We are going to go ahead and get started with announcements.

First, I'd like to say we are currently sitting on Cherokee Suwanee and Yuchi Land.

A reminder that no one is uh illegal on stolen land.

All right.

We have a two presentations.

We're gonna start off with Councilmember Koopin.

Um Councilmember Coopin, are you ready?

Give me just a minute.

All righty.

Ah, thank you, Pro Tem for joining us as well.

Um I'm honored to have the uh family here of Dot Dobbins, um, who we know we tragically lost uh in June.

We also have members of the uh the Germantown neighborhood and German Town Commons among others.

Um and we know that this was such a horrific and tragic loss on our streets with somebody who was just walking home from the dog park and should be with us right now.

And so I know that since that moment we've done a lot of work to um not let this be in vain and to work on our infrastructure and save crossings and things like that.

Um, but obviously nothing will replace Dot to us.

So um we have a resolution that we passed as a counsel um honoring all the work and contributions that Dot made um to the neighborhood and also to the city, she was just an incredible woman, and um forever will be in the record books of our city.

Um so I'd like to read that, read that to y'all now, and then we'll just kind of go around.

Um, whereas Dorothy Eileen Dot Dobbins was born on July 17th, 1947 in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

Her father, C.

Ray Dobbins was an ordained minister, and her mother, Mary Alice Smith Dobbins, was an elementary school teacher, and whereas Dot was the second of seven children.

She grew up in Memphis, where she attended Central High School.

After graduation, Dot attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where she studied politics, religion, and history, and whereas while in college, she became active in the YMCA, attending programs in New York and Berkeley.

She also participated in the memorial march for Martin Luther King Jr.

in Memphis in April 1968.

She graduated from SMU in 1969.

And whereas her graduation, whereas after graduation, Dot worked for a year in welfare service in Dallas and then became a resident advisor to disadvantaged teenage girls in a job corps program in New Jersey for one year after these experiences, she decided to attend law school and whereas in 1971, Dot entered Vanderbilt Law School as one of only 12 women in a class of 150.

For Dot Law School was a way to engage in her passion of community service, joining the organization now as the legal aid society of Middle Tennessee to provide legal assistance to low-income and vulnerable members of the community.

And whereas after law school, Dot began working full-time at legal aid.

She worked at legal aid for 13 years, becoming the head of the family law unit, and whereas in addition to her work with legal aid, Dot became a passionate advocate in Nashville.

She worked with the Nashville YWCA to establish the first domestic violence shelter in the city.

Whereas in 1987, Dot was invited to serve as the general counsel for the Tennessee Department of Human Services.

One of her greatest accomplishments was the passage of the Tennessee Uniform Standard of Child Support Law passed in 1989.

And whereas in 1990, Dot left the Tennessee Department of Human Services and began practicing law in the private sector.

In 1993, she partnered with her Vanderbilt Law School classmate Erwin Vennick to establish the firm of Dobbins and Vennick.

She continued in private practice for 20 years.

She continued in private practice for 20 years and whereas Dot also continued her work in the public sector, serving on the Metropolitan Social Services Commission and as a trustee of the public policy committee of Senior Citizens Inc., she also helped draft the first order of protection legislation in Tennessee to allow courts to issue orders to protect victims against abuse.

And whereas Dot was also committed to the Alternative to Violence Project, which is an international movement which offers experiential workshops that sensitize participants to violent tendencies in their lives and help them learn ways to defuse conflict and confront.

In 2006, she was trained and certified as an AVP facilitator and participated in numerous AVP workshops.

And she actually concluded a AVP exercise on death and dying for the National Friends Meeting on the very day she died.

And whereas Dot was also a founding member of the Cohousing Project of Germantown Commons, the first of its kind in Tennessee.

German Town Commons was founded in the co-housing community model meant to nurture a sense of community and neighborly bond.

And whereas Dot was married to Paul Schrag from 1978 until his death in 2008 after a battle with a rare degenerative neurological disease, through which Dot served as a devoted caregiver.

And whereas Dot's rich life was tragically cut short on June 8th, 2025, when she was struck and killed by a vehicle while walking her dog Angel in a crosswalk on Third Avenue North in Germantown.

And whereas Dot is survived by her daughter Nan, her son-in-law, and four grandchildren, she was a true pillar of the Nashville community, and her tragic loss will be felt by many.

And whereas it is fitting that the Metropolitan Council honors the life of Dorothy Dot Dobbins for her many contributions to Nashville and Davidson County.

Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Council of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County that the Metropolitan Council goes on record honoring the life and legacy of Dorothy Dot Dobbins and reflects on her important contributions to Nashville and Davidson County.

And this resolution shall take effect from and after its adoption, the welfare of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County requiring it.

Thank y'all.

Thank you, Councilmember Coopin and Dot's family for being here.

All right.

In the meantime, if there are any council members with announcements, go ahead and get in the queue.

And I'm going to ask you all to bear with me while I get this out.

Because the governor has authorized the National Guard to assist ICE.

And we also have the governor of Texas issuing arrest warrants for legislators for not having quorum, which is not illegal.

We have a state who's looking we have states who are looking to redistrict to give themselves more seats.

And every day we still have people who are going missing.

Because if you are going to work sites, then it wasn't about them being lazy.

Because if it was about picking up criminals, then you wouldn't be picking up mothers, children, even U.S.

citizens for just being brown.

Because if it was about patriotism, you wouldn't beat the father of three Marines.