Okay, we're rolling.

We're rolling.

All right.

Thanks for being here.

Oh, let's go ahead and do roll call who is here on uh Zoom.

We have Aaron Siebel and Sylvia, Arros, and um that's it.

Let's just go around and have everybody say their name.

I think that might be better trying to start all the.

Yeah, Fogani.

Brynn Johnson.

Jenny Hass.

Tara Bradshaw.

Linda Peterson.

Kelly Telberg.

Great.

That's good for the recording control.

Oh, Shabon's not.

Oh, is Shabong?

Oh, and Shabam.

Shabon.

Hi Shabam.

Great.

Um okay.

And I didn't know if we had inspirational thought unless someone was I asked somebody, but they weren't able to make it.

Okay.

Does anybody want to wing it with anything tonight?

Anything else?

Um all right, how about just kindness begins with me?

Because Jenny would like that.

All right.

All right.

Um let's go ahead.

We just need to approve the minutes from our last meetings.

Would anyone be willing to approve?

And then we need a second.

I'll approve.

Okay, Aaron Wishing to approve Aaron Siebel and then I will second it.

It was very I don't know if you noticed the format was a little different because I took it from AI Zoom, which was very yeah, I know so that's very convenient.

That was pretty interesting.

But other than that, I feel like it's more thorough than what we usually do.

Yeah, did a great job.

All right, let's just go ahead and jump right in to um Brynn went to an interface discussion and they ha they offered up some service opportunities that we could maybe participate in.

Um well they were kind of wondering what what can we what could they do on behalf of the city?

Um and you know, do we know of any needs?

And so I talked about this, you know, committee and how you guys tend to have like a pulse on on the community, and um you know, they would like to I think offer more more things, offer more service to to residents within the city.

And so I thought, well, I feel like it's kind of a a broader discussion because we talked about how the city has to be careful with, you know, who they partner with, who they you know work with.

And so I just I thought this might be a good group, and especially with you know Linda being here in Kelly to talk about what kind of things could we um partner with, what kind of organizations, or even just to um disseminate information or you know, those kinds of things.

Um because I think when we had a discussion about the pantry, um at first we were we were kind of like no, we sh we can't, but now it is kind of a government supported entity, right?

Because it's part of the Utah food bank system.

So does would that make it something that we could at least you know like pass on information if they need something or if there's volunteer opportunities or I think so we're Utah Food Bank?

Uh yeah, I think when we looked into it, we felt like there was enough of a connection there.

I think we've done a drive before at City Hall for the Utah Food Bank, right?

So I think that's approved.

And so because you know they were wondering what you know, how they could partner with the city, and I thought, well, you know, I need to just double check with that.

But I think if it's something like well, like there's an organization that's doing a diaper drive right now at IKEA in a a few weeks.

Um if it's something like, oh, the pantry needs diapers, like if they're out of diapers or something, that might be something that if they approached this committee or you know, somebody and said, could you help us gather these things or something?

We talked about doing like a a school backpack drive for the um kids in within Draper who might need backpacks, um, and they said, you know, how is that something the city could facilitate?

I said, I think you might need to go through the schools to do something like that, or PTA.

But it seems like these organizations are really willing to give back to the community.

Um and so um I think they want to give they they want to give backpacks or they want to ask the no, they want to like a s you know, assemble backpacks for kids who might need school supplies.

Um, but they just didn't know how to do that.

Um I suggested approaching the schools or PTAs because that might be a better route for that.

But if there's other things that in the future we know of that maybe, you know, we could reach out to them if if we know of needs within the city because they seem to be very willing, you know, to have their their congregations help out with whatever the city needs.

And then who has the interface group what do they have a name and who are they like so it's the interfaith coalition, I don't know what the the full um, but it's just a group of um it's like the southern part of the valley, so it's Riverton, Sandy, Bluffdale, Draper, and Harriman, and so different leaders of the different denominations get together quarterly, and then we kind of they give us a presentation and we talk about the presentation that they had, and then we break off into groups by city, so they like to have a government representative and then you know the different faith representative and just talk about what's going on in the community, can you know, people are there needs.

Um so it's been it's been really great.

I've just went on twice, but that's where I learned about the food pantry.

And then this last time they had um presenters from Utah foster care, and Utah Foster Care is um it I don't know that it's an organization that has been started by the legislature legislature, but um it seems to be like they're they're listed on like the department of children and family services as being you know um an organization that people can turn to.

But they started a uh um a new program called care communities where you would have a group of individuals and they've been doing this with church congregations or local businesses, and they kind of sign up to support foster families.

So if you have a foster family, you know, in your area, there may be two or three people who help out with whatever they may need, you know, if they need rights for their children to get to school or to um like therapy, or if they just need respite care, which you know, so they're trained individuals by the Utah foster care who understand you know what trauma looks like, how it manifests itself in children.

Um and I just thought we have so many people in Draper who are just amazing people.

We probably I'm sure we have people who are you know our fostering.

Um but again, this was one of those things where it's like, well, I don't know what can the city, what can the city really do?

And so I looked at some different organ different cities throughout the country to see what do they have, what are they doing like within the greater community?

Um and it seems like a lot of them just on their web, I mean I just looked at their website, right?

But they had things like um a list of community organizations, several of them had community outreach committees, so they work with like specific nonprofits within their city to you know help help the residents.

Um one of them one city, I didn't write down which city that these were from, but one the out the community outreach committee advises the city council on matters pertaining to human needs and resources in the in the community.

Um and so again, I just was thinking, is that something that maybe Draper might be able to do to just provide you know resources and let the community know what's out there for them and that if there's a need that you know we can spread the word or if people want to be part of it, they can.

And what's the who's the group behind the community?

Is it just like Utah foster care?

So the care communities is Utah is Utah Foster Care.

And I guess it's a program that the um first late the Utah's first lady helped start because she had some friends who were fostering um children and she said they have no they really have no support.

Um that it, you know, it takes a community, it takes your neighbor to be to be able to say, you know what, I'll watch it for while you run to the store because the kids might have a meltdown in the store.

You know, they're just each situation is unique and different.

But so I think Utah foster care just barely started this um program um and some you know pilot programs around the state.

So and it was really successful.

Um they they work with the the cities to so they didn't I don't think at that point they had reached out to any cities yet.

I think it had been churches and companies, so you know, like maybe Coca-Cola or something would get their employees, anybody who wanted to participate could participate.

Um so yeah, my question was you know, not that the city itself would like create the care community, but just that it could pass along that information for people who are you know interested in doing that.

I wonder if um like maybe when we do like the day of service, which we'll talk about later in a couple weeks, we could just one day post some of these groups that and their information groups that are okay.

Yeah do they have foundation connection or are they like a five oh one C three well they might be a five oh one C three but they're listed on the department of I thought I saved it but I didn't eat.

Um they're listed on let me think if I can I know here too just like you have like one day say here's our here's ways you can serve the community Utah bank and the contact Utah foster care and the contact if we if we think we're okay with those organizations.

I think that's the key thing.

Like just make sure it's clean.

I think you have foster care is I think yeah you know a lot about foster care right isn't that pretty I was a foster care parent for a long time.

Yeah.

Through the through foster care.

And it seems like they were directly affiliated with the government.

Yeah so I mean on the Utah Department of Health and Human Services website in child and family services under their resource for foster parents Utah foster care is listed as a resource.

Um along with like United Way um children's service societies grand families program.

So they have like three or four different organizations that they are listing as a as a resource um to parents and same thing last night we had the Department of Health come and talk and so I look 'cause they said we also partner with people and I thought well who do they partner with?

Um you know and it's it's like family support center dot org and Holy Cross Ministries and so it's just a list on their website that says if you need some services here is where you know here's a place to turn um I don't know if they themselves have like a person within the health department that is you know managing all that they don't know that.

Where there's it's a county organization too it might seem like those would be a little more approved.

The county's advertising but yeah I can look into that a little bit more.

I brought this too 'cause this is what they gave us from our from their presentation at City Council and they have a lot of free and low cost community resources on their website.

So I was gonna dig into that more.

Yeah just something that's on the website.

But I think that's a perfect tie in is the service week maybe can have a one day to just say here's different ways you can serve your community and unless what they do in their contact information or something.

Yeah I think that'd be great.

Because this kind of overlaps with our Draper wellness coalition and how we're always like trying to find a quarterly at least area of focus to share new or needed resources with everyone.

Um so yeah and I notice I think we shared wheel meals on wheels right and so technically is is that that's Salt Lake County aging and adult services so that's a government.

Okay is organized group it's yeah through the government she was gonna talk about do you want to talk about that too right now or did you want to buy did you talk to Mike about it?

Um I didn't talk to Mike yet about I've spoken with their coordinator about maybe having a meals drop off here at City Hall and getting employees involved with helping on our lunch breaks and then she was mentioning maybe the city could commit to three days a week and we would have community volunteers pick up the other two days.

But it only takes like an hour.

Yeah that's they could give us a route that's close to city hall so we're not spending a lot of time away but um that's something that they always need help.

And it's something that like people in our committee might I wondered if if we could find enough interest in the committee to I mean it would it'd be what four or eight days a month.

Mm-hmm if everybody could take a day I mean an hour I don't know.

What do you guys think online?

Did you hear that about the meals on wheels um hopefully they can hear these about it I know they did because yeah I I I mean I think that would be a great I think I actually when I worked at Murray City we did it and the employees all took um one lunch hour a month and did it and it was it was really rewarding.

I I'll run out is it ongoing basis or like it's like ongoing um and but I have the same route every time so I really got to know the people I dropped it off and um so I think it's something if if we get the go ahead that employees could do three days a week if yeah if we can ask this committee to do two days a week you think I think we could and is it just do you drop off to several people in the community.

So you would just come here and pick up and I would just pick up like a big like dominoes like heated bags type thing.

And then probably five or six houses it wasn't at least that was my route in Murray.

It wasn't a ton.

Um so it wouldn't be too bad because it's just all all within City Linux.

And she said that sometimes that's the only social contact that these people have in the course of the day.

Yeah.

So um that's a you know a segment of our community that can't get involved in other ways.

I love it.

So yeah if we um are able to share some of these resources like we're talking about is this something that is that we'd be able to have them listed on on the Draper City website so it's not just one time.

So yeah so it's not just a one time thing but people have a resource to know where to go because you know it's more than just a one time shot and if if they don't capture it or save it or whatever um those resources to not be easily accessible.

So is that an option to yes in fact um kind of off of the Dra Draper wellness coalition I was planning on adding a page um and then the health department came said last night last night uh kind of just bumped it up on my list like I need to create that page because we do have some things on the Draper Wellness sites on resources but we could get more specific yeah I'm getting really excited about doing that I would love I would love to be able to just connect with people in the community because I you think like if I was in their shoes how meaningful that would be to have someone come visit and just to connect with somebody.

My in-laws got this one was on Sandy and it was just like so relieving to us to know that somebody checked on that day.

Like we knew that they were okay at noon they got their lunch so it yeah and because yeah I think that's as important and and my mother in law fell in love with the lady that brought her lunch.

They thought to be good friends but um yeah I'd it'd be great.

I'm happy to do it.

Oh I would be happy to do it too not I know not everybody in our committee has that the time availability right they have the desire but they might not be able to but I think after I would love to help.

Okay great.

Thanks Aaron sorry I'm just managing joining in what was it asked.

Oh so we're um we're um mills on wills contacted Linda to see if they we could maybe make Draper City Hall a drop off for Mills on Wheels and we're gonna still we still gotta get it approved but if employees could commit to take it three days a week and just have all the employees here take a day do it on their lunch hour.

And we and we probably have enough employees that we could be back up if something happened.

But those two other days we thought maybe if the volunteers would be happy to do a Mills on Wills route within Draper.

Would it take all within Draper.

Wouldn't take more than an hour right around lunch right Linda.

Um millers that she could do uh yeah we don't we don't know yet but we could um like yeah maybe that's a good day Friday and Monday Mondays and Fridays for the volunteers and the employees could take there's not a lot of employees here on holidays and yeah and holidays a lot of holidays on Monday.

Yeah she's okay thank you.

I was Melanie and maybe yeah we just assign if we had like our committee take Monday and Friday and then if somebody can't make it throw it out to the group and see if somebody else can cover maybe just I can like assign a schedule or something and my what is available they can just go and sign it up for that day.

Yeah.

And if there's enough of us then it might be that we're only doing it you know twice enough or something.

Yeah yeah maybe and some maybe just once a month maybe once a month yeah yeah it's just one route a day.

Uh-huh and she said they got a fantastic response from Baker when we put out the information like 40 something people contacted them.

Oh that's amazing wow but she's only had five like follow through to sign up so it might you know not work for everybody but okay we so far so far I've miscounted we've had seven people that have said they could do it that's some sometime Amitada Tara Jenny Aaron Millery said Friday or Monday.

Melanie and Siobam.

Okay.

Yeah and you too and Brent.

I like you say Gina, if it's available, then I can do based on my book.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay, so we've got nine people.

And Kelly and I will.

Yeah, if we're going to be a lawyer committee, but two times a yeah.

Great.

Good.

I mean, we'll run that by two.

Um just gotta make it make sure mic approves for your voice.

We'll give it the official okay and then we'll follow up with everyone.

Thank you, everybody.

That's awesome.

Thanks for bringing that to our attention.

That's exciting.

All right.

Um, do you want to just go ahead and let us know what you're doing with the holidays in recognition?

Sure.

Um so I just reviewed like from September through November ish.

And um Hispanic Heritage Month is September 15th to October 15th.

We have a video um from last year that we feel is fresh enough to run one more time.

So we're just planning on sharing that again unless someone has um additional ideas.

And then I saw that women's equality day is coming up this next Tuesday on August 26th.

So Alex said he would create a graphic for that just to post on our social.

Um then we have Rosh Hashanah is September 22nd to 24th.

So we're looking into what we could do there.

Have we done that one?

Um I was trying to remember we did Hanukkah, yeah, but I'm not sure if we've done Rosh Hashanah.

Um October 13th is Indigenous indigenous people's day, and we've been intending, but it's always been pushed to the back burner to do a video about the Sukhani preserve.

Oh yeah.

Um so that's on our list to create the video while we have good weather.

Yeah, and um grab one photo.

And then we could share that either for Indigenous People's Day.

I don't know if we feel like that's a controversial thing because it was Columbus Day.

Now it's known as Indigenous People's Day also.

Um but we also have Native Americans Day on November 28th.

Oh and the preservation commission is working on putting something, I think they're gonna ask to put it on the website about the preserve, and so they've got something all typed up about it.

Oh great.

So I could afford that too.

I think Jen sent me that at some point, but I didn't know what where it stands now.

Yeah, I think they just they just sent like here's a draft and everyone seemed to like it, so um yeah, I think I think it's good to spotlight that because I think it's one of those hidden treasures in Draper.

So if we can feature that more and encourage people to go visit, and I think they were working on maybe some signage or or is it already in place there?

I can't remember.

I I mean we went on a field trip to it, and I don't think that there was anything.

I mean, once you get there, there's stuff, but I don't know that there's anything directing you to it.

So I think if you stumble across it, you'd be like, oh what's this?

But I don't think it there's like a marker that says you know, in one mile, there's this or in five hundred feet, you know.

So at one point we did talk about doing some kind of walk, an educational walk and have a speaker in there and and maybe like some native like some dancing.

It was I think it was Stephanie From when it had those connections, right?

But um I'm gonna probably do it.

What which did you say Columbus Day?

Or mean indigenous people or yeah, October 13th or Native Americans Day is November 28th, which you get into sketchy weather.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But um, but we'll definitely pursue a video for that, and then if there's any kind of extra.

Could we qualify anyone from Draper or high school, a middle school?

I don't know.

Yeah.

Does Corner Canyon have that kind of group?

Do they have like a I know like Native American?

I think they have like the Hispanic one, but and some kids that are Native Americans joined that.

Oh, they do.

I think it was two years ago we did a video with a young man at Corner Canyon who was it was a Native American.

Right?

Is he the one that came to our meeting last year?

Yeah, and he's moved so it's gone.

So we do have that video still, but I don't know if that club is still active if he's moved.

Yeah.

What about that um painter that is he from Draper?

Is he just come to like Art and the Bar and the Tasha Bice?

Leah.

Um at Leo, it's last year and send it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Tasha I don't know.

Was he there this year too?

Okay.

Yeah.

Um yeah, it would be nice if anyone had contacts with someone of you know with Native American heritage that would want to be involved in the review.

And we could tie that in with the Sukhani Preserve as well.

I think having a phase to things is always good to make those community connections.

And the preservation commission may they may know because they've been doing some research about yeah.

Anyone at the point?

Um thinking out loud.

Um not that I can think of.

Okay.

Um but yeah, we'll look into that.

And then just two more that I have, um, Dewali on October 20th, and then um Halloween.

We thought we'd do maybe a connection with Halloween and uh Dia de los Muertos uh and do a video for that because we've done graphics in the past, but we thought that might be fun to share both of those traditions kind of and what day is the um it's the day after Halloween.

Oh, right.

So first works well, yeah.

So that's what that's what we have.

We're open to any suggestions.

Sound great.

Thank you.

Okay.

I know that um Millery has a I've had a deep connection and celebrate that DNA little and so she might have some more ideas that we can we can access her brain.

Yeah, and that'll see what she if she has any more ideas around that.

One year the library did a big thing too.

Oh, okay.

Remember that.

Yeah, maybe yeah.

They had a um big display over the library.

Mallory are you driving?

You maybe can't answer.

But um I remember that the library had a big the other smartphone display that we took pictures of or something, but maybe one of the schools or something.

Okay, okay.

I'll reach out to her.

Okay.

Um, she's commenting in the chat thing at the library.

Okay.

Okay.

Thanks.

All right.

Anything else, Linda?

Um the other things I have are kind of maybe into the next, I don't know if you segue into the service part of it.

Yeah, let's do that.

Um but like I mentioned, we have a Draper Wellness Coalition.

Um, I don't know if I've talked about it here before, but our partners are like Salt Lake County Health, Aging and Adult Services, this the senior center, the library, the recenter, um, the hospital, and we meet quarterly and and try to assess the needs of the community and determine an area of focus for education and outreach.

Um so something I thought that this committee might want to consider is sometimes we partner up on events and there's tabling opportunities.

So if anyone wanted to volunteer, like for example, in October, Lone Peak Hospital is doing a crush the crisis prescription drug take back event.

And um we talked about I always say this wrong, naloxone.

The naloxone kits for those who are in the midst of an overdose and you minister that.

So there's some training and um we're thinking about giving kids out there uh for people who come to that event.

So that's nice.

Just something to think about, and you don't have to, you know, feel like you have to commit to anything right now, but there could be some overlap between this committee and the Draper Wellness Coalition efforts.

Um if we're interested in helping with great job with things really grown up.

So does that mean well are we gonna get what's the right way?

Demolish construction, so you know it's no, no, I'm there's no plans to demolish our committee.

Um just I think just looking for other ways to engage the committee opportunities.

And since Linda's our since Lynn is on both, she has good connection with both committees.

It's really just I wouldn't be happy if we can if we'd change our name twice.

Yeah.

No, it's just I'm looking at at other um areas in the city where volunteers are needed or would be welcomed and just giving, you know, giving information for anybody who's interested in helping with things.

And she can probably email that out.

Yeah, there's opportunities, just yeah, yeah, keep us alone because yeah, a lot of us would like to volunteer.

And then um the last thing is I've just been kind of thinking about some kind of community building initiative.

And all the slogans I can open this sound like realtor things like come home to Draper or leave your heart in Draper, but it's that type of thing where if you want to be thinking about if you'd be interested in doing some kind of a campaign where starting with the new year, maybe it would be a good starting point, and just throughout the whole year we're um we're building that brand kind of some kind of attachment that people have to the community.

We can make shirts, we can get out shirts at things, we can um like in a former community I worked with, it was as simple as iHeart and the City name.

You know, um just so as you're going around people kind of have that common bond.

We could do videos spotlighting residents and their stories, like how did you come to Draper?

You know, what brought you here?

What do you love about living in Draper?

Just that's just a very broad thing to start thinking about if you're interested.

I think from a community from a communication standpoint, we'll probably do something like that, but I think this committee would bring so much to it.

Um if you're interested.

Yeah, love it.

I have a great story how I came to Draper.

So I'm good.

I can do your guinea peg if you want.

Oh yeah, you and then I don't know if uh one thing that's like out to me from the uh health department's presentation was that they said people residents are connected within their community and to their community just uh fare better, you know, like their their health is better.

And so I think I think it would be great if we kind of you know started to focus on that a little bit and finish.

This is the last thing I'll say 'cause I feel like I'm talking too much, but along those lines, I know that the sharp survey that they give to kids in middle school and high school um about just health behaviors has shown very strongly that kids who feel an attachment to their community tend to stay away from substance abuse and other risky behaviors.

So that's another positive for so I'm like uh barred over High Road Happiness Group or over Harvard alumni in Salt Lake City area and we meet on monthly basis and talk about happiness every month.

So we looked into you know, all this different research that shows that you know, uh people like uh uh when you're doing things for other people like you know, and and uh also being part of community, you know, it increases your happiness and and uh I guess so we all can use some more happiness.

That's kinda like uh and I'm thinking too like creating kind communities or you know, and I mean I won't jump ahead to the other piece about you know November, but that could be a a good time to launch um something in in around kind communities.

I'll stop talking now.

Thank you for listening good ideas.

Yeah.

But we so when you first move to Draper, I'm just going back in time and I'm kind of saying I I I know so many people now, but initially uh my mom started going to uh nearby chapel where they were teaching English.

Um I don't know if we have any like that like a community group we can all take turns teach something, some talent that whether we have learned or acquired or gained or we can share on.

I think we looked into the teaching English, but there's a church on Stokes that does do it.

I think so.

I saw a sign in recently.

Yeah, I saw a slide.

It isn't good anymore.

Oh really, yeah, this was nine, ten years ago.

Yeah, that's like if you have the side.

Oh, maybe like it's all colour or something like and it didn't like they don't have that output anymore.

Oh yeah.

I saw the sign too.

Um high schools and schools have building activities or I don't know if it's taking away we can have as a city hey, there are opportunities that you can work for the city or you can be a city banner or a city engineer, or city attorney, you know, there are so many different roles here's how you you can get into government jurisdiction or yeah.

Yeah, it's a good idea.

Yeah, wow.

I like that idea of like sharing talents and we could maybe draw out some of those things through the videos that we do and then um yeah, see if there would be people interested in hosting a class or something.

Uh-huh.

I don't know if the library would partner with us.

Yeah, we would.

Or the senior center is always trying to partner.

I don't know, yeah.

But question.

And I don't I don't know if this is controversial anyway or not, but um and I don't know if if there's spam issues here, but I know that there's a lot of people that are concerned around ice and things like that.

So I don't know if that's been an issue within our community at this point.

If it's not, it likely maybe.

Are we is there anything that we can do to help people feel welcomed and cared about and safe?

Oh that's awesome.

I love that.

Yeah.

I I haven't heard of any instances.

Not in Draper.

If we haven't yet, I I I can't imagine that it's not going to happen.

And it would be nice to be on the edge of getting prepared and you know, figuring out what we can do to let people know that they're cared about and supported and I know some law firms in downtown, actually one law firm who process piece citizenship stuff.

Uh they do a bunch of pro owner work on um stuff like this.

Uh it's unfortunate that we are in we're leading with that right now.

Um I'm I'm pretty vocal about that.

I get pretty angry so I'm gonna stop talking about this subject.

But yes, yeah, I I'm happy to share that law firm um in downtown Salt Lake who the guy is actually the main partner actually is in Draper.

Adam Craig.

Oh yeah, I know Adam.

Yeah.

So maybe uh so anyway, that's that's one avenue.

I'm sure Adam would love to be a part of that.

I know I agree with there I mean I I don't know what we can do that Draper City would have an issue with, but it sure feels like it could be an an important part of you know, if we're if we're wanting people to feel welcome and you know, all that all that um you know what you know what we do know either we provide it I don't know.

I mean check with the police if they're aware of anything.

I don't know.

I haven't heard of anything, but yeah.

We might want to check with Tracy or Center State code or federal code if there's any time an ICE agent comes and detains you or you know they're coming, you can come to a new uh uh near the Asian center.

Oh really?

And I don't think they can grab that's what I think is whatever uh we need to go to the case.

Uh yeah, I think it's removed now.

Yeah, it's not there anymore.

Yeah.

Okay.

We'll see in that uh school days also not safe I do remember a while ago someone mentioning that a father dropped off to their son at school or daughter and then they were picked up on their way out.

Was that in Draper?

Yeah.

Oh really?

Really?

Yeah.

This was the last school year.

Yeah, we're not gonna be examined.

Yeah, I heard of one incident.

It was it was from somebody like on the third east road that told me about this.

So yeah, but it's been a l it's been a long time ago, but I mean not it hasn't been like it wasn't the end of last school year, it was before that, so there are flights VT flights.

This wasn't the news last week actually.

Yeah, we see flights from Salt Bay going um going out to Texas or Mexico.

This is a nine p.m.

news last week.

I've seen that article.

I'll hand it out to it to you guys.

Okay, yeah.

Something to be aware of.

Yeah, and and how can we help?

I don't is there anything we can do.

But thanks for ringing up.

Yeah.

Can all think on it and come up with things we'll communicate with each other and and do what we can.

We want everyone to feel safe in our community and and know their resources and how they can get help to something happen.

Okay.

Do we feel like we can move on from that?

Does anybody have anything else you want to say?

Shabong's good.

Okay.

All right, let's go ahead and move on to the World Cranes Initiative.

Um yeah, so I think that that could be part of what we're talking about too.

But so we've talked about that um so World Kindness Day is November 13th.

But um we talked about uh kindness worldwide.

So that the week for that, which is Saturday to Saturday, so it's the November 8th through the 15th.

And um we talked about having, you know, the mayor sign and I don't know if it's mayor and city council or something mayor.

Just the mayor signs the proclamation buddy.

Yeah.

And and we talked about was it the the last city council meeting in October?

Because that's the one before.

And what's the date on that?

Um we check.

October 21st.

Then we don't meet again until November fourth.

Well we could do it November fourth.

No we won't meet on November 4th because that's election day.

Okay that's still in my calendar but yeah I need to change it so but I I you know my goal is certainly not to just have a proclamation signed.

I mean it's just a piece of paper and whatever but you know to help it be something that whether we do um during that time is like um veterans day you know could do a blood drive kind of around Veterans Day or any number of other things and as you're talking about like um making draper a place that you love to be and with the hearts and all that kind of stuff there's so many things that could just fit um right along those lines with kindness and happiness and feeling included and and um you know with the growing our sense of community in our community um so anyway there's lots of different ideas that we could use that would be in support of that we do so next month we won't meet 'cause of the parts of Cross Festival but we'll we will meet in October so maybe we could really brainstorm then for that week.

And just um I was gonna mention it's the same day as Arts Across Festivals so it would be a long day but the city project there's like four stakes and a bunch of volunteers on the morning of September 13th they are weeding and putting down mulch at the senior center library.

I know that's that is that um wrapped around the um day of service service which is like September eleventh.

Okay.

Yeah so that's kind of the activity that the city's got behind just because there's so many volunteers coming to that one.

Yeah our our neighborhood's working on a trail that comes from our neighborhood in the mountain.

So the so they're working the cities can help us with that yeah it's just our little neighborhood yes so are we sharing is that will that those kinds of activities be shared communicated because I mean that's one way to help people the service day yeah yeah and if you want me to I don't know if they already have enough I know um yeah we're Rett's kind of in charge so we'll just check with him and see if he I mean he said if the four stakes really all show up like it'll take 'em an hour and a half that'll be done.

Well but I mean not just being communicated to look for volunteers but also you know you talked about a group that's doing something and this group's doing something if we communicated afterwards what the experience was and you know what people did and you know the more that we hear about these kinds of things the more that we're gonna go yeah this is a community to love.

Yeah we did share after last year.

And so I think Sandy shares too and so we yeah we probably we share a lot of our like our communications strategy is to always like follow up after events to show everybody out enjoying and connecting.

How many people in the community are registered for those event um text messages and emails um on that we have over twenty thousand um I think we have about ten on our Facebook and nine ish on our Instagram um so yeah maybe we're pretty good reach and I don't know yeah and is any of that kind of stuff put in the in that draper forward um maybe those forward the space is more limited okay so the draper forward tends to be more um like just more time sensitive like upcoming things rather than things that have already happened okay or like heads up on service changes or programs any of that kind of stuff but yeah we could we could maybe try to get more that just at least one photo and issue in the in the board of something that happens kind of serve as a good thing you get get next morning community okay so we're gonna we're gonna really brainstorm on that in our October meeting more ideas and like dates and when we can do it and how to implement it and that'll be great and I'm sure Linda will have a lot of also ideas and we can implement that then okay anything else Jenny before we move on we've covered everything just a cupcake.

Hey kindness to myself there you go all right Kelly do you want to talk about the grand opening yeah because I mean we we usually mention them um that we've been working so closely with South Valley Chamber that they've kind of taken over most of our grand opening as far as planning and stuff so um which is it's just great we have a great draw and reach and so people can find about it.

We have a great draw and reach and so people find about it.

But anyway, Burker's ice cream was last week.

It's really cute if anybody hasn't been there.

My daughter works there.

Oh, your daughter works there.

I think does Melory's daughter work there too.

I think I haven't even seen it.

It's like across from the donut place.

You're turning into like apples.

Yeah, yeah.

And I think that place historically has been kind of struggled with businesses, but I think they're really busy, right?

I think so.

My daughter's just home just like while that was a lot.

Chocolate all over her dress.

They wear the dresses.

Yeah, um they make them buy their own outfit.

Oh they do.

Uh huh.

Oh my goodness.

So they're invested.

Yeah.

Like, okay.

I'm gonna stay here at this job.

I spent seventy dollars on my uniforms.

Oh, really?

It was good ice cream, like ice cream.

And they get to bring home ice cream every night.

Oh boy.

So every every night she brings home something for somebody else in the family.

Oh lucky.

Um and I'm told that um Thirst is opening on Friday, but they haven't reached out to the city.

But I don't know if you know where Thirst is.

Um it's kind of down under 23rd West across from like the Starbucks and Swig down there.

It's a soda.

So it happened to that tomato place.

Yeah, good luck.

Is it gonna be the sposta pasta that they came in and got an alcohol license?

But they're not open yet.

But they're not up here.

Yeah, that was very quick.

I thought it was kind of quick.

Yeah, like ones, maybe.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um the last time we went there was a little bit of friction between some of the management employees.

Uh oh really.

Like we had a little bit of I'm like, oh.

Yeah, that's a lot.

So I'm like, I wonder how long this is gonna last because it was a little uncomfortable.

I just heard fall as but they came in to meeting, seemed really nice.

Um I think I've heard I heard that they have one at Fashion Place.

They already have one.

Yeah, I can help you.

And then um Salitos should be opening.

Oh yeah, I was wondering.

Oh, I know.

Is it?

It's Mexican Salsa what?

Salitos.

I have one in Riverton.

Oh, salsa.

Not salita, yeah.

No, like yeah, no, that's true.

Isn't it sole cantina?

That's their like bar part.

The outside part that used to be like donkey tails.

Yeah, not a whole cantina, and then the restaurant is salsa.

How long is Guadalajan's there?

A lot of years.

The last time I went there, thank you for the Gulf War broke out.

So that's how long the last time I went there to eat with the golf war broke out.

Yeah, so we're trying to have a long one time.

In the parade they had a sign thank you for how many years?

Yeah, yeah.

I don't know.

And then they sold it right after.

They sold it, yeah.

So it they they in the parade they had a thank you from quads followed by a welcome.

Oh, it was kind of combined.

So it was cute.

Yeah, very cute.

So on those grand openings, can we get it like welcome to Draper so that like whenever it shows up, this grand opening that the like oh Draper, like another attachment to the community.

Yeah, just like it's just kinda I mean it just could be a simple like welcome draper.

Yeah, I know.

We talked about a sign.

Um we've talked about it in the past.

It's just like the chambers kind of taken it out of our hands.

Oh, so you just don't even know.

So I mean, like if if you showed up or somebody in our the council showed up or like one of our mini members, we can just hold it up in the picture.

Yeah, let me write it.

I don't know.

Um could it be so plunge?

The next one that I know of is plunge, and that's like September and that's like a cold plunge over there by Aubergine.

Uh September third.

Um I can I mean I can't get that one.

Everybody's calendar if you'd like.

They are they have been pretty I don't know, they've they've called the make sure Maryland there and invited us to a cold plunge.

So anyway.

Um but yeah, that's the only ones I know of.

Like I said, and I saw Thurst on Instagram, but they didn't really reach out to the city.

So I know coming up.

Okay.

Let's move on.

We good to move on.

Yeah, I know we work.

All right, um, okay, the pie digging contest.

Just um it that was cool.

It was awesome.

And we just were doing the best we could because we just weren't didn't know that we were in charge.

I think the the disconnect came just because um David Woke said he would bring everything.

Um that we would run it, but but he was just gonna turn everything over for us, but but there just wasn't everything the stuff that we needed.

Like papers and you know, great and stuff.

Yeah, and I just didn't realize like for somehow I didn't get that we were like running the whole thing.

But I I don't know.

Well the judging usually I didn't think we'd be judging.

Yeah, I didn't think and so I think I don't know if we have someone fall through or or what.

But but now we know.

Yeah, now we know now we know.

And I told David, he's so busy.

I'm like, just we'll just do it.

Yeah, and then we know what supplies we have and what we have.

So it'll be it'll be much better.

Yeah.

So Stephanie Steph Walker did have notes that she gave me afterwards.

She thought that somebody was gonna forge us.

Yeah, she said she sent it to us over a year ago.

So I'm like, so that makes it so for some.

Oh, she did she's done it in the past and she's done a really good job.

So she forwarded her notes, but it was like a year ago and we it just didn't.

Oh, it didn't get to us.

Didn't get to us.

Yeah.

I don't know where anyway.

But so we we're gonna do an amazing.

Yeah, if if we're I mean, I'm sure he would love us to take it again and we'll just own it.

We'll do a bang up job.

It's gonna be like Hallmark quality.

Also, we we had like seven pies in the past, and we had like 35 years.

We were just that was a big part of it.

It's a monthly wasn't it.

And we're at out of control.

And so then it took so long to cut up.

So next year as it gets closer, we'll figure out a faster way to straighten that like the cutting and judging and tasting and what was the coolest thing about this last pie baking contest is and that you weren't really sure is that our committee just was like, we got this.

Like every single person took something, even though we hadn't pre-organized or anything.

We were writing on napkins and we just got it to work.

I was so impressed with everybody's abilities coming together, and yeah, it came together fast too.

Like Boguni just like he's like, she's like, I can do a spreadsheet done like so fast.

Yeah, and Jenny's like, I'll do whatever you want.

Like just tell me what to do.

And we had people that were eating for us, holding babies.

We were and I don't think we had any complaints, so no, and we were a little frazzled, but I think it turned out okay.

It turned out great.

It'll be it was we'll make it smoother next year.

Yeah, it'll just be smoother.

I went to entering the con distance.

Yeah, you went to I would just say that 30 pies or however many it was was a little much.

Oh, yeah.

Well, we didn't have a cutoff either, so they were registering like 10 minutes before it started.

You just showed up with a pies.

We gotta make sure we do have a cutoff because that would threw us off together.

And because people said, Oh, I I just registered before got here, but we didn't get that.

Yeah, we didn't have a list or yeah, and I don't have access.

But anyway, yeah.

Next year.

Yeah, maybe dividing it up where if you know that you get all 30 that a couple people don't have to try all 30.

You know, maybe there's different cats, like break it down.

Like, and did you know what I mean?

Because the single and the the single and the double or whatever that is, but maybe just even a split up that or something.

I don't know.

Like Lucy after she was sick or anything.

Because she was who else was testing?

Did we did you try to test who you didn't do all of them?

I just did all of them.

I thought you did all of them too.

Oh my god.

Oh, that's not bad.

Yeah.

They were um they were good.

I mean, I'm not gonna make the birding them away to like cut little pieces easier or something.

Yeah, I know it was hard to cut a car, yeah.

Yeah, we were cutting the hair.

Yeah, just feel like except for that one pie that had a full like a full horse mill.

So I chose and everyone was horrified that I chose them.

I was like, oh, that's the only one I tried.

The one that had like you know, yeah, so yeah, I just like isn't that smell tomatoes?

Yeah, I have to try that.

Yeah, I thought it was good.

Okay.

So thank you everybody for next time.

I just yeah, we'll start planning it like January, February and and be ready for it.

Isn't pie like a fall type of thing?

No.

I think it's kind of summer picnicy.

Oh, yeah, like apple pieces.

Yeah, July.

Yeah.

The only thing I think of is like pie is Thanksgiving.

Yeah, yeah.

Um she the older lady who won the one of the like the double crest.

Um babies.

Yeah, I I took a picture of her and her granddaughter and great grandson.

And her granddaughter said that she'd entered her that her grandma was having some issues with memory and that she thought that this would be something positive for it.

Like the second time she's ever made that pie and she wins and yeah that's yeah it was a really great way to bring the community together.

We have a ton of people there.

I'm like we might need to do this in the other pavilion next time.

I don't know if we're gonna have the same kind of turnout.

Yeah, it was kind of proud of that.

Yeah, and then next year if you want to help out be thinking about that.

I think it would be good to have like a committee, like have three people working together to put it together and and then assign it.

And maybe assign different yeah, you guys are on sports sheets, you guys are yeah, whatever.

We could design now.

Yeah.

Okay, so we'll be better.

Yeah, it's gonna be great.

All right, okay.

Now we're at the hour.

So real quick, I was I I had asked um whoops for the list and he didn't send it.

So as soon as I get more details on the Arts of Crafts Festival, I'll send it over.

But I know he's like we're about full on vendors, or we've got all our dancing groups, all our performing groups are done.

They're doing kind of the same crafts as they've done in the past.

So the youth council will be there doing the crafts and painting.

I think in the past we've just kind of sat at the gift or the prize table.

And when the kids come around um and they've done their passports, we give them a prize.

So if we want to, or if I I can sign a send a sign up sheet.

So if everybody wants to sign up for maybe an hour or two, it's 10 to 4 on the 13th.

Um, so we just need at least probably two people an hour to man that table.

Two or three would be great.

Yeah.

Um so I'll s I'll send that out.

If we want to you guys can think about it, look at your calendars and see if you can do a couple hours on that Saturday, September 13th.

Sounds great.

Kelly.

Um, yeah, sure.

It should be.

Yeah, should be great.

Hopefully the weather's good.

Do we need to help set up at all?

In the past we've come set up chairs, but um, yeah, that's true.

I don't know.

Yeah, he was gonna send me the it must be busy.

We're still farmer for monster trucks and stuff.

So I will yeah, get out the details.

Yeah, if there's anything else you they need help with with happy help.

Okay.

Um I have okay.

Anybody else have anything?

So when do you plan to send this sign up?

Um I can send it, I can send it by the end of the yeah, I'll try to get out by tomorrow.

By the end of the day tomorrow.

Thanks.

All right, anything else?

We good.

I think we're good.

You guys are good?

Hey, okay.

Thanks everybody.

Yeah for joining.

We just need a motion to adjourn and then a second.

I can second.

Or I can first it okay.

Melanie's gonna motion to adjourn to like a second.

Yeah, motion.

Okay.

Okay.

Hey, thank you everybody.

Okay, thank you.

Thanks for joining us.

Bye.

Yeah, hi.

I look at this and like, oh, we're gonna get through this fast.

And then it's okay.

Oh, I wonder.

I was talking about like teaching English or whatever.

I just came on that.

Okay.

Okay, we're kind of weird.

I've never seen any.

Oh yeah.