good evening. Uh it is the 5th of May. This is the Sister Cities Commission and first order of business is get an acting secretary for the evening. Oh,
she's our You are good. All the time. Well, I am acting as all the time acting as vice chair. Uh, is there anyone who wishes to volunteer to be chair? Are we going to start with that? That's the first thing
on my agenda. Okay. I I have a someone who is willing to be chair. Jane Mayday Hulky called me last night and she is willing to do that. We need her and she said she would do it. She's not going to be here tonight, but I think we should avail
ourselves of the opportunity to immediately vote vote her in and before she has a chance to say she don't I take don't don't take that. No, it's a Yes, I did talk to her. It's a legitimate sheer. She is It's an legitimate offer
and she's willing to do that. So I She's got experience. So is that a motion? That is a motion to nominate Jane Mayday Hulky for chairman of sister cities. I'll second that. Any other nominations? Any other
nominations? Any other nominations? Call the question. All in favor? I I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Thank you, Jean. We appreciate it. No, I was the acting chair for the last four meetings
and uh I appreciate even more. Well, you know, we're just, you know, looking for the com commissioners to take the lead there and uh on that aspect, but uh it's all good. All right, moving right along. Uh you've been presented with the copy of the meeting minutes for the last
meeting. What are your wishes? I move we approve the minutes of the meeting as brilliantly written by Ellie. No, that's not the right motion. Move to approve minutes. Okay, that's
it. Second. I'll second that. John seconds. All in favor say I. I. Oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Uh we've been offered financial information by the
uh city. Any questions that we need to pass along? If not, a motion to accept those financial reports would be in order. I'll offer a motion to approve the financials as presented. I'll second
that. All in favor say I. I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. Let's step down to the Hans Yos program. Our outbound person is active
in alm. We have an inbound person coming on February. Yeah. September 2nd. The first six weeks will be covered from a hosting standpoint by Sharon and I. We're looking for a host family for
the last six weeks. Once upon a time when I last did this, we tag team with the Svenis. Would you talk to your husband about that as an idea? I can. Please consider
it. Uh, regarding the inbound I vaguely remember that Jensen said they were no longer going to offer us the opportunity to rent a vehicle. Is that a bad memory that I have or should have we
should we pursue them? No, they weren't going to provide two anymore, but was it they were out of it all together? I don't know that they were out of it altogether, but uh I think Brian Filson had another option possibly with Chuck Spa Forward
at one time. It was a discussion and but I don't know where Jensen Motors is currently with the situation. Well, I haven't ever been involved with pursuing vehicle. I was not the contact person either. Let's put it on
the agenda for discussion on June 2nd and uh chase it at that time. Okay. Okay. A fairly important piece of old business is we've had discussions on the
German language camp for this summer. Unfortunately, I was not available the last couple of meetings. So, I am unaware as to whether we have a commitment for an instructor. We do not. He was here. He came to a meeting. We talked about it. We had
some It wasn't firmed up. I was gone. I talked to him the other day. He's now unable to do it. So, we're going to have to, in my estimation, it doesn't do any good to pursue it without a teacher. So, we're going to have to put it off until
2026. I would guess the the most important thing is finding that teacher and somebody who really wants to do it and has a full commitment to it and we've tried everything and I would say right unknown caller. I would say we we have to put it
off until 2026. I think we did it all those years ago because Kurt Bitmir's house and came to us about I think he had a really great idea and he did it all and that was great and we've not been able to resuscitate it since then because we
can't find a teacher and I think it was only brought up because somebody had come to one of the meetings and talked about it. I know I wasn't here last year and so that's where we are. It is not going to go this year. Okay. I don't know that it's an item
that needs to be voted on, but it's certainly one that uh I think we should put on the agenda for a review in say September, October of this year and pursue getting a committed educator at that point in
time. Okay. Okay. Um we have committed to run the brat stand as a fundraiser for the commission and our first one is June
22nd which is a Sunday. Uh as part of the information that was circulated by Lisa, we have a list of people who have committed already to help. Uh, I think we have to nail it again and
and get it filled up on our at our next meeting, June 2nd. That being said, let's keep right on trucking. Uh, the city budget process is at our doorstep.
I feel we should ask Lisa to pursue the U allocation that we've had over the last couple of years. Are there any other thoughts? I agree. We have to keep pursuing it and uh you know the
biggest our b biggest expense is uh you know is being part of the organization you know worldwide. So, and it's, you know, it's still an active program. So, I think there's enough interest to keep it going. So, I guess if we need a motion, I'll
offer a motion to uh request the process for the application for the 2026 uh budget. I'd second that motion. It's been moved and seconded that we asked uh Lisa from the city staff to pursue
uh a request for uh the same budget amount allocated to this committee as we have had in the past. All in favor? I same sign. Motion carries. Okay, there's that brings a quick
question that popped up in my head here. Let's see here. Okay. Yes. The now it's answered. The next meeting is June 2nd. Are there any other items that we should
bring forth before signing off? I guess maybe we can have Lisa maybe uh email the membership or our commissioners and the friends of the commission, you know, so we can fill the broadstand and for a reminder, you know, so we can be better prepared. Okay.
Meeting. Think we should get the word out. That's a good idea. If you could put that in the minutes because that'll request Lisa to put that out to Yeah. an email invitation to commissioners and friends
of the commission to okay participate y especially for that Sunday we're light on that looks like the ne the second one the weekday one is better and I think le uh Jane was going to check where the boards were and all the other supplies that's supposedly upstairs okay oh okay
supposedly yeah she was going to check our supplies to make sure we were going to be you know up to date on that or get the necessary things that we need. So good. Okay. If there are no other bits of information we should share, a motion to
adjurnn would be in order. I'll move for second. All in favor? I oppose. Same sign. Motion carries. We'll see you in a month.