City of Laredo, Texas Keep Laredo Beautiful, 10 Nov 2022

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KEEP LAREDO BEAUTIFUL BOARD 110922

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Here we go presents.

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You're not a present Javier Alonso president.

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Of the minutes, philosophers.

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Followers in favor of CI OS.

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Citizens, Communications will be citizenship.

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Just great elections, great braces thank God.

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Yeah I I did my annual or my semi-annual polls, foreign.

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The only one that.

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Was Bradley Johnson with three unexcused absences with our last performing being 10 to 26.? Okay, um everybody else is okay. The we have Miss Myra with two and excused your one unexcused.

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That I'm a warrior.

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um Excused we have Joanna with one excuse with one unexcused Priscilla with two unexcused.

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um According to our Bible foreign.

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Automatically forfeit their appointed position for failure to attend three and excuse meetings in one calendar year. The staff liaise immediately be notified of appointing State manager of non-leading official following the portrait.

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Of the law about the appointment of another.

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Individual to fill their new members and expired team.

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We're still working on the hybrid which.

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Can speak about that? Yes,.

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Well, because we're because it's all bad or sensitive too right so um because we're standing of the board members there were, there were some discussions that were had held with regards to the bylaws from May. This way before we had the option and then we since had the adoption so because that time start taking for those members of the board in terms of absences upon the adoption of the new pool of the Newport Iowa, it says: okay, if you're on the board, whatever happened prior to the adoption. At this point, the clock sucks.

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So if the bottles were adopted to September and I'm looking at absences.

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By September, would we still hold those against the board members, since we weren't equally clear with the what the absence is. The rules were at that.

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Point well on your contract all signed with Kimberly. It does state that you're saying you attend nine of the 12 meetings.

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The contract everybody received one every new board member received them and assigned that they were created.

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Our contract has been any place in there, something to runs in conflict with our bylaws.

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With each other.

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Prior to that that is uh prescribed within the bylaws does that apply.

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That's right, I agree that I think we should count.

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September forward right, but what was the Bible was prior to September the.

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The same thing, the same thing, that's the way.

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It's actually October to September, because the calendar year for the city.

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We were operating under a physical year, no this, and that was some of the cleanup that we did in the Bible. Does.

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Yes, where you said that if a board member could be removed by a council member, no no.

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The city council can't remove anyways, let's actually moved all right.

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We haven't even announced it like since I've been here. This is.

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um Since we're already on the topic And in regards to hybrid, if.

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We do want to do that. They.

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Recommended we get it out.

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I, just don't think it's an expense.

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We can but.

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They would have to come set it up all the time, so they were saying. I would also need to move the screen, because the way it's set up right now, if somebody does speak, um they can't really see who's. Speaking he's like it's with the complicated stuff, because it's the same thing, if we were to do sketch, show videos.

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Then it would have to be during working hours.

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Why don't we talk to environmental to upgrade.

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Environment right.

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That's what I'm.

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Mean the question we have to really ask ourselves: is: can we function if we don't have the hybrid I know, that's why I'm saying so we're doing well, honestly,.

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We have an excuse that helps still alive as well and everybody's doing. Well, we have the excuse to delay. um I think you should be fine if it isn't broken yeah. That's right.

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Right I mean then are we going to at some point come back because that's not an action today.

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Just working on the absentee.

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Status right, which.

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We're just checking that again in.

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The contract so okay! Well, if you want to bring that back, the recommendation I think from the board is going to be that we eliminate the hybrid okay.

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Is there anything else that needs to be.

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Like the issue of the city council members, appointing that needs to come out make sure that those are those are things that we're bringing up for the next meeting. Yes,.

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We do have it yeah.

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And but stick to the basic three unexcused steps: this is an account under a year, yeah and I. Think I can clarify.

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That match it more with the contract.

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The attorney I would say you would bring it back to a January.

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If we're saying calendar year, it's January yeah.

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They can run anytime during the course of the year. Just everybody has different physical years. I know some companies do March.

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Don't know why.

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No I think most government agencies.

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um I, don't think it's a table. I think that this one we can give you directed as it relates to the calendar right so I would entertain a motion to adopt, within the bylaws, in the necessary structures to align our absentee policy attendance policy to the contract and the bylaws.

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Because you mentioned it included.

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Today's absence- yes, yes,.

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If someone is absent.

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Today, they're going to get hit with a either an excuse, correct, correct. So right now we've got a couple links.

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So let me try to give you something: I, don't know that that's gonna be right. You're gonna have to fill in advance, okay, adopt within the bylaws the absentee status.

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The board member contract and the bylaws foreign.

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It's motion from.

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Externship do I have a second second.

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The front door, how do I have a discussion, no discussion being ahead, always in favor, say aye aye.

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The next item on our agenda with that beautiful logo.

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And then he's not available he's in class, but I had him design three sheets for us to look at one looks at at some inspiration sites. One looks at fonts and how they stack and line up, and then one looks at the icons and what you all may want to do with those and then again from there. We can give them some more direction that we can come back, but at least we'll give you something to work on today. So.

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Let's check it out, let's check it out.

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Now, there's there's other stuff in.

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There's some drawings for for a hamlet poster in there.

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When it comes to computers,.

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Also carry highlighted markers markers, the Rosary.

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It just never know.

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Yeah you'll see one is, is kind of our inspiration.

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These are ideas compared to other ones. That's.

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The first one that one's going to be your inspiration site, the ones that we kind of looked at. So if you can put it on the TV I guess.

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You what kind of what I had in mind there's like three pictures up there.

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That's awesome.

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Oh, that's fine.

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Should be on three right now.

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Okay, so here's the first one.

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Pennsylvania beautiful.

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Was kind of interesting.

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Of Oklahoma.

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Maybe we can go with something like like this, but.

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Okay, so from here, what really? What I wanted to do is get from from you all is from here yeah. What? What do you all like from these logos that maybe the designer can kind of lean towards, because the next thing you're going to see is spawns right, so he took a look at all these and said: okay. Well, how do I make some things that are similar to these.

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um Being able to incorporate like on the calendar, they Incorporated like a palm tree with the owl, you know and then I guess it's supposed to be happening. Yeah.

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That was actually an Administration and so he's going to have to draw something like that which he can.

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Especially when you do a black and white transfer, because we do a lot of black and white, because color is expensive,.

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So you have to think about that. Cursive, like they're, like there's.

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Another thing for you to consider when designing Brands right, one of the things that we focus on is what happens once I remove what the weather is.

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Exactly and that's another thing is look at this: remember that the font is going to be interchangeable. You can do whatever you want with response, from the exception of the illustration up there, but everything else. If you were to remove the um the cube, the well the font from California, would you.

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Know what that was if I just put California, because you know that that's a lot like brand recognition. Oh yeah, definitely, which.

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Is you know a nice attempt here, because that is available by itself, which would be recognizable at some point same with this and then once you remove some of those elements, you wouldn't know what it was right. So the idea is to try to create a logo that has a great brand recognition. Beyond The Leverage. If I didn't show you the letters there were no fonts attached. Okay,.

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So that was the first thing, so this is what we got is kind of as a.

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First, inspiration and they said.

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Okay, well, let's look at the performance. What kind of fonts would we be able to use if.

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You just look at the bladder. We want to Stack it. What would you want to use so a couple things that we wanted to focus on. First I told him focus on the word beautiful.

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Because a lot of us know.

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Ones on the top.

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When I drew our invites in all of our stuff, I tend to go for that lettering. So I like for my lettering, to match everything else to kind of have you know, consistency.

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So just remember.

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A couple things these are all just spots and colors yeah interchangeable, all the way through. If you like this, but not that if you want a greater big or you want or a small all of that's interchangeable, but again consistency once you once you design this and get the one you all want. You just need to make sure everything, because the next thing we're going to do at that part is going to give you a brand style guide.

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It's going to come with a fonts and the colors RGB code and CMYK for print and digital, and it will tell people how you can stack it, how you can't what to do when it's back white when it's all those instructions, so that when you go to advertise somewhere, if they don't follow your brand Guys, these are not the same color and that's part of what we do for work. So what's the same thing.

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um When we were focusing on these colors here, we were looking at uh traditional Hispanic colors, along with water, at the dress that you have the same time, colors right, especially and and you're going to see that we incorporate something like that, we're using the Esperanza on some of those other some of the the icons that we're looking to work with so from here. If you guys have an idea what you like.

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Again, I will go with the one in the middle because he looks more professional and.

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Think, maybe you guys can make you guys decide on the calendar.

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We do decide to go something just kill, because that's a lot of people do like. Oh just kill me, but we still have our people up I like that too.

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Is that supposed to be like it's.

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A different flaws kind of.

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But no that's why I like to run now.

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Now, here's something you could do you could keep something as structured as this. You.

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Know- and you use these types of fonts in here, so what I could tell them to do is keep these keep a couple. Foreign.

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Especially when you're looking at that colors, this is a nice script. Here, it's very rainy, but if you turn it down to.

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Like two or three and then the next time we don't have so many down to two or three and.

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Again, what's the focus guys beautiful or the or the KOB, if you guys want to just come, have me come back with it with one of each or a couple of.

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The focus on like the other ones, samples, so the samples are looking for before.

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Agree yeah: this is better okay, you.

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That's another question:.

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That that needs to be kind of thrown in the mix America beautiful.

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Which, again, when you go to this yeah right.

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So so it's better when they print it out.

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So something like this works really well.

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Script, you want to have a clean strip like.

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Beautiful translate like Transit on, like a shirt or a sticker.

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um But again then you're looking at Maybe.

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This script I'm sorry, you could use this script for a random, we're beautiful and then you would use something standard.

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Could do Laredo with the Beautiful, the nice beautiful, Packers Laredo and then deal for like a more.

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And so, um given that what do you all want to see come back to y'all, do you want to see.

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Okay, so we're gonna focus on beautiful, and you want to see something like this.

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Okay, I'll give you that directive.

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Okay, so kind of that's our our existing logo. That's our previous logo, yeah.

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I haven't found those shoes.

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To now looking at Nikon that would fit um that's what we drew I mean that's finding a catfish. We tried something, you know using negative space in between the star.

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Is as close as we should begin to get, because this came right off of a picture and all he did. He has a mechanism where he just he tells it to Tracer. Exactly as that picture lies and then he said, yeah.

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It's got a trumpety flower yeah, so the top looks sort of like that. Yellow flower Jean just pointed to.

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But even here, whenever you do this image in black and white, you lose it.

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Just for like the Simplicity of it, like.

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I have one picture.

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That has one of the logos.

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Mean there's people who.

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Can use things you can give it away.

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You're gonna see the one.

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On the seat packet and then this one.

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So we came up with a bunch of fonts and icons for it, and one of the icons looks very much like this.

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They had come up with a deal for the CVB logo that just said the staff of 1755.. That's.

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All that said, and it just.

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Had that Rusty cookie, if you want, then uh people maybe even had the sound of Steel Church on there in about a month later after we submit our.

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Said no, we want to go with another one for sovereign.

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That's what I'm saying not landscape but.

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Black and white, okay.

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You know like it's powerful at night, you can even make like orange yeah.

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That's right, oh and then the blue.

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It's opposite, so it's more like a stencil yeah, so we could do that with that cool.

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And then we can kind of still match them, yeah yeah. The thing is, you don't have to always like this, but on so I'm gonna be honest with you when you start promoting your award, yes make that your focus. So people remember the Esperanza, so you brand different things right when you're selling it just depending on what your product is. Yeah.

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He has those mocked up separate links, so they will make a cluster for me and add them to this, so he broke them apart. Sort of left.

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Sideways and kind of had the dimensions to it, but he can just leave you one and you look at it and if you say you know what can you make one? That's really simple. That has maybe three of them and it really kind of looks a lot like this, but also I. Think you can do that. You.

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Can give it 3D dimensions.

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From there we told them, oh I've come back with some fun ideas and that's what we did here.

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He came back with different forms of different ways to stack it right, different colors and again everything is interchangeable because again it's all just want scripts.

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And whether or not.

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The goal was always to get the community to start using the acronym okay, okay.

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Yeah and I like that I like the idea and there's a possibility that this could be more. This is going to be more playful. I mean you can do something like like this. This.

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Will demonstrate something that looks more like us he'll do that as well. I I, like the idea of that we got going on with the Kilby.

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In the middle for the star is, of course, not that lime, green color, just white, like black lettering,.

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On the side, yeah and you can incorporate the KOB with the Agave next to it, yeah and that's even simpler, because you don't have a lot. You have it on the bottom. I'm gonna come back to you all with a couple versions, but I think this one is kind.

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Something like this.

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Nowhere right now in a couple different variations right, yeah.

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So we don't go crazy. We don't need to our discussion. Actually we're going to be over our nine minute rule.

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Okay, this is what we'll go forth and I'll come back to you. Maybe before we can look at it, I'll show you on shorts and caps. In that way, you can see what it looks like he'll Mark, a page.

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Formatting, okay,.

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They've, given me, there's no real decision just yet.

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The direction is to use some type of alignment like this with our Nikon and then the uh the keyboard beautiful and then we'll take a look at a couple, different ways to dress up of a keyboard of beautiful, which is here and there's some discussion of maybe having something like that, and maybe some of these scripts in there and then something like this and so we'll bring you back several Concepts to kind of sound like just a little bit of everything, but keep it down to maybe before the colors are always going to be interchangeable.

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The side that's like this I want this walk on it. Yeah.

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I refer to you in a minute. It says liquid Studios, instead of the jeans. Yes, yes or.

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Lws, media, okay,.

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And again, this is this is the entirely sure this is for us, okay, so uh one housekeeping item, speaking of houses, um let the record reflect that uh Myra Hernandez is now presentation.

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An educational um because environmental has one, but it's like really broken, and ultimate and I, really like the Watershed. A model is very interactive. It.

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Seems when it's it's amazing.

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Yes, it is good, so that's that.

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On Thursday November 17th from 10 to 1 30. next Thursday, okay,.

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All right, whatever day already I spoke with umidis he's going to be able to assist in delivering the trees and plants.

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And then it would be great to have.

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November 19th.

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That is all on us.

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Yeah I I really do like the idea of having.

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Especially with you know, have you talked to the team about your website? Who was the last person you talked to I.

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I'm, that's what we're going to bring in right now, so we can because we're going to do it tomorrow. Okay, so other websites, other okay, like websites, beautiful websites, have they all have different programs, didn't have an actual program that we do and when I had gone the last time there were some ideas that we came up with, but I think last time we mentioned well. Maybe we can also do this treat program where you donate a tree around and we go on planted.

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The only thing my issue will be is um I.

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Went this morning.

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Clocks I inserted an hour clock, there are people wearing a beautiful pump and then to from the other family.

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Thank you. We want to try to make it permanent right.

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And when we came up thinking, maybe we can do like a monument where we put all the plaques on there instead of leaving it on the tree one because it can be if we, even if we put the cement and everything that we had said. They're gonna end up taking it away so and if the tree does grow, pretty big.

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There, when somebody does um it wants to donate a tree. We can say: okay, so we'll just say, and you have a trailer park, but remember we'll just be put in a plank because we can't just say: oh, we want to go put a tree at that Park and what, if there's no irrigation? It's not gonna work out so I think because that's the contribute for.

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Us we can do a tree because, like when I worked at um as an organ and tissue donation, but we did a treaty of life and for every donor it was a week, and so you could go filling up the tree, so that would be kind of cool. That's.

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Against the wall, like.

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It's more essential.

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So when you do it on a wall like that, it looks really really nice and it creates kind of like a.

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Not all parks have trailheads so then that becomes another kind of issue where but again, look at the remember the monument at Troutman Park. Okay, remember it was lost for like hundreds of years and when you did the project when we worked with Michael to do that.

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And then kind of create some sort of artwork on it that incorporates branches and leaves.

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So it all sticks and melts into each other, and then we pull out sections of it and create branches, and then, from those branches you hook on your knees that would be really cool. But again you have to have it in a place where people are peeping, there's an eye on it. Etc.

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That's a hard one, but it.

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Would be a cool tree.

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The focus I wanted was to create a program where anybody can go in and donate either money or treat I prefer the money right and they can pick the kind of tree they want and go for. Their donation right and the city would acquire the tree uh on their behalf, put it in its inventory and when we did these big tree plantings, we would go and take all these trees and plant them somewhere, but their plaque already go somewhere.

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If you're welcome, if we did it the way, you're thinking, but they just all you do, is they sign on to it? They, uh you know we have a.

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And don't get me wrong at the tree planting we had people bring us trees, we got loading the trees, various things that's good, but I know you say to take it to.

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The tree before.

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I'm with jeans.

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That's the primary thing and when, when you buy those trees right, you can again it's done and planted they don't have to be the form you just have the money available to them. The only thing you're going to be buying now will be the flap that you can put installed them.

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Sponsorship levels and it just um just something that can be something new yeah.

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What trees do really really well and give me a list of four or five that people can order for themselves? uh Crepe myrtles.

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Oak trees, the multi suitable Cyprus yeah, whatever we have the uh a lot of water.

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See and that's the.

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Kind of tree that we should take donations of we're gonna take donations. If you have extra Knockouts, that's growing in your yard or any of the others and all the other. You know the.

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Reality is going to be bringing trees and delivering foreign.

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Irrigation channels they have this water I, guess they fill it with the water and then they open the valves and they.

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Well, we've been doing well that actually lithium house has been doing uh she started. This within I mean.

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This, so maybe that's something that we can incorporate as well and don't just throw water in this, and this can be something for like something that doesn't work. Boy.

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Scouts told you that of.

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It's a good thing to do, and but another thing that we should be doing that I kept trying to get done. Traffic was always against it. You know the traffic boxes where all the equipment is every other community has some painted the stainless steel ones. Yes, I've been trying.

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To do it for 12 years, I think there's storm water and it's will be good for us, because that.

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Will help to John and.

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I love you something: educational.

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Item but I don't want to be being too far from the tree donation program, but I think maybe if there are other programs, you all would like to see that we could incorporate into the website that or that type again thinking about those and bring us back so that we can stay on our 90 minutes and you don't have to turn just to make it into a toad.

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Another thing: that's.

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Not on there that we forgot to add is that.

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We need a, we need a date.

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December 7th pay the living room for me. You know that right, it's a Pearl, Harbor.

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Okay, so I was.

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For this meeting, we're going to talk about.

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We want to discuss the logo the next round.

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Three three.

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Next round next round of logo, Concepts anything else, I'd.

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Like to we already put on here that we needed to eliminate the hybrid and adopt the bylaws at our next Community, okay and then um also wanted to bring up. Don't forget bumper stickers for Fleet.

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Once we get the logo adopted butter stickers so that every single vehicle has a bunch of sticker on it, because it it reinforces what the city is supposed to be doing as a whole um and I'd also like for our group to work on an ordinance to beautify all the lovely dumpsters. We have been.

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Having no fencing around.

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That to me that's right: horrible I, don't care people come visit, our city and that's what they see. People.

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Everything is horrible,.

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I I have signs on our dumpster, it says cameras are watching you and it's uh we even psyched the health code, the Texas health code. If you put personal items in my dumpster and it's worked like a champ, we haven't had one strange item put in there: no refrigerators. No. Now.

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So we should revisit the middle ordinance.

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For the malls and the Walmarts and all of that all the big box.

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I'm talking about making sure everybody's enforcing it remember.

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Yes, but if we bring it to John's attention, it's.

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The Supreme Court came back and said you guys can't do this one, but the one in.

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The valley will adopt our original ornaments that's yet created, but.

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Their legal team changed the language and that's what we did and that's what that's. What gave us, because.

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I was at a conference whenever they had just passed.

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I'm thinking you stole our words, you.

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Last thing I want to mentioned that.

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Saying Wednesday Wednesday.

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All right, okay, do we have any other items? Is there anything else you want to add to the agenda? Yes, all right.

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Okay, we're doing a float from wbca, so we'll be doing Saturday.

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Thank you, man.

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Been around I've had it for years yeah after trying to build a 52 foot long.

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