City of Laredo, Texas Keep Laredo Beautiful, 13 Dec 2022

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KEEP LAREDO BEAUTIFUL BOARD 120722

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Because it's getting started.

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I'm, probably listening to order.

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Javier Alonso, okay,.

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I'm putting them down.

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Here, Diane Gomez.

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And I still leave.

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A baskets perfect.

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Looking forward to review minutes.

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Thank you look.

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Forward to a discussion on the following items: programs.

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Okay, so there are two programs.

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And one is a creative program where I don't know if you all are at the Museum, keep my talent beautiful.

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So we want to do that for us, but what we would be painting are strong water candies and with that they also have it on their website and you're able to see for each.

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So this is what they have their, um so we want to do that for strong water inlets, which we already have several storm water inlets that are already.

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Which is usually pretty big, not huge, but this is big or giving them an electrical box.

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So the reason I chose stormwater- and this is.

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You see it, thank you, you didn't see.

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Them this much, what are you gonna do you're going to like uh because that's a big word, you know, you've got aprons. You've got alcohols.

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Even you have one like where I was at right now between Corpus or children,.

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Let me move forward.

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Really good USD.

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Yeah I think we start I'll start working on like a contract and applications.

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Each area has its own I think.

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Yeah North Central, yes,.

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Definitely this.

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Also, all of them environmentally focused and again for supplies and and other things that will be part of you, yeah.

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If it's a program that we're creating, then we can say we're getting this funds for this program. Yeah.

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Yeah I would also seek their permission before we need to before anything. I always ask.

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I have a project in there is.

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And he called it two eggs, um it's a program, it's a program where he we would ask people to pick up at least two pieces of trash per day, and then he bought out. uh He was like well I, don't know how we could put it up there, where we can see that people are actually doing it because I was like you know.

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I was like you know what works social media work, so what we could do is um he will take a photo when they're doing their two a days share it with a specific hashtag like that, we can be able to attract whatever photos that are being taken, um and then we will choose a winner each month and that will keep them motivated. So you can do it like a like a raffle type. Sorry yeah every picture is an entry.

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Do you all have any ideas.

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They're, an age yeah I want to be over.

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If I take my picture today, can I do it tomorrow can I do it the next day or like? Is it one entry per.

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Every time you pick up, you get an entry yeah. So just it's.

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To create a system where people are able to put in all the names yeah, because.

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If you can do this, yes,.

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You go to the to the website.

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Of Aaron detention Bill, if they're asking you the same thing, whatever.

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So it's the same thing.

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You know like, within the next 90 days.

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Is two a day, so it's every.

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Every Friday well.

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Friday for every month doesn't have to.

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Be like, is it a six months.

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The concern was.

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Because you have which.

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And the curator is a plug-inter, the module that you put in your website or any um that allows you to promote it on social media with a hashtag and then the curator, what it does every day twice a day it goes in and it scrapes the internet for all the hashtags that say to a daily or Tuesday 2023 and it's set up and brings it onto your website. So then, all those pictures show up on your website um and at that point the question is.

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Do that for our Christmases yeah yeah.

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And that's how they.

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Feel like Jesus is talking about and then you can import into.

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The path that you're talking about it's.

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Be a little bit of work at the beginning.

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Which is the easy part? That's an off-the-shelf product and I get that data. How do I convert that into the database that allows me to choose if I'm real specific, with what I want they'll cover it themselves? Yes, rather than trying this one, because it's easier.

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And then two we can have everybody register and then they're in.

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And then your guy takes the data.

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So if you have 6 000 names in there well I'm as possible once it gets going, you laugh, but if it's true, because people feel like they're doing something really important think about the university, all the kids, you have there and.

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Those are young.

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Adults forget the.

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Little ones when they figure it out the Junior, High kids, oh they're, going to be doing it too, because it's winning a.

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Contest because.

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Everybody loves it, it depends on the incentive.

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But like you're doing it two times a day and I what our theme was like you're doing it, it's something that you're gonna get accustomed doing it before.

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Gonna be a habit right, but.

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That's what came.

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The whole program is going to be like from January 1st through February 28th or you know the whole year and then that's one part of it and the other part is okay, so we're gonna pick a winner every month and then you have to break it down further okay. So if it's every month then, if I can enter one today, I'm gonna have 30 entries, you know yeah so I mean every person can have 30.

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Entries because they could do Tuesdays.

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Not going to be perfect guys starting out you're gonna, probably.

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Know do a run. The.

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One and then you're gonna have to tweak.

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It actually like do it for a month goes and then, or like I said you need to set the time frame like I, would want to know how long it is.

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And then we fixed, we fixed all the all the glasses.

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Because, right now that we're building the websites.

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Those are the two programs: okay.

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Motion carries.

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Going to do that.

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Of like the brands, okay.

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So it's a storm water park program so do I have a motion to develop a storm water.

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Motion carries.

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Okay. The next item is.

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Prepared for this one because we sent them earlier, um so we can kind of get a jump start on it.

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On moving away from the Esperanza agave.

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Type logo, we selected some fonts that everybody was kind of uh comfortable with and with that, we gave the designers some direction on what to develop from there and they came up with probably six or seven Agave designs and some.

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The two that I.

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And asked um 14 people randomly. Ironically, almost everyone and I said: choose two: that's it and there's one that was the common denominator and I thought 30 40 of them. They just made a modification on the one that was the most common sure.

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I haven't okay.

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I saw them at the original presentation.

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So a couple of things.

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um We decided to focus on beautiful right opposite of Laredo. Okay,.

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Where we had, you know, keep a Laredo beautiful kind of small. It was big we kind of decided. This is what we would go like the idea of doing the klb has a short.

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So then, the only thing that we were working on next, that everybody kind of moved away from the original Concepts was to go to more of.

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So I mean really at this point: it's just trying to select which of the logos, the icons that you want right and then perfecting that. So you have another shot at this. It's a little bit down to one or two.

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Agree, thicker is probably better.

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And I also like something like this.

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Yeah I have a black screen and it even looks cool a lot.

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Yeah, that's what you want yeah so.

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I really like those two, uh this is Myra mentioned that they like the the this one, but instead of this um for it to be over here, correct.

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Oh yeah, okay,.

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Kind of like what we got going on here so and.

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That's really all of them. This is this yeah. These are two versions. You have what's called side by side and then the stack these are all stacked for the moments, but.

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So that's that's my boat.

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Side by side, all right so.

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This way- or you can do it this way um and when you select they'll, be laid out.

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Maybe this jacket, you may need to put it side by side so.

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Wants to vote next week.

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So the sixth one has one: okay, so yeah I'm going one two three four five, six yeah this one you're gonna go with that one too yeah.

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Okay, everyone.

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At the University numbers.

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That's foreign.

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And fonts well.

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The punch I think you guys have all celebrities.

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As the keyboard.

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This one I love.

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The color on this one I think.

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And then we'll make our final decision.

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Yeah, okay and then we're gonna. What we'll do at the same time is each page so I'll have this one, leaving one just one page.

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Kind of like the color of the blue one yeah.

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Know you I want to show you all how that will look on a shirt, how that would look on a coffee cup, how to look on a website so that you guys can see the functionality consider black and white as well.

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Variation in different products.

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It was introducing me to the communities.

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You have Community environments, these are the three the committee of the board. These are top three choices, put it on the social media.

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So we can definitely do do a lot of that, but we need to get. We need to narrow it down, so the community.

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I mean it goes back to the lady in the water thing, the whole neighborhood hates that thing and I think it's awesome.

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Was hoping to go out and get a whole bunch of my friends for Halloween and dress up with Druid costumes and build a big fire and kind of do this ritual out there? Let everybody get mad.

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No, we just need to upgrade.

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And font from page one number, one and page two number one: that's the motion. Do I do I, have a motion like that.

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All right so I have a motion and a second to the top to proceed with the final development of those two logos, discussions, ordinances.

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Cover the dumpsters to build walls around dumpsters. Now you know there's going to be people who are playing in private or whatever, but.

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It does need to be done because another Community tab implemented that ordinance and it's following through some people are grandfather in, but they're asked to beautify the area and come up to par so that it's not dirty trash, isn't on the outside and the most annoying dumpster to me and Laredo, because I pass it every day is La Mansion, Condominiums.

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The one that says.

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Fried chicken place.

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There, in those conditions.

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They have the dumpsters there.

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It's disgusting I mean it really is, and if you go behind a lot of buildings where they put their trash, there's so much trash, that's dumped not in a can not anywhere just dumped, even behind the mall, because I saw it the other day, the cardboard they don't have the Recycled proper recycling bins. We need to visit with them all again, because that is the first thing people notice when they want to bring business to town they're going live it's trashy anymore,.

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So now we need to make sure that we're enforcing using Beto's word enforcing organs that are already in place and creating more convinces that will clean up the area.

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That addresses out of the cleanup or The Dumping of material.

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Because we were having that same problem, ours is on the side and it's visible from the street. There is no enclosure, so.

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Every Saturday you.

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Know every Monday morning we'd come in from the weekend and there will be mattresses and televisions. You name it. It was on.

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So, given that we are marketing campaign, Designs, By Design, two signs, one in English uh and Spanish for each one says: if there's a camera watching and the other one says, there's a straight talk and we will prosecute you if you violated by opening your stuff and.

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That's at least a start, I mean if everybody puts those signs up, it's at least a start records that enclosure and give everybody a year or two to be able to.

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We understand the economics of it is yes,.

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And it's not an easy song and like if you've got a good relationship with the trash goes or the sanitations over regular beans is, maybe you know just to try the program put a 30 yard dumpster in a neutral location in various areas of the city, because it's a nightmare to go to the landfill I mean most people just.

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Empty lot I mean it's a bigger than you realize so rather.

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Than doing the biannual large island collection.

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Well, I'm just saying to have it like almost permanently. You know.

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If it's not an easy process, I'm.

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That everybody is allowed to have I think it's once or twice a year. Then it's always.

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They're not willing to do anymore because it is so expensive that you believe in both of those it's really expensive when they do and the recycling is the city has, is really a recycling program right. It is a waste diverse.

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It's a race, that's not being put into our landfills to be taken somewhere else, because the markets that used to buy all of the aluminum and the plastic. All of that this is all China, and so you know talking about Beto and to uh I mean they. Both agree that there was an actual program is invested in is is of no real value other than if you want some additional years.

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District might work well, we have one that's off of Clark Street.

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Complete it's for recycling.

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It's for cardboard and recyclables, but.

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It's also uh electronics, electronics and chemicals.

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That's the other issue, I mean it has to be manned. It has to be immense side and that's what will cost money to do it in every District? But do you have to command it? Well, not if it's open, but they don't keep the one on the park. Okay, parked well.

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Because if they have an officer, that's why and because of some of the things that they're bringing in there, they need to check it before they take it in make sure it's not yeah right.

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You know certain districts, for example, I just gave two of us that she was going to clean it all up and she's doing a great job. She said plenty of cleanup, but Andrew week you go back after somebody else out there. Somebody else.

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The neighbors are going to complain because nobody, because.

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It's just been sitting here: they haven't, sold the family done anything with it. The community garden.

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Okay, so we closed it down. But that being said, it's a great lot but I'll tell you what.

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If I live next door, it.

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May have dumpster.

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Get it as my property value being dropped so.

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Not a district five you couldn't put it at the airport. Right right goes to the bus, all that property between utilities and Public Works.

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Add that to it.

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You can get access.

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That's where they can go when they happen.

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Well- and it's really Galore.

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There will be people dumping their trash.

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Containers and you put that stuff in there, um maybe at some point the city's twice a year thing goes away, because people become acclimated and.

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Not just right away at the end of the day, you're getting that trash.

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um Actually, maybe what we should do is where we have dumping taking place. It's like you know how you go down University and then it becomes Casa Grande at that corner. There's always dumping right there putting dumpsters there they're dumping there anyway. So.

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Hey we'll put a big size jump here.

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I think creating an ordinance before we go that route. My.

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Positions are already on the books here that maybe just needs enforcement or need to be Amplified if someone's already required to have signage out there, and we need to go out and start.

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Because I think the science.

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And everybody receives this size like we did with the commercials, all the stores we had the signs, the stores came in and got their signs and they would post them. You know and I think that that's an easy way to say this is where we're going.

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Everybody needs to have investors, we're beautifying, dumpster space, Here's the laws, the rules- you know post them, but remember you have to maintain because we'll be sending out inspectors and you will be fine, not the people dumping. It's going.

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To be on you, well, let's provide me footage of somebody.

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Which that would be great if we had cameras everywhere, but maybe there's some cameras is.

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Don't put it out as a company.

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Actually, I don't think I've ever seen anything being done.

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And they're very clean in the neighborhood I've seen people I've done it by myself.

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And everybody has done it so again it may be more educational as the company, but.

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To see us, do you want us to do a.

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Because you already know yeah just staying there's a camera, they don't have dummy cameras, yeah camera's.

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Going to work, but they don't know, but they they don't know that.

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We just need to do four ships, and that could be as easy as sending a letter, yeah yeah to everybody. You know all the faulting people have these franchise agreements, you send it out to the vetoes and Jerry or sentences of the world, and so your clients need to have this out there. This is part of your uh that you've helped us enforce things.

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Because she told me she goes no, we have cameras, we see them, we see them dumping their trash from the neighbor.

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Opinion was I'd, rather have them putting it in our trash can in our downstairs, so I I'm not going to go until I'm, not to and.

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That's I think.

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That's okay days.

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Have to have them in the parking lot they have to have so many every so many my feet. They do have well they're supposed to happen in the morning.

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Yeah but they probably have moved them because nobody's enforcing the ordinance well.

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I know sometimes they had trash cans with trash barrels. No, these are the.

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To go to the dumpsters.

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Yes, there is environmental courses.

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The commercial letter was only done, but it's changed the way they performed the one right now. Okay, so.

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Which? Environment.

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Well, this was a conversation for themselves.

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uh Presidential.

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Ordinances in general, whatever the city has right now, that's on the books that addresses litter, because I know there was one thing that comes out of the health department for tires.

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This is a commercial leader, ordinance uh I, know they're, bringing back the plastic bag.

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They have an ordinance in Brownsville that has already withstood.

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Be a part of it.

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I think we'll do that.

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The next item is the room here.

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The focus for the folk is Heritage.

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We want to focus on today is creating a committee for the I. Don't think building just um Planning and Building will be one Committee, just uh we'll call it. The loved community.

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I spoke to our new group of volunteers from the National Guard and they are up for helping us what donations.

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Figure out what we want to do and.

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Be I know definitely we're gonna need pallets.

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So you build it up.

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Public Works foreign.

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No I think we should go I think this is the time to approach gray, media, great media, the people that are Monopoly on the um they own. Every station, ABC CBS NBC, um go to 3D media and they used to sponsorship all the years.

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We need a vote sponsor: okay, okay,.

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Heat Wave Always wrote on the foot and he is the greatest pull for everything. They love people.

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I think it's crazy and if Mindy's.

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They screaming.

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Of this committee.

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You're just moving within the campus.

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There was one more person.

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So I wanted to be a part of the food.

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Okay: let's go ahead Okay so.

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Have Lynn Diane Monica Christina from floats to me.

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Alligators, okay,.

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Yeah he's my friend.

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Okay, so then um no actual requirements.

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The adoption of the Bible.

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The adoption of the bylaws.

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Okay, so we have two new board members and I didn't include it there, but also removal.

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Law school join us he's not here today and we have to finally part of the ward.

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I actually have a biology degree, so I've been doing volunteer work for a long time and when Javi told me about it, I was really excited, so it has like that blend between keeping the burrito clean and then the RNC part which I really enjoy I, also have a minor in art, so yeah. This is actually pretty exciting. It's awesome we're.

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So happy you're here.

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Thank you, she's been joining us since September.

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um We had to postpone to um two of our events, which was our Arbor Day event that happened this past week. Now it went, it went great because I was so happy with what I.

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Because my throat was just because it was just drizzling the whole time we had fun and we did it. We even got to remove an old tree.

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Thank you to um also.

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As well and it was actually Priscilla's ambassador's event and it went really well, we did Post Falls.

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Because of the holidays, whether we'll wait till next year, well, it was outside. That's the hard part, yes and we joined um Solid Waste environment. So for the equal fair that also went really well, it went great and we had our Rubicon ceremony at North, Central Park, which was really cold. We've been getting those cool three days that.

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Was the day that I was sick? Yes, yes, that was um foreign.

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um On Saturday, we had the Hollywood collection with environmental and our birthday um pretty well as well. I think we hit 198 course.

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They come from.

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Well, supposedly, they're not.

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Fine, um so we're already planning our Earth game with the library FYI. That's gonna be fun. Okay,.

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um By January I should give you guys something like this with all of our events for the whole year. Okay, yes, um so we are looked at April 22nd.

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Just catching up on our website.

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And then we brought our senior developer in India. We were working on a software program. We stalled it for a while because we have our chief technology and so without the two of them working together.

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I would bring him over for the next three months and let him work with with our other developer, because he's really good at the WordPress, which is the platform we use in so he's now going to be assigned three or four projects, one of the harder projects- and this is one of the.

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Harder ones because it's got.

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A lot of moving.

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Interview for four years and we'll maintain this update all the plugins but renewable licenses, everything that needs to be done with it. We will do that for one four year, once it's launched.

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The next one meeting- that's all in my part- that's January, 11th, okay,.

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