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Awesome.

Welcome everybody to the June meeting and happy pride.

We are looking forward to talking about some ideas for July and October.

So we're gonna talk about that today.

We do have enough people for a quorum.

So wait, no, we don't.

I think we have to have five.

Is that correct?

Yes, okay.

So we do not have enough people for a quorum today.

So we can just review the meeting minutes, but we cannot approve it.

Um, but we are gonna go ahead and start with the pledge.

Oh, there's Lee.

Awesome.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for wishes to hands one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Okay, we've got Lee here with us, welcome Lee.

All right, um, so let's go ahead and take roll call.

Starting with in person, uh Brittany Crane, chairperson, Lisa Cook, and we'll switch over to um our online platform.

Um please remember to turn your camera on while we vote and take roll.

Um I'll start there with you, Cassandra.

Sandra Rain Francis.

Michelle, you're muted, Michelle Kirk.

There we go.

All right, Lee.

Are you able to get your camera on?

I'm trying to.

I had this start video.

This is unverified.

So I don't know why it's not trimmed.

Yeah, looks like he's the shutter on.

Do you have the shutter on lady?

I don't know.

On the camera part.

No, it says it's on.

Unverified.

Lights on.

This is black.

Okay.

Um, we will hold off on.

Can we still vote if we can't do video?

Okay.

Okay.

Okay, well, that'll be fine then.

Um we will go ahead and look at our minutes from last meeting.

Um, we uh last meeting we had discussed um that uh Delisa's uh nonprofit was going to work on building the app for us at a very low cost, so we discussed that.

Um we did a quick debrief on the fair housing summit and some initiatives that um we took interest in um for possibly October.

Um and then we talked about some events.

So uh with that in mind, does any do I have a motion to approve our meeting uh minutes from let's see, April.

I make a motion to approve.

All right, we have a motion from Lee.

Do we have a second?

I'll second it and a second from Lisa.

All in favor to improve our April uh meeting minutes, please say aye.

Aye.

Got a couple people muted, so sorry.

Aye, I alright, awesome.

Um, so moved.

Thank you, everybody.

Um, so before I uh left the office today, I'd sent out a couple emails um just with some things that I had um plugged into AI for some possible initiatives, um, and had some really good ideas.

Um there were some initiatives for July, which is next month, um, and then some initiatives for October.

Um these are very low maintenance initiatives, they're free of cost, they should not take a whole lot of effort.

Hey Delisa, um, so I just wanted to review those and then review if you guys had any initiatives or questions that you wanted to toss out.

So um I'm gonna go ahead and start with July.

Um that is, of course, the anniversary of the ADA.

Um last year we did um put out a video that Delisa worked hard on.

This year I was thinking about doing um some different perspectives on things.

So the first one that came up with was a community accessibility challenge.

So this is a challenge to invite residents to submit barriers, accessibility issues throughout the city.

I'd say probably through something simple like a Microsoft form with a QR code where we can get those submissions.

This could include broken sidewalks, missing curb cuts, inaccessible entrances, lack of accessible parking signage, and poor pedestrian signals.

Once we compile those findings, we can compile them into a port, a report to present to our city council.

The next initiative that I talked about was an accessibility recognition.

So free recognition for businesses and organizations that demonstrate inclusive practices.

This could be similar to just an online submission.

But categories could be physical accessibility, customer service accessibility, inclusive hiring, communication accessibility, and then simple recognition, such as social media shout-outs, certificates, and a recognition at a council meeting.

The third option, if we go this option, it may be a little bit more hands-on, but hosting an open forum where people can discuss transportation, housing, employment, recreation, and public services.

Technically, that's what our meetings are for.

So this would be in addition to that, just a chance for people to gather together or for us to maybe plug into a group that's already doing that.

And then do the same thing as the option number one and compile what we discussed and present it with to the city council.

Um the next one was an inclusive recreation day.

Um so working with the parks to showcase accessible trails, playgrounds, sports programs, and community events, and just getting those out on our social media and highlighting where people with disabilities can partake in recreation.

Um the next one would be a business accessibility self-assessment campaign.

Um giving businesses a simple checklist that would cover their parking entrance, restrooms, customer service, and website accessibility, and businesses can assess themselves to identify areas of improvement.

So this one would require businesses to be held accountable.

Um I will admit this one's not my favorite, but thought I'd present it.

It's worth worth discussing.

So this one is probably gonna be a little bit more hands-on, maybe too late to do something like this, but um an ADA story collection, um, invite residents to identify how accessibility has impacted your life, whether that is good, bad, or um in the in-between, um, and then giving them a place where those stories can be shared.

Um, so most likely social media, possibly um displays, uh, like flyer displays, um, a news publication, things like that.

So we've got a couple that are probably take up a little bit more of our time, a couple of them that are gonna be really simple to um implement.

So I just want to collect your thoughts.

Which ones do you think will be doable with the time frame that we have, and which ones do we want to rule out?

What day, Mom?

What's the day that we have again?

Like what's the month?

It'll be July.

It's the anniversary of the ADA.

And um, I did put these through in email.

So if you want to review them, um, I like them all.

They are.

I like the spotlight.

I like the spot spotlight campaign.

I feel like that's it would be a fast one to get information back from businesses.

Because all they have to do is send like a photo of an employee and some information about that employee to post.

So would that be the accessibility recognition?

Yeah, I like that one a lot.

I like the business um one where businesses can I guess be recognized for challenges as well.

I think that'll help with people um knowing where to go far as employment, where they can help, where they can get the best uh resources as far as businesses around the city.

Okay.

I also think it'd be pretty easy for us to um that very first one you mentioned where we would collect um various accessibility challenges around town, just you know, through a live um Google Doc or whatever we decide.

It would take some promotion um, you know, to create some awareness, but it seems like if we had it all in one place, that might be helpful.

Okay, I like that idea as well.

I do want to can I add that I think that one is a really doable one as well that Michelle just mentioned and um we can also um maybe work with the city engineer on this because you know, when uh the city does have to uh when they make any major renovations, then ADA uh components have to be included.

So it may not be able to be addressed immediately, but it can at least um it can be chronicled and so that we know um when work is done in that area that those corrections can be made.

So I think this is a um a good way to uh partner with city uh engineer on this.

So, and and I'd be happy to reach out and see his thoughts on it.

Okay.

Um this is this is shows my limited knowledge.

Does the city engineer attend city council meetings?

Or would we need to go to them separate?

Well, I I do think that probably the protocol would be to you know, because usually all of the work will come through his office, so you know, without you know, without us going through him first, they may not know all of the elements of what we're asking.

So I think it's probably um advisable that we work with them first if they're in the city, and then if it's a county, um, you know, then we of course would work with uh the county engineer.

Okay, um I will um I think honestly both of these are doable.

It wouldn't take very much for us to create um a recognition form as well as a form where people can um report in on the things that they find.

Um both of those forms are really simple to make.

Um and we can just throw a QR code on it, we can have flyers made.

Um and then once we we get some submissions, we can start recognizing.

Um as far as like the employer recognition, a great way to start would be to start with our own employers to get the momentum going.

Um so think about that.

What areas of um your current places of employment exceed in this, and we can highlight those as well, as well as other submissions that come in, of course.

So um I really like both of these ideas.

I don't think it'll be a challenge at all to make them work.

So um any other feedback or comments that you guys wanted to provide before we um chat about next steps for that.

I do feel like that the appointment champion award thing, you could do that throughout the entire year.

Um like once a month or something, or once a quarter, you know, not just in July, of course.

I agree.

Yeah, I think that would be cool.

Just to keep it going, you know?

Yeah, just to keep it going, and it's more content you're putting out from a like a marketing standpoint, you know, you're releasing something once a month.

Like it's a highlight once a month, and it highlights an employee in their business.

Yeah, and I mean, it won't take long to go snap a picture with somebody.

Yeah, that's the easy part.

That's the easy part of it.

Honestly, we could even make sure that there's an option to include a picture when they submit.

That way it kind of eliminates that middle ground.

I think that's a great idea to be proactive about it.

Okay.

Okay.

So where will this live?

I mean, go ahead.

So where will this recognition live?

On not just social media, but will we have maybe a place on Human Relations Commission website or where would we do with it?

What do you think, Diane?

Is that something we can put on the website?

Okay.

So you want to recognize how frequently again?

Well, just say once a month.

Okay.

Um, yeah, that's um we certainly could uh each advisory board does have you have your own page within human relations uh on the city platform.

Then there's human relations, but under us are the advisory board, so there is a place that we could uh create uh, you know, a repository for you know all of that type of thing.

So there is a place for it to answer your question.

Thank you.

Now my question would be do you have the capacity to manage that once a month?

That was gonna be my next question.

I understood that is it going to be that is um I think doable.

Um we actually um we have a new employee that will be starting on Monday.

Uh and I think um, you know, uh their job will be to do education and outreach and uh so they will be working more with the advisory boards.

Uh so uh yeah, I think we I think timing is perfect.

Okay, that works for us then.

Um so I will go ahead and create the forms and then I'll get those out to you guys to review.

Um and then we can go from there.

Um we do have the entire month of June ahead of us, so if we need to meet a second time, um, we can do that.

We usually if we have to do that, we usually do that virtually.

So once I get those forms created, I'll check in and see if that's something you guys want to do.

Um I do want to add that the accessibility recognition program, and Michelle you may remember this sounds a lot to me like the decal program, uh that we um we were trying to roll out some some years ago, um, and you know, it was a program that was done in Bloomington, and they did come down and uh it may have been your time you were taking a little bit of hiatus, Michelle.

I don't remember, but I know I can't remember anything, but I do remember something about that.

Yeah, yeah.

So um we have done something similar.

Okay.

I just say that, and it was quite um time consuming and very um labor intensive because we were uh challenged or charged with going out and measuring to make sure that the accessibility features were within ADA statute.

So it was it was I remember that, yes.

Yeah, that was uh that was a bit much for us.

Um, as volunteer, you know, as you all as volunteers.

Uh so yeah, that one, um, and of course, you know, you you maybe would want to do that because you wouldn't want to just say, okay, we heard from a business.

They said they're 88 accessible, but they may actually not be, and it may be that they maybe didn't even know themselves that they were not.

So, yeah, it's a very good point, Diane.

Yeah.

So, with that in mind, um, so maybe instead of focusing on physical accessibility um highlights, maybe it could be um initiatives or something outside the box, something a little bit extra, an employee or an employer did to make something more accommodating or something not quite so grand, yeah.

Um, so like closer to like success stories, really.

And one of the options that was listed here was inclusive hiring practices.

Um so that could be um that would probably be the easiest to manage if we had similar similar success stories, not doesn't necessarily have to be just I hired somebody with a disability, but you know, it could be this employer made this kind of accommodation for me.

I just want to shout out my employer kind of a thing.

I like that that will be less hassle, I think on our behalf.

Um, so let's let's kind of focus it in that direction.

Um yeah, and I I think a good place to start if we can would be just thinking about our own places of work, and I think that'll get the momentum going.

Okay, I'm pretty happy with that.

If you guys have anything else you want to add to it, um, feel free.

Um, but I do want to go ahead and transition over to talking about October.

We do have a little bit more time to plan for this one.

Um I did send this one out in a separate email because I forgot that I didn't make a joint document.

Um, but it's gonna be some of these are really similar to the ADA initiative.

Um, the October is Disabilities Employment Awareness Month.

Um, so the first initiative is um similar, a chance champion awards so recognizing employers who demonstrate excellence, um, and inclusive hiring, workplace accommodations, employee retention, career advancement opportunities, and internship or apprenticeship out opportunities.

Um the second uh campaign is throughout October, feature one employer each week that has successfully hired and retained employees with disabilities.

Um, with that will come success stories, accommodation examples, uh business benefits, and employee testimonials.

Um, I do kind of feel like these are the same initiative though.

So we could kind of combine those.

Um disability employment round table.

So inviting several different people, employers, workforce development staff, VR reps, community rehab providers, job seekers with disabilities, and discuss hiring challenges, labor shortages, accommodation myths, available supports, and create a recommendation list for local workforce initiatives.

The next uh initiative is accessible um hiring practices review.

So sending out a checklist to just local employers and have them review um how they um how they construct their online applications, what their interview process looks like, their job description description, and their recruitment materials.

So that would be something that we would just kind of give to the employers and then expect them to do on their own.

Um we would need to come up with some form of an accountability initiative if we go that route.

Um, and then um disability employment data report.

This one's pretty easy.

Um getting on the end, National Disability Employment Awareness Month um page and release a briefing on local labor force participation, employment barriers, available resources, and board recommendations.

So that would just um put us in like a spotlight of someone who takes that seriously, and we would promote it on our Facebook page, and um we could probably look into aligning with the idea of spotlighting an employer.

So we could start this now, and just that would also be our October initiative.

But I also really like the idea of a round table.

But if we do a round table, we would need to make sure that we have some action behind that.

So it's not just let's all come together and talk about it and do nothing, kind of a thing.

So what are your thoughts on these?

So for would you mind reviewing the first two again now that we've gone to all of those other ones from each other clear?

Yep, um, one and two.

Um, so the champ number one is the champion awards, um, so recognizing local employers who demonstrate excellence in inclusive hiring, workplace accommodations, employee retention, career advancement opportunities, and intern or intern and apprenticeship opportunities.

Um the second one is an employer spotlight campaign, um, so featuring one local employer each week in October that is successfully hired and retained employees with disabilities.

So this would be success stories, accommodations of uh company benefits and employee testimonials.

I like number, I like them both, but I think what resonates more with me would be number two, yeah.

I'm hesitant to uh jump onto a round table until we have to meet given the experience with similar formats I've been involved with through the years, and Diane has been a part of many of those, it's a lot of planning, and like you said, there needs to be some action and someone to follow up with that, someone to kind of take this on and see it to the end, and it could be a year-long initiative, and I'm hesitant to jump on that with just a such a small group of us.

Um, I think it would be very time consuming, but then also ensuring that people weren't there just to be there, and there would be some true um, not just follow-through, and yeah, and and really being able to see some quality um reactions and responses and resolutions to people's issues, and a lot of those are going to be out of our hands, yeah.

And so want to hear what the people have to say for the community, meaning uh we want to hear from the community, but maybe in another way.

Yeah, I I agree with that because I mean, ultimately, like I said, this is that is the purpose of these meetings is to give people space to come and talk to us and bring things to our attention, and um we have a hard time getting public traffic to meetings, so um, I I do worry that it would be more of an event session as opposed to productive, so um I can see I can see where you guys are coming from there.

Um I what I think what what sounds the most doable and it is in conjunction with the other initiative that we started to do is to kind of just stick with the employer spotlight campaign and allow for um submissions.

Um I do also really like the idea of the data report um just because I think that's that would be helpful to a lot of people and pretty enlightening, and I it's gonna be easy to compile.

So I will probably also do that.

Um I can just work on that and have that up and going.

So um, if we if we do the employer spotlight campaign in conjunction with the um recognition program, um, and we start it now, how would we separate it and make it different for october like set it apart does that make sense when is your annual dinner but i'm i don't think it's october correct it is october october second i don't know how you feel about adding something this late in the game in terms of maybe maybe that could be a culmination uh never mind if we were going to do it throughout it would almost be a november kind of highlight so the year thing so never mind thinking out loud let's see um I mean we could start collecting submissions and then announce the spotlight throughout October um and like start the official um announcement at that time but go ahead and ask for submissions now and just compile that data and then I I actually there may be some way to connect it with the awards that we do at the annual dinner um so there may be a way to I acknowledge and you know celebrate individuals that um that you select I don't know we probably need to flesh it out but if that's something you want to do or if you just want to have a different platform and recognition for that it's up to you.

Okay.

Thanks, Diana.

Yeah.

Yeah, sounds like we need in my opinion so we don't have to hash this out during this meeting probably need to set up a committee meeting for next week and maybe kind of see if we can hash out all of these details.

Okay I will look I definitely cannot meet next week um we can I can look and see what my availability is for the following uh let me look and see well I mean if you're not available and several of us are that's fine too we can always get by I don't I don't want you to feel like you have to carry it so we could always kind of brainstorm and share that in an email with you and then we could revisit it.

Sure that works too um I will um I'll look at my availability and see what I can do and then if I'm not able to meet then you guys are free to go ahead and convene on this and then just yeah report in and let me know what you guys decide um I will go ahead and just make some rough draft of the form submissions so you guys can discuss we can discuss that in the committee meeting um and see what kind of changes we need to make um and we can we can go from there um does anybody have any other contributions they want to make to this at this time I was just gonna say if we're able to get something out there you know visible pretty pretty soon by July at least we probably could go with the idea of taking the submissions and then having them recognize I do like that idea if that's a possibility um it just would be a matter of figuring it out and um putting something together to collect the submissions to make sure that we're clear about what we're wanting and uh where to where to put it but I do like that idea.

Thanks Cassandra okay um then we will go ahead and um move into old business um we had talked about um doing a lunch and learn discussion in October.

Um I wanted to kind of bridge the gap a little bit between um the difficulties of getting employment when you're uh when other needs are not being met um such as housing, um, and just provide some education on how to start the process of getting a mortgage or things along those lines.

Um I don't believe I have the capacity personally to to work on this initiative at this time.

So if that is something that you would want to do, I will kind of put it in your ballpark and you just let me know if this is if anybody has the capacity to start organizing something like that.

If not, we will just table that for another time.

Brittany, you you went past strategic planning.

I do have an update on that.

Oh, sure.

We'll circle back around to that.

Sorry, I thought that was cool.

I'm sorry, what was that, Michelle?

I would think maybe tabling that at the moment.

Okay.

Is everybody in favor of tabling that at the moment?

Hi, alrighty.

We'll table that.

Um, I need to circle back around to strategic planning.

Um, Diane had an update for that.

Um, I think I shared with you several months uh back that we were in the process of um getting or looking for a consultant to do strategic planning for the human relations, and we wanted to extend that to the advisory boards as well.

Uh so we uh we do now have uh a consultant that um we're getting re really near to completing the uh contract with them, and so the next steps will be to identify dates that you can come together um as uh an advisory board to sort of map out what the strategic plans are for this advisory board.

So I just wanted to let you know that this is now ready to happen.

Uh and I have asked um the consultant to give me dates for each advisory board that he's that he can uh conduct these sessions.

I believe he has a location for you to go to, uh, but I don't want him to go through all of that and um and then you're not available to attend.

So that's why we're going to give you some dates and we'll poll the advisory board.

But if it looks like only one or two, I don't know that it's really going to be worth doing it for the advisory for this advisory board or any advisory board.

Uh so the the whole purpose is to make sure that there's full participation.

Thank you for that opportunity, Diane, and I agree.

Yeah, because yeah, we want to we want a lot of a lot of brains in the room so we can brainstorm effectively and um if most folks aren't unavailable, it's probably not worth worth it.

I agree.

Do you have those dates?

I haven't received them yet.

Um, but I anticipate getting them probably by Monday.

Okay.

And we can just uh do a doodle poll uh based on the dates that he provides and just know that this is you know completely for you all to uh come up with strategic uh a strategic uh uh road map for the next year two, three or whatever, but um I think it's one way for us to really look at the work and identify a strategy and uh even if you decide that you maybe you don't want to continue to serve or something, it's a blueprint for the next advisory board members that come on so that the work can go on.

So it's important, yeah.

Yeah, I'm really excited about that opportunity to have some input from somebody who you know does that kind of thing for a living.

So that'll be great.

I'm I'm excited to see what turns out of that.

So stay tuned, you'll be getting that.

All right, awesome.

Um did you lost my train of thought.

Okay, um, Delisa, I want to just check in with you about the resource hub.

If you had any updates or announcements about that.

Um would I be able to turn something in?

I know that we have to get it approved for the next phase.

Um, but would I be able to who would I need to send it to send it to you and then you can send it to them for their approval for like all that we can do, or what's the next step for that?

Who is it that needs to approve it?

I'm a bit.

I'm a little bit behind on what all what this actually is, but um, you know, if you can draft up uh a synopsis of you know what the what it is, what the uh what resources are necessary, uh what the cost are, things like that.

If you can just share that with with me, that would be and and maybe with everyone on this advisory board because I'm not sure that everybody else knows what what it is, but I certainly do not have all the specifics.

I've only seen it in the minutes, okay.

Sounds good.

Well, I will send you guys a link, and actually you can view view what I have currently as well as more information about the cost of upkeep and things like that.

But I have it fairly low is like under like a hundred dollars a month.

So thanks, Delisa.

Is this something that's currently in um in usage now?

It's out there for the public or no.

Actually, you guys would be the first to see it and actually customize it however you want, but the data that we had from the PDF with all the resources, I've dumped that information inside of it.

So, so we can grow and I can add more information in what all you wanted to look like as far as the what we call a UX or what the people see with the eye with all the different colors and things like that.

We that can all be changed, but just the functionality of the disability resources all in one hub based off the categories is there.

Diane, let me let me give you a little context because like you said, I know that you weren't involved in some of these meetings.

The idea was discussed um, you know, six, eight, nine months ago, or um Lee had had brought it up, and so it was a really good suggestion.

There were a lot of families in the community who were getting a diagnosis or they were they were kind of um moving through the system, you know, in early childhood education, just not getting the resource that they need needed.

People were just kind of feeling like they were floundering, didn't know where to go, and so we we had obviously created a journal resource guide that we had done many years ago.

There's many iterations of those um from different community um agencies of course around town.

So we didn't necessarily want to recreate that.

We wanted to get to the heart of it and and really provide kind of a narrow roadmap for those families to say, okay, here's what I need to do.

Here's where I need to go next.

Here's the resources and supports that I need.

And then the idea was for it to be a live document so we can continually be, you know, making edits, and as we know, there are a lot of things that um aren't in existence that were last year.

So it'd be a way for us to make those edits in real time, and then the Lisa's business um was who, you know, very very gracious and trying to help us come up with a way to host this and able to, you know, you make it in the form of an app and maybe make it easily accessible to people.

So she was been really trying to come up with a way to make it an affordable option um for us to make that happen because we didn't necessarily want to put a lot of time and energy into something that wasn't gonna be accessible to people and it wasn't gonna be kind of tailored to what those but that specific intent was.

So that's the original idea behind it.

Okay, got it.

And I'll I look forward to getting the link to Lisa.

Okay.

Thank you, Michelle.

And thank you, Delisa, for the hard work on that.

Yeah, that's awesome.

I have a couple of questions just in um regarding the current board members.

I see that um Ramona Harvey and Gil Rhodes are still on the list as active board members.

Is that the case?

They haven't been to any meetings, and if so, do we have open positions or where are we with that?

Well, they have been appointed by uh let's see.

Who are they appointed by?

Gil's county commissioner, and uh Ramona is also a county commissioner.

So they appointed both of them.

Uh, maybe not knowing that I know Ramona hasn't been uh around for a while now, and I haven't seen um Gil for some time, so but we can inform them that we have not seen them, but they were reappointed by them.

Uh, so then we just basically waited out to the end of this their term, and then they'll they'll probably be uh members until their term uh ends the end of this year, which looks like all of them do.

Okay, thank you.

Um does inactivity, um is that ever an option to say uh due to inactivity?

Well, um a lot of times they will ask for the attendance roster, and we do provide that for any um, you know, entity that request it.

They may want to say, Okay, could you just let us know?

I guess they just want to see if um their appointment has been attending and things like that.

Okay, so we can actually just send it without them asking uh just so that they have that information.

Okay, anybody have any announcements?

Okay.

So are we gonna chat about um Lee?

Are you still working on the kind of that revised um resource guide that we had all contributed our updates to?

Yeah, I said I think the last time I looked at it, I sent like a list, like a quick like feedback list.

So I need to go back and look at what I sent and just correct it myself.

Okay, yeah, because I sent a word document, so those updates can't be created.

So Diane, we basically went back to the one.

Everyone still liked the idea since we were trying to tease out how it would work with the app and if we were gonna be able to make that work.

They like the idea of kind of updating the resource guide that we did in 2013.

So that's what we've all been working on a little bit um the past six months or so, and then Lee kind of took the reins and uh was gonna kind of find do that final once over and um or fine final review, and then we would we would have that as an option as well.

Yeah, let me go through I'll go back because well last month was a lot, and I was I was gonna look at it.

Let me go back behind it, look at it, and we can put it on for the next meeting to like probably approve it.

Okay, if you could too, and Diane, correct me if I'm wrong, but I kind of feel like you know, since TTYs are pretty well obsolete, no one uses those anymore.

If there's any reference to a TTY, I tried to go through and and call some of the ones that were on my list to verify the information.

They didn't even know what a TTY was, so they didn't even have one um in use, even if associated to the number that we originally had.

I think we need to eliminate all TTY references because it's just not used.

The technology, I think.

So if you could go, thank you.

Okay, Lee, so you could do a control F and go through any type where that's mentioned.

I will make sure that I'm a little bullet point here right now.

Okay, what is the TTY?

Oh, so a TTY is a device for someone who is deaf to use back.

It looks like a little typewriter.

It's so is it called teletypewriter or something like that?

Yeah, something like that, yeah.

Um, and so it's so all entities pretty much had one, all businesses, all government entities, a lot of um, just a lot of folks had them, a lot of individuals had them because it was a great way um to communicate.

And if you needed a call, you could type in your question, you'd get a typed response, and there was a dedicated TTY number, um, but with all of the the technology um now no one uses them, they're very obsolete, they're just not even around.

I mean, they're just so ancient.

They but they look like little typewriters with a little handset on top.

And so you take off handset, that's what activated it, you start typing, and then you get a response, and it's that's what it was.

It's so funny that you bring that up because we have ours like ready to go to the surplus uh graveyard right now.

So I just got rid of all those two in our office.

I thought, oh goodness.

Interesting.

I never heard of neither have I.

If you see it's a that tells you it's out of date.

You know, I'm gonna email you all a picture.

You'll know what I'm talking about.

Okay.

That's great.

That's great.

All right.

Um, so that was my section on the like how to use the TTY.

So I took all that off and put in how to use it in today's world, like it had uh I Googled it, like how to go through Apple and or how to go through an Android to get that same kind of service in a modern way.

So I oh good.

I did take that whole thing off and then put in what is used now.

Oh, okay, that's great.

Okay.

I'm sure there's still some random TTY numbers under the list of phone numbers.

I can just envision it, and I didn't check them all, so but a good old control F will help me do that real quickly.

We have experienced it it's uh actually a live version now that actually does do the uh that does the the translation of when the person calls.

Have you experienced that?

That survey.

So it depends on my understanding is it depends on the company.

So if you're calling a company, like if it's Sorence and Video Relay, for example, and and they have a dedicated number just like our phone number, um, and you call that and it's a live person that comes on, it's an interpreter, they connect the call, they interpret the call for you.

But that is not that is totally separate from a TTY.

You can't just call an old TTY number and get that service.

No, no, no.

I'm saying that there is now a service that provides that for the same purpose, but it's actually a live person that you're speaking with.

And uh so they're they're like the um intermediary uh for uh for the person.

So and I haven't gotten one of those in a while.

Are you saying that this is an example?

It's a service out there.

I don't uh you know, yeah, uh that I know that our office we have engaged with people that use it.

I think what you're yes, I think what you're referring to is someone like who has sorence and for example, it's just a one of the companies.

So sorce and video relay interpreting, and so they assign a number, a phone number for that person, and they even have the equipment that they manage for the person, and they call you and then you are talking to the interpreter and then you connect the call.

But it's not a it's not a it is a service, but it's a service that the person uses to call you on your normal phone.

It's not something you would have to um sign up for or engage with.

It's it's on the it's on the incoming end.

Yes, but I think it it is still something that maybe you could, and I'm sure that people that require that maybe are aware of it, but I think you could probably bring awareness to that type of a service is yeah.

I it's been a while since we experienced it, but I think it's probably time for uh, you know, a refresher on what what that's all about.

Sure.

Yeah, let's dig into that a little bit more, just because like I said, my experience is that not necessarily that you would need that.

It's just the person ha has that, and then when they call you, then they have that service.

Yeah, but yeah, we could definitely look into that and see what options there are these days.

All right.

We are getting close to noon, so um I'm gonna go ahead and um wrap things up.

Um do we have a um motion to adjourn today?

I'll move to adjourn.

All right, Michelle's moved to adjourn.

Um, do we have a second?

I said, all right.

All in favor of adjourning, please say aye.

Aye.

All right, um, looking forward to talking to you all soon.

Have a good one.

Hey everyone, I sent you an email asking about availability for next week.

If you could take a look at that, Lisa's just responding.

Thank you.

Well, I'm available just to make it just respond to that for me.

And I'll I'll take a link and respond and she'll take it.

Okay, thank you.

Bye, bye everyone