We'll go ahead and start the finance and economic development subcommittee meeting.

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Agenda item C public comments.

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Agenda item D, action items.

Agenda item D1, discussion on the roles and duties and setting reoccurring meeting dates and time for the finance and economic development subcommittee.

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Active, there you go.

So then we can get discussion now.

Okay, and we're available for discussion now.

Um is is this the polls meeting this one?

Okay, council members.

I'll I'm gonna start this one off if you don't mind.

Uh obviously, this is a very new process for us.

Uh I want to thank the staff that have been uh working so diligently to be able to get to the point where we are today to have this meeting.

Uh as you know, there are other subcommittees made up by the city council members.

We do have a goal to have um all five meet before early October.

So I don't know that might be a little ambitious, but it's kind of the plan that we have.

And so um the group, the departments that are gonna be clerking, staffing and working on these all have to get training in the whole process.

And so um you're gonna see Amanda and even uh Venus here, they're not normally clerks, they don't normally staff meetings.

So they've had to go through uh the clerking training and the AB 707 training, which is normally just for clerk clerk team.

But not only that, before you get today, there's also um the formatting of the agenda, uh publishing it, all the steps that have to be gone through.

Uh essentially this is just like your council meetings with that in mind.

We can only have the meetings here in this in this one room.

Uh that's where the technology is.

Um you see Jeff in the back.

Uh we're also being televised and pushed through social media, I'm sorry, through our our uh uh internet channel, so to speak.

So again, it's just like your normal council meetings.

And having said that, you're gonna have meeting minutes like you do for your council meetings.

You have to take action on in future meetings.

So uh those things won't change.

And of course, the public participation is there both in person and virtually.

Uh one of the things that was not discussed when we created the subcommittees with the resolution is some of the responsibilities, some of the specific uh areas.

I know Jennifer has some things that she wants to bring up, and so I'll defer to her, but um one of the one of the first order of businesses that we have is really setting reoccurring times and dates.

Uh, because all five have to meet in the same room because we've got other competition for this room, and we need to arrange um interpreters and other staff.

We we do need to come up with a schedule, and it's gonna be blessed by the city council before it becomes effective.

But I know there's other things that Jennifer wants to get through, so I'll kind of curtail my remarks for the time being.

So good afternoon.