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Um, this meeting is being recorded by the community relations committee. If any other persons present are doing the same, you must notify the chairperson at this time. So now we'll do a roll call of members. Councelor Brown here. Um, I

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don't know who's next in the order. Councelor Bullduck here. Councelor Citizen Alves absent. Um, let me know. Councelor Minhos absent. And then councelor Damoth here

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I presume. So we have a quorum. Um next we'll have approval of minutes. We don't have any right now so we can skip that. And then next is public comment. We have um the new superintendent. Sorry to call you out but we have new superintendent

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cruiser online. Um feel free to share. you have up to three minutes if you'd like, but you don't have to share if you >> I just wanted to say um thank you. I just wanted to come to this meeting to to meet the the group and because

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community relationships are going to be a really high priority for me. So, I'm just wanting to get a sense of the work you're doing and just listen to what's going on. >> Awesome. Right. >> Thank you for being here. Um we don't

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have any motions so we just have discussion topics for today and maybe just well while you're here on the note of like relationship with schools and um community engagement I last year

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we had a joint meeting with the school committee community engagement subcommittee and I feel like that was a really nice um meeting so because otherwise it's like you're just working together as ways and means and budget season and and that can be contentious.

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So, it's nice to have more relationships about like positive collaboration. So, that might be a nice thing to bring back for um a future meeting. I can I can note that down so I remember that. Um

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and also yeah, so that so I'll write that down. Um but other than that, we can go into the agenda as written. the committee fair idea and how's that going with or maybe even if you want to give a slight intro on what that is. So I work

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in Brattleboro and the Browboro town manager actually had um a boards and commissions fair where all the city boards and commissions got together at their library and basically said hey this is what we do and here are the vacancies we'd love to have some interested people come and like learn

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about municipal government and I thought that was a great idea. So, I've been trying to piece meal together invitations for other committees. I've got all of them from the agricultural commission. I've got the cemetery commission, the community preservation commission, the constables, um even the

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FRTA advisory board. These are like some of these boards don't meet, but we've sent out messaging to all of them and the school committee actually responded positively. Stacy definitely wants to participate and it's basically just a way to get people to participate more in local government because the bar for

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participation is the fear of basically stepping out like because before any of us have to take that step it's you know am I even allowed to do that do I have anything worth saying you know the you know what am I going to contribute and it's just one of those ways that is

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hopefully going to illuminate the fact that local government is really by and for regular people and that anybody is welcome to participate. And so hopefully if we have all these parties in the room and some people will actually be really interested in what's going on. Um and like I said, the school committee was actually really interested in in

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participating in that which I think is great because especially where there's a lot of parents >> who will come to that and then you know maybe they'll come for like the conservation commission and be like oh you know my kid is going to you know I want to protect the world that they're growing up in and then oh hey this school committee oh my god like I'm hoping that that's kind of what will

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happen. Um, as far as the different committees that have joined so far, board of licensed commissioners, I actually went to their meeting and talked to them in person and they were on board. Uh, they said that we should get donuts.

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>> Oh, so that was that was their that was their by and large that was their first question. They said, "Will there be donuts?" And I said, "That's the first question you want to ask me." And they said, "That's the important stuff." >> It's true. >> That's how to get people there. the people. >> And um actually just heard the other day from the conservation commission because

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they put me on the agenda. They talked about it and they volunteered a couple people to come forward and have their um have their basically like a a board or whatever. Um like a cardboard, you know, the display board, that kind of thing. They're going to do that. >> Um I talked to Bella at GCTV. So GCTV is

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in. Uh the historical commission is obviously on board because Yeah, that I'm going to do that. So, um, redevelopment authority, Amy, Amy Kaine has been super responsive. Susan Moran has been very responsive. So, the cultural crossroads

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>> district, uh, the elderly and disabled tax committee, I talked to Patty. So, Patty is into that. So, we've got all these different committees that are they're slowly kind of trickling in and I'm actually thinking about maybe booking a date now. >> Wonderful. and like getting that more formally on the agenda and then basically the next couple of months

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going peace meal to their meetings and inviting the ones that haven't responded like the board of health, you know, there's like four of them and I I know Michael Thorough has been incredibly busy. >> Yeah. >> He's been in I guess he's been going to court a lot for the city. >> Okay.

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>> So, you know, I want to make sure that I go and I talk to them >> and it's like, hey, if if this is something that you don't have time to do, would you like us to have a display on your behalf? That kind of thing. Um but >> so still looking to make contact with board of health. Is are there others? Cuz I could try to like >> There's a few I know

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>> there's that there's quite a few. >> Okay. >> Um but yeah, so the board of health was one. The register of voters. I want to talk to Kathy >> about that. Um then the constables. >> Constables. Do we have >> Do we do because we're it's like a county thing >> with the sheriff.

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>> I don't know about this. >> Right. Right. Right. That's the thing. That was like >> and then you've got things like the Jenny Bascom Fund and what was there's another there's another strange one >> if you vote for those. So, the trustees under Oliver Smith, that's another one.

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Like, what is that? And what do you do? The trustees under Oliver Smith, if you don't already know, >> um Oliver Smith was a wellto-do gentleman back in the 1800s who died. Obviously, at this point, I would hope so, right? It's 2026, but his estate was

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so large that he donated it and said, "You have to donate a certain number of this per year to different projects." And so that estate is the they manage what the pro you know you can apply for a certain amount of money and obviously it's it's rolling over year over year and like you know they'll be Elon Musky

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in no time but um that's that's what they do and it's such a small board but you need to be elected to serve on that board which is so strange. >> Um and so that's something that I think that you know will tickle somebody's fancy because they're like what do you mean there's a board under who's Oliver Smith?

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>> Yeah. Um, and then obviously the zoning board of appeals, uh, the trustees of AK Warner, uh, Sustainable Greenfield, I haven't I haven't contacted them. Um, >> Max, >> I know Max, >> the public safety commission, the So, a

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lot of the boards that are run by Aaron and the ones that are run by Jonathan, I have not heard anything. I think that they saw my email and then didn't forward it. >> Oh, okay. >> Because they're busy. >> Yeah. >> Feel free to share the spreadsheet. I believe it is online. I think it's I

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think it's been shared, but I can certainly do it again. >> I don't I'm not sure where the link is, but if you don't mind forwarding it to me again. >> Yeah, I can do that. >> And if the ones that are highlighted that you haven't made contact with, I can I'll >> So, just for pause, the ones here in

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green are the ones that have I've heard back from directly. And then you can see, you know, >> did the staff respond? Yeah. Did the board also respond? Great. Who is the point of contact person for that board? So on and so forth. That's great. >> Um, like I know for example that the Human Rights Commission is not meeting right now because they don't have a

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quorum. They cannot meet. >> So they're going to be particularly hard to get representation for because there's nobody they can't meet. >> Yeah. But they should really want to show that they should. Yeah. It's it's about who do you contact at that point, you know?

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>> Um, what date are you thinking? I'm thinking maybe in like the spring, maybe April. Oh, wow. Okay. Because that gives everybody time because Mh. >> In the meantime, we're going to have things like, you know, holidays and Christmas and back to school and it's going to hit us before we know it. And we only have so many months to prepare.

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Okay. >> And it all has to be, you know, above board on their agendas and all that. So maybe April, the springtime when people are really going back and being like, I want to be outside and I want to be doing stuff. >> And I heard the donuts and I was like, oh, going to be sooner.

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>> You know, honestly, >> I really think it would be it would kind of be it would be good to have a planning meeting, too. But I don't I that's a lot to ask of the staff and everybody. But um but yeah, I definitely I also think it's great to if we just booked the John's on out, you know,

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it'll give us the most opportunity to have a really good date. >> Yeah. >> And that's the next thing would be like deciding on a date. Like a Wednesday, you might get people, but a Saturday you might get more parents. It's hard to know when and where and how and

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>> Yeah. Maybe like a Saturday morning. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. 9 to 12 or something. >> Donuts and coffee. >> Oh, yeah. Right. So, morning for donuts. >> I maybe even >> Yeah, that sounds good to me. >> And then if we if we have any success in

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the morning, we can do Oh, I don't know. Is that too little? >> Two hours might be too little. >> Nine might be >> maybe like 10 to 1 cuz then we we can book it from like 9 to 2 to open and close. >> Yeah, that sounds good. So then if we decide on a date, you know, if we did it

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over the weekend, we could try again in the summertime, like early summer >> before everyone goes on vacation. >> Yeah. >> And uh do that one like in the afternoon. >> Oh, we're pling a second one >> if if people are interested, if they really like it. But what I'm anticipating people being like, "Oh, it

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was a Saturday and my kid had this or there was a birthday or there was a you know, because that's the thing to be fair. I suppose if people are going to volunteer on the boards and commissions anyway, are they going to come to something on a Saturday? They're already going to be giving some of their time

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that shows the incentive and the willingness. But I also want to I'm like, I'm not really sure because I want to make sure that the bar is low enough that participation, it doesn't feel, oh, I have to do this after work. I, you know, I got to, you know what I mean? Like I don't want to make it go out of their way. >> Seems like a good idea.

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>> And maybe we just do one, but maybe maybe we make it an annual annual. Yeah. So, it's like every spring boards of commissions fair. Yeah. >> Oh, and there's another one here, too. So, Jonathan Weber did get back to me

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>> on one of the boards. He does not. It's listed that he staffs the cable advisory board. Apparently, he does not. >> Oh. Oh, interesting. >> So, we're going to have to find out who does staff that and then contact them separately. >> Um, and then John Botmley is on the tree

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committee, I think. Yeah, I want to get the tree committee involved, too. Just those are the things when they say 51 boards and committees, they're not online. Yeah. >> A lot of them are not. So, the like the tree committee is like it's a committee, but it's like a citizen-led >> committee. So, but I for Yeah, because

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when you go on, oh, we have 51 boards of commissions and there's like 47 online, you're like, where's >> where's the rest of? >> So, but that's a great idea, too, because I've already talked to him about the tree committee, especially where I'm thinking about um I was already talking, this is a little unrelated, but like

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proposing things like significant trees so that the sycamores that are pushing the sidewalks can have some protection, but that's different. Um, >> so we're good on this. Do you want support with anything besides like more outreach? I mean, there's plenty of time, April, but like

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>> the only thing I'm looking at is like the fire station building committee. Like they're really that seems like they've really served their purpose. Like I don't think that they >> I think that one is um yeah, completed. >> Yeah, there's and they're still listed. So, it's like we could um and like the

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library board of trustees obviously I think that would be good, but there's also a library building committee. And I was like, >> "Yeah, >> that seems like that's kind of served its purpose at this point." >> Yeah. >> So, I might not extend the invitation unless if I find out that it's active and that they actually are doing things, I'll probably extend the invitation. But

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other than that, no, I think I can I'll peg away and if I don't hear in the next week or two from most of these boards, I'll start leaning on >> Oh, yeah. That sounds good. >> Because it's literally just getting a hold of a couple of different people and like living in their inbox. need to

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think about. We don't have any funding for anything. So, >> we could get a maybe Adam's donuts will donate. >> Maybe they would donate or maybe I feel like the committees that do get like like zoning board get 750 and human

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rights gets 500. Maybe like a few of those committees each put in like 50 and then it like adds up to something. >> Oh, heck. I mean, we could even I mean Adam Zonas I can't imagine it's going to be that ridiculous. >> Yeah. >> So, >> so we'll figure out funding it. Yeah, that sounds we don't have money.

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>> Y'all don't have any money. >> Um, cool. Well, that sounds great. Thank you again for doing that. >> Oh, yeah. It's my pleasure. Honestly, I like like when I went to the planning board, for example, like they were really like very stern and serious and then I was like, "So, you guys, how about we do something fun?" And the look

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on their faces just totally changed because they get to actually talk about what they care about and why they join and stuff like that. It's just I think it's going to be good for them as much as it is going to be good for the community. So that's my hope. >> Perfect. >> That's my hope. >> Yeah. >> Um we feel good to move on to the youth

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internship. >> Yeah. My update from counselor citizen elves is that um she emailed Jonathan Tammy Kathy the clerks um about the internship and Jonathan emailed back

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saying he doesn't have space to think about this until he's working on the website and completing something with that and he'll be done with that in September or October so we can check in then. But I think that that seems so reasonable. I feel like

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uh just everything in city government is slower and I feel like >> that feels like enough to like chat. >> September is around the corner too. >> Yeah, I feel like that seems great. >> Yeah, I think that's good. We can just put a pin in this and revisit and mask

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higher like that. I feel like the connections the groundwork is already happening and and we'll just take a little pause on it and that seems or we can keep like whatever. So, um, and for the historical context, we were trying to think about ways to publicize more

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about what the council was doing and why we were doing certain things and why we were not doing other things. And so, we were hoping to get maybe an intern and we had actually invited Sher Saxon to come and talk about maybe using some of the seniors, but there was a lot of logistics and legalities involved in

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that. And so, we went with, you know, hopefully somebody from Mass Hire and Mass Hire was very excited to try and get in on this. at this at at the time like right now it looks like it's more of an administrative burden thing. So we're hoping to do that but but yeah that's just the historical context.

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>> Yeah. Is there anything else on youth internship or do you want to move on because I feel like the civic engagement communications is like everything. So yeah >> yeah and I think we're good. >> Yeah. I think on the next topic with the handbook and whatnot, um I feel like

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something else slightly a sub bucket topic is even the idea of having like a youth liaison um showing up like with sustainable Greenfield implementation committee like someone from the Greenfield public schools like sustainability club or even

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like a youth council or something because I think other towns do things like that. I would love to have like the school the school council like the school the kids that they elect amongst like the school president like of what do they call it like literally like a student president >> that I don't know what they call it but

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yeah >> to call it >> that would be cool it's been a long time since I've been in high school >> yeah that one feels like a more accessible idea like the internship idea and then the Corey checks and like that feels

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like way harder but I feel like having just like Hey, there's a student rep. They can show up on Zoom. Like, it's not that >> Yeah. >> big of a lift. >> Yeah. Um I'm not sure who would be who to mention it to. I mean, Kyle

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Boston is like the sustainability club person but >> Well, we do have the superintendent. Yeah. if you have thoughts on like >> I think it's a great idea and I'm I've asked the principal to start a student advisory council which is slightly

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different than student council um and the student advisory council is um the president actually goes to school committee meetings and they um they pick projects and I think it might be something that would be really good that

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they could go to. So, um, you know, I think it's a great idea. So, if you definitely shoot me an email, I can talk to the principal of the high school and we can sort of dovetail it with the student advisory council. >> Cool. Yeah, especially even for a community

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relations meeting like this, I feel like that would make a lot of sense. >> It's a huge to do. Yeah. I feel like the a lot of feedback that we get about the kids in the schools now are like that they want to participate. They want their voices to be heard. So I feel like >> there's a big push to increase student voice.

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>> Yeah. I you know particularly here even if they just look at if they just come to the city council meetings on a regular like if they're informed about what's going on then they can actually just talk directly to their local government officials and then we hear what they're concerned about. You know because a lot of times all we hear about will be things like property owners and

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like the elderly and the disabled. And that's a really good thing to hear from but we don't often hear directly from the upand cominging voters. the people who are just turning 18 and who have questions about what how this all works and that's the you know even engaging in the government things like that like is

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it worth it to participate in local government is a lot of is a lot of what I hear people asking when they when they talk about that kind of stuff is it worth it and that's a really like we need those people to come to local government because after you know there will be somebody after we're gone but

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eventually the pool will dry up right you know I don't know >> yeah I'm wondering if like we could I don't I don't know if we want to make this a special meeting or just in place of our regular meeting, we could have um some students from the student council

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and student advisory council. I'm not sure who would make sense, but maybe a couple whatever one or two from each and the community engagement school committee subcommittee. And then that's like the joint meeting. It's like some youth folks, some that sounds really good their community.

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>> Yeah, that would be nice. I feel like so that could be just I feel like since a lot of the projects we're working on are not burning and we have the space maybe that might be a good one to do at least for next month. >> Um actually um I'm just throwing this

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out. If we did want to do a joint school committee meeting, wouldn't it make sense to do it before the school year? >> Oh yeah, that's true. I guess is that awkward to do that? It doesn't really make sense right now. Well, because I mean we could talk to them about this idea. >> Yeah, that's true.

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>> Directly and then we could hash that all out with the school committee. >> Yeah, that's true. >> Like just ways of >> Yeah. Yeah. >> Like how do you want to do it? How would work best for you? You know, who would you want to propose? Like what days work best for you? >> Yeah. >> That it's just better to get everybody

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in the room. And if we're going to do it, I feel like do it before school starts. >> Okay. Um, does anyone want to bottom line outreach on on this to the >> I can email I can email Stacy. >> Okay, cool. I guess also the principal of the high school potential.

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>> I don't know who that is, but I I can certainly do that. >> Look up the Okay, cool. If you feel up for it, Sarah, that would be awesome because >> I'm going to be emailing all these people from for the committee. >> You're big on the outreach and it's very appreciated. >> Um, >> yeah, that would be great to get in touch.

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>> Although I'm like, how much are they on their emails for the summer? Hopefully not too much, but you'd be surprised. I feel like, correct me if I'm wrong, but they must they must be planning for the year ahead. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. >> All right. Well, yeah, we'll see how much that gets rolling now or when if if

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it's with the school cycle, that might make more sense, too. >> But yeah, that would be neat to discuss some sort of more sustained involvement with the council. Yeah, like a student rep or a shadow council of like

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>> deciding on the same decisions. >> Yeah, >> I'm just getting recommendations. I don't know. >> One of the Sorry, go ahead. >> Oh, no. No. >> One of the things I've actually been looking at um so the Institute of Local Government, our Institute for Local Government literally has a program called Picture Yourself in Local

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Government. >> Oh, cool. >> And so I thought maybe we could adapt this and do outreach. And I always was curious like what about outreach to the younger kids like the middle school who you know maybe not the elementary school that's a little too young but maybe the middle school who were like by the way

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this is the DPW and like actually getting a hold of them and bringing them to places that you know this is the town hall this is what's going on and this is where the decisions are made >> just like educating them and getting them thinking about local government early >> because as a middle schooler that's

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really cool that's super fascinating especially like you I I really enjoy things like a touch a truck, but you don't have that equivalent when you're in an office and it's like you can touch a printer. >> It's not the same. >> But the energy would be, you know, these are the city councilors, this is what they do, this is the mayor and she has

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kids or she has grandkids your age and like really making it basically humanizing it. Yeah, we did have that some students from Four Rivers came and met with the mayor and met with like a couple counselors and like met whatever towards city hall and I felt like that

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was so great and they were also so attentive and I was like I was not as good. I was not that attentive at your age. I was like not that I was impressed. >> I went to the tech school and my sister went to Four Rivers. There's a difference. The Four Rivers kids like out of the park. They're just like home

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runs. And you know, not to say that the tech school is not a good school, but there's you could definitely tell. >> Yeah. >> There's a difference. >> Like a little mini student citizens academy. It's just like super condensed like one like >> Oh, yeah.

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>> Yeah. tiny field trip. >> Yeah. Because I mean um when I'm I've been giving these historical talks to the arbors and just you know as one of the points that they always bring up to me when they come up to talk is that we never got to learn about local stuff in

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class. We didn't learn about local history. We didn't learn about local government. We didn't learn about local this because they have the curriculums that they have to follow. And that's fine. Um, but yeah, I remember when I was in in school that the kids below me,

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the curriculum had changed and they got to go to the post office, you know, and like stuff like that is so fascinating as a young kid. >> And it really just, you know, especially with like the literacy crisis, if you make them interested, hopefully it'll have a good effect. But yeah, I'm not a

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teacher. I don't have kids. Something I've been like thinking about also is citizens academy is inherently exclusionary for um residents who aren't citizens who are undocumented or

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whatever um working on citizenship. So even with terminology trying to mostly skew towards saying like resident this resident that um local government academy. Yeah, something more inherently inclusive. Yeah. >> Yeah,

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>> it's good to suggest. I have to I should I should reach out to Erin and see if she's doing that again. >> Uh October, I think, is >> Oh, you want a waiting list? >> Yes, I believe I am. >> Oh, and if you haven't gone already and you have any familiarity with this, the citizens academy is not the first of its

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kind. Aaron actually got the ideas from some of the other governments that have done it. And it's basically like we all signed up and you go to the DPW, you go to the uh not the transfer station, but the wastewater treatment station. You basically come here and you learn about what the clerk's office does. And it was

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really informative, especially for like the new elected officials. But I really feel like once now that we're all out of the way like actual like citizens will come and they'll be engaged and they'll it was really interesting and I I highly recommend it if you are thinking about you know learning how any of this kind

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of stuff works just outside of the positions that we all have. It was totally worth it. >> Yeah. Citizens Academy. >> Yeah. 100% worth it. >> Okay. >> And uh Aaron Annalt was the one who did that. >> Yeah. She really did a nice job with

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that. Um, >> yeah. >> Yeah, >> it's exciting. I know >> anything about the handbook that we looked at. I totally I still sent it to you late, so that's totally fine. But I did see that there was a way to incorporate suggested edits al together

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on a Google doc. >> Oh, cool. >> I I've never done that, but there's some way of >> I forget what it was, some comparison tool. So, so that would be if you do make comments, we can also do like a little like co-working session where we're just like looking at something

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together and it just happens to be like a boring YouTube recorded thing that nobody will want to watch. >> Yeah, I know that's we can do it. We can also have like an yeah open meeting co-working as another format if we would like that level of accountability and

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help. Chat would be helpful for accountability. >> Cool. I it's also I have not yet insane amount to read. >> Okay, cool. I would I I love a co-working. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, maybe we can just like plan on that sometime also coming up.

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>> Um >> it's moving slowly, but like >> that's that's fine. Yeah. >> Community relations, I think, is also a really challenging agenda because so discussion and ideas. >> It's a lot of discussion and ideas. Yeah. And you really don't know what'll stick until you try something and then the community either does or does not

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engage and you're like what went wrong and you may not have feedback. >> Yeah. So that's in looking for other community relations committees. There really haven't been a lot. >> No, they they Yeah. It wasn't meeting until whatever.

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>> Yeah. Not even here in Greenville like other committees like >> Yeah. And I was thinking about maybe just looking at things like literally like company boards who have a community relations board. >> Yeah. and seeing what they're doing because not that I want to do something like corporate agenda, but >> those are the kinds of things like you

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know what does and does not work. >> Yeah. >> And especially as far as like the political research like Greenfield is one of those towns where you it either feels like a power cake or it feels like a home. >> Yeah. >> Is what I find a lot of people will say. And so I want to make sure that we can reach as many people as possible. And

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that's going to be a real challenge. >> Yeah. It's also hard to figure out our priorities because it's like, oh, there's so much like >> there's so much not done and there's so much potential and there's also limited capacity and like what really is like this is what people are asking for. This

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is actually what's most >> well I think I do think what we're doing now if not to like toot our own horn but getting an intern to get the word out there getting more volunteers for the boards making sure the information is available for the next set of counselors that come to them. That's not it's it's

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important. Is it on fire right now? No. >> But those are the things that are going to be sorely needed in the future as we continue to build the momentum. So I think >> that it's nothing, you know, no gold star, but it's it's diligent hard work

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that I think is going to make a genuine difference. I really do. And also thinking about like the charter commission um and if it gets revised and there's less city councilors moving forward um we know that community relations would be cut. Like that's

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pretty obvious I feel like um but it also isn't something that needs to live squarely with counselors. Like it's clearly something that I feel like makes almost more sense to be a little inside outside where it's like oh like >> we know what's going on but we don't

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know what folks who are not involved are >> what's soaking in through their Yeah. So I feel like this is I feel like this committee >> could even use tweaking with the charter commission and will probably be cut because we don't have actual decision-m power and the ones that do those are

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like really essential. >> Yeah. But they can still live on in other forms. >> What um >> this is just a complete tangent but something >> no 100%. >> On that note, have we do we want to bring up the idea of precinct meetings back from the dead?

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Yeah, we absolutely need to. I I um forgot to put that on but I but again anything that's under civic engagement. So um yes, precinct meetings. Let's go into that. Um, yeah.

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My I love the way you were saying about like doing it like geographic precincts that are like with like some some buckets of those together. Yeah. And I like the idea of like um I like the idea of distributing it as much as possible

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and we each have like we're captain on something because Yeah. because it would be overwhelming to plan a bunch. So if Yeah. So I feel like maybe if um I mean how many are we aiming to have? I guess like forum wise we would need to have at

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least three. So we could do three or four but um yeah well I think for example precinct five has two counselors but Mary and Mayor Precinct 5 has two counselors. was got so it has one

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precinct counselor but if we needed some backup you know John Garrett could >> right so that we could worry about as its own entity what we plan for other >> like you know if Cath if Catherine go is going to be away or if or if um

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so like other counselors are whatever they're doing with their day jobs you know I mean because we're all we're all really busy this is this is you know like precinct 7 is right next to precinct 9 we could do max and my precincts next to each other. But precinct 3 and precinct 8 are right next to each other. We could do that.

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>> Yeah. >> Um Yeah. Precinct 5 I found, having walked it myself, is is pretty you have like the main area down by Main Street, but then you have across the mountain that entire area that is getting worked on in

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Monu City Road. That's like its own neighborhood, too. So, I feel like precinct 5 kind of needs its own >> attention. It should have a meeting dedicated to precinct 5, >> especially with the hope street lot and everything. Maybe not uniquely so, but I think precinct 5 should have it have

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special attention because of everything that's going on with precinct 5. >> Wait, so backing up now that I'm looking at the precinct map, which which precincts did you say should go together? >> I have an idea of um what based on what you were writing or what you were saying

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like what if Yeah. So, three and eight together, four and six together, five on its own, seven and nine together, one and two together. I mean, this is a little silly without like seeing them, but

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>> Oh, well, there's a map over there. I was thinking >> Yeah. >> Does that I feel like that makes sense. Like one and two are definitely like most northern. >> Yeah, one and two. >> That's easy. Obvious >> that seems to make sense. You said >> seven and nine. Yeah, that's the peripheral nine over here

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>> and then um four and six are Oh, three and eight are the ones um on off Conway. >> I would almost Yeah. Okay. I was thinking three and four, but I guess four I guess that doesn't sense. >> Four and six.

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>> I don't know. Our four >> Okay. >> Uh I mean I know a lot of people in four, so I >> Okay. >> six and eight. We could do it that way. It doesn't really matter. We I mean does it make sense to break it north and south or east and west states? >> True. I mean to be honest also with this

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future charter commission I'm like let's have less precincts and more at large and rank choice voting. Anyway, these are on my personal agenda for later. But I'm also just like I feel like these nine precincts are a dying breed and what will be the future of like how we

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divide this? Like we don't have to decide that now. I'm sure that will be like an insanely >> huge other thing. will, but who's their buddy precinct? Like, yeah, who's their Well, it's we could again, we could do seven and nine, but it's easy enough to just do nine and one,

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but they're roughly about I think 1,800 people a piece, right? >> Yeah, exactly. >> Yeah. >> So, do we want to do um Yeah. >> What? >> Yeah. I guess if we did eight and six and three and four, those are first

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Franklin, second. So that might make it might make sense to stick them with their like five and seven are both first. That's a good point. >> Five and seven are first Franklin. And they might be thinking about like >> who's running first. Yeah. Five, what is

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it? Five, six, seven, and eight. >> Yeah, exactly. So maybe we should put those together. Five, five, seven. >> Looks like it's a little >> I'll write it down. >> Little glass beads to put them down.

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Okay. 57 will be one. Um 68 will be another. And then one two is like why don't you make >> 129 precinct is precinct 9. >> Yeah. >> Part of that first Franklin. >> No. Wait. Is it? No.

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>> We should look. first Franklin >> because I don't think for I think it's seven eight nine and maybe six 56 78 >> 56 7 and 8. Okay. >> Yeah, I know. I have Suz.

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>> Oh, so it literally must be just like the south part of town. >> This is all first Franklin black line. >> That's all first Franklin. >> Oh, literally. Look at the black line. You're so right. >> Hello. So, we want the first Franklin's together. And then the other five.

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>> Um I feel like you could even do is it rude to do 912 altogether? I just feel like >> they're all the rural. >> I'm like Yeah. And then three and four are like the in town. >> And to be honest, they also have way

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less voter turnout. Like I would imagine a little bit. I mean maybe that's more reason to amp up the precinct meetings in fact, but yeah, they tend to be less. If it were me, I'd probably put their meeting like schedule all the meetings, put theirs last and give them as much

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notice as possible. >> Okay. But this seems like I feel like that seems manageable. Now we have four 57 68. >> I like it. And then 912 and then 3 4.

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>> Yes. So that sounds great. And then 3 4. We can think about which at large should go with each. I'm personally in four. So, I feel like that makes sense for me to be um the atlarge for that one. Um >> yeah, >> the

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>> 57 like John >> John is in Yeah, he's he's in five. And then um Maisie is in I think Maisy's in is technically in three. I'm just double

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checking, but it doesn't really matter. Yeah, Maisy's in three. So Maisy could be Oh [ __ ] Shoot. That's me again. >> Don't swear on camera. >> Wait. So then So then we're just trying to figure out Patty in five or six is six.

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>> So the atlarge for >> Wait, sorry. She's not. >> We need counselor Minhas and citizen Alves. So >> I don't remember where. Um Minhas >> I don't know where he is either. Is it? It was on the website. Probably look.

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Well, his gas station is in seven, so um maybe Yeah, he might be good for >> That's true. for Oh, but John's already with everything going on in five with the Hope Street Law and everything, I'd rather have John and Maryanne

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>> 380. Okay. Um, >> by the way, it is not just a Greenfield thing. Everybody has their addresses posted online. I asked the other city councilors from like Salem and stuff like that when I went to talk to them. Oh, actually councelor Minhouse is on Davis Street then so is Cincinnat

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so in that case I don't know what side of the street with the Davis because Davis is like both three and four >> but they should definitely have three or four a different one. >> Okay. Um, >> so we should we should also consider

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where Laura goes >> because she's running for that district as well as the council for precinct 8 >> and I >> Well, she'll she'll be in hers cuz she's eight. So, she'll she's not we're not moving her around. >> Yeah. I just want I don't want to give the appearance of like favoritism or anything like like it's a political

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boon. She has to be there. >> She has to I just want to be careful, you know. >> Yeah. But yeah, I feel 912. I feel um 68. I I guess I think I would give 912 to Maisie because I know Maisie used

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to live on. Sorry. But I feel like Maisie goes way back with green. Wait, where is Adams? >> Okay. Anyway, I feel like >> I think Maisie should have that one because um or sits

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just because I feel like um yeah, she like has lived in that those precincts, one of those precincts before and like grew up in Greenfield and whatever. It just has more connection. >> Mhm. >> Um so I would do six and eight

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potentially with um councelor Williams and Was 90. I don't know. and then council menas and dream four. >> Yeah. And we can double check if people like these. I mean, obviously it's not that big of a deal, but >> but I think this is a good start. We

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have 57 with John Garrett. We have 6 and8 with Brown. We have 912 with or 129, whatever makes sense in your head with Sudas and Alves and then three and four with um Wah.

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>> Mhm. So, when are we and I feel like um what if how do we want to space these out? Cuz I think the annoying thing about them is that I think the precinct meetings, sorry, but I think that it's I think it

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says it asks for someone from schools like either the superintendent or a design or a school committee. So, you definitely don't have to attend all of these, but I'm wondering about um spacing and it also asks for the mayor. So, I like don't want them to have to go to like

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>> I don't want them I don't want but but maybe it's also just like hey this is your day like >> we're going to do a few and it's staggered and like you're starting at 10 here and then >> Aren't you glad you showed up to the meeting today? >> We kind of needed you. So, let's go. >> I'm just taking it all in.

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>> The precinct meetings are just it's not a formal discussion. It's more just like a panel and like meet and greet and it's supposed to be hosted like in that precinct or as close as possible in like a hybrid location. >> Yeah. So, do you want to hear who's supposed to be on the the panel? >> The precinct counselor. >> Yes.

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>> One to four at large counselors as available. >> The mayor or designate the chief of police or designate. >> No, this is the old one. >> Oh, we This is if you click up the top cuz we Omended it because we were like this list is

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insane. It makes it almost impossible. And now everybody >> So now it's supposed to just be So is it an O is it a new law? >> Um do you see it? >> Precinct meeting. >> Yeah. Yes. Okay. >> Sorry. >> Um

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>> so I guess I mean we could even just ask >> what what so it's sorry precinct counselor one to four counselors available. Will the mayor designate any relevant city department members, the superintendent of schools or design and

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school committee representatives? >> Doesn't that So if the school committee sends a representative on behalf of the superintendent, for example, would that count for both of those? >> It's an and so the super superintendent or design

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and school committee representatives. So, we need we should bring us up next month if we're going to have a meeting with the school committee. >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah, for sure. Um I'm also like don't want to ask too much about people's

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time. So, now I'm like should we just make it three? Sorry. But we already thought so thoughtfully. >> Well, the thing is that if you there's four quarters in a year, right? So, we could do one quarterly. Well, we were supposed to do them all for like that would have been fantastic if we had started >> and we should have and that would have

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been >> too late. >> Well, we it is too late, right? We're we got two quarters left. Oh, I guess >> how do we count >> the first quarter of FY27? >> Yeah, but I think it's supposed to be on It says like calendar from the election like it's specifically >> even ending years. Yeah.

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>> Well, I mean, we could bang out four of them this year because we haven't done in a while. You know what I mean? like really get the ball rolling and make sure that that people like if we do them all this in FY27 and then spread them out. We'll get feedback, you know, which precincts need them more, which

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precincts need them a little bit less, which precincts can we rotate and put on, you know, which who's who's a priority and who's who's got a pressing issue and who does not. You know, that might give us some more information on how to structure it in the future. >> Um, so if we didn't have to amend the

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>> Oh, yeah. accordance to that. So >> yeah. >> Yeah. I mean >> it's also hasn't been implemented since >> for Yeah. So this will be like a good like we're implementing it. So I feel like if we're late it's also kind of

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okay but I think it would be confusing to be late just for the fact that community relations committee will switch over in January anyway. probably it won't be us again necessarily like some of us might stay but I think we should just try and yeah wrap them up this year but

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>> um and then I feel like we need to give at least like a couple months notice so >> so we could do we could combine three of them you think >> just aim for posting three instead of posting four does that feel like too much for people

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um I think that's reasonable I feel like we could combine everybody in first Franklin >> yeah fine Five, six, seven, and eight. >> Yeah. And then everyone and >> Yeah. the rest of them. Okay. >> Yeah. We could split off too and have each precinct get a little bit of time with their counselor.

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>> That was especially because um all those folks in 5678 like they've had so many Hope Street meetings and like precinct specific. Like I feel like they've had a lot of engagement. >> Yeah. >> 567 is they're going to be all over

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this. They're gonna they're excited about this. So we'll do five, six, seven, eight. And then we'll give um and then we have to do uh wait then is that you could just do two

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because if I mean they're all the same number of people, but if this is a lower participating segment anyway, you could theoretically do three, four, one, two, and nine because they're so spread out. Well, the same number of people.

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>> I I feel like that works if um like to just do two precinct meetings this fall. >> Yeah. I mean, >> as a first >> I mean, we could do that. The only concern is that then we can't have all the atlarges show up. And does every counselor need to go to this? >> I don't think so.

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>> No, it's just one to four. >> So, >> we only need There's four of you. So, we could do two and two. >> Yeah. We can't do that for if we have if we have um all those five precincts

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then we and then we have then we could be at seven. >> So we can't be >> we can't do >> Oh yeah. >> So we would only need to make sure like don't come which is fine but >> as it says as available. So that might

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be flexible if we don't have if we just have one at each meeting. I mean, that honestly seems safe to assume that some people won't be available and some counselors. Like, I feel like that's okay. Well, we thought about

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this. So, I'm I'm down for two or three or or the four seems too ambitious. So, >> four seems Yeah, that's that sounds So, two or three. We'll figure out maybe just like what date are we shooting for?

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I guess like not the end of the month. Maybe we should get input from other counsel. >> We are supposed to consult with um the school design to schedule. So >> yeah, maybe we we could do like so it's

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what is it? It's July now even though it feels like September to me in my head. So we have August, September. We could aim for October, November or November. December is tight >> and holidays. >> Yeah, October seems perfect. I feel like

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this like is screaming October to me. >> Yeah. >> Um so, so maybe we're just like we're >> sending out a poll for those October weekends. >> You know, obviously not doing Halloween weekends.

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>> We could do maybe after >> in during the week. I don't think anybody wants to do it on maybe. Yeah. >> What about like a like a Wednesday >> or or a Tuesday? >> I don't like that. Um the precinct counselors won't be there for their precincts though. >> They will be.

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>> Um so there wasn't a quorum issue that people quorum issue that the atlarges can't all attend. >> Okay. >> For the they could you could have two atlarges for first Franklin. So we're basically having a first Franklin precinct meeting and a second Franklin precinct meeting. >> Okay.

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>> But the second Franklin will need to make sure that um one LR is absent. Okay. Got it. Thank you for confir or for clarifying that. Yeah. What at max at the first? So, first Franklin precinct meeting you can have up to

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whatever there's up two atlarges. And we could have the same atlarges at both meetings if they're available. And then for the second Franklin, you can have since there's five, one, two, three, four, five, you can have up only up to one at large. So in total you'll

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get three out of four at larges or unless Yeah. >> Yeah. Because then if it's it they're different meanings then then yeah okay that makes sense. Sorry I was thinking >> okay I don't know. >> I was I was kind of like h interesting

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but >> you know but that seems like this seems reasonable. Like maybe we'll do them whatever. We'll just literally figure out just send out some dates and see what people can do for October. >> I I have a thought indigenous people's day, but I think all this everything is

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closed, but I don't think anybody's really traveling and doing anything that day. >> Um, so let's look. >> We can't do the 31st. That's that's cruel. We can't compete. We literally

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>> can't compete with Halloween. And we're not going to we're you all think that I feel like Thursday is the John Saw. I mean also what is what location do we want to do because >> it should be the Jay-Z. >> Yeah. I mean the whole goal was like oh

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like let's do something that's like accessible >> also >> but I feel like Jay's pretty accessible. >> The calendar is not available from the city website. Okay. Is there a calendar on this? >> Okay. So we'll just do the Jay-Z for bold. And then so this is the 26 27

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academic calendar year. >> I feel like Thursdays are good because that's like the least other meetings going on. Okay. So I've also pulled up the >> public schools calendar for October. >> Yeah.

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>> I so not a fan. >> Also October is like after the primary September. >> So there's not that favoritism. So They actually have October 8th is parent teacher conference night.

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>> Oh, okay. On the October 8th. >> Oh, okay. >> Uh, so the 8th, 9th, and the 12th, there's something on the calendar. >> Okay. So, not that not that Thursday or not. Yeah.

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>> Yeah, that's good to know. Thank you. And then we don't want to do the October 29th. That's already getting into like festivities probably. >> So the 15th and the 22nd seem like the >> Can we do October 15th and 22nd and ask

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people to save the date? I feel like this far out it's just like it went a >> Put it on here. A poll is too much with these people. >> Yeah, really. Let me see if they're number of people. uh events at the venue. >> And if those dates don't work for

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someone like the mayor, I feel like we should probably accommodate. >> Oh, yeah. >> But, um, does the Jay-Z have its own calendar? >> Um, I don't know. >> I don't think so.

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>> I think we would have to ask Tammy to >> see what's available for us. And if that's not available, we can always do the fire. >> Well, that's true. And then the library conference room also is equipped to Zoom. >> Actually, I feel like the library is friendlier. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, because Jay-Z is like

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>> city hall e. >> Yeah. >> Oh, yeah. I think the library would be really nice if we could. >> Yeah. >> But maybe we have to check the library calendar. >> I don't know when their count. Yeah, because the library is more like food. I mean, you could eat at the JC,

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but it just still feels like not the usual meeting or something. >> Yeah, I like that. >> And it's morey. >> From the school superintendent's perspective, do we are there any is there anything that you can think of immediately that's going to be in the way of this for as far as the school and school committee and what you know what

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you've got going on because you're settling into the job and I don't want to be putting a bunch of stuff on the plate. >> Yeah. The the best thing you can do is just put it on the calendar as soon as possible. >> Fair. Perfect. Let's see. >> So, all right. You seeing if there's

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anything October 15th? >> I'm trying to Yeah. Catalog reserve rooms. >> Cuz if we if we reserve the room, we can reserve the room for multiple days and then just cancel whichever ones don't apply. >> Yeah.

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>> Meeting room. Oh, I have to email them. So, the community meeting room, which is the one that we had the citizens academy in, the smaller one that has a max capacity of 90 people and it includes a kitchenette. >> The conference room, um, we should definitely do the

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community room. >> Yeah, I think so, too. >> And this would be a good time to promote the committee here. >> Yeah. >> Pick a date for it, >> but by that October and then have like flyers. And >> this is true. Oh, this

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>> really I really wish we could get pizza for this. >> Oh, I know. Maybe we can get somebody to be like, "Hey." >> Yeah. Let's try and get food because I'm like otherwise it's just over meeting. >> Yeah. So, if there's no food, it's not different. >> So, it looks like all the stuff that

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they have, they have a writing room. They have a They have a writing group in the local history room. Anyway, >> um most of the stuff they have >> local history room, local history room, um it looks like the meeting rooms are

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are good to go for the most part. Um community meeting room, uh 6 p.m. October 7th, so that's probably a no-go. >> Yeah, 15th and the 22nd are the dates. >> 15. Oh, let's see. The 15th open. Wide open.

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>> And the 22nd, did you say? >> Yeah, >> wide open. Yay. >> Great. >> So, let's >> lock those in. >> Lock it. Yeah. >> Um, cool. I think our next steps would be

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>> check with the mayor. >> Mhm. Superintendent. >> Yeah. Or designate someone. You don't You'll be attending a lot of events, so it's no worries if it's too much. um and then figure out who can donate pizza

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or if the mayor's office has funds. I feel like they some discretionary funds more so than we do obviously. So >> um yeah. Yeah. And maybe just double check with

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um the council president Laura Monowi because I feel like the amending this precinct meetings was a lot of her baby and just making sure that she feels good about like hey we just want to have >> Second Franklin just to >> not use too much of people's time and

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it's a good pilot. >> Yes. Um, so the library is only open until 5:00 p.m. on Thursdays. >> Oh. Oh, I see. They're open until 8:00 p.m. Monday through Wednesday. >> But I think that the mayor or like I

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feel like like all these in their BS they have special special event that would >> Well, that's the So the thing is is that even if we had the special event, if anybody wants to come and they're at work Oh, okay. >> If it's during work hours, you know what I mean? So maybe we should move it back

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till a Monday or Tuesday or Wednesday. >> Okay. I guess we could always go back to JC and have pizza there. True. >> We could. >> I like the I like the different vibe of the library. >> Yeah. >> But yeah, we could always go to anything. Um I starting to feel attached

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to 15th and 22nd. >> No, 100%. That's the thing. Yeah. So the meeting room is only available during library hours and they close early those days. But um but is that true even for like I'm like if the mayor's hosting it as well

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>> I can reach out but at the same time that's an ask on the staff. >> Yeah. No totally. >> So I >> and I guess it's like a little weird because then it's like who's monitoring the rest of the building. >> Yeah. Yeah. It's probably not that doable. >> Um so maybe the Jay-Z.

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>> Yeah. Which is I like the library. It is cozier. Yeah. So you could switch dates. What days are the library? Is the library open till 8? Monday through Wednesday. Monday through Wednesday is till 8. Okay.

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Um, and I'm on the calendar, too. And sorry for sorry um that this is superintendent that this is like literally the most boring, but we just can't discuss these things >> without breaking open meeting law. So, we have to like discuss incredibly

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boring logistics together. >> So, I I actually do have another meeting to jump on. >> Oh, yeah. >> So, but but I did I got a lot of information out of this. It was really nice to meet you and just whenever you get those dates, send them on over and we'll we'll make it work. >> We'll do. Thank you.

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>> Thank you so much. >> Yeah, absolutely. Thank you. >> See you soon. >> All right. So they actually have let's assume oh this is July August to August. >> Oh in October there's no

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there's no council meetings on the 7th on the Monday the 5th Wednesday the 7th Monday the 12th. >> Monday the 5th at the library they actually have planning for Medicare in the community meeting room at 6 o'clock.

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>> Okay. How about Wednesday the 7th? Wednesday the 7th. There's a program at 6. How about Monday the 12th? Library is closed. This is people's day. >> Oh, uh, Monday the 26th.

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>> Monday the 26th. Monday. Let's see. >> There is practical and emotional tips for decluttering in the conference room at 5:30. Conference or community room? >> Oh, conference. Conference room. No, that one. Okay, you're on to something. Okay. Okay. Maybe the 26.

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>> I feel like I would also be I could We could do Jay-Z. If there's pizza, it's different. It'll smell different. It'll be warm. It'll be cozy. It'll be >> I I do like the idea of the library, though. >> Yeah, it's nice. >> And the 26, the last Monday of the

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month. It's still far enough out from Halloween that hopefully >> Okay, >> that could work. >> So, 26, but then we need a second date, right? >> Oh, right. Yeah, we do need two dates. So, those those other days, was that community or conference room? >> That was um conference. What about So,

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late October, early November. >> Well, the 26th is about as late as we could go. I feel like before Halloween and also election, it's getting >> so personally I don't >> Yeah, once you're like in that November stuff. >> All right. So to confirm the community

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room which is the one we want is available on that day 26. >> Okay. >> But not available on the 12th, the 5th or the 7th. >> No. >> Okay. >> I mean they could theoretically be available but I don't know how long those programs are going to go. >> Oh right. Yeah.

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>> And also the upstairs closes like 15 minutes early. So but that's neither here nor there. It just more people will come down. There's no council meeting on the on Wednesday the 28th, but that is starting to get close to Halloween. >> There is nothing. >> Oh, that day either.

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>> Really? Back to back. That'd be a lot for >> Yeah. two in one week. >> I mean, that really depends on the availability of the of the counselors. >> So, cuz I mean I can be available on either of those days.

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>> Yeah. But and if we have it at large, >> I feel like this last week of October feels like not exactly the vibe. It feels cramped before November and it's feeling >> Well, do you want to go back to Thursday at John's on the 15th and the 22nd? >> So, Thursday, October 22nd is wide open,

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but and we said >> or we could do a weekend. >> I feel like if we're only hosting two, then a weekend's not as >> horrific of an ask. The library is open like 9 to 1 on Saturdays. >> On Saturdays.

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>> So that seems like more reasonable. Yeah. For >> cuz if you have >> we could do the donuts also. Donuts and coffee Saturday. >> Oh yeah. On the morning. >> Yeah. Okay. So um >> and pizza actually. >> That's true. Cheaper. Now, here's So,

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the community meeting room >> on the 3rd is booked for a a thing called Fall into Noir, which sounds really interesting to me because I love Noir but >> it's book at 11:00 a.m. So, that's that day is out. October 3rd is out. >> Unless we

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community meeting room, conference room, open gallery. That day is out. Community meeting room house history talk. 10 steps to researching the history of your house. That day is out. >> What? Wait, what days are these? >> October 17th. I'm going down the whole >> from 9 to 1 the whole thing. Cuz I feel

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like if it's just like >> we could do it early in the day, like from 9 to noon. >> That's reasonable. >> Mhm. 9 to noon is funny. >> I feel like we don't even need Well, how Yeah. How long does this need to be? Because >> I think it's just two hours. And if you want I feel like the program is

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>> that long and if anyone can smoo but or like even the program could even be shorter. But yeah. >> Yeah, I don't think we should yap at people that much. >> Mhm. >> Most sleep. >> What about October the 10th? >> So, what time? >> Wait, I'm sorry. October the 10th. Uh,

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there's an open gallery in the community meeting rooms/conference room 9:30 a.m. So, we can't do that one. So, we have the Saturday, October 3rd. >> What times? >> Um, that one there's a meeting in there uh in the community meeting room at

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11:00 a.m. that day. So not is a little tight. >> Yeah. >> And the following one October 17th of this there's a meeting at 12:30. >> Oh, that seems like focus in there.

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Yeah. >> The 24th >> all day is an all day event. A community baby shower. I don't It just says community baby shower. Yeah. H I I'm glad that the community is

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having a baby. >> Well, and October 31st there's a Halloween artist. >> Well, we could do them at different locations. It could be like is the li the library we could wait is the Jay-Z is in six. >> No, I feel like they should both be at the same

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>> Oh, Jay-Z I'm pretty sure is eight. Or we could do um we could do October 17th and a a Monday or whatever. >> What? Well, I was going to say could we do them both the same day, but there's different

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>> Yeah, let's do them both the same day because it's open the whole time. >> What? Jay-Z, I mean that No, the library is open the full 9 to 1. >> Yeah, we can just have one massive event.

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Well, we can't with forum, but if we had it at like if we were clear that counselors need to leave or what about pushing into early November for the second one? >> Yeah. >> Um like the 7th or the 14th of November.

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>> I mean, even pulling back into September. >> September. >> Let's check check the >> Okay, let's let's do that October 17th, though. >> Okay. >> Right. I feel like otherwise we Okay, so our top that's one. I mean maybe we

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should offer to be honest I think we need to offer a few things to the mayor. >> Yeah, we could do a library option and then a John. >> Exactly. So we have >> we can book the John's on I think >> for anything. >> Anything. Yeah. >> So in theory

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>> Yeah. So maybe the So the options are Saturday, October 17th at the library, 10 to 12. Thursday, October 15th and 22nd, John's on 6:30 p.m. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. And then

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we would need one more library one. So yeah, let's let's check the September September and November, late September. So if we're sticking to Saturdays, September 5th, they're closed. I think for Labor Day. >> Yeah,

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that's kind of early. >> And they're Well, so they're closed the they're closed the 5th and the 7th. >> I mean, if we have all these dates planned, we could also go back to Just kidding. >> But the chaotic >> like working backwards. September 12th is no go. They have a community meeting

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thing starting at 9:00 a.m. It's um same thing. Open gallery. Um September 19th, same thing. 26 Halloween costume swap all day event. Okay, so check November

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>> the indoor farmers market. >> Oh, that's fun. >> I mean that could we I mean like where is the indoor farmers market in >> the community meeting room? Yeah, >> I'm like that would be great. We get we get lots of people. >> Uh 14th

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Community meeting room booked >> 21st and that's about as far as we go. >> Farmers market >> and then first week in December. No, that's getting married. Well, there's also November 28th, but that's Thanksgiving.

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>> Yeah. So, then we would have to look at >> or December 5th, I guess, just for fun. >> December 5th. >> Yeah, >> let's take a look. But yeah, I think after that it's >> farmers market. The indoor farmers market. >> Got it. So if we wanted to do two libraries, we would need to do a Monday

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Tuesday. >> Unless somehow we could have it open, but I don't know if I that doesn't really make sense with staffing. >> Now, here's a silly question. We could do it here if there if it's small

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enough. This room is 35. So we're hoping I would hope we'd get more than that. >> Yeah, but over the course of two hours. >> Well, and also if we're trying to make it more accessible to people coming to city halls, >> not the best. So I think John's a better option than here.

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>> Like that's a better >> I am only going to do one thing at a time or else I'm going to >> So let's So it's seeming like >> Do you want me to book the room or wait until we hear our opinions? Oh, I think we should check with mayor >> opinions first. Okay.

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>> But like can we get I'm trying not to sign up for tasks and yeah. Does anyone feel like um yeah doing any of this like checking with folks about the scheduling?

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>> Yeah, I could do that. Really? That would be like via Tammy, I assume. No, I think you could put it directly to >> Oh, just reach out to people individually. I wouldn't necessarily >> Yeah, because it wouldn't be quorum. You know what? Just just write just draft an

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email on behalf of the community relations committee. We would like all the counselors, the school committee, and the mayor's office to submit the following dates for approval. Yes or no? Give it to Tammy and then Tammy will forward it to everybody. >> Yeah, that makes sense. Do you think? And then so the dates we're looking at

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are Thursday, October 15th and 22nd, John Zan most likely if but or I mean I don't mind giving I mean the Saturday I I think it's okay to do one Saturday library and one

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Thursday JZ on. I don't know. I feel like that's kind of okay because then it's even though it's like oh where is it? But it's also >> Yeah. more options like oh it's >> yeah I mean I I would say that we're probably going to get people who are like oh I couldn't come on my precinct

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day but other atlarge counselors are you know and they'll come on another day >> yeah like you would still be allowed to come another day >> all right I'm hoping there doesn't seem to be a schedule online for the Jay-Z which is kind of

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>> if you look in the yeah >> would it be in the city calendar >> I don't think Yeah, I mean some of it will be on there. Some of it will be captured. >> So the dates we're looking at do you feel it was

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and I'm sorry let's let's look at these dates ahead of time um on the city calendar because I was looking at the school calendar and then the library calendar >> and there's not council their city calendar. They're open but not a lot of it's only city council means yeah there.

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>> Good. Let's get let's get on there before they But Thursdays are not usually >> Thursdays. There's just two boards. >> Sony board. And >> do you want to see who usually meets Thursdays? I can't totally remember. >> Historical commission. >> Oh, okay. The first Thursday. >> Oh, okay.

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>> Oh, yeah. But and SIC meets Thursday, but it's at like 400 p.m. >> Yeah, there really isn't much going on on Thursdays. In fact, let me look at this month because that will give us a clue. >> So, so let's wrap this up. >> So, Thursday, let's get out of here. the historical

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commission to planning board, the there's a new subcommittee, I think, of the school committee that meets on Thursdays. >> Oh, great. >> Uh the valley health and relations zoning board, cable advisory board, the rec commission. >> There's a lot. >> How about the fourth Thursday? >> One, two, three, four. Community

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preservation and elderly and disabled tax fund. >> Okay. So, isn't that Patty? >> Yes, >> that's true. >> So, we just won't make her precinct on that day. something that's a nice thing to do meetingwise. Um, Wednesday, September 30th, there's

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no regularly, that's the fifth Wednesday, so there's no like regularly scheduled program often with city meetings. >> So, we could think about Wednesday the 30th and >> and then Saturday the 17th. >> How does the library look for Wednesday

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the 30th? Look at that. >> Let me see. because I closed out because I thought we were done. So, give me a second. >> Never done because that would be cool. >> That would be way cool. >> The Wednesday was open that we could do

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two week. >> Mhm. >> Pizza and donuts. >> Exactly. >> Pick your snack food. >> Yes. And sorry, which day? >> And also then we're not like tapping out like ads. >> Wednesday the 30th of September. Wednesday the 30th of September.

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>> Send your prayers. This is supposed to be >> Oh, they're booking us out. >> Really? The fall into >> fallen fall into >> 4:30 to 4:00 to 7:50. >> Okay. >> Community meeting room.

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>> But still everything that week is the fifth Tuesday. Like I feel like that whole week is pretty good. Like it's all the 5th. So there's not a regularly. So yeah. Wait, no, actually just the Tuesday is also the 5th. The 29th, but there's I think 29th. Oh,

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>> they are doing a crochet class. Let me see. Until 7:30. Yeah. >> Okay. So John's on >> almost like our library is getting used. Unbreelvable. So, do you want to do the Wednesday that

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that fifth Wednesday for one of the meetings for the Johnson weekday meeting and then Saturday, October 17th? Yeah. Um, so these are the options that I have

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written down to recap. Um, and we can send. So, the options are Wednesday, September 30th at the John's on 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. pizza. And then Saturday, October 17th at the

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library, 10 to 12. And then Thursday, October 15th or Thursday, October 22nd, John's on pizza at 6:30. I would feel potentially good about sending out

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those dates to the mayor in those times collections. >> So, do Yeah. And we wanted to start with the mayor, Laura, and the school representative. Who is the school person? >> Yeah. But I guess Laura only needs to go to one of them, I guess, or just her first.

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>> But this was wasn't this said it was her baby. >> Yeah. more just like does she mind only doing two? But I think we're just sorry if she doesn't mind, but that's what's happening. >> Just the mayor. >> Yeah. >> And um school folks.

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>> Well, if we send it out as a bulk, >> everyone will get it. >> Well, yeah, but it sounds like we need to touch there's like tears there with the mayor first. >> That to me sounds like what it is, but I don't know. I mean, we don't need to have the mayor there, but I do feel like people will prefer >> Oh, her or her design.

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>> Yeah. But I'm also just like makes sense to like >> to clear it >> or it makes sense to have the mayor if you >> Oh% like she has like way more going on. >> Yeah. >> than us. So um >> so it seems like the superintendent

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should also be on this first level and then um school committee would that be >> I feel like that one is less important just because it's like um they could have it doesn't the chair. Yeah. Yeah. Plus, the school committee may bring it

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to the school committee or the school. I'm sorry, the superintendent may bring it to the school. Hello. >> And I guess technically, if I'm reading the ordinance right, yeah, the superintendent is the only person who needs to be >> Yeah. And if any of the counselors are

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absent and can't make it, then we'll just that allows more at large folks to sub in. >> Yeah. >> So, it's kind of okay if your precent counselor can't make it. >> Yeah. Plus, I feel like this far out, people should try to accommodate it. >> Yeah. And I mean, let's say day of

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somebody is sick. >> Yeah. >> Is there anything in the ordinance prohibiting another counselor from another precinct serving in like giving all the information directly to that counselor? >> Also, what there's no enforcement of anything either like if >> Yeah. I like if people were coming in

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and expecting >> Yeah. >> like Maryanne and they got me. >> Yeah. >> Who the hell are you? You know like that's you just for the issue of like trust. >> Yeah. Yeah. Ideally the precinct counselors will be represented at their precinct. >> Do you want to send do you have these

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states or do you want me to send them? >> Um I have them. Okay. Cool. Um and so this is is this just to to clear to see which dates work for them as a first layer and then if they cross any off. Yeah, that sounds good. Then but if

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they're all open then next it goes. I'll draft the email to Tammy >> to send to the council full council. >> So, >> yeah, we should have them respond as soon as possible, too, so that we can if we can send out that bulk email like the the more time we give people to plan, the better. >> Yeah.

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>> And any any emails and stuff like that will be in the packet. >> Yeah. Um Yeah. Does that sound okay to you or is that too much scheduling in there? No, >> I think that's I think I can do that. Great. >> Yeah, sounds good. and then we'll just

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figure out the food and some sort of agenda and facilitation. >> Um, would that be a first can I I could ask Jenny in this initial email if there's any sort of discretionary funds that would be great. That would be helpful to have.

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I saved an email. I've scheduled it to send to Stacy in like some late August. There's something called, this is totally off the topic, but it's related to what we're doing. It's called the Civic Trust and they have an event called the Civics B for this for the

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school kids where you basically go and you engage in content. You're right. And I was thinking like we should totally do something like that for this 2027. >> Yeah. >> So, but anyway, um >> just for things that we're talking about little trivia. >> Is it cute? No. Well, this is literally a competition that it's from the US

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Chamber of Commerce. >> Oh, so it's like actually a competition that you can enter. Mhm. >> And I was like, "Oo, that sounds really cool for like the joint committee that we, you know, anyway, I just checked my email." >> Oh, yeah. >> Let's put these things to bed. And

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>> me, too. >> Our um so we got next steps. You're following up on >> I'm going fair. And just >> the high school principal,

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>> Stacy. Um and uh oh god what am I asking? That was about like the um the sorry the joint meeting. >> Joint meeting. >> Oh yeah. Yeah. And like youth liaison youth student advisory council like how

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folks want to have some bridge of communication in an ongoing way and participation >> and this will be for our next month the usual meeting. We could just make it a joint. Yeah, that sounds. >> And then we could either that or we can make it a co-working meeting. But

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>> maybe we'll check in briefly about like the dates also for this. I feel like we'll need to check in about some stuff, but can be somewhat brief. >> No, this sounds community relations is popping off. Oh, good. Yes. >> So those things So we're good on that

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internship. We're pausing at least until September. >> Yeah. Um and then I think what's left is unhoused issues recommendations the cooling center just on that like when it was the heat wave um they opened up the John

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which was really good and um the mayor took a lot of those shifts I took one of the shifts um councelor Williams took shift some other folks took shifts there wasn't a ton of folks that came in but I think it's like important to have >> because because it was like July 4th weekend so

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>> yeah 100% >> things were the library was closed. And also even after like 5:00 p.m. it was like still an insane heat index. >> So um and heat can be more dangerous, you know, is often >> heat is the number one weather or natural disaster related killer.

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>> Yeah. So, >> it's good that it was available, but wasn't that well used, but sort of like >> with the warming center in the win in the winter, it was very much like word of mouth and it just like snowballed >> a little, but snowballed as the season went on. And I feel like with something

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like the warming center, I mean the cooling center, it was hard to get the word out. It was just randomly one off. But I think um yeah, I think thinking about like how to I wish there was like an easier just like phone tree like I I

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mean I think the agencies knew like the library was like knew about it and they were letting people know workloads but like this is okay. But yeah, I think >> is it and I know this is not meant to sound like a dumb idea because I know that there's a there's a a lot of them have issues with like the

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cops but >> we know where the communities are. >> Yeah. >> And a cop or a social worker is uniquely equipped to go and be like, "Hey, just so you guys know, this is available to you." >> Yeah, totally. You could if it would be like somewhat simple to just print out a

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flyer, post it at the pavilion at the dog park where people are hanging >> or by the jail. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. And you also don't need the cop like you could have like wildflower lines like >> Yeah. Who like some other agency, but Yeah. Because I mean I was I was just thinking like of a municipal sort like a

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cop would be the perfect person to do that. But again, a lot of people don't have good relationships with the cops. So, I I feel like that's just it's a well-intended idea that would end it diversely. So, you know, somebody else who could take that Yeah. >> that role would be fantastic.

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>> Yeah. >> Yeah. Anyway, >> and then I'm meeting with Mark Snow, the building commissioner about the roadside stand. So, I'm meeting with him. I think it's tomorrow, but I have to go check. Um, so

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that feels like after that really start um dialing that in. >> That's going to be really cool. >> Yeah. Um, and then there's so many other recommendations in that in those slides that um just jump, you know, going

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through slowly chomping away. Hard to do all the things, but it really is. It's like a it's not a lack of will, it's a bandwidth. >> There's a lot of a lot of things. Um, but yeah, that feels like anything. Anyone have other things? Sorry. I know

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I'm being on my phone, but it's because my computer's totally broken, so I can't see what time it is. It's like like this part of my screen is as amazing. God, >> I didn't I was like, this computer's like not worth fixing at this stage of it life. >> Um, and it's working, but not completely

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in some way. Um, but yeah. So, anything else on this subject before we >> wrap it up? No, I think this is this is good. And like I like I said, I think the community relations committee is like the underdog of the of the

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committees, but I generally think that the work that we're doing here is is good. It's just one of those like slow momentum kind of things. Totally. What we're what we're doing is building like slow infrastructure that isn't glamorous, but you can't have a skyscraper without steel beams. >> That's nice.

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>> You know, I mean, I think >> that's generally what we're doing, right? We're making we're creating infrastructure. >> It's not glamorous. It's not like >> wham have some new ordinances and flashy you know massive public like

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>> but the thing is is that when you build community relations you have to have the community involvement and it's immensely slow. So literally you cannot have a nice shiny skyscraper without >> steel beams inside. >> Yeah. >> So that's kind of the work that this committee is doing.

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>> Yeah. So, and I think there's that's nice to share. And I also feel like yeah, just adding on that like there's just that brainstorming phase and I feel like um yeah, we're moving into some more of the implementation and we haven't necessarily seen like the fruits of our labor yet for anything, but like

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yeah, it's like now we have Yeah, I feel like we've thought through a lot and and and it will happen. It's like it's a momentum thing. The rock has to get momentum and speed before it can really crash into something that makes that impact. >> Internship.

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>> That's gonna be really cool. That's gonna be way cool. >> Yeah. >> All right. >> So move. >> Perfect. Second. Okay. And all in favor? I Great. We are adjourned at 17 hour and

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