City of Laredo, Texas Keep Laredo Beautiful, 25 Jan 2023

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Keep Laredo Beautiful Board of Directors 011123

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People at a beautiful board of directors meeting today is Wednesday January, 11th 2023, happy New Year and we are approximately 5, 56. uh and I'm going to call this meeting order, may I have roll call. Please.

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Nick Benavides.

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We'll have an opportunity to read the minutes.

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What was in favor, cios, okay, as soon as the communications I understand, we have a guest today, I'd like to.

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You want to introduce our guests.

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Right but it's a regional um okay, so one next to the one.

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Come to that section of the meeting where we add items for the next meeting, then we'll ask you to come back and do maybe a formal presentation. Pictures.

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Next item discussion.

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Just finalizing right.

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Did everybody see the rose Concepts, an agreement that that's the one we want um any changes in color through.

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Secondary colors, as well as the tertiary comes, which are always black and white.

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um I, like both colors.

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One is going to be primary because you can use both remember Delta both of those fit in terms of the of the colors. What you're looking for is the primary color right, I think.

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So the logo we've already kind of agreed the Agave would be the logo and then we will be able to um focus on the word beautiful. So let's keep going up beautiful, it's going to be big and bold, and then the initials KOB in the uh in the logo.

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So, whenever cko will be, you'll see it like this, whenever she keep wearing the beautifully sit like that, there, you have the black and white, and then we have it overlaying on some shirts.

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In the in the scheme, right now, everybody seems to be leaning towards the teal as being our primary color and possibly with.

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um We have the option of the gray which you put in here and the green as being part of your your secondary colors and then obviously you're, there's always a third set of colors, which is always black and white.

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Black and white well.

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What, if we do, the Agape green and the letters.

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I, like it like vibrant right.

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So if you use something like this.

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This as your as your font and your script right, keep learning beautiful in that color, so.

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That combination.

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Yeah, you guys agree. Okay, it's up to you. I agree.

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For that kind of blog, it's just kind of straight straight block clean. It wasn't a lot more to it. We had one that we've had a little bit of script to it and I. Don't think any people like that there was enough turn on the L and a couple other things that were different, but we said yeah. Let's not do that. Let's just keep it straight. Do.

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You guys want like that phone or maybe a different one.

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Would you want.

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Primary color B teal Agave.

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Secondary colors are black and white. The.

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Pressure comes with black and white. There's a pavilion here also um right up here.

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If you're, in a position where you can't use color but they'll use grayscale for example, so we can do that so yeah.

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All right so then motion to adopt I'll entertain a motion to adopt the new logo.

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As your primary color, with the agave in the bright, green and uh and it'll be a style that can be produced so that whenever we do order stuff, we just send the style guide to the printer into the television station and if they don't follow your guide, use your CNY colors or your RGB colors oftentimes.

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Or the medium would say you didn't follow my guide, so you know I'm not responsible for that. That doesn't look like what I wanted so producing that song. That becomes very important because you've added to them to say this is your responsibility.

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Okay and then we ought to trade market and Zone, and those guys can take care of that. Okay. So that's the motion to adopt the logo. The new font and the new colors do I. Have a motion.

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Second, one.

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So excited yeah.

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Any promotional items for the parade.

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So they're already like do you? Have your logo.

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um The next item is adopt the bylaws. Has everybody had a chance to look for Observer to remember the changes that we asked for in the bylaws? Everything was going to remain the same, except the removal, no we're doing the or was it the zoom.

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Stipulated by law or Council action, the board shall establish a regular immediate schedules, otherwise authorized whether it's the managers stipulated by the quality Council action a quorum must be establishable before the board can conduct in business and know what can be taken in the absence.

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Of Quorum, the board may only act by the majority of the voting directors present at the meeting and presidential meeting is defined as physically present.

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Okay, a special meeting may be called by the president or on petition.

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Directors may not meet virtually in the event that a board director cannot make a meeting. Their absence may count as either an excused absence or an unexcused absence. An absence will be considered excuse at the discretion of the board. Each Board of director has a limit of three unexcused absences and two excuse that.

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Must make a video or audio recording the wall committee meetings? So it's either all right. We don't.

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So you, the recording of the meeting, must be made available, not labeled the meeting. If possible, board meetings shall be broadcast over the internet in real time. Staff of the Arizona should be responsible for recording and boarding meetings. My official.

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Everybody- okay with that, so those were the last three amendments: okay,.

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Up the bylaws for the articles of the corporation do I, have a motion, Christina promotion. Second,.

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Side motion carries awesome, quotes.

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I always sit down with each board member and give you guys like how you did this year. But since we did like we did start, you know, I just came in March and then we did.

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Won't be doing.

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That this year, we're gonna start fresh this year and then next year, um when Jenner comes around we'll join evaluation of age four times.

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So that's that okay.

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And then are there any questions on the uh on the membership agreement.

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We clean up for January 28th if everybody is available and coming to assist that day, 28 not 21. 21. There.

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It's up to yours. um We do need to do three to four a year, so I'd like to start off and start off the year.

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I'll, send you all.

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It's probably gonna clean it, but I, don't remember the song.

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No but I think it's time around I wanted you one side, only we'll do one side and then right, because it was just a position. Yeah, it's a big, very quick, Attic So I want to do the if you're coming.

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I want to do it outside.

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um I just want to give you guys a quick update on.

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um So they um pretty much already practically bought mostly everything anything more missing, we'll just go put it out of our pocket. Okay,.

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So we already got started on Monday doing some they're like.

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Park and have you all ever gone to the hobita park? No okay, so we want to incorporate the red bench. We're gonna have a big tree out of that tree. We're gonna have a pinata.

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So we um it's looking pretty good so far, we're trying to see.

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Audience starts growing in so if we want to make sure we don't miss anything. Oh we're gonna include one of those of my cute live photos. I love those things, so we've got uh Coca-Cola.

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Yes, so, oh and then I'm gonna get um Solid Waste to help me with their I want to get the mascot, so we're gonna have um part of that as well. So that's.

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Going good, can you put some progress photos together for us.

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Anything else that you would need for the flow any type of equipment we don't have generators.

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That's what we're speakers, because I bought some lines.

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Because I'm thinking I have a small speaker but I don't know if it could be loud enough. You know you even have some systems oh and can I maybe can donate some from.

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What is it the.

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They'll be able to sit down, and we can have somebody like get off and do some walking so I did include that.

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Okay, yeah, we have two parades right. One is night time, Wednesday.

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We're doing both yes, okay,.

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So I have such I have a generator in case you need it. Okay I also have what's called uh their battery packs they're quite they're, your shop I'm, going to make no sound you just plug in their charge.

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Cameras, our sound board and our sound system for four hours, without recharging.

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Awesome. Okay, so let me borrow that too. We.

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Have two of those in case you? We need them. Just let me know and I'll have those with us. Okay, perfect, because.

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I just get some lights, but not adding more lines are quality.

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Yes, we, yes, we.

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The release ones, because now everybody has to have one. So it's other ways to actually like a while ago brought me Theirs, Whatever, it's gonna be and I think that's it. Oh no I'm missing Coca-Cola, oh, like all our board already submitted it. It's all the way similar there is volunteers submitted. Those bears as well all I'm using is.

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Next and then activity report pretty much December when we knows.

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So we had our flow, so pretty much, we've been doing the float stuff and buying and all that stuff, and we have a career day on the 13th. Oh I have.

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That's all we got for now.

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We're focusing on.

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Okay in regards to the website, everything's, looking good I need a submit fan.

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um Definitely our head shots. Our photos I need to submit them all our sponsors, um but I do want to notify the sponsors that you know.

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Your logo is going to be your logo and then hyperlink too yeah.

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Yes, we always hyperlink yeah.

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We have outbound links and battling so we'll add.

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Those two guys. Yes, no, yes, we did. The boys have been helping really well, um we are going to have saw. We saw that because I decided in their life, for you, you've got a click on and they can go out of their website so which is something too and hopefully.

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They have a Facebook.

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I I want to do some changes a little bit more I, don't know just.

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Now, I'm, just because what we have right now about it, so it includes like some background in schools,.

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Yeah clean it up change that up.

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So it's not, it seems that it's.

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So if everybody wants to take a look at it and just kind of start giving us some feedback early on yeah, um you can go to liquid studio.dev.com.

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uh We don't hand out this this uh link very often, but when you get there you're going to see a whole bunch of file folders and just click on those. Let's keep the link. They're beautiful you're welcome to look at the other ones that are under the development as well. If you want to get ideas, but that's the one to look at.

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What will the car development server it's offline? We don't we we don't publish that, um but we will give the clients the link and right now the navigation menu has the home button and then it has.

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It also has three others that are resources, news and there's one other one that you all have on there.

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It's in the I think it's in. It's get involved programs and resources.

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Like a brief background or like quiet part of the board, or also I mean I also can include our second and back.

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You can send me that okay that'll be good we're, including that correct. um What else did we add on there we're going to try to add all our programs, um our calendar of events, so I would be sending them every month. Our event, calendar and it'll be on our website as well. We do have an event they're able to keep the hyper the hyperlinking.

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um Also I think you guys are working on oh photo gallery. Oh.

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Yes, there's a photo gallery for all the events.

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Yes and the other items would currently have a Facebook page: that's it. We have Facebook okay, because they only have Facebook listed on there. Oh, yes,.

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That's true, so it's a lot. It.

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Is a lot and- and there are probably 20 pages that were built virtually women um because we started this project.

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So what I might want to have you do is have the boys give you access to the back end and look at those pages and say you know what I want that page to be live, so let's go ahead and fix that yeah that we also look at it like uh I'd, give everybody a password to get in the back end.

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When you're doing the the add-ons, but it's black and white it doesn't have them, I mean just it's not visual, but you can see the pages. You can see the list of all the pages and you might see one.

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11 o'clock, the cost of high tasks come on in India and they take it over so we're kind of working on it around the clock, and so whatever tasks you give us in the morning, the guys are going to knock them out during the day whenever they don't finish, they give the high test. Now, if you give me stuff in the afternoon like.

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There's a lot of changes that we're making on their pictures and everything and.

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The idea would be that we'd like to maybe roll it out by the end of the month. Maybe yes, and now we can go to this first council meeting in February as.

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A fourth and present our new brand.

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Calendars, I really do think that it's important for these members to know how broke we are because they are going to be making demand.

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Use it yeah, it's really. It really is truly about volunteers, because we can manage multiple events and do more, but you can involve. Answers are committed.

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We need to make some adjustments. Okay, hopefully we can get more and we can be a more study program. Like other organizations that have like Sixth Street, you know people will actually leave the program.

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A little already on there, everything's gonna, be on the colors are going to be on there, so very cool. The guys are really excited. Yes,.

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You know they're so funny.

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About school, kids working on a project, you know gluing stuff and.

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I, like that, they really is like they. You know.

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They're into it, yeah very cool, okay. So now I'm gonna go with you all over the 2023.

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To this, the districts that we would be working on.

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There's one District that is not on there because I know um they'll, eventually repressed.

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July or we can have a double somewhere.

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Do you have anything in June that you might be able to Affordable.

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Also we're going to July because um yeah.

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District Five.

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I said I will help you plan it, but it's typically cheaper in a beautiful that does the bulk of the work and parts, and so you have you know it's going to require funding. I told him yeah.

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Because you're.

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Going to need money for the trees, you're gonna get any money for, for you know, Parts is going to want to ding us for stuff, and so.

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They need every time we collect more trees, they've got to expand it and what I've never understood about Bartlett, which is the kovita they they they're, always packing the trees on one side.

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And that eventually the country comes over, it picks up, and then you have that canopy and I said it's going to take 20 years. I mean North, Central Park's been in existence for 10 years, and the trees are now just starting to come over into the trails. So I'm just going to take a long time, but just.

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Well, we do have make a difference that we don't know yet what District's gonna happen in.

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Now he has another project that we have.

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The library all the mosquitoes they're starting to mark it off I, don't even seeing that he wants to do some time for the Veterans Park for trees and kind of a walking area and they're going to build spaces for food trucks to park there. I don't know it's basically going to be like a food truck.

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Well, you know, ideally, the land's been never been in use. It's it's sat there forever. It's a great venue, because parents should come in and and go to the park for a while.

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So you can make a lot of Advance by sharing the parking lot and the park with uh with the library. So he removable the idea, and so then I didn't hear from him for a while. Then I heard that he converted into a kind of a veterans thing.

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Obviously you know.

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Just don't wait till the election cycle because you'll get that criticism to do it this year, coming before you get into the election cycle and get these projects funded in that way. So that's what he's working on so imagine he's going to ask us.

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Ask him and just say you know: we've got a data available, it's in October. We need your commitment to it now, because you'll have a new budget October one this year, and so he doesn't necessarily need to commit the funding now. But he needs to know that hey come October one. You need to slide that money over for the project, at least partial, because.

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Keenan already how to keep the funds for the new fiscal year gonna be. um That would be great because.

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Would fruit tree planting I know it's like like that late October too,.

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I agree with the trees.

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Sure so you want to kind of push the October thing with you.

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Kind of things.

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And then we can just petition sponsors for trees early on and that kind of stuff. I know people that are willing to donate.

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And uh the KTB.

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Conference, or are you asking any of us to go? Is that something you want us to go to, or can we go.

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Oh welcome and how many I can take is what I need to check.

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So I wanted to pay my own way, so don't okay, so Count Me In to go, but don't worry about me what.

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About um so I'm also working on trying to go to kab but still care, but it is coming up. It's in Washington.

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It's in Washington, it's.

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um The 19th we highlighted all the way until Friday, but um it's from the 19th.

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On September.

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I think the wbca parade.

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Yeah, so that's why it's still like exciting, but at the same time uh my environment was the next day, so I know um Lynn and Nick said they're. Definitely up.

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For that one yeah.

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Okay, I'll, let.

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You know tomorrow, okay, okay, what would be the purpose of committee members attendance.

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They're gonna go and come back to what oh well. One of the philosophers that I have is.

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Networking, because you get to see.

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What other organizations are doing and how they're.

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A lot of I guess many directors usually always go, and mostly everybody there wore the um board members, the board members or like the state counts. So as.

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Folks, they get to see.

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What the program.

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Well, my goal is to bring back.

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To other organizations that show up and say: hey, we have these friends available for you and we don't know that. Are there in your application? Okay, when you see Washington as a Washington state or Washington DC, Washington DC.

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We've heard that called Nancy's favorite house.

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um And if we do.

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It's also good if.

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We do get um placed frustrates and the dinner.

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So we're gonna go as presenters on uh KOB partnership.

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Okay, tell everybody to tell us what to do. Rather, let me show you.

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Blah blah presenters.

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Okay, yeah. Definitely, we can add it on there.

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Meetings and I put that we would like to if we ever get the chance we can host one here in Laredo, but this one coming up, they put it in Mesquite Texas. Hopefully, I won't be able to go to that one, but hopefully we can go along closer or if they say you know what.

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Help us put in the applications to get them to come here. Yes,.

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Definitely yeah they're open to they want to come here because they asked me and I said yeah hosting a regional.

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Meeting and how do you know what time of the year the meetings are, there's two so there's the one coming up in March and then there's another.

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Buffalo locations are more even decided for this year. No just the March one, just the March one.

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When different from from West from Mexico and.

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But for it's okay for the KTV conference, it's it'll be in Houston, okay, okay,.

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So I bet I do want to try to include somebody from see managers somebody from Parks because I want them.

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You know, and it's good you can learn all about there.

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um Okay, what else in our calendar! So did you guys kind of understand it? I tried to be as detailed as I can.

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Collection um we do with environmental, oh.

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Maybe just just food for that.

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By means everything yeah.

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If you don't mind, I'm gonna give this to the boys to start putting equipment on the uh yeah on the website.

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Might change the dates is districts three. um Whatever events we decided to do with it, I put it under cleanup, which, right now we have it on August 19th. That will.

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This is good, oh, could have been OnStar award, so we're gonna. Do it early in the year. When everybody, you know, everybody goes during March and ghosts and beautifies their Garden um we'll be hosting it from April through May, but we won't award them till September.

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For almost five months, one two, three four, you don't think that's right.

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I mean I was thinking they would get like they would get.

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If I do it before.

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It's hot: you should be using that much water, so.

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I was like okay. Let me push.

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It forward and where it is like the monster, still: okay and we'll just award them later.

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So then I want to keep that date. I mean what do you all think you know the end of fiscal year.

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It's like I kept it like that and I'm hoping.

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It contains everything that is asking that KTB asks from us in order to get gold gold status affiliate. You know so pretty much everything's on there. We have our Earth Day, we have our recycles. We have our hHw. We have the cleaners that is asked from us. We have our small sweep our waterways. Everything is on there. So.

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You doing for Earth Day.

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Only you can Kendrick Lamar.

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So we're having a Earth Day there, we'll be planting trees, we'll be having activities with the kids as well. So it's gonna be like a couple hours.

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I think it's like September or something I was like well we're booked till this day, but um making the resting. So we set them aside for Earth Day. It's gonna be good.

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Great Solid Waste utilities and environmental and make it a pretty good event. I.

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Think the only thing we're missing.

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There is I need a Guinness food.

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Figure food out, they're, asking me for I mean I, have to do something.

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I, don't know, maybe I can just join you guys personally, yeah. Definitely, um but then we're close. You know like I, don't have anywhere else, but my administrator still won yeah, but I can take a moment.

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Because right now, I'm considering I'm what.

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Why don't you join us? um We have a meeting next week. I will send you an invite? Okay, please please!

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It's on Tuesday um I believe at 9, 30., okay, please, please.

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Just take it back to Kilby award today and all of this this year was during the week and you moved it.

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Yeah I, like the Thursdays better than Fridays, Thursdays and Wednesdays all seem to be a bit better.

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It has a community room down the one upstairs, but if you walk across the parking lot, absolutely.

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Yeah, okay, yeah.

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Yeah definitely.

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But if we get like, if we get the first tree out of the way.

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Availability because some council members, like hey I, want this I want this I want this and it's unfortunately yeah.

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Okay and anything else guys, oh.

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Cycle straight is up in the air, and so it's Arbor Day.

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But um they don't know yet what they want and I think he wants something sooner same thing for recycle, stay, usually solid.

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It but I um I, don't think they want to do it. So I want to do something this year, but I want it for it to be for, like the community. What.

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Was that a gonna say, recycle.

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Legal, fair and it was just like the schools I think when we allowed me five schools and certain amount was only 300. Students were allowed, no 300 students were allowed and from those 300 students, one was like five schools and it was just the kids and I feel like. Maybe we can do.

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More of what it like what it is: yeah, okay and different stuff that would recycle because I know everybody is like very familiar with the whole, the paper and stuff like that. But you know that's something that people always call me about are like ink cartridges and a lot of people. Don't know that.

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Hp or Joe and I think, even though, like accepts like any really yes. Well, maybe we.

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For like at a park and have different people, yeah.

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Showing examples of like this is how you call for.

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Content for your website as well, you know things that you can add to that. Yeah, the resources FAQs. You know for coming out some questions, I recycled cartridges, but you know, like all the things that can get recycled, that you never thought. Yeah.

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Through your Facebook Instagram and Twitter, you put these things out there as teasers. They bring people back to the.

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Website yeah I, like that, yes yeah, those are some of the resources that I want to include on our website stuff. That people ask us common questions about. Like you know, besides these things that are over there, you know our the hHw will recycle the stuff that we do.

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um But yeah yeah, it's all that stuff. Yes, there's so much I want to add to it. It's.

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A dynamic website yeah.

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Then it shoots lightning bolts from people's eyes.

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So and I'm going to have insurance this year and so I could probably assign an intern to keep wearing a beautiful as a as an account of itself. In other words, they'll help you, with social media that'll help you with photography.

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They'll have a curriculum that includes like for the graphics folks, they're required to use social media posts, the video, um the other video and photography group The Daily games, the audio video guys they're required to do photography and videography programming projects. So.

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We send them out so.

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um Kob will get.

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It hopefully next week get their their.

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Work study intern and then we have one more position that we aligned to to have two University interns for bringing supporters.

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um And I selected someone, so we just need a Jordan to call them and prove them, and hopefully, by the end of this month, I am set with having you know, yeah like and focus on.

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Speaking of Grants um KOB didn't receive the women's City Club Grant before we were requesting for tense mutants, because since we are getting a.

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Logo, what would it be nice to have our mutants with our new logo so.

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It is perfect on time. Okay, so I'll make sure we have.

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That's it um okay! So then um Dave time for next meeting.

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Just you should just say: hang on.

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The grand jury duty in Travis County, oh yeah, the stories of Italians I, can't tell you what the case is, but I can tell you what it was about. Okay, tell.

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Me I know: I'm super excited, I can't wait.

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So that we finalize new plans for the parade float.

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The adoption of the logos.

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And in the presentation at Council for the second meeting in.

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It's okay! When.

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Yeah I probably won't wait to see it. It's too, too.

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Early but plus yeah for me up Harry Potter's, like basketball schedule, so that's.

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Important yeah I may travel to the city on their annual lobbying.

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It might not be this year, I think we'll wait till next year.

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Filming for Katie, yes, what is it that we need to do I just need. Can you go.

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Into a few more questions.

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I have items for it uh launcher websites, Council and what was everything.

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The other item was the first edition Council the adoption of the uh or the launch the websites.

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Okay, is there any way possible? We can get a credible financial report. What we look like in terms of what money we have available in funds and and then what you know, any kind of medical receiving from sponsors or donors, um because that's something.

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I added you all to our I did my my budget this year and I added you all to our charitable contributions list this year. So I've already set aside so many later in the year. If you need it for Advance um and I'll, do that for for the food bank as well, because I.

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Have a certain amount of money set aside.

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That's just says miscellaneous on it, because we always get.

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Who I'm going to get to and then I always sit outside a little bit? Should I get some chance and there is there? Isn't a Grant application for a website? They just haven't finished the criteria, because they're I've told them you're going to score it because a lot of times when I score it.

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He's here right now and then Elena is my commission assistant, Akasha High test from India Jeremy's in Austin and then Mario and I are.

B

C

To downtown about it, because our current PayPal is um information.

A

Yeah well because they typically are even.

D

A

Account has my social security network account for our office.

C

Well, we gotta figure out a way because it has a plus.

B

E

C

I tried to removing it and it's all.