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Sima Kostovetsky: Hi! Let me make you co-host!

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Sima Kostovetsky: Just wanna practice sharing my screen. I'll just have I'll have my Agenda! Up.

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Vicki Halliday: There's a fire at Thornton in Maine.

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Sima Kostovetsky: so they know

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Vicki Halliday: I don't know what the cause is. It's a new house. It's

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Vicki Halliday: right across from Jim. Actually, that's it. Kind of been lived in, but not really. I think it's been on the market a lot.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Do you see the agenda?

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Sima Kostovetsky: Yeah, okay, Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Oh, okay, give me.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Yeah, i'll watch for people.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Wait. So you want to send. I think we should just send it out, you know. Let's talk after.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Let's see here, i'll let Jim know that we're on, and I don't need to get in touch with him.

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Vicki Halliday: Yeah.

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Vicki Halliday: I should have emailed him. But I I just raced in for a meeting, and so

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Sima Kostovetsky: that I haven't I haven't been home all day. I've literally been in a suit I I have, like

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Sima Kostovetsky: I've been in a suit all day.

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Sima Kostovetsky: like, you know, like business attire.

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Vicki Halliday: something to drink.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Yeah, and I need to

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Sima Kostovetsky: like you saw the photo that I want to post on the website right of our last meeting. I know it's not the best photos of us, any of it whatever is fine. Yeah, I mean, it is what it is. Yeah.

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Sima Kostovetsky: you know. And just just like a generic. Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Yeah.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Let me see. Are you able to see who's on?

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Vicki Halliday: Yes.

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Sima Kostovetsky: so I know Christina is not available this evening. But since we're going to be talking tablecloths that Keith is coming in

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Vicki Halliday: and remote. Keith.

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Sima Kostovetsky: just keep here. Yes, okay, great

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Sima Kostovetsky: do. Would you like for me to promote him? Oh, yes, he do you want us to promote you now, or when it's on your agenda? Item, since you're the first, really.

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Keith Harrison: Hello.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Hi.

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hi!

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Keith Harrison: I didn't. We were asking if you wanted to be promoted now or when you're yeah, Why, Why, why delay it, you know i'll just be here. I just I won't interfere with your other stuff. But that way there's just a quick transition.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Well, yeah, we wanted to make sure to put it on our agenda so that we could make it in time for budget.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and obviously to have something

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Sima Kostovetsky: hopefully. I mean hopefully. It will take about 2 weeks based on my research. So

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Sima Kostovetsky: it's a matter.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay?

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Sima Kostovetsky: Oh, so. And Nick is actually volunteering for the homeless count this evening. So he Won't Be here, either.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So

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Sima Kostovetsky: that's that's who I know. So, hopefully.

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Sima Kostovetsky: we'll still do the work regardless.

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Sima Kostovetsky: you know.

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Sima Kostovetsky: That's the benefit of being on the Executive Board

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Sima Kostovetsky: that I can bring motions. Well, just like our community can as well. I mean it's obviously nice to go through the committees.

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Sima Kostovetsky: But that's why I said to Keith, when Keith and I talked earlier. That's why I said, You know ultimately it's your decision. You're the committee chair

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Sima Kostovetsky: all right. We've got 5 min until the meeting starts.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Let me

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Sima Kostovetsky: let me just play around with Zoom for a minute. I'm having trouble seeing

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Sima Kostovetsky: my I

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Sima Kostovetsky: There we go.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Keith. Do you want to tell me real quick how Friday went?

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Keith Harrison: Excuse me.

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Keith Harrison: You went to the farmers market on Friday, right

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Keith Harrison: about a half dozen sign ups

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people who are interested.

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Keith Harrison: And and before that, of course, we

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Keith Harrison: we're at the yeah. We passed out

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Keith Harrison: some literature. Talk to some folks that's 6. 7 people signed up to work with the committee and go to events.

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Keith Harrison: So we've got them, and I've already sent out a little. Follow up letter to them to, you know. Welcome them on board.

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Keith Harrison: And

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Keith Harrison: the

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Keith Harrison: yeah we've added that to the people we picked up at the first Friday and the holiday signing.

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Keith Harrison: And so we're hoping that out of those will get some people who are willing to do more than just

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Keith Harrison: passively receive, but you know, become engaged.

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Keith Harrison: and we're also working toward. We did pick up a potential site for search training

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Keith Harrison: at the library.

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Keith Harrison: So we're working with the Ntp. Search trainers to set something up in July.

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Keith Harrison: and so we can. But we'll. We'll have to pay no matter where we go.

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Keith Harrison: because it's an evening event there has to be a staff member who gets paid for

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Sima Kostovetsky: you're talking about at the library.

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Keith Harrison: so I, as soon as I get the deep details down. I'm going to contact the I've got. The the chief Librarian came by, gave me his contact information.

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Keith Harrison: so we can reach out to him.

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Keith Harrison: Find out what the cost would be, and put it through the process to have that to have something ready to go by July.

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Keith Harrison: So we'll actually have for the first time.

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Keith Harrison: Search training in Venice

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Keith Harrison: go to Westchester.

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Sima Kostovetsky: They they haven't been here.

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Keith Harrison: No, they've been West Chester and other places, because we couldn't find venues.

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Keith Harrison: So this will be much easier for people in Venice to go to.

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Keith Harrison: And hopefully we we can recruit people

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Keith Harrison: we've gone through that training to

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help develop a, then a specific certain.

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Keith Harrison: then a certain group. So again

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Keith Harrison: we have.

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Sima Kostovetsky: We have huge issues down by us in the Marina.

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Sima Kostovetsky: We have one way to get in and out, and one

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Sima Kostovetsky: I mean, and then it's I mean, you guys felt the earthquake this morning. That was very scary, and that was only 10 miles off the coast. It was a mount. Right? Yeah, that was actually 16 kilometers south of Balibu.

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Keith Harrison: which is why Santa Monica and Venice got a nice rock out of it.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Yeah. So I don't know we always think about it. We have a boat just in case to battle out in case we can't get out. You know

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Keith Harrison: It's not going to help you in a tsunami, but that, luckily, luckily, our faults off the the coast here are their their their lateral strikes. They don't really generate much of a tsunami.

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Keith Harrison: but the big danger would be if we had an underwater landslide like off of Catalina, where there is a a lamb slide potential from a bigger earthquake further south that could cause an unannounced earthquake where you would. I mean tsunami, where you would have almost no time to

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Keith Harrison: which is why you you know, if you get heavy, heavy ground shaking for 20 s or more.

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start moving East

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Keith Harrison: get to get to get to Link, and

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Keith Harrison: because you there won't be a chance for the public safety folks to get out and tell you loops. It's kind of

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Sima Kostovetsky: in time.

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Keith Harrison: Yeah. See if it's distant if it's down in Chile or Alaska or or Japan, there's there's gonna be several hours worth of recording.

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Keith Harrison: and even then, to be honest with you, be ready to do it on foot or bicycle. Do not

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Keith Harrison: plan on cars because it's just going to jam up in no time at all.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Hmm. Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Oh, wow.

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Sima Kostovetsky: it's a lot.

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Sima Kostovetsky: It is officially 7 Pm. Let's give it 2 min

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Sima Kostovetsky: and see who's on

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Sima Kostovetsky: So

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Sima Kostovetsky: 3? Hi, Christopher, thank you for joining us.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Angela said that she was coming, so i'm hoping that

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Sima Kostovetsky: she will be on

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Sima Kostovetsky: any moment, and then i'll text Brian. Just in case.

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Sima Kostovetsky: we have to kind of wait for Angela or Brian, anyway, because that's quorum.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Jim Doesn't count towards form right

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Sima Kostovetsky: ex officio

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Sima Kostovetsky: 7 0 one officially.

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Vicki Halliday: There's Brian, i'm letting him in.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: Oh, and there's Christina.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Oh, she's done.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Oh, here I'm promoting

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Sima Kostovetsky: angela's on.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Yeah, they're both good. Now. Okay, Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: We got a crowd.

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Sima Kostovetsky: We got our crowd, the the regulars. Thank you for joining us.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I think this is all who's supposed to be here this evening.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and we will be joined by the illustrious Michael Lynn.

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Sima Kostovetsky: a little bit further down in our agenda.

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Hi, Angela

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Sima Kostovetsky: Hi! Christina

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Sima Kostovetsky: Happy 2023.

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Angela McGregor: Wow! Yeah.

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Sima Kostovetsky: All right.

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Sima Kostovetsky: It is

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Sima Kostovetsky: 702, and I am calling this outreach meeting.

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Sima Kostovetsky: To order

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Sima Kostovetsky: Call to order. Item number one

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Sima Kostovetsky: roll call. Item number 2.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I'm here.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Vicki, you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Christina.

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: here

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Sima Kostovetsky: at

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Sima Kostovetsky: Hey, Angela!

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Angela McGregor: Here.

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Brian.

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Brian Averill: here.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Christopher.

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Christopher Lee: here

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Sima Kostovetsky: Nick is gone.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Nick is doing his good duty this evening. Thank you. All right. Moving on.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Do we have any announcements from committee members?

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Sima Kostovetsky: Fine? Do you have anything you want to talk about? That's coming up.

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Brian Averill: I I do actually like to put you on the spot or anything. Well, that's fine. The Surf Association is doing a grand day. Graham is just a little kid surfers.

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Brian Averill: So we're going to do our first grande on February fourth.

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Brian Averill: So it'll be all kids 16 under. There will be 3 divisions.

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Brian Averill: 8 and under 12, and under 16, and under fun. Food prizes all good stuff.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and where

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Brian Averill: that is at driftwood, the Driftwood Life Guard Station.

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Brian Averill: and it should be. It should be super fun got about, I think

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Brian Averill: 32 kids coming so far.

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Brian Averill: but it'll be fun for the games, prizes.

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Brian Averill: few local restaurants, or or donating some food.

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Brian Averill: But good times. If anyone's free

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Sima Kostovetsky: congrats to you guys for taking this on and making this happen, I was at your event over the summer, the inaugural

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Sima Kostovetsky: and

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Brian Averill: but the breakwater. Yeah, it was fun.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Yes. So thank you.

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Brian Averill: Okay, Anything else.

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Brian Averill: Wait. You mean, you mean this one is.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you. Bye.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Anybody else from the committee.

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Christopher Lee: I've got my hand up. We have surf. Right are leading a beach clean up. On January 20 ninth. There'll be meeting at the Venice fishing here on the north side.

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Christopher Lee: Another pleasant surprise is: there is a highly motivated high schooler now. Her name is my Kayla, and she runs clean up the beach so you can track all her clean ups on Instagram. We've also listed all of her clean ups, and the surf writer, and he'll debate clean up that we know about for this year and Venice community clean up events.

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Brian Averill: Oh, while we're on the subject, I don't know if anyone here has heard. But there was a massive spill today.

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Brian Averill: It's closed Marina's clothes.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So I was thinking of putting that, you know, and if you guys have something local from the city. Send it to me so we can put it up on our website at the very least, or blast it out, or you know, do something with that.

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Brian Averill: I'll post it tonight, because, ironically, the surf is supposed to be amazing tomorrow morning. So

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Brian Averill: oh, yeah, so will you post that asap, and then send me what you want, and i'll post on our website.

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Sima Kostovetsky: That's perfect. Thank you. So I it's interesting that you said that because I was gonna talk about that in my report about how we were just warned, and that we should probably so great minds think alike. Thank you for bringing that up.

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Brian Averill: Thank you for assuming I have a great mind.

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Sima Kostovetsky: okay, Christopher, Anything else

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Christopher Lee: and vote by mail applications for the elections open today. So be sure to apply for your vote by mail ballots.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Yeah, and most of us on this committee can't even talk about this stuff. That's why I've invited my goal

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Sima Kostovetsky: to tonight's gathering.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, Anybody else

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Sima Kostovetsky: moving on in

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Sima Kostovetsky: all right, moving on to public comments. So this is on items, not on the agenda.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Do we have any

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Sima Kostovetsky: public comment?

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Sima Kostovetsky: I don't have to be hands raised.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay. Moving on

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Sima Kostovetsky: my chair report.

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Sima Kostovetsky: i'll keep it brief.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So we had resiliency out this past Friday on the twentieth. Thank you, Keith. Thank you, Christina, who are representing tonight. Keith was giving us a little bit of a background on how it went, and we'll definitely have a lot more time to promote the February one on the seventeenth.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So

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Sima Kostovetsky: i'm hoping that maybe the table class will be ready by them. But maybe not. But and I also have some chalk that I used to bring when I was there. Oh, hi, Nick.

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Sima Kostovetsky: my son Nick.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I'm sorry, guys.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So yeah, thank you for doing that.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So we'll try to help as much as we can. So that's number one Vernon, Venice.

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Sima Kostovetsky: It's gonna be doing day of tree care

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Sima Kostovetsky: on the fourth. There's a lot of stuff happening on the

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Sima Kostovetsky: for it.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, so I just actually got the flyer, so we'll post that as well

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Sima Kostovetsky: for the fourth.

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Sima Kostovetsky: they're doing great work, and they're one of our active committees, so I would love to

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Sima Kostovetsky: see them succeed. So thank you

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Sima Kostovetsky: like kind of.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I didn't have a chance to say personally since we didn't have a December meeting. Thank you. I know I blasted you guys, and I saw some of you at the sign lining. But

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Sima Kostovetsky: thank you so much for making it the success that it was special shout out to Christopher, who was like.

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Sima Kostovetsky: really really came through, and Nick Nick sat with me pretty much the entire night, and Brian came over to say hello. Honestly, Vicki was

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Sima Kostovetsky: doing things on a bigger scope, but it was a tremendous success, and I believe

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Sima Kostovetsky: over 500 people come through the photo booth alone. So yeah, and I still have the Nc. Branded water bottles to give out at our events. So correct. Sorry, Keith, let me know if you want some for the next

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Sima Kostovetsky: table that we do at the farmers market.

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Keith Harrison: so we could do giveaways. I have some lights and

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Sima Kostovetsky: and some bottles that we can continue to do

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Sima Kostovetsky: So thank you again. And

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Sima Kostovetsky: So I started after our last meeting, as you saw. We had representation from CD. 11 at our last Vmc. Meeting. Thank you, Tracy Park. Thank you. To her team.

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Sima Kostovetsky: She introduced her her team, especially her Venice liaison. So I've already reached out to CD. 11.

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Sima Kostovetsky: We've already started exchanging information. I reached out to Holly Mitchell's office.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I mean to point myself personally who lives south of Washington. We share a lot of stuff with the Marina, but never had access to any of their information, so that information sharing has already started.

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Sima Kostovetsky: once again to Ben Allen's office. There's been some turnover, but we're

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Sima Kostovetsky: we're trying to become more sort of having our fingers and local government, so that, for example, the notice that came out tonight

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Sima Kostovetsky: when there's information sharing between agencies, it can happen, and I hope that we can help facilitate to do that.

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Sima Kostovetsky: chair. Report, Thank you. And moving on to

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Sima Kostovetsky: Item Number 6,

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Sima Kostovetsky: we need do brand table costs. I don't know if you've seen our old ones, but they fly away in the ocean, I mean. They fly away in the wind.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and they feel terrible. I think our logo is good. I like our colors. It's gray, and it's orange.

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Sima Kostovetsky: But we need something that moves us into this decade.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I recommend

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Sima Kostovetsky: something like these. So these are the stretch ones, or the fully lined ones.

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Sima Kostovetsky: the one that says Green Nvidia, I've done some research there about

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Sima Kostovetsky: 150 to $175 per tablecloth. Money is not an issue because we have money to spend in outreach. I just have to put it through budget, and then the Board has to approve the expenditure. But

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Sima Kostovetsky: the main thing that I would like to come up with tonight is

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Sima Kostovetsky: some sort of a design, and

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Sima Kostovetsky: as we move on to Item B under 6 B. He is here to join us, as well to hopefully offer some insight.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I think we should stick with our Vmc. Logo right here and then that, says Venice Neighborhood Council.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and that's it.

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Sima Kostovetsky: That's the tablecloth for us for our generic purposes

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Angela McGregor: on a white and background.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I like the gray. I don't know. I I like the gray. I'm happy to show you our table cloth, but I just have to run and get it.

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Sima Kostovetsky: but it's great. It's basically our colors on a gray table cloth. My fear with white

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Sima Kostovetsky: it's just too hard

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Sima Kostovetsky: to get things out, and you can't bleach it because of the insignia.

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Sima Kostovetsky: so I like keeping it light. But at the same time.

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Sima Kostovetsky: you know

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Keith Harrison: i'll go get i'll go, get!

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Sima Kostovetsky: Oh, will you go and get yours. Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you. Thanks. What are these made of

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Sima Kostovetsky: the polyester?

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Sima Kostovetsky: They're stretched polyester

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Sima Kostovetsky: so like this one is stretch polyester. The motorola one, for example, and the Nvidia. It's also polyester, but it's it's like a box.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So these aren't like easily. Terrible. Right? No, no, no, no, I mean this is, you know, pretty standard, Chris. I know you have your hand up, so

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Christopher Lee: I i'm. I'm personally opposed to the Motorola design, because those types of table claws will get punctured over time. So the longevity on them is not great, like, just because you're constantly stretching them over table legs.

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Christopher Lee: So I would look for something that has free

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Christopher Lee: the drapes, and then just get table ties to that.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I mean these. So I so I use them.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Do you guys see what Keith is holding up our table?

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Vicki Halliday: I like the colors. I was just gonna say I got my hand up. But, Sima, the the green example is probably better for us, because I've never worked an event yet that we weren't storing extra things under the table, and this makes it a lot easier to get to boxes and stuff.

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Vicki Halliday: Then the motorola one.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you. Thank you for that, Christina.

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: Yeah, I think I don't know if we're married to the gray yet. But

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: i'm liking the idea of the orange when I think of the V and C. Logo, I think of orange so, and it would also obviously stick out amongst other tables. So that's

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: that's where my heads are on the color.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So you want the table cloth to be all orange

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: orange with white writing. Perhaps

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: I don't know we could kind of workshop it, especially if we're putting the V and C logo on it. It might get lost in it. So

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: you know, Obviously, before we put into production we should get a mock up of it. But

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: I like the idea of having a bright, either the orange or the yellow

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: as the as the actual background color.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Hmm.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, Brian, do you have any anything

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Brian Averill: the orange would definitely stand out. I would just worry that the logo would get lost. So you'd have to sort of

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Brian Averill: differentiate the logo from the background in in some sort of creative way, maybe just on white or black, or something like that.

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Brian Averill: But you know you can't do orange on orange

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Brian Averill: sort of figure that out graphically.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and i'm happy to grab the water bottle just to show you guys, the white looks really like the orange background on white

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Sima Kostovetsky: looks. Our logo looks really good on white. That was the reason why I was suggesting the gray. Because we pop.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So that's the thought behind that. But I but I get what you're saying, and i'm happy to send you guys

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Sima Kostovetsky: when I do the art and the mock ups for it. I'm happy to send it to you. But I just want to be clear for us.

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Sima Kostovetsky: It's very basic.

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Sima Kostovetsky: The Nvidia and then Venice Neighborhood Council with maybe our venison, c.com at the bottom.

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Sima Kostovetsky: That's that's where i'm at, I see Next got his hand.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and then, Christopher, you're after Nick

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Sima Kostovetsky: Nick. Are you able to unmute?

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah, Can you hear me?

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Nick Antonicello: Yes. Will you speak up a little bit.

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Sima Kostovetsky: That's

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Sima Kostovetsky: yes.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and Christopher.

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Christopher Lee: let's make sure we put the correct website. It's Venus nc.com.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I would have figured it out by the time production came around. But thanks.

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Sima Kostovetsky: okay, Are we all okay? Are we all on the same page with this?

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Sima Kostovetsky: You know we're solving world piece here. So come on.

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Brian Averill: sure.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you, Brian. I appreciate that.

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Vicki Halliday: Okay, so moving on. That's why we have. I'm: I'm: sorry. Do we have a public comment. I didn't see it.

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Sima Kostovetsky: We don't have a motion. But okay.

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Nick Antonicello: Do you want him to make a motion? Now I got to hear public comment. Is there any?

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Nick Antonicello: I I just made the motion. You need a second.

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Christopher Lee: I didn't hear you. Can you say it again?

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Nick Antonicello: I should. I make the motion. We need a second.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I second it. Sima.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, Public Comment: thanks.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Hi. Cj.

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CJ Cole: Okay. I just have a basic question. What are the table calls for

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CJ Cole: what would be nice if your agenda item said what they were. For.

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Sima Kostovetsky: For example, the farmers market, that resiliency goes to any of our events that we have a presence that

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Sima Kostovetsky: we have the Mc. Tablecloth. They're just probably gosh, least 8 years old.

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Sima Kostovetsky: so so they're not for like our table when we go back to they can be. I've used them before when we were back as well, so you know it's multiple purpose.

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CJ Cole: I mean we we we usually drink. I don't.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I can't remember, do we? I don't think we we don't drape the table where we sit, but I usually drake the table where we have the refreshments.

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: Yeah, I was gonna say for town halls, too.

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Sima Kostovetsky: right? So, for example, if resiliency, you know, is doing something at the library or a bird in Venice, you know we would have a presence. It's just a way to brand ourselves when we give out literature, etc.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Right. Who's hand is that? Hi, Nick.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Nick, do you want to talk.

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Brian Averill: Nick? You're muted?

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Nick Antonicello: no, I I have nothing to say.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, i'm muting you, and I am

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Sima Kostovetsky: asking you to put your hand up. Great. Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So let's get to committee. Vote, please.

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Sima Kostovetsky: on the creation of Vmc. Branded tablecloths.

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Sima Kostovetsky: We can do 3.

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Sima Kostovetsky: That would be my suggestion to do 3,

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Sima Kostovetsky: and we have decided on the

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Sima Kostovetsky: block I the drape design, as demonstrated by in the Nvidia Logo.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and it will have our Vmc. Logo, Venice Neighborhood Council with Ww. Venice, and c.org.

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Sima Kostovetsky: to make sure that our website is mentioned, and the final design. Once I do some mock up, I will send to the committee, and hopefully, we'll get some input Does that seem fair?

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Sima Kostovetsky: That's my motion?

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Brian Averill: Second.

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Brian Averill: Thank you, Brian.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I'm I'm going so, Vicky.

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Sima Kostovetsky: yes or no in the motion. I'll come back to you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Christopher and me.

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Christopher Lee: Yes.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Nicholas Andtonicello, let me unmute you.

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah, Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: All right. Moving on

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Sima Kostovetsky: design basically the same, we need to take one for resilience state.

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Sima Kostovetsky: if you're pretty specific about what you want on it, would you like to speak? Or.

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Keith Harrison: yeah, I I I just briefly want to do it in a in an efficient way that makes the link between the Venice Neighborhood Council, which is important, which is why the logo is, is important, but at the same time attracts people to what our mission is.

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Keith Harrison: because we've used the other one, and we attract people who have various other issues rather than disaster, resilience, and so simply adding in the If we go with the gray.

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Keith Harrison: using red lettering, or whatever the coloring is, so that it. It stands out.

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Keith Harrison: And again, I think that's something that artistically the committee can work out, but the content is a statement of our mission, so that people know what they're getting when they come to our table, and that would be disaster Resilient, then us with an exclamation point

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Keith Harrison: that says, what the goal is, it's positive.

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Keith Harrison: the even though it's dealing with a scary thing called disaster. But I did. The the end thing is that we have a disaster. Resilient community. So disaster resilient Venice.

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Keith Harrison: the actual design and stuff can be worked out

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Keith Harrison: again. My preferences, if we're doing gray red lettering. But if we're doing other color combinations. Obviously, we've read letterings of foolish ideas, so that can be those details can work out later. I just advocating that we have something that says our mission

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Keith Harrison: and attracts people to us

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Keith Harrison: for that mission rather than to argue about the homeless committee or or the Traffic Committee, or you know, or I didn't get my my vote by mail in the last election, and any number of things we get where we have to say. You know you know it worked well in a way, at the holiday signed, as we say, go across the way.

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Keith Harrison: but it's just so much better for us to be able to have people come up and know what they're getting.

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Keith Harrison: and and engage that way. That's it.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Is there any comments from the committee?

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Sima Kostovetsky: Hi, Chris.

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Christopher Lee: I'm. All for this, and I have to ask the question like, Does this open up

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Christopher Lee: other committees asking for distinct table clause as well like the then do we have just a plethora of committee specific table clause, or where do we draw the line? Is it specific? Only resiliency gets a specific one because they need that

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Christopher Lee: by catching, call out

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Sima Kostovetsky: Well, I think resiliency, in my opinion, deserves this because they do so much work in the community. So I think that they deserve this. And this is my call. And Keith asked.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So I think it's a great idea

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Sima Kostovetsky: in addition. That is also why we, for example, are doing something that is more generic to the Neighborhood Council.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and I mean I couldn't imagine i'm just thinking who PE having or needing their own table cloth

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Sima Kostovetsky: verdict. Venice, I think, speaks for themselves, but that is not. They're not like a table kind of committee.

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If homelessness wanted their own table cloth, I mean, we could discuss that.

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Sima Kostovetsky: But I don't think we need to apply this generally to where we're at, and I think spending a 100. Hmm. Let's let's be conservative. Let's say we're spending $300 on resilience

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Sima Kostovetsky: tablecloths. I think that is a great way to assist our

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Sima Kostovetsky: committees. And again, this doesn't mean that

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Sima Kostovetsky: if somebody came to me and said, hey, we're doing this event, or I want something very specific to who we are, and we kind of put our heads together, and this is something that we think is worthwhile. That's not to say that it can't happen in the future.

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Christopher Lee: So my assertion is like I'm, all for resiliency, getting one because they are such a niche and an important topic.

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Christopher Lee: I'm not niche topic, but they are such an important topic, but

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Christopher Lee: pretty much. Every other committee, I think, would fall under the generic, so I would just cap it, like all other committees, would use the generic ones and resiliency, since they are so specific in their

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Christopher Lee: in their information, and don't want to be dealing with.

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Christopher Lee: Why can't I Park? Or why is there like a parking lane going through or biking link going through something like that's not their function. I think it works really well just for resiliency to have it, and we just

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Christopher Lee: tap it off there for any other inquiries that may come in.

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Sima Kostovetsky: We really only have one more month, 2 more months of of dealing with anything budgetary just to put that out there. So again, I cannot think of a committee at this point that will come to me asking for their own branded committee merge. But I think that, as you said.

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Sima Kostovetsky: we're we're good. I just don't think we need to address that at the moment. So thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Nick. Your hand is up.

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Nick Antonicello: Yeah.

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Nick Antonicello: yeah, he speaks to the bigger problem that we have that performance market, which is, we don't have

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Nick Antonicello: the standing table that we had for 5 years.

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Nick Antonicello: and we still don't have.

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Nick Antonicello: and it causes confusion, because they see him sitting there, and they think he's going to address every question about the B and C. We've got to get that table back up and run

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Nick Antonicello: It's it. It is a black hole on this committee.

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Nick Antonicello: and I've said I, I would help run it. But we gotta get people involved with this. We have to bring that table back.

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Nick Antonicello: It is the number one outreach vehicle of the B and C. It's been closed down now for 3 years.

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Sima Kostovetsky: but I don't think that's fair. It hasn't been closed down for 3 years.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I know you are available to be there pretty much every Friday, but I don't know why the rest of the Vnc. Doesn't.

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Nick Antonicello: Well, it it this has to be. This has to be addressed

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Nick Antonicello: because it's affecting our ability to communicate with people, and you know, I believe, Keith. So now the table is residing at Gyms and Jim's going to the homeless thing. But I just wanted to make that point.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, Thank you. No, listen. It's noted. I can only send out so many emails to asking for volunteers.

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Brian Averill: He's gone.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay.

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Brian Averill: The motion to make Keith tablecloth. Let's do it.

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Vicki Halliday: I'll second it.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you.

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Okay.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Keep just disaster resilient Venice exclamation point

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Keith Harrison: Yes. Disaster, resilient Venice

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Keith Harrison: exclamation point.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay. Thank you, Christina. You'll see us the right way as well. Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay. Do we have any public comment.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Nope. All right, thank you. Moving on

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Sima Kostovetsky: all right. Spotlight on

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Sima Kostovetsky: Christopher. How should we roll this out if you want to do this on outreach first.

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Christopher Lee: I mean.

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Christopher Lee: do we create a conflict? And some of us are running for

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Christopher Lee: election. Now, if we start putting contact with our faces on it

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Christopher Lee: like.

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Christopher Lee: First, we enough to navigate that whole Craig wire, because that was a whole motion during this election process

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Sima Kostovetsky: right right right? But I don't think that

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Sima Kostovetsky: I mean we can pull it off on, I guess outreach, but I think that there's ways to get around it. You just have to make sure that the people who are running aren't

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Sima Kostovetsky: the faces at the moment.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and I think that you know there's a way. Thank you for bringing that, Keith. By the way the table clause.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I saw you wrapping it.

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So

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Sima Kostovetsky: yeah, I mean, I'm happy to spotlight You want to spot like Keith, since is here. Would you like to spotlight or verdant Venice.

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Christopher Lee: Yeah. So

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Sima Kostovetsky: first one thing I don't want to step over. Do we just make a motion and not vote on it regarding. I'm sorry my mind it's forgive me.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Yes.

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Christopher Lee: so we go back to, because there was no public comment.

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Sima Kostovetsky: We're going back to the 60,

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Sima Kostovetsky: Brian, since you made the motion.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I'm going to start with you.

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Brian Averill: Yes.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Vicki, you seconded. So you're next Christina. Yes.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Christopher.

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Christopher Lee: Yes.

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Sima Kostovetsky: me yes, Angela, yes.

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Sima Kostovetsky: thank you is next. Still, here

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Sima Kostovetsky: you left. I didn't see that? Okay. Very good. Thank you. Motion passes. Thank you very much.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay. So I want to go back to spotlighting on.

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Christopher Lee: Okay. So then, to forward that conversation, I think what we do is we just send out an email to the board members and the committee members.

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Christopher Lee: We reach out to every committee chair to send out to their committee members a simple script of 3 to 5 questions: Who are you? Why do you participate in the Vnc. And what or what committee do you participate in the Vnc. On? And why do you participate in that committee?

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Christopher Lee: And this can be self-filled content on an iphone. I' we can make suggestions. Please do this during the daytime.

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Christopher Lee: Well lit period of the day. It'd be great if they could do it, and known Venice landmarks like

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Christopher Lee: fun, little things to make it really Venicey, but just drive that content in, and then we can cherry pick the good examples, and then use those for examples and be like Look, this was a really great example. We'd love for you to re-shoot yours

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Christopher Lee: in this manner, right? So that would be my request to move this forward is email the Committee chairs with the short list of questions so that they can get back to the

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Sima Kostovetsky: I think that is the first question. The first question is as a committee: do you want to participate? We want to spotlight the Vmc. We want to spotlight the work that we do. Are you interested?

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Sima Kostovetsky: And then we can sort of work on the script. I get what you're saying, because you. Do you want to highlight? Why you're involved, and who you are and who you are in the Vnc. I just think that we kind of have to, you know. Step meal it together, because if I can't get volunteers.

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Sima Kostovetsky: for you know an hour a week, I said, I don't know if i'm going to get Volunteers Committee shares.

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Sima Kostovetsky: That's the first step. Let's just go so that that would be my suggestion. My suggestion would be to go out to the committees, and to say, hey, what do you want to say?

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Sima Kostovetsky: We want to spotlight you. What do you want to say?

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Sima Kostovetsky: You know we have some very creative people that you know might want to say something different, right? But I get what you like. You. Do you want to make it then a specific? You want to make it.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I catching. So I i'm totally with you. I just think we need to

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Christopher Lee: do it one step at a time and make sure that people want to do this right, because like to make this actionable. Are you saying we go to these other committee meetings and ask No, no, No, I think I email. And then at the next meeting at the next Bmc. Meeting.

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Sima Kostovetsky: we we see what kind of response we get at the next Vmc. Meeting. We announce it again. I email again. And then we we're kind of you know. We'll see where we're at, because by that point we're in February.

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Christopher Lee: Okay, by When are we sending out this email? And you're saying the I'm sending it out by by next week.

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Christopher Lee: Okay, Got it. And then just your when you say Vmc. Meeting you mean the General Board meeting. Correct? Yes, the General Board meeting in February. I just think that that's where we have the audience, and that's where we have all of our.

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Sima Kostovetsky: you know most of the committee members and Vmc. Board members. So I think it's some tactful there that doesn't mean that we can't. You know the eblast go to the entire community.

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Sima Kostovetsky: but it looks, you know right now let's work on the organizations that we work with

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Christopher Lee: Okay, Great. So then i'll anticipate your response from the email that you send out at the end of next week

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any other suggestions ideas.

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jim murez: Oh, hi, Jim! Okay. Now I do

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Sima Kostovetsky: go ahead.

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jim murez: You're planning on putting something on the Bnc's meeting.

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jim murez: and I guess i'm curious. How are you going to go about doing that. We give each committee

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jim murez: chair, you know, like a minute or 2, to respond to future and and

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jim murez: things that they each want to promote.

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jim murez: but we've never just sort of had an open discussion by the outreach committee to get each committee to respond to something. It just seems like that's

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jim murez: i'm sorry if I wasn't clear. Let me let me just finish. I think that if we put something like that on the agenda, and and you do it as a motion from your committee to get response from other committees.

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jim murez: Then we also have to take public comment on it, and we have to have a whole open discussion.

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jim murez: and that could be very, very time consuming when most people want us to shorten the meeting rather than lengthen it.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay. So in response. I wasn't planning on taking an agenda vote or putting it in atcom. I was planning on announcing it during my announcements as chair of outreach kind of repeating the call to the Vnc. And to the Committee chairs to say, hey, we're looking to spotlight committees of the Vnc.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I've sent out an email that's it.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Announcement: we're looking for committees. Reach out back to me.

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Sima Kostovetsky: That's my suggestion.

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jim murez: Anybody else

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jim murez: try and start responding on the spot

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Sima Kostovetsky: and not communicating to you via email or or through some conversation offline.

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Sima Kostovetsky: can see my face and can see my ask. That was my point.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you.

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Okay.

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Sima Kostovetsky: All right. Anybody else.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, I don't think we need a motion on this.

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Sima Kostovetsky: because I think we're in agreement, and i'm emailing the committee chairs to figure out what next steps, and who we want to get involved, or who wants to get involved. Rather so there's no meeting.

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I mean. I'm sorry there's no motion.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Is there any comments from the attendees. I'm opening it up

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Sima Kostovetsky: all right. Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Let me. If you guys don't mind, let me just see if Michael Lynn is available it is

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Sima Kostovetsky: 738.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Oh, there's Michael with the committee, mind if we moved if we just exchanged items 8 and 9, and let Michael speak for Item 9.

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Angela McGregor: That's fine.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Any issues with that.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, Thank you. And then so we're. We're looking at. Item 9 before we're looking at. Item

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Sima Kostovetsky: 8. And i'm going to. Oh, thanks, Vicki. Let me promote Michael.

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Sima Kostovetsky: There you go.

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Michael Lynn: all right, there we go.

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Michael Lynn: Okay, let me just rename myself really quickly.

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Michael Lynn: because i'm not here as the President tonight. I'm just here as

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Michael Lynn: Michael Lynn.

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Michael Lynn: Anyways. Hi, everybody! Just give you a quick quick update on the elections.

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Michael Lynn: Things are moving really nicely. We're at the point now where the budgetary items that we needed to get updated quotes on are being finalized. I just got like literally one more thing to get like

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Michael Lynn: for complete.

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Michael Lynn: which is good because it looks like we're just right at Budget, which is perfect.

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Michael Lynn: so to bring everybody up to date. You might not know

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we're going to be doing a very cohesive

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Michael Lynn: outreach to promote the elections

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Michael Lynn: involves posters, banners, postcards, social media.

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Michael Lynn: you know, Instagram and Facebook Voter Guide, Argonaut, Advertising, E. Blast

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Michael Lynn: and videos.

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Michael Lynn: Some of that's

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Michael Lynn: paid for it like things like the blast and videos are obviously not. I'll get to those in a second.

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Michael Lynn: Basically we're gonna have a nice cohesive branded theme marking theme for this

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Michael Lynn: called Make it happen

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Michael Lynn: So that'll be the tagline.

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Michael Lynn: And so every piece that goes out will have

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Michael Lynn: that theme going with a QR. Code that takes you to the website as well as the website itself.

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Michael Lynn: for those who don't know how to use a. QR. Code. But QR. Code is definitely very prevalent in driving traffic over to to the website, and we'll take them right to the web page for elections.

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Michael Lynn: We'll also have some outreach events Candidate forum. Possibly a candidate meet and Gre. We're working on that.

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Michael Lynn: Basically the outreach is going to hit all that. We're going to have postcards that that go to all residences.

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Michael Lynn: businesses, organizations, and the homeless. We are gonna have posters going out.

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Michael Lynn: and then we're going to have a

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Michael Lynn: a blast of voter guides that are going to be going out pretty much.

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Michael Lynn: you know where we can get in that combination of businesses and residences, and obviously that will happen closer to the election itself

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Michael Lynn: for social media. This is where we really need help with the outreach.

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Michael Lynn: Is

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Michael Lynn: it all comes down to making the social media work, or the tax hashtags which i'll take care of?

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Michael Lynn: But the other half are the likes and the shares.

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Michael Lynn: So we need

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Michael Lynn: all the friends and family of all the board members, stakeholders, candidates, everybody to like and share.

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Michael Lynn: The more that happens, the more the algorithm will kick it out to

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Michael Lynn: the vast amount.

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Michael Lynn: The thing that I don't think we're going to be able to do.

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Michael Lynn: although both me and SIM are trying to work on. It is the Facebook ads themselves

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Michael Lynn: until Facebook gets their act together and lets us

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Michael Lynn: promote elections in any way, shape or form.

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Michael Lynn: We're kind of stuck with that.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and that's across all neighborhood councils. Interestingly enough, it's not. It's the boss Just get you every time we couldn't even promote our last meeting. The bots got it for whatever reason I mean, there was no word of election. There was no word of, you know.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So by mail. Nothing. It's the promotion of our monthly meeting, and sometimes we get through, and sometimes we don't. Anyway, Thank you for bringing that up. Yeah, we did not get through on a snow day in the park for South Robertson.

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Michael Lynn: A snow day got rejected as being political.

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Michael Lynn: So

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Michael Lynn: yeah, until we can figure out. I'm working on actually trying to get up the ladder to Facebook to

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Michael Lynn: have them carve out something specially for us. But

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Michael Lynn: yeah, wish me luck.

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Michael Lynn: The videos. Okay, so what I want to do, and this is where you guys can also help out, too.

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Michael Lynn: I'm trying to get different

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Michael Lynn: politicos and celebrities to do videos to promote the elections. I'm getting Karen to do one for all of la!

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Michael Lynn: So hopefully we'll have that

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Michael Lynn: in time for our elections.

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Sima Kostovetsky: You mean Mayor Bass. Yes, Sorry. No. I just want to make sure that. No, no, you're right. Yeah. Sorry.

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Michael Lynn: Sorry. No, Mayor Vass. Yes, you are correct.

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Michael Lynn: But individually. It would be nice if I can get

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Councilman Parks

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Michael Lynn: Tracy part. Was it within S or no? Us at the end? No. As well as Tracy Park, and then I at the end of Tracy, too. But I just didn't know if it was Parker Parks, anyway. So yeah, I would love to get Tracy to do a video that's Venice specific.

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Michael Lynn: And this is where I can use your help.

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Michael Lynn: any. We're all celebrities that people have contacts to.

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Michael Lynn: If you can get those over to me. We just do a short script for 15 s 30 s.

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Michael Lynn: and we can flood, you know, on Instagram reels.

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Michael Lynn: you know, when also Facebook as well. But those videos.

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Michael Lynn: I think we'll go a long way, and the cool part is they're free

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Michael Lynn: and promoting those we might be able to get by, so it's possible you might be able to use some. It

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Michael Lynn: add spends on that. We can test that out

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Michael Lynn: hard to say.

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Michael Lynn: but

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Michael Lynn: So that's where I can really use help from the outreach committee as well.

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Michael Lynn: Any questions.

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: Hi, Michael, i'm wondering if you've also considered for, like the Celebrity angle, using cameo or something like that, where you could pay a celebrity to put out a message. You just tell them. You know they have their kind of profile on there. What they're going rate is, and

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: what you would like the message to be. And they just say yes or no.

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Michael Lynn: Okay? No, I'll check into that. That's a good suggestion.

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Michael Lynn: I'm not sure how much budget will have left to do, but

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Michael Lynn: that's all I did, anyways, right.

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: I'm. Actually, I've never used the product, but I know I have a couple of friends who have. I don't know how much they they put towards that. To be honest, or exactly what the process is. You know what if it's by word or what great suggestion? I'm definitely a follow up on that.

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Michael Lynn: They'll definitely follow up on that great suggestion.

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Michael Lynn: Any other questions or suggestions, for that matter.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Are there any other questions from the committee before I ask mine

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Brian Averill: go for it?

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, so

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Sima Kostovetsky: obviously. Michael and I have talked but Michael kind of hands me the rains, and then we use our channels to distribute. I only announced last Tuesday.

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Sima Kostovetsky: so

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Sima Kostovetsky: ever since then, you know. Obviously everything goes through the administrator, or at the best of the administrator. But my question was, and I know it was so 2 things.

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and I can pull up the

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Sima Kostovetsky: the plan. Thank you, Christopher. Again

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Sima Kostovetsky: We made an agenda item.

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Michael Lynn: I I remember, during the Vmc. Meeting, so we are printing a voter guide correct

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Michael Lynn: that we used went out of business, which we place the printer before that they went out of business.

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Michael Lynn: so I've been working hard to secure a new

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Michael Lynn: newspaper printer, and I've got one secure.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, and it's the plan for that to go to every household in Venice in 900 two-nine-one, and 902 9 2.

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Michael Lynn: It's

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Michael Lynn: anything that that has access. It will go there.

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Michael Lynn: As Well, as to some businesses as well.

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Michael Lynn: Whatever has an access.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay.

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Michael Lynn: 20,000 voter guides.

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Sima Kostovetsky: 20,000 voter guides. Okay?

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And then

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Sima Kostovetsky: you had talked about.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Oh, gosh! You taught You just mentioned them the postcards. Okay.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So is that a male situation

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Michael Lynn: that that is a male situation. Sorry tattoo, go turn off something, so I just didn't want to see my

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Michael Lynn: see me fleeing across the kitchen. But just a moment i'm gonna burn. Yes, that is going to be mailed, and that will hit every residence.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay.

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Michael Lynn: in

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Michael Lynn: what you've got. Now keep in mind what we use is called E. DM: right

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Michael Lynn: everyday direct mailer for those of you who don't know and what happens is, we

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Michael Lynn: give each route a certain number of postcards for all the houses on the route, all the residences, I should say, on the route.

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Michael Lynn: and they put it in each one.

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Michael Lynn: So

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Michael Lynn: our control for that

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Michael Lynn: kind of ends.

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Michael Lynn: Once it goes to the Post Office, you know we're relying on the postal carrier to actually do it.

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Michael Lynn: Keep in mind that, as we know, mail doesn't always get to you so

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Michael Lynn: there, even though our attempt to to get every single household. There will be some that

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Michael Lynn: you know, for whatever reason don't get it, but

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Michael Lynn: pretty much every I mean there will be 20,000 that go out

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Michael Lynn: right. The the important thing is, the attempt is there, and we're using resources to do that.

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Michael Lynn: You know that's really anything that that happens like that is really beyond our control, and it sucks. But you know it's a post Locks Post Office issue not our issue.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Can you just repeat the theme again.

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Michael Lynn: Make it happen.

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Michael Lynn: Exclamation Mark.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Anybody else. I see Jim's hand.

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jim murez: Yeah, thank you, Michael.

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jim murez: I don't recall a a number of 20,000 pieces going out, and I certainly don't recall walking man being approved. The the plan that was approved was fairly clear, and it was done by the board. I think I don't have a problem with you changing it.

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jim murez: but I want to remind you that if you do change anything that's in the plan you would need to come back to the board and get an approval for modification, including any additional orientation meetings or other things you want to do if they're not in the plan. Presently, as one of the action items in the plan, and if the funding in the plan isn't correct and needs to be moved around. That's something that has to come back to the board.

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Michael Lynn: I believe that was in your budget. That was an amended budget that went to the board. It was separate from the plan, and that's basically what I'm going off of, because that was the latest thing that was approved. The budget that was in the plan.

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jim murez: you know. I know we. I know we opted to 19,000 for 15,000, so so we could do an additional mailer.

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jim murez: I also know that we had a lot of discussion

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jim murez: about how poorly the walking man solution had worked last time, and there were a lot of people in the community and on the board that all said the same thing. If in its apartment building everybody doesn't get it, because nobody can get the the mail doesn't get delivered there. And so I just want to be sure that if you're

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jim murez: veering away from the plan that you run it by the board, a lot. People had a lot of input, and I want to respect that. Input

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, so let me be clear. The postcard is being mailed.

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Michael Lynn: and you know, perhaps budget is best discussed with our treasure. So that would be my suggestion about it has been. It has been so like, yeah, there is a budget issue that needs to be brought forward. I'll bring it forward if there's something that needs to be brought forward in the for just a plan approval thing, or it gets brought forward in this some way, shape or form.

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jim murez: Thank you. I'm Christopher.

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I just want to second Jim's comment about walking man being ineffective, and that we've had repeated. Community members

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Christopher Lee: mentioned this and that it was not in the plan or budget that was passed a while back.

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Christopher Lee: secondly, according to the plan, and according to the Usps, Eddm. Routes, there are a minimum of 28,000 addresses here in venice that can be reached through Edm. So i'm wondering why we're reducing that by

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Christopher Lee: over. It is by 8,000. That's gonna leave out a significant portion of our community.

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Christopher Lee: But you can literally go to the Usps site.

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Michael Lynn: Any I that was. That's what I heard. Did I hear wrong? Okay, my understanding. And I i'm having the printer. That's the one thing i'm waiting to get back on is the adjustment is the exact number, but it's not 28,000 it's like just over 20,000.

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Michael Lynn: That's on the camera for keep in mind. Okay, residents on the Edm. Not don't. Make sure you uncheck the businesses.

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Christopher Lee: And once again, please, this is this: is not

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Sima Kostovetsky: I

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Sima Kostovetsky: welcome your suggestions, but we cannot talk the

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Christopher Lee: sort of the specifics of elections this is not the point of. We want to make sure that outreach is doing their job, and Edm is not outreach's job reversal from months of resisting, doing the election outreach. And now suddenly we're

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Christopher Lee: making sure outreach is doing election outreach

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jim murez: doing elections. I'm going to interrupt at this point. You need to have a conversation with me about what's in the plan, and we will go over only what's in the plan?

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jim murez: Because, as far as the person who created the plan has an issue, and we didn't exclude, or include anything, the budget items, all that stuff. It needs to be very clear, and we don't want to exclude anyone from the process. Okay.

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jim murez: see them. I'll definitely have that conversation with you. Let's get off of this. Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Chris, You still have your hand up.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Brian. Did you have anything to say?

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Brian Averill: Yeah, I did. I just wanted to echo what what? Jim said

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Brian Averill: the the during the last election literally nobody. I know that lives in an apartment building.

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Brian Averill: Got the Voter guide.

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Brian Averill: so

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Brian Averill: we've just got to do better, so we we can't do what we did last time, because it didn't work, so we need to figure that out. I don't have the answer personally. But I I do want to emphasize what what Jim pointed out.

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That's it.

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Michael Lynn: you know, and ultimately I can kind of answer.

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Michael Lynn: You only have so much funds, and

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Michael Lynn: you know we can allocate it a 1 million different ways. Unfortunately, you just I wasn't brought on until just now, so I can only work with

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Michael Lynn: the funds that I have, and make it work the best for you

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Michael Lynn: in the best possible way. But

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Michael Lynn: we are short on time, so there's not a lot of time to make adjustments

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Michael Lynn: other than what we need to do

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Michael Lynn: to meet the budget

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Brian Averill: right? Well, surely we can do better than 0

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Michael Lynn: again. I

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Sima Kostovetsky: We'll see you.

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Michael Lynn: Okay. So

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Michael Lynn: we when we go to walking man this time, and we express that there was

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Michael Lynn: a lot of people who claim that they didn't, and maybe i'll have them where we have a route verification prior to so that I can share that i'll figure out a way to kind of help

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Michael Lynn: keep that on track.

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Michael Lynn: But I I can tell you this much that if there's a security building, a security apartment building

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Michael Lynn: yeah, the the guides are not going to be getting into those.

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Keith Harrison: They're just not

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Michael Lynn: right. Well, you do need a key or a to get into almost correct, and so, therefore I mean there's there is No, there is no way to get them in without a significant more money.

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Michael Lynn: so you know we'll do the best we can do.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, just a suggestion. I live in a month unit building. I mean, it's a duplex, but it's still a multi unit building, and they oftentimes give things on our fence so that way it's accessible to both units, just something to put out. There is a suggestion, If you end up having a conversation that so

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Sima Kostovetsky: just something small to put out there. I do want to mention something which I think is important on a positive note.

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Sima Kostovetsky: We had 55 people file

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Sima Kostovetsky: 54 by now. Well, 53 final number.

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Michael Lynn: I think. Last time a year and a half ago we were at 70 71, I think 72 was your final number, for that one it was, I think, 76 actually filed in for dropped, out

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Michael Lynn: I mean, for

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Michael Lynn: did not qualify.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I I just would like to point out with the shortened time period of the city. Embarking this on us 3 months prior, with all the back and forth that went on the holiday season. I see you shaking your head, Christopher.

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Sima Kostovetsky: so I just would like to say that i'm very proud of our community. I'm proud of the work that was done, and I just want that out there.

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That's that

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Sima Kostovetsky: all right. We have 2 comments.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I will take comments, and I will time

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Sima Kostovetsky: again. There's no motion on the table. We just had an update from Michael in. So I would like to reiterate that, Lisa. I saw your hand first.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay.

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Sima Kostovetsky: you're on

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Sima Kostovetsky: Lisa. You're unmuted.

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Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: I just want to reiterate how critical it is that we get to everyone.

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Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: I know other neighborhood councils found a way to use people that can get inside buildings.

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Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: Why do we have to always go to the same vendors

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Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: do you realize that two-thirds? 65 of venice residents are renters. So i'm going to guess that maybe 62 to 63%

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Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: Venice residents live in an apartment building and just leaving something on the sidewalk outside or the fence during a rainy season

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Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: is not acceptable.

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Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: so I just think we can work harder and work. Try instead of just using a blame game and saying, Well, I try, or I can't. You know the Post Office claims that's like a center filter in the major leagues, blaming his M. For missing the ball.

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Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: We can do better, and I think we should try.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you. Lisa.

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Cj.

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CJ Cole: Yeah. Can you hear me? Yes, okay. I just have a little concern about all of this, as

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CJ Cole: we were able today to apply for a

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CJ Cole: mail-in ballot.

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CJ Cole: What is the schedule? And Why, are we you know most of the stuff that people are going to start May voting any day. Now we have to get it out.

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CJ Cole: We can't assume everybody is going to wait until the last day or 2 to vote.

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CJ Cole: I don't know I may be wrong. I don't know when the the mail and start.

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CJ Cole: you know, getting returned back.

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CJ Cole: But we certainly these things should be out and done before people can return a mail in.

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CJ Cole: Now, what? How are you?

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CJ Cole: You really are servicing people correctly.

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Michael Lynn: Thank you. Cj. Michael, if you wouldn't mind addressing the schedule, Sure, so I do believe i'm going to get

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Michael Lynn: if i'm not mistaken.

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Michael Lynn: Hang on! How do I slide you out of the way

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Michael Lynn: or shrink you down?

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Sima Kostovetsky: Yeah.

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Michael Lynn: right?

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Michael Lynn: Unfortunately, every time I go up there it gives me the screen share thing, and the view options blocks me from moving the

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Michael Lynn: Do you want me to stop my share and see

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Michael Lynn: now I I just. I have to move my browser, and then it should work.

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Michael Lynn: Okay.

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Michael Lynn: schedule.

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Michael Lynn: There we go now. I can

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bring it back up.

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Michael Lynn: Nope, that isn't it.

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Michael Lynn: Hang on a second.

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Michael Lynn: There we go.

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Michael Lynn: Okay, so

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Michael Lynn: the

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Michael Lynn: the ballots do not get mailed out to

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Michael Lynn: March Fifth.

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Michael Lynn: so they'll You can register starting now, but you cannot. You aren't going to be getting a ballot. You won't be able to vote till at the earliest March fifth.

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Michael Lynn: And now I can come back in

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Michael Lynn: you full screen, hey? I'm back.

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Michael Lynn: So March fifth is the magic date for for that

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Michael Lynn: and the schedule. They pretty much now that I have everything in place.

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Michael Lynn: and I know what we can do.

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Michael Lynn: The

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Michael Lynn: postcard is in is are starting to be designed. I mean, we're hitting the ground running over this next week.

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Michael Lynn: so that once we have some dates that are finalized. They can go on the postcard, and they can go on the posters.

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Michael Lynn: They'll be printed and out there

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Michael Lynn: they definitely definitely should be up there well before the March fifth date

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Michael Lynn: and the postcards out there before the March Fifth day.

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Michael Lynn: Social media that's gonna start probably on Monday.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay.

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Sima Kostovetsky: wait, Michael. I pulled up the plan.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Forgive me. So yeah. So the the vote by mail.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So today that deadline today is what

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Sima Kostovetsky: registering to vote by mail.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Yes.

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Michael Lynn: to No. Today, I mean as of today you can. You can right. You can register to vote, but that you can't actually both because they're not going to mail out

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Michael Lynn: the

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Michael Lynn: mail out the the ballots until March Fifth.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay. So in our original plan the date was March seventh. Has that changed

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Sima Kostovetsky: the vote by mail applications end. Yeah. Okay. So March Fifth.

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Michael Lynn: right? So basically from March fifth.

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Michael Lynn: you'll be able to mail in your ballot all the way up to the election day.

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Michael Lynn: You can have a postmarked on the election day, or you can drop it off at the

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Michael Lynn: at the about the what do you call

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Michael Lynn: the the actual physical ballot that's been to drop your belt off at the voting location?

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay.

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Sima Kostovetsky: And so that's the end. By when you can request them.

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Michael Lynn: The end when you can request them is.

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Michael Lynn: and to request

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Michael Lynn: I can also email this to the committee. If hang on. I was looking at the wrong thing. Wait. I got to go back to 11.

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Michael Lynn: Sorry about that. I was on the wrong screen. So let me get back to

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Michael Lynn: Okay, the application period begins. Now.

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Michael Lynn: I'm sorry the ballot. The ballot mailing period begins. February nineteenth. Sorry about that. February Nineteenth is the

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Michael Lynn: ballot mailing period.

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Michael Lynn: Thank you okay? And then it ends on March Seventh. That is correct. That is, when the last.

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Michael Lynn: the the lesson you can apply.

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Michael Lynn: and then the they are going to mail out. The any reason

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Michael Lynn: will be mailed out by the fourteenth

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Brian Averill: quick question, Why Haven't? We told people that they can get their ballot

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today?

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Michael Lynn: We probably will be doing an e-blast coming up very very shortly. I'm going to be working on a whole bunch of stuff tonight.

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Michael Lynn: and as soon as I can get Vicki. You do the blast right? Or who does that

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Sima Kostovetsky: I do?

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Michael Lynn: Was that Sima who said that? Yes, okay. So just send me the content, and then we just I'll have. I'll have content for you. Very, very, very, very shortly, if not tonight, tomorrow morning.

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Michael Lynn: then you can get that out immediately.

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jim murez: I I just want to make sure that you, CC. Vicki, because she's been collecting hos and community groups that are not part of the constant contact mailing list. Yes, they are now, Jim. Oh, you've incorporated them all. Yes, I am okay. Never mind that.

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Sima Kostovetsky: And I. I want to also say that tremendous work has been done into putting the lists of various communities and active groups

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Sima Kostovetsky: in Venice, so that's been updated in constant contact as well. So thank you for doing that.

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Brian Averill: That's great, hey? Would it be possible to take a look at that list to make sure we Haven't missed anybody

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Sima Kostovetsky: you can send me if if you if you have a list, we're happy to add the problem, I mean it's proprietary.

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Vicki Halliday: It's proprietary, but it.

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jim murez: You can send this anything, and i'm happy to double check it, Brian. I know the intention we weren't going to dig into election details. Can we move on to the agenda?

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Sima Kostovetsky: They just wanted to say that the lists have been updated.

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jim murez: Christopher, I just want to make it clear. Vicki is maintaining separate Ho, a and community group lists because she's the Communications officer. So if you have a a a committee or a group like the Surf Association and it hasn't yet been to her, you would need to tell her that that

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jim murez: that that your general email address for the entire association is the one that should be sent to, and then you in turn send out to the individuals. It's a different list than just going to the constant contact list. And Vicki's maintaining those.

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Brian Averill: Is that clear?

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay.

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Michael Lynn: Michael? Anything else. Yeah, you know, just on on a note before, where, if there's concerns about certain vendors, you know, realize there's a very limited amount, and we know ones that are

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Michael Lynn: definitely no goes, and ones that are just not cost effective. So if you have a vendor that you want to shoot my way, i'll check into it. I'll vet them and see if it works. I'm. I'm not married to any particular vendor.

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Michael Lynn: you know, and just it. It takes a lot of time to do this, and i'm, you know I'm, i'm not Google, where I can

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Michael Lynn: or no of every single one out there. I only know the ones that pop up. You know

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Michael Lynn: that we know about, or that pop up in a search near the tab.

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Michael Lynn: So if you have recommendations.

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Michael Lynn: by all means, i'm open to looking at anybody as a potential, but keep, but get it to me asap because

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Michael Lynn: it times really short. I mean, we got it. We're moving very quickly at this point.

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Michael Lynn: and

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Michael Lynn: I don't know if I have the elections at Venice and see setup yet.

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Michael Lynn: So let me just give you my email address for the moment for any of those recommendations.

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Michael Lynn: and that's election specialist, La

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Michael Lynn: selection specialist, Singular la

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Michael Lynn: at gmail.com.

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jim murez: And and Michael that was supposed to be done. I think you should communicate with Vicki because she could set it up where it forwarded to your address. But all of the election questions are going to that elections email address, and it's my understanding that somebody other than a a candidate that's running is supposed to be getting them. I was getting them before, and I think she took me off that list and was supposed to be dealing with. I had asked i'd asked, actually, I've been to

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jim murez: or handled that a particular thing. So I don't know if it actually got handled or not. Yet Vicki did it. I don't Michael. I don't know what role Ivan has played in the past. He's the Dnc's Parliamentarian right? This is our Communications officer and handles all of the website and email issues.

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Vicki Halliday: I've I've I've asked Ivan what he what's done? He's never gotten back to me. Alright, Vicki: yeah. Just i'm going to also you and I should we have a offline conversation tomorrow morning.

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Michael Lynn: Yeah, let's do that, Vicki, and then we'll get that all set up. It won't. Be that long. It is simple.

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Michael Lynn: We'll talk tomorrow morning. Okay, Great.

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Michael Lynn: After 100'clock, or after 1030,

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Christopher Lee: I I have a general question based on the rules that were voted in.

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Christopher Lee: How active are we allowed to participate in election outreach efforts because of that

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Christopher Lee: rule. That was voted saying that

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Christopher Lee: active candidates can't

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Christopher Lee: to election outreach. Now.

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Michael Lynn: so the rule goes basically is that you are allowed to act in the capacity of your committee as

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Michael Lynn: directed.

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Michael Lynn: So, in other words.

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Michael Lynn: Oh, I don't know. I'm trying to think of something that I would need you to do.

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Michael Lynn: Let's say that as part of outreach we needed flyers distributed to us to X amount of businesses that we gave you the address of the businesses to take them to

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Michael Lynn: so

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Michael Lynn: hypothetically. That would be something that you could do

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jim murez: was was that clarified by a board vote that overrode the previous rule that simply stated there was no involvement from active candidates. So you weren't involved in this, and I think that the example you just gave would give somebody that didn't want to deliver pieces to a particular business that might be part of that route

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jim murez: an unfair opportunity. So you guys have it where there's absolutely 0. I think I think the issue it it my understanding. And we went around and around on this in discussion myself with several other people.

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jim murez: as I understood it. You. You can't have anything to do with content, and I can't have anything to do that My prejudice in the process. And and if if if the process is merely, for instance, Sima or Vicki

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jim murez: pushing a button and sending out a few 1,000 pieces of mail. That's very unlikely to create a bias, but but getting more deeply into anything, having to do with content, or like

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jim murez: the example you use somebody supposed to walk to all the businesses. Well, I didn't mean all the businesses, but just like, okay. So I I I think that that I think we have to be very careful, but let me just clarify. I'll give a perfect example if i'm as chair of outreach at a table

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Sima Kostovetsky: at the farmers market. I cannot promote Sima, the candidate.

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Christopher Lee: That is the difference. You cannot use Vmc. Channels to promote your own candidacy.

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Christopher Lee: Just apply us because you're there.

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Sima Kostovetsky: What do you mean.

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Christopher Lee: because if you're as not as Fema, but even as outreach chair.

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Christopher Lee: putting out election materials, your faces i'm not putting out election materials.

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Christopher Lee: You, as Christopher, could be at the farmer's market as the face of outreach. That doesn't mean that you get to talk about your election. You're like, I'm not. I wouldn't be campaigning. But even if I put out general information now, there's a subconscious association with my face to the election material. It's a bias that's created.

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jim murez: I don't think that I think we've done that in years past. I don't think that that's that's why the the whole rule, so so it's always existed. Christopher. The discussion was had. You can put out information that you create

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jim murez: and promote yourself. You can put out information to the people that you know of material that that Michael Lynn approves and is sending out to the general public, are making available to everyone else. You can't put your name on a Vnc. Piece and say, Elect me because i'm part of the Bnc. And use the Bmc's logo. But if you want to put your picture, your name, or something on a piece of paper and say, Elect me. I'm running for the V. And that's a different story.

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Yeah.

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Christopher Lee: those are both clear examples. One's obviously campaigning, and one is misuse of general information, like

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Christopher Lee: if we were to have general information postcards at the farmers's market, do we create an implicit bias by having candidates handing out that information, and I think that's kind of ridiculous to be honest. Wait, i'm sorry, Michael, do you have something to? I'm going to clarify.

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Michael Lynn: Well, from my standpoint i'm gonna make it very, very simple.

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Michael Lynn: I'm just going. The only interactions i'm going to have them. I'll state them right here is going to be seamless for the E blast and and Vicki for

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Michael Lynn: the website.

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Michael Lynn: right? Well, and the email thing. But basically the the

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Michael Lynn: getting something up on the website in on the elections page that only you guys can do. Whoever's in charge of that.

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Michael Lynn: and whoever's in charge of the e-blast and the news

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Michael Lynn: you know

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Michael Lynn: handling that aspect of it.

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Michael Lynn: If it's something that needs to get on in the agenda, i'll deal with Jim If it's something budget i'll deal with J. It's also running. I mean he's the I understand that. But if it has to go on the budget, I mean on the agenda, it obviously has to go to gym.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I mean the business of the Bmc. Has to happen. So that's what I'm saying is that

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Christopher Lee: that's it. I'm going to keep it to just those businesses email Jim and Jay. That's it. Those examples are fine because those are communications not attached to a physical presence. It's like Christopher. Let me try and clarify

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jim murez: if you come to the farmer's market, and there's a. Vnc. Table with Vnc. Material You're not supposed to be representing yourself. You're representing the B and C. If you stand in the free speech area at the farmers's market, where anybody can stand.

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jim murez: you can hand out whatever material you want of your own.

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Christopher Lee: That's that's perfectly clear. The issue becomes. If a candidate is standing at the Vnc. Table, handing out neutral information. Does that create an implicit bias towards the candidate, which is what that rule is meant to address.

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Sima Kostovetsky: I don't think that you representing the P. And look, that's to your credit, right? You're a part of the committee.

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Sima Kostovetsky: You should have some. You've worked your butt off. You should represent the Vmc: so yeah, if there's an inherent bias with you standing there. That's by your own actions, by being a part of the community. I don't know how I can answer that question other than the fact that we've put certain parameters in place.

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Sima Kostovetsky: and if you don't have, I mean

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Sima Kostovetsky: our entire board is running, and the business of the Vnc. Has to continue. You can't ask sort of

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Sima Kostovetsky: these theolog. You know theoretical questions when the reality is that I don't have a way of answering them, and we've already dealt with them as best as we could.

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Sima Kostovetsky: That that rule seems to have hamstrung us, and it hasn't because you can do your own campaigning whenever you want. It just can't be with the Vnc. And that you were I I mean. Your presence, I think, means a great deal.

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Sima Kostovetsky: So if you want to use those opportunities to become more visible in the community. That's up to you.

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Christopher Lee: I mean i'm already doing my campaigning, and it's not at all attached with the Vmc. But if I

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Christopher Lee: i'm going to drop this inquiry, because obviously what i'm inquiring about is not landing.

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Christopher Lee: so I just don't know if I have an answer for you

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Christopher Lee: and amend it, if necessary, because my understanding from that rule that we voted in was that anybody running could not participate in any election outreach efforts.

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Christopher Lee: so that innately hamstrings us because we can't even do a neutral outreach

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Christopher Lee: at the farmers market. If you're a candidate which means we have to develop a separate Elections Committee of people who are not running

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Christopher Lee: to remove any potential for implicit bias from seeing a face. Now I have no disagreement with the digital communications, because you're not attaching a sound like Vicki signing her name on every e-blast that goes out. It's signed the Vnc. But if I'm there at the farmers's market, even just handing out a neutral piece of information and saying purely.

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Christopher Lee: This is a. Vnc's election timeline. Please vote

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Christopher Lee: There's an association

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Christopher Lee: that could be argued as implicit bias by simply seeing my face, and then later seeing it on my separate campaign materials.

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Christopher Lee: And I think that's where we hamstrung ourselves with voting such an all-encompassing role previously.

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Christopher Lee: So until that rule is either amended or overturned

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Christopher Lee: we need to adhere to the things that we put into action.

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Christopher Lee: That's simply what I'm saying. We need to look at that rule and dissect it, and either make it workable or overturn it.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you Noted.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you.

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Vicki Halliday: I'm Vicki. I'm sorry you had your hand up now. I took it down. I I i'm just surprised that we've gotten this deep into the weeds on election issues

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Vicki Halliday: that

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Vicki Halliday: probably we shouldn't have. They should have been handled differently. And let's just stick to

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Vicki Halliday: what those like what you and I do with the e-class website.

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It

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Vicki Halliday: it's just me. But I find a lot of this tonight out of line.

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Christopher Lee: Thank you. Vicki. I agree.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you. Okay, Michael. Thank you again. Thank you guys.

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Michael Lynn: Any suggestions, By all means Email them at tonight or tomorrow. Vicki, I will talk to you tomorrow and

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Michael Lynn: seem I will get you a blast stuff and news material asap.

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Michael Lynn: Thank you. Now that we have a certified list, we can do that.

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Michael Lynn: Thank you. Guys have a good one.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay.

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01:37:48.270 --> 01:37:57.240
Christopher Lee: you know, I do have to drop from this meeting. I'm 7 min over for another call. So thank you for participating. So it is 8 22.

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01:37:57.680 --> 01:38:06.229
Sima Kostovetsky: I would like to just get through our next town hall. So please please, whoever can stay on. I would love some ideas

922
01:38:06.450 --> 01:38:10.489
Sima Kostovetsky: we need to get moving on this, so

923
01:38:10.580 --> 01:38:17.310
Sima Kostovetsky: would love to move on to Item 8 and discuss the next Town Hall. Christina. Thank you.

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01:38:17.600 --> 01:38:23.430
Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: Yeah, I think just to kick off Town Hall ideas. One of the things that popped into my head was

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01:38:23.460 --> 01:38:42.160
Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: obviously. We have a state of the State. We have a state of the Union, and I was like. Why, Don't, we have a state of the neighborhood, and have outreach put it together. Whether that's all the chairs of each committee kind of I don't know I don't. I'm not gonna tell them what to say or whatever. But the idea being

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01:38:43.850 --> 01:38:48.269
Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: the idea being sorry, give me one moment

927
01:38:51.890 --> 01:38:58.110
Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: that every every chair can go around and say, You know what's going on with their.

928
01:38:58.170 --> 01:39:09.779
Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: you know, with their committee, or you know, and get input from folks who show up that kind of thing. That's kind of where my head's going with this state of the Neighborhood Town Hall.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Who would you see as

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01:39:19.190 --> 01:39:20.860
Sima Kostovetsky: who do you see

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01:39:20.910 --> 01:39:21.830
Sima Kostovetsky: doing that?

932
01:39:23.250 --> 01:39:29.590
Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: I mean ideally? It would be great if we could get each committee chair to represent their committee.

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01:39:30.990 --> 01:39:34.699
Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: you know, with enough time and prep.

934
01:39:34.810 --> 01:39:53.859
Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: you know, and it doesn't have to be an exhaustive presentation. It's just a Hello! Hi! This is what we do. This is what we're doing. This is what we want to be doing. You know that kind of thing, and then kind of set out. Do a. Q. A. At the end of it, you know, for everyone not just one committee at a time.

935
01:39:53.870 --> 01:40:02.899
Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: but it's it's almost like an expanded Spotlight on is almost what i'm thinking like. Get everyone under one tent.

936
01:40:02.910 --> 01:40:19.000
Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: and have it be like an intro to the V and C. Essentially. But have it be, you know, this opportunity for the neighborhood to know what's going on in their neighborhood, and to have their input have one day to.

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: You know a a. As well as every other day. But one special day to put in their input on what they would like to see in the neighborhood, or, you know, just find out more about what we're doing.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you. I I was just thinking that I I love this idea that you're bringing up of, you know, having an opportunity for people to speak like our community members or stakeholders to speak.

939
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Okay.

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01:40:49.490 --> 01:40:57.410
Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, Anybody else on my committee that wants to speak, Jim. I see your hand that i'm going to call on

941
01:40:57.900 --> 01:41:00.260
Sima Kostovetsky: my committee before you.

942
01:41:02.380 --> 01:41:06.649
Sima Kostovetsky: Brian. Anything that you can think of from ocean Front walk.

943
01:41:08.890 --> 01:41:09.960
No.

944
01:41:10.120 --> 01:41:10.900
Sima Kostovetsky: okay.

945
01:41:10.950 --> 01:41:11.809
Sima Kostovetsky: Jim.

946
01:41:15.560 --> 01:41:21.620
jim murez: They're all also people in the audience have their hands up. Yeah, I I just want to echo that that

947
01:41:22.210 --> 01:41:25.579
jim murez: the the idea that Christina just brought up

948
01:41:26.990 --> 01:41:29.230
jim murez: actually reinforces

949
01:41:29.350 --> 01:41:39.649
jim murez: at what I said the last board meeting at the end of the meeting. I don't know if you were still on, but I would like all of the committees to do some sort of a final report on their committee.

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jim murez: and I think that the concept of the final report

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01:41:44.200 --> 01:41:45.990
jim murez: is really

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01:41:46.130 --> 01:42:04.720
jim murez: a good way to to present the final report to the community is in the sense of the the town all that that she's now describing. I think that you know. What did we? What did we do right. What did we do wrong? What we we like to do in the future? It doesn't have to be a 50 page dissertation. But

953
01:42:04.730 --> 01:42:11.960
jim murez: if if we scripted the basic outline, and then gave the committee chairs

954
01:42:12.280 --> 01:42:15.100
jim murez: each. You know a space to fill in.

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01:42:15.210 --> 01:42:27.389
jim murez: You know. What did you do right? You know? What did you see that worked? What did you see that did whatever that script would be in in a in single page kind of a template.

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jim murez: and let them go back and fill it in, and then with the intention of them, then allowing them to make that as a presentation of spoken presentation. If we then also zoom recorded it.

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jim murez: This would sort of be the final report

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01:42:42.140 --> 01:42:49.910
jim murez: of the Vnc's election over the You know the this election cycle, and we give everybody the opportunity in the future to understand

959
01:42:50.350 --> 01:42:53.169
jim murez: where we were at, and I think that that's a really good idea.

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01:42:57.330 --> 01:42:58.669
Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you, Jim.

961
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Any other committee comments before I move to public comment.

962
01:43:07.330 --> 01:43:09.170
Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, moving on.

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01:43:09.340 --> 01:43:10.389
Sima Kostovetsky: Ej.

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01:43:13.150 --> 01:43:14.660
CJ Cole: Yeah. Isn't.

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CJ Cole: the

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CJ Cole: candidate forum

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CJ Cole: a Town hall.

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CJ Cole: And if it is, you gotta be working on it because it's got to happen before this march

969
01:43:30.750 --> 01:43:33.510
CJ Cole: when people can start returning in their ballots.

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jim murez: So Cj. As President, let me answer that question for you.

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That's an election matter.

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jim murez: and it's being handled by Michael Lynn. It's not part of the current plan, and if he wants to make it as part of the current plan. He needs to get it approved at the Board meeting. He's already been aware of that, and that he needs to put in a request to do that, and then he would organize it and deal with it. Sima would help promote

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01:43:57.310 --> 01:44:07.470
jim murez: whatever it is he asked to have promoted through outreach, but the organization of it, and who's going to conduct it would all be handled by him and the people that he chooses to use.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you, Jim. Okay, Thank you. Cj: Lisa

975
01:44:20.610 --> 01:44:22.540
Sima Kostovetsky: Lisa, Can you unmute?

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Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: I keep on Ming, and you keep putting the thing up or my hearing me. Now. Yeah.

977
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Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: okay, I think the idea of

978
01:44:34.170 --> 01:44:42.919
Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: getting committees to talk about visioning, and whatever is very a little idealistic, because, honestly.

979
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Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: the last 2 years there really hasn't been much progress done. Attendance has fallen off

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Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: mit ctl, and I don't think people are invigorated by the that it's Neighborhood Council. As it is, I think you want to get something where you can get people to come and really share ideas. 150.

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Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: What about like a meet your meet? Your elected reps have a forum where Ted Lewis there Bent Allen is there, and Tina Mckinner is there, and Lindsay.

982
01:45:10.110 --> 01:45:16.919
Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: We're not talking to candidate for our actual elected reps. Where people can get to higher Federal state

983
01:45:17.490 --> 01:45:36.550
Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: things. What about visioning? Ocean front, walk like? Call it ocean front Walk 2030. What what people like to see ocean front walk, become? What are we thinking for the future, you know? Do we want to have it Stay as it is? Or maybe there's people that can come and talk good ideas.

984
01:45:36.560 --> 01:45:43.929
Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: What about Conservancy? Let's talk about how we can save water because we're always going to be the

985
01:45:44.020 --> 01:45:47.599
Lisa Redmond - Venice Catholic Worker: Thank you. Thank you very much now that we have to.

986
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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, Thank you. Those are all great ideas, Christina. You definitely have my head spinning

987
01:45:56.660 --> 01:45:59.299
Sima Kostovetsky: in a good way.

988
01:45:59.530 --> 01:46:03.320
Sima Kostovetsky: No, because I i'm just trying to think of.

989
01:46:04.070 --> 01:46:06.150
Sima Kostovetsky: Yeah, I mean, Obviously, this is

990
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Sima Kostovetsky: on going

991
01:46:07.950 --> 01:46:12.650
Sima Kostovetsky: discussion. But I I do like this idea of

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01:46:13.000 --> 01:46:18.440
Sima Kostovetsky: Come, discover the Venice Neighborhood Council. Maybe that's our town hall like, Who are we

993
01:46:18.530 --> 01:46:19.410
Sima Kostovetsky: right?

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01:46:19.460 --> 01:46:25.080
Sima Kostovetsky: And then, as you said, that goes into who the spotlight is?

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01:46:25.130 --> 01:46:44.960
Sima Kostovetsky: You know that it sort of goes and flows in with our highlighting of other neighborhood committees. I like that idea. And then, you know, going in with constituent requests. We're always happy to reach out to our elected officials. I just don't know if that can happen all at once at a Town Hall, but

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Sima Kostovetsky: to Lisa's point they are making an effort to come and be at our Vmc meetings. So but yeah, I mean, I think these are all ideas to explore. But I guess I was just wondering if it was like a burning issue that we wanted to discuss as a community.

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01:47:04.920 --> 01:47:08.140
Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: I just wanted to say that I saw Keith's hands up before.

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01:47:08.260 --> 01:47:09.070
Sima Kostovetsky: Oh.

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01:47:09.350 --> 01:47:11.380
Sima Kostovetsky: they don't see his hand.

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: He had his physical hand up.

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01:47:14.180 --> 01:47:18.260
Sima Kostovetsky: Oh, Keith, sorry you're off, My! I don't see you

1002
01:47:18.580 --> 01:47:21.990
Sima Kostovetsky: There you are! Do you want to speak? Keith is a panelist. He can speak

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01:47:24.860 --> 01:47:25.630
Sima Kostovetsky: to you.

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01:47:25.790 --> 01:47:26.490
Keith Harrison: Hi

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Keith Harrison: just wanted to pitch you that we'd be

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Keith Harrison: from from the Vcrc. Definitely would be happy to be involved with that

1007
01:47:35.930 --> 01:47:41.090
Keith Harrison: and and future. I just leaving an idea, planting a thought

1008
01:47:41.240 --> 01:47:49.509
Keith Harrison: that in future town halls that we would love to work with you, to have a segment where we address

1009
01:47:50.050 --> 01:47:50.840
Keith Harrison: each

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01:47:51.090 --> 01:47:57.740
Keith Harrison: each town hall with a segment that deals with preparedness and resiliency, not trying to get everybody

1011
01:47:57.840 --> 01:48:00.419
Keith Harrison: all at one time but bits and pieces.

1012
01:48:00.550 --> 01:48:02.339
Keith Harrison: I like tsunami like

1013
01:48:02.380 --> 01:48:15.000
Keith Harrison: building your own kid. This type of stuff spread throughout so it's an idea You definitely would be happy to participate in actively participate in a state of the neighborhood

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01:48:15.100 --> 01:48:16.920
type of format

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01:48:17.040 --> 01:48:18.960
Keith Harrison: and leaving it back.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you. Last year you did something very interesting that I think maybe we could even build upon

1017
01:48:26.560 --> 01:48:29.480
Sima Kostovetsky: is this idea of building a kit?

1018
01:48:30.060 --> 01:48:35.670
Sima Kostovetsky: I think that would be a great thing that we could. You guys could do as a committee, too, to sort of

1019
01:48:36.110 --> 01:48:43.090
Sima Kostovetsky: get people involved right like, learn how to build an emergency. Kept that kind of thing. I just

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01:48:43.720 --> 01:49:02.370
Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: but got it, and that could be an opportunity to put in like the V. And C. Labeled Flashlight, or whatever we have, you know like and started with this little flashlight. You know it's you can store an hours worth of water in our water bottles.

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Cristina Rodriguez-Greenberg: Exactly.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay.

1023
01:49:06.190 --> 01:49:07.950
Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you.

1024
01:49:08.460 --> 01:49:11.950
Sima Kostovetsky: And I know you you guys are planning

1025
01:49:12.150 --> 01:49:13.409
Sima Kostovetsky: a town hall.

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01:49:15.590 --> 01:49:20.080
Keith Harrison: So one of the the ideas that we have in mind will be discussing it with you further.

1027
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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you. Okay, Angela, please. I'm wondering

1028
01:49:25.560 --> 01:49:29.860
Angela McGregor: in terms of bringing the community back together. When

1029
01:49:29.980 --> 01:49:34.930
Angela McGregor: do we have a sense of when we're going to be able to go back to in-person meetings.

1030
01:49:35.580 --> 01:49:38.800
jim murez: The last I heard was March.

1031
01:49:39.060 --> 01:49:42.749
jim murez: but they they actually, I should say they should be I should rephrase that.

1032
01:49:42.980 --> 01:49:45.399
Sima Kostovetsky: Jim all to respect.

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01:49:45.450 --> 01:50:01.689
Angela McGregor: The last I heard was that hybrid meetings would begin in March, because I had an idea, whatever the Town Hall is, and I like the idea of. I do like the idea of the state of the neighborhood if we could stand that theme.

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Angela McGregor: But why not couple it with

1035
01:50:05.800 --> 01:50:07.889
Angela McGregor: making an event

1036
01:50:08.130 --> 01:50:11.950
Angela McGregor: out of the return to an in-person meeting.

1037
01:50:12.290 --> 01:50:15.249
Angela McGregor: In other words, if it's March.

1038
01:50:15.910 --> 01:50:23.689
Angela McGregor: you know, make a big fanfare out of the idea that we're we're inviting the community to return

1039
01:50:24.130 --> 01:50:27.189
Angela McGregor: to the school, or where we'll run, have it.

1040
01:50:27.360 --> 01:50:32.080
Angela McGregor: and make that into a kind of celebration. That is also a Town Hall.

1041
01:50:33.630 --> 01:50:49.949
Sima Kostovetsky: You'd be making our first meeting what I I love this idea of celebrating our first meeting back after 3 years. But I just don't know how we could make a meeting and a town hall happen at the same night, so wouldn't necessarily. I'm thinking the first in person gathering

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01:50:50.040 --> 01:50:52.770
Angela McGregor: would be a town hall that

1043
01:50:52.850 --> 01:50:57.629
Angela McGregor: sort of. So you know that introduces everybody to the different

1044
01:50:57.760 --> 01:50:59.109
Angela McGregor: V and C.

1045
01:50:59.470 --> 01:51:09.560
Angela McGregor: Committees, and what they've been up to, and and all of that, because I think the biggest reason that attendance is dropped off is that it's not in person

1046
01:51:09.930 --> 01:51:17.580
Angela McGregor: that the the zoom thing has just been kind of putting. I don't know it doesn't feel like

1047
01:51:17.620 --> 01:51:20.469
Angela McGregor: a community in the same way.

1048
01:51:21.090 --> 01:51:24.020
Angela McGregor: So i'm wondering if you could do

1049
01:51:25.060 --> 01:51:29.179
Angela McGregor: a Town hall. That was also the first

1050
01:51:29.450 --> 01:51:34.549
Angela McGregor: in person meeting in 3 years, the first in-person community gathering

1051
01:51:34.990 --> 01:51:36.580
Angela McGregor: in 3 years.

1052
01:51:37.200 --> 01:51:44.269
Angela McGregor: and just make it a kind of you know, a general informational session and and a celebration

1053
01:51:45.360 --> 01:52:03.969
Sima Kostovetsky: yeah to to Jim's point, and we haven't got we haven't gotten guidance from the city beyond the tent of March. First they moved it from February first, and now it's coinciding with the county, lifting the State, lifting the emergency Covid measures. So

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Sima Kostovetsky: we're They're trying to figure out a number of things. So as soon as we get to go ahead, for in person. Thank you that that is obviously we have to figure out the logistics.

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01:52:15.460 --> 01:52:17.200
Sima Kostovetsky: No, I I I

1056
01:52:17.420 --> 01:52:21.729
Sima Kostovetsky: you know time allowing, if that's possible.

1057
01:52:22.080 --> 01:52:36.319
Sima Kostovetsky: Yeah, maybe we just do like, you know, every introduction to the Vmc. A week before. Let's say our in person meeting or something like that. Or maybe you know, depending on what kind of guidance we get and how much time there is.

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01:52:36.330 --> 01:52:50.760
Sima Kostovetsky: maybe at the very least, that if it's okay with Jim and the Executive Committee, you know. Maybe we could actually introduce the committees again, you know, in person really encourage our committee chairs to be there to be there in person.

1059
01:52:50.830 --> 01:52:56.980
Sima Kostovetsky: So get along those lines. I I definitely like that. I just. I think it's time.

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01:52:57.490 --> 01:53:01.879
jim murez: you know, if you wait until April, and I'm not suggesting you postpone it.

1061
01:53:02.040 --> 01:53:06.569
jim murez: but you would then have a new board come out and meet the board as well.

1062
01:53:08.210 --> 01:53:16.940
jim murez: because the elections are in March, and they have a town hall in March, while the elections you're asking to do a hell of a lot of additional work for a town hall.

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jim murez: and you might get a lot more bang out of your buck to focus on elections in March, and to come and come out and meet the you know here here what we've done in the past. And here's where we're going in the future.

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Sima Kostovetsky: And there's gonna I just want to remind everybody. There's gonna be 3 months where the old board is still in, until so, even though the new board gets selected in April, the old board is still in charge for for lack of a better word still in session

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Sima Kostovetsky: through June, because the new board doesn't get sorted until July.

1066
01:53:56.610 --> 01:53:58.679
Sima Kostovetsky: so it's going to be an interesting

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01:53:59.650 --> 01:54:04.519
jim murez: and and Angela One other thing about the first hybrid meeting

1068
01:54:05.080 --> 01:54:06.720
jim murez: we've never done one.

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jim murez: and setting up the equipment and understanding the glitches. And you know. I'm still working with trying to get handicap access parking at Westminster. So you know, there's a lot of details that have to go back into the first meeting. But

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01:54:23.310 --> 01:54:26.690
jim murez: you know, maybe we just do a soft opening at first.

1071
01:54:26.840 --> 01:54:31.010
jim murez: and they kind of roll out into something much more elaborate later on.

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Sima Kostovetsky: Thank you guys, all great suggestions.

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Sima Kostovetsky: It is 8, 38.

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I'm gonna.

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Sima Kostovetsky: It's been a very interesting meeting. Thank you for everybody for your time

1076
01:54:47.740 --> 01:54:55.590
Sima Kostovetsky: before, so i'm going to hold off in the Vmc. Branded merchandise. We have a lot of designing to do on more immediate things.

1077
01:54:55.800 --> 01:55:01.800
Sima Kostovetsky: so i'm going to hold off on that. The one thing I want to bring up is new business.

1078
01:55:02.600 --> 01:55:10.140
Sima Kostovetsky: This kind of goes to wanting to promote things in a more organized fashion.

1079
01:55:10.390 --> 01:55:15.739
Sima Kostovetsky: We need a living calendar of when the meetings are

1080
01:55:16.060 --> 01:55:21.619
Sima Kostovetsky: of as things come up. I I realized that it's hard sometimes to do

1081
01:55:21.660 --> 01:55:27.140
Sima Kostovetsky: a real community calendar because things come up at the last minute. But I would like

1082
01:55:27.240 --> 01:55:32.449
Sima Kostovetsky: for us like. For example, we already know that there's 2 events on February fourth.

1083
01:55:32.620 --> 01:55:45.880
Sima Kostovetsky: not events. But you know 2 committees are are involved. We already know that there's something coming up in February from resiliency, you know, and so on, and so on. So

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Sima Kostovetsky: you know.

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Sima Kostovetsky: just just start thinking about that. And

1086
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Sima Kostovetsky: you guys could email me and and see how we can

1087
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Sima Kostovetsky: make that work

1088
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Sima Kostovetsky: or or somehow function a little bit better hopefully.

1089
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Sima Kostovetsky: and the New Year people are settling so things will become much more routine, you know, like our meetings and other committee meetings. So.

1090
01:56:11.310 --> 01:56:12.059
Sima Kostovetsky: but

1091
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Sima Kostovetsky: all the calendars live on our calendar of the Vnc site. So it's all there.

1092
01:56:18.220 --> 01:56:19.690
Sima Kostovetsky: But

1093
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Sima Kostovetsky: yeah, I would like to more cohesively put something together with us.

1094
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Sima Kostovetsky: Jim, you have your hand up.

1095
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jim murez: Yeah, on that note. I think it would be a very good idea

1096
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jim murez: for your committee, which for the past 2

1097
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jim murez: sign lightings already starts working on the next sign lighting.

1098
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jim murez: Just pick. The month is going to be December and start to put down. What does it take in preparation. And how far out do we have to reach? I mean. I was in conversations this morning with the city clerk's office again about getting funding things that should have been approved by them, and they, for whatever reason, are still having hes and homes about them.

1099
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jim murez: And if we can start that cycle

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jim murez: a year in advance. Some, I understand that some neighborhood councils are actually 2 or 3 years in advance when they're doing events that the and and these are not town halls. When we talk about an event, we're talking about something that has to be approved, and that approval cycle is very long.

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jim murez: and and any of those kinds of things. We ought to have them on the calendar today for a year out or 2 years out, because we know it's coming.

1102
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jim murez: There's no question about the sign. Lighting is going to be here again next year. Who does that will be invited? Now i'm just saying that you know there's certain things that we know happen every year. We have a Abbott Kenny festival every year

1103
01:57:47.170 --> 01:58:03.960
jim murez: right? There's certain events that we know we have. I you know. I'm glad you're taking up the concept of having things on the calendar in advance. Let's start documenting these. They need to go into that final report. They need to be the template for whoever it is, it's in the next cycle.

1104
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Sima Kostovetsky: Okay, thank you so much. All right.

1105
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Sima Kostovetsky: Before we adjourn. Are there any other committee comments, any announcements, anything you guys want to get off your chest, anything you want to talk about that relates to outreach.

1106
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just to follow up on that sewage spill.

1107
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Brian Averill: I posted that at the beginning of our meeting, and it's our most shared post ever in an hour.

1108
01:58:31.280 --> 01:58:34.400
Brian Averill: So people are freaking out, and I encourage you all to

1109
01:58:34.730 --> 01:58:36.620
Brian Averill: keep your friends out of the water tomorrow.

1110
01:58:37.420 --> 01:58:38.780
Sima Kostovetsky: How long.

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01:58:38.950 --> 01:58:41.819
Sima Kostovetsky: Brian? I can't remember. How many days did they tell you?

1112
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Brian Averill: They just stay out of the water. They'll let you know, and you can go back in.

1113
01:58:46.010 --> 01:58:49.030
Brian Averill: But I know a couple of the other ones. It was 3 or 4 days.

1114
01:58:50.090 --> 01:58:53.899
Brian Averill: and the wet sand to is a is not good

1115
01:58:54.010 --> 01:58:54.700
so

1116
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careful out there

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01:58:56.370 --> 01:59:03.100
Sima Kostovetsky: I've been. I don't know I've been smelling it had. You know we're right here, so I've been smelling it, especially during low tide. It's really

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Sima Kostovetsky: so. Thank you.

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Sima Kostovetsky: You guys. Thank you so much for tonight's meeting. Thank you for

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Sima Kostovetsky: for listening and for allowing other people to talk. And

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Sima Kostovetsky: thank you. We got a lot done.

1122
01:59:20.250 --> 01:59:28.189
Sima Kostovetsky: Thanks, Sima. Thank you. Everybody Nice to see everyone spaces. Thank you. Attendees!

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Sima Kostovetsky: Good night. Good night, thanks, Everybody.