Thank you.

Okay.

Great.

Hello everybody.

I know it's tempting to be outside, but thank you for joining us today.

Alexi, shall we do roll?

Okay.

Alright.

Amy Arissa here.

Carlos Bajarano.

Chris Chavez.

Jackie Gonzalez here.

Jose Pabaca Mendez.

Mimi Martinez.

Fatima Linares.

Jessica Lozano Alparez.

Mark Onesorge.

Jacob Pada.

Diana Pennington.

Amanda Petegarina.

Angelica Reina.

Richard Gonzalez.

Riley Howard.

Andy Little.

Here.

Thanks for bringing up the end there.

Andy.

The few of the crowd.

Okay.

So since we don't have quorum, we're going to just talk and take notes.

Um there were a couple things that I did want to talk to the commission about.

And just to flag, I guess, I'll go slightly out of order from this meeting, right?

Because we okay.

So definitely want to update you all on a really interesting chair-vice chair meeting that we all had.

Um just to inform some future things around the uh Thomas Rivera Awards.

So I'll talk a little bit about that.

Um it looks like so we were gonna have a vote um for the Human Rights Commission seat, um, so we'll need to table that, but um just an FYI for the group.

Um in the past, this has been just kind of an appointed position.

Um and so currently Amanda sits in that seat and has been for the last couple years.

Um, so the expectation there is that she attends all the meetings.

Um moving forward, um, the city wants us to vote on the individual instead of just uh name an individual.

So that's what that vote is about.

Um Amanda has expressed an interest in continuing to to have that seat, but if other people are open to or interested in having a discussion, um I'd encourage you to maybe chat with Amanda about it because she seemed kind of open about um having someone replace her if if there was like a deep passion for filling that role.

Um I will say the executive team, we've talked about um how we want to learn more about what that position, what the commission is up to and get more regular reports related to the human rights commission.

So I think moving forward we'll make sure that there's some dedicated time to be sharing updates and ways to kind of stay connected with that group because they obviously are involved in a lot of things.

Um they're in touch with a lot of organizations and can be a real benefit to us, and we have a lot of unique um networks and talents to bring to them too.

So hopefully we can just have a slightly more um felt presence.

I think across with that.

So are there any questions about that?

Who should someone contact if they're interested in folding that position and when would we hold that vote in August?

Yeah, I guess we would have to hold it in August, so Amanda would continue to fill it until we we do the official vote.

I would say that because Amanda has expressed interest in continuing on, if although she has also said that she's open to letting somebody else if if someone is interested, um, you know, letting me know, and I would invite you to have a conversation with Amanda too.

So just so you could hear kind of like things she's hoping to do, or things that you know you can stay in the loop on, or you know, that kind of stuff.

So yeah, and then what I'm hearing is would we add an agenda item for a standing agenda item then to have a report from the HRC?

Is that what I'm understanding?

I don't think that would be a bad idea, or would that be just like old business, or where would that fall on the agenda?

Um I think adding a standing agenda item is a great idea.

That's something that the African American Affairs Commission does.

So their liaison, you know, has that standing item and reports back monthly as to what HRC is going you know up to.

Um so I think that's a good approach to make sure there's that dedicated time in the agenda.

That would be my recommendation manager, yeah.

Sounds good to me.

Okay, so we will um vote on that in August, and I guess uh Amanda will stay until we vote.

Yeah, and to add um clarity, just like you know, you all if there's um turnover in a seat or you know, your term has ended um and you're maybe applying for reappointment to your seats, you don't automatically vacate your seat.

Um, you continue serving until some kind of action is taken.

Um so the same will apply here, and you all are really voting to make that recommendation of who you would like to represent the commission on the human rights commission.

But of course, like you know, and that that the mayor's office has asked that all the Title V commissions take that official vote because they want that formal record of you know, this is who we want representing us, and so of course the mayor's office, you know, takes that seriously, and ultimately the appointment is still made by the mayor.

All the little nuances and jargon.

Thank you.

Yeah, okay.

So um, just continuing on with some chair or vice chair activity, um, so we um have been attending a couple of events, um, and so I think we can do a bit of a debrief on that in a second.

Um, but before that, I wanted to flag um, well, I guess this is executive committee report, so I'll wait on that.

But um the chair vice chair meeting.

Basically, like, thank you, Lexian team, for organizing that.

We had a presentation from the city's legal department, um, and specifically around fund management.

Um, there are a lot of commissions that are talking about ways to um fundraise or or you know, get sponsorships for events and things like that.

Um, so we definitely were introduced to a lot of just the the challenges and opportunities around like structuring something like that and and what people's experiences have been and moving forward, they're trying to like operationalize and streamline practices a little bit more because I guess historically it's just been a little like one-off for everyone, like it's you know, um, circumstantial for everybody, so they're trying to streamline stuff.

Um a big takeaway for me personally at that event was it is probably to our advantage to work with a community partner, um, an organization outside of the city if we were to create some sort of fund for something like a scholarship, which I know has come up a couple times, um, and so one of my goals for this coming year um is to really think about how we can pilot something like that and think about some potential business partners organizations.

The question did come up of like, is there a certain eligibility for the type of organization that we can partner with?

And just to give you an example, the um women's commission, their big um award that they organize is in partnership with the YWCA, um, and they manage all the funds and and all the contracts and all that, and and the commission is largely like an advisory board, a working board, um, you know, volunteers, but it's managed from a like fiscal perspective by the YWCA.

So I think there is an opportunity for us to think about what that might organization might be for us, and that would also allow us to not bypass, but like it would reduce the like legal strain or risk involved with working through like city um parameters, and so that's a long way of saying that in August, I'm feeling really revved up to have like an exploratory chat with the Asian Affairs Commission on how they're doing stuff.

Granted, we know that things are changing just because of you know, legals trying to really streamline this and operationalize it for every commission, but um start beginning to brainstorm in August around that, um, around like and I know that we're waiting on Lexian team to kind of further define um what ideal organizations could look like for us and things like that.

So TBD on all of that, but it was a really interesting conversation, and there's a lot of other commissioners or commissions, namely the human rights commission and the African Affairs Commission that are also starting to think about creating these funds and and having these um things, so we have other commissions to work with and learn from as we do this.

So I think that's like a big big exciting thing to that you know I'm feeling jazzed about moving forward with.

I think you know, there's lots of like, well, what are we gonna do about this?

What are we gonna do about this when it comes to actually activating and implementing something like that?

But um, in general, it was very informative conversation.

Um, Lexi, do you want to elaborate any anything else on?

Okay, yeah, that was kind of the big takeaway of it.

Um, yeah, go ahead, Chris.

So, so two things.

My first question is have we invited the Asian Affairs Commission to be our guest meeting for August?

So I planted that seed, but now based on our last exec meeting, we already have like a pretty stacked agenda, so I'm thinking it's gonna be just like a um a separate meeting, separate meeting and do like a like potentially with like the education committee, that's what I wanted to get or something, but I I'm imagining more of like a working session, um, okay.

So, my second point to that is Gloria Avias is on the education committee, and she works at the TCC outreach research center, and she does the Mi Swang Yo and the other scholarship program that is done through TCC.

My yeah, yeah.

So she already has boku knowledge on scholarship programs, so for sure, she needs to be a part of this discussion, and we need to pick her brain as well as to what's available.

Yeah, the second thing is, and we have this in the executive committee discussion, is there's a whole bunch of information already out there on the internet and how to do a framework for a scholarship program.

The issue with that was bringing it back up, you know, when I used to sit on the education committee, is we have to decide how to go implement that and if we're gonna implement that right, because we've scaled down from several years ago.

Then we give like 60 or 65, so now we're about half that, but even if we do a scholarship, you know, that's a lot to try to come up with scholarship money for 30 people, right?

So part of that discussion, we need to decide the value of what that's gonna be, and my argument way back then is when I was interviewing the kids because it was very labor-intensive, we had to call each of the students and do a personal interview with every single one of them, and their question to me was always, well, what do I get from it?

And so I would have to say, Well, you're gonna get recognized by the city by the mayor, you can use it in your application, if you decide to go on to uh higher learning somewhere else, but well, was there any scholarship money with it?

And I was always like, Well, not right now, but we're working on how to you know develop something to make it worthwhile, and so in order to get additional value to the students for that recognition, because they're amazing.

I mean, we read their qualifications on there, and I'm like, wow, right?

And so my argument back then was, well, even if it's a hundred dollars, you know, so 30 times 100, right?

It's not a lot, but I think we could easily raise $3,000 just as a starting point.

But the decision point has to be do we want to do this, yes or no?

And if the answer is no, then we're done.

Yeah, yeah, right?

Yep, because it's gonna impact a whole bunch of changes to the education committee if the answer is yes, and are we ready to do that?

So, you know, you serve on the committee, Diana's not here, uh, Fatima's not here, and you know, I don't think we can make a decision for them without having them.

And for that, for context, um, and and Helica, if you have other things to add, feel free.

But um, so chatted with Fatima a little bit about this idea.

We've definitely been like slow to really be like talking about it because we know that it's gonna take so long to actually implement, and we don't know the scale of it.

So as someone who has designed and implemented some of these programs before in other places, you know, I could see a model being we have you know the 30 that we acknowledge, and then there's one from each school that gets you know, as we're trying to think about ways to like slowly roll out, you know, something like a scholarship.

There's lots of different models to like a to debate and pilot around this, so it's definitely gonna take time, which is why we're trying to have conversation in August, but I think part of that first and foremost will be like are we gonna be working with a partner?

He like who is that partner, and then also there is an element of that partner having a lot of ownership, like from a legal perspective, they need to have a lot of ownership in it.

So it'll also be just us being comfortable about like that balance of of influence over you know reviewing applications, and we had a debrief meeting today, um, a little bit on the awards earlier, and it came up that like the review is not anonymous.

So you see the names, you see like what schools, and so automatically there are moments or at least it sounded like moments of um pressure bias built in already, yeah.

And so I think there's there's a lot of different directions to go, but I think we're trying to be thorough.

So, when I when I brought this up previously, you know, we way back when the answer was no, there it's just too convoluted, too difficult, we don't want to do it.

So, this is why I'm bringing it up again because I don't want us to get down the road and put all this effort into it if the answer is still no, yeah.

So we really definitely need to have the conversation with the committee first.

Yes, yeah, and I will say there, based on my understanding with Fatima and the committee, like there is an interest in exploring this.

I think that the biggest thing is with most commission work I've seen is like it takes one, you need one person to be like the project manager to make sure that like things are happening, and so I had told Fatima that like I'm willing to like be that person to like make sure that we are checking all these boxes so that we have something to test by next award, um, so yeah, TBD, but it's we're definitely having lots of ideas up in the air.

I'm excited.

Do you have other thoughts?

No, I do say okay, cool, cool.

I would love to make that happen.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So, so and I do think that because the Human Rights Commission and the African American Affairs Commission are also having these conversations, I'm already trying to be on the radar with both of them of just like let's like embark on this together, let's like create a protocol together.

Like there's an opportunity there.

So TBD, but that was a great um meeting.

Um I do want to jump in a little bit.

Well, actually, maybe we can move some things around and just go to committee reports and then we can go to the activity because that way we can we don't have to worry about time.

Um since we we can kind of do whatever we want in this meeting.

So I'll have a meeting.

Oh, yeah.

And our conversation is a formal gathering of folks who happen to be on the standard.

Yeah, okay.

Um, okay, so executive uh committee, we had a great meeting recently.

Um one of the things I guess it worked out that we um are not having uh a full, or we didn't have a speaker today.

Um we have two speakers, or we have three speakers lined up for next month, or sorry, in August.

So that will be we'll have two like 10-minute and one shorter one.

So Riley is gonna be talking about the new MSA rate changes going into effect this fall.

Um we also have um sheriff uh Vicalaban Regalado coming, so we're still um working on exactly what we're gonna talk to him about.

We can make space for that right now.

Um go ahead, okay.

So that comes back to Amy's request from last two months ago.

Because after I read the minutes and it all came flashing back, um we had a family situation where a son was arrested by the county, was put in county jail and was referred to ICE.

And our understanding of the process was that that was not happening unless they were already a criminal offender that would already have a criminal something already out there, and so her question was the municipal court, why would the municipal, not the right it was a municipal violation, not a criminal, so how did this guy end up being referred to ICE?

And that was the question.

Well, basically, it was that now we had this situation with a municipal jail, that the municipal jail was the one that actually gave this um inmate to ICE, which was something that was not happening, and I actually was able to talk to um the chief from the police because I wanted to investigate, and he told me that supposedly IS has been monitoring now the inmates that go in the city jail, and so a lot of times they can just say, I won this one, and they have to send them, you know, they have to let them have it, they can't oppose.

So it seems that that was the situation with that person.

So that is the response that I had from him.

So I guess then that's now the city policy, because that's not the understanding that we have of what was happening with municipal jail procedure.

So that's a change.

He said that there were no changes, that this has been always something that could happen.

He said that the federals can always ask for an inmate, and they have to agree on surrender, they can't.

Well, there are other cities that aren't doing it.

I think um I think this happened a long time ago before.

I'll say this is outside of my I yeah.

I can't, I can't even confirm exactly what policy says.

My understanding from what it sounds like there's a difference between the jail making an active referral versus the ICE request entity reviewing the document.

So it sounds like there's a there's a distinction between who is reaching out to who.

So in the police system, the federal agency supersedes city.

Yeah, so that Mark is not here because he can explain the other than I can.

I and that that's all I don't want to say inaccurate or so when someone is arrested, they end up getting uh documented and fingerprinted, and if they're already in the system, it gets registered into a national database, okay, and I forget what the name of it is, I can pull it up here in a minute.

So that's where the feds are getting the information from, okay, whether it's a municipal violation, traffic violation, whatever it is, it's a national database.

Okay.

So if you get stopped for a traffic ticket, I hate to tell you, ladies and gentlemen, but you're gonna hit the system, okay?

In the military, we call it a blotter, and now it's all done electronically.

So that's where the feds would get that information from, and I mean they could do that probably from any, you know, it comes up electronically, so they can see it all in there.

So I don't know how they would know if someone was a citizen or not, and decide to do a hold that way.

So my then question to what we want for a speaker in August, that's not Vic Regulato's policy, then.

That's what are we doing as a city to respond to those types of requests.

What is our policy?

That's what I'm hearing from what you're saying.

I think um, yes, I think there's two different things that we're talking about.

The CD, what you were saying, what would be the policy that they have, which they said that they there was no change, because as you said, like, see, if the federals just decided to ask for somebody, they have to turn it in.

But now with Victor Galado, I think it would be important to ask him about the proceedings that he is having with whenever somebody comes in, you know, because we do know the county jail.

County, because V is county.

That's what I'm saying because they're two separate entities.

So with V, we should focus on all of the people that the police decides to take to David Omas, and we know that they take them there usually because they're higher crimes, if we can call it like that, you know, like uh severe the UIs or domestic assault, something that it's and then see what is the protocol that they have, you know, because at this point I know that, and this is what I hear, he is just holding people too for immigration whenever they stop somebody just because he looks Hispanic and they take, you know, they check and then he doesn't have documents, they take them to David Omask, and he's holding people there for that.

And then you cannot, you're not able to even look them up because they're not showing in the system.

You actually need to call and find out if they're actually there.

Which I think it's horrible because then family can't because of the language barrier, they can't even know if they're actually there.

So I think we should focus more in this type of situation with big regalado, uh, because we really need to know more of what's what's what's happening, you know.

I don't think that's gonna be a 10 minute conversation is the issue I have.

No, I agree.

So he's accept he's accepted to come.

No, no, no, I haven't spoken to him yet.

Oh, Mark was gonna come here.

I can'll chance to talk tomorrow.

But yeah, so what I want a clarification on because after she pinned the rose on me, I was like, I need to make sure what we want him to talk about.

So when I offer the invitation, it's to talk about what is the county jail procedure for holding personnel for immigration.

Yeah.

Am I and we can we're definitely correct?

We can make that longer, I would say, just based on the current agenda that we'll have for for next month.

Like we can I could say, I don't know, 15 20 minutes, you know, on that, um, if it's purely gonna be just like a listening kind of meeting, you know, and another thing that I was thinking that I have noticed is that I have heard uh families going and paying the bond, and then of course they're accepting the money, but they're not able to get out because they have that immigration hold.

So what is what he, you know, what is I don't think they should not pay any money?

No, we're only gonna give the money back.

They're losing their money because at the end they're gonna get deported, and all the money they paid because now they're on an ice hold because then you're paying for the municipality.

I think they should be able to receive that money because they know that they're gonna get up deporting.

So I guess we could ask to what happens, like what's their policy around those monies?

Is there public reporting that's tracking where the funding or where the money's being held?

Who can claim it?

If the person's been deported, like who and their family can essentially claim that money back.

And I think I would also like to see what type of public reporting, how many people are they holding?

Yeah, what's the average whole time?

Like if you keep somebody because they're they've got this eyes hold, what is the average time that they're sitting in that gel cell?

I would wanna know.

Is there a formal appeal process?

Is there a formal complaint from the community?

If we can file a formal complaint, what's that process look like?

I think I've oh I have a list of questions that I want to ask that man.

But I don't think he's gonna come.

So I'll I'll bet some money.

I wanna be mindful of time here.

Um I mean, assuming a representative from his team is coming, I do want to be really intentional with like prepping some questions.

Oh yeah.

So Rick would have to be the one to answer those questions.

Anybody else on his staff is not gonna be able to do it.

Okay, well, I know Richie's not the guy.

If somebody sends somebody on behalf of that organization, they are allowed to speak and they should be able to answer all those questions.

I know they're allowed to speak, but well, I just don't want to waste our time.

If they're if that's the whole thing, I don't yeah, I don't want him to come then.

Why why would you send me somebody they can't answer the questions?

Well, and I think we need to give them a list of questions.

Yeah, and that's fine.

I think that's uh acceptable.

We have time.

Then they can prove there.

Um okay, so we'll um Chris just keep working on you know getting a conversation.

Um, you know, there is this September meeting too, you know.

If we need to be as flexible as possible to get somebody here, um I want to say the other speaker that we had lined up is Marcia from Leadership Tulsa to come talking about come talk about the Hispanic Leadership Institute, like what that program is and ways to just strengthen our relationship to individuals that are participating in that program.

Um so if that needs to get moved, um, you know, there's probably some flexibility there as well.

Well, and I had also requested the AG because we had the same questions on what was happening with what's happening on the highways, yeah.

The AG's office is responsible for that.

So do we want to bring them the same time that we bring the county?

Do we want a separate time for them?

Oh man, it yeah, we we would need to have a separate time, because we've asked for office, we're a little sad.

Yeah, that's another hot topic, lower grenade.

Um and these are issues that affect our community.

So, and this this was a goal to bring people in.

So, like if we need to pack people in, you know, we already have three.

Good.

You know, or hoping to have three committed for the next meeting, so I think thinking about September is good too.

But if you want to do a pulse check for August, too, you know, while everything's up in the air.

And just see where we're at.

Yeah.

Like if they can't do one month, can you do um do it?

Okay, so um, then depending on time, we'll keep going through committee reports and then depending on time we'll jump into this debriefing activity.

Um we might end up just doing one um debrief, just because I feel like we're we're having good conversations, so you know nothing wrong with that.

Um, okay.

Uh was there anything else, Chris you wanted to share about executive meeting or just.

So we did talk about trying to uh get more people involved with tabling and a process for getting more commissioners to volunteer to do that.

And um I'd like to hear from the floor.

What are your ideas?

Yeah, no, you were at the union event, but you were sponsoring your business.

So you were not representing the commission and you and I represented the commission.

Yeah.

Um and one of the conversations that came up from that, which I thought was interesting, were some young Hispanic Latino students who came up to me and asked me what's the difference between being Hispanic and a Latino.

And I was like, are you kidding me?

And he said, No, I really want to know.

So I had to sit there for a good five minutes and explain to him what the difference was.

So my point of that is there's an opportunity.

And you know, on my West Point side on the Army side, they are up in arms about us using the terminology Latinx.

And I've tried to explain to them what it means.

So I'm blue in the face, and they think that it's a non-Hispanic term that was coined by the woke generation.

And Hispanic is a government term.

It is.

So I hear you're you know, raising the tabling stuff.

We do have time, deliberate time to to brainstorm.

Yep, but we'll get through the committee reports and then with the remainder.

Or you have opportunities that happened at the table, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So um, okay.

Education.

Do you want to represent that?

I have no, I don't I don't know.

Okay, okay.

Um well I can go ahead and talk a little bit about um I can pull up some of Fatima's notes um around the Tomas Rivera awards if everyone I think most people here attended.

Um I was late, but I attended.

Let me sorry, I should have these up.

Okay.

So we had 31 scholars recognized, 10 community heroes, um over 165 people.

That's outside of commission is that what Flatima's saying?

Outside of commissioners, commissioners and volunteers and volunteers.

So and according to our source lexi, this is very high for a commission backed event.

Um, and so great job everybody is that's awesome.

Involved for promoting that.

Um, and then Jesse uh from uh is it OSU?

Uh he works for the state department.

Oh, education.

Okay.

Um had some great remarks and I think the champions were really moved and all good things.

So we had a um debrief conversation this afternoon to talk about some of the logistical side and things that we want to work on in the future, um, just new challenges and opportunities around that work.

So kudos to the education committee for working on that.

I think that my understanding is there's gonna be just a little like breathing time and then trying to get ahead of planning um in September, um, to really start getting ahead on some things, so um, and then, like I mentioned before, and Jess, I don't know if you're here for that part, but um, starting in August, thinking about this whole um scholarship potential add on to it.

So um but yeah, we're we're already getting going, but take a moment and pat yourself in the back.

Great job.

Everyone that played a role in that.

Um shout out to everybody involved.

So looking forward to doing it again.

Uh, and Fatima is has also named that she is uh looking forward to serving in her in organizing the event again, so we're grateful for that.

Um public safety, okay.

I have a lot.

So we didn't have too many people attend this last month, but we have two meetings, um, since our last meeting.

The key updates from the one we had last week was we did table and support the MSA week activities at the zoo May 17th.

Um I melted out there for a couple of hours.

Thank you, Lexi, for giving me stuff.

Um, one of the issues I had was it was windy and it's outside, and so my stuff kept blowing away, so I kept clipping it to stuff.

Um the other thing is I don't know if there's a way, and I didn't think about it before I went out there to have covered, so I could have thrown an awning in my car had I thought about it.

But um, it was brutal, it was so hot, and we started at 11 in the morning, but it didn't open until noon.

Um, and I mean that's the heat of the day.

So, and I was sitting next to the parks and rec department, and they had a lot of fish to give away, so we were very popular.

So we had a lot of people come through and met another one of your Tulsa remote cohorts at that one and connected him and his family.

They moved here from Houston, and so they've been here a little less than a month, but they want to get involved, and so I'm gonna try to get them an invite to come to a commissioner meeting so you can see what it's all about as well.

Young family, and I think it'd be a great addition.

Umsa Health Department was a big component of this last meeting, and I just want to read off the things that they're working on and why I thought it was important to include health in what we're doing in public safety.

Um they would like to partner with schools, so in education, um, not just in the um universities but in the city schools, so uh elementary middle school and high school, and so they send out information to try to provide that to the schools, and I was like, Well, the timing is a little bit off because school is out, um, but um they wanted to see what ways they could get more involved because we do the safe kids and the um seat belt and the chair and all that kind of stuff, but they want to get more involved with kids.

Um they are looking at creating a new outreach for senior living centers for when a senior member or a loved one is in a rehabilitation center and passes away, and there are a whole bunch of drugs left over, and a lot of them are controlled substances because they may have been on some pain meds, and so I'm shocked to learn that there's no structure for what to do with this stuff.

But thinking about this, my mom passed away in a senior living center in 2000, and they just dumped everything on me, and I was like, what am I supposed to do with all this?

You know, and I was already dealing with grief and everything else.

So, what a fantastic, you know, opportunity that they're recognizing that these things are out there, and oh, by the way, we have Hispanic and I think it's a families.

It's bad enough, you know, if you're American when this happens to you, but what happens when you're not of you know, American situation that you don't understand how this is supposed to work, so opportunities they're working with uh mothers against drunk drivers to promote more mocktails and less alcohol drinking in bars and uh restaurants that serve alcohol to create a bigger menu of non-alcoholic beverages, and that's like a new trend to not drink alcohol but to drink something else, right?

Or if you're pregnant, or drink it.

So mood brew is brewed here in Tulsa.

So, what a fantastic opportunity.

I don't know if you all have seen the Route 66 marketing on all that.

Fantastic.

So what can we do in our community to promote that as well?

Because you all know drinking is a big part of our culture.

Opportunities.

Okay.

Next thing.

They're move their hepatitis event that they're jointly doing with UMA to the fall.

So I think they're now planning to do it over the Hispanic Heritage Week, so it's a Democrat over time frame.

And then the last thing, which was a shocker to me, was we have a new problem with youth offenders involved in drunk driving and underage drinking in our community.

And money of the offenders, if not the majority of the offenders, are nothing of kids.

So they're ending up in the court system.

And they don't have translators and/or their language skills are not very good with the parents in trying to mitigate the situation.

So this comes back to immigration and community advocacy.

I had no idea.

And she said this is happening at least once a month.

That is way higher than I would have ever guessed.

So what happens to those kids?

Yeah.

Opportunities.

We see them a lot, of course, with our parents.

So they're trying to put together a resource packet to provide to families, which will be bilingual information.

So I don't know when and how that's going to be created and disseminated, but this would be fantastic opportunity for news and investigative stories.

Chris, I'll give you one more minute.

Okay, one more minute.

Food trucks.

So I'm working with another law passed at the state level, which now gives them additional options for fire safety, which requires them to either have the code suppression for Greece.

It reduces the requirements.

And so now they have an alternative option, which is the fire extinguishers.

And so we're working with the state fire marshal.

We've come up with two rodeos that are coming up, another story.

The first one's gonna be the 23rd and 24th of June at state farm facility again, and we're getting all the parties involved, so health department, city resources for all the food trucks to be able to do that like we did last year.

We did it once in September last year.

And so it's going to happen June 23rd and 24th, and then another one is already programmed for September 23rd and 24th.

And I was able to talk to the State Fire Marshal's office, and he gave me a number.

If they can't make it to those two rodeos, then they'll have to come to him and have to schedule an appointment.

So you know, if a food truck hasn't even been decided yet, then they'll still have an opportunity to be able to get certified.

And so we're gonna work with them to try to come up with a playbook, if you will, and do it in multiple languages that will show them where to put their stickers, how to put their stickers, what documentation they've got to keep with them.

One of the issues that they had was well, we got inspected in Oklahoma City, but nobody told us where to put the sticker.

So Mitchell, the rep that I'm working with here in Tulsa, he says he physically puts the fire marshal sticker on the truck.

So he knows that it's done and they're approved.

But for other people who don't know, and the fire marshal hasn't told them where to put it, all it says in the language is prominently displayed.

So how do you explain that to someone who doesn't speak English?

Yeah, so opportunities.

So we're gonna work together.

Umso now we're supposed to try to get a meeting together with people that are interested in business this week, and he's just been slammed with business.

He is got so much business happening, it amazes me that he has time to do anything else.

Um, so another great opportunity for us to roll this out to the Asian community, the African American, the Native American.

You know, we're not the only ones who have food trucks.

We have a lot of food trucks, but we're not the only ones.

So another great opportunity for us to be able to facilitate and do things for the city.

Thank you.

I would call that a basketball minute, Chris.

But there's a ton more.

But that is related to one of the things we were hoping to get an update on was around some of the business engagement work that Jose has been working on, we're starting to think about and building membership there.

This the work that Chris was just alluding to is kind of the first priority or first project for that group.

So if anyone thinks that they know somebody that might be interested in participating on that project and helping bring visibility to a lot of the food truck policies that are developing, just reach out to Chris or Jose on that.

And Riley's volunteered to chair the move over presentation that we'll be doing in October.

Cool.

Yeah.

And I also think I wonder if in the fall we could think about like November or last meeting or whatever, doing it would be interesting to me to hear more about this, like not a theme of drinking, but like from a health perspective and a youth perspective, because that does seem like something that we could help amplify to our communities.

So just brainstorming out loud for that, but thanks for that, Dave.

Okay, immigration.

Okay, so we didn't meet, but I met with um an attorney, the immigration attorney that has been basically giving me information about what's the changes and everything.

So just kind of like one of the main things is that the policy change that could significantly impact individuals seeking permanent residence through adjustment of status in the United States.

So that means anyone with a pending case or considering filing should seek legal guidance to understand how these new policy may affect their situation.

So now it's more of whatever the agent, the immigration agent decides, is not just if you are a good person, it's they're gonna try to, as much as they can deny people who want to get residency, and that's crazy because this is people that have been doing everything by the book, yeah.

You know, and it's hard because we know that a lot can do it because it's hard, but now these people that actually were able to do it, now they're looking at this difficult situation.

So he was saying they really need to talk to an immigration attorney, get prepared because this is getting tougher and tougher.

So that was one of the main things that we talk about.

And then the other thing is that I was able to have an interview with the district attorney, Steve Kansweiler, and it was really interesting, and one of the points that captivated the most was whenever he talked about, I asked him, I said, you know, a lot of the Hispanic community are afraid to come forward and talk about the crime that they had, you know.

Like, let's say somebody has been threatening, maybe is their spouse or they're suffering domestic violence and they're afraid of coming forward and saying something because their legal situation, and I said, what can you tell these people?

And one of the things that he said is that he wouldn't care of their legal status if they came for it, and then he will actually sign U visas for the people that are victim of a crime, and um, and that he wanted to put the bad people, you know, where they belong, and help the victims.

So that was really good because hopefully these can get to the people and they know you know you're being uh if you're suffering some sort of crime, you know, you can come forward and you can actually get a visa, you know, you visa.

And so I thought that was really good to hear from the secretary.

So that was the other thing, and then um one of the things that I had been thinking, because we haven't been able to get anywhere with a driver license, right?

Um I was thinking, what if we ask the Mexican consul that we already have a contact with and ask them if it would be too hard for them to actually give a driver license from their country because I remembered that the police said that if they have a driver license, even if it's from their country, that it they will accept that.

That's what the police said.

I'm not talking about troopers or highway patrol, but I know the police said this.

So if we can tell the consul from Mexico, hey, you know, this is gonna help your people.

Why don't you look away of getting them, I don't know, driver license, even if it's from from their country, it could really help our community because when they're stuck at least by the police, they're not gonna get in trouble, as much in trouble.

I don't know, it's just an idea.

Does anyone here have like a relationship or maintaining their moment?

I don't have the contact for the new console.

I mean I got her email.

I need email does.

So what deputy mayor reyes probably has contact.

That would be great.

It would or I think of like City Hasso, probably done, yeah.

So maybe do like uh another letter, you know, another um, and say this is something that is happening.

Can you help them?

You know, and if it works, maybe we can do it to the what the Maltepan consuls and you know, I don't know.

Because you could multiply that and just change the country contract on there.

I mean, if they're doing the Mexican consulate because uh people need an ID, why not a driver license?

I mean, I know she can do we can do the INE at the consulate.

And I I think I got that.

I got it because I did the dual citizenship, and that's kind of what a driver's license.

I mean, that's kind of what Mexico uses to open up checking accounts.

That's what they use is your it's a little different than it is here because in the US it is like you have to have an actual driver's license.

And you can't even open up checking account, you can't there's a lot of things you can't do without a driver's license.

But in Mexico, it's really like an INE.

I don't know about what the Malas is.

You've got you know what the Malas here too, they have also not here in Tulsa, but in Oklahoma City.

So it's like understanding the differences of all the countries.

Because again, I don't the driver's license is important, but that's only here in the US.

I don't know about the Latin American countries.

I think that would be something that we could ask the consulates and see what I mean.

I but driver's license, no, I mean they don't I have a driver's license from Mexico.

So, oh yeah, we need it to really like to open up a checking account you have to have an email.

Right, but what I'm what I'm talking about is having a driver license, if it's uh if they can give it, this will help, you know, because an INA is not gonna help by any way this is a Mexican consulate.

But if they do the driver license, like the one I have from Mexico, you know, I can drive legally, you know, because I have a driver license.

The reason why our people doesn't have a driver license is because they can go to their country to get it.

But it's easy to get it, it's as easy as to getting an ID.

Like the INA.

So that's why I was thinking.

Well, maybe the consulate can, I don't know, we just need to start moving.

If something is not working here, well, let's move over here.

Yeah.

Well, I want to have an ID.

I want to do a time check because we're actually almost wrapped.

Um, but if the immigration committee is interested in kind of exploring more of this as you know, a project, you know, that could be a great idea to get some subcommittee members involved and helping with like research or structuring, like you know, the vision of how you want to kind of introduce this.

Yeah, so sounds good.

Cool.

Um, okay, and then the business engagement, we kind of touched on that with Chris's update.

Um yeah, I mean, we have a lot of things to discuss today, so we are not getting to our brainstorm activity, however.

Um, just a quick um memo on that is if you have specific things that you want to um keep uh about it, or or things that you really think need to be refreshed, um, or just starting to kind of collect that information and think about it as we're trying to think about um getting a little bigger or getting a little more strategic with our outreach and all of that stuff.

So, but um if you have specific things from the attendee experience um that you'd like to share, just let us know.

And then the other thing that we were gonna brainstorm, which we can, another meeting is just checking in on the one of the goals for the commission this year, or one of my goals was getting us at at least I think I said three events, maybe I said two, but we've we've done a couple of events so far, but now it's a matter of like what's going well and what materials might we have, what type of questions do we get?

Um, so I want to start compiling that just so we have it ready for future use and related.

I know a couple people are gonna be able to make the pub club event next week, the type rose one on Tuesday night.

Um thank you to Carlos.

I know he watches these.

Um he helped with some of the design or putting the final touches on our flyer, so we have a nice new little flyer that we'll share maybe the next meeting.

Just noted, you said next week and you meant next month.

Pub club?

Uh-huh.

When is the July one?

Is when.

Oh, I can make that.

I thought it was next Tuesday, okay.

Perfect.

I am so confused this summer.

Okay.

Sorry about that.

Sorry for the confusion.

Um, but we have a great flyer, and so we're we're still thinking about how to really just streamline our our participation in events, like what is our sweet spot, why do we need to be there?

Um, and what what do people want to hear from us?

So, PBD on all this.

And just mentioning it on events, you know, it would really be good if we could have a table whenever the Mexican console comes.

And how do you have?

We've done that.

Yeah, do you know when they come?

Uh how often, you know.

I think it's like every two months.

I think it's coming every month.

Is it everyone's been coming to the church?

I think we should be there, yes.

Yeah, we should be there, and then we can talk to the can I get more information.

Yeah, cool.

I'll I'll look up that.

Great.

So do we do announcements and stuff or because we're at time?

Yeah, they have to.

Okay, if there's anything, a moment for any announcement.

So we'll company 30 seconds.

Probably something that you can mind.

Uh, the Mexican conflict is something that's so do other country that one console, and programs are not sure other countries as well.

So we can reach out to more people.

How do we find out when they're coming?

Yeah, it's usually good on their social media websites.

That's how I know about the Mexican costs.

That's how I was sharing, but or sometimes I share the webinar.

But I haven't I don't know about that.

They work with your closely.

That's true.

That's another way I know.

That just sent me okay, cool.

Thank you.

Um, all right.

Well, we don't need to vote or anything because we're just hanging out.

So, the first one is Lexi sent me information about free safety uh swimming classes with the YWCA that has bilingual translators available so we'd like to be able to disseminate that and get that out to the community um came from uh uh flyer article article that came out, so I don't know how we can get that out.

Or Facebook, yeah, we put it on the Facebook.

I forgot what was our name?

Yeah, I know I'm like I can't remember now the names I think so yeah so I don't know if any of you knew about that so you got little ones I know you have little ones I got a lot of that's a great opportunity but you know if you could share that with your PC.

Yeah put it on our Facebook last month we had agreed to draft a letter um and I saw a draft that you had started are we ready to submit that I mean I thought it was already yeah um I was just going to make sure with Lexi that email that what is that email do you remember there there's an email that um we wanted to put on I guess in the letter that we send oh resilient at city of uh okay just to make sure if that's okay to put that email there and is uh it's gonna come to us I guess that's the only thing that we're going to do yeah let me confirm that um our department head well no we we actively monitor that inbox oh okay um but let me just confirm with our department head that she's okay with sending folks there for the specific purpose.

That is the only thing we're waiting on and as soon as I get that I'll put the letter ready to I will say we're also in in the city working on each commission getting their own email.

Oh cool it's not gonna happen tomorrow but it is in progress so eventually we'll be able to send people to a dedicated inbox that like I would have access to as well as the chairs to like offer.

So awesome incoming well thank you everybody appreciate you making the time um I guess we'll see you at the retreat yes next because we don't have a meeting in jail.

See you there.

Do I know who all's RCP who's coming not off the top of my head but we are about to look at my we didn't have very many last year so I'm hoping we'll have a better yeah I know it last time it was a glass kind of it was a last I do what I I do what I can and it does help if you actively tell me if you're not able to come I know I'm looking at I don't think I'm gonna be able to make it I'm gonna be in Mexico so July is my time to go to Mexico.

It's like every year we go in July Mexico retreat I know it's like are you teaching this summer?

I'm teaching online I mean I'm going to only in July see everybody travels in July which is why we take that break in July and what that's what makes July perfect to come in with the retreat you know so much obviously highly in the alumni for you I will