City of Laredo, Texas Convention & Visitors Bureau, 5 Mar 2020

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03-05-20 Convention and Visitors Bureau Advisory Committee Meeting

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Money, fellow meters present my hair. Nobody is missing, I, think I'm getting young person. Okay. Now we move over to the motion to excuse. Our members are as follows: we have three members who are asking for excused absences. It's Raymond.

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I leave a question in reference to our last meeting that we said that we wanted to add a.

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Comments into the January's meeting minutes were: did we do that or yes yeah.

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We are Evan, won't bring it to them. Excuse.

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An exceedingly yes, so we cannot Monica already.

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Work on adding the.

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So we'll bring it to the next week. Thank.

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You, as far as the minutes for the February, the 6th, you have any comments or any Corrections that need to be made. I.

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Do we have any public or citizen comments to.

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Something to call also- and he has some kind of business that he's promoted and he said that he wanted to talk to me and I said well. Just remember, I said why don't you go and make a presentation? I, don't know what what what it's about to be going on. It.

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But he said he would call me back because I had caught me in the morning right early and I was on my way out and this and I'm sorry I just said well: I've been watching the meetings so I know he's watching me know so no I.

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Mean we didn't have that name go through this presentation.

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He could really, you know, wanted to promote radio, but that he has an idea or two that are different than what we're doing here. So she talked.

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To you, yeah I, don't.

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Annoy me and it necessary to get yourself on the agenda yeah.

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Us and yes, he said it doesn't I.

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Have an idea, who might it be, and we might already be in.

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We're already working with him the project because of different details is not moving as fast as he might want to, but we're already working already under contract.

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The the program that they have is they have carts were, and it's mostly for for visitors, they're constantly coming to the radio for for visitors that we might want to bring you. But we know that they're going to constantly come to the radio, because it's like a membership card were the more times you visit the radio. The more time she's been like points to spend somewhere else, but in order to be able to spend us those money somewhere else have to visit, and so we're already working with him.

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It's well explained because it's a little bit difficult to it's, not something that you see in here like, oh, because it's something different and deterring you and so we've been working with.

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It so they told me in any turn, I said: look, uh maybe we need to sit down and talk about it. Cuz, you know over the phone is so difficult, especially when it's a very detailed thing.

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It well serves it, you know, I'll be with willing to meet with you, but we have a meeting on Thursday and.

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I'll bring it up and see what and.

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So one of the things that we think I mean we talked.

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And one other things a lot of the ideas that they had I said because of because of us being in government entities and because of the way that we are funded.

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Gonna say that that's what the the anxiety maybe is that people that normally do not work with government entities. You know think that it's just sign here and sign here and and the.

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Genuine out of this, but it's not.

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Always like that,.

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You're dealing.

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With with regulations and funding and etc, etc, and.

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So I'm thinkin we I mean we can do some things. It's we have regulations, you're.

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Working with him in it- and he receives that explanation and I'm glad we got to talk to you, yeah.

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So I said you know we go meeting us, you call me Tuesday, so we on the air, Thursday I, said.

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Bring it up, I said I I just want to be able to know more about orgasm. You know you tell me over the phone- and you say it's very complicated sorority.

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More than that.

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Yeah Emma he texted me yesterday.

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Actually, like.

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One is everything going to be rolled out, we're.

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Sign up a rock art that explains what code.

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It is and how it works and exactly where.

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You set them up for failure.

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And I know because we are I, think his first client Holloway.

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The project he yes, that assignee that he's like I've, set up like he set up his business, basically blessing.

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Explained to us, it like I, basically set up already everything so that he can start he's.

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Banking on us exactly.

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Each remote town, his partners,.

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From out of town and I had a conversation with him and I said, sir, because he asked me he's like I need you to start so I can start selling my project. I said sir, you do to business. You need to do what you need to do right, but don't don't don't.

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Have a you, do you know exactly until you're ready to do with it exactly.

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So I think that's also the anxiety that he's he's work, he's first client of this, this project here and so they're waiting on us to show to other.

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I want I wanted to ask because I've confused for this on the October November December 13 February, the 2020 actuals. What does that mean.

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That's the monies that actually came in to the were collected that monies that were collected, but not in 2020 well,.

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Should just say 20.

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Oh yeah, we're gonna, see.

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The other one say: 2019 extra funding.

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So all of a sudden I thought wait a minute and.

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I went back to the other ones and they.

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Say the same thing but I, don't know why I hadn't asked I'm sorry what.

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But it's just we go with it's it's this fiscal year, so.

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This one is the 25th K, so maybe a fiscal.

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That works so we have over. Although remember that is.

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And so how does that I'm? Sorry, you all I asked the question before you explain.

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We're still going about predictions, we didn't have.

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We didn't know the situation with the new government in Mexico how it was gonna affect. So when we did our projections for two three years in the past we were we were actually very conservative and so right now our actual section are basically above our projection. But.

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Still good, as I mentioned last time, we are being very.

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Just very detail on what he spent and how we spent, because, although the budget freeze doesn't affect directly, will develop its attacks, we want to be good stewards of the monies and we want to make sure that we're spending and.

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You don't know with the the virus started, so people may not want to travel yeah.

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Well, the thing is also: you know that Trump was threatened to close the border to seal the border if they start having an aggressive. He.

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Wanted to do that in his first press conference, when he had a lot of pressure from the industry yeah.

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He was going to announce that that's why the reporters brought it up and then he said, no there's no plans were good friends with Mexico. Remember how you.

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And the reason he said that was because I know of some meetings that he had right before where he was going to close and and and was told you do, that you're dead.

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Doesn't even realize the.

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Impact I mean just I mean look.

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Crazy, it's crazy! You know it's.

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It's it's very dangerous right now, because I even think that there was already people in the United States that.

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And were on the track to get the virus, the vaccine for the virus and were stopped and I. Think Congress is going to investigate that and you're going to see that truth. In these days, that's going to be the rumble when you all go to Washington, it's going to be the corner, Mart coronavirus and you are going to have to be very careful because everybody is going to want to speak about that, and many people are not going to show up to your meetings because.

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Coming from the border.

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Yeah but everybody, the noise speculation, is people start talking about it. I said you.

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Know this is a hot.

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Spot really mean stuff to consider right now. Just listen to the news. I mean the hotel industry.

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Becomes a word they're gathering here.

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From all over Texas.

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Doing video conferences now I would I would seriously when you all, have your meeting consider your travel plans.

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It may be a waste of time and people are not going to go to your party. That's.

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That's one other. We know they're.

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Not always having.

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To bail every minute, but people just don't know, I'm.

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Going to tell you right now, they are not going to go to your party.

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Our mind to the arts.

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Or arts is worth we're, the.

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Ones are organized and so we're looking at everything to make sure that everything is ready in everything. We have that actually.

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You can't contain some if you continue to do what you always do and most of us aren't, you know, aren't, are pretty worried than about, like you say, you're, you're, cleaning and everything. But in addition to that there are people out there that don't do those things.

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So I really think that, in order to contain it and and that's the only way, you could stop it, which it is something.

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We started it stop.

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Doing what you're doing kind of never do? Yes, you have to stop doing your normal activities.

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Your friends and that's a terrible pain. You.

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Don't know what to do. Things are.

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Changing everything.

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I'm going to with a travel agency because my family is going to Italy in or what it's planning to go to Italy in July. Oh, my god, the drama, the travel agency. You know they pretty much, you just show up and they take care of everything, but you pay them ahead of time to horse and.

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I already have paint them a certain amount of money, so in contact they told me right now: they're sending out emails all the time, but right now their email is saying we're taking care of the people traveling in March and we're giving them options. You wouldn't Monni back. You want to go to another destination or you want to postpone for another year and keep your deposit here. That's how they're handling it thank God. You.

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Much everybody is Jansen.

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Seen a lot of travel and.

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I'm hard on travel organization and.

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Everybody's trying to deal with it every.

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Way, there's some there's a lot of faces.

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No date tomorrow might change.

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What we're talking about today, surgery so about a lot of private sector of caution there, cats and.

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So now the mortgage is declared an emergency.

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They are border states, so it in evitable like she said we're gonna, we're going to get hit, know how to get a hand and.

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That they are that that's why? In looking at these projections and looking at these numbers, you know I mean I'm sure, you're concerned, you know, because you have to be.

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Our we because it's very easy I mean you hear the news, and it's I mean one that yesterday five divert, you know, there's more people are beginning to die. No, no, no, really! The amount of people that get the coronavirus I mean with me in my own, just weekly, my um you know case. Okay, really, then you move on with it, but for people that have compromised system they're.

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Dying yeah, so we there's and there's a lot of we've been in talks on, not necessarily because of the.

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Experience we want to be ready for other situations like possible, closing of the bridges when, when the care events were happening and that type of thing- and so we've been talking to our agency Mexico and our agency here in the US talking being proactive in terms of PR, how can we work and so we're we're ready? We have been talking about situations like this for the past, probably six months and to where what, if this happens, if the caravan happens, what what do we do? We.

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Had a plan B exactly and so we've.

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Been talking since things started moving around the bridge and they started putting the concertina wire, all that would be prepared with our agency, especially in Mexico, but now our agency ended us. My.

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Housekeepers that ash as a restaurant across the river and she said that all of the churches were ordered to no sign of peace and no Ostia in the mouth. They.

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Have been a good.

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Mentor headhunter to the imperious it is to hear a minute.

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They just started.

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Remember that it's.

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To the priests in Mexico, they have the the n1h one history right so.

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They know they know so.

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They're implementing things that they and that's.

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Tools, percussion.

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Because they have that.

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Experience with them, that's why I'm hoping I think we're safe for having Mexico as as a neighbor them and not because they are aware so.

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Know that we're very we're trying to be looking for those type of things we're working with our agencies in keeping them updated, they keep us updated and we keep them updated on what's going on and we were basically looking at all the options in terms of PR so that in case, something like this happens, we know how to the.

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Other thing, I'm going to tell you to be aware of things: I know for a fact that every day there are many Chinese caught on the border- and you won't probably know this too and.

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Don't know how that will play out I'm, hoping that the Border Patrol and everyone else is taking huge precautions, because, if anything happens from there, I guess whose name is going to be sneered along excited.

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And that's a big concern: I! Don't know if you all remember the other virus that was going on and everything was happening here at Doctors Hospital with a group of Chinese no.

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That part was an OP. Was we didn't think about that part? You know who's going to think yeah so be in close contact. Whoever your contacts are yeah compartments that contact them be sure they are taking it very seriously, because really the city has to be the leader in this.

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Communicating with.

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Will speak to the places are more effective, so.

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Up-To-Date important.

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We're still going I mean today.

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You're doing that did it right, yeah.

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You better than even Saturday just because we're it's like, because we're yeah it's.

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Boy needs something like.

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There's just a few hours difference: it's basically we get there. The 9 p.m. I'm heating 6 in the morning so she's a few because he's with a whole delegation and read on Michael us so.

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Everybody leaves on Sunday and Sunday.

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Percent of the group you something and.

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Spring Break I'm, going to Las Vegas.

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Take over what you get to the plane, even a the first thing you do is just yeah.

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This is our financials. It was separately.

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Are we fully staffed? No.

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We're working on adding one more person that we got approved this year, which is our our Sports Sales Coordinator. So we just need one more person. Isn't.

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That what should we do? Yes,.

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It wasn't sports teams, somebody counsel, we requested that we have and then we totally.

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We have so Kohanim I would do sales a couple years ago. Who would be the sales team? He would do. Sports and leisure and I was conferences and when I moved to Assistant, Director and then to to director, basically quit well for a little while I still yeah the conference initial touch yeah, and then he when he became this, the sales manager. He manages base T conventions and sports and anything that's sales. So we need somebody to to support that the department or the division.

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Sports is one of the businesses that brings us more people when.

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We say sales you're selling, the.

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Yeah so since we're getting a new complex, thereby that's the that was a push by city council, there's.

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A lot of potential in that market and we've seen it with pony, be and thank.

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Know what that we have.

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Kids is whether we can be a great.

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Destination city.

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That exactly so, based on that and we definitely agree with counsel on that direction and we're working and so.

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It made a sales assistant, yes,.

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Yes, so it would be part of the sales organization.

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The salary that's projected.

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We want to make sure that is.

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This would be great.

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And because it's it's not like other sales positions, where you can offer commission my, we.

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To be a good package.

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Feel good: we have to have the right person, there's always exact right person for the job.

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And it just happened, okay will be to be.

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Keeneland will be rolling out that attend after.

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Position tire after okay.

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That very activity reports with onions all.

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Right, thank you, madam chair. Just a quick update for you on the birding festival. I was so excited to see the number of people at the banquet. It was for service of presentation and I was getting kind of myself.

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It's more than they've ever had.

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Had 79 from out of state it's great.

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Things by the state 79.

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Texas, including coke locals at a total country, one from Kevin I went from Argentina, that's amazing, so, and it was a great success. They had a great number of sightings and they Olson had. It was just amazing and new species. You turkeys, if.

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So explain how mine it.

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Was where were those right at I mean? We really always come to see the more like white collar cedar that one finger and this door.

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Hurt me: is he.

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Guys so exciting to see people oh and mrs. Barrett, she's, Barbara dirt she's been here for less eight years and.

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I still remember her.

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Face the first time she came as she was like she's very serious and she wasn't sure what they.

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I remember meeting her and she's been here every year and she goes in the shoe kayaks on the river. She did she and we joked that she hopes I. Think last year, two years ago she fell, and so she drank the water. She has come back.

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Have been here for step six, seven, eight years.

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For us it's a great example of how partners of the CD we can come together, start something and then from there I mean well that mucho and Rio Grande international Tricia have taken it to a different level. It's and it's just growing and growing. They improved it every year, and so we're happy to support that event. The the speaker when I was there because I usually go to the banquet and I.

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Was there listening to the speaker, he's from South Africa, and he was every time he would present something he would say. Oh this is he used to have a TV show for ten years in Florida and every time you would show something you would say. Well, this destination hi already and so Tricia is helping me make that connection so that we can do a birding video and it's.

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Is so now we're a destination for.

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And for sports exactly so.

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We're already working with the Rio Grande International, Study Center and making that connection we're creating just working on the Vita so that in november/december, because that's the prime time for birding. He can come back here and do a video for us.

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That was a good outcome. Sure and it was I mean it was just a great great event. We've been in talks with with Mexican immigration. We just want to know a little yes great again for another meeting, because they also have by Simon Crossing during the seminar, so they're preparing and they're keeping us very engaged in that process, they're keeping us very engaged and in how they are updating their immigration processes, their permits, their vehicle permit.

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So we're very thankful to them that they're involving us, because once that the the visitor gets here, and even if it's not up by sound, we get a lot of questions our front desk. It's a lot of questions about Mexico and we don't always know what to answer so.

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Created this really good relationship with our Mexican counterparts, but also with meeting ASEAN man. You gotta know everything.

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Know timeline so.

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To give you a quick update on that, they change their whole process for vehicles before they have the two options. They still have the two options but before when you enter your your your request for your permit online for your vehicle, which we saw a lot of our price on us during December, tell us for the last couple of years. Oh I: did it online that they don't like the only issue? Is they had to wait? They had to do it 10 to 15 days before they travel, because they would get the permit by FedEx.

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It would mean it would be mailed to them, and so what happened is we saw some cases where they wouldn't get it or they took off before they thought it. Ain't no.

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Good because they didn't do it, it was enough time and.

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So now on, the Mexican government did.

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Éxito is you can process your permit online and then you get it on your phone.

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There's a lot of people that.

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Lose the connection or.

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You don't have, especially if you go into Mexico, but it's a PDF see make sure yeah. But what is it exactly? What is the person? Let's have a computer or.

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Well, it's a PDF. They can go to a internet.

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Place and off is pretty.

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Mcquaid's I'm pretty so.

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They're, giving different options and there's a the form is different for, if you do it online or if you do it, you can still to see that I go through the process just as before. Wait and I whitey, but they're trying to.

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You are no longer gonna receive the the sticker, so.

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Need for the sticker anymore, everything is going to be all the information say. These gets tossed winner anywhere I mix it a little worse.

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They're working on on making it more that.

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Updated faster.

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Very very exact.

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People to access.

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Yeah, that's wonderful! So.

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You know it says on Sunday a lot of the people that I know are Mexican shoppers and we're paying with their phone mmm-hmm the us we were like. We know the credit card and a little bit today.

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Really I mean I just discovered the well of discovery, but I had never used to because in my phone I have my heart.

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So very very technologically yeah.

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Well, most of the visitors head yeah.

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I just feel people for them feel sorry for the.

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Manufacturers announced and they're winners, you know just think what happens with the depression is. When you hit the facts, he couldn't even anymore. I mean it's just technology, so.

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There's a chicken: why even call them phones, yeah.

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Went down for us, oh, we.

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Don't even like do you want me to drive with you.

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So the ATMs were down yeah.

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I said before credit cards and credit card receipts out.

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Do we put a little confident make send.

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We're gonna print effects. The facts would go to your email so.

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There wasn't actually.

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In fact, yes, yeah.

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So these are working with with the Royal College of food and arts festival, we're still working different projects. That council has directed so.

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Who's, the PIO triticeae, because you know how, before it was always in person, they were always on camera and I'm hard.

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You know there's, nobody ever does anymore I.

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Never cinnamon on camera he's behind the hips.

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What do you, like, you know, giving information? Call everything keeps you talk? Is that policy change I, don't know, but I know.

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That the way that you're doing is, he gets done either elected official of management or just.

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Person that the subject matter expert to speak so he's.

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A very crispy exactly they're, very.

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Active their office is very active. You can see every press conference all about on YouTube anything other than YouTube. I am.

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Though I mean I I'm, not questioning that I'm, just um everybody needs to have a mouthpiece. You know a person.

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That way, it's a it's an extra layer of protection from the actual person, yeah I mean you have to be well informed and not about you.

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Know, oh yeah, but it's.

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Always good to have somebody that really.

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About quiet, what there may.

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Be a change exactly I cannot and that's fine I'm, just I just think it's more comforting to the people if they see the same person all the time mm-hmm it.

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Doesn't matter.

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What it's a business- and you see big.

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Things yeah and you see them, and you know that they're gonna, be there. This city.

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Yeah, it's person.

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It just like when the police or the firefighters usage over a second way.

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You know yeah, yes,.

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What do you say about that? It's fine I mean it's a policy change, but I'll.

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Check with our firemen I know, there's worth.

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Ten pages, seven eight, when I kinda wanted to highlight on page eight I went together with ever Masada. We went to Austin to the Sikh conference and we were bidding for the 2020 2022.

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And we were competing against San Antonio, so we present it first to the board comes about ten board members, man that opens in regards to the conference what the hotel was offering, what the city was offering and we presented to them after that they uh they kind of clothes. You have to wait, you know ten fifteen minutes, we'll call you mention all of you guys. That's.

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The second single yeah, so they're all I, got.

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Call tent Santa 2% at first, so when we left they said hey, we saw something to go back. Then we found out later that apparent. There are some things that they didn't answer. They didn't have their, so they got the opportunity to percent back. Okay.

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And everything, so obviously you know I guess those were about play the board, and so then we they told us, you know you're gonna, be presenting to during their luncheon you're gonna, be pushing to the whole assembly with all the attendees. So yes, several.

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Remember reasoning about four five years ago, they were actually I mean want that bit.

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Yeah, listen really sexually.

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Bank here and they really loved it, so that helped a lot, but even with that competing just with tracfone.you. It's a really hard market.

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They were I think they have their city manager, there's deputy city manager. They had the director for seat for the Community Development. They had pretty much all their staff and I was just me and that burger.

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Obviously the Quentin.

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Forum cure local law enforcement from Laredo, so they were kind of helping spread the word. But when I went there you know I couldn't hear what signs when you offered and what they said. You know they have to work behind closed doors. It I think they went very confident, saying: hey we're gonna, be there.

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Could just hear the music, but when we went we connect their bathtub. The the mic was from the projector, so I had the this. They had a speaker in the projector, so I was using the mic over here by the stage I'm like. Oh, my god, you.

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Guys look great about the music. We don't care about the music, but you guys are gonna, have a lot of fun in it. So.

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I started talking to them and really engaging them and what Laredo has to offer and what we did. You know we, we hosted him a couple years ago, so man I feel so good and it was a Maribel.

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Everybody I walked from.

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There everybody.

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Giving me high checks- and everybody was like and I said- well go for a walk for North Korea. So.

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It was pretty cool, you know, I I, really.

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Lady from San Antonio she's, you know she's the same like me: she works for the city science alone and she's like oh, my god. You lose some anyway itself and.

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So I think she realized.

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And then we didn't find out until there's fighting.

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Jerry he sits in the board and from Community Development, so well he's from environmental, so he reached out to John Porter and then John poverty.

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She was texting.

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Just being sanity.

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Was really thanks? One person.

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So yeah I was really good, so there's a whole effort and all that, oh, my god and some people were like man from the Community Development I was like.

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Do what you have to do.

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That so it was really good I, just kind of wanted to highlight that that.

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This is the one in Austin they had two hundred attendees, so an average they get between 150 to 200. Oh.

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This guy's so they're coming on April to do a site visit at.

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The hotel sign a contract meet with the staff. You know, dell'arte the room block do with all the catering which we already have everything, because part of the you RFP have to submit anything you're big, so you can I have to have already all that details, but you're being a working with applesauce step and Edgar was there if.

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You say: I'll take an old further and you.

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Was a he was taking notes all the questions that they asked me in and asked him as well when he records the hotel regards to the city in regard to what these the city has to offer. So so yeah I was really good. The combination that we had and- and you know it was just walking out in st. man IV time so now it's pretty good, so yeah.

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So we're really excited and um very tight about. Thank you so that.

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Was a good effort but I wanna highlight that I'm, not sure you guys have any other questions. You do better.

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This sudden thunder chapter miss also.

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That we saw this attitude, there's Austin and San Antonio as Chimpy as the society government meeting planners and.

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Professionals aware so set the Austin chapter is a lone Starr, so they have monthly or sometimes it's like every other month. Meetings and they're all planners not only matters what suppliers from hotels from destinations like away. So we we're membership.

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That you in when you sign up with us GMP, you could actually choose all the chapters, so the closest ones to us is Austin and San Antonio. So the San Antonio chapter is the animal chapter, so they they're a smaller group than the one in Austin, but it's a few meeting planners. They do have I think they have a little bit more suppliers from hotels destinations. So they have.

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They have a means, you know depend on their schedules, but it might be either monthly or so we're working with them and partnering with one of the plaque of one of the members from there and.

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A mixer, so they they're gonna, have I. They do a mixer signing option where they didn't fundraiser further for the for their chapters. So we're gonna, co-sponsor and more positive as we make some of the caves and you know, do a mixing it dreams and food and at the same time we get the exposure to do with those planners and they courtesy to get to see those there. So we're working in one event in May for the the animal chapter and one in Austin, that's going to be in June.

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So those are the two, the ones that were working right now. So it's similar to kind of like what we kind of a like our secret mile, but they already.

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Organized everything so.

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We just covered with them and.

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Instead of us creating everything, then.

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This is two organizations already.

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They already have their.

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Groups, everything.

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So we're just cool sponsoring with the hotel, in this case we're doing it through different hotels, so we're co-sponsored with a hotel like the one and the Hilton and signs on the airport, so we're cool sponsoring with them and then the one in Austin that it's in June that's what a new Marriott Courtyard Marriott in Pflugerville, so we're close sponsoring with em soit's stays a little bit morning. We're trying to save a little bit money and I'm not, but we have already a group there and we get to meet one.

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A lot give us a little bit minutes. Okay, some promoter, Adel.

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Is the Viva fresh people.

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Fresh, it's of actually it's from the it's a.

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Provost conference.

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That as a Texas, International produce Association, it's based out of the valley, so that's a state association but their offices on the valley, so they organize the viva fresh summit or, and they what they do is they have the exhibitors from Mexico from the United States, and so we go there and it's a port commotion for the rate of commotion. So this past year we were a sponsor, so we sponsored we had our Nobles everywhere. Partner Lenovo is very similar to our goal is just a passport.

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So we literally in the entrance to the exhibit halls to the meeting space. We had our logos there, so it was really good advertising and for the past, we've never really done anything, even though we're number one in that port. But we started to see my colleague or farm, mostly as farm yeah,.

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Themselves in promoting, in so.

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Now it's like yeah.

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Yeah as I know that.

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You guys have to move so because there's encoders.

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By Maori and I mean everything.

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So we've got the avocado yeah.

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So we that's what we do so we partner with the airport and bridge then we travel to, in this case a San Antonio, and we promote economic development and now that that go is important. Think you see economic development director for.

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The city, so we all go.

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Together and you know we all, because there's people that say: hey I'm, travelling okay, so that's where come in so.

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Across from watching the very thing so.

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Maybe complement each other yeah yeah yeah.

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Mm-Hmm and I think when they see that that there's different during any.

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Part networking.

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Epidemic far is just that look bridge, they don't have. It doesn't look like they have support from the city, because it's just a part, international creation, and in our case it's the bridge, the airport.

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Also doing Washington at the same time, but we did a hosted a destination training as well. On September 20th we have 22 attendees. So with all the mix we've we've, we still I still continue doing our destination training to to give them that education for us online and just to promote our city within.

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Are the dates you all are targeting spreader festival, holidays.

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It's July is an end to this.

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And better, almost everybody in the office was instrumental getting every single well.

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It was it was, it was a team.

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Effort because some of the team covered the front some of the team was packing in the pack and so.

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Definitely a team effort, but I think this is a year and it also helped that our office is design now for that type of service. It makes yes.

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Yes to the country made a difference. You know our work darwaza. Yes, our crew. Miss is facility in itself to do the this, especially in Washington, where we have a lot of services, are done, gifts and put everything together. Yes, package.

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Them so they wrapped a big.

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The pallets were all we worked together with the outlet Shoppes, the other shops were very nice and they let this their loading dock.

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So the carrier was able to go to the outlets.

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We hope to have.

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They eat works. How that grill work the food works so.

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They take their food from here. Most of the food, though, like a main items like the means. Yes, the protein space t they take them. They take them in a refrigerator truck refrigerated.

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Lease I think sorry 90s right right, and so they drove it.

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Rest of the team flies in. They get people from there also to help and they have negotiated with a hotel there. In Washington. They have a very good relationship with the hotel that lets them use their kitchen, and so the way they have explained is they have a date to bring everything down, put it in the fridge, everything and then the next day they go, buy all the produce and then basically the following day, they're prepping all morning all morning, because they need to get everything ready, everything cooked by 10:00 a.m.

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they have to be 10 a.m. to have.

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At the Security office, because there's a off-site Security office for the Capitol, everything has to be taken down on the truck scanned check, everything and then put back in, and that is because they have to be at the Capitol. By no later than to setting.

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The kitchen already so.

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Nobody even knows nobody.

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Knows how it happens.

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That it happens and.

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Then, together with our.

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We contract a catering company there in Washington does everything else, but the food, and so we have they're very experienced in work, we're the capital and what the part the portion that they take over is meters chairs bar.

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Please everything else. They will cover everything else and then we think we do setup gifts, decoration all that good stuff, what room y'all get it means meet them. Ways and Means Committee room.

B

We've done it there. This has between being done for.

C

33Rd year that we have it there, we've been very lucky that we know the space. We know there because, as you know, the capital is like an amazing job.

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We know where our loading dock is, we know where the storage is. We know where.

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They're taking.

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Mean how many people do they.

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Send us a service like this.

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You know that's why I think most people will not come in.

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Because they cook it there right just a few miles.

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Away but even on my house.

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With their baby, it's.

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Like they're catering from a restaurant, there yeah.

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Have they have done their homework and creating those relationships with the hotel that lets them use a kid.

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Was our TV debut with the.

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Oh yeah, this is a youkai various.

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Oh yeah I read that somewhere did. They did.

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Bernie and I today for the new conference and I detest Joe Joe Joe Texas. That's a production, TV production that is in Jenny a C's in Texas all over the place that all about a special things about this. This is I will talk about the odbc, a and so Selena and I'm talking about they failed at Olivia's repair and show houses, so you're not coming to have any festival for the Sunday turn Sunday and they are always exactly what is it?

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Helping a festival and anything, and the co-host in a lacrosse is a former means and San Antonio Texas. So.

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To participate in the car so.

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Influence it for another 8, that's all about that boy! So.

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He come from there, they some gorilla, and he say this that's a good option for Laredo. That's a smart, but that's very nice because you can taste all the food for all the places. That's not any other festival in Mexico like that. So.

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$20 and you guys state and that's nice.

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We wait for the resort for this, but we can see the response immediately, with engagement and or social media with this and the followers with with him. So that's, let's.

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Say the most important.

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That say, we work with blog, we don't know and with all the BB C a holiday.

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That's Leslie sensitive pickles, I'm.

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Not sure I would have to ask for those.

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Others, what what? How do we submit relations to the missing side.

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We get your boss for.

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A business that comes yeah, you could call from this room to think: hey, I wasn't in the previous disregard, where I'm loving I'm, not in the website. If it's a new business, yeah.

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C

For for, and we have to like, if there's information that we're missing, we.

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As part of so we're work as I'm community for our offices, like needs the hair and makeup, so the kneecaps are fire in the hair. Now.

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Offerings of Gaza that has been for many years, the logistics and nurse and logistics customer seminars and those groups, we've seen a big interest from schools and groups and different, and now we're working even with economic development offices from the different towns around the Metroplex. You have different communities around and so now we're working specifically with while I open o around. We signed the sister cities agreement with wild open owner and one of the things that we're doing is working with them and bringing that the service to to them.

C

Gala also participated to loose a limit with a Texas tourism office. It was a big by national tourism conference and apostle. Well, I was actually Chi whoa and they it was. It was very well attended, but we participated with the office of the governor, so we were part of the Texas travel team and it was a great opportunity to see what other border cities are doing and the way that they worked together with their counterpart Mexican site. How.

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Did you get invited to to accomplish like that? The state is undersized we're.

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Very lucky that the person in charge of the Mexico promotion well.

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First of all,.

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We've always had a very good relationship with the tourism office of the governor Texas travel. We've always always worked very closely with them, but now we're very lucky to every one of their people. It's a.

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Hormone or LCVP employee.

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Yes, and so the person that's in charge of their emotions to Latin America happens to be a former CBB uniformity of the CVB employee and we are getting a.

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We've kept in contact with her for many years. We've never left.

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Me, and so we are very lucky whatever anywhere.

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Always thinks of us and many even though we've always have really good relationship and we keep working. We work with different sides of the office.

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They have, unlike.

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Statistics of market research side which were constantly working with, but we have Jessica.

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C

You, madam chair I, just wanted to give you a quick, quick update of where we are. We have to go back to the drawing board in terms of the logo. We have a new proposal. New versions would be working with it's a little bit different and we'll show it soon that that management indicated them that seal of approval to that one, because we have been working after the meeting that we had.

C

There were a lot of questions about the star and why they represented definitely the the the waste where I know know what the star there was a lot of back-and-forth. We.

E

Can we get rid.

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Of this, not for those CD, but yes for the CVV, yeah I think this is a great mobile for.

E

C

Yeah in terms of the CVB, we wanted something that would tell a little bit more of the story or a night-long reader, and so we're doing that. Obviously, because we didn't have that main part of the rebranding that'd be late, a lot of the rest of the process. Now that we have got everything is running in, and so we just got immediate analysis from them.

C

We just got we're moving along faster than we in the last couple of months, because we have that road block of the icon under the name was what's already said, on the right, establish, 1755 I. Think everybody agreed on that, one that it was. It lets itself to a lot of things, and so that one is set. You.

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Know, that's not.

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What we're going back and.

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C

So we, when we asked relic to go back to the drawing board and they showed us a couple of options and management, either their seal of approval, so we'll be showing they're working on now the app portion and when you have something put together, which should be if not next week. The following. So I hope that for the next meeting we can come back with something that we can actually isn't. Presentiment and.

B

So I wanted to IVD because we.

C

Have like reassigning this room for a couple of months and was just because we we were our roadblock was the icon. We were trying to to get to something that was more it didn't. It wasn't controversial controversial in terms of looking like a peanut, though her or me had something else or looking like something else. So.

A

As far as our discussions and announcements.

C

And we really appreciate I mean every single one of you and we really appreciate what you do and I mean. We talked about this when the change.

F

This morning, I felt bad because of.

B

What everyone added to.

F

Kind of help me stay on board. It and I really appreciate all the effort that I put into that. Thank.

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You thank you for for participating with us for giving us your point of view every time, and we really appreciate what stay.

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Involved, yes,.

B

C

You're part of the committee.

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F

Been fun, I really enjoy.