Amy, if you are in agreement, we'll go ahead and um open it up.

It I mean it's one minute till, but I don't want I want to make sure that we're respectful of everyone's time.

Great.

Well, I'm gonna start the roll call since we already have so many people here.

We are starting 2026.

I'm gonna call anybody that uh has been at the last four meetings since uh September 26th per our bylaw.

So um if I don't if I skip your super neighborhood, uh please put your name in the chat or let me know when we get to the end of the roll call.

Thank you.

Um super neighborhood five.

This is Ricky, I'm here.

Super neighborhood six present Letitia Super Neighborhood 14 President Marie Carlisle, President Super Neighborhood 15.

Kevin's saying he's here, he just can't get his mic to work.

Okay, super neighborhood 16.

Rick Surge Memorial Super Neighborhood representative, super neighborhood 17, Jeff Baker's president, super neighborhood 22.

Van Dewson is here for 22.

Super neighbor 24, Dak Selinski, president near town mantros.

Can you hear me?

Yes, thank you.

Super neighborhood 32, present Cheryl O'Brien, Super Neighborhood 36, Naomi Ostfeld, Super Neighborhood 37 here, Cindy Chapman, Super Neighbor 38, Stephen Pulnashuk here, Vice President, Super Neighborhood 41, Super Neighbor 47, Super Neighbor 48, Super Neighbor 49.

Vicky Moyle, President Present.

49 and 50.

Kathy, I just saw in the chat.

Uh I I got you on Super Neighbor 28.

All right.

49 and 50 present.

Thank you, uh, Vicki.

Uh Super Neighbor 52.

Pete Downey, President.

Super Neighborhood uh 55.

Super Neighborhood 57.

Super Neighborhood 63.

Ricky's near president with super neighborhood 63.

Thank you, Ricky.

Super neighborhood 64.

Lindsay Williams is here.

Super neighborhood 65.

Super neighborhood 66.

Super neighborhood 67.

Super neighborhoods president.

Oh, thank you, Ken.

Super neighborhood 68.

Uh Tamara Alexander for Super Neighborhood 68.

Okay, super neighborhood 82.

Super neighborhood 83.

Super neighborhood 88.

Uh, Lindsay, I've got you.

And I recognize Super Neighborhood 45 is here.

We have yet to be informed about your status as active or inactive, but I will mark you present.

Okay.

Any other super neighborhoods that I missed going through roll call?

Really quick.

Um super neighborhood 45 is active.

Great.

Thank you.

We will update our records.

Thank you.

Super neighborhood 47.

Thank you, 47 present.

Gotcha.

Anyone else?

All right.

Thank you so much.

I'll also check the chat as we go forward with the meeting.

If you uh show up late.

Thank you.

Thank you so very much, Amy.

Thank you for that.

All right, and moving right along into our agenda.

Um we have a special guest, actually, two special guests today.

Um, Young Society of Houston.

Are you guys on the call?

Do we have a representative from Young Society of Houston?

One more call, Young Society of Houston.

Okay, if they happen to join later, um what that discussion was.

Um, as many of you all know, the parade has been combined, and there is one parade.

Um, it's the MLK Unity Parade.

And this is the flyer for that.

They're asking that all super neighborhood presidents or super neighborhoods participate in the parade.

Can everyone see my screen?

Yes.

Yes, perfect.

Yeah.

Okay, let me ask one more time.

Do we have a representative from Young Society of Houston?

Okay, so I will go ahead and stop sharing.

I will come back um to this just in case they come into the meeting.

But in the meantime, I'll go ahead and drop it in the chat.

It's going to be the link to participate.

And hopefully, we will have someone present.

Let's go ahead and move on in accordance with our agenda.

We're going to hear from Solidways.

Director, are you there?

Hello, hello, hello, everyone.

Hello.

Thank you guys for having me.

Thank you guys for having me.

Um just a couple of quick updates.

Um, again, thank you for the invite.

Um I've been here a short seven seven months, almost running my eighth month, and it has been a wonderful ride so far.

Very challenging.

Uh, and our new role as director of solid waste in the great city of Houston that we live in.

Um I'm so proud of our team.

We've came a long way from uh coming in.

And uh I remember coming to speak to Super Neighborhood 22, I believe it was, about the uh what I call the Christmas tree of green cans that were aligned in our city.

Um, and for believe it or not, for about six months, we did everything we could to uh basically uh service our citizens to the level that city council and also Mayor Whitmar challenged us to do from the day we walked in.

Um I can successfully say that we're at uh 98% completion rate on trash and about a 89% to 90% success rate on recycling with recycling being about a half a day to a day, depends on what side of the city.

Um City Council Mayor Whitmar uh got us those new 50 trucks.

I haven't received all 50 of them yet, and I'm anticipating about 12 more, and hopefully we can get to that mark of on-time collection.

Um that that that's that's a daily thing that we're striving for.

So we're gonna go ahead and jump right into the big every the elephant in the room, which is this heavy trash ordeal that I've taken on.

Um it is probably one of the biggest challenges that I've ever faced.

Um simply because um it's been a program that's been in place for about 15 plus years.

It's been the same way.

Um I completely disagree with how it's set up as far as how we track it.

So let me give everybody some insight.

We are approximately like three weeks to in some areas two months behind on heavy trash pickup.

Simply because I don't think it has been uh pushed out to the public that I only have 21 crews that I can deploy on a daily basis in a city our size.

Um that that's not an excuse because we we can operate much more efficient than we have been in the past.

Uh the mayor has called me directly and told me to fix the problem, and that's what I was brought in to do.

So um I'm I'm pleased to announce you'd be the first people to hear uh my new plan.

I've been working on it for the past month and a half, but we have finally found a work order system with which it is.

Um it is it's gonna be an on-demand program.

And uh what on-demand program is gonna be what we're doing now is going behind the scenes, educating all of our people internally, and we'll come out with a a major media blast on how it how it'll work.

Um one thing we have to do is we're going in some neighborhoods, uh, and it's taking us a lot longer to complete neighborhoods simply because it's not a lot of enforcement, and it is a lot of commercial trash that we're picking up.

Um eight cubic yards is very, very important uh for our residents to know that once we get there, what we're actually staffed for is to pick up eight cubic yards of residential trash.

In a lot of areas, it's commercial.

Um trash that we're picking up, and it's taking us a lot longer to collect.

So, what we're gonna do is implement a system in which the accountability piece can fall on us first and foremost, and also hold those residents that are abusing the system.

Um, to kind of give them uh some insight that we're we're trying to do everything right, the right way, but we need the help of the residents as well.

And we're also advocating for those individuals to use our depositories, uh six depositories throughout the city that could help out with eliminate some of the trash because we have to work together in this situation.

This is uh something that the mayor has inherited.

Some city council has inherited something I inherited.

So we're doing our very best to uh mitigate the problem of this heavy trash situation.

So, how the heavy trash program will work.

Um a resident will call in and you will get a live representative, not just from 311.

We've hired staff over the past month and a half that will call and set up an appointment with you so that you won't have heavy trash sitting in front of your home for about three months.

Uh it's very similar to the program that I ran about eight years ago with the mayor turner pothole initiative.

Uh, and also um Mayor Parker's uh skin patch in which we repaired over 4,000 skin patches, which were a road repairs within the first six months, and it actually gives us an accountability piece to see to hold our drivers and our workers accountable, but also get a realistic date for residents to not leave their trash in front of their homes, especially during holidays, birthdays, family gatherings when you need the trash actually picked up.

We can actually monitor now.

Right now, I'm operating in the in the dark basically because we're using maps that have not been updated.

Um, there's no way for me to track it.

We just don't have anything internally to hold ourselves accountable as well.

So we're gonna kick off um this program, hopefully, um in about three to four weeks to see what we can do.

Is there gonna be challenges?

Absolutely.

Um but I'm very confident in what we put in play and experience that we've had with dealing with the entire city, and uh from operational logistics standpoint, I feel like we'll be able to be very successful.

Um, I can't say enough about the men and women that work in solid ways because I don't think that they received the credit that they deserve.

That was very difficult to do to pick up this trash and these recycling cans and a turnaround time in about five and a half to six months because that had never been done in the last 15 plus years.

So we've been working and we have a department uh with the our entire department.

We have about 328 employees.

So I think that the work that they've done for years have uh over this past six or seven months have been nothing short of phenomenal.

And uh they're working, they're working diligently to do what the mayor has challenged us to do, and that's to serve our citizens the way that they deserve to be served, and that's getting the trash up when we say we're gonna pick it up.

Uh, that's just a quick spill.

I know we have a lot of questions that want to be asked.

So I am ready to take any questions that you may have.

Good deal.

Well, the first hand that I saw uh, but I think he put it down was Jack.

So I want to be sure that we get to Jack.

Jack, are you there?

Yes, yes, I am.

And there you go.

Director, I have to thank you for getting the green and black pretty much up to date, at least in my neighborhood.

Changing to an on-demand system is gonna take an awful lot of education.

I mean, if I put out my trash and call off, and then what happens if my neighbor sees my trash out there, my heavy trash, and what does this have to do with yard waste?

And did the budget cut last year hurt in getting heavy trash picked up?

Uh, question number one, thank you very much, Mr.

Velinski, for that.

Um yard waste.

We're gonna duplicate what we're gonna do on uh heavy trash to do the same thing.

Um we're looking at probably an 18% set out rate in yard waste.

It is heavy in some areas and some areas don't participate uh a lot with the yard waste pickup.

The the whole problem that I'm I've discovered since I I've been uh in my position is that without any solid data, we don't I I don't know where the heavy trash is, what a yard waste is I I have no idea.

So we're basically sending drivers out to ride a route and hope that some areas pick up trash from accountability piece on our side.

I'm not saying every employee is a model employee, and every citizen is not a model citizen.

So it's uh accountability piece.

I have to know where it is.

I agree with you, it's gonna take some uh educational piece.

Uh, but once it gets out, it seems this is a very seamless process.

Um to be able to schedule an appointment and also it will give you that that that sense uh of knowing when we will be there.

Uh right now, you know, the website says it's delayed.

And the reason why it was delayed because when I first got there, no one instructed me uh or told me that we had one month of tree waste month, and the other month was heavy was bulk waste month.

So I had a leader.

What?

Who um yeah.

Oh, I thought that someone was talking to me.

Um the the heavy the bulk waste month and tree waste month.

Well, we got behind in bulkways, and it was at the end of the month, and it rolled into the tree waste month.

We rolled right by your home because you didn't have tree waste out instead of grabbing the book waste since we were there, we just passed it up.

So it's just a lot about the um the way that we're gonna operate moving forward, it'll it'll make more sense as far as routing and accountability for for everyone.

I see you had another question, Mr.

Velinski about MLK.

I seen that come across.

I'm trying to take up trash on Monday.

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir.

We we can't afford uh to take off right now, so we're gonna keep it pushing forward.

Um my staff, I did come to them and ask them would they be so kind to give up a holiday?

Um so that we can try to keep to get the trash up, and they it was it was no hesitation.

So that speaks volumes of the men and women that that work in our department that they're willing to give up a uh holiday to come in and do a job.

And I there's that was not right.

This is so they they they volunteered for it, so that that speaks a lot.

Yeah, thank you.

The next question that we have is gonna be from Cheryl.

Actually, Kathleen uh was ahead of me.

Well, oh, I'm sorry, Kathleen Kathleen.

I am so sorry.

No worries.

I don't I don't want to jump you, Kathleen.

I'm being sorry.

I'm wondering if there is a summary of this change.

So I sorry, I was a little bit late, so I missed your uh summary.

Is uh we're going to the for heavy trash, people need to call in to come pick it up.

And we're gonna just like a one a flyer that you can send to us that we can educate people with because I agree with Jack that it this is a this is a big change.

It sounds like a good change, but um it I'm a little confused about how it works.

Oh, yeah, we're gonna definitely give instructions out.

It it it will go out to uh all council members.

They're gonna send out to all super neighborhoods.

We're gonna send out all literature, and it's like maybe a month and a month and a half away before we kick it off.

So it'll be plenty enough time for everybody to have the questions, whatever they need to ask.

We'll be able to educate anybody who calls in.

And it won't just be the 311.

It'll be you'll actually get a chance for the first time to call our department and speak to a live agent to if you had any questions.

So yes, ma'am, we will get the educational pieces out to everyone.

So when is it to be implemented?

I'm implementing it right now.

We're starting, we're gonna do uh a pilot program in the beginning of about the second week of February, so about a month away.

Okay, thank you.

Sure, I'll go for it here.

Okay, okay.

Um, I I also was wondering how we were gonna get this information out.

But uh director, I was concerned about how we're going to handle the trash, but the heavy waste, the dumping of solid waste, uh tree waste, junk waste in that has gone into the medians along the bayous.

Um that's not in front of somebody's house.

Um, how is that going to be collected?

Do we need to call that in?

Or is the are our crease driving around former routes and seeing what's already out there that's been people have gotten frustrated and they've moved it into medians.

Yes, ma'am.

So what's been happening is we had a I had a call with a constituent on last Thursday.

Um she called me and was witnessing illegal dumping.

There's no way possible that we can have eyes on every part of the city.

So again, it's like a joint effort.

She called me and I was like, ma'am, if you're on the phone with me, that call should have went to HPD.

You're watching illegal dumping.

I gotta pick it up.

But if you're watching it, grab a license plate, grab your phone to see if you can capture it because those people need to be prosecuted.

Yes, do we ride around and look for it?

Yes, but again, we have a total of 300 people in our department.

70% of those people are picking up your green cans and black cans.

So my resources are very limited as far as monitoring what's going on.

I understand, and I I don't have a problem with anything you just said.

And but this is not I'm not witnessing people doing this.

I know that there are people who've gotten so frustrated and had so many months worth of stuff stacked up in their yards that one day you drive by, it's gone, but suddenly stuff is in the median.

But I didn't see them put it in the median.

I conclude they put it in the median.

How do we get it out of the median?

Yes, ma'am.

Well, that that that's a the only thing that we have to do there, ma'am, is after call 311, and we have to schedule to come and pick it up.

Okay.

Um we just have to do the cleanup of when that when that happens, and and again, we want all residents.

What what the mayor has challenged me with is for one, we gotta pick it up.

Two, we got to do an educational piece of um what we can do because we're gonna go to four times curbside pickup, and the other two we're asking residents to take it to the depositories.

So when you call and make an appointment, you let us know if it's bulk waste or tree waste, so that we know what type of vehicles, what type of crew to send to collect what you have because we're doing a bunch of redundant work because we don't even know what's out there.

I might have a crew that is prepared to pick up a bunch of trees, and it's a it's a big pile of book and heavy trash, and it's like now I gotta switch crews to go out there.

So it's it's just a way that we can operate more efficiently, and we could cover more ground that way if we know what we were going and what we're looking at, and then also we can let that customer know, like, hey, you it you got you don't put out three piles in a month and a half because we got a lot of people that as soon as we pick it up, it's right back down the next week.

And I'm like, how many times can you remodel your home?

Or how many times can you you clean it out?

You know, I'm I think it's I I gotta run in joke uh with a council member.

I'm like, I went to we we've gone to this certain resident three times in the last two months, and it's like the home is like 1800 square feet, and every time we go there, it's like five toilets, three bathtubs, sheet rock pile to like eight feet in the air, and I'm like that that couldn't have come out of your home.

So we have to do an inspection.

Because I'm I'm I'm 99% sure we're picking up someone who's a carpenter or as a construction company that's dumping in front of their home and they're just like, oh, the city didn't come.

But we don't have a way of tracking it right now.

So we're hoping with this enforcement, this gives us the opportunity to go to people who are doing it right.

Like in your neighborhoods, because we're we're spending a lot of time in certain neighborhoods picking up a lot of commercial trash that they don't want to pay to go to the landfill.

Right.

And we're missing out on good residents that are just trying to get their stuff picked up before a holiday, after a remodel, after renters leave the right way.

And that's what we're trying to do.

That's what we're trying to do.

Okay, that's a great question.

Pretty easy.

Absolutely.

Um, Lindsay.

Hi, Lindsay.

You're on mute.

Okay, so I do have a couple of questions.

So we have a system in our in our neighborhood where we actually would go riding around collecting 311 requests, and we could easily grab 40-50 requests in one ride around.

And sometimes those requests would sit for three, four weeks easily.

Um, and I guess I'm just trying to figure out is that gonna be the estimated time frame for when these would be uh addressed.

That's a good question.

That is a great question.

No ma'am.

Um I've been the only person in the history of the city that had one day to do something.

Uh I kind of think that's how I got this job.

Uh so we had a day to fill a pothole, but um we're gonna work the the time frame that I have in my head that I'm shooting for is a three-day window from the time you make your appointment.

I I hope to get it today.

That's very bold, but I also made that bold statement we're getting these green cans up without any new equipment.

You know, sometimes you shoot for the moon if you land on the stars, but one thing we want to do is not keep your trash out there for a week.

Sure.

So we're gonna give you a realistic time.

Because we we've had um, because we do have instances where people just perpetually have garbage um for four and five months.

So that's part of the reason why.

My next question is do you have your communication plan ready?

Because it kind of comes back to what Jack was saying.

Our neighbor across the street, I don't know how many trees they can possibly take down, and I don't know how many more toilets they can possibly bring out.

Um they just constantly have stuff out there, and I don't I don't fully understand it, but it's just always out there.

So I'm just curious about your communication plan.

Yes, ma'am, we have a communication plan with the mayor's office and also my communications team that we're gonna let every resident know.

We're gonna go live on the news, every social media outlet, pamphlet, flyers, all of this is gonna go out, and we're gonna do an educational piece in which if a resident has when we call, when they call to make an appointment, they actually have to get a call back from from one of our internal uh customer service reps, and each resident that calls makes an appointment, but get the full speech of hey, this is your first scheduled appointment.

You have three more that we can come by and pick up because that's exactly what we're facing.

Is that as soon as we pick it up, I'm like, goodness, it's like every other week somebody has a bulk of heavy trash in front of their homes.

Okay, so like so it's not like I can just go down the street and report my entire street, like people have to redo their own.

Yes, ma'am.

Yes, ma'am.

Okay, so then so then that comes back to something Cheryl was talking about.

I have a lot of empty lots with just a bunch of garbage on it.

So do I just report it 311?

Yes, you have to if if you say you have a a lot of empty lots.

There's a lot of empty lots, which is garbage all over them.

And they're not in it, they're not registered anymore.

I mean, I'm sure they are, but the register, I mean, the owners are not calling it in.

Oh, okay.

So what happens is when you report that, we have a team that would investigate that the owner of that property, because a lot of people call in like, hey, I have my my yard is clean.

This is drop driving down my property value.

They're not doing anything with the lot.

It's illegal dumping going on there because we have to get in contact with that owner because we can't go on their lot because that's private property.

So if they didn't report it, so we have to do our due diligence and going through the department of neighborhoods and get in contact with the owner.

Um, so that they they can know, and they have the same, just because they don't live here, they got the same rules.

And after that, it'll be an enforcement on fees and other things like that will be associated with uh over the four-time pickup limit.

Okay, and then my last question we had a situation where uh we were trying to get some pickup before a major home tour event in Eastwood, uh, which didn't happen.

So residents uh took it upon themselves to rent a U-Haul truck to pick up as much as they could and take it to a neighborhood depository.

Um they were sent away multiple times, um, sent across town twice, and then were charged $600 in order to deposit the trash, even though they were residents and just depositing trash.

Um I don't know what the rules are about that, but this was just residents trying to do the right thing and trying to pick up for our neighborhood event.

Um I I don't know if you have any recommendations on that, but that was just a very people don't want to take it to the depositories now.

Um let me first and foremost apologize for what happened.

Uh I was not I've that's the first I've heard of it.

Do you do you know when this happened?

I have this happened in the middle of almost the last week of October.

I have shared this with my council member.

I have shared this with numerous people.

They were charged, I think they were charged $80 a mattress.

It was like an outrageous situation.

Who did they they pay someone they paid somebody at our depository?

Yeah, they were sent to multiple depositories and turned away.

Okay.

And they said this is not like this isn't a con.

Yeah, I can I can find out the details and send it to you.

I don't know what I need to do, but that was just what happened.

Yes, ma'am.

I need I need that information.

If you could that that absolutely does not happen.

So if you can find any information where they went to, any information would be greatly appreciated.

Cool.

We'll do thank you.

Thank you very much, ma'am.

Thank you, Lindsay.

That did that answer.

Yep, she went out.

Okay, Mike.

Uh, yes.

Um, on your can exchange uh program.

Um I'm required about that.

Um, and was when I on your website it says I think to uh call 311 and get a number assigned and then take that number along with uh you know some information about me being a resident to one of the exchange centers.

And so uh I happen to mention to 311 that I wanted to exchange a green can.

And she said, we're not doing that yet.

So do you have that in the future?

Yes, sir.

Yes, sir, we do.

What happened?

Um I I can't win the lottery, but it's a lot of things that happens to me, Mr.

Mike, that I I can even I can't believe.

Um three months ago, um they placed an order uh for 4,000 green cans to come in.

Uh beautiful soul gave 37 years to the city of Houston.

She was in charge of our uh ordering of pretty much all of our material and solid waste, and she retired at the end of October.

So she said, Director, I placed an order for green cans.

The truck comes in, Mr.

Mike, beautiful green cans lined up.

I was like, Hallelujah.

We got green cans.

The unfortunate thing is about the green cans, they didn't send any components to put the lids or the wheels on the green cans.

Oh you mentioned that in the SN22 meeting.

Yes, yes, yes, sir.

Uh this is the second order, Mr.

Mike.

That order what I told you in the the at the super neighborhood meeting, that was the first order.

I was like, that you know, that can't happen twice.

And sure enough, they delivered all these cans, and we were like, where are the components to putting them together?

And the guy said, You didn't order them.

I was like, you know, I I know this sounds crazy.

I'm not making an excuse, but I was like, the lady who ordered them just retired.

I know she ordered them.

We come to find out we were at our threshold for the the contract had expired.

There was that last order, and to make a long story short, we're trying to get past they they accidentally charged us freight, and they weren't supposed to charge us free.

So we're disputing that they charge us freight to take off the freight and give us those pieces because that it would be a perfect, it's the amount that we need to get those pieces.

So that's the reason why I couldn't give uh green cans out.

I do we found a few pieces.

We got about a hundred and twelve green cans.

So Mr.

Mike, I can get you a green can now, but that that's what happened about a month ago.

Um I have several cans with no nothing to put them together with, but we're gonna get them because we just got a new contract put in place, so we should be fine in the next two weeks with a totally different vendor.

But that's a true story.

I I would I would suggest that when you're ready to do that to update your South Waste website and make sure that people can exchange both types of carts.

That would be really helpful.

Thank you very much.

Yes, sir.

Thank you, sir.

All right, uh, Tamra.

Okay, hello.

So some of my questions have been answered, but uh I wanted to know you mentioned about the pilot program.

Do you know which community uh this pilot program will begin?

Yes, ma'am.

That that's a great question.

This is the first time you guys have heard it, nobody else has heard that.

I was gonna pilot in two council districts, but what I don't want to happen is is that people feel like I picked two council districts.

I actually had a lady that I had no idea, I've never met and in my life, and uh she her her black can was somehow not picked up.

Um she said I didn't I I don't like her because where she lives, and I and I don't know this lady for nothing.

I said I I love God and God loves everybody.

That's just my philosophy.

I was like, ma'am, we we didn't miss your can on purpose.

So to answer your question, I've had to tackle the recycling challenges and the trash challenges head on.

So I'm gonna take this challenge head on and we're gonna go citywide.

Uh okay, so you're going citywide.

We're gonna go citywide.

Okay, all right.

Um, and then you mentioned something about four you guys picking up from one address four times.

Is it four times a month?

No, ma'am, four times a year.

Okay, that's okay, four times a year.

Okay.

Yes, ma'am.

All right.

Vicky.

Thank you, Terry.

Thank you, Ms.

Tamron.

Good evening, director.

Thank thank you for coming.

Good evening, Ms.

All right, good evening.

I'll applaud your initiative and I I'm hopeful.

Uh I'm in the East Eastern Sandigas area, and we have been fortunate enough that on our esplanates on North Westide, we have done a diligent effort to not have people place trash in those esplanates.

Because if we one of our block captains sees something, we take care of it so people won't get the notion it's tolerable.

That said, we would definitely reach out to you if there's an uptick or a change in behavior when we switch to this new program, because that is not an issue for us at this time.

My question is we are land rich.

We have a lot of empty lots, we have a lot of uh areas where I can foresee someone being compliant and calling in their on-demand trash pickup, and you guys come out and someone takes advantage of that and put things on top of it, or everything.

I just want to know what mechanism do you have in place to anticipate when someone is abusive to trash because we're running behind still for trash that people put on top of others' trash because it's out there.

Yes, ma'am.

So what we would do is I know a question is how do you measure like eight cubic yards of what we're what we're doing?

So what we're gonna do is it's almost uh the mechanism is it's like the first time that we come out.

Well, we've we're we're gonna do that we've never done before is we're we take pictures and we have an inspector to come out and look and see.

It's almost like we are policing the piles and things like that.

Um we do have inspectors.

We also have brothers and sisters in other departments that are gonna help us when this initiative kick off to get us information back, and we're gonna simply rely on the residents um to assist us in cleaning up our city.

I think everybody has had the same um frustrations.

We all want our neighborhoods to be clean, free of trash, free of debris, and that we are asking our residents to assist us and helping us be successful in this new initiative that the mayor has challenged us to do.

So we are we're gonna have inspectors to go out on our end, but it is no doubt that we're gonna need the help of the residents and the community leaders uh like you all to assist us with monitoring and um giving us input on you know what what you are actually saying because you are the ones that are leaders of your community.

Just like in my community, like the young lady stated, I know a person that for the life of me, I have no idea what keeps coming out of their home every two weeks.

I don't understand why it's something always outside, and that's one of the things that needs to be brought to our attention so that we can have that when they call in and schedule an appointment, we can have those discussions about hey, we notice that your pile is piling up.

I think someone is adding trash on top of it and see if you can uh help us police that because we're gonna definitely need all the help that we can get and and uh and solving this problem.

Well, thank you, Director.

And I just have one more ask uh it's not a question.

Uh I'm just asking if you can get on board with the collaboration.

We have uh uh littering is a social problem, and literally is is a gateway to illegal dumping.

So I would like to see you all at some point turn your attention to the fact that littering is still on the books, it's a $500 fine, first time offense.

And if you all could ask the mayor to employ the police department to start enforcing that that is already, because even with the esplanades being mowed, they have to come out a day before just to delitter the esplanades before they come and mow.

So if we do your campaign, a media breath blast, that would be a good time, unless you think it's confusing, that we can just take care of all of this because we deserve a clean city.

It's a health-related issue as well, and we can tell people to stop littering.

It happened in the 70s and the 80s, and people were taking it, and this was not a problem.

Thank you for my time.

I yield back.

Thank you, Vicky.

Okay, next we have Sherry, and after Sherry, we'll have Ricky and Vinki.

Hey everybody, um, thank you so much for being here.

Um from you're amazing, and thank you for trying to tackle this big problem.

I I just want to remind everybody that that partnerships are key.

And you know, me being a board member with the management districts, please contact your management districts if you ever see a mattress or limbs and an esplanade, please contact them.

They can have them picked up really quickly in your community.

So please start looking to see where your management districts are and make sure because it's while this new program is taking effect, and while this lovely gentleman is working his tail off to get us into a great place, we have to have these partnerships working.

So please contact your management districts to help.

Um, because Southwest Management District, International, East End, Brace Oaks, Five Corners.

I mean, they're everywhere.

There's 86 management districts in this city.

Find yours and see if you know, and sometimes they have a link on their webpage, you know, to pick up uh, you know, if you pin the location that there's a mattress in the middle of an esplanade, they can go out there that same day and pick it up.

So just empower yourself, you know, to kind of help as these new transitions are taking place.

I'm just begging you because if it stays out there, people are gonna keep dumping on top of it over and over and over until it's a massive mess, and then it never gets picked up uh or it just gets worse.

So I I applaud the great work that's going on with with the city.

Thank you so much for taking your time to do to work on this.

But we also have to empower ourselves and get out there and know what we what our capabilities are and what we can use.

Okay, so that's that's my PSA for now.

Okay.

Thank you so much.

Ricky.

Thank you.

Yes, uh, when you said four times, is that like four total for the year?

So, or is it like four trash or for yard waste?

Uh no, four four times a year.

Uh it's at the discretion of the resident, how they want to use it.

Okay.

And so can you have both at the same time, just have it at different uh like just different piles, just say you have both, or is it you can only do one?

We we prefer if you could do one, um, at least try to space it out at least uh a two-week time frame.

Uh we can't do two.

Again, I wish I had the amount of cruise that I could do that, but I only have 20 crews for the entire city, and I don't want to overload the system.

So yeah, so we would like just one, it seems like it's it may be best to have like neighbors kind of like uh, you know, like you get your neighbors and say, guess what?

Anybody got some heavy trash or I want to make an order or you know, put up a request, and everyone just puts our trash out on that one address, right?

That would probably be eight cubic feet though.

I mean, but but those people when they have their heavy trash, when we have our heavy trash, because I live in a cul-de-sac, when we start putting out, you know, we make one big pile and so maybe someone has a dishwasher, or maybe someone has some.

It's not like it's not like some of this other stuff you guys are talking about, like five toilets, and every time it's always five toilets or whatever, it's not none of the stuff like that.

It's always like onesie Tuesday type of stuff.

The people just do.

So, Mr.

Ricky, one thing that we want to do is we kind of want to capture it from a data standpoint.

Um, that helps out with budget, that helps out with so much.

So if we uh if everybody did it alone, because we're we're building a new database and profiling it for everyone that calls in, we can get to know, and we we're creating heat maps on who calls in at certain times of year to see if it's a pattern.

So we prefer that everyone call in individually so that we can get that data, especially while we kick off this new uh program.

It what you're saying makes 100% complete sense, but for for us to get it started, this is the data that I need to build a program and to build on uh the future programs that we're looking to implement as well.

Perfect.

Thank you, Keith and then Harold.

Thanks, Ricky.

Director director, thank you for joining us in this meeting.

Um concern I've always had uh couple of concerns.

Uh, one is the size.

I don't I have yet to put out my trash for the tape measure.

Okay.

That being said, um the uh and I understand eight cubic yards.

Now that four page brochure pamphlet that came out from Solid Waste in the past.

What I I every time once I found out about it, I promoted the heck out of it.

Okay.

Come to find out, many departments did not know it existed.

Okay, many residents didn't know it existed.

Trash facts is what it was called, if you know, uh, since you're there.

Um and the fact is that I've always been concerned that the city has never told people the do's and don'ts of putting out their their trash.

And so that education piece is vital.

Now, uh I'm the supernatural president for Cash McGarden.

So I have witnessed a guy in the middle of the day putting out illegal dumping in the median, and I asked him, I said, Why are you putting this there?

That's not right.

Oh, yes, it is.

They told they told me to put it.

I said, Who are they?

The city.

I said, No, they did not.

Uh, but I didn't want to go back and forth with him because I'm I care about my life.

But the fact is that uh, you know, it's the education piece is gonna be crucial, uh, letting people know, but there's also is it possible that when I know you the city thing of don't make work for your co-workers, but when people that work for the city see piles of illegal dumping, can they also do a 311 request?

Yes, sir.

Yes, yes, sir, yes, sir, they can because we all pass things on our way to whatever, and I think that more hands on deck.

Uh also last question.

Uh, with the hot teams of different districts, uh, council districts.

Are you teaming up with those hot teams to help you pick up some of this heavy duty trash?

And um, you're smiling, you're smiling.

What's up?

So the the hot teams, uh, each council district has a hot team, and I actually it it's it's a weird dynamic.

One thing, like I told other super neighborhood 22.

Um I'm sorry if I misquoted the number of the super neighborhood I spoke to.

I I'm very honest and transparent.

Uh the hot team ordeal and the way that it's set up, I don't understand.

Uh they pay for them, they run them out of my service center, but we have no jurisdiction over them.

So one thing that I say to them, like they show up at our service center because I did.

I I actually go to my service centers, and um, yeah, I'm there at six in the morning because I want to see what we can do, how we can better, how we can be more efficient.

You know, it was a group of gentlemen sitting at a table, and I'm like, okay, what are they doing?

They were like, my supervisor just told me uh they're part of the hot team.

So, yes, we have hot teams, but we don't give them instructions, but they are at our service center.

So each hot team is paid through the council district service fund, and they get their instructions from whoever runs that particular council district.

So, whatever they do, they don't get instructions for me.

They get instructions from their council district.

So we do work hand in hand together.

The last thing I want to bring to your attention, I don't mean to take up a lot of time.

I was on a task force for Al Rosen for illegal dumping.

And um this was about four or five years ago.

And he used uh grassroots leaders uh and some ministers to form a task force to help uh with illegal dumping, and he put out cameras as well, and he also went around finding those that he was able to catch.

Are you thinking about teaming up with uh some of the council's offices?

Yes, uh it's it's one all of the council districts are great.

Uh Mayor Pro Tem Cassex Tatum Council District is very, very, very active.

I speak with them like on a daily basis, and also other council districts.

I mean, all of council members are great.

I'm just thinking of one that I had real interaction with with over the last month.

One thing that we're we're we're doing is everybody's on board with trying to clean up our city.

I even came up with ideas like those cameras that you put out there.

What happens is if those illegal dumpers see a flashing light, anything that could show them being recorded, they leave.

And I was talking to my team about, I was like, yo, what if we get some some like dummy flashing lights somewhere and put up in areas and we can just move them around?

Um so um we can scare people away.

Right from the road partner, Al Rosen had funding for cameras, and also he has a monitoring system at his office that he's able to monitor quite a few of these cameras that have been mounted wherever.

Yes, so gotcha.

Thank you, Key.

Thank you.

So our last two, we have Harold and then Paletta.

Hi, Mr.

Harrell.

All right, thank you.

Uh, first of all, I I want to thank you uh for taking on this job because it's critical to the citizens of Houston, because we need our trash to be carried away.

Uh the first question I want to ask is you were talking about a limit of four times a year.

I think I am certain almost that you must be talking about large trash like couches and that kind of stuff.

You were not talking about yard trash.

Is that true?

No, no, sir, just heavy, just heavy.

Very good.

Okay, that makes sense.

I was worried that you were talking about yard trash uh four times a year as well.

Uh no, no, no.

Okay, okay.

So what I want to confirm, just so that everybody is clear, is that you're still going to keep the uh the ongoing system where you're picking up garbage every week and recycling every other week.

Is that true?

Yes, yes, sir.

Yes, okay.

Correct.

I didn't hear you say that, and so I just wanted to be sure.

Okay, so um I it will be you'll be all the citizens will be very thankful that you'll if you can get to picking up the the yard trash.

So so on yard trash, please clarify your your plan for yard trash.

Are they is that do we have to call three one for yard trash?

No, sir, not yet.

Um we just implemented a work order system within our department, and we're still going through the kinks.

That's what we've been working on the last month and a half, and which it is only designed for heavy trash on demand.

Okay now, my future plans are like I stated earlier, Mr.

Harold, I want to have a work order system in which residents call in a ticket for yard waste.

What we have going on right now is I have drivers riding maps in areas because the placement rate is so low when it comes to yard waste in a city this size.

I spend more time riding than we do picking up yard ways.

So I need to know where it is.

So, yes, you will put in the ticket for yard waste, and we will have to come and pick it up.

Okay, so um, but that so you're talking about starting this new plan, I believe, mid-February.

Does that sound true?

And yes, sir, that's for heavy trash and tree waste.

Okay, so not yard trash.

So the yard trash, uh the yard trash is the one that's the most mysterious right now.

We never know when it's coming.

So we've gone to honestly, we've gone putting our yard yard trash in our garbage can because there's no other way to get it picked up.

Uh but uh and so what is the um expectation for uh yard waste?

Uh do we just uh uh put it on the curb or and and wait, or what is the best advice you have on um the best advice uh oh I know you did say you didn't say that you would be we have to file 311 for the yard trash, is that true?

Yes, sir.

That that helps me out the most right now.

Okay, it's a call in and tell them you have 311 if you have yard waste because currently the system that they're that we are on is the system that's always been in play, which is probably three to four months behind because when I got there, they told me they had suspended it before I got there, they suspended yard waste for whatever reason.

So now we're back on it uh as of two weeks ago in some areas.

We're picking up on Wednesdays and Saturdays, but they're riding the maps.

Okay, so I believe I I agree with you that would waste a lot of time if they had to ride the whole city to look for yard uh waste.

Uh and if you want us to do 311, that would be great.

I'm thinking I'm just making this up, but it seems like a instead of a phone call, and then what I think you said if you'd make a phone call, they got they're gonna call back and confirm it.

But it just seems like a text might might be shorter or simpler or something simpler than a two phone calls.

I'm a little worried about that, but I'm perfectly supportive of whatever your system is.

We want to make it help, we want it to work as effectively as possible.

So we want to be with you.

Uh, if you'll if you can just clarify and don't do it right now, but it's as it starts to roll out.

We're we're we're happy to take the information you give us and share it.

Thank you.

Yes, sir.

Thank you.

Okay, Pauletta.

Oh can you hear me?

I'm sorry.

Yes, ma'am.

First of all, I I want to thank the alliance for having Mr.

Hassim.

I hope I'm not mispronouncing your name.

I'll Hassan.

All right, to make a presentation.

Uh cutting to the chase.

Um, my super neighborhood, which is OST South Union, we meet bi-monthly.

And I know that you are super busy.

Do you have a staff of outreach personnel that can come and attend our super neighborhood meeting?

And how does one make arrangements to secure that speaker?

In other words, is there a phone number we can call?

Yes, ma'am.

Um, I can give you, I don't know if she's on the call right now.

Uh is Miss Megan Shea.

Megan.

Uh would you spell the last name?

R-I-C-H-E.

R I C H E.

Okay.

She is she is uh our coordinator of our outreach group.

Okay.

Megan, are you on the call?

Okay, so she's coordinator of the Solid Waste Management Department's outreach group.

Yes, ma'am.

And her number, sir.

Uh give me one second.

I don't have it.

Let me uh let me reach out to a team member to get it.

I can get it to you right before we get off a call.

I'm just waiting for her to update me.

Uh a give me a second.

I can give you uh an email address.

Okay.

It's uh M-E-G-A-N dot R-R-C-H-E at Houston TX.gov at Houston Houston C X.

No, Houston TX.

Oh, okay.

Houston, okay, tx.gov.

Okay.

And so we can submit our request to her to have a speaker.

Okay.

All right, thank you.

I got a phone.

Yeah, but only on the assistance office.

I do have the telephone number.

What is it?

It's 832.

832.

393.

393.

0484.

0484.

Thank you, ma'am.

Yes, ma'am.

You're welcome.

And thank you, Madam President, for having Mr.

Hesson out to speak to us.

Invaluable information.

Very grateful.

No problem.

No problem.

Thank you.

Okay, Amy, you're closing us out.

Uh director, thank you.

Thank you so much for being here.

Um, this has been amazing.

Thank you so much.

I have a question.

So for while the solid waste department said that we could put our yard waste in a normal trash can if it was labeled yard waste and y'all would pick it up.

Of course, we're not picking it up right now.

Should we continue to put it in a normal trash can labeled yard waste compliant with the city's procedures, or are y'all scrapping that whole program so we don't have to use those bags?

Yes, ma'am.

I'm looking at scrapping that whole program, Miss Amy.

Um, because we're we're just trying we're what we're trying to do is find how to do it effectively and do it right.

Uh I rolled around the scene, the green bags that everybody's using the biodegradable, and if you leave them there and it rains on them one time, and you go to pick them up, they're gonna burst everywhere.

And I and I and I told my crews we're gonna we're gonna have to go get rakes because it's our fault because they were there that you've done everything we can.

What we try to do is stay away from anything going inside those cans.

Um but I'm I'm not opposed to you.

You have to get it off the ground.

So I'm gonna say you can continue to do it until I figure it out and go and give uh uh a new direction.

Um so yes, you can continue to do it until I figure out how we're gonna do it in a better way.

Thank you so much.

Yes, ma'am.

Mr.

Harrell had a question again.

No, no, I'm sorry.

I was just trying to give you credits.

Okay.

Good deal.

All right, guys.

Thank y'all so very much.

Um thank you so very much, director, for being here.

Um this has been long time coming, so we definitely needed to give you the amount of time that you needed to be able to address all of those questions and concerns from our community leaders.

Now we know exactly what to go back and report to our community.

We actually, in acre homes, we have our meeting on Thursday.

So this is perfect timing for me.

And I'm sure many other people will have a meeting here coming soon as well.

So thank you so very much.

Thank you.

Everybody have a great night.

You do the same.

All right, moving right along as far as voters' updates, guys.

And I know I look, I know it was last-minute add to the agenda, but I'm sure no one's complaining about adding the director to the agenda.

Not at all.

That's great.

It was awesome.

Exactly.

Um, and then so now we have voters update.

The only voters' update that I am aware of is January 21st, if I'm not mistaken.

It is going to be CD 18.

Um I missing anything.

Any other voting updates?

January 20th is when the early voting starts, but I think the actual date is January 31st.

Perfect.

The 20th.

I I thought it was the 21st that it started, but thank you for that.

I could not um remember which date.

Jack.

Yes, there's gonna be a special election for district C.

That election will be on the 4th of April and probably a runoff and near town super neighborhood will asking other supernatural in the district.

We're having planning to have a um a candidate core for the runoff because there'll probably be so many candidates for the actual election.

We don't know when the runoff will be, but it will definitely be after the 4th of April.

Good deal.

Thank you so much for that, Jack.

Thank you.

All right, if nothing else, I will pass the virtual mic on over to our nominating committee chair, Cheryl.

Hello, everybody.

Um, as presented in the email notice that was sent out on December the 14th of 2025, which is 30 days prior to this meeting tonight.

We'll we're holding elections tonight for chair, vice chair, secretary of the super neighborhood alliance, and the nominations committee presents the following slate.

Uh Latitia Grant for chair and Amy Davis.

Uh Amy Den, excuse me, Amy.

Amy Den for Secretary.

As of 6 30 p.m., no additional nominations have been received by email.

Um, but the floor is now open for any additional nominees.

Uh um, Huey, I see your hand is up my hand is up on the previous thing, Cheryl.

I'm so sorry.

Uh early voting is January 21st as per as per the Harris Votes website.

Okay, I'm terribly sorry.

I just want to make sure we got that in.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Key.

Um, with the nomination, I would like to nominate Cheryl O'Brien for vice chair of the alliance for this year.

26th.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Greg.

Yes, I just have a point of information.

Uh this will be Amy's third election.

Consecutively.

Amy was originally came in as chair as secretary to fulfill the remaining term for a secretary who resigned and then was elected to a term on her own.

And so this is her second election as um for a full term as secretary.

She volunteered to fill in for the remaining months left on the prior secretary who resigned.

Yes, and and that one was an election.

So if she fulfills, huh?

Excuse me.

Right.

I said, yeah, I'm just sorry.

So this is her third.

This is her third election.

And so if she serves out her full term, then that will be more than two consecutive terms, correct?

We had a question.

Sorry, I heard somebody else started.

Apologize.

I was just clarifying that in most organizations, it's only a full term that counts.

So she served two terms with what you just wrote.

Harold, I'm sorry, but that doesn't apply to this organization, and it doesn't apply to like city council look at the president and everything else.

We have to look at our bylaws and how that works.

So that's it's it's kind of weird the way it's written, but it says no more than two consecutive terms.

That's why I was raising the issue.

And if she serves out her complete term this time, it would be more than two consecutive terms.

We sound go ahead.

It sounds like you were saying that she completed someone else's term, which means that was not a full term, and then she has served one full term already, and this would then be her second full term.

Yes, is that correct?

Yes, ma'am.

We do not disagree on the facts.

The question is what the bylaws say, what the MOU says is you can't serve more than two consecutive terms, which if she serves out her full term, that would mean it would be more than two consecutive terms.

So you're saying the word fool is missing.

That's what you're saying.

The word fool is missing.

That's that's what he's saying.

I'm not saying that.

I'm just saying it says you can't serve more than two consecutive terms.

And I could see somebody's yes serving for four years, and because secretary is a two-year term.

Rick, thank you so much for that question.

Rick has a great question.

Greg, do you have a nomination for secretary?

No, I don't.

I'm just this was a point of information.

That's why I raised it.

Thank you.

Okay.

Cheryl is nominating committee chair.

I will let you conclude.

Um I will say that we asked several people and were said that it's um ambiguous and vague, and but the people that we spoke with in the city um didn't have a problem with it.

So that's all I can say.

I you know, I don't I guess we could bring it up to the alliance members.

Do you have Naomi?

Yeah, Naomi, somebody, anybody feel free to chime in.

Naomi.

Here we go.

Okay, couldn't get my mic there.

Yeah, let's be blunt.

Um we can sit here and we can debate for the rest of the evening what the bylaws actually say.

But let's be realistic.

Is there anybody else who is even willing to think about serving as secretary?

This is a thankless time consuming job, in addition to whatever else somebody has going on.

And if we don't have anybody else, and our options are no secretary or Amy, who has done frankly an outstanding job.

Absolutely.

Uh then maybe we need to think about modifying the bylaws, but do we really want to say, sorry, Amy?

You're excluded, even though it means we won't have a secretary.

Yeah.

So that's my thought on the topic.

Thank you so much.

And I will agree with Harold.

I serve um many other organizations, including national organizations, and that statement means full terms.

And that is probably why the city did not have anything, um, any objections to it.

Um, it is, and I don't know any organization where it does not mean when they use the word consecutive where it does not mean full terms.

So Cheryl, I will allow you to conclude and um then someone can make a motion.

My hand is still up, please.

Oh, we thought it was up from the last time.

Oh, I put it down.

Okay, please go ahead.

So that we can move.

Letitia and Harold.

I understand you may have been involved in other organizations, but trust me, this is an area I practice in all the time.

So unless somebody is, I would like to know who in the city, Cheryl, actually said it wasn't a problem.

Okay, okay.

I I'm not gonna go dig through my notes right now.

I don't want to have made a motion to move forward, Cheryl.

Go ahead.

Um, Greg, you can send you can send that over in writing.

Thank you.

Um, and if Amy, if she's you know, I I I'll step up if you need to, because I tried to step up before, but I'm not trying to do that.

If you guys have a legal opinion that says she can do it, I'm just raising a point of information about it.

Understood.

Catherine, you have uh your hand raised.

Yes, can we get all can we move forward and take a vote on this?

Because I think everybody here, with the exception perhaps of Greg feels that this is a is a uh valid and righteous move.

Perfect.

None of you guys are attorneys.

I'm sorry.

You can say that all you want, but if you're not practicing law in this area, if somebody from the department and neighborhoods could you please step in and well, I don't I don't assist Cheryl.

Cher, I don't think we need that.

We're gonna move forward with your recommendation as a nominated committee chair.

I do want to recognize Kate Kathleen.

Yeah, uh move forward with uh Amy's nomination following Kathy Easterly.

Okay, Cheryl.

Okay, and then we had um uh Keith um nominating me for vice chair.

Um are there any other nominations from the floor?

Hearing none.

No, we're doing great, thank you.

Okay, um Kathleen Cat Kathleen, is your hand still up from previous?

No, sorry.

Okay, okay, put it down.

All right, um in favor, please raise your hand.

All in favor of what Cheryl, the slate of the slate of the slate that I just yeah spoke of okay.

Um I'm seeing um I'm catching the the numbers.

22 23.

Yeah, okay.

Let's see three, 2012, 23.

Okay.

Um, all right, you can lower your hands and all up all opposed.

Raise your hand.

Oh okay.

I took my hand down.

Thank you.

Yeah, Cheryl, are you opposing?

No, I'm not like I can't get my I cannot get my hand to lower.

I'm unable to lower my hand either.

I don't know what Vicky, Vicky, your hands down.

We we are down to the one hand that we all anticipated, which is grease.

Okay.

I don't know what's happening to the to our system.

And then I voted for this is Jackie.

I couldn't raise my hand.

I can't really put it down.

Y'all all froze, y'all all look very pretty, frozen, but you're now I'm back.

Um, so I'm can you hear me?

Yes, okay.

Okay, so I I my system froze as I was counting the yeses, but it appears to me that the motion has passed and the slate has been selected, has been voted in.

Thank y'all very much.

All right, we'll turn it back over to you.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Turning it back over to me as the chair again.

Um, and actually, this officially is my first elected term because prior to this point I was filling in to make sure that that's noted.

Um, okay.

Do we have any old business?

Old business.

All right, new business.

Well, you hit the big one with uh with solid waste, which had been coming up every meeting.

So we took care of that.

Thank you very much.

Yes, yeah.

You're left.

Kathleen, yeah.

Kathleen's bringing up something.

Yes.

I hesitate to bring this up at the last minute, but I want to make sure that everybody's aware of the um Herman Park potential condemnation of land.

I hope you all pay attention to that and make whatever your opinion is.

Please, please, please submit that opinion.

Um, Herman Park Conservancy has a link on their website to submit comments or you know, whatever your thoughts are, as well as Harris Health.

So I hope that people speak up on that issue.

It's it's pretty important.

Thank y'all so much for everything that you do.

You're very welcome.

Thank you.

Thank you for being here.

Any more new business?

Um, and I'm just gonna make this one last call.

Is there anyone here from the Houston Young Society?

Okay, then no problem.

Um, I posted the link in the chat.

Um, we were expecting to hear from them to determine what they were seeking our involvement for, but I have um I even sent them a tick.

So we did do our due diligence.

Guys, we are at the end of our meeting.

We've gotten a lot of information to ponder over.

So I will take a motion to adjourn.

I'll make a motion to adjourn.

And to watch the Texas game.

Exactly.

Yes, and watch the Texans.

Does anybody know?

How are they doing?

It's 3-0 Pittsburgh, but Texans have the ball.

Okay.

Thank you.

It is still here.

Am I seeing that?

Yes.

Is it really?

Yes.

It's 7 48.

Well done.

Well done.

Okay, everyone.

I will get an email out to you with those minutes.

So just stay tuned for those, and I will see you guys next month.

Bye, everybody.

Bye-bye.

Take a vote.

Well done.

Good job.

It's a it's supposed to be.

You didn't take a formal vote.

We have elections.

Yes, we did.

Oh, for the adjourning.

I know people are voting with their feet.

They're leaving.

They're leaving the meeting.

They're voting with their feet, Stephen.

So sorry.

Um, oh, okay.

All of those in favor.

Aye.

Any opposed.

No, no one opposes.

I don't know if you oppose if you're here when everyone has else has hung up.

I love it, Steven.

We needed that laughter.

Thank you.

Bye.

Bye.