recording. Okay. Um I will call this human rights commission meeting September 22nd meeting to order. Um first first thing on our agenda is approval of minutes from the August 25th
meeting. You can look at those and then when everyone's had a chance to look it over, I'll just entertain a motion to approve the minutes. I move to approve the minutes from the August 25th, 2025 meeting as written.
Second. Okay. All those in favor of approving the minutes from August 25th meeting say I. I. Um those opposed same side.
Okay. The minutes are approved. Next we have the budget report. Um we will review that monthly financial report attached there. I don't know. Let's see. We've had some
expenses probably related to like promotional items since last meeting. Do we know if we were charged for the root beer? I do not know that.
I can't remember if Kristen was able to get it donated or not. Okay. But yes, we'll have some expenses for the ice cream, potentially ro beer supplies, the portaotties, the rentals of the chairs, and the bounce house. All of that has yet to to uh hit this
budget. Those are all expenses approved prior to the welcoming week event as a reallocation of our educational event funds. Sure. Or no, that that's the living without limits, but yeah, we I know we had approved Yeah. funds. I think $1,500 if I
remember correctly. I don't think we came that close to that and I don't think we need any motions on that. Um, next order of business is
events committee. Um we had the welcoming week event that we just had on Friday and um it went very well I think um second year doing it and
we had um you know we were better prepared with planning um because we had more time to to prepare um a little rainy but we we managed to you know pull it pull it together and I I think it
pretty much stopped raining by the time it started. So that was good. And the root beer floats were a hit. I think we we ran out of ice cream and just had root beer left at the end. Yeah.
Yeah. I don't know. Mayor, do you have any feedback from the event? Anybody say anything to you? I just I thought it was an excellent event and I applaud all of you who were able to to be there to participate and to support it and those of you who sit on the commission. What a
great idea. I know last year uh was a short notice, but this year even though it rained uh when I got there, it was the a just after the rain and with all of the participating organizations. I don't know what your feedback was on
that, but I thought that was excellent, the music and the food options. So, uh kudos to all of you. Thank you. Yeah, I thought it went well. I did ask a couple of the exhibitors their feedback and seemed to be positive. I asked all three food trucks
as well and two of the three got said their business was great. One of them didn't see quite as much business as they had hoped, but okay. Um, one already said, "Please let us know next year cuz we want to come back." So cool. They were really happy about how it went for them. Good.
And yeah, I felt like we had a lot of traffic. I mean, not just because of root beer floats. Yeah. But a lot of people came back by our table. The floats helped, I think. But even people didn't immediately recognize that we had them, but yeah. Um, still came by. So, I thought thought it went really well. How about
this the first time for you guys? What do you think, Carl and Deb? Well, yeah. Thought it was kind of fun seeing people and having them come up and get the floats and chatting them up. You know, that was a good event. I thought it went really well. And I thought there were more people at
that one than the a couple of the others we'd been at, you know, that actually came up and talked to us. Yeah. Yeah, I would agree. So, I thought it was good. One of your ideas was to keep it in that location so that when people are driving by, they would notice it. Uh, and I sat
down with there were three people at a table. One was local and the other two were from Medilia. And I asked them what brought them. They said they were driving by. Okay. And saw the food trucks and stopped in.
And I thought, great. It re it re reinforces the idea that visibility from the roadway is a good thing. Sure. Yeah. I think we like it there. The only sticky issue is the parking situation because those people that are working downtown are parking there until 5, you
know, close a business and then it gets a little hairy trying to get everything set up. So, I don't know if there's something maybe notification for the local businesses that were I don't know what sort of notification went out. Um, I think it was mostly people from
citizens that were working. You know, obviously they probably weren't aware that that there was going to be something something we could do next year just to give us a little more time to set we we did it, but it was sweating. Yeah. Yeah.
This like literally and metaphorically sweating. We were getting getting it done on time. Yep. Okay. Um other um other things under events um we had to back out of the um pride
parade. We just didn't have enough participation. I think um unfortunately one of the volunteers had to back out. So we just didn't have the support to be present for that this year. Um maybe something we can look at next
year. um see if we want to commit to it again. And then we have uh education committee report. I don't know if anyone from education
committee kind of wants to update on the what's coming up. Do you want to Ally, you had the notes? Um, I would say that we mostly have the agenda for the first session prepared.
Uh, the library has a host of materials ready for us, I think. Did you do we send out the questions to I haven't sent them out yet. No. Okay. So, we're going to give the questions to people ahead of time so they have a chance to just get familiar
with the information and kind of what we'll be talking about. Um, we also discussed having like water and light snacks for people. So, um, I don't know if that has to be approved or not, but we have budget, so
yeah, be fine. When is the date for that one? October 13th. October 13th. Okay. Um, and it's at the library at what time? 6:30 is what time the actual event starts.
But if you I can send out the flyer to the committee too. Okay. Yeah, that would be good to get it out there for the public. Yeah, we probably need to publicize this. Yep. And how many speakers do we have lined up for that? Six. This first one. Six. Okay.
Yeah. So, it should be good. and we're just kind of tightening up our next session who the panelists um we're planning to essentially use the same types of questions from session to session. Of course, some things might not be applicable but
um I think the idea is to have a fairly similar format. This will be our test case though and we can see afterwards make sure it it goes well before we get too far ahead planning the next one. What is the theme of the first session? So, it's blind blindness. Okay.
Vision impairment. Yeah. So, we've got several several panelists, including our own Carl that are going to help us. So, should be really good. I'm excited about it. Like Ally said, the library, they they're excited about it. They're putting together materials
to have set up. So, um I like the buyin from from them as well. It's nice. Yeah. Okay. look forward to that. Um, next we have legislative update.
Does anyone have anything that they would like to um bring forward for legislative update? Yeah. No. Okay. Um, city council business. Um I don't know if there's anything that's come up with city
council. Obey was the representative. Do you know if there's been anything not related to human rights? Okay. Um we will need someone to volunteer for October to December. I can volunteer for that.
Okay. Thank you. All right. Is there anything else that we need to discuss before we adjourn? Wow. Yeah, pretty quick. Unless there's anything else.
Okay. Well, our next regularly scheduled meeting is Monday, October 27th. Otherwise, I would um entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting. So move
second. Oh, sorry. Okay. All those in favor of adjourning I oppose same side. Okay. This meeting is adjourned.