So when we get to approval minutes we can make those corrections.

Other than that, we want to be able to do that.

This meeting is being transcribed and summarized.

Good morning.

And welcome to the human relations commission's meeting.

Today's date, May 27, 2026.

I'm sorry.

Got May on my thing here.

June.

June meeting, I'm sorry.

Are there any agenda requests?

There being nobody in the audience as well.

We'll have roll call.

Donovan Phipps present.

Regina Robinson Ungar.

Matt Hanka.

Ruby McLaren.

Marjorie Cabell.

Dan Carwill.

Good morning.

Brooks.

We do have a quorum.

We'll go right down the agenda item line.

Are there any agenda requests?

There being none.

We'll make a motion.

Can I get a motion to approve the minutes from last month's meeting?

Motion to approve.

I have a couple corrections to the meeting minutes.

Yeah, that would be amazing.

Um Commissioner Carwhile, you and you were not at the meeting.

Is that right, sir?

That is correct.

Okay.

So he was not as the meeting as indicated, and then Donovan Phipps was at the meeting, so then that allows for a quorum of sex.

So just to add.

Move her name twice at his name.

I don't think it was that we're not we're not inferring that he was at the meeting in uh May.

That reference was from the April minutes.

Oh.

That direction in terms of Commissioner Carlisle was for April.

April, right, right.

Okay.

All right.

So the minutes are from the 27th, so.

Okay, then it probably should be a little clearer to say April minutes were approved, Commissioner Carwa.

Called.

Well, if I read this, I don't think it's April.

I think it's from the minutes we're about to approve.

So you're saying it's from April?

Yes.

For him.

For him.

For Dan.

We could put a call in after correction instead of a period.

We could add the word April before the word meeting.

If you want to make it crystal clear.

Yeah, that would be fine.

It would shows April meetings were approved with the correction, Commissioner Carl called.

And that should show that I.

That was the correction.

Yeah.

Okay, but it's the sentence alone is not clear that that's referring to the April meeting or okay.

Yeah, alright, that's fine.

Okay.

That's fine.

We're good.

It's all inclusive, I get it.

And I retract Donovan Phipps.

Just on the record on the correction for the minutes for May 27th.

I was present.

Via WebEx.

Yeah.

So the minutes has have been.

So shall I make a motion to approve the minutes as amended?

With Donovan Phipps attending by WebEx and myself only.

One of me attending.

Right.

Um, yes.

I second that motion.

The motion is made.

And second.

All in favor?

Aye.

I mean I disapproved and twice.

A new business.

I just wanted to make you aware that there was a request to have a reviewing commissioner review and appeal.

And we have to date not had anyone respond to that.

I did respond by email.

I just couldn't get a response back.

Well, I I think the email was that you would come in on Monday or something like that, but then you didn't come that day.

So we've not had you come yet.

Well I responded twice by, you know, by editing by those buttons.

Because they were losing things.

You know, we just like appeal.

I'll do it again to see how that's um not the that's not the survey.

No, this is to review uh an appeal, and I just sent it out to all the commissioners saying whomever could do that.

But I don't recall, you know, an email from anyone saying that they were going to come in and and it's not the wrong of the select date.

No, Wednesday.

No.

I am available after this meeting to do that.

That sounds great.

Okay.

And I I apologize.

I was out of town or out of state for two weeks, and um assumed it would be done by now, but I am available.

Okay.

We send one to two commissioners.

It might not be a bad idea to have to be done today.

Um I'll stay as well.

Okay.

Okay.

So if you still need me, I'll I can catch it if it's needed.

Um not today, but you know, yes.

Yeah.

Just let me know.

All right.

That's an important part of uh making sure that uh our uh charging parties get uh, you know, a timely response and and so forth.

So um so yeah, that was all I had on that one.

Okay, we'll go to O business.

I do want to say on the record, I think another commissioner joined us just now live uh through WebEx, just to make sure we're missing it.

Okay, Samantha.

We'll let the records reflect that Samantha Benty join us by WebEx.

Okay, in terms of the annual dinner, we are um you know, we're plugging along.

Uh we're looking at some theme uh ideas.

You should have a copy of that in front of you.

We'd love to get your feedback on a possible theme.

Um just a bit of a logistical uh concern.

Um I think I shared with you that there was uh an event that was going to happen that morning of October 2nd at the Oak National Events Plaza, which would require that we um move our event to the exhibit space, uh and we have since been informed there's another event on the same day October 2nd as uh a comedian that is very popular in in in pop in in culture uh these days, and we thought with that with both of those things happening on the same day uh might we want to consider a different date.

Uh so reached out to um the Oat National Events Plaza uh for an alternate date.

Uh they have one, and uh it's actually the Friday before.

It's the last Friday in September, as opposed to the first Friday in October.

And they do have that availability.

Um have not heard back from the mayor's office yet in terms of her availability and uh nor uh Reverend Barber's availability.

But we just thought we would just uh put some feelers out to see if we can move the date, it might be um a good idea to do it.

Just wanted to get your thoughts on that.

What was the second date as well?

September second?

Uh, the the alternate date is September 25th, the last Thursday of September.

Um I recall from a previous conversation that the 30th of October was considered because that was Dr.

Barber no longer available that date.

I can't really recall back what was the reason that we didn't consider the 30th.

Um, yeah, I I don't either.

I just know that there are quite a few things going on in October, and we thought as opposed to us moving it to October, that we just, you know, push it, push it back one week um to that Friday uh before October 2nd.

Again, what if he's not available?

What if he's not available?

Well, that's that's just it.

I mean, we're just putting some feelers out there, so nothing.

Just wanted to give you a heads up and uh let you all know if there's any uh feedback or ideas that you have in that regard.

This is this would be the time to express it.

And just to clarify, on October 2nd, is it uh is the National Events Plaza completely unavailable?

Like, must we definitely move off that date or is it just to know that we had a spot on October 2nd and we still have a spot okay on October 2nd, but we will be in the exhibit hall as opposed to being in the ballroom.

Okay, and it sounds like parking will be limited because of the popular comedian, which is always a concern.

Yeah, that will be at the victory, but yes, that's that's the concern.

Yeah.

Well, I couldn't attend the date that we picked, so if it moves, I won't be sad.

Well, this is Trinitia.

I will, you know, September we may get more participation and attendance.

Um, because again, October, there is definitely a lot going on historically over the last couple of years.

September's been a slower month in my personal opinion as far as ganglass and things like that, and so uh I I think that last Friday and September, if that works for um Dr.

Barber's schedule.

I think before we make a decision, we probably need to maybe check and make sure what's good for Dr.

Barber.

That's correct.

Oh, absolutely.

And you know, I think back with uh if there are no objections, then we can move forward with that alternate date.

Just to confirm the alternate date would just be October 2nd or the last Friday of September.

The last Friday in September.

The current date that we we were planning on is October 2nd, so we would pivot to the 25th.

The 25th.

Okay.

So what about this October 30th date that um I I did not inquire about an October 30th date.

Um I know that it hasn't been the best.

I mean, it's not that it's it's the day before Halloween, but I don't think that I think it affects you.

I mean, I didn't make I didn't make up the date.

It was mentioned in I didn't make up the date, it was mentioned in a commuting a couple months ago as an opportunity.

I know you didn't.

Yeah, so I just don't know if I've not inquired with Dr.

Barber nor with the um national events plaza, nor with the mayor.

So um we have a few, you know, it's like a few folks that we have to reach out to to see if they're available.

And if in fact he does not have availability on September 25th, then we will see what dates are available, and it may be that we will just have to stay with our original date.

I I suspect that he's already booked the previous Friday, but we won't know until we ask.

I so do you need a motion to give you authorization to change it if all parties are agreeable?

Um I can I that would be helpful.

Okay.

Change the date if all parties are agreeable.

I second that motion.

And a second that we uh allow our director to change the date if necessary for the annual dinner meeting.

All in favor?

Any opposed?

Is it my city?

Yes or what?

Okay, thank you.

Who knows?

I guess is not gonna hear that.

There being the motion pass.

There's really nothing to add for police community relations.

Um we've just had so much going on.

Uh we have not really had an opportunity to consider other funding.

That was the problem.

The last meeting that I had with uh Chief Smith was they did not have funding to do the initiative that we had contacted the RAN Corporation to do.

So that just uh sort of uh is there for perhaps future uh events or initiatives that we can work with, you know.

Um we just didn't have the funds to devote to that without their contribution, so there's that, uh, but we'll keep trying.

I think that there's still uh a need for us to have that type of convening.

Uh so we'll continue, but you know, we have uh so much capacity at one time to move these initiatives forward, and we're really trying to work on getting the strategic planning session implemented at this point.

And so I will just go right into that.

Um, as you know, the contract was approved.

We did send out an initial poll to see what your availability was.

Umfortunately, we just did not get um the type of uh attend a consensus on a date that we thought would be beneficial for us to do this type of convening.

Uh we we feel like it's a big investment not to have um almost a hundred percent participation.

Uh so what we have done, we have provided uh the names and emails to our consultant who uh wasn't um, you know the work had not the scope of work had not been approved yet before board of public work, so we could not have him conducting the polling.

Uh, but now that he is under the contract, he has taken that over.

So he will be contacting you all.

Uh I'm not sure if it's via phone calls or polling uh to try and and get participation from uh the majority of the commissioners.

Um, and you know, I just feel like it's a big investment for us to have three or four people there, and uh, you know, quite honestly, you know, some of some folks will term off at the end of this year, and uh, you know, we thought we'll we'll be getting new commissioners.

Maybe we wait until the next year to do this.

So I'm hoping that we all can get together and get this started so that we don't have to wait until uh neck next year.

Yeah, I don't know if anybody was like me.

I only picked one date, and that was the only date that was good for me, and that's what I selected.

So I'm not sure how anybody else did.

I didn't go down all through that's yeah, we weren't given a lot of dates to sort of work with.

Um I have a clarifying question.

So two of those dates included times that included this meeting.

Okay.

If we do a session with our consultant in this meeting, what does that mean?

Does it mean that this body convenes into executive session?

How does how does this look like because this is a public meeting?

That's sort of a legal question, you know, because we have to give a public notice, uh, you know, we have to allow people to come to our meetings, and he plans on holding these at a separate location.

He's not planning on doing these sessions here at the Civic Center.

Okay.

Because those sessions are not necessarily under they're not, they don't have to follow the same kind of correct.

So, you know, we'll have to.

Um I'll get with David uh with um Ted Zemer and uh figure out you know where we fall in terms of the uh the sunshine law and you know how we can hold these sessions, what it's considered uh, but we'll make sure that we do it right and it's by the letter of the law.

Okay, because two of the times were during our meetings.

Yes, and I did give him that because it was a time that I knew that you all had blocked off.

Okay.

And uh it would be a two-hour session, so to me it would seem um an easier lift because you already have that time blocked off, and then you're just adding another hour.

Uh so I wanted him to be aware of the time that you would normally meet.

But we wouldn't be convening as a commission official.

It would not be an official meeting.

It would be a it would be uh a working group because of the session.

So they wouldn't okay.

Now, what you did say about uh you know doing business at some part of that, I would need to need to check because you know I don't think it's gonna uh it won't meet uh the threshold that is needed to have a public meeting because people won't be able to attend, we won't be able to um have this uh virtual option where people can go on to Granicus and see the meeting.

We won't be in a space where we can do that.

Right.

And we would need to find out if uh, you know, the public access counselor in Indianapolis is usually the person that can answer those really nuanced kinds of questions about public meetings.

Couldn't you have your public meeting and then dismiss and go into the it's just the location, though.

Uh you know, I think he's I don't know what the facility that he's planning to hold it, has that that uh uh technology to be able to do that.

But the bottom line is so this is an extra thing on top.

So if he's proposing times for us, to see we weren't given enough times.

I think that might have affected the poll.

But if we're given times, are we encouraging him to give us times that don't fall within this hour on the fourth Wednesday?

Well, I don't think I don't know that I mean we can we can certainly not have a meeting that month if we're going to have uh the strategic planning session.

Okay.

But I will explain to him that give putting times on that poll would be helpful.

Is that what I'm hearing?

Well, yeah, okay, okay.

Uh, there also might be more than one of us with um like general rhythms of our lives, like Thursdays are just bad, for example.

Um, if if he has access to that kind of general guiding framework of uh what dates are less likely to work that could help me just need to give us more than three times, you know, or four times, you know.

I'll share that with it like the whole week, you know, yeah.

In addition to the uh our commissioners, is there an invitation for any of these social status commissioners to participate?

Those are separate sessions, so each advisory board will have their own session.

Well, and and that's okay, but um back in time a bit uh with um the uh gun violent violence ordinance and and um the um school to prison pipeline study.

It it just my opinion that sounds like it it would be irrespective of the fact that they have it planned to be two separate sessions somewhere along the line there should be uh attendance either by someone from this commission or from the social status in in the in session with them.

Uh I don't think that we've done enough work and and plus it would tie into the need for um police community relations as well um if if if we are addressing the the gun violence which is still prominent in the community as well as the school prison pipeline which which the uh human relations commission invested a significant amount of time and effort in to bring it together so that's so what why not in uh inclusion of the um social status commissioners or vice versa.

I think the thought is that that each advisory board has their own mission.

Um although there are uh you know some overlap on um initiatives and concerns and issues, I think they can still be addressed in those respective advisory boards separately um as opposed to having to come together to address them.

Um I think really what's driving the objectives that that will come out of that will be the mission, uh the ordinance, and they're different.

You know, the social status has a very different uh mission than the human relations commission.

There's some overlap, uh, but there are differences.

So I I see them as being separate.

Um but I think we can still address some of the same issues.

So I understand they're separate entities or separate uh commissions and advisory boards.

I do see that um let's see.

The ordinance says that the oversight would be the human like relations commission, right?

No, it doesn't.

Okay.

What does that ordinance outline as well?

I can make it make it available to you.

I don't have it here today, but the ordinance for the social status commission was written in nineteen ninety-nine uh and it mirrors the state uh commission on the social status of African American male.

So um I mean, just uh if that were the case, we would just have you would meet with them and there wouldn't be separate meetings if in fact you were addressing the same issues.

Um they don't have the enforcement prong uh that the social status uh that human relations commission does.

So, you know, if someone that if you're not really familiar with all of the ordinances, you wouldn't know that there are vast differences.

Uh so I that's that's really my my uh thoughts on that.

Samantha has her hand though.

Samantha, she you're on mute.

Oh.

Can you hear me now?

Okay, it just said can you hear me?

Yes, we can.

Okay, great.

It just said disconnected from network.

It sounds like a future strategy from the strategic planning could be improved collaboration between some of those boards, but that what would be something that could come out from strategic planning.

Uh Diane, I wanted to bring up something that you said earlier about people rolling off of the board, and I um did not complete that poll because I have been traveling for work and everything beyond tomorrow has felt like too much.

But um that is a great point that came to mind for me.

You know, I'm one of the people that's rolling off in December, and so it feels like maybe my involvement in strategic planning would look different than someone who's slated for additional time.

Um so I don't know if there's a way to account for that.

Kind of I don't know, like exit interviewing almost as a part of strategic planning.

Um but I I and I don't honestly know what all of this is going to look like, but just bringing that up, you know, I think that people who are rolling off their perspective is valuable, but not necessarily, doesn't necessarily need to be as centered as someone who is planning to is planning to stay um for for future um terms.

So I'm just adding that in.

Well, I I see it both ways, Samantha.

Y'all may not care what I think, but I think you bring um you know historical perspective experience, so I think there's some value, but if we were not going to have the majority here, that was sort of the defining uh point for me is to just to have as many here as possible.

So what was the number we said with the majority?

How many how many people responded?

Um well, we I don't think we have more than five on any on any specific date.

Oh, okay.

So everybody responded with this.

Except for like Samantha said she was not able to respond, but everyone else did uh eventually respond.

Would you like to provide the top three dates that got good responses?

I mean, just so some of us might reconsider with the um I can do that.

I know I can actually um he asked me for those as well, so um yeah, we can do that.

Yeah, and I'm I'm sure dad's work with you know in getting input from stakeholders.

I mean, sure he's got a way of getting them from seasoned veterans and those joining a board.

So, yeah, I there's a way with all input regardless of your level of influence and involvement will be captured.

Okay, so um I anticipate that you will be hearing from his office in the next week or so.

Um, I'll provide him with um your responses from the previous poll that we did, and uh hopefully we can we can get uh this going perhaps in in late July, I'm thinking.

I don't know.

A lot of it I guess depends on his availability to um, but I I thought I've got to turn this over to him at this point.

Okay, and I did receive an email that uh Ted Zemer will not be here today.

Um so there's no counsel report.

Okay, would you mind introducing the new?

Yes, I was going to do that, and um Samantha Fleischaker is our new education and outreach uh coordinator.

She will be going out in the community uh educating on the services that we provide, getting input from uh constituents, uh, and uh just being an ambassador for civil and human rights.

So we're excited to have her, and I'll let her say something about herself.

Good afternoon, Commission.

It's really exciting to put some faces to names, but just wanted to briefly introduce myself.

Um I'm a USI graduate.

I graduated this past May.

Um I've been previously appointed by Governor Holcomb for the Indiana Student Commission for Higher Education, and so that process and being a part of the Scriegle family at USI definitely um helped me to get where I am, as well as Ms.

Diane, um graciously accepting um me as uh the education outreach coordinator.

In addition, through this opportunity, the city of Evansville has been given um a chance to represent part of the Evansville or Fellowship, the second cohort, which I'm proud to represent as well, and I'm really excited to serve as a support for the HRC.

And if you have any questions or would like to reach out, I'm here as well.

Thank you.

Well, welcome, yeah.

Okay, so I'll move on to my report.

Can I say hello?

Can I say hello?

I just want to say hello.

I'm Ternisha Brooks, and first and foremost, I'm super excited that this has come to fruition.

Um I think it's going to make a significant impact in the community.

And I would love to connect with you because we have a lot to talk about, and I'm excited to just work with you, uh, probably in a lot of different spaces.

Um, and so welcome aboard, and this is very exciting.

Thank you.

Thank you so much.

I will definitely be reaching out.

So Samantha, Diane, it's Dan Cartwell.

I might also mention that we may want to get Samantha to our if she can make a strategic planning session.

You know, one of our key roles I think moving forward that we may want to include in all that as we talk is our role as a commission in being advocates in our community and having a voice in the community.

And so her involvement may be helpful in that regard if she can make our strategic planning session.

We are actually planning on including staff in that process.

So thanks for bringing that up, Dan.

Okay, you have the monthly report.

We did have eight cases filed in May.

Three of them.

That left us with approximately 59 cases open at the end of May.

And then you can see some of the meetings and events that we participated in May as well.

I did want to just mention that we are in the process of going through a case management integration process as well.

So we're looking forward to that integration being uh finalized, completed.

You know, we we we have uh just been able to see what our platform looks like just yesterday.

So we're excited about that.

Uh just working with our IT department and uh the new uh or not the they're not new vendors, but this this program is is new uh implementing it in our uh in our department.

So uh just thought I would bring that up in the context of this report because uh hopefully uh we'll have a lot more data to share with you uh once that integration has happened.

Um that is all that I really have in terms of the report.

Uh just I wanted to also thank everyone that came out and helped us uh at the Pride Parade.

I know we had a few, but uh it was uh really fun.

My first one participating in the parade, so uh I enjoyed that and Samantha.

Uh we saw you at the was that a finish line, maybe I felt like you were cheering us on when we got there, but yes, thank you.

That was pretty good.

Thank you all for coming.

It was great to have the commission represented, and I know it meant a lot to um River City Pride members who who mentioned it was nice to see the commission there.

So I really appreciate those that were able to make time to be there.

The only other thing I did want to share with you, I did include uh something about uh our a handout for the Iora conference.

It's just a flyer that gives you at least the dates that this will happen in New Orleans in August, August the 16th through the 20th, and some of uh you know what will happen there.

The exact uh conference agenda has uh not been finalized yet.

I I think I've shared this with you.

Um I've chaired this conference for probably the last two years, and uh thought I was off the hook for this year, had a change, uh, and I'm uh actually uh chairing it this year.

So as soon as we get uh the final agenda done, I will share it with you.

And um, you know, we're taking uh two to three staff.

We we like to take a commissioner.

Um Commissioner McGlown has attended before.

Uh Commissioner Robinson Ungar has attended before.

Uh Commissioner Cabell has attended, so uh yeah, just we'll we'll just check back with you and uh see if we have a commissioner that would like to go with us this time.

Um and that is that is pretty much all that I have.

I just again wanted to say we're really excited to have Samantha, she's hitting the ground running, and uh we're really looking forward to the work that she's going to be able to uh uh accomplish on our behalf and uh for the city of Evansville.

So the barbershop initiative.

Um that that I think I did share with you that the uh barbershop initiative is no longer under the Indiana Commission on the Social Status of Black males, and that was our connection.

Uh we went into that uh partnership with the expectation that we were sharing data with with that State Department that would be sharing data with uh you know the State Department of Health and all of those types of state agencies and it would have that type of an impact.

Uh they they were barely able to pull it off last year, uh and there was just no program at all this year.

A lot of changes at the state level.

So we thought it best that uh the initiative was certainly still needed in our community, but we wanted to make sure that the data, uh the capacity was still there in our community, and we know that we have a minority health coalition that has partnered with us on that initiative since the very beginning in 2011.

So we felt that they had the best capacity to continue the initiative.

They would share their initi their data uh with uh the Department of Health, the Indiana Minority Health Coalition, uh, and that there would still be uh some relevance for that initiative.

But we felt without the state agency coordinated it, coordinating it that we really didn't have anywhere to sing send that data.

Uh so that is uh our reasoning for turning it over to uh community action.

They did change the date.

Uh they did it a little later.

They did it in June, actually last weekend, I believe it was.

So we were not able to really provide the support and assistance that we would like, but in going forward, we really uh ideally we'll be able to partner with them and uh you know provide them with additional support.

Um we were able to share with them some of the, you know, we had cotton balls and band-aids and a lot of stuff that we we need really needed to clean out of our office anyway, so they were able to use a lot of the supplies that were not expired uh for this year's initiative.

So yeah.

And it went well to the locations I was able to visit.

Oh good.

Did you volunteer?

I didn't know that.

Okay, I was at Lynch's and then I took the our supplies over to uh going forward.

Yeah, so I did volunteer as well.

Uh I was dropping off chairs and tables at all locations and equipment.

So awesome.

So yes, uh we uh it was a successful event, I believe, with all five barbershops actively being available at least, and so yeah, I had a conflict that Saturday, so I really had not uh received the debrief.

Oh god, and uh some of our commissioners from the social status was involved too, so volunteered.

So it's really good.

Um Our Times newspaper did a segment on the uh the man's barbershop initiative that was changed, so but uh they did do a segment that's available on YouTube, so just wonder if the were these the themes that you were looking us to look at.

Yes, we are just you know thinking of possible themes for um for the event and just wanted to get your feedback, you know.

You know, staff has uh you know given some thought to it and just wanted to include you in that, so feel free to uh mark it up and give it back to us before we leave today for those that are virtual.

We can email it out to you as well.

You can give us your input.

Are you open to uh discussion on community issues?

I do know that uh well while we were speaking about gun violence.

I know that the Evansville Death Bow is going on this week that helps support initiatives like promoting gun violence awareness and knowing that it exists and also how to prevent it.

So if you are able to go by the Evansville Deathville this week and support the initiative, that'd be greatly appreciated.

Um, the Evansville police department has partnered with the Evansville Dust Bowl for years, um, even switching organizers.

They have been gracious graciously um supportive in all of the initiatives in the Evansville Dust Bowl event.

Um there are some health initiatives that are out supporting the event as well.

Um Arlinda Payne and uh her team are out there, so just several different community partners that are still out there enjoying the event, but also supporting several different parts of the event.

So if you all want to go participate, it's always that's a community event that's out that's helping to keep down some of the problems that we're having in this city.

So the first three days or two days have been great.

It's been great.

Um I know that I I was able to talk to one of the um sergeants that are out there for the event, and I I don't believe there has been any um reports of any violence there at this moment in time.

Midnight basketball is that uh good event.

Well I will speak for them, but I uh I was there with uh the midnight basketball event that was hosted by the city of Evansville and the mayor's office along with SEMA Strong.

Um and uh who else was oh, Evansville Police Department partners there uh with the event in YMCA, not the leave out any partners, but that event was very successful.

Um there was over 200 students uh as the mayor has posted uh publicly on their social media page, and uh I just know that uh with me being able to capture some moments with uh the former community outreach director of the mayor's office, uh Raya uh what's our last name?

Uh Larry, I believe.

Okay, great event uh and it helped actually bring some of the middle school and high school students out that actually uh kept them from being in places that they should not be and kept them productively actively doing something at that time of uh of the evening.

So uh there was a lot of food, fun, and uh fellowship at the event, which helped bring community engagement, community involvement, and also there were community resources there for families to have um leaving the event.

So I believe uh that's even being still talked uh discussed about uh across the city and uh just uh seeing how we can keep events going throughout the summer to help prevent any gun violence situations or any dramatic uh situations that would lead into fighting or gun violence.

That's a good question.

I'll tell you that we're working with the African American Museum and Lena Burton is holding uh a meeting on June 26th.

Uh, and I'll actually pull up that meeting information right now.

Um I'm actually working with the African American Museum and partners with them, uh Lincoln Clark Douglas reunion.

And uh it looks like Lincoln School and several other partners.

I I do want to say that on the record.

There's a meeting, June 26th, uh, with the Evansville African American Museum Community Youth Group meeting uh group committee at 12 p.m.

I can send that information through email if anyone wants to participate in that meeting.

Um we are working on a calendar of events for the July July month.

Uh I have a calendar that is actually put together already for this the rest of this month that we can still participate with the the rest of the events that are happening this week.

So I will actually be working to help them create a calendar of events for July and August.

So and I know there's something in the works for Family Day.

So I think we could submit the newspaper.

Yes.

I think about that calendar, I get a lot of feedback from you from young adults.

So, well, young adults and adults in can we use the microphone so we can hear what's being said?

I thought excuse me, thought I had it on.

Um I've gotten a lot of feedback from young adults and uh even older adults, there's nothing to do.

But in Evansville, I disagree with that because I think there's a lot to do.

I, however, I do believe that there um it could be a better communication to the resources, find out where the people are looking for the information, for instance.

Um I know churches and schools and uh, but you know, our times newspapers, this source and um also, and even some of the news media outlets have community event calendars now on their websites that you all can actually take advantage of seeing some of the community events going on.

Uh I know our Times newspaper have some community, uh they have a free public community calendar.

I know 14 news have one and eyewitness news.

And the YMCA posting, you could post on their bulletin boards too when they have fires.

And the mayor's office has been um really great in providing some events that are available for families in the community.

Like um, I know they mentioned that the uh Planet Fitness has free all month uh free all summer for youth to come out and work out and things like that.

So there are some.

Thank you.

I have something to add.

Um the mayor is walking with the mayor on Sunday down at meet at the Pagoda.

Walk with the mayor.

Walk a mile with the mayor at 12.

No, from five to six.

Uh walk a mile with the mayor, Evansville Visitor Center at the Pagoda meet between at 5 o'clock.

I'm a five, I I'm a walker, so that's how it is.

This Sunday.

This Sunday, yes.

June 28th.

Perfect.

Thank both of you for that information.

Are the other remarks of the commissioners?

A motion to adjourn.

Second.

Motion is second that we adjourn the meeting.

All in favor?

Any opposed?

You all have a great weekend.

You can uh Dan has a