# Transcript — Terre Haute Human Relations Commission, 2026-08-19 Machine transcription of the recording of the Terre Haute Human Relations Commission meeting on 2026-08-19, aligned to the video timeline. **This is not the official record** — the clerk's minutes are, and this is unreviewed automatic speech recognition that mis-hears names and numbers. Check anything that matters against the recording. Each line is stamped with its position in the recording, both as a clock time and as `[t=SECONDS]`. Those are the same seconds the archive's source links use: open [the recording](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJIu3cljrAM) and add `&t=` to jump to any line. Speakers were separated automatically and named from the meeting's speaker roster where the evidence supported it; an unnamed voice is shown as `Speaker `, which is a machine label and not a person's name. ## Transcript - **0:00:00** [t=0] **Speaker 1:** All right. We should just go ahead and introduce ourselves. I think you've met most of us, but we can just go around since we have a guest before we actually call the meeting to order. Do you want to start? - **0:00:14** [t=14] **Speaker 5:** Sure. So I am Latisha Bradley. I am the chair of the commission. First year. Yeah, officially. I've been on the commission for a year. This month. - **0:00:30** [t=30] **Lakisha M. Bradley (chair):** um i'm also an instructor at indian state university and our department of social - **0:00:38** [t=38] **Speaker 12:** yes - **0:00:44** [t=44] **Speaker 14 (commissioner):** uh - **0:00:58** [t=58] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** and anyone i'm carly schmidt um i'm here at capacity as the president of the legal and voters - **0:01:04** [t=64] **Speaker 20 (commissioner):** of legal county very good - **0:01:14** [t=74] **Speaker 24:** and our requirements at New York College and UBI and - **0:01:18** [t=78] **Speaker 32:** I'm saving lectures and I've been on the field a long time before 18th started so I can't remember - **0:01:29** [t=89] **Speaker 37:** but it's been a while and although I also have in the social enterprise education I've got to use that - **0:01:38** [t=98] **Speaker 39:** and then on the phone um Jackie do you want to go first - **0:01:52** [t=112] **Speaker 43:** I'm Jackie Lauer and I'm a former educator in Rego County and have been on this board I don't know maybe just nine months or so maybe a year anyway. It's good to be part of it. I'm glad that the League of Women Voters is there tonight. That's good. - **0:02:16** [t=136] **Speaker 48:** And then Katie do you want to go? - **0:02:19** [t=139] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** Sure. Hi everyone. My name is Katie Luger. I'm also a social worker. I'm the director of the Novels Scholars Program at Rose-Hulman and the treasurer of the Pride Center here Hope. I've been on the commission a few years now. - **0:02:35** [t=155] **Speaker 52:** And I'm AT. I'm the director of the commission. - **0:02:40** [t=160] **Speaker 1:** You can call it to order. No, sorry. - **0:02:44** [t=164] **Lakisha M. Bradley (chair):** It's 5.05 and we will officially call the meeting to order. And we will move to roll call. - **0:02:51** [t=171] **Speaker 56:** All right. Lakeisha. - **0:02:54** [t=174] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Lucy. Uzziah, let me know he will not be here. Jackie. Here. And Katie? - **0:03:03** [t=183] Here. - **0:03:04** [t=184] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Sandy? Here. Dee? - **0:03:07** [t=187] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Here. And then Justin. I did not hear from him, but Dana I did hear from and she is out of town and unable to join - **0:03:16** [t=196] **Speaker 67:** virtually or by phone. All right. We have a forum. - **0:03:21** [t=201] **Speaker 5:** And we will move to the approval of the minutes for July. - **0:03:27** [t=207] **Speaker 75:** I think you might be in the wrong, you might be in the wrong tab. - **0:03:35** [t=215] **Speaker 76:** Keep, because it's like August. - **0:03:41** [t=221] **Speaker 75:** It's all good. - **0:03:42** [t=222] **Speaker 77:** All good. - **0:03:43** [t=223] **Speaker 82:** I saw, I was like, your mind confused me. Yes. - **0:03:48** [t=228] **Speaker 85:** Got it. - **0:03:54** [t=234] **Speaker 88 (commissioner):** Which actually there is a date issue. I don't think it was July 19th. I think our meeting was kind of... I wrote down today's date. In June. That was June. We had one in July. It was July 15th, though. But I wrote down whatever today was. I just... - **0:04:12** [t=252] **Speaker 95:** The 19th. Yeah, today's the 19th. But everything else should hopefully be correct. - **0:04:19** [t=259] **Speaker 97:** Any other questions or... - **0:04:21** [t=261] **Speaker 98:** Yes. - **0:04:23** [t=263] **Speaker 102:** nice - **0:04:33** [t=273] minute - **0:04:38** [t=278] **Speaker 106:** yeah changing it now - **0:04:50** [t=290] **Lakisha M. Bradley (chair):** all those in favor for approving the july meeting minutes with the correction of the date - **0:04:57** [t=297] **Speaker 114:** Thank you, Jane. - **0:05:04** [t=304] **Speaker 5:** Motion test moves and passed. - **0:05:10** [t=310] **Lakisha M. Bradley (chair):** Minutes have been approved. And then we will move to our guest speaker, Dr. Carly Schmidt. First of all, I want to say how much we appreciate the opportunity to speak. - **0:05:23** [t=323] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** week and it's so great to want to partner with us on how we can make our democracy work and help our local residents um i do just want to give a brief background about the league women voters um our organization was founded in 1920 right after the passage of the 19th amendment it was actually three generations of women um it's the third sort of wave of women that set up our organization once we got the right to vote and what we do is we encourage informed and active participation of our citizens and government through our - **0:06:00** [t=360] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** through the work that we do here locally but also through we also work to influence public policy through education and advocacy locally our League of Women Voters in over the past year and a half has made contact with nearly 2,000 residents in our community most of our work is with voter registration we have a number of community um partners both long-standing but most recently um the terrible blabash valley alumni chapter and melissa and data inc has been a really important partner for us um in carrying out a lot of our - **0:06:37** [t=397] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** voter registration work we're at farmer the farmer's market we go to senior living communities residential housing communities um and the places and spaces in our community and events that we can go to reach people who need our voter services um indiana well vigo county is one of the lowest of turn out counties in one of the lowest in the state and one of the lowest turnout plus states in the country um we see this consistently um and there's a number of factors that contribute to that We see it as our mission here is to really work to try to provide as much assistance - **0:07:20** [t=440] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** to our community members across various demographics, particularly those who might get left to other fines. In Indiana, our election laws are much more difficult than if we were just a little river not in the way. Where you can register to vote in the same day. In Indiana, perhaps there's a 30-day window to be able to register to vote. have had the right documentation it's just a series of hoops and so we work to try to use that for our community members outside of that too we we moderate and sponsor the only community center candidate forums locally that are - **0:07:57** [t=477] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** available that are open to anyone in the community to join and actually submit questions and so we have great partners with that with the public library And so coming up this election year, one of the big things that we're partnering with the city of doing is National Voter Registration Day is on September 15th. We have historically celebrated that. And last year we partnered with the Deltas and we were able to end the Vigo County Public Library and we're doing that yet again. And we have registered about 200 voters or help people change their address, which is - **0:08:37** [t=517] **Speaker 20 (commissioner):** also important or just check their registration a last national voter registration day um but the - **0:08:43** [t=523] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** mayor is going to declare it as voter registration day on september 15th and so at um is helping facilitate that um and so that would be it's new publicity um encouraging the public and many people - **0:08:58** [t=538] **Speaker 20 (commissioner):** think that they're registered to vote but people get thrown on voter rolls uh people move and they'll update your voter registration and all of that is really important because when you move who you get - **0:09:08** [t=548] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** to vote for changes right and those are really important um and then our candidate forms here i have some information um this is our flyer um i appreciate that um our first one will be september 15th for the state legislative we have the vigo county council and county commissioners on september 22nd and the vigo county um school board on the 29th um i am pleased to say that we've had a really um candidates are really looking forward to participating across all both parties or all parties now at the school board so we have that moving forward and then we - **0:09:50** [t=590] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** have our vote 411 voter information site um and we could really need some help promoting that that's That's what we send out a survey to candidates across in the local levels that they do for our state and national. So our organization does. And candidates answer survey questions even down to the township trustees about so that and then people can go and see how candidates responded and compare and discuss that to help inform their decision. So that is sort of what we have coming up this fall with voter sort of mobilization, but also voter education. - **0:10:25** [t=625] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** And so we would really like the city to consider there are other ways that they might want to help partner with us to connect that. - **0:10:38** [t=638] **Speaker 159:** Yeah, thank you for coming. Does anyone have any questions for... - **0:10:43** [t=643] **Speaker 122:** what the the older registration day the times at the across all the libraries what time clock is that - **0:10:56** [t=656] **Speaker 18:** we just let me find okay i think you know that maybe for me yeah yeah yeah um i moved it to 11. - **0:11:06** [t=666] **Speaker 20 (commissioner):** um so we will get that broadcasted out 18 and i were talking about how the mayor will actually be out of town for that date so there can be a grand announcement we're hoping to do it at the main - **0:11:19** [t=679] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** branch um delta city theta is going to be sort of taking care of that station um and so we were hoping to do something else flashy and any ideas that you all about how to get out the message for - **0:11:32** [t=692] **Speaker 20 (commissioner):** people to check your book yes i have a question yeah - **0:11:45** [t=705] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** for the legal amendments it's uh um lwb legal.org - **0:11:54** [t=714] **Speaker 175:** work this is really effective because um this will be a really good way to put it in the - **0:12:02** [t=722] **Speaker 177:** media outlets okay okay i have to so i'm also webmaster as well as president i'm just saying that um but we do have our facebook page which i also manage um that and we have events posted on - **0:12:30** [t=750] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** facebook we have these as events the citizens can both live streaming them or watch them recording and they don't want to actually attend um but maybe i should should i update that - **0:12:42** [t=762] **Speaker 191:** it does say 2024 candidate yeah that is my fault no worries - **0:12:55** [t=775] **Speaker 196:** update the website okay - **0:13:04** [t=784] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** um to set the mayor's gonna be out of town yeah unfortunately yeah he has to go back to national guard training for a couple weeks in september so i'm you know grateful for his service to our - **0:13:18** [t=798] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** country but he will unfortunately miss the get out of our voter registration day because it never - **0:13:24** [t=804] **Speaker 206:** hurts i mean to use the platform of social media yes like a video with him and the community partners - **0:13:31** [t=811] **Speaker 209:** and then record it before he leaves but then broadcast it on the actual day so we can add to - **0:13:39** [t=819] **Speaker 215:** the splash of the day we had talked about a social media post but i love the idea of a video yeah - **0:13:50** [t=830] **Speaker 209:** i think it would be important to to have him participate in the day virtually and also highlighting you know the reason that he isn't there because that's also important as well. - **0:14:06** [t=846] **Speaker 223 (community review committee member (guest)):** So that's a quick easy way to and then you can blast it across social media and we can all share it to draw in that reach. - **0:14:18** [t=858] **Speaker 224:** I represent a Hispanic community and I really love bringing this information to a Hispanic community. - **0:14:28** [t=868] **Speaker 14 (commissioner):** We don't have an organized website or we used to be around what we want anymore. And a good place to reach out again is other restaurants, the Mexican restaurants. and I wonder how can we use information and bring them to the Hispanic community they claim to be visiting the restaurant with information, flyers - **0:15:04** [t=904] **Speaker 230:** could you do that? could you help us do that? that um like making a flyer or or maybe so if you think this is a good quality then i absolutely - **0:15:16** [t=916] **Speaker 14 (commissioner):** can't yeah like this is i mean so i actually have it in color but i i could absolutely work on that - **0:15:24** [t=924] **Speaker 241 (commissioner):** I mean, I'm 100% of them. Okay, okay. - **0:15:31** [t=931] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Yeah, like is there, we could do like a flyer that says like, check your voter registration, would that be something that you're thinking, not just the forums? - **0:15:43** [t=943] **Speaker 169:** I've spent 16 years living in Spanish heritage at the United States and I normally invite community members - **0:15:55** [t=955] **Speaker 14 (commissioner):** so that would be a good for the day as part of a really good month but we can go before that I can have my Spanish students classes for extra credit visiting the restaurants and then different information is that is that is that is that that would be so and so the key concerns here - **0:16:18** [t=978] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** then yes that you would see the information that people would want yes would be to check their role registration or update is that is that what i'm hearing what is okay the easiest way for them - **0:16:32** [t=992] **Speaker 20 (commissioner):** to get to vote. I think the bigger picture. Yes. Yes. Okay. No, it's at all three branches. - **0:16:52** [t=1012] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** Oh, okay. Yes. So we're going to be at all three branches for National Wood Registration day um but we're also at tons of other places so we'll be in all the senior living places we all have on days when it's great for funds and other like facilities which where people have to leave their apartments and they're all they're gathering and so we're checking well that's probably right and so um i would like to talk to you and um maybe not during the meeting about some - **0:17:22** [t=1042] **Speaker 123:** particular ways that we would target the population with some... You're saying you need one. - **0:17:33** [t=1053] **Speaker 269:** We can meet it on campus too. - **0:17:36** [t=1056] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** Yes. Because I have since with... Yes, I have a few people saying that I meet it. So as you know... I'll be reaching out to you then. - **0:17:48** [t=1068] **Speaker 152:** We can maybe meet next week. - **0:17:50** [t=1070] **Speaker 276:** week okay if the flyer can be generic enough but if it's not specific you may need one specific - **0:18:01** [t=1081] **Speaker 263:** for your community but can you create a generic one and then i can share with your one sure yeah - **0:18:08** [t=1088] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** so we have um we actually have a qr pill for people to scan or just indiana voters has a - **0:18:15** [t=1095] **Speaker 152:** website and to check your registration deadlines and things like that so i can get that out - **0:18:25** [t=1105] **Speaker 57:** yeah i also have um qr codes for those websites um i got from the national league of women - **0:18:36** [t=1116] **Speaker 223 (community review committee member (guest)):** voters website and so we created specifically for our events i just created qr codes for each of those websites to check your registration check um to register the code and then two other things - **0:18:48** [t=1128] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** and so i could share yeah i could share that do you do you do the graphics for your organization i don't kelsey does i need to talk kelsey was my favorite too kelsey does i need to have kelsey's - **0:18:59** [t=1139] **Speaker 289:** help yeah i created i created a visual for the qr code which i could share - **0:19:09** [t=1149] **Speaker 291:** Kelsey is great. - **0:19:11** [t=1151] **Speaker 294:** Okay, we're going to talk to Kelsey. Talk to Kelsey. We can't do it. - **0:19:19** [t=1159] **Speaker 297:** I can do a little more Canva. - **0:19:25** [t=1165] **Speaker 300:** But Kelsey is the tech firm. - **0:19:29** [t=1169] **Speaker 169:** For the period you can get out, who will you find? - **0:19:35** [t=1175] **Speaker 152:** We can take care of the friends out. take care of the printouts. Okay, we have printing costs coming. - **0:19:41** [t=1181] **Speaker 20 (commissioner):** Do they do color copies for free? Yes. - **0:19:49** [t=1189] **Speaker 24:** Wow. Okay, I didn't know that. We have the mailing list of all. Yes. - **0:19:59** [t=1199] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Yeah, if you would like that, I will send that to you. I mean, I have a mailing list of every church in Terre Haute. Is it as updated as it could be? No. Well, it's not updated. I don't know. Well, is it as updated as it could be? No, because it's like just what I've been able to find online. - **0:20:25** [t=1225] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** So, like, there might be other churches. But, yes, our black church, I would say, is very updated. - **0:20:32** [t=1232] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** but the every church in terra haute list i'll send you both i think it's actually in the same - **0:20:37** [t=1237] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** excel file and it's two different tabs fabulous um but i will send that to you do programming - **0:20:44** [t=1244] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** with children about starting to learn about voting and i wish we could um we really need an educator - **0:20:52** [t=1252] **Speaker 20 (commissioner):** um yeah no i wish we did and we're trying to expand to do more programming um but we - **0:21:11** [t=1271] **Speaker 152:** haven't hit the children's mind but that's where it is i agree to make better citizens right - **0:21:17** [t=1277] **Speaker 32:** right yeah sometimes children can say mom are you i you know i learned this about voting are you - **0:21:26** [t=1286] **Speaker 182:** gonna vote well every learning day at the library and at birthday in the woods or one of the things - **0:21:34** [t=1294] **Speaker 20 (commissioner):** we do at voting like do you vote i mean what kind of ice cream or you've done like that's good your outback as like which which is preferable so we kind of got some of that kind of events - **0:21:47** [t=1307] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** um and encourage yeah kids to vote in that way yeah i wonder if um there's like maybe a push to parents as well like take your kid with you when you vote like i know lines can be long and like a kid in a line is not always ideal but that's one of those things that like i've heard people say it's like oh and I mean I as well like my parents took me with them to vote and like I - **0:22:13** [t=1333] **Speaker 334:** thought that was it was really neat to see the process as a kid so that could be yeah yeah - **0:22:19** [t=1339] **Speaker 149:** yeah and yes well and I like I was reading a book and it was a kind of a memoir and the person was - **0:22:31** [t=1351] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** like and I got my mom let me pull the lever back I guess there used to be a lever which I don't there's no more lever but that was a memory that people - **0:22:41** [t=1361] **Speaker 342:** had as well yeah or like what's your first memory - **0:23:01** [t=1381] **Speaker 346:** Yeah, I like that idea. - **0:23:31** [t=1411] **Speaker 18:** am i with you know yeah they're coming in these schools high schools so i didn't know just i worked with the issue that this is both hours - **0:23:47** [t=1427] **Speaker 359:** are you the advisor for that yes - **0:23:52** [t=1432] are we uh stay separate from any university with um those things - **0:24:00** [t=1440] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** but we would love to work with a faculty member or advisor to collaborate about things. - **0:24:09** [t=1449] **Speaker 57:** I know a lot of students in the past have attended the forums and faculty who have been - **0:24:21** [t=1461] **Speaker 364 (community review committee member (guest)):** been supporter of the forums and just getting them involved in the community. - **0:24:26** [t=1466] **Speaker 223 (community review committee member (guest)):** However, they encourage them to come, but a lot of students, that has increased over time. - **0:24:33** [t=1473] **Speaker 364 (community review committee member (guest)):** So I'll just share with that group of students to come. - **0:24:38** [t=1478] **Speaker 367:** It's pretty packed. - **0:24:39** [t=1479] **Speaker 364 (community review committee member (guest)):** I think it was every seat on the forums last cycle was filled and like there were people. - **0:24:50** [t=1490] **Speaker 223 (community review committee member (guest)):** it's increasing it's very engaging and so you get to see a lot of the process before - **0:24:59** [t=1499] **Speaker 372:** again and a lot of community engagement just even in the room so - **0:25:07** [t=1507] **Speaker 374:** well hopefully we haven't overwhelmed you with ideas but not at all not at all i really - **0:25:13** [t=1513] **Carly Schmidt (guest — president, League of Women Voters of Vigo County):** appreciate this um we'll circle yeah yeah we can circle that um and um anyone can email me - **0:25:22** [t=1522] **Speaker 127:** i appreciate you coming tonight yes yes thank you all so much yes thank you - **0:25:32** [t=1532] **Speaker 382:** yes yes thank you for participating that i don't know that i know your country - **0:25:38** [t=1538] **Speaker 241 (commissioner):** thank you so much carly - **0:25:51** [t=1551] **Speaker 175:** Okay. Okay. - **0:25:53** [t=1553] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Well, I was gone a whole week, so the events attended is a little bit shorter, but the - **0:26:18** [t=1578] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** portion of this last month has really been dedicated to the neighborhood investment fund. - **0:26:23** [t=1583] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** So you'll see multiple meetings related to that. We had an orientation meeting for the community review committee. Then we actually had a meme where then they discussed their reviews and then the senior review committee. And then eventually, yeah, we announced it to the public. And I'll share more in that report. But yeah, August 3rd through 7th, which was two weeks ago, I was in Bloomington for a week for my master's program. - **0:26:50** [t=1610] **Speaker 399:** So, you know, mark your calendars, May 2027. I'm going to graduate. - **0:26:54** [t=1614] **Speaker 400:** I'm going to be done. So I have one step closer. - **0:26:59** [t=1619] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Yeah. A couple department head meetings in there. Went to the Homeless Coalition last week. I got a new laptop. - **0:27:07** [t=1627] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** IT set me up. It's a little bit smaller, which I actually prefer. - **0:27:11** [t=1631] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** But it was getting a little slow. - **0:27:14** [t=1634] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** and so this one's updated so quite quite thankful to them if you didn't see the indiana black legislative caucus was supposed to come on saturday but unfortunately um you know lots of terrible weather all over indiana and a lot of our legislators within the caucus live in some of the hardest hit areas whether that be northwest indiana or in the indianapolis area So our thoughts are obviously with them as, you know, I think Northwest Indiana is going on eight or nine days without power. - **0:27:51** [t=1671] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Indianapolis, of course, just major infrastructure losses and, you know, community, you know, really suffering. So I've reached out to them about rescheduling. I haven't heard back, but I'm not going to push hard. Obviously, the director, she lives in Indianapolis. - **0:28:10** [t=1690] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** And so I will just, I will, I'll send out a reminder in a week or so. - **0:28:19** [t=1699] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** But yeah, I did assist one individual with filing an employment complaint this week. We met yesterday and we filed that through the Indiana Civil Rights Commission. We, I will say this individual had asked about filing through EEOC. - **0:28:35** [t=1715] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** And one roadblock I came across before she actually came in was that EEOC requires a login.gov account now, which if you've ever done TSA pre-check or anything where you need a login. - **0:28:56** [t=1736] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** It's quite an extensive process. So helping people file through EEOC is going to be really hard now unless they already have that account. I don't feel like it's within our capacity to help people with that. You have to like do multi-factor authentication. And yeah, so Indiana Civil Rights Commission is still pretty, very accessible way to help people file. - **0:29:22** [t=1762] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** but I did just want to bring that to everyone's attention. Kind of a bit of a barrier there. - **0:29:29** [t=1769] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** But also just for context, the Indiana Civil Rights Commission shares the cases that are filed within Indiana with EEOC. They have like a contract agreement. So even if we would have - **0:29:41** [t=1781] **Speaker 407:** filed with EEOC, there was like a really good chance it would end up at the Indiana Civil rights commission to be investigated but anyway i digress um the i will share a little bit about - **0:29:56** [t=1796] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** the just a reminder on the black history month banner um project the group that is doing the - **0:30:02** [t=1802] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** report for us is we have a meeting with them in a week or so two weeks i'll share more about the - **0:30:09** [t=1809] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** neighborhood investment fund wanted to share that the warming center um we're already planning The city, we have included it in our budget for next year. And so we'll be able to commit at least the same that we did last year, which was $30,000 from the casino revenue. And we're meeting with Mental Health America, which was our partner last year, to get that MOU signed. sign. They've already verbally agreed to continue being the city-sponsored warming center, but we've got to do some more thinking as the one church-based organization will not be operating this year. - **0:30:57** [t=1857] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** And so that means that we'll have probably 20 less beds available within the city. So that's - **0:31:03** [t=1863] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** something we're thinking about now. But hopefully we'll have this agreement in place, long before we didn't have it in place until december last year so it'll be we're hopefully - **0:31:15** [t=1875] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** way ahead of schedule um and that will be good bus shelter construction we're hoping to receive those in october i'm just reminding you all it's been in there every month um but some upcoming dates that this is the things to put in your calendar um not this saturday but next saturday - **0:31:35** [t=1895] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** at 10 a.m. at university hall we will hear from the students from dr mary's class who have been - **0:31:44** [t=1904] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** working on the black history month banner review project now it's in there hasn't did anyone ever - **0:31:53** [t=1913] **Speaker 427:** okay no - **0:31:57** [t=1917] **Speaker 429:** yeah mary did say we chatted the other day and she said that their grade is - **0:32:05** [t=1925] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** being withheld until they do what they are so they they got two weeks to start making these calls - **0:32:13** [t=1933] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** which we will we will proceed you know i mean this this is we're not paying for this so this is one of those things you when you you risk but um anyway we'll see what they present i'm i'm not - **0:32:33** [t=1953] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** I'm I don't know I'm a little concerned but again here here we are family learning day - **0:32:41** [t=1961] **Speaker 442:** at Vigo County Public Library was a great event last year Jackie came um didn't you LaKeisha - **0:32:49** [t=1969] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** came yes and we've made a the community quilt which if you have ever seen outside my office - **0:32:57** [t=1977] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** it is and then sandy was there too and sandy did a lot of the a lot of the leg work yes how could - **0:33:06** [t=1986] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** which we i still haven't really thought of an idea for that but we'll do some sort of activity - **0:33:12** [t=1992] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** again engaging with young people it's just a good way to be out there in the community and be visible but i'm thinking we'll do something else that is like an art kind of inspired project that we can then hang out in the hallway just like we did last year. The Interfaith Council of the - **0:33:32** [t=2012] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Wabash Valley has reached out to me. They are going to host a, they did it a few years ago, - **0:33:40** [t=2020] **Speaker 426:** this prayer vigil that was like, that one was like for a, I don't know if it was for voting or if it was for a peaceful transfer of power after the election. - **0:33:53** [t=2033] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Whatever. I don't remember. But they are going to pray again for peaceful voting on September 27th. I think they wanted to have it closer to the election, but somebody's schedule didn't align. So we're praying early or not, whatever. So Sunday, September 27th, I believe at 4 p.m. and out here in the courtyard. And so I don't have a flyer yet for that. Jackie Bradfield is - **0:34:26** [t=2066] **Speaker 426:** supposed to get that to me. And then Saturday, October 3rd is Pride Fest. So put that on your - **0:34:36** [t=2076] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** calendar. It's I think the times are a little different from last year. So it's noon to six, right Katie yes that's correct and we have this on the agenda tonight to talk about the sponsorship but I'm certain that no matter what will be there so go ahead and add that to your calendar I will be out of office on Friday and a couple days next week I I am attending some trainings that are not related to this job. So I will, I can share more later, but it is personal time off. - **0:35:19** [t=2119] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** And then that Leadership Academy series that you all agreed to help or that the commission would pay for, those are all of the dates. - **0:35:29** [t=2129] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** that that is and then i'm going to the municipal accelerating indiana municipalities annual conference that's in september - **0:35:38** [t=2138] **Speaker 400:** um i did that last year um as well so those are some future dates - **0:35:43** [t=2143] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** we've got a little overview of the budget as well as the two departmental statement of activities - **0:35:53** [t=2153] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** um big thing to know is um you know in that 2026 actual to date we have about ten thousand dollars remain you know really to do what we want with you know we're in the last six months of the year - **0:36:11** [t=2171] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** we could you know can give some to pride fest we can give some to we could make if the naacp is going to do the freedom fund dinner again. We, of course, could do both of those things, but we don't have, it really, we haven't said like, oh, we're for sure doing this or that. So we do really have quite a bit of funding still this year to play with. And I wanted to make sure since something - **0:36:41** [t=2201] **Speaker 455:** on the agenda tonight, the sponsored Pride Fest sponsorship will involve our funds. - **0:36:47** [t=2207] **Speaker 39:** Can that be things that we buy or that we won't use this year, but that come as books or something? - **0:37:01** [t=2221] **Speaker 459:** Yeah, yeah. - **0:37:02** [t=2222] **Speaker 461:** You know, MLK or something ahead of time? Yeah, absolutely. Ahead of time. - **0:37:06** [t=2226] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** For sure. Things for the MLK Day of Service. Yeah, that's right. um or um if we wanted to purchase um the bait which i always try to purchase the banners out - **0:37:17** [t=2237] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** of the previous year just to go ahead and um i've done the last well we've only done banners two years but the last two years i've paid for it out of the previous year's budget um so um we haven't paid for banners this year so we can we'll have the funds to do that um which last year - **0:37:38** [t=2258] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** we bought nine and it was 684 dollars so yeah absolutely yeah and that's just ten thousand - **0:37:48** [t=2268] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** dollars of civic promotions but like um our office supplies um you know i'm i'm buying printer ink with that the remaining funds in that um instruction that um paid for another conference and we don't really have any other things out of there um but yeah i mean the rest of it is just like - **0:38:12** [t=2292] **Speaker 468:** pretty much as it goes and yeah what it said but that's like our programming budget if you will - **0:38:26** [t=2306] so - **0:38:30** [t=2310] **Speaker 426:** there are any questions i'm happy to answer yeah - **0:38:33** [t=2313] **Speaker 241 (commissioner):** For these events, do you have more information on how can we participate in that? - **0:38:43** [t=2323] **Speaker 476:** For example, on the day where the students are presenting? - **0:38:50** [t=2330] **Speaker 478:** Yes, so yeah. - **0:38:52** [t=2332] **Speaker 481:** Are there any questions that you should be prepared to ask them or to... Well, for that, yeah. - **0:39:04** [t=2344] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Yeah, I think for that one, I really don't know what they are going to present to us at this point because, and it's in, it's actually in here. So, you know, the number one thing that I had asked them to do was this stakeholder engagement piece. And it sounds like they haven't done it. Um, so I'm really not sure what to ask other than like, why did that not happen? Um, and I, and it's like, I'm not their teacher or their professor. So it's like, I'm not here to give, I just was like, that was the number one thing that - **0:39:50** [t=2390] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** we asked for, but maybe they put a bigger priority on, you know, evaluating how other communities did a committee like this i'm i don't really i don't know what to expect is part of it so yes so and i will send it i think i've sent out a calendar invite to everyone but i don't have a room yet so once i have that i will send that to everyone um but um everyone is welcome to come and hear what they have to share with us but I don't have any expectations for questions or anything that you bring other than just like what comes to mind after they present. For family - **0:40:36** [t=2436] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** learning day, I again I will send out more information about this. Last year we did two shifts and so I will send out a request if you would like to take one of those shifts. It's I think it's only noon or 10 to 1 so it's not very long. I'll be there the whole time but we last year we had a table and most of it was dedicated to the activity that the kids were doing. We had a few giveaways and some information about from the city and from the Human Relations Commission, but mostly it was about kind of engaging with young people. And this, we were - **0:41:24** [t=2484] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** built, they made a quilt square that was their depiction of like, what is unity? Now some of them just kind of drew whatever they wanted, but like, and that's okay. Like it's about being creative and providing this kind of outlet for um for families uh we do actually i know the lot i don't want to step on the library's toes we do still have a ton of books from our previous and - **0:41:52** [t=2512] **Speaker 335:** i'm like we could give away books but they always give away books anyway i don't think there's - **0:41:57** [t=2517] **Speaker 32:** Yeah, it's the same. Unfortunately this year, it's the same thing as the Strength Festival. - **0:42:07** [t=2527] **Speaker 493:** Oh darn. Well. - **0:42:09** [t=2529] **Sandy Mutchler (commissioner):** My Strength Festival. - **0:42:13** [t=2533] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Yeah, every year Sandy helps coordinate the, is it middle school mostly or high school? - **0:42:23** [t=2543] **Speaker 498:** Well, now we have Livington kids. - **0:42:29** [t=2549] **Speaker 500:** But would you say it's kind of like a clinic where strings players could come and learn? - **0:42:35** [t=2555] **Sandy Mutchler (commissioner):** We have four ensembles. And it's from those kids who are just picking up an instrument for the first time, through those who have been playing with their lives. and they work on ensembles and they're learning to compose music and then we have yeah we wish - **0:42:55** [t=2575] **Speaker 382:** you all welcome them to we have a final concert yeah they fill some auditorium on sunday uh and this year last year this year we're now collaborating with the high issue favorite music - **0:43:08** [t=2588] **Sandy Mutchler (commissioner):** it's our advantage if they'll come back when we play here and play which is really great for their as long as for their you know if they're thinking about music to be able to say that they were the - **0:43:18** [t=2598] **Speaker 400:** natural record music yeah um yeah no i just wanted to make sure because i didn't know if lucy knew - **0:43:32** [t=2612] **Speaker 516:** about it yeah yeah yes and then yes again that one's a little while away and plus it's also on - **0:43:41** [t=2621] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** the agenda but for the the vigil i just wanted to make you all aware that that and they had reached - **0:43:49** [t=2629] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** out to me the mayor unfortunately cannot attend that's his daughter's birthday so i think that they are otherwise occupied and so i think i'll be either reading the proclamation on behalf of the mayor but i just want to make sure you are all aware of that since they had invited me to be a part of it. I want to, of course, extend the invitation to the entire commission, - **0:44:14** [t=2654] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** but it's low participation level and totally optional as it is, you know, a faith oriented activity. Pride Fest, we'll get into more of what that, but it is like, it is just such a joyful day. - **0:44:32** [t=2672] **Speaker 521:** We always have a table and we have giveaways from the city and that's mainly what - **0:44:38** [t=2678] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** are we have shifts where we have different commissioners um but um we always also try to make sure that during your shift you get a chance to step away from the booth um and and get to - **0:44:52** [t=2692] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** participate and uzaya is usually a performer so you know making sure we go over and support uzaya - **0:44:59** [t=2699] **Speaker 522:** and um there's lots of food trucks and all sorts of good stuff yeah it is organized by our - **0:45:08** [t=2708] **Speaker 526:** a lot of katie luger so you you know it's you know it's good yeah um but any other questions - **0:45:16** [t=2716] **Speaker 426:** that thank you no i'm glad that you asked that i will send like i said i'll send out a request for - **0:45:22** [t=2722] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** shifts for the family learning day it is after our next meeting so i just i'm trying to put it on everyone's calendar as as well but we do need to accept that into the minutes ready to uh - **0:45:40** [t=2740] **Lakisha M. Bradley (chair):** accept the directing report do you have a motion - **0:45:44** [t=2744] **Speaker 532:** so second all those in favor of accepting the director's report - **0:45:50** [t=2750] **Speaker 536:** I wanted to put in here I brought it up earlier but that I really don't know what to expect - **0:46:14** [t=2774] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** from this presentation. These are the things that we asked for, though, and I wanted to share that again. We asked mainly my number one thing, stakeholder engagement, getting feedback through interviews. I sent them a long list of people to talk to. - **0:46:34** [t=2794] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** And I've asked a few different people who were on that list if they had been reached out to. And as of now, no. - **0:46:42** [t=2802] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** them. So a little worried on that front, but I wanted to bring this back to your attention so - **0:46:50** [t=2810] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** you could kind of get an idea of what we asked for. And then when you see the presentation, see how that kind of matches up with what we asked for. Other big things were we wanted to just really have a clear structure for how this committee should operate, you know, who should be on it are we doing this the right way with you know five people three from the commission two from the community we just wanted we either to be validated that we're doing it the right way or feedback that you're forgetting something or you could do better by doing this we wanted to - **0:47:32** [t=2852] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** make sure that the nomination process is still working to the best that it could be and then if - **0:47:39** [t=2859] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** if there's any like recommendations for the future. - **0:47:43** [t=2863] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Should we have 10 banners installed every year? Should there only be five? Like we were just kind of looking for some guidance. And most of that I really was hoping would be driven - **0:47:55** [t=2875] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** by the conversations that they had with community members. - **0:47:59** [t=2879] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** But as I mentioned in the director's report, the final presentation is Saturday, August 29th at 10 a.m. at University Hall. - **0:48:09** [t=2889] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Dr. Mary hasn't sent me the room number yet. When I get that, I will send it to you all. And she'd also said that she might send me the executive summary in advance. So I will make sure that that's attached to the calendar invite as well. So you can review that in advance and kind of see that in comparison to what we expected. - **0:48:30** [t=2910] **Speaker 544:** And just to give you a preview. anyway - **0:48:35** [t=2915] **Speaker 426:** yeah it's it's a learning process the neighborhood investment fund is at a big um Friday um - **0:48:52** [t=2932] **Speaker 522:** we funded seven projects so um feel really glad that we I was gonna say we're done but we're not - **0:49:00** [t=2940] **Speaker 500:** done well there's only there's six district but there's two from district one oh i see - **0:49:09** [t=2949] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** so there are seven there um uh we only have six districts so and we still had money left - **0:49:17** [t=2957] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** you know so i will explain though all of this so we received 19 applications from all over terra - **0:49:23** [t=2963] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** hope um requesting 215 000 over 215 000 which is almost three times what we had so um strong - **0:49:34** [t=2974] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** response disappointing that we don't have enough money to fund everything lovely lovely projects - **0:49:41** [t=2981] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** wide range of improvements public art neighborhood signs and banners landscaping projects pavilions gathering spaces a couple different requests for playground equipment several requests for crosswalk improvements or additions of crosswalks um there were a few um yeah kind of like accessibility things as well so these are the seven projects that have been funded for a total of $74,261. We have, we did not use the full 75, mostly because we funded things at the exact amount that they were. And there wasn't any projects that were for, what would that be, - **0:50:31** [t=3031] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** $739. So there is that little buffer. Of course, if something goes wrong, if we start digging underground on one of these and you know have an emergency we can hopefully fund it with $739 - **0:50:47** [t=3047] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** it's a neighborhood there's a park in brittle bank um called brittle bank park but that is the - **0:50:55** [t=3055] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** name of the neighborhood uh it's on the south east side of Terre Haute um like Holman and - **0:51:04** [t=3064] **Speaker 559:** 19th is like kind of the center is that where the park is 21st 22nd i'll pull it up on that - **0:51:13** [t=3073] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** yeah i had the same question because i had never heard of it um so here's passive all the time yeah so yeah kind of in this this is considered between margaret and pullman 19th and fruit Ridge is considered the Brittle Bank neighborhood. So the site where this mural will be is not actually in the park. It's so we made sure it's the neighborhood mural. It's at Muse Art. It'll be on the side of their building. Inside? No on the side. It'll be on the side. So it's right on - **0:51:50** [t=3110] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** coleman so it is a major road major thoroughfare um but if i drop the pin and that's what they where they wanted it to be well um the property owners of muse art um they had offered up their building i think it's this one right here and it'll be right there on the side um so they've offered up their building - **0:52:20** [t=3140] **Speaker 580:** number and so i think part of that is that the sign will say brittle banks it'll create some - **0:52:36** [t=3156] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** neighborhood identity um but um kind of to share how the selection process went and how the reviews went um the first thing is we got all the applications in by july 17th it closed right at - **0:52:50** [t=3170] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** that our deadline of midnight um 11 59. um so the first thing i did was i i just went through - **0:53:00** [t=3180] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** everything and made sure that like they had submitted all of the correct documents and - **0:53:05** [t=3185] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** everybody did so then that was the only touch point really that i had where i was like um - **0:53:11** [t=3191] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** really like look reviewing anything but it was just to make sure everybody had submitted all of - **0:53:17** [t=3197] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** the appropriate documents and everyone did so all the applications then went to a community review group which was Tammy Bolin, Curtis Devon, LaKeisha Bradley, Judge Chris Newton, and Joshua - **0:53:31** [t=3211] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** elmore and they um had to go through all 19 and it took a long time so big big thank you um and there was scoring and comments um for every application um and the scores were really like about whether or not that they'll like it really met what the question was asking not whether or - **0:53:54** [t=3234] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** not that they thought the project was a good idea we really were trying we could try to have this like neutral rubric um so big big thank you to our review committee at the same time our engineering our city engineer i think you had some assistance from other engineers on staff they reviewed every proposal and gave it either a favorable a favorable with conditions or a not favorable review because some projects involved quite a bit of construction heavy construction work and we needed to know if these were feasible especially for the price and so that was happening at the - **0:54:34** [t=3274] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** same time that the reviewers then those scores and the comments and the engineering reviews were - **0:54:43** [t=3283] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** aggregated and given to our senior review committee which was the mayor his director of public works jesse towhill and then city engineer marcus also sat in on this conversation and the And the three of them made the final decisions considering the scores, the engineering review, as well as other factors such as geographic diversity, project diversity, and readiness - **0:55:09** [t=3309] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** of the actual projects. So we wanted, you know, what I heard over and over again from the mayor was, you know, we need to cover the entire city with this. can't all be in one particular side of town which we did have a lot concentrated with i mean there of the 19 projects i think if we counted it was like 13 of them were within one mile of one another or within we're in one like square or one mile radius so maybe it was i don't i could i don't - **0:55:44** [t=3344] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** know where that yeah there were a lot within like a small area um yeah i think i know it's not part - **0:55:54** [t=3354] **Speaker 595:** of your report but no you're good um some of us had to repeat ourselves yes yes absolutely absolutely - **0:56:04** [t=3364] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** many of the projects yeah and so yeah so you can actually see up on the screen this is where every - **0:56:10** [t=3370] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** project was so we kind of had some gaps and you know people might wonder well why was nothing you know no projects in this area well because we didn't get any applications for that area but you - **0:56:21** [t=3381] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** can see um all of these within kind of one mile of one another um i mean really yeah that's demy park right there so two on there several within poplar um but anyway the ones that were actually awarded - **0:56:38** [t=3398] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** i don't know if this is um which a is in the wrong a is in the wrong place um but it should be down there but this is yeah about where everyone was um so it should be that way they're not all - **0:56:58** [t=3418] **Speaker 504:** consecrated inside. So, um, yeah, it's on Facebook if you follow the city, but, um, uh, yeah, - **0:57:10** [t=3430] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** the mayor was so pleased. And of course, you know, he and, um, Jesse and Marcus were like, you know, well, the mayor, he's quite frugal. So I don't think he was, he was never like, - **0:57:21** [t=3441] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** well, we should fund them all. But he was like, uh, you know, really was like, they've all had a really hard time, you know, what do you, which ones, and so it came down to a lot of times geographic and then project diversity, you know, we didn't want to fund, you know, seven projects that all essentially did the same thing, you know, seven playgrounds or seven, you know, landscaping improvements, trying to make sure there's a diversity of projects. - **0:57:48** [t=3468] **Speaker 613:** So this is all good to know. Yes, yes. If someone who lived in a neighborhood where they were kids, I know. - **0:57:56** [t=3476] **Speaker 615:** I know. I'll hear a lot of rumbling and then I can say. - **0:58:00** [t=3480] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Yes, I've been emailing back and forth with one individual and part, you know, some of the some of the applications, it's like, you know, - **0:58:10** [t=3490] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** what we've realized was in our application workshops, we could have done a better job by having an engineer available to answer questions. Now, some of the people that applied that had these engineering challenges didn't come to a workshop. So, like, you know, it wasn't just that. But we want to make sure we're offering up an engineer at our workshops. And Marcus is like, yes, I want to do it. - **0:58:39** [t=3519] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** he's been so he was like I love this project like we should do more money next year and - **0:58:44** [t=3524] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** keep your fingers crossed hopefully we we can um but um this uh it's so hard because you know people oh we need to add you know this this you know for example the triangle parks like they didn't you'd need a curb ramp to make sure that they're accessible and like maybe a per you know, I don't even know how much that would cost. And so an engineer might be able to give people better cost estimates - **0:59:12** [t=3552] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** and help them understand if their project is really feasible for a $15,000 thing. - **0:59:19** [t=3559] **Speaker 400:** So anyway, it's been. - **0:59:21** [t=3561] **Sandy Mutchler (commissioner):** And that in particular was the fact that we used to have. I know, yeah. - **0:59:26** [t=3566] **Speaker 382:** We used to have all kinds of equipment in there. And so that probably just didn't occur to them in all these, you know, 25 years. - **0:59:35** [t=3575] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** what is the equipment's been there it's been a real like learning process this whole and you know - **0:59:42** [t=3582] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** um the mayor is very committed to you know having this fund again next year of course the actual number for how much will be in the fund um depends a little bit on budget season and - **0:59:56** [t=3596] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** and what the surplus is looking like. But I think, you know, we will have a fund again next year and I am hopeful that people will reapply, that we'll get this, having had this, we'll have it again - **1:00:12** [t=3612] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** and we'll have more interest in it. There's things I could have definitely done better - **1:00:19** [t=3619] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** or different, so I've learned - **1:00:22** [t=3622] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** and maybe make the application a little bit easier, less of the same questions, maybe make the review process a little bit different. - **1:00:34** [t=3634] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** But sometimes you just don't know until you get into it and you start doing it. - **1:00:43** [t=3643] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Yeah, no, but I found it to be, - **1:00:47** [t=3647] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** and I'm like, obviously these projects aren't done yet, I'm like when you have like a physical thing that you know is like oh I like helped this - **1:00:57** [t=3657] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** project you know like I didn't pick them obviously but you know once the banners go up in Farrington's - **1:01:03** [t=3663] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Grove or the the playground goes up at Greenwood Manor I'm gonna be like ah that was because of us - **1:01:10** [t=3670] **Speaker 481:** you can see that some projects um require more money than always yes and it's based off of yeah - **1:01:17** [t=3677] **Speaker 554:** what they submitted um so we didn't you know we we we didn't half fund anything it was you know - **1:01:26** [t=3686] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** they said they asked for that and it could be feasibly done within that that was how they were - **1:01:34** [t=3694] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** um it's someone actually connected to muse art madison king yes um so uh the design - **1:01:45** [t=3705] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** okay yeah um the design looks really cool it's like a pickleball feature yeah - **1:01:54** [t=3714] **Speaker 223 (community review committee member (guest)):** across all of the applications like they were amazing projects if i had to be the person to pick - **1:02:02** [t=3722] **Speaker 283 (community review committee member (guest)):** it would have been extremely hard i appreciated the passion within the applications of how people - **1:02:09** [t=3729] **Speaker 223 (community review committee member (guest)):** wanted to approve for the ones that i was able to review there were several that i was not i had to reduce myself but um to see 19 applications for um this project was was pretty amazing and how - **1:02:26** [t=3746] **Speaker 364 (community review committee member (guest)):** people are invested in their community and wanted to see change in whatever way they wanted to see - **1:02:31** [t=3751] **Speaker 283 (community review committee member (guest)):** change so i'm happy that the mayor is going to to do this again um for me personally i learned a lot - **1:02:38** [t=3758] **Speaker 223 (community review committee member (guest)):** about the communities here, meeting the people who came to the workshops that I was at, and just kind of hearing history and stories about those communities. - **1:02:48** [t=3768] **Speaker 364 (community review committee member (guest)):** So that was helpful for me, as somebody who is not from the community, but making the connection with people. - **1:02:56** [t=3776] **Speaker 656:** I wonder about, did you feedback the people who were just working at what their reactions were? - **1:03:06** [t=3786] **Speaker 660:** Yeah, I think it's been kind of mixed. Yeah. - **1:03:12** [t=3792] **Speaker 661:** Oh, for sure. Oh, for sure. Yeah. - **1:03:17** [t=3797] **Speaker 664:** Oh, yeah. Yeah. - **1:03:21** [t=3801] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Yeah. - **1:03:22** [t=3802] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** I mean, I think one thing is, is that it is a risk. - **1:03:27** [t=3807] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** You know, you always take a risk when you apply for a grant that you might not get it. And so, you know, there was no guarantee of funding. I think that the having the reviewers and then having engineering score everything as well helped the senior review committee. - **1:03:54** [t=3834] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** like I mean just up there just so it's like it's pretty easy to share with people it's like okay you were not chosen for this reason and it was either there were a few where it was it wasn't engineeringly feasible for the budget that you submitted whereas other ones it was you know there just wasn't an yours was highly competitive but geographic geography came into the consideration - **1:04:21** [t=3861] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** and yours was below another one that was within the same area. - **1:04:26** [t=3866] **Speaker 21:** So they told that they could apply. Next year? - **1:04:32** [t=3872] **Speaker 347:** Yes. - **1:04:34** [t=3874] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Well, yeah, next year, yeah. And again, it'll depend on how much funding we have. - **1:04:40** [t=3880] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** But again, yeah, there's kind of no guarantee ever. Yeah, so, yeah, I think it is disappointing. you know it's it's disappointing when you put in a lot of effort um but yeah - **1:04:57** [t=3897] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** yeah so wtwa came on friday um and and wthi didn't come until monday but thankfully the - **1:05:07** [t=3907] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** mayor was in that day so i had him share instead of me since um i actually wasn't one of the - **1:05:14** [t=3914] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** selectors i thought it would be good to have him share um and then the tribune star i think did a - **1:05:20** [t=3920] **Speaker 364 (community review committee member (guest)):** story too so yeah we did from the newer perspective of our portion of it we was we highlighted the - **1:05:31** [t=3931] **Speaker 283 (community review committee member (guest)):** strengths of every application and areas of improvement of every application so we were able to give you know them feedback that was not selected this is kind of what was missing this is - **1:05:42** [t=3942] **Speaker 223 (community review committee member (guest)):** where you can enhance this but these these parts were like really good yeah it wasn't it was a very um equitable and fair process in that regard because we all were like these projects are like - **1:05:57** [t=3957] **Speaker 283 (community review committee member (guest)):** really good like some ideas that were pretty impressive that we would have never thought of and then some ideas was like man this should have been done a long time ago so it wasn't about the - **1:06:08** [t=3968] **Speaker 223 (community review committee member (guest)):** quality of the project yeah but with 75 000 hours yeah that's a gig i know it's yeah yeah yeah yeah - **1:06:22** [t=3982] **Speaker 660:** it's it's tough um yeah it's tough to say no to people okay um are you all ready to talk about - **1:06:32** [t=3992] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Pride Fest. So like I said, Saturday, October 3rd from 12 to 6 at Fairbanks Park. Pride Fest, - **1:06:45** [t=4005] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** the fifth annual. Congrats to the Terre Haute Pride Center on this big milestone. And so we have been invited to be a sponsor again. I received that email from the the Terre Haute Pride Center. I do want to ask a question of our advisory member, Katie. I went to your website and I tried to find the sponsorship application again and I can - **1:07:15** [t=4035] **Speaker 525:** no longer find it. So I don't know if it went away. We will reopen it because we had our - **1:07:22** [t=4042] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** application closed August 1st and then extended to the 15th, but then we're just going to open them to the end of the month because we've had some other folks who are um like our the therapy group even in our um crew wasn't able to get theirs done yet so um yeah so it will be relaunched it'll be open it's there it's just probably hidden for right now okay well that - **1:07:46** [t=4066] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** helps so i apologize that we're late but no problem no problem last time at our july meeting we did talk about the pride fest sponsorship um uh and i think that there were maybe people - **1:08:01** [t=4081] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** people wanted to ask you some questions so i do offer that up now people have questions for - **1:08:09** [t=4089] **Speaker 705:** our pal katie i'm so glad to hear your voice i'm so glad to use my brain yeah i've been like - **1:08:18** [t=4098] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** rotting rotting away and just watching so much like tv and doing nothing and so i got approved to go back to work two days ago or yesterday what day is it yeah yesterday so yeah i'm glad to like be back in action a little bit before i can be released for in-person stuff so yeah - **1:08:37** [t=4117] **Speaker 711:** Yeah. - **1:08:38** [t=4118] Are we talking about sponsorship? - **1:08:44** [t=4124] **Speaker 715:** Yep, a sponsorship. - **1:08:47** [t=4127] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Last year we did a tier two sponsorship of $3,000 and I think there were some questions - **1:08:55** [t=4135] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** just that you all had because we had tabled this until this meeting. - **1:09:02** [t=4142] **Speaker 319:** I don't remember what the questions were. - **1:09:05** [t=4145] **Speaker 161:** Okay. Are they in the lyrics? - **1:09:08** [t=4148] **Speaker 718:** No. No, well. - **1:09:10** [t=4150] **Speaker 161:** I'm sorry. Yeah, because some of the people who had the questions are behind here. - **1:09:16** [t=4156] **Speaker 114:** Oh, the main questions are here. - **1:09:20** [t=4160] **Speaker 723:** I think the wonderful was about the reception, because wasn't that something that was not - **1:09:27** [t=4167] **Speaker 725:** utilized? - **1:09:28** [t=4168] **Speaker 580:** That was what I noted that I think I was the only person who was able to attend. - **1:09:37** [t=4177] **Speaker 283 (community review committee member (guest)):** So I think the crux of the name is where do we go with the sponsorship dollar amount. refresh my memory but in the 2025 budget was that sponsorship for 2025 or for 2026 it was for 2025 - **1:10:00** [t=4200] **Speaker 732:** for last year we um that's where why i decided yeah we break off for a second you're good okay - **1:10:08** [t=4208] **Speaker 364 (community review committee member (guest)):** so we determined sponsorship for this year within this budget yeah yeah so there were - **1:10:14** [t=4214] **Speaker 276:** and then i think the other one was that allyship training so there were those two things that i said that we didn't think we needed to take advantage of - **1:10:28** [t=4228] **Speaker 697:** and if that's something that you want or like sometimes people kind of create their own and say - **1:10:34** [t=4234] **Speaker 739:** oh we can't do this one but could we swap for something else and so that's fine like we're so - **1:10:40** [t=4240] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** flexible that we can kind of do what we want so if there are things that are better for you all if there are ways that we can acknowledge your sponsorship better in a different way that's fine - **1:10:51** [t=4251] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** I know last year because one of the things is we had conversations about would we be able to put the logo in a um a certain spot with a little payment you know and so we were we were happy to kind of pivot and talk like what could work what's fine what's not and so if there are things that are best just let me know because this is also our first time kind of upgrading our sponsorship package so if there are things that are more useful less useful let me know the allyship training what i can tell you about that it's actually a virtual training so we don't have - **1:11:25** [t=4285] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** to like come coordinate and find you all at the same time to do a presentation it's something that you can do on self-paste. There's video modules and things like that. And if it's something that you want access to or you'd like to defer to have someone else register, all we have to do at the work on our end is to send the email addresses for the chosen people. So whether it's people for the Human Relations Commission or if you want maybe other people within the, I guess, - **1:11:57** [t=4317] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** within the control the commission of who you can maybe tap to take the training but if they would - **1:12:02** [t=4322] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** like access to it like big big examples the mayor says i really want to take this training we can have him as one of those people right like so it doesn't necessarily have to be everybody there it just is who you want to register and participate um and then for the sponsor reception we changed - **1:12:21** [t=4341] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** the date because i think also we got the save the dates out late last year um and it was on a friday - **1:12:29** [t=4349] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** night and so we changed it to be a saturday lunch time i think so hearing the dates i don't have the calendar uh i can put my calendar i'm pretty sure it might be actually the same day as family learning day because we staffed it right after our september board meeting so our board members could also be present um so the sponsor reception is tentative right now set for saturday september 26th from noon to 1 30. so that might also be falling during um uh family learning day possibly but don't but there's other things we can do too we'll still make sure that you have the gifts and - **1:13:11** [t=4391] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** your thanks and I can send the presentation to AT or I can share it at a meeting. So there are things that we can happily do to be flexible. You just tell me what you need and any level of support is helpful of course. I will be transparent it's a little bit of a struggle this year because more and more organizations aren't able to well aren't able won't kind of the question It's just the state of the government and political things and all the natural structures that we've been experiencing. Not natural structures, the structures we've been experiencing, but anywho. - **1:13:53** [t=4433] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** So at whatever level you are able to give or like to give, we will be so appreciative. Just know that we're happy to be flexible and there are questions from the package. We're happy to meet your needs. - **1:14:04** [t=4444] **Speaker 39:** It seems that if it's the allyship would be interesting, but if you, some of us are - **1:14:13** [t=4453] **Speaker 748:** going to be at family learning day that same day. Oh, I think the allyship training can happen whenever, but the reception. - **1:14:23** [t=4463] **Speaker 750:** Oh, I mean, it's close during that time. - **1:14:26** [t=4466] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Yeah, which, I mean, that's, yeah, I get, yeah, I think, again, to Katie, that's something that no one is able to go to because we have a, you know, we could ask for something else. But again, it's totally up to you all. Like I said, in terms of finances, we have about $10,248 to play with for the rest of the year. - **1:14:57** [t=4497] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** We gave $1,500 to Juneteenth and $1,500 to Young Black and Empowered because there wasn't the one Juneteenth thing this year. So we still gave the $3,000 that we had given the previous year, but we split it between two programs. And then I have not heard about the NAACP Freedom Fund or if that's happening again, but we spent about $1,000 last year on that. - **1:15:26** [t=4526] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** But those are things that we have done in the past or this year. - **1:15:39** [t=4539] **Speaker 283 (community review committee member (guest)):** I know some of the conversation was, so for the record, the conversation never occurred about not sponsoring. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. - **1:15:55** [t=4555] **Speaker 298:** Just kind of put that out to the world of the people who don't watch the YouTube channel. - **1:16:04** [t=4564] **Speaker 223 (community review committee member (guest)):** But there was some conversation of a reduction specific to the reception. - **1:16:12** [t=4572] **Speaker 283 (community review committee member (guest)):** And the scheduling thing, I think that was a challenge also last year. Things that just are out of both groups control of not having somebody there. I don't necessarily know what would be an alternative. And I think continued discussions as we do have a little bit more time before we make a decision, just so that we have more voices at the table to figure out what that could look like. If not the reception, what can collectively we can agree upon, - **1:16:46** [t=4606] **Speaker 372:** if you will, if we wanna stick to the $3,000 sponsorship. I think that's too few voices to really make a decision today and maybe making it in the September meeting. - **1:17:01** [t=4621] **Speaker 283 (community review committee member (guest)):** Or I don't know what the sponsorship deadline is, what that looks like. - **1:17:07** [t=4627] **Speaker 765:** Does that put us in a... - **1:17:09** [t=4629] **Speaker 764:** Yeah. - **1:17:10** [t=4630] **Speaker 765:** Yeah. - **1:17:11** [t=4631] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** If so, because our reception is essentially, or the pre-sponsor reception is basically we will feed everyone and then we give out our pride packs at that time and or like the thank you kit and i give a presentation about the a recap of the year how your sponsorship impact i'd be happy if it's helpful to come do that briefly at the next human relations commission too if that's a quick alternative but also we can talk about another perfer edition absolutely - **1:17:48** [t=4668] **Speaker 771:** How many people do you respect working? - **1:17:55** [t=4675] **Speaker 562:** I attended it last year, I will say I did have a good time just meeting jail responses. - **1:18:01** [t=4681] **Speaker 364 (community review committee member (guest)):** And again, for me, it's always about connecting to people in the community and the place that they're in. - **1:18:07** [t=4687] **Speaker 209:** There have been several people from that perception that I met that we have been at a lot of events together. - **1:18:19** [t=4699] **Speaker 223 (community review committee member (guest)):** It was helpful for me and also to represent the commission, obviously. I love yoga. - **1:18:29** [t=4709] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Yeah, I think I just want to add, like, all of the benefits are, like, very generous. - **1:18:34** [t=4714] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** And, like, for other things we have sponsored in the past, like, we've gotten our logo on something and haven't gotten. - **1:18:42** [t=4722] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** So, like, thinking not just about the benefits that we get as an organization, but also thinking about the benefit that this event has to the community, I think, is something that, like, we've used to justify other sponsorships in the past. - **1:18:58** [t=4738] **Speaker 397:** Sure. - **1:18:59** [t=4739] **Speaker 783:** I mean, that's it. - **1:19:03** [t=4743] **Speaker 214:** I don't, I, I'm, Katie did say that the, the sponsorship deadline technically has already passed, but you're, um, yeah, I just, I, I think that, yeah, that would be helpful to - **1:19:17** [t=4757] **Speaker 788:** the conversation is like, what, how, how late can we go? - **1:19:22** [t=4762] **Speaker 401:** Um, sooner the better. - **1:19:27** [t=4767] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** yeah well that's a whole lot to me like ideally if we could get things moving this week since now - **1:19:34** [t=4774] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** i'm back from medical leave i've got a crank out price that so um i'm going to be worked because i go back to work in person probably around september 1st and so while i have um the ability to work remotely during the day and just stay home and eat in the evening and work on christmas and Pride Center stuff it's helpful just from a trying to get things done before September 1 because then I go back to work and then we're officially a month out from Pride Fest and a month out from Pride Fest is when we want to have our marketing materials, flyers, everything finalized so we can start sharing - **1:20:13** [t=4813] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** the good news about Pride Fest, coming up to the schedule, everything like that. So my goal is to kind of binge Pride Fest the next two weeks and then we hopefully as done with it as possible so we're ready to go on October. - **1:20:28** [t=4828] **Speaker 605:** Yeah because our next meeting it's the 16th which is only two weeks before the event. - **1:20:38** [t=4838] **Speaker 241 (commissioner):** I don't necessarily want to be the only voice. - **1:20:41** [t=4841] **Speaker 14 (commissioner):** Yes but at the same time I don't have experience on what happened last year to decide at this point but I mean I supported 100% - **1:20:54** [t=4854] **Speaker 476:** So if we participated in 3000 last year and then it was one time 5000 I would say since we might have more participation - **1:21:11** [t=4871] **Speaker 14 (commissioner):** like do some team between the 5,000 and 3,000. That's what I would say that we did. - **1:21:20** [t=4880] **Speaker 382:** It's very generous. It seems to me that if none of us particularly care about the, - **1:21:27** [t=4887] **Speaker 809:** no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I know. - **1:21:32** [t=4892] **Speaker 498:** About the reception, you know, it's not like we're saying, oh, we really were wanting to do this because we really want to go to that reception. Yeah. And none of us, I mean we're all willing to either go or to not go, then the things that matter most are giving to them. - **1:21:49** [t=4909] **Speaker 382:** And the recognition that we get, those are the things that really are more important to us as a group than, you know, the receptionist night, but that's not really why they're doing it. - **1:22:02** [t=4922] **Speaker 817:** the effects that we're looking for to the community. From what I'm hearing I think that - **1:22:14** [t=4934] **Speaker 14 (commissioner):** 3,500 would be reasonable. That's what I would say if you want to make decisions today. I don't know because things are more expensive every year than last year. We spent 3,000. That's what I would say I don't know. - **1:22:37** [t=4957] **Speaker 24:** I already said I support 3000. So that's my company. I'll go for you. - **1:22:45** [t=4965] **Speaker 118:** Do you have any thoughts for Jackie? - **1:22:47** [t=4967] **Speaker 42:** I also support 3000. I think that sounds good. I think 3000 sounds good. - **1:22:54** [t=4974] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** okay that is amazing and perfect and really truly wonderful and i really appreciate it and so does - **1:23:04** [t=4984] **Katie Luger (advisory member — Pride Center of Terre Haute):** our team so i mean of course i know i have to be a career but that would be such a great help to us - **1:23:10** [t=4990] **Speaker 703:** thank you - **1:23:11** [t=4991] **Speaker 39:** a motion - **1:23:18** [t=4998] **Speaker 832:** i'll second there okay all those in favor of approving the tier two sponsorship for three thousand dollars for the pride fest - **1:23:29** [t=5009] **Speaker 837:** okay thank you all so so much i just love and appreciate you all very much - **1:23:46** [t=5026] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** um katie just before that we totally move on um will you reopen that for me and then um then yeah i don't know if it will produce an invoice for me but if not i'll need an invoice - **1:24:01** [t=5041] **Speaker 44:** from you yes it should now that we have a new platform it could automatically do it which is - **1:24:06** [t=5046] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** awesome okay all right last thing for today is the strategic planning retreat i know you've seen me send out that link multiple times i did not hear from no i everyone in this room everyone online i - **1:24:20** [t=5060] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** I didn't hear from Jackie or not Jackie Dana or Justin um so you'll see six of seven or five of - **1:24:28** [t=5068] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** seven because I only heard from seven of the nine of us yeah my name's all over I know I know I know so we just need to we just need to decide um what day we're gonna do because unfortunately there's - **1:24:46** [t=5086] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** not one day that works for everybody and i don't know about dana or justin it's you know yeah but - **1:24:53** [t=5093] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** you're available all of those days um yes so yeah unfortunately yeah there's not a lot of good - **1:25:03** [t=5103] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** sundays in there for me um so they weren't on the list and also i know we have some uh several church families in this group. So, um, I, um, we just, we'll just have to, and I'm, I really want Lucy, - **1:25:19** [t=5119] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** I mean, I'm, I really want Lucy to be there because, uh, you know, you're new this year. - **1:25:25** [t=5125] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Um, but I also, um, don't know what to do. So this is, I'm presenting this predicament that I am in - **1:25:33** [t=5133] **Speaker 432:** to you all. - **1:25:35** [t=5135] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** And so now. - **1:25:37** [t=5137] **Speaker 432:** I'm familiar with this. Yeah, yeah, yeah, please. - **1:25:42** [t=5142] **Speaker 14 (commissioner):** That would be like half one day and the other half on the side of the road. - **1:25:47** [t=5147] **Speaker 862:** That way I don't miss I miss half. I mean, someone else will miss half. - **1:25:53** [t=5153] **Speaker 476:** It's just an idea. Because we can't be all at the same time. You know. That's my idea. - **1:26:01** [t=5161] **Speaker 864:** No, I. I like it. - **1:26:04** [t=5164] **Speaker 866:** No, I like it. I'm scratching my neck. No, no, you're good. - **1:26:10** [t=5170] **Speaker 14 (commissioner):** I will miss the first half, the day I can, I will miss the second half. Yeah. - **1:26:16** [t=5176] **Speaker 871:** Yeah. Because most of these times were like 10 to 4. - **1:26:24** [t=5184] **Speaker 874:** I think we said it would be from 9 to like 4. - **1:26:28** [t=5188] **Speaker 521:** or with an eight to nine breakfast. Yeah, nine to four. - **1:26:37** [t=5197] **Speaker 877:** Yeah. - **1:26:41** [t=5201] **Speaker 881:** Do it in the evening. What time do you get done teaching? I think. - **1:26:49** [t=5209] **Speaker 883:** Is it, what about- I teach from nine degrees. Oh, okay. - **1:26:52** [t=5212] **Speaker 372:** Or no, I don't like to do late, but what about instead of an early? - **1:26:58** [t=5218] **Speaker 122:** to an afternoon to an evening. Yes, and then I will miss the first part. - **1:27:08** [t=5228] **Speaker 241 (commissioner):** If that helps. I mean, you can go from two to something. You can have dinner. - **1:27:12** [t=5232] **Speaker 860:** And then I miss the first hour, one, two, three, for example. - **1:27:19** [t=5239] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** Thankfully, we're still a long way out from October, but I'm like, if I needed to send out - **1:27:25** [t=5245] **Speaker 256:** a third that it written scheduling full but I think it easier to close I know I know I know - **1:27:33** [t=5253] **Speaker 895:** because I have this in the issue on the Tuesdays and Thursdays because I know yeah yeah - **1:27:39** [t=5259] **Speaker 522:** yeah and it's possible people's calendars have filled up now on these days but I'm just going off of what I had. - **1:27:54** [t=5274] **Speaker 904:** Typically for strategic planning, you don't want to break it up. You want to do it all in one block. Women have to leave. - **1:28:17** [t=5297] **Speaker 914:** I need to eat. - **1:28:22** [t=5302] **Speaker 915:** For strategic planning retreats, there is food. All the things. - **1:28:27** [t=5307] **Speaker 917:** There is food. Anything that says food. - **1:28:31** [t=5311] **Speaker 918:** I'm like, it's quite a bit, so you'll want a break. - **1:28:35** [t=5315] **Speaker 723:** You'll want a break. - **1:28:37** [t=5317] **Speaker 920:** Yeah. Body, soul, yes. For sure, for sure. - **1:28:41** [t=5321] **Speaker 723:** So I want to ask Jackie, since that was the day that Jackie and I had an issue with - **1:28:46** [t=5326] **Speaker 259:** issue with october 17th is that is that that would be okay for me yeah i could do i couldn't move something around on the 17th - **1:29:02** [t=5342] **Speaker 562:** are you sure to do the same time block that we have already or to do whatever it wasn't - **1:29:08** [t=5348] **Speaker 590:** oh i don't remember what time yeah well we said nine to four so want to do nine to four on 17th - **1:29:19** [t=5359] **Speaker 934:** on october the 17th 17th 17th yeah i'm gonna send everybody the calendar invite literally now - **1:29:31** [t=5371] **Speaker 936:** like it's up on the screen okay - **1:29:38** [t=5378] **Speaker 636:** thank you - **1:29:43** [t=5383] **Speaker 941:** um oh yeah i don't really put a potential on my calendar oh my gosh one two three - **1:29:59** [t=5399] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** oh no yeah no i'm i'm well plus i'm like i gotta get this on my cal and i'm like so let me send it to my one uh jackie jackie lauer sometimes i accidentally send if anyone's ever seen this i've accidentally sent our invites to jackie bradfield because - **1:30:20** [t=5420] **Speaker 521:** she pops up as jackie and jackie lauer pops up as jacqueline so sometimes i get it wrong but it's right you're getting it okay so i apologize if you've ever been one two three four five six oh i'm forgetting we got lucy and then katie and justin i don't know okay location tbd - **1:30:42** [t=5442] **Speaker 400:** i'm gonna ask the history center if they're available but if not um save the date strategic planning details coming soon - **1:31:02** [t=5462] **Speaker 960:** Wow. The urgency of the fingers. I know. Well, I'm just like, let's just let it out. - **1:31:08** [t=5468] **Speaker 961:** Yeah, I know. - **1:31:09** [t=5469] **Speaker 241 (commissioner):** I got sent it to myself too. The urgency of the fingers is hilarious. I have found a new COVID-19 list, but they have to jump it on the federal lines. - **1:31:17** [t=5477] **Speaker 966:** Okay, great. We're okay. - **1:31:19** [t=5479] **Speaker 209:** The only two that didn't respond to the best of the day. - **1:31:23** [t=5483] **Speaker 521:** Yeah, but they have it now in their inbox. - **1:31:27** [t=5487] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** which if they yeah i don't know that'll be on them uh october 17th great because the majority - **1:31:36** [t=5496] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** people yeah i i sent it to dane oh she already declined it oops okay - **1:31:44** [t=5504] **Speaker 400:** yeah she just must have seen it um dana but it's declined because i am out of office - **1:31:54** [t=5514] **Speaker 975:** well maybe an automatic yeah so well i'll follow up with that i was like that was really fast - **1:32:02** [t=5522] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** um i will um coordinate those details this week uh no probably not i'm yeah - **1:32:12** [t=5532] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** not this week or next week but i will get it coordinated um i'll request dietary restrictions - **1:32:20** [t=5540] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** it'll be something we'll get either we can go I mean if we have it at the history center we could - **1:32:28** [t=5548] **Speaker 522:** walk somewhere and have lunch or we could um but that's always kind of a challenge it's nice to - **1:32:33** [t=5553] **Speaker 504:** yeah it takes a lot of time when you have a big group I know yeah I have seen yeah one time I went - **1:32:40** [t=5560] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** to somewhere for lunch and it was like a dental office they had pre-ordered and like they all - **1:32:46** [t=5566] **Speaker 416:** came in and their meals were already there and I was like wow that's the way to do it anyway that's all i got on that front i will get more details out to you that's all we got on the - **1:32:57** [t=5577] **Speaker 989:** agenda for from - **1:32:59** [t=5579] **Speaker 298:** and they just um they don't they don't but i but i'm always my goal that's why i said i don't want - **1:33:12** [t=5592] **Speaker 991:** thank you so much because a lot of times people will occur and i want it to be us is it wrong - **1:33:27** [t=5607] **Speaker 994:** yes - **1:33:32** [t=5612] **Speaker 1000:** no so you are that's a good question so um it's you're allowed to serve - **1:33:41** [t=5621] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** two consecutive terms and then i don't there's no thing about like how long it like you have to take a break for but it just says that you can you can only serve two consecutive terms so you'll be up to be reappointed um by the council now i will ask the council if they're going to do where they do an open application again or if they're i think that that's probably how they will do it that's how they did it when sandy like reapplied um and - **1:34:18** [t=5658] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** so they then they do like they'll ask me like you know what do you think and i will i like had shared you know sandy's a participatory member like i you know she's interested in serving again i would recommend that like she stay on so i would do the same um but um you dana is a mayor appointee so - **1:34:44** [t=5684] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** the mayor just will he doesn't do like an open application and then lakeisha you i don't i i think i don't know because you didn't serve a full term i don't know if then - **1:34:57** [t=5697] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** that's if you will do you could do six more years or i don't know we'll have to cross that bridge maybe later um but i'll i actually have this on my kind of future department head meeting conversations with the mayor of like you need to make sure you reappoint or if yeah if - **1:35:22** [t=5722] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** you did not want to do it just let us know but but that was that was my question too - **1:35:28** [t=5728] **Speaker 209:** what what and what the process is um did i just fade into the wind no and - **1:35:38** [t=5738] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** you're here um no but i'd be happy to yeah i don't know it was did yours was just weird because they like waited so long because they changed the rules oh so if you did want to serve another - **1:35:53** [t=5753] **Anne-Therese Ryan (director (staff)):** we could maybe we could ask that question too if you want to serve six more years - **1:35:58** [t=5758] **Speaker 1:** we can't yeah since it wasn't a full term yeah we can't - **1:36:05** [t=5765] **Speaker 1018:** but that was yeah any other statements from commissioners or anything - **1:36:10** [t=5770] **Speaker 554:** did you all have any more statements no - **1:36:13** [t=5773] **Speaker 1021:** Okay, adjourn. I move that week. I have to second it. - **1:36:25** [t=5785] **Speaker 1023:** Oh, Jackie has to second it. - **1:36:30** [t=5790] **Speaker 1025:** All right. Any opposed? - **1:36:34** [t=5794] **Speaker 800:** Any opposed? Okay. - **1:36:38** [t=5798] **Speaker 1027:** Bye-bye. At 6.