Leadership executive committee.

So if we can just kind of we have vice chair Tray Harden.

Yes, Trey Harden.

And me, Campbell West, Chair, and Heather Lefkowitz Secretary.

Thank you.

And then immediate vice or immediate chair, past chair Lee Love is not here today, correct?

Thank you.

That is correct.

Okay, then we can move on.

I want to welcome everybody.

Vivian, did we have any public comment that was sent over prior to the meeting?

At this time, we do not have any public comments.

If um we missed any or if anything came in late, I will send those over uh to the committee as soon as I can go check again.

Thank you very much.

You're welcome.

Do we have anyone here for public comment?

We have no one signed up today for public comment.

Thank you very much.

Okay, I think we'll move on because we don't have minutes to approve from the last meeting.

We approved the last executive at a commission meeting, so we're we don't have any to approve today.

Excellent.

Thank you so much.

I want to welcome everybody, welcome everybody that's here behind us and all the departments and staff.

Thank you all so much.

Um we are moving into item C items for discussion and approval.

First, we will start with the conciliation agreement review, and that will be Ashley Bashelder with MHRC.

I'm gonna do it.

Oh, delegating to Director Tucker.

We're gonna follow the good morning.

Um this morning at your grants committee meeting, uh Ashley did a detailed PowerPoint.

Uh that PowerPoint is in your possession now.

And uh I just wanted to make uh a couple comments.

One, if you got any questions um during the course of the meeting, you know, Ashley's here to do that.

But um, I just want to say that this is the last significant piece of the conciliation agreement, and uh we're grateful to get it to this point.

But I want to recognize the individual work of Tessa Ortiz and Ashley Batchelder and actually creating what is being presented to you.

Uh I just felt it's necessary.

Well, and I don't want to leave out Commissioner Lecker and her contributions, but to um these two staff, what you're gonna be going through was compiled, put together by them.

And so I'm grateful for that.

And again, as we go through this and wishing you well on in and on into the future, MHRC, one of our concerns is the equitable distribution of public resources.

I say that all the time, all the time, and we're committed to that, and we think that this product that will be presented to you uh speaks to those commitments and it fulfill our interpretation of what the conciliation agreement is.

Thank you, madam chair.

Thank you, Director Tucker.

And I'd like to echo thanks to Tessa, thanks to Ashley, thanks to Commissioner Lefkowitz for everything that you all have done, and uh look forward to proceeding in good faith.

At this time, let's see, uh, let's go on into number two review of fiscal year 25 grant cycle to date.

As you all know, we just finished a grants meeting prior to this meeting, and so if we can go ahead and move into that with Commissioner Lefkowitz.

Yes, thank you so much.

Um, Chair West.

So we did uh just have our first meeting of the newly composed or constituted um grants and funding committee.

Um members of that committee are um the previous past chair, um, Commissioner Jester and Commissioner Wade, who both were on grants committee last year.

So we have that institutional uh memory, and then myself um and um um two new commissioners, Commissioner Knight and Commissioner Khalil.

And we had a great meeting.

I and we had um uh some uh things to look at in terms of the legislation and the um that was submitted to council.

So both some policy gaps to consider and to address that we can um bring to um commission tomorrow in order to um strengthen even further this um this product and then um uh reviewing um the guidelines and creating mechanisms both for um timelines and for um thinking about how we will um uh with our partners in Metro Legal get the revised version of um of this legislation filed by Friday at noon, which will happen.

Um so uh it was uh a very good meeting.

There were a couple of policies that were um adjusted and amended, and um I'll have motions for those tomorrow.

And I don't know if you want me to go into those or not, but um I think it addresses the policy gaps and provides us a good clear way to move forward.

Um, and again, as um Reverend Tucker said, just so many thanks to Tessa and to Ashley, who um who really did get uh this in the shape that we needed it to be in order to meet that deadline, and then I'm committed to working um with them to get it where we need to be on Friday.

So yes.

Thank you, Commissioner Lefkowitz.

Tessa, do you have anything to add?