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OKAY, GUYS, I KNOW TODAY'S A SOCIAL, SO WE'LL BE BRIEF WITH THE MEETING.
SO I'LL TRY AND GET THIS DONE AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
UM, FIRST THING ON OUR AGENDA, WE ARE GONNA GO OVER THE APPROVAL MINUTES FOR THE OCTOBER 14TH MEETING.
SO IF YOU WANT TO GO AHEAD AND GET TO THE SECOND TO LAST, UH, PAPER SO WE CAN GO OVER IT.
SO FIRST ON OUR ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.
WE ARE NOW, THIS YEAR GETTING OUR CITY COUNCIL MEMBER.
LAST MEETING, WE HAD COUNCIL MEMBER FIRST TO COME AND SEE ED MOORE, WHO SPOKE TO US A LITTLE TO US.
WE HAVE MENTIONED ABOUT HIS LIKE PASSION AND HIS JOURNEY PAST HERE TODAY ON
UM, BUT I, UH, THEN WE ALSO SPOKE TO MS. MEL, WHO WAS CITY OF GARLAND LIBRARY SERVICES LIBRARIAN, UH, FOR THE NEW LIBRARY.
TALKED ABOUT YOUTH GROUPS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
UM, THEN WE HAD MR. JESSE JOHNSON WHO CAME OUT AND SPOKE TO US ABOUT POSSIBLE JOBS, JOBS YOU GUYS MAY BE ABLE TO GET WITH HIM, AS WELL AS LIKE THE DIFFERENT PROGRAMS THAT WE OFFER THAT PARKS AND RECS OFFER AND SUCH LIKE THAT.
AND THEN WE ALSO RECAP SOME OF OUR VOLUNTEER, UM, OPPORTUNITIES, UH, LIKE THE GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL CAR SHOW, LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS AND SAFETY VESTS.
OKAY, SO I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FOR THE OCTOBER 14TH MEETING.
DOES ANYONE A SECOND? I SECOND.
UM, SECOND IS OUR PUBLIC COMMENTS.
WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE FROM THE PUBLIC UNLESS WE HAVE ANY.
DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR US THOUGH? NO, I'M GOOD.
NOW WE'RE GONNA GO DO OUR CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
SO YOU MAY HAVE THE FLOOR NOW, GUYS.
I'M JEFF WEST, I COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE FOR DISTRICT ONE, WHICH IS THE NORTHERN DISTRICT BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY.
GET GET, COME IN, SIT WHEREVER ENOUGH TRAFFIC.
I REPRESENT, UH, DISTRICT JUAN ON GARLAND CITY COUNCIL.
MR. JUAN IS THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN BOUNDARIES OF THE CITY.
I AM ACTUALLY FINISHING UP MY THIRD TERM, MY TERM OUT IN MAY OF NEXT YEAR.
THAT MEANS THAT I CANNOT RUN AGAIN UNLESS I SIT OUT ONE TERM AND THEN I CAN RUN AGAIN.
SO WE RUN FOR THREE, TWO YEAR TERMS. UM, AND THE SIX YEAR LIMIT IS DETERMINED BY THE STATE.
WE RUN FOR THREE TERMS OF TWO YEARS.
WE COULD RUN FOR TWO TERMS OF THREE YEARS EACH, BUT THREE AND TWO IS EASIER.
UM, THERE ARE EIGHT CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVES AND THE MAYOR.
UM, CAN ANYBODY TELL ME, IS GARLAND A MAYOR, STRONG CITY OR A CITY MANAGER? CITY.
SOME CITIES ARE STRONGER CITY MANAGER, SOME CITIES ARE STRONGER.
MAYOR, THAT MEANS WHO HAS MORE POWER TO RUN THE CITY? SO WHEN GARLAND, OUR MAYOR, OUR CURRENT MAYOR IS, HE WAS JUST ELECTED IN MAY, WHO WAS OUR CURRENT MAYOR, FORMER DISTRICT SEVEN GUY DYLAN.
DYLAN HEDRICK IS OUR CURRENT MAYOR.
HE WAS JUST ELECTED THIS PAST MAY.
HE WAS PRIOR, UH, DISTRICT SEVEN'S, CITY COUNCIL SUPERINTENDENT.
SO THE MAYOR, UM, THE MAYOR IN GARLAND, UM, IS PRETTY MUCH LIKE A, LIKE A NINTH COUNCIL MEMBER.
UH, SO WHAT CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS DO, DID ANYBODY TELL, TELL ME ANYTHING THAT WE DO? WHAT DO WE DO? WHAT DOES CITY COUNCIL MEMBER OKAY.
CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS REPRESENT THEIR DISTRICT AND THEIR CONSTITUENTS, UM, IN MATTERS CONCERNING THE CITY.
SO WE TALKED, WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT ZONING CASES.
WE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU SEE SOMETHING BEING BUILT SOMEWHERE, WE, DEPENDING ON HOW THE ZONING IS, WE MAY OR MAY NOT HAD TO VOTE ON THAT.
SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU SEE A RESTAURANT WHERE THE DRIVE-THRU, THE DRIVE-THROUGHS ARE NOT ALLOWED BY WRIGHT ANYWHERE IN THE CITY.
THAT MEANS IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUILD A RESTAURANT WITH A DRIVE-THRU, IT HAS TO BE APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL.
UM, SO IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUILD SOMETHING SOMEWHERE AND THAT PIECE OF LAND WASN'T ALREADY SET TO HAVE THAT WHATEVER DEVELOPMENT ON THERE BY WRIGHT, THEN IT HAS TO COME THROUGH CITY COUNCIL.
UM, IF SOMEBODY WANTS TO BUILD, UM, YOU KNOW, SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AND THAT AREA IS ALREADY ZONED FOR SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, THEN IT DOESN'T HAVE TO COME TO US.
UM, ALSO WE, UM, WE ARE, WE ARE CONNECTING SOURCE FOR CITIZENS AS WELL.
SO LET'S SAY SOMEBODY SAYS, OH, THERE'S A POTHOLE IN A STREET, OR THERE'S, I SAW I'VE SEEN WATER LEAKING OUT OF THIS OUT OF THE GROUND HERE FOR A WEEK NOW, RIGHT? THEY DON'T KNOW WHO TO CALL.
THEY CAN CALL THE CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE, THE CITY COUNCIL REPRESENTATIVE TO
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HELP THEM MAKE THOSE CONNECTIONS, RIGHT? WE DON'T ACTUALLY, I DON'T ACTUALLY GO OUT AND FILL POT HOLES, BUT I KNOW THEY GOT, WHO DOES? SO WE ARE A CONNECTING SOURCE FOR CITIZENS.UM, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE MIGHT HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT WHAT, WHAT'S GOING, WHAT DO YOU GO HERE? WHAT'S BOAT GETTING FIXED OVER HERE? HOW COME THIS IS HAPPENING OR THIS ISN'T.
SO WE'RE THERE TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS CITIZENS AS WELL.
AND, UM, SO I'LL TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW I GOT HERE.
SO I WAS RAISED, I WAS RAISED IN THE METROPOLITAN.
SO I MAINLY GREW UP IN CARROLLTON, UM, MOVED AROUND A LOT WHEN I WAS A KID.
UM, I'M, I COME FROM A, UM, SINGLE PARENT HOUSEHOLD.
WE HAD MY MOM AND THERE WERE FOUR KIDS TOTAL.
UM, THREE OF US ARE WITHIN 13 MONTHS FROM EACH OTHER.
SO THAT'S PRETTY TIGHT FIGHTING BACK THERE.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, I WAS NOT RAISED IN THE, YOU KNOW, IN THE BEST ECONOMIC CIRCUMSTANCES THERE WERE, RIGHT? SO, BUT I, YOU KNOW, I TRIED HARD IN SCHOOL, ALWAYS PERFORMED WELL, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, AS I GOT OLDER, I LIKED TO VOLUNTEER, LIKED TO GET INVOLVED.
YOU KNOW, I GREW UP, I GREW UP SEEING WHAT IT'S LIKE TO HAVE NEEDS AND HAVE THOSE NEEDS NOT MET.
SO THE OLDER I GOT, THE MORE I WANTED TO HELP OTHERS WHO MIGHT, MIGHT HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT IN THE KIND OF THE SAME SOCIOECONOMIC SITUATIONS THAT I CAN GO UP IN.
SO, UM, SO I VOLUNTEER A LOT AND THE OLDER I GOT THE MORE OPPORTUNITY I HAVE TIME TO VOLUNTEER.
AND SO I MOVED TO GARLAND IN 2008, UM, AND THEN DID SOME WORK WITH HABITAT, HABITAT FOR HUMANITY AND HOPES DOOR, NEW BEGINNING CENTER TO VOLUNTEER WORK WITH THEM.
AND THEN IN 2014, I OPENED MY FIRST BUSINESS IN GARLAND.
I OPENED A DICK'S BARBECUE IN, IN GARLAND ON BUCKINGHAM ROAD.
UM, I DON'T HAVE RESTAURANTS ANYMORE.
AT ONE POINT I HAD EIGHT OF THEM.
I GOT RID OF ALL OF 'EM LAST YEAR.
ITS A BIG HEADACHE TO GET GOT RID AS WELL.
UM, I OPENED, I OPENED MY FIRST BUSINESS IN 2014, JOINED THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, UM, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
UM, I KNOW WHAT THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS A, IS A BUSINESS.
IT'S PARTIALLY FUNDED BY THE CITY.
AND WHAT IT IS THERE TO DO IS TO HELP PROMOTE BUSINESS, WHETHER IT BE A SMALL BUSINESS, LARGE BUSINESS.
AND IT'S ESPECIALLY BENEFICIAL FOR SMALL BUSINESSES.
SO I OPENED A SMALL BUSINESS, I JOINED THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HELPS MAKE CONNECTIONS FOR ME, WHETHER THOSE BE NETWORKING, WHETHER THOSE BE, UM, CONNECTIONS TO SBA TO LOANS OR WHATEVER, WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.
UH, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE IS A, IS A CONNECTING RESOURCE FOR BUSINESSES.
SO JOINING THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE.
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE HAS A PROGRAM CALLED LEADERSHIP GARLAND.
UM, AND YOU GO THROUGH AND LEARN A LOT ABOUT THE CITY.
IT'S NOT CO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT FROM WHAT YOU GUYS DO.
UM, AFTER GRADUATING FROM THAT, GOT MORE INVOLVED CHAMBER, THE CHAMBER, I WAS ON HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BOARD, UM, JUST GOT INVOLVED A LOT MORE WITH, WITH VOLUNTEERING AND A LOT MORE INVOLVED WITH THE CITY.
AND I HAD BEEN ASKED FOR A FEW YEARS.
PEOPLE HAD BEEN PUSHING ME TO RUN FOR CITY COUNCIL.
SO I FINALLY DECIDED TO DO THAT.
AND WHATEVER, SIX YEARS AGO WAS
UM, AND SO, YEAH, SO I RAN FOR CITY COUNCIL, GOT ELECTED, AND ONE ONE THIRD TERM.
UM, DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME ABOUT ANYTHING? NO, SURE.
UM, ACCORDING TO MY WIFE, I'M GONNA BE TAKING A BREAK.
UM, YEAH, I'VE GOT THERE, THERE'S, THERE'S, THERE'S A, I'VE BEEN PUSHED TO RUN FOR STATE SEAT ONE 12, UH, DISTRICT ONE 12 STATE SEAT, WHICH IS CURRENTLY HELD THE HAND CHIN BUTTON.
UM, SHE HAS REACHED HER TENURE SHEET.
THEY DON'T HAVE TERM LIMITS, BUT SHE HAS NO FINANCIAL REASONS TO CONTINUE TO RUN.
THE ONES NEEDS ARE GOING AGAINST HER, BUT I'M PROBABLY NOT GONNA DO BECAUSE MY WIFE DOESN'T WANT ME TO
SO, YOU KNOW, THE TIMING, THE TIMING IS IMPORTANT, RIGHT? SO THE, THE MAYORAL RACE WAS THIS PAST MAY, SO IT WON'T BE AGAIN UNTIL TWO YEARS, RIGHT? SO IF THE TIMING OF THE MAYORAL RACE LINED UP WITH MY TIMING WITH CITY COUNCIL, I'D PROBABLY BE MORE LIKELY TO DO THAT.
AND IF DYLAN HADN'T RAN, I WOULD'VE RAN.
I THOUGHT HE WAS A GOOD CANDIDATE.
WHAT'S LIKE THE BEST PIECE OF ADVICE TO HAVE, UH,
I MEAN, DO THE RIGHT, DO THE RIGHT THING, RIGHT.
YOU KNOW, I LIKE THE WORD INTEGRITY BECAUSE ANYBODY KNOW WHAT INTEGRITY MEANS? WHAT'S THE SIMPLEST WAY TO EXPLAIN WHAT INTEGRITY MEANS? DOING RIGHT THING.
DOING THE RIGHT THING WHEN NO ONE'S LOOKING.
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RIGHT.SO ALWAYS MAINTAIN YOUR INTEGRITY, RIGHT? BE TRUE TO YOURSELF.
BE TRUE TO WHAT YOU BELIEVE AND WHAT YOU KNOW.
HOW'D YOU FIRST GET LIKE, INVOLVED IN OWNING BUSINESS? UH, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
SO, YOU KNOW, GROWING UP FOUR, I LIKE, I LIKE TO HAVE, I LIKE TO HAVE THINGS LIKE CLOTHES AND MY BIKE, THINGS LIKE THAT, RIGHT? SO, UM, I STARTED WORKING, I WAS ABOUT NINE YEARS OLD.
NOW Y'ALL REMEMBER I'M I'M GEN X, RIGHT? SO I'M A LOT, I'M OLDER NEIL'S PARENTS.
UM, SO THERE WEREN'T, OKAY, TECHNICALLY THERE WERE CHILD LABOR LAWS IN THE SEVENTIES, BUT NO ONE PAID ATTENTION TO 'EM, RIGHT? SO, UM, I STARTED OFF, YOU KNOW, AT NINE YEARS OLD I DELIVERED NEWSPAPERS.
I DELIVERED, UM, I DELIVERED TWO WEEK PAPERS IN THE SUNDAY PAPER.
AND THEN I WOULD SELL, YOU KNOW HOW YOU SEE LITTLE KIDS SELLING LEMONADE AND STUFF? UM, ACTUALLY IT WAS A BUSY INTERSECTION BY THE HOUSE THAT I GREW UP IN.
UM, ON THE WEEKENDS I ALWAYS SELL COKES AND CIGARETTES AT THE INTERSECTION THERE.
SO I MADE MONEY, I MAKE MONEY AND I BUY, I BOUGHT CLOTHES, I BOUGHT A BIKE.
SO I'VE ALWAYS, I'VE ALWAYS BEEN AN ENTREPRENEUR AND I WORKED IN RESTAURANTS.
I LEARNED WASN'T WORKING IN RESTAURANTS AND I DIDN'T GO HUNGRY.
THAT'S WHY I GREW UP WORKING IN RESTAURANTS AND, AND THAT'S WHY I HAD A PASSION FOR RESTAURANTS.
AND I WENT BACK TO BOUGHT, STARTED BUYING RESTAURANTS YEARS AGO.
DO YOU ALWAYS STILL PLAN TO DO LIKE POLITICS OR GOVERNMENT IN THE FUTURE AFTER FUTURE TRIM? MAYBE AFTER A COUPLE YEARS.
LET MY WIFE GIVE A LITTLE CALM, CALM DOWN.
PROBABLY WHAT I'LL DO IS THROUGH, SO UM, I MENTIONED TO YOU GUYS LEADERSHIP GUARD, LEADERSHIP GARLAND HAS A CLASS ADVISORS AND IT'S A TWO YEAR COMMITMENT.
UM, SO I'LL PROBABLY DO THAT STARTING NEXT FALL.
JUST GET MORE INVOLVEMENT, THE CHANGE OF OTHERS.
WHAT WAS THE MOST IMPACTFUL THING THAT YOU DID WHEN YOU WERE ON BOARD? OH, ON CITY COUNCIL.
OKAY, SO WHEN I GOT ON CITY COUNCIL, ONE THING I DID, ACTUALLY, I'LL TELL YOU THE PERSPECTIVE THAT I BROUGHT.
SO EVERYBODY BRINGS A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON CITY COUNCIL, RIGHT? AND EVEN THOUGH I KNEW THE PEOPLE UP THERE, I DIDN'T REALIZE THE PERSPECTIVE THAT I BROUGHT WAS THAT OF A BUSINESS OWNER.
SO MOST PEOPLE WHO OWN A SMALL BUSINESS, WHAT ARE THEY DOING ALL THE TIME? WORKING.
SO IF THEY HAVE TIME TO BE ON CITY COUNCIL, NO, I HAVE, I WORK ON MY BUSINESSES AS OPPOSED TO IN MY BUSINESSES.
SO I DON'T SPEND 80, A HUNDRED HOURS A WEEK WORKING ANYMORE.
UM, SO THAT ALLOWS ME TO TIME TO DO THINGS RIGHT ON CITY COUNCIL.
SO, BUT THAT ALLOWED ME TO BRING A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE WHEN I GOT TO CITY COUNCIL, THAT OF A BUSINESS OWNER, WHICH 90% OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE, WE WERE PASSING, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY PASSING JUDGMENT ON, RIGHT? THEY'RE BUSINESS OWNERS AND SO YOU NEED TO BE ABLE TO PUT YOURSELF IN THEIR SHOES.
BUT I'LL TELL YOU, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I DID WHEN I GOT ON CITY COUNCIL IS I WENT AND I LOOKED AT DISTRICT ONE AND I SAID, OKAY, WHAT, WHAT WAS, WHAT HAS BEEN ON THE BOOKS FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS BUT HAS NEVER HAPPENED? OKAY? SO FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF THEM WAS THE EXPANSION OF BRAND ROAD, BRAND ROAD EXPANSION CALLS FOR ROUNDABOUTS.
YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT ROUNDABOUTS ARE, RIGHT? OKAY.
PEOPLE DON'T LIKE, PEOPLE DON'T LIKE ROUNDABOUTS 'CAUSE THEY'RE NOT USED TO IT.
OKAY? SO THE HOAS AROUND THERE HAVE COMPLAINED EVER SINCE THE 1980S WHEN THIS WAS ORIGINALLY PLANNED AND THEY HAD ALL THE HOAS HAD ALWAYS HAD ENOUGH SWAY OVER CITY COUNCIL.
THAT BRAND KNOWS EXPANSION HAS NEVER HAPPENED.
I DECIDED THAT PEOPLE DON'T NECESSARILY ALWAYS KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR, OKAY, I'LL TELL YOU ONE OF, UH, THING THAT HENRY FORD SAID.
HENRY FORD SAID IF I ASKED PEOPLE WHAT THEY WANTED, THEY WOULD'VE SET A FASTER HORSE, RIGHT? SO PEOPLE DON'T ALWAYS KNOW WHAT'S BEST FOR THEM AT THE END.
SO, UM, SO I PUSHED IT THROUGH AND I'VE GOT COUNCIL SUPPORT TO EXPAND THE BRAND ROAD AND TECHNICALLY THE WORK IS ALREADY REMOVING UTILITIES AND SUCH.
THEY HAVEN'T STARTED TURNING DIRT, BUT THAT'LL HAPPEN PRETTY SOON.
THAT WAS THE ONE I DID IN TUCKER PARK.
YOU GUYS FAMILIAR WITH TUCKER HILL PARK? OKAY.
YOU KNOW WHERE THE ANIMAL SHELTER IS ACROSS THE STREET FROM THE ANIMAL SHELTER.
NOW, TUCKER PARK WAS ORIGINALLY SUPPOSED TO BE BASEBALL FIELD BACK IN THE EIGHTIES.
UM, BASEBALL'S NOT AS POPULAR NOW AS IT USED TO BE RIGHT NOW WHAT'S POPULAR? SOCCER'S REALLY POPULAR, RIGHT? BUT I WASN'T GETTING ANY SUPPORT TO HAVE HAVE IT DEVELOPED FOR SOCCER.
UM, AT THE TIME THEY WERE BUILDING THE SKATE PARK AND THAT CUT INTO, UH, SOME OF THE TENNIS COURTS.
AND THEN ALSO AT THE SAME TIME, CHARVILLE PARK WAS BEING REDISTRICTED OUT OF MY DISTRICT COMES TO DISTRICT TWO.
SO NOW ALL I HAVE TO DO IS GET SUPPORT RIGHT AFTER THE NINE PEOPLE.
I GOTTA GET FIVE VOTES, RIGHT? I ONE VOTE.
SO HOW DO I GET THE OTHER FOUR VOTES? WELL, IF TUCKER PARK IS BEING REDISTRICTED INTO DISTRICT TWO, THEN I CAN GET DISTRICT TWO SUPPORT 'CAUSE SHE WANTS STUFF FOR HER DISTRICT.
AND IF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE PLAYING TENNIS ARE P****D OFF 'CAUSE THEY WANTED, THEY WANTED UH, A NEW PRO SHOP AND THEY'RE NOT GETTING ANYTHING AT ALL, WELL THEN I CAN GET SPORT IN DISTRICT FIVE 'CAUSE THAT'S WHERE THE TENNIS PLAYERS ARE.
SO THERE'S THREE PEOPLE RIGHT THERE.
ALL I GOTTA DO IS FIND TWO MORE PEOPLE TO GET SUPPORT FOR.
AND NOW WE'RE BUILDING BOB DAY TENNIS CENTER.
SO, UH, VILLE PARK'S GONNA BE TENNIS.
UM, THOSE ARE TWO THINGS I'M REALLY PROUD OF JUST GOING BACK AND LOOKING
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AT THINGS THAT WEREN'T DONE AND FINDING A WAY TO MAKE THEM GET THEM DONE.I APPRECIATE Y'ALL GETTING INVOLVED IN SUCH A YOUNG AGE.
YOU GET A LOT OF IT AND IT LOOKS GOOD ON THE COLLEGE.
OKAY, NEXT THING ON OUR CAMERA WRAP IS THE DECEMBER, UH, DECEMBER MEETING DATE.
SO THAT'S OUR SOCIAL DATE RIGHT HERE.
SO IT WAS ORIGINALLY PLANNED FOR DECEMBER 9TH, HOWEVER, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT RESCHEDULING IT AS MS. SHANDA, MS. JENNIFER AND I WILL NOT BE HERE.
AND WE WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT RESCHEDULING IT.
SO THAT SATURDAY, THAT WOULD BE DECEMBER, I THINK THAT 13TH.
SO Y'ALL WANNA CHECK REALLY FAST TO SEE IF THAT WORKS FOR YOU.
DOES THAT CONFLICT WITH ANYBODY'S SCHEDULES? NO.
SO THEN WE'LL JUST GO AHEAD AND YOU GUYS ALREADY HAVE IT IN YOUR CALENDAR.
UH, WE'LL JUST RESCHEDULE THAT DECEMBER SOCIAL FOR DECEMBER 13TH INSTEAD.
SO IT'S ON A SATURDAY, NOT THE TUESDAY.
UM, COMMITTEE AND COUNCIL EMAIL REMINDERS.
UH, MAKE SURE YOU GUYS ARE SENDING YOUR EMAILS OUT TO COUNCIL.
YOU CAN JUST WRITE A QUICK MESSAGE.
UM, PLEASE CC MS. RHONDA, MS. TIFFANY AND MS. JENNIFER IN THERE.
YOU GUYS SHOULD HAVE THEIR EMAILS AND IF YOU DON'T, THEY SHOULD BE IN YOUR BINDERS AND THEY SHOULD BE, UM, IN THE GROUP.
AND IF YOU NEED 'EM, JUST TEXT ME OR TEXT ME.
GROUP TRENDS, SOMEONE WILL SEND IT IN.
OKAY? UM, UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS.
NOVEMBER 1ST, WHICH IS THIS WEEK'S SATURDAY WE HAVE TIA DE LOS MUTOS WHO IS ABLE TO GO 'CAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE SIGNED UP.
SO WHO IS ABLE TO COME THIS WEEK? SATURDAY TO THAT.
Y'ALL TALKING ABOUT THE EVENT? OKAY, SO Y'ALL, REAL QUICK.
WE HAD A BUNCH OF Y'ALL TO SIGN UP WHEN WE HAD THE HUGE VOLUNTEER SHEET FOR THE DN ALAR SMART.
THIS EVENT THAT IS THIS SATURDAY.
WE JUST NEED TO KNOW WHO'S GOING TO BE COMING BECAUSE IT WAS ABOUT 16 OF Y'ALL THAT CIRCLED YOUR NAME ON THERE.
BUT OF COURSE I DROPPED IT IN A GROUP WHEN ME AND MS. JENNIFER DECIDED TO DO A SPLIT SHIFT BETWEEN ONE AND FOUR 30 AND FOUR 30 TO EIGHT, WE ONLY HAD ABOUT THREE OR FOUR PEOPLE TO SAY THAT THEY'RE ABLE TO GO.
NOW WE ONLY CAN TAKE A MINIMUM OF LIKE MAYBE SIX OR SEVEN THAT IT'S WANTING TO COME, BUT IF IT'S NOT SIX OR SEVEN, WE'RE NOT, WE'RE COUNSELING IT.
SO I NEED A SHOW OF HANDS RIGHT NOW.
WHO'S GOING TO BE IN ATTENDANCE? WE HAVE ONE.
WE HAVE TWO, THREE ALSO THREE.
WHO IS ANY? ANYA? I DIDN'T SEE ANY.
GEORGE SAID HE HAS SOMETHING TO DO.
YOU HAVE TO BE LIKE, LIKE DETERMINED TO DO IT TOO.
YOU CAN'T SAY YES, YOU GOTTA, OH, YOU'RE GONNA CALL NO CANCELLATION.
Y'ALL I NEED TO KNOW LIKE RIGHT NOW.
'CAUSE I KNOW YOU SAID THAT YOU WANTED TO DO THE FULL EIGHT HOURS.
ARE YOU OPEN FOR THAT? I REALLY WANNA SWITCH SHIFTS.
I WOULD RATHER DO THE SPLIT SHIFTS BECAUSE I, I LET'S, LET'S FOCUS ON THE SPLIT SHIFTS BECAUSE THIS, IT IS PRETTY LONG.
WANT, OKAY, SO Y'ALL LISTEN OUTSIDE TALKING PLEASE STOP.
SO PLEASE, WHO WANTS TO DO IT? I NEED A SHOW OF HANDS WHETHER IT'S 1 4 30 OR FOUR 30 TO EIGHT.
I KNOW IT'S, I KNOW THREE PEOPLE SIGNED UP SO FAR.
SOMETIMES YOU LIKE BELIEVE ME.
SO SINCE I DON'T HAVE NO MORE THAN I ONLY HAVE FOUR.
I'M GONNA HAVE TO COUNSEL IT GUYS.
UNFORTUNATELY, SINCE IT'S NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE, NOT A LOT OF Y'ALL THAT'S WANTED TO VOLUNTEER AND, AND THAT'S OKAY.
WE CAN'T EXPECT FOR Y'ALL TO VOLUNTEER AT EVERY EVENT BECAUSE Y'ALL HAD A VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY, VERY BUSY FALL.
BUT I JUST KNOW WE HAVE SNACKS WITH SANTA AND CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE THAT IS COMING UP AND WE REALLY NEED HEAVY, UM, HEAVY VOLUNTEERS ON THOSE TWO DAYS.
SO UNFORTUNATELY DDAY LOS MAR HAS BEEN CANCELED JUST DUE
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TO LOW VOLUNTEER REGISTRATION.THAT OKAY WITH YOU? OKAY, THAT'S ALL ME.
NOVEMBER 11TH IS OUR NEXT UM, GYC MEETING.
SO LOOK UP FOR THAT DATE MARKING IN YOUR CALENDARS.
UM, DECEMBER 4TH, CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE.
SO THAT I WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND THAT YOU GUYS ARE ABLE TO COME.
I THINK WE'RE THERE FROM LIKE 4, 4, 4 OR FIVE FIVE ALL THE WAY TO LIKE, SO WITH THAT, WHAT YOU TALKING ABOUT CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE? NO, THAT EVENT IS LIKE, IT'S TO LIKE NINE OR 10, ISN'T IT? SO THAT'S A PRETTY LONG EVENT.
I THINK IT'S LIKE FROM FIVE TO, 'CAUSE WE HAVE TO SET UP, THEN WE HAVE TO BREAK DOWN.
SO THAT EVENT IS ABOUT LIKE 10 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT, ALMOST NINE 30 OR 10.
I WANNA SAY THE LET THE LADIES NINE 30.
WE GET TO, WE'RE NOT GONNA MAKE YOU LIKE VOLUNTEER GUYS.
OKAY? IT'S TOO MUCH OUTSIDE TALKING.
WE'RE NOT GONNA MAKE YOU VOLUNTEER THE ENTIRE TIME.
YOU, WE WILL BE ABLE TO SWITCH OUT SO Y'ALL CAN GO EXPERIENCE THE EVENT AS WELL.
UM, DURING THAT EVENT, WE ARE PARTNERING WITH PARKS AND RECREATION.
WE WILL BE SELLING HOT CHOCOLATE OR WHICH IN THE TALKS ABOUT SELLING, IT'S IN THE TALKS OF HOT CHOCOLATE.
TALKS ABOUT SELLING HOT CHOCOLATE DURING THIS EVENT.
MARK THAT DAY IN YOUR CALENDAR FOR DECEMBER 4TH.
UM, DECEMBER 6TH, WE HAVE PANCAKES WITH SANTA.
THAT'S GONNA BE AT ONE OF THE FIREHOUSES, I BELIEVE.
THAT'S JUST SO GONNA BE VOLUNTEERING AS WELL.
AND THEN DECEMBER 9TH, SNACKS WITH SANTA, UM, WHERE'S THAT LOCATED AT? SNACKS WITH SANTA IS LOCATED IN THIS ROOM.
UM, SO THE ISSUE THAT WE HAVE WITH DECEMBER 9TH IS THAT WE DO HAVE A SOCIAL THAT DAY FOR Y'ALL.
AND ME AND MS. JEN WILL BE WORKING HERE AT SNACKS WITH SANTA.
AND THEN WE HAD ABOUT 13 OF Y'ALL TO SAY YOU WANTED TO VOLUNTEER.
SO WE WAS THINKING OF MOVING THE EVENT, UH, MOVING Y'ALL'S DECEMBER 9TH SOCIAL TO THE 13TH.
THE 13TH, WHICH THAT'S ON, THAT IS ON A SATURDAY WHERE THAT GIVES Y'ALL MORE TIME TO COME IN AND DO WHAT Y'ALL WANT TO DO HERE, UM, DURING THE SOCIAL, 'CAUSE THE SOCIAL, I DON'T KNOW WHERE IT'S GONNA BE BRADFIELD OR HERE, BUT IT'LL GIVE Y'ALL MORE TIME TO, YOU KNOW, GET THINGS GOING.
I KNOW A LOT OF Y'ALL ARE BUSY DURING SCHOOL THAT WEEK AS WELL TOO.
SO ARE Y'ALL OPEN TO MOVING THAT DAY TO THE 13TH? Y'ALL'S SOCIAL? YES.
AND I GET A RIGHT HAND EVERYBODY.
SO THE GYC CHRISTMAS SOCIAL HAS BEEN OFFICIALLY MOVED TO DECEMBER THE 13TH.
ALL RIGHT, THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH.
OKAY, THE LAST THING BEFORE WE CAN GO AHEAD AND EAT, PAINT ALL THAT.
UH, FEBRUARY 21ST WE HAVE OUR VOLUNTEER AT THE ANIMAL SHELTER.
UM, I THINK THAT'S ABOUT ALL I HAVE.
SO, SO WHEN IT COMES AND I HATE TO CUT YOU OFF, LIKE YOU'RE FINE.
OKAY, SO I NOTICED THAT A LOT OF Y'ALL HAS BEEN SENDING US LIKE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES IN ADVANCE.
DON'T GET US WRONG, WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT Y'ALL SENT TO US, BUT WE DID NOT EXPECT THIS FALL TO BE EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY BUSY FOR GYC AS A WHOLE, ESPECIALLY FROM THE LABOR DAY EVENT.
AND THEN WE HAD THE, THE TRUMPET TRUNK OR TREAT EVENT.
THEN THE NEXT DAY WE HAD THE CAMELOT, THEN IT IS JUST BEEN REALLY BUSY FOR ALL OF US.
SO IF Y'ALL HAVE ANY EVENTS THAT Y'ALL HAVE COMING UP, PLEASE EMAIL THEM TO US TO SEE IF WE CAN FIT THEM INTO THE SCHEDULE.
'CAUSE SOME OF THESE EVENTS THAT Y'ALL, SOME OF THESE EVENTS THAT THEY SEND TO US AND Y'ALL SEND US, WE'RE GOING TO, SOMETIMES WE DO HAVE TO SAY NO BECAUSE ONE LOW CAPACITY, LOW UH, REGISTRATION OR FOR VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AND SOMETIMES WE ARE BOTH, ALL THREE OF US IS NOT ABLE TO MAKE IT.
AND SOMETIMES WE HAVE ANOTHER EVENT THAT DAY FOR Y'ALL TO GO TO.
NOW I'M BE HONEST WITH YOU, WE APPRECIATE Y'ALL SENDING THEM TO US, BUT IT IS JUST BEEN SO BUSY FOR Y'ALL FOR THIS FALL.
SO FOR THE SPRING TIME, WE DID HAVE TO MOVE A COUPLE OF VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES TO THE SPRING TIME.
UM, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THE ANIMAL SHELTER, WE HAVE TO MOVE THAT TO THE SPRING.
SO IF Y'ALL HAVE ANY TYPE OF OPPORTUNITIES Y'ALL WANT US TO GO MOVING INTO, UH, UH, JANUARY, 2026, EMAIL THEM TO US SO WE CAN LOOK AT IT AND GO THROUGH IT.
IF THEY ALREADY HAVE A FLYER, THAT'S PERFECT.
THE FLYER WORKS OUT PERFECTLY FOR US, OKAY? OKAY.
ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS THAT Y'ALL HAVE?
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BUT YES, ANIMAL SHELTER WILL BE GETTING MOVED TO FEBRUARY 21ST OF NEXT YEAR.I CAN DO YOU LIKE SCHOOL DECISION BECAUSE I KNOW, OH MY GOD.
OKAY, I'M GONNA TALK TO YOU LATER.
AND THEN A LOT A, I KNOW SOME OF Y'ALL WANT US TO DO SCHOOL VISITS.
I KNOW TAMARA WAS TALKING ABOUT GARLAND HIGH SCHOOL AND WE, LIKE I SAID, WE DON'T MIND COMING, BUT WE WANT, WE WANT Y'ALL TO TRY TO DO THE FOOTWORK BEHIND IT TO SAY, HEY MS. RHONDA, I SPOKE TO THE COUNSELOR.
SHE SAID THAT Y'ALL ARE WELCOME TO COME.
THAT WAY I CAN GET WITH THE COUNSELOR ON A SET DAY.
KIND OF LIKE OIE JUST SENT ME MS. LAWRENCE INFORMATION AND WE WAS THERE THIS PAST SPRING.
SO SHE WANT US BACK OVER THERE.
I KNOW, UH, ALEXANDER HAS BEEN KEEPING ME UPDATED WITH ILT.
WE WILL BE GOING TO ILT NOVEMBER 21ST.
THAT'S REALLY ALL I WANTED TO, OH, WELL LET ME TOUCH BASES ON WHEN IT COMES TO COMMUNICATION IN THE GROUP.
Y'ALL ARE, YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE Y'ALL ARE OLD ENOUGH TO LOOK IN THE GROUP CHAT, LOOK AT THE FLYERS, LOOK AT THE INFORMATION THAT WE DROPPED.
SOME OF Y'ALL, I HEAR FROM SOME OF Y'ALL, I DON'T HEAR FROM SOME OF Y'ALL.
I DON'T HEAR FROM UNTIL FIVE MINUTES BEFORE AN EVENT.
AND I'M LIKE, OKAY, WHY ARE YOU JUST NOW EMAILING OR TEXTING ME? Y'ALL HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, LOOK, HAVE TO BE MINDFUL OF, OKAY, Y'ALL ARE PART OF THIS ORGANIZATION, GARLAND YOUTH COUNCIL, Y'ALL ARE HERE TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
SO THAT MEANS OF, UH, OF LOOKING IN AND LOOKING IN THE, UH, THE GROUP CHECK FOR WHAT'S COMING UP, WHAT EVENT I'M ABLE TO DO.
MS. RHONDA JUST DROPPED SOME INFORMATION FOR SOMETHING LIKE THAT'S UPCOMING.
SO PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT Y'ALL ARE LOOKING IN THE GARLAND YOUTH COUNCIL GROUP CHAT 24 7.
I SHOULD NOT BE SEEING A MESSAGE IN THERE ABOUT AN EVENT THAT I JUST DROPPED LIKE 48 HOURS AGO THAT LETS ME KNOW THAT YOU DID NOT SEE IN THE CHAT.
OKAY? I, WE TRY TO KEEP Y'ALL UPDATED AS BEST AS WE CAN, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO COMMUNICATION.
NOW WE'VE STARTED TO GET YOUR PARENTS INVOLVED IN COMMUNICATING.
'CAUSE A LOT OF TIMES PARENTS DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT THE MEETINGS,
WE ARE GIVING Y'ALL THAT LITTLE BIT OF RESPONSIBILITY TO LIKE TELL YOUR PARENTS ABOUT THE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES, THE EVENTS, THE UH, SOCIALS AND THE MEETINGS THAT Y'ALL HAVE, YOU KNOW, JUST TO KEEP Y'ALL PARENTS IN UP.
BUT WHEN I UNDERSTAND THAT Y'ALL HAVE OTHER STUFF THAT GOES ON, BUT JUST PLEASE JUST KEEP YOUR PARENTS IN THE LOOP OF WHAT RACE CENTER Y'ALL NEED TO BE AT AND UM, AND WHAT WE HAVE COMING UP.
OKAY, MS. JEN, ANYTHING YOU WANT TO SAY GIRL? NO, JUST, NO.
OKAY, SO 'CAUSE WE WORK HAND IN HAND, IT'S NOT, IT'S ME AND MS. JEN NOW, NOT ME AND MR. JESS.
AND I DON'T KNOW THE PERFECT TERMINOLOGY.
OKAY, SO I THINK THAT'S REALLY IT ON MY END.
IF ANYBODY NEED THEIR VOLUNTARY I SCHOOL, LEMME KNOW.
I MEAN, I'M STARTING TO GET THEM ALL TOGETHER.
GET THEM ALL TOGETHER SO I CAN JUST EMAIL 'EM OUT TO Y'ALL.
YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND EAT AND GO AHEAD AND START PAINTING.