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EVERYONE BEFORE WE HI EVERYONE.
I'D LIKE TO CALL, UH, THE EQUITY AND HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION MEETING ORDER FOR THE DAY.
UM, FOR THE RECORD, FEBRUARY 7TH, 2024.
I'M GONNA ASK MADAM CLERK, UH, TO PLEASE, UH, CALL THE ROLL TO ENSURE THAT WE MET FOUR COMMISSIONER V HERE.
UH, COMMISSIONER S SCHUL, PRESENT, VICE CHAIR
I REALLY APPRECIATE JUST FOR ALL YOU KEEP US MOVING FORWARD.
UH, SO I WANT TO START OFF, UH, BY, UM, RICHARD SHARING.
I, I HOPE EVERYONE'S REMAIN SAFE AMIDST ALL THIS, THIS STORM.
I SEE A LOT OF FACEBOOK CHECKERS, MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE SAFE.
SO I APPRECIATE THAT COMMISSIONERS, JUST HAVING A EYE ON THE PULSE OF THE CITY TO ENSURE THAT, YOU KNOW, SERVICES ARE, UH, DELIVERED
SO, UH, WE MAY, RIGHT MAY HAVE A SHORTER MEETING TODAY.
UH, THE REASON BEING, AND FOR ONE OF OUR AGENDA ITEMS, WHICH I'LL SPEAK TO A, UH, ONCE WE ARRIVE TO THE AGENDA, AND WE MAY HAVE, WE'LL HAVE TO LAY OVER BECAUSE THERE, UH, BECAUSE THE AD HOC COMMITTEE FOR THAT MEMBER, UM, THE MEMBER OF THAT COMMITTEE,
SO, WHICH ARE SPEEDY RECOVERY.
AND SO THAT WAS GONNA BE A SUBSTANTIVE AGENDA ITEM.
'CAUSE WE WERE SCHEDULED TO, WE CALL TO, UM, UM, MOVE RECOMMENDATIONS FORWARD, SHOULD THE VOTE IN THE DIRECTION, BUT WE, WE WILL HAVE TO WAIT OVER SHOULD THE VOTE, UH, TURN OUT THAT WAY.
SO JUST WANNA GIVE EVERYONE A HEADS UP.
AND ALSO TO THE PUBLIC THAT PASSING AND ALTHOUGH I SAY MAY BE A SHORTER MEETING, WE NEVER KNOW WITH, WITH OUR PERMISSION, AS WE'VE SEEN MANY TIMES BEFORE.
WE
SO I'M GONNA TURN IT BACK OVER TO MAD CLERK.
ITEM NUMBER ONE IS A RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FOR THE EQUITY AND HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION MEETING OF WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10TH, 2024.
OKAY, SO THAT'S COMMISSIONER SCHULTZ.
UH, COMMISSIONER GILLETTE AND CALL VOTE PRIOR TO THE VOTE, CAN WE ASK FOR PUBLIC COMMENT JUST IN CASE? OF COURSE.
UM, SO MADAM CLERK, CAN YOU GO AHEAD AND, UH, COMMENT.
SO IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HERE IN PERSON THAT WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER ONE, UM, YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND THEN IF THERE'S ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ZOOM, I WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM NUMBER ONE.
UM, PLEASE USE THE RAISE HAND FEATURE NOW.
SEEING NONE IN THE ZOOM AND SEEING NONE IN PERSON.
THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM NUMBER ONE.
VOTE YES, RIGHT? YES, OF COURSE.
AND THAT BRINGS US ALONG TO, TO THE SECOND AGENDA.
ITEM ITEM NUMBER TWO IS A RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE A REPORT FROM CURRENT AD HOC COMMITTEES.
DISCUSS ANTICIPATED AD HOC COMMITTEES FOR EQUITY PROJECTS, AND IF APPROPRIATE, TAKE ACTION TO DISSOLVE OR CREATE AD HOC COMMITTEES.
CAN I GET A MOTION ON FLOOR TO PROCEED? MOTION? OKAY.
COMMISSIONER FLORES, ANY PUBLIC COMMENT PLEASE, IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN PERSON THAT WOULD LIKE TO WRITE A PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER TWO, UM, WE WILL MOVE FORWARD AFTER THE ZOOM.
IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT IN THE ZOOM FOR ITEM NUMBER TWO, PLEASE USE THE RAISE HAND TO BE TURNED OUT.
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NONE IN PERSON, THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM NUMBER TWO.SO THE WAY I'D LIKE TO PROCEED, I'LL DO A CHECK IN WITH THE A COMMITTEES IF THERE IS AN UPDATE.
UM, AND AS I MENTIONED AT THE TOP OF THE MEETING, WHENEVER I HAVE COMMITTEE OR THE RECIDIVISM COMMITTEE, NOT HERE, SO OBVIOUSLY CAN, BUT WE COULD CHECK IN WITH THE OTHER ONES, UM, AND SEE WHERE WE'RE AT.
AND THEN WE RECORD, UH, WE HAVE THE L-G-B-T-Q AND BIPOC, UH, A HOC COMMITTEE, UM, REFER TO COMMISSIONER
ALRIGHT, SO GOOD EVENING AND THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING.
TONIGHT'S MEETING THE EQUITY AND HUMAN RELATIONS LGBTQ PLUS AND BIPOC AD HOC COMMITTEE MET VIRTUALLY ON TUESDAY, JANUARY 30TH TO DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING.
UH, LETTER OF RECOMMENDATION WAS DRAFTED TO THE MAYOR TO FOCUS OUTREACH AND APPOINT A MEMBER TO REPRESENT THE NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY TO OUR COMMISSION.
THE MEMO NEEDED TO BE REFORMATTED BEFORE BEING SENT TO THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, WHICH WAS SENT THIS MORNING ON FEBRUARY THE SEVENTH, AND WILL BE SHARED WITH COUNCIL.
HOPEFULLY BY THE END OF NEXT WEEK, THE MARCH EQUITY AND HUMAN RELATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING WILL HAVE THE RACHEL EQUITY TEAM PRESENT.
UM, AND THIS WILL BE A STUDY SESSION.
THE AD HOC COMMITTEE WILL FOLLOW UP WITH RYAN, UH, THE HEALTH EQUITY COORDINATOR REGARDING THE L-G-B-T-Q ASSESSMENT AND THE AD HOC COMMITTEE PARTNERING WITH THEIR TEAM WITH THE GOAL OF JOINING THE SURVEY STEERING COMMITTEE.
WE ALSO DISCUSSED MEETING WITH THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO DETERMINE IF RESEARCH HAS ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED REGARDING A LOCATION FOR THE LGBTQ PLUS MUSEUM, SIMILAR TO THE AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM OF THE EXPO, WHERE WE CAN PRESERVE LGBTQ PLUS PART IN HISTORY.
WE DISCUSSED THE DIGITAL LOCATIONS AND AGREED TO SCHEDULE A MEETING WITH THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY COMMISSIONER LIZETTE, UH, FLORES REACHED OUT TO THEM AND THEY CONFIRMED THEY DO HAVE L-G-B-T-Q COLLECTION IN THEIR ARCHIVES.
AND THERE ARE AN ARRAY OF MATERIALS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS, DOCUMENTS, AND PERSONAL HISTORY.
SO WE HAVE A MEETING SCHEDULED WITH THEM ON FEBRUARY 22ND AT 2:00 PM SO THE NEXT STEPS IS THAT A LETTER WILL, THAT WAS DRAFTED, WILL BE PRESENTED REGARDING THE NATIVE AMERICAN COMMUNITY.
ONCE SOMEONE IS APPOINTED, WE WILL REVISIT THE NATIVE COMMUNITY NEEDS UNLESS MEMBERS OF THE NATIVE COMMUNITY REACHES OUT FOR SUPPORT PLAN FOR RACIAL EQUITY TEAM TO PRESENT IN MARCH AT THE EQUITY AND HUMAN RELATIONS COMMITTEE MEETING WITH AN UPDATE.
WHEN WE GET AN UPDATE FROM RYAN, THE LGBTQ PLUS ASSESSMENT IS AVAILABLE.
WE, IT WILL BE SHARED AND WE WILL DETERMINE THE NEXT STEPS AND WE WILL MEET WITH THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ON FEBRUARY THE 22ND AT 2:00 PM AND THIS CONCLUDES OUR A HOC REPORT.
WE'RE OPEN TO ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS.
WELL, I WANNA SAY VERY ROBUST, NOT ONLY REPORT, UH, UPDATE, BUT THE WORK ITSELF, WHICH IS REFLECTION.
SO, I, I REALLY NOT SURPRISING.
I, UM, AND I APPRECIATE ALSO TAKING, UH, SUGGESTIONS ON THAT AND REALLY RUNNING ON THAT AS WELL WITH RESPECT TO EXPLAIN THE POSSIBILITY.
SO JUST MUCH APPRECIATION FOR ME.
UH, WANT OPEN UP OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSION MEMBERS.
SEEING THAT THERE IS NONE, UM, I WILL MOVE.
WELL, WELL, THE ONLY OTHER COMMISSION WITH UPDATE, LIKE I SAID, WE CAN'T GO TO BECAUSE OF, UH, THE ABSENCE.
UM, SO THAT SEVEN TWO NOW MOVE FORWARD WITH BOTH FOR, UNLESS THERE'S ANOTHER UPDATE.
UH, THE IV, UH, COMMITTEE ONLY CURRENTLY HAS ONE MEMBER, AND THAT IS COMMISSIONER GUTTIER.
UM, BECAUSE I MAY BE OUT FORM.
AT THE END OF LAST MEETING, WE WERE NOTIFIED THAT THERE WAS A RESIGNATION FROM DEVELOP COMMISSIONER COREY ALLEN.
AS YOU ALL KNOW COREY, HE HAS BEEN TREMENDOUS WORK NOT ONLY FOR THIS COMMISSION, BUT UH, FOR MANY OTHER PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
UM, SO WE SHOULD WELL, WELCOME AND WELCOME
SO, WHICH THAT BRINGS ME TO THE POINT THAT, UH, VICE CHAIR COVINGTON, UH, WHO
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BE AN APPROPRIATE TIME FOR, YOU KNOW, SEE IF THERE'S INTEREST WITHIN THIS BUYIN CAPACITY.ARE COMMISSIONERS ABLE TO BE ON MORE THAN ONE AD HOC? I KNOW WE SPOKE ABOUT THIS BEFORE, BUT I FORGET.
I'M TEMP TO SAY THIS, BUT I'LL, I'LL, I'LL REFER TO THE EXPERTS HERE.
YES, YOU ARE, YOU ARE ALLOWED TO BE ON MORE THAN ONE AD HOC.
SO I WOULD LIKE TO BE ON THAT ONE.
SO WE HAVE COMMISSIONER, UH, DR.
S AND COMMISSIONER MONTGOMERY.
NOW, UH, ANYONE ELSE? WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE MORE THAT WE ARE, HOWEVER, IF THERE, UH, THERE IS ANOTHER AD TALK THAT HASN'T STARTED THEIR WORK.
SO SINCE WE'RE ON THIS CURRENT AGENDA ITEM, UH, THAT IS THE, UH, COMMISSION I, I'M WORKING WITH, UH,
SO IF YOU'RE INTERESTED, WE DEFINITELY DO THAT.
BUT WE HAVEN'T OFFICIALLY STARTED OUT.
UM, BUT WE HAVE, WE HAVE THE FLOOR FOR, UH, THE COMMISSION.
A SO I THINK WE'RE GOOD STANDING THERE.
UM, THE OTHER, UH, AD HOC COMMITTEE WOULD BE THE ONE THAT COMMISSIONER
UM, AND JUST AS A REMINDER, THE BOOK OF THAT WORK IS TAILORED AROUND EXAMINING HOW OTHER CITIES APPROACH POTENTIAL EQUITY STATEMENTS, LEARNING FROM THAT AND SEE WHERE WE CAN TAKE THAT.
THE FIRST STEP IS REALLY STUDYING WHAT OTHER CITIES DO.
UM, AND SO, SO ANY INTEREST ON THAT ONE? NO PRESSURE, RIGHT?
WELL WE CAN OPERATE AS TWO FOR NOW AND THEN WE CAN ALWAYS OPEN UP THE FUTURE FOR FUTURE
ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS WHILE WE'RE ON THIS AGENDA? UH, MADAM CLERK, CAN WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE VOTE PANEL COMMISSIONER BACKS? YES.
UH, FOR PROCEDURAL PURPOSES, UM, YOU, I DEFER TO YOU FOR THE THIRD AGENDA ITEM TO READ IT.
UNOFFICIAL, EVEN THOUGH, SO LET'S DO THAT FIRST.
SO ITEM NUMBER THREE IS THE RECOMMENDATION TO DISCUSS AND APPROVE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL INTENDED TO REDUCE RECIDIVISM OF PREVIOUSLY INCARCERATED COMMUNITY MEMBERS SUCH AS ADVANCING EMPLOYMENT, WORKFORCE, WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT, REENTRY PROGRAMMING, AND SIMILAR OPPORTUNITIES.
BEFORE I MAKE MY RECORD OFFICIAL RECOMMENDATION FOR LEO, I JUST WANNA, UM, COMMUNICATION AND ONGOING TRANSPARENCY IN TERMS OF, UH, UM, THE BACKGROUND FOR THAT AGENDA ITEM.
WE HAVE MOVED, UM, SOME RECOMMENDATIONS OVER TO THIS MEETING.
THIS WAS GONNA BE THE MEETING WHERE WE WOULD POTENTIALLY PICK UP THIS AGENDA ITEM.
COMMISSIONER GUTIERREZ WOULD PRESENT THE FORMAL RECOMMENDATIONS AND THE OUTCOME OF VOTE.
WE COULD MOVE BECAUSE, UH, SHE IS OUT SICK.
I'M GONNA MAKE A FORMAL MOTION TO LAY OVER THIS AGENDA TO THE NEXT MEETING AND
SO MY MOTION IS TO, UH, MAKE THIS ITEM MORE TO NEXT MONTH.
CAN I GET A SECOND? SECOND, MR. IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER THREE, PLEASE, UH, USE THE RAISE HAND FEATURE IN THE, THE ZOOM.
AND IF IN PERSON, JUST GO AHEAD AND RAISE YOUR HAND ON THE IM BEING LAID OVER SEEING THAT IN PERSON
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AND THE ZOOM.UM, THAT CONCLUDES COMMENT FOR OVER ITEM NUMBER THREE.
ANY COMMENT OR QUESTIONS FROM THE COMMISSIONER? SO LET'S CALL FOR VOTE TO LADIES.
MADAM CLERK, UH, GETS IS OVER.
THIS MIGHT BE, UH, UH, AS IT SHOULD BE.
SO, UH, PLEASE READ THE AGENDA ITEM.
ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS THE RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE A REPORT FROM THE OFFICE OF EQUITY REGARDING THE FISCAL YEAR 2024 BUDGET AS RELATED TO THE EQUITY AND HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION.
UH, CAN I GET A MOTION TO HAVE THIS ON THE FLOOR OFFICIALLY? SO MOVED.
AND WE'LL MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT.
UM, IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER FOUR, UH, IN PERSON, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
AND IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ZOOM THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER FOUR, PLEASE USE THE RAISE HAND FEATURE NOW, OR STAR NINE OF CALLING IN, SEEING NONE IN PERSON AND IN THE ZOOM, SEEING NONE AS WELL.
THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM NUMBER FOUR.
AS A BRIEF REMINDER FOR EVERYONE, UH, WE FORTUNATE TO RECEIVE $12,500 IF NEED, BUT NOT, WE NEED TO DECIDE HOW WE WANT TO SPEND THAT.
SO THAT'S WHY WE HAVE TO GO INTO DISCUSSION.
BUT FIRST WE HAVE A PRESENTATION SO WE CAN ALL ACQUAINTED WITH, UH, THE MONEY, THE DO'S AND DON'TS, AND THEN WE CAN HAVE DISCUSSION, HOPEFULLY, DEPENDING ON THE DISCUSSION GO, WE CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO SPEND IT.
SO RELATIVE, THERE'S NOT A WHOLE LOT OF START RIGHT? AND WE CAN ALWAYS MOVE FORWARD WITH NEXT FISCAL YEAR, DEPENDING ON, UM, BUDGET NEXT YEAR.
BUT VERY FORTUNATE THAT WE'RE AT A PLACE IT'S AFFORDABLE MONEY IN PLACE AND WE CAN FIGURE OUT WHERE WE CAN, WHAT WE CAN DO IN TERMS OF OUTREACH.
UM, SO PREFER TO THE OFFICE OF EQUITY.
UH, AGAIN, MOSTLY KNOW ME, I'M TELLING I USE PRONOUNS.
AND JUST A VERY QUICK, UH, PRESENTATION.
UM, AGAIN, TONIGHT'S ITEM IS RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE IN FILE A REPORT FROM US, THE OFFICE OF EQUITY REGARDING FISCAL YEAR 24 BUDGET AS RELATED TO THE EQUITY AND HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION.
SO, UM, AS WE MENTIONED DURING OUR UPDATES LAST MONTH, UH, THE OFFICE OF EQUITY RECEIVED $25,000.
UM, AND THIS WAS ALLOCATED OF ONE TIME FUNDING TO SUPPORT THE CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMISSION ON DISABILITY AND EQUITY, UH, A DISABILITY AND THE EQUITY AND HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION.
UM, AND IT WAS FOCUSED ON, UH, NEEDS FOR CAPACITY BUILDING, UH, TRAINING AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
SO WHAT THE OFFICE OF EQUITY DID WAS, UM, SPLIT THE FUNDING DOWN THE MIDDLE GIVEN, UH, GIVING, UH, 12,500 TO CCO, THE CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMISSION ON DISABILITY AND 12,500 TO THE EQUITY AND HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION.
SO, UM, HAVING JUST COMPLETED A VERY SIMILAR PROCESS WITH K-POP, UH, THIS SLIDE SHOWS A FEW CATEGORIES FOR THE COMMISSION'S CONSIDERATION.
SO LOOKING AT CAPACITY BUILDING AND TRAINING, UM, THIS WOULD ALLOW THE COMMISSION TO BRING IN GUEST PRESENTERS AND FACILITATORS WHO MAY HAVE, UH, A SPEAKER SPEED, UM, UTILIZING THE PROCESSES AVAILABLE TO US.
UM, THIS CAN INCLUDE A STUDY SESSION OR A SPECIAL MEETING, UM, COULD BE AGENDAS TO SUPPORT THE CONTINUED LEARNING, UH, AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF THIS ADVISORY BODY.
UH, JUST AS A REMINDER, THERE ARE A FEW TRAINING TOPICS OF INTEREST TO, UH, THE COMMISSION, SUCH AS CULTURAL COMPETENCY, BIAS AND BEHAVIOR AND TRAUMA-INFORMED PRACTICES, JUST TO NAME A FEW.
THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT RECOMMENDATION COULD SPAN THE EXPENSES ASSOCIATED WITH PARTICIPATING IN COMMUNITY EVENTS, UM, BE IT TABLING OR PARADE ENTRIES, UM, DECORATIONS AND SO FORTH.
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COULD ALSO BE ALIGNED WITH PUBLIC MEETINGS, UM, HELD WITH HRC TO HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY OR TOPICS RELATED TO THE COMMISSION'S ROADMAP IN OTHER PRIORITY AREAS.
SO A TOPIC WE'VE HEARD MANY COMMISSIONERS, UH, EXPRESSED INTEREST IN FROM EHRC, UH, LONG BEACH BRANDED BANNER AND TABLECLOTH TO COMMISSIONERS, UM, POLOS AND PRINTED MATERIALS SUCH AS INFORMATIONAL BROCHURES AND PAMPHLETS.
UH, WE DO SEE ALIGNMENT REGARDING INVESTING
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AND BRANDING TO ENHANCE THE COMMISSION'S S ABILITY TO MEANINGFULLY CONDUCT OUTREACH AND ENGAGEMENT.SO THIS CONCLUDES OUR, UH, BRIEF PRESENTATION ON YOUR BUDGET.
I THINK IT'S A BUCKET, THOSE, IN THOSE THREE ITEMS. NOT TO SAY THAT THEY CAN'T BE OTHER BUCKETS, BUT I THINK THAT'S A GOOD STARTING POINT FOR THE CONVERSATION.
AND THEN WE CAN KIND OF, UH, FIGURE OUT HOW, UM, MY PERSONAL TAKE ON THIS IS WITH THOUSAND PROBABLY OR SHOULDN'T BE ABLE TO KIND OF FIGURE THAT OUT WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF JUST THIS ONE MEETING.
UM, BUT WE'LL SEE WHEN THE CONVERSATION GOES.
AND, UH, MY ONLY QUESTION IN TERMS OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, UM, THIS WOULD BE GOOD INFORMATION FOR THE COMMISSION, THE PUBLIC TO KNOW HOW MANY CITY OF LONG BEACH SPONSORSHIP PARADES ARE THERE.
DOES ANY, UM, DOCTORS KNOW THERE'S THE, UM,
JUST WHEN WE HAVE AN IDEA OF, UH, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND I MENTIONED THAT I THINK THE COMMISSIONER OR THE COMMISSIONERS WORK FOR THE PUBLIC.
UH, THEY, WHERE WE, UM, A COUPLE OF US WERE ABLE MAKE IT A MARKET
UM, AND SO WE REALLY SAW THE, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY THE IMPORTANCE OF, OF BEING VISIBLE, NOT JUST IN THAT SPACE, BUT AS WE TALK ABOUT THE BUDGET BEING VISIBLE SPACE.
BUT WE ALSO NEED FUNDS TO HELP WITH THAT PARTICULAR OUTREACH.
UM, AND, UM, I WILL OPEN UP FOR THE COMMENTS AND THEN AS WE HEAR COMMENTS, UM, WELL, I CAN, UM, I CAN MAKE SOME RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW TO SPLIT THIS UP.
I LIKE THE IDEA OF CONTINUED LEARNING.
I THINK THERE'S SO MUCH IN THE WAY LESS LEARNED HOW TO BE MORE CULTURALLY MINDED AND COME FORMED AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, UM, TOPICS THAT ARE IMPORTANT FOR THE WORK THAT WE DO.
AND THE SPACE IS CHANGING EVER SO QUICKLY.
SO STAYING ON TOP OF NEW INFORMATION AND RESEARCH.
I'LL SAY MY QUESTION FOR, UM, UH, COMMISSIONER I SHOULD BE MEETING.
I FEEL LIKE I'M IN THE CLASSROOM.
UM, AND THEN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, 100%.
I THINK WE SHOULD BE IN ALL THREES BECAUSE IF WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE EQUITABLE AND, YOU KNOW, INCLUDING EVERYONE, WE SHOULD BE REPRESENTING THIS GROUP AT EVERY PARADE AND COMMUNITY EVENTS.
WE NEED TO CALCULATE HOW MUCH MONEY IS IT FOR US TO GET IN, OR IS THAT SOMETHING WHERE WE JUST PARTNER WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF EQUITY? UM, AND IF SO, ARE WE BEING ASKED TO SUBMIT SOME OF THE FEE SINCE WE'RE GONNA BE PARTICIPATING WITH THAT GROUP? UM, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO THE TRAINING, I THINK INSTEAD OF PUTTING A LOT OF MONEY INTO THAT, I'M 100% INTO TRAINING AND EDUCATION.
BUT I THINK THAT WE SHOULD ALSO BE REACHING OUT TO OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS BECAUSE THERE'S PLENTY OF EXPERTS WHO WOULD BE VOLUNTEERING THEIR TIME, UM, AND WILLING TO COME IN BECAUSE THEY THEMSELVES WANNA EDUCATE OUR GROUP.
AND SO I'M NOT SEEING WHERE, ALTHOUGH WE SHOULD ALLOCATE SOME FUNDS TO THAT, I DON'T THINK THAT A HUGE PORTION SHOULD BE THERE BECAUSE I THINK WE HAVE SO MANY WILLING PEOPLE, UM, IN THIS COMMUNITY AND THOSE WHO ARE EXPERTS IN CERTAIN AREAS THAT COULD PROVIDE THAT
OTHER THOUGHTS ON THIS? I DON'T KNOW WHO THE SPREAD ON THE TABLE.
ONE THING I'M JUST ADDING TOO IS THAT WE CAN ALSO HAVE THOSE BRANDING MATERIALS TO, FOR RE CALENDAR IT OUT, BUT TO JUST SET ADDITIONAL GOALS SUCH AS ACTUAL HAVING OUR BRANDING AT X NUMBER OF EVENTS IN OUR DISTRICT.
BECAUSE I KNOW OUR COUNCIL PEOPLE CAN ALSO GIVE US THE MINOR FUNDING IT MIGHT TAKE TO, WE HAVE TO PAY TO HAVE A TABLE SOMEWHERE.
AND MOST OFTEN WE CAN, WE GET THAT EXPOSURE FOR FREE, BUT THAT WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, MAKE THE COMMITMENT TO DO THAT SO THAT ALL DISTRICTS ARE COVERED.
YES, I AGREE SO FAR WITH WHAT EVERYONE IS SAYING.
UM, I THINK LOOKING AROUND THIS ROOM AND THE COMMISSIONER'S PRESENT HERE TODAY,
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AND THOSE WHO ARE NOT HERE TODAY, MANY OF US ARE INVOLVED IN MANY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS THAT PLAN EVENTS AND FESTIVALS AND PARADES THAT I THINK WE FELT IT WHEN WE WERE AT THE MLK PARADE WHERE WE DIDN'T HAVE A BANNERIT WOULD BE GREAT FOR VISIBILITY.
AND, AND PART, PART OF THE PURPOSE OR RESULTS OF THAT VISIBILITY IS THAT OUR COMMUNITY WOULD HOPEFULLY BE MORE COMFORTABLE TO APPROACH US, WOULD KNOW TO GO TO US WHEN THERE ARE ISSUES THAT THEY WOULD, THEY HAVE CONCERNS.
BUT I REALLY LIKE THE IDEA OF GOAL SETTING AS WELL.
AGAIN, IN THIS ROOM, WE ARE ALSO INVOLVED IN SO MANY ORGANIZATIONS THAT WOULD BE GREAT FOR US TO SHARE THAT HERE AND BE PRESENT AT THOSE EVENTS.
BE BE THERE FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
I'M HEARING A LOT OF THINGS BEING, UH, UPLIFTED HERE ON THE MATTER OF, OF BRANDING.
UM, I'M NOT SURE IF THIS INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE, BUT I DID PUT AN INQUIRY INTO, UH, I'VE SEEN CITY OF ONE OF THESE JACKETS, BUT OBVIOUSLY SWAP IT'S STILL AN EQUITY RELATIONS.
IS, WAS THERE A COST? UM, WERE YOU ABLE TO GET A ON THAT? JUST WE HAVE AN IDEA.
FOR T-SHIRTS OR THE JACKETS? THE JACKETS.
SO, UM, I WAS ABLE TO DO A QUICK, UH, UM, UH, RUN THROUGH OF THE COST OF THE MATERIALS OF THE CITY MANAGER.
YOU JUST PUT, UH, LAST FALL, WHICH WERE POLOS AND JACKETS.
SO THE POLOS CAME OUT TO $24 A PIECE.
THE JACKETS CAME OUT TO $45 A PIECE, 24 POLOS 45.
SO, ANY OTHER THOUGHTS BEFORE I START DOING SOME MATH HERE?
UH, SO I DEFINITELY APPRECIATE, UH, THE IDEAS AROUND LIKE GOAL SETTING AND THE BRANDING AND THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.
UM, I, FOR THE GOAL SETTING COMPONENT, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US AS A COMMISSION TO ALSO BE ABLE TO, UM, HOLD A RETREAT.
UM, SO PAYING FOR LIKE SPACE FOR US TO BE, AND THE FOOD, UH, I KNOW THE OFFICE OF EQUITY GRACIOUSLY SPOTTED US
I DON'T KNOW IF IT EMBEDDED IN THE FUNDING FOR THE COMMISSION, BUT, UH, DEFINITELY, UH, HAVING THAT BE A COMPONENT OF THIS FUNDING WOULD BE GREAT.
UM, AND THEN, UH, I BELIEVE THAT OTHER HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSIONS, UM, ESPECIALLY THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY ONE, THEY DO AWARDS, UH, IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND I THINK IT WOULD BE REALLY NICE FOR THE CITY OF LONG BEACH TO ACTUALLY PROVIDE EQUITY, HUMAN RELATION EQUITY AWARDS, UM, TO LEADERS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY.
AND THAT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE ASK THE COMMUNITY TO NOMINATE AN ORGANIZATION OR INDIVIDUALS.
UH, AND THEN WE AS A COMMISSION, WE VOTE ON WHO THOSE PEOPLE ARE, OR AD HOC COMMITTEE TO DO THAT.
UM, THE REASON FOR THIS IS BECAUSE, UM, I, I WANT TO HAVE A BETTER RELATIONSHIP WITH THE COMMUNITY AND I WANT THE COMMUNITY TO KNOW THAT WE EXIST.
UM, THEY DO KNOW THAT WE EXIST.
THEY COME FROM REASON ALL THE TIME.
UM, AND THEY ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, ASK THEM FOR US OF OUR SUPPORT.
AND WE KNOW THAT THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE DOING GREAT WORK.
AND SO BY HAVING AN AWARD, UM, PROCESS, I THINK WE CAN GIVE A LITTLE BACK TO OUR COMMUNITIES, UM, FOR WHO WE ARE DOING THOSE WORK.
SO THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER RECOMMENDATION.
NOW, FROM MY CLARIFICATION, 'CAUSE I MISSED THE PLACE, WHAT WAS THE EXAMPLE OF THE ENTITY THAT DOES, DOESN'T WORK? I WAS DOING SOME MATH LOS ANGELES COUNTING HUMAN RELATIONS.
IT'S NOT FOR ME TO MULTITASK, ESPECIALLY IT'S MATH.
UM, THE EQUITY, I THINK I EXPAND COMMISSIONER JO AND THEN COMMISSIONER FLO, I, THOSE TWO THINGS.
JUST REAL QUICKLY, THIS IDEA THAT YOUR BRINGING APP IS A TERRIFIC IDEA IN TERMS OF BRANDING AND BRINGING VISIBILITY TO THE WORK THAT WE DO AND THE KEY PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY, OBVIOUSLY, THAT DO THIS WORK.
SO THOSE IN WITH BRANDING A VERY GOOD WAY.
UM, THE OTHER, UM, BENEFIT OF THAT AS WELL IS AS WE LOOK TO BUILD POSITIONS, THIS IS ALSO A GREAT WAY FOR US TO, UM, YOU KNOW, AS WE BUILD VACANT POSITIONS, THESE ARE PEOPLE THAT ALREADY ARE, WERE VISIBLE TO THEM, THEY'RE VISIBLE TO US.
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UH, COMMISSIONER, UM, THANK YOU CHAIR.AND FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR THREE PILLAR FRIENDLY AND NEW ENGAGEMENT.
JUST UP TO GENERAL THINKING ABOUT, SO WE HAVE LIKE A BUSINESS CARD BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE, UH, GET OUT
ANOTHER ONE IS ENGAGEMENT BESIDE THE, UH, OUR RETREAT.
I'M THINKING ABOUT FIELD TRIP.
IT'S LIKE, UH, THE FILTER COMMUNITY TALK WITH THE, AT LEAST TALK COMMUNITY BASED TO LEARN FROM THEM, TO HEAR FROM THEM.
IT'S NOT NECESSARILY THANK YOU COMMISSIONER AND I, I SECOND THAT ON BUSINESS CARDS OR DIGITAL BUSINESS CARDS OR ONE OF THE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING TO COMMUNICATE TO, UM, COMMUNITY MEMBERS OF WHO WE ARE, I THINK ESPECIALLY WHEN WE ENGAGE.
OKAY, SO I DO, UH, I DO GROUNDING FOR LA COUNTY, FOR DEPARTMENTS, FOR THE COUNTY.
I, I DONATE A COUPLE BANNERS TALKING ABOUT SHIRT AND TABLE LAWS.
I DO A LOT OF STUFF, BUT I, I DONATE A COUPLE BANNERS TO KEEP THE, UH, THE COST DOWN.
SO AS ALL OF YOU ARE, ARE, ARE AWARE, I TAKE, UH, AS MANY NOTES AS I CAN AND TRY TO SYNTHESIZE THINGS THAT CAN FIND, UM, SO IF WE, I'M NOT SUGGESTING THIS, BUT IF WE WERE TO BUY THIS, EVEN AMONGST THOSE THREE BUCKETS ITEMS, IT COMES UP TO 4,000, UH, 1 67.
BUT ONE, ONE THEME THAT EMERGED FROM THIS CONVERSATION IS PERHAPS WE EMPHASIZE ONE OF THE BUCKETS IN PARTICULAR BRANDING AND COMMUNICATION OVER THE OTHER.
THAT'S, WE HAVE TO DO THAT, BUT I DID HEAR THAT.
AND SO PERHAPS WE TILTED ONTO THOSE TWO OTHER THINGS.
UM, OUR BUCKETS AND, UH, RELY ON OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS.
LIKE FOR, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN IT COMES TIME TO GETTING EXPERTS TO COME AND SPEAK.
OUTTA CURIOSITY, THOUGH, IF THIS INFORMATION WAS AVAILABLE, IS THAT, I KNOW HONORARIUMS WOULD RANGE A LOT, YOU KNOW, THE FEES THAT GO TO JUST SPEAKERS, UH, BUT IS THERE A SKIP OR LAST OFFSET? DOES A NUMBER COME TO MIND IN TERMS OF A AVERAGE OR RANGE OF A SPEAKER FEES? UM, IF IT COMES TO MIND, I DON'T KNOW, RANGE OF SPEAKER LIKE THESE, YEAH.
LIKE WHEN A SPEAKER COMES TO SPEAK AT A COMMISSION, WHERE, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE FEES THAT YOU, IT DEPENDS ON WHO THE SPEAKERS ARE.
SO WHEN NONPROFIT OR NONPROFIT PARTNERS, THE COMMUNITY PARTNERS COME, THERE'S NOT USUALLY A COST FOR THAT.
UM, IF IT'S SOME SORT OF TRAINING FOR CAPACITY BUILDING, UM, THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT DO HAVE A FEE.
UM, BUT THERE'S A VERY WIDE RANGE.
SO IT'S REALLY ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIPS YOU WILL HAVE AND WE HAVE.
AND THEN, UM, THINKING ABOUT WHAT WE MIGHT BE WILLING TO SPEND, BUT OKAY.
I THINK WE ALL HAVE VERY GOOD RELATIONSHIPS.
AT LEAST THAT'S MYSELF, COMMISSIONER BATS, BECAUSE YOU'LL FIND THAT A LOT OF THE PROFESSIONALS, THEY ALLOCATE FIVE TO 10% OF THEIR TIME THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO DONATE.
SO THAT'S WHERE OUR RELATIONSHIPS WILL COME IN.
AND SOME WILL JUST ASK, YOU KNOW, DONATE A HUNDRED DOLLARS TO, YOU KNOW, ME SO I CAN DONATE TO SOMETHING.
YOU KNOW? SO THAT'S WHAT I'VE SEEN WITH ALL THE DIFFERENT GROUPS COMING UNDER TRAINING BECAUSE THEY DO RANGE.
OR WE CAN TAP INTO OUR NETWORKS AND STILL RECEIVE SOME EXCEPTIONAL TRAINING.
SO BEFORE I MAKE A RECOMMENDATION, UM, I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION.
IF MY RECOMMENDATION, AND IF THEY WERE TO GO THROUGH, RIGHT, AND AT THE END OF HAVING TO SPEND THIS MONEY, WE HAVE LEFTOVER MONEY, LET'S SAY BRANDING COULD, IS WITHIN
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THE PROCESSES THAT WE FOLLOW, WOULD WE BE ABLE TO THEN REALLOCATE THAT TO ANOTHER BUCKET? WE CAN YEAH.MAKE YOUR MONEY TO MOVE AROUND AND IT'S NOT ALREADY ALLOCATED.
SO YEAH, IT'S FLEXIBLE TIME, CORRECT.
IS IT BY THE END OF THIS YEAR, CORRECT.
SORRY, SAY THAT AGAIN? THE MONEY MEANS TO BE SPENT BY THE END OF THIS FISCAL YEAR, RIGHT? WHICH IS SEPTEMBER, END OF SEPTEMBER.
WE CAN MONITOR IT AND WE SPEND OVER, AND THAT FOR DEPENDING ON, I LIKE THE ME COMMISSIONER
AND THAT WILL HELP US TO BUILD A CASE FOR US.
IT'S THREE BUCKET ITEMS. UM, I LEFT COMMISSIONER BASS'S RECOMMENDATION TO, YOU KNOW, FOCUS ON BRANDING, DRAFT AND ENGAGEMENT, UM, AND COMMUNITY PARTNER NURSE FOR, YOU KNOW, PRO BONO, UH, SPEAKING.
SO METRO MEANT FIVE AND FIVE FOR BRANDING AND THEN, UH, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, AND THEN TWO AND A HALF FOR CAPACITY BUILDING AND TRAINING.
I'M NOT MARRIED TO THAT, RIGHT? IT'S JUST LISTENING TO FOLKS AND FIGURING OUT HOW TO, THAT'S AND TO BE VERY, VERY, UH, CANDID HERE.
WHEN WE TAKE A 12,500, VERY HELPFUL, NOT A LOT OF MONEY THAT'S FOR A MILLION DOLLAR BUDGET, WE WOULD TAKE A LOT MORE TIME FIGURING OUT HOW WE LIKE 12,000.
SO, UM, SO I WILL MAKE A MOTION.
SO, UH, TO ALLOCATE THAT ACROSS THOSE THREE BUCKET ITEMS, AGAIN, TO REITERATE, 5,000 PER GRAND, 5,000, THE ENGAGEMENT, AND TWO AND HALF FOR, FOR, UH, CAPACITY BUILDING TRAINING.
KNOWING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN SHIFT THINGS AROUND DEPENDING ON, AND THIS IS THE FIRST YEAR THAT WE HAVE SOME FUNDS, SO IT'S A LEARNING YEAR FOR US.
WE NOT, TAM, THAT SHOULD BE MY, UM, UH, MADAM CLERK CALL FOR THE ABOVE.
SO WE ARE TAKING THE VOTE ON THE SUBSTITUTE FOR AMENDED MOTION, UH, MOVED BY CHAIR LARA, AND SUBMITTED BY COMMISSIONER SCHULTZ.
AND WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE.
COMMISSIONER LIZETTE FLORES? YES.
UH, MOVING US ALONG TO, UH, AGENDA ITEM FIVE.
CAN YOU PLEASE, UM, UH, READ THAT AGENDA ITEM? YES.
ITEM NUMBER FIVE IS A RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE PRESENTATION FROM THE EQUITY AND HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION'S CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR ON EXPECTATIONS OF COMMISSIONER ATTENDANCE AND VACANCIES.
AND IF APPROPRIATE, DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS REGARDING VACANCIES OF THE EQUITY AND HUMAN RELATIONS COMMISSION TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.
CAN I HAVE, UM, I HAVE A MOTION TO, UH, MOVE TOMORROW.
SECOND, UH, COMMISSIONER BATS, UM, PUBLIC COMMENT.
SO FOR PUBLIC COMMENT, I RECOMMEND THAT WE HAVE THE PRESENTATION FIRST AND THEN MOVE TO PUBLIC COMMENT BEFORE COMMISSIONER DISCUSSION.
MM-HMM,
THEY CAN GO AHEAD AND PROVIDE THOSE QUESTIONS ARE COMMON.
UM, SO IF YOU'D LIKE, YOU CAN PROCEED WITH THE PRESENTATION FIRST, IF YOU I LIKE THAT ONE.
SO FIRST, A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND BEFORE WE DIVE INTO SOME OF THE VISUALS THAT, UM, THANKS TO THE OFFICE OF EQUITY, UH, PREPARED ALL ALONG.
UH, AT OUR LAST MEETING, THERE WAS A, A RECOMMENDATION ON HOW TO HANDLE FORUM ISSUES.
THERE'S BEEN A COUPLE OF MEETINGS OF, UNFORTUNATELY WE WOULD HAPPEN, BUT WE'VE BEEN WAITING FOR COMMISSIONERS.
UM, AND THEN IF THAT, NOW I UNDERSTAND BEFORE I MOVE FORWARD, THINGS COME UP ALL THE TIME.
AND PLUS WE'RE IN THE MIDST OF ANOTHER SPIKE, UNFORTUNATELY, IN COVID, RSV, AND THERE'S A THIRD ONE FLU.
AND THOSE THINGS ARE OUTSIDE OF OUR CONTROL.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS OUTSIDE OF OUR CONTROL, BUT, UM, WITH A LOT OF VERY IMPORTANT ISSUES AND WORK TO ADVANCE, UH, AS A CHAIR.
AND ALSO, I WON'T SPEAK FOR THE VICE
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CHAIR, BUT, BUT VICE CHAIR AS WELL.THERE'S, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF THAT HAPPENS IN BETWEEN MEETINGS TO MAKE SURE THAT NEED TO MOVE FORWARD.
PLUS WE ALSO HAD RESET, UH, UH, NEW COMMISSIONERS ADDED.
SO I APPRECIATE THE, THE FOLKS THAT ARE ON BOARD.
SO I WANNA BRING US ALL TOGETHER AND JUST TALK ABOUT ROLES OF RESPONSIBILITIES.
WE HAVE SOME DATA THAT TONY HAS PREPARED IN TERMS OF, UH, ATTENDANCE, THE MEETING, UM, IN GENERAL, JUST GENERAL METRICS.
AND THE WAY I WOULD LIKE TO APPROACH IT, THIS IS MY EDUCATOR LENS COMING IN HERE, IS WE SUPPORTIVE LENS, RIGHT? WHAT CAN WE DO TOGETHER COLLECTIVELY? ALSO, THE ROLES OF SHARED VICE CHAIR CAN HELP SUPPORT THE HEALTHY ATTENDANCE, UH, UM, UH, FORWARD.
UH, SO WITH THAT SAID, WE'LL START WITH THE OFFICIAL VISUALS HERE.
UH, THIS IS THE AGENDA ITEM THAT WAS JUST READ.
UM, BUT WHAT I WANNA DIVE INTO, BUT, UH, IS THE CONTEXT FOR THE NUMBER OF, OF COMMISSIONERS.
UM, IN TERMS OF SPACES, THERE ARE 15, UH, REGULAR MEMBERS.
UM, BEFORE I JOINED THIS COMMISSION, THERE WAS, UH, A RECOMMENDATION TO MOVE THIS UP TO 15 FOR EQUITY SAKE AND KIND OF, UH, SHARE.
UM, AND MANY OF SOME OF YOU WERE HERE FOR THAT, RIGHT? UM, SO THEN MOVING INTO, UH, UM, THE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE COMMERS, PLEASE ADD
THE RATIONALE BEHIND IT IS WE WANTED TO ENSURE THAT BY ADDING OUT LARGE COMMISSION MEMBERS, THAT THERE WOULD BE, UH, MORE EQUITY ON THIS PARTICULAR BODY AND THAT MOVE FORWARD TO 15.
WHAT THAT HAS CREATED THOUGH, RIGHT? A SITUATION WHERE WE HAVE TO HAVE EIGHT OR FOUR.
AND SO I WANTED TO SHARE THAT, UM, BECAUSE AT THIS POINT WE HAVEN'T AGENDIZED, UH, ANYTHING DOWN THE LINE, UH, UH, AT LEAST NOT YET, DEPENDING ON WHERE THE CONVERSATION GOES IN TERMS OF WHAT, UH, IS THERE OPPORTUNITY TO REDUCE THIS DOWN, RIGHT? SO WE DON'T RUN INTO THAT ISSUE.
NOW, I HAVE MY OWN THOUGHTS ON THAT.
I'M JUST SHARING SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THOUGHTS THAT I'VE
IT'S NOT NECESSARILY MY OWN THOUGHT PROCESS.
I'M JUST SHARING WITH THIS, BRING US TO THIS PAGE.
SO THIS BRINGS US TO THIS PRESENTATION, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF WHERE WE'RE AT WITH ATTENDANCE AND, AND, UM, WHAT WE CAN DO TO, UH, SUPPORT ONE ANOTHER.
SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE NEXT SLIDE.
SO, UH, I ASKED TONY TO HIGHLIGHT, I KNOW THIS IS A LOT OF VERBIAGE HERE.
UM, SO I'M NOT GONNA READ ALL OF THAT, BUT I DO WANT HIGHLIGHT, UM, KIND OF THE, THE TEAM MEMBERS PRESENT IN ORDER FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD.
AND TECHNICALLY, UM, IF WE DON'T HAVE FORUM, UM, AT THAT SIX O'CLOCK OR SIX 30, BECAUSE SOMETIMES WE MEET AT SIX 30, IF OUR ROOM ISN'T AVAILABLE, WE SIX 30 OR WHATEVER THE IS AVAILABLE.
UM, THERE, THERE'S A WINDOW OF TIME THAT I HAVE, RIGHT? AND, UM, AND WHEN ASKED THE MADAM CLERK, MADAM CLERK ACTUALLY SHARED THIS WITH ME LAST TIME.
BEFORE, AND THEN WE'RE REALLY PUSHING IT.
SO, UM, SO THAT'S JUST THAT 15 MINUTE, UH, MARKER.
AND I LOOK AT MY CLOCK AND I TRY TO MAKE IN MOMENT, SEE ME IN THIS IN MOMENT DECISION CONSULT, PROVIDE, SHARE, CONSULT, OFFICE.
UM, AND IT REALLY IS, UH, A PROCESS, RIGHT? TO MAKE SURE THAT I GET IT RIGHT.
UM, BUT IF I MOVE ON TO THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, SO I TYPICALLY TRY TO CALL THE, THE MEETING ORDER AS CLOSE TO SIX AS POSSIBLE.
UH, HERE'S THE OTHER, UM, POINT HERE.
WE USUALLY MEET TILL EIGHT 30.
AND AS FAR AS I'VE BEEN HERE, WE USUALLY DO MEET ALL THE WAY, UH, TO EIGHT 30 WE KNOWS ABOUT TODAY, RIGHT? BUT, UM, AND THERE HAS BEEN AT LEAST ONE MEETING THAT RECALL ON THAT.
UM, IF EVERYONE'S SUPPORT GROUP WOULD PUSH, YOU GET, AND SOMETIMES DEPENDING ON THE NEW ITEM THAT AND COMMUNITY NEEDS, THAT'S WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
BUT IN GENERAL, UH, ESPECIALLY FOLKS FROM NEW FOLKS HERE, EIGHT 30 IS IS THAT THAT TIME THAT, UM, WE, WE ADJOURN THE MEETING? OKAY.
AND I'M GONNA SPEAK A LITTLE BIT, AND I'M GONNA HAND THIS OFF TO OUR VICE CHAIR.
I FOUND THIS PARTICULARLY HELPFUL BECAUSE I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, MAYBE IT'S MY COVID BRAIN NOW, RIGHT? YOU KNOW, I COVID THREE TIMES.
I CAN'T REMEMBER WHEN DID I START
I CAN REALLY SPEAK TO KIND OF HOW THIS HAS IMPACTED, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE WORK OF THE COMMISSION.
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SO VICE CHAIR, ABSOLUTELY.SO AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE BOARD, UM, OR ON THE SCREEN, UH, THESE HAVE YOUR LIST OF START TIME.
UM, IN THE SLIDES PREVIOUS, UM, BECAUSE OF OUR ORDINANCE, UH, IT SPECIFICALLY SAYS THAT, UM, EACH APPOINTED MEMBER GETS, UH, FOUR CONSECUTIVE TERMS OF TWO YEARS EACH.
SO THAT MEANS THAT YOU COULD POTENTIALLY SERVE ON THIS COMMISSION FOR EIGHT YEARS, UM, WHICH IS QUITE SOME TIME.
SO WHAT WE, UH, PROVIDED YOU ALL TODAY IS A LOOK AT WHERE WE ARE IN TERMS OF FOCUS TERMS. UM, SO THERE ARE, ARE SOME FOLKS WHO'VE BEEN HERE UP TO FOUR YEARS.
UH, AND THERE ARE, I THINK THAT'S THE MAX, UH, TIME UNDER WHO'S THE LONGEST YEAR.
UM, SO WE HAVE, UM, SOME TERMS TO MOVE FORWARD.
UH, AND SO, UH, IN LOOKING AT THIS, JUST KEEP IN MIND OF HOW MUCH TIME YOU HAVE LAST, UH, AND, UH, ALSO THINK ABOUT, UH, WHO COULD POTENTIALLY FIT SOME POSITIONS.
SO IN THE NEXT SLIDE, UH, WE'RE GONNA SPECIFICALLY TALK ABOUT THE POSITIONS THAT ARE VACANT.
UH, THESE POSITIONS ARE, ACTUALLY, MAJORITY OF THEM ARE DISTRICT RELATED.
UH, SO FOLKS WHO ARE JOINING ON ZOOM, UH, WHOEVER'S LISTENING AND FOLKS IN THE ROOM, UH, WE DO NEED SUPPORT OF GETTING REPRESENTATION FROM DISTRICT ONE, DISTRICT FOUR, AND DISTRICT NINE.
SO IF YOU LIVE WITHIN THOSE AREAS OR KNOW FOLKS WITHIN THOSE AREAS, UH, THEY CAN GO TO THE CITY'S WEBSITE, UH, AND APPLY FOR THE COMMISSION.
AND THE MAYOR ACTUALLY MAKES THE DECISION ON WHO GETS APPOINTED TO THE COMMISSION.
SO, UH, WE WANNA HELP THE MAYOR BY SENDING APPLICATIONS.
SO WHEN THE NEXT ROUND OF SELECTIONS COME, WHICH, UM, SHOULD BE HAPPENING IN THE SPRING AROUND APRIL, UH, WE CAN HAVE SOME OF THESE SEATS VACANT.
UH, AND IN ADDITION, ASIDE FROM THE THREE SPECIFIC COUNCIL DISTRICTS, WE HAVE ONE AT LARGE.
SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE REPRESENTED OF THE DISTRICT.
UH, THESE ARE JUST FOLKS THAT WE WANT TO SEE REPRESENTATION AND WE DON'T SEE SPECIFICALLY IN OUR, UH, COMMISSION COMPOSITION.
SO, UH, THIS IS THE CURRENT, UH, MAKEUP OF THAT.
UH, AND THEN MOVING ON TO OUR NEXT SLIDE, UH, WE WANTED TO HAVE A MOMENT OF TRANSPARENCY, UH, VULNERABILITY AND CALLING OURSELVES IN NOT CALLING OURSELVES OUT.
UH, SO IN THIS PARTICULAR, UH, CHART, WE'VE ONLY GONE BACK UP UNTIL JUNE.
UH, AND WE HAVE, WE ARE ABLE TO SHOW HOW MANY ABSENCES, UH, WE HAVE IN THE PARTICULAR MEETINGS, HOW MANY VACANT, UH, SEATS WE'VE HAD IN THE TIME.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S GROWN AND IT JUST GOT LARGER.
UM, AND THEN OUR QUORUM ISSUES, UH, DID WE HAVE ISSUES WITH STARTING ON TOP? DID WE HAVE QUORUM? UM, AND AS YOU CAN SEE, MOST RECENTLY, AS THE NUMBER OF VACANCIES HAVE INCREASED, THE ISSUES OF QUORUM HAS BEEN HAPPENING.
UH, SO THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY, UH, TO INVITE FOLKS, UH, TO PRIORITIZE THESE MEETINGS IN ALIGNMENT TO YOUR OTHER PRIORITIES TO GET HERE A LITTLE BIT, UH, EARLY SO THAT WE CAN START ON TIME, UH, SO THAT WE DON'T RUN INTO FORM ISSUES, ESPECIALLY, UH, WITH THE AMOUNT OF VACANCIES THAT WE HAVE, THAT WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER FILLING.
UM, SO THE MORE THAT WE CAN GET HERE EARLIER ON TIME, UH, THE MORE THAT WE CAN BE EFFECTIVE IN, IN OUR WORK AND SERVING OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, AND SO THAT CONCLUDES, UH, OUR PRESENTATION.
I THANK YOU VICE CHAIR COVINGTON.
UM, BEFORE I MOVE OVER TO, UM, PUBLIC COMMENT, UM, ONE THING THAT I WANT TO SHARE, AND IT MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN LOST IN THE READING OF THE AGENDA, IS THE SECOND PART, WHICH IS VERY KEY HERE, AND REALLY INTENTIONALLY IN THIS PARTICULAR WAY, IF APPROPRIATE, DEPENDING ON WHAT WE'LL SAY, UM, DRAFT RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, REGARDING THE VACANCIES, UH, TO THE MAYOR CITY COUNCIL IN A WAY THAT, UM, CAN HELP SUPPORT THE PROCESS OF MODEL IN GETTING THESE THREE VACANCIES.
'CAUSE FROM MY LENS, RIGHT, ONE WAY TO ENSURE FORUM IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S THOSE VACANCIES ARE FILLED.
SO WE HAVE A HIGHER PROBABILITY OF THOSE EIGHT AND MORE
I'D RATHER GO, MY THOUGHT, I'D RATHER GO THERE FIRST AS OPPOSED TO, UM, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT
BUT THINGS ARE ON THE TABLE FOR COMMISSION.
I THINK COMMISSIONER, I'LL CALL COMMISSIONER PUBLIC COMMENT, RIGHT? IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER FIVE IN THE ZOOM, PLEASE USE THE RAISE 10 FEATURE NOW, OR STAR NINE IS CALLING IN.
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IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HERE IN PERSON THAT WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEM NUMBER FIVE, UH, GO AHEAD AND RAISE YOUR HAND AND WE'LL GET STARTED AFTER THE ZOOM, I'M SORRY.AND THEN IN PERSON WE HAVE ONE.
UM, UM, I WASN'T PREPARED TO SPEAK ON ANY OF THIS, BUT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE, THERE'S A COMMISSION COMMITTEE HANDBOOK THAT TALKS ABOUT ABSENCES AND THE NUMBER THAT ARE PERMITTED, EXCUSED, AND UNEXCUSED.
AND WHAT HAPPENS IF SOMEBODY MISSES THREE, THEY'RE UNEXCUSED AND SHOWING UP AT THE MEETING.
SO THAT'S THE FIRST THING THAT I WOULD SUGGEST THAT THIS COMMISSION BE FAMILIAR WITH.
AND THE OTHER IS, YOU SAID THE INITIAL RATIONALE FOR THE AT LARGE MEMBERS, AND THE INCREASE WAS, SO THERE WOULD BE EQUITY ON THE COMMISSION AND THERE WOULD BE MORE REPRESENTATION OF THE WHOLE LONG BEACH AREA.
HAS THAT RATIONALE CHANGED IN THE SENSE THAT IT WOULD MAKE SENSE TO HAVE LESS PEOPLE? THAT'S IT.
ANY OTHER MEMBERS OF
UM, I BELIEVE COMMISSIONER BUTLER HAD A COMMENT.
I, WELL, IT IS, IT'S A COMBINATION OF THE COMMENT AND QUESTION.
ARE WE ABLE TO INCORPORATE LANGUAGE INTO SOMETHING SOMEHOW THAT WOULD ENABLE US TO HAVE VIRTUAL MEETINGS WHEN WE HAVE CLE WEATHER LIKE WE'VE BEEN HAVING THIS WEEK? UM, I CAN SEE WHERE THAT WOULD CERTAINLY HELP WITH HAVING A FORUM DURING THE MEETING, BECAUSE IF YOU KNOW WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM, IT CAN REALLY BE A, IT CAN BE A REALLY BIG CHALLENGE TO GET HERE PHYSICALLY DURING WEEKS SUCH AS THIS ONE THAT WE JUST HAD.
BECAUSE I ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO TONY TO ASK IF THERE WAS ANY WAY WE COULD DO THIS MEETING TONIGHT.
VIRTUALLY, PRIMARILY BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE STORM'S GONNA DO.
AND YOU KNOW, MOTHER NATURE OF FATHER TIME ARE NOT ON OUR SCHEDULE.
AND IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT WE SAY.
IF THEY SAY SOMETHING DIFFERENT, THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE TO ABIDE BY.
AND, AND IN, IN PUTTING THAT OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME SITUATIONS WHERE WE CAN LOOK AHEAD AND PLAN FOR THINGS LIKE THAT.
SOME SITUATIONS WOULD JUST BE A, LIKE THIS WEEK, FOR EXAMPLE.
SO THAT'S JUST THE THOUGHTS THAT MY QUESTION THAT MIGHT COMMENT KIND OF THING THAT I, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
AND THEN FOR SPECIFICS, I CAN, UM, I CAN TURN TO THE OFFICE OF EQUITY, BUT I DO REMEMBER SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WARNING, I THINK IT'S COME UP, HOW DO WE, CAN WE HAVE A HYBRID OPTION? AND I KNOW THAT THE ANSWER, THE STRAIGHT, THE STRAIGHT ANSWER WAS NO.
RIGHT? THAT'S THE ANSWER WE GOT.
UH, BUT THE SPECIFICS, I'M SURE IT HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH LAWS AND POLICY.
SO I'LL TURN TO THE OFFICE OF EQUITY, UH, TO REMIND US, I WISH I COULD MOVE AS MANY MEETINGS, BUT THERE'S A SPECIFIC TECHNICALITY AS TO WHY WE CAN'T GO BACK.
SO, UM, IF, IF A MEMBER OF THE COMMISSIONER COME BACK TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MEETING, UH, VIA HYBRID MEETING, WE WOULD HAVE TO BE, UH, IT WOULD'VE TO BE KNOWN AHEAD OF TIME.
IT WOULD'VE TO BE UNDER VALID REASONS.
AND THAT ALL, AGAIN GOES BACK TO ROBERT RULES ORDER AND IT GOES BACK TO THE BROTHER.
UM, SO AGAIN, I KNOW THAT NOT LONG AGO CHRISTOPHER WAS OUT OF TOWN AND HE KNEW THAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN TWO WEEKS IN ADVANCE.
WE WERE TO COORDINATE, UM, THAT MEETING WITH CHRISTOPHER, UH, AND WE WERE ABLE TO FOLLOW EVERY SINGLE, UM, PROCESS TO ABIDE BY ROBERT'S RULES AND BROWN ACT, UM, INCLUDING POSTING THE ADDRESS OF THE AGENDA ABSOLUTELY.
ALLOWING PEOPLE TO ATTEND THAT ADDRESS.
SO WE WERE ABLE TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
YOU WOULD NEED AT LEAST A WEEK'S NOTICE.
IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? OR IS THAT TIMEFRAME? AND IT ALSO GOES DOWN TO, SO THERE'S A FEW FACTORS TO, IT ALSO DEPENDS, YOU CANNOT TAKE A MEETING VIRTUALLY JUST BECAUSE YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE COMING TO A MEETING THAT OKAY, OF COURSE.
AND IT WOULD HAVE TO BE YOU'RE OUT OF TOWN OR YOU ARE ILL, UM, THERE ARE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES THAT COME UP.
UM, HOWEVER, THERE ARE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS THAT YOU WOULD HAVE TO MEET IF YOU STILL ARE ABLE TO MEET THE DAY OF.
UM, SO IT ALL GOES BACK TO BROWN ACT RULES.
UM, SO IN THE INSTANCE OF VICE COVINGTON, THAT WAS CONSIDERED TELECONFERENCING.
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IZED IT AND IT WAS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.SO IF ANYONE WANTED TO PARTICIPATE FROM THEIR, UM, VICE CHAIR COVING CONSULTATION, THEY WERE ABLE TO ACCESS THE MEETING.
UM, AND THEN, BUT THERE ARE EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCES THAT COME UP THE DAY OF, AND WE ARE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE THOSE AS LONG AS WE HAVE QUORUM IN PERSON STILL.
SO THERE'S JUST CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS THAT WOULD BE MET, YOU KNOW, EMERGENCIES OR, UM, CIRCUMSTANTIAL, UM, INSTANCES COME UP.
AND THEN THAT'S WHEN THE COMMISSION WILL, OR THE COMMISSIONER WHO HAS THAT TYPE OF EMERGENCY CAN REACH OUT TO US, AND THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO, UH, ACCOMMODATE THAT, UM, EMERGENCY CIRCUMSTANCE.
SO THAT'S ESSENTIALLY THE OPTIONS THAT YOU HAVE FOR TELECONFERENCING? YEAH.
THE, THE OVERALL REASON WHY IT'S A NO IS BECAUSE IT'S A STATE LAW THAT PUBLIC MEETINGS HAVE TO BE ACCESSIBLE TO THE PUBLIC.
AND FOR SOME REASON, UH, VIRTUAL MEETINGS DID NOT APPLY.
HOWEVER, THE GOVERNOR DID SUBMIT A LAW THAT WAS PASSED DURING COVID TO ALLOW FOR THE VIRTUAL MEETING TO HAPPEN.
THAT ENDED EFFECTIVE JUNE OF THIS YEAR OF 2023.
UM, SO FOR THAT REASON, ALL FUTURE PUBLIC COMMISSION MEETING CANNOT BE ON VIRTUAL.
BECAUSE I DO REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST CAME ON, IT WAS DURING COVID AND WE WERE DOING THE VIRTUAL MEETINGS, AND I'M JUST LIKE, IT SEEMS SIMPLE ENOUGH TO DO THAT.
BUT I KNOW THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENE, THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
AND I CAN'T REMEMBER, I KNOW I MISSED A MEETING HERE FAIRLY RECENTLY.
I KNOW IT'S OUT OF TOWN FOR FAMILY FUNERAL, AND I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS THAT OR, OR SOMETHING, BUT THAT'S KIND OF ALL THAT, THAT'S KIND OF ALL OF THE REASON THAT TRIGGERED THE, THAT ONE QUESTIONING.
UM, I DO REMEMBER SEEING AS A VICE CHAIR COVINGTON
UM, DO THE, BECAUSE ARE THE, DO YOU KNOW, LIKE, ARE THE COUNCIL MEMBERS REACHING OUT TO THEIR COMMUNITIES TO GET THEIR RESPECTIVE REPRESENTATION, BUT FROM THEIR DISTRICT? IT'S A REALLY GOOD QUESTION.
I GUESS IT WOULD DEPEND ON EACH INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, AND ULTIMATELY IN TERMS OF THE PROCESS, UM, IT'S THE MAYOR IN HIS OFFICE THAT MOVES THAT FORWARD.
SO, AND, AND AGAIN, THAT'S THE SECOND PART.
SHOULD WE DECIDE, WE CAN WRITE, YOU KNOW, A LETTER, YOU KNOW, JUST, UH, YOU KNOW, FRIENDLY LETTERS SAYING, HEY, SUPPORT, WE CAN USE SOCIAL MEDIA.
OR LIKE, I RESPONDED TO THE MAYOR'S VIDEO BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I GET EVERYTHING FROM THE CITY.
SO AS A CITIZEN AND MY COUNCIL PERSON WAS ACTUALLY IN TRANSITION 'CAUSE SHE WAS NEW.
SO THE MAYOR'S LIKE, YES, I WANT YOU, BUT COULD YOU PLEASE AT LEAST TALK TO HER? NOW I KNOW HER, BUT LIKE AT THE TIME I DIDN'T EVEN, AND YOU, SHE DIDN'T EVEN, I DON'T KNOW IF SHE WAS AWARE OR NOT.
I'M GONNA CHECK THIS OFF YOUR BOX 'CAUSE I WANT TO DO IT
BUT I MEAN, MAYBE WE COULD REUSE SOME OF THOSE ASSETS AND, AND SO THAT THEY CAN PUT IT IN THEIR WEEKLY NEWSLETTERS TO THEIR COMMUNITY PEOPLE TO READ THE COUNCIL EQUALS NEWSLETTERS.
I WOULD ALSO RECOMMEND FOR THOSE WHO HAVE RELATIONSHIP WITH THOSE COUNCIL OF MEMBERS REPRESENTING THE ENTIRE SLIDE, I THINK 1 4, 4 9, UH, IS THERE ANYBODY HERE FROM 1 4 9? I'M JUST CURIOUS.
I COULD REACH OUT TO THE CITY COUNCIL PERSON IN DISTRICT NINE.
WELL, WOULD IT MAKE SENSE OR I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S HAPPENING WITH THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE WE HAVE SINCE YOUR DISTRICT IS THEY GET A SEAT, THAT SEAT FROM THERE VERSUS AT LARGE.
I KNOW THE RULES, THAT'S WHY I'M LIKE HESITATING, LIKE GETTING THE WORDS ARE NOT BIG AN EXTRA, BUT MY HUNCH IS PROBABLY, PROBABLY NOT, NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO LOOK FOR THE REASONS THAT YOU ARE APPOINTED FOR THAT TERM LIMIT.
SO IF YOU WERE TO BE SWITCHED OVER, YOU WOULD HAVE TO BE REAPPOINTED, EXTENDED YOUR TERM IN THAT, UH, WOULD BE MY HU AS WELL.
UM, SO FOR SPECIFICALLY ON THIS ITEM, UM, BECAUSE OF THE NUMBER OF VACANCIES, UH, I DO WANT MAKE A MOTION TO SEND A LETTER TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, UM, ASKING THEM TO SUPPORT US, UH, BY FILLING THOSE VACANCIES AS EARLY AS SPRING.
UH, AND IN THIS MOTION TO COME BACK TO THE NEXT MEETING AND PROVIDE A DRAFT FOR THE COMMISSION TO VOTE ON, UH,
AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I PARTMENT,
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I, I ASK BEFORE YOU GET A SECOND THAT WE CONTINUE DISCUSSION THIS.ARE YOU OKAY WITH HOLDING ON JUST AS A, NOT EVEN JUST MR REQUEST.
COMMISSIONER SCHULTZ, DID YOU HAVE, DID YOU HAVE YOUR HAND UP BEFORE? I DID THE
I I DID HAVE A QUESTION, BUT SHE, IT JUST IN ONE SIDE OF MY BRAIN.
NOW THE OTHER, I'LL COME BACK TO IT.
IF, UH, COMMISSIONER, I, I, I THINK THREE OF US WERE HERE STILL FOUR.
I, UH, FLORES YOU WERE HERE, UH, FOR THAT DISCUSSION, UH, WHEN WE INCREASED THE NUMBER? I BELIEVE SO, BUT ON, I DON'T RECALL.
YES, THERE WAS, THERE WAS, THERE WAS THREE OR FOUR COMMISSIONERS THAT ARE STILL ON THE COMMISSION THAT WERE THERE FOR THAT MEETING A FEW YEARS AGO, TWO, FOUR YEARS AGO.
IT WAS MINE AND CHRISTOPHER'S ONE OF OUR FIRST MEETINGS PROBABLY, I HADN'T FOUND MY VOICE YET, BUT THE, THE, UM, I CLEARLY REMEMBER THE RATIONALE AND, AND FINDING MY VOICE WHEN THE SUGGESTION WAS TO INCREASE THE COMMISSION TO 21 MEMBERS.
AND YES, THIS, I'M GONNA, IT WAS, I'M NOT 21.
IT WAS LOOK AT, LOOK AT THE MINUTES OR, OR TALK TO THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS.
IT WAS, WHY IS THE MAYOR HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH IT? HE SHOULD NOT HAVE A SAY IN WHO'S, UH, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, UH, UH, COMMISSIONER COVINGTON, VICE CHAIR COVINGTON.
UH, BUT IT WAS, THE MAYOR SHOULDN'T HAVE A SAY IN THIS.
WE SHOULD DECIDE WHO, UM, WE, WE SHOULDN'T MEET IN CITY HALL AND BE PART OF THAT.
WE SHOULD BE AUTONOMOUS AND MEET A A AWAY FROM CITY HALL.
UM, UH, THAT WAS THE DISCUSSION AS MUCH AS IT WAS ADDING EQUITY.
AND, UH, I, I FOUND MY VOICE AT THAT, AT THAT FIRST MEETING AND, AND SAID, UH, UM, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE QUORUM ISSUES.
I, I STARTED WITH BROWN AND I I LOGISTICS AND, UH, I ASKED THE QUESTION, HAS THERE BEEN, UM, A FULL, I THINK IT WAS 1113, HAS THERE EVER BEEN A FULL MEETING? UH, NO.
UH, I, I ASKED THAT, UH, OF TONY LAST MONTH, HAS THERE BEEN A FULL MEETING SINCE WE RAISED IT TO 15? YOU KNOW, UM, I WOULD SAY TO TO COMMISSIONER BUTLER, SHE SAYS, IF WE COULD HAVE ZOOM BECAUSE OF THE RAIN OF, IT'S LIKE THIS IS THE FULLEST MEETING WE'VE HAD IN MONTHS.
UM, IT IS, IT IS TOUGH NOT MAKING QUORUM.
YOU CAN SAY IT AS EQUITY, ADDING PEOPLE, BUT I DON'T THINK WE'VE BEEN ANY LESS EQUITABLE OR REPRESENTATIVE OF THE PEOPLE IN THE CITY, EVEN WHEN WE'RE JUST INKING OUT EIGHT PEOPLE WAITING TO GO TO THE BATHROOM SOMETIMES.
UH, I I THINK THAT WE'VE REPRESENTED EQUITY IN THIS, THIS CITY JUST GREAT.
EVEN WHEN THERE'S EIGHT PEOPLE HERE.
UM, AND IT'S, AND, AND WE'RE NOT SERVING THE EQUITY.
WE'RE WE'RE, WE'RE NOT BEING EQUITABLE.
WHEN WE HAVE TO DELAY A MEETING, WE'RE LATE FOR A MEETING, POSTPONE A MEETING, CANCEL A MEETING.
UM, WELL, YOU CAN'T CANCEL, POSTPONE A MEETING BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A QUO THAT'S THE OPPOSITE OF EQUITY AND GIVING PEOPLE A VOICE.
AND, UH, I I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE LOWER THE NUMBER TO 11 COMMISSIONERS.
UM, YOU'D HAVE, UH, YOU'D HAVE A, AN EASIER TIME OF MAKING, UM, QUO AND, UH, IT WASN'T, IT IS BEEN A TWO AND A HALF YEAR EXPERIMENT O OF 15.
AND, AND WE'VE NEVER HAD 15 ATTEMPT.
IT DIDN'T, IT DIDN'T WORK AS PLANNED.
AND WITH HOW LONG A TICKET COULD TAKE FOUR MONTHS TO ONBOARD SOMEONE WHO HERE WAITED MORE THAN A MONTH TO GET TO GO TO THEIR FIRST MEETING BECAUSE OF BACKGROUND CHECKS AND WAITING FOR YOUR WHAT, WHATEVER, WHATEVER, WAIT FOR APPOINTMENT.
SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SUGGEST A THIRD, I WOULD SUGGEST 11, BUT I GET TORN APART FOR THAT.
SO, UM, I WOULD, UH, I WOULD, UM, RESPECTFULLY, UH, REQUEST THAT WE, WE, UH, AND I WOULD, I WOULD MAKE A MOTION AFTER YOUR MOTION, CHRIS, TO LOWER, UM, THE NUMBER OF, UM, COMMISSIONERS TO, AND IF, IF I MAY PIGGYBACK ON WHAT HE WAS SAYING, I, I
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KNOW I WOULD SUGGEST 11, BUT MAYBE WE COULD MEET IN THE MIDDLE AT 13 AND THEN, NO, I'M SORRY.I SAID, YEAH, IT WOULD BE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE RIGHT, BECAUSE I SAID I WANTED DO 11, BUT 13 WOULD BE, UH, ONE LESS TO MAKE QUORUM.
AND IF I'D HAVE TO, YOU HAVE TO PULL THAT MAP BACK UP.
BUT I, I THINK WE WOULD'VE MADE QUORUM, UH, AT ALL OF THE MEETINGS WITHOUT DELAY IF WE HAD, UH, 13 MEMBERS TO CONTEND WITH RATHER THAN 15.
WELL, CAN YOU REPEAT YOUR QUESTION? UH, I THINK THAT IF WE HAD, UH, IF IT WAS 13 INSTEAD OF 15 OVER THE PAST TWO MONTHS, WE COULD HAVE, UH, WE COULD HAVE CONDUCTED BUSINESS, UH, AS AGENDA.
THAT'S FINE AS PLANNED, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE SAID WE WOULD NEED, SAID THAT.
WELL, HERE, HERE ARE SOME IMMEDIATE THOUGHTS THAT ARE SERVICES FOR ME.
UM, TWO, TWO KIND OF BIG IDEAS HERE.
ONE, AND AGAIN, I WASN'T HERE FOR WHEN THAT DECISION WAS MADE, BUT IN TERMS OF WHAT I'VE BEEN ABLE TO SYNTHESIZE WITH FOLKS THAT SHARED, IT WAS DONE IN THE SPIRIT OF CREATING AN EQUITABLE NUMBER OF COMMISSIONERS.
WHILE I ALSO RECOGNIZE THAT WE NEVER, WELL, SO HOW, IF WE'RE HAVING FOREIGN ISSUES, HOW CAN WE MOVE THAT EQUITY RIGHT FORWARD? SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE TWO OPPOSING THOUGHTS.
HAVING SAID THIS, I'M JUST THROWING THIS OUT HERE.
I THINK MY, MY PERSONAL RESERVATION, UH, IS TWOFOLD.
ONE, WE JUST DISCUSSED OVER THE LAST TWO MEETINGS, UM, SPECIFICALLY THE, THE RECOMMENDATION TO BRING IN MORE, THE WAY I FRAME IT, INDIGENOUS, UH, REPRESENTED PEOPLE TO PROSPER IN ALL FACETS OF OUR SYSTEM.
AND SO, HYPOTHETICALLY, IF WE LOWER THE NUMBER, RIGHT? THERE COULD BE, I'M NOT SAYING THERE WILL BE, BUT THERE COULD BE A LOWER CHANCE OF HAVING SOMEONE INTERRUPTED AND THIS EXAMPLE
AND SO I THINK THAT IS JUST MY OWN, I'M HAVING ALL SORTS OF KIND OF THOUGHTS ABOUT THAT.
I'M NOT OPPOSED TO THE IDEA BECAUSE THE ISSUE, BUT I AM WANT TO, I I, I DO WANT TO RECOGNIZE THAT, THAT WE DO EVERY DECISION, ANY OTHER DECISION, ANY S UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES.
SO I KIND OF WANNA SEE THAT THROUGH.
THE SECOND THING THAT I WANNA RAISE THE AGENDA ITEM AS WRITTEN, SOMEONE, PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.
I DON'T KNOW IF IT'LL ALLOW US TO MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION JUST YET, BUT IT COULD BE SOMETHING THAT WAS FOR, IF WE, I COULD BE WRONG, BUT SOMEONE WITH OFFICE OF EQUITY HAS WRITTEN MORE OF THAT MOTION, BE ABLE TO BE ALIGNED WITH THAT AGENDA ITEM.
MATT, WHAT ARE YOUR, YOUR THOUGHTS? I, I THINK IT NEEDS TO COME BACK AGENDAS RELATING TO AMENDING YOUR COMMISSION AS A WHOLE.
IT WOULDN'T NEED TO BE, THE ORDINANCE ITSELF WOULDN'T NEED TO BE AMENDED.
'CAUSE IT IS PART OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE, SO IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT, EXCUSE ME, JUST GETS CHANGED OKAY.
BUT I DO NEED TO FIND OUT FURTHER INFORMATION ON WHAT WOULD BE THE CORRECT PROCESS FOR THAT, UM, TO AMEND YOUR, UM, TOTAL MEMBERS FOR THIS COMMISSION.
'CAUSE I, I DON'T KNOW OFF OFFHAND, RIGHT, WHAT WOULD BE THE CORRECT PROCESS FOR THAT? OKAY.
AND, AND MAYBE I'M THE INTERNAL OPTIMIST HERE, BUT LIKE, I AM TRYING TO COME IN FROM THIS SUPPORTIVE LENS FIRST, LIKE LETTER TO THE MAYOR TRYING TO GET US THE 15 AND ALL THAT.
AND IF THAT'S NOT GONNA WORK, THEN IT MAY DO IT, YOU KNOW, SHIP BY.
OH, COMMISSIONER, BACK TO MY ADDRESS.
COUPLE COMMENTS THAT WERE STATED.
UM, AS LONG AS WE'VE HAD 15 SEATS, THERE HAVE NEVER BEEN 15 COMMISSIONERS APPOINTED AT THE SAME TIME.
UM, I WANNA ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THE COMMISSION DID A REALLY GREAT JOB OF OUTREACH WHEN WE DID GET THE ADDED SEATS.
SO THEY WERE, I WANNA SAY THERE WAS A LAY OF THREE APPOINTMENTS THAT ALL OCCURRED AT THE SAME TIME.
THAT BEING COMMISSIONER GILLETTE, YOU CHAIR LAURA, AND COMMISSIONER BATS ALL AROUND THE SAME TIME.
Y'ALL WERE ALL WAITING AROUND THE SAME TIME.
SO THE COMMISSIONER HAS ALSO BEEN VERY INSTRUMENTAL IN THE OUTREACH OF GETTING PEOPLE TO APPLY.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING ELSE TO CONSIDER.
UM, BUT AGAIN, I JUST WANTED TO BE REALLY CLEAR ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE'VE NEVER HAD ALL 18 SEATS FILLED AT ONE TIME.
NOT SINCE, UH, THE ORDINANCE CHANGED.
AND REGARDING CHANGING THE NUMBER OF SEATS ON THE COMMISSION, IT WOULD BE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE MERIT CITY COUNCIL GETTING THAT AGENDA, CHANGING THE ORDINANCE A SECOND READ, UM, THAT COULD TAKE
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A, WHO KNOWS HOW MANY WEEKS, UH, FOR DISCUSSION.UM, BUT THAT WOULD BE THE PROCESS.
AND I THINK, THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING, BECAUSE NOW WE HAVE TWO SEEMINGLY COMPETING KIND OF LINES OF THOUGHT HERE IN THE SENSE THAT IF, IF YOU MAY, UH, VICE CHAIR COVINGTON, VICE CHAIR COVINGTON, UH, MADE A, A MOTION THAT HASN'T BEEN SECONDED YET ABOUT, UH, WRITING A LETTER TO THE MAYOR.
AND I'LL USE THIS FAST TRACKING, HOPEFULLY THE THREE VACANCIES THAT WE HAVE, FOUR VACANCIES THAT WE HAVE, VERSUS A RECOMMENDATION WHICH WE TECHNICALLY CAN MOVE FORWARD.
WE'D HAVE TO READJUST THIS, GENERALIZE THIS FUTURE IF WE DO.
BUT THOSE TWO, SO WE WILL SIMULTANEOUSLY MOVE ON ONE, HYPOTHETICALLY AND THEN ON THE OTHER.
AND WE COULD FILL THEM IN MAYBE OPTIMISTIC HERE, AND YET RECOMMEND THAT WE SCALE DOWN.
SO IT COULD, IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT TO NAVIGATE, BUT MAYBE THEY CAN DO SOME THINKING ON, ON HOW WE CAN DO THIS.
I, I'M GONNA SAY THE, THE, UH, THE TECHNOLOGY, I CAN'T KEEP TRACK OF WHO GOES FIRST.
UH, SO SEEING THAT THERE ARE VACANCIES FOR DISTRICTS 1, 4, 9, AND ONE AT MARCH, DOES THAT, DOES THAT MEAN THAT THERE'S, I HEAR YOUR PROB, COMMISSIONER MONTGOMERY DISTRICT ONE? UM, OR DO WE HAVE SOME DISTRICTS NOT REPRESENTED HERE CURRENTLY? YEAH.
THERE'S SOME FOLKS, LARGE DISTRICT.
SO BECAUSE IN, IN THAT SENSE, I, I, I DO FEEL IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE REPRESENTATION FROM ALL DISTRICTS, UH, BECAUSE WE ALL FACE, UH, DEPENDING ON OUR PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD, WE HAVE DIFFERENT ISSUES WHERE WE WANT TO HIGHLIGHT, UM, OTHER AREAS THAT ARE NOT PRESENT IN OTHER DISTRICTS.
SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO GET THOSE.
I RE I RECALL BEING THAT, AND HE ENCOURAGED ALL THE RESIDENTS TO APPLY FOR THESE COMMISSIONS.
SO WE DID HEAR FROM HIS OFFICE SUPPORTING THE FIELD OF THE PHYSICIAN, AND IT IS UP TO THE RESIDENTS TO HAVE THE INTEREST IN FILLING THE POSITION.
UM, TECHNICALLY SPEAKING, RIGHT NOW WE ARE FUNCTIONING WITH 11 COMMISSION WITHOUT TECHNICALLY DROPPING THE NUMBER BECAUSE WE'VE GOT FOUR, FOUR SLOTS VACANT.
SO OUT OF 15, WE HAVE 11 ALREADY.
SO, AND I'M JUST POINTING OUT THESE LITTLE THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT RIGHT HERE TO KEEP IT ON THE TOP RIGHT YET.
AND, AND I DO REMEMBER FOR MY OTHER QUESTION, ARE YOU ABLE TO SERVE ON MORE THAN ONE COMMISSION AT A TIME? I DON'T BELIEVE SO.
I JUST, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT QUESTION HAD COME ACROSS MY MIND BEFORE AND I NEVER DID GET A, A REAL CLEAR ANSWER, BUT NO ONE AT A TIME.
UM, I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY THAT LOOKING AT THE WOMEN AND GIRLS, THE OUTREACH THAT HAPPENED AND THE PEOPLE WHO DID APPLY, I THINK WE NEED TO KIND OF DUPLICATE THAT PROCESS.
AND I SPEAK WITH PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY AND PEOPLE STILL DON'T KNOW HOW TO GET ON A COMMISSION.
AND I THINK THAT, UM, WITH OUR BRANDING AND HAVING INFORMATION ABOUT THIS SPECIFIC COMMISSION, IT MAY HELP GET SOME OF THE RESIDENTS WHO ARE EAGER AND NOT TO JOIN AND WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
BUT I THINK SOME PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, EVERYONE DOESN'T GET THE, THE COUNCILMAN'S LETTERS, UM, OR EMAILS.
SOME PEOPLE DO, BUT MANY DON'T.
AND I AM ALWAYS OUT IN THE COMMUNITY AND SOME PEOPLE TO THIS DAY LIKE, WELL, HOW DO YOU EVEN GET ON THE COMMISSION? SO I THINK IF WE CAN SOMEHOW GET THE OUTREACH DONE PROPERLY, I THINK THERE ARE PEOPLE ACROSS THE BOARD, UM, LIKE GOING MISSING, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN GROUPS THAT MAY BE WILLING TO JOIN IMPRESSIVE AND ACTIVE, NOT JUST JOIN, BUT ACTUALLY PARTICIPATE AND SHOW UP.
AND IF WE DO THAT, WE COULD JUST SIT THAT OUT TO ALL THE DISTRICTS BECAUSE AT SOME POINT IN TIME, ALL OF OUR TERMS, ALL OF US ARE GONNA TURN BACK MM-HMM.
SO WE CAN KIND OF PRIME THE PUMP FOR OTHERS WHO MIGHT WANT TO COME IN AFTER THE HOW TO, HOW TO IS REALLY
AND AS WE'VE ALL EXPERIENCED, THERE IS A LEARNING CURVE.
I THINK WE ALL COME IN WITH THOUGHTS AND
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CONTENT, BUT THE LEARNING CURVE IS IN THE PROCESSES, RIGHT.AND GROUND AND ROB, UH, ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDERS AND TRYING TO, AGAIN, SINCE WE ONLY NEED ONCE A MONTH, UM, RETAINING ALL THAT
AND SO I THINK PRIMING AND PROMPT, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE FOLKS THAT WERE INSPIRING AND MOTIVATING TO APPLY.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, MENTOR, I BELIEVE IN MENTOR ENTRY, PRIME EXAMPLE OF THE GENTLEMAN WHO ATTENDED OUR LAST MEETING, YOU KNOW, HE'S SEEMS LIKE HE REALLY WANTS TO JOIN.
RIGHT? AND I'M SURE THERE'S MANY PEOPLE THAT ARE OUT THERE, HE JUST SO DON'T HAPPEN TO KNOW ABOUT IT, BUT THERE'S PLENTY WHO DON'T KNOW.
AND I'M SURE THAT THEY WOULD BE EAGER TO WANT.
WELL, LET'S GO BACK TO TECHNICAL
RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT I WAS GONNA GO.
SO FOR TECHNICALITY SAKE, THERE ARE TWO MOTIONS ON THE FLOOR.
SO, MAD CLERK, HOW DO WE NAVIGATE THAT? WELL, WE DIDN'T EVEN GET, WELL, I ASKED TO GET A MOTION.
I ASKED, I ASKED THEM TO PAUSE FOR A SECOND SO WE COULD FINISH, FINISH THE DISCUSSION.
THIS LAST THING I'LL SAY IS A DISTRICT FOUR.
UH, I'LL REACH OUT, UH, BECAUSE DISTRICT FOUR, UH, SUPER COUNCILMAN SUPER WAS THE ONE THAT PUT FORTH TRYING TO START A NATIVE AMERICAN COMMISSION.
AND YOU DIDN'T GET THAT THROUGH.
PERHAPS HE HAS SOMEONE IN HIS DISTRICT THAT COULD FILL, AND I WILL, I'LL REACH OUT TO HIM TOMORROW AND SEE IF HE HAS SOMEONE IN MIND.
UH, I I'M NOT TRYING TO HAVE A LESS EQUITY IN THIS CITY.
UH, I JUST, I DON'T WANT PLACE THEIR TIME IN THESE MEETINGS WHEN, UNLESS THERE'S TAMALES THERE,
UM, SO I'LL DO, AND THEN HE COULD.
1, 4, 9, IF YOU KNOW YOUR COUNCIL PEOPLE IN THAT, IN THOSE DISTRICTS, YOU HAVE THEIR PHONE NUMBER OR YOU KNOW HOW TO REACH OUT TO THEM, REACH OUT TO THEM.
'CAUSE IT STARTS WITH THE, WITH THE NINE DISTRICTS, IT STARTS WITH THE COUNCIL PERSON PUTTING FORWARD PEOPLE TO THE MAYOR.
THE MAYOR CAN ACCEPT OR, OR, OR APPOINT WHOEVER THEY WANT.
BUT GENERALLY THE CALL IS, OR, OR IT HAS BEEN IN THE PAST.
UM, UM, AND THERE'S STAFFERS HERE THAT HAVE WORKED FOR OFFICES THAT THE, THE COUNCIL OFFICE WILL PUT FORWARD SOMEONE FOR A POSITION, UM, AND THEN THE MAYOR WILL WILL GRANT THAT, OR, OR NOT.
SO YOU, YOU COULD, YOU COULD WANT A NATIVE, YOU COULD WANT FILL IN THE BLANK.
SO IF I JUST CHECK HOW TIME I THINK IS THE MOTION AFTER SOME POSSESSION YEAH.
JUST THE DISCUSSION FIRST, AND THEN I'LL GO INTO THE MOTION.
UM, SO THE, THE ROOT CAUSE IS REALLY ADDRESSING THE QUORUM TO BE ABLE TO DO THE DEFENSE.
I THINK TODAY'S PRESENTATION, THE CALLING
UM, AND SO FOR THAT REASON, I WANT TO GIVE US, UH, THE OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE GOOD ON THIS ASSET, SHOWING UP ON TIME AND, UM, BEING PRESENT BEFORE WE ACTUALLY TRIGGER, UH, THE PROCESS OF DOING A ORDINANCE CHANGE.
UM, AND SO THAT'S MY THOUGHT PROCESS.
UH, WE EACH LIKE, YOU KNOW, MAKE THE COMMITMENT AND THEN HOPEFULLY CORN WILL BE AN ISSUE MOVING FORWARD.
AND IF IT DOES, THEN WE CAN ALL AGREE TO IZE, UH, THE REDUCTION OF, OF, OF THE MEMBERSHIP, WHICH WILL TAKE A WHOLE PROCESS MOVING FORWARD.
UM, SO THAT'S MY ONLY THOUGHT AND ASK BEFORE WE MOVE INTO THE MOTION.
SO THE MOTION THAT I AM PREPARING TO OFFER IS TO, UH, DRAFT A LETTER TO THE MAYOR CITY COUNCIL TO BRING BACK TO THE COMMISSION, UH, FOR FINAL VOTE, UH, REGARDING FILLING THE VACANCIES OF THE COMMISSION, UH, IN A TIMELY MANNER, UH, IDENTIFY IN SPRING, UH, OR IF NOT, UH, OR WITHIN THE, THE FUTURE AMONGST THE, A SECOND.
SO JUST TO CLARIFY, UM, JUST TO CLARIFY, THE INITIAL RECOMMENDATION, IF APPROPRIATE, IS ASKING FOR A RECOMMENDATION TO BE DRAFTED.
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SO I WOULD CONSIDER THIS AN AMENDMENT TO YOUR INITIAL MOTION SINCE, UH, VICE CUMMINGS WAS ALREADY THE FIRST MOVER, THE SECONDER WAS BAT COMMISSIONER BATS.UM, SO IN THIS CASE, I WOULD ASK THE SECONDER COMMISSIONER BATS IF, UH, THEY APPROVE THE AMENDED, AMENDED MOTION THAT THE FIRST MOVER SUGGESTED.
SO, UM, IN THIS CASE, WE ALREADY HAVE A PERSON TO SECOND, UH, IT JUST NEEDS TO BE ACCEPTED BY THE SECONDER ACCEPTED.
COULD YOU READ BACK THE MOTION? YEAH.
UM, BEFORE THAT ALSO, I WANTED TO CLARIFY WHO WOULD BE WRITING THIS RECOMMENDATION.
IF YOU WOULD BE CREATING AN AD HOC, OR YOU WOULD ASSIGN IT TO ONE PERSON IN YOUR COMMISSION, AND THEN YOU WANTING TO BRING IT BACK TO THE COMMISSION FOR APPROVAL AS WELL BEFORE SENDING IT TO THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER APPROVAL WHO WOULD LIKE TO JOIN ME IN THE WRITING OF IT? I THINK IT'S PRETTY SIMPLE.
IF YOU WANT SUPPORT, I CAN SUPPORT YOU.
IF YOU, IF YOU THINK YOU GOT IT, I'M FINE.
I WOULD JUST ASK THAT THERE, IF I COULD, THAT THERE'D BE AN ACTION, A DATE, A SPECIFIC, YOU KNOW, INSTEAD OF IN THE FUTURE, OR TRY TO GET JUST BY THE DATE.
SO, AND I'LL HOLD MY MOTION FOR 13TH.
BUT THAT, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S, I DIDN'T WANNA USE THE WORD FRIENDLY
AND THEN IF YOU'RE SAYING APRIL, THAT MEANS THAT WE SUBMITTED, WE WOULD, IT WOULD GET IT.
SO I'M JUST TRYING TO THINK THIS THROUGH.
IF, UM, HANG ON, DO YOU WANT SEATS FILLED FRIDAY? GO FIRST.
NO, I JUST, I WANT, I WANTABLE, BUT YEAH, OF COURSE.
CAN WE SAY LATE SPRING? EARLY SUMMER.
LATE SPRING ONLY BECAUSE THINKING ABOUT HOW LONG IT TOOK, OUR NEW COMMISSIONERS ACTUALLY SIT, BUT I KNOW THAT'S, WE'RE, WE'LL, WE'LL, WE WOULD LIKE IT TO
THE BOSS ANOTHER COMMISSIONER TO BY THEN, ACCORDING TO, WELL, GOSH, NOT EITHER.
UM, BUT LOOKING AT, UH, PAST RESULTS OF DATA.
UH, MADAM CLERK, DO YOU MIND READING THAT, THAT MOTION FOR THE, FOR THE COMMISSION AND THE PUBLIC, JUST TO MAKE SURE WE'RE, SO THE MOTION RIGHT NOW IS, UH, THERE'S A MOTION TO DRAFT A LETTER TO THE MAN CITY COUNCIL, WHICH WILL COME BACK TO THE COMMISSION IN MARCH REGARDING FILLING THE VACANCIES OF THE COMMISSION BY LATE SPRING OR SUMMER.
UM, AND SUPPORT WILL BE GIVEN BY COMMISSIONER BY, ALRIGHT.
AND IT WAS ACCEPTED BY COMMISSIONER BASS.
COMMISSIONER LIZETTE FLORES? YES.
UM, MOST OF US, THE END OF THE TERM IS IN JULY, CORRECT? JUNE, AND THEN WE JUNE AND THEN JULY, THE NEW TERM START.
SO IDEALLY WE WANT TO HAVE HOW OF THIS IN PLACE BEFORE IDEALLY JUNE.
AND THEN MY SECOND PART TO THAT, FOR THOSE WHO FINISHED THEIR FIRST OR SECOND TERM AT END OF JUNE, HOW EXACTLY DOES THAT WORK? ARE YOU ASKED IF YOU WANNA CONTINUE? I, IT JUST HAPPENED.
IT JUST HAPPENED UNTIL THEY TELL YOU YOU'RE KICKED OUT.
I MEAN, I WASN'T TRYING TO BE FUNNY A LITTLE BIT MAYBE, BUT I JUST DIDN'T KNOW HOW THAT THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.
UM, BECAUSE AS I, I SHARED EARLIER, YOU HAD ASKED ME WHEN I JOINED THIS COMMISSION, I'M LIKE, SO IT'S GOOD TO KIND OF REVISIT
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THAT AND KNOW WHEN THOSE TERMS USED BE ON THE CITY WEBSITE.WE ALREADY CONCLUDED THIS ITEM.
WE HAVE TO STICK TO, SO, UH, SPEAKING OF THE AGENDA, LAST AGENDA ITEM, UM,
ITEM NUMBER SIX IS A RECOMMENDATION TO RECEIVE AND FILE A MONTHLY UPDATE FROM THE OFFICE OF EQUITY.
CAN I HAVE A MOTION MOVE? UH, COMMISSIONER FLORES A SECOND.
MR. SCHULTZ, NO PUBLIC COMMENT.
IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER SIX IN THE ZOOM, PLEASE USE THE RAISE HAND FEATURE NOW, OR STAR NINE OF CALLING IN.
AND IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC HERE IN PERSON THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON ITEM NUMBER SIX, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
SEEING NONE IN THE ZOOM AND SEEING NONE IN PERSON.
THAT CONCLUDES PUBLIC COMMENT FOR ITEM NUMBER SIX.
SO I'LL NOW REFER TO THE OFFICE OF EQUITY FOR THEIR UPDATES.
UM, SO I'M HAPPY TO REPORT THAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY UPDATES THIS MONTH,
UM, SO JUST MAKE SURE YOU FILL OUT YOUR TIME SHEET.
UM, GIVE THAT TO ME BEFORE YOU LEAVE AND GIVE ME AND DON'T
SO ONE DAY YOU HAVE A WHOLE HOUR TO GIVE A THANK YOU.
UM, SO NOW WE HAVE TO MOVE OVER TO NOW WE'RE NOT DONE YET.
SO, SO BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO THAT, I'M SORRY, YOU COULD TAKE A VOTE TO JUST RECEIVE AND FILE THE UPDATE.
AND NOW CAN WE MOVE OVER TO AGENDA, UH, ITEMS AND PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR THAT? YES.
SO IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC IN THE ZOOM THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON NON AGENDA, PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE USE THE RAISE HAND FEATURE NOW, OR STAR NINE OF CALLING IN.
AND IF THERE ARE ANY MEMBERS HERE IN PERSON THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON NON AGENDA, PUBLIC COMMENT, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HAND.
HI, UH, I'M SORRY, JUST TO CONCLUDE, THERE ARE NONE IN ZOOM AND THEN IN PERSON THIS TIME.
I AM THE PRESIDENT OF THE LONG BEACH GREAT PANTHERS, I WANNA THANK YOU ALL FIRST OF ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE.
I SERVE ON THE LA COUNTY COMMISSION ON AGING AND DISABILITIES, AND WE HAVE SOME OF THE SAME ISSUES TOO, SO YOU'RE NOT ALONE.
BUT TONIGHT I WANNA TALK TO YOU ABOUT AN ISSUE THAT I HAVEN'T HEARD ADDRESSED TONIGHT OR MENTIONED, AND THAT IS AGEISM.
ON OCTOBER 7TH, THE CITY ABDUCTED A MOTION TO, UM, CREATE AGEISM A DAY WITHIN THE COMMUNITY.
AND AS THE GREAT PANTHERS ARE CELEBRATING OUR 50TH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR, WE WANT TO BEGIN THE PROCESS TO LOOK AT WHAT KIND OF EVENT OR ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE CREATED AROUND AGEISM AWARENESS DAY.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS THE RIGHT PLACE TO DO IT, BUT I THOUGHT IT SEEMED THE MOST APPROPRIATE.
AND, UH, I WANNA GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE.
I CAME HERE FROM A MEETING OVER AT POUT WEST, AND I WANT YOU TO RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU HEARD AN
HAVE YOU HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT AN ASSAULT? NO.
THERE WAS AN ASSAULT AT PLYMOUTH LAST, APPROXIMATELY A WEEK AND A HALF AGO.
UH, THE GENTLEMAN FOLLOWED THE WOMAN INTO THE BUILDING.
AND MIND YOU, THIS IS A SECURED BUILDING, AND THIS IS A PROBLEM WE HAVE AT A NUMBER OF THE SENIOR BUILDINGS.
THEY FOLLOWED HER IN, FOLLOWED HER UP TO HER APARTMENT, AND THEY HAVE AN ELEVATED THAT REQUIRES A KEY UP TO GO UP TO DIFFERENT FLOORS.
GOT IN THE ELEVATOR WITH, DIDN'T SEE HER SEE HIM, HE, UM, ASSAULTED HER, PHYSICALLY ROBBED HER, AND SHE MANAGED TO RUN OUT WHILE HE SAT ON THE COUCH UNTIL THE POLICE ARRIVED.
AND THE POLICE HANDCUFFED HIM AND ESCORTED HIM OUT OF THE BUILDING.
THEY ARRESTED HIM AND THEY, UH, HE LAUGHED AS THEY CALLED HIM OUT OF THE BUILDING.
SO YOU SAW NOTHING ABOUT THIS EVENT IN ANY OF THE MEDIA.
THERE WAS NO NOTIFICATION OF ANY OF THE OTHER SENIOR BUILDINGS THAT THIS WAS GOING ON TO
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ALERT SENIORS AND THAT THIS IS THE PERFECT THING FOR GO LONG BEACH APP TO BE UTILIZED AND, UH, NOTHING.SO THE SENIORS ARE VERY UP IN ARMS ABOUT THIS, AND WE'RE TRYING TO DECIDE WHAT TO DO, AND WE'RE ASKING FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE IN HELPING, UM, THE CITY BE AWARE OF THESE ISSUES.
NOW, THERE WAS A YOUNG WOMAN THAT WAS ASSAULTED ON THE FOURTH STREET NEAR THE COFFEE SHOP, AND THERE'S STILL VIDEO UP ONLINE ABOUT HER ASSAULT.
YOU CAN WATCH HER BEING ASSAULTED BY A HOMELESS INDIVIDUAL.
SHE WAS YOUNG, THE WOMAN THAT ASSAULTED WAS OLDER.
SO THE DIFFERENCE, I, THIS IS A HUGE EQUITY ISSUE AND THIS IS WHY THE CONVERSATION ABOUT AGEISM IS SO IMPORTANT.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WOULD LIKE TO PROVIDE NON AGENDA COMMENT? SEEING NONE, THAT CONCLUDES NON AGENDA PUBLIC COMMENT.
AND I, I SEE A HAND, BUT WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THE AGENDA.
BUT WHAT WE CAN DO IS WE ARE GONNA GO INTO ANNOUNCEMENTS, UM, IF IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR THE ANNOUNCEMENTS, UM, WE CAN, WE CAN HAVE THAT COMMENT THERE.
SO I'M GONNA MOVE FORWARD TO THAT PORTION OF THE AGENDA ITEM.
AND JUST GENERAL ANNOUNCEMENTS FROM BOTH COMMISSIONERS.
UH, COMMISSIONER ABOVE YOU HAVE, I, IT, IT IS NOT REALLY AN ANNOUNCEMENT, BUT I JUST KIND OF WANNA PIGGYBACK ON WHAT SHE SAID.
SHE WAS SPEAKING ABOUT AGEISM AND ONE THING, WE ALL KNOW THE YOUNGER GENERATION, THEY USE SOCIAL MEDIA AND PLATFORMS LIKE THAT, UH, A LOT MORE REGULARLY, THAT'S MANY OF THE SENIOR CITIZENS DO.
SO PERHAPS WE COULD ENCOURAGE THEM ALL TO KEEP THAT CELL PHONE OUT, TAKE THE VIDEOS AND UPLOAD THEM SO WE BE CREATIVELY AWARE.
UM, OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS, FELLOW COMMISSIONERS, VICE CHAIR COVINGTON, UH, AS YOUR SIXTH DISTRICT, UH, REPRESENTATIVE.
UH, I JUST WANNA THANK FOLKS FOR COMING OUT TO THE OF THE KING PARADE.
THOSE OF YOU WHO SUPPORTED, UH, AND WEREN'T ABLE TO DO IT, BUT ALSO THOSE OF YOU.
AND A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE OFFICE OF ACTIVITY FOR PROVIDING US RESOURCES AND SUPPORT AND BEAUTIFUL SIGNS, BY THE WAY, UM, FOR US TO MARCH WITH, UH, DOWN THIS, UH, HISTORIC PARADE BECAUSE, UH, IT WAS THE FIRST TIME WE DIDN'T HAVE RAIN.
UM, AND FOLKS TO ACTUALLY LIKE, ENJOY THE PARADE AND THEY'RE REALLY MAD.
UM, SO THANK YOU ALL FOR, FOR YOUR SUPPORT AND ACTUALLY COMING TO THE SIXTH DISTRICT SPENDING YOUR MONEY, PLEASE DO MORE OF THAT
AND, UM, SUPPORTING, HAVE ANOTHER REALLY QUICK, AT THE END OF THE MONTH, UM, ALL COLORS ONE LOVE.
THEY, UM, CONNECTED WITH VICE MAYOR CINDY ALLEN AND YOU'RE DOING A MINI FESTIVAL.
MY UNDERSTANDING, I DON'T HAVE ALL OF THE DETAILS RIGHT NOW, BUT I WILL FORWARD THEM TO YOU.
I NEED TO DO WITH IT WHATEVER YOU WANT.
I WAS ABLE TO INTRODUCE THE FOUNDER TO OUR CHAIR DURING THE MARTIN LUTHER KING JR.
CELEBRATION DAY, JUST BRIEFLY IN THE PARK.
BUT DAVID COHEN AND HIS TEAM, THEY ARE COMING TO THE PARK.
CHERRY PARK, I BELIEVE IS WHERE THE FESTIVAL WAS GOING TO BE.
YEAH, I'LL BET MORE DETAILS INTO.
UH, AND I BELIEVE, UNLESS THERE ARE OTHER, UM, ANNOUNCEMENTS HERE THAT CONCLUDES, UM, OUR MEETING.
AND SO OFFICIALLY CALL THIS MEETING FOR.