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OKAY GUYS, WE'RE GONNA GET THE MEETING STARTED.
WE'RE JUST GONNA MAKE THIS REAL QUICK SO THAT WE CAN EAT AND DO ALL THE FUN STUFF.
FIRST THING, OUR APPROVAL OF MINUTES.
SO IF YOU GUYS WANNA TURN TO THE SECOND PAGE THAT SAYS MINUTES ON TOP OF IT.
AND THIS WILL BRIEFLY DISCUSS WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT FOR OUR LAST MEETING IN NOVEMBER.
UM, SO IN NOVEMBER WE MAINLY JUST TALKED ABOUT, UM, WE HAD A SPEAKER COME OUT FROM THE GARLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT, TALKED ABOUT MAYBE POSSIBLY SCHEDULING A TOUR WITH US TO GO TOUR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, MEET THE, THE CHIEF OF POLICE AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
UH, WE HAD A CITY COUNCIL MEET AND GREET, SO WE GOT TO MEET AND TALK TO, UH, DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TEMP CHRIS OTT.
UH, HE SPOKE ABOUT HOW EVERYDAY CITIZENS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE JUST BY SHOWING UP AND HELPING OUT.
UM, US FOR EXAMPLE, WE'RE VERY GOOD EXAMPLES OF THAT.
TEENAGERS GOING OUT, HELPING OUT BEING A PART OF THIS YOUTH GROUP.
UM, WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT OUR UPCOMING VOLUNTEER EVENTS, A RECAP OF OUR VOLUNTEER EVENTS.
WE HAVE OUR CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE, UH, PANCAKES WITH SANTA AND SNACKS WITH SANTA.
UM, DOES ANYONE WANT TO GIVE A BRIEF, LIKE, COMMENT ON HOW YOU THINK THE EVENT WENT? LET'S START WITH CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE.
LIKE WHO WENT TO CHRISTMAS, THE SQUARE THAT WANTS TO SHARE SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
JUST TALK ABOUT WHAT DID, YEAH, JUST TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU DID AND LIKE WHAT WAS LIKE YOUR FAVORITE PART ABOUT IT I GUESS.
SO FOR CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE WE HAD A LITTLE STAND.
AND, UH, REPRESENTING THE COUNCIL.
UM, COLE WAS THROUGHOUT THIS TIME ON THE, HE DID A GREAT JOB.
UH, ME AND AL WENT AROUND THE SQUARE, LIKE PASSING OUT LITTLE TASK CARDS ABOUT THE RACK.
I'M GLAD ELSE SOMETHING YOU SAY ABOUT THE CHRISTMAS SQUARE? NO.
WHAT ABOUT, SO FOR NEXT YEAR, THE ONES THAT I HATE TO INTERRUPT, FINE.
ONE FOR NEXT YEAR IT'S GONNA BE PART OF THE NEW COUNCIL.
UM, OF COURSE COLE PLAYED THE BRICK.
SO IS THERE ANYTHING THAT Y'ALL WANNA INCORPORATE, UH, FOR CHRISTMAS ON THIS BREAK? BECAUSE THAT IS OUR ANNUAL EVENT THAT WE HELP OUT EVERY YEAR THAT Y'ALL WANTED TO DO.
WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR EVERYONE'S INPUT.
YOU KNOW, EVEN IF Y'ALL WANTED, WE DO LIKE GAMES AND STUFF, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, TO INCORPORATE THAT.
I KNOW Y'ALL DID HAND OUT DUCKS, I BELIEVE.
I THINK WE ALSO TALKED ABOUT LIKE GIVING OUT HOT CHOCOLATE OR STUFF LIKE THAT.
OR LIKE EVEN MAYBE EVEN SELLING IT IF WE WERE ABLE TO, I KNOW WE GOTTA HAVE A PERMIT.
SO IF WE DO WANT TO DO THAT, IF YOU DO WANNA DO THAT FOR NEXT YEAR, I WOULD SAY FOR SURE LET US KNOW SO THAT WAY WE CAN GET IN THE PROCESS OF GETTING THOSE PERMITS AND SAID THINGS THAT WE NEED TO HAVE IN ORDER TO SELL IT.
SO IF YOU GUYS DO WANT TO DO LIKE HOT COCO SELLING, JUST, JUST WANNA TO KNOW, LET ME KNOW.
NEXT EVENT THAT WE DID WAS PANCAKES WITH SANTA, WHICH WAS AT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
DOES ANYONE WANNA TALK ABOUT THAT? IF YOU WENT? UH, WE HELPED OUT SET UP TABLE SET THE CHAIRS, WE HELPED OUT IN THE CORNER, THE LADY AFTER STATION, UH, AND WE HELPED OUT GIVING PLATES AND MM-HMM
YEAH, THAT'S MAINLY JUST WHAT WE DID.
IT WAS JUST MAINLY JUST HELP OUT LIKE HAND OUT PANCAKES AND FOOD.
AND Y'ALL GOT ONE OF A BIG COMPLIMENT FOR COUNCIL
VOLUNTEERS, UH, COUNCIL, JEFF COUNCIL AND UH, EVERYONE THERE REALLY APPRECIATE Y'ALL HELPING OUT HERE TODAY.
YEAH, WE STAYED LONGER THAN THE CADETS.
ALL I GONNA SAY
UM, NEXT WE HAVE PAN OR SNACKS WITH SANTA, WHICH WAS ON TUESDAY.
UM, THE SNACK TWO SANTA, WE GOT THERE AND GAVE A RUNDOWN OF WHAT EVERYBODY WAS DOING.
EVERYBODY GOT THEIR OWN, THEY WERE DRAW OR STATION.
WE HAD AGL, TATTOO STATION, WE HAD CRAFTS, WE HAD LIKE A PHOTO BOOTH.
WE HAD LIKE COSTUMES WHICH CLOSED THE BRIDGE AND ON REINER.
AND THEN WE ALSO HAD LIKE, UH, PEOPLE MONITORING THE LINES TO TAKE PICTURES WITH SANTA.
AND THEN WE HAD PEOPLE HELPING OUT LIKE GIVE OUT HOT CHOCOLATE AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
OR JUST PEOPLE THAT WERE RUNNERS.
UM, I THINK THE EVENT WAS REALLY GOOD.
THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE.
EVERYBODY WAS HAVING FUN AND I WOULD, AND WE ALL HELPED CLEAN UP AFTERWARDS.
ANYONE ELSE WANNA SAY SOMETHING ABOUT SNACKS? SANTA? NO.
UM, AND THEN WE ALSO JUST BROKE THAT INTO OUR COMMITTEE GROUPS.
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THERE WASN'T REALLY MUCH THAT WE TALKED ABOUT 'CAUSE WE WERE IN THE MIDST OF LIKE DOING CERTAIN PROJECTS.SO THERE'S NOT REALLY MUCH WE TALKED ABOUT FOR COMMITTEES.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? OKAY.
SO THAT'LL BE THE MINUTES FOR THE NOVEMBER MEETING.
UM, I MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FOR THE NOVEMBER 11TH MEETING.
DOES ANYONE SECOND THE MOTION? I SECOND.
UM, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR RAISE YOUR HAND.
DOESN'T LOOK LIKE WE HAVE ANYONE FROM THE PUBLIC HERE, SO NOTHING TO SAY.
UM, WE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT OUR RECENT VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES COMMITTEE AND COUNCIL EMAIL REMINDERS.
SO PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE BE SENDING YOUR COUNCIL EMAILS, GIVING THEM UPDATES ON WHAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING, WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING.
UM, AGAIN, LIKE THESE AGENDAS CAN BE USED AS LIKE A GUIDE FOR YOU TO JUST BRIEFLY TALK ABOUT.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ANYTHING LONG OR DETAILED.
AND DON'T FORGET TO CC MS. RHONDA, MISS TIFFANY, MISS JENNIFER AND THOSE AS WELL, IF YOU ARE.
AND FOR, UM, FOR YOUR COUNSEL.
UM, I DID BUY CARDS, CHRISTMAS CARDS FOR Y'ALL TO WRITE.
TWO YEAR COUNSEL AND I HAVE MISS TIFFANY PUT IT IN THEIR BOX.
SO YES, SO THAT'LL BE LIKE RIGHT HERE.
AND THEN THERE'S LIKE PIPE AND STUFF HERE AND WE CAN TAKE PEPPERMINT ON THERE AS WELL.
WE CAN JUST SIT LIKE A LITTLE BIT FROM APPRECIATE, UM, UPCOMING MEETINGS AND EVENTS.
SO IN JANUARY WE HAVE ANOTHER GYC MEETING AND JANUARY 17TH WE HAVE OUR MLK PARADE IN MARCH THAT DEPENDING ON HOW MANY PEOPLE WE HAVE IS DEPENDING ON IF WE ACTUALLY DO IT BECAUSE WE NEED PEOPLE TO ACTUALLY WALK.
UH, BUT WE HAVE A VAN FOR THAT EVENT AS WELL.
SO USUALLY FOR THAT EVENT, I BELIEVE FOR THE PAST LIKE TWO YEARS, IT'S BEEN REALLY COLD.
SO WE HAD LIKE PEOPLE SWITCH OUT DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH PEOPLE WE HAVE SHOW UP.
SO LIKE SOME PEOPLE WALK FOR LIKE 20 MINUTES OR LIKE 30 MINUTES AND THEN THEY'LL SWITCH OUT WITH PEOPLE IN THE VAN AND THEN WARM UP AND THEN GO BACK OUT.
UM, FOR THAT, ARE WE GONNA HAVE A BANNER AS WELL OR SHOULD DO WE MAKE IT? SO THIS YEAR I TALKED TO MS. SEN, I TALKED TO HER A COUPLE MONTHS AGO.
SO THIS YEAR, HEY TSI, LET HIM KNOW ALL OF THE CARTS IS IN THE GYM.
SO THIS YEAR I DID TALK TO MS. GWEN AND INCORPORATING A ACTUAL GARLAND U COUNSEL FLOAT.
I KNOW WALKING IS A BIT MUCH, BUT IF WE'RE ABLE PUT YOUR HAND OUT.
SO IF WE'RE, IF HERE'S THE ISSUE THAT WE HAVE, WE, I HAVE TO GET ONE.
MR. JESSE CAN PULL THE FLOAT OR EITHER MYSELF CAN PULL THE BLOOD OUT OF HER FOR MALE TO IT, BUT WE HAVE TO SEE ABOUT FLOATER.
EITHER WE CAN DECORATE ONE OF OUR VANS THAT'S OUR PARKS AND RAPE VAN DECORATING REAL PRETTY ON THE OUTSIDE AND ON THE INSIDE AND HAVE Y'ALL JUST WAVING TO PEOPLE.
BUT THIS YEAR I DID SAY LET'S JUST PUT A FLOATING JUST THE SIZE OF Y'ALL WALKING SO IT GO AHEAD TO LOTS OF, SO THIS YEAR I, I MEAN WE CAN GIVE OUT CANDY OR WE CAN GIVE OUT DUCKS.
YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S EITHER, I KNOW DUCKS HAS BEEN A HUGE THING, BUT IF YOU'RE SAYING I'M TIRED OF DUCK, I CAN RESPECT THAT.
BUT IF Y'ALL WANT TO DO CANDY, WE CAN GET A BUNCH OF CANDY.
UM, I DEFINITELY WILL HAVE TO INCORPORATE WITH TIFFANY AND UM, MS. JIM JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ABLE TO DO BECAUSE THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF GAMING, A LOT OF, BUT YOU KNOW, WE'RE STILL ABLE TO DO THAT.
BUT Y'ALL JUST GOTTA LET ME KNOW.
AND OF COURSE, UM, DECORATING THE VEHICLE, Y'ALL GOING TO HAVE TO COME UP.
I WOULD PROBABLY LIKE, UM, BABY UP ON SATURDAY OR THAT EARLY MORNING JUST TO DECORATE IT.
EVEN IF IT'S PUTTING UH, MAGNETS AROUND THE THERE.
SO I, THIS IS WHY I, I HAD, I KNOW WALKING IS CAN BE A LITTLE BIT MUCH, BUT I WANT US TO PUT A ACTUAL VEHICLE IN FLOAT.
THEY SHOULD, BESIDES Y'ALL JUST WALKING.
AND WE, I WALK COURSE I WOULD LOVE ATON Y'ALL TO BE IN THE EVENT WE HAVE 34 MEMBERS.
I KNOW IT'S GONNA BE HARD TO GET ALL 34 MEMBERS, BUT I WILL LIKE TO SEE A LOT OF THE MEMBERS, UM, DURING THIS EVENT BECAUSE THIS IS ONE OF OUR EVENTS THAT WE HELP OUT AND THEN WE'RE ABLE ACTUALLY ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, BE IN THE WORLD JUST LIKE THE LABOR DAY PARADE AND THEN CROSS FINGERS THE DALLAS PARADE, WHICH IS, UH, THE DALLAS CHRISTMAS PARADE THAT THEY HAVE EVERY YEAR.
WE MISSED THE DEADLINE BY TWO DAYS.
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AND WE COULD HAVE BEEN AT THE BIG DALLAS PARADE, BUT I'M TRYING TO, WE'RE TRYING TO HELP BUILD Y'ALL AS MUCH AS WE CAN BECAUSE I KNOW DALLAS PARADE IS A HUGE ONE.I DUNNO WHOEVER HAS BEEN TO THE CHRISTMAS, DOWN CHRISTMAS BREAK, BUT YEAH.
SO YEAH, WE MIGHT DO A FLOAT THEN.
WE ARE GONNA DO A FLOAT EITHER A A OUR VAN YEAH.
OR EITHER THE HOW MANY Y'ALL DROVE HOW MANY I WAS WITH THE LABOR DAY.
SO WHAT THE VEHICLE THAT WE HAVE FOR LABOR DAY, WE'LL PROBABLY END UP GETTING OUT BEFORE BACK.
ALRIGHT, WELL IN THAT CASE WE'RE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT IDEAS AND WHAT WE WANNA DO WITH IT.
YES, THAT'S GONNA COME UP BECAUSE THAT'S LITERALLY JANUARY 17TH.
SO THAT'S PROBABLY SOMETHING YOU GUYS KNOW WE MIGHT WANNA TALK ABOUT.
LIKE, BUT THEN NEXT WEEK, SO OKAY.
AND THAT LOOKS LIKE THAT'S ALL WE HAVE TO TALK ABOUT FOR TODAY UNLESS MR. NEXT.
SO, SO WHEN IT COMES TO Y'ALL'S MEETINGS, YOUR SOCIALS AND STUFF, PLEASE MAKE SURE Y'ALL ARE INFORMING YOUR PARENTS OF WHAT'S GOING ON AND Y'ALL ARE LOOKING THROUGH THE MESSAGES, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I'M VERY, I ALREADY COMMUNICATE LOT.
BUT THAT'S A GOOD THING BECAUSE UM, IT KEEPS Y'ALL INFORMED OF WHAT'S GOING ON.
A LOT OF TIMES THIS LAST, LAST TWO EVENTS THAT I HAD, IT WAS SO MANY PEOPLE, OH, WHAT TIME DO WE HAVE TO BE IN? DID YOU CHECK THE GROUP CHAT? OH, WHERE DO WE HAVE TO BE? DID YOU CHECK THE GROUP CHAT? LIKE IT'S REALLY, WE, I PUT IT IN A GROUP CHAT IN THE CALENDAR.
I LOVE THE CALENDAR 'CAUSE I TRY TO KEEP THE GROUP CHAT, UM, UPDATED AS BEST AS I CAN.
UM, OF COURSE WE HAVE OUR EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AS WELL TOO THAT WILL KEEP Y'ALL UPDATED ON EVERYTHING TOO.
SO PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT Y'ALL CHECKING THE GROUP CHECK FREQUENTLY.
AND ALSO Y'ALL ARE INFORMING YOUR PARENTS OF WHAT'S GOING ON BECAUSE I GET TEXT MESSAGE AND PHONE CALLS FROM PARENTS WHERE LIKE, OKAY, SO AND SO NEVER TOLD ME THAT Y'ALL HAD A MEETING.
I'M LIKE, WELL YEAH, WE'VE BEEN HAVING MEETINGS AND STUFF.
AND THEN OF COURSE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR WE DO HAVE A PARENTS SIGN OFF ON Y'ALL SCHEDULES LIKE WHEN Y'ALL FIRST GET A DATE.
SO PLEASE MAKE SURE Y'ALL ARE KEEPING PARENTS IN THE GROUP MOVING FORWARD WITH A LOT OF THINGS.
IF NOT, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE START A WHOLE GROUP CHAT FOR THE PARENTS.
AND I DON'T WANNA START A GROUP CHAT FOR THE PARENTS BECAUSE I BELIEVE Y'ALL ARE OLD ENOUGH TO INFORM YOUR PARENTS.
YOU WHAT I'M SAYING? YOU KNOW, I DO, I DO BELIEVE, BUT WE ARE GONNA KEEP PARENTS IN THE LOOP BUT THROUGH EMAIL.
BUT I BELIEVE THAT Y'ALL SHOULD BE AT THE OF INFORMING YOUR PARENTS OF WHAT'S GOING ON WITH COUNSEL.
I KNOW THAT, UM, WHEN DID SCHOOL LET OUT FOR SOME, OKAY, SO THIS IS MY RECREATION CENTER HERE.
SO ONE THING THAT I LOVE ABOUT RECREATION CENTERS IS, UM, Y'ALL THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE AND STUFF, Y'ALL ARE UTILIZING IT OF COMING IN, DOING THE BANNER.
YOU KNOW, IF Y'ALL UNDERSTAND ONE TO TWO TO DO THE CLOSE AND STUFF LIKE THAT, Y'ALL ARE ABLE TO COME IN, ESPECIALLY THE COMMITTEES OR EITHER EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES, Y'ALL ARE ABLE TO COME IN AND HAVE A MEETING, YOU KNOW, WITHOUT US BEING HERE.
I THINK BRIA, YOU'RE A REP BECAUSE YOU'RE A REP, Y'ALL A REPRESENTATIVE, SUPPORT THE COMMITTEE.
Y'ALL ARE ABLE TO MEET OUTSIDE OF JUST OUR MEETING AND SOCIAL DAYS.
Y'ALL JUST LET SSI KNOW IT'S
HEY, THE SOCIAL COMMITTEE'S GONNA COME UP WITH ME AND WE'LL BLOCK OFF THE TWO HOURS FOR Y'ALL TO COME UP WITH ME.
AND OF COURSE THAT IS CONSIDERED VOLUNTEER HOURS BECAUSE IT'S PLAIN PREPARED.
SO ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME? NO QUESTIONS.
WE ALREADY GO INTO THAT IN FEBRUARY.
AND THEN WE HAVE THE LK EVENT AND THEN WE HAVE SPEAKERS COMING AND Y'ALL HAVE MEETINGS.
WE'RE NOT SOCIALS, YOU KNOW, AND WE HAVE VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES LIKE THE DADDY AUDIENCE WHO, HOW MANY Y'ALL ATTENDED THE DADDY EVENTS LAST YEAR? SEE WE HAVE THE DADDY DANCE.
HAVE THE SUM AND THEN WE, AND THEN WE HAVE OTHER STUFF THAT COMES UP AS WELL.
SO IF Y'ALL WANT, I DON'T MIND, BUT IF Y'ALL WANNA VISIT THE POLICE STATION, WHO, WHO, WHO WOULD REACH OUT TO WHOEVER OUR, OUR, OUR GUY WAS AND LIKE
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HOW DO WE XAVIER, DID XAVIER STARTED THAT COMMUNICATION SHELTER THAT WAY? GO AHEAD AND PUT IT IN OUR LIST.SO TWO NO QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, CONCERNS, ANYTHING LIKE THAT? NO.