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.