- I'll interview Team B meeting to order. First order of business. Only order of business. We have a couple
- of openings. We still don't have any CAPS applicants. No. I looked this morning and I was hoping and prep for
- this meeting today that we would have any and we don't have any. Okay. All right. Then press release
- went out about a week ago? Yes. Because you sent a response email. So yes, it went out a week ago and
- we're not getting anything. Just so you-all know, what I'm trying to do, I'm trying to use my connections
- with WTIU.
- I'm trying to figure out how we could do something on a level where, I don't know, for example, news
- hour could cover boards and commissions to generate some spark of some sort. Now I'm in the outreach
- part of my position now and I'm really trying to think outside the box and figure out how. I did a segment
- with WFHB called Activate.
- and it hasn't come out just yet. So hopefully, you know, some of these little outreach initiatives will
- kind of generate something. But as of right now, our applicant pool is slow. Well, thanks. That sounds
- like a good addition. Yes, that's a great addition. Yes, that would be amazing. Do you have any expo?
- Is our applicant pool sort of abnormally low compared to the start?
- I think that this is the time of the year, because number one, there's not a lot of application, or
- not a lot of boards of commissions that have vacancies right now to begin with. And so I was trying
- to look at how everything kind of compared last year. So we're kind of right on par with some things.
- We did have, actually, I'll take it back. We did have one CAHPS commission application. It was unfortunate
- that they left us out there. That's right.
- We did have one. They just didn't qualify because of residency requirements. That was a null and void
- there. Got it. Super. Well, we did have one application for transportation and now we have another one
- applied just three days ago. Then we have the ones that we interviewed earlier. Well, that's what I
- was going to ask. Are we able to still consider them? How does that work? Yeah.
- You all had an interview, because I wrote it down. Eobhan Binder, Daniel Burnham, Norman Crampton, Jordan
- Davis, and Jacob Emery. And so those were your interviewees. I remember my and Stossberg, but he got
- appointed by the Plank Commission. Oh, I see. Oh, he did. OK. Super. Of those, I mean, I very clearly
- remember Eobhan.
- Yeah. And really wish we had a spot for him. Yeah. I mean, there was some tough calls with that round,
- actually. Yeah, it was hard to decide. Yeah. They're Cranston's, the older general line that gave you
- Boca Airport. Yeah. I mean, I liked them all. Yeah. And then there was the Chocomoo's going. Jordan.
- Yeah, that was another hard one to say no to.
- I would feel weird calling them back for a second round interview, but I can be convinced to be a woman
- if you guys feel we should. I think of the ones that we already interviewed, Aobahn would be my choice.
- Yeah. The two new ones look good too, so I don't know if we want to talk to them. One is a student,
- right, Drew?
- No one is an attorney. Drew Yeager? Did we consider him last time? He's not on my list. He's in our
- archive. Oh. Oh, yeah. But he applied on May 12th. It was that after we met? It was. And so I remember
- talking about it. Yeah, I think you all had
- from that you had looked and counterpicked. And then after that, um, usually, and so there wasn't any
- vacancies. And so usually when there's no vacancies, I go in our car. And so because we had a resignation,
- a council appointment, resignation, they just kind of stayed at our club. But technically,
- Even though they're an archive, as long as they have a plot within that calendar year, they can still
- be considered. Gotcha. This is a calendar year, so a year from when they originally? Yes. A calendar
- year from when they originally planned? Yes. Okay. Yes. So yeah, so his last day of consideration would
- be May of 26.
- I mean, do we want to do another round of interviews? For new, yeah. The two new. And or, and possibly
- true if we feel he was, I haven't looked at his, yeah, actually, since I didn't see that in there. Oh,
- he's the student. I, um, I had some communication with Zachary Ammerman about
- some district issues and he seems good to um haven't talked to daniel bailey and zachary did say he
- gets around primarily by biking walking or public transit so that's drew previous the servant biking
- ped i should have made so that's a plus for him i think um
- But like I said, I could also be convinced just to appoint Ayuban. Yeah. I'm going to go to Ayuban's.
- He was also previously on a bicycle. Was it parking? It was parking. Yeah, you're right. It was parking.
- OK. Well. And he certainly has a lot of experience.
- A choice we're grappling with, I understand, is whether to bother to interview others versus just pointing
- him out because we know he's been interviewed and we like him. Do you feel like procedurally
- or obligationally, I don't know what the word is, that it would be better for us to
- You know, I mean, that's up to you all. You did have a really good pool of applicants from the previous
- time. And I know that you all had a tough time trying to figure out which one to go with, but you do
- also have two new ones here as well. But, you know, I mean,
- I would compare the two to whom you've already appointed and also who you interviewed. Daniel Bradley
- mentioned that he's an attorney and a lot of other things as well. Yes, he is an attorney. Well, I was
- I mean, part of me is like, I hate to discount anybody we've already interviewed just because their
- timing was bad. They didn't get in with this lesser round because we would have appointed Ahaban if
- we had one more seat. I think we would have, yeah. I think so. But on the other hand, I also think maybe
- it might not be a bad idea to take a moment and even look at because we're saying, oh, well, Ahaban
- was on the
- parking commission. Well, and who was it? Zachary or Drew was on the bike and ped. Well, how many from
- each of those are represented in our current makeup? Because we don't want it to be too heavy with one
- high five, we think, right? We wouldn't want the majority coming from, say, parking. The only other
- thing that I would suggest to think about is the fact that
- you'll have to schedule another meeting to do another round of interviews. Then you might have to take
- another meeting to sit down and deliberate and then appoint later. That can be a few different cycles
- of meetings. The mayor still has an appointment to make tonight. Here's my shoot for the hip thought
- right now.
- If it had been a little longer period of time, I would tend to kind of agree with what you just said.
- It feels like it wasn't that long that we did the interviews with everybody else, those other interviews.
- And it sort of feels fairly furnishing. It had been like a year or something, let's say, I would either,
- I don't know, it feels like we're sort of almost in that, around almost.
- Maybe because partly because I took them back to the guy not that long ago. So maybe it seems fresh
- to me than it actually is. But I talked to him. Yeah, they only just started their turn. Well, back
- to what you were saying, Courtney, other than Steve Folan, I don't know that any of these were on one
- of the previous
- transportation-related commissions. Yes. Do you know, Jennifer? Not that I can see. Let's keep in mind
- also that they might have had even more interest in one of the other transportation commissions, but
- ended up on the one that had an opening. We don't really know that just because they were on the private
- commission, that was their sole main passion. They could have had diverse interests and just ended up
- on that commission.
- That's very true. A lot of these are new besides Steve Olin. Okay, so Steve Olin was parking and Mark
- Stossberg was on the bike and ped. Oh, right, right. So we have to toss up. So I think what we're debating
- between means possibly
- another bike and pad, or definitely another parking, if I'm understanding our conversation correctly,
- what we're doing. I feel like this has been vacant for a while because she resigned pretty quickly.
- They haven't really been able to have a full team. So maybe we should just move quickly to be like,
- you know what, you guys make your full play as much as we can.
- contribute and just say, I'm comfortable with that. I don't mind doing it, but it feels kind of fun
- to me. I love meeting the people, yeah. But scheduling that is tricky. Yeah, and it is fairly fresh.
- And they're affected by us, by our schedule. Yeah. Yeah. And it's got a pretty strong or fairly strong
- feeling about it all. I mean, you know, I've had conversations with him over the years. I think he has a
- Good understanding of transportation. Yes, I still have my nose from some somewhere in here that I know
- that I had really good ones on him. So. So I'll make a motion. OK, thank you. To a point am on binder
- to seat. C doesn't see one of the Transportation Commission.
- second. Okay. And we have, whoops. I'll just say one more thing. I wish we'd had some female applicants.
- Yeah. Yeah, they're very, there's like one female on this whole commission. Yeah. All right.
- We have Rob. Yes. Daily. Yes. And Pete Montzeman. Yes. Okay.
- and then i mean other than that um again we identified we just don't have the applicants for um caps
- so well it's too bad because they they're not gonna make quorum tomorrow oh no sounds like thanks yeah
- i don't know if it would be and i was trying to watch the
- Yes. Okay. So I was going to go. I don't think I'm going to be available to go tomorrow, but I just
- want to go to their meeting and try to talk to them about how if they have a person that they would
- recommend to apply for the CAPS Commission to do so because we need applicants. I don't know.
- tonight during your meeting, if there could be a plea to help get some applicants to boards and commissions,
- that would be helpful too. Other than that, that's the only vacancy that you all have left to go, which
- is good. You fulfilled the Transportation Commission recommendation, so if all goes through, then you
- only have caps. That's your only vacancy. You're on par. Awesome.
- Great. Jennifer, you said you felt like if you went to the commissioners and said, hey, your world contains
- people probably who would do this. Yeah. Again, don't like literally go into people and talking to them
- where they are and going, you should apply. I'm also in the process of trying to make a flyer.
- so that when I do go out, we can kind of post stuff around and I'll have a QR code that directly links
- to the onboard application part. So I'm trying to think of a lot of things. Yeah, when I'm done, I can
- definitely email that to you. So I hope to have it done. I'm a little bit of a perfectionist and it's
- Kill me. I hope to have that done tomorrow so I can share it with y'all when I have it done.
- We could even, in our plea, remind people, hey, if you've interviewed for a spot on a commission before
- and you did not get appointed, that doesn't mean you weren't a well-qualified candidate. We just didn't
- have enough space for everybody. Please apply again. Yeah, that's a good point. If you're still interested,
- we'd love to
- to you again. Yeah, and I forgot to mention too, I have been calling people when people are and or when
- people have applied and there's no vacancy so like I had a conversation with a gentleman last Friday
- and he applied for the CME
- There wasn't any vacancies. And I just called and talked to him and said, are there any other things
- that you're interested in? What would you like? And while I had him on the phone, he just said, I just
- want to serve. And I go, OK, that's great. Is there a special area that you want to serve in?
- And he said, oh, housing. And so I was like, OK.
- border housing quality feels like all of those different things and hey, there's a vacancy that's there
- too. So I'm also trying to gauge while I'm talking to people and letting them know, hey, even though
- you don't have a vacancy on this, we don't have a vacancy on this. Are there any other things that pique
- your interest that you could potentially be interested in? Because I just sent another round of emails
- to people who applied for the,
- Commission on Hispanic and Latina Affairs and there's no more vacancies and so trying to clean up the
- application pool and went in and emailed people and just said hey We don't have any vacancies. However,
- if there are any other, you know boards of commissions that the city has here's the link You can always
- go look at and you can apply as well. Yeah, so even though yeah Yeah, I just I think there's still some
- kind of you know
- They reply for a reason. I'm trying to get a hold of people before they're just like, and I didn't get
- it and I'm done. Speaking of that, I'm looking at the archived CAPS applications. Rock Council has applied
- twice. Did he ever serve? Which is weird because he stays in county, so he can.
- Oh, yeah. And when I saw that again, I was just like, no, you know, so he can't, um, serve because,
- and he's told before that, um, he stays outside of city limits. So unfortunately he wouldn't be able
- to serve. Yeah. Okay. Well, all right. Anything else? Yeah. We'll all start begging.
- All right. Well, then I call this meeting to a close. Okay. That's it. Thank you. That was easy. Thank you.