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ORDER MS. TRACY,[Community Multicultural Commission on December 14, 2023.]
IT'S 6 0 1.SO NORMALLY WE START THESE, FIRST OFF, LEMME SAY GOOD EVENING.
UM, FIRST OFF, WE NORMALLY START THE MEETINGS READING THE BYLAWS, BEING THAT WE ARE REVIEWING THEM.
THEY WILL NOT BE READ TONIGHT.
THE ONLY THING THAT WE HAVE ON THE AGENDA TODAY IS TO DISCUSS A SPRING MUSICAL FEST.
WE HAVE A COUPLE OF PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE, UM, THAT WILL, WHEN YOU GUYS, WHEN, WHEN WE GIVE YOU THE OPTION TO COME UP AND SIT AND DISCUSS WHAT, HOW YOU CAN HELP US WITH THAT AND HOW YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN, UH, PARTICIPATE.
UH, WE HAVE DEE, I INVITED HER TO COME OUT.
SHE'S THE NEW PRESIDENT FOR THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY, UH, VIETNAMESE AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
UM, THERE'S ALSO A GENTLEMAN THAT'S HERE.
HE'S WANTING TO BE A PART OF THE COMMISSION, BUT, UH, GO AHEAD.
YOU CAN, WOULD YOU LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOURSELF? CHARLES LEONARD.
DO YOU KNOW WHICH DISTRICT YOU LIVE IN? NUMBER TWO? UH, SEVEN.
SO RIGHT NOW, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FOR DISTRICT SEVEN, RIGHT? HENDRICK HENDRICK SEVEN.
SO THIS IS, THIS IS, WE NORMALLY DON'T HAVE A MEETING IN DECEMBER, NOVEMBER OR DECEMBER.
WE GENERALLY MEET BACK UP IN JANUARY, UH, FOR THE NEW YEAR, BUT WE CALL THIS MEETING SPECIAL BECAUSE WE NEEDED TO DISCUSS, UH, POSSIBLE SPRING FEST, UH, MUSICAL FEST.
SO WE CALL THIS MEETING TOGETHER.
SO IT'S A LITTLE MORE INFORMAL THAN, UH, THE MEETINGS GENERALLY ARE, AND IT'S A REALLY SHORT AGENDA.
YEAH, I, I JUST CAME TO GET AN IDEA OF WHAT YOU DO AND SO, OKAY.
AND, UM, AS IN WHAT IT IS THAT WE DO, THE ACRONYM IS CMC.
WE ARE THE COMMUNITY MULTICULTURAL COMMISSION.
WHAT I TELL PEOPLE, I'VE BEEN ON THIS BOARD I THINK TWO YEARS NOW, AND WHAT I TELL PEOPLE IS THAT WE TRY TO BE THE LIAISON BETWEEN THE CITY AND THE CITY SERVICES.
SO IF THERE'S SOMEONE THAT NEEDS, UM, ASSISTANCE WITH SOMETHING AND DON'T QUITE KNOW WHERE TO GO, THEY REACH OUT TO US AND THEN WE GET THEM IN, UH, IN TOUCH WITH THE CORRECT SERVICE THAT THE CITY IS OFFERING.
OR MAYBE WE KNOW SOMEBODY, WE ALL ARE A PART OF SOMETHING ELSE OUTSIDE OF THIS COMMISSION.
UM, THE, WE JUST, WHEN A, UM, DOWNTOWN REOPENED, WE DID A REALLY BIG MURAL, AND THAT WAS AN IDEA THAT CAME FROM THIS BOARD.
AND IT'S TO LET EVERYBODY KNOW THAT GARLAND IS VERY MULTICULTURAL.
IT'S NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, ONE ETHNICITY THAT LIVES HERE.
AND WE TRY TO SEE, UM, GET EVERYBODY TO SEE THE WHOLE FACE OF GARLAND, TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT GARLAND LOOKS LIKE.
UM, WE'RE LOOKING INTO TRYING TO SET UP A POLL, UM, LOCATION SO THAT PEOPLE CAN COME OUT AND VOTE AND REGISTER TO VOTE.
WE'RE JUST TRYING TO DO DIFFERENT THINGS WHEREVER WE'RE NEEDED IN THE COMMUNITY.
WE'RE JUST TRYING TO REACH OUT.
AND, AND I THINK HE ACTUALLY, YOU SAW THE MURAL, YOU DIDN'T SEE THE FINISHED PART, DID YOU, DID YOU TAKE A PICTURE THAT DAY? NO, I DIDN'T.
WHEN WE WERE AFTER IN THE CORNER.
I THINK IT'S, IF YOU, I THINK, IS IT STILL ON DISPLAY OUTSIDE? YES.
IT'S ANOTHER PICTURE YOU TAKING THAT DAY AND IT MAY STILL BE OUT THERE AND YOU SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
IF YOU CHOOSE NOT TO BE A PART OF THE COMMISSION, YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO COME TO ANY OF THE MEETINGS.
IT'S THE THIRD THURSDAY EVERY MONTH AT SIX O'CLOCK.
AND WE, UM, IT'S OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, SO YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO COME.
SHE'S SAYING THAT THERE'S FOOD IN THE KITCHEN IF YOU WOULD LIKE SOMETHING TO EAT
SO, WE'LL, UM, I'LL JUST SAY, ASK IF YOU HAD ANY QUESTIONS.
I WAS GONNA GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.
DID YOU HAVE ANY, OH, DO YOU, IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANY MORE COURT, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? NO, I, I'M, I'M, I'M GOOD.
UH, AS I MENTIONED THIS MEETING IS TO TALK ABOUT THE SPRING MUSIC FEST.
WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT WE WANNA CALL IT YET.
WE NEED TO FURTHER MINUTES FIRST.
THE, AND I APOLOGIZE, THE MINUTES THAT WE HAVE PRINTED OUT THEY'RE FROM JUNE.
SO WE WILL HOLD IT TILL THE, UH, JANUARY MEETING.
AND I APOLOGIZE, I DIDN'T SAY THAT OUT LOUD.
CAN WE, DO WE NEED TO MAKE A MOTION TO HOLD IT TILL THE, TILL THE JANUARY MEETING? 'CAUSE I CAN, I, I MOVE TO MAKE, I MOVE TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THE OCTOBER, 2023 MEETING MINUTES IN JANUARY.
SO MOVE ON TO THE PUBLIC COMMENTS.
UH, THE IDEA FOR THE MUSIC FEST WAS HIS THOUGHT PROCESS.
SO I WILL LET HIM TELL YOU GUYS WHAT HE, WHAT HIS THOUGHT WAS WHEN HE CAME UP WITH IT.
WELL, IT IS ACTUALLY ONE OF THE PEOPLE DOWNTOWN THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE CONCERTS AND STUFF.
AND, UM, HE SAID HE'D LIKE TO SEE A GOSPEL CONCERT.
HE GOES, HE SEES EVERYBODY ELSE DOWN HERE IN YOUR COUNTRY AND WESTERN ROCK AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
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I DON'T KNOW.I SAID, MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN, WE CAN BRING UP.
AND HE TOLD ME THAT IT WAS THE, I THINK IT WAS THE 14TH WHEN EVERYTHING OPENED UP.
WELL, IN THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO, IT WAS THE, UH, WHAT'S THE OTHER EVENT? DOWNTOWN? THE DAY OF THE DAY? I CAN'T PRONOUNCE IT.
WELL, SO I MENTIONED IT TO RENEE.
RENEE MENTIONED IT TO, UM, UH, CITY MANAGER TO JUDGE.
AND HE SAYS, YEAH, IT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA.
I MEAN, THEY, THEY JUST ALL ACCEPT IT AND THEY'RE ALL OPEN TO IT.
AND THEN, UM, UH, SO THEN, THEN WE WERE TRYING TO DECIDE, WELL, DO WE WANT IT TO BE JUST A GOSPEL? AND THEN WE INCLUDE ALL THE DIFFERENT CHURCHES AND DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
AND THEN, UH, WE GOT INTO MAYBE THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND STUFF.
SO IT'S, IT'S REALLY OPEN RIGHT NOW WITH ALL WE WANNA DO.
DO WE JUST WANNA DO A, A GOSPEL OR A MUSIC FEST THIS TIME AND MAYBE OUR NEXT EVENT WE'LL DO SOMETHING.
'CAUSE WE TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL ALWAYS PARTICIPATES.
THEY ALWAYS HAVE THE, UM, UM, MARIACHIS, YOU KNOW, AND THEN THE, THE HIGH SCHOOLS, NOW THEY HAVE THESE STEP TEAMS OF GIRLS, YOU KNOW, SO IT COULD BE IF WE WANT TO INVOLVE AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY IN THAT TYPE OF EVENT, OR DO WE WANT TO, UM, JUST DO SINGING, YOU KNOW, SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE NEED TO DECIDE.
RIGHT NOW, THE BIG THING IS WHY WE HAVE TO HAVE THIS MEETING IS BECAUSE, UH, THE CITY NEEDS AND, AND THE, UH, ARTS AND, AND, AND IN FACT, THEY NEED 60 DAYS TO ADVERTISE, YOU KNOW, FOR US TO GET IT TOGETHER.
SO WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO AND PICK A DATE.
AND RIGHT NOW WE, WE WERE LOOKING AT, UM, DURING MARCH, RIGHT AROUND SCHOOL, RIGHT AFTER SPRING BREAK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
WE CAN'T DO SPRING BREAK WEEK 'CAUSE THE KIDS WILL BE GONE.
THEY WON'T BE THERE TO PARTICIPATE.
AND, AND ALL THE, I'M JUST GIVING YOU ALL THE THINGS TO CONSIDER.
MAYBE NOT TO VOTE RIGHT NOW, BUT, UM, THEY, UH, IF WE DO IT ON A SATURDAY, THEN THERE'S GONNA BE A COST INVOLVED, YOU KNOW, WITH THE CITY SETTING UP THROUGH PARKS AND RECS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
IF WE DO IT ON A SATURDAY, IF WE DO IT DURING THE WEEK, UM, YOU KNOW, THE STAGE OUTSIDE IS ALWAYS WHERE THE, WHERE THE COLOR MARKERS ARE.
IT'S KIND OF BUILT FOR A STAGE WE WOULD HAVE TO BRING, WHICH I THINK WE COULD DO OUR OWN AMPLIFIERS.
AND IF IT'S GONNA BE SOMETHING WHERE PEOPLE JUST COME UP THERE AND DANCE OR, OR SING, UH, YOU CAN SET UP AMPLIFIERS AND STUFF.
THERE'S PLUGS, THERE'S ELECTRICITY, AND IT'S GONNA BE A MINIMAL SETUP, YOU KNOW, FOR US.
AND THEN JUST DECIDE HOW LONG WE WANT IT TO BE IS GONNA LAST A HOUR AND A HALF, TWO HOURS, YOU KNOW.
BUT BEING OUR FIRST ONE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW.
BUT I THINK THERE, THERE'D BE A GOOD TURNOUT 'CAUSE PEOPLE LIKE TO COME OUT THERE, THERE'S THE MUSIC.
SO WE JUST NEED TO CONSIDER WHAT ENTERTAINMENT WE WANT, WHO WE'RE GONNA CONNECT WITH.
WHICH, UM, UH, WHAT'S, I DON'T KNOW THE GUY'S NAME.
THEY GOT A, THEY GOT A BAND, I MEAN, NOT A BAND.
THEY, THEY SANG ON THE 11TH STREET THE OTHER NIGHT.
THEY WERE OUT THERE AND THERE WAS JUST ABOUT A DOZEN OF 'EM.
SO THEY DON'T TAKE UP A LOT OF STAGE ROOM, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN THEY DO IT.
SO, AND THEN WE JUST FIGURE OUT THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN SING A SONG OR TWO, JUST LIKE CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE.
THEY USED TO BE, THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS USED TO COME OUT.
BUT THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY SING ONE OR TWO SONGS.
THE NEXT GROUP, ONE OR TWO, THE NEXT GROUP.
AND IF WE'RE DOING IT WITH, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT CHURCHES, BUT THEN YOU GET DIFFERENT PEOPLE.
IF YOU INVOLVE THE SCHOOLS, THEN YOU GET THE PARENTS COMING OUT TO SEE THEIR KIDS.
SO, BUT THERE WAS EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S GONNA BE A GOOD, A GOOD EVENT.
THE GUY OVER AT THE, HE DIDN'T COME TONIGHT THE, AT THE WINE STORE ON MAINE.
HE WAS ACTUALLY, HE WAS THE ONE WHO BROUGHT IT UP.
HE WAS, UH, SAID HE WANTED AND HE KNEW, HAD SOME, UH, PRIOR EXPERIENCE IN PLANNING ONE IN CONCERTS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO, AND THEN, AND I ASKED THE, YOU KNOW, WENT TO THE CITY TOO AND ASKED THEM TO
'CAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING.
SO, UM, I THINK THEY HAVE SOME, SOME INFORMATION THERE.
SO WE HAVE, UH, IS IT TWO OF YOU LADIES OR JUST ONE? IT'S BOTH.
SO, SO I, I'M AMY ROSENTHAL, I'M THE CULTURAL ARTS DIRECTOR, AND THIS IS, I'M DANA LODGE.
I'M THE SPECIAL EVENTS DIRECTOR.
I, I GUESS IS, IS THIS A JUST KIND OF AN APPROPRIATE TIME FOR US TO ASK A COUPLE QUESTIONS AND LEARN A LITTLE BIT MORE? OR IS THERE ADDITIONAL? NO, I MEAN, FOR, FOR PROBABLY MORE FOR YOU GIVING, GIVING US, GIVING US THE INFORMATION, WHAT WE NEED TO DO AND HOW WE NEED TO PREPARE AND EVERYTHING.
SO I GUESS JUST TO, TO HELP KIND OF CATCH UP A LITTLE BIT, UM, I'M STILL, I STILL FEEL FAIRLY NEW TO, TO GARLAND.
I'VE, I'VE BEEN HERE A LITTLE OVER A YEAR NOW.
AND, UM, AND I'M STILL TRYING TO, TO LEARN ABOUT THE DIFFERENT BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
AND I, YOU KNOW, WE LOVE THE MURAL.
I KNOW THE, THE SAW THE MURAL AT, UM, AT THE GRAND OPENING.
WHAT, WHAT IS, WHAT'S THE, THE PURPOSE, I GUESS, OF WHAT, WHAT'S THE, I GUESS THE GOAL OF MAYBE THIS MUSIC EVENT? ONE WAS THE, LIKE, LIKE THAT
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MENTIONED TO ME, YOU WERE JUST SAYING, I'VE SEEN, YOU KNOW, WE HAD, UM, WHEN THEY DO THE THURSDAY NIGHT SUMMER MUSICALS AND, AND IT WAS JUST, YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAY, MOTOWN, THEY HAD COUNTRY AND WESTERN ROCK OR WHATEVER IT IS.UM, HE WANTED TO SEE GOSPEL AND THEN US BEING THE MULTICULTURAL COMMISSION, THAT'S, THAT'S THE PURPOSE RIGHT THERE.
'CAUSE WE, WE, WE'VE, UM, KIND OF PIGGYBACKED ON SOME OTHER EVENTS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
BUT THIS IS GONNA BE ONE OF OUR OWN.
AND MAYBE IN THE ANNUAL, YOU KNOW, EVENT THAT WE'LL GET TO DO.
AND LIKE I'M SAY, IF, IF THE FIRST ONE IS JUST GOSPEL, BECAUSE I MEAN, THERE'S PLENTY CHURCHES HERE, YOU KNOW, THAT WE CAN GET A, YOU KNOW, NOT THEIR ENTIRE CHOIR, BUT SOMEONE TO COME OUT.
AND THEN, UM, LIKE THE OTHER EVENT WHICH WE WOULD INVOLVE MAYBE THE SCHOOLS, UH, I THINK THERE'S THE, SOMEBODY WAS TELLING ME ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL THEY HAVE HERE TOO.
AND THEN, UH, UH, JENNIFER'S NOT HERE TONIGHT, BUT THERE'S SOME OF THEIR, YOU KNOW, JUST STUFF.
BUT, YOU KNOW, MULTI MULTICULTURAL, MORE EVENT, MORE MULTICULTURAL EVENTS IN GARLAND.
SO, SO THE GOAL IS TO CREATE AN ACTIVITY, RIGHT? OR AN EVENT THAT WOULD BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER, RIGHT.
THAT WOULD SHOWCASE THAT THAT IS MUSIC OR BASED IN SOME TYPE OF ART FORM, RIGHT? THAT WOULD SHOWCASE.
SO I'M HEARING A LOT OF GOSPEL, BUT I'M ALSO HEARING SCHOOL GROUPS.
WELL, AND THAT'S THE THING, THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING, WHEN WE NEED TO DECIDE THIS, THIS FIRST EVENT THAT WE DO, IS IT GONNA JUST BE GOSPEL AND YOU KNOW, TO HAVE SOME CHURCHES, YOU KNOW, COME OUT OR GROUPS OR IF WE'RE GONNA DO ANOTHER MULTICULTURAL, I MEAN, JUST AN EVENT WHERE IT WOULD BE THE, LIKE I SAID, THE SCHOOL STEPPERS, THE MARIACHI, AND YOU KNOW, JUST DIFFERENT STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO WHAT, SO WE NEED GUIDANCE TOO.
WHAT DO WE WANT TO DO AND HOW MUCH CAN WE DO FOR OUR, OUR FIRST THING? 'CAUSE WE'LL BUILD ON THAT, YOU KNOW, AFTER THAT.
BUT WE WANT TO GET THE FIRST ONE, YOU KNOW, OUT OF THE WAY.
'CAUSE WE, WE'VE GOT THE EVENT PROFESSIONAL WITH US AS WELL, YOU KNOW, HERE TONIGHT TOO.
AND, AND THESE, THESE ARE, YOU KNOW, IT, IT ALWAYS IS FUN TO ATTEND AND THEY LOOK GREAT, BUT THERE, THERE IS A LOT OF WORK, AS YOU ALL HAVE ACKNOWLEDGED, THERE'S A LOT OF PLANNING AND OTHER KINDS OF LOGISTICS TO CONSIDER.
SO INCLUDING PROBABLY THE BIGGEST, WHICH IS THE BUDGET.
SO
UM, MS. KIMBERLY NOR MS. JENNIFER'S HERE.
AND THEY'RE USUALLY THE ONES THAT CAN TELL ME, UM, WHICH DIRECTION TO GO.
I DO KNOW THAT WE DO HAVE A BUDGET, BUT FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, WE WERE LOOKING AT THIS AS A FREE EVENT TO PARTICIPATE AND TO PUT ON, UM, ANY COST THAT I THOUGHT WOULD PROBABLY BE ASSOCIATED WITH BE BEING OUT ON THE SQUARE IF THERE WAS A CAUSE, UH, THAT THE CITY, UM, HAD FOR US TO PARTIC UH, YOU KNOW, TO HAVE SOMETHING OUT THERE.
SO I DO YOU, DO YOU HAVE SOME COMMENTS THAT YOU WANT? WELL, UM, I DON'T WANNA BE THE NAYSAYER
IT REALLY NEEDS TO COME FROM THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE.
AND EVEN THOUGH SOMETHING IS HELD OUT ON THE SQUARE PROPER, THERE'S MASSIVE COST ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
MORE THAN YOU MIGHT THINK, UNLESS YOU REALLY JUST WANT TO DO SOMETHING VERY SMALL.
UM, AND, AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHAT VERY SMALL MIGHT LOOK LIKE AND WHAT OPTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE.
I THINK IF YOU START WITH THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE AND FIND OUT WHETHER OR NOT THERE'S ANY BUDGET, THE SPECIAL EVENTS DEPARTMENT LOGISTICALLY WILL COME TO YOUR AID AND MAKE IT, UM, HAPPEN.
AND, YOU KNOW, WE'LL MAKE IT BE THE ABSOLUTE BEST EVENT.
WE PRODUCED THE GRAND OPENING, WE JUST PRODUCED CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE.
UM, I WILL TELL YOU THAT WE HAVE A VERY, VERY FULL SPECIAL EVENTS CALENDAR FOR 2024.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE STARTING THIS YEAR THAT HASN'T EXISTED IN THE PAST IS A, UM, MUSIC MADE HERE SERIES THAT HAPPENS THE FIRST FRIDAY OF, UH, EVERY MONTH.
SO 12 OF THOSE, UM, SOME OF THEM ARE SMALLER.
IF YOU WENT TO ANY OF THE BAND TOGETHER ON THE SQUARE EVENTS, UH, LAST YEAR WHERE THEY WERE IN THE 5 0 6, UM, OUR LITTLE POCKET PARK, UM, THOSE ARE SMALLER A HUNDRED PEOPLE SHOW UP.
WE REALLY, UH, TRIED TO HAVE A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT MUSIC.
UM, WE HAVE SOME OF THOSE SIMILAR FOR 2024, BUT THEY'RE NOW GOING TO BE UNDER THE SHADE PAVILION, UM, ON THE SQUARE PROPER.
AND IT MAY BE THAT WE COULD DO SOMETHING THAT'S, UH, MORE ALONG THE LINES OF THAT
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WHERE WE HAVE SOME GOSPEL SINGERS, UM, BEING THE GROUP THAT PLAYS ON THAT FIRST FRIDAY UNDERNEATH THE SHADE PAVILION, IT WOULD BE, IT'S ALREADY FUNDED 'CAUSE IT'S FUNDED THROUGH, UM, THE SPECIAL EVENTS DEPARTMENT.SO WE WOULD CERTAINLY WELCOME THE CMC ATTACHING THEIR NAME TO THAT ONE CONCERT AS THIS WAS, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS SPONSORED BY CMC.
SO THAT'S ONE WAY TO KIND OF GET AROUND THAT BUDGET BECAUSE THAT'S ALREADY BUDGETED.
UM, SO THAT, THAT'S ONE WAY WE PROBABLY ANTICIPATE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING AROUND A HUNDRED TO 200 PEOPLE TO SHOW UP FOR THAT.
SO IT'S A MUCH SMALLER SCALE THAN OBVIOUSLY WHAT WE DID FOR THE GRAND OPENING OR CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE.
SO I WOULD JUST SAY AS A PERSON WHO PROFESSIONALLY PLANS, EVENTS, UM, IF YOU'RE TALKING ANY KIND OF MEDIUM TO LARGE SIZE FESTIVAL WITH A BUNCH OF DIFFERENT ELEMENTS, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN NINE MONTHS FROM NOW.
UM, ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING, UM, HOW FULL THE SPECIAL EVENTS DEPARTMENT'S CALENDAR ALREADY IS.
UM, SO IT'S NOT TO SAY NO, WE ABSOLUTELY WILL DO WHATEVER, AND CERTAINLY IF THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE TELLS ME TO THROW YOU GUYS A FESTIVAL IN MARCH, I'M GONNA DO IT.
UM, BUT REALLY WE NEED TO HAVE, UH, WE NEED TO HAVE A HARD LOOK AT THE CALENDAR THAT'S ALREADY EXISTING.
YOU KNOW, I, I HAVE A TEAM OF TWO
UH, WE WANNA LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, DEPENDING ON WHAT SIZE EVENT YOU GUYS ARE TRULY LOOKING AT AND THE NUMBER OF ATTENDEES THAT YOU'RE TRULY WANTING, WHAT ARE OUR CLOSE CITIES NEXT TO US DOING ON THOSE SAME DATES? WHAT ARE WE DOING ON THOSE SAME DATES OR CLOSE TO THOSE DATES? SO JUST SOME LOGISTICS THAT WE WOULD WANT TO, UH, REALLY HONE IN ON BEFORE WE DECIDE TO TRULY GO FORWARD.
SO I LOVE THE IDEA OF GOSPEL AND I'LL ALSO TELL YOU THAT, UM, I THINK JUNE, I ALSO, UM, PRODUCED THE JUNETEENTH, UM, EVENT CELEBRATION.
AND I THINK THEY ARE VERY, VERY OPEN TO, THAT COMMITTEE IS VERY OPEN TO KIND OF CHANGING UP THE KIND OF MUSIC THAT HAPPENS AT THIS PARTICULAR JUNETEENTH.
UM, IT MIGHT BE GREAT FOR THE CMC WHO ALWAYS PARTNERS HAS PARTNERED FOR THE PAST TWO YEARS WITH JUNETEENTH.
UM, IT MIGHT BE ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC FOR THE CMC TO SAY THEY SPONSORED THE MUSIC AT THAT PARTICULAR JUNETEENTH, AND WE BRING GOSPEL FORWARD FOR THAT.
UM, I THINK THAT'S A REALLY COOL IDEA BECAUSE IT'S ALREADY BUDGETED.
THE EVENT'S ALREADY ON THE CALENDAR.
WE'RE GONNA BE DOING ALL OF THE LOGISTICS AND, AND THEY HAVE DECIDED TO COME BACK TO THE SQUARE OR COME TO THE SQUARE, UM, BECAUSE THE SQUARE HASN'T BEEN, IT'S ONLY, THIS WILL BE ITS THIRD YEAR, UM, BOTH YEARS AT AUDUBON AND NOW THEY'RE COMING TO THE SQUARE.
SO JUST A FEW, UM, YOU KNOW, THOUGHTS.
I LOVE, LOVE THAT YOU GUYS HAVE IT.
AND I DON'T WANT TO SQUASH ANY, UM, YOU KNOW, DESIRES TO DO THAT.
I JUST WANNA DO WHAT'S LOGISTICALLY FEASIBLE AND WE UNDERSTAND.
DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? DO Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? YES.
WHAT'S THE NAME OF THE FRIDAY MUSIC EVENTS? IT'S CALLED MUSIC MADE HERE.
AND OUR VERY FIRST ONE IS JANUARY 5TH.
SOME ARE IN THE ATRIUM, SOME ARE IN THE PLAZA.
AND THEN SOME ARE ON THE MAIN STAGE OF, UH, LIKE WHERE THE CHRISTMAS TREE IS RIGHT NOW, WHERE WE'RE BRINGING IN A BIG SL 100, LIKE THE KIND OF STAGE THAT WE HAD, UH, DURING THE GRAND OPENING.
AND, UH, SOME OF THEM WILL BE SMALLER UNDERNEATH THE SHADE PAVILION RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE PLAZA THEATER.
SO KIND OF DEPENDING ON WHO THE ARTIST IS AND HOW BIG THEY ARE AND, UH, WHAT SIZE AUDIENCE WE ARE GOING TO BE EXPECTING WILL DRIVE WHICH LOCATION IT'S AT.
HOW ARE YOU SELECTING THE MUSIC GENRES? SO, UH, WE
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DO HAVE JIMMY WALLACE ASSISTING US ON SOME OF THE BANDS.UM, WE ALSO ARE, UM, SELECTING SOME OURSELVES, BUT WE ARE TRYING TO BE, UM, AS DIVERSE AS POSSIBLE IN OUR SELECTIONS.
UM, WE HAVE A, UM, NOR BAND THE FRIDAY THAT'S RIGHT BEFORE CINCO.
SO WE ARE TRYING TO, UM, YOU KNOW, MEET THE, UM, KIND OF THE SEASON
WHEN, WHEN YOU SAY DIVERSE, HOW DIVERSE? WELL, I MEAN, THERE'S, YEAH, I MEAN, I, I, 70, 80 ETHNIC GROUPS AT LEAST THAT MM-HMM.
SO EVEN, UM, SO THE OPPORTUNITY, UH, AT OTHER TIMES, UH, AMY HAS OTHER MUSIC THAT'S HAPPENING IN, UM, THE ART CENTER IN THE ATRIUM AND IN THE PLAZA.
SO WE HAVE MORE THAN JUST 12 OPPORTUNITIES TO TRY TO, UM, REPRESENT AS MANY DIFFERENT GENRES AS POSSIBLE.
SO IT'S ONE FRIDAY A MONTH FOR THE MUSIC MADE HERE.
BUT LIKE I SAID, WE DO HAVE OTHER MUSIC EVENTS.
'CAUSE I, I LOVE THAT TITLE MUSIC MADE HERE.
'CAUSE WHEN WE FIRST STARTED JUST TALKING ABOUT THIS, IT WAS, UH, WE WANTED TO REALLY HAVE A REPRESENTATION OF THE MUSIC OF GARLAND.
WE WANTED SOMETHING AND WE HAD ENVISIONED MAYBE EVEN SOME KIND OF LITTLE RECORDING THAT COULD BE USED WITH LITTLE CLIPS, UH, HIGHLIGHTING THE DIFFERENT ETHNIC GROUPS AND EVERYTHING INTO THE, THE MUSIC.
SO YOUR TITLE MU MUSIC MADE HERE IS, WOW,
SO, SO I THINK THEN YOU, YOU KIND OF HAVE TO THINK ABOUT SOME OF OUR PURPOSES AND OUR GOALS.
SO FROM A CULTURAL ARTS STANDPOINT, YOU KNOW, WE WANT TO, SO WE HAVE MOST OF WHAT HAPPENS AT THE PLAZA THEATER OR AT THE GRANDVILLE ARTS CENTER, MOST OF THOSE PROGRAMS ARE RENTALS BY CLIENTS.
SO HAVING THE CITY PROGRAM OR PRODUCE SOME SHOWS.
SO CULTURAL ARTS, WE DON'T WANNA COMPETE WITH WHAT OUR LOCAL GROUPS ARE PRESENTING.
AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT WAYS TO SUPPLEMENT AND ADD IN.
AND I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, THINKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ATTRACTING PROGRAMS THAT OUR COMMUNITY WANTS TO COME TO ATTRACTING NEW AUDIENCES IS, IS DEFINITELY AT THE FOREFRONT THAT THAT IS MY PRIMARY OBJECTIVE IS TO BRING IN AUDIENCES, NEW AUDIENCES TO OUR FACILITIES.
AND SO WE HAVE WORKED VERY HARD AT THINKING ABOUT LITTLE JOE IAF AMELIA, WE HAVE LOS TEXT MANIACS COMING, WE HAVE, UM, WE, WE'VE GOT IT.
EVEN THOUGH THIS IS A PUBLIC MEETING, WE HAVE AN OFFER OUT TO RUTHIE FOSTER, WHO'S AN AFRICAN AMERICAN BLUES ARTIST.
I MEAN, WE ARE, WE'RE VERY COGNIZANT.
AND EVEN WITH THE ASIAN AMERICAN MUSIC FESTIVAL, I MEAN, I, I THINK WE KNOW THAT THERE ARE LOTS OF DIFFERENT MUSIC GENRES AND LOTS OF WAYS TO CONNECT WITH OUR COMMUNITY.
SO, UM, SO, SO, SO BESIDES THE 12 MUSIC MADE HERE, EVERY SINGLE FESTIVAL THAT WE PRODUCE HAS LIVE MUSIC AS WELL.
SO JUNETEENTH HAS LIVE MUSIC, ASIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL HAS LIVE MUSIC.
EVEN OUR GUZZLER FUN RUN HAS LIVE MUSIC.
SO, SO DOES DIA HAS LIVE MUSIC AND CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE.
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SAW THAT BAND, BUT REALLY, REALLY FUN FESTIVE, YOU KNOW, HOLIDAY, HOLIDAY BAND.
SO, UM, WE HAVE MANY OPPORTUNITIES BESIDES THE 12 TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE HITTING THE MARK THAT WILL BRING OUR COMMUNITY TO ENJOY ONE OF OUR EVENTS.
AND, AND I KNOW THAT THIS IS GONNA TAKE JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE THOUGHT, AND THIS IS REALLY KIND OF THE FIRST TIME THAT WE'VE HAD A CHANCE TO KIND OF THINK THROUGH THIS TOO.
SO, SO PLEASE GIVE US A LITTLE GRACE AS WE'RE KIND OF NAVIGATING THIS.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, SMALLER, IF IT, IF IT'S NOT JUST ONE EVENT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THERE'S WAYS TO, AGAIN, AT JUNETEENTH OR AT BIG ART DAY, YOU KNOW, HAVE DIFFERENT, IF, IF COMMUNITY MULTICULTURAL COMMISSION CAN HAVE A PRESENCE AT THESE SMALL, YOU KNOW, IF THESE EVENTS WITH MAYBE A ONE, AN OPENING,
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NOT AN OPENING ACT, BUT WITH A MUSICAL HELPING SPONSOR A MUSICAL, IT WOULD BE LONGER EXPOSURE FOR Y'ALL INSTEAD OF PUTTING ALL THE CHIPS IN JUST KIND OF ONE DAY.IF IT'S A, YOU KNOW, A SMALLER OPENING OR SOMETHING PAIRED WITH SOME OF THESE OTHER EVENTS, IT MIGHT HELP US GIVE YOU MORE EXPOSURE.
BECAUSE I, I SUSPECT THAT'S PROBABLY PART OF THE GOAL OF THIS TOO, IS TO PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL EXPOSURE TO YES.
YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT Y'ALL'S MISSION IS, RIGHT? YEAH.
BECAUSE THERE WAS, UH, SOMEBODY ASKED ME, THEY SAID, HOW, HOW LONG HAVE WE HAD THIS? THE CMC? HOW LONG HAS IT BEEN HERE? AND THEY'RE LIKE, IS THIS BRAND NEW? AND YOU, IT'S BEEN OVER 20 YEARS.
BUT, UM, WELL, LET ME ASK A QUESTION REAL QUICK ON, SO WE TALKED ABOUT THE MUSIC AND THEN THE OTHER ONE, LIKE THE, SOME OF THE PERFORMANCES, YOU KNOW, LIKE WITH THE STEPPERS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO WHAT DO YOU THINK ON, SHOULD WE FOCUS ON ONE THING, JUST ALL MUSIC OR, AND, AND WE CAN, LIKE YOU SAID, WE CAN TAG ON AND THEN MAYBE OUR EVENT IS THE MORE OF THE, UH, I MEAN, I REALLY ENTERTAINMENT WANT YOU GUYS TO DRIVE WHAT IT IS THAT YOU WANT.
BUT IF YOU WANT SOMETHING THIS SPRING, YOU KNOW, MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE DO, YOU KNOW, A GOSPEL GROUP UNDER THE PAVILION, UM, AND IT JUST BE A REALLY SMALL EVENT AND JUST LET'S GET OUR FEET WET AND SEE WHAT WE GET.
UM, THERE'S NOT A LOT OF COST ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.
UH, WE ALSO HAVE, UM, A BRAND NEW ACTIVATION COORDINATOR, UM, WHOSE SOLE JOB IS TO PROGRAM THE DOWNTOWN SQUARE NOW THAT IT IS OPENED BACK UP.
AND, UM, THIS SOMETHING SMALL UNDER THE PAVILION WOULD FIT RIGHT INTO HER, UM, JOB DESCRIPTION OF, UH, TRYING TO PROGRAM THE DOWNTOWN SQUARE.
AND THAT ALSO HAS BUDGET, HAS SOME MONEY.
UM, SO IT HAS SOME MONEY TO GO AND PAY A GOSPEL BAND TO COME OUT AND PLAY.
OR IF YOU HAVE A CHURCH, YOU KNOW, THAT DOESN'T NEED MONEY, THAT'S, THAT HAS A GROUP, THAT'S FINE TOO.
BUT, UM, SO THAT'S ANOTHER APPROACH THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT COULD HAPPEN SOONER THAN LATER AND NOT PUSHED BACK.
LIKE, LIKE A FESTIVAL TAKES TIME, A GROUP TO JUST SING AT THE PAVILION ON, YOU KNOW, A SUNDAY AFTERNOON OR WHATEVER.
AND, UM, AND IT ALMOST FITS SOMETHING LIKE THAT, ALMOST FITS UNDER.
SHE'S ALSO WORKS FOR ME AS WELL, BUT IT'S A DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT.
IT'S UNDER THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE DEPARTMENT, UM, THAT FITS REALLY WELL, UM, FOR WHAT THEIR GOALS ARE.
AND THAT IS TO KEEP THAT DOWNTOWN SQUARE PROGRAMMED AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
AND I CAN SEE, SEE THAT FITTING THERE.
SO WE HAVE WAYS TO MAKE IT WORK, BUT IF YOU'RE TALKING A FESTIVAL, WE NEED SOME TIME.
FOR THE FIRST FRIDAY, HOW MANY GROUPS DO YOU NORMALLY HAVE PERFORM THAT NIGHT? SO THE LARGER ONES THAT ARE GONNA BE ON THE MAIN STAGE, UM, WHERE WE'RE BRINGING IN, YOU KNOW, A A, A STAGE LIKE WHAT WE HAD FOR GRAND OPENING, WE'LL HAVE AN OPENER AND A HEADLINER.
SO OUR, OUR CONCERN IS TO GET MULTIPLE GROUPS.
SO IF ON A FRIDAY IF WE DECIDED TO SAY ATTACH OUR NAME TO ONE EVENT ON A FRIDAY, WE WOULD ONLY BE, UH, GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE JUST ONE GROUP.
I MEAN, I, I THINK THAT WE, I, I DON'T KNOW.
I'M NOT, I MEAN, I WOULD THINK THAT WE, IF IF YOU GUYS WANTED TO HAVE YOUR OWN EVENT, BECAUSE THOSE ARE, I, IF YOU GUYS ARE WANTING LIKE AN EVENT WHERE YOU HAVE MULTIPLE ARTISTS, YOU'RE PROBABLY TALKING A FESTIVAL, UH, NOT JUST A, YOU KNOW, LIKE A STARTING POINT, I GUESS.
UM, AND SO YOU PROBABLY WOULD WANT TO DO A DIFFERENT DAY THAN ONE OF THOSE? YEAH, I WOULD THINK.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND WHEN YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT IT AND WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT IT, MY IDEA WAS IN MY MIND THE DIFFERENT CULTURES, YOU KNOW, UM, I'M, MY LAST NAME IS
AND SO, YEAH, I LIKE FCO AND STUFF LIKE THAT, BUT THERE'S SOME BEAUTIFUL MEXICAN INDIAN DANCERS WITH THEIR COSTUMES AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
THERE'S A LOT OF AFRICAN AMERICAN THAT HAS THIS BEAUTIFUL OUTFIT, VIETNAMESE, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, TO WHICH, YOU KNOW, HAVE DIFFERENT ONES THAT, THAT'S WHAT I ENVISIONED AS A MULTICULTURAL FESTIVAL.
AND DO DIFFERENT GROUPS REPRESENTING THE DIFFERENT ETHNICITIES THAT WE HAVE.
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AND LIKE I SAID, WE, WE'VE ALL SEEN THE GL AND THEY'RE WONDERFUL, BUT THEY'RE OTHER MEXICAN DANCES.UM, I WENT, THEY, I WENT TO, UH, FOR MY BIRTHDAY IN SEPTEMBER 16TH, WHICH IS MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY, AND I WENT TO RICHARDSON TO SEE HER PLAY.
THEY HAD A BEAUTIFUL, UH, FESTIVAL AND THEY HAD SINGERS.
THEY HAD THE WHOLE ORCHESTRA AND A MAN AND A WOMAN, AND THEY WERE BEAUTIFUL.
BUT ON THE BACKGROUND, THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE SINGER ON THE BACKGROUND.
IF THEY SANG A SONG HAVING TO DO VENEZUELA, THEY HAD A PICTURE OF PEOPLE FROM VENEZUELA.
IF THEY HAD SOME FROM DIFFERENT COUNTRY, FROM DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE CITY THAT THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD SHOW IN THE BACKGROUND, THE BIG, YOU KNOW.
AND TO ME THAT WAS REALLY, THAT WAS REALLY GOOD BECAUSE PEOPLE, ANGLOS, YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T, THEY, THEY MIGHT HEAR THE SONG, BUT THEY DON'T ASSOCIATE IT WITH WHAT PART OF MEXICO IT COMES FROM.
AND THAT REALLY WAS, WAS OUTSTANDING.
SO IF, IF WE HAD A, IF IT WAS JUST, SAY, IF IT WAS JUST SINGING A GOSPEL, HOW, HOW MANY GROUPS WOULD, WOULD, OR, AND HOW MANY SHOULD IT BE? I MEAN, FOR, FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? 'CAUSE YOU, YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY, UM, WHEN THEY USED TO DO CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE, IT USED TO BE HAVE THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS, THEY USED TO COME OUT AND SING.
I THINK ONE SCHOOL WOULD SING AND THEY HAVE ONE BAND, AND I GUESS SOME OTHER STUFF.
BUT IF IT WAS, UM, LIKE CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE ON A THURSDAY, SAY A TUESDAY OR A THURSDAY NIGHT, AND I, THAT'S ALL IT IS, IS AMPLIFIERS, HERE COMES THE CHURCH, THEY VOLUNTEER, I MEAN, NO COST THERE.
WHAT IS THE, UM, THE, THE COST FOR, YOU KNOW, JUST HAVING THE AMPS AND STUFF SET UP, NO STAGE, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY COME OUT AND WELL, HOW, HOW LONG DO YOU ANTICIPATE PEOPLE ATTENDING? DO YOU ANTICIPATE PEOPLE BEING THERE JUST TO SEE THEIR GROUP? OR DO YOU WANT PEOPLE TO BE THERE FOR A LONGER PERIOD OF TIME? WELL, I DON'T KNOW BECAUSE I, I GUESS IF YOU HAD THE, THE PROGRAM, THERE'D BE PEOPLE, I GUESS THERE'S A CERTAIN TIME THAT THEIR GROUP WOULD BE BE UP.
YOU'D SAY THEY'RE GONNA BE SEVEN TO SEVEN, 15 OR 20 OR WHATEVER IT IS LIKE THAT.
I WOULD THINK THAT THEY WOULD HOPE, HOPEFULLY THEY WOULD STAY TO SEE, YOU KNOW, ALL THE GROUPS.
SO, AND IS THIS, SORRY, IS THIS SPEAKING FROM THE PERSPECTIVE THAT IT'S STILL A FESTIVAL A BIG THING? OR IS THIS A WE CAN DO THIS UNDER THE PAVILION? NO, UNDER THE PAV.
IF IT WAS JUST THE GOSPEL, HERE'S, HERE'S ONE CHURCH, HERE'S ONE, HERE'S ONE, HERE'S ONE.
BECAUSE 'CAUSE LIKE YOU'RE SAYING THE FESTIVAL, IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S A LOT MORE.
YEAH, WELL, I MEAN, I THINK, I THINK, THINK ABOUT IT, IF YOU WERE AN ATTENDEE, RIGHT? AND ON A TUESDAY OR THURSDAY NIGHT, YOU PROBABLY CAN ONLY GET THERE UNTIL AFTER FIVE, RIGHT? OR MAYBE SIX.
AND SO, I MEAN, IF YOU'RE WANTING TO ENJOY LIVE MUSIC, YOU KNOW, A VARIETY OF LIVE MUSIC, YOU PROBABLY WOULD SPEND AN HOUR AND A HALF AT THE MOST, MAYBE UNLESS THERE WERE OTHER TYPES OF ACTIVITIES.
BUT JUST TO WATCH A PERFORMANCE OUTSIDE, I THINK AN HOUR AND A HALF IS PROBABLY YOUR ATTENDEES.
I, I'M JUST, I'M JUST PUTTING THIS OUT.
OH, AND, AND I, I'M JUST SAYING, I'M ASKING, I WANT, BECAUSE I WANT TO BE SUCCESSFUL, RIGHT? DO WE NEED TO DO A, A, A MUSIC AND THEN ANOTHER FESTIVAL? 'CAUSE I MEAN, WE, WE DO WANNA DO SOMETHING THAT IS THE, THE CMC, YOU KNOW, AT, AT SOME POINT, YOU KNOW, I, OH, I, I WOULD JUST START SERIOUSLY AT THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE BECAUSE THAT IS WHO CAN FULLY FUND A FESTIVAL FOR YOU.
THEY DO NOT ALLOW ME TO JUST GIVE AWAY ANY MONEY WHATSOEVER.
SO COULD WE TALK TO THEM IN REGARDS TO THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT THAT YOU MENTIONED? UHHUH
NO, YOU, SO THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE HAS SMALL AMOUNTS OF MONEY, NOT FOR A FESTIVAL.
AND I'M, RIGHT NOW, MY, MY CONVERSATION IS ON THE LOWER SCALE.
SO YOU CAN TALK TO ME ABOUT THAT AND, AND, AND WE CAN GET, AND I CAN GET YOU CONNECTED WITH OUR ACTIVATION COORDINATOR.
I ALSO THINK YOU HAVE TO BE KIND OF ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION.
I ALSO THINK YOU HAVE TO BE RESPECTFUL TO THE GROUP THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT OUT.
IF YOU ARE REALLY AND TRULY BRING, IT'S ONE THING TO HAVE A SCHOOL GROUP.
IT'S ONE THING TO HAVE FOURTH GRADERS SING TWO SONGS AND GET OFF THE STAGE AND BRING THE NEXT ONE.
IT'S DIFFERENT IF YOU'RE BRINGING ADULTS FROM A LARGE CHURCH WHO PRIDE THEMSELVES IN PERFORMING GOSPEL AND TELL THEM, YOU HAVE 15 MINUTES AND THEN I'M GONNA BRING THE NEXT CHURCH ON.
I WOULD RATHER SEE YOU DO MULTIPLE OF THOSE ON THURSDAY NIGHT OR WHATEVER, AND ALLOW THAT CHURCH WHO'S COME
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OUT TO HAVE AN HOUR TO SHINE, AND THEN ANOTHER THURSDAY HAVE ANOTHER CHURCH'S GOSPEL COME OUT AND HAVE AN HOUR TO SHINE.UM, I WOULDN'T DO AN ADULT GROUP IN THIS KIND OF GISD WAY THAT WE HAVE DONE, UM, IN THE PAST WHERE LITERALLY THEY'RE 10 MINUTES OFF, NEXT ONE OFF.
UM, JUST BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, ADULTS ARE A LITTLE BIT, THEY, THEY'VE, THEY REHEARSE AND PRACTICE AND ALL OF THAT KIND OF STUFF.
SO, UM, THAT WOULD BE MY RECOMMENDATION IS, YOU KNOW, MAYBE TACKLE A FEW SMALL ONES THIS YEAR AND THEN, UM, SEE IF, UM, THERE'S AN APPETITE TO HAVE A FULL-FLEDGED MULTIPLE DIFFERENT, UM, CULTURE KIND OF, UM, YOU KNOW, LARGE EVENT.
UM, IN THE FUTURE, I, I'M SURE MOST, I KNOW MOST OF YOU HAVE BEEN IN GARLAND MUCH, MUCH LONGER THAN MYSELF, AND I'M SURE SOME OF YOU HAVE SOME MEMORIES OF THE MOSAIC.
SO THAT'S WHAT I'M KIND OF HEARING FROM YOU IS THAT MOSAIC, AND I THINK YOU'VE GOT SOME PEOPLE ON THE, UM, COMMITTEE THAT PROBABLY HAS, CAN GIVE YOU SOME PROS AND CONS ON HOW THAT, UM, PLAYED OUT.
UM, IN THE PAST MIGHT BE A GOOD, YOU KNOW, JUST A GOOD STARTING POINT.
WOULD A, WOULD A, UM, 30 MINUTES IF YOU HAD TWO GROUPS ON A SURE.
30, 30 MINUTES AND, AND WE DID A, THE SUMMER SERIES, A GOSPEL MORE WEEKS IN A ROW, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WITH JUST THE BAND.
I MEAN, JUST THE BAND, NOT THE MM-HMM.
AND THAT PROVIDES IN, I MEAN, JUST REPEAT EXPOSURE FOR Y'ALL.
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES TOO, IT TAKES A LOT OF TIMES FOR PEOPLE TO GET A MESSAGE OF, YOU KNOW, OR IF THEY'RE BUSY ON THAT ONE NIGHT, THEY'D, THERE'D BE OTHER NIGHTS TO ATTEND.
AND THAT DEFINITELY, IF YOU JUST DID 30 MINUTE MUSIC UNDER THE PAVILION, THAT WOULD 100% FALL UNDER THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT OFFICES' GOAL THAT THEY HAVE AND CAN HELP FACILITATE THAT 30 MINUTES.
WELL, I'M SAYING, BUT 2, 2, 2, 2.
SO, SO AN HOUR AND TWO GROUPS.
AND, YOU KNOW, PART OF THAT WOULD BE YOUR ACTUAL DISCUSSION WITH THE BAND.
ARE YOU WILLING TO COME OUT FOR 30 MINUTES? YOU KNOW, OR, OR GROUP JUST, JUST GETTING SOME MORE IDEAS,
BUT I WANT TO FIND, MY, MY POINT I WANT TO MAKE IS, ARE WE LOOKING TO MAKE, TO PUT IT FOR AN EVENT OR A FESTIVAL? BECAUSE BASED ON WHAT WE TAKE, IT'S GOING TO DETERMINE HOW LONG THE WHOLE THING IS GOING TO.
IF IT'S A FESTIVAL, OF COURSE IT'S GOING TO BE BIGGER AND LARGER AND LONGER.
IF IT'S AN EVENT, IT'S GOING TO BE A SHORTER PROGRAM.
SO ARE WE SETTLING ON AN EVENT OR A FESTIVAL? THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
UM, YOU KNOW, I, I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS BRINGING LOGISTICS INTO THIS 'CAUSE IT GIVES US A BETTER VIEW.
BUT TO YOUR POINT, ISAAC, I THINK THAT LIKE, WE ARE, LIKE, BASED ON BUDGET
LIKE, THAT'S SO GARLAND, THAT'S SO MULTICULTURAL.
YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE THAT'S, YOU KNOW, LIKE A PART OF US NOT JUST BEING MULTICULTURAL, IT'S THAT WE ALL LIVE IN THE SAME CITY, RIGHT? SO BEING FROM HERE, MEANING WE GET TO PULL FROM OUR CULTURE HERE IN GARLAND, AND MAYBE WE CAN BE A PART OF THAT, OR LIKE, WE CAN HAVE, I LOVE LIKE THE THUR, THE THURSDAYS OR JUST ONE, LIKE EVERY, EVERY WEEK WE, OR FOR FOUR WEEKS, WE HAVE THAT, LIKE A SMALL EVENT FOR, FROM US.
BUT I THINK THAT IF THERE'S A WAY THAT WE CAN BUILD UP TO THE BIG EVENT OR TO THE BIG FESTIVAL, LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER TIME THAT MAY BE, BY ACTUALLY BEING COMMITTED TO PARTICIPATING AND LIKE, UM, SUPPORTING LIKE OTHER EVENTS THAT LIKE BRINGING, OH, LIKE, OH, FROM THE CMC HERE COMES LIKE, THIS CHURCH, BLAH, BLAH, BLAH.
I THINK THAT'LL SET US UP FOR SUCCESS FOR A BIGGER FESTIVAL.
SO FOR, I THINK THAT HAVING AN EVENT OR LIKE SUPPORTING AN EVENT, UM, FROM GARLAND IS GONNA BE OUR BEST BET RIGHT NOW.
RIGHT? SO AS SHE SAID, WITH THE DOWNTOWN, UH, DEVELOPMENT OFFICE, YEAH, WE
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GET WITH THEM, WE PICK A DAY OUT OF THE WEEK AND I, I PERSONALLY WOULDN'T SAY DO IT FOUR WEEKS IN A ROW.THAT'S JUST, THAT'S MY THOUGHT PROCESS.
BUT THIS MONTH WE CAN HAVE THIS GROUP NEXT MONTH WE CAN HAVE THIS GROUP IN THE INTERIM THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THE C YOU KNOW, THE CMC IS DOING.
BUT IF WE ARE ALLOWED, SAY FOR INSTANCE, WE END UP WITH FOUR GROUPS, AND LIKE YOU SAID, IF WE WANNA DO IT FOUR WEEKS, WE TAKE TWO OF THOSE GROUPS, LET THEM GO TO FIRST, UH, WHAT IS IT, FIRST FRIDAY, LET A GROUP GO FIRST FRIDAY HERE, AND THEN AN ALTERNATE WEEK WE HAVE SOMETHING AT THE PAVILION.
THAT WAY WE, WE ARE BUILDING THOSE LITTLE THINGS.
LITTLE GROUPS UP FOR A BIG FESTIVAL.
WE'LL HAVE, WE'LL HAVE THE, THE THOUGHT PROCESS.
WE'LL KNOW IT TAKES THIS, IT TAKES THAT BECAUSE WE'RE TAGGING IN AND GET TO SEE WHAT IT IS THAT THEY DO.
AND WE ALSO HAVE THOSE NAMES NOW.
NOW AS FAR AS WHEN MERYL MENTIONED GOSPEL AND THEN SCHOOL, I KNOW THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY TEND TO STEER AWAY FROM.
SO MY STATEMENT HAS ALWAYS BEEN A MUSIC FEST.
NOW, IF WE'RE GONNA GO GOSPEL FEST, THEN WE'RE GONNA GO FULL OUT GOSPEL.
OR WE GONNA CALL IT A MUSIC FEST AND YOU CAN SING WHATEVER YOU WANT TO SING.
I MEAN, AS A COMMISSION, DO WE WANNA SAY, OKAY, WE APPRECIATE THE THOUGHT PROCESS FOR THE FESTIVAL, WE'LL WORK ON THAT.
WE'LL BUILD UP TO THE FESTIVAL THROUGHOUT THE YEAR AND AS A COMMISSION, DO WE WANNA DO THE SMALLER SCALE AND HAVE IT MORE INTIMATE UNTIL WE CAN GET TO A BIG FESTIVAL? I THINK THAT WOULD GIVE US EXPERIENCE MM-HMM.
BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE DON'T KNOW A, A QUESTION YOU MENTIONED THE JUNETEENTH WHILE AGO.
AND THAT THEY HAVE A DESIRE FOR US TO BE PARTNERING WITH THEM AND WORK WITH THEM, AND THEY'RE LOOKING POSSIBLY FOR US TO PARTNER WITH THEM ON THEIR MUSIC NEXT SUMMER.
WELL, I MAY HAVE MISSED SOMETHING THERE.
SO THE CMC HAS ASSISTED AT THAT EVENT THE LAST TWO YEARS, THE ONLY TWO YEARS THAT HAS BEEN HELD.
UM, THEY, THERE IS A KIND OF AN INFORMATION BOOTH THAT PEOPLE CAN, UM, GO TO AT JUNETEENTH TO FIND OUT MORE ONE ABOUT THE MEANING OF JUNETEENTH, BUT ALSO TO FIND OUT, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S HAPPENING AT THAT EVENT AND YOU KNOW, WHERE CERTAIN THINGS ARE.
AND THE CMC HAS VOLUNTEERED AT THAT BOOTH, UM, AS WORKER BEES.
AND ON THAT SAME NOTE, CMC HAS HAD A TABLE OR A BOOTH AT QUITE A FEW OF OUR EVENTS AND ARE ALWAYS, ALWAYS WELCOME TO HAVE PRESENCE, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH A BOOTH OR A TABLE OR WHATEVER, AT ANY, UH, CITY PRODUCED EVENT.
WE TOTALLY WELCOME YOU TO DO THAT.
IN FACT, WE WOULD LIKE YOU TO.
UM, SO I THINK JUNETEENTH JUNETEENTH HAS ITS OWN COMMUNITY COMMITTEE THAT DRIVES THAT EVENT, BUT IT HAS ALWAYS, UH, RELIED ON THE CMC THESE PAST TWO YEARS TO HELP THEM WITH THE AMOUNT OF VOLUNTEERS THAT THEY NEED ON THE DAY OF.
SO I'M SURE THAT THEY WOULD WELCOME THAT AGAIN OR EVEN EXPECT IT.
UM, IT WILL BE MOVING BACK TO THE SQUARE.
UM, I DO THINK THAT THEY ARE LOOKING AT MAYBE HAVING, THEY'VE ONLY EVER HAD ONE GROUP THE LAST TWO YEARS, UH, PLAY.
AND I DO BELIEVE THIS YEAR THEY ARE LOOKING TO HAVE TWO, LIKE AN OPENING BAND AND A HEADLINER.
SO THERE MIGHT BE SOME OPPORTUNITY FOR THE CMC TO BE, YOU KNOW, THE SPONSOR OF THE HEADLINER OR THE SPONSOR OF THE OPENING ACT OR SOMETHING.
BUT THAT IS, UM, THAT IS ALSO A COMMITTEE
SO THEY'RE IN, THEY'RE, THEY'RE IN THE PRO THEY'RE IN THE PROCESS OF MAKING THAT DECISION.
SO THE VERY FIRST MEETING FOR THE 24 EVENT IS IN JANUARY, AND THEY WILL START SETTING THE MUSIC AT THAT MEETING.
WHO, WHO, WHO PICKS THE, THE JUNETEENTH COMMITTEE, WHO THEY DESIGN FROM.
UM, SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A LOOSE COMMITTEE AND PART OF THE JANUARY MEETING IS TO HAVE AN APPLICATION PROCESS FOR A FEW MORE PEOPLE TO JOIN.
AND THAT WILL BE, UM, PUT OUT, UM, PUBLICLY, UM, FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, JOIN
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THAT COMMITTEE.SO, SO, MR. ISAAC, DID THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? YEAH.
SO ARE WE ALL IN AGREEMENT THAT WE WILL START ON A SMALLER SCALE? UM, WE NEED TO TALK TO THE CITY MANAGER OFFICE? MM-HMM.
SO SMALLER SCALE FOR US TO PUT ON THEIR OWN EVENT.
NOT SUPPORTING LIKE MUSIC MA MADE, MUSIC MADE HERE FRIDAYS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK? WHAT ARE Y'ALL FENCING? I, I AGREE.
TAKING ON A BIG FESTIVAL IS, IT'S TOO BIG FOR US.
RIGHT? WELL, AND WE NEED SOME EXPERIENCE AND I'VE BEEN JOTTING DOWN SOME THINGS.
WHAT, WHAT ARE WE REALLY AFTER HERE? WHAT'S OUR PURPOSE WHEN WE STEP BACK FROM THIS? WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR? I, I WOULD PART WOULD SAY FOR US, FOR THE, UH, THE CMC FOR MORE RECOGNITION IN, IN THESE, TO GET INVOLVED IN OTHER STUFF FROM THAT.
THEY WE'RE, WE'RE USING THIS TO GET RECOGNITION FOR OUR COMMITTEE FOR YEAH.
TO LET, BECAUSE I MEAN, 'CAUSE PEOPLE SAY, LIKE THE PERSON SAID, HOW LONG HAVE Y'ALL BEEN AROUND? I'M LIKE, 20 YEARS.
YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND, AND JUST I GUESS FOR US TOO, MORE INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY AND ACTIVITY AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WE GONNA, OKAY, WHAT, WHAT ARE WE DOING AS A COMMITTEE? YOU KNOW? YEAH.
I THINK IT'S NOT ONLY JUST RECOGNITION, BUT LIKE THE IDEA OF LIKE, PEOPLE STAYING LIKE, OH, LIKE WE ARE BEING REPRESENTED LIKE, YOU KNOW, LIKE, LIKE GARLAND OR LIKE THE MULTI CMC IS LIKE, LIKE A PLACE WHERE WE CAN BE REPRESENTED OR SEEN OR CELEBRATED.
UM, AND I THINK THAT, LIKE, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A BIG REASON WHY WE DO A FESTIVAL OR DO ANYTHING LIKE THAT, IS THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY DOING WHAT WE'RE MADE FOR OF LIKE WHAT THIS COMMUNITY WAS BUILT FOR.
THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY, MR. CHARLES IS FOR ME, IT'S THE PROMOTING DIVERSITY.
AND LIKE, I, I KNOW THE, HIS CAN YOU GET RECOGNITION BECAUSE YOU'RE PROMOTING DIVERSITY, WHICH IS OUR MISSION.
SO WITH THE HISPANIC CULTURE, I KNOW FOR SURE THE VIETNAMESE CULTURE FOR SURE, THEY HAVE A LOT OF EVENTS IN, UM, HISPANIC, THEY, THEY HAVE A LOT OF EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, SO YOU GET TO SEE A LOT OF STUFF THAT THEY DO THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
BUT FOR THE AFRICAN CULTURE AND NOT AFRICAN AMERICAN, BUT THE ACTUAL AFRICAN CULTURE AND YOU ARE INDIAN, INDIAN CULTURE.
SO SOME OF THOSE CULTURES, I'VE, I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING DONE.
SO WHEN THEY SAID MUSIC, I WAS LIKE, OH, THAT WOULD BE A GOOD IDEA.
WELL, I CAN TELL YOU JUST FROM THE ART CENTER PERSPECTIVE, UM, THERE IS PROBABLY AT LEAST TWICE A MONTH, MAYBE THREE TIMES A MONTH, WE HAVE AN ARN TREM AT THE, UM, CULTURAL ARTS CENTER.
SO, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE ARE SOME, WHICH IS A VERY, YOU KNOW, IT'S A TRADITIONAL DANCE, UM, FROM THE EAST INDIAN, UM, I MEAN OH REALLY? IT'S BEAUTIFUL.
SO THERE'S, THERE ARE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING TOO.
SO I, AGAIN, I KIND OF LEAN IN AND THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THERE ARE OTHER WAYS FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR THE CMC TO HELP HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF VISIBILITY, YOU KNOW, JUST AS DANA SAID AT THE CITY EVENTS AND FESTIVALS, IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S AT A CULTURAL ARTS PRODUCED IN THE THEATER SPACES, Y'ALL ARE WELCOME TO HAVE SOME TYPE OF TABLE OR I DON'T KNOW, YOU NEED A BROCHURE TOO, MAYBE OR SOMETHING.
WE HAVE SOME THAT WE HAND OUT AT ALL THE DIFFERENT EVENTS THAT WE ATTEND.
SO, SO THERE'S, THERE'S THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL TOO.
AND, AND THAT, AND THAT'S THE THING TOO, I, I GUESS FOR, FOR PEOPLE WHO MOVE HERE TO GARLAND AND STUFF LIKE THAT, WHERE, YOU KNOW, INDIAN, MIDDLE EAST, WHATEVER, AND THEY WOULD SAY, HEY, WHERE CAN I GO? WHAT, WHAT CHURCH IS THIS? AND WHAT CHURCH IS THAT? THEY CAN COME TO THE, THE CMC AND, AND WE SAY, OH YEAH, THIS IS, THIS CHURCH IS THAT THEY DO THIS.
YOU KNOW, STUFF LIKE THAT FOR SOMEBODY JUST TO SAY, CALL HERE THE CITY HERE, OR CALL AND, YOU KNOW, JUST ONE, ONE GROUP.
AND WE HAVE, WE CAN KEEP ALL THAT INFORMATION, YOU KNOW, HERE, THERE'S 17, THIS CHURCH, YOU KNOW, THIS AND EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE CITY.
AND THAT'S WHY I SAID, WHEN I, WHEN I STARTED OUT THAT OUR, WE, WE SHOULD BE A LIAISON FROM THE CITY AND THE CITIZENS.
EVERYBODY DOESN'T KNOW WHO TO CALL IN THE CITY TO GET SOME ASSISTANCE.
SO IF SOMEONE REACHES OUT TO EITHER ONE OF US AS COMMISSION MEMBERS OR JUST THE CMC AS A WHOLE, THEN WE HAVE THAT INFORMATION AND WE GET THE DISPERSED THAT INFORMATION.
SO AGAIN, WE ARE GOING TO DO THIS ON A SMALL SCALE AFTER WE TALK TO THE CITY MANAGER TO SEE IF WE CAN DO OUR OWN SMALL LITTLE ONES, TWO GROUPS, SMALL LITTLE HOUR, SIR.
SMALL LITTLE WHAT, UH, PER PERFORMANCES, TWO GROUPS A HOUR, A TOTAL 30 MINUTES FOR EACH GROUP.
AND THE FOCUS WILL BE ON WHAT, AS IN MUSIC THAT THEY'RE SEEING.
ETHNIC GROUPS, MUSIC, CULTURAL GROUPS, SPIRITUAL MUSIC, YOU KNOW, DO WE WANT TO JUST CULTURAL MUSIC IN GENERAL, OR DO WE WANT TO GET DOWN TO SPIRITUAL MUSIC FROM DIFFERENT
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CULTURES? YEAH.JUST I, I PERSONALLY THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT.
I PERSONALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE US NARROW IT DOWN TO SPIRITUAL MUSIC FROM THE DIFFERENT CULTURES.
NOW YOUR FRIDAY THINGS, WHAT FRIDAY ARE THEY ON? SO I THINK IF THAT IS THE, UM, UM, DIRECTION, THEN I WOULD DO THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE AND NOT THE FIRST FRIDAYS.
AND THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE FOR SCHEDULING PURPOSES.
WHICH ONE ARE YOU ON THE FIRST FRIDAY? SECOND THIRD, FIRST FRIDAY.
SO WE NEED TO LOOK AT THE THIRD OR ANOTHER WEEK.
THAT WAY THURSDAY BE IT, BE AT LEAST TWO, TWO WEEKS SEPARATED FROM YOU.
YOU, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE THURSDAY.
UM, I MEAN, THIS IS SUCH A DIFFERENT ANIMAL THAN WHAT WE'RE DOING ON THE FIRST FRIDAY THAT YEAH.
WELL, WE, WE HAVE LOTS AND LOTS OF EVENTS, SO IT'S NOT LIKE, UM, SO, UM, SO WE COULD DO IT THURSDAY BEFORE YOUR FRIDAY ABSOLUTELY A PROBLEM.
BUT I, I THINK WHAT WE'RE HEARING IS THAT THE, UM, LOGISTICS SURROUNDING THIS TYPE OF A SPIRITUAL TWO 30 MINUTE KINDS OF MUSIC IS NOT AS COMPLEX.
IT'S NOT AS A, I MEAN, IT'S PRETTY MUCH A, A PA SYSTEM, RIGHT? I MEAN, WHAT I THINK I'M HEARING THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE HEARING.
THAT'S NOT WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN.
UH, OH,
THAT THEATER ARTS WAS OUR THING.
SO I'VE SEEN HOW THESE OH, IT'S JUST A PA WE JUST NEED A AMPLIFIER.
WE HAD FIVE KSS AND THINGS ON SATURDAY AND OH, JUST A FEW PEOPLE ARE GONNA SHOW UP AND THERE'LL BE A THOUSAND OR 500.
YOU JUST, YOU DON'T KNOW WHEN YOU, SO WE, AND SO I DON'T WANT TO CREATE A PROBLEM.
SO REALLY THE SELECTION OF WHO THE MUSIC IS IS GONNA CONTROL THAT.
SO IF YOU ARE SAYING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO REACH OUT TO THE CHURCHES AND THOSE FOLKS ARE GONNA COME FOR FREE AND THEY'RE GONNA SING FOR 30 MINUTES, WE'RE GONNA HAVE A CROWD THAT WE CAN HANDLE WITHOUT A LOT OF LOGISTICS, BUT WE'LL PROMOTE IT WITH GARLAND.
'CAUSE THE OBJECT IS TO GET ALL OF GAR GARLAND TO COME SEE THESE PEOPLE WHO THEY DON'T KNOW.
I MEAN, AGAIN, IF IT, IF IT IS A LOCAL CHURCH THAT'S COMING FOR FREE, W IF, IF ANY OF YOU GUYS WENT TO BAND TOGETHER, THE, UM, PAST TWO YEARS WE HAD IT AT 5 0 6 ART, WE PROMOTED IT HEAVILY IN SOCIAL MEDIA, UM, UM, SIGNAGE, MAG, REFRIGERATOR, MAGNETS.
I MEAN, WE HEAVILY, HEAVILY PROMOTED IT, BUT THEY WERE VERY, VERY SMALL BANDS THAT DIDN'T HAVE A NAME.
AND FOR THE MOST PART, UM, WE NEVER WENT OVER A HUNDRED PEOPLE.
BUT SEE, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE PROMOTING A BAND.
WE WE'RE GONNA BE PROMOTING A ETHNIC MUSIC STYLE AND TYPE.
YOU'RE GONNA GET THEIR PARENTS AND THEIR FRIENDS AND THAT'S IT.
BUT THIS, WE'RE SHOOTING WHAT I THINK IS A CULTURAL, UH, EVENT.
AN EXPERIENCE WHERE, WHERE THE, WE MAY BE PROMOTING, UH, WEST INDIE AFRICAN, WHATEVER, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO GET THE ANGLOS AND OTHERS OUT THERE WHO ARE CLUELESS.
AND SO WE'RE GONNA PROMOTE IT THROUGH A LOT OF DIFFERENT GROUPS.
AND I, I'M OPTIMISTIC, I WAS PART OF THE MOSAIC.
I'VE BEEN ON THIS COMMITTEE ALMOST 15 YEARS.
UH, SO I KNOW WHAT CAN HAPPEN IF YOU DO IT RIGHT.
UH, I, I JUST THINK IT, IT, IT MAY START OUT LITTLE, BUT IT, IT COULD BE COME WORK FOR YOU GUYS.
AND I DON'T WANT IT TO BE A PROBLEM FOR YOU GUYS.
THAT'S WHY I WAS WONDERING IF YOU'RE DOING IT THE FIRST FRIDAY WHEN WE TALK TO THE CITY MANAGER, WE SHOULD PART OF OUR CONVERSATION, DO WE, WE CAN SCHEDULE IT TO WHERE THERE WILL BE SOME BREAKS.
I MEAN, WE, IF YOU, IF THIS IS WHAT YOU TRULY WANT TO DO, WE CAN SHARE SOME CALENDAR DATES WITH YOU, BECAUSE LIKE I SAID,
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WE HAVE A VERY, VERY FULL CALENDAR.AND WE WILL BE GLAD, I WILL BE GLAD TO PROVIDE SOME SUGGESTED DATES FOR YOU.
UM, I'LL ALSO SAY THAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO DO FOUR EVENTS UNDER THE PAVILION, SOMEWHAT SMALL EVENTS, YOU DON'T NEED TO GO TO THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE FOR THAT.
I HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN FOR YOU.
WHERE THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE NEEDS TO BE INVOLVED AS IF YOU'RE REALLY AND TRULY TRYING TO DO A LARGE SCALE FESTIVAL, BECAUSE THAT REALLY AND TRULY COMES WITH A HEFTY BUDGET AND STAFF COMMITMENT AND STAFF COMMITMENT AND POLICE AND, YOU KNOW, EVERY SINGLE SPECIAL EVENT.
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE LOOK AT THE SPECIAL EVENTS DEPARTMENT, BUT IT IS VERY HOLISTIC.
YOU KNOW, OUR EVENTS INCLUDE POLICE, FIRE, SANITATION, WE HIRE A CLEANING CREW, WE HAVE SECURITY, WE HAVE ROAD BARRICADES.
YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S NOT A SPECIAL EVENTS DEPARTMENT THAT HANDLES IT ALL.
IT IS MULTI, UM, DEPARTMENTS AND, UM, SO HOLISTICALLY THAT'S WHY OF ANY, ANYTHING OF ANY LARGER SCALE THAN, YOU KNOW, A HUNDRED PEOPLE SITTING UNDERNEATH THE PAVILION.
WHO WAS THE SATURDAY THE CRUMP? WAS THAT THE CITY? THAT WAS NOT, THAT WAS, UM, A SPONSORED EVENT BY THE, UH, DOWNTOWN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION.
THE CITY DID NOT PRODUCE THAT.
THEY HAD, THEY HAD QUITE A FEW PEOPLE OUT WALKED UP ON IT.
SO, SO, SO JUST TO BE CLEAR, I GUESS I JUST WANNA RECAP, AND I'M, I'M ALSO THINKING TOO ABOUT HOW WE HAVE COMBINED PROMOTIONAL ASSETS THAT WE CAN HELP PROMOTE AS WELL TOO.
WE'RE MADAM CHEER FOUR EVENTS, RIGHT? FOUR EVENTS.
OH, WHAT ARE Y'ALL THINKING? YEAH, I, I MEAN, LOOK, I LIKE THAT THE FIRST, THE FIRST THURSDAY WITH, 'CAUSE PEOPLE WOULD REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, OKAY, I, I PROBABLY REALLY NEED TO SHARE A, A CALENDAR WITH YOU BEFORE WE SET OUR DATE TONIGHT BECAUSE I REALLY NEED TO STUDY IT.
AND, AND YOU MAY NEED TO GIVE SOME THOUGHT TO WHAT GROUPS DO WE WANT TO REPRESENT.
AND ONCE YOU GET ALL THOSE GROUPS DOWN, THEN UH, FOUR MAY NOT BE A GOOD NUMBER.
YOU MAY BE LOOKING AT SIX OR EIGHT.
AND THEN YOU LOOK AT WEATHER CONDITIONS, LIKE YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT SUMMER GOSPEL, UH, IN GARLAND, TEXAS.
SUMMER GOSPEL OUTSIDE IS NOT GOOD AFTER MAY.
UH, HAVING GROWN UP IN EAST TEXAS IN CHURCHES THAT HAD NO AIR CONDITIONING, YOU, YOU REALLY HAVE TO BE A BELIEVER, UH, TO STAY WITH IT.
SO, UH, NEED TO LOOK AT WHAT GROUPS, HOW MANY GROUPS, HOW MUCH TIME.
I WOULD SAY THE LARGEST ONUS ON THIS GROUP IS ACTUALLY FINDING THE TALENT AND HAVING A CON, YOU KNOW, CON A CON A COMMITMENT, BUT SOMETHING IN WRITING THAT THEY'RE GOING TO ACTUALLY SHOW UP.
AND THERE ARE SOME VERY SIMPLE, UM, ARTIST AGREEMENTS THAT I CAN SHARE WITH THE COMMITTEE BECAUSE WE DON'T WANNA BE OUT THERE AND NOBODY SHOWS UP.
YOUR PERFORMERS, YOUR PERFORMERS DON'T SHOW UP.
AND YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE ONUS ON THE CMC TO MAKE SURE THAT IF YOU GUYS ARE WANTING TO BRING THIS MUSIC, THEN THE CONNECTION WITH THOSE ARTISTS AND MAKING SURE THAT, UM, THEY'RE GOING TO SHOW UP AND THAT YOU HAVE AN AGREEMENT THAT THEIR, THEIR NEEDS WHEN THEY ARRIVE ARE THIS IS WHAT THE CITY'S PROVIDING.
AND IF THEY NEED ANY OTHER INSTRUMENTATION TO MAKE IT HAPPEN, THEN IT'S ON THEM.
SO I CAN 100% AMY AND I CAN 100% HELP YOU, UM, HAVE THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE ARTIST.
AND THE SECOND THAT YOU GET PAST A FREE ARTIST TO SOMEBODY WHO'S CHARGING YEAH.
WELL, OR THEN WE MAY NEED TO LOOK AT IS IT A LARGER SCALE EVENT AND CAN, CAN IT REALLY FIT UNDER THE PAVILION AND DOES IT REALLY MAKE SENSE FOR OUR FIRST KIND OF STEP TOWARDS, UM, THIS MUSIC, YOU KNOW, SEE, AND, AND MY THINKING IS IT WILL BE THAT, 'CAUSE I'VE ALREADY HAD SOMEONE FROM OUR EVENT THAT I CAN'T PRONOUNCE EITHER, UH, COME UP TO ME AND, AND, AND BASICALLY SAY, UH, I'M A REPRESENTATIVE OF THIS CHURCH AND WE WOULD LOVE TO BE PART OF THIS.
AND, AND SHE EMAIL ME AND SHE SAYS, AS SOON AS YOU HAVE THIS MEETING, GET BACK TO ME AND LET ME KNOW WHAT'S
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GOING ON.BECAUSE I CAN APPROACH OUR MUSIC DEPARTMENT AND YES, WE WANT TO BE PART OF IT.
AND THEY'RE A VERY LARGE CHURCH HERE IN GARLAND, SO.
AND THAT'S WHY I INVITED MS. D TONIGHT TOO.
UM, I MEAN, I WENT TO AN EVENT AND I INVITED HER.
I WAS LIKE, HEY, Y'ALL COME OUT IN HERE.
BUT WE ARE HEARING AT THE SAME TIME, BECAUSE THESE TEMPLES AND RELIGIOUS GROUPS, UH, I DON'T THINK WE'LL HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THEM SHOWING UP, UH, OR, AND THEIR EQUIPMENT.
I MEAN, THEY HAVE THE EQUIPMENT, SO IT JUST NEED, BUT WE NEED TO COORDINATE.
WE YOU, I WAS GONNA SAY AND NEED YOUR GUIDANCE.
YOU HAVE A CITY, BASICALLY THIS IS STILL GONNA BE A CITY PRODUCED EVENT.
EVEN IF IT'S CMC AND THE CITY CANNOT PRODUCE AN EVENT WITHOUT KNOWING.
AND THEN YEAH, YOU'VE GOTTA KEEP US FROM GOING BERSERK.
AND, AND WE APPRECIATE THAT BECAUSE WE CAN GO BERSERK, AS YOU CAN TELL.
I JUST SORT OF, AND WE APPRECIATE YOU GUYS BEING ABLE TO PARTNER WITH US IN THIS AND WE WANNA BE ABLE TO PARTNER WITH YOU GUYS IN, YOU KNOW, ADVERTISING THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING TOO.
AND I ALSO AM WONDERING, DO WE NEED A COCOM, LIKE A, WHAT IS IT CALLED? THE SUBCOMMITTEE? A SUBCOMMITTEE, DO WE NEED FOR THESE TYPES? I THINK YEAH.
YOU KNOW WHO YOU'RE
SIT DOWN AT YOUR CONVENIENCE AND, AND JUST TALK ABOUT THIS IS WHAT YEAH.
AND YOU CAN BE REALISTIC AND SAY, WELL I'VE BEEN PRETTY REALISTIC WITH YOU, THE
WHEN WE GO TO SEEK THESE DIFFERENT GROUPS AND WE TALK TO THEM AND THEY'RE GOING TO ASK US ABOUT LOGISTICS SUCH AS AMPLIFIERS, MICROPHONES AND SUCH, WHEN THEY ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS, WE'RE GONNA LIKE, UH, NO, I SAY YOU, YOU NEED TO SUPPLY 'EM.
SO THAT WAS GONNA BE MY QUESTION.
DO WE NEED TO TELL THEM YOU NEED TO SUPPLY YOUR OWN, YOU NEED TO.
WE, BECAUSE IF WE GET INTO THAT, UM, YOU NEED A SOUND TECH GUY NOW.
AND I DON'T SEE THAT PERSON HERE.
BUT WE CAN PROVIDE THE ELECTRICITY FOR THEM.
THE LOCATION AND THE ELECTRICITY.
RIGHT? THEY BUT THEY NEED EXTENSION CORDS.
THEY'LL HAVE TO PROVIDE THEIR OWN IS THAT IS YEAH.
WILL THAT, IS THAT HOW IT NORMALLY WORKS? WELL THE SQUARE JUST OPENED UP
UM, AND UM, THE PAVILION'S THOUGHT PROCESS OF ADDING THE P HAVING A MAIN STAGE AREA AND A PAVILION WAS UH, THAT THE PAVILION WOULD BE FOR PEOPLE TO JUST COME AND BRING THEIR OWN EQUIPMENT AND DO THEIR OWN THING.
UM, AND I THINK THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT HERE.
BUT WE COULD, YOU KNOW, ADD SOME CMC SIGNAGE AND RECOGNITION THAT YOU HAVE BROUGHT THEM TO THE TABLE AND THAT'S WHERE THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE COULD HELP WITH A LITTLE BIT OF SIGNAGE AND HELP YOU, YOUR BUDGET THAT WAY.
'CAUSE EVEN SCIENCE COST, MONEY.
UM, BUT UM, SO THAT'S THE KIND OF THE MINDSET OF THE PAVILION, KIND OF THE GARLAND PICKERS.
THEY JUST KIND OF SHOW UP YES.
AND DO THEIR THING, UM, IN ONE CORNER OF THE SQUARE.
THEY'VE BEEN DOING THAT FOR YEARS.
AND THE PAVILION WAS BUILT SPECIFICALLY KIND OF WITH THEM IN MIND.
LIKE PEOPLE JUST SHOW UP AND IS THERE ELECTRICITY AT THE PAVILION? YES, THERE IS.
BUT DANA BRINGS UP AN EXCELLENT POINT THAT HAVING, UM, A SIGN BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT, 'CAUSE BECAUSE I THINK THE HOPE IS YEAH, SOME PEOPLE ARE GONNA ACTUALLY MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND AND THEN YOU'RE GONNA HAVE THOSE PEOPLE THAT JUST KINDA, OH MY GOSH, WHAT'S GOING ON? MM-HMM.
AND SO YOU WANNA MAKE SURE YEAH.
IF PART OF THE, THE GOAL OF THIS IS TO INCREASE AWARENESS ABOUT CMC, IT'S THAT YOU'VE GOT YOUR, YOU KNOW, YEAH.
YOU COULD HAVE SIGNS SPONSORED AND SUPPORTED BY FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT HOW YOU TWO CAN BE YEP, EXACTLY.
HOW MUCH ELECTRICITY OR AMPERAGE AND PLENTY
AND I MEAN, WE'RE GONNA HELP WITH SOME INFRASTRUCTURE.
WE'RE GONNA MOVE THE TABLES AND CHAIRS THAT ARE UNDERNEATH THE PAVILION OUT OF THE WAY, MAKING ROOM FOR THE GROUP THAT YOU'RE BRINGING IN.
UM, WE'LL HAVE A CLEANING CREW THAT COMES AFTER YOUR EVENT IS OVER AND CLEANS IT.
SO, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH WE'RE STARTING SMALL, THERE'S STILL LOGISTICS TO IT.
WE ACTUALLY GO AND TURN THE ELECTRICITY ON 'CAUSE WE DON'T LEAVE IT ON.
UM, AND THEN WE TURN IT OFF AT THE END OF THE NIGHT.
SO, SO THERE'S, UM, SO, SO THERE, THERE ARE STILL LOGISTICS EVEN STARTING SMALL, BUT
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I THINK THIS WOULD HELP GET YOU TO WHERE YOU WANNA GO BY MARCH.'CAUSE YOU GUYS WANT A SOMETHING QUICK.
UM, AND WE COULD DO MULTIPLE SMALL ONES AND I THINK IT'S GONNA BE REALLY, REALLY FUN.
AND IF IT WORKS IN A YEAR OR TWO, WE MIGHT HAVE A FESTIVAL.
BECAUSE WE COULD BRING BACK SELECT GROUPS 'CAUSE WE'D KNOW ABOUT SELECT GROUPS AND PEOPLE WOULD KNOW ABOUT US.
WELL Y'ALL ANSWERED A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND GAVE US MORE TO THINK ABOUT
Y'ALL TOLD US IT'S A LOT HARDER THAN WHAT WE THOUGHT.
NOW WHAT WAS YOUR, I'M SORRY, WHAT WAS YOUR NAME AGAIN? MY NAME IS DANA LODGE.
IT'S DANA AND MS. AMY DO HAVE AN EMAIL.
SOMETHING THAT LIKE A GENERAL ONE.
AR ARTS ARTS@GARLANDTX.GOV AND UNDER MY REALM IS THE SPECIAL EVENTS DEPARTMENT, THE DOWNTOWN DEVELOPMENT OFFICE.
AND THEN VISIT GARLAND, OUR CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU.
AND THEY'RE ALL VERY RELATED IN MAKING SURE THAT THAT DOWNTOWN AND OUR WHOLE ENTIRE CITY, UM, IS ACTIVATED.
AND PEOPLE SEE HOW WONDERFUL GARLAND IS AND WHY YOU SHOULD COME HERE.
SO THIS PERFECTLY FITS INTO WHAT I DO.
WE NEED TO BE BETTER CONNECTED TO YOU 'CAUSE I THINK WE CAN PROVIDE SOME VOLUNTEER HELP FOR YOU MAYBE.
THAT WOULD EDUCATE US AND IT WOULD GET YOU SOME HELP.
ARE YOU GOOD AT TABLES AND CHAIRS?
HAVING BEEN A SCHOOL PRINCIPAL FOR 33 YEARS.
I'M VERY GOOD AT TABLES, CHAIRS, BROOMS, ALL THAT.
SO MS. DANA, YOU'LL SHARE THE CALENDAR WITH ME AND THEN WE'LL DISCUSS THE CALENDAR IN JANUARY.
IF SHE, WHEN SHE GIVES IT TO ME, I'LL SEND IT OUT TO YOU GUYS.
YOU MIGHT TALK WITH ALSO ABOUT WHAT'S ENTAILED, WHAT FORMS WE NEED.
YEAH, I WAS, I WAS GONNA SAY, UH, IF I WANNA COME, LIKE IF I WANNA COME TALK TO RENEE, I JUST SHOW UP.
SO IF I WANNA TALK TO YOU, DO I NEED TO SCHEDULE A MEETING? ONLY BECAUSE I HAVE MASSIVE CALENDAR COMMITMENTS AND I WANNA MAKE SURE I'M THERE OKAY.
UH, KIND OF NEAR THE DUCKWORTH BUILDING, BUT I HAVE MY OWN ENTRANCE.
UM,
AND, UM, I CAN SHARE SOME ARTIST AGREEMENTS THAT ARE REALLY SIMPLIFIED 'CAUSE WE'RE TALKING GROUPS THAT ARE COMING FOR FREE AND SO THEY DON'T WANNA SIGN COMPLICATED AGREEMENTS.
IT'S JUST SORT OF A, YOU KNOW, HEY, WE REALLY HAVE YOU SCHEDULED, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THING.
WHEN, WHEN PEOPLE ARE NOT GETTING PAID AND THEY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING IN WRITING, IT'S EASY TO NOT SHOW UP.
WELL, I MEAN, I WOULD THINK TOO THAT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TO OFFER SOME EXPOSURE TO THEIR OR THEIR GROUP GROUPS.
AND IF, AND IF YOU'RE THINKING FIRST THAT THESE ARE KIND OF MAYBE RELIGIOUS BASED OR SPIRITUAL BASED TYPES OF ORGANIZATIONS, YOU KNOW, OPPORTUNITY AND IT'S THEIR CHANCE TO BE SEEN AND HEARD.
'CAUSE WE WANT THEIR VOICE PART OF IT.
MS. D, DID YOU HAVE ANY, DID SHE LEAVE? NO.
OH, SHE'S STILL, OH, SHE'S THERE.
MS. D DEE, THE ONE OF YOU LADIES HAVE A QUESTION? UH, NO.
I'M REALLY JUST HERE TO HEAR WHAT IT IS THAT YOU ARE PLAYING TO DO AND UH, HOW WE CAN BE OF HOPE.
BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU DO HAVE A LOT OF DISCUSSIONS.
SO DEPENDS ON WHAT TYPE OF EVENTS YOU ARE RUNNING.
SO YEAH, JUST FOR YOUR INFORMATION, WE, NOT JUST AT THE VIETNAMESE COMMUNITY, WE ALSO WORK LIKE FRIENDSHIP WITH ALL THE COMMUNITIES AS WELL, ESPECIALLY ASIAN COMMUNITY LIKE CAMBODIA OR T SO IF YOU WANT US TO HELP TO CONNECT, THEN WE CAN, BECAUSE SEE WE WOULD LOVE SOME OF THEIR, UH, PEOPLE FROM THE TEMPLES AND THE MUSIC THAT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR PUBLIC YES.
UM, IF SO, WHATEVER THAT YOU NEED, UM, YOU CAN JUST LET US KNOW.
WE'LL, YOUR MEETING AND ESPECIALLY TRANSLATORS, I'M SURE WE MAY NEED SOME TRANSLATORS CAN HELP US WITH THAT.
NOWADAYS THE GOOD THING IS MORE YOUNGER THAN GENERATION THAN BEFORE.
SO WE DON'T, THE LANGUAGE IS NOT VERY, IT'S NOT THAT BIG A PROBLEM WITH THE YOUNGER.
IF THEY'RE UNDER PROBABLY 50, THEY'RE OKAY.
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THEY HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE EVEN YOUNGER THAN US, SO.SO I WILL, UM, DEFINITELY I HAVE THESE NUMBER.
AND I WILL DEFINITELY KEEP YOU LADIES IN THE LOOP.
AND IT, IT WOULDN'T BE JUST, UM, IT WOULD BE ALL THE DIFFERENT ETHNICITIES IN THE ASIAN COMMUNITY.
SO IF YOU HAVE SOMEBODY THAT'S CAMBODIAN THAT HAS GOSPEL, WE WANT THEM TOO.
SO WE'RE GONNA START THE OUT WITH GOSPEL WITH EACH DIFFERENT, UM, WHATEVER ETHNICITY GROUP THAT GOSPEL WOULD TRANSLATE INTO THEIR CAMBODIAN RELIGIOUS MUSIC.
UM, DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION? WERE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION? ANY INPUT? INPUT RIGHT NOW? NOT RIGHT NOW.
ANYBODY ELSE HAVE INPUT? DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, CONCERNS? UH, I THINK THIS WAS A GOOD MEETING.
UM, THANK YOU GUYS FOR COMING OUT.
MS. GLENNA, NEXT TIME YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO SAY MORE
I APPRECIATE YOU GETTING IN THE CONVERSATION.
THESE GUYS NORMALLY STAY REALLY QUIET THROUGHOUT THESE MEETINGS AND I EXPLAINED TO THEM WHEN THEY VOTED ME IN THAT I CAN'T DO THIS BY MYSELF.
SO SPEAK, SPEAK TO ME AND LET ME KNOW.
'CAUSE I SAY THE FACE'S LEFT UP TO ME AND I'M GOING IN A DIRECTION.
I MIGHT TAKE YOU SOMEWHERE YOU DON'T WANNA GO.
GIVE ME YOUR INPUT, LET ME KNOW.
AND WE, WE, WE CAN DO THIS TOGETHER AS A TEAM.
'CAUSE EVERYBODY'S OPINION MATTERS AND THAT'S WHY THEY'RE HERE 'CAUSE THEY HAVE AN OPINION.
BUT, UM, IF NO ONE ELSE HAS ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, GENERALLY WE END THESE MEETINGS AT SEVEN.
IT WAS BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION THAT WE DO NOT HAVE TO END AT SEVEN.
WE DO NOT HAVE TO BE MIDSTREAM SENTENCE OR THOUGHT AND CLOSE THE MEETING.
WE ARE FREE TO FINISH OUR THOUGHT OR TOPIC THAT WE HAVE ON HAND AND THEN WE CAN END THE MEETING.
THE MEETINGS ARE ENDED AT SEVEN OUT OF RESPECT FOR MS. TRACY AND RENEE'S TIME.
THEY'VE BEEN AT WORK ALL DAY, SO THEY'RE HERE A LITTLE LATER.
SO IT'S JUST OUTTA RESPECT FOR THEIR TIME.
SO WE WILL, WE WILL NOT GO AN HOUR AND A HALF, TWO HOURS, THREE HOURS.
THERE'S NOTHING WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT THAT WOULD TAKE IT THAT LONG.
AND WE WILL ALSO LOOK INTO, UM, MINIMIZING OUR, UH, AGENDA.
IF WE PUT FIVE THINGS ON THERE AND WE, WE GOTTA SPEED THROUGH EVERYTHING.
WE'LL LOOK AT, UH, COMPILING IT SO THAT WE ONLY HAVE A COUPLE HUGE TOPICS THAT WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT.
BEING THAT WE ARE NOW ALL GOING TO START ENGAGING IN CONVERSATION, IT, IT, IT IS GONNA TAKE US SOME TIME.
SO THAT'S JUST A THOUGHT THAT I WANTED TO PUT OUT THERE TO YOU GUYS.
BUT IF NO ONE ELSE HAS ANYTHING ELSE, UM, THANK YOU ALL.
AND WE ARE DEFINITELY GONNA BUILD A RELATIONSHIP.
I WORK FROM HOME, BUT I DO HAVE A JOB.
I'LL EMAIL YOU BACK IF I DON'T RESPOND.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT BECAUSE I'VE FORGOTTEN.
IT'S JUST, I JUST HADN'T GOT TIME TO IT.
AND I'M GONNA RELY ON THESE COMMISSIONERS A LOT TO KIND OF HELP ME OUT.
WE ARE REMEMBERING STUFF AND I KNOW WE'RE ALL CAPABLE OF DOING THIS TOGETHER, BUT IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE FROM ANYBODY ELSE, UH, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND ADJOURN THE MEETING.
CAN WE HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN THE MEETING? I MOTION TO ADJOURN THE MEETING.
ANY SECONDS? YOU CANNOT SECOND IT.
OH, WHO? SECOND MERYLL SECONDS.