July 21, 2026 – HRDEI Committee – Video & Transcript

July 21, 2026 - HRDEI Committee

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Good evening. I'm Karen Blumenfeld, Chair of the Wayland Human Rights, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee. It is July 21st at 6.04 p.m. and we're just getting started. I'm going to call the meeting to order. I'm going to do a roll call alphabetically, so just say when I call you, say your name and if you're here. Marianne? Here. And Bruss, are you here? No, not here at all. Sophie Chen is not here. Kyle Davidson is not here. Denise? Here. Sportman is here. Kevin Goodwin is not here. Mariam Libdy is not here. Janelle Mendler-DeSueres is not here. Hernan Murdoch is not here. Heather? Present. Heather is present. Heather, we know. Sarah? Present. Sarah Stutten, present. And Yawu? No, we're here. And Karen Blumenfeld, I'm here. Okay. So we do have a quorum, even though we are missing a number of people tonight, because it's summer. So I'm grateful to those of you who are here. Marianne is our note taker tonight, because Sophie is not here this evening. And in lieu of the Indigenous land acknowledgement, which you'll find at the top of your agenda, Heather is going to share a quote with us on the topic of belonging, which is right in our real house. Before we start that, what do we want to do about the notes about that? You can say in lieu of, I mean, we can give you a copy of it. You'll give me a copy. Yeah. You can say in lieu of the land acknowledgement, Heather wrote this. What does it mean to belong in America? To help answer this question, I'm going to share a quote from Ibu Patel, president of the Interfaith America, a Chicago-based international nonprofit that promotes interfaith cooperation. Patel wrestles with the question of who gets to belong and who gets to decide. He argues that, quote, melting pot is the wrong metaphor for America. Drawing on his experience as a Muslim immigrant from India, he proposes a different metaphor, the United States as a potluck nation, a place where everyone brings something to the table and everyone is accountable to the table. He says, quote, we're not a melting pot. We are a potluck. The question is, what dish are you bringing to the potluck and how can you appreciate and connect with the distinctive identity-inspired dishes of a mother of other Americans? Thank you, Heather. And Marianne here, that's for you. Okay. Thank you so much. But if you sent it by email, I'd really like it.
Is there any public comment, Robbie? I'll see no public comment. Okay. Seeing no public comment. We will go to agenda item number three, which is discussion and possible vote to approve the June 16th, 2026 meeting minutes. Is there any discussion?
There's no discussion. Would somebody move to accept the minutes? No.
Heather, is there a second? I really can't because I wasn't here. Aha. Good point. Neither she or I were here. You were both not here. So we... There are a few people who can second. You were only here for half. Well, then I'm going to second it. Okay. Um, so I don't know if you're supposed to vote or not if you're here for a half. Do we have a quorum? We get a half a vote. Do we have a half a vote? Well, wait. I don't know if we have a quorum to vote, actually. Do you need a quorum to accept the minutes? I'm not clear that we do. So why don't we take it and look at the notes or we can decide? Well, let's vote. And if we discover we made a mistake, we'll re-vote it next time. Right. Um, okay. So, um... There's only three or four of you to vote.
Sarah, I think Sarah can vote. Um, all right. So... You were present. The list is present. The question is, can you... Yeah, you can't vote if you weren't present. Okay, so Ken is still not here. Is Ken here yet, Romy? No. Um, I haven't heard. I'll text him in a second. Um, Denise, you're not voting. Well, not for the minutes. Yeah, that's what we're going to do. You see? I see. I see someone online with their hand raised, but I don't know who it is. L-O-I-S-B-R-E-U-S-S. I don't know who that is. L-O... Yeah, what is it? B-R-U-S-S. Did you say B-R-U-S-S? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, that's Ken. Okay. So we should say him present. Yes. And he... That's Ken, right? Yeah. Ken, so he arrived... We're having him arrive at 6... Yeah, that's fine. That's him. 610? 610, yeah. Using my wife's computer? Can you hear me? We're glad you're here, Ken. Yeah, I'm here. It's just, you're not as young as my wife.
Oh, that's... We're glad you're here. So we are now voting to approve the June 16th meeting minutes. And nobody had any comments. So Heather moved to vote to approve the minutes. I seconded. And let's go vote. Let's vote. Heather? Yes. Heather is yes. Sarah? Yeah. Marianne is not voting. Yawu? Yes. Ken? Yes. And Karen, yes. And I just looked this up. Yes. According to Robert's Rules of Order, under AI, I haven't gone to search for it all, but Robert's Rules of Order's members of a committee may vote to approve minutes of a meeting they did not attend, because they're approving them as not an eyewitness testimony, but a confirmation that the written record is accurate. Oh. What occurred. So it doesn't mean... So does it just say that it's accurate? Yeah. Well, that's the thing.
Oh, you could have checked, I guess. Could discuss it. I don't know. If you listen to Robert's Rules, they say yes. You're voting in such a business and such, no, but absent, if you're voting on something in a substantive business, but it looks like board members can approve minutes for a meeting they did not attend. I approve. Let's have... Yeah. So Marianne is a yes. And Denise? Yes. And then we can confirm it. Exactly. So we'll say unanimous yes, and then I will have to confirm it. Okay.
Great. Thank you, everybody. Now we're going to... Ken, I'm so glad you're here because we're going to get to the updated community resource guide, which Ken and Hernan, who unfortunately isn't here right now, did an amazing job. Of updating every phone number, every URL, making sure they're all accurate, and then adding some information. And so you all got a Word version of it. The formatting we know is not final, but we didn't want to spend time formatting until we finalized the content. Oh, that's why that was like that. So the right-hand column also, we know, because you mentioned in the left, it says need to be formatted, but the right-hand also is cut off, or at least on my version, under the description. Wait a second. It got cut off? On the description column. Wow. So I just want to make sure because, you know, you labeled what needed to be reformatted, but not that. So I'm not seeing that. Let me just say, hold on. If yours is cut off. The description, the description column is important. Oh, I see. It's not that it's cut off. It's that when I turned it, and let me just see if we can open. No, we can't. Okay, I downloaded it from a Google Doc, which we were collectively working on, to a Word Doc to send to all of you, and now I see it did get cut off. Yeah, well, I shared with you the Google Doc, and I wonder, yeah, this is what's on this. That's a different thing. We're not talking about that. Well, I know, but that's what's on this. Hold on, we'll get to it. I mean, door. What's on that? Oh, but that's the old link. That's the old link. It hasn't been updated within the new link. Okay, so that's, well, I know, but that's what they left. Right, right, but it's the, that's all. Because remember, that links to an online document that we will update. I know, but I just, yeah. So, I see that it got cut off for you guys. Yahoo, can you share your screen with the Google Doc version? Because I sent that to you very recently. Yeah. And if you can put that up, everyone will see that it is not cut off, but I see that it did get cut off on Word. Can you see now? Not yet. Oops.
I see your screen share. There it is. Oh, that's a different, that's a different document. Not ready for that yet. This is the Google Doc I sent you a short while ago. Look in your Gmail. The most recent one? In your Gmail.
Okay. The most recent one I do think I downloaded, yeah. You don't have to download. Just open the link. I gave you access. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, while he's trying to, this is something different, but while he is trying to find it, for those of you who, first of all, Ken, is there anything you'd like to add or say rather about the content at this point before people give feedback? No, not about the content. Okay. Yeah. We will talk about publicizing it as soon as we finish talking. And overall, how we anticipate the document being used. Yeah. Yep. Did you have, thank you very much for doing this. It's a lot of tedious work. Did you have many new things that you added?
Karen, help me on this. I don't think we did. I think mainly it was updating phone numbers in at least one or two instances. There were organizations that seemed no longer to be in existence.
And I would estimate there were probably fewer than eight additions. What would you say? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, you did have eight additions. Maybe fewer. I didn't count. I don't know. I didn't count. Yeah. I know we made some revisions. In my case, I know I made some revisions in the food section. And we had some discussion with regards to hate and the attorney general's office and things of that nature. And maybe Karen will speak to that at some point. Yeah. The attorney general, we have like three or four different entries and we kind of combined those because it was too much.
But yeah, it wasn't a lot of additions. There were a few. There you are, Yalmou. Thank you. Yeah. Now I see you're in it. If you want to share it.
There were a number of phone numbers and URLs that needed to be updated.
And you guys did amazing work at updating every single thing in here. And it's like, this is the one you wanted, right? Yes, please. And if you could scroll down to like page four, so people can see what it looks like when it isn't cut off.
There you go. You got it. That's good. Yeah. In some cases, we made revisions to description generally just to provide more specificity. Are there any other questions or comments about any of this material?
Do we have, do we have any, can we tell it all if anybody's opened this?
Good question. I don't know how to do that, but we can ask, I can ask Jalen. Yeah. I think it, I think it'd be worth it. Yeah. To do what? Open this. It'd be worth it if it's possible to see how many people visit the site. Oh, the site. Not the site, but the document. This document. Yeah. Site. Yeah. Because this, this is the, but when I tried it, it said that the link was invalid. You're looking at something. Told? Yeah. Well, you're just looking at something different. This is the resource. And my opened up. Oh, that might opened up. Yeah. That's a different thing. But the resource guide does open and we're, we're looking at it now. And once we agree on the material, we'll fix the format. Actually, I will say our wonderful former member, Steve Wynn, who formatted it in the first place, continues to format it for us each year, which is so incredibly generous of him. And so he will do it, but we don't want to give it to him until we don't have the contents. Yeah. He should only have to do that once. I'm happy to publicize it on social media. Thank you. Let's talk about publicity in one second. If there's no other comments on the content. Well, I see a little place to turn. Is there any other one beside that? Uh-huh. Yep. Can you scroll down to the next page and keep going a little bit? All of that is screwed and it goes on there. It goes on and it goes on for like four pages. There's a lot. There's lots. Oh, okay. So they have Open Table and they have the one in Wayland? Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Yeah.
So I think I'm not hearing any more comments on the content. So I'm going to assume we're all good with the content. Um, and let's, now let's talk. Ken, I know you want to talk about, so how is this going to, how are we going to publicize it? Um, and then you- Well, I guess it's twofold. The bigger question is how we anticipate this being used. So that not only is a question of publicity, but it would be, do we leave copies of this at the senior center? Do we leave copies at, you know, the town hall, at public library? How is, how is this existence made known? Well, I guess let's back up because your question presumes we're making physical copies, which we have not done in the past. So let's talk about that. Um, we don't have a budget, but the town, I would imagine, would be willing to make copies for us. Well, um, first, um, you know, obviously when you, well, unless there's a link of some sort, which I guess it would, the new one will have a link that'll go to it. So you'd still have, even though you have a hard copy, you have a link, so you could open it up. We could have a flyer just like that with a QR code that goes directly to it. Yes. Well, I mean, but this could sit on top of that. So for the people who want to read it, they can see what's there and they can still access because that's limited information. So having this, you'd have any capacity at all to be able to look online, look this up online, then you'd be able to get to the site, which is what would be critical is that, because that's where you'd really get more information of what you need. But if we're not, if we're not going to make hard copies available, having worked with this document, I would strongly recommend that we go to the table of contents and hyperlink each section, because this is like 20, this is like 25 pages to scroll through. Really long. Yeah. That's a good idea. Yeah. Very good idea. So, and we can also, I like the idea of having a hard copy in the places you mentioned. I don't see why, why not. We could actually, and if we want to make it more important, we could actually put it, we'd get three small binders so that it actually had kind of a, it wouldn't get lost, would get thrown away, you know, it wouldn't look, it would look more permanent. And people might just look at it for the three sources that here, the COA and the library. I can certainly, since I'm on the COA board, I can certainly talk with them about, you know, how they recommend the binders be stored, you know, specifically who, who tends to, you know, handle inquiries, you know, I would think they'd come through the front desk, but Karen, what's the woman's name? Is it Maura? Maura. Yeah. So I can certainly ask her, I can ask Julie. When you said binders, though, what do you, what do you make it look a little more formal? So put the papers in something rather than just a, in a real binders, a tiny half an inch binders. You want bound, okay, so you're talking budget here, but okay. It's only a couple of dollars. I would buy them.
So on the other hand, if you want to do the modern ways, bring out the business card with the QR code, that way, you just use the QR code, you can access the document. So Denise, yeah, Denise is saying something a little different. Yeah. Um, the two places, housing, okay, for the seniors, a lot of them don't have tablets or computers. Right. Um, they don't drive, and so they would not be able to access, because they would have nothing to look at. Well, even if they had a physical copy, these are all links. But they're phone numbers. Right. Yes, there are phone numbers, correct. I think that's a great idea. That's true. And it's only two. Leave some with the housing authority, also, in the Ryan's office. If you did that, then at least the new people coming in would have it. Yeah. Um, because I know I go to COA and get some of the information that they have to put in the new packet. But those that have been living in community don't know half this stuff. Okay, so you're talking about the COA library town hall, a town building, and then you're talking about Bent and... And CBN. Bent and what? CBN, particular village apartments. And that's where you are. Yes. And then maybe have one available, then maybe have one available somewhere in the town hall. I don't know if you'd be talking about the lobby, if you'd be talking about with the town clerk. Again, I would think asking someone there, they'd be able to give the greatest or most useful input as to where should we keep this. I know when you enter the building, there tend to be a rack of documents. And then also when you go in, there's a bulletin board with brochures underneath. And again, we're assuming that everybody in the town of Wayland knows English. Well, that's a whole other thing. Let's talk about that. Especially, I'm sensitive to that, especially because where I live, we have ancient Americans, we have Russians, we have Russians, we have some Hispanic.
Well, I, so, in talking to some people, and yeah, we'll please chime in. For people who don't speak or speak little, because obviously even if you speak as a second language, you may not find entering an English-speaking website, you might miss a lot of information, but they do have services that they, well, I'm going to make an extrapolation, that they know that they can, that they can open up something in their service, in their language service. Yeah, well, am I correct, or does any, can anybody weigh in on this? On their computer. If you do the website, you definitely have the, most likely you have the second, the other language. I know a lot of Google stuff, you can have the other language as well. So, depending on the source, right? Everything that we do for notices, at the two, in CBA, are done in the languages of the people. So, when you say that, what do you say? There's a newsletter, or anything, there's Asian American. Well, what language? Are you talking about five languages, ten languages? I mean, obviously, we're not going to, um, Asian American and Russian are the two major ones. But Asian is like, how many, do you know which, like, tens of countries? Um, I would have to, what about Spanish? Oh, no, it's mostly, it's mostly Chinese. Um, there's one Spanish, and there's one French. So, um, you know, they can always, they might have a hard time in hearing, but I, I think if they had a question, there's one person that knows it well enough to communicate with the two of them. Well, I remember Jalen telling me that there's, I could be misremembering, or I'm going to probably say this wrong, but there was some kind of service that helps, that a community can, um, subscribe to, that helps, um, translate documents into other languages. And at the time, we didn't have that service. But if I'm remembering correctly, it was not terribly expensive. So, we could ask Jalen, whether the town could help with translations. I'm also wondering if the housing authority. Well, that's what I was just wondering. Take care of that. Um, I could ask Brian. Yeah. So, that raises a. They probably do have the service. If all their messages are already going out in the line because they need to, they probably have, someone's not sitting there on the fly. Google Translator. No, so they probably already have. That's a great idea, if you can ask Brian. Mm-hmm. Uh, Ken, what were you going to say? Sorry, Ken. Well, that raises the issue that it feels to me, so far, our focus has been dealing with our peer group. Um, when we look at the types of services that we describe in the guide, I'm wondering, are there, how many housing projects there are in the town of Wayland, and is there a central meeting room or something? I'm also wondering, how do we, uh, connect with parents of school-aged children? Uh, do we want to, like, how would we have a copy in the schools or any, like, I don't have the dealings with them. Nope. Nope. Wow. Yeah, definitely. Well, with the schools... Schools is not a problem. There's all school news. Electronic questions. Yes. I would venture that the majority, although I can't say everyone who has children in the school system has some type of device that would respond to a QR code. Yep. So, all school news is not a problem. Social media is not a problem. Yeah, but... But could I suggest someone take the action item of checking with... Can I suggest someone take the action item to check with the school department as to, are there issues communicating with parents who don't have access to computers and whatnot, and what they do in that case? Maybe, in point of fact, it isn't an issue, but I wouldn't want to assume that to be the case. I think that might have a good track. Yep. So, it seems that we, and this would be something that it would just be appropriate for us to have, be more conversant on about what kinds of things, both in the schools and in the housing that, so we would be more informed. And actually, town meeting, I don't know, because you know, we may not do enough in town meeting, because what we're just talking about, I'm not sure how it impacts town meeting. And that's, that's an important thing that, you know, we would try to encourage. How what impacts town meeting? Whether they have, how they have language access. Oh, okay. So, but that's a whole nother topic. No, no, no. I'm just saying, no, no, I'm just saying that this valuable, what we're doing is something we can then use in more general way in our work, in all capacities, because we might put it on the committee about, let's think about, you know, I mean, if we do what we find out what the town is already doing, and then, you know, we could share that with the greater town. And, and then that might probably bring up more issues. And then we could really kind of, you know, work this, follow this through. This issue has been on your mind for a long time. Yeah. I guess a lot of people, but yeah. So Sarah will follow up with the schools and find out if there's communication issues, how do they handle it? And Denise, you'll follow up with the housing authority and find out, and then we can report back the next time. Does the Council on Aging print things in multiple languages? Like their newsletters or flyers or anything? Nope. No. And actually, oh, go ahead, Cam. No, I don't know, but I can reach out and ask. Okay. No. I get the, the newsletter all the time. It's not, it's only in English. You can't. Even if they would just acknowledge something about access to different language, it would be, I mean, I mean, and that might be something that we can push along that we would, that everything would even, because we don't have the capacity. Look what, look what you almost doing. Right. So, but if you don't have a, if you don't have a computer, then that's not. For family, school families, that, you know, there you go. Yeah. But this, but just. It's not really a lot, to a lot of languages, like you should see on the screen. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's not as straightforward. You have to know how to do it, like click the tool. Okay. Okay. Translate a document. Just select the one you want to translate to. Okay. Maybe. Well, what's the name of that app, the app that does that? Well, that's the thing. Probably many apps. He's in Google Docs. Okay. We translate to. But we're not distributing this through Google Docs. We're making this available as a PDF. We would. Now, maybe the town would be willing to make it available as a Google Doc, so that people could do exactly this. Well, you can't do this with a PDF? No. Yahoo? I just, I'm working on your document now. Yeah. Okay. That's a different tool to run. Well, the thing about the schools is the schools, the schools actually have a remote thing that you could talk into and it translates for students. So, I mean, that's, you know, and I'm not suggesting that I'm just saying there are a number of resources and there may be a little commit. Well, we've just created a little committee about, and, and, you know, it'll take a, it'll take six months to figure out all this. And the prize will have retired. Yeah. It's interesting. Yeah. Well, the, the Council of Aging has a. A few copies of each, if they'll, if the town will let us print. Well, now we're relying on Google Trends. Well, I was going to ask, Yahoo, did you read the Chinese? That is hand raised. I can do Chinese. Oh, Ken. Oh, Ken. Oh, Ken. It's, it's part of the Google, Google Doc. Yeah. We are running the Google Doc here. Yeah. And so it's a standard option within the Google. If you know how to do it, it's, it's very easy. But if you don't know how to do it, it's very hard. Right. Yeah. I just. How Google Translate sometimes doesn't, isn't so great. Ken, you wanted to say something. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I know that the COA does a lot of work with the Asian community. They have some specific activities. So I would think that they distribute some of their materials translated. Yeah. And one question, Ken, for me is, is, is this something we need to address? Or is this something we turn it over in English to all these different groups? And we say, can you guys figure out how to reach your community in English and other languages? That would be. Yeah. Well, I wouldn't want our trying to figure out how to get it into multiple languages to hold up our just getting it out there as it starts. Absolutely. But I would suggest that we try and do, I would suggest we try and do some advocacy on this because everybody's sort of busy enough to just, I understand we don't want to dictate what people do, but we do want to at least have the conversation of asking, how would you suggest this be done? And maybe even how can we help you to do this? And I think that's the way that we're going to do this, which I know is taking work on our shoulders. But I know for the COA, at least, if we're not willing to sort of get our hands dirty a bit, I don't think they have the bandwidth to do much. Yeah. Sarah? I don't know the need. Hold on, Sarah speaking. Just looking at the technology that we use for communications with the schools, it's called Parent Square. And this says that it offers two way translation in over a hundred languages. When a teacher sends a message, it's automatically translated into the parent's chosen language and replies are translated. Wow. Wow. So I don't know about a technology perspective. Right. You know, if people have the right technology to access it, it's an app, it's on the web. But apparently just looking at this, you can choose a language and it'll just translate for you. Some interesting possibilities. So in the guide, would we want to make that recommendation? But my only question, again, as a newcomer here, do we run into any issues about, I'm assuming this is a commercial app. And do we run into any issues we need to run by legal before we do this? Well, this is the school. This happens through the schools, Ken. We have nothing to do with it. Yeah. The schools send it out. They are the ones who subscribe to Parent Square. And so they will send it out and it will automatically do those translations. That has nothing to do with us. We don't have parents. It says language under preferences. Yeah. So you understand? So for the school community, that'll automatically happen. We have no, we can't use that. We don't subscribe to that. The town doesn't. But very exciting that at least whatever families are school families, that means we could actually send this. Fantastic. We process it through that. Well, I don't know how they would, I would be comfortable saying, hey, here's the QR code. I don't know if they would take a 25 page document and send it out to all families. Maybe we could find out. Maybe. Yeah. Yeah. I think the QR code is popular. We can use a different QR code for different language. So we pick up the field that will have more populations, right? You pick up top six, top 10, language that we might need in the town. Okay. To me, I don't think the Chinese language is critically important because they're all well-educated. And the parents of those who don't need, don't understand that the kids can always help. So, so the real need is very minimal, but particularly they can get it back with English. Wait a sec. Heather was going to say something and then you come. I was just going to say that if we can get the town to allow us to put the Google doc link, that really is the easiest and we can even put a note at the top reminding people to click on tools if they need to see it in another language or put screenshots of how to do that. Yeah. We, we can, we can. Uh-uh. Uh-uh. Yeah. Well, hold on. Penn was speaking next. Hold on one sec. Well, I don't know if I'm redefining our mission, but this may be a subject we want to do some advocacy with, with regards to the town selectmen in considering how do we communicate, not just us, but overall town offices and things, with folks who are either non-English speaking or English as their second language, but they struggle with. Yeah. Because if we're looking to have an inclusive welcome and community, then if you don't, if you're not comfortable with English, that's a significant deterrent to your feeling welcomed and belonging. For sure. If we're going through all this effort, we should go the extra little thing to at least complete that circle, or at least where we are now and what we could advocate for. And to Heather's earlier point, and then, yeah, I'm going to ask you to speak next because you wanted to say something, but to Heather's earlier point, I just would underscore, let's not let that hold us up to get this thing out and, and publicize the heck out of it in English, electronically, and also physical copies. And, and then also, you know, work to, to, to, to work out these language things. But certainly, you know, in the fall, I don't know that I distributed over the summer. I'm just not sure, but probably in the fall. When fall begins, that's when we, you know, start getting it out there. Ya Wu. If the people don't understand the English, their computer will be in their own language. For example, if I don't understand the English, my computer will be in Chinese. So all those stuff, you see all the, the menu stuff, everything here, selected items will be in Chinese. Yeah. I saw that. You have it in Chinese before. So they can pick up the tools. Yeah. And then they can, in Chinese, then they can do their own translations. Yep. Okay. So I don't think it's a big issue. We just have to all, to figure out what's the best way to tell them what to do. Yeah. Okay. We don't need to invent another solution. Can we include in our PR getting out? You said you were going to post it on our website. Is that what you said? On Facebook. On Facebook. Can we maybe ask that it go in the town of Weyland newsletter? Oh yeah. Like updated. No, that'll be part of the advocacy. So the town newsletter, Facebook. There's a way, there's a, there's Weyland newspaper that comes out. What? Yeah. Every couple of weeks. Weyland post. We can ask Weyland Ken to distribute it. The COA has newsletter. Aging. Yeah. All these newsletters. Yep. Cool. And then our own listserv, of course. Yeah. I mean, in our flash news, news flash. Yeah. So we put it on our website, but also we'll send it to our listserv. Oh, to our listserv. Okay. Yeah. For the newspaper, for the website, we definitely want to put a QR code. Yeah, we don't. So we can access to those documents. Oh, man. And we may put a couple more. So this is, if you want to read it in Chinese, use this QR code. If you want to read it in Hebrew, use this QR code. And we don't need to do too many. We do a few. For additional one, please send us an email. We will send you the right QR code. That's all we need to do. Yeah. First round in English. And then we'll work on getting it. Right. And maybe this will be a discussion for another time, but it seems as people get older and they fall in the senior population, they seem to drop off the map. What do you mean? Well, nobody considers what happens to somebody, especially in the housing parts. But there's others that don't have transportation. Okay. Um, they don't know what's going on. They don't have a computer. They don't have a tablet. Yeah. You know, they're there. They'd like to know things, but, you know. Well, there's the, how are we going to get the word out electronically? And we just mentioned all these different newsletters, but then earlier we talked about how are we going to get about physically and get copies made and put in all these different places. So it's kind of a two prong strategy, electronic and physical. So I have some of the physical and the schools. I actually, I'm going to be stopping by the schools this summer. So I will actually ask them about this because you're not a lot, not a lot of parents come in. I don't know where they would put it in the school. So I will ask because I'm going into each school. So I'll, I'll make a request. I mean, I'll, I'll ask them if they think how and anyhow, I'll come back with everybody. All right. So I think we have a good plan for the initial, um, outreach in the fall. Um, and I think we ought to take a vote. Um, first of all, on, I don't even know how to frame the vote on all this publicity, but, uh, we do need to vote on the content. Um, let's start. Right. Okay. Can we start with that? I think that's all we need. Okay. Okay. I moved. We approved the updated community resource guide. I can, or am I allowed to be second? I don't want to, I thought that was somebody else's role. No, somebody else needs to be second. Sorry. I second. Okay. Marion is second. Okay. Wait, I should write this down. Heather moved and, uh, Marion seconded. So let us vote. Um, Heather. Yes. Denise. Yes. Laura. Yeah. That was a yes. Can you say it? Yeah. Marianne. Yes. Um, Yahoo. Yes. And Ken. As long as I don't have to edit it again. I'll say yes. Yeah. Yes. Right. And at least not for six months. Not for a year. Hopefully. Yes. Um, okay. So unanimous. Yes. And then we have a, um, publicity plan, which we'll put in writing. So yeah. So yeah. So summarize everything we talked about today. Yeah. And hopefully it'll be somewhere close to what we all just said. Well, I just, that took notes too. Between us. Yeah. Um, okay. So now we're on agenda item number five and, um, Yahoo inadvertently showed you something that I was not going to lead with, but since you've seen it, um, I did my own brainstorming this morning and I was going to let you guys brainstorm and then mention it, but since you've already seen that I did that. We hardly saw it actually. It's hard to actually read it. Okay. So we can either brainstorm or I brought copies of, I just started brainstorming myself just to see if we could like to jumpstart the conversation. So if you want to see it, I can share it or you guys can brainstorm it first. Oh, give it to us. It's not wasting time on supercating efforts. And I'm going to send it to you in just a second. Yeah. This is one copy. One paper, right? Yeah. It's too silent. And the question that you were brainstorming. Pardon me? The question you were brainstorming. Oh, number five. Agenda item number five is brainstorm. What kinds of disability facts might be useful to include in a disability pride month article in the Weyland post? And hold on. Let me send this to you. What? Uh, Yahoo. Yeah. Yahoo. Yeah. Yahoo has it. Um. One second. Okay. It'll take a moment to get to you. Um, so let me give you guys some context. Um, for those who might not have been at the meeting where we talked about this, we talked about, um, the context is we talked about the statements that we write for, um, cultural holidays. And we said at the, at our last meeting, maybe instead of writing more and more statements, we could see if the Weyland post would want to do articles from time to time about whatever the cultural holiday is, um, you know, feature interviewing some people from Weyland who are part of whatever the group is that's being honored by that holiday. And we said to kind of educate people, um, we could have, we would ask them if they would do a did you know section, um, as part of the article. Um, as part of the article and the, did you know items would be stuff that people might have stereotypes about that are not accurate. Um, or it might just be, you know, information. So I did some brainstorming, which, which, which you can see, I came up with five. Did you know items? I put this in for version one is sort of in list form and version two is in prose. And all of this is, is what I would propose to give to the woman who's writing the article and just say, do whatever you want with it. Like, I don't expect her to use any of this verbatim. Um, but these were the five things that I came up with in my brainstorming by myself. I don't know if it counts as brainstorming. If you're all by yourself, but you brain can storm. Well, I did come up with one number cause I was at, I was really surprised by this number. One out of six people are disabled in the world. In the world. One out of six. Yeah. And one in four in the United States. Right. And more in the United States. But yeah, I mean, I'm just surprised. And some have more than one. And some have more than one. I have more than one disability. Exactly. But in here, you're only counting one. Yeah. Some have more than one. And what surprised me was that an estimated 70 to 80% of disabilities are not visually apparent. Yeah. So everybody, we're all walking around with invisible disabilities, including mental health conditions, neurodivergence, um, chronic illness, deafness. You can't see if someone's deaf. Like there's so many things, um, that, that all of us are walking around with. Um, so disabilities are the nation's largest minority group, although we don't always put that way. Yeah. I also wanted to say, um, our unemployment rate right now is 4.3, but, um, 9.2 of disabled people are looking for jobs. And I think, I think that's an important number. And you know what they, they get? They're bad. They're bad. Right. But I'm just saying, but they would, but any, you know, everybody likes to have something to do. And, you know, I mean, I just think it's important for people to remember that, you know, a lot of disabled people looking for something, so they have something to do. But I can't, I can never know on what given day that my, my, you know, sugars drop, my blood pressure drops, um, I fall, I mean, the fall, all right, I can kind of control that outside. But the others, I can't control. I try, but, you know, you know. So a couple of things to add, um, one is, particularly in light of the fact, you know, that you just mentioned about the number of disabled folks who are looking for jobs. I think we could add a couple of lines of text about how easy and relatively inexpensive it is to accommodate the needs of disabled people. Secondly, I think we can make a reference that it's a law and some folks may not be, some businesses, for example, may not be aware that their accommodations they could make, uh, that not only are required, but just, you know, would increase their business. So I'll give you the simple example that, um, I'm a tour guide at the, uh, Golden Ball Museum in Weston. And I've requested, and they've done a couple of hand railings in one space where the floor is a bit uneven. And I had requested that they put sort of yellow, black stripe tape, uh, easy to do, um, for, it reduces falls. But it was just a question of nobody ever thought of it. You know, they, in the face of the front door, they put up one railing, but I said, well, it would be helpful if you put up one on the other side. And just simply by asking, they were more than willing to do it. And I know a number of, you know, restaurants, you know, who, if you mentioned something, they're more than willing to do it because it increases business. Sure. Yep. So, um, yep. And just on that, we have, you know, the like, Karen, like the library has large print books. Have you been to a restaurant that has large print menus? Nope. No. Not a really expensive thing to do, but sort of think about, you know, the person who goes out to eat and then mentions to a group of their friends the other day. Hey, you know what? Wasn't it nice at this place that they, you know, had large print menus available? Yeah. Yeah. It makes me think that right. It's great business. I was at a program once talking about the social versus the medical model of disability. And I'm, I'm certainly not an expert, but one of the things that stuck with me that makes me think of it is a comment somebody made about, I'm, I'm really disabled because of the environment you create. Yes. Um, not because of what I can do. Yes. So I wouldn't have trouble with the reading if, if at the restaurant, I wouldn't need to take my phone out and put my light on it. If, if you had better lighting and a bigger menu or. Yes. If the space that I was in wasn't really crowded with a ton of extra chairs. And so how, how do we help people? Is there a way we can build up that part of the article that making it more, we can make it more inclusive. Yeah. And I know AARP has some statistics regarding the business benefits. And. Can you lay your hands on them? I'm sorry. Can you lay your hands on them and send them to me? I can look and see, I can try, you know, around, you know, restaurants who do more business, but yeah, let me check. Thank you. You know, it would be a wonderful way to make ourselves is just to distribute that to the businesses that are appropriate. We just hand it out. Hand what out? This? The, whatever, whatever list we come up with. Yeah. Yeah. I've always dreamed of having a brochure about, you know, may I help you in a, a multicultural world and, but you could do this in a disabled world too. Um, uh, you know, how can you make, make it so the world did, so our, so we're not disabled. So we're able, how can we able people? I like that. How can we able people? I wonder if that can be like the end of the article can be something like a challenge in your space. What can you do to make it more accessible? Oh, I like that. To everybody. We, we couldn't have a resource guide just for disabled. Yeah. I have them. Look at the quality you define as disabled. I win a lot of items. I know like, uh, in MEI, they have a department is, if your eye vision is low, they have many, many things to walk around. Um, it's not to cure, to walk around, how you walk around with low eye, low hearing, how you walk around with low visions. And almost everything, you are disabled, physically. You probably at the MEI, I mean, Mars General, MEI, all those big hospitals. They have a special department to take care of you. Like they, they give me a, a light on my neck so I can see this. I can see that there's, since with extra light. Um, so it's very convenient. With Temple Muna, for example, we have, uh, extra, um, not hearing aids, but, you know, hearing devices. Amplified devices. Yeah. Yeah. We also have some prayer books and large prints. Yep. So I like this idea of ending the article with asking people to consider, yeah, challenge, challenge. And did you get, I, I do think I kind of, I think, Ken, I'm not sure if you did this, but adding a, did you know something about state and federal law or something that it's required? Like, did you mention something about that? Ken, I don't want to take your ideas. Oh, absolutely. Yeah. Yeah. Did you know it's the law? American with Disabilities Act is really very powerful about those things. Or it was. Or it was, yes. It was, yes. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. You know, I would, I would just like to say that, you know, when we're thinking about this, we're in the middle of June, July. Um, we might, we might consider, um, being a little preemptive when we're thinking about each, each month and doing something similar. Cause it's a, it's a way of making it feel more, um, interactive and more real in everybody's life to have to think about various things. Maybe not all holiday statements or monthly statements would work. Right. Yeah. Yeah. That's a good one to start with. Um, yeah, that would be a good one. I was pushing to get where our crosswalk is to get those lights because it's such a risk crossing over. Um, I just crossed there today. Oh. A car stopped. No, right for this. They stopped and the car behind them decided they were irritated and started to go around. And I literally stopped my friend as the car jammed on their brakes when they saw, but they were, that it was exactly there. Yeah. Mm-hmm. And, you know, I spoke to the acting chief because I spoke to the one before then. And I, I don't care if they're just the little shiny things that blink when you want to cross. Oh, no, we'll get you the sturdy ones, but we got to wait to see if it's in the budget. Yeah. I needed to have my boots on for that. You know, I mean, yeah, right. You're really going to do that. For what it's worth for me, I, I, everybody else jump in. I like the bulleted style where people can either just at least get the headlines. Yeah. They can read more if they want. Yeah. For me, I, I'm afraid this people, it's not as impactful. I, I agree. They're not going to want to read it all. No, but also she's going to have a word limit. She'll probably take like 10 words out of this whole thing. So we should give it our all and give her everything we've got. And then she'll do what she's going to do with it. Because she's writing a whole article and this is like a little did you know section. So I have no idea how many of these words she can actually use. And the other thing I was thinking, but maybe cause we'll hopefully do this in the future too. Um, as the power, like this is very, um, academic or actual versus factual versus stories. And well, that's what she was doing with the article. Oh, so that'll bring it more, make it more personal. That's what the article is. And then this did you know section is just like facts. Okay. But we could decide we want to recommend something different the next time that the did you know section could be sent us. But no, she's going to be telling stories for the, um, for the article. And I'm going to use Sophie's language. She, because she said to me, you've never heard about fun facts. I said, no. And she was going to do some fun facts for the bulletin board. And, and it would be fun to have fun facts about this. You know, we can have lots of, and that's an engaging way. And I've always said, you know, there's nothing like that five word, whatever that brings home some idea that people can remember. Cause you can, most of us can read. We hope we can remember five words. And what that idea is. Do you think like, like our, if we're going to start doing these for other months, is this something we can be adding to our website? Like my website, like, did you notice? Yeah. Yeah. Did you notice your passion? Take their life in their hands when they cross the street over there. Um, yeah, I mean, I can, her deadline's Friday. So I'm going to, you're going to do this. I'm going to do this. Plus the things you guys recommended today. I'm going to try to add that stuff. Now I'll, I'll probably get rid of the pros version and just give her the first version. And she'll do whatever she does with it. But if we, I can bring it back to us at our next meeting and we can prove the language or whatever, then, then we put it on the website. Like, I just want you guys to have a chance to really read it carefully. Plus with the additions. Even for the paper, if they just do the bulleted black parts. Exactly. The wool parts without the writing. She might very well do that. We could then put the text on the website. Yeah. They don't seem to link. They don't seem to use hyperlinks in the paper version of the newspaper. So like one thing would be to have her just do the bold and then have a hyperlink to this on their website. But they don't do that in the paper version. Whatever. But we can. But how do you do a hyperlink on a. You could do it in the electronic version of the newspaper, but I don't think they do that either. I don't think they. I haven't had them. See, I can't. I haven't seen the electronic version. I don't. No, I don't. Because it bothers my eyes too much. Yeah. So you leave the physical version. So even if there were a hyperlink, you wouldn't want to use it. Or a link, a tiny URL. But I appreciate the thinking out of the box to try to get attention to an important topic. And it really is helping us think about other things in a different way. Yeah. And the paper was really happy to do this. So that was, I mean, it was very warmly received. So. Yes. So let's all think about. Who's doing it on the paper? I'm sorry. Who's doing it in the paper? Leslie Castillo. Castillo. Oh. The name sounds familiar. You've seen her byline. I've seen her byline. Yeah. Okay. Wonderful. So this is great.
Okay. So, Marianne, the first one. The quick update on the fifth anniversary of the HRDIC bulletin board. Okay. Sophie Chen and I worked on the bulletin board and it is almost complete. It's waiting for her fun facts. And, but. It looks great. Yeah. Could you share the pictures from Marianne on your screen? Sure. Thank you. So, you know, tried to think out of the box, make it entertaining. We had at least a couple of people while we were putting it up, come by and say, oh, that looks so wonderful. So, but we're comparing it to being blank. So that's, it's gotta be. It does look really good. And if you look at some of the things on it, they're great. Yeah. So anyhow, we had fun and you know, it's a challenge because there's a lot. Well, I will say we should pat ourselves on the back. We did five years. There's a lot of work up there and I, I think we can be proud of what we've done. And, and so that's all I have to say. And congratulations, HRGIC. And to you and Sophie. Thank you for doing this. So much. It was so ambitious. It was really amazing. So if you haven't looked at it, anyone who's listening to this meeting, take a look. This, there are three, actually, yeah, there are two more pictures, but there's, there's there's like two giant. Sorry. You want. You want. Yeah. Next one. Yeah. Next one. Yeah. That's the last one. Oh, that's the last one. Okay. So it's looking for recommendations on that end. So I want everyone to go by and give a recommendation of what they want to see HRGIC do. So, so everyone listening, listen to Marianne. And this has been the town building. When you come in the front door and you take a right past the stairs, two giant bulletin boards are there with the HRGIC five years. Yay for us. Thank you, Marianne. Wonderful. And Sophie. And so good. Thank you, Marianne. And Sophie. Museum of Fine Arts Tour. Yahoo. Anything happening with it? Thank you for those pictures. You can stop screen sharing now. Thank you so much. Yahoo. After you stop screen sharing, can you tell us if there's any updates on the Museum of Fine Arts Tour? Okay. Yeah. Let me stop sharing. Yeah. Is that Karen's? Yes. Oh, good. Okay. We had a meeting a week or 10 days ago. Yeah. Karen's, he has a concept of, I have to refresh my mind, to, we are talking about what's the focus of this Museum 2 will be to what, she gave her, so we have a survey to look at this, what this tool will show focus on, the difference for the different cultural groups. And then she's looking into what, what, of the, since we needed to focus on, and then we'll get it back to us. So we'll have another meeting. Yeah. Thank you. This is Karen Crown, not me, but Karen Crown, who is a docent at the MFA at Museum of Fine Arts, and she lives here in Weyland, and she offered to do a tour for some number of Weyland residents that would focus on whose stories, whose stories get told and who designs. Thank you. So stay tuned for, for new, new information. Okay. And Weyland Festival, are there any quick updates or should we wait till next time for that? Okay. Okay. I have something to say about that. Okay. Okay. Um, because, um, the limit of performance time. Um, so we only allocated very, one hour for all the multicultural service performance. Uh, because of that, I was thinking, how do we actually achieve the goal of multicultural? So with this, uh, at least I have some idea. I talked to a few people. And the way, we will focus this time on the booths at the tables. So we, at the Chinese community, where the Boston Chinese Association, is going to purchase two 10 by 30 tents for, for all multicultural stuff, which will include, uh, since you, you probably used to the Chinese choreography and the, and the key sets. We also want to include some of the Chinese cultural stuff. And the way we'll also include some of the performance, which we couldn't do it on the stage. We'll do it on the street in front of our booths. That's the way we can have our cultural stuff, but we don't, don't have to, to use the space. It's, I think it's more, also it's more contact with the people. We need more interaction with the audience. So I, I talk with other cultural groups. I talk to Yamini. And he likes that idea very much too. Okay. The only thing, the only thing I would say is just, um, to make sure you're coordinating with all the other groups. Cause this. Oh, I talk to Frank. Many players. Okay. He likes that idea too. Okay. Okay. Okay. So, um, so I'm going to reach to other group. I think the only problem is the funding. So far, I haven't, I haven't zero knowledge on the funding of this year. Okay. So I don't know how it's going to locate. I haven't been told or given any information. So I will assume we're getting some level of funding for our stuff as we did last year. Okay. I have to move on. And then you, because I don't want to say, okay, you have this funding on the last 10 days that I cannot do anything. So we have to move on with assumption of the funding. Yes. Okay. There's no reason we can, excuse me. There's no reason we cannot have the funding. Okay. We, we cannot have the time, which I understand, but I assume we will have the funding. We will move on. And, uh, on this and that, we'll talk to, uh, all committee what kind of funding we need and, and et cetera. Okay. Yep. Mariel. Um, I would also like to say, just cause we're sitting here and we're a multicultural committee that if we know of anyone that you think might be interested in having a table, I'm not sure about performances, but you know, want to somehow share their culture that you would send them to, to us, Fran, uh, yeah, we'll meet. Um, so that we, um, you know, just to widen our, and they're, they're not a lot of groups that necessarily have an organization around them, like the Chinese American club. So whatever we might know of people might, we might be able to include someone because we happen to know them and, um, they're, you know, they, anyhow. But like a group of families could do something around. Right. Okay. Right. One person could do, I mean, whatever. But they want to do something with their culture. Right. There, there is, you know, it's, unfortunately we have to be at this table for six to eight hours, which makes it really arduous. We're trying to come up with a two hour alternative, but we haven't come up with that yet. Um, or figured out how to work that out. Yeah. One year where I remember two groups shared a table. One group came for a couple hours and then they left and another group came for a couple hours. I love that idea. You did it. I mean, it was done. Oh yeah. It was done when we were in the gym. Oh, uh, or whatever you call it. What's the big thing called at the high school? Yeah. The gym. Uh, I do remember that really distinctly. There were, there was one table that got shared by two different groups who wanted to come at two different times a day. And so don't let that stand in anybody's way. People could maybe do one hour a piece and, and, you know, share it with six other people. So yeah. Anyhow. Do you have to buy a table? Yeah. We took turns on like Chinese. Okay. We have something very special. Hopefully, but I'm still working on, if I can be successful, you'll have the American president to create every table and some tables on one area. What? I don't know. What would you, what, what? The change your face, the change your face. He could have that American president's face and to change it from stage, from table to table. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know what you're talking about, but I want to say that. Just have fun. Just have fun. What? Um. Do you understand the one that I'm talking about? So you're going to have the president's face at one table and then it'll move over to another table? Yeah. They're just shaking hands. And it's a, when she, she goes to another table, he can put change it to another president. Okay. So I just, I want to make sure. You just will have fun. Okay. That, that you are, you and the team are focusing not only on the Chinese American presentations, but this is a multicultural. True. So I want to make sure you're focused on all the different, um, cultures that need to be. Right. That's what I'm working on. I talked with young Lee and. Okay. And also talk to Frank. He's going to talk to Jewish community or other. That's fine. And I'm also going to talk to the Egyptians. So I'd like to have five, six at minimum to participate. Okay. And, and let's remember the philosophy that we can't represent every group every year. So the idea is that there could be alternating representation. We may not, you know, every group doesn't have to present every year. Right. But this year, if anybody can participate, they can. Because just the space on the street, it's not. We have, we've doubled, not tripled the number of. Yes. Tables. Tables. Tables. Tables. Tables. Not all the time to perform. He said is that's not been cut to one hour. Yeah. So a lot of the performers will just be on the street at their table. That's, that's fine. Right. On the street. Lots of different things. Yeah. Remember this is a festival. Yeah. It's a festival. So. Okay. Thank you. We'll be fine. We'll have some music. So it's not going to be very quiet. Go ahead. Yeah. Good. Maybe some cultures might want to bring some of their, the food that they do. No. Right. Exactly. Yes. No. If you know any. Okay. Just go ahead and invite them. Okay. Or let me know. Yeah. If you know any group, any kind of special thing you think is interesting. We do it. Okay. We make that street a lot of fun. That's what I want to do. The street should be a lot of fun. That's awesome. And for anyone who might be listening, who's not here in the room or on the screen. The festival is Saturday, October 3rd from, I don't know what, 10 to 4 or something. I don't know the time. Yeah. Probably from 10 to 3. They need to talk about shooting the time because it's too long for everybody. Yep. Yep. Yep. Okay. Did the school still do the round the world? Yes. They did. Yes, we did. It was in mid-May. I talked to the health committee or whatever the health department several times and they did allow homemade food as long as we listed ingredients and made everybody aware that this was not prepared in a commercial kitchen. We've not gotten that promotion. Okay. So yeah, we did. It was also, so we don't want to be competing with the food trucks because we have to guarantee them a certain number of people. Yeah, for sure. We do not have food trucks. Yeah. I was just wondering also though, do you think there'd be anybody who, like, would there be some folks who would want to set up tables so that we had other cultures represented as well? I can for sure reach out to the people that, you know, presented. It's always challenging. I mean, this is two hours and I think we've got like, I want to say less than 10 countries represented. So the idea of being out there, and I know we can share tables, but it's just, it's just really, really challenging. Yeah. No, I remember working on it. It always has been. Yeah. And that's why sometimes having a vendor, you know, because they have a monetary interest, you know, and they are cultural, you know, because they're selling things from whatever that culture is. And that is a way. And a lot of people come to multicultural events because they want to buy something that is from another culture. So, so even if someone doesn't want to do a table to try and do their own thing, you know, if you have a vendor, if you know a vendor who that, that's another way of getting that culture in and a lot. And that's very attractive. Yeah. We offered a stipend to make sure that finances weren't a huge hindrance in making this happen. But we did ask them to provide something edible and something that, you know, children can do like stamps or stamps or crafts. Yeah. Yeah. So this was, you know. So you actually asked for food. Yeah. I think, I think, I think every table had something edible. It was, you know, some people just did drinks. Like something like a lemonade from a certain. Well, you know, we're not going to ask. Do you know why? Because I think that could ruin things for you. Well. So. I mean, this was a much smaller event. It didn't go well. I'm just saying, you know, they're going to say, yeah, we cannot break any rule because then someone, you know, we break the rule for this person. This other group comes in. Of course. Yeah. So. But it was a much smaller event. It was so much more. It's kind of focusing. Yeah. Yeah. Well, all right. I hope it helps them too. But yeah. Thank you. Do you, do you want to help on the tables? Oh. Uh, I don't know her name. Sarah. Sarah. What are you asking, Sarah? Can she help do the, do planning or organize, to plan on the table, planning the tables? I think I, I came to the HRDIC table last year for a couple of hours. And I was happy to do that. You were a magnet when you were staffing it. Everybody was like, sit down. Sit down.
All right. Thank you so much for those of you who've been working on the festival. It's going to be in another amazing, amazing event. Um, the last bullet here update. There's just to say the reading Frederick Frederick Douglass together on June 30th, which seems like a year ago, but it was just a few weeks ago. Uh, was wonderful. Another wonderful event that Dr. was just, uh, facilitated. Um, yeah, it was just great. Um, yeah, it was just great. So. And a wonderful discussion after. Good discussion. Well, attended. Well, we had like 40 people. It was well attended. I got feedback that, and I can't, last year, was it when, did people have strips instead of the whole script? No, we did the same thing. No, we did the same thing. Last year people, I think, were pre, they knew ahead of time. Pre and didn't. Yes. I got feedback that having the entire text and reading along was very helpful. Mm-hmm. That's powerful. I thought it was nice. Yeah. I felt more powerful. Yeah. Okay. So, agenda item number seven. Um, this can be quick. Also, continuing community conversations programming. Um, we have talked about Dr. Eve Renee Hayes and Jamil Adams continuing to do the kind of work they did this past year in the coming year. The thing I want to report is that we are tentatively scheduled to present a budget request, uh, to the select board on Tuesday, September 22nd. So, stay tuned. Um, would you suggest that or for? For the two consultants for, yes, for Jamil. I mean, right there. Yep. Um, do you want to add anything, Heather? Okay. Um, do we want to take a vote on co-sponsors? Oh, yeah. Co-sponsors. Thank you. Yes. Um, so we were thinking about getting co-sponsors, um, for so many reasons. One is they help advertise the event. It helps get people, more people to show up, um, at these events. Um, and we were thinking about the Wayland Public Schools, the library, and Waycan as possible. Co-sponsors, but, um, of all three really. I think. Except for the library. The thing about the library is I think they only want to co-sponsor. That's a library. Yeah. So I guess we need to consider where we want to hold these events. Um. Did you include a COA? As a co-sponsor? I was thinking we might use that building, the community center, as the location for some of these. We're looking for money. For money, yeah. For money, yeah. No. Um. I see a way it doesn't look for money. No, we're to be looking for money for, to sell, support these talks. Oh. But they could certainly help us publicize. I mean, we have that list we had before. They could certainly help us publicize. I wasn't thinking. Yeah. We don't know that everybody who co-sponsors will co-sponsor financially. It's just like we've co-sponsored things and we don't have money. But it is nice to. Oh, we'll try. Yeah. But we are trying to find. We have to, we have to underwrite this. It's not going to happen unless we have someone. Well, we're asking the select board for money. And if they. Yeah. I just have a thought. Oh. Sarah. Uh oh. Given that the one in particular, um, Ian Renee Hayes one is in particular for caregivers and children related more, do you think that PTOs would co-sponsors? Oh, absolutely not. Oh, sorry. I just figured. I'm sorry. We've had a lot of discussions. I think Wakeham has asked us for money before for the mural on the pool. And, um, we have strong feelings that the parents who donate to the PTO really want the, the money to go directly to the school, to the teachers, to, you know, and not necessarily community-wide events. But would you co-sponsor if, if money weren't being, just to have your name and your, and help to help publicize it? I'm not sure. I'm actually stepping down from the presidency. So I'm still going to be on the board of the past president. Um, I, yeah, I can't, I know, I'm not sure, but are these two speakers, do we have a long-term commitment with them or is it, do we reevaluate every year? Well, they were here last year. Right. Um, we were, I mean, we have asked them both for proposals for this year. Okay. Um, are there other proposals that we're? Not at this time. Okay. Is that something you are recommending for us to consider next year? Um, definitely for us to consider next year. Yes. Because I believe, you know, these two speakers, um, have a lot of wonderful perspectives, but there's other perspectives that might not be reflected. Yep. We can certainly look at that for next year. Thank you. And it would be great too, if you have ideas of the future. Who? I do. Good. Let's talk. Um, and we need to vote on potential co-sponsors. Um, I mean, the thought is to reach out probably to, to Waylon Ken and the public schools. Um, and they may not have money, but they may be willing to put their name and help publicize. Um, I don't think we have to vote on since we've talked to. Yeah. Okay. I mean, it's really difficult from the PTO perspective, even using our social media. And the name even. And the name even. It's like, there's so many events and parents are just inundated. So we're really narrow the focus. Yeah. Like this is what is happening at this school tomorrow. Well, there's a one spot. You still have the spot in the all school news. We still have the all school news. We still have the all school news. They can be publicized through the all school news for anything. But each school has their own Facebook page and their own communication channels. Yeah. And that's great. We can all appreciate that. Yeah. It is overwhelming. Yes. It's overwhelming for me. And I'm not in school. Yes. Um, okay. So Heather and I, as we move this forward, we'll reach out to Waylon Public Schools and the library, I guess, only if we want to hold it in the right beyond normal. Okay. Um, number eight. Okay. What is that? Huh? What'd you say? What is that compared to the community resource guide? Okay. It's totally different. I know, but this, this is different. Know your rights and resources. That's not about the resource guide. It's this. It is about resources for knowing your rights. Oh. Know your rights. Yeah. Oh, every button belongs here. Know your rights. That's not the know your rights. It's the know your rights. It's the know your rights. It's the know your rights and the resources. Your resource guide is there too. Okay, guys. You, I'm sure this is meaningful to you, but I'm confused. You're confused. So this is not the resource guide. Um, yeah, let's see. Yahoo doesn't have that. I can see. I mean, I can, well, and I think. Use your camera and go to the, um. So it's the no, it is the know your rights one. It is the know your rights. Okay. We added and resources as a way to say this document will provide you with resources to help you know your rights. It's different than the community resource guide. It's the know your rights page that you are very familiar with, but it's just got an expanded name now. Well, and the first thing on it is the resource is the Wayland community resource guide. And then you scroll down and there are all the know your rights that you know. Yes, but that's not what. Oh, it says everyone belongs here. Yeah. And that's what a resource guide used to say, right? No, never. The resource guide never said that. Okay. Well, it's just they're very similar. It's a little confusing. It's a little confusing. I hear you. Everyone belongs here. Everyone belongs here. Yeah. So when you go to that QR code, you open up a page that does start with the resource guide, but then it has all these different topics. Or a few. Magnificently few than the 28 page thing. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes. It's knowing your rights. Like it's the American Civil Liberties Union. It's the Mass Office on Disability. It's knowing your rights if you're an immigrant. LGBTQ, sexual and domestic violence. Those are the categories. Is it confusing having the resource guide first? Do you think that should appear last and just start with the topics? Does that make any difference? Don't not looking at even on your phone and they both pop up immediately. Okay. So you're I understand why you're getting confused because it says resources and that connotes resource guide. I'm not sure it will for everybody else who did. We just part is we just have a conversation about the resource guide. Like we're doing both things. I don't think anybody else is going to. Because they won't be thinking, oh, it's the Wayland resource guide because they probably don't even know it exists. Well, except if they see one and then they see the other, they're going to not know why they look different. Because we don't have two flyers. Where is that? Well, here we are. We're just saying how to. Well, I have two flyers. Like the Wayland resource guide is right on top. Why would we have two flyers? Why does this use that? Are we going to have a flyer for the resource guide? Well, I mean, why does it have to be separate? Because when you bring this up, the first thing on it is the Wayland resource guide. Okay. Oh. That's a fair point. Maybe we don't need this. I don't know. Yeah. You think just one flyer. Actually, I think that should be at the bottom so that this is the other. But, you know, it's just so much information. I would put it at the bottom. I know your rights and resources. Yeah. That is a point. Maybe we don't need another flyer. Because that is confusing. Yeah. What's the difference? Yeah. One flyer says it all. One QR code. One QR code, one flyer. We pray that the QR code doesn't expire. One thing I don't understand is how do you know if you've got a QR code that's going to expire? Because sometimes... I have my son help me. That's how I find out. So that's why I put a tiny URL on here, for that exact reason. Yes. So that'll continue to go to this page. And the community resource guide will update this hyperlink. It'll work. Yeah. But you're right. Okay. One flyer. One flyer. One flyer. We've got a tiny URL to this page. So we're good. That's good. Thank you. The QR code themselves, they never have a built-in expiration date. It's the link they connect to that can be a problem. I don't know. The QR code can't expire. I have one expire unexpectedly, like two days before an event. Yeah. Yes. It's not all... If you don't use something that's free. Exactly. I've had things expire. If you pay for it and you have a service, then... Yes. Yeah. So this one has been good for a long time. A year, I think. We had it at the festival last year. Well, like I said, my son found things. You just have to know and know that it's not going to expire yet. Yeah. So if this expires, we'll update our flyer and redistribute it. It hasn't yet. But it has been almost two years. Maybe it expires in the year. So the question was, where can we put these up? And where would people be willing... We asked the town. Jaylen made copies in color for us. We can figure lead one right in the front here. And then we were one or a few. But then we're wondering, would everybody be willing to just take a couple and ask wherever they say frequent? Can we just put this up at Starbucks or the bagel place or what? I don't know. There's no place to put them up in. Well, the COA. There's one in the library. That bagel... No, it's not there anymore. It's not there anymore. It's not there anymore. Well... Well... Oh. So that's the hope is that if we can... Do go. People could just... What about... Oh, what about Willa? We could send it to Willa. Oh, to send to their... Yeah. I mean, the worst they can do is not put it anywhere in their organization. But I mean, it's a... Yeah. Maybe we'll just wait till... Should we wait till we get the resource guide updated and get... Oh, no, because it's on this page. Well, that's true. Where are we going to put this? We don't want to leave this out unless the resource... Well, it's only going to go to the old resource guide. It's not... It doesn't matter. I know. There aren't huge changes and it's going to be updated within a very, very short time. Yeah. Okay. But I mean, this is... This is big. And last time I went asking for the festival, can we put up a flyer? I will say that's... I think I... I think it's like my hair all of a sudden grew old and because, you know, that is something businesses did years ago. Decades ago. And they don't want to muck up their windows anymore. Everybody's scared of that. So my question is, this is a flyer. There's very few places to put a flyer anymore. We can name them on the two hands. Especially on the QR code. Pardon? It has a tiny URL also. Oh. I know. But I mean, the thing is, it's getting that information in people's hands or in front of their faces. And how do you do that? Well... No one's going to put this... Businesses are not going to put this in their window. Right. So we've got... Sending it to Willa. We've got the Council on Aging building. Do you go over there? Yeah. The library. Yeah. In fact, I'm going over to the COA tomorrow for the baseball thing and the Franks afterwards. If you would put a few up, that would be fabulous. And the library would only do it for a short time. Cool. Library. Oh, the library. Well, if they do it, they do it. We can get... I mean, I can bring it to the library. Yeah. I don't mind. Longfellow Sarah, if you would take a couple and bring them to Longfellow Town Building. You've already asked Jalen, or you'll ask her again. Well, I just said when she was photocopying that, and I said to put it up around town and on the Town Building. So I'll let you figure that out with her. So Stop and Shop has one, and Walgreens has one. Very sad-looking signage, but other people use it at either door. Walgreens, all right. Walgreens, believe it or not. Would you bring it there? I'll bring it there. Okay. And Village Bank has one. They usually use it as for business cards, but I'll just attach this. I'm with the one up here on 20. Or was they? No, I mean the one on Main Street. I never noticed one in CVS. I can ask in CVS. You can ask. You know, take a couple. Definitely ask. You haven't asked enough. And then Willa, who's going to send it to Willa? I can send it to Willa. I need an electronic copy for Willa. What's that? I will see. This must be. Yeah, we must have this. I need a new one. Yeah. Send new one to Marianne. Okay. I will do that. I'm sorry. I see we're running a little bit late, but we're doing okay. We're doing great. We're going to end at 730, but we're doing okay. Oh, I see. We're late for 730. Okay. So, Marianne's going to send to Willa. I'll send you the new flyer. Willa is the Wayland Interfaith Leaders Association. Denise is going to put it up at the, or ask the COA. Heather's going to ask the town building. Denise is also going to do the apartments. Oh. Yeah. And ask CVS. Okay. Let's send CVS. Never heard staff. Good. Denise. Okay, great. They see me a lot over there. And you know, if they don't have a bulletin board, would they let you put it up in the restrooms? Good God. Well, that's why sometimes these are. Yeah. On the back of the restroom, the back of the door. Yeah. Or sometimes they'll let you put it on the door. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Years ago. Sarah Longfellow, I'll go to the library. Marianne will do Walgreens. And then you'll do CBS in the apartments. Okay. Wonderful. So, okay. So then actually, I think that completes our agenda, except for announcements and matters not reasonably anticipated. And I wanted to reiterate that Thursday, Friday and Saturday is this amazing event that the museum is organizing along with historical society. Yeah. The historic of the town, the 250, many, they are bringing Joseph McGill, an NPR featured author and founder of the Slave Dwelling Project for three presentations, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Mr. McGill has drawn attention to the lives of enslaved people by sleeping in the cabins, quarters and cellars where they once lived, worked and died. And he, he, you could see a Ted talk by him. He was on NPR, which I actually happened to hear a couple of years ago. Um, so I sent out this notice to our whole entire listserv, which includes all of you. So hopefully you have that information. Do you want that on Wayland Community Forum and all that? No. Would you like to do that? Oh yeah. Why not? Sure. Yeah. You put it on our website though. Yeah. On our Facebook page. Yeah. But Wayland Community Forum, you have, we could do the Know Your Rights thing too, could go on Community Forum, couldn't it? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. It was very exciting. The only thing is then, this is why I don't like social media, because then you're going to get everybody commenting on it and criticizing and God knows where, when you put it on the Wayland Community Forum. Well, let's see. We haven't done anything like that. First of all, I don't even have to write anything. I can just do the flyer. Right. Put the flyer in. Everybody criticize. And then what, well then, and then see, you know, we haven't floated one. I mean. I can turn on comments. That would be great. Thank you. Well, since you can do that. That sounds wonderful. That would be good. Gee. I appreciate it. Wow. You think, huh? And they don't comment on Facebook? That's what I'm saying. People comment on, everybody's an expert on everything. That's why I don't do Facebook at all. I understand. I don't even open it up and look. Exactly. Exactly. So thank you for that, Sarah. And also, so you're going to put the Know Your Rights, but also the Joe McGill thing on the community forum. Thank you for that. Thank you. Okay. Any other announcements? Well, I have one more. You'll be happy to know. For the first time in five years, we're going to skip a meeting. We have had quorums every single meeting every month of five years, and we're going to take a break this August. Thank you. So there will be no August, meaning that we will resume on September or something. Okay. Well, since you're saying that. Interesting. Yes. September 15th. I would just say that that means we are right up against the having a table at the festival. We have to, you know, we have to create something for our table. It would be nice to have something new. So. Bring the bulletin boards. Yeah. That is made right there. It's not portable. Make a mobile. Yeah. So I would, since we're here, I'm going to put a notice on it. Anybody has a thought about what we would include on that table. Let's put, you know, just we won't have a lot of time when September at our September meeting. So think about what that we'd like that to be. And I mean, we have the, we have a tent, we have the table, we have a tablecloth and we have, you know, every book, we have our books with the, you know, with our statements. I'm only half kidding though about, I mean, you can't put all those old words, but you probably could take some of it and make it into a discipline. Like the, what do you want? The future, the one on the right, the blue one. Yeah. No. Okay. I'm done. I'm writing it down. I'm glad we're talking about it. At least, you know, think about it and get what you want and whatever. We'll, we'll see what is from the, um, even if we were to take a picture of it and blow that up. There you go. Well, that's a great idea. Yeah. Because otherwise if you take some of it off. Yeah. You're going to be a spot. Right? That's a great idea. You can show slides too. Right? True. Slides. Yeah. Just then we need a, we just need a big iPad. We can show the slides. I did. Yeah. Okay. I'm, I'm counting on you. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Wonderful. In fact, slides on, I mean, you know, we actually have a number of things that we could, if we could do a slide show that could be entertaining. Hmm. Plus we always, always have a game. Yes. Actually, what really brings people there is if there's something for the kids to do that is physical. So like, and, and actually I have a few things, a ball into a, you know, a bin, you know, something like that. Pretty, pretty straightforward. I have total confidence in you, Mary. Okay. You have proven yourself year after year. You are so good at this. All right. Okay. All right. So can we have a motion to adjourn? So moved. Okay. Denise moved. Oh, I have to write. I have to write this down. I know. Is there a second? Second. Heather seconded. Okay. Let us vote. Heather? Yes. Denise? Yes. Sarah? Yes. Marianne? Yes. Ken? Yes. And Yomi? Yes. And Karen? Yes. So the meeting is adjourned at, what time is it? 7.45.