is our expungement clinic which just passed in April. Um, and that was the second one we ever did. The first one was in October. Both times we had over 200 people attend and it was a a really great event. Um the expungement clinic
is we work with the public defenders office to help people with records get their records expuned either on the spot or within the next following the few the following weeks of the event. So um it's it's all free otherwise it would cost
$500 plus dollars um to like thousands of dollars to get your record expuned. Um but we brought it to Franklin for free which um was amazing. It was an amazing experience. And um we also recently had a law night which we worked
with the state bar association on. They were able to bring lawyers from all different sects of the law to um discuss with people one-on-one their questions about legal issues for free. Again, for completely free. We are not allowed to
charge people for anything. So we bring all these events to you guys for free. Um, and what else? Yeah, so on the individual level, I serve as an advocate for people to state agencies like for unemployment issues, for temporary
disability issues, um, for family leave issues and things like that. Um, so that's where my 600 plus cases have come in because, uh, we we get a lot of those questions. Um, and then the other half of what I do is communications. Um, I'm
sure you all know I make press releases, I make flyers, I manage our um, newsletter to a couple thousand people. Um, and so on. So, yeah, that's pretty much that's me. That's what I do. Oh,
um, let me tell you a fun fact about me. I'm also a singer in a band. Um, and you'll never guess what kind of music. It's It's like headbanging punk rock music. So, yeah, you probably wouldn't expect
that, but yeah. Uh, that's just a fun little fact about me. Um, yeah. So, does anyone have any questions on that or comment? Where do you perform? So, where can we go bang? Bang with me in New Brunswick. That's where I usually go to to perform. If you
are okay with hanging out in a um black mold filled basement then but hopefully some nicer places in the future. I was just going to mention I I think um at least I'm from Canal Walk. They look
familiar. Yeah. And um one of the things we're very appreciative is the mobile truck that you have over at uh Simon's office there. um you know they provide services that we don't have to go to a count or state office but provides right
there. So yeah the mobile truck the mobile unit is great. Um it it saves you a lot of time waiting for your appointment at the DMV at the MVC. You can just come in, they take care of you right on the spot and you can leave. Um, we recently were going to have one in
our office lot about a month and a half ago, but a wire fell and so the truck wouldn't fit into our parking lot. So, we moved it to here. Actually, I don't know if you guys might have seen it, but it was at the library when we went to speak about the banners
program. Yeah. With with Wayne. Thank you. Uh, no. I I resent the uh PowerPoint uh presentation to and copied the two of you uh as well as uh Alex to Safy
because I sent it back in May today. So yeah. So today she responded that um she Alex is away. She apologized that she had missed the email and would um look at John. You had a question? Yeah. Well, uh
uh I met Izzy, uh through uh some things I had, you know, through uh they cutting off my rent. He everything they doing everything for me and uh because of who I am and who I advocate
for. I met Izzy. She's been very helpful in doing the things that I need to get done. uh some of the things I need to get done. But as you can see uh in the township,
we no longer have a community action agency. We no longer have a social service agency. Scap has been eaten up with that's where I come from for the past 50 years has been eaten up with doing it with the
township. Joe Daniel, Joe Danielson has become the individual that's been noted to all the social service problems in Franklin Township.
You're going to have to go through Miss Izzy to go through through it because there is no there is nothing else. And the town and the people of Franklin Township, the black people of Franklin
Township, minority community is catching the devil. And if it hadn't been for Izzy, we would have nobody. So what Joe is doing
importantly, whether he knows it or not, is he's filling that gap with Izzy. Now I I I sympathize with her. I encourage her and I just heard her whole background and
Joe put me on her and she don't need to see me, man. You know, I got, you know, my is really heavy for for I mean, but you know, but the but she can handle it. But she's only one person. And I'm hoping and praying that we have
an outfit in in Somerset, New Jersey that will service the the the the uh economically challenged people in Franklin. But as of right now, she's it like a little girl. You know
what I mean? Joe put me on her eyes. What she going to do? you know, I didn't, you know, but and she is and I applaud her. I encourage her and she got my back and
I would hope that everybody else here feels the same way. Thank you very much. Folks in touch with veteran services, I'm interested in learning more about that. My church at their district level has something called Operation Barnabas, which is about veterans outreach and
help. So, there might be something that we could collaborate on. Yeah, that sounds awesome. Here, I'm also I'm going to pass around my card to anyone that wants one, but um we actually had a veterans resource fair back in February. Um, we had a a bunch of, uh, vendors
come from all across the state because some are statewide and some are more local. Um, so we had some county, some Middle Sex counties, some uh, Community Hope was there. They're like a statewide organization. They're great. Um, and we
actually had a gentleman come who was dressed better than everyone else. Um but then he pulled some some of us to the side, the staff person inside and was like, "Hey, I'm homeless. Can you help me find somewhere to live um today?" And we were like, "We're going
to see what we could do." We checked with some of the vendors that were there. Um it was Dava, which is the state veterans organization, and also Community Hope, which is a statewide organization, but not from the state.
And together they were actually able to find him a place to stay that night. Yeah. Did Joe Daniel come to Canal walk to talk about the new stuff yet? He's been there a few times
there right before the primary. Um about politics. No, no, that's what I'm saying. Yeah, he he's over he's over there a few times. No, no, because he's coming to Renaissance with the new tax laws that Oh, okay. Got you.
ETR, whatever. Oh, yeah. Property tax relief. That's I handle that, too. Mhm. Any other questions? I was fine. Young lady, I just want to ask you a question. There was something that came out um I
think through um Sman uh Danielson also one of our council people in town about the uh uh hate has no home. Are you familiar with that? So um it was like was it a joint effort between some and the council person from Franklin? Yep.
It was a we are the um human relations commission and we actually didn't know too much about it until we saw signs up. Oh, I see. We saw signs up and then actually Edna and Nora and I we had a um representing our uh human relations
commission were at the Franklin's diversity night uh they that they held. Yeah. And we had a booth there that was at the middle school. Oh that was at Samson J. Yes. Exactly. uh the uh that this is like the third year of um the
Franklin school district doing something of this nature and it's been very successful um they with all the schools and we participated along with I believe the cultural arts uh from uh Franklin also were there but we asked about the science cuz we saw all around we thought
that you know we need to know a little bit more so a protocol came out cuz we actually had a couple of signs at our booth that we had we went over and bought a couple cuz I think the money went to the food bank if I'm not mistaken. Mhm. The donation money went
to and uh and then I think uh uh thisman then had a table that night there also because he didn't realize that event was taking place and then he he was selling them also there. But uh so I just asking is that what where is where are we because I was going to ask uh Mr.
Rosenthal about uh having that particular um council person come and speak to us about it, you know, about about it. Is it continuing or was it just came out, you know, for a couple weeks and where it was at? So, I'm not too sure. So, it
so the whole hate has no home sign was in response to the really bigoted sign on Deont Lane. Um, so because it was, uh, made as a response to something, it that kind of thing can eb and flow, uh, you know, it it comes up when it's
needed and it goes away when it's not. But I think that a lot of people have kept their signs out. My parents have kept their sign out. So I think it's definitely something that could be continued. Um, it was a joint effort with these women, uh, Councilman Patasnik and Mayor Kramer. So, um, if
you want to know more about that, um, if you have their contact information, you can contact them or you can contact me and I'll get you in touch with them. Yeah, that that's one thing. Oh, I'm sorry. Go ahead. No, I'll do one one thing. There's one major major problem,
right? There's no communication between nobody knows nothing. I mean, nobody knows nothing about what's going on. It's like a complete shut down and that's sort of what he's
talking about. Oh yeah, I I can definitely My question is about if the the program continues with those um signs um the funding, you know, is it still a fun would it still continue as a fundraiser
for the food bank? Um, wasn't that funded by the mayor, the councilman Satnac Tasnack, as well as um, Assemblyman Dalian? Yeah. So, it would still be um, they would still be the ones to buy the signs, but then um,
after they make that money back, all the proceeds go to the food bank, and I think it would continue that way. Um, there's no reason to um, pivot from something that's going so well already. Anybody else? just just ended so I don't want to take
up too much time is if you could just bring that back you know um to the assemblyman you know that you know the committee is commission is interested in continuing I think anyway I don't want to put everybody on the spot but continue because I think it's a good message to get out there you know or I
think so there's a couple other um commissions uh in Franklin that also would be part of that I think there's a clergy I think if I'm not mistaken uh castle would be how many of those were
distributed doing is there count there is I do not know the answer to that I can check for you and find out and let you know later in other words you're saying we should uh start a collaboration where we will work to amplify that message by getting more of those signs out there I mean that's just
my thoughts you know what I mean that I thought that was a good thought you know and uh whether it be response to someone putting something ingred up or not, you know, I mean, I think it's something that Franklin represents, you know, about hate in our in our community. But
I mean, do you want us to consider that? That I don't I mean that's that would be to all of us to um reach out to if we want to do something like that. You know what I mean? Or just be part of one of our, you know, like in our brochure or mission statement that we're trying to
um put together. that would might be one of our projects, you know, that would be, you know, because if I mean, if it's something we want to do, then we would need a move to right to right, you know, move move to establish uh I guess that's why collaboration council person maybe
he spoke to us where his thoughts were, you know, since, you know what I mean, in dealing with their work. Maybe someone else is doing it. Yeah. So inviting you're suggesting we invite councilman that's to another meeting to a meeting just to get his thoughts on
it. So Gary that's just my anybody else. Should we put that on the agenda for a future meeting? Okay. So we continue our meeting. Thank you. Thank you very much. Um does anyone want a business?
Thank thanks a lot. Great. Great. Anyone? You. You're welcome. Thank you for having me. Of course. Thank you for having me. Take another one. Thank you. Before
you guys have to eat dinner, but thank you so much for having me. I hope you're available again. Of course. Thank you so much for having me guys and reach out to me if you have any questions about anything. If I don't
know the answer, I will connect you to who does. Thank you. You're welcome. Bye. Bye. Welcome to Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh I don't I don't know what happened to the policeman. I I tried to get all of them.
So we have no policeman. um bring us up to anything new on that Stephie just poked her head in um that she sent back the presentation with some questions. Okay. Um or she poked in to
say that she she'd sent it back. So um I do have it now. There are some questions here. uh for example um you know whether we're going to present it to the council next month. Um
uh I if we're looking for uh funding for the program um if we're exploring fundraising then uh it has to happen this year this calendar year with township approval. Um or do we need
township approval? Question mark she has here. Um, so I should talk to her about these notes. And has Alex talked to the council about it yet? Probably not. No, the the what we had settled on um in the last series of emails was that Safy would review it first as project manager
and then it would go to the council. Okay. So without Alex here, we can't move. Bring it up to date on the brochure if if you can. So I think our last meeting uh Yeah, I have done a lot of the work. Yeah, I formatted the brochure. I have the language, but I
don't have a printer at home. So, that's why I was sent you guys an email around 6:00 saying, "Could somebody please print this?" You can email it. You know, the brochure. You don't have to print it. Just email us. I'll do it so that you can review it and
and decide if there's anything suggest. Oh, I was saying, you know, there might be someone at the high school. I don't know if they have like a school workshop or something. Yeah. Yeah. I don't have a marketing or a communication
internship or something. Is there is that one of the clubs at the school? I think it's a stock market club. Stock market. Is there a newspaper? Newspaper like
usually a wizard at that age. in the in the county who county uh said would also format and print too. I'm sure there's a char they he told me that there was no charge but
then he said depending upon the number of uh you need I have a problem they actually brought human release in the budget like me I don't have anything else that mean
commission doesn't that mean problems with humans why am I s okay I don't have anything because we have Oh yeah, I think it does. I think the overall community but human next human relational
information next meeting is on July 23rd. All right. Really Johnny now before I Yes, I have. No. Now I was talking to someone and to Bill
and I was questioning the human relation part of this organization and it seemed like we should be dealing with human problems
as opposed to any other type of problems. Did I stand correctly? Yeah, I think you're right. But I think there's a lot of things that can fall under human relations pretty pretty far out. So if you look at the commissions
promotes diversity, appreciation, all forms and committed to address the problems of bias based on race, color, religion, national origin, ethnicity, uh sexual orientation, gender or disability. So it's it's a broad spectrum, but there are other topics
that you can include in that. You know, I think uh with Edna's project there, I think you're talking about the veterans, you know, who are part of our community, you know what I mean? In regards to that mission, that's our mission. Yeah, that's that's so I'm just saying so to me, you know, that it could have been a
culture, but we okay that a long time ago, right? No, we didn't. So, so the the trai- as far as the the naming convention, traditionally all groups that have dealt with um promoting harmony in the
community as well as um uh collaborating with other community groups and and and also uh standing for defending uh improving uh diversity initiatives etc.
Usually that group has been called the human relations commission. So it's not just Franklin Township that calls it that. You know, there's a county group. There are commissions throughout the country um that are named as such. So we we didn't uh um choose randomly to call
ourselves a human relations commission. The township calls it since we we serve at the pleasure of the council. Human relations council on the state level. Okay. Do we have anything else? We understand. I think we understand what I'm talking about. Yeah.
If not, we wish you a lot of luck. Thank you for your help. What are your plans? Apologize to University of Maryland. Oh, my high school went to University of Maryland. No. Uh, computer science. No, not high
school graduation is tomorrow. I don't know if I'm going to be going. All right. I need a motion to be in college park. Do I have a motion to adjourn? Motion. Next meeting is July 23rd. Thank you
all. 23rd. Hopefully by then we'll have a new junior commissioner. Thank you.