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[Diversity and Inclusion Meeting on June 16, 2026.]
AND LET'S MOVE ON TO, UH, 7.3 DISCUSSION, POSSIBLE ACTION ON PROPOSED REALLOCATION OF BUDGET TO INCLUDE PROPOSAL FROM TOTAL ENGAGEMENT CONSULTING BY, IS IT KIND OF KIM OR KIM KIMER? OKAY.AND ACTUALLY I HAVE A, I HAVE A PRESENTATION THAT DOES SEVEN THREE AND SEVEN FOUR TOGETHER.
WOULD I BE ABLE TO, UH, BRING THAT UP AND DISPLAY THAT? YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO, LEMME MAKE, LEMME SEE.
SO YOU'RE SEEING IT THERE? YES, SIR.
AND HOPEFULLY, IF, IF, DOES IT ADVANCE WHEN I ADVANCE? YES.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHAT I HAVE IS THE, I WANNA SHOW YOU THE ORIGINAL BUDGET, UH, FOR 20 25, 20 26 YEAR, UH, AND THEN, UH, WHAT I'M PROPOSING TO FINISH OUT THE YEAR, UH, BECAUSE BASICALLY I GUESS THE FISCAL YEAR ENDS, UH, IN SEPTEMBER.
UH, AND THEN WHAT I WANNA DO IS DISCUSS, UH, THE REVISED HATO STRATEGIC PLAN, AND THEN KIND OF SHARE SHOW, UH, AND START THE DISCUSSION BY LOOKING AT WHAT WE PUT TOGETHER FOR THE DEIB STRATEGIC PLAN LAST YEAR, AND THE ACTION ITEMS THAT WE PUT IN.
AND I WANNA KIND OF GO THROUGH THOSE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, THESE THINGS WE'VE DONE, THESE THINGS ARE ON HOLD, THESE THINGS ARE IN PROCESS, AND THEN WE CAN USE THIS AS A STARTING POINT FOR DEVELOPING A PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 20 26, 20 27.
SO, WHAT I WANNA DO IS KIND OF GIVE YOU THE INFORMATION TO START THE DISCUSSION, AND THEN HOPEFULLY GET THIS FINISHED IN THE JULY MEETING AND BRING FORWARD A BUDGET REQUEST.
SO, UH, BASICALLY WHAT WE, UH, SET ASIDE FOR THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR, UH, WAS, YOU KNOW, GENERAL CONSULTING, UH, IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, BEING ON CALL TO ANSWER QUESTIONS, PROVIDE RESOURCES, HELP WITH THE PLAN.
UH, AND THEN I WAS GONNA HAVE TRAVEL EXPENSES FOR UP TO THREE TRIPS.
UH, I DID AN, I CREATED AN, AN UPDATED THREE HOUR DIB INTRODUCTION TRAINING FOR THE NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE NEW DEIB COMMISSION MEMBERS.
SO THAT WAS IN, UH, THOSE AMOUNTS ON THAT FIRST COLUMN.
UH, I ACTUALLY THEN ALSO CREATE A TRAINING, UH, FOR THE THREE WORKING GROUPS AND A PROPOSAL FOR FORMING, UH, DEIB AMBASSADORS, WHICH IS ANOTHER WAY OF GETTING PEOPLE ENGAGED WITH THE DEIB WORK, UH, CREATING A LISTENING POST SCRIPT.
UH, 'CAUSE THE IDEA IS TO USE THE WORKING GROUPS AND ALSO THE DEIB COMMISSION IN GENERAL, JUST TO HAVE SOME LISTENING POSTS TO GET, UH, UH, INPUT AND THOUGHTS FROM CITY CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS.
SO I CREATE A SCRIPT ON HOW TO RUN AND DOCUMENT THE LISTENING POSTS.
UH, THEN, UH, I'M RIGHT NOW IN THE MIDDLE OF DELIVERING 3, 4, 1 HOUR IN-DEPTH DEIB TRAINING SESSIONS FOR ALL EMPLOYEES AND MANAGERS.
IN FACT, WE'RE NOW IN THE MIDDLE OF DOING THE SECOND ONE.
THEY'RE GOING VERY WELL, AND WE'RE GETTING VERY GOOD FEEDBACK ON THOSE.
UH, THE, AND THEN THAT WAS THE MONEY THAT BASICALLY WAS EARMARKED FOR THINGS THAT I'M DOING.
AND THEN WE JUST SET ASIDE $1,500 THAT TO START INITIAL WORK AT LOOKING AT, DO WE NEED A RESOURCE GUIDE, UH, IN TERMS OF, UH, WELL, A CONSOLIDATED PLACE FOR ALL THE CITY, UH, RESOURCES FOR EVERYBODY.
AND THEN JUST FOR THE, YOU BELONG IN HU CAMPAIGN, $1,500 FOR BANNERS, POSTERS, AND GIVEAWAYS, AND 5.4.
AND 5.5 IS NOT MONEY THAT WOULD BE COMING TO ME AND NOT WORK THAT I'M DOING.
AND SO WHAT I'M GONNA DO IS I'M GONNA PROPOSE VERBALLY AND THEN SHOW YOU HOW THE FINANCES WORK OUT.
UH, YOU KNOW, I CAN, IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, CONTINUING TO WORK APRIL THROUGH JULY, AND I DID SOME OF THIS IN APRIL AND MAY WITH CORINA, UH, IS PROVIDING INFORMATION ON NEURODIVERSITY AND NOW HELPING YOU GET READY FOR THE 26TH 2027 PLAN.
AND I WAS GONNA PROPOSE, UH, COMING TO HUDA THE WEEK OF JULY 21ST THROUGH THE 24TH, SO I CAN HAVE AN IN-DEPTH WORKING SESSION AT THAT DEIB COMMISSION MEETING TO SPECIFICALLY WORK ON THE PLAN AND THE BUDGET.
UH, I WILL SCHEDULE AGAIN, THE THREE HOUR DEIB TRAINING FOR THE NEW CITY COUNCIL AND NEW DEIB COMMISSION MEMBERS.
AND KARINA WILL HELP, UM, CORRAL THE, UH, NEW, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
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BECAUSE TWO PEOPLE HAD SIGNED UP TO COME AND THEY DIDN'T SHOW UP.SO WE HAD NO NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS WHEN I DID THIS BACK IN THE LATE WINTER.
SO I CAN COME AND DO THE TRAINING AGAIN AND MAKE SURE WE GET LAST YEAR'S ELECTED AND THIS YEAR'S ELECTED CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS THERE.
'CAUSE IT'S VERY GOOD TO HAVE THIS BASE EDUCATION ON DEIB.
UH, I WOULD LEAD ONE LISTENING POST WITH CITY OF HU RESIDENTS SO THAT PEOPLE CAN SEE HOW THESE THINGS ARE RUN AND HOW THEY'RE DONE.
AND KIND OF, YOU KNOW, THAT WAY OTHER, YOU CAN, YOU CAN DO MORE OF THESE ONCE I LEAVE.
AND THEN I COULD DO ONE-ON-ONE CONSULTATIVE SESSIONS WITH THE THREE EXISTING WORKING GROUP LEADERS IF REQUESTED, IF NEEDED.
UH, BECAUSE, UH, AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR, WE ESTABLISH THE VETERANS, THE SMALL BUSINESS AND THE SENIOR CITIZENS, THREE WORKING GROUPS.
AND, UH, I WAS GONNA PROPOSE DOING ALL THIS WORK.
AND, UH, IT WOULD, I WOULD, AND ALSO I WOULD NEED TO MOVE A THOUSAND DOLLARS FROM THE RESOURCE GUIDE YOU BELONG IN HUDDLE LINE ITEMS, WHICH VERY LITTLE MONEY OF THAT HAS BEEN SPENT.
SO THIS IS WHAT WOULD BE, UH, THE, THE BUDGET ADJUSTMENT AND THE REST OF THE FISCAL YEAR WOULD BE THAT, UH, I WOULD CON, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE TO DO MY GENERAL CONSULTING AND HELP PUTTING TOGETHER THE NEXT YEAR PLAN AND THEN TRAVEL EXPENSES, UH, NOT TO EXCEED $1,400.
UH, I AM CURRENTLY DOING THE, THE, THE TRAINING OF THE CITY COUNCIL SO THAT I, OF THE CITY EMPLOYEES THAT'S CURRENTLY IN PROCESS.
UH, AND THEN, UH, TO, TO PAY FOR DOING THE APRIL THROUGH JULY WORK.
IT'D BE A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN, IT'D BE A THOUSAND DOLLARS OVER THE, THE 2200 AND 1400.
SO, YOU KNOW, THE TOTAL CONSULTANT WORK THROUGH MARCH IS 57 50 AND PROPOSING 4,600, UH, FOR THE TRIP IN JULY.
AND, UH, THE $4,500 FOR THE TRAINING OF ALL THE EMPLOYEES WILL BE BILLED FAIRLY SOON.
SO ANY, UH, SO THIS COULD BE A GOOD TIME TO DISCUSS, YOU KNOW, IS THIS A REASONABLE PLAN, UH, FOR EXPENDITURE FOR THE REST OF THIS FISCAL YEAR, AND SHOULD WE MAKE PLANS ON GOING AHEAD AND, AND GOING AHEAD AND DOING THIS NEXT MONTH.
ANY THOUGHTS? YEAH, I GOT SOME THOUGHTS.
SO, UH, DURING THE LAST MEETING, WE SPOKE ABOUT THE, UH, FISCAL YEAR, UH, 27 BUDGET.
AND I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY HE, HERE WE ARE.
AND DURING THAT WE SPOKE ABOUT, UH, THE TRAINING FOR THE NEW CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT THAT WOULD BE ACCESSIBLE VIA LIKE A VIDEO OR SOMETHING FOR ANY COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO MAY NOT HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO COME IN, IN PERSON DUE TO SCHEDULING CONFLICT.
SO MY FIRST QUESTION IS, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT'S AVAILABLE TO COUNCIL MEMBERS AND, AND NEW, UH, COMMISSIONERS WHO ARE, WHO CAN'T MAKE IT IN, IN PERSON TO YOUR TRAINING? GOOD.
I'LL ACTUALLY, I'LL ACTUALLY CAN ASK ABBY THAT QUESTION BECAUSE IF I COME IN JULY AND DO THIS, I AM PERFECTLY WILLING TO HAVE YOU RECORD IT, UH, TO, TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE, UH, FOR, AND ACTUALLY BECAUSE IT IS SOMETHING THAT IS, YOU KNOW, THERE'D BE MORE LIKE, THERE COULD BE A QUORUM OF CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS OR NEW DEIB COMMISSION MEMBERS THERE.
I THINK IT HAS TO BE MADE PUBLICLY AVAILABLE ANYWAY, SO I'D BE PERFECTLY FINE WITH Y'ALL RECORDING THE JULY TRAINING SESSION AND THEN, YOU KNOW, USING IT AS OFTEN AS YOU WANT WITHIN THE CITY OF HURO.
AND THEN, UH, THE OTHER, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UH, DURING THE LAST MEETING ON THE LISTENING POST TRAINING AND, UM, CHAIR, WHERE, WHERE DID WE END UP ON DECIDING IF WE WERE GONNA GO AHEAD WITH THAT, OR WE, WE WERE HOLDING OFF ON THAT UNTIL WE GOT ALL OF THE WORK GROUPS STOOD UP PROPERLY.
I THINK WE WANTED TO HOLD OFF ON THE LISTENING POST.
UM, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, I GUESS ANYBODY, I BELIEVE THAT'S WHAT I REMEMBER.
SO MAKE SURE WE HAD, WE HAD DECIDED TO FOCUS ON GETTING THE WORKING GROUPS UP AND RUNNING UP AND RUNNING, RUNNING SUSTAINABLE.
I CONSIDER THAT FOR LIKE YOUR PHASE TWO.
BUT WHAT I COULD DO WITH THIS LISTENING POST, SINCE I'M THERE, YOU KNOW, YOU WANT TO USE, IF I COME ON A TRIP, YOU'D WANNA USE AS MANY HOURS WITH ME AS YOU CAN AND KEEP ME SUPER BUSY.
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COULD JUST SCHEDULE A GENERAL LISTENING POST FOR ANYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY, NOT TIE IT TO ANY OF THE THREE WORKING GROUPS.AND THEN THE WORKING GROUP LEADERS CAN ACTUALLY JUST ATTEND AND LISTEN AND SEE HOW IT'S RUN.
UH, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, ONCE THEY SEE HOW IT'S DONE, YOU KNOW, IT'LL EQUIP THEM BETTER WHEN IT'S THEIR TURN TO, TO LEAD ONE OF THOSE.
SO I WASN'T THINKING OF ACTUALLY DOING ONE FOR, YOU KNOW, IF, IF, IF NONE OF THE THREE WORKING GROUPS ARE READY TO HOST A LISTENING POST FOR THEIR CONSTITUENCY, UH, WE CAN, UH, YOU KNOW, WE CAN JUST DO A GENERAL ONE FOR ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT WANTS TO COME AND SHARE INPUT.
HEY, UM, THIS IS, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CORINA, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAD OCCURRED TO ME, UM, IS THAT SANTANA BE HERE NEXT MONTH AND WE'RE JUST STARTING THIS WORK ON NEURODIVERGENCY AND INCLUSIVITY.
COULD WE UTILIZE THAT TIME PULLING TOGETHER MAYBE A TOWN HALL TYPE OF MEETING? MM-HMM
AND THIS WOULD REALLY DEPEND ON, UM, BRIAN'S LEADERSHIP AND ALL OF THE WORK HE'S ALREADY PUT INTO THIS.
BUT WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK ABOUT SUPPORTING HIM SINCE WE, WE WANNA DO A PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN PULLING TOGETHER WITH STAN'S HELP A TOWN HALL TYPE OF MEETING TO LAUNCH THIS EFFORT WITH THE CITY AND SEE WHAT TYPE OF, YOU KNOW, INPUT, UM, PARENTS AND OTHER PEOPLE, UM, THAT HAVE, THAT HAVE AN INTEREST IN IT WANNA PUT IN.
THEN MAYBE FROM THAT WILL BE FORMED A NEW TYPE OF WORKING GROUP THAT'S SPECIFICALLY FOCUSED ON PROPERLY EDUCATING THE CITY AND EACH OTHER ON WHAT IT MEANS TO SUPPORT A CITY THAT'S MORE INCLUSIVE OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE, UM, THAT NEURO DIVERGENT NEEDS.
WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK ABOUT THAT? AND THAT'S A GOOD USE OF TIME, AH, AND RESOURCES.
YEAH, BECAUSE IT COULD, I COULD, I COULD USE THE LISTENING POST STRUCTURE AND QUESTIONS, UH, BUT FOCUS IT AROUND, YOU KNOW, THE NEEDS OF NEURODIVERGENT PEOPLE AND, AND HAVE, YOU KNOW, A SHORT INTRODUCTION WHERE BRIAN CAN, YOU KNOW, CAN SHARE.
AND WE, AND I CAN SHARE SOME OF THE RESO RESEARCH.
SO THAT COULD, I THINK, THAT COULD EASILY, YOU KNOW, BE THAT ACTIVITY THAT INSTEAD OF DOING A GENERAL LISTENING POST, DO ONE THAT'S FOCUSED AROUND NEURODIVERSITY DIVERSITY.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S GREAT, STAN.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I, WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL GET THE CONSENSUS OF THE ROOM HERE.
I THINK THAT'S GREAT BECAUSE IT'LL KEEP THE NEEDLE MOVING TOWARD PROGRESS THERE AND, AND THE EDUCATION CAMPAIGN, WHICH WE'RE ALREADY TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH.
UH, I THINK, UH, AS TO FORMALLY SAYING THAT WE'RE KICKING OFF A PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN, I'M NOT SURE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
UM, AND WHAT, WHAT WORK WOULD NEED TO GO INTO, YOU KNOW, KIND OF PUTTING THAT OUT THERE, BECAUSE IN MY OPINION, WE DON'T HAVE A PLAN, SO WE'RE NOT NECESSARILY READY YET.
BUT ACKNOWLEDGING THAT WE WANT TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT KICKOFF A PUBLIC, UH, DISCUSSION CAMPAIGN OR AWARENESS CAMPAIGN, I THINK THAT IS CERTAINLY THAT WE CAN DO, UH, SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO.
SO, UM, YEAH, I WOULD, I COUCH THIS AS A PUBLIC YEAH.
I'D WANNA COUCH THIS AS A PUBLIC DISCUSSION INSTEAD OF A, A FORMAL, YOU KNOW, EDUCATION KICKOFF.
SO THIS WOULD BE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC AS WELL, CORRECT? YES.
BUT IT'D BE, IT'LL DE BUT IT'LL DEFINITELY BE INTRODUCED AS THE, THE DISCUSSION OF THIS TOPIC WILL BE AROUND, YOU KNOW, NEURO, UH, THE NEEDS OF NEURODIVERSE PEOPLE AND BUILDING A, YOU KNOW, A NEURODIVERSE UH, ACCEPTING COMMUNITY, YOU KNOW, THAT WILL BE, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF, THEY KNOW THAT THAT WILL BE THE TOPIC THAT WE'RE GONNA BE DIALOGUING ON.
AND IT'S NOT GONNA JUST BE GENERAL, HEY, COME AND COMPLAIN ABOUT ANYTHING YOU DON'T LIKE ABOUT HUDU.
AND, UH, STAN, DO YOU, UH, HOW DO YOU ENVISION THIS GOING ON? UH, IS BRIAN, UH, KENARD GOING TO BE A PART OF THE PRESENTATION? OR IS HE SUPPOSED TO JUST BE, UH, KIND OF LIKE, WORK WITH YOU TO DO THIS? OR, I WOULD WANNA CONNECT WITH HIM AND HAVE HIM WORK WITH ME ON THIS.
AND MAYBE HE CAN EVEN, YOU KNOW, KICK OFF LIKE SOME OF THE WORK AND THOUGHT THAT HE'S DONE FOR, YOU KNOW, 10 OR 15 MINUTES.
UH, BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, PLENTY OF TIME FOR ANYONE WHO COMES TO SHARE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF DO A QUICK, EVERYBODY QUICKLY INTRODUCE THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW, WHY THEY'RE THERE, YOU KNOW? 'CAUSE THEY COULD BE NEURO DIVERGENT THEMSELVES OR HAVE NEURO DIVERGENT RELATIVES OR KIDS AND KIND OF, YOU KNOW, JUST GET PEOPLE FOR, TO KNOW EACH OTHER AND THEN HAVE A DIALOGUE ON,
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YOU KNOW, WHAT DO YOU FEEL YOU WOULD NEED? OR WHAT DO WE FEEL WE WOULD NEED IN TERMS OF BECOMING A MORE NEURO UH, NEURO DIVERGENT DIVERSE, UH, WELCOMING CITY.AND THIS WOULD BE SERVING AS GREAT INPUT FROM THE POPULATION THAT COULD HELP WITH THE FUTURE WORK.
SO, UH, WOULD YOU NEED, UH, A FORMAL KIND OF A MEETING OR SET UP TO TALK TO, UH, BRIAN, OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN DO OFFLINE ONCE WE GET YOU CONNECTED? NO, YOU CAN, ONCE YOU GET ME CONNECTED, I CAN DO IT OFFLINE WITH HIM AND, UH, OR KARINA CAN CONNECT ME WITH HIM.
AND WE SAID DO IT QUITE QUICK BECAUSE
I CAN GET THINGS TOGETHER PRETTY QUICK.
SO I'D PROBABLY WANNA TRY TO MEET WITH HIM NEXT WEEK OKAY.
AND GET, YEAH, AND GET, AND TRY TO GET THINGS ORGANIZED NEXT WEEK.
AND BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, IF I COME THAT WEEK OF, UH, GET MY CALENDAR OUT HERE, IF I COME THAT WEEK OF JULY, YOU KNOW, 20TH TO 20, UH, PROBABLY LIKE ONE EVENING, LIKE THE 21ST WOULD BE THE DIB COMMISSION MEETING.
AND THEN EITHER THE 22ND OR THE 23RD THAT EVENING, YOU KNOW, HAVE THIS, THAT, THAT MEETING.
AND THEN ONE OF THE OTHER EVENINGS HAVE THE, UH, HAVE THE CITY COUNCIL NEW MEMBERS, DEIB COMMISSION NEW MEMBERS TRAINING SESSION.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE'D PROBABLY HAVE TO DO THAT ONE, EITHER THE 22ND OR THE 23RD AND DO THE TRAINING ON EITHER THE 22ND OR THE 23RD.
I'M ASSUMING THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR PEOPLE LIKE, LIKE BRIAN AND FOR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS AND THE COMMISSIONERS, THAT THOSE MEETINGS WILL MOST LIKELY HAVE TO BE HELD, YOU KNOW, IN THE EVENING INSTEAD OF DURING THE DAY.
WILL THIS BE SOMETHING THAT WILL BE POSTED ON THE CITY'S, UH, WEBSITE? YES.
YEAH, I WOULD WANNA WORK WITH BRIAN AND GET THE WORDING OF THAT DONE, UH, BY THE END OF NEXT WEEK.
SO THAT CAN, UH, SO IT CAN BE MADE PUBLIC.
THE IMPORTANT THING IS GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, OF THE EVENING OF THE 22ND AND THE EVENING OF THE 23RD.
WHICH NIGHT WOULD BE THE BEST TO DO, UH, THIS TOWN HALL MEETING, AND WHICH DAY WOULD BE BEST TO DO THE, UH, CITY COUNCIL NEW COMMISSIONER, UH, TRAINING SESSION? DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON THAT? LET ME LOOK AT OUR CALENDAR AND, AND I CAN ALSO USE MONDAY NIGHT, THE 20TH IF WE HAVE TO, BUT I THINK THAT TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY IS PROBABLY BEST SATURDAY.
UM, I WOULD'VE TO, I WOULD'VE TO CHECK WITH OUR, UM, ADMINS AND EVERYTHING, BUT DEFINITELY NOT THE 22ND, BECAUSE WE HAVE AN, UH, A HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION MEETING.
I'M NOT SURE IF THOSE ARE IN HERE OR THE COUNCIL CHAMBER.
UH, THE 20TH IS OPEN COUNCILS.
WHAT WAS THE OTHER DAYS? YOU SAID THE 20TH THROUGH THE 23RD STAND.
COULD, YEAH, COULD PROBABLY, YEAH, I COULD.
YEAH, WE PROBABLY WANNA DO ANYTHING FRIDAY NIGHT, BUT, YOU KNOW, I CAN COME IN ON THE 20TH.
I CAN COME IN ON THE 20TH, AND WE CAN DO SOMETHING THE EVENING OF THE 20TH AND THE 21ST, AND THEN, UH, THE EVENING OF THE 23RD IF WE WANNA AVOID THE 22ND.
AND I CAN DO, YOU KNOW, I COULD ALWAYS LIKE, YOU KNOW, MEET WITH, WITH BRIAN ON THE 22ND TO FINE TUNE, YOU KNOW, FINE TUNE THINGS AND GET OUR, YOU KNOW, GET ALL THE I'S DOTTED AND T'S CROSSED OF THIS SESSION, OR, YOU KNOW, THERE'S OTHER THINGS THAT I CAN DO, UH, WHILE I'M THERE.
UH, SO IF WE AVOID THE 22ND, THAT MEANS WE HAVE THE 20TH AND THE 23RD WE, AND WE CAN SAY, YOU KNOW, WOULD IT BE, SHOULD WE TRY TO SCHEDULE THE CITY COUNCIL SLASH UH, COMMISSIONERS, DIB COMMISSIONERS, UH, TRAINING ON THE 20TH AND PLAN FOR THE NEURODIVERGENT MEETING ON THE 23RD? I, I THINK TENTATIVELY, IF WE WANNA SAY THAT, THAT SHOULD WORK.
UM, YEAH, I THINK THE 20TH IS A GOOD DAY.
YOU WANNA PIGGYBACK THAT, RIGHT? YOU DO.
AND THAT'S, YEAH, I'M SHORT MEETING.
AND THEN FROM SEVEN TO NINE TO
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YOUR, WHATEVER, I MEAN, WHATEVER IT'S YOUR, YOUR WELL PUBLIC MEETING OR WHATEVER, THE, THE 21ST WAS GONNA BE OUR IN-DEPTH, UH, PLANNING SESSION, UH, TO PLAN TO DO THE, SO BASICALLY MOST OF THE 21ST DIP COMMISSION MEETING WILL BE SPENT GOING THROUGH WHAT DOES THE DEIB COMMISSION WANT TO PROPOSE FOR THE 20 26, 20 27 DEIB PLAN AND BUDGET? WELL, FOR COUNCIL STANDPOINT, THE 20TH, MONDAY THE 20TH, WEDNESDAY THE 22ND, AND THURSDAY THE 23RD ARE OPEN IN THE EVENING.HPC ON WEDNESDAY IS A HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMISSION.
AND THAT'S REALLY A NEIGHBORHOOD ORGANIZATION, UH, THAT HAS VERY LITTLE COUNCIL.
I THINK ONE MEETING THIS YEAR.
SO CAN YOU SAY, CAN YOU TELL ME ONE MORE TIME, STAN, I'M SORRY FOR THE MINUTES, UM, WHAT THE, WHAT THE PROPOSAL IS? OKAY, SO BETWEEN THE EVENING AND THE EVENING, SO THE 20TH, 21, 22, AND 23, WE NEED TO TRY TO SCHEDULE THREE EVENING MEETINGS.
THE 21ST WE KNOW IS THE DEIB COMMISSION MEETING.
UH, SO BETWEEN THE 20TH, THE 22ND AND THE 23RD, BETWEEN THOSE THREE NIGHTS, WE HAVE, WE, WE NEED TO SCHEDULE THE THREE HOUR DEIB, UH, NEW COMMISSIONERS AND NEW CITY COUNCIL, DEIB GENERAL TRAINING.
AND WE NEED TO SCHEDULE THE NEURODIVERSE TOWN HALL MEETING.
YOU KNOW, IF THE 22ND IS REALLY AVAILABLE, THE 20 GOING 21, 22, 23 WOULD BE IDEAL INSTEAD OF HAVING A DEAD DAY IN THERE.
AND ACTUALLY, I LIKE THE IDEA IF I'M, THAT MY FIRST MEETING IS THE DEIB COMMISSION MEETING, AND WE WORK THROUGH THE PLAN ON THE 21ST, YOU KNOW, 22ND DURING THE DAY, I CAN, UH, YOU KNOW, TAKE ALL THE INFORMATION AND CREATE, YOU KNOW, THE FINAL PACKAGE AND PROPOSAL, YOU KNOW, DURING THE DAY ON THE 22ND.
SO I CAN ACTUALLY DO THAT WORK, USUALLY SET UP AN OFFICE FOR ME.
I CAN DO THAT WORK, YOU KNOW, DURING THE DAY ON THE 22ND.
AND THEN IN THE EVENING OF THE 22ND, MAYBE WE CAN HAVE THE CITY COUNCIL DIB COMMISSIONER TRAINING.
AND ON THE EVENING OF THE 23RD, DO THE NEURODIVERSE, UH, TOWN HALL MEETING.
YEAH, I THINK THAT SOUNDS GOOD, STAN.
AND THEN RIGHT WAY, LET'S, NEXT WEEK I'LL WANNA, I'LL HAVE A MEETING WITH, UH, BRIAN CANARD.
UM, SO I'M GONNA ASK THAT WE DO A VOTE ON 7.3.
UM, AND THIS, THIS ITEM IS REALLY JUST THE, UM, THE REALLOCATION OF THE BUDGET TO RIGHT.
SO WHAT ARE WE, UM, WHAT, WHAT'S THE MOTION GONNA BE FOR, UM, TO REALLOCATE THE OH, OKAY.
THOUSAND FROM THE RESOURCE GUIDE OR THE JULY, UH, VISIT FROM STAN.
UM, I CAN MAKE A MOTION A SECOND.
SHE PASSES SARAH, AND I'LL CALL IT, UH, UM, WHAT HAPPENED? I DUNNO.
UH, MOVING ON TO 7.4, UH, DISCUSSION, POSSIBLE ACTION ON DRAFT STRATEGIC PLAN, I GUESS, UH, STAN ARE YOU, YOU'RE GONNA BE CONTINUING WITH THE PRESENTATION ON THAT, RIGHT? RIGHT.
AND SO I HOPE THE PRESENTATION IS UP RIGHT NOW.
LET ME GO AHEAD AND MAKE SURE I DO THIS RIGHT.
AND I'M ALSO GONNA, UH, SHARE ONE CONCERN, BUT I THINK IT'S GONNA HAVE TOO BIG OF AN IMPACT.
YOU KNOW, BASICALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE, WE ESTABLISHED THIS STRATEGIC PLAN, WE HAD FOUR FOUNDATIONAL CONCEPTS, IS THAT THE PLAN WILL CONTINUE TO EVOLVE.
LIKE EVEN NOW WE'RE MOVING INTO
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SPENDING MORE TIME TALKING ABOUT NEURODIVERSITY.UH, IT MUST BE FULLY, IT MUST FULLY SUPPORT HU'S OVERALL STRATEGIC PLAN.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO DEFINE BY WHAT WE MEAN THE WORDS DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, AND BELONGING.
AND IT HAS TO BE HOLISTIC, WHICH MEANS IT INCLUDES THE CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS OF HURO AS WELL AS THE INTERNAL CITY PRACTICES AND EMPLOYEES.
SO THE FIVE PRIORITIES AREAS THAT WE SET UP, UH, IS HAVING AN ONGOING SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURE FOR CONTINUING THIS WORK.
AND THAT WAS LIKE THE PURPOSE BEHIND CREATING THESE WORKING GROUPS, ASSURING FULL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT IN THIS WORK, ASSURING, UH, DEIB ENGAGEMENT IN ALL CITY INTERNAL PROCESSES.
SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE GOING THROUGH AND PROVIDING TRAINING TO ALL EMPLOYEES, UH, A-D-E-B-D-E-I-B, FOCUS ON ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EMPOWERMENT, AND ALSO CONTINUING TO GROW A CITYWIDE CULTURE OF COMMUNITY INCLUSION AND BELONGING.
AND SO THAT PLAN IS PUBLISHED, AND IT'S ACTUALLY ON THE DEIB, UH, COMMISSION WEBPAGE THAT PEOPLE CAN DOWNLOAD AND READ THE, THE PLAN.
UH, THE OVERALL STRATEGIC PLAN HAS JUST BEEN A NEW ONE.
HAS THIS BEEN PUBLICLY PUBLISHED YET? OR IS IT ABOUT TO BE HAVING PUBLISHED? RIGHT? IT HAS BEEN PUBLICLY PUBLISHED, YES.
SO, OF COURSE, UH, YOU HAVE THE FORMER PLAN, COLLABORATE FOR OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE, EFFICIENCY, MAINTAIN FINANCIAL STABILITY, GROW RESPONSIBLY AND SUSTAINABLY, AND CREATE THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF LIFE.
UH, THE NEW ONES IS THE HIGH PERFORMING CITY SERVICES, YOU KNOW, WHICH IS BASICALLY THE SAME AS COLLABORATE FOR OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE AND EFFICIENCY IS NOW PILLAR THREE.
THE RESPONSIBLE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT IS BASICALLY MAINTAIN FINANCIAL STABILITY.
THOSE ARE, UH, EQUAL, UH, GROWTH AND INFRASTRUCTURE ALIGNMENT IS NOW PILLAR ONE, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY GROWING RESPONSIBLY AND SUSTAINABLY.
AND, UH, YOUR NEW FOUR IS COMMUNITY TRUST.
AND, YOU KNOW, THE WORDS BEHIND ONE, TWO, AND THREE ARE PRETTY SIMILAR, UH, TO THE FORMER, UH, STRATEGIC PLAN.
UH, BUT THE ONE AREA OF CONCERN IS THAT THE FORMER ONE CREATE THE HIGHEST QUALITY OF LIFE.
UH, THE WORDS ARE ACTUALLY, THE STRATEGY INCLUDES CREATING A COMMUNITY THAT IS ENGAGED, TOLERANT, AND COMPASSIONATE ABOUT EVERYONE LEVERAGING DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES AND EXPERIENCES, AND BUILDING AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE EVERYONE CAN FEEL THEY BELONG AND HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD.
AND NEW WORDING IS, YOU KNOW, STRENGTHENED PUBLIC TRUST THROUGH RELIABLE PUBLIC SAFETY SERVICES, TRANSPARENT COMMUNICATION, RESPONSIVE ENGAGEMENT.
UH, AND IT DOES INCLUDE RESIDENT ENGAGEMENT AND FEEDBACK IN TERMS OF INCLUDING DURING SURVEYS.
BUT BASICALLY ALL THE LANGUAGE AROUND TOLERANCE, COMPASSION, LEVERAGING DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES, AND BUILDING A BELONGING CULTURE HAS BEEN OMITTED FROM THE NEW STRATEGIC PLAN.
SO THAT'S HAVING ME A LITTLE BIT CONCERNED IN TERMS OF HOW, YOU KNOW, HOW COMMITTED, YOU KNOW, IS THE CITY GONNA BE TO DEIB WORK.
SO WITH THAT IN MIND, WHAT I DID IS I WENT THROUGH THE CURRENT STRATEGIC PLAN AND USED A CHECK MARK TO SAY, THIS HAS BEEN DONE, THIS HAS COMPLETED.
I HAVE A QUESTION MARK TO SAY, HAVE WE BEEN DOING THIS? HOW'S IT GOING? AND THEN I PUT A STAR FOR THINGS THAT I MIGHT RECOMMEND FOR THE 20 26 20 27 PLAN.
SO THESE ARE THINGS THAT YOU ALL CAN THINK ABOUT AND DISCUSS, YOU KNOW, NOW AFTER THIS, WITH THIS MEETING.
AND THEN WE CAN USE THIS AS THE STARTING POINT OF TO FORMALIZE THE 20 26, 20 27 PLAN.
SO THE FIRST AREA WAS, YOU KNOW, ESTABLISHING THIS ONGOING SUSTAINABLE STRUCTURE.
SO WE ESTABLISHED A PLAN WITH METRICS.
WE ESTABLISHED THE THREE WORKING GROUPS.
I BELIEVE THEY'VE BEEN A LITTLE BIT SLOW TO KICK OFF, BUT THE LEADERS HAVE BEEN TRAINED AND THEY HAVE BEEN ANNOUNCED, UH, YOU KNOW, WE WANTED TO HAVE AT LEAST 1D EIB COMMISSION MEMBER ATTEND EVERY CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
AND I WAS GONNA SEE, HAS THAT BEEN HAPPENING? UH, AND THEN HAVE A-D-E-I-B FORUM WITH KEY CITY STAFF LEADERS AND THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, ONE OR TWO TIMES A YEAR.
HAVE ANY, UH, HAS 1.3 OR 1.4 BEEN HAPPENING OR KIND OF PUT ON HOLD? I THINK 1.3 HAS BEEN HAPPENING, BUT NOT IN A FORMAL SENSE.
UH, I THINK CORINA HAS BEEN GOING TO A BUNCH OF MEETINGS.
I'VE GONE TO A COUPLE OF CITY COUN, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS.
I DON'T KNOW IF I'VE SEEN, UH, IT'S SPORADIC, BUT I,
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YEAH.SO I DON'T THINK WE ARE KIND OF LOGGING THAT OFFICIALLY OR FORMALLY, BUT, UH, PASSIVELY, I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S BEEN HAPPENING.
I'M NOT, I'M NOT AWARE, UM, IF WE HAVE HAD, UH, A PLAN PUT IN PLACE OR WE HAVE EVEN PROPOSED A PLAN WITH THE CITY STAFF LEADERS OR CITY COUNCIL.
SO, UH, MAYBE, UH, CORINA MIGHT HAVE, OR MAYBE ABBY, YOU, YOU KNOW, ABOUT THIS, BUT, UH, I'M, I'M UNAWARE.
I THINK WE MIGHT WANT TO LOOK AT 1.4 AND SAY, DO WE WANNA TRY TO DO THIS ONE TIME NEXT YEAR AND HAVE, YOU KNOW, ME MAYBE WORK TO COORDINATE, UH, YOU KNOW, A FORUM LIKE THIS.
UH, AND I THINK MAYBE DOING IT TWICE MIGHT BE TOO MUCH, BUT MAYBE WE SHOULD TRY TO DO ONE, UH, IN THE NEXT YEAR.
KARINA JUST, I JUST WANTED TO CLOSE THE LOOP ON THAT CONVERSATION START.
SO I KNOW THAT OUR FORMER CHAIR, WHICH WAS, UM, MS. JA, UH, CHAIR COLEMAN, SHE HAD DONE, SHE HAD LOGGED THE MEETING, BUT IT WAS MORE HER MEETING WITH CITY MANAGER AND STAFF.
SO THAT'S KIND OF HOW WE EXECUTED THAT.
UM, AND THEN WE LEFT OFF ON TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE WANTED IT TO LOOK LIKE, UM, MOVING FORWARD.
UM, BUT I'VE NEVER ASKED CO-CHAIR COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON IF THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SHE WOULD WANT TO, UM, TAKE ON.
UM, SHE'S BEEN WITH US FOR A LITTLE BIT, BUT I HAVEN'T EVEN DISCUSSED IT WITH HER AT ALL.
I'M NOT TRYING TO PUT NIKKI ON THE SPOT.
WE JUST HADN'T DISCUSSED IT YET.
OR IT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS.
AND WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN IS WE'RE GONNA HAVE SEVERAL OF THESE THAT HAVE QUESTION MARKS, AND WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO DO ALL OF 'EM, YOU KNOW, IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
SO THE DISCUSSION COULD BE, IS THIS SOMETHING WE MIGHT WANNA TRY TO DO? OR HOW HIGH OR LOW PRIORITY WILL BE THIS BE WITH EVERYTHING ELSE? YES.
I, I, UH, BELIEVE THAT AT LEAST ONE MEETING, UH, TO START OFF WITH FOR NEXT YEAR WOULD BE GREAT.
I'LL BE READY TO DISCUSS THAT MORE THAN IN THE JULY MEETING.
AND THEN OF COURSE, ONE THING WE WILL DEFINITELY DO IS SUBMIT A BUDGET REQUEST, UH, JULY, 2025 FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR.
HOLDING A WORKING SESSION WITH THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, AS YOU KNOW, ARE WE DOING THAT, YOU KNOW, A PUBLIC PRESENTATION OF A DEI PLAN AND STATUS AT A CITY COUNCIL MEETING? THE IDEA IS ONCE A YEAR, KIND OF HAVE THE STATE OF DEIB OR A REPORT OUT, YOU KNOW, AT A CITY COUNCIL MEETING THAT PEOPLE ATTEND, UH, YOU KNOW, CONSIDER OR RECOMMEND ADDITIONAL FOCUSED WORKING GROUPS.
AND WE MIGHT END UP, IT COULD END UP THAT EITHER PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES OR IN GENERAL OR NEURODIVERSE WORKING GROUP MIGHT END UP BEING THE FOURTH ONE, YOU KNOW, AFTER WE HAVE OUR, UH, PUBLIC MEETING IN JULY.
BUT THAT'S ONE THING WE CAN BE THINKING ABOUT.
UH, AND THEN I DON'T THINK WE'RE READY TO DO THE ONE NINE, BECAUSE THE GROUPS HAVE JUST BARELY STARTED KICKING OFF AND DOING THEIR WORK.
AND THEN ANOTHER THING THAT WE WROTE UP, UH, AND THAT I KNOW THAT I THINK KARINA, YOU ARE REALLY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT WAS PROPOSING AN AMBASSADOR PROGRAM AS A WAY OF KEEPING PEOPLE STILL ENGAGED IN VARIOUS WAYS.
LIKE PEOPLE WHO ROTATE OFF THE DEIB COMMISSION, BUT STILL WANNA KEEP ENGAGED WITH DEIB WORK, YOU KNOW, MAYBE GETTING THEM INVOLVED IN A TASK OR TWO.
UH, AND, AND ALSO GETTING OTHER INTERESTED CITIZENS ENGAGED WHO MIGHT NOT BE ON THE DEIB COMMISSION.
IF WE GET THEM ENGAGED WITH DOING ONE OR TWO PROJECTS HERE AND THERE, IT COULD BUILD A PIPELINE FOR FUTURE, UH, DEIB COMMISSION MEMBERS.
SO, ANY, UH, REACTION TO, TO THE, THE, THESE ITEMS? 1 1 7? WE DID DO THAT.
CORINA PRESENTED AT, UH, I THINK IT WAS THE SEPTEMBER, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER, AND THEN ACTUALLY GONNA PULL KIT, JUST DID AN UPDATE, WAS IT LAST MONTH? GOOD.
AFTER THIS MEETING, I'M GONNA CHANGE SOME OF THESE THAT ARE QUESTION MARK TO A CHECK.
UM, I MEAN, WE, UH, I KIND OF TALKED ABOUT THE DDIB COMMISSION, BUT IT WASN'T A FULL FLEDGED PRESENTATION.
IT WAS JUST A QUICK STATUS UPDATE.
UM, YEAH, AND, UH, WE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE'LL DEFINITELY TALK ABOUT ONE POINT A, UH, I AGREE WITH YOU, STAN.
I THINK 1.9, EITHER WE SHOULD, UH, NOT, NOT FOCUS ON THAT RIGHT NOW OR MAYBE AT THE END OF YEAH.
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UM, IS SOMETHING THAT WE PUSH IT DOWN.AND, UH, I, I REMEMBER ONE 10 IS SOMETHING THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF WE'VE MADE ANY YEAH.
UM, YOU KNOW, PROGRESS ON THAT YET.
SO MAYBE THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE KEEP, UM, IN THE SPOTLIGHT AS SOMETHING TO BE, UH, TO LOOK AT AT SOME POINT, UH, IN THIS, IN THIS COMING YEAR.
AND I BELIEVE I EVEN WROTE, UH, THERE'S, I EVEN WROTE A WHITE PAPER THAT I CAN SEND BACK TO YOU ON MM-HMM
HOW THE AMBASSADOR PROGRAM WOULD WORK.
SO I'VE, I'VE DONE SOME WORK FOR ON THAT ALREADY.
UH, IF YOU COULD SEND THAT MAYBE.
AND THEN THE SECOND, UH, ITEM WAS TO FULLY ENGAGE THE PUBLIC, UH, INCLUDING LISTENING POSTS, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THE RESIDENT SURVEY.
UH, AND SO WE REALLY HAVEN'T HAD ANY LISTENING POSTS YET.
UH, WE MIGHT WANNA THINK ABOUT, DO WE WANNA DO SOME OF THESE NEXT YEAR, BUT WE ACTUALLY CAN ALMOST USE THE JULY NEURODIVERSE PUBLIC DISCUSSION ALMOST AS A VERSION OF A LISTENING POST.
SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE HOW ONE OF THESE SESSIONS COULD BE RUN, UH, IN TERMS OF THE, OF, UH, AND THEN MAYBE, I DON'T KNOW IF, UH, CHRISTIE'S NOT HERE, MAYBE ABBY KNOWS, UH, THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DID, I THINK WE DID SEE INCREASED PARTICIPATION IN THE GENERAL CITIZEN SURVEY.
UH, BUT, UH, I THINK WE WANTED DO A DEEP DIVE IN TERMS OF HAVE WE LEARNED ANYTHING ABOUT DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION THROUGH THIS SURVEY ANSWERS, LIKE, DID WE SLICE AND DICE THE DATA BY DIFFERENT CONSTITUENCIES? YOU KNOW, I CAN SAY, YOU KNOW, DID BLACK RESIDENTS BE MORE NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE ON CERTAIN QUESTIONS, OR WOMEN VERSUS MEN? UH, AND, YOU KNOW, THE SURVEY CAN GIVE US USEFUL INFORMATION TO HELP INFORM, UH, THE WORK OF THE DEIB COMMISSION.
SO I HAVE REQUESTED THAT SPLICE DATA, AND THAT JUST REMINDED ME THAT I HAVE IT RECEIVED IT BACK FROM THE INSTITUTE.
SO I WILL, UM, SEND A FOLLOW UP AND HOPEFULLY HAVE THAT SEE.
'CAUSE ONE OF THE THINGS I MIGHT YEAH.
UH, YOU KNOW, THAT I COULD PUT INTO NEXT YEAR'S PLAN IS FOR ME TO DO A DATA ANALYSIS AND CRAWL THROUGH THE DATA IN TERMS OF MAKING SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THAT.
UH, AND THEN WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A WRITTEN, UH, DEIB COMMUNICATIONS PLAN AND CONTINUING WITH DEIB UPDATES, UH, ON THE WEBSITE PER THE COMMUNICATIONS PLAN.
SO I CAN ASK, UH, ABBY TO COMMENT ON THAT ONE.
DO WE, UH, DO WE HAVE IT OR IS IT IN PROCESS? UM, I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE A-A-D-I-B SPECIFIC COMMUNICATIONS PLAN.
SO WE WOULD HAVE TO START ON THAT, BUT I'LL ASK CHRISTIE.
THEN THE, UH, THIRD AREA WAS TO MAKE SURE WE'RE DOING DIB ENGAGEMENT IN ALL INTERNAL CITY PRACTICES.
UH, YOU KNOW, AND ONE THING WAS TO ASK THE CITY MANAGER TO REPORT OUT, YOU KNOW, ANNUALLY, UH, WHAT ARE THEY DOING, DEIB WISE AND WHAT THEY PLAN TO ADD, UH, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, CITY FUNCTIONAL AREAS ATTEND DIB COMMISSION MEETINGS THAT YOU'VE DONE THAT I KNOW IN THE PAST, LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE PARKS PERSON CAME IN AS ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE GUEST SPEAKERS AT YOUR MEETING TO TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
THE LIBRARY CAN COME IN AND TALK ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
THE POLICE COMMISSIONER CAN COME IN AND WE'RE ENCOURAGING THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD INVITE, UH, VARIOUS FUNCTIONAL AREAS OF THE CITY, UH, TO COME IN, YOU KNOW, AND BE A PART OF YOUR MEETING AND HAVE LIKE ONE GUEST, YOU KNOW, EACH MEETING TO SHARE WHAT THEY'RE DOING.
UH, AND I DID HAVE, UH, I DID HOLD, UH, A INCLUSIVE RECRUITING, UH, TRAINING, UH, THAT WAS DONE EARLIER THIS YEAR.
UH, AND THAT WAS DONE WITH ALL HIRING MANAGERS COORDINATE WITH IRENE IN TERMS OF HOW TO MAKE SURE YOU'RE DOING INCLUSIVE RECRUITING.
UH, AND I FELT THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN I LOOKED AT HOW YOU APPROACH YOUR RECRUITING EFFORTS, I REALLY FEEL THAT YOU DO HAVE A VERY SOLID AND BALANCED APPROACH TO HOW YOU'RE RECRUITING PEOPLE, MAKING SURE THAT IT'S AN EQUITABLE AND INCLUSIVE, UH, S UH, APPROACH WHEN LOOKING AT ALL POTENTIAL JOB APPLICANTS.
AND I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING THAT YOU'RE DOING IN TERMS OF VIOLATING ANY, VIOLATING ANY FEDERAL OR STATE EMPLOYMENT LEGISLATION.
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I DID WANNA MAKE THAT STATEMENT AFTER HOLDING THAT TRAINING, UH, WITH ALL OF THE HIRING MANAGERS.SO I MAYBE HAD SOME COMMENTS ON THREE ONE AND THREE TWO CORINA.
I KNOW THAT, UM, ON THE MEETING WITH THE CITY MANAGER, UH, COMMISSIONER, UM, OUR FORMER CHAIR, JACQUELYN DID MEET, UM, WITH THE CITY MANAGER SPECIFICALLY.
SHE WAS THE LIAISON FOR THAT, AND SHE WAS ASKING ABOUT, UM, WHAT THAT MIGHT LOOK LIKE.
BUT WE NEVER CLOSED THE LOOP ON THAT CONVERSATION.
UM, BUT I THINK IT IS, UM, I THINK IT'S AN IMPORTANT PIECE BECAUSE IT'S SHOWING THE BUY-IN FROM THE, FROM THE CITY, FROM THE CITY STAFF SIDE.
BUT I REALLY LEAVE IT UP TO OUR NEW CHAIR, COMMISSIONER, UM,
AND THEN, UM, THE ONGOING, SO HAVING DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS IS WHAT WE CALL, WE FRAMED IT COME IN, THAT INVITE HAS GONE OUT TO THE CHAIRS.
AND THAT'S WHY WE'VE HAD, YOU KNOW, P AND Z COME IN THE LIBRARY BOARD PARK SYSTEM.
AND SO, UM, WE CAN, IF, IF THAT'S WHAT THE COMMISSION WANTS, THAT WE COULD DEFINITELY FORMALIZE IT MORE.
AND, AND THEN THE EIGHT PAGE DOCUMENT, THAT DETAIL PLAN, I ACTUALLY LISTED OUT MY RECOMMENDED SIX OR SEVEN AREAS TO INVITE, YOU KNOW, THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
UH, AND WHEN I DID, UH, THE FIRST DIVERSITY TRAINING FOR ALL EMPLOYEES, UH, YOU KNOW, IT WAS THE INTRODUCTION TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION AND BELONGING.
WHAT DO THOSE WORDS MEAN AND HOW ARE THEY EXECUTED? AND BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, I LEFT AND SAID, YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY, EVERY EMPLOYEE SHOULD, YOU KNOW, ASK THEM, ASK THEMSELVES, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THEY'RE DOING THEIR JOB THROUGH A DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION AND BELONGING LENS.
AND BASICALLY TRY TO SAY, HOW DOES THIS TRAINING PERTAIN TO MY PARTICULAR JOB ROLE? AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK EASE PEOPLE CAN, YOU KNOW, I THINK PEOPLE CAN EASILY CONNECT THE DOTS, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF WHAT DOES THAT MEAN FOR THE JOB THAT I'M DOING? AND I'M, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M ENCOURAGING ALL EMPLOYEES TO, TO DO THAT.
NUMBER FOUR, I THINK WE'VE DONE, UH, THIS WHAT WE'VE KIND OF LIKE THINK PUT ON THE BACK BURNER.
AND I THINK WE NEED TO DECIDE, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE APPROACH THIS ONE? UH, BUT YOU KNOW, WE, WE KIND OF HAD THE DISCUSSION THAT, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF MAKING SURE THAT THE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND WEALTH OF THE CITY, YOU KNOW, REALLY DOES IMPACT ALL DIVERSE COMMUNITIES.
UH, AND YOU KNOW, THE IDEA WAS TO, YOU KNOW, GET WITH CHENEY GAMBOA, UH, AND, YOU KNOW, ESTABLISH A FORMAL LIAISON BETWEEN THE COMMISSION AND THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
UH, HELP ESTABLISH A SUPPLIER DIVERSITY PROGRAM, YOU KNOW, FEATURING HU DO SMALL BUSINESSES ON A HU WEBSITE, MAYBE HAVING A WORKSHOP FOR SMALL BUSINESSES ON HOW TO DO BUSINESS WITH HU DO, UH, YOU KNOW, REVISIT THE OPEN FOR ALL CAMPAIGN AND MAYBE EVEN CONSIDER A YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR PROGRAM.
UH, AND I DON'T THINK THERE'S REALLY BEEN A FOCUS ON THESE, AND WE MIGHT WANNA THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW CRITICAL IS THIS, IS SOME OF THIS WORK ALREADY GOING ON BEHIND THE SCENES? AND MAYBE CAN THE SMALL BUSINESS, THIS, THE, UH, THE SMALL BUSINESS OWNER, UH, WORKING GROUP, TAKE THIS OVER KARINA? YEAH.
UM, SO ALL 4, 1, 4 2 ARE COMPLETE.
I HAD MET WITH CHENEY WHEN I WAS IN THAT ROLE, AND I WAS SERVING AS THE LIAISON BETWEEN THE CHAMBER.
'CAUSE I'M, I'M, I'M A CHAMBER MEMBER MM-HMM
UM, BUT NOW THAT I'M NOT A COMMISSIONER, THIS WOULD HAVE TO ROLL OVER TO ANOTHER POINT OF CONTACT.
UM, UH, AND MY NEW ROLE COUNCIL IS GONNA BE DIFFERENT, BUT I AM STILL A MEMBER OF THE CHAMBER OF MY SMALL BUSINESS AS WELL AS THROUGH, UM, THE CITY, UM, THE DIVERSITY, THE SUPPLIER DIVERSITY PROGRAM, WE DECIDED TO, WE, IT'S NOT NEEDED BECAUSE WHEN I'M, WHEN WE HAD MET WITH JOIE, UM, THEY ALREADY, IT'S ALREADY BAKED INTO HOW THEY PUT OUT THE PROCESS.
SMALL BUSINESSES, UM, WEBSITE.
UM, THAT'S SOMETHING WE DID TALK ABOUT OR DISCUSS WITH ABBY.
BUT THERE'S A, A VERY, UM, STRUCTURED WAY, UM, AND I, I DON'T WANNA SPEAK FOR HER, ABOUT HOW THE CITY HIGHLIGHTS SMALL BUSINESSES AND KNOW THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION AROUND YEAH.
WHO GETS FEATURED AND WHY, RIGHT.
THAT, AND THEN ON THE, UM, FOUR, FIVE, THAT WAS, UM, COMMISSIONER BELL, AND WE DECIDED TO PUT THAT ASIDE BECAUSE HE MOVED ON.
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BROUGHT IN THAT HE WANTED TO, ALONG WITH THE, THEIR SUPPLY DIVERSITY PROGRAM, THAT WAS SOMETHING HE WAS TAKING THE LEAD ON.AND THEN, UM, THE, UM, THE, THE YOUTH ENTREPRENEUR PROGRAM, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT IS OF INTEREST TO COMMISSIONER HOLLINSWORTH.
SO AGAIN, WE'LL HAVE TO DECIDE, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH FOCUS WE WANNA PUT ON THIS, UH, IN TERMS OF UPDATING THE PLAN FOR, UH, 20 26, 20 27.
AND THEN THE FINAL AREA WAS TO, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE TO GROW A CULTURE OF COMMUNITY INCLUSION.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WE CAN INVITE, YOU KNOW, INVITE, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN THE DIB PLAN IS REVIEWED WITH THE CITY COUNCIL, YOU KNOW, INVITE, UH, ALL THE, THE WORK THE CITIZEN GROUPS TO ATTEND, YOU KNOW, CONTINUE, UH, THE DEIB FOCUSED PROCLAMATIONS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
AND WE DISCUSSED ADDING A FEEDBACK LINK, YOU KNOW, ON THE WEBSITE WITH EACH OF THOSE PROCLAMATIONS.
SO I HAVE TO ASK IF THAT'S BEEN DONE, 'CAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE STILL DOING THE PROCLAMATIONS, BUT DID WE ADD THE FEEDBACK LINK? UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA SAY REVIEW THE INTERNET RESOURCES FOR THE RESIDENTS PAGE TO SAY, HEY, YOU KNOW, ARE, IS IT, UH, IS IT COMPLETE AND E AND EASY TO USE? UH, WE KIND OF PUT ON HOLD THIS IDEA ABOUT THE RESOURCE GUIDE.
THERE WAS ONE COMMISSIONER WHO THAT WAS LIKE THEIR PET PROJECT AND THEY'RE REALLY PUSHING IT AND THEY'RE NO LONGER INVOLVED.
SO WE DECIDE IF, YOU KNOW, IF WE REALLY DO NEED A RESOURCE GUIDE OR IF WE CAN KIND OF LAY THAT ONE ASIDE.
AND THEN I KNOW THAT YOU'VE REUNITED THE, YOU BELONG IN HU CAMPAIGN WITH THE NEW, YOU BELONG IN HU WITH THE LITTLE HIPPO IN THE MIDDLE OF THE O.
SO, UH, YOU KNOW, ABBY, DID WE EVER, DID WE ADD A FEEDBACK LINK OR, UH, YOU KNOW, ON THE WEBSITE TO GO ALONG WITH THE PROCLAMATIONS? SO THAT WOULD BE, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING FOR, I DON'T THINK WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS AT LEAST SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE.
RIGHT? IT WAS SOMETHING, IT WAS, IT WAS PRIOR TO YOUR COMING
SO THIS IS, THIS WOULD BE SOMETHING ON THE WEBSITE TO, THAT RESIDENTS COULD USE TO, WELL, IT WOULD JUST BE A, A HYPERLINK THAT WOULD GO TO THE PROCLAMATION.
OH, WELL, IT'S REALLY JUST A FEW LINES OF CODE.
IT'S JUST GETTING IT PRIORITIZED.
WELL, WE DEFINITELY HAVE ALL THE PROCLAMATIONS PUBLISH JUST A SINGLE HYPERLINK.
I THINK WE HAD A DISCUSSION ABOUT THE FEEDBACK LINK, RIGHT? UH, YEAH.
AND IT WAS MORE OF A PUBLIC COMMENT.
IF ANYBODY ELSE WAS INVOLVED IN THIS, BUT I THINK THERE WAS SOME CONCERN YEAH.
OF WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE, UH, WHAT KIND OF THINGS MIGHT BE SAID BY, I KNOW, DO WE WANT THEM TO PUT THEIR NAMES DOWN THE GENERAL PUBLIC, OR DO WE WANT THEM TO, YOU KNOW, KEEP IT ANONYMOUS AND OH, YEAH.
I KNOW WE TALKED ABOUT A GENERAL YEAH.
FEEDBACK, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, D THAT'S WHAT I'M, YEAH, I THINK I, YEAH, I, I REALLY THINK IT WOULD BE BETTER JUST TO HAVE ONE FEEDBACK LINK SOMEWHERE ON THE DEIB UH, PAGE THAT, YOU KNOW, LIKE, WELCOME FEEDBACK ON THE WHOLE SUBJECT OF DEIB INSTEAD OF ON THE INDIVIDUAL PROCLAMATIONS.
BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE ONES WHERE WHAT I CALL THE HATERS COME OUT OF THE WOOD WOODWORK, YOU KNOW, WHERE, YOU KNOW THE, YOU KNOW, FIVE OR SIX PEOPLE THAT MIGHT NOT LIKE A PARTICULAR GROUP, YOU KNOW, WILL WANT TO VENT ABOUT HOW EVIL OR BAD THEY ARE.
UH, AND YOU KNOW, WE REALLY DON'T NEED THAT AND IT'S NOT USEFUL FEEDBACK.
SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT THAT IDEA OF PUTTING THE FEEDBACK LINK INITIALLY WITH THE PROCLAMATIONS KIND OF WAS DISCUSSED, BUT I THINK JUST THAT LIKE, YOU KNOW, ONE, YOU KNOW, KIND OF INPUT SLASH PUBLIC COMMENT, YOU KNOW, COMMENT LINK SOMEWHERE ON THE PAGE WOULD BE ENOUGH.
I STILL HAVE TO WORK THROUGH THAT.
I DO REMEMBER US TALKING ABOUT THAT.
UM, YEAH, WE JUST KEPT RUNNING INTO ISSUES WITH, UM, WE WOULD HAVE TO ASK PEOPLE TO SUBMIT, YOU KNOW, NAMES AND CONTACT INFORMATION AND, UM, I NEED TO RUN TRAPS ON THAT BEFORE I CAN COMMIT TO IT.
YOU KNOW, THAT ONE CAN BE, YOU KNOW, UNDER EXAMINATION AND IT MIGHT NOT BE FEASIBLE TO DO GIVEN SOME OF THE, YOU KNOW, LI LIMITATIONS AND ISSUES THAT COULD COME WITH IT.
UH, ANY THOUGHTS ABOUT CONTINUING FIVE FOUR? OR CAN WE LET THAT ONE DROP? I THINK WE CAN LET THAT ONE DROP.
I DON'T THINK WE HAVE HAD ANY, UH, TALK ABOUT THAT AS A COMMISSION LATELY.
AND, UH, I THINK THE, UH, UH, REMIND ME, UH, AGAIN, STAN, I BELIEVE YOU HAVE PUT TOGETHER SOMETHING.
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THAT'S, THIS IS THE ONE WHERE, THIS IS THE ONE WHERE WE PUT $1,500 IN THE BUD IN THE BUDGET IN CASE YOU WANTED TO BRING SOMEONE IN.BUT I SAID I DON'T WANT ANY, I, THAT'S NOT MY AREA OF EXPERTISE.
AND THE PERSON WHO WANTED IT WAS, YOU KNOW, WAS VISIONING, LIKE COLLECTING ALL THE RESOURCES AND PUBLISHING THIS NICE LIKE, LITTLE BOOKLET AND PUTTING IT LIKE IN THE LIBRARY AND SENIOR CITIZENS.
AND, YOU KNOW, THE THOUGHT COULD BE THAT, YOU KNOW, INSTEAD WE REALLY SHOULD LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING THAT'S ON THE INTERNET, EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE AND SAY, YOU KNOW, IS IT USABLE? ARE WE DOING A GOOD JOB? AND IN FACT, I WAS THINKING THAT THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT THE WORKING GROUPS CAN DO.
LIKE THE SENIOR CITIZEN WORKING GROUP CAN SAY, YOU KNOW, UH, ARE YOU ABLE TO ACCESS OUR RESOURCES? ARE YOU GETTING ALL THE INFORMATION YOU NEED? YOU KNOW, THE PURPOSE OF THESE WORKING GROUPS IS TO FIND OUT FROM VETERANS, YOU KNOW, ARE YOU GETTING ALL WHAT YOU NEED FROM THIS CITY? WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE US DO BETTER, UH, YOU KNOW, FOR SENIOR CITIZENS? THE SAME QUESTION.
YOU KNOW, UH, ARE THESE RESOURCES ACCESSIBLE TO YOU? UH, YOU KNOW, UH, AND DO YOU FEEL SUPPORTED AS A SENIOR CITIZEN LIVING HERE? AND, UH, AND ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, THE TRAINING FOR THE WORKING GROUPS AND ACTUALLY, UH, YOU KNOW, I HAD A SCRIPT ON, YOU KNOW, THE QUESTIONS AND THINGS TO ASK IN YOUR WORKING GROUP MEETINGS TO GET FEEDBACK, YOU KNOW, FROM YOUR QUOTE WORKING GROUP.
WHO HAS IT? IS THAT, IS THAT KARINA WITH YOUR HAND UP? YEAH, I JUST WANTED TO SAY, 'CAUSE I MEAN, THIS IS THE FIRST MEETING ON ATTEND ABOUT BEING A COMMISSIONER.
I JUST WANNA CLOSE THE LOOP ON THAT.
I AM HAPPY TO ANNOUNCE THAT THE SENIOR CITIZEN WORKING GROUP HAS ALREADY TAKEN ON THE TASK OF PUTTING TOGETHER A RESOURCE GUIDE BECAUSE THAT WAS THE
BUT THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL INTENT THAT IT WAS BROUGHT TO THE TABLE BY A FORMER COMMISSIONER, WAS SPECIFICALLY FOR SENIOR CITIZENS.
AND LOOKING AT THE LENS OF IS JUST BECAUSE IT'S THERE DOESN'T MEAN THAT PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO USE IT.
SO THEY'VE HAD QUITE A BIT OF DISCUSSIONS AROUND ACCESSIBILITY, UM, SUSTAINABILITY AND TIMELINESS OF THE RESOURCES THEY'RE PUTTING TOGETHER THAT MAKES SENSE FOR THEM.
AND SO THEY ARE ALREADY WORKING ON THAT.
THEY'RE ALREADY PUTTING IT TOGETHER AND, UM, THEY ARE GETTING READY.
THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GONNA BE THIS MONTH OR NOT THIS MONTH, BUT THE NEXT MONTH OF AUGUST, THEY'RE GONNA BE READY TO COME AND PRESENT THE WORK THEY'VE BEEN DOING TO THE COMMISSION.
THEY'RE PRETTY EXCITED ABOUT THAT.
AND PART OF THAT WILL BE WHAT THEY'VE PUT TOGETHER AS A RESOURCE GUIDE AND THE THINGS THAT THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH IN THE FIRST FEW MONTHS AS A WORKING.
SO THAT IS, THAT IS THE MODEL OF WHAT A WORKING GROUP IS SUPPOSED TO DO.
SO WHAT YOU'VE DONE IS NOW WE'VE CREATED THIS STRUCTURE WHERE WORKING GROUP HAS TAKEN ON A MAJOR PROJECT THAT'S IMPORTANT TO THEM AND IS ACTUALLY GETTING THE WORK DONE SO IT DOESN'T HAVE TO FALL ON THE CITY COUNCIL DOING IT, OR DOESN'T HAVE TO FALL ON THE DEIB COMMISSION DOING IT.
AND THE PURPOSE OF THE WORKING GROUPS IS TO GET MORE PEOPLE DIRECTLY INVOLVED IN THIS WORK AND DOING GOOD THINGS FOR THE CITY.
SO BASICALLY WHAT I, YOU KNOW, WHEN I COME AND MEET AND TRYING TO PUT TOGETHER A BUDGET FOR 20 26, 27, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, WHAT I WOULD PROPOSE IS, YOU KNOW, FUNDING TO, YOU KNOW, REVAMP THE DEIB STRATEGIC PLAN AND BRING IT UP TO DATE AND INCORPORATE ALL THE DISCUSSION WE'RE HAVING NOW.
UH, MAYBE LOOK AT CREATING AND TRAINING A FOURTH WORKING GROUP, WHETHER IT BE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WITH BEING NEURODIVERSE, BEING A SUBSET, OR JUST HAVE IT BE FOCUSED ON NEURODIVERSITY.
WE CAN DISCUSS, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN HAVE ME TRAVEL TO HATO AND MODERATE SOME LISTENING POSTS TO GATHER RESIDENT INPUT.
AND I CAN EITHER LEAD THOSE WITH THE WORKING GROUPS OR WE CAN HAVE SOME GENERAL LISTENING POSTS.
UH, MAYBE CREATE MORE STRUCTURE AROUND THE DEIB AMBASSADOR ROLE AND PROVIDING TRAINING FOR THEM.
UH, AND I CAN ALSO DO A DEEP ANALYSIS OF THE LAST RESIDENT SURVEY AND PROVIDE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THIS GROUP BASED UPON MY ANALYSIS OF THIS.
SO THESE ARE THINGS, SOME OF THE THINGS I CAN THINK OF PROPOSING, AND THAT WE CAN WORK THROUGH THESE IN OUR JULY MEETING AND DECIDE, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE WANT TO PUT IN A BUDGET REQUEST AND, AND HOW MUCH FUNDING WE WANT TO ASK FOR.
THAT'S, YEP, THAT'S THE LAST, SO, UH, THOUGHTS OR REACTIONS TO THIS GREAT PRESENTATION, UH, REALLY HELPED ME KIND OF GO THROUGH WHAT WE HAD, UH, PLANNED AND, UH, GET, GET SOME SORT OF A STATUS UPDATE ON THAT.
SO, SO WHAT I THINK NEEDS TO BE DONE IS, UH, OVER
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THE NEXT TWO DAYS, ACTUALLY I HAVE SOME TIME ON MY CALENDAR THURSDAY TO WORK ON THIS BY THE END OF THIS WEEK.UH, I'M GONNA UPDATE THOSE SLIDES WITH THE CHECK MARKS AND QUESTION MARKS PER THE DISCUSSION WE JUST HAD AND THE NOTES WE HAD.
SO I CAN BRING IT UP TO DATE IN TERMS OF WHAT I LEARNED FROM THIS DISCUSSION AND SEND IT OUT, UH, SO THAT YOU HAVE THAT, UH, SO THAT I CAN WORK ON THAT AND GET THAT DONE AND GET THAT OUT TO YOU, UH, BY THE END OF THE WEEK.
AND ALSO, UH, NEXT I, BECAUSE I'M GOING ON VACATION THE FIRST TWO WEEKS OF JULY, UH, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS MAKE SURE THAT WE BOOK THE DATES SO I CAN MAKE MY, UH, FLIGHT ARRANGEMENTS AND STUFF NEXT WEEK AND HAVE MY INITIAL CONVERSATION WITH BRIAN KENARD, UH, NEXT WEEK.
DO YOU THINK, ABBY, WE CAN GET A CONFIRMATION ON WHETHER THE DATES 21ST OR 24 WILL WORK? YES, DEFINITELY.
SO I THINK YOU SHOULD BE GOOD ON, UH, ON THOSE DATES, STAN.
AND, UM, I, I WILL, I CAN SEND YOU BRIAN'S NUMBER AND I CAN RIGHT.
UM, LET HIM KNOW THAT, UM, TO EXPECT, UH, COMMUNICATION FROM YOU.
OR I CAN HAVE HIM REACH OUT TO YOU EITHER WAY, SO I CAN DO THAT ON THE SIDE.
SO NO, I WANNA JUMP RIGHT ON IT AND, AND
SO AS LONG AS, AS SOON AS YOU SEND ME THIS INFORMATION, I'LL REACH OUT TO HIM, YOU KNOW, PROBABLY WITHIN A DAY.
I'LL SEND THAT OVER SHORTLY THEN.
UH, SHORTLY, I, I GUESS WE WOULD BE TALKING ABOUT THE 20 26, 20 27 BUDGET FOR 7.6.
SO I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON, UH, WHAT STAN PRESENTED, UH, THAT Y'ALL WANNA YEAH, I THINK WE IRONED OUT, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE, OR THE BULK OF QUESTIONS THAT WE HAD FROM THE LAST MEETING.
AND I MEAN, I THINK THE PLAN FITS ALONG WITH WHAT IT IS WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH AND WILL KEEP US, IT'LL KEEP THE BOAT STEER THE PROPER DIRECTION.
SO I CAN DROP OFF FOR NOW AND I LOOK FORWARD TO GETTING A LOT OF DETAILS, UH, SETTLED IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
THANK YOU STAN, APPRECIATE, I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL IN PERSON NEXT MONTH.
SO DO WE NEED TO, UM, I GUESS MOTION, RIGHT? OR I DON'T THINK YOU DON'T HAVE TO TAKE ACTION, BUT, UM, I REALLY JUST THE BUDGET.
I GUESS WE CAN MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ONE.
10.5 DISCUSSION, POSSIBLE ACTION ON APPOINTMENT OR REAPPOINTMENT OF DIB COMMISSION CO-CHAIR.
DO Y'ALL HAVE ANY THOUGHTS? I WOULD LIKE TO, I MEAN, YOU'RE DOING A GREAT JOB FROM WHAT PURINA SAYS, SO, UH, I DON'T KNOW, UM, WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE REPOINT OR DO YOU WANNA, THIS IS SO HARD.
SO ANYBODY ELSE WANTS TO, THERE'S SOMEBODY ELSE THAT, THAT
AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY OTHER, NO ONE'S DEEPING, ANYONE? SHE WANTS IT? NO, JUST THE WAY.
ALRIGHT, SO WE'LL BE HERE IN SUPPORT.
SO WE NEED TO VOTE ON THAT, RIGHT? OR YEAH, LET'S SEE.
SO SAY YOU HAVE, YOU'RE MAKING A MOTION TO REAPPOINT I'M MAKING A MOTION TO REAP APPOINT, UH, COMMISSIONER WILLIAMSON, UH, AS THE CO-CHAIR OF DIB COMMISSION.
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7.6 DISCUSSION, POSSIBLE ACTION ON FISCAL YEAR 20 26, 20 27 BUDGET.UH, WELL I'LL LET Y'ALL, I'LL START OFF BY LETTING Y'ALL KNOW WHERE WE'RE AT.
UM, SO AT THURSDAYS CITY COUNCIL MEETING, UM, THE CITY MANAGERS PREPARED A BUDGET THAT HE WILL PRESENT TO COUNCIL.
UM, AND THAT KIND OF REALLY KICKS OFF OUR BUDGET SEASON.
THAT'S THE FIRST TIME COUNCIL IS REALLY SEEING THE BUDGET, UM, AS PRESENTED BY US.
UM, AND SO CHRISTIE AND I WENT AHEAD AND SUBMITTED FOR THE, THE SAME AMOUNT THAT THE DIB COMMISSION HAD LAST YEAR.
SO THAT AMOUNT IS BEING PRESENTED, UM, ON THURSDAY.
UH, AND REALLY, SO THIS DISCUSSION REALLY IS, I, I MEAN, I WOULDN'T ADVISE YOU GUYS TO ASK FOR I MORE THAN THAT, UM, BUT I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO WORK WITHIN THAT SAME AMOUNT AND JUST KIND OF REALLOCATE IT, YOU KNOW, IN A NEW WAY.
SO THAT'S, I THINK MORE WHAT THE DISCUSSION TODAY MM-HMM
WOULD BE, RATHER THAN LIKE CRUNCHING NUMBERS AND TRYING TO FIGURE OUT, YOU KNOW, JUST HOW DO YOU WANNA SPLIT IT.
SO, BUT YOU, YOU ARE WELCOME TO, SO WHEN YOU, WHEN YOU GO TO CITY COUNCIL, YOU'RE GIVING THEM A NUMBER.
IS THERE CONTEXT ATTACHED TO THAT NUMBER? LIKE IT IS SPLIT IN, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT WE WANTED FOR, SO WE WILL ULTIMATELY WANT THAT.
BUT THAT'S NOT, WE'RE NOT UNDER A TIME CRUNCH OKAY.
NOW, WHEN IS THE, WHEN IS THE BUDGET AFTER YOU FINAL THIS? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST BEING PRESENTED, RIGHT? SO THERE'S GONNA BE A, THE, THE, THE LAW SAYS SEPTEMBER 15TH.
SO BASICALLY WE, THE CITY HAS PRETTY MUCH HAS ITS STEPS IN THE ROW BY AUGUST 15TH.
SO A MONTH AFTER TWO MONTHS, BUT JULY 15TH IS KIND OF A TIME WHERE THINGS SHOULD BE YEAH.
KIND OF, YOU KNOW, COMING IN PRECIPITATING
SO THE IDEA TOO IS THAT JULY 15TH IS THE, UM, THAT, THAT COUNCIL MEETING, UH, THE IDEA IS THAT WHEN, WHEN COUNCIL'S DISCUSSING THE BUDGET, UM, IF THEY ARE TO BRING UP THE DIB COMMISSION'S BUDGET, YOU KNOW, YOU JUST WANNA BE ABLE TO HAVE AN IDEA ABOUT, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW WE WANNA SPEND THAT MONEY AND MM-HMM
KARINA, YOU WANNA ADD SOMETHING TO THIS? UH, YES.
I JUST WANNA ADD THAT WE WANNA REMIND THE COMMISSION THAT WE HAD, UH, QUITE A BIT OF FEW DISCUSSIONS ABOUT REDUCING OUR BUDGET REQUESTS FOR THIS COMING YEAR.
BECAUSE WHEN WE WENT, WHEN WE COMBED THROUGH WHERE WE HAD, WHERE WE HAD ACCOMPLISHED AND WHAT WE NEEDED TO SPEND MONEY ON IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR, WE REALIZED THAT WE HAD OVERESTIMATED HOW MUCH WE WERE GONNA NEED.
AND SO I DON'T REMEMBER THE EXACT NUMBER THAT WE CAME TO AN AGREEMENT ON A, ON A HARD NUMBER.
AND IT'S A LITTLE BIT HARD BECAUSE WE'VE HAD SO MANY COMMISSIONER, NEW NEW COMMISSIONERS ADDED AND THEN THIS TRANSITION HAPPENED.
BUT THERE WAS DEFINITELY THE COMMITMENT TO ASKING TO, FOR A MUCH REDUCED BUDGET BECAUSE SO MUCH WORK HAS ALREADY BEEN DONE, SO MUCH HAS ALREADY BEEN ESTABLISHED THAT WE CAN CONTINUE, UM, TO WORK ON LIKE THE WORKING GROUPS, LIKE OF THE DOCUMENTS THAT STAN HAS SHARED WITH US AS FAR AS GUIDES AND RESOURCES THAT WE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO ASK FOR THE SAME AMOUNT GOING INTO NEXT YEAR.
AND WE WOULD NOT BE ABLE TO JUSTIFY ANOTHER 17,000 FOR NEXT YEAR.
SO THE DISCUSSION WAS AROUND REDUCING THE, YOU KNOW, IT WAS GONNA BE QUITE A BIT OF A REDUCTION BECAUSE WE'RE ABLE TO, UM, STAND ON OUR OWN FEET AS A COMMISSION BASED ON THE WORK THAT WE HAVE BEEN DOING THE LAST YEAR AND A HALF.
AND BECAUSE WE HAVE THOSE RESOURCES, UM, IN PLACE.
NOW, IT'S KINDA AWKWARD FOR ME TO SAY THAT BECAUSE I'M NO LONGER ON THE COMMISSION, BUT I JUST WANNA REMIND THE, THE GROUP THAT THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING QUITE A BIT AS WE'RE THINKING AHEAD FOR THIS COMING BUDGET SEASON.
AND SO THE WAY I SEE IT IS THAT TODAY, OR THIS MEETING, WE'LL KIND OF PARSE OUT AND LIST ALL THE THINGS THAT WE WANT IN THE NEXT BUDGET.
AND WHEN STAN COMES NEXT MONTH, THAT'S WHEN WE WILL KIND OF SIT TOGETHER AND TALK NUMBERS OR GET A PRELIMINARY SENSE OF WHAT THAT WOULD BE.
AND THEN MAYBE AUGUST WE FINALIZE AND REFINE THOSE NUMBERS AND SEE WHAT'S NEEDED, WHAT'S NOT.
SO BY SEPTEMBER WE SHOULD HAVE, LET'S SAY IT'S, YOU KNOW, 3000 LESS THAN WHAT WE WANT.
CAN THAT HAPPEN? SO, BECAUSE WE REQUEST A 17,000 NOW IN JULY, AND WE COME BACK AND SAY, HEY, ACTUALLY WE NEED A LITTLE BIT LESS.
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POSITIVE.I'LL HAVE TO GET WITH OUR, UM, FINANCE DIRECTOR ON THE TIMELINE AS, AS I THINK AUGUST IS GONNA BE TOO LATE.
I'M THINKING WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE A MEETING WITH STAN BEFORE HE COMES MM-HMM
TO GET THE, OR AT LEAST GET, UH, QUOTES FROM HIM MM-HMM
FOR EXACTLY HOW MUCH ALL THAT HE'S PROPOSING IS.
UM, AND THEN WE CAN PUT THAT TOGETHER.
UM, BUT, BUT I'LL HAVE TO GIVE YOU GUYS A HARD DATE, BUT GO AHEAD.
I'M SAYING, HAS, HAS ALBERTA COME OUT WITH THE, THE, THESE, THE, THE BUDGET SCHEDULE MEETINGS? I THINK THOSE ARE OUT.
I'M NOT SAYING YOU NEED TO FIND 'EM RIGHT THIS SECOND.
BUT THE BUDGET DIRECTOR, SHE PUTS OUT ALL THE MEETINGS SCHEDULED FOR
AND THERE'S PROBABLY A DOZEN MEETINGS MM-HMM
THAT ARE REALLY BETWEEN, YOU KNOW, JUNE TO, TO EARLY SEPTEMBER.
THOSE, SO THOSE ARE THINGS WHEN INPUTS NEED TO BE PROVIDED AND OR DECISIONS NEED TO BE MADE.
SO WHATEVER THAT SCHEDULE IS, WHICH WE CAN PROVIDE THAT TO THE CITY, CAN PROVIDE THAT TO YOU.
THAT'S, I THINK THAT WOULD BE YOUR DRIVING THING.
IS WHATEVER ALBERTA SCHEDULE, BUDGET.
SO I WAS GONNA SAY, IF THERE'S THIS, IF THERE'S THIS A HARD DEADLINE AROUND WHEN SPECIFIC DECISIONS ACTUALLY MADE, ARE FINALIZED, LIKE IN THAT BUDGET PROCESS, I FEEL LIKE OUR APPROACH MAY NEED TO STRUCTURE ON FINALIZING THE STRATEGIC PLAN FIRST AND THEN SAYING, WHAT ARE WE FOCUSING ON IN THIS NEXT YEAR? AND THEN HOW MUCH IS, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IF WE GO IN AND JUST SAY, HEY, WHAT DO WE, WHERE DO WE WANNA SPEND THE MONEY? IF THAT DOESN'T SUPPORT WHAT OUR FOCUS ENDS UP BEING ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN, THEN THE MONEY'S JUST KIND OF SITTING IN SOME SPOT VERSUS SAYING, HEY, WE MIGHT HAVE A FIVE POINT STRATEGIC PLAN, BUT REALISTICALLY, LIKE WHEN WE LOOKED AT THAT LIST, WHAT CAN WE GET DONE THIS YEAR? WHAT'S GONNA ACTUALLY REQUIRE FUNDS? AND THEN WHEN WE COME BACK AROUND NEXT YEAR AHEAD OF THAT KIND OF BUDGET, INITIAL BUDGET SUBMISSION, WE MIGHT SAY, HEY, WELL THESE NEXT ITEMS ARE NEXT YEAR.
SO WHEN WE TALK WITH YOU AND CHRISTIE, WE CAN SAY, HEY, I KNOW LAST YEAR WE, WE ASKED FOR 5,000 BECAUSE WE WERE ONLY GONNA DO THESE PIECES THIS NEXT YEAR.
CAN YOU EARMARK US FOR JUSTIFICATION 7,000 BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA KIND OF RAMP UP WHAT WE'RE DOING IN THIS SPACE.
SO I THINK THAT MIGHT, JUST, ME PERSONALLY, I FEEL LIKE I WOULD FEEL MORE PRODUCTIVE IF I KNEW WHAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO ON THE PLAN NEXT YEAR AND THEN SAYING, WHAT DOES IT COST, IF ANY, TO GET THAT DONE SO THAT WE'RE NOT JUST SAYING, HEY, WELL LET'S FIGURE OUT HOW TO SPEND $17,000.
AND, AND I THINK YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO DO THAT OFF BASED OFF THE DRAFT THAT STAN SENDS THIS WEEK.
SO THAT SHOULD, THAT SHOULD HELP.
BUT WHEN DO WE NEED TO GIVE YOU OR CHRISTIE THE, THE, THE DETAILED REQUEST? OR DO WE NEED TO DO IT AT ALL? UM, IS IS GONNA BE MY QUESTION, BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA LEAD THE DISCUSSION ON WHEN DO WE WANNA FINALIZE THE STRATEGIC PLAN? BECAUSE I AGREE WITH YOU THAT IF WE HAVE A CLEAR VISION OF WHAT WE WANT TO DO IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN, THEN IT HELPS US LIST OUT THE, THE BUDGET ITEMS, AND THEN WE CAN HAVE A NUMBER ATTACHED TO IT.
UM, BUT IT ALL DEPENDS ON WHAT THE, WHAT THE DEADLINE IS.
BUT WE'RE DEFINITELY GONNA HAVE TO WORK AROUND THAT BUDGET SCHEDULE 'CAUSE THAT BUDGET SCHEDULE'S NOT GONNA CHANGE.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S GONNA BE STEP NUMBER ONE.
IS IS TENDING TO THE BUDGET SCHEDULE SO WE CAN STAY ON BOARD WITH WHAT THE CITY HAS GOING ON.
SO WHEN THEY, WHEN THEY PRESENT AT THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL, WILL THERE BE ACTION ON THE PROPOSED BUDGET? OR IS IT JUST LIKE A, HERE, HERE IT IS, AND NOW COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE TIME TO LOOK AT IT YEAH.
LOOK THROUGH SUGGEST AMENDMENTS ADJUSTMENTS.
AND IN THAT TIME, WHEN I'M GUESSING IS IT WILL COME BACK AND SAY, HEY, DIB IS ASKING FOR SEVEN 17,000.
DO THEY NEED THAT, WHAT IT IS? AND I'M GUESSING THE REQUEST WILL COME TO US TO EITHER FOR JUSTIFICATION OR A DECISION MADE.
SO THURSDAY IS JUST THE FIRST TIME THAT COUNCIL SEES THE BUDGET THAT STAFF PRESENTED.
AND OUR CITY MANAGER WILL GIVE A, UH, A PRESENTATION ON THE HIGHLIGHTS, BUT THERE'S NO, UM, DISCUSSION OR ACTION ON IT ON THURSDAY.
SO I WILL, I WILL FIGURE OUT THE REST OF THE DATES.
UM, AND, AND SEND THAT TO Y'ALL IN A FOLLOW UP.
ARE THOSE BUDGETING PUBLIC OR, OKAY, HANG ON.
AND, AND WHEN KIND OF IN THE JUSTIFICATION IS, YOU KNOW, JUST HAVING KIND OF LIKE A SIMPLISTIC, AND I'M NOT A BUDGETING OR FINANCE GUY BY ANY MEANS, BUT JUST HAVING A LITTLE EXCEL SPREADSHEET THAT SAYS, YOU KNOW,
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THIS IS A, THIS IS THE ITEM, WHATEVER, WHATEVER NUMBER IT IS.UM, AND THEN WHAT A LITTLE BRIEF DESCRIPTION, YOU KNOW, I'M JUST TALKING ABOUT ONE, ONE ROW AND THEN, YOU KNOW, THE AMOUNT, AND MAYBE THERE'S A TIMING IN THERE, BUT IT'S KINDA LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA GO IN AND DO A TOWN HALL, UH, MEETING OR LISTENING POSTS.
I LIKE THAT, THAT, THAT, THAT NOMENCLATURE, UH, THAT SAYS WHAT DO PEOPLE WANT IN A NEWER, DIVERGENT THING? SO MAYBE WE WANT TO HAVE SOME, I'M NOT SAYING THE COUNCIL WOULD AGREE WITH THIS, SOME PEOPLE WOULDN'T
SO WE NEED, YOU KNOW, 400 BUCKS, YOU KNOW, FOR THAT LITTLE TOWN HALL MEETING.
I KNOW FROM CHURCH, IF YOU GRAB FOOD, THEY WILL COME
THAT'S SO, BUT I MEAN, THAT KIND OF THING IS, I THINK THAT'S THE LEVEL OF DETAIL THAT'S, THAT'S NEEDED.
UM, I KNOW FOR THE ONE 50TH, UM, MEETING, MAYBE THEY JUST HAD MAYBE, YOU KNOW, 20, 20, 25 ITEMS THAT THIS IS WHAT WE NEED BUDGET ITEMS, AND, AND SOME OF IT IS ESTIMATE, WELL, THAT'S IN A BUDGET, THAT'S A DIFFERENT THING.
BUT FOR THE BUDGET GOING FORWARD, I MEAN, YOU JUST KIND OF, THIS IS WHAT WE WANT, YOU KNOW, WE NEED, WE NEED A THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR GOODIES FOR THREE TOWN HALL MEETINGS, YOU KNOW, UM, WHATEVER THAT IS.
OR, YOU KNOW, OR, BUT YOU NEED TO HAVE A, YOU JUST CAN'T SAY YOU'RE GONNA DO IT.
YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING AS THEY SAY, WELL, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? 'CAUSE I MAY ASK, WELL, WHAT DO THOSE TOWN HALL MEETINGS LOOK LIKE? WELL, WE'RE THINKING ABOUT THIS TOPIC, THIS TOPIC, AND THIS TOPIC.
WE'RE EXPECTING, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, ANYWHERE FROM 20 TO 40 PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, WE'D LIKE TO HAVE SOME, JUST SOME BEVERAGES FOR NUMBER ONE.
MAYBE WE'LL GET SOME SCONES OR SOMETHING THAT, BUT, BUT YOU GONNA HAVE SOMETHING? OKAY.
I HAVE, I FOUND THE BUNCH CALS.
OH, YOU DID? I WAS LOOKING FOR IT.
UM, SO ON THE CIVIC SIDE, I DON'T THINK IT'S PUBLISHED ON THE, THE OKAY.
UM, THIS IS LIKE ALL THE LITTLE, THERE IS A BUNCH OF THEM.
THERE'S, THERE'S, UM, SO I'M, I HAVE HERE THAT ON JULY 31ST, THE PROPOSED BUDGET MUST BE FILED WITH THE CITY SECRETARY AND DELIVERED TO COUNCIL FOR CHARTER.
SO I WOULD SAY IF YOU, IF WE, WE WILL NEED TO HAVE BY THE JULY 1ST.
UM, SO, SO WE HAVE ONE, ONE MORE MEETING.
UM, WHICH IS GOOD BECAUSE IT BE A LONG MEETING.
STAN'S GONNA BE THERE, SO, RIGHT.
UH, SO, SO THEN THAT MEETING WOULD GO BASICALLY LIKE FINALIZING THE STRATEGIC PLAN, FINALIZING THE BUDGET.
SO YEAH, SO IT'LL BE A LONGER YEAR.
UM, SO IN THAT CASE THEN, UM, LET'S FLIP IT A LITTLE BIT.
LET'S FLIP THE ITEM A LITTLE BIT AND SAY, WHAT DO WE WANT INCLUDED IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR NEXT YEAR? UH, LET'S SAY OUTSIDE OF WHAT WE DISCUSSED OR WHAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED ALREADY.
SO, UM, THE WAY I SEE IT IS WE HAVE SOME, UH, THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE FROM THE, FROM THE LAST YEAR'S STRATEGIC PLAN.
SO WE HAVE PART OF THAT THAT'S GONNA BE INCLUDED.
UM, WHAT IS IT THAT WE WANT TO ADD TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN, UH, FOR 20 26, 27? SO, I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, WHEN, I KNOW WE HAD ASKED FOR KIND OF THAT DATA SLICE OF THE SURVEY.
UH, AND JUST PERSONALLY, I THINK THAT ANY ADDITIONAL WORK THAT WE DO AS FAR AS TARGETING OR, UM, TRYING TO CREATE FOCUS, I FEEL LIKE IT HAS TO GO OFF OF THAT SURVEY BECAUSE OTHERWISE IT, IT, IT FEELS LIKE WE'RE KIND OF LIKE STABBING IN THE DARK, TRYING TO LAND SOMEWHERE VERSUS SAYING, HEY, WHEN WE TOOK, LIKE THE CITY SPENT MONEY ON THE SURVEY, THE SURVEY GAVE US SOME RESULTS.
WHEN WE LOOK AT THE RESULTS, IT TELLS US THAT OUR BIGGEST RISK AREA IS HERE.
I FEEL LIKE THAT'S WHERE THE FOCUS NEEDS TO GO.
WE, YEAH, WE CAN'T JUST, JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, TO, TO ME, EVEN SPEAKING ABOUT JUSTIFYING, RIGHT? LIKE, I THINK IT WOULD BE A POWERFUL THING TO LOOK AT THE BUDGET AND ANY BUDGET REQUEST SAYING, HEY, THE SURVEY SAID THIS, THIS IS WHERE OUR REQUEST IS COMING FROM, OR OUR REASON FOR THE REQUESTS COMING BECAUSE OF THIS SURVEY, OR, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S ALIGNED WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN THIS WAY.
SO, UM, I FEEL LIKE IT WOULD BE KIND OF MISSION CRITICAL TO GET THAT INFORMATION AND THEN MAKE THE DECISION ABOUT WHAT WE WANNA ADD.
IF WE NEED TO ADD OR RETOOL ANYTHING IN THERE, IT SHOULD BE BASED OFF THAT INFORMATION.
UM, THAT'S JUST MY THOUGHT, BUT, UH, GOLD STAR.
IS THERE, I JUST FEEL LIKE IT'S HARD.
IT'S GETTING HARDER TO KIND OF, THERE, THERE'S SO MANY ISSUES AND DIRECTIONS TO GO IF YOU CIRCUMVENT
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THE DATA.IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, THAT'S JUST, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S WASTEFUL.
YOU'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA END UP HAVING TO GO BACK AND DO THE THING ANYWAY.
SO IT'S LIKE, LET'S GET THE INFORMATION RIGHT AND HIT THE RIGHT TARGETS.
SO IF WE'RE WAITING ON SOMEONE ELSE, A THIRD PARTY, AND WE DON'T HAVE ANY GUARANTEE, IF WE WILL GET THAT BACK AT LEAST SOON ENOUGH FOR US TO FORMULATE, UH, A FORMAL PLAN, MAYBE THE WAY WE GO ABOUT IT IS, UH, DO SOME SORT OF AN ESTIMATE THAT, HEY, I THINK X AMOUNT PUT ASIDE OF, YOU KNOW, STANCE, TIME AND MONEY OUTSIDE OF THAT WOULD BE ENOUGH TO COVER A POTENTIAL ISSUE OR POTENTIAL THING THAT COMES OUT OF THIS.
BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE CAN JUST SIT TIGHT AND WAIT, WAIT FOR SOMETHING TO COME.
SO HOW DO WE MITIGATE THAT RISK THAT THE THIRD PARTY MAY NOT COME BACK IN TIME? YES.
SO I HAVE A, I HAVE A DECENT, I BELIEVE DECENT ANSWER ON CONTINGENCIES.
WE USE PAST PRACTICES AND AVAILABLE DATA TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS AS A CONTINGENCY, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE LOOK AT THE SCOPE OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE.
WE LOOK AT THE DIRECTION THAT WE WANT TO MOVE AND THE DATA THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE, AND WE USE WHAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE.
AND IT'S LIKE, IT'S GONNA REQUIRE SOME, SOME WORK AND SOME RESEARCHING OUTSIDE OF THIS ROOM, RIGHT? SO IT'S LIKE, I THINK THAT IN FORMULATING A, A CONTINGENCY PLAN, THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S, THAT'S A, AN APPROACH.
NOT THE APPROACH, BUT IT'S AN IDEA.
SO EVEN IF, EVEN IF IT IS, YOU KNOW, WE TAKE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF DATA FROM THE SURVEY, RIGHT? LIKE, WE'RE OBVIOUSLY ASKING FOR SOME VERY SPECIFIC DATA, WHICH I FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD BE ENTITLED TO ONE WAY OR ANOTHER, UM, EVEN IF IT'S NOT PUBLISHED.
BUT I FEEL LIKE WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO GET TO SOME OF THAT.
UM, BUT LET'S JUST SAY WE TAKE THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF INFORMATION, UM, AND FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN, YOU KNOW, THAT COULD BE AGE DEMOGRAPHIC, UM, RACE, DEMOGRAPHIC, GENDER DEMOGRAPHIC.
AND THEN BASED OFF THE QUESTIONS THAT ALIGN WITH OUR COMMISSION, THOSE KIND OF BECOME THE FOCUS OF AT THE STRATEGIC PLAN UNTIL WE GET MORE SPECIFIC DATA.
AND THEN WE SAY, OKAY, NOW WE'RE GONNA DRILL DOWN ONE MORE LEVEL AND WE'RE GONNA HONE IN RIGHT HERE.
BUT I THINK THAT NOT TAKING ACTION ISN'T THE RIGHT STEP.
I JUST FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T WANT TO GET IT FROZEN BY THE LACK OF THE SPECIFIC INFORMATION, BUT WE HAVE SOME DATA.
SO I THINK WE SHOULD JUST, THE, THE PLAN SHOULD FOCUS ON THAT.
UH, I DID SEE, I MEAN, THERE, THERE'S, THERE WERE THREE OR FOUR I THINK GROUPS REPRESENTED IT ACROSS LIKE SOME DIFFERENT SLICERS THAT ARE IN THERE.
WE WERE JUST TRYING TO FIND THE CORRELATION BETWEEN 'EM.
SO I, I DO THINK THAT WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE SOME OF THAT IN AND KIND OF ADD THAT TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN, LOOK AT THE STRATEGIC PLAN FROM THOSE LENSES.
SO, UH, WHAT WE CAN HAVE IS WE CAN HAVE STAN SORT OF PREPARE, UH, POTENTIAL STRATEGIC PLAN NEXT MEETING, AND WE CAN ALL KIND OF, UH, DO SOME, SOME RESEARCH ON OUR END AND ADD TO WHATEVER HE'S BRINGING TO THE TABLE SO WE CAN FINALIZE THAT.
AND THEN THAT CONVERSATION THEN LEADS TO NATURALLY WILL LEAD TO THE BUDGET ITEMS. AND SO THEN WE CAN BUDGET THAT.
SO RIGHT NOW, MAYBE, UH, WHAT WE CAN DO IS JUST GET, GIVE OURSELVES SOME HOMEWORK ON OKAY.
WHAT WE NEED TO BRING TO THE NEXT MEETING.
UH, THAT WAY WE ARE PREPARED FOR NOW.
WELL, AND, AND LET'S REMEMBER THERE ARE 11 DAYS BETWEEN WHEN STAN GETS HERE AND THE DATE THAT THAT MM-HMM
BUDGET DEADLINE IS, SO THE SEVEN 20 HE ARRIVES 7 31, LIKE SO.
WE, WE HAVE HIM FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS TOO.
SO YEAH, POTENTIALLY IF HE CAN MEET HIM AND DISCUSS IN, UH, FURTHER DETAIL, ONE DAY IS NOT ENOUGH.
UM, ANOTHER THING I THINK WE, THAT MIGHT ALSO BE HELPFUL TOO, IS WE ARE LOOKING THROUGH THAT STRATEGIC PLAN, EVEN IF IT'S EVERYONE KIND OF PICKS LIKE THE TOP THREE TARGETS, RIGHT.
'CAUSE THAT'S A LONG, IT IS A LONG LIST.
AND I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, FOR THE SAKE OF BEING ABLE TO SAY, HEY, WE GOT A SMALL WIN, RIGHT? LIKE, IF
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WE SAY, HEY, THERE'S THREE THINGS WE'RE SETTING OUT TO ACCOMPLISH NO MATTER WHAT THIS UPCOMING YEAR, I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT TO BE ABLE TO ABLE TO LOOK BACK AND SAY, WE GOT THOSE THREE THINGS DONE, THEN TO SAY, HEY, WELL WE TOUCHED A LITTLE BIT OF EVERYTHING, BUT NOTHING'S ACTUALLY FINISHED.SO I THINK IT MIGHT BE A NICE THING IF WE ALL COME TO THAT MEETING WITH LIKE THE TOP THREE, OUR TOP THREE PRIORITIES OFF THAT PLAN THAT WE WANT TO SEE.
AND IF WE HAVE A CONSENSUS ON IT, GREAT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, IF WE HAVE TO TOOL THAT OUT IN THAT MEETING AS WELL, I THINK IT'LL HELP KIND OF FOCUS US AND SAY, OKAY, THIS IS WHERE OUR PRIORITY IS.
OR SOME EVERYONE'S GONNA TAKE ONE ITEM OFF THE LIST, OR, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE CASE MAY BE.
'CAUSE I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE SEEING TOO IS AS COMMISSIONERS EITHER MOVE IN OR MOVE OUT, SOME OF THAT'S MOVING WITH THEM.
AND I THINK IT'S HARD TO KIND OF TRACK WHERE WERE WE WITH THIS ITEM.
SO I THINK IF WE'RE ALL ALIGNED WITH, WELL THIS IS KIND OF SOMETHING THAT ALL OF US ARE BOUGHT IN ON COMPLETING THIS YEAR, EVEN IF ONE PERSON'S LEAVING, IT DOESN'T SLOW THE MOMENTUM ON THAT ITEM.
WE JUST KIND OF KEEP GOING ON IT.
SO THAT MIGHT HELP TOO WITH THAT MEETING WITH STAN AND KIND OF FOCUS THAT TOO.
'CAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF ON THAT LIST, SO.
UM, SO, SO WE HAVE THE DATA SLICE SURVEY, SURVEY DATA SLICE, UM, THAT WE'RE WAITING FOR THAT'S GONNA INFORM PLAN, UM, GENERALLY FOR SAYING THE PUBLIC AWARENESS CAMPAIGN ON NEURODIVERGENCE.
SO THAT'S CERTAINLY GOING TO BEGIN THERE.
UH, I RECALL YOU, UH, NIKKI AND CORINA, UH, YOU, YOU GUYS HAD COME UP WITH A LIST OF THINGS.
UH, DO Y'ALL HAVE A PHOTO OF THAT YES.
THAT YOU CAN SHARE? AND IS THE STAN'S PRESENTATION, IS THAT SHARED WITH ALL THE COMMISSIONERS? YES.
AND IT WAS IN THE, THE EMAIL I SAW YOU GUYS.
AND THEN THE, THE OTHER BIG THING THAT I HAVE IS THE WORKING GROUP.
THAT IS, THAT IS THE WORKING GROUPS.
THAT'S THE INITIATIVE THAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING.
SO THESE KIND OF, FOR ME, MAKE UP ESSENTIALLY MOST OF STRATEGIC PLAN FOCUS FOR THE NEXT YEAR.
AND THEN THERE'S OTHER STUFF THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT'LL COME FROM WHAT WE DISCOVERED, WHAT STAN PRESENTED FROM LAST YEAR.
BUT FOR THE MOST PART, THIS IS WHAT, UH, TAKES CARE OF.
I WOULD SAY 90% OF WHAT, WHAT SHOULD BE ON, UH, POTENTIALLY THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
SO THAT BEING SAID, I THINK, UH, THE FINAL LINE ON THIS IS THAT LET'S COME PREPARED FOR THE NEXT MEETING WITH SOME POINTERS AND SOME IDEAS ON WHAT WE WANT TO BE INCLUDED IN THE STRATEGIC PLAN.
UH, DO WE NEED A PUT ON THAT? NO.
ABBY, TAKE IT AWAY IF IT'S 7.7 DISCUSSIONS AND POSSIBLE ACTION.
WHAT WANTS TO PUT THE SWAG? THE SWAG.
UM, I JUST, WELL, UM, I JUST PUT TOGETHER, THIS IS A VERY, THIS IS NOT A, UM, BRAND ALLOWED POWERPOINT, BUT, UM, I'M THE COMMUNICATIONS MANAGER SO I CAN DO IT.
SO, UM,
I KNOW IT'S GONNA BE GOOD BECAUSE I CAN TELL ABBY'S TURNING JUST A LITTLE RED
YOU KNOW, I JUST DIDN'T THINK WE NEEDED TO DO THE FINISH.
SMALL HIPPO WITH OBVIOUSLY HE WOULD HAVE THE YOU BELONG, UM, UH, LOGO ON HIS SHIRT.
UM, YOU GUYS HAVE ABOUT, I'M CALLING IT ABOUT A THOUSAND DOLLARS GIVEAWAY BUDGET.
AND SO I'M HOPING MAYBE WE CAN, UM, TALK ABOUT THINGS THAT'LL WORK FOR JULY 4TH, BUT ALSO FOR THE HUNDRED 50TH CELEBRATION.
THAT WAY WE CAN DO ONE BIG ORDER.
'CAUSE YOU'LL GET PRICE BREAKS AT, YOU KNOW, FOR BUYING IN BULK.
UM, SO BE THINKING ABOUT THAT.
BUT I'M, IN MY MIND, I'M KIND OF WORKING WITH A BUDGET OF ABOUT A THOUSAND MM-HMM
UM, THE ONLY THING WE'VE SPENT OUT OF THE YOU ALONG LINE SO FAR IS THE BANNER, WHICH WAS 60 AND SOME, UH, FOOD, RIGHT? YES.
SO THAT'S ABOUT THREE 50, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BUT WE, WE, WE HAVE A THOUSAND MORE
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IN, UH, RESOURCE GUIDE THAT WE CAN PULL OUT OF.SO REALLY WASN'T THAT BEING MOVED FOR STANDARD? FOR STANDARD? WELL, UH, EVEN AFTER YOU ADJUST FOR THAT.
UH, AFTER WE ADJUST A THOUSAND DOLLARS OUT OF 5.4 AND 5.5, WE HAVE A THOUSAND RESOURCE GUIDE AND A THOUSAND YOU BELONG IN HU.
SO WE HAVE ABOUT, ABOUT JUST ABOUT 600 IN 5.5, AND THEN A THOUSAND, UH, 5.4.
BUT I DO, I MEAN, WE, WE WANNA BE REASONABLE AS WELL WITH WHAT WE SPEND.
SO, UH, UM, I MEAN, A THOUSAND DOLLARS CAN GET YOU A LOT.
UM, GIVEAWAY WISE, I, I MIGHT GET WITH JEFF, UM, WHO'S OUR, OUR PARKS AND REC DIRECTOR TO ASK HOW MANY PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, IF THEY HAVE A COUNT OF HOW MANY PEOPLE USUALLY ATTEND 4TH OF JULY.
UM, I KNOW IT'S ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR EVENTS, SO IT IT IS A LOT.
UM, BUT YEAH, I WOULD ENCOURAGE US IN THIS TO BUY MORE.
THAT WAY WE'RE NOT ORDERING FOR EVERY EVENT.
YOU'RE, YOU'RE JUST BUYING THINGS THAT YOU THINK WILL WORK, RIGHT.
HE'S EXPENSIVE IN TERMS OF GIVEAWAYS.
UM, HE IS 6.49 FOR A QUANTITY OF PER ITEM FOR A QUANTITY OF 50.
UM, AND THAT GOES DOWN, MAYBE IF YOU GO UP TO LIKE A QUANTITY OF 200, IT GOES DOWN TO MAYBE LIKE FOUR POINT OR 5.5 50 AN ITEM.
SO, UM, WHAT ELSE YOU GOT? SO, HE'S SO CUTE.
EVERYBODY DOES A PIN, RIGHT? IT'S A HIPPO PIN, WHICH MAKES IT BETTER.
UM, IT'S REALLY, IT'S PRETTY CHEAP, BUT I DO WORRY ABOUT THE, THE LOGO'S NOT GONNA SHINE ON THAT, YOU KNOW, BUT IT'S CUTE.
THIS IS MY FAVORITE, BUT I WON'T SAY, UM, THIS IS PRETTY CHEAP.
IT'S A DOLLAR 67, UM, FOR A QUANTITY OF 150.
I THINK DOING THINGS FROM MY PAST EXPERIENCE, DOING THINGS, UH, TO HELP PEOPLE COOL OFF AT THE FOURTH IS GONNA GET YOU MM-HMM
WE USED TO GIVE OUT LIKE COOLING TOWELS, UM, AND THEY WOULD GO LIKE THAT.
THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY LIKE, UM MM-HMM
PULLED UP INTO THE THING YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN NOW.
SMASH, I GOT THOSE AT THE BASEBALL GAME.
AND I HAVE LIKE FOUR OF 'EM SITTING AT MY DESK NOW BECAUSE YEAH.
AND IT'S A GREAT, UM, JUST BLANK CANVAS FOR OUR BEAUTIFUL LOGO, SO YEAH.
QUESTION ABOUT, SORRY, DO YOU HAVE MORE? OH NO, THAT'S DIFFERENT.
COULD WE, IF WE DID THE PEN, COULD WE DO LIKE THE TAGLINE INSTEAD OF YEAH.
WE COULD JUST WRITE YOU BELONG IN HU YEAH.
THAT'S PROBABLY A BETTER IDEA.
UM, AND THEN MY NEXT SUGGESTION WAS TO WAS GONNA BE TO DO A RUN OF STICKERS NO MATTER WHAT ITEM Y'ALL CHOOSE, IT'S ALWAYS NICE TO ALSO HAVE STICKERS TO SCATTER THE TABLE.
SO IS THERE A COASTER OPTION? COASTER? I CAN'T BECAUSE IT'S LIKE A, BECAUSE IT'S LIKE A STICKER.
IT'S MORE, UH, IT'S MY PLACE STURDIER MORE STURDY.
I'M JUST CURIOUS WHAT PRICE IT MIGHT BE.
ONE, UM, I WOULD CHOOSE THE, I KNOW, WELL THE STICKERS YOU CAN, YOU CAN STICK UP THINGS, BUT I GOT, I, I GOT ONE FOR THE PARKS FROM THE YEAH.
I FORGOT WHAT THE EVENT WAS THAT WE GOT.
I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THEY WERE FREE, BUT YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MANY COASTERS.
I THINK PENS ARE FOR THAT SETTING.
I JUST, I JUST THINK PENS, UH, RETIRED PENS, THEY'RE NOT, NO, I MEAN, THEY'RE, THEY'RE NOT UTILITARIAN.
SO SOMEONE'S GONNA KEEP IT FOR SHOW.
I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A, YOU KNOW, IN MY SITTING IN MY PENCIL THING, BUT I WOULDN'T BE USING IT AS A PEN.
IT'D BE USING IT AS, YOU KNOW, IT'S A DECORATION.
WELL, AND YOU, AND YOU THINK ABOUT LIKE WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE HANDING THEM OUT.
ARE THEY GONNA GET DROPPED OR, YOU KNOW? OH, A HUNDRED PERCENT.
YOU KNOW, LIKE THE FAN PEOPLE ARE GONNA HOLD ON FANS COASTER, YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS THE FIRST ONE? DO YOU HAVE COOZIES? YES.
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I'M NOT GONNA LIE, I'M REALLY LOVING THAT STUFF.I DON'T THINK THAT, I THINK THAT'S NON DEBATABLE.
UM, BECAUSE THEY'RE ZI ARE CHEAP TOO.
UM, LIKE I'M JUST THINKING ABOUT PEOPLE AT THE EVENT WILL BE LIKE, OH, I HAVE USED IN THERE.
LIKE, YOU KNOW, AS OPPOSED TO YEAH.
I MEAN THIS, THIS AND LA COASTERS ARE KIND OF THE SAME PRICE AS THE STICKERS.
SO IF Y'ALL WOULD RATHER DO ONE OF THOSE.
I PROBABLY GOT PROBABLY GO THE CZI IS A THING.
UM, I MEAN WE COULD DO A SPLIT.
SO WE COULD DO, UM, ANYTHING I WANT.
YOU CAN DO SOME OF ONE, SOME OF ANOTHER.
UM, WELL, WHAT I WOULD DO IS HAVE TO TAKE YOUR PRICE BREAK, WHAT ARE YOUR NEXT PRICE BREAK LIKE, AND START ADDING THOSE NUMBERS UP.
SEE, IT'S KINDA LIKE A PUZZLE FITTING IT INTO YOUR BUDGET.
BECAUSE IT MAY BE 300 OF THIS AND ONE 50 OF THAT YEAH.
PUT TOGETHER TO GET UNDER YOUR, YEAH.
SO I GUESS THE QUESTION IS, DO Y'ALL WANT TO DO TWO ITEMS? DO YOU JUST WANNA DO ONE? WELL, DEPENDS ON THE PRICE BREAK.
YOU KNOW, IS IT PRICE BREAK? IS IT, IF, IF IT'S 50 AND THEN 500, WELL THAT'S PROBABLY NOT A GOOD THING, YOU KNOW.
BUT, BUT IF IT LOOKS, I THINK WE CAN MAKE IT FIT INTO THOSE TO LITTLE BABY HIPPOS THE FAN SUPER USEFUL.
AND THEN, AND, AND THEN THOSE THAT CALCULATE AND THEN, AND THEN, AND THEN THE COOZIES.
I THINK THOSE ARE THREE SOLID ITEMS. OKAY.
UM, IF I FIT, YOU SAID HIPPOS, COOZIES AND FANS.
UM, AND THIS MAY BE 'CAUSE WHEN'S THE, WHEN'S ON 50TH? NOVEMBER.
SO, SO MAYBE LESS FAMOUS, DEPENDING.
SO WHAT I WOULD THINK NO WANTS TO BE IN TEXAS.
UH, SO WHAT WE COULD LOOK AT TOO IS HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO GET THESE ITEMS? UH, BECAUSE IF WE DON'T, IF YOU'RE GONNA TALK WITH PARKS YEAH.
AND SEE HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE GONNA ATTEND.
MAYBE YOU DON'T NEED TO ORDER 600 RIGHT.
WORTH OF 'EM, BUT YOU CAN KIND OF FOCUS TEST AND SEE HOW THEY DO.
AND IF THEY'RE REAL POPULAR, IF LIKE YEAH.
THE HIPPOS GO FASTER THAN THE FANS, THEN MAYBE FOR THE HUNDRED 50TH WE GET MORE OF THE HIPPOS.
AND THAT THEY'RE KIND OF A, AND, AND YOU'LL PROBABLY HEAR PEOPLE ASK, OH, WHERE'D YOU GUYS GET, YOU KNOW, I NEED MORE OF THE HIPPO.
YOU KNOW, SO WHAT'S THE GIVEAWAY MECHANISMS? BECAUSE WE'D UH, WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE A TENT, I ASSUME.
AND THEN PEOPLE CAN KIND OF COME AND JUST PICK WHAT THEY WANT AND TAKE IT OR, YEAH.
UM, THEY USUALLY, LIKE, YOU'LL, YOU GUYS SET UP KIND OF LIKE YOU DID AT THE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS.
YOU'LL SET UP AT THE TABLE, UH, HAVE YOUR GIVEAWAYS HELP LET PEOPLE STOP BY AND TALK TO 'EM.
YOU TALK TO 'EM ABOUT DIB INITIATIVES, UM, WHAT YOU GUYS DO, INVITE 'EM TO WORKING GROUPS IF THEY'RE, IF THEY FALL INTO ONE OF THE CATEGORIES, UM, AND THEN THEY JUST THINK I, AND WE ASK THEM TO DO A SURVEY FOR ONE OF THE BIGGER ONES, JUST LIKE A QUICK 2, 3, 4, 5 QUESTION SURVEY IF YOU KIND OF WANT AN ADDITIONAL THING.
I THINK IF Y TO DO THAT OR DEVIL YOU'RE WELCOME TO.
THEY FEEL LIKE, OH, I GET SOMETHING OUT OF THIS.
SO YOU CAN GET A Q HIPPO IF YOU ANSWER THESE QUICK FIVE QUESTIONS TAKES LIKE 10 SECONDS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
BUT THE ONLY THING IS WE WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA HAVE TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THOSE QUESTIONS NEED TO BE AND WHAT WE TRYING TO GET OUT OF THAT.
UM, SO YOUR SUGGESTION WOULD BE MAYBE TO WORK WITH HALF OF THAT BUDGET, SO SAY AROUND FIVE, 600.
AND THEN WE CAN SEE HOW THEY GO AND SOON WE GET REORDER FOR THAT AMOUNT.
SEE PROBABLY WHAT THE ORDER, BECAUSE THE OTHER THING TOO IS LIKE WE ORDER SO MANY AND LET'S JUST SAY THEY END UP SITTING IN BOXES 'CAUSE WE CAN'T GET RID OF 'EM.
SO WE ORDER THEM, SEE HOW THE QUALITY LOOKS, SEE IF
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THEY COME TIMELY, ALL OF THAT.AND THEN IT CAN BECOME A REPEAT ORDER FOR THE HUNDRED 50TH, MAYBE IN A LARGER AMOUNT IF WE EXPECT MORE PEOPLE TO BE THERE.
AND THERE MAY BE MORE FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR THE ONE 50TH, RIGHT? MM-HMM
THEY CAN GET THAT BUDGET RIGHT IN A ROW.
THESE SUCKERS ARE EXPENSIVE, BUT WHAT'S THE NEXT PRICE? PAY 205 7 5
GOES DOWN A LITTLE LOT OF TIME.
THAT'S HOW THEY GET YOU NOT A, NOT A GREAT REDUCTION FOR THEM.
YOU'RE PROBABLY ROCKING 50 HIP ORDER 2000.
AND WE HAVE 'EM FILL OUT A SURVEY.
YOU CAN GET THE OTHER THINGS FOR JUST SHOWING UP.
WE HAVE A, I'LL TELL YOU WHAT YOU DON'T WANNA DO IS PUT THE HIPPOS OUT ON THE TABLE.
SO MAYBE WE GO, SO LIKE 50 OF THESE, 50 OF THESE AND THEN SPLIT THE REST OF THE BUDGET BETWEEN IES AND FANS.
HOW MUCH DOES THAT GET US? LIKE PROBABLY A HUNDRED, ONE 50 EACH.
FIVE HIPPOS WHAT? 67? THAT'S ABOUT TWO 50.
UM, YOU COULD, YOU'VE PROBABLY GONE ONE.
BUT THAT'S THE MINIMUM QUANTITY.
TWO 50 AND THAT'S ABOUT THREE.
SO WE HAVE, WE ARE AT 600 THEN AT THAT POINT.
SO WE MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO DO BOTH OF THOSE.
AND OZZIE SAYS 50 ZY IES, I DON'T THINK LIKE A DOLLAR 50.
I THINK IT WAS LIKE 125 MINIMUM.
THE OTHER OPTION IS TO JUST NOT DO A TEST AND JUST GO FOR IT.
AND I'M, AND I'M NOT SAYING NECESSARILY A TEST, I'M JUST SAYING LIKE, IF THERE'S LIKE, LIKE THE IES FOR EXAMPLE, I DON'T THINK YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A PROBLEM GIVING THOSE AWAY.
LIKE EVEN IF WE HAVE, IF WE CAN'T GET THEM ALL, IF WE CAN'T GIVE THEM ALL AWAY ON THE FOURTH, WE'LL GIVE THEM AWAY BY.
AND IT'S GONNA BE HOT HERE UNTIL JANUARY NEXT YEAR ANYWAY.
SO, WELL, SO MY SUGGESTION THEN WOULD BE TO GO WITH THE MINIMUM ORDER ON ALL THREE MM-HMM
AND THEN WITH LEFTOVER MONEY WE CAN, WE CAN REORDER WHATEVER DID BEST AT THE FOURTH.
UM, AND THIS COMPANY IS REALLY QUICK.
I THINK THEY'RE IN THE, THE CITY'S VENDOR SYSTEM TOO.
SO, UM, SHOULD SHIP IN ONE BUSINESS DAY, SO SHOULD GET ON QUICK.
AND MY PLAN WAS TO DO WHITE EVERYTHING WITH THE FULL COLOR.
SHIRTS YOU DON'T EVEN WANT TOUCH REALLY? I MEAN, SUPER EXPENSIVE.
NOT FOR, NOT FOR EVENT GIVEAWAYS.
NOT FOR, I WOULDN'T SAY FOR AN EVENT GIVEAWAY.
SO WITH THAT AT ALL, HOW MUCH ARE CAPS OR YEAH, EVEN TOW BAGS FOR, BECAUSE I WAS SAYING LIKE IF WE SHOWED UP AND WE WERE KIND OH, Y'ALL YEAH.
ARE THEY SCREEN PRINT OR ARE THEY, I ALMOST THINK YOU WOULD BE BETTER OFF.
UM, NOT ORDERING THIS THING IS, IS MORE FOR BULK.
I AL I WOULD SAY YOU'D ALMOST BE BETTER OFF GOING TO, UM, PROCRASTINATION OR A LOCAL T-SHIRT PRINTING, UM, BUSINESS AND I CAN GET THEM THAT FILE AND THEN THEY CAN JUST HAVE IT PRINTED, SCREEN PRINTED FOR YOU.
SO Y'ALL WANT TO TAKE ACTION ON ALLOWING ME TO ORDER PERFECT BUDGET, UH, COMMISSION MEMBERS GET A HIPPO RESERVE
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FOR THEM.UH, MOVING SECOND? YEAH, I SECOND.
UM, OPEN DISCUSSION ITEMS FOR JULY 21ST, 2026 MEETING.
UM, ALL I HAVE, WELL, I HAVE A COUPLE THINGS.
ONE, HOMEWORK FOR, UH, STRATEGIC PLAN, THE DIB STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WE'LL DISCUSS NEXT MONTH.
AND THEN ALSO, UH, FOR NEURODIVERGENCE, UH, WE'LL, UH, PUSH MS. BRIAN K'S MEETING MM-HMM
UH, PRESENTATION TO NEXT, NEXT TIME.
BUT, UH, IT WOULD ALSO HELP IF WE HAVE SOME SORT OF A, AN IDEA OF, YOU KNOW, MAYBE HAVE CASE STUDIES OR, UH, YOU KNOW, SOME NEAR DIVERGENT INCLUSION PRACTICES FROM IN AND AROUND TEXAS OR US OR, YOU KNOW, ELSEWHERE.
I'LL, UH, I CAN SPEARHEAD SOME OF THAT RESEARCH 'CAUSE I'VE ALREADY DONE SOME OF IT.
YEAH, IF WE, YEAH, I THINK WE, WELL WHAT, WHAT, UH, I ENVISION IS JUST, UH, A WAY FOR EVERYONE TO KIND OF JUST UNDERSTAND HOW BASE LEVEL, UH, KNOWLEDGE OF, UH, WHAT THIS IS.
AND THEN I HAVE, UH, YOU BELONG AT HURO.
WE'VE KICKED THAT OFF, BUT I KIND OF WANT TO HAVE AN UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE IN ACTION ACROSS THE YEAR OR IF IT'S A MORE OF A PROGRAM.
WHAT DOES THAT PROGRAM DO YEAR ON YEAR? WHAT IS THAT? WHAT IS IT MEANT TO DO? AND JUST, JUST START BUILDING ON WHAT THAT PROGRAM IS.
SO BUDGET ITEMS. YOU BELONG IN HURO AND YOU ARE DIVERGENT.
I WOULD LIKE TO ALSO, UM, AFTER THE, UM, KICKOFF MEETING WITH THE ANOTHER WORKING GROUP, I LIKE TO COME BACK AND REPORT ON IT.
YEAH, THAT'D BE GREAT BECAUSE IT, IT, IT IS AN INITIAL MEETING, UM, AND I WANT TO HOPEFULLY CHOOSE A, YOU KNOW, A LEADER TO OVERSEE.
UM, AND THEN SOME OF THE THINGS THAT, SO I'LL BE WORKING ON, UM, DEVELOPING AN AGENDA FOR THAT, FOR THAT MEETING.
UH, THE, THE DIGITAL COPY OF THE NINE POINTS THAT, UH, COMMISSIONER YES.
CORINA HAD COME UP WITH, UH, IF YOU COULD SHARE THAT WITH THE REST OF THE COMMISSION, THAT'D BE GREAT.
UM, YES, FOR MY HOMEWORK, I HAVE THAT I HAVE TO ADD THE VETERANS WORKING GROUP MEETINGS TO OUR HOW TO CONNECT CALENDAR, UH, GET STAN CONNECTED TO BRIAN.
THINK YOU'RE ON TOP OF THAT COMMERCIAL.
I WILL SEND IN THAT RIGHT NOW.
UM, SCHEDULE, MAKE SURE I CAN SCHEDULE THE DATES THAT STAN PRESENTED.
UM, LOOK INTO WHETHER WE ARE ABLE TO DO A WEBSITE FEEDBACK LINK AND BOTHER THE, UM, ETC INSTITUTE UNTIL THEY GIVE ME THE DATA WOULD CORRECT THINGS.
IS THE, IS THE LINK TO THE PROCLAMATIONS THAT HAD DOTTED LINE? YES.
SO DID Y'ALL CAPTURE THE, THE LINK TO THE PROCLAMATION? SO THERE IS A LINK ON THE DIB PAGE TO THE PROCLAMATIONS OKAY, GOOD.
THAT ARE IN OUR RECORDS LIBRARY.
IT'S, YEAH, IT'S NOT THE MOST USER FRIENDLY.
UM, I THINK JUST HAVING A LINK THOUGH YEAH.
I'LL GET ON THIS AND, UM, I'LL UPDATE IT TO THE, UH, GOOGLE DRIVE MM-HMM
HAVE ACCESS BEFORE THAT MEETING,
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NOT COME IN BLIND.HAVE LIKE A COUPLE OF COMMENTS.
UM, I THINK THE DEIB, IT'S JUST, FOR INSTANCE, THE BEGINNING SINCE COMMISSIONER COLEMAN AND, AND, UH, AND, UH, AND, AND PREVIOUS COMMISSIONER OR CHAIR COLEMAN AND, AND
SO JUST SO HATS OFF AND PLOT ON THAT.
UM, UM, I THINK IT'S ALSO BEEN, CAN BE A GOOD, UH, UH, POLAR PLATE LOOKING AT OTHER ONES LIKE HAVING THAT ONCE A YEAR, OFTEN THOUGHT ABOUT, IT'S JUST ONCE A YEAR.
I THINK EVERY BOARD AND COMMISSION SHOULD COME UP TO CITY COUNCIL IN A PUBLIC SETTING.
JUST GIVE A STATE OF THE UNION MESSAGE.
I DON'T CARE IF IT'S FIVE MINUTES OR 20 MINUTES OF JUST, JUST WHATEVER Y'ALL WANT TO DO, HOWEVER THAT LOOKS LIKE.
UM, I, I DO SEE THAT THERE'S A LOT HERE.
THERE'S A LOT HERE, WHICH IS GOOD.
I MEAN, I, I SEE THREE WORKING GROUPS OF VETERANS AND SENIOR CITIZENS AND A SMALL BUSINESS.
I MEAN, TAKING ON ANOTHER ONE, I DON'T KNOW.
UM, I SAW SOME OF THE THINGS THAT, AND THIS REALLY MY, MY MOST EXTENSIVE THING WITH MR. KIM.
UH, WHAT A GREAT RESOURCE YOU GUYS HAVE.
UM, BUT IT'S LIKE SOME OF THESE THINGS WERE KIND OF TRAILING OFF.
IT LOOKS LIKE Y'ALL PRIORITIZE AND CUT A LITTLE BIT OF THE SLACK AND STUFF OFF OF THERE.
UM, I THINK, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE KEY THINGS IS, AND IT'S KIND OF, I'M NOT SAYING YOU'RE NOT DOING THIS, IS I THINK DEIB IS SHOULD, ONE OF THE KEY THINGS TO ME IS, IS A BETTER POSITION THAN ANY OTHER BOARD OF COMMISSION IS UNDERSTANDING THE COMMUNITY NEEDS.
WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? Y'ALL GET TO DEFINE THAT, BUT MORE IMPORTANT, YOU GET TO DEFINE THAT.
Y'ALL GET TO POLL AND SURVEY AND HAVE THE TOWN HALLS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO I'M NOT SAYING THAT YOU'RE NOT DOING IT NOW, BUT I THINK THAT'S SUCH A, IT'S, IT'S GATHERING THE DATA.
IT'S, IT'S GATHERING THE, THE, THE, THE SHEET.
IT'S SEEING WHAT YOUR FLOCK IS, SEEING AN INVENTORY OF WHAT YOU HAVE HERE AND THEN, UM, WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IT'S DOING WELL AND, AND WHAT'S NOT GOING SO WELL.
BUT WE'LL ONLY HAVE, WE GOT 10 THINGS WE WANNA DO, BUT THERE'S ONLY THREE OF WE CAN DO RIGHT NOW.
SO I LIKE WHAT YOU WERE SAYING, IT'S KIND OF PARSING OFF, PRIORITIZING IN YOUR BUDGETS, YOUR PRIORITIES, YOUR FOCUS, BUT HAVING THE NEURODIVERGENT, YOU KNOW, TOWN HALL AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE.
I WAS JUST LOOKING HERE ALL THE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF NEURODIVERSITY, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S LIKE OUTSIDE OF AUTISM AND A DHD, WHICH I'M A LITTLE OF, BOTH
UM, BUT, UM, SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, FOCUSING ON WHAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS.
SO I THINK SO CRITICAL WITH A GROUP LIKE THAT.
ONE, WE'RE ALL DIVERSE OURSELVES.
I DON'T, IT DOESN'T MATTER ABOUT SKIN COLOR.
WE'RE DIVERSE BECAUSE WE'RE INDIVIDUALS.
WE'RE, IF WE GET, IF WE GET SEVEN PEOPLE IN A ROOM, CITY STAFF, YOU KNOW, AS A LIAISON, WE'RE GONNA COME UP WITH GOOD IDEAS.
I DON'T CARE WHAT OUR BACKGROUNDS ARE, WHAT OUR CULTURE IS, UH, HOW OLD WE ARE, IT DOESN'T MATTER.
UM, I RAISED THREE DAUGHTERS PRETTY MUCH BY MYSELF AND DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, GENDER, I THINK WOMEN ARE GONNA SAVE THE WORLD.
BUT AGAIN, JUST, YOU KNOW, BITE OFF WHAT YOU CAN CHEW, FOCUS ON WHAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS ARE AND, AND, AND, UM, GET THAT PRIORITY.
UH, YOU KNOW, AND I THINK THE PRIORITIES, ONCE THE PRIORITIES ARE SET IN PLACE, THE BUDGET, EVERYTHING ELSE WILL FALL IN PLACE.
SO APPLAUD AND HAS, SO ALL Y'ALL YEAH.
THANK YOU FOR BEING A GOOD ROLE MODEL FOR US.
SO, WELL, MY MOM AND DAD,
IF NOTHING ELSE, UH, I CAN, UH, I MOVING ADJOURN.
DO I HAVE TO CALL ALL THE TIMES? YES.