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[Diversity and Inclusion Meeting on April 21, 2026.]
TIME IS 6:01 PM GO AHEAD AND GET THE MEETING OF THE DIV COMMISSION MEETING GOING.ABBY, DID WE GET ANY NOTICES FROM ANYBODY THAT LET US KNOW THEY WEREN'T GONNA ATTEND TONIGHT? WE DID FROM COMMISSIONER, UM, ZHI.
UM, I'M NOT SURE ABOUT COMMISSIONER LEWIS OR HOLLINGSWORTH.
SO, JUST FOR SURE, NOSHI, I GO AHEAD AND DO THE ROLL CALL.
UH, COMMISSIONER ZEPEDA PRESENT.
COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON PRESENT.
AND COMMISSIONER FURY PRESENT.
AND WE WILL GO DIRECTLY INTO PUBLIC COMMENT AND WE HAVE A GUEST FOR PUBLIC COMMENT THIS EVENING.
I'M HERE TO INVITE YOU TO POSSIBLE AGENDA ITEM ON, UH, OUR JUNE MEETING DEALING WITH THE NEURODIVERGENT NEURO SENSITIVE COMMUNITY.
AND I'M PROPOSING CHANGE, TRY TO SPEARHEAD THE CHANGING OF UDC LAW TO MAKE OUR COMMUNITY MORE INCLUSIVE OF OUR NEURODIVERGENT POPULATION, OUR COMMUNITY, HAVING SOME FIRSTHAND EXPERIENCE FROM INJURIES AS A SERVICE AS A DISABLED VETERAN.
I UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THEY ENCOUNTER EVERY DAY THAT WHAT TRIPS THEM UP AND WHAT THEY WISH THAT MIGHT, MIGHT HAVE.
I ALSO HAVE A NEIGHBOR SON WHO IS, UH, IS UH, NEURO SENSITIVE.
I HAVE A SON WHO ALSO HAS, UH, AUTISM.
AND FROM MY TRAINING AND BACKGROUND, UH, I CAN SPOT 'EM WALKING DOWN THE STREET.
I I KNOW WHEN, WHEN THEY'RE, UH, NEURO SENSITIVE OR NEURO DIVERSION, AND I WISH TO TRY TO HELP MAKE THE CITY MORE INCLUSIVE WITH SOME OF THEIR NEEDS.
AND SO THAT WILL BE JUNE, I THINK THE FIRST TUESDAY OF JUNE.
AND I'M TRYING TO KEEP THAT ON THE AGENDA ITEM.
DUE TO OUR BUSY SCHEDULE, WE'VE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET THERE YET.
SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT JUNE AND INVITING THE DEIB UH, COMMISSIONERS TO COME TO THAT MEETING AND SHARE THEIR EXPERIENCE.
AND WOULD THEY BE WILLING TO GET BEHIND A MOVEMENT LIKE THAT? YEAH.
SO YOUR MEETING THAT YOU INVITED US TO IS JUNE.
UM, DID YOU TELL ME THE DATE? I THINK IT'S JUNE 4TH.
IS IT THE FIRST CITY COUNCIL MEETING IN JUNE? IS THAT ON A THURSDAY? JUNE 4TH.
SO TUESDAY, THE JUNE 2ND? YES, MA'AM.
WHAT TIME DO YOU'ALL MEET? WHAT DO ME EITHER SIX OR SEVEN O'CLOCK? I'D HAVE TO NAIL THAT DOWN.
UM, I SAID IT'S, I'M GONNA BRING IT UP AT MY NEXT MEETING, P AND Z FOR MY MAY, BUT WE'RE GONNA TRY TO GET IT ON THE AGENDA FOR THIS NEXT COMING, COMING, UH, MEETINGS COMING UP IN MY, IN JUNE.
SO 6 26 AT EITHER SIX OR SEVEN, YOU'LL LET US KNOW YES.
AND THEN I KNOW Y'ALL POST IT TOO.
AND THEN IT'S GOING TO BE ABOUT NEURODIVERGENT SENSITIVITY AND INCLUSION YES.
AND YOU'RE GONNA BE PROPOSING, UM, MAKE, HOW DO WE MAKE OUR CITY MORE? WOULD IT BE ACCESSIBLE OR WHERE, WHAT, WHAT'S THE WORD WE SHOULD BE USING? I WOULD SAY, UH, ACCESSIBLE.
WHAT WE CAN CHANGE WITHIN THE CITY, UH, WITH WHAT THEY NEED.
I AM GOING OFF OF, UH, OUR AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION DOCUMENT THAT WAS SENT TO ME THROUGH MY ORGANIZATION AS I AM A STUDENT, APPROPRIATE PLANNING.
AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT I WANT TO INVESTIGATE AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO FURTHER TO ADVANCE USING THOSE DOCUMENTS AND THEN PULLING FROM MY ASSOCIATIONAL SCHOOL.
ALSO OF, YOU'RE AWARE, BUT YOU WORK STILL WITH A, UH, CONSULTANT THAT WORKS WITH THE DIB THAT'S HELPED US FORM A STRATEGIC PLAN.
I THINK IT'S ER, I ALWAYS THINK I SAY IT WRONG TOO.
AND HE'S GOT A LOT OF EXPERIENCE IN HELPING CITIES IDENTIFY AND IMPLEMENT POLICY, HELPING LIKE FIGURE OUT WHAT CAN WE DO.
WOULD YOU BE INTERESTED IN MEETING WITH HIM AS WELL? SURE.
BUT HE'S BEEN, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE THESE ARE VERY SENSITIVE ISSUES AND SO IT'S GOOD TO HAVE AN OUTSIDE VOICE OUTSIDE OF OUR CITY, UM, HELPING US GUIDE, LIKE, OKAY, HOW DO WE IMPLEMENT THIS? AND WHAT ARE, WHAT ARE OUR BLINDERS? YEAH.
ONE OF THE THINGS I DEAL WITH, WITH MY SON AND OTHERS THAT FEEL CLOSED IN THAT FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE NO OUTLET.
AND WHAT I'M, AS P AND ZIKA, I, I'M WORKING TO TRY TO MAKE THAT BETTER, BUT I MAKE SURE WE HAVE SIDEWALKS, THAT THEY HAVE ACCESS.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE BIG THINGS THAT I SEE THAT THEY FEEL TRAPPED AND WANT TO TRY TO HELP
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ALLEVIATE SOME OF THAT.AND THEN IT GOES BACK TO TEXT, TEXT, EXCUSE ME, TEXTUAL ITEMS, HOW THEY FEEL, SEE, 'CAUSE SENSITIVITY IS WAY OUT THERE PAST NORMAL, HUMAN, HUMAN, UH, WHAT THEY SEE, WHAT THEY SMELL, WHAT IT IS THAT CAN BE PUT OFF BY JUST CERTAIN THINGS.
AND, UH, JUST FROM SOME OF MY EXPERIENCE WITH BEING AROUND THAT COMMUNITY.
CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION? SURE.
DID YOU WORK AT ALL WITH, UH, PARKS AND REC BOARD WHEN THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT MAKING THE, THE PLACE SPACE AT PRITZ PARK MORE ACCESSIBLE? I KNOW THEY GOT, UM, A, A RECOGNITION FOR IT, BUT WERE YOU ABLE TO ADVISE ON THAT? OR WHAT, WHAT, WHERE DO YOU FEEL THE GAPS ARE RIGHT NOW WITH THAT OR, I HAVE BEEN IN TALKS WITH JEFF MM-HMM
AND I HAVE SENT OUT THE DOCUMENT TO JEFF TO SEND OUT HIS BOARD, BUT I WAS NOT INVOLVED WITH THAT.
BUT JEFF IS VERY MUCH LAST CONVERSATION I HAD WITH JEFF.
WE FIGURE OUT, THEN WE PROBABLY NEED TO CHECK IN AND SEE WHERE THAT IS.
UM, I'M NOT, UM, FAMILIAR WITH THE, WITH THIS TYPE OF STUFF.
SO HOW IS IT THAT WE, UM, THAT WE COULD HELP? OR HOW COULD THE CITY HELP? BECAUSE I'M NOT, I DON'T UNDERSTAND, I APOLOGIZE.
I DIDN'T BRING THE DOCUMENT 'CAUSE I'VE ALREADY SUBMITTED THE DOCUMENT, UH, TO, TO THE BOARD HERE.
AND, BUT I'M PART OF THE AMERICAN PLANNING ASSOCIATION.
I AM A STUDENT OF URBAN PLANNING.
AND SO THIS IS A DOCUMENT THAT I'M FOLLOWING IS SUGGESTIONS AND GUIDELINES TO HOW WE CAN CHANGE AND MAKE THE CITY MORE INCLUSIVE FOR THEM.
AND, UH, INCLUSIVE FOR THE PEOPLE WHO ARE, HAVE AUTISM, ASPERGER'S WHO ARE NEURODIVERGENT, NEURO SENSITIVE.
AND IF YOU SEE A YOUNG KID, NINE TIMES OUT OF 10, ESPECIALLY AROUND SCHOOL, YOU SEE THEM WALKING DOWN THE SIDEWALK WITH HEADPHONES ON COVERING, THEY'RE TRYING TO BLOCK THE WORLD OUT THERE OUT OF THEIR SPHERE.
BECAUSE THEY'RE VERY SENSITIVE.
I SAID, MY SON, UH, HE HAS TO GO OUTSIDE IF THERE'S A BABY CRYING IN A RESTAURANT, IT'S JUST TOO, TOO MUCH.
SO, UM, I GUESS I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT IS IT THAT, I MEAN, BECAUSE WHAT ARE WE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH, RIGHT? YEAH.
THE, THE, THE, THE, THE BABY, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE LIFE IS, THERE'S, THERE'S THINGS ARE GONNA BE NORMAL.
AND I UNDERSTAND THAT THEY MAY BE SENSITIVE JUST LIKE THERE'S PEOPLE THAT, UM, AT ONE TIME I WAS SENSITIVE TO, UM, TO WA TO, UH, THE SUN AND LIGHT.
AND I HAD TO WEAR SUNGLASSES FOR A WHILE AS A KID.
SO, BUT I MEAN, THE SUN IS GONNA CONTINUE TO COME OUT, RIGHT? PEOPLE ARE GONNA CONTINUE TO LIVE.
SO WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET AT IS, OKAY, SO ARE YOU LOOKING FOR LIKE, SIGNS TO HELP THEM TO MAKE THEM FEEL, YOU KNOW, WELCOME? YEAH, THERE'S SCIENCE, THERE'S TEXTUAL THINGS WE CAN DO WITHIN THE CITY.
THERE'S COLOR THINGS THAT WE CAN DO.
THERE'S ORDINANCES THAT WE CAN CHANGE WITH THE UDC TO HELP MAKE IT MORE INCLUSIVE FOR THE, UH, THAT COMMUNITY.
I'M NOT SAYING WE GOTTA PUT 'EM IN A BUBBLE 'CAUSE THAT'S, THAT'S NOT GONNA DO ANY GOOD.
BUT IF WE BRING MORE AWARENESS AND TRAINING TO OUR CITIZENS, OUR COMMUNITY, AND WHAT WE CAN DO AS A CITY TO MAKE SOME SMALL CHANGES HERE AND THERE AND BRING WHAT THEY FACE.
SO I HAVE A QUESTION 'CAUSE YOU BROUGHT UP SOMETHING JUST NOW.
SO IF THE, UH, PEOPLE LIKE THAT ARE IN, ARE IN LIKE A RESTAURANT AND THERE'S A BABY THAT MAKES OUT A NOISE, ARE YOU GONNA ASK LIKE, FOR THE FAMILY THAT HAS A BABY THAT'S NORMALLY, I'M NOT ASKING FOR THAT.
OR IS IT JUST TO JUST THAT WAS AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THEIR NEURO SENSITIVITY IS MUCH STRONGER THAN DIFFERENT THAN OURS.
NOT SAYING TO MAKE THE BABY LEAVE, MAKE A FAMILY LEAVE, THAT WAS JUST A STATEMENT.
WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND THE RESTAURANT, YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING.
UH, AGAIN, HAVING SOME, UH, BEING WELL VERSED IN THIS, I CAN WALK DOWN THE STREET AND PICK OUT WHOSE FUNERALS.
AND WITH THAT, WHAT, WHAT ARE SOME CHANGES YOU THINK? SO I HAVE A, SOME OF AUTISM AS WELL AND IT DOES POSE CHALLENGES.
BUT AT THAT SAME TOKEN, WHEN YOU'RE SEEING THIS, WHAT ARE YOU, WHAT ARE SOME ORDINANCE OR THINGS THAT YOU THINK COULD CHANGE? LET ME MAKE A SUGGESTION.
IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS IS AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO PUT SOMETHING ON OUR AGENDAS THAT WE PURSUE, UM, LIKE A PUBLIC EDUCATION.
'CAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
SO IF YOU, SO WHAT'S GREAT ABOUT THIS OPPORTUNITY, I THINK, AND I'LL LET THE COMMISSIONERS WEIGH IN, IS IF P AND Z'S GONNA BE TACKLING IT AND YOU'VE GOT SOME RESOURCES, AND WE'RE ALREADY INCLUDING PARKS AND REC MM-HMM
AND THEN WE CAN BRING IN OUR PERSPECTIVE MM-HMM
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THE PART THAT WE CAN PROBABLY HELP WITH QUICKEST IS PUTTING TOGETHER, HELPING PUT TOGETHER AN EDUCATION CAMPAIGN, LIKE HELP INFORMATION.BECAUSE BEFORE ANYTHING CHANGES, PEOPLE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND IT AND RIGHT.
THEY SOUND LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
AND, AND ALSO TO, TO, UM, AVOID MISUNDERSTANDINGS.
AGAIN, I APOLOGIZE, I DIDN'T BRING THE DOCUMENT 'CAUSE LAST TIME I BROUGHT THE DOCUMENT TO, TO THE DIRECTOR.
SO I ALREADY HAVE THE DOCUMENT.
I DIDN'T WASTE THE, THE PRINT TO BRING IT.
'CAUSE I THOUGHT IT WAS ALREADY, IT WAS ALREADY IN THE CITY RECORD AND I THOUGHT THAT WOULD ALREADY BE PRINTED OUT.
BUT IT'S AN EIGHT PAGE DOCUMENT.
IT GOES THROUGH ALL THE DIFFERENT POINTS THAT YOU'RE ASKING.
SO DO WE NEED TO, IS SOMETHING WE NEED TO VOTE ON TO ADD TO A FUTURE AGENDA? OR CAN WE JUST SAY, UM, NO, I DON'T THINK WE NEED, YEAH.
WE CAN JUST ADD IT TO OUR NOTES.
COULD YOU SPELL YOUR LAST NAME FOR ME? IT'S K-E-N-N-A-R-D.
ANY OTHER, UM, WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK ABOUT THAT AS A COMMISSION, NICK? PURSUING? AS FAR AS OUR PIECE OF IT, THE FIRST PIECE THAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO HELP WITH YEAH.
IS LIKE HELPING PUT AN, A PUBLIC EDUCATION.
BECAUSE FOR SOMEONE LIKE ME THAT MAY NOT, YOU KNOW, I, 'CAUSE I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, FOLLOW YOU.
UM, I THINK THAT THAT IS THE FIRST STEP THAT WE SHOULD TAKE.
WELL, ONE OF THE THINGS WITH PEOPLE WITH AUTISM AND ASPERGER'S AND ANY NEURO HAS GOING ON, MOST OF 'EM ARE VERY SENSITIVE.
THEY SENSITIVITY TO LIGHT AND SMELL.
UH, SO FOR MY SON, SOME, SOME FOODS ARE JUST, HE JUST SEES IT DIFFERENTLY, SMELLS DIFFERENTLY.
AND WHEN HE WAS A CHILD, THEY, THE STUDENTS WERE, HE WAS THE FIRST, UH, AUTISTIC OPER STUDENT IN LEANDER.
THE CURRICULUM OF TEXAS CURRICULUM'S WRITTEN AROUND MY SON IN THE STATE OF TEXAS BECAUSE THE SUPERINTENDENT'S WIFE WAS THE TEACHER SPECIAL ED WHO WENT INTO THE STATE LEGISLATURE AND CHANGED A LOT OF THESE LAWS.
AND WHAT YOU HAVE THE TODAY IS 'CAUSE OF WHAT MY SON WENT THROUGH.
THAT'S ANOTHER PIECE OF EDUCATION, I THINK.
SO I THINK A LOT OF US, ME IS JUST AS THE PARENT AND THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM, I THINK WE THINK WE KNOW WHAT, WHAT IS NEEDED OR WHAT MIGHT BE NEEDED OR WHERE THE GAPS ARE.
BUT WE, WE DON'T EXPERIENCE IT OURSELVES.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER GREAT PIECE OF INFORMATION, UM, THAT WE CAN START BUILDING ON.
UM, BECAUSE, AND THEN WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT WITH OUR WONDERFUL COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT, HOW DO WE PARSE THAT OUT TO MAKE IT A PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN.
SO PEOPLE, SO WHEN IT COMES DOWN TO SAYING, WE NEED TO GO ON, WE'RE GONNA SPEND TAX DOLLARS ON THESE CHANGES OR UPDATES, PEOPLE ALREADY KNOW WHAT THEY, UM, WHAT WE'RE ASKING.
THEY UNDERSTAND THE NEED MUCH BETTER THAN JUST ASKING THEM, WITHOUT THEM HAVING, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE THE SAME QUESTIONS, EVERYBODY.
THERE'S MANY IN THE COMMUNITY WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT GOES ON BEHIND THE CLOSED DOORS.
IT'S HARD ON SOME OF THESE PARENTS.
UH, SOME OF 'EM, THE, THE AUTISTIC CHILDREN, UH, VERY, VERY DIFFICULT WITH WHAT THEY HAVE TO DEAL WITH ON DAY TO DAY BASIS, DEPENDING WHAT STAGE THEY'RE IN.
THEY'RE IN SCHOOL, ADULTS, OLDER PARENTS TAKING CARE OF ADULT AUTISTIC CHILDREN, UH, ADULTS.
AND I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN GET A, AN EDUCATION CAMPAIGN GOING.
AND I THINK WE HAVE PUBLIC COMMENT.
I THINK THE PUBLIC WILL COME OUT.
I BELIEVE IT ALSO WOULD HELP WITH, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY DEALING WITH SOME OF THE BARRICADED PEOPLE WE HAVE.
THAT ALWAYS COMES DOWN TO MENTAL HEALTH.
AND SO I BELIEVE THAT IT COULD HAVE SOME FAR REACHING EFFECTS.
AND I'VE NOT THOUGHT ABOUT THAT FOR NOW, BUT YES, WE HAVE ONE OF THOSE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, MENTAL HEALTH.
UNFORTUNATELY THE POLICE HAD TO NEUTRALIZE THE SITUATION AND SO YEAH.
AND ALL, ALL LAW ENFORCEMENT CAME DOWN AND IT WAS, UH, EVERYTHING WAS LOCKED UP.
AND IT WENT ON UNTIL WEE HOURS OF THE MORNING.
AND THIS WAS JUST LAST YEAR BACK IN FALL.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE EDUCATION CAMPAIGN.
OBVIOUSLY THE, OF THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE BECAUSE OF REASONS LIKE THAT OF SAFETY AND, YOU KNOW, BESIDES THE IDEA OF OF, UH, MAKING LIFE ACCESSIBLE TO EVERYONE.
IS WHAT IS AND MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE HAS, YOU KNOW, UH, A AN OPPORTUNITY REGARDLESS OF DISABILITY OR INABILITY AND MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE UNDERSTAND LIKE THE COMPLEXITY OF THE SITUATION SO THAT PEOPLE DON'T OVERREACT.
BECAUSE, UM, OVERREACTING IS REALLY EASY WHEN YOU DON'T TO UNDERSTAND.
HEY, ANOTHER THING I'M GLAD YOU BRING, BRING THIS UP, COMMISSIONER, IS THAT OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT, WE'RE ASKING THEM TO DO A WHOLE LOT THAT'S NOT IN THEIR BALLPARK TO DO, BUT THEY'RE STILL HAVING TO HAVE THE TRAINING TO DEAL WITH IT.
AND I'VE NOT HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK WITH
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THE CHIEF, BUT I HAVE READ STATISTICS OF WHAT'S GOING ON.WE'VE ALWAYS CONCERNED ABOUT OUR SON IF HE'S HAVING A BAD DAY.
'CAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE FILTER.
THEY JUST TELL YOU HOW IT IS AND SOMETIMES THEY'RE NOT POLITE ABOUT IT.
AND THAT CAN CREATE A, A LAW ENFORCEMENT INCIDENT.
AND IT'S IF LAW ENFORCEMENT'S NOT TRAINED ON WHAT'S HAPPENING OR THE GENERAL PUBLIC DOESN'T UNDERSTAND YOU'VE GOT A PROBLEM.
HOW CAN YOU PUT ALL THEIR STATISTICS? THEY PUT OUT THAT THEY HAVE 42 RESPONSES.
I KNOW THAT THEY PARTNER WITH BLUE ON IT MM-HMM
AND WITH WILLIAMSON COUNTY AND WITH A PD TO DO THEIR ANNUAL TRAININGS FOR THEIR UPDATED, SO RIGHT.
WE WORK WITH THEM AND I PARTNER WITH BLUE ON IT AS WELL MM-HMM.
BECAUSE MY HAS AUTISM AND SO I KNOW THAT THEY DO UPDATED TRAININGS AND THEY WERE JUST AWARDED, UM, I FORGET WHAT THE NAME IS, BUT THEY ARE RANKING NUMBER ONE IN THE COUNTY FOR THEIR UPDATED TRAININGS.
I ACTUALLY FILED A COMPLAINT WITH AN OFFICER BECAUSE I DIDN'T FEEL HE HANDLED A CALL VERY WELL, AND I KNOW IT WAS PERSONALLY ANSWERED.
SO I KNOW THAT THEY DO TAKE, UH, MENTAL HEALTH CASES VERY SERIOUSLY.
I'M NOT SAYING THEY, I'M NOT SAYING THEY DO NOT, I JUST DON'T, A LOT OF LAW ENFORCEMENT WE'RE ASKING THEM TO DO A LOT OF THINGS.
THAT'S NOT WHAT THEY SIGNED UP FOR.
BUT THAT'S THE WAY IT IS IN OUR SOCIETY RIGHT NOW.
AND IT'S WHAT IT'LL CONTINUE TO BE.
BUT IF WE AS A COMMUNITY CAN SUPPORT THEM AND HELP THEM AND HELP THE, OUR CITIZENS KNOW, HEY, THEY'RE NOT, YOU'RE NOT ALONE.
AND THAT'S A REALLY IMPORTANT PART OF IT, IS THAT SENSE OF NOT BEING ALONE AND WE WANNA PARK THIS AND WE'RE HAVING A, YOU BELONG IN HUDDLE CAMPAIGN BUSH.
THIS IS THE PERFECT THING TO NEST UNDER.
BECAUSE I'M SURE EVERYBODY FEELS LIKE THEY HAVE A SENSE OF BELONGING HERE, WHICH IS KIND OF WHAT YOU'RE DESCRIBING.
YOU KNOW, AND YOU'RE NOT ALONE.
WE'RE DOING OUR BEST TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU FEEL A SENSE OF BELONGING IN THE COMMUNITY, NOT JUST IN YOUR HOME.
UM, SO I MEAN, IT'S A, IT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS, ONE OF THOSE BIG ONGOING WORKS THAT WE CAN DO.
UM, THE BUT THAT WE SHOULD BE DOING.
THAT'S WHY THIS COMMISSION EXISTS.
AND I DON'T WANNA CUT YOU OFF, BUT WE DO HAVE A PUBLIC COMMENT.
GO AHEAD AND FINISH YOUR THOUGHT.
JUST WANNA SAY THAT THERE'S, THERE'S SO MUCH THAT THEY, THEY BRING TO THE TABLE.
UH, IF YOU, IF YOU LISTEN TO 'EM, YOU SEE IT, UH, THEY OFFER A LOT TO THE COMMUNITY.
WELL, YOU'RE BEING A GREAT ADVOCATE, SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT TO US AND LOOK FORWARD TO THE MEETING.
AND IN BETWEEN IF WE HAVE QUESTIONS, WE'LL REACH OUT AND ALSO WANNA CONNECT YOU WITH STAN TO GUIDE OUR CONVERSATIONS AS FAR AS IMPLEMENTATION AND IDEAS.
UM, THAT, THAT HE'S PROBABLY HELPED ANOTHER CITY WITH.
UM, SO THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER, UH, GREAT ASSET.
UH, BRODY, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING TO ADD? NO, I MEAN, I THINK IT'S, IT'S KIND OF THE PURPOSE OF THE COMMISSION.
UM, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, BEYOND JUST, YOU KNOW, EVEN IF, EVEN IF ORDINANCES AREN'T CHANGED OR YOU KNOW, ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE, I THINK WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT THE COMMUNITY UNDERSTANDING, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT RESOURCES.
THERE'S DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, I LIVED IN HU AND YOU KNOW, MY SON IS NEURODIVERGENT AND TO KNOW THAT, HEY, THERE'S A COMMUNITY OF PARENTS OR OTHER KIDS OR, YOU KNOW, THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT WAYS I THINK TO TAKE THIS INFORMATION AND CREATE, YOU KNOW, BELONGING AND SUPPORT.
UM, SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO FIND THESE TYPES OF, YOU KNOW, INITIATIVES TO KIND OF WORK THROUGH AND BRING TO THE, TO THE GROUP.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER GREAT THING ABOUT THIS IS IT COULD ENCOURAGE OTHER GROUPS, YOU KNOW, TO SAY, HEY, LOOK, I HAVE SOMETHING ELSE THAT I THINK MAYBE NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE AWARE OF, AND WE HAVE PEOPLE IN HUDDLE THAT EXPERIENCE OR DEAL WITH THIS.
SO I THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT AND TALKING TO NO PROBLEM.
AND MANY OF THESE THINGS THAT I'M TALKING ABOUT ARE NOT, THEY'RE NOT ASTRONOMICALLY EXPENSIVE.
IT'S JUST BEING AWARENESS AND BEING ABLE TO MAKE THESE TOTAL CHANGES.
BRODY, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD WANNA RUN POINT ON? SURE.
'CAUSE I, I, THE REASON I DO THAT, OR I TRY TO DO THAT IS BECAUSE THAT WAY THINGS DON'T FALL THROUGH THE CRACKS AS WE MOVE FROM ONE AGENDA ITEM TO ANOTHER.
AND THEN THE NEXT MEETING COMES IT IS LIKE, WHO DID WHAT ON THIS ITEM.
SO COMMISSIONER BRODY, I, I ALWAYS, I'M GONNA ALWAYS MIS MISPRONOUNCE YOUR LAST NAME.
UM, WE'LL BE THE LIAISON FOR THIS SPECIFIC AND JUST SO YOU KNOW THAT WE HAVE SOMEBODY THAT'S GONNA RUN POINT ON IT WITHIN THE COMMISSION.
UM, BECAUSE THESE THINGS CAN TAKE A LONG TIME AND THEY CAN BE VERY COMPLEX.
SO I LIKE TO HAVE AS MUCH AS WE POSSIBLY CAN HAVE POINT PEOPLE LIAISONING BACK TO US.
YOU KNOW, JUST, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO GET THE WORD OUT.
I'M NOT EXPECTING BIG CHANGES, BUT, BUT THERE'S SUBTLE THINGS, BUT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT IT.
IT'S 'CAUSE IT'S NOT GOING AWAY.
WELL, THANK YOU, UH, BRIAN, THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT TO US.
THANK YOU FOR AGREEING TO RUN POINT ON THE CONVERSATION WITH, WITH UH, MR. ARD.
AND THEN WE HAVE, I PROBABLY THANK YOU.
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YOUR COMMENT WHEN YOU'RE READY.HOW OLD IS HE? HE'S JUST TURNED 30 PIT TIME.
HE'S ACTUALLY, UH, I HAVEN'T THINK ABOUT CHANGE HIS MEDICINE.
UH, I'M JUST MAKING SURE HE WAS STILL SCHOOL AGE THERE.
PACKET AT SCHOOL THAT WE DEAL WITH.
OH, HE'S, UH, HE'S PART OF BLUE BBO TRAILS.
UH, WE'VE BEEN, BEEN ALL RIGHT UNTIL NOW.
HITTING 30, GOES BACK ON HIS LIFE AND IT SEEMS TO BIG SISTER DOING EVERYTHING.
AND HE IS AT THE HOUSE WITH US AND THEY'VE ALMOST BEEN, WE DIDN'T KNOW IF WE GONNA TAKE HIM TO THE HEIGHT PSYCH HOSPITAL.
WE'VE GOT HIM TO THE DOCTOR TODAY, GOT ANOTHER DOCTOR APPOINTMENT, UH, AND THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS HE'D TALK TO A COUNSELOR.
BUT WHEN HE HIT 30, IT WAS NO DOUBT.
WE COULDN'T THROW PULLING OUT OF THIS.
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THAT WITH US THOUGH.
ALRIGHT, THEN WE GOT, WE GOT OUR ITEM.
AND WE HAVE ANOTHER PUBLIC, BECAUSE FOR PUBLIC COMMENT THIS EVENING.
SO, UM, I JUST WAS GONNA SAY THAT I DON'T MIND HELPING WITH THE VETERANS PART, UM, THAT THE, I FORGOT WHAT IT WAS CALLED.
UM, THE VETERANS WORK WORK GROUP.
THE VETERANS WORK GROUP AND THE SENIORS WORK GROUP.
UM, BECAUSE I KNOW THERE WAS A, UH, A FALL OFF OF ONE OF YOUR MEMBERS.
SO I DON'T MIND STEPPING IN TO HELP WITH THAT AND ASSIST BECAUSE I KNOW THAT MIGHT BE AN EXTRA STEP TO DO THAT.
AND BEING IN THE PART OF THAT COMMUNITY, BEING A VETERAN MYSELF, I CAN HELP ASSIST WITH THAT.
GO AHEAD AND STATE YOUR NAME AND DO YOUR FULL COMMENT.
AND I RECENTLY, UM, LEARNED THAT THERE WAS A MEMBER THAT FELL OFF OF THE GROUP.
SO I WILL, I BELIEVE STEP FORWARD TO HELP WITH THE, UM, VETERANS NETWORKING GROUP SINCE I HAVE LONG ATTACHED TO THE VETERAN COMMUNITY.
SO YOU, ARE YOU SIGNING UP TO BE ON THE VETERANS WORKING GROUP? YES.
WHAT DO YOU DO WITH VETERANS RIGHT NOW, BRANDI? EVERYTHING, UM, UH, RIGHT NOW I DO THE CONSULTING PART AND I MAKE SURE THAT THEY GET THEIR BENEFITS.
I ACTUALLY HAVE ONE JUST CALL ME TODAY.
HE WENT FROM ZERO TO 90% IN TWO MONTHS AND HE'S ALMOST THERE.
SO I, THAT WAS LIKE THE BEST NEWS TODAY.
UM, I RENT THEIR WILLS, THEIR TRUST, THEIR, UM, I HAVE PUT THEIR THINGS IN, UM, ORDER, LIKE, UH, DAY, UM, HELP DO THEIR LIFE POLICY, HELP THEM GET THEIR THINGS READY FOR PROBATES IF THEY NEED TO, UM, GET THEM RESOURCES, HELP WITH WILLIAMSON COUNTY, WITH MY COORDINATED IF THEY NEED TO HELP WITH GRANTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
UM, HELPS SOME PEOPLE GET BENEFIT THAT THEY NEED IT AND OTHER THINGS.
SO ANY AND ALL CONNECTING WITHIN DIFFERENT RESOURCES IN THE VETERAN COMMUNITY.
SO IT'S VERY MUCH IN AND OUT THE WHEELHOUSE SO I CAN VERIFY HOW TO, WHAT'S WHAT.
AND I DON'T MIND SENDING IN TO MAKE SURE.
AND I TOLD NIKKI THAT WE COULD, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THERE WAS LIKE TWO PEOPLE ON THE FACEBOOK PAGE TO MAKE SURE THAT IT DOESN'T LOSE ANYBODY'S ACCESS.
AND WE COULD ALWAYS PUT THINGS OUT THERE, ANY INFORMATION, NOT JUST A CHECK-IN.
LIKE RIGHT NOW HERE IS RESOURCE CENTER IN CEDAR PARK.
THEY HAVE A BIG NETWORKING EVENT COMING UP IN MAY 24TH.
AND THAT WILL BE A BIG PUSH BECAUSE THAT WILL OPEN UP A LOT OF DOORS FOR A LOT OF RESOURCES.
AND THAT'S ONE OF THE BIGGEST EVENTS THAT COME UP.
IT'S ACTUALLY A FREE BARBECUE AND VETERAN SERVICES FROM EVERYWHERE COME OUT.
SO DON'T GIVE IT PUSH FOR THAT.
AND I KNOW THAT WE HAVE A DEDICATED AGENDA ITEM 6.3 FOR UPDATE FROM COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON MM-HMM
SO WE'LL SAVE MOST OF THAT FOR THAT.
UM, BUT DOES ANY OF THE OTHER, UH, COMMISSIONERS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS? THE VETERANS WORKING GROUP OR RANDY KO? OKAY.
THANK YOU CHRIS, FOR, UM, WANTING TO STEP UP.
IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU HAVE A WEALTH OF INFORMATION THAT COULD BE VERY HELPFUL.
UM, DO YOU, WILL YOU BE ABLE TO STICK AROUND TILL WE GET TO ITEM 6.3? SURE.
IF THERE'S ANY, I THINK THAT'S IT FOR PUBLIC COMMENT.
UM, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM CITY STAFF, YOU YEAH.
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SO I'LL GET TO SOME OF MY STUFF.I HAVE ALL MY BIG STUFF ON AN ITEM, BUT, UM, I JUST WANTED TO LET Y'ALL THAT I DID CREATE THE GOOGLE DRIVE.
UM, SO YOU SHOULD ALL HAVE, BE ABLE TO ACCESS THAT.
UM, I PROBABLY NEED TO SEND THAT TO COMMISSIONER FURY NOW.
UM, BUT THAT IS ESSENTIALLY JUST A, UH, FOR HIS AWARENESS THAT IS A GOOGLE DRIVE THAT THE COMMISSION WANTED TO CREATE TO HOUSE ALL OF THEIR DIFFERENT DOCUMENTS, THEIR STRATEGIC PLAN, THEIR, UM, WORKING GROUP GUIDES.
UM, SO THAT'LL BE A GOOD PLACE FOR YOU TO, TO YOU, YOU'RE WELCOME TO PUT THINGS IN THERE THAT YOU THINK ARE RELEVANT FOR THE COMMISSION.
UM, I'LL BE PUTTING THINGS IN THERE IF I SEE FIT.
SO JUST A LITTLE DRIVE FOR EVERYBODY TO USE.
UM, SO PLEASE LET ME KNOW IF ANYONE'S HAVING ISSUE WITH THAT, WITH ACCESS.
YOU, YOU'VE ALREADY SENT? YES, I, I SENT IT IN THE LAST EMAIL WHEN I SENT THE AGENDA IN THE MINUTES.
BUT IF YOU NEED IT, I CAN RESEND IT TO YOU.
I'M ALSO LOOKING FOR, IT MIGHT NOT HAVE, DID I NOT IT IN, LET SEE, THE MOST RECENT ONE YOU SENT US THE SURVEY.
THE MEETING MEETING MINUTES ON THE AGENDA.
WE CAN LOOK AT THE, SO DID YOU DO A SHARE? I JUST PUT A LINK TO IT IN THAT EMAIL.
AND YOU JUST SENT IT TO COMMISSIONER FURY? I'M A, I'M A VOUCHER.
SO IT'S GONNA BE, WELL, WE HAD AGREED TO, Y'ALL CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT WE'RE HERE FOR THAT CONVERSATION.
WE WANTED TO CREATE A REPOSITORY OF RESOURCES, RIGHT.
INCLUDING OUR BUDGET TRACKER, INCLUDING OUR MEETING MINUTES TO REVIEW, SO THEY'D ALL BE IN ONE PLACE AND ANY NEW RESOURCES THAT WE MIGHT UTILIZE.
SO FOR EXAMPLE, UM, MR. NAR TALKED ABOUT, MENTIONED THE AMERICAN FINANCE ASSOCIATION AND THE DOCUMENT THAT HE HAS, THAT SHOULD PROBABLY GO IN THERE.
AND WE'LL, WE CAN EVEN CREATE SOME FOLDERS FOR THOSE SPECIFIC THINGS SO WE CAN HAVE A, UM, EASILY ACCESSIBLE UNDER THE LARGE CIB FILE.
SO YOU ALREADY PUT STUFF IN THERE.
I PUT OUR, UH, MOST RECENT COMMUNITY SURVEY IN THERE.
THE GUIDE FOR THE WORKING GROUPS AND LISTENING POSTS.
I'LL ALSO STORE THE MINUTES IN THERE JUST IN CASE YOU GUYS NEED TO GO BACK AND CHECK THEM ANY.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT ABBY HAS SHARED WITH US TODAY? OR JUST NOW? I'VE JUST GOT OTHER ITEMS, BUT SO FAR YEAH, THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR GENERAL COMMENTS.
UM, CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES, WE DON'T HAVE ANYBODY TODAY.
UM, GENERAL COMMENTS FROM COMMISSIONERS, STARTING WITH INTRODUCTION OF OUR NEW COMMISSIONER, MR. AMUSA THI WELCOME.
TELL US ABOUT YOURSELF AND WHAT MADE YOU INTERESTED IN THE DIV COMMISSION? YEAH.
SO, UM, FIRST OF ALL, HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO BE HERE.
UM, BUT I'VE, I'VE, UH, SPENT MY, THE BULK OF MY ADULT LIFE WORKING IN PUBLIC SERVICE OR CIVIL SERVICE OF SOME SORT FROM, UH, THE MARINE CORPS TO, UH, LAW ENFORCEMENT.
AND, UH, AND YOU KNOW, IT'S, I'M UNDERSTANDING NOW AS WE MATURE THROUGH LIFE, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING INVOLVED IN THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROCESSES.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, AFTER RETURNING HOME FROM BEING AWAY, I'VE, I'VE FOUND A, A GREATER LOVE FOR WHERE I LIVE OR FOR WHERE I PLANTED MY FEET AND GROW OUR FAMILY.
AND, UM, FELT THAT THERE'S NO BETTER TIME THAN THE PRESIDENT TO GET OUT AND SERVE MY COMMUNITY IN SEARCH OF, UH, WANTING TO ESTABLISH THAT CONNECTION.
AND, UM, IT JUST SO HAPPENS THAT I LANDED ON WHAT I WOULD PROBABLY SAY IS ONE OF, UH, THE MOST IMPORTANT COMMISSIONS IN THE CITY, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE'S INCLUDED AND THAT NO ONE'S LEFT OUT OF PROCESSES.
AND, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I FEEL LIKE THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE I COULD BEST DO MY, MY WORK FOR THE COMMUNITY.
AND, UM, IF, UH, AN OPPORTUNITY ARISES FOR ME TO DO MORE WORK, I DO MORE WORK.
BECAUSE I ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT THE, UH, THE REWARD FOR HARD WORK IS OFTEN MORE HARD WORK.
AND, UM, PEOPLE ARE GONNA SAY, HEY, YOU DO A GOOD JOB.
LEMME GIVE YOU SOMETHING ELSE, SOMETHING ELSE ON YOUR PLATE,
AND, UM, I HAVE, UH, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO ME, UH, THROUGHOUT LIFE.
AND I FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, UH, I'M, I'M, I'M READY TO EMBRACE IT
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AND, UM, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE BEFORE MY, MY FIRST RESPONSE TO ANYTHING IS RESISTANCE, AND THEN I THEN ACCEPTANCE.AND SO NOW I AM LETTING MY GUARD DOWN AND, UM, I, I JUST WANT DO EVERYTHING THAT I CAN TO MAKE WHERE WE LIVE BETTER FOR EVERYBODY.
WE APPRECIATE YOU STEPPING UP.
THANK YOU FOR, WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK TO DO, SO I'M GLAD YOU'RE HERE.
I'LL GO AHEAD AND, UM, INTRODUCE THE REST OF OUR COMMISSIONERS, STARTING WITH MS.
SO, UM, I MET HIM AT THE, UM, THE GET TOGETHER, UM, AT THE, WHAT'S IT? THE ORIENTATION? THE ORIENTATION, YES.
UM, SO I'M NIKKI WILLIAMSON AND I'M THE CO-CHAIR.
LIAISON FOR THE VETERANS WORKING HERE.
HE WAS JUST SAYING ONCE YOU TAKE ON ONE JOB, YOU END UP INHERITING MORE JOBS.
UM, UM, I'M ALSO A VETERAN ARMY.
UM, I ALSO WORK, UM, FOR, UH, CENTRAL HEALTH, UH, WHICH IS, UM, UH, I'M DRAWING A BLANK
SO WE TAKE CARE OF THE UNDERPRIVILEGED AND HOMELESS AND HELP THEM WITH HEALTHCARE.
BUT MY, UM, JOB IS TO MAKE SURE THAT I'VE GOT THE DOCTOR.
SO I'M A CREDENTIALING MANAGER OF OUR DEPARTMENT AND I'VE BEEN DOING THIS, UM, IN CREDENTIALING NOW FOR ABOUT 15 YEARS.
WHAT ABOUT, IT'S NICE TO MEET YOU AGAIN.
UM, COMMISSIONER? SO BEVA, I'M CURRENTLY THE CHAIR FOR THE DIV COMMISSION.
THIS IS MY SECOND YEAR GOING TO MY THIRD YEAR ON THE COMMISSION.
I'M THE LIAISON FOR THE SENIOR CITIZENS WORKING GROUP, AND I'VE MET EVERYBODY DURING THE ORIENTATION.
UM, AND I TRY TO JUST FOSTER TO STAY IN THE LOOP OF, UM, WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH OUR WORKING GROUPS AND IN THE COMMUNITY WITHOUT STEPPING OUT OF MY LANE.
BUT I WAS WELCOME Y'ALL TELLING ME TO GET BACK IN MY LANE WHEN IT'S NEEDED.
AND I APPRECIATE THAT IT'S NEVER MET WITH ANY
I'M LIKE, OKAY, WE'LL JUST DO THIS.
UM, BUT I APPRECIATE Y'ALL BEING HERE AND, UM, KICK IT OVER IT TO COMMISSIONER.
I'M GONNA GET A AT, AT DE AT EAE
I'M AT AN E AND UM, I'VE BEEN IN HU NOW SINCE 2020.
UM, TEXAS BY WAY OF CALIFORNIA.
UM, BUT YEAH, JOINED THE COMMISSION, SIMILAR REASONS, YOU KNOW, JUST SEEING OPPORTUNITIES TO HELP, UM, KIND OF ESTABLISH A GOOD COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, FOR MY KIDS, MY FAMILY, YOU KNOW, HELP SEE THAT REALIZE.
AND THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT.
SO, UM, I ALWAYS TOLD MYSELF THAT, YOU KNOW, IF I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE IN A WAY LIKE THAT, I WOULD SO, UM, HAVE TO LAND IN A CITY WHERE THAT, UM, INITIATIVE WAS KIND OF AN OPPORTUNITY.
UM, BUT YEAH, HAPPY TO HAVE YOU ON BOARD AND YEAH.
WELL, I'M ALSO ON THE SENIOR CITIZEN, NOT SENIOR CITIZEN.
I'M THE LIAISON FOR THE SENIOR CITIZEN WORKING GROUP, BUT I'M ALSO A MEMBER OF THE SMALL BUSINESS WORKING GROUP WHO SHOULD BE GETTING GOING PRETTY SOON.
WE IDENTIFIED A LEADER, UM, AND COMMISSIONER ADEN HAS JUST AGREED TO BE OUR LIAISON FOR OUR INITIATIVE SURROUNDING NEURO DIVERGENCE POPULATIONS, IDAHO.
ANYTHING ELSE FROM OUR NEW COMMISSIONER? ANY QUESTIONS? NO, I'M JUST TAKING IT ALL IN INTO IT.
JUST KIND OF SEEING HOW THINGS PLAY OUT AND, AND, AND, UH, THE ROUTINE OF, OF OUR MEETINGS AND DISCUSSING ACTION ITEMS. AND, AND IT'S REALLY LONG, BUT TAKE WHEN YOU HAVE A CHANCE AND PIECEMEAL LOOK AT OUR, UM, STRATEGIC PLAN AND WHAT WE HAVE OR WHERE WE'RE AT ON THE, ON, UM, ON A, WE TRY TO SHAKE IN WITH IT ON A REGULAR BASIS.
I THINK WE'RE DOING PRETTY GOOD ABOUT IT, BUT THEN ALSO, UM, AND IT'S NOT IN THE DRIVE YET, BUT OUR BUDGET AND WHERE WE ARE ON THAT PART OF IT.
SO JUST, IT'S A LOT, BUT WE'LL JUST, MOSTLY IT'S GONNA HAPPEN AS WE MOVE THROUGH AGENDA ITEMS AND YOU SEE WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT YOU'LL HAVE A POINT OF REFERENCE WHERE IT TIES BACK TO.
WE TRY AND, UM, I THINK WE'VE BEEN OVER THIS, BUT JUST TO GO AGAIN, I'M GONNA BE THE STAFF LIAISON COMMISSION, I THINK UNTIL NOVEMBER.
UM, BUT CHRISTIE BARNES, SHE'S OUR COMMUNITY CULTURE OFFICER.
SHE WILL, SHE'S KIND OF THE PERMANENT LIAISON.
UM, BUT I'LL BE HERE FOR THE NEXT 10 MONTHS AND I'M THE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER FOR THE CITY.
SO OUR SOCIAL MEDIA, OUR WEBSITE, ALL THE FUN STUFF.
'CAUSE THROUGH ME AND SHE'S THE KEEPER OF THE BRANDING AND LOGOS.
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THAT WAS 6.1 ITEM 6.2 REVIEW AND UPDATE ON THE BUDGET PROGRESS TRACKER AS IT RELATES TO THE STRATEGIC IMPLEMENTATION PLAN THAT OUR, OUR POINT PERSON FOR THAT IS COMMISSIONER AND WHO IS NOT WITH US HERE TODAY, BUT DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING ON THAT, THAT YOU WANTED TO TALK? I DON'T KNOW IF YOU AND COMMISSIONER POLKE HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT OR COLLABORATE OR HAVE ANY OTHER DISCUSSIONS SINCE OUR LAST MEETING? WE, WE HAVEN'T, BUT I THINK WITH THE UPDATE FOR THE GOOGLE DRIVE, IT'LL BE EASIER WHEN WE COME TO THESE, YOU KNOW, HE JUST HAS IT IN THERE.UM, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD HAVE ANY NEW UPDATES OUTSIDE OF WHATEVER THE, UH, I THINK LIKE THE INVOICING THAT STAN HAD DONE THAT WAS PENDING AT THE TIME OF OUR LAST MEETING MM-HMM
SO IF THAT'S IN NOW, THEN THAT WOULD BE UPDATED.
BUT I BELIEVE ON THAT TRACK WE HAD KIND OF GEAR MARKED IT AS MM-HMM
IT'S, IT'S BEEN SPENT, JUST DON'T HAVE A RECORD OF IT YET.
AND THEN, UM, 6.3 VETERANS WORKING GROUP UPDATE OFFICIALLY WITH COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS
SO, UM, I DID HAVE SOMEONE THAT STEPPED UP LAST WEEK, UM, HAD A MEETING, A WHOLE MEETING, UM, HAD, UH, WRITTEN OUT AGENDA ITEMS. AND THEN THE VERY NEXT DAY THE PERSON DECIDED TO STEP DOWN.
UM, BECAUSE AT FIRST, UH, HE MISUNDERSTOOD WHAT I WAS SAYING.
AND WHEN I CLARIFIED, HE STILL DECIDED TO STEP DOWN.
BUT THIS IS SO FUNNY BECAUSE I JUST GOT A MESSAGE FROM HIM SAYING THAT HE DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING, UM, ON THE FACEBOOK GROUP.
UM, SO IF I STILL NEED HIS HELP, HE'S WILLING TO STEP UP.
WHAT I DON'T WANNA DO IS HAVE SOMEONE, YO-YOING, LIKE, I'M HERE, I'M NOT HERE, I'M HERE, I'M NOT HERE.
AND I'M ALSO CONCERNED ABOUT A COUPLE OF THINGS.
I DON'T KNOW IF I COULD SPEAK FREELY RIGHT NOW, BUT I AM CONCERNED ABOUT A COUPLE OF THINGS.
THE ITEMS THAT WE COULD HELP WITH AS A COMMISSION, POSSIBLY.
DO YOU WANNA TAKE MORE TIME TO, I I CAN SPEAK FREELY IF YOU'D LIKE.
DO YOU WANT ME TO SPEAK FREELY AND CANDIDLY SINCE IT, WELL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT I CAN SAY RIGHT NOW, OR WHAT, WHAT I CAN'T SAY.
UM, BUT I AM A LITTLE, UH, LEERY OF THIS PERSON BECAUSE OF THEIR MENTAL, UM, IF YOU'RE UNSURE, ESPECIALLY IF YOU REGARD SOMEONE'S HEALTH, SAY NOTHING, THINK ABOUT IT.
YOU MIGHT WANNA JUST GO BACK AND THINK, OKAY, LET ME THINK ABOUT HOW TO PRESENT IT BECAUSE YOU SEEM UNSURE AND THAT'S OKAY.
LIKE, WE CAN JUST STAY FOCUSED ON THE, ON THE WORKING GROUP ITSELF.
IT'S JUST, WELL, THE, I'LL JUST MONITOR THE, THE, UM, THE COMMUNICATION THAT I'M TRYING TO HAVE.
OH, WELL, WE'RE HAVING A NO CONVERSATION THAT, OH, HEY, CAN A HUG GRAB A SNACK, MIKE? IF, IF I CAN'T INTERJECT.
SO IF, IF WE HAVE A CHALLENGE, I THINK, WITH WHO IS GONNA LEAD, THEN I THINK, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ONE THING.
I THINK PARTICIPATION IN THE GROUP WOULD BE ANOTHER THING.
SO I'M NOT CLOSING THE PERSON OFF FROM PARTICIPATING OR BEING IN THE GROUP.
IT'S JUST THAT THIS PERSON HAD SAID THEY DIDN'T WANT TO LEAD AND, AND THEY STEPPED DOWN FOR YOU, WERE ON THE EMAIL.
AND THEN NOW THAT WAS THE THING ABOUT A MEETING SPACE, JUST LIKE NOW WANTING TO, YOU KNOW, COME, COME BACK AND HELP.
SO I JUST LET 'EM KNOW THAT, HEY, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, REGROUPING AND THE REASON WHY THERE'S SOMETHING, UM, BEEN POSTED ON THE FACEBOOK GROUP IS BECAUSE I'M REGROUPING AND GETTING THINGS TOGETHER, AND THEN SOMETHING WILL BE POSTED.
UM, SO GOING FORWARD, I, I DO HAVE A LIST OF PEOPLE'S NAMES THAT I WILL BE SENDING OUT AN EMAIL SO THAT WE CAN GO AHEAD AND START GETTING THINGS TOGETHER.
I'M GONNA, I'LL GET WITH, UH, BRANDY AND, UM, I WANNA, I KNOW IT'S GONNA BE ON THE NEXT ITEM, BUT, UM, TO AT LEAST GET A MEETING ON THE BOOKS.
UM, I WANNA GO TALK TO, UH, THE LIBRARY AND SEE IF WE CAN HAVE A ROOM, UM, JUST FOR OUR FIRST MEETING, AND THEN GO FROM THERE.
I KNOW WE'RE GONNA JUMP INTO SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S SURROUNDING MEETING PLACES.
BUT I WANNA GO AHEAD AND GET THIS OFF THE GROUND.
AND, UM, ALSO, I DID TALK TO, UM, UH, UH, THE COMMANDER,
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UM, TIM THE LEGION.SO I WENT TO THEIR DUFFEL BAG, UM, DRIVE, AND I WAS ABLE TO TALK TO HIM, HEY, ANDY
I WAS TOLD SOMETHING TOTALLY DIFFERENT, BUT I'M GLAD I GOT TO TALK TO HIM BECAUSE HE WANTS TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY, WHICH IS A VERY GREAT THING.
AND HE DID EXPLAIN TO ME THAT THE REASON WHY I DIDN'T HEAR BACK FROM HIM, UM, FROM MY EMAIL WAS BECAUSE THEIR EMAIL WAS COMPROMISED.
SO, UM, HIS WIFE HAS THIS PERSON THAT YOU'RE TALKING TO IS HOLDING THOSE EMAIL HOSTAGE.
AND THAT WEBSITE, WELL, THEY HAVE MY EMAIL.
SO HE SAID THAT HE WOULD, UM, UH, THEY HIGHLIGHTED MY NAME SO HIS WIFE AND HIM WILL CONTACT ME AND TALK TO ME, UM, MORE SO I'M GLAD TO HAVE THEM ON BOARD.
SO I WAS
QUESTION ABOUT HAVING THEM HAVE ABOUT THIS, ABOUT THE VETERANS WORKING GROUP, POTENTIALLY MEETING AT THE LEGION BUILDING.
I'M, WELL, I DIDN'T TALK TO HIM ABOUT THAT YET.
THAT'S GONNA BE A DIFFERENT CONVERSATION.
BUT I JUST WANT TO BASICALLY AT FIRST, YOU KNOW, UM, GET, YOU KNOW, GET THEM INVOLVED, GET, 'CAUSE THEY HAVE A LOT MORE, THEY KNOW A LOT MORE VETERANS.
'CAUSE THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, OH, FACEBOOK FOR, FOR RECRUITMENT.
SO AT LEAST, YOU KNOW, LET THEM KNOW.
THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT OKAY.
GET THEM ALSO INVOLVED AND GET, YOU KNOW, THE AMERICAN LEGION ALSO INVOLVED IN, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE DOING.
SO, UM, THAT'S, UH, THE, THE MEETING SPACE WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE A DIFFERENT CONVERSATION THAT ONCE I GET TO HAVE A, AN ESTABLISHED RELATIONSHIP MM-HMM
THEN I CAN ASK, YOU KNOW, HEY, CAN WE USE OF SPACE OKAY.
BUT I'M GONNA START WITH, UH, SEEING IF THE LIBRARY WILL GIVE US THE SPACE FOR IT FIRST AND THEN TRY TO GET SOMETHING SOON.
SO I WILL BE EMAILING, UM, EVERYBODY THAT'S ON THAT LIST THAT I HAVE, WOULD LOVE TO HAVE YOU STILL COME,
SO, YEAH, I WILL, UM, GET WITH, UH, BRANDY AND SO THAT WAY WE CAN, UM, SCHEDULE SOMETHING AND, BECAUSE I WANNA GET THIS OFF THE GROUND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
AND I WILL TELL YOU THAT THE SENIOR CITIZEN WORKING GROUP, THEY'VE BEEN MEETING IN THE LIBRARY THE LAST COUPLE OF MEETINGS THEY HAD.
UM, SO THEY'VE BEEN, NOW I WILL TELL YOU ALSO THAT THAT LIBRARY IS IN HIGH DEMAND.
SO, UM, GET ON THERE AS SOON AS YOU CAN BECAUSE WE, WE, WE HAD A COUPLE OF DATES FROM OUR GROUP LEADER THAT HE WASN'T ABLE TO GET.
UM, THE ROOM ONLY THE SMALL, SO THEY'RE IN A HIGH, THEY'RE A HIGH DEMAND SPACE, WHICH IS GREAT 'CAUSE PEOPLE ARE USED IN OUR LIBRARY.
BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, THE SENIOR CITIZEN GROUP RAN INTO, UM, WITH A CHALLENGE.
SO THEY'RE ALSO TALKING ABOUT FINDING, UM, A, A A A, A MORE ACCESSIBLE ME REGULAR MEETING SPACE.
SO I THINK THEY'RE HAVING SIMILAR, AND ALSO THERE'S A LOT OF OVERLAP BETWEEN THE SENIOR CITIZENS, THE VETERANS, WHICH IS ACTUALLY A GOOD THING BECAUSE THEY'RE AWARE OF WHERE THE COMMON CHALLENGES ARE.
UM, BUT THEY ARE MEETING, SO
SO I'M TRYING TO THINK OF A SEMI PRIVATE AREA THAT'S NOT BADGE ACCESS.
UM, I WOULD THINK THAT I WOULD HAVE TO CHECK MYSELF, BUT I BELIEVE THE COUNCIL CHAMBER IS OPEN AND PUBLIC AS LONG AS IT'S NOT BEING USED FOR A DIFFERENT, UM, MEETING.
I KNOW WE HAVE COURT IN THERE ON TUESDAYS, SO TUESDAYS PROBABLY WOULDN'T WORK.
UM, AND THEN OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE VARIOUS MEETINGS, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC MEETINGS AT NIGHT IN THERE.
BUT, UM, I WANNA SAY DURING THE DAY YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO USE THE COUNCIL CHAMBER, BUT I WILL GET BACK TO YOU ON THAT.
THAT'S ACTUALLY A REALLY GREAT IDEA TO LOOK INTO COUNCIL CHAMBER.
HEY, I MEAN, IT'S PUBLIC BUILDING.
I MEAN, UM, IF, UH, IT JUST DEPENDS ON, YOU KNOW, IF, AND I, I ONLY WANNA DO THIS LIKE START OFF LIKE AT LEAST ONCE, UH, HAVE, HAVE THE VETERANS MEET AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH TO START OFF WITH.
BUT THEN IF THEY'RE THE ONES LIKE Y'ALL, THE ONES THAT ARE GOING TO LIKE, TAKE IT AND I'LL JUST, I'LL JUST BE THE LIAISON AND Y'ALL GONNA BE ABSOLUTELY.
BUT AT LEAST WE COULD START OFF AT LEAST ONCE AND YOU CAN GAUGE LIKE PEOPLE'S TIME AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO YEAH, A GENERAL SENTENCE OF LIKE, WHAT'S GONNA BE APPROPRIATE AND HOW THEY CAN MEET AND WHAT'S GOOD FOR EVERYBODY WORKING SCHEDULE.
SO, UM, WHAT I WOULD PROPOSE FOR YOU AND I, LET'S, UH, SCHEDULE A, UH, ZOOM MEETING OR TEAMS MEETING AND I COULD GO OVER ALL OF THE NOTES, UM, THAT I WENT OVER WITH THE OTHER PERSON AND WE CAN START FROM THERE.
WE'LL, I'LL JUST START FROM SCRATCH, BUT I ALREADY HAVE IT ALL WRITTEN OUT ON THE THINGS THAT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT AND THEN GO FROM THERE.
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AND THEN WE COULD TALK ABOUT WHAT WE WANNA PUT ON THE FACEBOOK PAGE.SO THERE WAS A FACEBOOK PAGE CREATED.
UM, SO WHERE, UM, UH, GOING TO ALSO GET THAT UP AND RUNNING AND, AND POSTING THINGS ON YOUR, UM, AS WELL.
I, I HAVE TRAFFIC AND IT KEEPS THE ALLEY GOING.
AND IT, THE BROAD RESEARCH, I RUN A COUPLE MYSELF, I COUNCIL AND MY NEIGHBORHOOD AND THINGS.
AND THE MORE TRAFFIC, THE MORE YOU REACH MM-HMM
AND THEN PART OF OTHER, AND ALSO IN OTHER VETERAN NETWORKING GROUPS TOO.
AND THEN I HAVE A LOT OF VETERAN FILES.
AND THEN YOU HAVE THE FILE TAB, AND THEN YOU CAN ALWAYS LIKE, HEY, REACH THEIR, LIKE, HIT THIS, UH, HIT FILE TABS AND THEN THEY'RE QUICK AND EASY AND THEN REMIND PEOPLE HOW TO DO THE SEARCH TABS YEAH.
TO GRAB THINGS AND THEN, YOU KNOW, UH, LIKE, UM, CONTINUAL ENGAGEMENTS, THINGS LIKE THAT.
AND I ALSO, UH, SPOKE WITH, UM, UH, KARINA ABOUT, UM, I'M GOING TO TALK WITH UM, UH, ASHLEY.
SHE'S, UM, OVER A LOT OF THE, THE GROUPS AT MY CHURCH TO SEE IF I COULD, UM, AT LEAST, UH, ON ONE SUNDAY OR TWO SUNDAYS SPEAK ABOUT, UM, THE VETERANS GROUP, UM, IN THE CITY OF PARO.
AND SO THAT, 'CAUSE WE DO HAVE VETERANS THERE AS WELL.
SO, UM, HOPEFULLY THEY WILL, I DON'T SEE THEM NOT AGREEING TO IT, BUT I GO TO THE BRIDGE CHURCH THAT'S OFF OF, UM, 1 37.
BECAUSE SEVERAL CHURCH, WHEN WHEN THEY COME IN CITY HALL AND THEY CAN DREAM, THEY MENTION THAT THEY HAVE SENIOR CITIZEN GROUPS, THEY HAVE VETERANS GROUPS, WHICH ARE, WE'RE NOT TRYING TO TAKE FROM THEIR GROUPS, BUT WE WANNA BE ABLE TO MAYBE CONNECT THOSE GROUPS YEAH.
SO, AND HELP FIND THOSE MEMORIES AND HELP CONNECT AND THEM, ONE OF THE LADIES THAT WAS AT THE, UM, THE, UH, PROCLAMATION FOR THE VETERANS, UM, I, I DIDN'T KNOW, 'CAUSE I'M ALSO A GREETER AT MY CHURCH, SO I DIDN'T KNOW I SAW HER FACE, BUT I DIDN'T REALIZE WHO SHE WAS.
AND SO THAT'S, UH, FOLLOWING SUNDAY, SHE WALKED UP TO ME AND SHE'S LIKE, I NEED, SHE'S LIKE, I WANNA CALL YOU VICTORIA, BUT I WASN'T SURE WHAT YOUR NAME WAS.
SO SHE SENT ME THE PICTURES AND EVERYTHING.
AND SO NOW IT'S LIKE, UM, WE'RE, WE'RE CONNECTED.
AND SO IT'S LIKE YOU DON'T, YOU JUST DON'T KNOW, UH, WHO'S GONNA BE AT THESE MEETINGS.
SO YEAH, I JUST THINK THAT IT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA AND, UM, TO AT LEAST, AND THEN MAYBE, UM, UH, I, IF I START WITH MY CHURCH AND THEN MAYBE I CAN, YOU KNOW, GO TO OTHER CHURCHES AND EVEN IF I DON'T LIKE, HAVE TO GET UP AND SPEAK, BUT JUST, YOU KNOW, IF THEY PUT, PUT SOMETHING IN THEIR BULLETIN.
'CAUSE IT DEPENDS ON WHAT CHURCH, YOU KNOW, KIND OF CHURCH IT IS.
YOU KNOW, SOME CHURCHES THEY HAVE BULLETINS AND SOME THEY JUST POST, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE LIKE THE SCREENS OR WHATEVER MM-HMM
BUT AT LEAST TO LET THEM KNOW WHAT THE COMMUNITY IS DOING FOR, YOU KNOW, THE VETERANS.
AND THEN, UM, WITH THAT BEING SAID, AND UM, I CAN CONNECT WITH THE LEADER, UM, AND MAYBE THEY COULD TALK TO ABOUT, YOU KNOW, UH, SENIOR CITIZEN GROUPS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
GOING AROUND DIFFERENT OTHER, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT CHURCHES TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT YEAH.
SO I WROTE DOWN FOR YOUR, UM, UPDATE IS THAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR A NEW LEADER.
A FACEBOOK PAGE HAS ALREADY BEEN CREATED MM-HMM
AND I THINK YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE HAVE ACCESS OVER IT RIGHT NOW.
I HAVE ACCESS, BUT I'M NOT FAMILIAR ON HOW TO USE, BUT YOU'RE NOT GONNA DO ANYTHING WITH IT RIGHT NOW.
'CAUSE SHE WAS GIVEN ACCESS AS WELL.
YOU'RE GONNA BE A MEMBER OF THE VETERANS GROUP? UH, BRAND MA'AM.
YOU ARE GONNA BE A MEMBER OF THE VETERANS GROUP? YES.
WOULD YOU, WELL, I'LL LEAVE IT UP TO Y'ALL'S, UM, IDENT.
SO IDENTIFY A LEADER, BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH I KNOW YOU'RE A MEMBER OF THE VETERANS GROUP, YOU'RE ALSO THE LIAISON MM-HMM
SO, AND, AND IT'S, IT'S GONNA BECOME YOUR JOB UNLESS YOU IDENTIFY A LEADER, UM, TO RUN EVERYTHING.
AND WE REALLY WANT TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT, UM, NOT HAVING THE COMMISSION RUN THE WORKING GROUPS, BUT YOU OH NO, I'M, YOU'RE BEING A GREAT LIAISON RIGHT NOW.
I JUST WANNA, I, I WANNA TAKE, I DON'T WANT, I GOT SO MUCH I WANNA PLAY.
NO, BUT YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB RIGHT NOW.
I JUST WANNA HAVE HELP GET IT UP AND RUNNING.
AND THEN TAKE THAT BACK SEAT AND JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO COME TO ME.
I MAY NOT GO TO EVERY MEETING, BUT JUST TO, I'LL BE CHECKING IN.
UM, I, I WELCOME BRANDY HELPING.
I MEAN, YOU'RE DOING EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED SHOULD DO AS LIAISON, SO THANK YOU.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE, UM, THE VETERANS WORKING GROUP YOU WANNA SHARE WITH US RIGHT NOW? THAT'S IT.
I'M NOT SURE WHO'S DOING THE SENIOR GROUP, BUT IT'S KIND OF A STEP FROM THE VETERANS GROUP.
I KNOW THAT I HELPED CHUCK'S GROUP DO THE PROPOSAL FOR THE SENIORS MEETING AT THE LEGION.
SO I KNOW THAT'S ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT.
'CAUSE I MADE SURE THAT IT GOT TO THE AGENDA SO THAT WAY THE SENIORS CAN MEET
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AT THE LEGION.YOU SEE THAT'S HAPPENING TONIGHT.
IT'S ON THE AGENDA TO, ON THEIR AGENDA AT THE ALLEGION.
I MAKE SURE THAT GOT ON THE AGENDA SO THAT WAY THE SENIORS CAN MEET AT THE LEGION.
SO I HELPED CHUCK TO DO THAT PROPOSAL.
I WANTED, BECAUSE IT IS KIND OF LIKE COINCIDE WITH THE, THE VETERANS AND THE SENIORS.
SO THOSE ARE LIKE YEAH, WE HAVE, WE DO HAVE A DEDICATED AGENDA ITEM ON OUR AGENDA TONIGHT, 7.5 ABOUT THE DEDICATED MEETING SPACE.
SO WE DON'T WANNA GET, WE DON'T AHEAD UNLESS YOU NEED TO RUN.
WE CAN IF IT'S OKAY THERE, BUT WE CAN MOVE IT UP.
SO MOVING ON TO, BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO OTHER BUSINESS, WHICH IS 7.1 AND ALL THE SEVEN WE HAVE LET COMMISSIONER LEWIS INTRODUCE US ALL BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A NEW COMMISSIONER WITH US THIS EVENING.
SO, UM, GREETINGS AND SANITATION EVERYONE.
I'M J LEWIS, COMMISSIONER LEWIS.
I'VE BEEN TWO, TWO AND A HALF YEARS NOW.
AND SO
WELL, I'M ALSO THE CO-CHAIR OF THE HUNDRED 50TH HUDDLE COMMITTEE.
SO IF YOU ALL, WE WANT A BOOTH OR SOMETHING, OR IF YOU WANNA DO SOMETHING WITH THE COMMITTEE, UM, FOR THE 150 WILL BE IN, WHICH WILL BE IN NOVEMBER, LET ME KNOW.
WE, I ABSOLUTELY CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
SO, UH, WHATEVER YOU GUYS WANNA DO, I CAN TAKE IT AND AROUND WITH IT, BE OUT OF OUR GAME PARK, WHAT IT IS.
WE STILL IN THE EARLY STAGES, WE'RE JUST NOW GETTING THE FUNDING, UM, FOR THE CITY TO MATCH AS WELL.
UM, AND SO, UM, I'M DEALING WITH THAT AS WELL AS, UH, I NEED TO PUT MY HANDS MORE INTO THE SMALL BUSINESS GROUP.
THANK YOU CORIN, FOR STEPPING UP AND GOTTA GET THAT THESE ARE NEEDS FOR THIS.
I HAVE NOT, I'M WORKING IN THE BACKGROUND, I PROMISE.
JUST 'CAUSE I'M NOT AT EVERY MEETING, BUT I'LL DO MY BEST TO GET THE MEETINGS.
'CAUSE SIX O'CLOCK ON TUESDAY IS A TOUGH ONE FOR ME, BUT I'LL, I'LL TRY TO MAKE IT, UH, EVERY OTHER TUESDAY IS A TOUGH ONE, SO I WILL DO MY BEST TO MAKE MEETINGS MORE.
BUT, UM, IF ANYBODY NEEDS TO GET IN TOUCH WITH ME, I'M DEFINITELY AVAILABLE.
AND I AM WORKING IN THE BACKGROUND JUST AT YI.
SO IF YOU NEED ANYTHING, ANYTHING, UH, WITH THIS COMMISSION, WITH THE SMALL BUSINESS, UM, AND ANYTHING, ANY IDEAS THAT YOU WANT, ANY INFORMATION YOU WANNA KNOW ABOUT THE HUNDRED 50TH, YOU CAN REACH OUT TO MY, MYSELF OR ANYBODY ON THE HUNDRED 50, UH, MO ON THE HUNDRED 50 COMMITTEE.
SO I WOULD LOVE FOR US TO HAVE A PRESENCE THERE.
SO YES, THAT'S THING THAT FOR THE NEXT MEETING, WE WANT ADD TO THAT NEXT MEETING ABOUT OUR PARTICIPATION IN NOT ONLY THE ONE 50, BUT ALSO THE SUNSET B COMMUNITY.
RESOURCER AND I, I SIGNED UP AND I TOLD, FORGOT PAT IT TO THIS AGENDA.
WE HAD THE FIREWORKS, UH, ALREADY THAT WAS ALREADY PAID FOR.
UM, SO WE, MUSIC IS, WE WERE TRYING TO MAKE IT A, THE CITY WANT US TO BE A BEACH THING.
THAT, A GREAT LOGO WE SAW AT THE COFFEE.
I'D LOVE TO HAVE OUR LOGO THERE AS WELL.
WANT TO PUT SOMETHING UP WITH THE TABLE.
AND THIS IS COMMISSIONER FUR PERRY.
RICH CROSSMAN, SAY, HOW ARE YOU J LEWIS TO SEE YOU MAN.
OH, Y'ALL HAVEN'T MET? NO, NO.
HAVE YOU MET COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON? YES.
I WAS LIKE, I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN SUPER BUSY.
WELL, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US THIS EVENING.
7.1 JUST TO GET US BACK ON TRACK.
DISCUSSION, POSSIBLE ACTION ON MEETING MINUTES FROM MARCH 10TH, 2026 MEETING.
ANY COMMENTS OR, UM, UPDATES OR ITEMS? I KNOW YOU WERE JUST OVERLOOKING RIGHT NOW.
IS THERE ANY, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? NO.
ANY COMMISSIONERS ABOUT OUR MEETING FROM LAST WEEK, FROM LAST MONTH? I GUESS.
SO HOW WAS STAYING, HOW DID THAT WORK OUT WITH STAN? AND, UM, I, I LISTED A LITTLE BIT HOW DID EVERYTHING WITH ORIENTATIONS MM-HMM
THAT'S WHY WE WERE, WHEN YOU WALKED IN, COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON, WHO'S THE LIAISON FOR THE VETERANS GROUP WAS TALKING ABOUT, UM, HOW IT WAS GOING.
COMMUNICATING BACK WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THEM.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THEM AND OTHER AGENDA ITEMS. SURE.
UM, SO IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE ON THAT WE ARE, ANY DISCUSSION OR POSSIBLE ACTIONS FROM OUR MARCH 10TH MEETING.
UM, I THINK WE HAVE A PRETTY MUCH AGENDA NOW, SO WE'RE GONNA BE GOOD UNLESS ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANYTHING.
MOVING ALONG TO 7.2, PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION.
MOTION MADE BY COMMISSION AND, UM, THE MEETINGS FROM MARCH 10TH.
SO MOTION APPROVE OR MOTION MADE BY COMMISSIONER NEE, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER LEWIS.
WE SAY 7.2 PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION OF COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS FROM OKAY.
I GOT PAGE 55 OF THAT AT WORK.
WELL, THIS IS DEFINITELY WHAT I'M GONNA PRESENT TO Y'ALL.
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A, UM, KIND OF A SHORTENED VERSION OF IT.JUST WHAT I THINK IS, UM, JUST THE DIB SPECIFIC RESULTS.
BUT I DO REALLY, REALLY ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS TO, UM, I WANT YOU CHECK, WATCH THE, YOU'RE FINE.
UM, OR SORRY, LISTEN TO THE ENTIRE READ THE ENTIRE THING.
UM, IT'S, IT'S REALLY, REALLY, IT'LL REALLY, REALLY HELP YOU.
WHY CAN'T I FORGET HOW TO PRESENT THIS? OKAY.
IT'LL REALLY HELP YOU UNDERSTAND THE COMMUNITY, WHAT THEY'RE FOCUSING ON RIGHT NOW.
UM, BUT I'LL GO INTO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT.
SO THIS IS OUR, RIGHT NOW IT'S A BIANNUAL COMMUNITY SURVEY.
IT IS CONDUCTED BY A COMPANY CALLED THE ETC INSTITUTE.
THEY DO COMMUNITY SURVEYS, UM, FOR MANY, MANY BIG CITIES IN TEXAS.
UM, AND SO IT WAS ADMINISTERED BY MAIL AND ONLINE BETWEEN DECEMBER, 2025 AND JANUARY, 2026, THERE WAS A GOAL OF 400 COMPLETED SURVEYS.
UM, AND IT, WE HAVE A 95% LEVEL OF CONFIDENCE WITH A MARGIN OF ERROR OF, UH, PLUS OR MINUS 4.9%.
SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS, UM, IT IS A STATISTICALLY VALID SURVEY.
AND EVEN THOUGH WE ONLY, UM, SURVEYED 400 RESIDENTS, IT IS WITH, WE CAN SAY WITH 95% CONFIDENCE THAT IT REPRESENTS, UM, THE ENTIRE COMMUNITY.
UM, THIS IS THE LOCATIONS OF SURVEY RESPONDENTS.
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THEY'RE SPREAD ACROSS OUR, UM, CITY LIMITS.
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THE RESPONDENTS.
WE HAD ALL AGE GROUPS WELL REPRESENTED, AND, UM, BOTH NEW AND LONG-TERM RESIDENTS WERE WELL REPRESENTED.
BUT THIS WAS, UH, HOW MANY YEARS THEY'VE LIVED IN HURO.
WANTS TO EVEN SPLIT A LITTLE MORE FOR THE LADIES.
SO THESE ARE THE RESULTS OF THE DIB SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.
SO FIRST WE HAVE, THE CITY PROVIDES A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR RESIDENTS OF ALL BACKGROUNDS.
23 NEUTRAL, 5% DISAGREE, AND 2%.
THE CITY ATTRACTS PEOPLE FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS TO LIVE HERE.
THE CITY TREATS ALL RESIDENTS FAIRLY.
THE CITY TREATS ALL RESIDENTS WITH RESPECT.
THE CITY FOSTERS A CULTURE OF BELONGING.
THE CITY VALUES RESIDENTS FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS.
ANY STAFF AND LEADERS ARE ACCESSIBLE TO ALL RESIDENTS.
SO I THINK THE POSITIVE TAKEAWAY FROM THESE RESULTS ARE THAT MOST PEOPLE ARE AT A LEVEL OF AGREEMENT WITH ALL OF THESE STATEMENTS.
UM, I THINK THAT'S STRONG AND THAT'S ALSO A, UM, IMPROVEMENT FROM THE 2024 RESULTS.
SO, UM, WHEN IT WAS ADMINISTERED, I WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK AND FIND THE NUMBERS, BUT I KNOW THAT IT'S AN INCREASE FROM OUR 2024 RESULTS, WHICH MEANS THAT, UM, WHERE THE CITY'S MAKING GOOD PROGRESS.
THAT'S PROBABLY DUE TO ALL THE WORK YOU GUYS DO.
UM, BUT I, I, OF COURSE THERE'S ALWAYS GONNA BE ROOM TO IMPROVE AND YOU GUYS CAN DISCUSS, BUT, BUT THIS IS A GOOD STARTING PLACE.
THIS IS A GREAT, UM, BASE SETTING, UM, DATA FOR US AS A COMMISSION ABOUT WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW.
AND I ACTUALLY, IT'S A GOOD POINT.
I WANNA LOOK AT THE SIDE BY SIDE FROM THE PREVIOUS YEAR.
UM, SO, RIGHT, I MEAN, JUST LOOKING AT THE NUMBERS, THE AREAS THAT THE NUMBER ONE THAT HAS THE MOST AREA FOR IMPROVEMENT, WHICH IS JUST, AND IT'S VERY SMALL, 5% IS THE CITY TREATS ALL RESIDENTS FAIRLY.
AND I THINK THAT'S REALLY INTERESTING BECAUSE EVERYBODY, PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT INTERPRETATIONS OF WHAT IS FAIR.
IT'S SUCH A, UM, I, WHAT'S THE WORD? NOT OBJECTIVE, BUT I GUESS IT IS OBJECTIVE TO THINK ABOUT.
SOMEBODY THINKS, UM, IF SOMETHING IS FAIR OR NOT.
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SO WE MAY WANNA THINK ABOUT, IS THAT AN AREA OPPORTUNITY THAT WE WANNA DIVE INTO? AND HOW WE DEFINE IF WE'RE GONNA SAY THAT CITY TREATS RESIDENTS FAIRLY, HOW DO, HOW ARE WE DEFINING FAIRLY? OR DO WE WANT TO REWORD THE SURVEY QUESTIONS FOR THE, FOR THE SUBSEQUENT QUESTIONS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE A MORE CONCRETE DATA POINT? RIGHT.SO WE KNOW WHEN WE SAY FAIRLY AND WE EXPLAIN TO PEOPLE MAYBE WE USE A DIFFERENT TERM, WE USE SOMETHING MORE USABLE.
BECAUSE THE WAY IT'S WORDED RIGHT NOW, IT'S KIND OF VAGUE BECAUSE EVERYBODY CAN IS SUBJECTIVE TO INTERPRETATION, RIGHT? MM-HMM
UM, AND THEN THE OTHER ONE I SEE IS LIKE THE 4%, OR IS IT, WAS IT 4.5%? UH, THE BOTTOM TWO.
THEY'RE BOTH 4% FOR STRONGLY DISAGREE.
SO THERE'S THREE THAT ARE 4% DISAGREE, BUT THE RESPECT, BACKGROUNDS AND ALL AND ACCESSIBILITY, THOSE ARE ALL 4%.
AND I MEAN, AGAIN, THEY'RE VERY, VERY SMALL.
UM, BUT WE, WE WANNA LOOK FOR AREAS OF IMPROVEMENT THAT WE CAN WORK ON AS A COMMISSION.
UM, THOSE ARE THE KIND OF THINGS THAT WE CAN LOOK AT AND WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL DIVIDE, WE CAN DIVE INTO IT AGAIN IN A FUTURE AGENDA.
UM, I, THOSE ARE MY INITIAL YEAH.
I WOULD ALSO SUGGEST NOT FOCUSING SO MUCH ON THE STRONGLY DISAGREES AND FOCUSING MORE ON THE NEUTRALS, HAVE A LARGE PERCENTAGE NEUTRAL, BUT KIND OF, THEY DON'T DUNNO HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT IT.
AND WE WANNA MOVE THE NEEDLE ON THAT.
I WOULD GUESS THAT WERE PROBABLY PEOPLE THAT ARE TWO YEARS OR LESS.
THEY'RE STILL TRYING TO GET FEEL FOR THE CITY.
THEY'RE SO THEY HAVEN'T, YEAH.
THEY'RE PRETTY YOUNG ESTIMATION.
WHAT IS, WHAT IS THE COMMISSIONER'S OTHER THOUGHTS ABOUT THIS DATA? IS THERE, IS THERE A WAY TO S SLICE IT TO WHERE WHEN YOU LOOK, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE COMMISSIONER LEWIS, LIKE WHEN YOU'RE SAYING KIND OF LIKE PEOPLE WHO MAYBE LIVE IN THE CITY FOR TWO YEARS OR LESS THAN TWO YEARS, RIGHT? SO IS THERE A WAY TO SEE WITH THE SAME FILTERS THAT WE APPLIED? SO LIKE IF WE LOOK AT RACE, WE LOOK AT AGE, WE LOOK AT HOW MANY YEARS THEY SPENT, WHAT'S THE BREAKDOWN WITHIN EACH OF THOSE? BECAUSE IF ALL OF YOUR STRONGLY DISAGREES, OR YOUR DISAGREES FALL WITHIN THE SAME DEMOGRAPHIC, THAT POINTS US TO WHERE MAYBE THERE'S A NEED MM-HMM
IF EVERYONE WHO AGREES IS WITHIN A CERTAIN DEMOGRAPHIC, THEN THAT KIND OF TAKES AWAY THE WHOLE DIVERSITY AND EQUITY ARGUMENT BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE A FAIR MIX OF PEOPLE WHO FEEL THAT WAY.
SO IS THERE A WAY TO SEE ON THESE QUESTIONS HOW THOSE SAME FILTERS APPLY WITHIN THAT? YEAH.
I'LL HAVE TO REACH OUT TO, UM, ETC, BUT I'M SURE THEY CAN DO THAT.
THEY, THEY'VE, YOU KNOW, SLICED A DIFFERENT WASTE FOR US BEFORE.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE HOW THE QUESTIONNAIRE WAS PRESENTED.
BECAUSE WHAT HE'S SAYING THAT, THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE ADDED IN THE QUESTIONNAIRE WHEN THEY DO DEMOGRAPHICS WHERE THEY WOULD A RATES COLOR.
WELL, THEY HAVE THAT THOUGH, RIGHT? LIKE THERE'S, THE DEMOGRAPHICS ARE BROKEN DOWN, RIGHT.
SO THEY HAVE, THEY HAVE, I'M THINKING THEY HAVE TO HAVE A WAY TO TAG THE ANSWERS, RIGHT.
TO SAY LIKE, WHO RESPONDED WHERE? OH, IT AS PART OF THE QUESTIONNAIRE.
BECAUSE I THINK YOU SAW THE OTHER GRAPH WHERE IT BROKE IT DOWN BY LIKE, THIS PERCENTAGE OF THE CITY IS THIS.
SO THEN I WOULD THINK THEY'D HAVE SOME OF THAT, BECAUSE I, I DO THINK THAT THAT HELPS US MAYBE FOCUS, UM, BECAUSE WE MIGHT LOOK AT THAT 42% AND ALL THE PEOPLE WHO SAY IT ATTRACTS FROM DIVERSE BACKGROUNDS ARE ALL IN THE SAME BACKGROUND.
SO WE THINK WE'RE GOOD, BUT EVERYONE ELSE WHO MAYBE FROM A DIFFERENT DIVERSE, UM, BACKGROUND IS LIKE, NO, WE DON'T FEEL THAT WAY.
UM, AND IT KIND OF PIGGYBACK A ABOUT, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UH, THE NEUTRAL, THE AGE, JUST AGE OF NEUTRALS, COMPLAIN ABOUT THAT.
I'LL SEE IF THEY CAN SPLIT UP, UM, ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS BY DEMOGRAPHIC AND GET THAT BACK TO YOU GUYS.
I THINK WE, THOSE WHO ARE UNDECIDED AND HOW THEY FEEL WE'RE MISSING SOMETHING.
BECAUSE IT'S LIKE THAT, THAT'S A LARGE PERCENTAGE, ABOUT A QUARTER OR MORE.
I MEAN, SO IT'S LIKE WE'RE MISSING THE MARK SOMEWHERE.
IT NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT MISSING ANYTHING.
SO THAT'S OPPORTUNITY FOR IMPROVEMENT, ESPECIALLY WHEN SOMEONE'S UNSURE.
IT'S LIKE, THAT'S NOT A NO, IT COULD BE YES.
I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS TO READ, UM, THROUGH THE ENTIRE SURVEY.
IT'LL GIVE YOU A GOOD IDEA OF, UH, WE USE IT A LOT.
I CONTRARY WITH WHAT PEOPLE MAY SAY ON FACEBOOK.
WE USE IT A LOT IN, UM, IN THE CITY OF
WE USE THE COMMUNITY SURVEY FOR EVERYTHING, UH, TO MAKE OUR STRATEGIC PLAN WITH COUNCIL.
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AND WE DISSEMINATE THAT TO ALL EMPLOYEES TO BE FOLLOWING IT.SO, UM, IT GIVES YOU A REALLY GOOD IDEA OF, OF OUR RESIDENTS AND, UM, WHAT THEY WANT AND HOW YOU FEEL.
AND SO, YEAH, THAT'S, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS OR REQUESTS FROM THE SURVEY FROM OUR COMMISSIONERS? NO.
SO JUST THE ONLY, UM, THE ACTION ITEM FOLLOW UP IS TO REQUEST A DIFFERENT REPRESENTATION OF THE DATA SO WE CAN GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE SPECIFICALLY FOCUSING ON THE, UM, NEUTRAL RESPONSES.
FOR ME, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO KNOW THE AGES OF THE NEUTRAL FOR ME.
IF IT COULD BE A LITTLE BIT MORE GRANULAR.
I, I I SEE WHAT THEY'RE GETTING AT.
I THINK SOMEBODY ELSE MENTIONED RACE WOULD GET IT RAISED.
AGE, HOW LONG THEY'VE BEEN IN.
WELL, I, I JUST THINK EVERY FILTER THAT THEY USE YEAH.
FROM A DEMOGRAPHIC, JUST TAKE THOSE SAME FILTERS AND THEN BREAK EACH QUESTION DOWN AND SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE IN EACH ONE.
BECAUSE THEN WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT FISHING FOR ONE PARTICULAR THING.
WE JUST WANNA SEE WHAT'S OUT THERE.
UM, WE'RE ALSO, I CAN'T SAY FOR SURE YET BECAUSE WE'RE STILL EARLY IN BUDGET SEASON, BUT, UM, MY DEPARTMENT IS REQUESTING THAT WE DO THIS, UM, SURVEY EVERY YEAR MM-HMM
INSTEAD OF, UM, EVERY OTHER YEAR, LIKE, CUT US GOING FAST.
AND, UM, THIS INFORMATION IS SO VALUABLE TO US AS THE CITY.
SO, UM, HOPEFULLY MAYBE A RANKING FINGERS CROSSED, WILL BE DOING THIS AGAIN THIS FALL.
GOOD WITH HOW FAST OUR, OUR POPULATION'S CHANGING.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE ON THE COMMUNITY SURVEY RESULTS, ABBY? NOPE.
UM, SO ITEM 7.3, DISCUSSION OF POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE YOU BELONG IN NEVADA LOCAL.
WE'VE GOT AN A FINALIZED HELPING, MAYBE FINALIZED.
OH, WAS YOU BE FIRST TIME THAT COMMISSIONER RECEIVE THE SEE AT CERTAIN FIRST MEETING.
THIS IS BASED ON NOTES FROM LAST TIME.
THIS IS WHAT WE'VE COME BACK WITH.
THAT'S ACTUALLY NOT THE BEST, UM, COLOR THAT WELL ON THAT, BUT ALL DEEPER.
UM, THIS IS BASED ON THE NOTES FROM LAST TIME WE MADE THE HIPPO A LITTLE DARKER.
UM, WE WENT WITH THE PARENTHESES AND THE BRIGHT ORANGE.
WHAT DOES THE REST OF THE COMMISSION THINK? YEAH.
HAS EVERYONE SEEN THE ONE 50TH LOGO? YEAH.
I WAS JUST SAYING, COMPLIMENTING Y'ALL ON IT FROM THE CRAWFISH.
THIS IS GONNA BE OUR COMMISSIONS LOGO GOING FORWARD ON OUR PAGE, ON OUR BANNER, WHICH THIS IS WHAT WE CAN PUT ON OUR BANNER.
UM, I THINK Y'ALL DID A GREAT JOB.
I THINK IT'S, IT'S CUTE, BUT IT'S ALSO DRIVES THE POINT HOME THAT WE'RE TRYING TO CONVEY.
YEAH, WE ALWAYS GOT, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHOSE IDEA WAS TO INTEGRATE THE HIPAA, BUT I THINK IT'S CUTE BECAUSE HE'S SPEAKING OUT IN THERE.
I THINK IT WAS, UH, COMMISSIONER ZOI.
ANY OTHER THOUGHTS? EVERYBODY HAPPY WITH OUR, WITH OUR LOGO? I KNOW YOU'RE JUST SEEING IT FOR THE FIRST TIME.
IT LIKE, FEELS WELCOMING AND INVITING AND, AND UH, I GUESS THE TERM, LIKE IT FEELS LIKE THERE'S, THERE'S A BIT OF INNOCENCE TO IT.
VERY LIKE IN TOWN, LIKE MM-HMM
THAT'S NOT PROBABLY THE FRIENDLY INVITING, YOU KNOW, IT'S, YOU GO, LIKE I SAID, GIFT SHOP.
LIKE WHEN YOU GO SHOPPING FOR SOMETHING, YOU WANNA SEE SOMETHING FUN LIKE THAT, LIKE ON A T-SHIRT, YOU KNOW? YOU KNOW WHAT IT REMINDS ME OF? 'CAUSE THE WAY, JUST THE WAY HE'S POSITIONED IS WE'RE GETTING WAY TOO DEEP INTO IT, BUT, BUT JUST THE WAY HE'S POSITIONED IT ALMOST LIKE HE JUST POPPED UP AND HE'S THE ONE SAYING THAT YOU CAN, I JUST, THAT'S THE FEELING IN EVOKE.
YOU LIKE IT? YEAH, I REALLY DO.
AND THEN WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT BRANDING AND PUTTING IT ON T-SHIRTS AND STICKERS.
AND DO Y'ALL WANNA DO TO INITIALLY ADOPT IT? YES.
MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE CURRENT AND FINAL ITERATION OF THE YOU BELONG IN HUDDLE LOCAL.
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YOU JUST GET CAUGHT UP IN THE, IN THE MOMENTUM OF THE COMMISSION OF THE GROUP.
WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME REALLY THINKING ABOUT THAT LOGO TOO, SO I'M GLAD WE, WE, YEAH.
WE TALKING ABOUT THE EVEN HOW GRAY OR BLUE THE HIPA WAS.
I MEAN, WE, WE TOOK IT, WE TOOK THE ASSIGNMENT VERY SERIOUSLY.
NOW, UM, WE'RE VERY HAPPY WITH IT.
CAN'T WE JUST SEE IT'LL PUT A COPY BACK IN THE GOOGLE DRIVE.
SO, FOR THE BANNER, DO WE ORDER, Y'ALL JUST GONNA ORDER IT THROUGH THE CITY? 'CAUSE WE ALREADY HAVE A A LINE BUDGET ITEM FOR THAT.
FOR THE BRAND NAME BECAUSE, AND WE HAVE IT IN TIME FOR THE B UH, BATCH.
I'M GUESSING I COULD ORDER IT FOR IT ALL.
WHAT'S THE DATE OF STUFF? I DON'T SEE REASON WHY.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE PROPER, WE'VE NEVER ORDERED ANYTHING FOR THE COMMISSION.
SO I DUNNO WHAT THE PROCESS IS.
UM, BUT IF, IF WE'RE ABLE TO, I THINK IT MAY BE EASIER FOR US TO ORDER IT.
'CAUSE WE HAVE ALL THE, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES I HAVE TO GO BACK AND FORTH WITH THE DESIGNER OF THE LOGO ABOUT, UM, THE THING.
BUT I WILL FIND OUT FOR CHRISTIE.
UH, 'CAUSE WE WANNA REPLACE THE OLD ONE, OLD ONE.
SUNSET AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE, BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA BE THERE, LIKE OUR OLA GROUP, WE'RE GONNA BE THERE AS A COMMISSION.
I, I WOULD LIKE TO INVITE THE WORKING GROUPS TO HAVE REPRESENTATION AS WELL.
PULL IT UP RIGHT NOW WAS COMMUNITY CONNECT.
COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS, RESOURCE FAIR COMBINING WITH THE C WITH THE SUNSET BASH.
PUT 'EM ON YOUR CALENDARS RIGHT NOW.
WHERE ARE YOU? OH, NO, THAT'S AWESOME.
THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE TO TELL IN FLORIDA.
AND IT'S FROM NINE, I MEAN, THERE'S A, THERE'S GONNA BE A HUDDLE ARTS TODAY FROM NINE TO NINE, AND THEN THE BLOCK BASH IS GONNA BE FROM SIX TO NINE.
UM, SO HOPEFULLY EVERYBODY CAN BE THERE.
I MEAN, I'LL BE THERE EITHER WAY AND I WANNA ATTEND THE ARTS THINGS TOO.
BUT REALLY OUR PORTION THERE, THE WAY THAT I'M UNDERSTANDING IT, TO HAVE OUR TABLE AND REPRESENT OUR COMMISSION IS FROM SIX TO NINE, WHICH IS THE SUNSET BLOCK PARTY BASH HOSTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HEATHER PARKS OF FROM SIX TO NINE DURING THE DAY THAT DAY.
THEY'RE GONNA BE DOING THE HUDDLE PARKS TODAY, INAUGURAL HUDDLE MEMORIAL MURAL FEST FROM NINE TO NINE.
UM, AND IT'S GONNA BE IN THE CO-OP.
BUT I AM ASKING Y'ALL TO SEE THOSE CALENDARS SO YOU CAN BE THERE FOR THE SIX TO NINE TIME TO REPRESENT AND TALK TO PEOPLE ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING AS A COMMISSION.
AND THEN HOPEFULLY WE WILL HAVE PARTICIPATION FROM REPRESENTATIVES FROM OUR WORKING GROUPS AND OUR, OUR BANNER AND LOGO WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE IT STAY YOU.
ITEM 7.4, WORK SESSION AND DE TRAINING FOLLOW UP.
SO I THINK YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT WITHSTAND THE WORK SESSION AND THE DE TRAINING FOLLOW UP.
SO STAN WAS HERE LAST MONTH, AND HE DID, UH, UPDATED WORK SESSIONS WITH OUR HUMAN RESOURCES DEPARTMENT ON, UM, HIRING, LIKE DIVERSE HIRING, DIVERSITY AND HIRING.
HE DID ORIENTATION WITH NEW, UM, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
AND WE HAVE THE DI TRAINING FOLLOW UP AND ALSO THE ORIENTATIONS WITH OUR WORKING GROUPS.
ONE DURING THE DAYTIME, IT WAS LIKE TWO TO THREE WITH ALL THE GROUPS AND THEN ONE IN THE EVENING TIME.
AND SO FROM THERE WE WERE ABLE TO LAUNCH OUR SENIOR CITIZEN WORKING GROUP, OUR VETERAN WORKING GROUP, AND SORT OF OUR SMALL BUSINESS WORKING GROUP, BECAUSE RIGHT AFTER THAT, THE PERSON WHO HAS IDENTIFIED TO BE THE LEADER OF THAT GROUP, MR. ATA, THEY WENT OUTTA TOWN.
SO THEY JUST GOT BACK AND HE'S INTERESTED IN SETTING, IN MEETINGS IN, AND THEY'RE ACTUALLY THE OWNERS OF THE ICE CREAM SHOP SHOP WHERE WE HAD OUR SOCIAL.
SO THAT'S WHERE, UM, THEY'RE GONNA INVITE EVERYBODY BACK THERE TO DO A SMALL BUSINESS WORKING GROUP MEETING.
SO MAKE SURE YOU'RE ON THE EMAIL.
I'LL MAKE SURE YOU'RE ON THERE SO THAT YOU, IF YOU CAN, IF YOU CAN COME, COME AND JOIN US AS THE LIAISON.
YEAH, WE JUST, WE HASN'T SET IT, BUT WE WILL ONCE HE, ONCE HE SAYS IT'LL, AND IT'LL BE IN THE AFTERNOON.
I SAID YEAH, TEXT ME OR EMAIL.
I'LL PUT YOU ON THERE ONCE I KNOW.
UM, STAN DID MENTION THAT, UM, HE HAD PROVIDED, AND IT'LL BE IN THE DRIVE, THE FOLLOW UP, ALL THOSE TRAININGS THAT WERE SHARED WITH THE WORKING GROUPS.
UM, SO IF YOU WANTED TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS SHARED OR IF SOMEBODY HAS QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT THE WORKING GROUPS ARE DOING, THAT'S A GREAT RESOURCE TO LOOK AT.
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UM, FIRST HE EXPLAINED WHAT THE PURPOSE OF HAVING DEIP WAS AND KIND OF WHAT SOME OF THE DEFINITIONS, JUST KIND OF SOME BASE SETTING WITH THAT.AND THEN HE WENT INTO ALLOWING THE GROUP MEMBERS TO TALK ABOUT WHAT ARE SOME ITEMS THAT WE WANNA SEE WITHIN OUR GROUP, UM, UH, WITHIN OUR DIFFERENT WORKING GROUPS.
AND THEN THEY HAD TO COME UP WITH IDEAS ABOUT WHAT ARE SOME ITEMS THAT WE WANTED TO DO AS A WORKING GROUP.
AND I, I HAD NOTES AND I DIDN'T BRING THE RIGHT LITTLE BINDER WITH THE REST OF MY NOTES FROM THOSE GROUPS.
BUT, UH, COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON, DID YOU ATTEND ONE OF THE TRAININGS? I KNOW COMMISSIONER FURY DID.
DO YOU ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD FROM THE TRAININGS OR ANY QUESTIONS OR FOLLOW UPS FROM THE COMMISSION? YEAH, SO, UM, THE, ANOTHER ITEM THAT WAS MENTIONED WAS ABOUT OTHER WORK GROUPS THAT WE MIGHT CONSIDER IN THE FUTURE TO HELP.
TO HELP ENGAGE, YOU KNOW, UM, OTHER FOLKS, ESPECIALLY YOUNG PEOPLE LIKE HAVING A YOUTH MM-HMM
WORK GROUP, ESPECIALLY SINCE THEY'RE SO TAPPED INTO THE COMMUNITY AND THE, AND THE NEED AND, AND THE KIND OF, UH, CREATING, UH, LIKE THE NEXT GENERATION OF, YOU KNOW, UH, UH, UH, CIVIL SERVANTS OR SPECIFIC PERSONS.
UM, BUT THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS REALLY GREAT TOO IN FILLING, UM, A NEED THAT COULD BE, UH, OVERLOOKED OR MISIDENTIFIED.
THAT'S WHY I WANNA KNOW THE NEUTRALS.
YOU WANNA KNOW THE ISSUES? YEAH.
SOMETHING THAT I'M INTERESTED IN IS OUTSIDE OF MY, UH, PERSPECTIVE, ATTENDING THE GROUPS, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT MAYBE THOSE OTHER PEOPLE THAT ATTENDED FELT THAT WE MAY STILL HAVE A GAP IN, OR THAT WE MAY WANNA SAY, HEY, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T FEEL WAS FULLY ANSWERED OR THAT WE WANT MORE INFORMATION ON.
IS THERE ANYTHING LIKE THAT? YEAH, I THINK LIKE THE MOST IMPORTANT THING THAT, OR ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS THAT WE COULD DO IS, IS, UH, IS THINK ABOUT THOSE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE LACKING, RIGHT? IT IS LIKE, WE'RE, WE'RE IN THIS, THIS, UH, DAY AND AGE WHERE, UH, WE'RE PAYING MORE FOR THINGS BECAUSE OF, YOU KNOW, OTHER ISSUES GOING ON IN THE WORLD.
AND SO PEOPLE ARE REALLY LIKE LEFT OUT AND, UM, MAY NOT HAVE THE RESOURCES TO, YOU KNOW, EVEN SURVIVE DAY TO DAY OR FEEL LIKE THEY CAN.
RIGHT? SO LIKE, PEOPLE ARE DROWNING AND, UM, WE DON'T HAVE A VERY ACCESSIBLE CITY FOR THINGS, YOU KNOW? AND, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT OUR POSITION COULD BE IN ADDRESSING THAT.
I KNOW ON THE GRAND, ON THE GRAND SCALE, IT'S A, IT'S A SMALL TICKET ITEM, BUT, YOU KNOW, FOR SOME PEOPLE WALKABILITY AND BEING ABLE TO GET AROUND AND HAVING ACCESS TO RESOURCES, UM, OR BEING ABLE TO GET TO THOSE RESOURCES IS SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD BE CONSIDERING.
I THINK TRANSPORTATION COMES UP QUITE A BIT IN A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS.
LET'S SEE, WHAT ARE SOME, I MEAN, WE ALL KNOW THAT IT'S AN ISSUE.
KNOW AS A CITY IS ADDRESSING IT, THEY'RE IMPLEMENTING SUICIDE MONEY FOR REPAVING REPAIRS, SUICIDE OF A REPAIR, IT'S JUST NOT HAPPENING FAST ENOUGH.
WELL, AND THEN WHERE ARE WE PUTTING IT? YOU KNOW, AND, AND WHERE'S THE CONNECTION? BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WE JUST REPLACED A SHIP, A SIDEWALK, YOU KNOW, DOWN FROM HOME DEPOT DOWN BY THE CHURCH WHERE WE JUST VOTED.
UM, IT DOESN'T CONNECT TO A NEIGHBORHOOD MM-HMM
IT LOOKS CLEAN AND NICE, BUT HOW DOES THAT CONNECT TO WHERE PEOPLE WOULD NEED TO WALK FROM THEIR FRONT DOOR TO THE THING, YOU KNOW? YEAH.
SO IT HAS TO DO WITH THE, WITH THE WAY OUR CODE IS WRITTEN RIGHT NOW, BUT WHAT WE REQUIRE DEVELOPERS TO DO, LIKE IF YOU LOOK, GO DOWN, UM, OR GO UP SIX, SIX EACH TOWARDS THE NINTH GRADE CENTER, THERE'S ALL THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS AND THEY'LL HAVE A PIECE OF SIDEWALK THAT GOES TO LIKE, KIDS WALK ON TO SCHOOL AND THEN THERE'S NOTHING.
AND THEY'RE WALKING LITERALLY IN THE DITCHES TO THE NINTH GRADE CENTER.
I'M LIKE, HOW DO WE LET THIS HAPPEN? BUT THAT HAS TO DO WITH OUR, UM, OUR CODE AND HOW WE WORK WITH, UM, DEVELOPERS AND ALSO HOW WE WORK WITH THE COUNTY, UM, WHEN IT'S NOT A CITY ROAD.
SO I DEFINITELY MAKE A NOTE, UM, THAT WE WANNA REVISIT THAT BECAUSE IT ALSO SEEMS TO BLEND IN WITH WHAT MR. NAR WAS TALKING ABOUT, ACCESSIBILITY AND SAFETY.
UM, SO IT'S GOOD TO MAKE CONNECTIONS THAT WE CAN BRING, UH, KIND OF PACKAGE TOGETHER.
SO LET'S PUT IT ON THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM AS REEXAMINING SIDEWALK SAFETY AND COMMUNITY AND CONNECTIVITY.
AND THEN MAYBE SETTING A MEETING WITH, UM, WOULD IT BE PUBLIC WORKS, RIGHT? UM, IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD LIKELY BE OUR, UM, ENGINEERING TEAM OR A REPRESENTATIVE FROM OUR ENGINEERING TEAM.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE A DEDICATED, UM, A DA MM-HMM
UM, LIAISON ON OUR ENGINEERING TEAM.
SO IT WOULD LIKELY BE HER, UM, YEAH, PROBABLY JUST HER.
SHE, UM, I CAN HAVE HER, WE DID JUST ADOPT AN A DA TRANSITION PLAN FOR THE CITY.
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MASTER PLAN OF EVERY ENGINEERING PROJECT THAT WOULD POSSIBLY NEED TO BE DONE TO MAKE THE CITY COMPLETELY A DA ACCESS ACCESSIBLE.SO THAT'S NOT EXACTLY ALL TO DO WITH SIDEWALKS AND CONNECTIVITY, BUT I THINK A LOT OF IT IS.
UM, AND SO MAYBE I CAN HAVE HER GIVE A SHORT PRESENTATION ON WHAT THAT, UM, WHAT THAT PLAN IS AND, YOU KNOW, UM, WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT, WHAT YOU GUYS THINK WE SHOULD ADD TO IT.
DO YOU THINK YOU WOULD WANNA MEET WITH HER AS WELL? AND, AND THEN, AND THEN MAYBE THAT'LL HELP.
SO INSTEAD OF HER COMING AND JUST GIVING US ALL THIS INFORMATION, DO YOU, WOULD YOU WANNA MEET WITH HER AHEAD OF TIME AND JUST KIND OF GUIDE HER ABOUT WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR, WHAT, WHAT OUR DISCUSSIONS HAVE BEEN ABOUT AS WE MOVE TOWARDS LOOKING AT, UM, ALSO, UM, PEOPLE THAT HAVE LIKE NEURODIVERGENT, UM, BARRIER THAT HAVE TO DO WITH THEIR, WITH THEIR NEURODIVERGENCE, UM, PERSPECTIVE, WHAT THOSE BARRIERS LOOK LIKE TO THEM? 'CAUSE THEY DON'T LOOK THE SAME WAY TO US.
SO WE SET A MEETING AND THEN, UM, HAVE HER COME AND THEN DECIDE WHEN THE NEXT THING SHE CAN COME IN, UM, AND, AND DO THAT PRESENTATION.
BUT IT ALREADY HAVE BEEN WITH SOME GUIDANCE FROM THE COMMISSION.
AND THAT CAME FROM, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT GAPS IN THE DEI TRAINING.
UM, LEMME MAKE SURE I'M STAYING ON THE RIGHT.
UM, DID ANYTHING ELSE ON THE WORK SESSION? DEI TRAINING FOLLOW UP ON ITEM 7.4.
SO I, I ATTENDED THE TRAINING, UM, AND IT WAS, UH, THE EVENING TRAINING.
UH, SO IT WAS MYSELF AND COMMISSIONER
UM, YOU WERE A NEW COMMISSION.
AND I'LL SAY THAT FROM A, I THOUGHT THE TRAINING WAS GREAT.
UM, I THINK WHERE THERE WAS PROBABLY A LITTLE FRUSTRATION, I THINK ON STAN'S PART WAS HE EXPECTED MORE PEOPLE TO BE THERE.
UM, WE DIDN'T HAVE AN IDEA LIKE WHO HAD RSP OR WHO WHO WAS ATTENDING.
UM, AND I DON'T KNOW WHO WAS SUPPOSED TO BE THERE WASN'T SUPPOSED TO BE THERE.
UM, BUT WHAT I'LL SAY IS I THINK IT KIND OF, TO ME, IT KIND OF SENDS A MESSAGE IF THERE ARE INDIVIDUALS EITHER WITHIN THE CITY OR, YOU KNOW, WITHIN DIFFERENT COMMISSIONS THAT AREN'T PARTICIPATING, WHEN THOSE OPPORTUNITIES ARE PRESENTED AND THE TRAINING, WE'RE SPENDING MONEY TO HAVE A CONSULTANT DO THESE THINGS.
UM, I THINK IT GIVES, IT SENDS THE MESSAGE THAT IT'S NOT IMPORTANT.
AND, UM, WHEN I LOOKED AT THE SURVEY RESULTS, THERE WAS A QUESTION ON THERE THAT ACTUALLY ASKED HOW THEY FELT ABOUT THE CITY'S EFFORTS TOWARDS DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION.
AND IT'S BEEN DECLINING SINCE THE FIRST SURVEY.
SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE MIGHT FEEL LIKE THE CITY'S GOING ONE WAY OR LIKE HAVE THEIR PERSONAL EXPERIENCES AS FAR AS LIKE WHAT THE CITY'S DOING.
SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE LIKE A LIST OF LIKE, WHO'S COMPLETED THE TRAINING, WHO'S ATTENDED THE TRAININGS.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT FOR THE ONLY PEOPLE IN THAT TRAINING WOULD BE DEIB COMMISSIONERS.
YOU KNOW, NOT TO SAY THAT WE DON'T NEED THE TRAINING 'CAUSE THERE'S ALWAYS STUFF TO LEARN, BUT, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT CULTURAL SHIFT THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR STARTS FROM LEADERSHIP.
SO, UM, I THINK IF THERE'S A WAY THAT WE CAN EITHER KIND OF WORK TO SEE LIKE, WHO DO WE NEED TO HAVE AT THESE THINGS, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT, AGAIN, IT'S A PRIORITY IF IT'S, IF IF IT'S STATED AS A PRIORITY FOR THE CITY, WE SHOULD HAVE, I THINK THE REPRESENTATION THERE.
UM, BUT I ALSO JUST THOUGHT JUST ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE, WE PAID A CONSULTANT TO COME AND DO A PRESENT AND PRETTY MUCH PRESENTED TO AN EMPTY ROOM.
SO DO WE KNOW, I THINK HE DIDN'T MENTION THAT, UM, TO ME.
UM, DO YOU, WAS IT VOLUNTEERS THAT WERE MISSING OR WAS IT STAFF WAS? I DON'T, SO CHRISTIE HAD SAID THAT SHE HAD SENT OUT THE INVITE UHHUH.
UM, SO I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S LIKE AN OPEN INVITE.
SO AGAIN, I DON'T, IF IF I'M OFF BASE AND I'M OFF BASE.
UH, UH, IT, EVERYONE INVITED TO THAT PARTICULAR ORIENTATION OR TRAINING WERE NEW DIV COMMISSION MEMBERS WHO HADN'T BEEN THROUGH THE TRAINING BEFORE.
AND NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO HAD BEEN THROUGH THE TRAINING BEFORE.
WHICH WOULD BE ALL OF OUR CURRENT CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, ASIDE FROM, UM, MAYOR SCHNEIDER AND PETER.
UH, PETER, COUNCIL MEMBER MCC GORDON.
SO THAT'S WHO WAS INVITED, WHO DID, WHO DIDN'T COME.
THEY DIDN'T, DIDN'T COME TO THE TRAINING.
SO, YOU KNOW, SO FOR ME, THAT SENDS, TO ME, THAT'S A LOUD MESSAGE.
SO, UM, IT'S HARD, I THINK TO, TO FEEL AS A COMMISSION THAT YOU HAVE THAT BACKING AND THAT SUPPORT WHEN WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY.
THIS ISN'T LIKE WE DO A TRAINING EVERY WEEK OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO FIGHT HIM OUT.
SO I JUST FEEL LIKE THERE, THAT TYPE OF EFFORT SHOULD BE THERE IF WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THAT FRONT AND CENTER ON THE CITY WEBSITE.
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YOU KNOW, READING PROCLAMATIONS ARE GREAT, WRITING THEM ARE GREAT.BUT I THINK THAT IF WE'RE NOT TAKING THE EFFORT TO ACTUALLY SEE THE TRAINING AND FIND OUT WHERE OUR GAPS ARE AS LEADERS, THEN IT'S, IT'S HARD TO EXPECT ANY TYPE OF MOVEMENT ON ANY OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE WANT TO DO.
WAS THE TRAINING, BECAUSE I REMEMBER IT BEING JUST, JUST IN PERSON, BUT DID STAN SEND OUT AND THEN MAYBE AN, AN OPTION FOR THEM TO BE LIKE A VIRTUAL TRAINING? THAT WAS A VIRTUAL YEAH.
BUT WAS IT VIRTUAL? LIKE IN ASYNCHRONOUS, LIKE, OR SYNCHRONIZED WITH WHAT WAS HAPPENING? LIKE WHAT WE DO HERE AND IT'S BEING RECORDED? OR WAS SOMETHING THEY COULD DO SEPARATELY ON THEIR OWN TIME? WAS IT LIVE? IT WAS, NO, IT WAS LIVE, BUT, BUT I, THEY COULD PARTICIPATE VIRTUALLY IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING.
BUT WHAT I THINK GOING INTO THAT, YEAH, I THINK WE WAITED MAYBE LIKE 15 MINUTES TO NOT EVEN HAVE A SENSE OF LIKE, HEY, SO AND SO ISN'T ATTENDING.
YOU KNOW, FOR ME THAT WAS, I, I THINK I WOULD'VE FELT BETTER IF I WAS LIKE, HEY, SO AND SO CANNOT ATTEND.
DO WE HAVE A, A LINK FOR THOSE WHO CAN'T ATTEND IN PERSON? 'CAUSE I GET IT, WE ALL HAVE LIVES, BUT I FEEL LIKE IF IT'S IMPORTANT TO ME, I WOULD'VE SAID, HEY, I CAN'T BE THERE IN PERSON, BUT IS THERE A LINK? OR I CAN'T BE HERE, SO NOTICE OF R RSVP, WHEN IS THE NEXT TIME THAT YOU'RE GONNA DO THIS? THE STATE DOESN'T WORK FOR ME.
SO THAT'S JUST WHERE I JUST FEEL LIKE THAT, AND I'M NOT SURE IF, UM, CHRISY HAD ANY, I DON'T KNOW.
I'M JUST KIND OF JUST SAYING, I I WAS READING BODY LANGUAGE.
HE SEEMED A LITTLE HAPPY ABOUT IT.
I'LL FOLLOW UP WITH CHRISTINE.
I MEAN, I GUESS KIND OF MAYBE, MAYBE THERE WAS ALSO, 'CAUSE I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T REMEMBER THERE HIM TALKING ABOUT, IT WASN'T A NOTES, BUT THERE WAS LIKE AN OPTION TO DO IT.
BUT MAYBE THERE WAS THAT WE JUST DIDN'T KNOW.
BUT I'LL REMIND HIM THAT WE NEED AN UPDATE.
UM, ANYTHING ELSE ON THE, ON 7.4, WHICH IS WORKS IN D-I-B-D-E-D-E-I TRAINING.
UH, MOVING ON TO ITEM 7.5, DISCUSSION ON THE CITIZEN WORKING GROUPS REGARDING RECRUITMENT PURPOSE, SUPPORT AND TRAINING.
UM, SPECIFICALLY GROUPS NEED DEDICATED MEETING SPACE.
SO WE KIND OF WENT INTO IT, UM, DURING PUBLIC COMMENT AND ALSO WITH COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON'S UPDATE.
UM, SO ESSENTIALLY THE ITEMS, THERE WERE ITEMS LISTED HERE.
SO RECRUITMENT PURPOSE, SUPPORT AND TRAINING ARE THE WAYS THAT US AS LIAISONS CAN HELP, UM, KEEP THE GROUPS GOING, WHICH MELISSA'S DOING A GREAT JOB KEEPING KIND OF KEEPING THEM TETHERED.
UM, RECRUITMENT BEING, HOW DO THE GROUPS INDIVIDUALLY FEEL LIKE THEY CAN REACH THEIR TARGET AUDIENCE? MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE THE LINK STAYS LIVE ON OUR, UM, PAGE.
ALSO, US AS COMMISSIONERS, WE CAN ALWAYS SHARE THROUGH OUR SOCIAL, JUST REMIND PEOPLE.
'CAUSE AS OF RIGHT NOW, IT'S AN OPEN RECRUITMENT ONGOING.
AND SO THE GROUPS MAY DECIDE DIFFERENTLY, BUT WE ALWAYS WANNA BE WELCOMING AND OPEN AND PEOPLE TO JOIN AND SIGN UP FOR ANY OF THE WORKING GROUPS.
THE PURPOSE IS GROUNDED IN MAKING SURE THAT WE ALWAYS HAVE A PLACE FOR MORE VOICES TO BE AT THE TABLE.
LIKE A DEDICATED, ORGANIZED WAY THAT, UM, PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THESE AFFINITY GROUPS HAVE A WAY TO KNOW THAT THERE'S A, THERE'S CONVERSATIONS BEING HAD ABOUT WHAT THEY NEED AND THEIR VOICES ARE BEING CONSIDERED.
UM, THAT'S PART OF THE WORK OF OUR COMMISSION SO THAT WE DON'T END UP IN OUR OWN, YOU KNOW, ECHO CHAMBER.
BUT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AND THE WORKING GROUPS, UM, ARE SELF-GOVERNING.
BUT OF COURSE THAT'S WHAT THE LIAISON'S PURPOSE IS, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE COMMUNICATING BACK AND THAT WE ARE AWARE OF WHERE THE GAPS ARE AND WHERE THE RESOURCES MIGHT MIGHT BE NEEDED.
UM, AND WE WOULD TALK TO QUITE A BIT ABOUT THE TRAINING.
UM, SO I DON'T WANT ABOUT GROUPS AND NEEDING DEDICATED MEETING SPACE.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, UM, BOTH OF THE GROUPS THAT I'VE WORKED WITH, WHICH IS, UM, LIAISON FOR THE SENIOR WORK, SENIOR CITIZEN WORKING GROUP, UM, THE VETERANS GROUP, THE COMMISSIONER, UH, WILLIAMSON'S WORKING WITH, THEY DO WANT TO HAVE A REGULAR DEDICATED MEETING SPACE.
AND I SHARED A LITTLE BIT EARLIER HOW THE SENIOR CITIZEN WORKING GROUP HAS BEEN BOOKING THE LIBRARY, BUT THEY HAD A LITTLE BIT OF A STRUGGLE WITH AVAILABILITY, UM, BECAUSE IT'S A VERY POPULAR SPACE.
AND IT HAS TO DO WITH THE FACT THAT IN HUDDLE IN GENERAL, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF AVAILABLE CONFERENCE MEETING SPACE RIGHT NOW.
THE OTHER SPACE THAT, SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SPACE IS THE STORY EMPORIUM.
IT WASN'T WORK, IT WASN'T GONNA WORK FOR THE SENIOR GROUP BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE AN ELEVATOR.
SO ACCESSIBILITY WAS GONNA BE A PROBLEM FOR SOME OF THEM.
SO WE COULDN'T USE THEIR SPACE.
AND THEN THEIR DOWNSTAIRS SPACE THEY FELT WAS TOO SMALL.
AND THEY WERE, THEY WERE HAPPY TO RECEIVE THAT FEEDBACK AT THE STORY FORUM WHEN I CHATTED WITH THEM.
AND THEY WANNA LOOK AT HOW DO THEY MAKE THEIR SPACE, HOW SHE EVEN SAID WHEN WE OVER SPACE A LITTLE BIT AROUND TO SEE HOW WE CAN BE, UM, OPEN IT UP A LITTLE BIT.
UM, BUT I WANNA TAKE A MOMENT FOR US TO THINK AS A COMMISSION, WHAT CAN WE, WE CAN DO SOME BRAINSTORMING OF IDEAS, RIGHT? UH, WHERE PEOPLE COULD BE MEETING OR, UM, WE CAN SAY, OKAY, DO WE, IS THAT EVEN
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OUR RESPONSIBILITY AS A COMMISSION? RIGHT? I DON'T THINK SO.I THINK WE ASK THE WORK LIKE WHERE THEY FIND THEIR OWN SPACE OR GET SUGGESTED FROM LIKE, HEY, WHERE WOULD YOU ALL LIKE, JUST LISTEN.
NOT, THEY WOULD BE LIKE MEETING AT A RESTAURANT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BUT IT SEEMS LIKE THEY WANT SOMETHING MORE FORMAL.
AT LEAST THE SENIOR CITIZEN GROUP.
IS THAT ONE THAT YOU GOT FROM THE VETERANS GROUP? WE HAVE A COUPLE OF VETERANS HERE.
I FEEL LIKE WE WILL MEET IN THE DIRT IN A DARK ALLEY AT RESTAURANTS OR A POOL HALL.
I, I, I THINK THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, FROM MY EXPERIENCE OF WORKING WITH, WITH VETERANS BEING AROUND MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO WORE THE UNIFORM, UM, WE'RE WILLING TO MAKE IT HAPPEN WHEREVER IT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
IT IS JUST, UM, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOMEONE POINTING US IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION SO THAT, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE UM, WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN PROGRAMMED THAT WAY, YOU KNOW, THAT WE, WE LOOK FOR A LEADER TO TELL US TO DO SOMETHING MM-HMM
UNTIL YOU BECOME THE LEADER THAT HAS TO TELL PEOPLE TO DO SOMETHING.
AND SO, UM, ABSENT THAT DIRECTION, UM, I'VE LEARNED THAT MOST VETERANS WILL SIT AROUND AND WEIGH IN, DO NOTHING BECAUSE THEY'RE AFRAID TO DO THE WRONG THING.
'CAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO GET, BE DISCIPLINED FOR DOING THE WRONG THING, OR THEY'RE UNSURE OF THEMSELVES BECAUSE SOMEONE HAS PIECEMEALED IT TOGETHER FOR THEM.
SO I THINK ESPECIALLY WITH VETERANS, IT'S IMPORTANT TO, AS WE SAID, BE THE TIP OF THE SPEAR AND LEAD FROM THE FRONT, AT LEAST IN PROVIDING THAT INITIAL GUIDANCE.
AND THEN, UH, DOING THE, WHAT WE CALL THE CHANGEOVER.
IT'S LIKE, HEY, THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO.
I'M GONNA SHOW YOU STEP BY STEP, CHECK, CHECK.
AND THEN PROVIDE THAT SENSE OF OWNERSHIP.
SO THEN THEY FEEL LIKE THEY HAVE A SENSE OF BELONGING AND THEN THEY CAN TAKE THE REINS AND PASS IT ON TO THE NEXT.
THAT, THAT'S WHAT I WANT TO DO FOR THE FIRST MEETING, IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY KNOW THAT, HEY, THIS IS Y'ALL GROUP.
Y'ALL
AND I MEAN THAT, I ONLY WANNA DO, UH, TRY TO GET THIS SPACE FOR THE LIBRARY FOR THAT VERY FIRST MEETING.
THEY CAN HAVE A MEETING, BUT LET THEM KNOW, HEY, YOU'RE GOING TO TAKE IT FROM HERE AND IT, THIS IS Y'ALL GROUP.
SO I'M JUST HERE TO FACILITATE THE FIRST AND THEN I'M HANDS OFF AND JUST, I'M HERE FOR QUESTIONING AND GUIDANCE IN THE BACKGROUND.
SO DO WE NOT HAVE, LIKE, I KNOW THAT ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE THERE'S THE, UM, THE RENTAL, LIKE IF YOU HAVE LIKE TO MAKE A RENTAL OR MM-HMM
OR RESERVE A ROOM, OR NOT A RESERVE A ROOM, BUT I, THE, THE RENTALS ARE PAID, RIGHT? DO WE, DO WE HAVE A LIST OF, YOU KNOW, FREE PLACES WITHIN THE CITY THAT YOU CAN MEET THAT WE PARTNER WITH? OR, YOU KNOW, LIKE LIBRARY COULD BE ONE WHERE IF YOU WANNA RESERVE ONE OF THE ROOMS IN THE LIBRARY, THAT'S NOT DIFFICULT TO DO.
AND THEN PART OF THAT KIND OF EACH ONE TEACH ONE, WE KIND OF SHOW THEM, HEY, THESE ARE THE PLACES YOU CAN MEET FOR FREE AND THIS IS HOW YOU GET THERE AND LET THEM TAKE OVER.
AS OPPOSED TO ALWAYS HAVING TO TAKE THE LEAD AND DO IT FOR EACH OF THESE GROUPS OR ANY OF THESE GROUPS.
I JUST DON'T WANNA, I DON'T WANNA PUSH THEM TOWARDS ANYTHING THAT REQUIRES THEM TO SPEND MONEY.
VER AND I ALSO THINK IT WOULD BE A NICE LOOK TO JUST HAVE THEM ACTUALLY USING CITY RESOURCES IF THEY'RE THERE.
SO YOU MEAN AS FAR AS CITY FACILITIES? YEAH.
OR, OR JUST LOCAL, LOCAL PLACES THAT ALLOW FOR GROUP.
I, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HAVE COLLECTED, YOU KNOW, A LIST OF ALL POSSIBLE MEETING SPACES AS FAR AS CITY FACILITIES.
THE, THE FREE ONES WILL BE THE LIBRARY AND POSSIBLY THE COUNCIL CHAMBER.
UM, BUT YES, AS FAR AS LIKE THE, UM, OF COURSE YOU COULD ALWAYS MEET IN A PARK, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, UH, AS FAR AS THE PARK PAVILIONS, THOSE ARE PAID TO RENT AS A DEDICATED SPACE.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T, WE CAN'T JUST GO TO IT AND MEET THERE.
BUT IT'S JUST, YOU CAN'T TAKE OTHER PEOPLE OUT, YOU KNOW? SO WHAT I WOULD DO IS WE GOING HANDLE THE FIRST MEETING, THEN I WOULD TASK THEM.
AND YOU'D BE SURPRISED IF YOU JUST LISTEN, BE LIKE, HEY, THEY MIGHT KNOW SPACE.
AS LONG AS THEY, THAT'S A GOOD, AS LONG AS THEY MEET, THEN THEY REALIZE, THEY MIGHT REALIZE THEY HAVE MORE IDEAS AND RESOURCES WITHIN THE GROUP THAT THEY HAD THOUGHT OF.
I CAN TELL YOU WE RAN THROUGH SOME ON THE SENIOR, SENIOR WORK, WORK, WORK GROUP, AND THEY OF COURSE AT THE LIBRARY, UM, THEY TALKED ABOUT POSSIBLY MEETING AT SOME RESTAURANTS.
THEY ALSO SAID THEY WANTED TO MEET AT STUFFY SO THEY COULD PLAY POOL AND HAVE A SAY, WHY NOT YOU GUYS ARE ADULTS.
I'M LIKE, THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT IS THAT THEY CAN MEET THERE, THEY CAN STILL CONDUCT BUSINESS AND THEY CAN ALSO HAVE SOCIAL TIME.
UM, THEY TALKED ABOUT THE MEETING SPACE AT THE YMCA, UH, WHERE RIGHT NOW THEY'RE HAVING LIKE THE SILVER SNEAKERS CLASSES.
A COUPLE OF THEM WERE PARTICIPANTS IN THAT.
SO, BUT IT'S HARD, AGAIN, BECAUSE IT'S SO LIMITED, I HAD SUGGESTED TO THEM GOING TO THE COLLEGE CAMPUS AT U CHECK BECAUSE THAT ONLY WORKED REALLY DURING THE SUMMER BECAUSE DURING THE
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SUMMERTIME THERE'S NO CLASSES, THERE'S VERY LIMITED CLASSES.SO CLASSROOMS BECOME AVAILABLE AND THEY GENERALLY DON'T CHARGE, UM, TO USE A SMALL CLASSROOM SPACE ON CAMPUS.
UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THEY'RE GONNA BE, UM, LOOKING INTO.
I HELP THEM 'CAUSE I USED TO WORK AT THAT CAMPUS.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE RESTAURANTS, SO THEY CAN ALWAYS MEET.
ANY GROUP CAN MEET AND GATHER AT A RESTAURANT.
BUT TWO, I FOUND OUT IN ORDER TO RESERVE, LIKE ONE OF THE RESTAURANT MEETING SPACES, THERE'S A, THERE'S A FEE TO PROVIDE FOOD FOR THAT SPACE.
SO THAT'S, THAT COMES WITH IT.
SO, UM, BUT THEY CAN ALWAYS MEET LIKE IN THE PATIO.
RIGHT? UM, SO THERE ARE SOME OF THE IDEAS THAT WE CAN TAKE BACK TO OUR RESPECTIVE GROUPS, UM, TO HELP THEM FIGURE OUT, OKAY, THIS IS WHERE WE COULD, AND THEN YES, TO YOUR POINT, UH, JAVI THAT THEY CAN FIGURE OUT, OKAY, WHERE DID THEY REALLY FEEL THE MOST COMFORTABLE? WHERE IS IT THAT MO THE MAJORITY OF THEM HAVE EASY ACCESS TO THE OPTION, PUT IT TO A VOTE.
IT IS SIX PEOPLE THERE AND FOUR SAY HERE, AND THE OTHER TWO SAY NO.
THEN WE'RE GOING WITH THE FOUR.
WE'RE GOING WITH THE FOUR MAJORITY RULE.
ANY OTHER, UM, SO THOSE ARE THE MAIN THINGS THAT I WANTED TO BRING TO THE COMMISSION IS THAT THAT IS BECAUSE IT, IT SEEMS LIKE SUCH A, UM, SIMPLE THING, BUT THAT CAN EASILY DISSOLVE THE WHOLE EFFORT IF THEY JUST CANNOT EVEN FIND A SPACE TO MEET AND THEN IT JUST FALLS APART.
AND IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE SURE THAT THE GROUPS DON'T FALL APART, EVEN THOUGH IT'S NOT, IT'S, WE'RE NOT RUNNING OR MANAGING THE GROUPS.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE, THAT WAS A BIG PART OF OUR INITIATIVE.
AND, UM, OUR STRATEGIC PLAN IS TO GET THESE GROUPS UP AND GOING AND GET THEM GOING, AND THEN LOOK AT ADDING ADDITIONAL VOICES AT THE TABLE TO THE LISTENING POSTS.
AND I DON'T WANT TO DELVE INTO FORMING LISTENING POSTS UNTIL I FEEL LIKE THE, THE WORKING GROUPS ARE IN A HEALTHY SPACE.
WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK? YEAH, I AGREE.
WHERE CAN YOU SIT AND BE A VOICE IF YOU DON'T HAVE A PLACE TO SIT AND BE A VOICE? RIGHT? YEAH.
BECAUSE THE LISTENING POSTS ARE VERY SIMILAR BUT LESS FORMAL.
'CAUSE WE COULD START MEETING WITH, LET'S SAY A ROTARY CLUB IS A GOOD EXAMPLE.
THEY HAVE THE
BUT THEN WE HAVE THE RESPONSIBILITY TO TAKE WHAT THEY'RE GIVING US AND TO POSSIBLY DO SOME KIND OF ACTION AROUND IT.
AND THEN WE WOULD THEN BE DEALING, THIS IS HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT RIGHT NOW.
WE WOULD THEN HAVE THAT ON A PLATE.
WE HAVEN'T COMPLETELY GOTTEN OUR WORKING GROUPS TO A GOOD SOLID FOUNDATION WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL, WHERE THEY'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO THRIVE.
UM, AT LEAST THAT'S HOW I FEEL ABOUT IT.
UM, WHAT DO, WHAT DO Y'ALL, DO Y'ALL AGREE WITH THAT? DO WE DISAGREE? DO WE FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT? UM, SO, WE'LL, SO THE FOLLOW UP ITEM FOR THAT IS I'M GOING TO, I'M GONNA CHECK IN WITH MY SENIOR CITIZEN WORKING GROUP.
THEY'RE HAVING A MEETING COMING UP IN MAY.
AND, UM, I'M GONNA SEE WHERE THEY'RE AT.
CHECK IN ON THEIR MEETING SPACES.
COMMISSIONER WILSON'S ALREADY WORKING ON THE MEETING SPACE FOR THE VETERANS GROUP.
AND AS FAR AS I'VE BEEN TOLD, AS A MEMBER OF THE SMALL BUSINESS GROUP, THEY'RE GONNA BE SITTING IN A MEETING AT THE ICE GROUP SHOP.
UM, BECAUSE THE OWNER WANTS TO BE SO FAR, HE SAID HE WANTS TO BE THE LEADER, THEN HE'S LIKE, IF IT'S TOO MUCH, I'M NOT GONNA DO IT.
YEAH, HE'S BEEN, HE'S BEEN PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT IT.
HE WAS VOLUNTOLD, BUT I THINK HE'S, I THINK HE'S GAME
UM, ALL RIGHT, SO THAT'S IT FOR 7.5 UNLESS ANYBODY HAS ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR NEEDS CLARIFICATION.
ITEM 7.6, DISCUSSION AND POSSIBLE ACTION.
UH, PROCLAMATION, SPONSORSHIPS.
SO WHEN WE HAD, UM, PUBLIC COMMENT, WE TALKED ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF, UM, OR THE ELECTED THAT WE WOULD BE LOOKING AT DOING.
WERE DIVERGENT POPULATIONS PROCLAMATION.
UM, I WISH WE'D HAD THAT LIST THAT, UM, WE NEED TO ASK CHRISTIE.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DID WITH IT.
SHE GAVE US COPIES TOO, AND I HATE THAT I DON'T HAVE IT.
UM, WAS IT NOT JUST, WAS IT NOT A WEBSITE? I THINK IT WAS A WEBSITE.
I WOULD HAVE TO LOOK THROUGH, UM, EMAILS HE GAVE US LIKE A PRINTOUT OF THE ONES THAT WE HAD DONE IN THE PAST.
AND WE WERE ABLE TO SEE DO WE WANNA DO THIS AGAIN OR DO WE WANNA DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT? UM, UM, FROM THE LAST MEETING WE TALKED ABOUT, YEAH, APRIL IS AUTISM ACCEPTANCE MONTH.
IT'S, UH, MOVING BE, UH, BEYOND AWARENESS TO FOSTER INCLUSION, DIGNITY AND SUPPORT FOR NEWER DIVERGENT RESIDENTS.
THESE PROCLAMATIONS EMPHASIZE RECOGNIZING UNIQUE TALENTS, IMPLEMENTING ACCESSIBLE PUBLIC SPACES AND FOSTERING WELCOMING COMMUNITIES.
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THAT IS, UM, I MEAN WE'RE NOT GONNA MAKE FOR APRIL 'CAUSE THAT IS THE AUTISM ACCEPTANCE MONTH.SO MAYBE WE DO THAT IN CONJUNCTION AFTER THE P AND Z MEETING IN JUNE WITH WHAT, UM, MR. ARD IS WANTING TO DO.
SO YOU COULD DO NEURODIVERGENCE AS OF JUNE, AWARENESS FOR JUNE.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ACTUALLY AN AWARENESS MONTH, BUT WE'LL SEE.
WHAT DO WE HAVE ALREADY? THE 21ST? GOD, THIS MONTH IS JUST FLYING BY THE, THE NEXT MEETING.
WE DIDN'T MISS THE WINDOW, DID WE? UM, NO.
YEAH, WE DID THE 23RD, RIGHT? FOR MAY.
MEETING MEETINGS IN APRIL WE'RE DONE.
SO FOR MAY, RIGHT NOW I HAVE TEACHER APPRECIATION WEEK SPONSORED BY COMMISSIONER HOLSWORTH.
AND THEN I HAVE OLDER AMERICANS MONTH IN MAY SPONSORED BY.
SO WE NEED TO FIGURE OUT, DO WE WANNA CHANGE THAT? I MEAN, MAY IS ALSO RECOGNIZES MENTAL HEALTH MONTH, WHICH FREQUENTLY COVERS NEURODIVERGENT EXPERIENCES INCLUDING A DHD AUTISM AND ACQUIRE NEURODIVERGENT DIVERGENCE MENTAL HEALTH MONTH.
DO WE FEEL, UM, DO WE WANNA, BECAUSE WE DON'T, WE NOT ALL OF NOT EVERYTHING'S GONNA GET APPROVED FOR TIME.
SO DO WE WANT TO PIVOT TO MAY'S PROCLAMATION IN ADDITION TO TEACHER APPRECIATION BEING, UM, MENTAL HEALTH MONTH AS A PROCLAMATION, AS A CITY? WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK? I THINK IT'S SUPER IMPORTANT.
IT'S DEFINITELY REALLY IMPORTANT.
I MEAN, YEAH, IT AFFECTS EVERYONE, ALL WALKS OF LIFE ALL BACK OR BACK INTO SOME WORK ON IT.
I THINK IT'LL, IT'LL SEGUE PROPERLY INTO OUR NEXT TASKS.
I THINK IT'S A, I THINK IT'D BE A
SO I WAS GONNA DO THE SENIOR CITIZEN ONE, BUT I CAN, I CAN SPONSOR THIS ONE UNLESS COMMISSIONER BRODY WANTS TO SPONSOR IT FOR, UM, MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS MONTH FOR MAY.
WOULD THAT NEED TO BE IN BRIAN THE DUE DATE? UM, TO BE ON THE FIRST AGENDA IN MAY? UM, NEXT WEEK? IT'D BE NEXT WEEK.
DID YOU WANNA SPONSOR IT? YEAH, I, I CAN DO THAT.
HEY, YOU'RE GETTING A LOT OF WORK IN THIS MEETING
SO MAY AND THEN WE'VE GOT COMMISSIONER HOLLINGSWORTH SEND HIM A MESSAGE AND REMIND HIM HE IS ALREADY SUBMITTED.
OH, HE DID ALREADY APPRECIATION.
SO THAT MIGHT BE GOOD ONE THAT GETS READ, BUT WE STILL WANT TO SUBMIT THE ONE FOR, FOR MENTAL HEALTH AWARENESS.
IT'S NOT REALLY, WHICH MIGHT BE THE ONLY ONE TO GET READ.
SO ONE, THE ONE FOR TEACHER APPRECIATION HAS ALREADY BEEN APPROVED.
SO THEN MAYBE THE ONE THAT GETS READ JUST FOR TIME SOMETIMES BETTER BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE TIME FOR COMMISSION DEPENDING FRIDAY, THE WHAT, SORRY FOR TEACHER APPRECIATION HAD ALREADY BEEN SUBMITTED BY COMMISSIONER HOLLINSWORTH AND THE MAYOR'S ALREADY APPROVED IT.
LIKE WHEN YOU SAY HE'S APPROVED, IS HE'S APPROVED THAT HE'S GONNA READ THAT ONE OR HE'S JUST ALREADY APPROVED IT AND SIGNED IT AS PROCLAMATION.
SO THAT MEANS THAT HE IS APPROVING THAT HE WILL READ THAT ONE ACTIVELY AT THE NEXT MEETING.
BUT YOU SAY WE HAVE UNTIL NEXT FRIDAY TO SUBMIT.
SO IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT HE WON'T, BUT DEPENDING ON WHAT'S ON THE AGENDA FOR THE UPCOMING MEETING, YOU KNOW, HE HAD TOLD THAT HE CAN'T READ EVERY SINGLE ONE AND WE'RE, HE'LL READ MENTAL HEALTH PRETTY MUCH
AND WE'RE THE ONLY ONE, WE'RE NOT THE ONLY, UH, GROUP THAT CAN SUBMIT CONFIRMATION THAT ANY GROUP IN THE CITY CAN SUBMIT A PROCLAMATION.
SO FOR SOME, WE'VE BEEN DOING THEM AT FIVE 30.
SO PRE-MEETING BEFORE, UH, BEFORE THE ACTION SESSIONS.
SO HE, HE'LL APPROVE A COUPLE TO READ DURING THE, ONCE THE ACTUAL MEETING'S GOING AND THEN THE REST WHO HE WILL READ AT FIVE 30 BEFORE THE MEETING.
AND THAT'S RECORDED AND ALL THAT JAZZ.
AND THEN 7.7 OPEN DISCUSSION ITEMS FOR THE NEXT MEETING ON MAY 19TH.
A COUPLE THINGS WE'VE ALREADY ADDED.
SO I'VE GOT DISCUSSION ON PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN REGARDING NEURODIVERGENCE, UM, DISCUSSION ON THE COMMISSION'S, PARTICIPATION IN THE SUNSET BASH AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE FAIR AND
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THE ONE 50 CELEBRATION.UM, AND THEN I'VE GOT REEXAMINING SIDEWALK SAFETY AND CONNECTIVITY.
UM, THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR ACTUAL ITEMS. OH.
UM, THE BREAKDOWN OF THE DATA.
SO THOSE FOR MY, UH, MY, OH MY TASKS, I'VE GOT TO BRING BACK THE DIB QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMUNITY SURVEYS LICED BY DEMOGRAPHIC.
UM, GET CLARITY ON WHETHER MY STAFF IS TO ORDER THE BANNER OR IF THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE BY THE COMMISSION.
UM, AND THEN SET A MEETING BETWEEN MARISSA MONTOYA, OUR 88, UM, COMPLIANCE ENGINEER WITH COMMISSIONER
UM, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, PREPARE HER TO COME FOR A MEETING ON THE AA TRANSITION PLAN.
UM, THERE WAS ONE THAT ITEM OH, ALWAYS ADD IN.
'CAUSE WE HAVE THE STANDING ITEM OF THE BUDGET REVIEW.
AND WE WANNA ALSO ALWAYS TALK, ALWAYS HAVE A TIME BUILT IN TO CHECK IN ON OUR WORKING GROUPS.
UM, OH, AND ONE OTHER ITEM, I DON'T WHERE IT WOULD BE PARKED UNDER, BUT FOLLOWING UP, REPORTING BACK ON WHAT WE FIND OUT ABOUT THE AVAILABILITY OF THE TRAINING FOR THE OTHER, THE PEOPLE THAT WERE NOT ABLE OR DIDN'T ATTEND THE LAST TRAINING FOR DIB GETTING CLARIFICATION.
AND MAYBE IT'S JUST A SENSE OF HOW WE ANNOUNCE IT WHEN WE ANNOUNCE IT, WHEN YOU KNOW HOW IT'S BEING SCHEDULED.
MAYBE IT'S JUST A COMMUNICATION BREAKDOWN MM-HMM
BUT EVERYBODY, THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT.
UM, AND THEN MAYBE WE ALSO WANNA EXAMINE THE VALUE OF IT.
IT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WASN'T, WHEN IT WAS COMMUNICATED, PEOPLE DIDN'T FEEL LIKE THEY UNDERSTOOD THE VALUE OF IT OR SOMETHING.
SO I ALWAYS WANNA DIVE A LITTLE BIT DEEPER.
ANYTHING THAT THE REST OF THE COMMISSIONERS WANNA INCLUDE, FOLLOW UP? DOES EVERYONE UNDERSTAND, I KNOW YOU'RE IN NEWS, WE'RE NOT GONNA GIVE YOU ANY JOBS RIGHT NOW, BUT, UM, ANY, UM, ITEMS THAT WE ARE GONNA BE LOOKING AT OR WORKING ON BETWEEN NOW AND OUR NEXT MEETING? GOOD.
IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE, THAT CONCLUDES ALL OF OUR AGENDA ITEMS. AND WE CAN GO AHEAD AND ADJOURN OUR MEETING AT 7:49 PM.