I WONDER IF SOMEBODY PICKED IT
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UP.WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER FOR, UM, TODAY, MARCH 19TH FOR THE COMMUNITY MULTICULTURAL COMMISSION.
UH, THIS IS A MEETING OF THE, OF THE COMMUNITY MULTICULTURAL COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF GARLAND, TEXAS, WHICH IS BEING HELD AT, UM, 200 NORTH FIFTH STREET, GARLAND, TEXAS AT 6:00 PM THE FIRST THING ON THE AGENDA IS, UH, CALL TO ORDER.
I DON'T THINK I'VE EVER READ THAT.
I HOPE YOU GUYS HAD A GREAT MONTH SINCE THE LAST TIME WE SPOKE TO EACH OTHER OR WE HAD A MEETING.
I HOPE YOU GUYS ARE ENJOYING 2026 SO FAR, AND GETTING IN THE COMMUNITY AND DOING SOME GREAT THINGS.
UH, WE'LL HAVE THE APPROVAL BY ADMITTANCE.
CAN YOU GUYS PLEASE TAKE A FEW SECONDS AND OVERLOOK THAT? IF YOUR NAME IS THERE AND YOU WERE NOT HERE, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
AND IF YOUR NAME IS NOT THERE AND YOU WERE HERE, PLEASE LET US KNOW.
YOU NEED A MOTION? YES, MA'AM, WE DO.
WE'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THE MINUTES AS PRESENTED.
ALL THOSE OPPOSED AYES HAVE IT.
NEXT THING ON THE AGENDA IS THE PUBLIC ITEM.
UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS, PERSONS WHO DESIRE TO ADDRESS THE COMMITTEE ON ANY ITEM ON THE AGENDA, OR ALLOW THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK.
UM, WE DON'T HAVE ANYONE WHO IS, WILL BE SPEAKING DURING THAT TIME.
FOR THE FOURTH AGENDA, ITEM 25TH ANNIVERSARY SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT, UM, CHAIR JOHNSON IS NOT AVAILABLE.
SO WE WILL HAVE MR. ARTHUR, GREG GIVE US A SUBCOMMITTEE UPDATE.
THE SUBCOMMITTEE MET TODAY, UM, MARCH THE 19TH AT 5:00 PM AND WE DISCUSSED, UM, A PRESENTATION BY PROJECT UNITY, UM, MS. CHARLENE EDWARDS FROM PROJECT UNITY.
AND SO, UM, SHOULD WE HAVE HER DO THE PRESENTATION NOW OR DO WE TALK ABOUT, UM, NO, YOU CAN JUST TALK ABOUT WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT IN THE SUBCOMMITTEE, UM, AND SHE'LL GIVE HER PRESENTATION.
SO IN THE SUBCOMMITTEE, WE TALKED ABOUT THE, UM, OUR, AN ANNIVERSARY, AH, EVENT, WHICH WOULD BE, UM, A, UH, DINNER, A UH, CONVERSATION, DINNER, HOPEFULLY PRESENTED BY, UH, PROJECT UNITY.
THEY WERE GONNA COME AND KIND OF TALK TO THINGS ABOUT SUCH, UM, MARKETING SPONSORSHIP OR, UM, CATERING SURVEYS.
HOW, HOW THE ACTUAL PROGRAM IS RUN.
UH, 'CAUSE WE HAD TALKED ABOUT THAT BEING, UM, OUR PRIMARY EVENT FOR THE ANNIVERSARY, FOR THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY.
AND SO, UH, WE DISCUSSED HER COMING OR LEARNING MORE ABOUT THAT PROGRAM.
AND SO I THINK THAT WAS BASICALLY WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT.
DID WE HAVE THE BUDGET? THAT'S ANOTHER THING.
WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T GET TO BUDGET.
SO, UM, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE BUDGET IS.
UH, WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM AGENDA NUMBER FIVE, COMMISSION REPORT UPDATES, PAST AND FUTURE.
UM, HAS ANYONE ATTENDED ANY EVENTS SINCE OUR LAST MEETING? IT DID LAST MONTH.
UH, IT WOULD'VE BEEN FEBRUARY, FROM FEBRUARY TO NOW.
I WENT TO ONE CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
IT WAS BEFORE OUR FEBRUARY MEETING WHERE WE DIDN'T HAVE A FORUM, SO I GUESS, BUT I HAVEN'T, I DON'T THINK I'VE DONE ANYTHING.
DO YOU RECALL IF THERE WAS ANYTHING YOU'D LIKE TO PASS ON TO US? CHANGE OF HANDS, GENERAL BUSINESS.
YOU KNOW, IT'S, I'M ALWAYS INTERESTED IN COUNCIL MEETINGS.
LIKE, I LIKE THE WORK SESSIONS BETTER BECAUSE THAT'S
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REALLY WHERE THERE'S A LOT OF CONVERSATION, BUT I COULDN'T GET TO THE WORK SESSIONS.SO IT'S LIKE, BY THE TIME THEY'RE PRESENTING IT IN COUNCIL, YOU KNOW, THIS THING IS GETTING THIS PIECE OF, UM, THIS PIECE OF PROPERTY IS GETTING APPROVED FOR SALE.
WE'RE DEVELOPING SOMETHING HERE.
NOTHING THAT WAS REALLY PERTINENT TO US.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THE WORK SESSIONS TO ME, ARE REALLY VALUABLE 'CAUSE YOU HEAR HOW THE DECISIONS GET MADE.
ANYONE ELSE? ANY CLEANUPS OR MM-HMM.
THERE'S BEEN SEVERAL, I MEAN, CLEANED, I CAN'T EVEN REMEMBER EVERYTHING.
AND I DID GO TO A COUPLE, I WENT TO THE ONE WHERE THE CITY MANAGER, I'M THE ACTUAL CITY MANAGER NOW.
CARISSA HAD A NICE, CARISSA, HAD A NICE SPEECH.
AND JUST A REMINDER, WHEN WE SPEAK, CAN Y'ALL SPEAK INTO THE MIC SO THAT IT'S EASY FOR MS. DARCY TO YES, MA'AM.
ANYONE ELSE? I AM ON THE, UH, FIRE AND EMS STAKEHOLDER COMMITTEE, AND THAT'S ONE THAT YOU MAY WANNA ATTEND ONE OR GET INFORMATION OR FOLLOW WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO DO WITH THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
THEY WORK A 24 HOUR SHIFT AND OFF 48, AND THEY WANT TO GO FROM 24 ON TO 72 HOURS OFF.
AND WHAT THAT'S IS GONNA DO IN ORDER FOR THEM TO DO THAT ONE OPTION WAS TO GET RID OF THE EMS SERVICE AND PRIVATIZE IT.
SO THAT, THAT'S ONE THING YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN.
I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE, THEY'RE TRYING NOT TO GO THAT DIRECTION, BUT NOT GOING THAT DIRECTION.
THEY WOULD, UM, THERE WOULD BE AN INCREASE IN A FEE OR TAXES IN THE CITY.
SO I KNOW THE FIRE DEPARTMENT ASSOCIATION IS GONNA, THEY WANNA DO PRESENTATIONS AND JUST INFORM PEOPLE, CITIZENS, I MEAN EVERYBODY, IF THEY HAVE ANY INPUT.
'CAUSE IT WILL BE A, I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS.
I WANNA SAY $8 MILLION OR $10 MILLION INCREASE IN, IN PAY JUST FOR THE FIREFIGHTERS JUST WORKING ONE DAY.
'CAUSE THEY HAVE TO HIRE MORE PEOPLE FOR THE FOURTH SHIFT.
SO THAT MAY JUST BE SOMETHING THAT, UH, PEOPLE DON'T KNOW ABOUT OR THEY JUST SEE ON HERE, FIRE AND EMS. AND, BUT IT, IT'S GONNA AFFECT EVERY CITIZEN IN GARLAND BECAUSE THERE WILL BE A, UM, MAYBE AN ADDITIONAL FEE THEY HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW THEY'RE GONNA FUND IT.
AND, YOU KNOW, SO IF YOU HAVE ANY INPUT, THE MEETINGS ARE THE SECOND WEDNESDAY EVERY, EVERY MONTH.
AND THEY DO HAVE A, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN SPEAK IN PUBLIC THERE AND JUST GET SOME MORE INFORMATION ON THAT.
AND I DO SEE THAT, THAT'S ON OUR CALENDAR ALREADY.
UM, JUST OUTTA CURIOSITY, HAVE THEY TALKED ABOUT THE FOLKS THAT ARE THE EMTS? WHAT HAPPENS WITH THEIR LIVELIHOOD IF WE GET RID OF MS. PART OF THEM WOULD, WELL, EVERYBODY, THERE'S STILL GONNA BE, THERE'S STILL GONNA BE EMTS AND PARAMEDICS.
UM, THEY'LL USE SOME OF THOSE FOR THAT FOURTH SHIFT.
YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT THERE'S, THERE'S 11 AMBULANCES NOW IN GARLAND.
THEY'LL JUST BE ON ANOTHER SHIFT.
BUT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, THEY'LL STILL MAKE CALLS.
'CAUSE EVERYBODY'S A, LIKE THE FIRE ENGINE IS NOW IN GARLAND.
YOU CAN, UM, EVERYBODY'S AN EMT OR A PARAMEDIC.
SO THEY CAN DO EVERYTHING WITH TRANSPORT.
THEY CAN START AN IV, THEY CAN DO EVERYTHING ELSE.
BUT IF YOU GO DOWN TO, UM, UH, PRIVATE AMBULANCE, LIKE THE GUY ONE PRESENTATION, THE GUY SAYS, WELL, WHAT WE'LL DO IS AFTER FIVE O'CLOCK, WE'LL ONLY USE FIVE AMBULANCES.
YOU KNOW, HE GOES, 'CAUSE IT WON'T BE BUSY.
THEY WENT FROM, YOU KNOW, 10 YEARS AGO, 20,000 CALLS A YEAR TO MAKING 30,000 CALLS A YEAR NOW MM-HMM
SO, SO THAT, THAT PART'S NOT SLOWING DOWN, BUT IT'S A THING OF HAVING TO ADJUST THEIR, THEIR PAY AND GET THE OTHER PEOPLE IN.
AND SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE LOOKING AT THAT.
AND, AND THE PART OF THE REASON IS THEY'RE SAYING IT TAKES AT LEAST 72 HOURS TO RECOVER AFTER WORKING 24 HOURS, YOU KNOW, AT A, AT A FIRE STATION.
THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S THE MAIN THING RIGHT THERE.
BUT IT WILL BE A COST TO ALL THE CITIZENS, YOU KNOW? YES.
WORKING 24, 48 FOR HOW LONG? OH, WELL, SINCE 91 WHEN I WAS THERE.
SO THE RECOVERY SEEMS TO BE FINE.
WELL, THEY'RE SAYING THE NEW STUDIES NOW.
SO I MEAN, YOU, YOU DO NEED A, I WOULD, YOU KNOW, ATTEND MEETINGS.
'CAUSE IT'S GONNA COME DOWN TO, OKAY, UH, THE CITIZENS MAKING A DECISION ON VOTING.
YOU KNOW, WHETHER YOU'RE GONNA HAVE AN INCREASED FEE OR, UH, INCREASING TAXES, HOMEOWNERS, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING.
THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION, KIMBERLY, ONE OF THE THINGS THEY BROUGHT UP WAS, UH, THEY ANSWER SO MANY MORE CALLS NOW.
THEY DON'T HAVE MUCH DOWNTIME LIKE THEY USED TO.
SO IF WE ADD A SHIFT THAT DOESN'T GIVE THEM, WELL, IT'S MORE RECOVERY TIME YOU CALL.
SO ADDING A SHIFT IS SO THAT THEY CAN GO TO 72.
IT'S NOT GONNA BE MORE COVERAGE FOR CITIZENS.
IT'S JUST THE, THE, THE RECOVERY TIME FOR
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THE FIREFIGHTERS, YOU KNOW, AND WE WOULD PRIVATIZE EMS THAT, THAT'S, UH, AN OPTION AS FAR AS THE FUNDING.THE LAST ONE WAS AT, UH, AT THE LIBRARY.
I'M SURE THAT THEY'LL PROBABLY CONTINUE THAT SAME ATION.
THANK YOU GUYS FOR THE INFORMATION.
UM, WE'LL LOOK AT THE FUTURE UPDATES.
I WAS GONNA SAY, MS. DARCY, UM, THE CALENDAR IS AT NUMBER SEVEN, RIGHT? FOR FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. I'M SORRY, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I WASN'T GOING OVER THE CALENDAR AT THE WRONG SPOT.
SO THE CALENDAR'S AT FUTURE ITEMS. OKAY.
UH, THE NEXT THING ON THE AGENDA IS ITEMS FOR INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION.
AND, UM, WE HAVE PROJECT UNITY PRESENTATION ON TOGETHER.
THIS IS SOMETHING MS. KIMBERLY HAS TALKED ABOUT BEFORE.
UM, WE HAVE MS. CHARLENE EDWARDS WITH PROJECT UNITY, WHO WILL GIVE US A PRESENTATION TO, UH, TO THE COMMISSION ON.
TOGETHER WE DINE FOR THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, POTENTIAL PARTNERSHIP.
HOW YOU DOING? I'M, I AM PERSONABLE.
SO
I'M THE DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMS AND EVENTS FOR PROJECT UNITY.
AND I WANNA THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME HERE TODAY TO PRESENT.
UM, THANK YOU DOROTHY AND, AND PHILLIP AND, UH, THE TEAM FOR MANY, MANY EMAILS TO, TO YOU THIS FAR.
AND MS. KIMBERLY FOR, UM, FOR THE ADVOCACY.
UM, SO WHAT I WILL DO IS KIND OF WALK YOU THROUGH OUR TOGETHER WE DIME PROGRAM.
AND AT ANY TIME, JUST LET ME KNOW IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
MAYBE COULD YOU SPEAK INTO THE MICROPHONE PLEASE? WHICH MIC? THIS ONE.
YOU MAY HAVE TO, UH, RAISE IT A LITTLE.
THAT WAY YOU DON'T HAVE TO LEAN INTO IT.
HOW ABOUT I JUST PULL IT JUST A LITTLE CLOSER? YES, MA'AM.
DO I START OVER? NO
SO I'M JUST GONNA, DARCY, JUST USE AN YES MA'AM.
SO I'LL SHARE WITH YOU JUST ABOUT TOGETHER WE DIE.
AND I'M PROMISE NOT TO BORE YOU.
IT IS A VERY EXCITING PROGRAM, UM, THAT WE, UH, ACTUALLY, UH, HOST MULTIPLE TIMES A WEEK, AND I'LL GET INTO THAT.
BUT JUST TO SHARE A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR PROGRAM, WE ACTUALLY STARTED THIS PROGRAM IN 2017.
UM, AFTER THE DEATH OF OUR FIVE OFFICERS DOWNTOWN DALLAS.
THERE WERE FOUR POLICE OFFICERS, UM, AND ONE DART OFFICER WHO WERE AMBUSHED DOWNTOWN AT EL CENTRO COLLEGE.
UM, THEY WERE, UM, WHAT WE, WE SAY PROTECTING PEACEFUL PROTESTORS DURING THE TIME.
UM, AND AFTER THAT INCIDENT, UM, THERE WAS A LOT OF, UM, EMOTIONS AND THINGS GOING ON AROUND DALLAS.
WE WERE ALREADY, UH, WELL INTO SEVERAL POLICE INVOLVED INCIDENCES.
AND, UM, IT WAS, UM, YOU KNOW, THINGS FESTERING, UM, AMONG POLICE AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
UM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF RACIAL TENSIONS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE GOING ON.
SO, A GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF ROB CRANE, WHO WAS PRESIDENT OF THE DALLAS BAR ASSOCIATION AT THAT TIME, AND RICHIE BUTLER, WHO'S FOUNDER, UH, AND CHIEF VISIONARY OFFICER FOR PROJECT UNITY GOT TOGETHER AND, UM, CREATED THIS PROGRAM CALLED TOGETHER WE DINE, WHERE WE BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER TO HAVE COURAGEOUS CONVERSATIONS.
UM, WE STARTED OUT WITH HAVING JUST FIVE CONVERSATION EVENTS HOSTED BY, UM, INTERFAITH CHURCH PARTNERS, UM, TO NOW WE'RE, WE'RE OVER, YOU KNOW, 85 LAST YEAR, 24, YOU KNOW, OVER 90 PROGRAMS. AND I'LL GET INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT.
UM, BUT WE BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER, UM, TO SHARE SPACE OVER A MEAL.
UM, WE ENCOURAGE SAFE CONVERSATIONS.
UM, WE ASK PEOPLE TO BE AUTHENTIC.
THIS PROGRAM IS DONE, UH, WITH MUNICIPALITIES SUCH AS THE CITY OF CAPELLE, SCHOOL DISTRICTS SUCH AS, UM, UM, UH, CEDAR HILL, UM, OTHER ORGANIZATIONS, NONPROFITS, CORPORATIONS, ET CETERA, WHO, UH, PARTNER WITH US TO BRING THESE CONVERSATIONS TO LIFE.
UM, WHAT WE OFFER THROUGH THE PROGRAM IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR PEOPLE TO BECOME MORE SYMPATHETIC AND EMPATHETIC TO OTHERS.
UM, BROADEN THEIR UNDERSTANDING, UH, THROUGH LIVED EXPERIENCES, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE BRING TO THE TABLE IS THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCE.
UM, BECOME MORE THOUGHTFUL, UH, AND MINDFUL, UH, INTROSPECTIVE, SELF-AWARE, UM, AND JUST AWARE OF OF OUR OWN PERCEPTIONS, RIGHT? OUR BIASES AND STEREOTYPES.
UM, IT IS ACTUALLY, IT'S, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S A NINE YEAR VETTED PROGRAM,
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UM, THAT IS OFFERED AS A RESOURCE TO SUPPORT, UM, AN ORGANIZATION'S CULTURAL AWARENESS, EMPLOYEE RESOURCE, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, UM, GOALS AND OBJECTIVES.OUR FORMAT, OUR FORMAT IS SIMPLE.
IT USUALLY ABOUT AN HOUR AND A HALF, A 90 MINUTE SESSION, UM, COMPRISED OF TABLES OF FOUR TO SEVEN PARTICIPANTS.
UM, DEPENDING ON THE NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS THAT WE HAVE.
UM, CONVERSATIONS ARE GUIDED BY TRAINED FACILITATORS.
UM, UH, WE HAVE QUESTIONS, UH, THAT ARE USED.
THAT'S THE PREMISE OF THE CONVERSATION IS, UH, QUESTIONS.
UM, WE STARTED JUST WITH QUESTIONS ON RACE AND RACE RELATIONS AND RELATIONS WITH, UM, POLICE AND COMMUNITY TO NOW WE'RE UPWARDS OF OVER 30 TOPICS, OVER 30 SOME ODD TOPICS, UM, RANGING FROM NEURODIVERSITY TO, YOU KNOW, L-G-B-T-Q TO POLITICAL CIVILITY.
WE ARE HAVING TOUGH CONVERSATIONS, UM, WITH OUR PARTNERS AND, UM, THEY, THEY ARE SOME VERY GOOD CONVERSATIONS TODAY.
WE HAD ONE WITH ONE OF OUR CORPORATE PARTNERS IN CELEBRATION OF, UH, INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY.
UM, SO, SO SOME GOOD STUFF COMES OUT OF THESE CONVERSATIONS.
IT'S STRUCTURED, RIGHT? SO PEOPLE JUST DON'T GET TO THE TABLE AND EVERYBODY JUST STARTS TALKING.
IT'S A STRUCTURED CONVERSATION WHICH HELPS, UM, KEEPS, UH, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE IN ORDER.
UM, IT HELPS KEEP, UH, YOU KNOW, PERSON'S, YOU KNOW, TEMPERAMENTS IN CHECK, RIGHT? UM, SO IT IS A STRUCTURED LISTENING EXERCISE AS WELL AS A LEARNING EXERCISE.
AND IT'S GUIDED BY TWO ROUNDS.
FIRST ROUND IS WHAT WE CALL OUR LISTENING EXERCISE.
THAT'S WHERE EVERYONE GETS A QUESTION, RIGHT? UM, AND I ALWAYS SAY, AND IF YOU PARTICIPATE IN ONE, YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY, THE QUESTION PICKS YOU, YOU DON'T PICK THE QUESTION.
UM, BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL SAY, MAN, THAT THAT WAS MEANT, IT WAS SAID TODAY IN A VIRTUAL SETTING.
THAT WAS, THAT WAS MEANT FOR ME, RIGHT? SO EVERYONE GETS A QUESTION.
UM, AND WHILE THAT PERSON IS RESPONDING TO THEIR, UH, QUESTION, EVERYONE ELSE'S JOB IS TO LISTEN, RIGHT? WE DON'T LISTEN TO EACH OTHER.
THE MINUTE SOMEONE STARTS TALKING, LOOK, LOOK AT YOURSELF.
DO A TEST WITH YOURSELF NEXT TO TIME.
YOU'RE IN A CONVERSATION WITH YOUR SPOUSE, YOUR SIBLING, YOUR NEIGHBOR.
YOU ARE ALREADY READY TO RESPOND.
AND IN DOING SO, YOU'RE MISSING WHAT THAT PERSON IS SAYING, WHICH COULD CHANGE YOUR THOUGHT PROCESS, RIGHT? THAT SECOND ROUND IS WHERE WE SHARE.
THAT'S THE TIME THAT WE OPEN THE FLOODGATES AND PEOPLE SHARE AND START TALKING.
WHAT WE LIKE TO SAY IS, LEAD WITH CURIOSITY.
SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE HEARD, UM, MAKES YOU A LITTLE BIT CURIOUS, AND THAT GIVES YOU AN OPPORTUNITY TO, TO LEAN IN A LITTLE BIT, UM, MORE ON WHAT IS SHARED.
UM, AT THE TABLE, UH, WHEN WE ARE IN PERSON OR, UM, VIRTUALLY, UM, IN THE, IN THE BREAKOUT ROOMS, WE END WITH A CALL TO ACTION.
IT GIVES A PE UH, GIVES PARTICIPANTS A CHANCE TO WALK AWAY WITH A DEEPER UNDERSTANDING, UM, MAYBE ABOUT SOMEONE ELSE.
UM, PEOPLE WALK AWAY MORE MINDFUL, THOUGHTFUL, INTROSPECTIVE, UM, AND ALSO CHALLENGED, RIGHT? SOMETIMES THINGS ARE SAID AND IT, YOU MAY NOT WANNA ADMIT IT, BUT YOU KNOW, YOU KIND OF LIKE TAKE AWAY WHEN YOU GET IN YOUR CAR, YOU'RE LIKE, OOH, WOW.
YOU KNOW, IT GIVES YOU A CHANCE TO THINK.
UM, SO IT IS A PROGRAM AGAIN THAT IS VETTED AND, UM, IT WORKS.
UM, IT WORKS SUCH THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, UH, CORPORATE PARTNERS, UM, WHO WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH FOR FOUR OR FIVE YEARS WHO HAVE BEEN, UM, WORKING WITH US ON THIS PROGRAM.
THIS IS JUST A, A SHORT LIST OF, UH, SOME OF OUR, OUR PARTNERS, YOU KNOW, FROM LAW FIRMS TO BANKS TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS.
YOU'LL SEE THE CITY OF COPPEL, WHICH WE ARE IN OUR THIRD YEAR, WORKING WITH THEM, UM, ON TOGETHER, WE DINE COMMON GROUND.
USA IS THE, UM, US ARM OF THE, UH, INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND.
THEY DO INTERNATIONAL PEACEKEEPING.
UM, THEY'RE ACTUALLY BUSY RIGHT NOW, UNFORTUNATELY ON THE PEACEKEEPING FRONT.
UM, BUT THEY'RE US ARMED COMMON GROUND, USA, UM, THAT'S WHO WE WORK WITH ON POLITICAL CIVILITY, CONVERSATIONS, UM, COMMUNITIES, FOUNDATIONS, JUNIOR LEAGUE, UM, MARSH MCLENNAN, YOU KNOW, TOYOTA SENIOR SOURCE, YOU KNOW, SMU, UM, DIFFERENT COLLEGES, UH, AND UNIVERSITIES WE WORK WITH.
AND WE'D LOVE TO ADD THE CITY OF GARLAND, UM, TO THIS LIST OF PARTNERS, UH, AS WELL.
SO WE DO ALL THIS THEN WHAT? UM, SO EACH YEAR WE TRACK OUR IMPACT.
UM, LAST YEAR, UH, 2025, WE HOSTED 85 TOGETHER.
WE DINES, THAT'S LOCALLY HERE IN THE DALLAS-FORT WORTH AREA, NATIONALLY, ACROSS DIFFERENT STATES.
AND THEN INTERNATIONALLY, WE HOST DINES, UM, IN
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EUROPE, IN AMEA, IN INDIA, THANKS TO OUR PARTNERS WHO HAVE EMPLOYEES THERE.UM, OF 3,200 OR SO PARTICIPANTS.
WE HAVE 55 FACILITATORS ON ROSTER.
WE'RE ACTUALLY ONBOARDING ANOTHER FOUR OR FIVE HERE IN A FEW MONTHS.
OUR FACILITATORS ARE LOCAL, BUT SOME OF THEM ARE NOT.
THEY'RE IN WACO, HOUSTON, ATLANTA, BOSTON, OMAHA, SKOKIE.
UM, AND WHEN WE LOOK AT HOW MUCH TIME THEY'VE, THEY SPEND FACILITATING, WE, WE SPEND, YOU KNOW, UPWARDS OF, YOU KNOW, IT'S 591, BUT UPWARDS OF OVER 600 FACILITATOR, INDIVIDUAL FACILITATORS, UM, USED TO HELP NAVIGATE THESE CONVERSATIONS OVER 1500 HOURS.
AND JUST SHARING SOME OF THE CITIES, UH, THAT YOU WOULD BE FAMILIAR WITH, UM, IF THEY'RE IN BLUE, WE'RE ACTUALLY HOSTING COMING UP SOON.
UM, ARLINGTON, THEIR DINE IS COMING UP IN A COUPLE MONTHS.
WE'VE BEEN TO AUSTIN FREQUENTLY.
UM, CITY OF COPPEL, OOPS, I MISSPELLED CORPUS CHRISTI.
CORPUS CHRISTI, UM, DALLAS, DENTON, HOUSTON.
WE'RE GOING TO FORT BEND, UM, IN A COUPLE MONTHS.
FRISCO, GEORGETOWN, IRVING LONGVIEW IS COMING UP NEXT MONTH.
MIDLAND MINERAL, WELLS PLANO, SAN ANTONIO, WACO, THOSE ARE JUST SOME OF THE LOCAL CITIES, BUT WE'VE BEEN AS FAR AWAY AS SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA BIRTHDAY.
GET TO KIMBER LANE, WHO'S ALSO A FACILITATOR.
BUT YES, WE WERE IN CALIFORNIA ON OUR BIRTHDAY, UM, ARIZONA, UM, AND OTHER, OTHER LOCATIONS, DC ET CETERA.
SO WE DO TRAVEL WITH THESE, UH, WITH OUR D PROGRAM.
AND JUST SOME QUOTABLE NOTES FROM PEOPLE.
UM, I WON'T READ THEM ALL, BUT THESE ARE JUST SOME THINGS THAT PEOPLE DO SAY ABOUT OUR PROGRAM.
UM, PROJECT UNITY, GARLAND CONNECTIONS.
SO HERE'S JUST SOME CONNECTIONS THAT YOU MAY OR MAY NOT BE AWARE OF.
UM, STATE REPRESENTATIVE RED BOWERS, WHO JUST WALKED IN THE ROOM.
SHE IS OUR BOARD CHAIR FOR PROJECT UNITY.
SHE'S BEEN ON OUR BOARD ABOUT FOUR YEARS NOW, BUT SHE CURRENTLY SERVES AS CHAIR.
UM, SHE'S ALSO RESPONSIBLE FOR US HOSTING TOGETHER.
WE DINES IN AUSTIN WHEN THEY ARE IN SESSION.
UM, SO EVERY SESSION, SHE, UM, AND ONE OF HER, UH, COLLEAGUES, MORGAN MEYER, REPUBLICAN MORGAN MEYER, THEY PARTNER AND HOST IT TOGETHER.
WE DINE AT EVERY, WHAT, FOUR YEARS NOW.
UM, BEFORE, BEFORE THEY ALL GET STARTED, WE DO COMMUNE TOGETHER OVER A MEAL AND HAVE CONVERSATIONS.
NOT SURE IF ANY OF YOU KNOW DR. COLE PEPPER.
SHE IS MY GARLAND ISD, UH, LIAISON.
UM, WE ACTUALLY HAVE A MOU WITH THE GARLAND ISD SCHOOL DISTRICT, UM, TO WORK WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT THROUGH OUR, UM, TOGETHER WE LEARN PROGRAM.
OF COURSE, KIMBERLY BANKS, WHO'S ON YOUR COMMISSION, SHE IS A FACILITATOR AND OH GOSH, UM, HOW MANY YEARS? THIS IS MY SIXTH YEAR.
SIXTH YEAR, UM, FACILITATING THESE CONVERSATIONS.
UM, AND NAMAN FOREST HIGH SCHOOL, UM, IT'S ACTUALLY OUR TOGETHER WE LEARN PROGRAM, UM, NOT OUR DIME, BUT OUR LEARN PROGRAM WHERE WE TEACH STUDENTS HOW TO ACT AND REACT TO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND PEDESTRIAN AND TRAFFIC STOPS.
WE HAVE SENATE BILL 30, UM, UH, COINED AFTER OUR PROGRAM WHERE STUDENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO RECEIVE, UH, INSTRUCTION ON WHAT TO DO IN POLICE INTERACTIONS.
AND OUR PROGRAM, UM, IS ONE THAT WE OFFER AT NO COST TO SCHOOLS.
UM, AND SO WE PUT STUDENTS IN POSITIVE INTERACTION WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.
UM, STUDENTS ARE JUST A LITTLE TIDBIT, A LITTLE SIDEBAR.
STUDENTS ARE SUPPOSED TO HAVE THIS TRAINING BEFORE THEY GRADUATE, AND SCHOOLS ARE SUPPOSED TO TRACK, UH, THAT TRAINING, UH, ON THE TRANSCRIPT.
UM, THERE IS A VIDEO PROVIDED BY TEA THAT YOU CAN JUST HIT PLAY AND STUDENTS CAN TAKE A LITTLE FIVE, YOU KNOW, QUESTION QUIZ.
BUT WHAT WE DO IS WE PUT STUDENTS IN THAT POSITIVE PROXIMITY.
UM, WE DO A CLASSROOM SESSION AND THEN WE TAKE THE SENIORS OUTSIDE AND DO SIMULATION IN VEHICLES.
UM, THEY DON'T GET TO DRIVE, UM, BUT WE PUT THEM IN THAT, THOSE SCENARIOS WITH OFFICERS, UM, TO TAKE THEM THROUGH WHAT TO DO IN A TRAFFIC STOP.
UM, AND SEWELL LEXUS HAS BEEN A PARTNER OF OURS SINCE WE STARTED THAT PROGRAM IN 2016.
AND THEY GIVE US CARS EVERY SESSION WHERE WE HAVE SENIORS.
AND SO THEY TRUST US WITH THEIR VEHICLES TO GO AND TAKE THOSE CARS TO SCHOOLS.
AND WE DO GO EVERYWHERE, UM, WITH THOSE VEHICLES.
SO JUST FYI, UH, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I WORK WITH DR. COLE PEPPER ON WITH NAME AND FOREST.
UM, AND WE HAVE A COUPLE OF YOUR, COUPLE OF YOUR OTHER SCHOOLS WHO ARE, UH, WE'RE TRACKING TO, TO ENGAGE THEM ON.
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IT HELPS PEOPLES WITH THEIR JOURNEYS.AND WHAT I WANNA DO IS JUST SHOW YOU, UM, A VIDEO REAL FAST OF THE CITY OF COPPEL, UM, THEIR EXPERIENCE WITH THIS PROGRAM.
DOWN IN THE BOTTOM RIGHT CORNER NEXT TO THE BATTERY.
HEY, WE'RE ALL LEARNING TOGETHER.
ALL RIGHT, LET'S START THAT OVER.
I'M GONNA SHARE THE COP, UH, RECAP VIDEO.
I'M MAYOR OF THE CITY OF COPPEL.
TONIGHT WE HAD OUR FIRST INSTALLMENT OF OUR ONE COPPEL, WHICH WAS A, A DINNER FOR ALL.
THE THING THAT I THINK IS MOST IMPORTANT IS GETTING OUR CITIZENS TOGETHER TO LET THEM HAVE A MEAL TOGETHER, GET TO SHARE SOME PERSONAL EXPERIENCES, AND BASICALLY GET TO KNOW THEM AS YOUR NEIGHBOR.
BRINGING PROJECT UNITY TO THE CITY, UH, WAS ONE THAT I GOT CONNECTED IN WITH OUR MAYOR, ACTUALLY, THE MAYOR, UH, MAYOR MAYS WENT TO A PROGRAM AND HE INTRODUCED US TO, UH, PASTOR BUTLER.
AND I KNEW THAT IT WAS SOMETHING WE HAD TO HAVE WITH THE CITY AND WITH ONE CAPEL.
I LOVE THE IDEA THAT COPPEL IS INVESTING IN HELPING EVERYONE BE GOOD NEIGHBORS.
I WANT TO MAKE A, CONTINUE TO MAKE A GOOD EFFORT TO MEET MY NEIGHBORS, TO MEET THE PEOPLE THAT I SEE WALKING IN THE PARKS AND PLAYING PICKLEBALL.
AND, UH, JUST GET TO KNOW MORE PEOPLE HERE IN CAL TO MAKE IT MORE OF A COMMUNITY.
MY EXPERIENCE WITH TONIGHT'S EVENT WAS THAT YOU JUST NEVER REALLY KNOW WHO YOU'RE SITTING NEXT TO UNLESS YOU TAKE THE TIME TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH THEM.
MY HOPE THAT YOU EXPERIENCE OUT OF THE TOGETHER WE DIVE IS JUST TO GET TO KNOW SOMEONE, GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS, MAYBE SOMEONE THAT YOU'VE NEVER MET AND WOULDN'T HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MEET IF YOU WEREN'T PARTICIPATING IN A TOGETHER WE DIE PROGRAM.
THIS WAS A REALLY FUN EXPERIENCE.
WE HAD, UH, EVERYBODY WAS INTERESTED IN TALKING AND SHARING.
WE GOT TO HEAR DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES.
UM, ONE OF THE GENTLEMEN SHARED WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE AN IMMIGRANT COMING TO THE UNITED STATES MANY, MANY YEARS AGO.
AND THAT'S A PERSPECTIVE THAT IS DIFFERENT FROM MINE.
AND IT WAS TERRIFIC TO HEAR HIS STORY.
WE ALL HAVE UNIQUE EXPERIENCES AND IT'S ALWAYS WORTH IT TO ASK A QUESTION AND TO TRY AND GET TO KNOW YOUR NEIGHBOR OR SOMEONE THAT YOU'RE STANDING NEXT TO IN A COFFEE SHOP.
I WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND PEOPLE ATTENDING, UH, AN EVENT LIKE THIS.
UM, SO MANY OF US ARE SO INSULATED AND SO SILOED, AND THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET TO MEET PEOPLE OF DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS AND RACES AND CULTURES, AND THEY HAVE SO MUCH TO SHARE.
AND JUST HEARING THE, THE STORIES OF DIFFERENT EXPERIENCES IS SOMETHING THAT I DON'T GET A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY TO DO.
SO AN EVENT LIKE THIS IS TERRIFIC.
THIS IS THE FIRST OF MANY PROGRAMS THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO EXPERIENCE THROUGH ONE CAPEL.
AND SO JUST MAKE SURE YOU ARE ON THE LOOKOUT FOR WHAT'S TO COME.
WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN ONE COCKTAIL AND PROJECT UNITY.
WE BELIEVE THAT THIS IS, UH, EXACTLY THE TYPE OF PROGRAM THAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.
WE REALLY BELIEVE THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT TO THE FABRIC OF OUR COMMUNITY.
WE BELIEVE IT'S THE FUTURE OF OUR COMMUNITY, AND I CERTAINLY AM ENDORSING THE PROGRAM.
AND THEN LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING MANY MORE TO COME.
ALL RIGHT, I WILL WRAP UP HERE.
UH, WHERE AM I? SO THAT AS THE PROCUREMENT COORDINATOR AT A MANUFACTURING PLAN, YOU CAN COUNT ON AUTO REORDERING TO HAVE THE PPE
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YOU NEED.WELL, WE DON'T NEED PPE, SO, MM-HMM.
SO THAT IS JUST SHARING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE EXPERIENCE FROM, UM, COPPEL.
AND AS I LOOK FOR THE, THERE WE GO.
UM, JUST BECOMING A PARTNER DEMONSTRATES GARLAND'S COMMITMENT TO RECOGNIZING THE DIVERSITY OF YOUR CITY.
UM, AND THE VALUE THAT PEOPLE BRING, UH, TO MAKE GARLAND AN INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY, UH, RAISES YOUR VISIBILITY AS AN ENTITY THAT CARES ABOUT ITS COMMUNITY.
UM, AND THEN IT ENABLES TOGETHER WE DINE TO BECOME A VALUABLE AND TRUSTED RESOURCE, UM, TO HELP, UH, THE CITY, YOUR OTHER ORGANIZATIONS IN YOUR CITY, UM, TO USE, UH, THIS PROGRAM FORMAT, UM, AS PART OF YOUR, UH, GROWTH AND CONNECTION EFFORTS, UH, WITH YOUR, UM, WITH YOUR CITIZENS.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS INFORMATION.
UH, DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I WANNA HIGHLIGHT SOMETHING BECAUSE WE HAVE SOME RETIRED POLICE AND FIRE PEOPLE IN THE ROOM.
UM, ONE OF THE MOST FULFILLING THINGS THAT WE DO WITH TOGETHER WE DINE IS EVERY GRADUATING CLASS FROM THE POLICE ACADEMY IN DALLAS HAS A, TOGETHER WE DINE BEFORE THEIR GRADUATION.
AND IT IS SO MOVING TO HEAR THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING INTO LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THEIR WISE AND THEIR BRAVERY AND THEIR ENTHUSIASM ABOUT HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS.
THEY'VE BEEN IN CLASS TOGETHER FOR 10, 10 MONTHS PROBABLY OR SO, AND THEY DON'T KNOW EACH OTHER EITHER, YOU KNOW? SO HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS WHERE YOU ACTUALLY GET TO SHARE WHO YOU ARE AND, AND WHAT YOU BELIEVE AND KNOW, KNOWING THAT IT'S SAFE TO DO THAT IS REALLY, REALLY SPECIAL.
I THINK THOSE IN THE HIGH SCHOOL, WELL, I LIKE SMU LOT.
I JUST LOVE, I, YOU ALL HAVE HEARD FROM ME HOW MUCH I LOVE DOING THIS.
THIS IS THE THING THAT GIVES ME HOPE ALL YEAR.
AND LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE TIME, I CANNOT LEAVE THAT SPACE NOT FEELING BETTER ABOUT THE WORLD.
IT'S LIKE PEOPLE WHO DON'T AGREE WITH ME ARE STILL PEOPLE
AND I DO WANNA ACKNOWLEDGE REP BOWERS, UM, FOR BEING HERE JUST TO SUPPORT, UM, THE PROGRAM IF SHE CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AS WELL.
BUT I WON'T PUT HER ON THE SPOT.
'CAUSE I WAS GONNA INVITE HER TO COME SIT UP FRONT.
HOW YOU DOING MS. BOWERS? HOW ARE YOU? IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU.
THIS IS MY REPRESENTATIVE IN THE HOUSE.
SO DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO ADD TO THE PRESENTATION OR JUST GENERAL KNOWLEDGE FOR US AS A COMMISSION? WELL, FIRST OF ALL, GOOD EVENING.
I THINK WE'RE, WE'RE AT EVENING NOW AND IT IS AN HONOR TO SERVE YOU IN THE TEXAS HOUSE.
AND, UM, I WANNA THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE ON THIS BOARD AND COMMISSION.
AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT I HAVE BEEN AROUND PROJECT UNITY SINCE ITS INCEPTION.
SO WHEN CHARLENE, I THINK YOU ASKED HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN FACILITATING? I THINK THAT'S EIGHT YEARS.
AND, UM, AS KIMBERLY SAID, IT, IT IS THE THING THAT GIVES ME HOPE.
UM, PROJECT UNITY NOT ONLY DOES ALL THE GREAT THINGS THAT CHARLENE SHARED AND SAID, UM, BUT DURING THE INTERIM IT GIVES ME A CHANCE TO HEAR FROM PEOPLE IN THE LOCAL AREA, UH, TO TAP IN, UM, ACROSS THE STATE AS I TRAVEL AS A FACILITATOR, BUT ALSO NATIONALLY.
UM, SO PROJECT UNITY DOES GIVE ME, AS A LEGISLATOR AND ONE OF YOUR REPRESENTATIVES HERE IN GARLAND, THE OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR FROM THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, A STATE, UH, ACROSS THE STATE AND ACROSS THE NATION.
SO I BELIEVE, YOU KNOW, WITH THE, WITH THE, THE TIMES AS THEY ARE AND THE LANDSCAPE THAT WE ARE FACING, PROJECT UNITY IS, IS NECESSARY AND IT'S INTEGRAL IN MAKING SURE THAT, UH, PEOPLE ARE COMING TOGETHER, UH, RECOGNIZING THAT THERE'S MORE THAT UNITES US THAN DIVIDES US.
AND WE'VE HOSTED A DINE IN GARLAND MM-HMM
UM, FOR A HOUSE DISTRICT ONE 13.
AND WE'RE PREPARING FOR MESQUITE, UM, NEXT MONTH.
THE ONE 13 DINING HAD FOR THE COUNCIL PEOPLE AND THE SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT.
AND SO THOSE COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR GARLAND THAT CHOSE TO ATTEND OUR DISTRICT DINE THAT WAS HERE IN GARLAND, UM, THEY DIDN'T GO TO TML, THEY CHOSE
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TO COME TO THE HOUSE DISTRICT ONE 13, UM, DINE.SO WE WERE PROUD OF, OF, THAT WAS OUR FIRST COMMUNITY DINE.
UM, WE DID IT HERE IN GARLAND.
WE WERE REALLY PROUD OF THAT EFFORT.
UM, DAISY ROSO IS MY DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF AND SHE'S HERE WITH HER DAUGHTER NATALIA TONIGHT AS WELL, IN SUPPORT.
UM, AND, AND ONE THING MAYBE THAT I SHOULD ADD THAT CHARLENE DOESN'T REALLY, SHE DIDN'T REALLY SAY, ALL OF MY STAFF HAVE TO SIT IN ON A DINE WHEN THEY CAN.
UM, AND IT REALLY KIND OF LEVEL SETS.
I THINK DAISY, WHEN DAISY FIRST CAME ON, SHE'S SHY OF TWO YEARS WITH ME NOW, BUT SHE, THAT WAS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT SHE AND HER HUSBAND DID.
AND THE REST OF THE STAFF, UM, WHETHER THAT'S DURING SESSIONS, STAFF, THEY PARTICIPATE IN SIT DOWN IN A DINE, UM, AND YOU KNOW, WITH US DOING A DINE NOW COMING UP IN MESQUITE, ALL OF MY STAFF WILL HAVE ATTENDED A DINE.
SO ARE THE EVENTS OPEN EVENTS OR DO YOU HAVE TO BE WITHIN THAT PARTICULAR CITY DISTRICT? YEAH, SO THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.
SO WE HAVE WHAT'S CALLED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE DS.
WHEN WE HOST THEM IN THE COMMUNITY, LIKE FOR REP BOWERS OR THE VIRTUAL COMMUNITY DS, THOSE ARE OPEN.
SO THOSE VIRTUAL DS BRING IN PEOPLE ACROSS THE NATION.
SO LIKE WE HAVE PEOPLE FROM CALIFORNIA TO NEW YORK WHO COME AND THEIR REGULARS, LIKE, WE HAVE A FOLLOWING OF PEOPLE WHO JOIN THOSE DS.
THOSE PRIVATE DINES ARE FOR COMPANIES LIKE YOUR TI I, YOUR LENOX, YOUR MARSH MCLENNAN, THOSE ARE PRIVATE DINES.
SO ONLY THOSE EMPLOYEES ARE PART OF THAT.
UM, YOU KNOW, FOR YOUR CITY DINES, UM, THEY WOULD BE PUBLIC FOR YOUR CITY.
UM, BUT, YOU KNOW, YOU COULD CATCH WIND OF, OF A, SOMEONE IN A NEIGHBORING CITY THAT JUST MAY WANNA COME AND BE A PART OF IT.
BUT IF YOU HAVE RESTRICTIONS, THEN WE CAN CERTAINLY PUT SOME PARAMETERS AROUND IT.
AND AS, AND IF I CAN ADD, AS CHARLENE SAID, OUR DS, THE DISTRICT DS, THEY'RE OPEN.
SO WHEN WE HAD THE ONE HERE IN GARLAND, WE HAD CONSTITUENTS FROM ROW GARLAND AND MESQUITE AT THE DISTRICT DINE.
SO THE NEXT ONE COMING UP IN MESQUITE IS DISTRICT WIDE AND BEYOND.
AND HOW DO WE FIND OUT WHEN THOSE DINES ARE HAPPENING? YEAH, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION AS WELL.
SO ONE, THERE ARE A COUPLE WAYS YOU COULD DO THAT.
ONE BY GETTING ON OUR DISTRIBUTION LIST.
UM, OR YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON SOCIAL MEDIA PROJECT UNITY, NTX.
YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON YOUR, ON YOUR FAVORITE CHANNEL, BER IF YOU'LL HELP PASS THESE OUT, YOU CAN FOLLOW US ON YOUR FAVORITE CHANNEL.
UM, AND THOSE ARE THE EASIEST WAYS TO DO, ESPECIALLY VIA THAT DISTRIBUTION LIST.
'CAUSE WHEN WE HAVE THOSE COMMUNITY DIMES, WE CAST THOSE OUT, UM, TO OUR DISTRIBUTION LIST.
AND THEN WE ALSO DO SOME ONLINE ADVERTISING WITH A COUPLE OF OUR AD PARTNERS.
SO WHAT IS THE LARGEST THAT YOU'VE DONE? HOW MANY COULD YOU POSSIBLY HANDLE? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
SO AS SMALL AS 20 TO 25, WE'VE DONE CONFERENCES UP TO ABOUT 550, UM, OR SO.
SO THAT'S AROUND, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS LIKE 55 TABLES OR SO.
UM, WE JUST CAME FROM SAN ANTONIO IN FEBRUARY WHERE REP BOWERS, UM, WAS PART, WE WENT TO THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF OUR PRESIDENTS AND WE HAD 24 TABLES OF, OF SEVEN OR EIGHT FOLKS EACH.
SO, UM, WE CAN DEFINITELY ACCOMMODATE THOSE.
CAN I SHARE THE DATE FOR THE MESQUITE DINE? MM-HMM
SO THE MESQUITE DINE IS COMING UP, THAT IS A DISTRICT DINE, I WON'T CALL IT MESQUITE DINE, IT'S A DISTRICT DINE.
SO ALL ARE WELCOME, UM, ACROSS THE DISTRICT AND AND BEYOND.
BUT THAT DATE IS APRIL 29TH, CORRECT, DAISY? THAT IS RIGHT.
AND WE CAN, WHAT WOULD BE THE TIME? SIX 30.
AND WE CAN SHARE THE LOCATION AND EVERYTHING WITH YOU ALL.
I WILL SEND DARCEY THE LINKS TO THOSE SUBSCRIBER AND THEN SHE CAN SHARE THEM WITH HER.
WE HAVE A, WE HAVE A COMMUNITY DINING COMING, WE HAVE A COMMUNITY DON NEXT WEEK, UM, VIRTUAL, UM, IN HONOR OF WOMEN'S, UM, HISTORY MONTH.
UM, AND SO THAT, YOU KNOW, IT JUST, UH, MEN ARE WELCOME AS WELL FOR, YOU KNOW, WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH, UM, JUST TO CELEBRATE THE WOMEN IN YOUR LIFE AND ALONG YOUR JOURNEY, UM, AS WELL.
UM, BUT THE QUESTIONS ARE THOUGHT PROVOKING, THEY'RE INTROSPECTIVE, UM, AND SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE, YOU KNOW, A FEMALE TO, TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS.
AND MS. KIMBERLY, YOU, THAT LINK WILL HAVE THIS INFORMATION ON IT TOO.
AND MS. DARCY, IF WE CAN JUST ADD IT TO THE CALENDAR AND MAKE IT A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION FOR THE NEXT MEETING, THAT WOULD BE FINE.
DOES ANYONE, MR. RENEE, YOU PRETTY QUIET? YOU DON'T HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? OH, NO, I HAVE QUESTIONS.
ALRIGHT, WELL, WE'LL OPEN IT UP TO ANYONE ELSE ON THE COMMISSION THAT HAS A QUESTION AT THIS
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TIME.UM, THE TOPICS THAT ARE DISCUSSED.
DO Y'ALL PICK THOSE TOPICS? CAN WE PICK THE TOPICS? CAN YOU GIVE US SOME EXAMPLES OF THE TOPICS? ABSOLUTELY.
SO THE ANSWER TO YOUR QUESTION IS YOU CAN CERTAINLY PICK THE TOPIC.
UM, THE PARTNERS CAN PICK THE TOPIC.
WE CURATE THE QUESTIONS BECAUSE THE QUESTIONS HAVE TO BE POISED IN A CERTAIN WAY.
BUT I DO WORK WITH MY PLANNING LIAISON, UM, TO REVIEW THOSE QUESTIONS TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE FITTING.
NOW SOME PARTNERS DO CONTRIBUTE TO THOSE QUESTIONS AND THEY'LL GIVE THEM TO ME, BUT I KIND OF RESHAPE 'EM AND SQUEEZE 'EM AND FLUFF 'EM BACK OUT TO SOMETHING THAT THAT'S USABLE.
UM, BUT YOU CAN CERTAINLY CONTRIBUTE TO THOSE QUESTIONS.
NOW WHEN WE, UH, THAT ALL TAKES PLACE DURING OUR PLANNING SESSIONS.
SO IT, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE ONE OR TWO OF YOU, OR MAYBE IT'S DARCY OR SOMEONE FROM THE COMMITTEE WHO I WORK WITH, UM, TO, UM, TO DO THAT PLANNING EVERYTHING FROM, YOU KNOW, THE LOCATION, THE TIMING, FOOD QUESTIONS AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
I JUST CAN'T HAVE 10 PEOPLE WORKING ON QUESTIONS.
SO IT HAS TO BE JUST A, A, UH, A VERY SELECT GROUP.
THE OTHER THING IS THOSE QUESTIONS ARE NOT SHARED, MR. RENEE.
SO IF YOU AND I ARE WORKING TOGETHER, YOU KNOW, ON BEHALF OF THE COMMISSION, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S DARCY, SO IT WOULD BE MAYBE THE THREE OF US WORKING, YOU DON'T SHARE THOSE QUESTIONS OUT WITH EVERYONE.
BECAUSE THE THING WE LIKE TO, UH, DO IS WE DON'T LIKE GIVE PEOPLE A CHANCE TO PREPARE A PRETTY ANSWER.
YOU KNOW, YOU GO HOME AND YOU TURN ON AI AND THEN HERE'S YOUR ANSWER AND THAT'S IT.
SO IT REALLY IS ABOUT BEING IN THAT MOMENT, RIGHT.
BECAUSE THE ANSWER THAT YOU COULD PREPARE AHEAD OF TIME WILL DEFINITELY CHANGE.
ONCE YOU ARE IN COMMUNION WITH A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE SHARING WITH YOU, YOUR PERSPECTIVE COULD CHANGE, WHICH COULD CHANGE YOUR ANSWER POSSIBLY.
SO THAT'S A VERY GOOD QUESTION.
CAN YOU GIVE AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT A QUESTION MIGHT BE? OH MY GOODNESS.
I DID NOT BRING ANY QUESTIONS WITH ME.
SHE'S JUST DONE THOSE QUESTIONS.
THOSE, SO THE QUESTIONS DON'T ALWAYS HOVER HERE BECAUSE THERE, THERE ARE OTHER THINGS GOING AROUND.
BUT I THINK TODAY ONE OF THE QUESTIONS WAS ABOUT, UM, UH, UH, VISIBILITY, UM, AND HOW YOU'VE HELPED SOMEONE BE VISIBLE.
UM, AND THEN HOW YOU'VE USED THAT, HOW THAT VISIBILITY PERHAPS MAY HAVE HELPED YOU, UM, IN SOME, AT SOME POINT.
UM, THERE WAS A, A QUESTION THAT CENTERED AROUND GIVING AND GIVING AND RECEIVING OR GIVING AND SOMETHING ALONG THAT MATTER OF WHERE YOU'VE GIVEN TO SOMEONE ELSE OR YOU'VE ADVOCATED FOR SOMEONE ELSE.
UM, AND THE RECIPROCITY, UM, BEHIND THAT.
UM, SO I'M SORRY I DIDN'T BRING ANY QUESTIONS WITH ME.
WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, OVER 30 SOME ODD QUESTIONS AND WE USUALLY HAVE ANYWHERE BETWEEN EIGHT TO 10 QUESTIONS PREPARED PER TOPIC.
SO WE HAVE A LOT OF QUESTIONS, UM, THAT, UM, THAT, THAT WE USE.
AND A LOT OF TIMES, FACILITATORS, THEY DON'T GET THOSE QUESTIONS UNTIL THEY ARE ON SITE.
SO THEY, THEY TOO ARE, YOU KNOW, LIKE, WOW.
SO THEY HAVE TO TAKE TIME, DIGEST THOSE QUESTIONS AS WELL.
THE FACILITATOR TEAM IS VERY UNIQUE IN THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY DON'T GET TO PREPARE, UM, IN TERMS OF LIKE TAKING THOSE QUESTIONS.
THEY, A LOT OF TIMES THEY GET THEM ON SITE, UM, BUT THEY HAVE TO REALLY BE IN A CERTAIN MENTAL SPACE RIGHT.
TO GUIDE AND LEAD THESE CONVERSATIONS.
I WILL SAY THAT THERE'S NEVER BEEN A CONVERSATION THAT HAS, UH, GONE OFF THE RAILS IN TERMS OF LIKE PEOPLE GETTING UPSET, LEAVING, YOU KNOW, SHUTTING DOWN OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT BECAUSE OF THE TALENT THAT THEY BRING TO THE, I'LL SAY NOT TALENT, THE CARE THAT THEY BRING TO THE TABLE.
AND, AND, YOU KNOW, OUR NEWEST TOPIC IS OF COURSE, POLITICAL CIVILITY AND CIVILITY.
UM, WE JUST HOSTED A CIVILITY DINE WITH SMU FRATERNITY AND SORORITY LIFE WHERE WE HAD ALMOST 50 STUDENTS FROM THE VARIOUS GREEK ORGANIZATIONS AT SMU TALKING ABOUT CIVILITY.
HOW DO YOU MAINTAIN CIVILITY JUST IN GENERAL SO THAT YOU WORK TOGETHER FOR THE GOALS OF THE UNIVERSITY, UM, AND FOR YOUR ORGANIZATION.
AND WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT POLITICAL CIVILITY MM-HMM
THAT'S WHERE WE'RE BRINGING ALL THREE TOGETHER REPUBLICANS, INDEPENDENTS, AND, UH, DEMOCRATS TOGETHER TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW DO WE REMAIN POLITICALLY CIVIL DESPITE ALL THE NOISE THAT IS GOING ON.
AND YOU WOULD THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE COME TO THE TABLE, YOU KNOW, MY SON WENT TO TEXAS TECH, BUT WITH GUNS UP
AND I WILL SAY WHEN WE STARTED WITH COMMON GROUND TWO YEARS AGO, IT WAS RIGHT AFTER THE ELECTION, WELL IT WAS BEFORE THE ELECTION, SO COMMON GROUND STARTED IN DALLAS, UH, THEIR OFFICE IN DALLAS AND IN PHILADELPHIA BECAUSE SEARCH FOR COMMON GROUND SAW THE THINGS THAT WERE SWIRLING
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AROUND IN THE POLITICAL ATMOSPHERE.AND THEY SAID, WE'RE GOING TO OPEN UP A OFFICE IN TEXAS AND PHILADELPHIA TO TRY TO KEEP CALM HEADS WITH THOSE COMMUNITIES.
AND SO, UM, MIDLAND AND SAN ANTONIO WERE RIGHT BEFORE THE ELECTION, DAY, AFTER THE ELECTION WAS HOUSTON.
AND YOU COULD FEEL, UM, IT WAS WELL ATTENDED, BUT YOU COULD FEEL THAT PEOPLE WERE IN A CERTAIN PLACE AFTER THE ELECTION.
BUT WHEN WE LEFT THAT ROOM, PEOPLE WERE IN A DIFFERENT PLACE.
THEY WERE IN A DIFFERENT HEAD SPACE, A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THEY WALKED IN.
CAN'T SAY THAT WE, YOU KNOW, HELPED THEIR HEART, WELL, HELPED THEIR, CHANGED THEIR MINDS, BUT WE HELP THEIR HEARTS, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
SO, MR. CHARLES, I'M SORRY, BUT I DIDN'T BRING ANY QUESTIONS WITH ME, BUT YEP.
YOU'LL ENJOY IT WHEN YOU PARTICIPATE.
I THINK I HAVE A, I HAVE A COMMENT.
I, ON BEHALF OF OUR CHAIR OF OUR SUBCOMMITTEE WHO IS NOT HERE, UM, WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU TO COME BACK AND MEET WITH OUR SUBCOMMITTEE.
WHICH IS ABOUT THREE
AT LEAST THREE OF US TO KIND OF TALK MORE DETAIL SURE.
AND GET SOME MORE INFORMATION.
UM, I'M VERY FAMILIAR WITH IT, HAVE WORKED, DONE THIS KIND OF WORK BEFORE.
AND, UM, I, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, I THINK THIS JUST MESHES AND MARRIES WITH WHAT THE INFORMATION WE'RE TRYING TO, TO RECEIVE AND TO FIND OUT AND TO FEED TO OUR COUNCIL.
UM, AND SO, UM, IF WE COULD SET A TIME WHERE WE CAN MEET WITH YOU AND WE MEET AT FIVE, AT FIVE O'CLOCK BEFORE THIS MEETING AT I, UM, THE DATE, THE SAME DAY THAT THIS MEETING IS, SO WE CAN WORK OUT SOMETHING FOR MAYBE APRIL.
SO APRIL, ALMOST OVER SO MUCH OUR, OUR MEETING IN APRIL IS ON THE 16TH AT 5:00 PM I WILL, SO DARCY, IF YOU CAN SEND ME THAT AND THEN I'LL CHECK MY CALENDAR.
AND THEN WHAT WE CAN DO IN FROM THERE, THEN WE CAN BRING THAT BACK TO THIS GROUP FOR, FOR ADDITIONAL DISCUSSION MM-HMM
BUT WE WOULD LOVE TO MEET, WE HAVE A COUPLE OTHER KIND OF LIKE MORE DETAIL IN THE WEED QUESTIONS.
I WILL SAY THAT IT CAN DO NOTHING BUT HELP THE COMMUNITY, UM, BUT, AND NOT HARM THE COMMUNITY.
UM, AS YOU HEARD FROM THE CITY OF COPPEL, UH, WE'RE IN YEAR THREE WITH THEM AND WE LITERALLY HAVE PEOPLE WHO COME ALMOST EVERY SINGLE TIME NOT FOR THE FREE MEAL.
I LIKE TO SAY FOR THE FREE CONVERSATION, IT'S, IT'S FOR THE CONVERSATION TO MEET THEIR NEIGHBORS AND THEY HAVE A VERY LARGE INDIAN COMMUNITY.
UM, AND THE OTHER COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE EMBRACING THAT, UM, COMMUNITY IN WAYS THAT THEY THOUGHT THEY DIDN'T EVEN RECOGNIZE THEM.
UM, AND SO FOR GARLAND, YOU KNOW, IT, IT WON'T DO ANYTHING BUT HELP THE COMMUNITY.
PEOPLE DO BECOME REGULARS, I MEAN MM-HMM
THAT'S HOW I BECAME A FACILITATOR.
I ATTENDED A DINE IN 2018 AT THE ARTS DISTRICT MANSION AND I LEFT THERE.
AND WHAT'S INTERESTING TOO IS I'M STILL IN TOUCH WITH THREE OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE AT MY TABLE.
BUT IT WAS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL STRANGERS.
AND I WAS LEAVING THAT ROOM, I WAS LIKE, I HAVE TO DO THIS AGAIN.
SO I ATTENDED ANOTHER, I ATTENDED THE NEXT ONE, AND BACK THEN THEY WERE FAR APART.
BUT BY THE THIRD ONE I WAS LIKE, OKAY, I NEED TO GO.
THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO COME TO THE VIRTUAL DINES EVERY TIME BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT HERE, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S LIKE IF THERE'S A VIRTUAL DINE, THERE'S THE PEOPLE IN CONNECTICUT, IN CALIFORNIA WHO WILL ALWAYS COME.
AND WE DID A LOT OF VIRTUAL DURING COVID, SO THAT REALLY EXPANDED IT.
BUT THE THING THAT I JUST LOVE MOST IS HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE YOU DON'T KNOW, WHERE YOU'RE NOT JUDGING EACH OTHER MM-HMM
WHERE YOU'RE LISTENING TO WHAT THEIR LIVED EXPERIENCE IS AND UNDERSTANDING HOW THAT MOTIVATES THEM RATHER THAN, YOU DIDN'T VOTE FOR WHO I VOTED FOR MM-HMM
YOU KNOW, IT'S, WE, WE HAVE TO GET ALONG.
IT IS JUST IMPERATIVE THAT WE DO.
AND THESE CONVERSATIONS DO THAT.
I, I JUST WANTED TO ADD, THANK YOU FOR, FOR RECOGNIZING ME.
UM, THEY'RE BOTH EXACTLY RIGHT.
AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT SOME OF THE DS THAT WE'VE DONE ON COLLEGE CAMPUSES WITH YOUNG PEOPLE, UM, I HAVE SEEN THE CHANGE HAPPEN BEFORE THE D DYING IS OVER.
YOU'LL HAVE TWO STUDENTS ON OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE TABLE.
UM, TOTALLY DIFFERENT SPECTRUMS AND THEIR VALUES AND BELIEFS.
AND BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, THE END OF THAT NIGHT THAT OTHER STUDENT GOT UP AND WALKED OVER AND SAID, CAN I GET YOUR, YOUR INSTAGRAM NAME? I WANNA CONNECT AND I WANNA CONTINUE THIS CONVERSATION.
MR. MERRILL, MS. GLENN, NOTHING.
YOU SAID THAT THE DINNER IS FREE SO THE GUESTS DON'T HAVE TO PAY? NO, THE, THE
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GUESTS DO NOT PAY.AND THAT'S THROUGH THE PARTNERSHIP.
SO THAT MAY BE A DETAILED QUESTION THAT WE GET INTO THE CRUX OF IS, IS THE PARTNERSHIP FEE AND, AND THE ROLES OF WHAT THE PARTNER DOES AND ALL THAT GOOD STUFF.
SO WE, WE KEEP IT FREE TO THE, THE PUBLIC.
UM, SO THAT IS NOT, THAT DOESN'T DETER SOMEONE FROM COMING.
SO GOING BACK TO MONEY AND NOT GETTING INTO DETAIL, WILL, WILL THERE BE A COST TO OUR COMMISSION FOR THIS AND YEAH.
SO, SO THERE IS A PARTNERSHIP FEE FOR THE COMMISSION.
UM, AND WE CAN WAIT UNTIL THAT.
WE'LL, WE'LL LET YOU GUYS DISCUSS THAT IN A SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING.
I'LL WORK OUT THE DETAILS YES.
AND BRING IT BACK TO US BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A BUDGET WITHIN THE COMMISSION THAT WE FUNCTION OFF OF.
SO WE'LL LET THE SUBCOMMITTEE DO THAT.
BUT LIKE THEY SAID, IT'S THE, UH, THIRD THURSDAY IN APRIL AND, UM, MR. CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON IS THE SUBCOMMITTEE CHAIR.
HE'S NOT ABLE TO BE HERE TODAY, BUT BETWEEN HIM AND THOSE THAT ARE ON THE COMMITTEE, THEY SAID IT'S ONLY THREE ON THE COMMITTEE.
BUT THOSE OF US THAT GET HERE A LITTLE SOONER THAN SIX O'CLOCK, OUR NORMAL MEETING, WE DO COME AND SIT IN AND LISTEN, UM, IN, ON THAT MEETING.
AND FOR THOSE THAT ARE NOT ABLE TO MAKE IT, THEN THEY DO, UM, SUBCOMMITTEE REPORT DURING THIS PARTICULAR MEETING.
DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? NO, I DO HAVE ONE IN PARTICULAR DETAIL.
UM, I KNOW WHENEVER WE STEP ON THE MEETINGS AND SIX MONTHS OUT IN PLANNING MM-HMM
UM, WHAT DOES THAT KIND OF LOOK LIKE FOR LARGER PARTNERSHIPS? YEAH.
SO, SO WE DO OFFER A PLANNING GUIDE, WHAT SHE'S REFERRING TO AS A PLANNING GUIDE.
AND IT'S BASICALLY THINGS TO DO RIGHT BEFORE THE D IT IS BUILT LIKE SIX MONTHS OUT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, I JUST GOT A CALL, UH, A COUPLE DAYS AGO TO DO ONE, UH, IN MAY.
AND SO IT'S A VERY SHORT WINDOW.
UM, BUT IT'S JUST A GUIDE AND, AND I WOULD SHARE THAT WITH, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S RENEE OR YOU OR WHOEVER MY PLANNING CONTACTS ARE, WOULD GET THAT.
DEFINITELY THAT YOU, YOU LADIES HAVE GIVEN US SOME GREAT INFORMATION.
I KNOW Y'ALL HAVE A BUSY SCHEDULE.
THANK YOU FOR TAKING YOUR TIME TO SHOW UP TO THIS MEETING AND PROVIDE THAT INFORMATION TO US.
UM, THERE IS FOOD IN THE OTHER ROOM IF YOU LADIES WOULD LIKE SOMETHING TO EAT.
OH, IS IT, UNLESS SHE ALREADY QUEUED UP.
ALRIGHT, WE WILL MOVE ON WITH THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM.
UM, ITEM B, THE WEBSITE COMMUNICATION UPDATE.
UH, STAFF WILL PRESENT AND UPDATE ON IMPROVEMENTS TO THE COMMUNITY MULTICULTURAL COMMISSION WEBSITE AND QR CODE.
UH, THERE WAS SOME OF US THAT ASKED FOR CARDS VERSUS JUST THE QR CODE THAT WE COULD HAVE SOMEONE SCAN AND, UH, LOOK IT UP.
BUT WE ASKED FOR BUSINESS CARDS BEFORE YOU START MS. DARCY, I ASKED MR. ARTHUR GREG TO SCAN HIS CARD TO SHOW US ON HIS PHONE REAL TIME WHERE THAT QR CODE WOULD TAKE US REAL TIME.
SO, UM, ACTUALLY ALL OF YOU GUYS SHOULD HAVE GOTTEN CARDS.
UM, I DID ORDER A NEW SET OF BUSINESS CARDS FOR EACH OF YOU.
SO HOPEFULLY EVERYBODY HAS NEW CARDS WITH THE QR CODE ON THE BACK.
DID ANYONE NOT GET CARDS? YES.
DID ANYBODY NOT GET CARDS? NO.
SO, UM, I KNOW A LOT OF TIMES WE TALK ABOUT THESE QR CODES AND SOME OF US THAT ARE NOT AS CELL PHONE FRIENDLY AS OTHERS, UH, WE TEND TO GET A LITTLE TURNED AROUND WITH THE CODING.
DO YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PARTICULAR, THAT THE, THE THINGY THAT SAYS QR THAT POPS IT UP? DO YOU HAVE TO HAVE A PARTICULAR APP? IS THE WORD I'M LOOKING FOR TO DOWNLOAD IT OR DOES IT JUST WORK WITH YOUR CAMERA ONLY? YES.
AND YOU CAN USE THE QR CODE READER, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO CAN, OKAY.
AND I KNEW THE ANSWER TO THAT, JUST SO Y'ALL KNOW, BUT I KNOW THESE ARE RECORDED IN THE PUBLIC CAN HEAR THEM.
I FIGURED I'D ASK THAT QUESTION JUST IN CASE SOMEONE HAD THAT QUESTION.
UM, IF ANY OF YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR CARDS TONIGHT, I PRINTED THIS OUT IF YOU GUYS WANNA TRY AND SCAN IT.
SO, OKAY, WE CAN RUN, RUN THROUGH SOME OF THE CHANGES WE MADE ON THE WEBSITE.
SO, UM, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS WE DID WAS THIS LOGO WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEBSITE, SO WE JUST WENT AHEAD AND AND MOVED IT TO THE TOP.
AND YOU GUYS CAN STOP ME IF Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AT ANY POINT.
UM, AND GOING DOWN, WE DID UPDATE THIS REGULAR MEETINGS LITTLE BLURB HERE.
UM, WE WANTED TO ADD THAT ANY CITIZENS ARE ALL
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WELCOME TO ATTEND AND PARTICIPATE DURING THE MEETING, UM, AND PUBLIC COMMENTS PORTION AND SHARE QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, UM, AND OFFER ANY FEEDBACK TO THE COMMISSION AS WELL.BECAUSE I BELIEVE LAST TIME IT JUST KIND OF SAID THE REGULAR MEETINGS ARE HELD AT 6:00 PM I ALSO DID ADD THE LINK RIGHT HERE.
AND THIS TAKES YOU DIRECTLY TO THE PAGE, UM, WHERE THE MEETINGS ARE HELD AND KEPT AND IT SHOWS YOU THE TRANSCRIPTS, IT SHOWS YOU THE VIDEOS, ALL THE DATES AND EVERYTHING OF THE MEETINGS SO THEY CAN EASILY ACCESS IT HERE.
UM, RIGHT HERE ON THE RIGHT WE HAVE OUR CONTACT CMC LINK.
IF YOU CLICK THE LINK RIGHT HERE, IT WILL SAY, UM, IT'LL TAKE IT ACT THEN ACTUALLY TO THE CITY SECRETARY EMAIL, UM, DIRECTLY.
SO ANY CONCERNS THEY MIGHT HAVE WILL COME DIRECTLY TO OUR OFFICE.
AND WE PUT THE I BELONG HERE VIDEO RIGHT HERE IN THE MIDDLE SO THEY CAN WATCH THAT.
'CAUSE I KNOW WE WORKED HARD ON THAT.
SO ALL OF THE, UM, ALL OF THE MEMBERS AND ALL OF YOU GUYS SHOULD BE LISTED HERE.
IF YOU SEE A SPELLING THAT MIGHT BE WRONG OR UM, YOUR DISTRICT MIGHT BE WRONG, UM, OR YOUR APPOINTEE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND I WILL CHANGE THAT FOR YOU.
UM, I DID ADD A FEW QUICK LINKS ON THE RIGHT, UM, AND I CAN GO THROUGH THEM A LITTLE BIT.
I'M NOT GONNA, YOU KNOW, TAKE TOO MUCH TIME.
BUT, UM, SO THE FIRST ONE IS THE EMERGENT BILINGUAL.
WE HAVE FIVE LOVE FOOD PANTRY, CITY SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE, HEALTH AND WELLNESS RESOURCES, CITY SERVICE REQUESTS, AND NEW RESIDENT INFORMATION.
SO, UM, WE HAVE EMERGENT BILINGUAL RIGHT HERE.
THIS IS KIND OF WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE IF YOU WERE TO CLICK ON THE LINK AND IT KIND OF JUST TALKS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, DIVI, UH, DIVERSE GROUPS OF OF STUDENTS.
AND, UM, THIS IS ON THE GISD PAGE.
AND UM, YOU CAN ALSO ACCESS THAT LINK THROUGH THEM.
THE FIVE LOAVES FOOD PANTRY LINK.
AND, UM, IF ANYBODY WANTS TO DONATE OR VOLUNTEER, YOU CAN GO RIGHT HERE AND AT THE TOP IT KIND OF GIVES A RUNDOWN ON THE, ON THEIR MISSION AND, UM, WHAT THEY'RE INVOLVED IN IN THE COMMUNITY AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO, AND I THINK THEY ALSO HAVE EVENTS TOO, WHICH IS PRETTY COOL.
THIS IS OUR PUBLIC AND MEDIA RELATIONS PAGE.
UM, I THINK IT'S PRETTY SELF EXPLANATORY, BUT WE HAVE, UM, YEAH, OUR CITY, FACEBOOK, TWITTER, INSTAGRAM, ALL THE LINKS YOU MIGHT NEED.
IF YOU HAVE, UM, ANY QUESTIONS OR, UM, WANNA GET IN TOUCH, YOU KNOW, IN THE CITY THAT THAT CAN BE FOUND HERE.
SEE OUR GISD WELLNESS AND SUPPORT RESOURCES.
UM, THIS IS, THIS IS A GOOD USE FOR, YOU KNOW, MENTAL HEALTH, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT, UM, FINANCIAL, JUST MONEY MANAGEMENT, UM, I GUESS BODY CARE, PHYSICAL CARE, UM, SPIRITUAL.
UM, THIS EVEN HAS, YOU KNOW, FINDING PURPOSE AND VALUE.
UM, AGAIN, HERE'S THE FIVE LOWS FOOD PANTRY AND THERE'S MORE LINKS IN THESE IN THESE AS WELL.
GISD IS A REALLY GOOD RESOURCE.
SO THEN WE HAVE THE GARLAND ASSIST.
UM, ALSO ON OUR WEBSITE, UM, IF YOU ACTUALLY GO TO THE HOMEPAGE, UM, WELL I'M ON Y'ALL'S PAGE, BUT IF YOU GO JUST ARE ON THE HOMEPAGE OF OUR WEBSITE, THERE'S E ASSIST JUST AT THE TOP AND YOU CAN ACCESS THOSE AS WHERE THERE AS WELL.
UM, IF YOU HAVE ANY SERVICE REQUESTS OR ANY UM, INCIDENTS THAT HAPPEN THAT YOU'RE KIND OF WANTING OR CONCERNED ABOUT, UM, YOU CAN JUST KIND OF GO TO THAT DEPARTMENT AND SAY IT'S, YOU KNOW, ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH.
UM, SAY YOU HAVE MOSQUITO, MOSQUITO PROBLEM, YOU CAN PUT THAT HERE, PUT YOUR ADDRESS DESCRIPTION AND YOU CAN SUBMIT THAT TO, TO THAT DEPARTMENT AND THEY CAN, THEY CAN TAKE CARE OF THAT.
YES, IF YOU HAVE MOSQUITOES, LET THEM KNOW.
THIS IS THE WELCOME TO GARLAND'S NEW RESIDENT INFORMATION.
UM, THIS IS VERY, VERY HELPFUL FOR NEW RESIDENTS AND PEOPLE THAT ARE JUST TRYING TO GET CONNECTED AND, UM, FIND ALL THE LINKS, HELPFUL LINKS, UM, ON THIS PAGE.
SO THIS IS FOR ELECTRICITY, WATER, GAS, TRASH, UM, YOU KNOW, SANITATION, RECYCLING SCHEDULES, UM, ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
AND THEN WE HAVE THE AGENDAS AND MINUTES DOWN HERE.
UM, AGAIN, THAT'S KINDA THE SAME AS THE MEETINGS, BUT INSTEAD OF THE, THE MEETINGS, I ADDED
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THE, THE MINUTES LINK RIGHT HERE.SO THAT GOES DIRECTLY TO EACH OF THE, THE MEETING LINKED MINUTES.
UM, SO ANYBODY THAT DOESN'T WANNA WATCH THE VIDEO, BUT THEY WANT THE MINUTES, THEY CAN GO, THEY CAN GO HERE.
SO WE HAD A KIND OF AN OUTDATED LITTLE BLURB HERE, SO I WENT AHEAD AND UPDATED THAT AND, UM, LEMME SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING.
SO WAS THAT OVERVIEW A BLURB BEFORE OR WAS THAT OUR ACTUAL MISSION STATEMENT BEFORE? UM, I THINK THAT IT WAS JUST, IT WAS A PARAGRAPH OF, UM, WHEN YOU GUYS WERE ESTABLISHED AND, UM, WE WANTED TO, WE WANTED TO UPDATE IT TO KIND OF REFLECT Y'ALL'S OVERALL PURPOSE.
SO I THINK THIS NEW, THIS NEW PARAGRAPH KIND OF REFLECTS THE, THE PURPOSE OF THE CMC AND, UM, WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE, KIND OF JUST WAS OUTDATED AND DIDN'T REALLY HAVE, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE NEWER UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE CMC LOOKS LIKE TODAY.
UM, AND YOU GUYS CAN, YOU KNOW, READ, READ THROUGH IT AGAIN.
IF YOU HAVE ANY CHANGES, LET ME KNOW.
TAKES TWO SECONDS TO EDIT THIS.
SO IF YOU HAVE ANY CHANGES, LET ME KNOW.
WE GO AND RELATED DOCUMENTS AT THE BOTTOM WE HAVE, UM, THE CODE OF ORDINANCE LINK FOR YOU GUYS, AND WE HAVE THE Y'ALL'S NEW, UM, 2025 BYLAWS WITH THE NEW FORMATTING AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU GUYS JUST, JUST, UM, APPROVED.
AND I THINK THAT'S EVERYTHING.
I THINK IT FLOWS A LITTLE BETTER.
AND NOW THAT, UH, I SEE ALL THESE LITTLE DIFFERENT THINGS TO CLICK ON.
SO FOR, LET'S JUST SAY A SINGLE WOMAN WHO OWNS A HOME IN GARLAND MM-HMM
HOW THIS IS, THOSE ARE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE ABOUT BEING ABLE TO PROVIDE LINKS TO THE COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE WHO JUST DON'T KNOW.
HOW WILL WE GET SOMETHING THAT SIMPLE MM-HMM
WE GOT EAR ASSIST TO CALL FOR WATER BACKUP OR LINES DOWN OR WHATEVER.
RIGHT? BUT FOR SOMETHING THAT'S SIMPLE, HOW DO WE INCORPORATE, UM, A LINK OF SOME SORT OR A RESOURCE OF SOME SORT? SO A LOT OF THAT IS GONNA BE IN OUR DEPARTMENT.
I MEAN, IF, IF THEY HAVE A WATER LEAK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, IT'S GONNA BE, I GUESS, ISSUE SPECIFIC.
UM, SO THAT COULD BE HARD TO MAYBE PUT EVERY SINGLE LINK ON THERE.
SO, I MEAN, WE HAVE THE CONNECTION, THE CONNECTION LINKS.
IF, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE A PIPE THAT BURSTS, UM, THEY WOULD, THEY WOULD EVEN PUT THAT IN THE E SS.
THEY COULD DEFINITELY CALL OUR OFFICES ARE OPEN.
UM, WE ARE MORE THAN HAPPY TO HELP.
UM, BUT I MEAN, THE ESS WOULD BE PROBABLY USED FOR, FOR THAT TO GET IN TOUCH INTERNALLY WITH OUR DEPARTMENTS.
SO LET'S, LET ME GIVE YOU A SCENARIO.
LET'S SAY IF I HAVE A DOOR, THE DOOR FROM THE INSIDE OF THE HOUSE THAT GOES TO THE GARAGE, OKAY.
THAT DOOR IN THAT FRAMING NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.
WHAT TYPE OF RESOURCE LINK OR HOW DO, HOW WOULD I GO ABOUT FIGURING THAT OUT? SHE NEEDS TO HIRE A HANDYMAN.
SO WHAT DO WE DO? JUST GOOGLE HANDYMAN? OR IS THERE LIKE A LINK THAT CAN BE PROVIDED FOR SEVERAL DIFFERENT HANDYMAN? I DON'T KNOW THAT THIS, OH NO, YEAH.
THE CITY'S GOTTA BE CAREFUL ON PROMOTING BUSINESSES ON THE WEBSITE.
UM, SO PROBABLY IN THAT SITUATION, PROBABLY A GOOGLE SEARCH WILL PROBABLY BE YOUR BEST BET.
WE GOTTA BE CAREFUL ON WHAT WE, UH, ADVERTISE ON THE CITY WEBSITE.
THESE ARE ALL NON-PROFITS THAT ARE ON THERE RIGHT NOW.
BUT PRIVATE BUSINESSES ARE KIND OF A LITTLE TRICKIER.
PROMOTING CERTAIN BUSINESSES OVER OTHERS COULD, COULD SHOW, YOU KNOW, FAVORITISM.
AND WE, WE DON'T REALLY WANNA, LIKE YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, GIVE ONE, YOU KNOW, LIKE UP OVER THE OTHER, WE WANNA, YOU KNOW, SPREAD THE LOVE AROUND.
IF SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, NEEDS TO GO A SEARCH, MAYBE, YOU KNOW, ONE THING THAT WOULD HELP PEOPLE IN SITUATIONS LIKE THAT, 'CAUSE THEY COME UP ALL THE TIME, YOU KNOW, WHILE NOT PROMOTING ANYONE, THE CHAMBER IS AN ORGANIZATION OF BUSINESSES.
AND THEIR MEMBER DIRECTORY HAS A TON OF PEOPLE THAT YOU MIGHT WANNA, BUT YOU HAVE, IT'S, IT IS CHOICE.
SO MAYBE SOMETHING LIKE THEIR DIRECTORY WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE THAT'S NOT, THAT'S TOTALLY AGNOSTIC TO ANY PARTICULAR PERSON, PERSON, INDIVIDUAL.
YOU, YOU CAN SEE WHO DOES WHAT IN THEIR DIRECTORY.
SO IS THAT, CAN YOU JUST TAKE IT AS A TOPIC TO TAKE BACK TO PHIL AND EVERYONE ELSE? YEAH.
AND JUST SEE IF, IF YOU DON'T NECESSARILY POST INDIVIDUAL HANDYMANS, WE UNDERSTAND WHY.
BUT IF THE CHAMBER IS SOMETHING THAT HAS A DIRECTORY OF DIFFERENT BUSINESSES, THAT MAY
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BE A LINK FOR, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE THAT'S IN THAT POSITION THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY KNOW YEAH.YOU CAN DEFINITELY EXPLORE THAT OPTION.
SO, SO, AND THAT'S A GOOD SUGGESTION.
THE CHAMBER'S A GOOD RESOURCE.
IT'S, YOU DON'T WANNA SHOW ANY PREFERENCE MM-HMM
OBVIOUSLY, BUT IT'S LIKE, OKAY, THESE FOLKS HAVE JOINED THE CHAMBER AND YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY, THEY HAVE SERVICES AVAILABLE.
IS THERE A GARLAND BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU? UM, BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU ISN'T LOCAL.
IT'S, IT'S THERE, THERE'S A DALLAS BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU THERE.
THEY'RE GONNA BE MORE REGIONALIZED THAN JUST CITIES.
UM, BUT THE CHAMBER, UH, AS FAR AS WHAT THE BETTER BUSINESS BUREAU DOES, CHAMBER'S PROBABLY A PRETTY GOOD RESOURCE FOR ALL THAT TOO.
AND IF YOU GUYS WANNA ADD A, A CHAMBER LINK, I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO DO THAT TOO.
WE CAN ADD A, YOU KNOW, A GENERAL LINK TO THE CHAMBER'S WEBSITE ON HERE.
'CAUSE THEY ARE A, A GREAT RESOURCE FOR MANY THINGS.
SO, SO TO THAT POINT, MY MY THOUGHT WOULD BE MAYBE AN FAQ MM-HMM
SAY IF, YOU KNOW, IF YOU EXPERIENCING WHATEVER, HERE'S A LINK AS OPPOSED TO PUTTING A LOT OF JUST LINKS.
SO MAYBE THREE OR FOUR TOPICS UNDER AN A Q, UM, TO WHERE THEN THEY COULD GO TO A LINK.
'CAUSE I COULD SEE AFTER A WHILE, PEOPLE WILL CALL IN, THEY SAY, WELL, I GOT A, MY SHOE DON'T FIT.
YOU KNOW, AND, AND SO HOW DO YOU MAYBE SAY, HERE'S, HERE'S A FREQUENT IF, IF YOU'RE IN NEED OF HOUSE REPAIR, CLICK ON AND THEN MAYBE THE, THE, THE, UM, CHAMBER LINK.
BUT SOME WAY THAT'S MORE, UM, CONCISE AS OPPOSED TO TRYING TO THINK OF EVERYTHING.
AND MY OTHER POINT, OTHER QUESTION WAS, IS THIS ALSO A PAGE THAT WE COULD PROMOTE THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY ON? ABSOLUTELY.
SO, SO IF YOU GUYS WANNA ADD, UM, A FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS RIGHT HERE, I MEAN, I CAN ADD THAT TO A RELATED DOCUMENT, MAYBE, UM, PUT THAT IN A WORD DOCUMENT, A FEW EXTRA QUESTIONS AND LINKS ON THERE.
SO IT'S NOT JUST, YOU KNOW, SCATTERED ALONG THIS PAGE.
UM, WE CAN ABSOLUTELY DO THAT.
AND WE CAN DO, UM, SOMETHING ABOUT THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY AS WELL, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT.
AND I LIKE MS. KIMBER LANE'S IDEA AS FAR AS EVERY, EVERYONE DOESN'T KNOW.
EVERY HOMEOWNER DOES NOT KNOW MM-HMM
THAT THE CHAMBERLAIN IS SOMETHING THAT CAN, UH, ASSIST YOU.
NOW THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO KNOW I NEED A HANDYMAN, BUT THEN IT'S, WHERE DO I GO TO GET A REPUTABLE MM-HMM
I DON'T WANT TO KEEP GOING THROUGH ANGIE TO FIGURE OUT HOW I'M GONNA GET SOMEBODY TO COME AND FIX SOMETHING, YOU KNOW? MM-HMM
SO I, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD IDEA.
WE SAW THE, WE SAW THE TOP AND IT WAS LIKE, OH, THE COLOR'S UP HERE NOW
I FELT, SO IT CHANGES OUR FOCUS.
SO WE ACTUALLY READ FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, YOU KNOW, VERSUS JUMPING RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE.
UM, AND I KNOW SOMETIMES ON OUR PHONES, THINGS DISPLAY A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY THAN THEY DO WHEN YOU LOOK AT 'EM ON, UM, A MONITOR.
SO HAVING THAT RIGHT THERE INITIALLY LOOKS GOOD.
NOW, I DID HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT, AND THIS IS PROBABLY JUST MY IGNORANCE TO IT.
I SEE THAT THE MAYOR HAS WHAT, FIVE SPOTS I THINK IS WHAT HE HAS THAT HE CAN PUT, UM, SOMEONE IN.
SO LIKE WITH MS. JENNIFER, IF SHE'S MAYOR APPOINTED, DOES THAT MEAN SHE, IF SHE LIVES IN DISTRICT TWO, IF SHE'S, IS SHE MAYOR APPOINTED DISTRICT TWO? OR IS IT MAYOR APPOINTED AND THERE SHOULD BE A DISTRICT TWO REPRESENTATIVE AS WELL? NO.
SO SHE IS, SHE'S MAYOR APPOINTED, BUT SHE JUST, I MEAN, SINCE SHE LIVES IN DISTRICT TWO, THE MAYOR DOESN'T HAVE TO PICK ONE FROM EACH DISTRICT, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
SO HE CAN, HE CAN APPOINT ANYONE ACROSS DISTRICT, SO THEY'RE NOT DISTRICT SPECIFIC.
WHICH MEANS HER DISTRICT TWO'S CITY COUNCIL PERSON SHOULD STILL PROVIDE A REPRESENTATIVE FOR THAT DISTRICT AS WELL.
I THOUGHT THAT'S WHAT IT WAS, BUT I JUST, I SAW IT AND JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE.
SO AS OF UNDERSTANDING, AS OF RIGHT NOW, Y'ALL'S BOARD DO DOES HAVE A VACANCY FOR DISTRICT TWO.
UM, SINCE HE'S OFF NOW, HE WAS DISTRICT TWO.
UM, SO HE IS THE VACANCY, UM, FOR RIGHT NOW.
BUT SINCE IF JENNIFER DOES LIVE IN DISTRICT TWO, SHE WOULD NOT AUTOMATICALLY FILL THAT SINCE SHE'S MADE YOUR APPOINTMENT.
IF THAT ANSWERS YOUR QUESTION.
THAT'S WHAT I THOUGHT IT JUST DOES.
I MEAN, THEY, THEY, SO INITIALLY I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS.
INITIALLY I WAS APPOINTED BY TWO, EVEN THOUGH I WAS IN EIGHT MM-HMM
SO ANYONE CAN, YOU KNOW, ANY, THE COUNCIL CAN APPOINT SOMEONE FROM ANYWHERE.
BUT HE LIVES IN ONE AND THE COUNCIL AND THE MAYOR CAN AGREE TO YEAH.
IT'S LIKE, I DIDN'T MOVE TO EIGHT UNTIL
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THE PERSON WHO WAS IN EIGHT WAS I WAS A MAYOR.NO, I WAS DISTRICT TWO APPOINTED INITIALLY.
SO IT LOOKS LIKE SEVEN BASED ON THIS LOOKS LIKE SEVEN IS VACANT.
SO, AND I GUESS I WAS, SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, I DON'T WANNA BE OFF TOPIC AND I GET BEING OFF TOPIC, HOW DO WE GET THOSE TWO SEATS FILLED?
SO, UM, WE'LL HAVE TO, I MEAN, IT'LL HAVE TO BE PUT ON THE AGENDA, BUT I MEAN, WE CAN SPEAK ABOUT THAT AND I CAN CONNECT WITH YOU.
AND WE CAN, WE CAN TALK ABOUT GETTING THAT ON A FUTURE AGENDA.
AND ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT WITH THE NEW RULES WE HAVE THAT AS COUNCIL PEOPLE CYCLE OFF WHICH DISTRICT, WHO'S ABOUT TO CYCLE OFF.
SOMEONE ELSE HAS GOTTA BE APPOINTED.
AND THIS WE ARE IN MARCH, SO THAT WOULD ONLY BE, WHAT, TWO MONTHS? RIGHT.
SO PROBABLY THE SMARTEST THING IS WAIT TILL THAT PERSON GETS ELECTED AND THEN THAT PERSON WOULD SELECT HIS REPRESENTATIVE.
THE ONLY REASON THAT THAT'S A CONCERN FOR ME IS BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO CANCEL OUR MEETINGS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FOR A QUORUM.
BUT IF WE HAD ALL OUR SEATS FILLED, THEN WE PROBABLY WOULDN'T RUN INTO NOT ENOUGH FOR A QUORUM AS FREQUENTLY AS WE DO.
AND THOSE ARE USUALLY, UM, SEPTEMBER 1ST IS USUALLY, SO WE WOULD HAVE FROM NOW UNTIL SEPTEMBER, IF THEY DECIDED TO GO AHEAD AND APPOINT SOMEONE NOW BEFORE THEIR TIME WAS OVER AGAIN, WE'LL PUT IT ON A DIFFERENT AGENDA.
FOR, UM, I GUESS THEY NEED TO CHECK WITH THAT TOO.
'CAUSE SOMEBODY WOULD SAY, WELL, I'M NOT IN THE CHAMBER, SO I'LL NEVER GET RECOMMENDED, YOU KNOW, AS A BUSINESS.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING YOU NEED TO CONSIDER TOO.
FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN'T IN MM-HMM
BUT WE'RE NOT RECOMMENDING THE CHAMBER.
WE'RE JUST SHARING A LINK TO THE DIRECTORY.
I KNOW, BUT FOR SOMEBODY WHO'S NOT IN THE CHAMBER, THEY SAY, WELL, Y'ALL SHARE THIS LINK.
AND I'M NOT A MEMBER OF THE CHAMBER, SO I'LL NEVER BE, YOU KNOW, CONSIDERED, YOU KNOW, I GUESS THEY COULD JOIN THE CHAMBER IF THEY WANTED.
YOU KNOW, I'M NEVER, WE DON'T HAVE A PHONE BOOK.
AND AGAIN, I MEAN, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU ALL YOU GUYS ALL CAN AGREE ON TO PUT ON YOUR WEBSITE OR NOT.
AND, AND WE'LL DISCUSS IT COMING UP TO THE NEXT MEETING'S AGENDA.
SEE WHAT INFORMATION YOU CAME UP WITH AND WE'LL PUT IT ON THE AGENDA.
AND I CAN CREATE THE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.
AND IF YOU GUYS HAVE A QUESTION YOU WOULD LIKE ON THAT, PLEASE EMAIL ME AND I CAN ADD THAT AS WELL.
DID YOU GET THEM, MR. ARTHUR? MAKE SURE YOU THROW YOUR QUESTIONS TO DARCY ON THE FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS.
UH, DOES ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE WEBSITE? EVERYBODY HAS THEIR BUSINESS CARDS.
I'M GONNA GO HOME AND CLICK BUTTONS.
WE WILL MOVE ON TO THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM, WHICH IS ITEM, UH, SIX C KIDS TALENT SHOW, EVENT UPDATE COMMISSION.
MEMBER U WILL UPDATE THE COMMISSION ON THE UPCOMING BUSING MIDDLE SCHOOL.
ALL RIGHT, WELL WE WILL TABLE THAT ITEM, MS. DARCY FOR THE NEXT MEETING.
ALRIGHT, WE'LL MOVE ON TO SIX D.
FOURTH ANNUAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE.
UM, DISCUSSION REGARDING PLANNING PROGRAM PARTNERSHIPS AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS FOR GARLAND'S FOURTH ANNUAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL.
MS. DARCY, DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THAT OR EMAIL OR SOMETHING? YES MA'AM.
UM, I'M SORRY, I MEANT TO PRINT OUT THOSE.
LET ME, SO THAT'S GONNA BE THE MAY 16TH, UM, AT 7:00 PM AND THE LINEUP IS AT SIX 30.
UM, I DO HAVE A SIGNUP, UM, PARADE FORM ENTRY FORM, UM, FOR YOU GUYS.
AND THE RSVP DEADLINE FOR THIS IS APRIL 16TH.
UM, AND THAT WILL BE AFTER OUR THIRD THURSDAY MEETING OR IS THAT THE SAME DAY? OUR THIRD THURSDAY MEETING IS THE SAME DAY.
SO WE NEED TO DISCUSS WHETHER THIS IS AN EVENT WE WOULD LIKE TO, UH, PUT OUR NAMES IN THE BASKET OF ATTENDING.
IF SO, MS. DARCY CAN FILL THAT OUT.
IF NOT, UM, THE EVENT IS MAY 16TH, WHICH IS A SATURDAY.
DID THEY SAY WHAT TIME? 7:00 PM LINEUP IS AT 6 30 0 7 AT NIGHT.
AND THE LINEUP IS AT SIX 30 AT THE GARLAND DOWNTOWN SQUARE.
AND THERE IS A PARADE DURING IT.
REMEMBER WHEN WE A WALKING, A WALKING PARADE, RIGHT? YEAH, IT'S A WALKING, IT'S JUST A WALK IN.
AND I THINK JENNIFER HAD HAD ALL THAT INFORMATION.
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BUT SHE IS NOT HERE TO PRESENT THAT.AND UM, DOES IT HAVE A TIME ON THE RSVP DATE? SO LET'S JUST SAY IF WE CAME TO THAT MEETING, IT DOES NOT ON THE 16TH, DISCUSSED IT ON THE 16TH.
UM, EVERYONE AGREES, DISAGREES OR WHATEVER.
WOULD THE 16TH BE TOO LATE TO SEND IT IN? I DUNNO THE ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION, BUT I WOULD THINK THAT WOULD BE THE LAST DAY.
SO I DON'T THINK THAT THAT WOULD, UM, I DON'T THINK SO.
BUT I MEAN, AGAIN, SINCE IT'S AFTER HOURS, Y'ALL'S MEETING IS AFTER HOURS.
THAT COULD MAKE SURE WE HAVE A SEAT.
UM, WELL WE CAN OPEN IT UP FOR DISCUSSION RIGHT NOW WE HAVE A QUORUM, SO WE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH TO MAKE THE UM, I THINK WE PASS AROUND.
I'M SURE JENNIFER'S PROBABLY INVOLVED.
BUT WE CAN ASK THEM, YOU KNOW, WE CAN SAY WE AREN'T MEETING UNTIL THE 16TH.
CAN WE SUBMIT OUR DESIGN THE 17TH? I I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THEY WILL BE FLEXIBLE.
I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT THEY WILL BE FLEXIBLE IF THEY KNOW IT'S COMING.
I THINK YOU GUYS HAVE SOME PULL WITH, UH, MS. WYNN ON THAT.
SO CAN WE STILL OPEN UP DISCUSSION WHETHER WE WANNA BE PART OF IT OR NOT? I WOULD SAY YES.
WE CAN GO AHEAD AND OPEN UP DISCUSSION.
WE HAVE INFORMATION NOW AND IF WE HAVE TO GO TO THE 16TH, WE CAN PUSH IT THEN.
WE DO KNOW THAT WITH MS. JENNIFER, WHATEVER THEY HAVE, UH, THE, THE ASIAN COMMUNITY HAS GOING ON, SHE DEFINITELY WANTS THE CMC TO BE A PART OF IT.
SO I THINK MY OPINION, I THINK WE COULD DISCUSS IT.
WE CAN TALK ABOUT IT AND WE CAN GET IT DONE TODAY, SUBMITTED BEFORE THE 16TH.
IF WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, WE CAN POSE THOSE QUESTIONS TO MS. JENNIFER, UH, IN AN EMAIL.
'CAUSE I'M SURE SHE SENT AN EMAIL.
AND BEING THAT SHE'S NOT AVAILABLE TO BE AT THE MEETING, SHE WILL PROBABLY RESPOND TO AN EMAIL OR TEXT IF SHE'S AVAILABLE.
AND I WILL SAY, UM, I DON'T KNOW ANY COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS, IF THERE THERE ARE ANY.
AND UM, THAT WILL BE A QUESTION I WILL ALREADY BE ASKING HER FOR, FOR THAT AS WELL.
I THINK WE CAN COMMIT TO IT AND THEN WE CAN ALWAYS AT THE, IF WE CAN'T PARTICIPATE.
I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT PARTICIPATION LOOKS LIKE.
LAST TIME WE WENT IT WAS JUST A TABLE AND THEN WE WALKED THROUGH THE PARADE.
DID PEOPLE COME TO THE TABLE? ARE THERE VENDORS? IS IT THAT KINDA OF THING? THERE WAS A LOT OF FOOD VENDORS.
THEY COOKED A LOT OF FOOD OUT THERE.
I THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE OUR INFORMATION OUT.
THERE WAS A LOT OF LIVE MUSIC.
THERE WAS A LOT OF SHOWS, BUT IT IS AT THE SQUARE.
I'M SO USED TO GOING TO CALI S NOT LAST TIME.
LAST TIME I WAS AT THAT PARK, REMEMBER IT WAS AT, UH, THE ONE OVER BY UH, FALLS.
I THINK THEY HAD THE SCHOOL DISTRICT INVOLVED TOO.
I MEAN SOME KIDS IN OTHER PERFORMERS.
IT'S, I'M GONNA SAY IT'S PROBABLY, IT PROBABLY WAS IN MAY BECAUSE IT'S PROBABLY AN ANNUAL THING.
IT SOUNDS LIKE THIS IS MORE EVENING.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS EVENING.
'CAUSE THE THING I'VE MENTIONED IT, THE ONE I WENT TO WAS IN THE MORNING.
IT WAS EARLY MORNING AS I MISSED THE FIRECRACKERS THING.
SO MAYBE THEY CONSIDER CHANGING THE DATE AND TIME.
I'D RATHER BE IN THIS TAKE AND TIME THAN THE ONE WE WENT TO A RO.
ALRIGHT, SO IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE ALL IN AGREEMENT THAT UH, WE WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE IN THIS EVENT.
I THINK WE NEED TO HAVE OUR INFORMATION OUT THERE.
AND AS ALWAYS, UM, IF THE OPPORTUNITY IS FOR US TO HAVE A TABLE, IF WE CONFIRM THAT WITH MS. JENNIFER THAT IS FORCED TO HAVE A TABLE, THEN QUITE NATURALLY WE WOULD LIKE, UM, THE INFORMATION THAT WE NORMALLY HAVE, UH, PUT TOGETHER FOR US IN A BOX FOR SOMEONE TO COME AND PICK UP THE DAY BEFORE OR WHATEVER THAT BUSINESS DAY IS.
LAST BUSINESS DAY BEFORE THE EVENT.
SOMEONE TO COME TO CITY HALL AND PICK IT UP.
AND THE REASON I KEEP SAYING IT, THE WAY I'M SAYING IT IS BECAUSE ALL OF US ARE NOT RETIRED.
THERE ARE SOME OF US THAT HAVE A LITTLE MORE WIGGLE ROOM IN THEIR SCHEDULE.
UH, MR. CHARLES HAS BEEN GOOD WITH PICKING THINGS UP.
MR. MERRILL, NORMALLY, WHOEVER'S A PART OF THE SETUP OUTSIDE MYSELF WILL COME UP HERE THAT THURSDAY OR FRIDAY DURING THE WEEK TO PICK UP, UM, THE BOX, THE CONTAINER THAT HAS ALL OUR STUFF IN THERE.
AND I NEVER PICK UP 'CAUSE I'M AT WORK.
OH, SO ME AND YOU WE DO WE YEAH.
WE'LL BE PART OF SETUP, BUT DON'T MAKE IT HERE.
THAT FRIDAY COULD PROBABLY PICK UP.
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WHO SET UP? I CAN I CAN GET THE INFORMATION TO YOU 'CAUSE I SWING.WE DIDN'T GET CLOSER TO THAT DAY.
WE'LL WORK OUT WHO WILL BE HERE TO PICK UP THE ITEMS. SO, UM, DO I NEED, WE NEED TO VOTE ON THIS, UM, THAT WE AS THE COMMUNITY MULTICULTURAL COMMISSION AGREE, OR IN AGREEMENT IN PARTICIPATING IN THE GARLANDS FOURTH ANNUAL ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL.
I DON'T THINK IT'S NECESSARILY AN ACTION ITEM.
I WAS JUST, UM, IT'S WHETHER OR NOT YOU GUYS WANT ME TO, YOU KNOW, SUBMIT THE FORM AND YOU GUYS ARE PART OF IT.
UM, AS OF RIGHT NOW, THERE'S NOT NECESSARILY ANY COST ASSOCIATED WITH IT FOR YOU GUYS TO NECESSARILY VOTE ON PENDING.
IF THAT HAPPENS TO BE A THING, I I'LL GET WITH YOU ON THAT AND WE'LL HAVE TO GO AHEAD WITH, UM, AND IT'LL BE PROBABLY FOR THE NEXT MEETING, SO I'LL CONNECT WITH OKAY.
THEN, UM, IF WE STILL HAVE TIME BEFORE THAT, THAT UPDATE AT THE NEXT MEETING, THEN I CAN UPDATE YOU GUYS.
UM, DO WE NEED TO VOTE ON WHAT THE MAX WE WOULD SPEND RIGHT NOW? ALSO, IF THERE'S A COST ASSOCIATED, WE NEED TO DECIDE TODAY IF IT'S OVER 200 NO.
OR IF IT'S, OR, OR GET THAT MONEY SET ASIDE.
IF THERE'S ONE ASSOCIATED WITH IT, I THINK IF THERE WAS A COST ASSOCIATED WITH IT, IT WOULD'VE BEEN LISTED IN THE INFORMATION THAT WAS RECEIVED.
UH, SO I'M GOING TO ASSUME THERE IS NO COST.
BUT YES, I FEEL WE CAN VOTE ON, WE CAN SET AN AMOUNT.
AND WITH THAT AMOUNT BEING SET, UM, DARCY WOULD JUST LET ME KNOW WHAT THAT AMOUNT IS.
DOES ANYONE HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT AN AMOUNT IS THAT'S FEASIBLE? HOW MUCH MONEY DO WE HAVE LEFT? OH, I'M SORRY.
THIS IS, UM, ONLY A DISCUSSION.
THIS IS NOT AN ACTION ITEM, I APOLOGIZE.
BUT YOU CAN DEFINITELY DISCUSS A, A LIMIT TO IF YOU'D LIKE.
WELL, A COMMENT, I'M GONNA GUESS THAT THIS IS THE ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE FESTIVAL BECAUSE IT'S AN ASIAN AMERICAN PACIFIC ISLANDER HERITAGE MONTH IN THERE.
SO, OH, I THINK ISLANDER IS MISSING HERE.
AND THE EMAIL THAT THEY SENT IS, IT SAYS ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL.
IT DOESN'T SAY ISLANDER ASIAN PACIFIC.
WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THEY PROBABLY MADE A MISTAKE.
I'M LOOKING AT THE WEBSITE AND IT'S CALLED THE ASIAN AMERICAN HERITAGE FESTIVAL.
THERE'S NO, THERE'S NO PACIFIC IN THIS.
AND IT SAYS FIVE TO SEVEN, RIGHT? DOESN'T IT SAY FIVE? IT SAYS 5:00 PM TO 10:00 PM FIVE TO 10.
BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT'S IN MY CALENDAR.
FIVE O'CLOCK
SO MS. DARCY, IS IT POSSIBLE, SO WE HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS WE NEED TO DO.
WE NEED TO GET CONFIRMATION ON THE TIME, THEN WE NEED TO, UM, CONFIRM WHETHER THERE'S A ENTRY FEE OF SOME SORT PARTICIPATION FEE.
UM, WHAT WAS THE OTHER THING? UM, IT'S A TABLE OR ANYTHING.
SO, UM, KEEP A LOOKOUT ON YOUR EMAILS BECAUSE, UM, MS. DARCY CAN COMMUNICATE THAT TO US IN THE EMAIL.
ANY OTHER QUESTION? I WOULD LIMIT WHAT WAS A GOOD AMOUNT AS WE'RE JUST PUTTING THIS OFF A DISCUSSION.
THAT WAY WE'LL KNOW WHEN THAT EMAIL COMES OUT, IF THERE IS A COST ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
HAVE WE EVER PAID FOR ANYTHING AS FAR BOOTH, NO TABLES.
LOOKS LIKE THEY CHARGE A HUNDRED DOLLARS FOR A VENDOR.
UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S PROBABLY ABOUT THE MOST THAT YOU GUYS WOULD HAVE TO PAY, BUT YOU GUYS AREN'T REALLY VENDORS.
RIGHT? UM, SO IT'LL PROBABLY BE, IT'LL PROBABLY BE NOTHING OR SIGNIFICANT LESS THAN A HUNDRED DOLLARS.
SO ABOUT A HUNDRED SAY A HUNDRED.
SINCE WE'RE NOT VOTING, I THINK I WOULD SAY 110 WITH CANDY
I GUESS THAT'S ANOTHER QUESTION TOO.
IF, IF IT'S A, IT SAYS FESTIVAL AND OPERATE, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S THE SAME.
WE CAN ASK ONE S ARE WE ALLOWED TO HAND OUT CANDY? YOU KNOW, AT THIS EVENT, LOOKING AT THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE PARADE, IT SAYS, UH, WATCH THE STREETS COME ALIVE IN A FESTIVE PARADE WHERE PARTICIPANTS DON TRADITIONAL ATTIRE, VIBRANT COLORS, FLAGS AND CELEBRATE OUR SHARED
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HERITAGE.UM, SO IT'S CALLED A COLORFUL WORLD PARADE AND LION DANCE.
SO I, I DON'T SEE ANYTHING ON OUR AGENDA THAT SAYS ANYTHING ABOUT A PARADE.
SO WHEN I, LIKE I SAID, WHEN I ATTENDED THIS THE LAST TIME, AND WE ALL HAVE, I GUESS WE'VE ALL BEEN, AT SOME POINT THERE WASN'T A PARADE OF PEOPLE COMING DOWN THE STREET WHEN WITH THE LION DANCE, THEY'RE GENERALLY IN A, UM, A CENTRAL LOCATION WHERE THEY, YOU KNOW, HAVE THAT EVENT TAKE PLACE.
BUT AGAIN, WE WOULD, SOMETIMES THE DRAG PEOPLE WILL FOLLOW BEHIND THE RIGHT.
THEY HAD US WALK THE DRAGON ACROSS THE STAGE AND BACK AROUND.
THAT'S THAT'S THE PARADE WE WERE IN.
I WAS GONNA SAY, BUT SEE THAT'S THE STAGE.
IT'S NOT UP AND DOWN THE STREET WHERE YOU THROWING CANDY, IT WAS LIKE A ROUND CIRCLE.
NOTHING LIKE THE PARADE FOR RIGHT.
SO MISS, MISS DARCY, WE WILL DO OUR DUE DILIGENCE AND GET CONFIRMATION AS TO WHAT WOULD BE EXPECTED OF US IF WE DO, UH, DECIDE TO BE A PART OF THIS EVENT.
AND I'LL SEND OUT THAT EMAIL TO GET ALL INFORMATION.
UM, WE WILL MOVE ON TO FUTURE.
THE WOULD BE MAX, UH, TO YOU TO SPEND THE PARTICIPATE, UH, FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. THIS IS WHERE WE LOOK AT THE CALENDAR.
UM, YOU GUYS LET ME KNOW IF THERE'S SOMETHING IN PARTICULAR YOU THINK THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO ATTEND.
UM, WE SAY OUR NAMES MS. DARCY, UM, ADDS OUR NAMES TO THE LITTLE NOTE COLUMN.
AND AT SOME POINT WHEN THIS CALENDAR COMES BACK OUT AGAIN, WE'LL KNOW WHAT IT WAS THAT WE VOLUNTEERED TO BE A PART OF.
IS THERE ANYTHING IN, WELL, I'LL JUST GO THROUGH 'EM.
UM, MARCH, WE ARE ON MARCH 19TH, WE HAD OUR MEETING.
UM, THE NEXT THING THAT'S COMING UP IS DISTRICT THREE TOWN HALL MEETING, WHO'S OUR DISTRICT THREE REP.
I LIVE IN DISTRICT THREE, BUT, UM, WHAT STEVEN IS THE DISTRICT THREE REP, BUT I ALSO LIVE IN DISTRICT THREE.
THEN WE HAVE THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES REGULAR MEETING AT 5:00 PM ON THE 31ST OF MARCH.
AND AGAIN, AS ALWAYS, WE DO ENCOURAGE, UM, THE COMMISSION MEMBERS TO GO OUT TO DIFFERENT BOARD AND TRUSTEES MEETINGS, SCHOOL BOARD MEETINGS TO SEE WHAT'S GOING ON WITHIN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO BRING THAT INFORMATION BACK TO US.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO PROVIDE A WRITTEN REPORT.
SO IF YOU'RE STAYING AWAY BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANNA PROVIDE A WRITTEN REPORT, THERE'S NO NEED TO STAY AWAY.
JUST GO GET THE INFORMATION, BRING IT BACK TO US.
IT'LL COME UP ON OUR RECORDING, WHICH IF SOMEONE LISTENS, BUT IT'LL ALSO BE ADDED IN OUR MEETING.
UH, THEN WE HAVE THE DIS GOING INTO MAY.
WE HAVE DISTRICT FIVE TOWN HALL MEETING AT SOUTH GARLAND LIBRARY.
'CAUSE I DID SAY MARCH APRIL
THEN WE HAVE, UM, A WORK SESSION MEETING AT 6:00 PM ON THE SIXTH CITY COUNCIL MEETING AT 7:00 PM ON THE SEVENTH.
AND WE HAVE THE FIRING EMS. WE HAVE A STAKEHOLDER MEETING AT CENTRAL LIBRARY.
AND I'M GOING TO TRY TO GO TO THE WORK SESSION.
UM, THE WORK SESSION IS SIX, THE 20 OH, I WORK SESSION SIX.
YOU'RE GOING TO THE ONE ON THE 20TH? NOT THE SIXTH.
I MAY BE ABLE TO GO TO THE ONE ON THE 20TH, UH, GARLAND YOUTH COUNCIL MEETING AT 5:30 PM MR. RENEE, UM, I KNOW YOU ATTENDED ONE BEFORE.
ARE YOU UP TO ATTENDING THIS ONE IN APRIL? UM, YOU KNOW, THERE'LL BE A CHANGE OF BATON FOR US.
SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE DON'T LOSE CONNECTION, UH, WITH THOSE, WITH THE SPONSORS OVER THE YOUTH COUNCIL.
YOU CAN, YOU CAN GO TO THE ONE IN MAY.
MR. CHARLES WILL GO TO THE GARLAND YOUTH COUNCIL MEETING IN MAY.
AND I CAN ALSO DO THE DUCK CREEK CLEANUP.
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IS SECOND, SECOND, SECOND.AND, UH, IF THERE'S ANYONE ELSE THAT HAS SOMETHING THAT THEY KNOW THEY WANNA THROW OUT THERE AS I GO THROUGH THIS, THAT'S FINE.
SO NEXT MONTH IN APRIL, UH, I, I WANTED TO TRY TO MAKE SURE WE DID OUR RETREAT BEFORE THE FIRST QUARTER WAS OVER.
UM, BUT DUE TO FORUM, UH, WE HAD TO KEEP PUSHING THE DATE BACK.
AND WITH THIS WEEK BEING SPRING BREAK, WE, OUR, OUR PERSON, OUR SPOKESPERSON THAT WAS SPEAKING WASN'T AVAILABLE THIS WEEK, SO WE HAD TO PUSH IT BACK TO APRIL.
SO IN APRIL, PLEASE BE PREPARED TO STAY A LITTLE LONGER THAN AN HOUR AND HOUR AND A HALF BECAUSE WE WOULD TAKE THAT OPPORTUNITY TO DO THE RETREAT AT THAT TIME.
AF IT WILL BE THE MEETING ON THE 16TH.
I WAS JUST GETTING READY TO SAY I'M TRAVELING FROM THE 12TH TO THE 17TH.
I MEAN, I, I HATE TO MISS IT THOUGH.
BUT IF YOU HAVE ANY CONCERNS, CAN YOU PLEASE WRITE THEM AND SEND 'EM TO ME ON ANY IDEAS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN? YEAH, I, I, I'M, YEAH.
UM, DINNER WILL BE SERVED, MS. DARCY MENTIONED TO ME THAT FOR THE SUBCOMMITTEE MEETING, IT STARTS AT FIVE BEING THAT WE PROVIDE DINNER OR DINNER IS PROVIDED THAT NIGHT.
SHE DOES THE DINNER TO START AT FOUR.
SO IF YOU WANT TO COME AND EAT BEFORE THE SUBCOMMITTEE STARTS, FOOD WILL BE HERE AS EARLY AS FOUR O'CLOCK, UM, AT THAT TIME.
THAT WAY YOU GUYS CAN EAT AND THEN HAVE YOUR MEETING BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO GO FROM ONE MEETING TO THE NEXT MEETING.
AND I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE.
SO HOST WAY WILL BE AT THAT MEETING.
MAKE SURE YOU WRITE YOUR QUESTIONS DOWN.
HE'S EXCITED TO, HE WAS SO SAD THAT WE CANCELED THE LAST THING.
YEAH, I SAW HIM AT THE LAST CLEANUP
HE'S LIKE, WHAT HAPPENED? YEAH.
WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH FOR A QUORUM THAT SATURDAY MORNING.
MAKE SURE YOU GUYS, UH, WRITE YOUR QUESTIONS DOWN.
THAT WAY MS. DARCY CAN HAVE 'EM AND WE CAN, YOU KNOW, HAVE 'EM AT THAT TIME.
OR IF YOU WANNA WRITE 'EM DOWN AND JUST ASK YOUR OWN QUESTIONS, THAT'S FINE TOO.
THE KIDS TALENT SHOW AT SELLERS.
WAS IT YOU OR MR. MOSES? MR. MOSES.
BUT I, I TOLD HIM THAT I WOULD JUDGE.
SO I I I, I'LL ATTEND BOTH OF THE TALENT SHOWS.
AND TO THE COUNCIL MEETING, BOARD OF TRUSTEES.
UH, GLENN, YOU WANNA PUT A, YOU WANT US TO PUT YOU ON THERE? YEAH, I'M ALREADY SIGNED UP FOR BOTH OF 'EM.
WHICH OTHER ONE? THE SECOND AND THE NINTH SKATEBOARD SKATE PARK CLEANUP ON MILLER ROAD.
AND THEN ANNUAL DUCK CREEK CLEANUP.
OH, I'M DEFINITELY GOING TO THE DUCK CREEK.
UM, AND I TRY TO GO TO THE SKATE PARK ONCE THEY'RE EVERY SECOND SATURDAY.
JUST DEPENDS ON WHAT'S GOING ON.
AND THEN WE ADDED THE HERITAGE FESTIVAL THE 16TH.
AND, UH, MS. DARCY, YOU'LL MAKE THE UPDATE RIGHT? TO ADD THE FESTIVAL ON THE 16TH? I HAVE THAT IN MY NOTES.
I ALSO CAN ADD THE DISTRICT ONE 13 TOGETHER.
APRIL DID YOU, UM, I KNOW MISS, UH, IT'S ALWAYS DURING THE WEEK.
I KNOW MISS KIMBERLY WAS SUPPOSED TO SEND YOU THE LINK FOR THE TOGETHER WEINE, BUT JUST FOR YOUR RECORDS RIGHT NOW UNTIL YOU GET THAT LINK.
UM, APRIL 29TH AT SIX 30 IS THE DISTRICT ONE 13.
AND IF YOU DON'T LIVE IN ONE 13, YOU'RE CERTAINLY WELCOME.
ONE 13 IS A VERY INTERESTING DISTRICT AS IT HAS BEEN REDRAWN.
AND, UM, I, WHERE'S THE, WHAT IS IT? WHERE IS IT AT? PROBABLY AT THE MESQUITES, UM, CITY HALL, BUT I'LL CHECK.
SO ONCE YOU GET THE LINK, MS. DARCY, IT'LL HAVE THE ACTUAL LOCATION, UH, FOR THAT.
BUT WE CAN ADD THAT TO OUR, OUR CALENDAR.
AND IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHERS YOU'D LIKE ME TO ADD, I'M GONNA SEND YOU, I'M GONNA SEND YOU ALL OF THEM.
AND, AND THE LINK FOR EVERYONE TO SIGN UP TO IF THEY WANT TO GET ON THEIR MAILING EMAIL LIST.
BECAUSE THE, UH, VIRTUAL DS AND INVITATION GOES OUT TO THE ENTIRE EMAIL LIST OF PEOPLE WHO'VE ATTENDED.
BUT IF YOU HAVEN'T ATTENDED YET, YOU STILL COULD GET AN INVITATION.
IF I GIVE, IF YOU GO SIGN UP ON THAT LINK, SO I'LL BE LOOKING TO YOUR EMAILS.
'CAUSE I'LL BE SENDING A LOT OF INFORMATION OUT VERY SOON.
YOU I WILL BE OUT TOMORROW AND MONDAY.
SO IT'LL PROBABLY BE NEXT WEEK.
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YES, MA'AM.NO EMAIL, NO EMAILS TOMORROW AND MONDAY.
WHAT
I'M SUFFERING FROM WITHDRAWAL ALREADY.
I WOULD, I WOULD TREASURE THAT MOMENT.
YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT YOUR EMAILS THAT I DON'T LIKE, BUT THERE ARE ALWAYS HUNDREDS AND IT'S JUST LIKE, NO, THANK YOU
UM, UH, ANOTHER FUTURE AGENDA ITEM.
AND IT'S NOT, I'M JUST A TOPIC FOR THOSE OF US THAT HAVE OUR CITY COUNCIL REPS THAT ARE, UH, MAYBE CHANGING, UM, THERE'S A FORM.
MS. DARCY, WHAT IS THE NAME OF THAT FORM FOR THE, THE HERITAGE? UH, NO FOR THE NEW C.
IF YOU WANNA CONTINUE ON THE CMC BOARD, IF YOU ARE, UM, THE APPLICATION, THE APPLICATION, THE APPLICATION FORM.
YES, I DID EMAIL THAT OUT, BUT I ONLY EMAILED THAT OUT TO THOSE WHO ARE UP FOR REOPEN.
PLEASE FILL THAT OUT IF YOU'D LIKE TO CONTINUE ON THE, ON THE COMMISSION.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THEY REMEMBER TO LOOK AT THE EMAIL TO LOOK FOR THAT.
ANY OTHER FUTURE ITEMS? WE ARE IN THE MONTH OF MARCH.
YOU GUYS BE SAFE DURING THE HOLIDAY OF SEARCHING FOR COLORFUL EGGS.
SO WHEN, SO IF WE GOT TWO PEOPLE NOT HERE, THEN WE SHOULD STILL BE ABLE TO HAVE THE QUORUM.
I'M SAYING IF THERE'S PEOPLE NOT ASSIGNED TO A CERTAIN, LIKE THEY'RE NOT APPOINTED YET, THE QUORUM GETS SMALLER.
SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED LAST MONTH.
HOW MANY WEREN'T HERE? ARE YOU SAYING BECAUSE WE HAVE A VACANCY? YES.
SO, UM, RIGHT NOW I BELIEVE WE HAVE 11.
SO OUR QUORUM IS WOULD BE SEVEN BECAUSE QUORUM IS ALWAYS HALF PLUS ONE.
SO LAST MONTH WHAT HAPPENED WAS WE HAD A QUORUM AND THEN THE DAY OF, OR TWO DAYS BEFORE, WHENEVER DARCY SENT THE EMAIL SAYING WE NO LONGER HAVE A QUORUM.
ONE PERSON TOO MANY SAID THEY COULDN'T COME.
IT WAS THE SAME THING FOR OUR RETREAT EVENT.
WE HAD ENOUGH AND THEN WE GOT KNOCKED OUT FOR TONIGHT.
I HAD TO REACH OUT TO TWO PEOPLE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD A QUORUM PLUS ONE IN CASE THAT PERSON WASN'T ABLE TO MAKE IT AS WELL.
BUT AS FAR AS THE SUBCOMMITTEE GOES, I MEAN, SINCE THERE'S ONLY THREE PEOPLE ON THE SUBCOMMITTEE, WE ALWAYS NEED, YOU KNOW.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? OH, ALL RIGHTY.
MS. DARCY AND MR. OZ, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.
OH, WE'LL, WE'LL TALK HERE AFTER THE MEETING.
WE'LL GO AHEAD AND ADJOURN THE MEETING.
DO CAN WE HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? AND SECOND, SECOND.