- This is the Monroe County Women's Commission meeting. We're going to go ahead and call it to order.
- I'm Julie Hardesty. I am not the chair. Susan is sick today and cannot make it. So I am vice chair and
- I will be running the meeting, but I just found out I'm doing this. So we'll see how this goes.
- All right. So does everyone have the agenda? Susan sent it, but I, yeah, great. All right.
- So the commission shall serve in an advisory role to assist residents, businesses, and the government
- of Monroe County in addressing issues of gender equity. And the mission is to advance the status of
- women and marginalized genders in all areas of county life. So the first item on our agenda for today
- is the approval of minutes. And I think what we're approving today is both October 15th and December
- 18th minutes.
- and Molly sent those around. And I don't know, I'm not seeing very well with the screens. Is anybody
- online for the commission? Or are we all in person? Molly, that's Molly Turner King. I'm looking for
- commission members. If there's any commission members online. I don't think that there is. Okay, all right.
- In that case, you said that you've got a minor edit on December's meeting minutes. The location
- is duplicated, but it's just the location and call to order time. And it's 534 versus 537. So I think
- it's probably fine either way. Nobody cares. I think that's fine too.
- We can probably still go forward and approve those if everything else is looking good. Does anyone want
- to make a motion to approve both sets of minutes? Motion to approve. Second. Second. All right.
- Thank you. All in favor say aye. Aye. All right. I am seeing with the October minutes that we've got
- something to discuss potentially because
- It says that we were going to approve the August and September minutes at the November meeting, and
- the November meeting didn't happen. So did we never approve the August and September minutes? No, we
- did in December. We did in December. Yeah. At the last one. December said that we approved October and
- December. Oh, that's the event. Oh, is that an error on the December minutes? That's it. OK. I was like,
- I don't know where that August and September came from. So OK. I'll update that right now. August and
- September.
- All right, so approving the December minutes with the approval of minutes noted to be August and September
- of 2025. And then, yeah, the other minor update to remove the duplicated location and call to order.
- OK. Do we need to vote on that again? Because that's an update. Just fixed it. Just fixed it. All right.
- We'll just do this to make sure we're good with December. So do I have a motion to approve the December
- minutes with those edits? Motion to approve. I second. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Any opposed? I forgot
- this the last time. All right. Anyone? All right. I think we all said something, so I'm going to go
- ahead and move forward. OK. Thank you. I'll get there.
- So do we not, oh, we don't have an approval of agenda on the agenda for today. We had discussed that,
- I think, three meetings ago. And we don't have to, because it's the same agenda that Susan had sent
- out every month. OK, fair enough. All right, moving on. Commissioner updates. The chair is not present,
- so there is no update from the chair. The vice chair is a little overwhelmed at the moment, so I'm just
- going to run the meeting and not have any update.
- we'll move on to commissioner updates. Do any of the commissioners have an update that you would like
- to provide? So just an update, people probably already know this, but the people won the fight against
- redistricting in December, and the good
- That's great news. And then also, it's also great news that is literally dead for this legislative session
- because they didn't call a special session. They called the session in early. So that's great. The NAACP
- Beyond Brown Building Forward When Progress is Rolled Back is coming up on January 25th from 2 to 4.
- at the library on Kirkwood. I was just looking at Ms. Fidel because she's having a listening session,
- but everything should be fine. Our main speaker is Dr. Charlie Nelms, and we are going to be talking
- about reviving freedom schools. I do also want to recognize my organization, Hoosier Asian American
- Power, celebrating only two years of work. It seems like it's been a lot,
- more than two years, given the work that we've done, but very, very proud of that. The Martin Luther
- King celebration is on Monday at 5.30 at Buzzkirk Chumley. The League of Women Voters legislative update,
- the next one is January 31st at 9.30, and you can register for that at the League of Women Voters website.
- League of Women Voters Monroe County or Bloomington, not the state site. Lunar New Year is February
- the 17th. And there are some bills that I wanted to point out because we are having the short legislative
- session, but there are some really important reproductive healthcare bills that I would like all zero
- people who watch this to pay attention to.
- So we want to support SB051, which is postpartum care for mothers who are on Medicaid. Support House
- Bill 1014, which would then be the law that anyone who's doing sonography or ultrasounds would have
- to be licensed. And that's important because a lot of these pregnancy centers
- do not require their people to be licensed. And so then they say not true things in terms of what they're
- looking at, what they're seeing, and then make suggestion. Most of these pregnant centers are very much
- right to life.
- We need to support, or I want to suggest support for House Bill 1020. That is an access to birth control
- bill. I want to also suggest support for HB 1049. It's coverage, insurance coverage for doula services.
- And we need to oppose SB 2, if I'm reading my handwriting, SB 236.
- That's restricting abortion drugs. I believe that's specifically for mail mailing. And then also requesting
- reports on who's receiving them or requesting them. Senate Bill 076 and HB 1039 are I think sister bills
- or whatever they call it.
- their immigration matters and various immigration matters. They are calling for local law enforcement
- to cooperate with federal law enforcement. We know what that means and we know that we're fighting that
- here in this county. I do want to thank Sheriff Marte for that.
- Um, I think we can, well, it's up to you if you want to support this one or not, but I wanted to end
- on this note that SB 21 has already passed the Senate and has been referred to the house. It's about
- the state sandwich becoming the tender line. Okay. And I also then shameless plug, Buffaloes did just
- add a beautiful tenderloin sandwich to their menu. I just had it, um, whatever last week and it was.
- very tasty. And that's all. Thank you very much, Commissioner Douglas. Are there any updates from other
- commissioners? I don't have an update, but I was sent something that I hadn't seen before that I wanted
- to share. And everybody else maybe has seen it already, but it's called Indiana Prosperity 2035, a vision
- for economic acceleration. And it was done by the Indiana Chamber Foundation.
- statewide. I haven't had a chance to read through the entire thing, but it's only 20 pages. And as I
- was reading through it, it just made me think of our rubric, because there is not much about women in
- the first few pages. So I just wanted to throw it out there, and I can send it to everybody via email.
- I wasn't sure if that was something that our county-wide representatives also were aware of.
- So I will email it to everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Commissioner Feidl, is there anything that you
- have for an update from the County Council? We've gotten correspondence from the
- ACLU attorney can flock and there's no extension, extensive extension for the lawsuit. In fact, it needs
- to be, something needs to be in place for a plan and something to happen by April 15th. So we are under
- the gun to get this all in order. We are working now with commissioners to
- schedule a joint work session to work on this in an evening. I don't know which evening will be selected
- yet, but we're doing a poll to find out. I think we have seven times or seven dates to choose. So within
- the next couple of weeks or so, we're going to be meeting with them and hopefully have a big public
- session about it so it's not somewhere where, you know,
- during the day where people can't get to it and we can hopefully have the public interest coming at
- the event as well. So I'm happy about that. I'm not much on secrets and this is right in with how I
- like to operate. So we'll see. I don't know what the appetite is going to be from
- either side, the county commissioners or us. I mean, we have to think about the money, you know, I mean,
- that's why we're where we're at. We didn't have the money. So by the time SEA 1 got enacted, there was
- no money to do the project that was originally planned for the fall before that at North Park, because
- there was not enough money able to fund the project.
- And then because of the property tax reform, the money available to do that was lessened a whole lot.
- And so we didn't have the capability to do the bonding we needed to do. They also stripped some of our
- ability to do that. So when you don't have a plan for money, the projects change in scope. But the lawsuit
- from the ACLU is only about the jail.
- other additional services like the clerk, the courts, the judges, any of that. It's not about prosecutors,
- any of that. So the lawsuit is only about the jail. So that's really what we have to focus on at this
- point and make our decisions based on that because of the money. So. And that was, yeah, thank you very
- much. That was something I saw when I was looking at the December minutes is the commentary that the
- Women's Commission had provided during the
- the special committee meetings about the jail. We were going to share those documents and statistics
- and processes with you. And have we, we didn't do that yet, have we? I don't think so. Yes, I still
- need to send those to you. So I'm going to make a note for myself. If you could do that before the next
- week, that would be great because we might be meeting. And then that would be relevant that I could
- share with the rest of the folks. So that would be helpful. I'd be happy to pass along whatever it is
- and commit to do so.
- I have all of that and I should be able to send it along. Yeah. Okay. Thank you. Yeah. So, um, yeah.
- So any feedback you have or anybody else, you know, that has feedback? I mean, citizens should be contacting
- us, I think. And, but their interest in what they, where they'd like it, right? I mean, we're not going
- to probably have it out at North Park unless some magic money comes along. Um,
- So and then it would be a whole different facility out there. It was going to be a combined facility,
- huge and all that. So it's probably not going to be there. It's my guess, although nothing is absolute
- at this point. But, you know, we have some properties, the county owns some properties. So and the city
- owns some properties. I don't know if some trading could happen there. I don't know. I don't know what's
- going to happen, but we have to come up with something. We need something in writing.
- that the ACLU will consider we're working on in earnest and are making progress. So that's the goal.
- So it's a lot to do in three months, but we've come this far. Surely we can make a plan. I mean, we
- don't have any major holidays or anything like that coming up at this point. The holidays at the end
- of the year are all over, and we're on a new year. So let's get to work and get it done. That's kind
- of where I'm at.
- So I'm curious. Thank you. Thank you for that update and for that information. I'm curious about how
- easy it is to find parcels of land, you know, who owns what? I'm curious if there could be a list of
- city and county owned. So the GIS, do you ever use the GIS? OK, you can search on the GIS, either by
- the county or the city and find out who owns what. OK, search on the GIS. OK, good. You can search by
- the property owner.
- And it'll pull it up for you. Okay. Perfect. Perfect. Yeah. So some, you know, some wouldn't be pertinent
- because maybe a location or other factors. Right. I mean, they looked at several properties and many
- of them just weren't going to meet the need. Right. So I don't think, but I don't know, maybe
- some accommodate, maybe there's could be some accommodations made at this point based on the money where
- we're at now. You know, I don't know. I don't know how it's going to work out.
- Yeah, and when you say meet the need, it depends what that need is, who's defining that need. So depending
- on who's defining it and what that definition is. Right. Well, when the ACLU came down and looked at
- the jail and we toured it with him last fall, almost winter, we don't have the mental health need. We
- don't have many needs. We don't have, if there's not enough need,
- So they've identified however many mental health inmates there were. And so there weren't enough rooms
- with that kind of capacity to serve the need. That's the kind of thing we're talking about. So we're
- talking about LGBTQ issues, whatever the issues are, all of those special entities, those need to be
- taken into consideration as we build. Absolutely. And so it'll be that plus.
- plus the numbers based on the trajectory of what it's been. Functional beds. Yes, that's right. Yes,
- yes, yes, yes, all those things. So there's a lot of different things that will be decided. I know some
- want it all on one level. I don't know if that's going to be possible. They think that that manages
- better as a jail. I don't know if that'll be possible. There's just a lot of different things that will
- have to be worked out.
- money in mind. Yeah. It's too bad it's taken this long. Yeah. I mean, the lawsuit has been going on
- since 2009, long before my time. Shameful if I can say that. Yeah. This is not where we should be at
- this point. That's right. It is not. It's too bad it's taken this long. But I'm happy to be a part of
- getting it wrapped up. Great. I'm happy that you helped me distribute.
- I like to check things off my list and those will be nice to check off the list. And we have a plan
- and it can go as expected, right? And as feasibly possible. So time will tell. Stay tuned. And so there'll
- be a notification about the meeting once something is decided that we can all partake in. So hopefully
- that'll come out in the next couple of days or so.
- Great. And I appreciate your attention to the time. Yeah, for sure. Yes. Yes. I think there's quite
- a bit of public interest, I'd be my guess. And there should be. Absolutely. There should be a lot of
- public interest. It's a big deal for the community to have a jail where it's going to be, how it's going
- to be designed, and meet the needs of the community and the partners that work with the jail. I mean,
- there's just a lot to consider. A lot to consider. So we will see.
- Thank you very much. And I was just checking online to see if Jody is there, but I don't think I see
- her, so I don't think there's any board of commissioners vote. Tiana is trying to log on now. Oh,
- Tiana is. OK. Is she there? No, not yet. No, not yet. She said she was, and she logged off, and she's
- going to come back on in a second. Well, I think
- If she comes on, we can see if she's got any updates as a women's commissioner. In the meantime, we
- can get into the committee reports on the agenda. So this is the old ongoing business. So we've got,
- the first up is policy committee, which at this point is still commissioner's heart estate, Douglas
- and Yarrow. And the purpose of the policy committee is to evaluate county policy using a gender equity lens.
- I think our update now is that we made the ask for how to get on a board of commissioners agenda to
- present the gender equity rubric and guidelines. So we're going to work through that. I'm not exactly
- sure when that will happen. It'd be great if it happens soon. And it would be amazing if it became a
- tool that was available for use in the jail considerations that are coming up here that have to be done
- by April 15th. But we'll see how the timing works out for that.
- the way to contact Angie, right? Angie was on the email. Yeah, right. So she knows, and you'll work
- something out. Yeah, I hope that that moves things along. So I'm trying to figure out how to go about
- being added on the agenda for a board of commissioners meeting and make it happen. And they meet on
- Thursdays, as I remember, right? Thursdays at 10, I think. Something like that, right. I can't remember.
- It's every Thursday, but I know it's multiple Thursdays.
- Is there other other updates for the policy committee at this point? I don't think so. We have to figure
- out what we're going to do after we launch this. I'm sure there will be something to work on. But yeah,
- as part of the policy committee, I will commit to getting the information that we provided and the feedback
- that we provided to the JFAC committee on the jail to you.
- That will happen. All right. Just checking to see if Tiana's on. OK. So next up is the data committee,
- and that is Commissioners Hingle and Douglas. And the purpose of the committee is to become grounded
- in who we serve through data. So are there updates? No, we're just kind of waiting for the capstone
- project to begin.
- Is that scheduled for this semester or the fall semester or summer? I can't remember exactly. In the
- meeting notes, it was kind of like a summertime? Summertime. Yeah, I thought May. Like, May is in my
- head for some reason. That's all. Oh, OK. Thank you. All right. And then I don't think I'm seeing her,
- Tiana, yet.
- So the Outreach Committee is the next committee, and that's Commissioners Oroje, Belton, and Otto, and
- the purpose is to elevate the profile of Monroe County Women's Commission programs that support our
- mission. And the current focus is the web design camp. And is there other updates to provide?
- I don't see. I just asked Tiana. Yeah. I don't see her on.
- But we have some other things to discuss that we met on. So last week we met and we have decided that
- we are going to collect feminine products for women here at the homeless shelters. We're going to get
- together and we're going to go pass them out. Our goal is to look forward to doing this sometime by
- the end of, can we say this month or next month?
- Next month at the very latest at the very latest. So by time we have our meeting next month, we will
- have a outcome in March of what we collected and how many things we've passed out. Is there what were
- you thinking of for doing the collection? Just us. Oh, just OK, just the commissioners. Cool. Yeah,
- see what we can make happen, just personally asking and
- I love that. Thank you for doing that. I know the web design camp was going to have an end ceremony
- thing. Were either of you able to participate? I never heard anything about where it was happening or
- what happened.
- So we're still, I think Tiana is going to be able to report on that, but I don't, yeah, we don't have
- that at this point. So that might have to be next meeting to get that update. All right. So then, okay,
- the next item on the agenda is setting the meeting schedule for 2026. And Susan was going to be taking the,
- taking the resolution that we had at December's meeting, taking that back to Molly Turner King, who
- is on this. Maybe this is something that has happened. I don't know. But I don't know the status of
- the edits that we requested for the resolution. Is it Teresa or somebody send out that resolution member?
- She had to send it out a couple of times because there were
- That was a public notice. Oh, that was a public notice. Never mind. Yeah. Yeah, this is the resolution
- that Molly Turner King wrote for us that's establishing our schedule of meetings for the year. And I
- also think, like, where? Yeah, where they're happening. If we got that notice, though, did that mean
- that the resolution did go through because then they're sending it out for this meeting? Or no?
- I don't know. I mean, we don't have a resolution. We never voted on the resolution and OK'd it. So I
- think this meeting was potentially scheduled already from last year. But I don't know if Molly Turner-King,
- are you available to speak about this? I'm kind of calling her.
- Maybe she's not actually there. Yeah, because it is something that we have to sign, I think. Yes, yeah.
- Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry. All right, so we're not hearing. So that I think is, again, something we're
- going to have to wait on then until the next meeting, because we don't have an update from Susan on
- if the edits happened, and we don't have any information any other way from anyone else about it. But
- the edits we were asking for were to,
- ensure that if there needed to be any changes that the meeting date doesn't change, but just the location.
- So we stick with the dates and just make sure that we're not changing those around. OK, so that is there's
- nothing we can really do with that at this point. I don't quite know what that means for our February
- meeting, if it's scheduled.
- booked in this room or not, but if it is, it should be February 19th at 530 in here. So that'll be the
- next time that we're meeting. And I'll go back over to the document. There we go.
- OK, we also have year-end wrap-up on this agenda. And I'm not exactly sure what that is going after.
- I'm looking at December just to see if there's anything from that. Oh, I guess Commissioner Roje and
- myself have been reappointed.
- with the from the county council. So we are we are commissioners now through twenty twenty eight. So
- that's happened. And then it looks like Commissioner Belton and Commissioner Hingle are the are doing.
- Oh, and Commissioner Otto are all doing reappointments through the board of commissions, board
- of commissioners. Have you have you heard
- No. But last time I just got a letter in the mail. But that hasn't happened yet. Haven't gotten my mail
- today. Not exactly sure. OK. It's interesting. I'm not quite sure what that means. Well, I guess we
- will find out if that means that we don't actually have a quorum if people haven't been officially
- reappointed yet. It means that we're not a priority, Julie, is what that means. I mean, that's somewhat
- OK, but then also not at the same time.
- Yeah, I mean, yeah. The board of commissioners have had meetings this year already, right? Like that's
- happened. Yes. They've had meetings. So they had one today. So maybe it's happened and we just don't
- know, but you haven't received. I got an email. So as soon as it happened. But it would have been done
- at the county council meeting. They would have been done. Right. But you haven't received the notice
- that you've been reappointed. So we don't know for sure. OK, well, I guess we'll
- We'll find out. I mean, we're not voting on anything today, except for the minutes. I think one would
- assume that you're still in until you're not, right? I don't know. Nobody's removed you. There's end
- dates, so it makes it confusing. I think when I served before, it wouldn't happen that quickly either.
- And so I would just assume that you're still in until you know you're not. Is that how that works? OK,
- all right. Yeah. Fair enough. I'm OK with that. That's my advice. I just like, they put end dates on
- us, and I'm like, no.
- Um, for Tiana, she said for the STEM program, she hasn't sent a report to her yet, so she will have
- something, um, by the next meeting. Oh, great. Okay. Cool. That will be wonderful. Thank you, Tiana.
- Um, is there any other year ends wrap up? I'm looking at December minutes to see like what it was we
- were talking about. I think Susan probably just wanted us, maybe, maybe.
- She was going to compile just a list of things that we accomplished or things that we talked about.
- It's all a blur to me. I know. It's been a year. I think it would be great, though, if Monroe County
- was an example
- to the state because they are trying to do away with a lot of boards and commissions and really, in
- terms of the law, there's bills as we just talked about prior to going live on the meeting that there
- is a bill on the table. I can't remember if it was in the Senate or the House to defund and to do away with.
- several boards and commissions. And I mean, that's how people participate, you know, that's how people
- are civically engaged. Yeah, so to do that is oligarchish, I will just say. And it would be wonderful
- if Monroe County, you know, would be an example and uphold that blue dot that we always, we love to
- claim that we are and, you know, prioritize
- um, the people's civic engagement. I agree. In particular, the women's commission, because women are
- under attack and, um, the, the, as we talked about in a previous meeting, the Indiana women's commission,
- the statewide women's commission, the torchbearer award was not even held.
- publicly, not even recognized, it was just, you know, behind, in the office type situation. And,
- you know, just indicative of this administration. Yep. Yeah, I'm interested, potentially one of the
- subcommittees can take this up in
- doing some outreach potentially with other women's commissions around the state, whether they're local,
- if it's a state level, both, that sort of thing. And talking about what's happening with the status
- of women in the state and potentially bringing that to the board of commissioners here in Monroe County
- in terms of women's commissions and what we're seeing happen.
- and bringing that attention to the fact that the state is trying to make these changes, if the board
- of commissioners can do something to further support our work and the work of other boards and commissions
- at the county level. I think that could be. That's potentially a new business thing, but yeah, looking at that.
- All right, so I think we can go into the statewide Women's Commission was an agenda item, but we've
- been talking about it here. So I think we can head on into new business. And I've got something,
- but I think, Maria, you also have something for new business that you wanted to bring up. I was just
- curious about the Women's Commission and the upcoming elections in terms of,
- supporting and or endorsing and or participating in local election elections in some type of way. Well,
- we are a nonpartisan commission, which means I think by definition, we can't do any support for any
- candidate in particular. Regardless of party or or position individually.
- Yeah, as individuals we can. I'm curious though, so Who's Your Asian American Power, my organization,
- is nonpartisan. And so I'm curious if we might want to come up with a questionnaire. We have HAP routinely
- on election years puts out a candidate questionnaire.
- And you know asking about Asian American you know Asian American issues so we could put out a question
- create and put out a questionnaire asking about where they stand on women's issues. I like that, and
- then make that public in some way shape or form or.
- since we don't have access to social media and such, we could just have a discussion or a report out
- of who responded, who didn't, what their responses were, and that's a service that we're providing to
- the women of this community. I love that idea. I mean, yeah, that is interesting. I'm also contemplating,
- as the Women's Commission, we're here to
- we're actually, we would be advising the board of commissioners about things. And I'm wondering how
- we, how that works. I think there's still some, it feels like there's, there should be something that
- we, some way that we can do this, but like, how does that, yeah. Oh, because we do all candidates. We
- could just do the commissioners. We could just do Trent and David. I believe are the ones that I know
- are filed. And so,
- we could just concentrate on that one seat since they are our governing body. Here's this questionnaire,
- what say you? Due date, what say you? And then we report out in this meeting. I think that is an interesting
- idea to consider if that's something that
- Especially it's, I'm wondering if one of the subcommittees that we've already got could be focusing
- on that like data subcommittee. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we don't have to decide tonight. I was
- just curious. I'm just wondering how it would fit in with our, yeah, with the structure that we've already
- got. Yeah.
- And I would want to hear clearly what Susan, since she's the president, what she or a chair or whatever
- we call. Yeah, I kind of feel like, especially if we do the subcommittee route, we'd want to be making
- a charge for the whatever for the year kind of thing, right? As a commission for the subcommittees to
- work on whatever they're going to, I don't know. So that would be a way we could discuss it and vote
- on it and make it more official for the year, I guess.
- It could be a way to do it. But yeah, that is interesting. Because we don't have a way to publish whatever.
- So it's not really something we'd be able to do for the community at large, but for the commissioners
- in the commissioner arena. That's interesting.
- You mentioned earlier about the elimination of elections for some positions. And I think I found it.
- I think it's called, excuse me, House Joint Resolution Number Two, which aims to let counties choose
- to eliminate elections from many local positions like treasurer, coroner, recorder, replacing them with
- appointments by a county executive. And so the sponsor is representative, excuse me, Representative
- Elizabeth Roe Ray.
- R. O. W. R. A. Y. Republican district 35. So that does she have coauthors? It doesn't list that, but
- I'm not looking at the bill itself. So this is just kind of a summarization of what the issue is. Are
- there other other new business items that anyone wants to bring to the table?
- All right. I think what I was wanting to bring up, and I don't know that we want to do anything with
- it today because I think we need all of us here to discuss, but the subcommittees that we have and who
- is serving on which subcommittee, we kind of look at that every at the beginning of the year. So I don't
- know that since we don't have everyone present, I don't think we want to try and do that today. But
- I think that's potentially something that we want to take up pretty soon.
- And hopefully we can with February's meeting just to see if we've got the committees that we still need
- to do what we want to do, which talking about some of the ideas that we've got, I hope it sounds kind
- of like we potentially do. And then if anyone is wanting to work on something that they are not currently
- assigned to as a subcommittee or something, we can shuffle that around if we need to. But I think that's
- probably not for this meeting.
- with only a quorum and no one additional present, so. We can do whatever we want. I know. We can assign
- everybody. It's not something. No, I'm just kidding. All right. Is there any other new business? So
- I did find the resolution itself. And so it is authored only by Elizabeth Roeway. And so it went to
- the first reading
- was referred to Committee on Elections and Apportionment, and then just as was authored by her. And
- that's all that's listed for the actions. And that was on the fifth of this month. So that's where it's
- at. And just a reminder, this is a short session. And it is going fast. And they definitely intend.
- What did we hear? They intend to be done by the end of February, if not before. So they are pushing
- things. Yeah, they claimed it started early, remember? Yeah.
- because they came back to the redistricting issue, and so they explained that. But the deadline for
- bills just passed, for them to be dropped just passed. Also, just be aware also, there's a lot of vehicle
- bills, which make me very nervous. And I got clarification from Representative Pierce at the last Legal
- Women Voters legislative update.
- has nothing to do with vehicles or the BMV or anything like that. It actually, to my understanding,
- is that it's kind of a placeholder. Those are placeholder bills that if certain things don't get passed
- or get amended out of other bills, then they could reintroduce them in these vehicle bill placeholders.
- So we need to be very, very diligent about paying attention to when those vehicle bills, if those vehicle
- bills get filled. But Senator Yoder did say that it's not very often that all of them are used or even
- some of them. So they're just kind of placeholders. And I get that this is state stuff, but we know
- that clearly state trickles down.
- And did you mention the next League of Women Voters legislative update when that is occurring? I've
- got it on Saturday, January 31st. Yeah, 31 and 930. From 930 until 11 a.m. So that is a great way for
- any legislators, all legislators in this area are invited to attend and we generally have
- at least Senator Yoder and Representative Pierce attending, and they give really, really great updates
- about what is happening at the state level. And that's, it's pretty fantastic to have that, to have
- that direct information. You ask questions and answer them. And there's one from each session or each
- individual part of the legislature, which is the house and the Senate, which is nice. Yeah, it's very
- nice. Yeah. It's a great way to stay up to date on what's going on.
- All right. I was just checking to see if Tiana came on. But OK, that's fine. All right. I think we're
- at the public comment portion of meeting. So I don't know if anyone is online and wants to give public
- comment. We don't have anyone present in person. I've got a count of 10 in my head.
- Do you say what they say, the commissioners and council seeing none. All right. Seeing none then I guess
- we are, we are to the point in the agenda where we adjourn. So we are adjourned and I've got six 16.
- Love it. Thank you.