WOMEN, I THINK. I THINK, YEAH, I THINK THE, THE INTERNATIONAL, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW A LOT OF THE WOMEN AND VERY, SORRY, BUT I DON'T KNOW A LOT OF THE WOMEN MM-HMM . IN, IN OUR COMMUNITY AS OF YET. SO YEAH. AND WHAT A GREAT WAY TO LEARN, RIGHT? YEAH. I WOULD SAY DO WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH ONLY BECAUSE THAT WAY WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTIONS WOMEN HAVE MADE MM-HMM . BECAUSE A LOT OF THE WOMEN THAT I'M GONNA BE ABLE TO KIND OF CAJOLE TO BE THERE, ESPECIALLY, I'M NOT, YOU GUYS GO, I WON'T BE THERE, BUT YOU GUYS GO AGAIN. A LOT OF 'EM ARE GETTING BUSINESS OWNERS. OKAY. SO THEY'RE, THEY'LL, THEY'LL APPRECIATE THAT. SO I WILL BE, UH, WRITING THEIR PROCLAMATION FOR WOMEN TO THREE MONTH AS WELL. UM, AND THEN LET ME KNOW WHEN, WHEN DO YOU NEED THAT IN? SO THAT WOULD BE THE FIRST MEETING IN MARCH. YOU NEED IT TOWARDS THE END OF FEBRUARY, AND THEN I'LL PUT THIS IN MY YEAH. FEBRUARY. HAVE DONE MY EYES ON IT. YEAH. BY FEBRUARY 20TH. OKAY. AND ON ON 7.3. UM, MAYBE WE CAN ALSO JUST DISCUSS BRIEFLY ABOUT, ESSENTIALLY UP TO JUNE, UH, ANY PROCLAMATIONS THAT WE WANNA DO, UH, THAT WAY OUT OF THE WAY UNTIL WE DISCUSS THE REST OR THE SECOND HALF OF THE YEAR AND THE ONLY TWO AFTER MARCH THAT I CAN THINK OF. UH, WELL, THAT I THINK, UH, CAN BE A GOOD, GOOD, UM, PROCLAMATION TO DO WOULD BE THE MEMORIAL DAY IN MAY AND JUNETEENTH IN JUNE. I THINK THOSE TWO, UM, FIT REALLY WELL WITH THE FOURTH. SO THAT'S MY ON THAT. OKAY. UM, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE IN JUNE? OTHER, UM, I MEAN THERE'S OTHER STUFF I GUESS. I DON'T KNOW. UM, I MEAN, YOU DON'T HAVE TO NECESSARILY FIX THIS RIGHT NOW, BUT I'M JUST SAYING THAT WE CAN JUST GET IT DONE WITH MM-HMM . AND NOT WORRY ABOUT THIS FOR THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS. WE WANT TO YES, I'M AGREE. OKAY. BUT, UH, IN THAT CASE THEN WE NEED TO ASSIGN, UM, MOVING WHO WOULD BE DOING THE MEMORIAL DAY OR THE JUNETEENTH. SO DO WE WANNA WAIT THEN FOR THE NEXT MEETING OR THE PERSON WHO SPONSORS IT? YES. SO WE HAVE THE OTHER TWO, HOPEFULLY OTHER TWO COMMISSIONERS HERE. SO I WAS, I WAS DIGGING IN BY NOTES AND I FOUND A LIST THAT WE HAD, UH, USED LIKE, I BELIEVE LAST YEAR MM-HMM . AND IT KIND OF HIGHLIGHTS THE DIFFERENT, UH, THINGS OF, UH, DIFFERENT VENUES OF AWARENESS OF EACH MONTH. AND LET'S SEE HERE, FOR APRIL, WE HAD, WE [01:20:01] HAD AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH. THAT'S WHAT IT WAS THAT WE RECOGNIZED LAST YEAR, I BELIEVE. UH, I MEAN, IT'S A LIST. KIND OF PASS IT DOWN. YEAH. I'D SAY THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH, UM, SELECTING YEAH. THE ONES THAT WE WANNA SET. AND THEN, UM, SOLICITING IT UP TO THE COMMISSIONERS, PERHAPS. UM, COMMISSIONER HOLLINSWORTH OR, UM, BODE, I DON'T KNOW. UM, NOT WHAT DON JAVI, IF YOU'RE INTERESTED IN SPONSORING ANY OF THE FUTURE POPULATIONS. AND THEN OF COURSE WE WANNA ASK, UM, COMMISSIONER BODE AS WELL, SO WE CAN TAKE SOME ACTION ON THEM DECIDING WHAT, IF WE HAVE ENOUGH TO MAKE FORMS SO WE CAN DECIDE WHICH IS DO WE WANNA DO? AND THEN WE CAN GIVE THEM A CHANCE TO MAYBE IF THEY WANNA SPONSOR THE ONE THAT ARE COMING UP. YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. YEAH. SO LET ME TAKE SOME ACTION THIS EVENING. UM, AND THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THINGS THAT ARE RELEVANT TO OUR COMMUNITY AND, UM, WE CAN GET THEM SELECTED. SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE ANY, SO WE SAID, SO FOR MARCH WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, WHICH IS COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON, AND, UM, FOR APRIL FOR US, SO AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH. YEAH. ALSO HAVE DEVELOPMENTAL, THAT'S MARCH. MM-HMM. RIGHT. BUT THAT ONE'S GOING TO, IS THAT THE, I I, I LOST THE, THE CONVERSATION THERE. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING? OR WE CAN LEAVE THAT PART WITH CHRISTIE? WELL, I CAN, UH, MY, UH, I GUESS THE COMMISSION'S INVOLVEMENT WOULD BE TO PROVIDE YOU WITH THE WRITEUP. CORRECT. IF THERE ANY, AND IF THEY'RE WRITING IT, WE WOULD LABEL IT AS A-D-E-I-V PROCLAMATION. BUT AS FAR AS ALL THE OTHER THINGS I DISCUSSED, WE'RE DOING THAT ANYWAY. RIGHT. SO SETTING UP THE, SO IT IS PERCEPTION AND ALL THAT STUFF. OKAY. SO THEN IS THE D-D-E-I-B COMMISSION THEN PARTY TO THAT? OR THEY'RE NOT INVOLVED AT ALL, OR THEY'RE KIND OF LIKE, WELCOME TO BE THERE IF YOU WANT TO, BUT NOT, NOT NEEDED. SO, UM, I WOULD LOVE FOR WELCOME. SO WOULD WOULD, SHE SAID THE CITY OF FEDERAL RIGHT. CITY OF US, YEAH. THE CITY OF HUDDLES ALREADY DOING SOMETHING. RIGHT. SO IT DOESN'T, IT IS ALREADY SPONSORED BY THE CITY OF MM-HMM . SO, UH, AS, AS COMMISSIONERS, YOU ALL COULD SHOW UP, YOU DON'T HAVE TO MM-HMM . PROBABLY STILL GONNA GO IN. RIGHT? . OKAY. PROCLAMATION BUNCH OF PROAM. RIGHT. WE, IT IS JUST THAT WE, WE LIKE TO HAVE REPRESENTATIONS AT THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING. I WAS THERE, UH, AT THE LAST ONE FOR DR. MARTIN LUTHER KING AND THE, UH, OTHER PROCLAMATION THAT WE DID. THAT'S RIGHT. SO WE JUST TRY TO HAVE REPRESENTATION FROM SOMEONE AT EACH ONE, IF YOU CAN. SO THIS COMMISSION DID A PROCLAMATION FOR MLK? WE DID. AND THAT SURE DID. YEAH. AND ACTUALLY, COMMISSIONER HOLSWORTH SPONSORED IT, BUT HE WASN'T ABLE TO MAKE THE MEETING. UM, HE WASN'T ABLE TO COME TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING THAT, THAT EVENING. SO, UM, IT WAS MYSELF AND UM, BOOK KIT AND, UM, JAVI, THEY REPRESENTING THE COMMISSION, UM, FOR THAT ONE. WHICH IS FINE, AS LONG AS SOME OF US ARE THERE. I'M WRITING ALL OVER YOUR PAPER. YOU GAVE THIS TO US, RIGHT? BECAUSE I'M, I'M ALL WRITING ALL OVER. NO, THAT'S FINE. I CAN ANSWER YOUR QUESTION THEN. IT, IT WAS TOO, WHAT WAS THE OTHER ONE? WRITE UP. OKAY. GOT IT. YOU GONNA SPONSOR THE DIS? MM-HMM . OKAY. ARE YOU ABLE TO, OR, UM, MAKE COPIES? ? IT'LL BE IN OUR NOTES AWARENESS THAT COPY THAT. UM, BELL HAS IS FROM A YEAR OR SO MORE AGO. YEAH. IT'S LIKE A YEAR OR SO AGO. MISSION WAS MADE UP OF COMPLETELY DIFFERENT MEMBERS. RIGHT. SO, SO WE CAN CHANGE ANY, SO DEFINITELY YOU GUYS MAKE THAT'S SOMETHING OH, DECISIONS. YEAH. HAVE TO GO OFF OF THIS. THIS IS WHAT WAS PREVIOUSLY DONE WITH A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SET. UM, OKAY. UM, SO I JUST WANNA MAKE THAT CLEAR. YEAH. ALL RIGHT. SO DID WE JUST DECIDE APRIL TO UM, DO AUTISM AWARENESS MONTH? WE CAN GO AHEAD AND, UM, JUST STICK TO THAT ONE MORE TIME TO GET. SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND, UM, PUT A PIN ON THAT. WE'VE MOVED ALL THE WAY THROUGH MARCH, SO WHEN WE MEET NEXT TIME, WE'LL KEEP WORKING OUR WAY DOWN THE LIST AND GETTING THEM SET AND GETTING THEM ASSIGNED. OKAY. UM, ANYTHING ELSE? I KNOW THAT WE'LL GET STEPPED OUT, BUT ANYTHING ELSE ON THE PROCLAMATIONS? I THINK WE'RE PRETTY GOOD THERE. AVI, ANYTHING FROM YOU? NO, NO. I'LL ACTUALLY HAVE TO DROP OFF HERE AT SEVEN 30, BUT NO, NOTHING FROM ME. ALRIGHT, SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND MOVE ON TO 7.4. WHAT WE STILL HAVE YOU AND JONAS IN A MINUTE, ESPECIALLY [01:25:01] 'CAUSE WE HAVE ABBY WITH US TODAY. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DISCUSSED ON OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, IT SEEMS LIKE A FUN ONE, IS THE DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON DIRECTING STAFF TO UPDATE THE DIV LANDING PAGE ON THE CITY WEBSITE TO INCLUDE THE LAUNCH OF THE YOU BELONG AND HUDDLE CAMPAIGN. SO THAT'S THE DIGITAL PORTION OF THE YOU BELONG AND HUDDLE CAMPAIGN AND SOME TYPE OF, WHEN, WHEN ABBY AND I SPOKE TO SOME TYPE OF, UM, CAMPAIGN TO GET IT OUT TO PEOPLE SO THAT THEY SEE IT AND THEY START, UM, CHAMPIONING, LIKE WE WANNA CHAMPION THAT, THAT TYPE OF CULTURE AND FEELING IN THE CITY. AND WE'RE TAKE AND TAKING THE LEAD ON THAT, THAT YOU BELONG IN , UM, INVITING, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS AND TALENTS AND, AND INVESTMENTS AND ALL OF THE GREAT THINGS TO COME AND FEEL A SENSE OF BELONGING HERE. AND THEN IN OUR BUDGET ITEM THAT WE HAD EARLIER, WE HAD SET ASIDE, WAS IT 1500 TO PURCHASE A NEW BANNER? WE HAVE AN OLD BANNER THAT'S COMPLETELY OUTDATED. UH, SO WOULD THAT REQUIRE PUTTING A BID OUT FOR A BANNER? OR CAN WE JUST SAY, HEY, WE'LL JUST FIND SOMEBODY LOCAL TO CREATE INSTEAD OF A BANNER? I THINK IT WOULD BE BETTER TO HAVE A STANDUP OR SOMETHING. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT STANDS UP RATHER THAN WE HAVE TO HANG EVERY TIME BECAUSE IT'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE IT VISIBLE. EXCUSE ME, AT MORE PLACES, EVENTS AND WAYS THAT WE CAN SHOW UP IN THE COMMUNITY. SO YOU'LL HAVE THAT MONEY ALREADY ALLOCATED FOR THAT. SO YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO NECESSARILY GO TO BID FOR IT. IT'S JUST A MATTER OF PROCESSING. UM, WE WOULD HAVE TO DO THAT IN, SO IT WOULDN'T BE AS EASY AS, UM, I DON'T THINK ANYWAY, AS YOU JUST GOING AND PURCHASING SOMETHING AND THEN IT'S DONE. WE WOULD HAVE TO, UM, WHATEVER THAT LOCAL VENDOR IS, AS LONG AS IT'S UNDER A CERTAIN AMOUNT AND WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF. AND ONCE THE DETAILS ARE DONE, IT ALSO HAS TO BE TAX EXEMPT AND THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER THINGS INVOLVED. SO WHAT IS Y'ALL'S PAY? THE CASH AMOUNT? YOU HAVE PETTY CASH. LIKE S LIKE 150. YOU CAN'T GO OVER 150. NO. WITH PETTY CASH WET THAT UH, YOU WON'T NEED AN RFP 'CAUSE IT'S NOT GONNA BE OVER $3,000. RIGHT? YEAH, DEFINITELY NOT. WE DON'T HAVE THAT. UH, BUT YOU, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK FOR, UH, A LOCAL VENDOR, YOU UH, TYPICALLY DOES THE, DOES THE CITY HAVE A PUBLICATION VISIT THAT YEAH, I WAS GONNA SAY, DO THEY ALREADY DO BUSINESS WITH, SO WE DON'T DO THAT, BUT WE DO HAVE LIKE, UM, HUB LIST AND PROCUREMENT. IT'S ALL ON THE WEBSITE. MM-HMM . BUT IF IT'S A PHOTO SPECIFIC BUSINESS THAT YOU ALL DECIDE AND YOU SAY, HEY, WE WANNA USE THIS BUSINESS MM-HMM . AND IT'S UNDER THIS AMOUNT AND THEN YOU SUBMIT THAT TO US IN WRITING, THEN THAT'S HOW WE WOULD GO ABOUT THAT. YES. THE MICRO PURCHASE THRESHOLD, WHATEVER IT IS FOR A CITY. I KNOW AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL WHAT IT IS, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE MICRO PURCHASE, MICRO PURCHASE THRESHOLD IS FOR THE CITY. YEAH. WE WE DON'T REALLY DO THAT. YEAH. SO, BUT I DO HAVE A, LIKE YOU SAID YOU HAVE A HUB, SO YOU DO HAVE BUSINESSES LISTED UNDER THE HUB UNDER THE WEBSITE THAT'S KIND OF REGISTERED. WELL THAT'S MORE FOR THE BIDDING PROCESS. THE, TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS, THAT EVERYONE HAS AN EQUAL CHANCE. UM, SO IF IT'S A SIGN THING, IF YOU GUYS HAVE A LOCAL VENDOR OR ANYTHING THAT YOU WANT TO USE, YOU CAN SEND THAT OVER TO US. BUT AS FAR AS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT, BUT LIKE HOW IT LOOKS AND ALL THOSE KIND OF THINGS. I MEAN YEAH, LIKE WHAT'S THE PROPER PROCESS? LIKE CAN I JUST GO ONLINE AND SAY, OH HERE'S A BANNER THEY MAKE FOR US FOR $300. YEAH, I THINK, YEAH, I THINK IF YOU GO ONLINE YOU CAN GET A QUOTE AND THEN YOU CAN SEND TO US IN WRITING WHO THE VENDOR IS. I DON'T THINK IT MATTERS WHO, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE SEVERAL VENDORS. IT CAN'T. IF IT'S UNDER, YEAH, IF IT'S UNDER A CERTAIN AMOUNT IT WOULD BE YES. THEN THAT'S FINE. SO JUST TELL US, WE FOUND THIS VENDOR. VENDOR, THEY'RE QUOTING US THIS MUCH FOR THE BANNER. YEAH, BECAUSE IT'S MORE THE HARDWARE, THE BANNERS ARE PRETTY COMPARABLE NO MATTER IF YOU GET 'EM LOGO OR ONLINE. BUT THE HARDWARE GOES UP AND ONLY ONLINE. 'CAUSE IT'S CHEAPER TO GET THE HARDWARE TO STAND IT UP. SET IT UP. RIGHT. THAT'S WHERE I SEEN PRICE SCRAP. 'CAUSE I USED TO ORDER STUFF FOR TST C AND IT WAS MUCH MORE COMP, OVERLY COMPLICATED PROCESS. YEAH. BUT, UM, THAT'S WHERE WE SAW A LOT OF DISCOVERY WAS THAT ORDER ONLINE. BECAUSE OF THAT WE DID HAVE TO USE SPECIFIC VENDORS. IT, I THINK THAT'S ALL WE WOULD NEED BECAUSE YEAH. SPECIFIC. YEAH. YOU WANT MIGHT WANNA LOOK INTO A, A-FRAME IS WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT, THE DOUBLE SIDE, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. IT'LL STAND UP. YEAH. AND THEN WE CAN USE IT IN MORE. UM, WE NEED, DO NEED TO BE MORE VISIBLE IN THE COMMUNITY. SO I CAN, UM, WORK ON THAT. SO I'LL GET SOME QUOTES FOR THE MAN FOR A STANDUP BANNER OR A SWEEPER AND SUBMIT IT TO ABBY AS PART OF THAT CAMPAIGN. AND THEN, UM, THAT'S GONNA BE PRETTY MUCH WHAT THE BUDGET DO. ARE THERE OTHER ITEMS THAT WE AS A COMMISSION AND WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE THAT MUCH LEFT OVER AFTER WE GET A NICE LITTLE SIGN OR BANNER, UM, THAT WE WANT TO ALLOCATE FUNDS TO. LIKE IS THAT A NECESSITY FOR US TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT [01:30:01] CAMPAIGN OUT THERE? OR WOULD IT, DO WE FORESEE IT BEING MORE OF A DIGITAL CAMPAIGN? UM, I THINK IT'S GONNA BE, YEAH, MOSTLY DIGITAL. BUT UH, FOR EXAMPLE, LET'S SAY ON JULY 4TH WE, YOU KNOW, LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WE'VE HAD, UH, CITY SPONSORED I GUESS SHOWS OR WHATEVER YOU MAY CALL IT, UH, AT THE ADAM OR GAIN PARK MM-HMM UH, WE CAN HAVE, YOU KNOW, RIGHT UP FRONT THAT THEN I THINK THAT GETS A LOT OF FOOTFALL. AND I THINK, UH, IF YOU'RE DOING ENOUGH, IF WE'RE PUTTING THAT BANNER OUT ENOUGH, IT MIGHT BE WORTH, UH, LOOKING INTO IT. 'CAUSE EVEN IF IT'S DIGITAL, YOU'D STILL KIND OF HAVE TO GO UNLESS IT'S TARGETED. AND I DON'T THINK WE'RE DOING ANY SORT OF TARGETED, UH, I MEAN WE COULD, WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF DOLLARS THAT WE CAN DO. LIKE THAT'S WHERE ABBVIE'S EXPERTISE REALLY COMES. IMPORTANT. LIKE WHAT OTHER EXPENSES DO WE BE THINKING ABOUT TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL, YOU BELONG IN HU CAMPAIGN LAUNCHING AS SOON AS WE CAN THROUGH THE END OF 2026. I DON'T THINK I WOULD RECOMMEND DOING ANY KIND OF PAID, UH, SOCIAL ADS. I THINK YOU'RE GONNA REACH A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT HERE IN HU I THINK YEAH. IT'LL BE OUTSIDE. YEAH. AND SO I DON'T THINK THAT'S WORTH YOUR MONEY. I DO THINK A BANNER IS GREAT OR SOME SORT OF STANDUP, A FRAME THAT YOU COULD HAVE IN AN EVENT. UM, EVEN A, IF YOU HAVE A BUDGET FOR A SMALL MERCH ITEM THAT YOU COULD GIVE OUT THAT SAYS LITTLE BITTY, LITTLE BITTY SCHWAG STUFF, UM, WRISTBAND, KEY RINGS, NOBODY WEARS BUTTON TEST, SAFETY KEY-RING BUTTON. SMALL CHEAP THINGS YOU CAN GUESS. YEAH. LITTLE, LITTLE STUFF THINGS. THE POINT IS TO GET THAT BRAND OUT THERE AND HAVE PEOPLE ADOPT IT. RIGHT. HOW DO WE IMPLEMENT ADOPT ADOPTION OF THAT BRAND OF THAT YOU BELONG IN HURO AND HAVE THAT BE, YOU KNOW, ALMOST SYNONYMOUS WITH HURO. JUST LIKE THE HIPPO IS. I MEAN, IN MY VISION, THAT'S HOW I WOULD LIKE TO, TO GROW AND MATURE INTO MM-HMM . YEAH. I MEAN THAT IS THE CASE. I MEAN PROBABLY WE NEED TO PAINT A HIPPO. SLOW DOWN IT FROM THE CHAMBER. SLOW DOWN. YEAH. BE LONG. GIVE A LITTLE, GET A CONCRETE HIPPO FROM THE CHAMBER AND HAVE IT PAINTED WITH, GIVE LONG HEAD. IT'LL SIT RIGHT UP FRONT OF CITY HALL. SO, SO TO GIVE Y'ALL A LITTLE, UH, INSIGHT, THE A HUNDRED 50TH THE HUNDRED 50TH COMMITTEE IS ALREADY LOOKING AT, UH, PAINTING THE HIPPO OUT FRONT. THAT'S PART OF WHAT LIKE WE WERE DISCUSSED LAST. THERE'S GONNA BE HISTORY EXHIBIT AND EVERYTHING. SO YEAH. THAT, THAT'S IN THE WORKS AS WELL. I GET A LITTLE BITTY COCKY HIPPO AND COME IN AND JUST DROP PAINT AND DROP IT OFF IN FRONT OF CITY HALL. WHO'S GONNA STOP PUT IN THE GARDEN. IT'S GONNA STOP ME. WHAT DID THEY CUTE. NOBODY SAW IT. THEY THEY WOULD BE CUTE TOO TO HAVE THAT. UM, A LITTLE ONE SIT AND LIVE HERE. I WAS JUST SAYING IF, YOU KNOW, I BOUGHT A HOUSE HERE, SO OF COURSE I LAWN HERE. YEAH. I, NO, I'M JUST, SORRY, I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT IT. I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT IT. BUT NO, I, I GET WHAT EVERYBODY IS, IS SAYING. SO THEY'RE MY ME. IT'S ALMOST MY BEDTIME. I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE THAT, SOMETHING THAT WE IMPLEMENT WITH OUR WORKING GROUPS TOO. LIKE THINK ABOUT WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE A SENSE OF BELONGING HUDDLE. LAST YEAR WE HAD THE, WHAT WAS IT CALLED AT THE GYM WHERE ALL THE VOLUNTEER, ALL THE UM, YEAH, THE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS. RESOURCE FAIR. COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS. RESOURCE FAIR. AND, UM, MS. JACQUELINE AND I, WE DID A TABLE, I WANTED TO DO IT DIGITAL, LIKE A WORD CLOUD. PEOPLE IMPLEMENT THE WORD AND THEN IT SEES ON THE SCREEN, BUT THERE'S NO POWER AT THE GIN. SO I CONVERTED IT INTO JUST, UH, ONE OF THOSE LIKE SCIENCE FAIR BOARDS AND HA AND HA I JUST HAD ALL THESE LITTLE COLORFUL PAPERS AND I HAD EVERYBODY THERE CAME IN AND WRITE WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU A SENSE OF BELONGING AND HUDDLE. RIGHT. AND THE IDEA WOULD THEN I WOULD TURN THAT INTO THE WORD CLOUD AND THEN HAVE IT LIVE IN THE, ON OUR WEBSITE SOMEWHERE. I STILL HAVE THE PAPERS THAT SIT IN MY OFFICE AT HOME AND THEN WHEN YOU'RE READY FOR, FOR IT. THAT WAS CUTE. YEAH. WE'LL POST IT. 'CAUSE THERE ARE, THERE ARE THINGS THAT, THOUGHTS THAT PEOPLE REALLY ENTERED AND THEN YOU'LL SEE THE THINGS THAT, THE THINGS THAT COME UP THE MOST. AND SO THAT'S SOMETHING I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, ADD TO OUR WEBSITE AT SOME POINT WHEN IT'S READY FOR IT. BUT THAT'S, THAT CAN, IT WAS, IT WAS REALLY, UM, IT WAS REALLY GREAT AND IMPACTFUL TO SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE REALLY GAVE A LOT OF THOUGHT TO LIKE, OH, LIKE NO ONE, NO ONE EVER ASKED THEM THAT. LIKE, DO I FEEL LISTEN TO BELONGING? WHAT, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN TO FEEL LIKE I BELONG HERE? I FEEL, AND SOME OF THINGS CAME UP A COUPLE OF TIMES, SOME THINGS ARE VERY UNIQUE, BUT IT WAS JUST A REALLY GRASSROOTS WAY OF COLLECTING IDEAS FROM PEOPLE. AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO AGAIN AT MAYBE AT THE HUNDRED 50TH CELEBRATION. WE'RE INVITING OURSELVES TO HAVE A BOOTH, UM, THERE. AND THAT'S WHEN WE CAN ENGAGE PEOPLE. WE CAN HAVE A BOOTH [01:35:01] AND SAY, SORRY, HEY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT YOU BELONG IN HURO. WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE A SENSE OF BELONGING HERE? YOU KNOW? AND THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER WAY TO REALLY DRIVE THAT CAMPAIGN AND THAT BRAND FOR OUR COMMISSION THAT'S GONNA LIVE ON AFTER WE ALL MOVE ON TO OTHER, YOU KNOW, COMMITMENTS OR ROLES. YEAH. I, I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY THIS AND THEN I'LL HAVE TO DROP OFF. FIRST OF ALL, CONGRATULATIONS ERIC. A AGAIN, UM, AND THEN IF YOU ALL WANT TO HAVE A BOOTH, IF WE WANNA, IF YOU WANT TO HAVE A BOOTH, UM, I'M THE VICE CHAIR ON THE ONE 50TH. I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT HAPPENED. NOMINATED FOR THAT. SO WHATEVER WE WANT TO DO FOR THE ONE 50, WE CAN DO IT. Y'ALL LET ME KNOW. I CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN. I WAS THERE WAS THAT SATURDAY, SIR. YOU VOLUNTEERED TO BE THE NO, I DIDN'T. YOUR MEMORY LOST SIR. I SORRY. I WAS VOTING. I WAS THERE THAT SATURDAY, SIR. SO DON'T SAY NO I DIDN'T. AMBER VOLUNTEERED. I DIDN'T. BUT ANYWAY, UH, ANY, ANYTHING YOU ALL WANNA DO, WE CAN PROBABLY INCORPORATE IN INTO THAT. SO THAT'S, THAT'S NOT A PROBLEM. A BOOTH WILL BE EASY. UM, YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT NIGHT. I HAVE TO DROP OFF. I'M LIKE 20 MINUTES BEHIND. SO, UM, I LOVE ALL THE IDEAS. LET'S CONTINUE TO WORK AND LET'S KEEP GOING FORWARD. THANK, THANK YOU. THANK YOU . ALRIGHT. I THINK THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING EASY. I MEAN, I WOULD LOVE TO DO EVEN A TENT CANOPY AND DO MORE EVENTS LIKE AT OLD TIME DAYS AND ALL THE BIG ALGORITHMS THAT WE HAVE, HAVE A BOOTH FOR THE COMMISSION SO IT DOESN'T DIE OFF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING. UM, AND HAVE A BRANDED CAN. THOSE CAN GET EXPENSIVE. HOW MUCH DOES IT COST TO HAVE A TENT? LIKE HAVE A TENT CAN OR TO HAVE A, TO PAY FOR A TENT CANOPY? WELL, AT, AT THE CITY? LIKE FOR THE SPACE? YEAH. BETWEEN LIKE IT COULD BE A HUNDRED TO TWO 50. OH. SO WE WON'T, BUT WE'RE NOT GONNA BE THERE AS VENDORS IF IT'S A CITY SPONSOR, IT'S A CITY SPONSORED EVENT. IT'S RIGHT. I MEAN, I MEAN IT'S NOT LIKE, OR IF WE HAD TO BUY A NEW TENT THAT WOULD BE PART OF THE DIB. RIGHT. HOW DO WE GET, UH, ONE OF THOSE, ONE OF THE ONES THE CITY HAS THAT HAS THE BRANDED BUT THEN HAS OUR LOGO, THE, THE BELONGING. HU HOW MUCH WOULD THAT, CAN WE FIND HOW MUCH IT COST STEVEN IN OUR BUDGET? I WILL TELL YOU, I'VE ORDERED THOSE IN THE PAST. ARE THEY PRICEY? THEY'RE TYPICALLY ABOUT FIVE TO SEVEN. YEAH. UGH. YEAH. THE ONES THAT WE HAVE BRANDED FROM STATE, WHICH WE GOT LIKE FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO, THEY WERE LIKE AROUND THAT. SO THEY'RE KIND OF PRICE, THEY'RE PRETTY EXPENSIVE. I KNOW A CHINESE COMPANY WHO WOULD DO IT FOR TWO 50, BUT I MIGHT HAVE TO, BUT WE CAN'T. BUT IT WOULD, WE WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO GET THE CITY LOCAL OR WOULD WE? YEAH, I'M SURE. I THINK WE COULD SANCTION THAT. WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? WHAT ARE THE PERMISSIONS FOR THAT? WELL, BECAUSE I HAD ONE OF MY CLIENTS DO IT FOR HIS, I'D BE FOR TECHNICAL TIME. GO AHEAD ABBY. I WOULD JUST SAY MY ONLY CONCERN IS I WOULDN'T WANT, I WOULD WANNA MAKE IT CLEAR THAT IT WAS THE DIB COMMISSION AND NOT STAFF AND NOT CITY STAFF OR PEOPLE LOOKING FOR HELP OR, UM, YOU KNOW, ANY OTHER REASON PEOPLE MIGHT BE LOOKING FOR STAFF. AND THAT WAS THE REASON WAY BACK IN THE DAY. THEY GOT THE BANNER TO BEGIN WITH. MM-HMM . BECAUSE THE, UM, DO YOU REMEMBER TARA SPOONS? MM-HMM . SHE WAS, SHE WAS HERE RIGHT AT THE BANNER. YEAH. SO SHE WOULD GO TO ALMOST EVERY EVENT AND JUST POP UP AND SET UP AND HAVE THE BANNER MM-HMM . UM, EVERY CITY SPONSORED EVENT THAT SHE COULD GO TO MM-HMM . UM, BUT IT WAS WITH THE BANNER AND PEOPLE WERE STILL CONFUSED, LIKE, OH, ARE YOU A DEPARTMENT? WHERE ARE YOU? AND, AND THAT KIND OF THING. SO I WOULD BE HESITANT TO HAVE LIKE CITY OF HU DEIB COMMISSION. YEAH. MAYBE MORE JUST LIKE A TENT WITH YOUR BANNER THERE, KNOWING YOU'RE, YOU ARE PART OF THE CITY, UM, BUT YOU'RE YOUR OWN COMMISSION. AND SO YOU GUYS SET THE, THERE, THERE'S A DIFFERENT WAY TO APPROACH THAT. YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT. 'CAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS YOU HAVE TO UNDERSTAND, ANYTHING WE DO, ANYTHING YOU ALL DO. THIS IS STILL TAXPAYER'S DOLLARS IS STILL CONNECTED TO THE CITY OF PUDO MM-HMM . SO, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T WANT TO DUPLICATE EFFORT, BUT ALSO YOU DON'T WANT TO BE MISREPRESENTED OF THE CITY OF PUDO. YES. SO IF YOU WANT TO SHOW A PRESENCE INSTEAD OF IN THE BANNER OR GETTING THE TENT WITH THE NOW THAT'S TOO MUCH. GET T-SHIRTS, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT, THAT'S GONNA REPRESENT THE, THE COMMISSION OR WHAT HAVE YOU. I KNOW YOU WANT TO, YOU KNOW, YOU WANT TO MARKET WHAT THE COMMISSION DOES. YOU WANT TO GET OUT THERE, YOU WANT TO DO THAT OUTREACH, BUT YOU, YOU MUST UNDERSTAND TO BE TACTICAL ABOUT IT BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, ANYTHING YOU DO, ANYTHING YOU PRINT OUT ANYTHING YOU SAY WHEN IT COMES TO, UH, REPRESENTING DEIB, THIS COMMISSION, YOU STILL ARE REPRESENTING THE CITY OF HU. YEAH. SO JUST KIND OF BE CAUTIOUS ABOUT THAT. I I LOVE THE IDEA WHAT THE WHAT THE BANNER, THE A-FRAME WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A TENT BRANDING IT. I TO I LOVE THAT. WE'LL JUST GET A ORANGE. WE'LL JUST GET A BRETT ORANGE CANOPY THEN. OH, YOU CAN GET THOSE AT YOUR LOCAL ACADEMY. BUT I WANTED TO SEE, I WANTED TO HAVE THE YOU BELONG KIND [01:40:01] OF WORDS. CAN I ASK A QUESTION THAT MIGHT HELP THIS? IS THERE ALREADY A YOU BELONG IN HU LOGO OR DESIGN? OKAY. YOU, YOU GOTTA GET OUT THERE. I, UH, I THINK IT WAS MS. JACK AND I WHO WERE REALLY CHAMPIONING THEM. YOU WHAT? THAT RIGHT. SO, UM, ON THIS SPECIFIC TOPIC, WHAT WE ARE TRYING TO DO IS ESSENTIALLY LAUNCH, YOU BELONG IN HATO AND FIGURING OUT, WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO KIND OF KEEP A CONSISTENT PRESENCE OF THE COMMISSIONS THROUGHOUT HATO. RIGHT? THAT'S THE BASIC IDEA. AND FOR THAT, THEN WE CAN BREAK IT DOWN INTO, ALL RIGHT, WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO? WE NEED TO ONE, GET A LOGO. WE'LL GET IT ON THE WEBSITE. OH, THE LOGO. I WOULD SAY, HOW WOULD YOU I WOULD START WITH IT ON THE WEBSITE FIRST BEFORE YOU START. WELL, WELL, HOLD ON, LET LET, LEMME SAY SOMETHING FOR A SECOND BECAUSE LET ME, WE DID ALREADY DECIDE THAT IT'S NOT REALLY A LOGO, IT IS A TAGLINE. OKAY. SO WE HAVE THE HU DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION AND BELONGING COMMISSION IS STILL GONNA REMAIN OUR NAME. MM-HMM . BUT THE YOU BELONG IN HUDDLE IS THE TAGLINE THAT'S GONNA GO WITH IT. SO THAT'S HOW IT SHOULD SHOW UP. WE DECIDED ON THE WEBSITE AND THEN WE CAN, UM, AND THEN WE JUST WANTED TO PROMOTE IT AND THEN WE WANT TO ENGAGE PEOPLE IN A WAY THAT SAYING, WELL, WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL A SENSE OF BELONGING THEN? RIGHT. BUT IF YOU ARE GONNA, IF YOU'RE GONNA GET A PRINT, THEN WHAT DOES THAT PRINT LOOK LIKE? DO WE, I MEAN, DO WE HAVE A SPECIFIC FONT? DO WE HAVE A SPECIFIC SIZE? DO WE HAVE A SPECIFIC SIZE OF THE BANNER? DO WE HAVE SPECIFIC COLOR? NOT YET. SO THAT'S ALL A CHEAP BANNER. I MEAN, THAT'S ALL GOOD. YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THE MARKETING GUIDELINES OF THE CITY. RIGHT. I KNOW WE WEREN'T GONNA CO-BRAND AGAIN WITH ANYTHING THAT YOU ALL DO IS YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE REPRESENTING YOURSELF AS PART OF THE CITY IF HUDDLE WELL. SO YOU HAVE TO FOLLOW THOSE GUIDELINES. WELL, HERE'S WHAT I WOULD SAY. I AM THE KEEPER OF THE BRAND GUIDELINES. THERE YOU GO. . I WOULD, UM, I WOULD SUGGEST KEEPING WITH THE BRAND GUIDELINES IN TERMS OF FONT, IN TERMS OF, UM, QUALITY. UM, BUT I DO THINK THERE'S SOME LEEWAY TO KIND OF DIFFERENTIATE IT WITH COLORS. UM, YOU KNOW, OUR COLORS ARE MAYBE RED, RED, WHITE, BLUE, ESSENTIALLY. MM-HMM . AND SO I THINK THERE'S MORE, THERE'S ROOM THERE TO HAVE FUN WITH THE COLORS. I DON'T THINK, UM, I JUST WANTED TO BRING THE OLD BANNER. THIS IS ALSO BACK WHEN THE NAME WAS JUST DIVERSE CONCLUSION. BUT AS YOU CAN SEE, COMMISSION DID THIS. WE DID NOT DESIGN THIS. , THE COMMISSION BOUGHT THIS WITH THEIR OWN MONEY AT THE TIME. SO THEY HAD A QR CODE, THEY GO THROUGH THE, TO THE VENDING PAGE. MM-HMM . YEAH. IS THIS WHAT YOU'RE THINKING OF? BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT I'M THINKING OF. AND IT IS NOT OUR CITY BRAND AT ALL. RIGHT. NO COLORS, NO FONT. AND IT'S VERY OBVIOUS THAT THIS IS A SEPARATE THING, THE CITY OF HURO. BUT YEAH, IT'S AN OLDER FADED BANNER. SO SEE THEY USE THE BURN ORANGE TOO. IT'S KIND OF LIKE A AND IT GOES, BUT, SO WHEN WE SAY LOGO, I TAKE THAT TO UNDERSTAND, NOT A LOGO REPRESENTATIVE OF THE DIB COMMISSION, BUT IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S SYMBOLIC OF THE CAMPAIGN. MM-HMM . UM, AND I'M WILLING TO, I THINK WE WOULD NEED A VOTE AND AN ACTION ITEM ON IT, BUT I'M WILLING TO VOLUNTEER MY TEAM TO DO THAT. SO YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE TO PAY A GRAPHIC DESIGNER. I THINK THEY'RE, THEY'RE VERY RIGHT. RINI. THAT'S WHERE I'M GOING. PLEASE. I'M NOT A DESIGNER. PLEASE DON'T MAKE ANY AI PLEASE. UM, THAT'S THE EXTENT OF MY DESIGN EXPERTISE. I CAN HAVE MY TEAM TAKE ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOME SORT OF LOGO AND WE'LL STAY IN AND OUT OF OUR BRAND GUIDELINES AS WE PLEASE, I GUESS. UM, BUT RIGHT. AND, AND THEN WE CAN ALSO, IF YOU HAVE A CERTAIN SIZE BANNER OR A FRAME, WE CAN DESIGN THAT. YEAH. I MEAN, I, I DON'T WANNA DO, UM, A GROMMET BANNER 'CAUSE THEN DIFF IT CAN GET DIFFICULT. IT'S NICE IF YOU HAVE A BOOTH ALL THE TIME AND YOU CAN ATTACH IT WITH THE BUNGEE CORDS OR WITH THE CARABINER OR WHATEVER. BUT THE PROBLEM IS THAT WE'RE NOT ALWAYS GONNA BE SO GONNA BE INSIDE AND WE'RE GONNA BE IN ANOTHER SPACE. LIKE WHEN WE'RE AT THE GYM, WE HAD A HARD TIME ATTACHING THAT LIKE TO THE TABLE. SO I WANT IT TO BE A STANDUP ON ITS OWN. SO I CAN GIVE YOU THE DIMENSIONS OF WHAT I'M THINKING. THAT'LL BE REALLY, REALLY AFFORDABLE. AND THEN ONCE YOU HAVE IT, ONCE YOU HAVE THE, HOW YOU WANT THE WORDING TO LOOK BEST ON BRAND, 'CAUSE IT, IT [01:45:01] IS GOING TO LIVE ON OUR LANDING PAGE ON THE CITY WEBSITE. AND IF THERE IS A LOGO THAT GOES, THEN WE WILL JUST USE THAT FIRST FOR THE BANNER. YEAH. AND DO YOU HAVE A TIMELINE THAT FOR THAT? THAT I THINK THAT'S FEASIBLE? UM, GOOD QUESTION. NOT JANUARY. UM, I THINK WE CAN, IS THERE ANY, IS THERE ANY CERTAIN TIME YOU NEED IT BY? UM, I MEAN FOR ME, SO IT WAS LIKE AS QUICKLY AS IT. AS QUICKLY AS WELL. YEAH. YEAH. BUT THERE'S NO LIKE DEADLINE ON IT. I WOULD, WE'RE HAVING THE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS RESOURCE FAIR IN CONJUNCTION WITH, WE ARE DOING IT THE BLOCK PARTY IN MAY. SO END OF MAY, MID-MAY. YEAH. SO IT'S ALWAYS THE PRIDE OF, FOR MEMORIAL I THINK MAY 2ND. LIKE THAT'S GONNA BE OUR COMING OUT PARTY. LIKE WE'LL HAVE A LOT BECAUSE LAST YEAR, IF YOU REMEMBER WE HAD IT ON VALENTINE'S DAY AND IT WAS REALLY COLD. IT WAS SO COLD. SO WE'RE HAVING IT IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE SUMMER BLOCK PARTY. SO WE EXPECT A LOT OF PEOPLE TO COME THROUGH. SO THAT MIGHT BE A NIGHT. THAT'D BE OKAY. AND THAT WOULD ALSO BE OUR SOME TIME FOR OUR WORKING GROUPS TO START PUTTING SOME THOUGHT AROUND THAT. YEAH. AND THEN WE'RE GONNA ASK FOR THEIR INPUT, LIKE AS A GROUP OR AS INDIVIDUALS. WHAT MAKES YOU FEEL LIKE YOU BELONG IN TITLE? BECAUSE THAT HAS TO BE, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT AS A COMMISSION WE HAD DECIDED IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF WHY WE EVEN DO THIS WORK. ARE WE HELPING, IS ANY OF THIS THAT WE'RE DOING MATTER? ARE WE DOING REAL WORK? ARE WE CREATING A CULTURE IN THE CITY THAT MAKES PEOPLE OF ALL BACKGROUNDS, TALENTS, INTERESTS, RELIGIONS, UM, FEEL LIKE THEY, THAT THEY BELONG HERE IN THIS COMMUNITY? LIKE THEY HAVE PLACE HERE. THAT'S A VERY BIG PART OF WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO CREATE WITH THIS, WITH THE WORK. THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE. THE WORKING GROUPS, BUT LISTENING TO FOLKS, BRINGING MORE VOICES TO THE TABLE. UM, THAT'S REALLY WHAT, THAT'S THE CORE OF ALL THAT. AND THAT WAS WHAT, UM, ALSO PROMPTED TO ADD BELONGING TO OUR, THE NAME OF OUR COMMISSION OVERALL AS A DIFFERENTIATOR. SO I THINK WHAT I THINK WE'LL NEED A VOTE AT THE NEXT MEETING. RIGHT. TO DIRECT STAFF THAT OR DO YOU THINK THEY CAN VOTE ON IT NOW? OH OKAY. UM, IF THAT'S THE ACTION ITEM. UM, AND THEN I THINK IT WOULD BE HELPFUL TO HAVE A BRAINSTORM AT ONE OF THE NEXT MEETINGS JUST SO YOU GUYS CAN TELL ME WHAT KIND OF, UH, IMAGERY YOU'RE THINKING OF. ANY KIND OF COLORS YOU THINK WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE. OKAY. SO MAYBE THAT'S THE ACTION ITEM. TO DIRECT OR TO REQUEST STAFF COME BACK, UM, WITH A COUPLE OF IDEAS FOR THE NEXT MEETING ON FEBRUARY, WHATEVER THAT IS. YEAH. IS SISTER LAST? YEAH. BUT YOU STILL BELONG AND HAVE, SO WE STILL WANT, WE STILL WANT YOUR INPUT, YOUR IDEAS, YOUR OUTBURSTS. COME IN AND DO PUBLIC COMMENT. GUYS, I'M BACK. JUST COME IN AND TELL WHAT WE NEED TO BE DOING BEFORE WE STRAIGHT TOO FAR. SO WE ARE GONNA DO WANT TO UNVEIL THE CAMPAIGN OFFICIALLY IN MAY. AND BY THAT POINT WE'LL HAVE DECIDED IT WOULD, WOULD IT ALREADY BE ON THE WEBSITE BY THEN IF WE DECIDE? YEAH, THAT LOOKS GOOD. AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A POSSIBLY A LOGO. MM-HMM . AND WE'LL HAVE ORDERED THE, BASED ON THE LOGO AND DESIGN, WE'LL HAVE ORDERED THE SIGN AT LEAST. AND THEN WE CAN JUST GET A PLANE. I MEAN I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE AROUND BUT WE CAN GET A PLAIN ORANGE CANOPY, YOU KNOW, JUST BECAUSE IT'S HU COLORS LIKE SOME, YOU KNOW, LIKE THAT. WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK? AND THEN WE WILL BE AT THE BLOCK PARTY AND ENGAGING PEOPLE THAT'S KNOW WE WON'T NEED A TENT AT THE BLOCK PARTY. WE'LL BE GIN. BUT IF YOU JUST WANNA HAVE A TENT FOR FUNSIES WE DON'T NEED, DO WE HAVE TO COOK? GO TO YEAH. THE BLOCK FRIDAY. YEAH. IT'S FUN. NO, YOU DON'T HAVE TO, YOU DON'T HAVE TO DO ANYTHING. IT'S AN OPEN INVITATION. WE'RE VOLUNTEERS AND IT'S FREE. YEAH. BUT I'LL BE THERE. IT WAS REALLY FUN LAST YEAR. OH IS IT? IS IT? WE DO THE MURAL AGAIN. I DON'T EVEN CITY PEOPLE. I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT IT'S CALLED. EVERYBODY. IT'S OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, IT'S OPEN. SO YEAH, THE FREE, SO SUNSET BLOCK PARTY BASH, UM, HAS BEEN HAPPENING FOR SEVERAL YEARS. IT'S A FREE CONCERT EVENT. UM, LAST YEAR WE HAD OUR NONPROFIT KIND OF FAIR. MM-HMM . UH, COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS RESOURCE FAIR ON SEPARATE DAY. MM-HMM . WE'RE COMBINING THE TWO AND WE'RE ALSO HAVING KA ARTS DAY KIND OF COMBINING THEIR MURAL FESTIVAL WITH IT, UM, AS WELL. SO THERE'LL BE A LOT OF ACTIVATIONS AND MOVING THESE, WELL PROBABLY I'M EXPECTING TO HAVE, LAST YEAR WE HAD LIKE 20 ISH OR SO NONPROFITS. I'M EXPECTING THAT AND MORE. MAYBE 25 TOTAL. SO IT'S NONPROFITS, SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS, YOU GUYS. UM, AND ANYONE ELSE WHO KIND OF IMPACTS OR SERVICES ARE RESIDENT GREEN OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. THAT'S PRETTY NICE. WE HAD THE CO-OP LAST COUPLE EVENING BEFORE THAT. IT WAS AT FRITZ'S. YEP. WE HAD IT AT FR. YEP. THOSE SCOTT. WILD . YEAH. [01:50:02] MAYBE IT WAS JUST MY GROUP. NO, I THINK IT WAS EVERYBODY. SO I THINK WHAT WE CAN DO FOR AS AN ACTION ITEM AS THE COMMITTEE, 7.4 7.4, YOU CAN HAVE, UH, MORE STREAMLINED IDEAS OR THOUGHTS ON THE BELONGING HUDDLE AND HOW WE WANT TO VISUALIZE IT. UM, AND KIND OF JUST LIKE, OKAY, WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IS THIS KIND OF LOGO WITH THESE MATERIALS. SO ONE BANNER, ONE POSTER, ONE SOMETHING, AND HAVE A SLIGHTLY STRUCTURED IDEA ABOUT WHAT WE WANT. UH, AND THEN THAT WAY WE CAN KIND OF BRAINSTORM WITH SOME EXISTING, UH, IDEAS. AND THIS, CAN THE CITY SELL T-SHIRTS AND FUNDRAISE FOR NONPROFITS OR COULD WE PARK IT UNDER LIKE THE, ONE OF THE OTHER NONPROFITS THAT'S ALREADY FUNDRAISING? I DON'T, MAYBE I SHOULDN'T SAY IT THAT WAY. THE, MAYBE I SHOULDN'T SAY IT THAT WAY. I SHOULD SAY, IS THERE A WAY TO GET THAT YOU BELONG IN? 'CAUSE THAT'S A, IT'S A PRETTY COOL THING. PEOPLE WILL WANNA PURCHASE THAT MM-HMM. AS PART OF ANOTHER NONPROFIT. SO IT'S LIKE A A HUNDRED PERCENT FUNDRAISING. SO IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU AS A CHAIRPERSON, UH, MISSION MAYBE WANTS TO, I DON'T KNOW, TALK TO ONE OF THE OTHER GROUPS THAT I'M, THAT, THAT ARE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, PUT IT OUT. MM-HMM . THEN THAT'S KIND OF BETWEEN Y'ALL AND UH, THE FUNDS THAT COME IN THROUGH THAT AND HOW IT'S FUNDED. IT JUST, YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL OF LIKE WHAT YOU'RE REPRESENTING WHEN YOU'RE FUNDRAISING AND THOSE KIND OF THINGS. AND WE, YEAH. SO WHENEVER WE GET TO THAT POINT, WE'LL DEFINITELY HELP. WE'LL REVISIT THAT CONVERSATION AND THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE. 'CAUSE THEY DO YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR, YOUTH INNOVATION. THEY WOULD MAKE SENSE THAT RAISE LIKE THAT. BUT BECAUSE YOU USED MENTIONED T-SHIRTS AND I'M LIKE, I DON'T WANNA SPEND MONEY ON T-SHIRTS, BUT IF WE CAN RAISE MONEY WITH T-SHIRTS, THAT'S DIFFERENT. UM, OKAY. SO I THINK IF, JUST TO WRAP THIS UP FROM 7.4, UM, ABBY'S TEAM WILL BE COMING UP WITH SOME ITERATIONS ON WHAT IT, THAT YOU BELONG IN HU UM, TAGLINE CAN LOOK LIKE ON OUR EXISTING LANDING PAGE. MM-HMM . UM, WE DO NEED TO UPDATE, I THINK OUR COMMISSIONER STATUSES ON THAT PAGE ALSO, IF YOU HAVE JUST SOME NOTE, IF YOU HAVE NOT COMPLETED YOUR TRAINING THAT WE HAVE TO DO AS COMMISSIONERS. I KNOW I NEED TO RENEW MINE. UM, AND I, I'M IN, I'M IN THE MIDDLE OF IT FOR THE, UM, UM, POLICY. WHAT IS IT CALLED? PUBLIC INFORMATION. PUBLIC INFORMATION ACT. OH, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THAT EMAIL THAT YOU SENT ME? WHAT'S GO, I'M SUPPOSED TO WATCH LIKE A VIDEO OR SOMETHING. DID YOU WATCH THE VIDEO? I'M SO SORRY. I'VE JUST BEEN SO INUNDATED WITH SO MUCH STUFF THAT IT'S KIND OF LONG. I WATCH IT AS WELL. SO I I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT YOU WATCH IT. WATCH IT. JUST A REFRESH. I HAVE TO DO IT AGAIN. A REFRESHER. IT'S, IT'S A VIDEO. JUST SEND PUBLIC INFORMATION. I'LL, I'LL FIND YOUR, UM, I'LL FIND YOUR, UH, EMAIL IF IT, IT PROBABLY CAME FROM THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE THAT OPENS RIGHT MEETING. OH, OKAY. OPEN MEETING, WHICH INCLUDES PUBLIC INFORMATION. OH, OKAY. WHAT WAS THE NAME OF THE LADY THAT SENT IT? AND I COULD FIND HER. UH, LAURA. EITHER LAURA OR AMANDA WOULD, I'VE SENT, LAURA SENT IT TO ME. HALLMARK, BUT PROBABLY LAURA. OKAY. I'LL FIND IN, IN MY EMAIL. JUST THOSE SIDE NOTE HAVING MADE, 'CAUSE I KNOW I NEED TO REDO MINE AGAIN. UNLIKE YOU ERIC, I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN WITH WORK HAS JUST BEEN, UM, CRAZY FROM THE PROFESSIONAL SIDE. WHAT ELSE SHOULD WE BE THINKING ABOUT TO HAVE A SUCCESSFUL ONGOING CAMPAIGN? OR THAT YOU BELONG IN HU UM, I WANNA SAY BRAND, BUT JUST THAT, THAT, THAT PUSH THAT FEELING. YEAH. THE ONLY OTHER THING I WOULD, I WOULD THINK OF IS SOME SORT OF SOCIAL MEDIA COMPONENT. UM, I CAN ALSO COME BACK WITH IDEAS ON WHAT THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE OR COULD ENTAIL. UM, A COUPLE OF THINGS WE'RE DOING FOR THE HUNDRED 50TH COMMITTEE ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, POSTS, HISTORIC POSTS ON FRIDAYS AND WE'RE DOING COMMUNITY PROFILES. UM, SO IT COULD BE ANYTHING LIKE THAT. ANY TYPE OF VIDEOS OR, UM, WE COULD COME UP WITH SOME KIND OF FUN SERIES. I CAN COME BACK WITH IDEAS. LIKE A LITTLE, LIKE LITTLE TESTIMONIES. YEAH. LIKE ASK A KID, ASK A RIGHT VETERAN. ASK DIFFERENT PEOPLE. MM-HMM . THAT WOULD BE CUTE. YEAH. UM, OKAY. ANYTHING THAT WE SHOULD BE THINKING ABOUT THAT BESIDES THE, THE BANNER RIGHT. THAT WE WOULD PROBABLY BE LOOKING TO SPEND SOME OF OUR BUDGET DOLLARS ON IN SUPPORT OF THAT CAMPAIGN? MM-HMM . I WOULD, I WOULD RECOMMEND SOME SORT OF SMALL MERGE. SOME TYPE OF SMALL, SOME SWAG GIVEAWAY. YEAH. OKAY. AND THE BANNER. AND I THINK THAT'S, YEAH. IES ARE GREAT AND CHEAP. [01:55:05] ALL RIGHT. ANYTHING ELSE FOR ITEM 7.4? NO. OKAY. UM, ITEM 7.5 DISCUSSION. IMPOSSIBLE ACTION ON DIFFERENT WAYS TO COLLECT ORGANIC FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY. UM, I FEEL LIKE THIS ITEM IS KIND OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT WITH THE WORK GROUPS AND LISTENING GROUPS ALREADY. SO I THINK WE JUST KIND OF NESTLE IT IN THERE. YEAH. YEAH. 'CAUSE I THINK WE'RE GOOD THERE. AND I MADE A NOTE SAYING WORKING GROUPS THAT IS GONNA BE ORGANIC FEEDBACK. SO I FEEL LIKE WE ARE MEETING THAT STANDARD ONCE 'CAUSE WE'RE WORKING HARD TO GET THESE LAUNCHED. AND ALSO, UM, THE COMMUNITY SURVEY IS ALSO OUT, THE COMMUNITY SURVEY HAS GONE OUT. WHEN DOES THAT CLOSE? THAT SHOULD CLOSE AT THE END OF FEBRUARY. AND THEN IT HAD OUR QUESTIONS IN, THERES THE CULTURE, UM, FEEDBACK. IT WAS MAIL, IT WAS MAIL OUT. IT WAS, AND IT, UM, YOU CAN ALSO FIND DO IT ONLINE. I FOUND IT ON FACEBOOK. I WANNA SAY IT'S TITLE SURVEY.ORG. OH, OKAY. I DIDN'T GET ANYTHING IN THE MAIL, BUT YEAH, I THINK THEY ONLY SEND OUT A FEW, RIGHT? THEY DO LIKE A RANDOM SAMPLE. DO. I'VE BEEN TRYING TO SEND IT LIKE ON MY NEIGHBORHOOD DOESN'T GO TO EVERYONE SHARE LIKE ON MY NEIGHBORHOOD PAGES, TRYING TO GET MORE PEOPLE TO, I THOUGHT IT WOULD SURVEY ALL OF THE COMMUNITY, LIKE ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE. THAT'S WHAT I WAS LIKE EXPECTING. OKAY, SO IT'S ON OUR HU PAGE. I MEAN OUR HU UM, IT IS HU SURVEY.ORG. OKAY. IT'S, IT, IT IS ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE, BUT IT'S PROBABLY VARIED BY NOW. WE POST SO MUCH SO. OKAY. DON'T WANNA MAKE YOU GOOD. IT, THEY, THEY POST REALLY GOOD STUFF ALL THE TIME. OKAY. UM, WHAT ELSE? ALL RIGHT. ANYTHING ELSE? SO ITEM SEVEN POINT, SO WE'RE CLOSING 7.5. I THINK WE'RE, I THINK WE'RE DOING GOOD WORK THERE, RIGHT? WE HAVE MOMENTUM. AND THEN ITEM 7.6, OPEN DISCUSSION ITEM FOR THE NEXT MEETING. I THINK WE ALREADY DECIDED ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA BRING ON FOR THE NEXT MEETING IS FROM ABBY'S TEAM. SOME KIND OF IDEAS ABOUT WHAT THAT COULD LOOK LIKE FROM THEIR PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE. UM, NO AI GENERATED, NO CODE . IF YOU GUYS WANNA COME UP WITH, IF YOU ASK ME TO USE THAT FOR IDEAS, THAT'S HELPFUL. YOU KNOW, IF, IF IT HELPS YOU GET YOUR IDEAS. SOMETHING I WASN'T EVEN THINKING OF A LITTLE, I WAS JUST THINKING THE TAGLINE AND THEN EVENTUALLY GROW IT SO THAT SOMEBODY, MAYBE SOMEBODY ELSE WILL PICK IT UP THAT MAKES T-SHIRTS AND SAY, HEY, CAN I PUT THAT ON T-SHIRTS? YES. WE ARE NOT TRADEMARKING IT. I MEAN, WE SHOULD TRADEMARK IT FOR HURO. 'CAUSE EVERYONE'S GONNA SAY YOU BELONG IN LEANDER. LIKE, NO, YOU DON'T , YOU BELONG IN HU. UM, BUT YES, I THINK IT WOULD BE, UM, RIGHT. AND THEN I THINK NEXT ONE, UH, I WILL DO THE TRACKER OR AT LEAST A VERSION OF THE TRACKER. YEAH. SO THE NEXT ONE, THE VERSION OF THE TRACKER. SO WE GIVE THE LIVE UPDATES. MM-HMM . AND COLLABORATE WITH, UM, COMMISSIONER BODE ON THAT. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO DISCUSS, UM, SOME MORE OF THE, UH, PROCLAMATIONS YES. ASSIGNMENTS FOR, OR WHO WANTS TO SPONSOR, WANTS TO VOLUNTEER TO SPONSOR THE PROCLAMATIONS. UM, I THINK THOSE WERE THE THREE THINGS THAT CAME OUT OF TODAY'S MEETING. UM, AND, AND VOTING TO MOVE THE MARCH MEETING FROM THE 17TH. YES. WE CAN DO THAT TODAY. IT WASN'T ON THE AGENDA. OH. UM, BUT WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL RUN IT ON THE NEXT ONE, BUT HOPEFULLY, UM, ONLY FORUM. ANYTHING ELSE? SO, UM, WITH THE, UM, LET'S SEE, DESIGNATION OF MR. COMMISSIONER, ERIC BELL. UM, WE GET THAT POSTED THAT WE HAVE AN OPENING AND START RECRUITING OR WE THINK THERE'S, THERE MAY STILL BE APPLICANTS YEAH. ON A WAITING LIST. HAVE THOSE, I THINK POLICE SECRETARY'S OFFICE HAS A LIST OF THOSE. SO AS LIKE A VACANCY BECOMES AVAILABLE, THEY'RE CALLING PEOPLE IN TO GET THAT FILLED. BECAUSE I HAVE PEOPLE THAT HAVE ASKED ME AND I'M LIKE, WE DON'T HAVE, I WAS SO PROUD. WE DON'T HAVE ANY VACANCIES RIGHT NOW. WE'RE FULL, BUT OKAY. UM, THEY CAN CERTAINLY ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO CONTINUE TO APPLY. YEAH. I DIDN'T APPLY. PUT WHAT? BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW. WHEN YOU KNOW SOMEBODY MAY TO STEP OFF. YES. AND THANK YOU, ERIC, FOR ALL THE TIME AND INPUT AND GUIDANCE, YOU KNOW, CARE THAT YOU PUT INTO I'VE A GREAT TIME ALL THIS TIME. NO, IT'S BEEN, IT IS BEEN A GREAT TIME. THIS IS A REALLY GOOD, I MEAN THIS SINCE I CAME ABOARD WITH THIS COMMISSION. VERY GOOD COMMISSION. VERY POSITIVE THINGS. GREAT CONVERSATIONS. GREAT CONVERSATIONS. UH, I MEAN, I'VE LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT HU THAT I DIDN'T KNOW, UH, WHICH HAS HELPED ME. ONE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STICKS IN THE BACK OF MY HEAD IS THAT I NEVER HEARD OF THE BLACK FAMILIES HUDDLE AND FEEL. I, SO THIS MEANS THAT I JOINED THIS COMMISSION. UM, I'M VERY, I GOT SOME CONCERNS ABOUT [02:00:01] HOW THEY FEEL. MM-HMM. AND I'M THE TYPE OF PERSON, YEAH. I'M THE TYPE OF PERSON THAT I ALWAYS BELIEVE IN GOING TO PEOPLE BASED AND ASKING THEM WHAT'S GOING ON. SO, YOU KNOW, AS I STILL LIVE HERE IN HU YES, I WILL. I AM BELONGING IN HUDDLE. BEEN THAT WAY FOR OVER 20 YEARS. . BUT NO, I, I'M LOOKING FORWARD FOR THIS COMMISSION TO DO GREAT THINGS. WE'VE ALREADY DONE GREAT THINGS MEAN WE'RE IMPLEMENTING THINGS. WE'VE GOT SOME HICCUPS AND SOME CHANGEOVER, BUT WE'RE YEAH. PUSHING AHEAD. WE'VE GOT SOME DATES SET FOR TRAININGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT THAT ABSOLUTELY, YOU KNOW, ALL I ALL I ALL, I WOULD SAY TO ALL YOU ALL JUST TO ENCOURAGE WHAT YOU DO IS THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S, IS NOT ONLY GREAT FOR YOURSELF, BUT ALSO GREAT FOR, YOU KNOW, LEAVE AS YOUR LEGACY. SO, YOU KNOW, BE PROUD OF YOURSELF AND, UH, JUST MAKE SURE YOU SPARE TAXPAYERS MONEY ONCE. YES. THERE YOU GO. BECAUSE I'M A TAXPAYER. YES. . UM, AWESOME. SO THAT CONCLUDES OUR MEETING FOR THIS EVENING, AND THANK YOU EVERYBODY I, THIS MEETING BE ADJOURNED. YEAH. SECOND, I BE ON THE OFFICIAL VOTES. MOTION ON SECOND. ALL FAVOR SAY AYE. A MOTION. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. 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