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Convention and Visitors Bureau Committee Meeting 070722 New
A
A
A
E
A
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G
I
s
liaison
received
the
request
most
of
the
time
by
email.
The
main
meeting
was
not
at
the
office
staff
reported
to
the
museum,
so
those
requests
arrived
prior
to
the
meeting
to
my
email
and
sat
there
in
june.
Again
I
was
out,
I
received
the
request
prior
to
the
meeting,
but
I
was
unable
to
bring
it
to
the
committee.
H
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E
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E
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F
E
They,
let
me
make
a
suggestion.
You
know
what
helped
and
I
don't
mind
being
in
that
list,
because
it
helped
me
in
another
organization,
but
what
the
organization
started
to
do
was
to
put
the
entire
roll
call
for
the
whole
year.
So
right
there,
when
you
looked
at
gabriel
castillo,
miss
miss
miss
miss
miss
whether
excused
or
not
you're,
not
there.
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K
A
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B
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J
I'm
on
the
library
committee,
but
we
meet
at
five
o'clock
in
the
in
the
afternoon
and
we
have
pretty
good
attendance,
but
I
do
agree
with
what
you
just
passed
that
they
need
to
convince
them.
Well,
you
committed
yourself
when
you're
you're,
your
district
council
member,
asked
you
and
I'm
committed
myself
and
I'm
proud.
Maybe
I
can
just
post
I've
never
missed
one.
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D
K
We
remember
when
we
were
on
the
food
bank
board.
We
would
call
board
members
the
day
of
the
bee
and
sometimes
board
rivers
report.
Members
have
a
lot
of
things
to
do
in
their
own
business
board.
Members
would
say
thank
you
for
calling
I
had
forgotten
and
we
had
already
called
them
three
times
that
the
meeting
was
a
certain
day.
I
had
forgotten.
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Ma'am
chair,
our
summarized
budget
is
on
page
five
and
the
hotel
multi-electricity
tax
collections
are
on
page
six,
we're
still
in
a
good
good
place.
We
presented
our
budget,
as
I
mentioned
last
month,
to
management,
and
we
had
to
make
some
cuts
here
and
there,
but
for
the
most
part,
we're
ready
for
the
next
fiscal
year.
F
This
is,
this
is
a
better
year.
Definitely,
we've
we've
seen
the
increase
every
single
month,
we've
seen
a
better
number
than
last
year.
We
continue.
We.
We
know
that
there's
still
a
lot
of
government
contracts
in
the
community
coming
up
this
next
week
is
going
to
be
a
big
one,
because,
yes,
we
have
the
perfect
storm,
we
have
government
contracts,
we
have
pony
and
we
have
sister
cities
do.
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E
Well,
there
was
a
whataburger
and
I'm
going
to
say
what
location,
but
I
was
there
and
it's
always
dead.
I
mean
that
location
is
slow.
I
would
say
long
story
short.
Three
buses
stop
they're
waiting
and
they're
upset
because,
of
course,
there's
not
enough
staff
to
man.
The
whole
thing.
My
point
here
is
as
a
bank.
I
know
we
like
to
know
ahead
of
time
when
it's
like,
for
example,
we
know
that
the
busy
season
is
because
we
have
all
these
people
who
want
all
these
orders.
E
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D
F
You
new
by
the
state
government
for
hospitality,
the
hospitality
travel
industry.
We
sent
the
enough
to
the
hotels,
our
tourism
partners
attractions
to
let
them
know
we'll
send
it
again,
because
now
there
are
states
for
different
webinars.
But
now
the
state
government
is
providing
assistance
to
the
hospitality
and
the
travel
industry.
So.
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And
it's
going
to
keep
us.
We
need
to
make
sure
that
everything
is
exactly
that
we
we
have
all
that
in
mind,
and
so
with
that,
as
a
starting
point
we
have
during
the
month
of
june
the
end
the
end
of
may
and
the
beginning
of
june.
We
had
the
nnpda
conference.
This
is
the
second
time
we
host
this
conference.
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E
You
know
we
were
kind
of
debating
about
it,
because
here
we
are,
you
know,
trying
to
be
all
things
to
all
people,
but
we
were
having
an
event
and
it
was.
It
was
a
an
art
opening
and
we
had
a
lot
of
out
of
town
people
for
that
event,
because
the
artists
were
promoted
so
long
story
short,
everyone
started
to
set
up
their
beds
along
the
sides
of
the
wall
of
the
building.
You
know
so
it
was
like
not
only
that
we
were
serving
the
food
and
the
food
was
outside.
D
E
B
A
E
There's
entitlement
involved
because
once
you
said
you
could
set
up
this
all
of
a
sudden,
you
set
up
a
tent.
You
set
up
a
you,
bring
your
whole
family
and
there's
families
in
some
cities
near
our
banks,
where
they're
there's
an
entire
family
sleeping
outside.
There's
a
guy
guess
his
motorcycle
he's
parked
outside.
Yes,
he
has
a
vehicle,
he
just
doesn't
have
a
home.
You
know
it's
just
it's
just
sad,
but
there's
only
so
many
things
you
can
do.
You
know.
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Homelessness
and
homelessness
because
of
addiction,
because
those
are
two
different
factors
and
that's
the
thing
that
I
kind
of
don't
like
to
mix
up
too
much
because
people
say:
oh,
it's
a
homeless.
Well,
it's
not
always
a
homeless
because
there's
some
homeless
people
that
are
very
good
people
that
just
don't
have
a
place
to
sleep.
E
You
offer
them
a
place,
but
then,
unfortunately,
at
the
center
we
do
have
a
situation
where
there's
syringes
left
behind.
There's
you
know
paraphernalia,
you
have
all
kinds
of
behind,
so
we
have
to
differentiate
that.
Unfortunately,
you
know
carefully
because
that
can
be
a
danger
to
us
too,
because
if
we
have
kids
camping,
we.
B
B
B
And
that's
what
we
ran
into
in
mhmr.
You
know
you
have
to
treat
both
of
them
at
the
same
time,
because
if
not
you're
not
going
to
get
the
results,
and
this
is
one
of
the
problems
you
know
with
the
people
that
are
out
there-
that
a
lot
of
people
don't
realize
you
know
they
have
their
dirt
at
us
yeah,
but
they're
there.
They
have
mental
issues
you
have
to
treat
and
then,
if
you
treat
every
treatment,
ventilation
with
medication
and
then
they're
taking
drugs,
drugs.
B
E
C
Is
we
had
to
move
the
farmers
market
from
the
plaza,
because
every
morning
that
we
were
going
to
have
a
farmers
market,
we
had
to
call
the
city
to
power
clean?
Because
you
know
it
was
so
ugly
and
at
one
point
there
was
a
time
when
the
city
was
very
busy
and
they
weren't
able
to,
and
it
was
a
mess
and
people
complained
and
the
vendors
complained.
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C
E
B
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D
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C
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E
I
B
F
As
part
of
strengthening
the
visitor
experience,
because
of
all
the
things
that
we
did
around
the
conference,
like
the
walk
to
the
center
for
the
arts,
the
services
that
we
provided
on
destination
development,
who
have
been
working
with
a
rotary
club
and
e-commerce
to
host
the
special
destination
training.
That
for
us,
is
very
important
because
it's
people
that
are
new
to
our
community
or
that
have
been
with
our
community.
But
they
want
to
know
more
about
it
and
so
we're
working
with
them
to
put
together
a
destination
training
and
on
destination
leadership.
F
They
went
through
tourism
college
and
they
did
their
capstone
project
and
received
their
ct
from
the
texas
travel
alliance
and
that's
a
recognized
industry,
state
certification
and
we're
very
excited
about
it.
Mayor
and
council
recognized
them
at
the
last
meeting
and
so
we're
very
happy
for
them.
Congratulations.
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Location,
we
have
yeah,
we
have
about
3,
000
water
bottles
here
empty
one
problems
that
promotional
that
we're
going
to
provide
to
all
the
kids,
so
they
have
a
bottle
of
water
to
have
all
the
time.
The
opening
ceremony
is
happening
on
tuesday,
the
12th
at
the
unit
trade
stadium
also
there's
a
lot
of
logistics
around
keeping
everybody
hydrated.
F
I
E
A
there's
an
issue
there
because
we
went
too
we
were
doing
our
own
kind
of
study
because
we
do
a
quality
of
life
deal
for
every
market
and
you
know,
unfortunately,
the
water
comes
out
at
the
bottom.
You
know,
and
one
of
the
things
is
our
parks.
You
know
our
lack
of
really
nice
park,
you
know
and
we
have.
We
have
photographs
of
all
the
different
parks
in
different
cities.
Mcallen,
even
you
go
past
my
car.
You
know
they
really
have
beautiful.
E
E
E
People,
it's
not
a
one-man
show.
You
know
it
should
be
several
organizations
that
get
involved
and
provide
there,
but
we
have
to
put
a
plan
and
try
not
to
get
political
and
try
to
make
it
a
real
plan.
Everybody
says
we're
going
to
plant
trees,
we're
going
to
put
irrigation,
you
know
and
maybe
focus
on
certain
areas.
You
know
bigger.
E
That's
what
I
mean
the
irrigation
is
very
important
and
I'm
not
telling
you
because
I'm
so
smart
at
this-
it's
because
we
actually
got
the
plants
from
other
cities
and
what
they
were
doing
and
that's
basically
what
they
did.
They
involved
everyone
and
everyone
was
sponsored
a
section.
So
this
was
like
the
rotary.
B
K
E
E
But
the
idea
was
there:
some
of
them
were
too
unrealistic.
It's
like
no.
We
can't
put
a
bridge
over
and
get
all
this
stuff.
You
know,
but
there
were
like
realistic
things
that
they
could
that
they
could
do,
and
there
was
a
criteria
you
know,
but
it
was
a
contest
and
then
I
think
that
our
organization
was
highlighted.
They
put
a
black
on
there
or
whatever
that
they
got
the
best
and.
E
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F
We're
very
excited
because
we
have
got
a
great
response,
not
only
for
from
our
vendors
they're
they're,
looking
forward
to
it
they're
very
excited
about
it.
As
I
mentioned
before
the
meeting
we
do,
we
we've
had
and
we
accounted
for
that.
We've
had
some
issues
with
vendors
in
terms
of
their
visas.
We
knew
going
in
that
visas
right
now
are
very
difficult
to
to
get.
It
takes
a
lot
of
time.
The
process.
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They've
been
really
good
about
focusing
on
customer
service.
They
do
a
lot
of
things
we
work
together
with
with
customs
and
border
protection
in
several
projects.
So
that's
definitely
something
that
should
be
reported.
I
know
they're
very
open
to
making
sure
that
they
understand
that
the
experience
for
the
visitor
begins
at
the
crossbar.
D
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F
G
E
G
E
E
H
F
D
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E
H
E
Have
already
asked
me
that
they
need
small
bills
because
they're
giving
them
they're
paying
them
with
150
or
400
or
whatever,
but
we
did
that.
We
can't
always
do
that.
Unfortunately,
but
that's
what
I
was
thinking
you
know,
I
know
that,
for
example,
I
think
it's
back.
In
the
days
of
jambuzzi,
we
had
a
room
that
was
basically
a
bank
and
that's
where
we
would
you
know
we
had
we.
I
don't
know
if
that
would
be
cool
for
you
all
or
not.
I
mean
it's
kind
of
late.
I.
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F
Or
if
you
would
like
to
volunteer,
we
have
volunteer
positions.
Basically,
he
has
four
cashiers
four
hours.
You
can
do
a
four
hour
shift
to
the
whole
weekend
and
it's
15
and
older.
As
I
mentioned
yesterday,
it's
bilingual
is
preferred
because
some
of
our
vendors
do
not
speak
english
and
sometimes
the
volunteer
serves
also
as
a
translator
and
so
we're
looking
for
volunteers.
For
that.
F
F
Very
good,
so
we
need
to
be
96
right,
yes
on
friday
and
everybody
was
telling
us-
and
I
think
it
was
mentioned
here
in
the
committee-
people
leave
work
and
they
barely
made
it
and
some
fridays.
So
a
lot
of
people
wanted
to
make
sure
that
they
they
were
able
to
get
to
the
event.
So
we
extended
the
hours
for
friday
11
to
8.
F
B
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B
C
C
F
When
I
first
started-
and
I
would
do-
but
it
was
a
different
time
with
I-
I
would
do
the
like
on-site
supervision
like
the
whole
weekend.
Now
we
do.
It
is
the
first
time
he's
going
to
do
the
supervision
also
because
it
was
very
high,
and
so
now
it
change
is
different.
So
we
we're
able
to
all
work
together
and,
as
I
mentioned
before,
I
mean
the
team.
Everybody
has
a
job,
and
so
everybody's
focused
on
what.
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A
great
service,
you
know
this
is
a
very
good
discussion
on
this,
the
sister
cities,
you
know
and
just
knowing
and
getting
more
comfortable.
You
know
what
you
know.
You
know
the
process
and
what
you
have
been
doing
and
how
the
necessary
staff
and
the
connections
and
everything
I
mean.
That's
just
very
interesting
and.
F
To
to
welcome
you
to
the
the
behind
the
scenes
of
the
setup
on
what
point
goes
on
before
the
event?
Okay,
thank
you
and
our
feature
for
for
this
week
or
this
month
brother.
We
wanted
to
present
you
our
our
two
campaigns.
We
know
that
there's
several
questions.
There
were
questions
that
were
table
of
counsel
and
they're.
B
C
B
But
the
people
here
don't
realize
everything
like
we
are
privileged
because
we're
sitting
here,
members
of
the
committee-
and
you
can
tell
us
you
know
what
you've
been
doing
behind
the
scenes.
It's
a
lot
of
work
and
people
should
know,
and
that
should
know
what
makes
this
festival
successful,
because
it
is
going
to
be
very,
very
simple.
D
F
So,
in
the
first
part,
you'll
see
all
the
information
that
we're
sharing.
Also
with
with
with
council.
We
have
the
opportunity
the
opportunity
comes
during
the
meeting,
and
these
are
what
are
our
objectives
are
what
the
core
message
of
our
platform,
our
objectives,
so
that
people
can
see
that
we're
not
just
doing
this
out
of
what
we
think
is
the
correct
thing.
But
what
the
experts
in
the
industry
are
guiding
us
and
it's
a
strategy
and.
B
B
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F
Four
months,
but
this
this
is
going
to
give
you
like
a
quick
overview
of
what
we're
doing.
I
know
in
the
past,
we've
had
questions
of
how
do
you
like
advertise
out
of
town?
So
this
gives
you
it's
an
overview
again,
our
print
digital
leisure,
what
we
do
for
event,
specific
events,
historic
events,
birding
our
meetings,
market,
our
sports
market
and
just
in
the
the
whole
new
campaign
of
real
mexican
wheel,
texas,
rio,
loreto
authentically
mexican
undeniably
texan,
which
is
a
new
campaign
that
we're
going.
D
F
F
F
H
H
We're
gonna
be
at
the
park,
you
know,
because
I
can
come
off
sometimes
a
little.
You
know,
because
you
can
convince
me
and
he's
like
no
like
you're,
not
you
gotta.
Let
us
a
bigger
picture
like
we're
going
to
be.
You
know,
doing
one-on-ones
we're
going
to
be
giving
up
two
funds
we're
going
to
be
giving
advisors,
we're
gonna,
you
know.
So
then
you
know
just
you
know
seeing
the
final
product,
it's
like
yeah,
it
works
and
and
they
can
just.
C
E
I
E
B
F
And
we
have,
we
have
numbers
the
last,
a
good
set
of
numbers
that
we
have
obviously
from
before
the
pandemic,
but
the
the
state,
the
office
of
the
governor,
they
provide
at
a
cost,
but
they
provide
research
for
different
communities,
and
so
we
we
subscribed
to
that
information
and
in
2018
we
had
a
million
people
coming
to
laredo
from
mexico.
Wow
like
planning
to
stay
here,
not
people
not
not,
trans,
it's
not
just
by
council
people.
B
A
lot
of
the
people
that
you
know
do
the
advertising
in
there
you
get
more
battery.
You
bought
because
people
in
mexico
are
wanting
to
come
to
the
united
states
or
even
to
the
border.
You
know
just
to
do
whatever
the
shopping
or
you
know
whatever
they're
here
for
business,
I
mean
that's
very
important
and
the
advertising
dollars
you
know
for
them
for.
H
F
And
that's
about
it,
that's
one
of
the
things
that
and
that's
why,
when
I
say
anybody
that
I
can
share
it
with,
because
a
lot
of
the
questions
that
come
to
us
is
because
the
visitor
from
mexico-
it's
not
as
easy
to
identify
a
visitor
from
mexico
than
it
is
to
identify
a
visitor
from
anywhere
else
in
the
u.s,
because
we
all
basically
look.
That's
it,
and
so,
as
a
former
visitor
from
mexico.
F
H
E
E
E
D
E
E
E
Tell
you
right
now,
I'm
going
to
be
asking
for
a
lot
of
information
for
the
chamber
next
year,
because
I
think
it's
important
that
they
know
these
things,
because
I
hear
that
I
wish
I
could
do
it,
but
my
corporate
office
does
not
want
me
to
do
this
or
comfortable
just
want
me
to
invest
in
that
I
have
the
old
tables
I
have
the
old.
I
haven't
fixed
the
torn
up,
you
know
seats,
you
know
and
the
booths,
because
they
don't
they
don't
want
to
invest
the
money
right
now.
I
don't.
F
See
it
they
don't
see
it.
I
don't
wanna
keep
saying
that
the
report
we're
getting
is
wonderful
and
amazing,
but
I
think
it's
gonna
help
us
also
bring
that
point
home.
The
new
reporting
that
we're
getting
should
help
us
show
in
a
more
graphic
way
how
the
visitor
is
behaving
whenever
they
get
to
work.
B
E
E
C
E
But
you
know
it's
not
enough
that
we
have
to
keep
pushing
and
I
try
and
push
them
as
much
as
possible.
I
made
my
own
flyers
and
I
just
said
this
is
down
this.
This
is
downtown
and
you
can
park
here
I'm
trying
to
make
it
as
easy
as
possible
for
people
to
go
in
because
they
like
them.
I
brought
some
to
the
offices.
I
visited
the
disgrace
they're
downtown
here.
You
know,
and
I
gave
the
number.
F
J
E
I
C
E
E
D
E
K
F
F
D
F
D
I
C
B
E
F
F
We're
all
fighting
for
that
market.
I
mean
you're
talking
to
other
destinations.
I
know
during
march
we
were
all
doing.
We
were
all
doing
the
the
mexico
rounds.
We
were
all
going
to
monterey
and
then
mexico
city
and
sao
paulo
island
mcallen
all
my
camp.
They
didn't
do
it
this
year,
but
they
usually
do
even.
F
F
Yes,
so
because
mexico
city
is
a
new
market
for
us,
we
wanted
to
make
sure
people
knew
how
to
get
to
the
right.
So
we
did
a
big
effort.
Most
of
our
presence
in
mexico
city
has
been
come
to
loreto
enjoy
and
at
the
beginning
it
was
come
to
loretto
without,
like
that's
how
you
get
here,
and
now
this
year
we
introduced
our
campaign
now
in
combination
with
we're
still
doing
the.
This
is
how
you
get
here,
but
now
we
have.
This
is
what's.
E
Already
all
about
as
a
city,
you
cannot
collaborate
with
other
advertising
to
like,
in
other
words,
to
save
you
money
on
everything
like
you
can't
do
ads
with
other
people
with
other
other
vendors.
Other
local,
like
let's
say,
if
you
want
to
do
a
business
with
you,
know,
chili's,
you
know
chili's,
we
can
go
to
promote
they.
They
can't
latch
onto
your
ad
and
pay.
You
no.
F
I
F
K
D
E
E
C
C
B
A
B
C
C
B
F
We
have
the
engagement
for
our
different,
our
different
accounts
and
engagement
means
how
people
are
interacted
interacting
with
our
with
our
accounts
and
a
lot
of
people
say
well,
one
thing
is
engagement.
What
if
it's
negative
engagement
and
I'm
happy
to
report
that
our
sentiment,
because
now
there's
ways
to
figure
out
how
people
interact
and
in
what
sentiment
they
are
interacting.
So
the
sentiment
for
loretto
is
very
positive.