City of Laredo, Texas Laredo Center for Urban Agriculture and Sustainability, 20 Jan 2023

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LAREDO CENTER FOR URBAN AGRICULTURE AND SUSTAINABILITY 011923

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All right we're gonna.

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Public comments: do we have any public comments here? No public comments. Item number four president's report.

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Hello, everybody, okay,.

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I'll send them some more information.

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It was uh really great um he's good I, like Mr Brighton,.

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To write um to get it right he's everything else is pretty much just putting in data, not data, but so.

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uh Probably by next month, we'll have a very clear idea.

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Grants for lcuas and all the things that it does I've um I really.

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It's in two of them.

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Attacked for City makery, the Coalition has really centered around.

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Lesson and uh making some of those first second and third year, goals of the plan.

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This, that's all I, have to report right now. So if there's anything that.

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Well, I spoke to him last week.

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Okay, so yeah we've been on it, um I I asked him. So can we have an anticipated date of submission by next week on the 26th? He hasn't responded, but I think just you know just a couple of questions. Every couple of days, he'll he'll get it over with and that way we can be an official 501 C3. uh Moving on Twitter report.

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Proportionate obviously, was the ready for 45 000, and that came in at the end of the year. uh There were sales of 466 dollars plus about another.

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Memo doesn't show up to.

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Pick the director and then.

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Grant right for about Thursday that foreign.

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Balance that too, in our valves I'm, going to call and see if I can get that.

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Shipping and posted- that's, uh you know software and apps uh about 400 of that it is 30 monkeys.

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uh I'm happy to say that we'll have some volunteers that.

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Call me during the week and rubies are according to rep.

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So we're gonna be there and we have right now we have beads radish.

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In September 22.

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At least one time.

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We have some data.

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Not all of the polluters I mean uh but sure percentage of the operations are from our district.

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It does it doesn't matter, no I, don't but I think just uh we need to you know I'm sure.

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Okay, um so I just wanted to show you.

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I wanted to show you.

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Market is this Saturday we are having the invented Fiesta, which is an extension uh Slash addition to the Farmers Market.

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So I want to say 14 to 16 new vendors that have never participated at the farmers market that are participating and we have three out of town vendors that will be participating um as well and uh we have.

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Programs that are here, local and Laredo, so one of our main goals is to show the community that there are these things available here locally. A lot of people.

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That are really really interested. There's a lot of people that have that just a lot of positive but positive vibes to these events.

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We'll be at the veggie Fiesta.

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Yes, um hopefully, that secured fingers crossed, but I should be a good amount of money to help us uh help that private plan come to fruition. um Specifically.

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Tell me you did reach out, they are going to be volunteering at the farmers market, but they also asked for the for the burden for Olivia, so I did um send them their way. um They were going to message you through Instagram or Facebook.

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Are represents.

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Intact I sent that to Sabrina obvious, be helpful. Living.

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For you all to visit the tables and see um who you think would benefit to to give this information.

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I I wanted to see if I could project on a slide.

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I do and to know Wi-Fi.

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The lcuas report.

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Such an incredible advocate for lcuas, whether you are really helped a lot during that I'll, see the the grant that we were going through. I'm sorry, I called you so late. No.

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Don't worry about it.

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But uh it was uh really helpful and.

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Going anything.

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Thank you so much I wanted to show this slide, because this is a slide that we're going to show uh in February we're going to be talking about uh the farmer's market specifically, but.

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The historical commission wanted to do by uh panel discussion on farmers markets in Texas and we're one of two that are prison. uh She and it, and it's basically on the economic development side and the troubles that we have.

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Really important that that, like from our meetings going forward um and I, think this is going to land on all of us.

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On these uh uh six areas that lcuas touches- and we.

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Include policy Council, that's already getting. You know worked on here and, of course you attend the meeting, so you can say also that you've attended a meeting. You do a lot more than what you're reporting is, what I'm trying to say and it's real helpful we're being recorded. This is a public meeting but I'm hopeful that we show that we are doing what the ordinance and the local government.

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Building what we're doing- and it's going to be based on this, so um anyways I, just wanted to show that so that we can start kind of organizing our our meetings around. Even though not.

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Foreign, a good plan for all of you.

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Know I know, and so it's helpful to just do your report written so that we can have those in place on even and just even looking at the opportunities that exist in each like grants or whatever it is that comes across during the month.

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I'm pretty sure we covered everything and we're just on General discussions and general presentations unless this was part of it. But I think this was policy. Council, updated.

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Well, the food policy can I mentioned something um we're still working.

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The expert uh the expert that came in Spoke, specifically on each one of these sectors.

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One more uh feedback loop with the public. um We want to make it a little bit bigger than the people who are at the pool.

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When we're shooting for April is pretty soon, um but hopefully um we can keep things pretty simple and like it really should be. A local small conference.

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And the committee or to help them so I, don't know if you have any dietitian contacts, all right, supervised.

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About several of them, okay, cool, so.

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To be like to be approved to give that continuing education credit, we have to have a dietitian health plan that event.

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um For your media and marketing down on College Point, Health, Department, okay,.

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So, um okay, no, no, it's no hard press, but um we might call you and say: could you do this?

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Okay, like specifically one thing: okay, um all right.

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To do something really fun for the community like she said all we.

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You know not to make it so hard on each other and I think that if everybody's.

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You know to food policy, it's a community garden to all of it. It's one big umbrella. So yes, Saturday 11 to three you'll already be there. So hopefully we can get everybody down there. We're gonna be good about signage and we're gonna be like directing it.

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I mean the little voucher that you get at the parking area. You'll have free parking before I leave for the event, so y'all don't have to worry about about her.

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And we will have a lot of just different interactive activities. um I just released a podcast and we'll be talking to different.

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Local vendors with each other- um and you know anybody that finds out about it, hopefully, will make it out everything's free. It's just.

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Or anything a third table just.

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I invite all your friends and family um and.

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The free ebook they'll also be a free ebook that you guys will get once you give us your email, and it has recipes that are easy to follow at home, with things that you already have, but.

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We'll all unknowns, not on our social media. We do have a. We have someone in charge over social media um she's a.

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See the work work.

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Announcing it everywhere, we put posters and at Starbucks at gyms at different places, so we're trying to just make sure you see that green flyer- and you know it's veggie Fiesta, it's this Saturday. So we're excited about this foreign.

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Seeds and any festivals coming out that we can participate in with a booth or maybe no one.

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um So yeah thank you program as we know so yeah. So as far as an event that we could probably promote that the big event for us, it.

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uh Bulls from you all over the place and I think that'll be good. That'll be good to you know, have something there as far as what we're talking about the top and maybe not a small like a.

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Version of a former Farmers marketing um we are so that's one, that's the immediate one that I could tell that we couldn't. We can.

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Cut the person to contact is our event project. They are event specialist.

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um Let me write this number down, so you all can do so. You can plan it and you give it work. Give you a booth free of charge, of course, wow, and, and you don't.

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Have to yeah, you just got to sign it in and.

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Try to get some, you know just the tornado's number is uh 956-775.

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When it's coordinating this this event.

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Camilo Ramos, that's 775, -1031 he's the one that's in charge of the Kite Festival uh Recreation. These are event Specialists, because coordinating he's always looking for people to put.

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Calling the the middle Rim, where the detention party is right in the middle uh all that area there is where we put all the moves up and all that, so that I think that'd be a good great idea to do that.

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um We are in the process. I know Council women's better.

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Times on the real time.

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That she wants to do turn that into just a community garden. So right after right, yeah.

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Maybe about an eight Connecticut about a lot, a lot and a half, so she wanted to make it into a nice community.

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That's the one you.

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There's only part-time, but we want to make it to the whole Community to come, and you know and help out and and not just because exactly a small version of concept, in other words, to say that yeah.

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Right, uh it's it's small version of Conseco so that we could have it there. We can.

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Still park around.

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um Community garden, I'm, sorry, community garden, so that we can build it and then.

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And he goes to Haynes, so he would help us start recording if we just he wants to start in March, also as well. I think that's about coming up really uh I! Think that's the time. You said that it's a good time to start planting and start everything going again in March.

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So he's very good, he used to be he used to have a nice little garden over there.

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The one that you'll have here.

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Experience and that's so that's it, you will, we will be uh hopefully I'm assuming we're gonna, be to February again and I'll. Give you more details as far as I'll give you a report of what we're looking at. Where is it at and hopefully you know you all are more than welcome to come help set that up. You know so so that we can put.

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Help you guys sure.

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So we're gonna make it into a kite festival and then we're going to turn into a concert at Night concert even Park and that's spring break. So hopefully we'll have a good turn. Now we didn't normally do it's always. We should have a really good turnout. No, we always.

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Successful for so hopefully we can. We can get something going. You know more like that, have to have something for uh for Lucas there on that event, but on the next meeting, I'll bring you more information, uh I, don't know what the next meeting will be in February, but um so that we could not so that I can give you uh an update.

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There's water connections there so we're going to have to get a meter and all that stuff so we're even the process you're doing that: okay but yeah. So no, that's uh that's what we're at right now and, of course, the Community Gardens, where Mr Lopez.

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But you still go to the one or the.

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Okay, yeah so I'll give you an update on on next next week. Next time they use it. As far as thank you. Thank you. Sorry.

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No, no! No! No! No I'm glad! You asked.

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The same time, which looks to be very effective, considering we only have one person, not here so probably the best turnout we've had in a while.

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