Daniel, I said this found this in my public papers.

I don't have your email in every corner.

So you gave me that some time ago.

Okay.

And I realized I'd have done each back of paper.

Thanks.

All right.

Well, welcome everybody.

Happy new year.

Whatever you call me in order to get on the voting.

Yeah.

Okay.

Great.

Well, our first item of business is approving the minutes from December 18th.

To look and didn't see anything amiss.

Any other comments on that?

I thought much one can.

Thanks.

All right.

All those in favor of approving the minutes.

Okay.

I don't have any changes to pose.

Any changes for the agenda.

Okay, great.

Well, then we'll move on to reports and inquiries.

So I'll turn it over to the city attorney.

Thank you, Mr.

Chair.

I think the only thing on my agenda for this morning is just to talk talk briefly.

So in the last couple of days, we did the um new board and commission uh member training.

Um some of you were there and participated in that.

Thank you for coming.

It was recorded.

If anybody feels like they want a refresher, um you can access that recording.

Um maybe let Jogie know if you are interested in that admission on this how that recording would be accessible.

We'll find out for sure.

Um there's kind of two stages to that um training.

One is for um all of you for for um new or uh existing members, um kind of an update from the mayor's perspective on the role of boards and commissions, and then some of the legal aspects from me.

Um and then there uh is also separately uh a Jody training, the the staff liaison to all of the boards and commissions.

Jody doesn't need training, but can educate the rest of us anyway.

Um so just the importance of making sure that the city staff um are doing everything that they can to support and uh make sure the divorce and commissions are running smoothly, um coordinating all of the things that lead out to us being here together today.

Um so we do that training annually.

Um it is uh important to kind of get things framed up right for the important work that all of you do.

The other thing that I wanted to mention just in terms of kind of inquiries to me.

Um I think you all know that part of this part of the agenda is to let you know if there were somewhat interesting conversations that people brought to me, um, wonderings um or sometimes maybe more involved ethics questions.

Um if it's the more involved um situation, I will cue that up for you more formally.

Um but sometimes it's helpful to also just talk about the conversations that people bring my direction, um a bit of a reminder from somebody who was a newer um border commission member.

Um and um we just needed to talk through um the part of the code that addresses sort of family or personal relationships that might cause questions of impartiality.

Um as you all know, oftentimes our conversations get focused on the conflict of interest from a financial perspective.

Um, but this was a just a bit of a reminder that sometimes the circumstances pop up where um because of a family relationship or some close personal connection, it's also important that border commission members um recuse themselves from those conversations and just talking through um examples and how you do it, what are the actual logistics of recusal so that everybody knows what's going on and nobody ends up embarrassed, doesn't become a public thing.

So um a good conversation to to have um a little bit of a reminder to me, um frankly, to just be paying a little closer attention to to that topic and make sure that um that I'm supporting and uh educating new boards and commission members on that topic uh as well.

So I think good conversation, good plan going forward.

Just wanted to share that we thank you.

So who was able to make it to the member training?

And helpful, uh, for me it was very helpful.

Uh, you know, I've attended one meeting prior to the training.

So uh you know, so it's good to get uh the mayor's perspective on how we can assist the city uh and then some of the more granular details that you talked about.

Um my background is human resources, so conflict of interest and things are uh you know, I mean that's one of the main things that attracted me to this board was uh it kind of aligns with uh what I do on the professional side of my interests, and so um I think the conflict of interest thing is uh was very um beneficial.

Um and one thing that we always talk about is you know that I always talk about is uh perception as reality.

Uh so even though there may not be an actual conflict of interest, there oftentimes could be a perceived conflict of interest where um even if you uh internally feel like you're able to act independently and not let those factors uh determine the outcome of the decision.