Good morning.

We have to go ahead and get started.

Commissioner.

All right.

Good morning.

Good advice.

Mayor is still in the chamber, talking to citizens doing the kind of work that we're all committed to doing in terms of our mission.

But she has given her permission for us to go ahead and start.

You want to be running for everyone's time.

So I'm believing Mr.

Paul.

I'm turning it over to you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Good morning, Commissioners.

My name is Mahall Jr.

I'm the executive director of the City of Dating Human Relations Council.

I'm here to give you a brief update on HRC activity through course two.

I know that we are under time constraint, so I'll uh maybe skip slides that are just context and uh try to get to the meeting slides, the things that we think that uh most important we really want to know.

Um discussion topics.

So we'll start with the 2026 budget, just uh so you're aware.

Total budget a little over 1.1 million dollars, uh uh a little over a million dollars of that is personnel and then uh around a hundred close to a hundred thousand dollars is contracts and materials uh halfway through the year.

Um we are about halfway through those expenditures.

Um so we are in managing the budget very well, good standing right now.

Um, and more to come.

We tend to, as cases come in, spend spend more dollars.

But um we are in a good place right as of right now with our budget.

Um this is something that I know has been very um important to the commission is uh getting good staff uh and and fully being fully staffed over at the HRC uh going on three years almost uh in January three years for me.

Uh in January, we fully staffed.

We um brought in five new staff this year, January Deshaun Lumber, uh, who's a senior contract compliance officer in February.

Natalie Smith, our outreach coordinator, March, uh Reggie Troutman, our contract compliance officer.

Uh also in March, Solomon Mitchell, our office assistant, and then in July, uh Joseph Archer Love, who is going on, I think three weeks with us right now is the Equal Opportunity Specialist Two.

Uh, very good news that we we did have a hiccup in our uh hiring of the equal opportunity specialist one.

Uh the candidate didn't clear the civil service process, and so we did have to go back to the drawing board.

But I uh as of two days, yesterday, I think, as of yesterday, we received the uh offer letter back signed.

So we should be welcoming in our equal opportunity specialist one within the next couple of weeks, and that'll bring us to uh 10 persons, nine persons full-time, one person uh is temporary staffing, and we'll have 10 persons in the office.

Um I can skip this because we just talked about positions and vacant.

So I'm moving to business and technical assistance, these are our limited numbers, and this is as of uh July 13, 2026.

Uh, total PEP company is 11.

Um, ME 72, WBE 46, and of course SDEs, all of our companies in the PEP are uh small business enterprises, so they they that number should always match the uh total number.

Um of the good things we well, let me skip down to the actively interested.

We're tracking this now that we have a bigger team and we're doing more events.

You'll see more about that uh here momentarily.

But it's really nice to see that we have 46 businesses that are actively interested.

That is still a hurdle getting them over into the program, but they are engaging with us talking about being in the program of those 35 are MBE, 10 or WBE, and of course, uh all of them are small businesses.

Um, through July 13th, um, new certifications we did 31, cross certifications 12, renewal certifications 15, and then again at interest economies 40 plus businesses.

Um, as we are coming into this portion of uh of not having the M back and businesses in the M back uh would have uh had us retain and losing those businesses.

It is good to see that you see 31 new certifications.

So while the numbers are uh hovering around one 10, that's still 31 new certifications for us.

Um so we we are you should see that number continue to come on as we dig out uh uh businesses that we're losing to the not candidate business with the city of Day and that loss of the M back.

Um project review for a goal.

Uh we reviewed 20 projects through July.

Uh we set goals on 10 percent uh on uh 10 projects, which is 50 percent of that.

We're uh our our goal is 75 percent, so we're not quite there, but this does depend on the projects that we receive and whether we have businesses that can do that work, and that total is around uh a little over 2.6 million uh assigned for uh inclusion on projects.

Um this is just a closer look at BTA.

Um we have start to re-engage our uh expire PEP vendors, so trying to reach them before they expire, uh get them to stay in the program, especially if they can do work.

And so we have a 30, 6090 window, and we're trying to that people get notifications that they're going to expire and yet may still not act, or that person that uh signed them up may not be a part of their business anymore.

So we're trying to catch them before they expire.

It just helps us uh and it also helps the vendors as well.

Uh we're doing monthly office hours.

That's a compliance officers do that uh weekly, and that's where businesses can uh schedule time and have a one-on-one and talk about PEP certification and any other questions they have pertaining to procurement opportunities with the city and uh receiving help one-on-one from our uh from our compliance officers.

Um we prioritize vendor feedback at every event we have, and then anything we do, we always ask for feedback.

We utilize that feedback to help us schedule um events that we have upcoming and and like workshops and things of that nature.

The feedback they tell us what they need, and we try to give them uh what they need based on what we receive and the feedback and also lets us know how our uh our events and programs are going.

Um we are unveiling a new business support center uh over at the HRC.

Um this is in uh response to some of the challenges that our uh small businesses are having.

I you always use the example of maybe a person is um maybe not the best example, but a person is really good at construction, they're good at doing demolition, but they're not good at using the computer, they're not good at doing the paperwork, they're not good at uh uh you know they don't have a software or those type of things, and we see that oftentimes.

And so having a business center, we're gonna have software at the business center, we have computers that can schedule time and come over there and actually work on QuickBooks and work on their taxes and things of that nature.

So uh that's something that we're super excited about, and we uh got everything in.

We just have to uh get it all set up and uh work with IT and uh start scheduling people in.

So uh we should be ahead of the end of quarter three, but um, we're in a good place with that.

So I'm super excited about that.

And then hands-on events.

One of the things that uh of course got here that I've been seeing, we have a lot of VSO partners that do great work.

Um, we do often overlap, and what we're trying to do is not be the same and give people the same exact things as everybody else.

Oftentimes people tell you what you should be doing instead of showing you how to do it.

So I've tasked the team with instead of doing events that tell people how to do things, let's start being hands-on and more technical, and I show people how to do it.

So I think that if you see any of our things that have been coming up, especially out of the BTA office, you'll notice that they're more hands-on events for inviting people to bring their computers for actually walking them through how they shouldn't be doing these things, and giving them that help that they actually need as opposed to just uh give them directions, so to speak.

Um, this is uh just a look at some of the BTA events.

These events that I put here are all events that the BTA office plan and executed.

These are not partner events, something we showed up to, these are events that we did, and this is due quarter two.

I'll just highlight uh the quarter one vendor training and the quarter two vendor uh outreach.

Those are outreach that we do quarterly, trying to help businesses uh get aligned for opportunities.

So the sooner they know that or the faster they know something is coming down the pike.

Uh they're interested, it gives them more time to align to be able to try to uh be competitive and being on those projects.

Um, our our a lot of our bid opportunities may open and close within three weeks.

If I'm a small business, I don't have time to mobilize for that.

But if I know it's coming six months ahead, because I heard of it in the quarter one training.

Now I have time to mobilize and possibly being on that.

It is still a competitive process.

I like to say that, but that those are something that we're really proud uh that we started doing and that we're carrying out we couldn't do before without a SAP.

Um and these are events uh from the BTA office.

These are events that we partnered in or that we went to that we did not plan.

So we don't only do our own events, we also do go to other events uh where we may table, we may panel, we may facilitate, um give out information, uh engage with businesses.

So that's just an example of events that we uh not plan but also uh attended and partnered or uh uh had some kind of role in these events.

I'm gonna move into the uh Office of Justice and Inclusion.

Um, and just want to give you a look at the numbers.

Total and and while I say this, this I want to be very clear that uh our cases take a long time to uh carry out some of them over a span of a year or two years, depending on how engaged the respondents and complainants are in these cases.

And so total cases over right now are 14.

Um we did close five cases through uh the first two quarters of the year, but those cases weren't open.

I want to be clear that they weren't open this year.

Those cases were from prior years that we were at the close, um, and then that's just how it works.

The case may open this year and close next year and the count on next year's books.

Um conciliations, uh, one investigations, nine.

Uh we're currently investigating nine cases right now.

Uh cases with that had a no-calls or two cases uh post calls, one, and then uh we had an administration as administrative hearing recently, and then we have K5 cases uh in the process of civil court.

And uh, so that can just give you an idea of how the cases can be all over the place.

But here's an interesting fact.

Um, 18 of those are housing complaints, and one is a public accommodation.

So housing is definitely a uh priority in our office, it's a priority of the time, and it is a uh it is a challenge.

Housing challenges, uh, we're seeing them.

Here's another um interesting fact about that.

Uh the federal administration no longer supports source of income, the city of Dayton, we do.

Um, six of the nine active investigations uh are source of income.

And so we're starting to see a lot more source of income come through uh through our office of justice and inclusion.

Um we had nearly a hundred residents contact our office seeking the rural uh some kind of civil rights assistance.

Um then I talked about the cases they rolled from year to year, but just to give you another example, seven of the 14 open cases were uh worth value in 2026.

Um just uh update on our HRC board.

Uh currently there are two uh vacancies on the board.

We have four persons set to expire this year, two have committed to renewing, uh, two we are asking for and so we're gonna honor that.

We are actively uh um interviewing candidates for the board.

We um every time the HRC, I will I'm very proud of this, I'll say it is time consuming, but it does help us.

Every time a candidate comes through that puts down on the application that they want to be on the HRC board, whether or not they get to the board or not, we interview them.

We do take the time to interview them, engage their interest.

And so we are actively interviewing persons that you send to us that are interested.

Um, we do have one person we want to recommend to the board, and we have an um interview on Friday that we're looking forward to as well.

So those appointments and uh recommendations will be coming forward.

Um for CAB.

We uh had this can we can say this in the good or we said it in a bad way.

Uh I'm gonna always be that uh person that leans on the good side.

We've only had one CAB complaint this year.

We've had inquiries more than one, but we've had one actual hearing, uh, and that was earlier this uh month.

And from that CAB hearing, the the board did uh not vote to concur with the PSD's findings regarding allegations of disproportionate uh force and unreasonable responses.

So uh policy recommendations for that uh will be coming forward to the once the board completes their uh uh recommendations, finalize them.

We will get them over to you.

Um for governance, the board finalized and submitted the 2025-26 annual report and uh the recommendations to the city, they put recommendations in their annual report uh that may not come through.

Their thoughts are in there, and so um that that's we should have those uh and for review, and then uh the city there the board is also completed revisions too to their bylaws.

And CAB currently has one vacancy, and I think the uh that we've been in some talks about that one vacancy uh on on the CAB board.

Um, here's a look at the Office of Justice and Inclusion and outreach and events.

And so again, this first slide uh indicates events that our office of justice and inclusion planned and executed uh ourselves.

And and I would like to say that uh for a highlight here, know your rights.

Typically, we do one know your rights uh per quarter, and it's for a year.

We've already done four through uh quarter two.

We did have to back off of the know your rights because uh hiring because of cases that have come in, so we do still have to tend to those things.

Uh, and so we are revamping the know your rights so that we can do them uh more with you.

I met with David Morris of DPS yesterday.

He was highly um engaged in the conversation that wants us to test it on the Senate council first, so they can give us recommendations, help us tailor, and then we can roll it out into the school.

So uh more to come on that.

Very excited about that.

Also, I highlight the fair uh the housing resource and connection fair.

This one actually was in um this we did the heavy lifting planning.

This is our event, but we did work with Sinclair uh on this one, and we had over 20.

Um we had over 20 plus vendors, but over 200 people came to this event.

So it's a I mean absolute wonderful event, and we have another one scheduled for October.

October 10th, October 10th.

Um this is just a slide for know your rights, just in pictures of the couple of those.

Commissioner Barrichop participated in one.

Um, and then here are just a list of some events that we did not uh plan, but we partnered in, and again, this is facilitation.

Um, this is paneling, this is uh table and events.

So we are out there participating.

Um outreach efforts, some more on that.

Of course, the HRC website, we continuously update that with information um with our initiatives, uh, immigrant resources, things of that nature.

Um, our active social media presence.

Uh, if you follow us on social media, you don't, we ask that you do.

But if you do, you should see that we're very active and engaged.

Um, all of our events are posted there uh and we're interacting with the community that way.

Uh we do publish information in the connections newsletter.

We don't sometimes we're asked to hey you guys been here two or three times in a row.

Can we put something else in here?

We say okay, that's not a problem to you.

Uh give us a lot of uh give us our little corner in there, but we are actually in the connection newsletter right now.

That's how so um we try to stay in there as much as possible.

Our visual uh team presence with team uniformity, people know who we are, they can see us.

I think if you look at the HRC team, I asked everybody to look like we live in go places so you can recognize us.

Uh not only um do we do good work, but hopefully we look good at it.

Um this is really something that I'm excited about.

We participated in over 50 events in quarter two.

That's not that that none of the work that we do during the day.

I'm talking about 50 events uh through quarter two, and I'm really excited about that um team getting out, meeting and talking to people.

Another thing that I'm really excited about is this last bullet because not only do we do the work that we do, we also uh partner and work with uh parts of the open work, uh, organizations that are helping us to do the work.

So, like Monty Body Fair Housing, but we work we're in collaborative groups, housing and homeless coalition, or tenant pilot workshops.

We're at the table, fair housing collaborative, um, IROC BSO and the meaning for our BCA office, West Aiden Contractor Network, uh, Greater West Day and Incubator Business Panels Welling Community ID drive, uh MAC business ummit moderator.

So these are all things that the office is doing to engage uh and help not only support our businesses but support the business support organizations that support the businesses as well, but also support our community organizations that support the community as well.

So on both sides of the office, we're doing that work.

And then these are just some quick pictures of HRC in action.

Uh housing resource fair, that is uh community orientation days, and I believe that one is right there is what the police department and you can see what knowing rights could possibly look like uh for you.

This um they cornered our police after this event right here and had the police uh with engaging questions and activity and asking them things, they couldn't leave for 30 minutes after the session, and it was over an hour session.

We made the next session around 15 minutes late.

Uh you know, I apologize for that, but the kids were just engaged.

So we're looking forward to more with L DPS.

This is another, I think, buyer community day.

Uh we had the um Gyms, girls emerging into maturity.

Came over to our office and visited with us.

Uh, actually, Jacob spoke to them uh about voting.

That was the the topic of the day was about voting.

They also talked to us about their lives, and um believe it or not, about out of the 15 girls probably lost seven or eight of their parents had businesses, whether they can consider them or knew them to be uh the small businesses, and so um that was they were very engaged to work with.

And then on the right is a small intimate session about financing for business.

So, with that um uh uh you know, if there are questions for me, I'm happy to take them.

This is a picture missing Joe.

I'm sorry, Joe, you missed this picture you got here after we took this one, but that's actually with our uh Macintosh intern Johanna, uh, who came to visit us.

So I will be happy to uh take questions now, Commissioners.

I'm sorry if I went through fairly fast.

Thank you, Mr.

Collins for the presentation.

Um you have any questions or comments.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Uh, just a few.

Uh, first of all, thank you to Lamont and your entire team and staff uh for uh being here today.

I think I was one of the few who requested this work session, and obviously, right?

The entire commission couldn't be here, but uh hopefully we can do these at least biannual, you know, given that uh you all in one of the departments that directly report to us.

Umgratulations on being fully staffed, uh Joseph, welcome.

Uh definitely a long time coming.

Um, and uh definitely eager to see your team continue to uh to function well.

Um just a couple comments and then one question.

Um I definitely uh am proud of the uh intent to extend the million rights uh schools.

I think uh since we began doing that event, um you know that has been a priority of mine since the very beginning.

I was on the schools committee uh at the point in which we did the police reform effort.

And this recommendation came out of that particular committee, but I always felt rather than uh waiting on folks to come to us, we particularly needed to go to young people who um you know clearly were interested in this information, but could certainly use it as they um mature into adulthood, right?

So uh please keep us posted.

Glad to hear you met with uh Lawrence, right?

That turns into a great uh opportunity for our young people to learn.

Um secondly, um clearly the couple vacancies both on uh your board or the HRC board uh and the cat board, please uh keep us posted on those particular names.

Uh certainly eager to hear uh who'll be stepping up in those positions.

Umgratulations on all of the events that you all have done.

I have certainly seen the team at plenty of things that I've attended as well.

I don't think that is any small feat like 50 events over over the first two quarters, is uh pretty impressive.

So uh you know, keep up the great work there.

Um the source of income information uh in regards to um you know the justice and inclusion office.

I think I found that very intriguing, right?

I think once the commission uh made that a protective class, I was always interested in would we see more cases come forward uh in regards to source of income.

So clearly uh folks have recognized that that is something that they can report.

Um so uh glad to hear um that um that is having an impact and having effect.

My question um actually I have one more thing.

I want to compliment uh business supports.

I think that is very agile.

Um clearly uh in real time response to uh some of the patterns that you all are seeing in the uh small businesses that you serve.

I would just encourage that you guys continue to be um you know responsive and agile to things that clearly need to be filled as gaps, right?

So uh definitely uh high price for that.

You have to do that, but you are leading it, it would be very needy, uh especially just opening the office up to folks uh that we need that time and results.

My question, finally.

Um the fact that you all have been notifying um vendors who are about to expire.

Again, I think that's uh right along the same lines of you know being agile and hyper responsive.

Um has it been successful in terms of getting folks recertified?

Um series.

Sure.

It's a great question.

It is a work in progress.

The pet process does incorporate quite a bit of due diligence, and each vendor is at a different stage of their back office support.

So if we find folks that are fully staffed themselves, have even one person that can support in the office side of the work, they can typically uh renew.

So we are seeing it's a slow progress rate.

Um, it's not an explosive growth that we would love to see.

That's what we're hoping for, but um, because of the due diligence aspect of PEP, it still is a process, but um we do see folks renewing and being excited to learn more about bidding.

Yeah, on that particular um point, right?

I I just would ask that uh you all continue to keep us posted on the success of that.

Obviously, um the pool is very important for us to actually have uh you know opportunities to meet these and the WBE goals, right?

Uh so I think my time in City Hall, I mean there's always a focus on how do we expand pool, how do we expand the pool.

I think that is a good uh you know uh good approach to making sure that at least what we have in the pool is not done to it.

Uh so just please keep us posted on the success of that effort.

Okay, and I'll just add to that that um the renewal process versus the um uh the new process or recertification, it's totally different.

So it is it it does us justice and it does the business justice to do it, and we can just renew them because going through all those documents again is a tough one.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner.

Commissioner Tanchow.

And I'm staying on this Considering companies.

All of those businesses that could actually apply for contracts with the city and pass again, businesses who we get that have certified with cities under the contract they are swamped.

So I'm just curious where we are with that.

I'm gonna all of them are not businesses that can contract with the city, but most of them are.

And any new businesses that you see, like the 31 CERTs, uh, those are businesses that can do business with the city.

One step is getting them into the program, the next is getting them to be in.

Uh, we do have businesses in the program that don't actively be in on projects, but can um they can.

So most of our businesses in the pet program can actually do more with the city, yes.

And um, and we have that number of the number of businesses who are actually bidding on contracts.

Yeah, it I can get that number for you.

It's it hovers around 15%, 15 to 20 percent.

Okay.

Because it seems like that's the real number that we need to push up, is not only are they certified, but are they in a place actually that well to bid in others that 10-15 percent?

How many of them are successful?

I can't tell you um out of all the companies that did how many of them uh are successful.

I can tell you I will say that uh we do see repeat companies win.

Um two different things, not just because they they've learned and they do a good job getting typically what happens too is with our promise once they get comfortable with a sub that is performed very well and done a good job, they go back to them first uh when they have a project on deck.

Okay, thank you.

Um here, but um we did an update on the IROC process.

I'm curious where that is.

Is that funny?

Is it fully staffed?

Is it what kind of numbers are they starting to see in terms of businesses or copy?

I I don't want to speak for iRock, I can speak to our experience working with Ibro.

Um we are actively engaged and working with Ibroq.

They um did have a transition, their uh take executive director that they uh hired is no longer there.

Um they have the young lady uh Lakeisha Grant filling in, uh she's done an amazing job, so she's been very engaged.

Um their software for uh management is up and running.

Um they have grants that they're uh are pushing out now.

We have been doing their monthly uh BSL beings.

Um so I would say before maybe a little shaky with the uh director trying to get her putting, um, but she's no longer there with Letisha uh at the hand, she has some experience you know with the entrepreneur center.

Um she has taken it and she's I mean, I I think we would say that it's moving our yardage, but as for numbers and that back end or back office, I would definitely uh ask I like to give you that information.

Thank you.

Um we get a current list of the HRC board members and um also if you have some direction in terms of um voices that you are hoping to join the um HRC board in terms of those two vacancies that we might be able to be thinking about making recommendations or encouraging people to apply.

Okay, I will send the I'll send the link over to the commission today uh whether we whether the word uh uh board appointees in returns.

When we expect to get the um report of the cab case the one that I mentioned earlier today, yeah.

Um the report from the CAB case uh is should be available soon, but the the recommendations from the board are not available yet.

The board we gave them at a deadline to give us their recommendations, we put them together, then send them back out to the board so that they can say, okay, we all agree on this.

They don't uh tend to do both that they agree on the recommendations and then we see um one of the questions we've always had in the past is or an opportunity we had is um how do we increase more participation in contracts that don't come through the bidding procurement process of professional services?

Um we have any initiatives to address that.

Um I would say that uh I'm highly uh encouraged that the uh organization does uh and when I say that our uh city members side of the house they do, although we don't set goals on things, they will send us projects that we don't set goals once we can see them.

Uh give you an example.

Um since I have been at the HRC, uh, for the first time I saw when we went out for our vendor for health care.

I saw that we couldn't set a goal on the project because of what it was, but we did see it, and that was something that we uh don't typically see.

So um just we we have encouraged the departments to still send that stuff to us so that we can try to get to see it, um, but we still don't set goals on private services.

Um what are we doing with familiar rights immigration rights?

Um it seems like ISES BORCHEN has spyed back though, unfortunately.

Um I will say we are uh a number of C Twitter.

We are working with our R organizations.

Um of the things that we try to stay back from is we don't do any legal advice, even when we can get good legal advice.

That still is not followed to the lender law sometimes as well.

Um, but just kind of bring the right people so that we give the information that a person's actually need, um, and a lot of that work is still community leaders for me, I know it's issues.

Yeah, right.

So earlier this year we held an O Your Rights session at the Laura Recreation Center uh in collaboration with Welcome Dayton, Miami Valley Immigration Coalition, and ABL, where we invited local immigrant leaders to that session.

It was well attended, and uh actually just speaking.

Oh yes, and DPS was there too.

Thanks for that reminder.

Um yes, police leadership also uh was at the table.

I just spoke with Jeanette Horowitz this week, actually, as a follow-up to that meeting.

We had um decided that we would get together to piggyback off of uh that initial meeting.

So she and I have uh scheduled meeting uh in about a week or two uh to help design uh what our next event will look like on that front, so we can certainly keep you updated.

There was some conversation about creating a video that would be available to be shared that would require members of our immigration communities to come to an actual event.

Um at the advantage of multiple languages.

Um we ever be able to find alternative resources that we can share with community.

Yes, uh, and AI some of our partner organizations have those videos uh already, and so we just we link to them.

Um thank you, commissioners.

Um I apologize for my partiness.

Um thank you all very much.

Um if you all would indulge me, please introduce yourselves.

I don't and please forgive me.

I know you have already known that, but I do have a couple questions, and I just want to uh secondly just pull on some of the various different comments and questions that have been raised.

A lot of them have already been answered in terms of the questions that I have had that I have.

Um, so please, if you wouldn't mind introducing yourself in the world.

Sure.

Reggie Troutman, contract compliance officer.

Almost so business and technical assistance administrator.

Miranda Brooks, Justice and Inclusion Administrator, Natalie Smith, outreach coordinator.

Uh Joseph Archaletta, uh equal opportunity specialist, Solomon Mitchell office assistant.

Wendy Mitchell, office manager.

Thank you all very much.

Um just a couple of questions.

Thank you for being with us this morning.

Um I appreciate all of the work that you all are doing.

I know we have some very um challenging curious talks right now, but uh just the likes of the work that you all um that you are committed to and welcome forward to those who have just joined the team to commissioners' point of rights to the board.

I believe we have sent over a board recommendation to you all.

If not, we'll make sure that we get that over to you for lawyer appointment.

And I'll I'll work through Ms.

Jackson.

It may be something that I may have uh missed, but I do know that there was um direction by the commission to make sure that there were uh diverse voices that were a part of the the board itself, and so I want to make sure that you all have that information.

I know we had high-level talks about it, so we'll get that over to you in terms of the board board appointments for some of the vacancies that you all have.

Um I just want to be on the CAD board or human relations council board.

Human relations council board.

I know one is from the um rights community.

It's one person from the the Q community.

Okay, yes, yes, okay.

Okay, so you're familiar with I'm seeing okay, very good.

Thank you.

All right, making sure I'm not missing anything.

So thank you.

And thank you, Commissioner Burns in that point.

Um one question that I know in the past we have had some conversations about the level of engagement and pushing in this phase of reimagining public safety and what we're looking at in terms of the work that is being done with uh CBG and the violence interrupters.

And so I know that you mentioned and I missed it uh the conversation that you have with uh DPS.

So could you please at a high level just share with me the conversation and how do we start working to make sure that we are in schools and building upon um the various different services and support that you all can provide and that vein more directly into the schools itself.

Yes, and so uh very good meeting with Dr.

Norris yesterday.

Um we've been saying we were gonna meet, had some quick conversation.

We actually sat down yesterday and had uh uh in-depth talk about what it could look like for us to uh be working in the schools uh with know your rights.

So we're looking at free memories, know your rights and working on that sort of tethered for you to be more engaging to the youth.

Um Dr.

Norse was uh so happy with the conversation that he wants to get a uh youth senate um committee, and he wants to uh us to do it for the youth center committee so they can give us feedback and help us tender before we actually go into the schools.

But uh, like he did he was even talking about visualizing.

I can see young men in the room and we're talking to them.

I can see 40 young women in this room we were talking to them, and so um we're going to get into the schools, but I was that's a start.

We also had a conversation about this just being like a gameway to have one successful program in the schools, but we also talked about what it looked like for us to come and talk to our youth about owning or starting businesses.

What does it look like to take those ideas they had and utilize them for business?

And so that's a whole nother thing that we're uh we'll be able to do we start a successful program, get into the schools.

HRC could do actively engaged and try to do our part and um citizens understand our young people are new and their minds are what their expectations are as well as um the police um what they can do with their expectations are of them and engaged.

So uh we talked about also just having conversation, setting up opportunities for conversations with officers.

Um we talked about four or five, know your rights was the biggest uh business outreach was the second, and we talked about some other opportunities as well.

Okay, great, thank you.

Thank you.

If you could provide us with the timeline and just some of the at a high level, um the next steps and so we can follow that along closely, and then I offer this to the entire staff.

Like, let a let us know how we can be a bit of better support.

If you all have any ideas and thoughts um to uplift you all's work, um please let us know so that we can again make sure that we are um really truly educating the community, our partners, our stakeholders of the services and the support that you all provide.

Um, so if you all can help us with that with any recommendations that you may have going forward, I really want to find ways and means for us to uplift HRC to put you all in the space to help in the realms of um reimagining public safety as stated, like how do we really start as well as um the work that's being done in our community and economic development space?

Like, how do we really start working together?

And we're um you are allowing us and that there's an alignment that we're in lockstep to really that work with um and then the other thing that I wanted to make mention too is briefly um some of the other organizations like the Sunlight Village, the Fudge Foundation, the Peace Ambassadors.

Are you all in conversations with any of those organizations?

Um I don't know, too, like the Chris Crescinda court, like having conversations with Judge Parker.

Like, how do we really start pushing that information out as to what you all do?

Is that something that you all can help us that you all need our help with, or are you already in those conversations and I'm missing the ball in there?

Or the organizations that you mentioned, Sunlight, no, we're not uh Judge Parker, we're not uh working with we do a lot of our work is with uh match on our board, um that's who we use, but that did come up in the conversation with uh Dr.

One's will uh uh uh Judge Parker Board all IPM as a resource.

Uh okay.

Um if we could, Mr.

Davis, let's see.

I know I know they have a graduation on the second, I believe, 6th of August.

There is a graduation.

So let us uh check with Judge Parker to see if and then we'll circle back with you and Ms.

Jackson to see if one maybe one or two of your members from your team want to join us during that graduation so that you all can get a feel and we can start identifying along with uh Judge Parker, how in fact we can see a partnership in working through building um the level of awareness and also providing um the participants of the Christian court with information about the services that you all you all provide.

Um so let's have that conversation and see if we can marry the two and figure out if in fact there is a partnership there.

Um, and then let us help with Sunlight Village with the Fudge Foundation, and then also with uh juvenile courts, like having a conversation with perhaps uh Judge Wallace.

If there's if there's space for us to have that conversation.

Um then are you all what is the relationship with daybreak?

Do you all have any relationships?

Okay, have you there's never been any presentations or anything that have been provided?

Uh some of our staff do from our work, but not as uh office.

Okay, okay.

Let's try to flush that out and see if there's an opportunity there.

Um again, just really the know your rights forum and all the various different things, the work that you all, and if you all have any different ideas, if you think, well, no, that's not necessary that we don't work, then please by all means let me know if I'm on the wrong on the wrong page with that.

Um, but we want to make sure that we're uh again not keep saying this, uplifting your work and supporting you all.

Um, know that this commission fully supports you all.

That's all the questions that and comments that I have, if unless you all have any questions or anything for us this this morning.

We know uh time crunch.

One thing I would highlight for you, uh we talked about outreach and work that we're doing.

Um, and I just wouldn't mind highlighting the uh been a part of what we plan or the events just through the first uh long did I take your summer off?

I'm just joking.

I don't see no July, August days joking.

You didn't see this the other slides.

Oh, okay.

Um, but we um also this is active participation mentioned most collaborative groups and working with the groups and at that uh last slide down at the bottom, some of the groups that we're sitting at the table working with them uh work all the after hours.

Um so we're supporting also by animation ideas, um, carry out um some of the tasks like the the new landlord uh 10 pilot or table or uh oh great the whole program.

Um we bet as just to be an example how nobody would ever notice when we do this as they take applications, they will send them over to us to make sure that people don't have a complaint with us.

Okay, so that uh we're not giving money to parse bad members, so that's just an example of us working in the back, you know, in the background, and you might never see what somebody doing is awesome on other programs.

That is great.

That's phenomenal.

So are you attending the is someone or you or someone from your team attending the the homeless and okay great to go to those great great that's great?

That's great.

I'm I'm so glad to hear that.

Okay.

All right, thank you all very much.

Have a great day.