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WE'RE ALSO GOING TO NEED TO TAKE STEPS, UH, IF WE'RE ALL IN AGREEMENT THAT I SHOULD REMAIN AS CHAIR IN ORDER TO, TO GET ME REELECTED AS CHAIR.
AND THAT'S GONNA INCLUDE SCHEDULING A SPECIAL CALL MEETING AND OR WAITING UNTIL THE NEXT ELECTION, EXCUSE ME, THE NEXT MEETING, UH, TO HAVE A SPECIAL ELECTION OUT THE GATE, AND THEN I'D BE ABLE TO TAKE OVER IN HIS CHAIR.
BUT IN THE MEANTIME, UH, I JUST WANNA GIVE YOU ALL THAT CONTEXT.
UH, WE'RE STILL GONNA HAVE A SMOOTH MEETING TODAY, UH, BUT WE'VE GOT NOW LESS THAN TWO MINUTES TO LAUNCH THIS MEETING.
SO, UH, LET ME GO AHEAD AND PASS IT OFF TO VICE CHAIR DACA, UH, WHO WILL BE CHAIR OF COURSE TODAY, AND, UH, THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE UNTIL WE GET THIS RESULT.
HEY EVERYONE, THIS IS STEVEN APODACA COMING TO YOU
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FROM THE CITY OF AUSTIN PERMITTING AND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE ON WEDNESDAY, MAY 10TH, 2023, STARTING OUR MEETING AT 6:58 PM UM, START WITH OUR ROLL CALL.FIRST WE HAVE MYSELF, STEPHEN, AKA REPRESENTING DISTRICT TWO OF THE COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION.
WE'LL START WITH ROLL CALL IN THE ROOM, AND WE'LL START TO MY LEFT.
COMMISSIONER AZA, REPRESENTING DISTRICT EIGHT, COMMISSIONER SMITH REPRESENTING DISTRICT THREE.
COMMISSIONER PITTS REPRESENTING DISTRICT ONE.
AND WITH THAT, WE'LL MOVE ONLINE IF WE CAN HAVE COMMISSIONER TO SCOOP, UH, INDICATE AS FIRST THIS IS REPRESENTING DISTRICT 10, IS COMMISSIONER ISLAND REPRESENTING DISTRICT SEVEN.
SO WITH THAT, I BELIEVE WE HAVE QUORUM AND OFFICIALLY CALL OUR MEETING ON MAY 10TH TO ORDER.
FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS PUBLIC COMMUNICATION.
I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE ANY MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, SO WE'LL MOVE ON TO
[APPROVAL OF MINUTES]
APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.UM, FIRST ITEM THAT WE HAVE TO APPROVE, WERE THE MINUTES FROM OUR REGULAR SCHEDULED MEETING ON MARCH 8TH.
I'LL GIVE FOLKS JUST A MOMENT TO LOOK THAT OVER AND LOOK FOR, UM, ONE OF THE COMMISSIONERS TO INDICATE APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES.
I DID WANT TO ASK A QUESTION OF CITY STAFF IF I COULD.
UM, DO Y'ALL HAVE A COPY OF THE MINUTES IN FRONT OF YOU? OH, HELLO.
UH, WANTED TO HAVE YOU CONFIRM ON AGENDA ITEM, UM, MINUTES HERE AGAIN, IT'S THE APRIL MEETING MINUTES.
SO WE HAVE TWO SETS OF MINUTES, RIGHT, APRIL MINUTES.
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IN A DRAFT REVISION OF THESE MINUTES, I PROVIDED SOME GUIDANCE, UH, BASED ON THE IRREGULARITIES THAT WERE EXPRESSED OR, OR CONCERNS THAT WERE EXPRESSED, UH, ABOUT THE, THE CYCLE OF ELECTION AND OR, UH, THE TERM.WITH THAT BEING SAID, SHOULD THE, THE MINUTES READ AS THEY DO NOW OR SHOULD THEY BE ALTERED CHAIR PITTS? AS FAR AS I'M AWARE, THE MINUTES ARE CORRECT AS PRESENTED.
FOR ITEM SIX, APRIL, OFFICER ELECTIONS, OUR LAST MEETING, I BELIEVE WE'RE ON AGENDA ITEM ONE, THE MARCH 8TH MINUTES.
SO IF WE REMEMBER LAST, LAST MEETING YEAH.
UM, WE HAD ASKED THE COMMISSIONERS TO REVIEW THE MEETING RECORDING FROM THAT SESSION BECAUSE AT THE TIME WE DIDN'T HAVE ENOUGH, UM, VOTES TO FIRM UP THE MINUTES.
WELL, I'LL MOVE TO APPROVE THE, UH, THE MINUTES FROM THE MARCH 8TH MEETING AS PRESENTED.
SO WITH THAT, WE CAN CALL FOR A VOTE.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE MINUTES AS PRESENTED FROM MARCH 8TH, 2023.
PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS AND SAY AYE.
ANY, ANY ABSTENTIONS? ANY NAYS? MOTION CARRIES.
COMMISSIONER DESTA, DID YOU HAVE A NO, I, I APPROVED, EXCEPT NOW I'VE BEEN BOUNCED OUT AT THE, OF THE SESSION.
I HAVE TO TYPE IN THE PANELIST PASSWORD ALL OVER AGAIN.
THIS IS GETTING TO BE VERY ANNOYING.
UH, WE CAN SEE AND HEAR YOU JUST FINE.
COMMISSIONER GUPTA? WELL, I CAN'T SEE ANYBODY.
IT'S ASKING FOR A PANELIST PASSWORD.
I HAD GONE TO RE I HAD GONE TO ANOTHER WINDOW TO READ THE MINUTES, AND WHEN I CAME BACK, I WAS GONE.
GIVE US JUST A MOMENT TO, UM, SEE WHAT'S GOING ON ON OUR END.
UH, I CAN LET, LET ME, UH, FINISH TEXTING.
UH, COMMISSIONER WOJAK, THOUGH.
UM, COMMISSIONER PITTS IS GOING TO TEXT YOU THE PANELIST'S PASSWORD.
THIS WAY IF I HAVE TO TYPE IT IN AGAIN, I'LL HAVE IT IN THE MEANTIME.
IF, UH, FOLKS COULD PLEASE REVIEW THE MEETING MINUTES FROM APRIL.
YEAH, BY THE WAY, CHAIR, I APPROVED THE MARCH MEETING MINUTES.
COMMISSIONER DUST GUPTA, THIS IS DAN MARTINEZ AND I JUST TEXTED YOU THE, UH, YEP, I JUST GOT IT.
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LET US KNOW WHEN YOU'RE BACK AND WE'LL CON WE'LL PROCEED WITH THE AGENDA.UM, WITH THAT, I WILL ACCEPT A MOTION TO APPROVE THE APRIL 12TH MINUTES.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE APRIL 12TH MEETING.
COMMISSIONER SMITH HAS INDICATED APPROVAL OF THE MINUTES, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER AZAM.
WE'LL GO AHEAD AND, UH, GO FOR A VOTE.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE MARCH OR THE APRIL 12TH MINUTES AS PRESENTED, PLEASE RAISE YOUR HANDS TO SAY AYE.
ANY AB I ABSTAIN BECAUSE I MISSED THE MEETING.
SO, UM, ONE ABSTENTION, ANY NAYS? OKAY, MOTION CARRIES, UH, DOES NOT CARRY CUZ WE DON'T HAVE GOT IT.
SO IT SEEMS THAT, UM, PUT THAT FORWARD TO OUR NEXT MEETING, UNFORTUNATELY.
SO, UM, IN THE MEANTIME, WE WILL, UM, PUT THAT ONTO OUR NEXT AGENDA ITEM.
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MOVE ON TO OUR DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEMS. AGENDA ITEM THREE, OUR WORK PLAN.SO WITH THAT WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE OUR COLLEAGUES HERE FROM THE CITY OF AUSTIN.
SO TODAY, UM, WE ARE GOING TO BE HELPING CONDUCT, UH, SOME, AN ANNUAL WORK PLANNING SESSION.
UH, SO WHAT THAT MEANS IS WE'RE GONNA BE GOING THROUGH YOUR PREVIOUS ANNUAL WORK PLAN, UM, KIND OF GATHERING SOME THOUGHTS AND IDEAS FOR NEW ITEMS THAT, UH, MAY COME UP AND SET PRIORITIES FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR.
SO, WITH THAT SAID, UM, WE WOULD LIKE TO GET SOME INTRODUCTIONS FROM ALL OF YOU.
SO I UNDERSTAND THERE ARE SOME NEW COMMISSIONERS.
SO, UH, IF YOU COULD INTRODUCE YOURSELF.
UM, LET ME GET OUR PRESENTATION UP CUZ WE'VE GOT SOME, SOME QUESTIONS, SOME LITTLE ICEBREAKER QUESTIONS.
SO IF YOU COULD TELL US YOUR NAME, TELL, TELL US WHAT YOUR ROLE ON THE COMMISSION IS AND WHAT WORKING GROUPS YOU ARE ON.
IF YOU ARE CURRENTLY ASSIGNED TO ANY, UH, WHAT YOU DO FOR WORK OUTSIDE OF THE COMMISSION AND WHAT IS ONE CURRENT TECH ADVANTAGE THAT YOU COULDN'T HAVE IMAGINED HAVING FIVE YEARS AGO.
AND WHAT'S YOUR JETSON'S CAR? SO WHAT, WHAT DID YOU THINK TECHNOLOGY DID YOU THINK YOU WOULD HAVE BY THIS POINT, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE? UM, I'LL GET STARTED.
IF YOU COULD DO THE NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.
UM, LIKE I SAID, MY NAME IS KATHY JACKSON.
I'M WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN FINANCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
I WORK ON THE STEPS TEAM AND, UH, THAT'S STRATEGY TRAINING, EQUITY PROCESS CONSULTING.
UM, MY FOCUS IS ON STRATEGIC PLANNING AND PROCESS CONSULTING, AND I COULDN'T HAVE IMAGINED THAT WE WOULD HAVE FITNESS TRACKERS FOR DOGS.
I DIDN'T KNOW IT WAS NECESSARY, BUT HERE WE ARE.
WE CAN TRACK THEIR EVERY MOVE, WE CAN MAKE SURE THEY'RE GETTING IN ALL OF THEIR STEPS.
UM, BUT, UH, ONE THING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT WE DON'T HAVE IS THE ABILITY TO LIKE IMPLANT A SIM CARD OR SOMETHING INTO OUR BRAIN WHERE WE WOULD BE ABLE TO KNOW EVERY LANGUAGE SO WE COULD JUST TRAVEL ACROSS THE GLOBE AND BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE.
I'M MARYA ALSO WITH FINANCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT, UM, STEPS TEAM, ALSO BUSINESS PROCESS CONSULTANT.
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I COULD NOT HAVE IMAGINED, AND THIS IS SORT OF HORRIFYING TO ME, BUT IT'S, UM, BUT IT'S REAL, RIGHT? WE HAVE DRIVERLESS SEMI TRUCKS THAT ARE BEING TESTED ON ROADS RIGHT NOW, COULD NOT HAVE IMAGINED THAT FIVE YEARS AGO.AND THEN MY JETSON'S CAR, THE THING THAT I WOULD LOVE EVEN MORE THAN A FLYING CAR WOULD BE, UM, WOULD BE, UH, SOMETHING LIKE A FACT CHECKER, BUT TO BE AUTOMATED AND INSTANT.
SO ON ANY DIGITAL PLATFORM, WHETHER THAT'S A NEWS AGGREGATOR OR SOCIAL MEDIA OR YOUTUBE, I WOULD LIKE FOR, UM, STATEMENTS TO BE ABLE TO BE EVALUATED FACTUALLY AND, UM, GET THOSE UPDATES IN REAL TIME.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S MY JETSON'S CAR.
UM, NOW, UH, FOR THE REST OF YOU, UM, GO AHEAD AND TAKE A MINUTE TO THINK ABOUT YOUR, YOUR QUESTIONS AND THEN, UH, AND THEN WE'LL GO AROUND AND WE'VE GOT THEM BACK UP ON THE SCREEN.
AND, UH, AND WE'LL HAVE YOU INTRODUCE YOURSELVES.
SO WHICH DIRECTION WOULD YOU LIKE TO START? WHO WANTS TO GO FIRST? HOW ABOUT JUST COMMISSIONERS? WE'LL, WE'LL COMPACT OUR TIME A LITTLE BIT.
WELL, I, I'LL TAKE IT FIRST AND THEN MAYBE WE CAN GO AROUND THIS WAY.
STEVEN APODACA, SERVE AS VICE CHAIR OF THE COMMISSION, UM, WORKING GROUP.
I SIT ON THE KIDS WORKING GROUP.
UH, SO CHAIR THAT ONE, UM, AS WELL.
AND WHAT DO I DO? OUTSIDE OF THE COMMISSION MANAGEMENT CONSULTANT AT ONE OF THE BIG FOUR MANAGEMENT CONSULTING COMPANIES, MOSTLY FOCUSED ON, UH, LARGE SCALE TECHNOLOGY IMPLEMENTATIONS, UH, AS A CHANGE MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONER.
UH, ONE TECH ADVANTAGE I COULDN'T HAVE IMAGINED FIVE YEARS AGO.
CHAT, G P T, UH, THE PAST SEVERAL MONTHS I'VE LEVERAGED CHAD G PETINA IN A NUMBER OF CREATIVE WAYS.
RECENTLY TOOK A TRIP ABROAD AND IT CREATED MY ENTIRE ITINERARY FOR ME.
UM, SOURCING NOT ONLY GREAT PLACES TO VISIT, BUT ALSO IDENTIFYING HOW TO GET THERE, HOW TO GET TO THE LOCATIONS WITHIN THE PROXIMITY OF, OF THE HOTEL.
SO IT'S JUST AMAZING, UM, THE, UM, THE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND, AND HOW QUICKLY IT'S EVOLVING.
REALLY INTERESTED TO SEE, UM, HOW THAT IMPACTS A NUMBER OF, OF, OF, UM, TOPICS WITHIN SOCIETY.
IN MY JETSON'S CAR, MY JETSON'S CAR WOULD HAVE TO BE THE ELECTRIC CAR I OWN.
UM, REALLY IMPRESSED WITH THE, UH, THE QUALITY AND THE, THE LEVEL OF TECHNOLOGY THAT'S BEEN, UM, THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO.
SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MY COLLEAGUE.
I DON'T CURRENTLY SIT ON ANY, UH, ADDITIONAL UH, COM PART OF THE COMMITTEE SUBCOMMITTEES YET.
I LEAD THE PROCESS TEAM THERE.
THAT'S WHAT I DO OUTSIDE OF HERE.
UH, WHAT COULD I HAVE NOT IMAGINED FIVE YEARS AGO OF THE VALUE OF BITCOIN? THE RISE, FALL,
I WOULD NEVER HAVE FIGURED, LIKE I COULD DO A FULL WORKOUT IN MY HOME.
I SERVE AS A COMMISSIONER HERE ON THE COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS BOARD.
I DON'T CURRENTLY SIT ON ANY WORKING GROUPS, ALTHOUGH I'M EAGER TO JOIN A WORKING GROUP.
UM, WHAT I DO OUTSIDE OF THE COMMISSION IS I WORK FOR A ONCE PUBLIC, NOW PRIVATE CYBER SECURITY FIRM, HEADQUARTERED RIGHT HERE IN AUSTIN CALLED SALEPOINT TECHNOLOGIES.
UM, I LEAD OUR IMPLEMENTATION PROJECTS FOR OUR IDENTITY AND ACCESS MANAGEMENT PRODUCTS.
SO CLOUD SECURITY AND ON-PREM SECURITY FOR ALL OF YOUR EMPLOYEE IDENTITIES IS ESSENTIALLY WHAT, UM, THE PROJECTS THAT I KIND OF WORK ON.
UH, ONE CURRENT TECH ADVANCE THAT CAN IMAGINE FIVE YEARS AGO.
UM, I'M GONNA PIGGYBACK OFF OF COMMISSIONER, VICE CHAIR, AKAS, AND THAT'S IMAGE G P T.
UM, CAUSE I LOVE CHAT G P T AND HOW THE ALGORITHM CAN PULL OUT TEXT, BUT THE IMAGE G P T IS LIKE THAT TO ME, KIND OF ON STEROIDS, SO TO SPEAK, AND THAT IT CAN PULL ANY IMAGE.
IT'S LIKE REVERSE IMAGING TIMES A THOUSAND.
AND I JUST, I ENJOY BEING ABLE TO VISUALIZE SOME OF THOSE THINGS.
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IS MY JETSON'S CAR? I'M STILL PRETTY INTERESTED IN THE FLYING CAR.I THINK I'M STILL WAITING FOR IT.
IT'S, IT'S QUIET AS AN NINJA, I DRIVE A PRIUS NOW AND IT'S VERY QUIET, SO IT'S GOTTA HAVE THE SAME, SAME SOUND EFFECTS OR LACK THEREOF.
JETSON'S CAR IS THE THING THAT YOU WISH WERE A TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCE.
UM, I GUESS MY ROLE IN THIS COMMISSION IS PENDING.
UH, I'M NOT ON ANY CURRENT WORKING GROUPS AND OUTSIDE OF THIS COMMISSION, UH, I DO A LOT
UM, I'M A SENIOR CYBERSECURITY MANAGER AT FINON TECHNOLOGIES.
I'M A IT SPECIALIST FOR AUTOBOOK.
UM, I'M A PROJECT MANAGER FOR THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN BUSINESS OWNERS.
MY ARTIST'S NAME IS LANCE PEAK.
AND, UH, ONE CURRENT TECH ADVANCEMENT THAT I WOULDN'T HAVE IMAGINED FIVE YEARS AGO.
UM, I DON'T KNOW, I THINK THERE'S A LOT, BUT I THINK THE MAIN ONE THAT WAS LIKE, UH, CRUCIAL WAS LIKE HOW THEY WERE ABLE TO LIKE ADVANCE THE, UM, SEMICONDUCTOR CHIPS TO WHERE LIKE SO MUCH CAN HAPPEN ON SUCH SMALL DEVICES.
UM, AND MY JETSON'S CAR WOULD PROBABLY BE, UM, A FULFILLMENT OF THE AMBITIONS OF LIKE CRISPR TECHNOLOGIES TO WHERE LIKE, THROUGH LIKE GENE EDITING, UM, WE COULD KIND OF MAKE A AMENDMENT TO LIKE, LIFELONG ISSUES THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PLAYED WITH, LIKE AIDS OR LIKE SICKLE CELL.
UM, MY NAME IS NEHEMIAH PITTS III, AND, UM, I HAVE SERVED AS CHAIR FOR THE PAST THREE YEARS AND SOME ODD DAYS OF THIS COMMISSION.
UM, I'M CURRENTLY CHAIR THE WORKING GROUP OF THE, WELL, I, I CURRENTLY CHAIR THE DIGITAL INCLUSION CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY, STRATEGIC TELECOM POLICY IMPACT WORKING GROUP.
THAT'S A MOUTHFUL,
UH, PRIMARILY BECAUSE AT ONE POINT, UH, IT WAS NECESSARY.
UH, BUT I'M ALSO VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THOSE ISSUES.
WHAT DO I DO OUTSIDE THE COMMISSION? UH, I DO A LOT.
UM, I AM A SINGLE DAD CO-PARENT TO A BEAUTIFUL 16 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER.
UH, AS OF THIS PAST, UH, MONDAY, UM, I AM, UH, A VERY HANDS-ON, UH, SON, UH, IN A FAMILY THAT JUST UNFORTUNATELY OVER THANKSGIVING SUFFERED TRAGEDY AND THE LOSS OF MY SISTER, BUT WE'RE, WE'RE BOUNDING QUITE WELL AND, AND FOCUSED ON, ON, UH, THE OPPORTUNITIES WE HAVE IN FRONT OF US.
I'VE ALSO GOT A CONSULTING BUSINESS, A SMALL ONE CALLED SHINING LIGHT CONSULTING.
UH, I'VE PRIMARILY FOCUSED ON FRIENDS AND FAMILY PROJECTS.
UH, I HAVE WORKED FOR LARGE INDUSTRY LEADERS IN SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE IN THE PAST.
UM, HOWEVER, AT THIS POINT I'M REALLY JUST FOCUSED ON FAMILY AND MY WORK ON THE COMMISSION PRIMARILY.
WHAT IS ONE CURRENT TECH ADVANCE THAT I COULDN'T HAVE IMAGINED FIVE YEARS AGO? HMM.
THERE'S A LOT THAT YOU GUYS HAVE SAID THAT I CAN RELATE TO.
UH, PRETTY MUCH ALL OF IT, I GUESS TO EXPRESS SOMETHING DIFFERENT, IT'S GONNA BE TOUGH.
UH, MY, MY JETSON'S CAR, UH, I CAN SAY BECAUSE I USED TO WATCH THE JETSONS, UH, UH, DATE MYSELF, ACTUALLY,
UM, AND THE, AGAIN, THE CRISPR ONE, YOU KNOW, BEING ABLE TO IMPACT GENES AND, AND, UH, YOU KNOW,
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SYSTEMIC DISEASE, UH, I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S BETTER THAN THAT.OUTSIDE OF TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS THAT COULD OF COURSE PROTECT OUR EARTH, UH, TO ENABLE, UH, A HOST PLANET FOR ALL OF THAT TECHNOLOGY.
SO, IF I HAVE TO ONE UP, I GUESS I'LL JUST HAVE TO GO TO THE GLOBE
UH, BECAUSE AS YOU KNOW, UH, WE'RE INVESTING, UH, IN, IN TECHNOLOGIES OFF PLANET.
UH, AND MANY ARE WONDERING WHY, UM, I WON'T EXPRESS MY OPINION ON THAT.
BUT AS FAR AS WHAT CURRENT TECH ADVANCE, I COULDN'T IMAGINE FIVE YEARS AGO, I COULDN'T HAVE IMAGINED FIVE YEARS AGO THAT THERE WOULD BE OPPORTUNITIES FOR, UH, INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE, UH, THAT WOULD ENABLE, UM, A SYS A REAL SYSTEMIC UPLIFT TO COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE BEEN UNIQUELY IMPACTED BY DIGITAL REDLINING AND, UH, THE LEGACIES OF SEGREGATION.
BUT WE HAVE THAT TECHNOLOGY NOW, AND IT EXCITES ME ONLINE.
OKAY, SO MY, CAN YOU ALL HEAR ME? I'M, I'M HEARING THERE'S A LOT OF RINGING IN THE LINE, BUT I'LL KEEP TALKING.
SO MY FULL NAME IS SUMIT SUPTA, AND I HAVE BEEN IN THIS COMMISSION FOR SEVEN YEARS.
I THOUGHT IT WAS EIGHT, BUT I WAS TOLD IT'S SEVEN, WHICH MEANS THIS IS MY LAST YEAR AND I'M GONNA MISS IT NEXT YEAR.
UH, I AM, I'M IN THE TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE WORKING GROUP, AND, UH, I DABBLE IN TECHNOLOGY.
UH, I AM NOW RETIRED, BUT I SPENT MY ENTIRE CAREER IN SEMICONDUCTOR AND COMPUTER TECHNOLOGY.
WORKED AT IBM FOR 29 YEARS, MOTOROLA FOR FOUR, AND AN INDUSTRY CONSORTIUM FOR 11 YEARS.
BUT EVEN THOUGH I'VE BEEN RETIRED FOR 10 YEARS, I FOLLOW THE, THE TECHNOLOGY BUSINESS LIKE A HAWK I READ EVERY DAY.
AND SO WHEN I LOOK AT THE ONE CURRENT TECHNOLOGY ADVANCE THAT I COULDN'T HAVE IMAGINED FIVE YEARS AGO, IT'S GOT TO BE AI.
I FIRST DABBLED IN AI IN 1983 AND REALIZED THAT WE NEEDED A WHOLE LOT MORE COMPUTATION CAPABILITY IN ORDER TO ATTACK THAT FIELD.
AND I AM SO EXCITED ABOUT EVERYTHING ABOUT AI.
UH, AS FAR AS, OH, WHAT I DO OUTSIDE THE COMMISSION, I FORGOT THAT BULLET.
UH, I AM VERY, VERY INVOLVED WITH THE COMMUNITY IN AUSTIN.
UH, I, EVEN THOUGH I'M VISITING MY YOUNGEST DAUGHTER IN CHICAGO, I'M SITTING HERE AND, UH, SENDING MESSAGES TO DIFFERENT STATE REPS AND SENATORS ON THE BILLS THAT THEY SHOULD BE VOTING ON AND HOW THEY SHOULD BE VOTING ON.
SO POLITICS IS SOMETHING THAT I LIVE WITH.
UH, OF COURSE, I'M THE FATHER OF THREE DAUGHTERS.
I'M FATHER OF THREE DAUGHTERS, ALL OF WHOM ARE SETTLED AND MARRIED, AND I HAVE FIVE GRANDKIDS, THREE WHO LIVE NEAR US IN AUSTIN AND TWO IN DENVER.
AS FAR AS MY JETSON'S CAR, UH, I WISH I COULD S UH, CAN I SAY JETSON'S CARS BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY THAT I WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT.
NUMBER ONE, I HEARD THIS, UH, THIS, THIS TOPIC ON MRNA TECHNOLOGY.
IT IS, UH, A, A WINDOW INTO A BRAVE NEW WORLD OF MEDICINES FOR THE FIRST TIME.
THEY'RE SAYING THAT THAT COULD BE THE SECRET SOURCE TO RESOLVING, TO CONQUERING, UH, CANCER.
UH, ANOTHER ONE, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT, THAT CHAIR PIT MENTIONED BEFORE ABOUT THE ABILITY OF 5G TO LEVEL THE TECHNOLOGY PLAYING FIELD FOR EVERYBODY, YOU KNOW, UNRELATED TO INCOME OR THEIR ZIP CODE.
AND THE LAST ONE IS MY JETSON CAR, IS THAT WE WILL STOP USING FOSSIL FUELS AND MOVE TO ELECTRIC VEHICLES AND RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR GOOD.
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AND COMMISSIONER ISLAND.UM, I'M CURRENTLY ON THE KIDS AND DIBS WORKING GROUPS, BUT I ACTUALLY AM TAKING A LITTLE BREAK FOR THEM BECAUSE I, UM, ACTUALLY JUST HAD MY SECOND BABY LAST MONTH.
SO, UM, HENCE WHY I'M NOT IN PERSON TODAY.
UM, AND, UM, OUTSIDE OF THE COMMISSION, I ACTUALLY, I ACTUALLY WORKED AT, WORKED IN CYBERSECURITY UP UNTIL, UM, ABOUT FEBRUARY.
I WAS UNFORTUNATELY PART OF THE SILICON VALLEY LAYOFFS.
UM, AND, UM, WENT THROUGH THAT AND THEN USED THIS TIME JUST TO, UM, YOU KNOW, FINISH OUT MY PREGNANCY AND HAVE MY BABY.
AND I'M ACTUALLY LAUNCHING A NEW BUSINESS, UM, THAT'S FOCUSED ON WOMEN'S, UM, HEALTH.
AND SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE I'M, UM, SHIFTING MY FOCUS RIGHT NOW.
BUT I WAS A DIGITAL MARKETER FOR MANY YEARS.
UM, I THINK FOR ME, ASIDE FROM A LOT OF THE AI STUFF, RIGHT, I THINK THAT'S JUST MIND BLOWING EVERY DAY, HOW FAST OUR TECHNOLOGIES ARE MOVING RIGHT NOW.
BUT ROBOTICS HAS BEEN REALLY INTERESTING AS WELL.
UM, AND USING SOME OF THAT TECHNOLOGY TO, UM, REALLY HELP PEOPLE THAT HAVE LOST LIMBS OR, UM, YOU KNOW, NEED TO HAVE SPECIFIC, UM, YOU KNOW, ORGANS AND THINGS IMPLANTED NOW.
UM, SO I THINK THAT GIVING PEOPLE A NEW, A NEW, UM, FRAME FOR LIFE WITH ROBOTICS HAS BEEN REALLY INTERESTING.
UM, AS FAR AS MY JETSON CAR, I'M KIND OF IN THE SAME BOAT WHERE I, I FEEL LIKE THERE'S, THERE'S SOME ILLNESSES OUT THERE THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN CURED BY NOW OR, OR SHOULD HAVE BEEN, YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD BE FURTHER ALONG THAN WE ARE.
UM, WE DON'T EVEN HAVE A CURE FOR THE COMMON COLD, RIGHT? SO,
ALL RIGHT, SO OUR NEXT SECTION, UM, AND WE'VE GOT HANDHELD NOW, SO WE DON'T HAVE TO BE BEHIND 50 FEET BEHIND YOU, UM, IN THE PODIUM.
UM, SO THE NEXT SECTION, UH, THAT WE'RE GONNA DO, WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT PURPOSE.
UM, AND THE, THE IDEA HERE IS THAT WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU, THAT THERE IS BOTH AN INDIVIDUAL SENSE OF, OF PURPOSE WHY YOU'RE HERE, WHY YOU WANTED TO, UH, SERVE THE CITY AS A COMMISSIONER ON THIS COMMISSION, UM, AND THEN A COMMON, UM, UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT, UM, THE PURPOSE OF THIS COMMISSION IS.
AND WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PURPOSE, WE ARE REALLY SORT OF TALKING ABOUT HIGHER PURPOSE.
HOW IS IT THAT WE, UH, THAT THIS COMMISSION SERVES THE CITY, RIGHT? SO INDIVIDUALLY AND, UM, AND AS A COLLECTIVE.
SO IF YOU COULD ADVANCE THE SLIDE, PLEASE.
YOU'VE GOT STICKY NOTES ON YOUR, UH, ON YOUR TABLES, IF YOU DON'T HAVE STICKY NOTES, DOES EVERYBODY HAVE A, A STACK OF DIFFERENT COLORED ONES? GREAT.
SO YOU, YOU'RE GOING TO, UM, AND WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA NEED TO GIVE YOU DIFFERENT, UH, SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES OF, UH, STACKS OF STICKY NOTES.
SO IF YOU START TO RUN OUT OF A COLOR, LET US KNOW AND WE'LL GET YOU SOME MORE STICKY NOTES.
UM, BUT WHAT WE WANT YOU TO DO IS, UM, PUT ONE IDEA ON EACH STICKY NOTE.
AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE ONLINE, SO COMMISSIONER KAAS GUPTA, AND COMMISSIONER ISLAND, GO AHEAD AND JUST WRITE THESE DOWN.
AND MAYBE YOU, UM, MAKE THREE COLUMNS, UM, ON A SHEET OF PAPER OR, UH, ON A SCREEN THAT YOU'RE TYPING ON.
UM, SO GO AHEAD AND, AND STILL TRY TO SORT OF SORT THESE OUT.
UH, WHAT WE WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO DO ON BLUE STICKY NOTES, UM, ONE IDEA PER STICKY NOTE.
UM, YOU WANT TO WRITE THINGS THAT YOU AS A MEMBER WANT TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE THROUGH SERVING ON THIS MI MISSION ON THIS COMMISSION.
UM, SO SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO ACHIEVE BY SERVING ON THE COMMISSION.
YELLOW, WHAT DO YOU WANT THE, THE COMMISSION TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE AS A COLLECTIVE GROUP? AND THEN ON THE ORANGE ONES, UM, KIND OF PINKISH ONES.
ALL RIGHT, WE GOT MORE RIGHT HERE.
UM, SO ON THOSE, ON THOSE ORANGE ONES, WHAT ARE THE SPECIFIC AREAS THAT THE CITY HAS YET TO MAKE ADEQUATE ADVANCES IN THAT YOU THINK THE COMMISSION COULD ADDRESS?
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SO WITHIN THE REALM OF COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, UM, WHAT DO YOU THINK? WE STILL HAVE GAPS IN THAT, THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL, UM, FOR THE COMMISSION'S WORK TO SORT OF TOUCH ON.SO BLUE WILL BE PERSONAL, WHAT YOU, UM, WANT TO ACHIEVE BY SERVING ON THE COMMISSION.
UM, YELLOW, WHAT DO YOU WANT THE COMMISSION TO BE ABLE TO ACHIEVE AS A WHOLE? AND THEN THE, THE ORANGE, RED, PINK, HOWEVER YOU WANNA SEE THE COLOR.
UM, WHAT ARE THE SPECIFIC AREAS THAT WE, THAT ARE GONNA BE THOSE GAPS THAT WE'RE NOT ADDRESSING WELL YET? SO GO AHEAD AND TAKE SOME TIME TO DO THAT.
JUST ONE IDEA ON EACH STICKY NOTE.
AND THEN WE'RE GONNA DO SOME THINGS WITH THE STICKY NOTES.
WE'LL GIVE YOU ALL ABOUT 10 MINUTES FOR THIS ACTIVITY.
UNLESS YOU ARE ALL DONE, UM, EARLIER, THEN WE CAN, WE CAN WRAP IT UP AND MOVE FORWARD.
MAY I ASK A CLARIFYING QUESTION, PLEASE? UM, I SHOULDN'T HAVE TO, BUT I, I FEEL I JUST NEED TO CLARIFY MAYBE FOR ANYONE ELSE IS SICK AS WELL.
UM, SO IF WE HAVE SOMETHING IN MIND FOR THE COMMISSION AS A COLLECTIVE GROUP TO ACHIEVE, DO YOU WANT THIS PARTICULAR THING TO WRITE DOWN NOW TO BE SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE NOT ALREADY DESIGNATED AS SOMETHING THAT WE WANNA ACHIEVE? THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING.
SO WE'RE NOT TALKING NECESSARILY ABOUT, UM, ABOUT ACTIONS THAT YOU WOULD TAKE AS A COMMISSION.
WE'RE TALKING SORT OF BIG PICTURES.
SO WHAT DO YOU, IN WHAT WAYS, UM, WILL YOU CHANGE THINGS FOR THE CITY? IN WHAT WAYS WILL YOU, RIGHT.
UM, SO IT COULD BE THAT, UM, THAT THE COMMISSION'S PURPOSE, UM, UH, IS, COULD BE AROUND DIGITAL INCLUSION.
WE KNOW THAT THAT IS PART OF YOUR PURPOSE.
SO SOME OF THIS WILL BE A RESTATING, UM, AND THAT IS SORT OF BAKED INTO THIS PART OF THE EXERCISE IS A RESTATING OF WHAT YOUR MISSION IS AS A COMMISSION.
UM, AND THIS IS JUST, THIS IS NOT NECESSARILY BRAINSTORMING NEW STUFF.
IT REALLY IS SO THAT WE HAVE SORT OF PUT A, A LITTLE BIT OF A FOUNDATION BENEATH US SO THAT AS WE'RE MOVING FORWARD, WE HAVE EYES ON, ON REALLY WHAT THE BIG PICTURE, WHAT'S YOUR PURPOSE? AWESOME, THANK YOU.
AND IT'S OKAY IF YOU DOUBLED UP.
MAYBE THAT'S A JETSON'S CAR, UH, PEN THAT TELLS YOU WHEN IT'S ABOUT TO RUN OUT.
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NUMBER TWO, SORRY, FOR THOSE OF YOU ONLINE, GO AHEAD AND JUST TAKE A MINUTE OR TWO TO WRAP UP.WE'RE GONNA HAVE YOU READ THOSE, UM, IN YOUR PLACE SO THAT YOU CAN DO THAT IN THE MICROPHONE.
UM, AND THEN, UH, WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL HAVE YOU READ OFF WHAT YOU HAVE ON YOUR STICKY NOTES, AND THEN AS THE NEXT COMMISSIONER IS READING THEIRS, GO AHEAD AND COME ON UP.
AND, UM, AND YOU'LL PLACE THEM ON THE PURPOSE AND MEMBER GOALS, UM, FLIP CHART PAPER, AND THEN COMMISSIONERS, DUS, GUPA, DUST GUPTA, AND ISLAND.
IF YOU WOULD JUST GO AHEAD AND KEEP, UM, TAKING YOUR NOTES, IF YOU'RE DOING THAT BY HAND, UM, WE WILL HAVE YOU SEND, UM, SEND THOSE.
EITHER YOU CAN TYPE 'EM UP OR YOU CAN SEND AN IMAGE ONTO, UM, DAN AND THAT WAY, UH, ALL OF THIS STUFF, WE'LL HAVE YOU READ YOURS OFF, BUT YOU'RE GONNA NEED TO SEND US, UM, WHAT YOU GUYS ARE, ARE DOING ON YOUR OWN THERE.
SO, UM, LET'S START WITH COMMISSIONER PITTS, IF YOU WOULD GO AHEAD AND READ YOURS OFF, UM, AND THEN COME ON UP AND PUT 'EM ON THE, ON THE FLIP CHART.
IN ORDER, UM, AS A MEMBER, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO AS A MEMBER AND WHAT I WANT TO ACHIEVE THROUGH SERVICE ON THE COMMISSION, BUILD BRIDGES AND SHINE LIGHT FOR THE COMMISSION, WHAT DO I WANT THE COMMISSION TO ACHIEVE AS A COLLECTIVE GROUP? UNDO THE EFFECTS OF DIGITAL REDLINING,
AND TO RESOLVE THAT, I THINK OUR COMMISSION COULD HELP DEFINE ALL INTERSECTIONS OF COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS, UH, AS THEY IMPACT OTHER DEPARTMENTS, OTHER, OTHER ENTERPRISE ENTITIES AND OTHER COMPONENTS OF OUR GOVERNMENT.
SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT SILOS, DO YOU, ARE YOU THINKING MORE ALONG THE LINES OF, UM, OF, UH, MAYBE COUNCIL AND DEPARTMENTS BEING SILOED, DISTRICTS BEING SILOED FROM EACH OTHER, UH, THE PRIVATE SECTOR AND PUBLIC SECTOR BEING SILOED FROM EACH OTHER, OR ARE WE TALKING BIG PICTURE? WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN MIND THERE? WELL, IT'S INTERESTING YOU MENTIONED THAT BECAUSE, UH, THE WAY YOU DID, YOU DESCRIBED A VARIETY OF SILOS ABSOLUTELY.
UH, SO IT TAKES INTENTION TO AVOID SILO DECISION MAKING, UH, BECAUSE IT CAN EASILY HAPPEN WITH ALL THESE DIFFERENT SILOS.
UH, AND UNFORTUNATELY IT DOES, AND IT STILL DOES.
SO I WISH I COULD SAY THAT ONLY ONE OF THOSE WAS THE ANSWER, BUT IT ALL, THOSE ARE THE ANSWER.
UH, THE INTERSECTIONS BETWEEN ALL OF THOSE SILOS YOU DESCRIBED NEED TO BE ARTICULATED, SPELLED OUT, AND MAPPED OUT FOR ALL THOSE STAKEHOLDERS SO THEY UNDERSTAND, UH, THAT THEY'RE NOT WORKING ALONE.
SO LEVERAGING THE MEANS THAT WE NOW HAVE WITH TECHNOLOGY IN ORDER TO BREAK DOWN THOSE
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SILOS.STICK 'EM ON THE, ON THE FLIP CHART.
TELL, TELL ME YOUR, UM, NAME AGAIN.
UM, AS A MEMBER, UH, I JUST STATED THAT, UM, I WOULD LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THE COMMISSION'S INFLUENCE ON THE COMMUNITY AND, UM, THE AWARENESS OF THE COMMUNITY ON THE SERVICES THE COMMISSION PROVIDES, UM, FOR THE COMMISSION.
UH, WHAT DO I WANT THE COMMISSION TO ACHIEVE AS A COLLECTIVE GROUP? I FEEL LIKE, UM, BASICALLY LIKE HOLISTIC AWARENESS OF CYBER HYGIENE FOR THE MASSES, UM, LIKE OUTSIDE OF THE COMMISSION, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S ALWAYS LIKE AN ENDURING CONVERSATION.
AND I FEEL LIKE THIS COMMISSION WILL PROBABLY BE ONE OF THE BEST, LIKE, MEDIUMS TO GO ABOUT DOING THAT.
AND SO EDUCATING THEM, EDUCATING THEIR ASSES ON THAT.
YEAH, ON BASIC, YOU KNOW, CYBER HYGIENE, THE, THE DOS AND DON'TS OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, INTERACTING WITH LIKE, FISHING, FOR INSTANCE.
UM, AND, UH, GAPS, I WOULD PRESUME THIS IS PROBABLY GONNA BE LIKE MY MOST, UH, IGNORANT STATEMENT BECAUSE I'M NOT AWARE OF EXACTLY WHAT THE COMMISSION CAN DO ABOUT THIS.
BUT, UM, I SAID TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT BECAUSE, UH, I FEEL LIKE ESPECIALLY HOW 35 IS LIKE, AROUND LIKE BETWEEN LIKE FIVE AND SEVEN, IT WOULD BE NICE TO SEE LIKE IF WE COULD USE LIKE, TECHNOLOGY TO JUST KIND OF LIKE MITIGATE THAT TRAFFIC AT THAT TIME.
LIKE WHETHER IT'S LIKE PUSH NOTIFICATIONS TO LOCALS OR JUST GENERAL, LIKE QR CODES THAT PEOPLE IN THE AREA COULD SIGN UP AND SEE LIKE, OH, YEAH, WELL, PARKING'S GONNA BE A LITTLE MORE EXPENSIVE AT THIS TIME TO DETER PEOPLE FROM BEING IN THAT AREA AT THAT TIME.
BUT JUST SMALL THINGS JUST KIND OF LIKE GUIDE THE TRAFFIC ISSUES THAT WE HAVE IN THAT AREA DOWNTOWN.
AND I, YOU KNOW, I WOULD, UM, I WOULD SAY DON'T THINK THAT THAT'S, UM, NAIVE TO BE THINKING IN THOSE TERMS BECAUSE YOUR COMMISSION MAY HAVE, UM, THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE A WAY TO, UM, LEVERAGE AN INTERACTION WITH A DEPARTMENT.
SO IT MIGHT NOT BE THAT, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THIS COMMISSION IS NOT GONNA DESIGN THE TECHNOLOGICAL SOLUTION TO THAT.
BUT IF THAT'S AN AREA OF, UM, OF INTEREST, UM, IN THE FUTURE, IT COULD BE THAT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE COMMISSION AND TRANSPORTATION OR A P D, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, TRAFFIC ENFORCEMENT OR SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES MAY BE REALLY, UH, WHERE YOU'RE THINKING REALLY BIG PICTURE, UM, THAT MAY BE WHERE, WHERE SOME CONNECTION REALLY, UM, BECOMES POSSIBLE IN THE FUTURE.
SO I LIKE THAT YOU THINKING ALONG THOSE LINES.
COME ON UP, STICK ON A FLIP CHART.
SO THINGS, UH, THAT I WOULD LIKE TO, AS A MEMBER, ACHIEVE THE SERVICE ON THE COMMISSION.
I THINK IF I HAD TO CHOOSE SOMETHING, UH, ONE THING IT WOULD BE JUST TO BRIDGE THE GAP BETWEEN FOLKS, UM, WHO MAY NOT BE, UH, LITERATE BOTH IN A TRADITIONAL SENSE, BUT ALSO DIGITALLY TO ACCESS THE SERVICES, UM, THAT THE CITY HAS TO PROVIDE.
SO, AS COMMISSIONER PITT SAID, KIND OF BEING THE BRIDGE, BUT BEING THE BRIDGE DIGITALLY TO MAKING SURE THAT THE THINGS THAT ARE AVAILABLE OR, OR SERVICES THAT FOLKS WHO CAN'T WALK INTO A, A, A CITY, UM, OFFICE, UM, NEED TO ACCESS, THEY'RE ABLE TO ACCESS THAT THROUGH DIGITAL MEANS.
UM, AND THAT'S NOT AS EASY, I THINK AS SOMETIMES WE MAKE IT OUT TO BE.
UM, IT'S, IT'S A CHALLENGE FOR ME, EVEN MYSELF TO NAVIGATE THE CITY'S WEBSITE.
UM, BUT I'LL GET TO THAT IN MY GAPS.
UM, THAT INCLUDES AN MVP, SO A MINIMUM VIABLE PRODUCT THAT WE CAN DEPLOY WITHIN A YEAR.
SO BEFORE WE LEAVE THIS COMMISSION, YES.
YOU GOTTA BE SPECIFIC SOMETIMES.
WHAT ARE SPECIFIC AREAS THE CITY HAS YET TO MAKE ADEQUATE ADVANCES? HOW CAN THE COMMISSION RESOLVE THIS? SO FIRST ONE, UM, WOULD BE IMPROVING THE RESPONSE TIME FOR RAPID DEPLOYMENT OF EMERGENCY SERVICES.
UM, I DO A LOT WITHIN THE COMMUNITY AROUND THE UNHOUSED.
SO THE HOMELESS OUTREACH IS DEPLOYING OF A MENTAL HEALTH, UH, RESOURCE OR OFFICER.
UM, IT'S LIKE 48 TO 72 HOURS, WHICH IF SOMEONE'S HAVING A MENTAL HEALTH CRISIS IN THAT MOMENT, THEY MAY NOT HAVE ONE IN 48 TO 72 HOURS.
UM, MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, UM, WHAT'S THE OTHER, SORRY, I WAS CHICKEN SCRATCH WRITING HERE.
UM, RESPONSE TIME FOR NATURAL DISASTERS AND THINGS LIKE THE POWER OUTAGE THAT WE SAW NOT TOO LONG AGO.
UM, I WAS FOLLOWING THE CITY OF AUSTIN'S
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OPEN DATA PORTAL ON THAT AND WATCHED AS THAT COMPLETELY FELL APART DURING THAT, THAT FREEZE.UM, BECAUSE I NOTICED THAT THERE WERE KIND OF DOTS EVERYWHERE THAT SAID THIS TRAFFIC LIGHT'S OUT, THIS TRAFFIC LIGHT IS OUT, THIS TRAFFIC LIGHT IS OUT.
AND BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY, IN ORDER TO DISPATCH FOLKS, THEY HAD TO THEN CLUSTER THEM INTO, OKAY, THIS AREA HAS 10, 10 REPORTS, THIS AREA HAS 10 REPORTS, BUT YOU FOUND, UM, CAUSE I LIKE TO JUST TOOTLE AROUND AND KIND OF, I WENT AROUND TOWN TO SEE, OKAY, THIS AREA SAID THAT THERE ARE NOW EIGHT UM, TRAFFIC LIGHTS THAT ARE OUT, BUT YOU GO AND, AND ALL OF THEM ARE STILL OUT.
UM, SO THERE'S A DISCONNECT SOMEHOW BETWEEN, UM, THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS, THAT SYSTEM THAT, THAT THEY USE AND THE ACTUAL KIND OF DATA WAREHOUSE OR WHEREVER THAT, ANYWAY, UM, SO
UM, SOME OF THOSE, UH, THAT WERE NEAR ST.
DAVID'S STILL HAD POWER, CUZ THAT'S KIND OF CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT THERE ARE MANY FOLKS THERE, MANY SMALL BUSINESSES THERE THAT WERE OUT OF POWER FOR A VERY LONG TIME AND IT WAS A SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC IMPACT.
AND, UM, NOT TO MENTION QUALITY OF LIFE ANYWAY.
UM, SO THERE'S THAT, SORRY, I'VE GOT THREE MORE I'LL GO QUICKLY.
UM, IN TERMS OF INTEGRAL CARE, UM, MEANING HOLISTIC CARE FOR, FOR AUSTIN CITIZENS, LEVERAGING AI AND PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS THE SAME WAY THAT KINDA THE HEALTHCARE INDUSTRY IS THAT TREND IS GOING RIGHT NOW, BUT LEVERAGING THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT AUSTIN'S VULNERABLE POPULATIONS HAVE ACCESS TO CITY SERVICES, WHICH KIND OF CAN GO HAND IN HAND WITH THE ACCESSING THEIR ACCESSIBILITY OF THE WEBSITE.
UM, THE THIRD ONE IS, YEP, IMPROVING ACCESSIBILITY OF THE ATX DO GOV WEBSITE, UM, AND THEN CREATING THINGS LIKE, UM, THE, THE GUIDE WE HAVE FOR CENTRAL TEXAS, LIKE GET READY, THE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, BUT CREATING THINGS LIKE THAT FOR OTHER SERVICES THAT THE CITY PROVIDES, JUST SO THAT THERE'S A QUICK, EASY KIND OF ONE PAGER OR TWO PAGER FOR FOLKS TO ACCESS FOLKS THAT DON'T HAVE THE TIME TO CLICK, YOU KNOW, 12, 13 TIMES TO GET TO A SITE OR CAN READ THAT SMALL TEXT THAT THAT'S ON THERE.
UM, SO MAYBE, AND MAYBE EVEN DEPLOYING THAT LIKE, UH, IN A PAPER PRINT FORMAT FOR FOLKS THAT CAN'T ACCESS, UM, A WEBSITE.
AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS, UH, ADVANCEMENTS IN OR REALLY JUST IMPROVING DIGITAL INCLUSION FOR OUR STUDENTS.
UM, WHEN COVID 19 HAPPENED, AND MANY OF OUR STUDENTS HAD TO HOMESCHOOL, THEY HAD ACCESS TO 5G INTERNET WHEN THEY WERE AT SCHOOL, BUT WHEN THEY WENT HOME MAY HAVE NOT HAD ACCESS TO INTERNET.
AND SO THAT IMPROVES, UH, THE QUALITY OF THEIR EDUCATION.
BUT ALSO, I MEAN, WITH, UM, HOMEWORK AND THINGS BEING ON, YOU KNOW, THE INTERNET, THEY'VE GOTTA KNOW HOW TO NAVIGATE THE INTERNET AND KIND OF THINKING ABOUT CYBER HYGIENE, THINGS LIKE THAT.
IT KIND OF TOUCHES ON THAT BECAUSE ONCE THEY'RE ON THE INTERNET, THERE'S A LOT THAT THEY CAN WITHOUT PARENTAL CONTROLS, RIGHT? THERE'S A LOT THEY CAN GET, KIND OF GET THEIR HANDS INTO.
SO, UH, LIKE ME AS A PERSON, I THINK I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE AUTHENTIC AWARENESS OF THE PAIN POINTS HINDERING, UH, PROGRESSION IN OUR OWN SPACE.
SO THE TECH AND TELECOM SPACE, UH, I WOULD LIKE TO BUILD LIKE ONE-TO-ONE RELATIONSHIPS WITH OUR OTHER GOVERNING BODIES TO SEE WHERE IS THERE POTENTIAL FOR A BROADER COLLABORATION TO TACKLE SOME OF THESE LARGER ISSUES THAT WE MAY SOLELY NOT BE ABLE TO DO IT INDEPENDENTLY, BUT CAN LEVERAGE THE RESOURCES THAT THEY HAVE.
UH, AND ALSO JUST A BROADER UNDERSTANDING OF THE RESOURCES AT OUR DISPOSAL FOR OUR COMMUNITY.
BECAUSE I THINK LIKE, AS MANY OF THE OTHERS HAVE SAID, LIKE, IT, IT'S NOT LIKE WIDELY, UH, UM, WE'RE NOT WIDELY AWARE OF LIKE, WHAT'S THERE FOR US.
UH, SO I THINK THAT'S KNOWLEDGE WOULD HELP FOR ME JUST TO SEE LIKE WHERE OPPORTUNITIES ARE AT THE TEAM LEVEL.
UH, I THOUGHT MORE BLUE OCEAN, I'D LIKE TO BROKER RELATIONSHIPS WITH A LOT OF OUR LOCAL TECH COMPANIES THAT NOW ARE HOUSED HERE AND HAVE, UH, FOSTER WORKING DYNAMIC WITH THEM THAT ENABLES US TO LEVERAGE THEIR RESOURCES THAT WOULDN'T BE AT OUR DISPOSAL INDEPENDENTLY, LIKE, UH, AS A PUBLIC ENTITY, BUT RATHER BROKER THOSE SORTS OF EXCHANGES.
I THINK THAT'D BE A BIG WIN AND UNLOCK A LOT OF WAYS IN WHICH WE COULD EVOLVE.
UM, AND THEN IN TERMS OF GAPS, I, I WOULD LIKE TO LIKE JUST KIND OF ECHOING THE SAME SENTIMENT.
I THINK WE HAVE AN ISSUE HERE AND THE WAY WE RESPOND TO NATURAL DISASTERS, IT'S SUPER DELAYED.
UM, WE ALSO DON'T HAVE A MEANS IN OF TRACKING MEASURABLE IMPACT THAT'S WIDELY ACCESSIBLE TO ANYONE IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND I THINK ANYTHING THAT WE GET DONE, WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO COMMUNICATE IT EFFECTIVELY AND HAVE IT BE IN A WAY THAT, THAT WE SEE, UM, DIRECTLY POINTING TO OUR OBJECTIVES THAT WE'RE, WE'RE ACHIEVING THEM IN A MEASURABLE WAY.
I THINK THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT VISIBLE ANYWHERE, AND I THINK IT WOULD BE WORTHWHILE, AT LEAST AS WE'RE TRYING TO GET BIGGER THINGS,
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UH, DONE HERE.AND ALSO, I'D LIKE TO LIKE LEARN HOW WE CAN LEVERAGE PUBLIC FUNDING TO BOLSTER WEB ACCESS FOR KIDS.
I THINK IN THE EDUCATION SPACE, THE UNDERPRIVILEGED SHOULD NEVER BE A HINDER JUST BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE, UM, ALL THE RESOURCES THAT OTHERS MAY.
SO I THINK THAT THAT WOULD BE A COOL WIN AND A, A GOOD GAP FOR US TO TRY AND TACKLE.
UM, SO FOR MYSELF AS A MEMBER, I WANNA BE ABLE TO SHARE STORIES OF SUCCESS AROUND CLOSING DIGITAL DIVIDE.
I WANNA BE ABLE TO TELL SPECIFIC ACTION ITEMS THAT THE COMMISSION ACHIEVED.
I WANNA BE ABLE TO TELL THOSE STORIES TO COMMUNITY MEMBERS, TO CITY COUNCIL, UH, TO OTHER STAKEHOLDERS.
UM, ALSO, YOU KNOW, I, I WANT TO, ALONG THOSE SAME LINES, I WANT TO SEE TANGIBLE IMPROVEMENT FOR MY NEIGHBORS, MY FRIENDS, MY FAMILY AROUND DIGITAL ACCESS.
UM, SO TH THOSE ARE A FEW ITEMS FOR THAT I'D LIKE TO PERSONALLY GET OUT OF, OF THE COMMISSION.
AND THEN, UM, FOR THE COMMISSION ITSELF, UH, JUST BRING GREATER KNOWLEDGE AND AWARENESS TO THE DIGITAL DIVIDE.
UM, YOU KNOW, SO MANY, SO MANY OF US IN THE CITY ARE PRIVILEGED ENOUGH TO HAVE, UM, AFFORDABLE, GREAT QUALITY ACCESS.
AND SO MANY OF US AREN'T, AREN'T EVEN AWARE THAT THERE IS A HUGE DIVIDE, UM, ACROSS HI HISTORICALLY UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES.
UM, SO RAISING AWARENESS, I THINK WILL DO, UH, WILL IN LARGE PART, UM, ENCOURAGE NOT ONLY OURSELVES, BUT THE COMMUNITY TO TAKE SUBSEQUENT ACTION.
UM, SO ONE AREA, YOU KNOW, AS, AS I ALLUDED TO BEF BEFORE, UM, YOU KNOW, I CERTAINLY AREAS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, HISTORICALLY UNDERSERVED, UM, YOU KNOW, AS, AS A COMMISSION, I THINK WE CAN ENCOURAGE DEVELOPMENT AROUND INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS AND POLICIES TO ENCOURAGE THAT FURTHER DEVELOPMENT FOR AFFORDABLE AND QUALITY INTERNET.
UM, AND THEN LASTLY, UM, I THINK THAT THERE'S A LOT OF OPPORTUNITY FOR MORE PARTNERSHIPS WITH THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY.
WE HAVE SO MANY TECHNOLOGY, UM, ORGANIZATIONS AND COMPANIES HERE, AND I THINK THAT, UM, GENERALLY THERE COULD BE A LOT MORE DONE, UM, TO, TO, TO PARTNER WITH THEM, UM, AROUND UPSKILLING TRAINING AND, UH, TO ENCOURAGE DEVELOPMENT.
UM, SO I, I WOULD SEE THIS COMMISSION AS, UH, BEING PERHAPS ONE ARM OF FACILITATING THAT PARTNERSHIP.
ONLINE, UH, COMMISSIONER ISLAND.
AH, AND I SEE WE HAVE A, WE HAVE SOMEBODY JOINING US.
SHE WAS HAVING A WONDERFUL, I'M GLAD WE JUST HERE
UM, SO I THINK, UM, LET ME JUST START.
UM, FROM THE MEMBER PERSPECTIVE, I THINK SOMETHING THAT IS A, A BIG THING THAT I'VE ALWAYS TRIED TO DO IS TO BE A VOICE FOR THE COMMUNITY FOR PEOPLE THAT CAN'T NECESSARILY, UM, YOU KNOW, SIMILAR, I THINK ONE OF THE OTHER COMMISSIONERS, RIGHT? SOMEBODY THAT ISN'T NECESSARILY, UM, REPRESENTED.
AND SO LOOKING AT THINGS FROM A PERSPECTIVE WHERE, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT MAYBE THOUGHT, THOUGHT OF.
AND SO I THINK BEING A VOICE FOR, FOR THE COMMUNITY IS A BIG ONE FOR ME.
UM, FROM A COMMISSION PERSPECTIVE, I THINK, UM, ENABLING PEOPLE IN THE, UM, YOU KNOW, LOW INCOME AREAS TO BE ABLE TO, UM, ACCESS THE TECHNOLOGY BUT ALSO UNDERSTAND AND KNOW THE TECHNOLOGY.
AND EVEN WHEN WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, THE HOMELESS POPULATION WITH THE HOMELESS, UM, IS, YOU KNOW, THE ISSUES THAT WE'RE HAVING RIGHT NOW, UM, IN THE CITY.
I THINK PART OF THE PROBLEM IS THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY DON'T KNOW.
AND SO THEY DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO GET HELP OUTSIDE OF SOME OF THE BIGGER ORGANIZATIONS.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, IF THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE STRUGGLING, UM, THAT ARE CAPABLE OF WORKING, YOU KNOW, HOW DO THEY FIND THAT RIGHT INFORMATION? SO I THINK AS A COMMISSION, HOW DO WE USE TECHNOLOGY TO, UM, ENABLE THEM TO FIND OPPORTUNITIES AND, UM, TO KIND OF BRIDGE THE GAP THERE AS WELL.
AND THEN IN REGARDS TO THE CITY, I THINK SOMETHING THAT I'VE NOTICED IS THE CITY DOESN'T NECESSARILY PRIORITIZE THIS WORK.
UM, AND SO HOW DO WE, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE BRIDGE THAT
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BETWEEN WHAT WE DO IN, IN THESE MEETINGS AND WHAT COMES OUT OF THEM AND OUR ACTION ITEMS AND OUR WORKING GROUP PLANS, AND HOW DO WE, YOU KNOW, PUSH THAT TOWARDS, YOU KNOW, THE CITY SO THAT THEY UNDERSTAND THE VALUE THAT IT WOULD BRING IF WE PUT MORE FUNDING INTO OR BEHIND SOME OF THESE INITIATIVES.UM, YOU KNOW, THAT WE CAN, WE CAN SUPPORT THE CITY IN WAYS THAT WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DO.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE MAKE THAT CHANGE, I THINK IS HONESTLY, IT'S TRYING TO FIND THE RIGHT PEOPLE THAT CAN MAKE THIS PART OF THEIR AGENDA AND CAN HELP PUSH THIS AS PART OF THEIR PLATFORM, UM, TO HELP, YOU KNOW, THE UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES, YOU KNOW.
SO FIRST, A LITTLE STATEMENT OR FACT AS IT IS, I'M A RIGHT-HANDED PERSON.
I HAD MAJOR SURGERY ON MY RIGHT SHOULDER, SO I HAD TO TYPE WITH MY LEFT FINGERS, SO PLEASE FORGIVE ANY TYPO THAT IN THE NOTES THAT I SENT YOU BET.
SO WITH THAT, I WANT TO TAKE A LITTLE TANGENT FOR A LITTLE WHILE.
UH, THIS IS AN INTRODUCTION TO ALL THE NEW, UH, NEW COMMISSIONERS WHO HAVE COME ON BOARD.
THE, THOSE WHO WERE ALREADY THERE HAVE ALREADY HEARD THIS STORY MANY TIMES.
I SERVED AS CO-DIRECTOR OF THE AUSTIN ASIAN COMPLETE COUNT COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT THE CENSUS.
AND WE WERE SUCCESSFUL BEYOND OUR EXPECTATIONS, EXCEPT IN DISTRICT FOUR IN AUSTIN, WE COVERED ALL OF TRAVIS COUNTY AND ALL OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY, BUT IN DISTRICT FOUR WE FAILED MISERABLY.
WHY? BECAUSE OF COVID, WE HAD DONE ALL OUR ANALYSIS AND COUNTING USING WEB-BASED TOOLS.
AND IN DISTRICT FOUR, THAT'S THE DISTRICT WHICH SHUT DOWN THE SOONEST AND OPENED UP THE LATEST, THE SCHOOL SYSTEM SHUT DOWN.
AND THE STUDENTS THERE ARE STILL THREE MONTHS BEHIND THE REST OF A I S D STUDENTS THINK OF THAT.
SO FOR ME, MY PERSONAL GOAL IS TO USE THIS COMMISSION, MY CONTRIBUTION TO MAKE CELLULAR AND BROADBAND TECHNOLOGY AND INSTRUMENT TO LEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD FOR DIGITAL ACCESS, FOR EDUCATION, JOBS, DAILY NEEDS, QUALITY OF LIFE, ET CETERA, FOR EVERYBODY.
AND UNDER THE YELLOW STICKER, I WOULD LIKE THE COMMISSION TO DO EXACTLY THE SAME, BECAUSE THAT IS FUNDAMENTAL, TO MAKE THE CITY, MAKING THE CITY THE CITY THAT IT WISHES TO BE, AND IS STILL NOT THERE YET.
NOW FOR UNDER THE PINK, PINK SIGN, UM, AS I SAID, SECTIONS IN THE CITY SUCH AS DISTRICT FOUR ARE WAY BEHIND IN DIGITAL EMPOWERMENT.
AND THAT SHOULD BE ONE OF THE GOALS THAT THE CITY SHOULD TAKE INTO ACCOUNT.
AND THIS COMMISSION SHOULD BE PAYING ATTENTION.
SECOND POINT, DESPITE ALL THE BARRIERS THAT THE STATE HAVE APPLIED ON THE CITY ON WHAT IT CAN OR CANNOT DO, THE CITY SHOULD PURSUE AVENUES TO WORK WITH THE PROVIDERS TO ACHIEVE THE GOALS THAT I'VE LISTED ABOVE.
I MEAN, THE CITY, EVEN THOUGH IT CANNOT DO CERTAIN THINGS, IT STILL HAS A LOT OF POWER THAT THEY SHOULD BE USING IN THE INTEREST OF CONSENSUS.
I KEEP HEARING, YOU KNOW, WHY A DECISION TAKES SO LONG.
I PERSONALLY THINK THAT THE CITY NEEDS TO CAPITALIZE ON THE TECHNOLOGY THAT IS AVAILABLE TO ITSELF TO FLATTEN THE CITY ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE, TO BREAK DOWN THE SILOS FOR GREATER EFFICIENCIES.
SO THINGS CAN BE DONE A WHOLE LOT FASTER FOR THE GOOD OF EVERYBODY.
I COULDN'T TYPE IT IN BECAUSE I RAN OUT OF TIME THREE YEARS AGO.
WE REQUESTED, UH, ENOUGH BASED ON A REQUEST FROM A CITIZEN WHO CAME TO OUR COMMISSION MORE THAN ONCE, THAT THEY WOULD LIKE THE CITY, YOU KNOW, THE, THE COUNCIL MEETINGS ON THURSDAYS, ALL THE AGENDA ITEMS TO BE LISTED IN A SPREADSHEET AS WELL AS THE DECISIONS MADE AND HOW EACH CITY COUNCIL MEMBER VOTED.
THAT LITTLE ITEM IS STILL OPEN.
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ALL I HAVE TO SAY.UM, SO, UH, SOME OF WHAT I HEARD, UM, IS THAT SOME OF, UH, SOME OF WHAT YOU ARE GONNA HAVE SORT OF IN YOUR VIEW AS YOU MOVE FORWARD TODAY IS STUFF THAT MAYBE HASN'T BEEN TOUCHED ON BEFORE.
IT MAY BE, IT MAY KIND OF FEEL LIKE PIE IN THE SKY RIGHT NOW.
UM, MAYBE YOU'VE DISCUSSED HEADING DOWN, UH, THE ROAD INTO HOW YOU CAN BE INVOLVED IN TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT, THAT KIND OF THING.
SO SOME OF THOSE THINGS MAY BE NEW, THEY MAY BE SOMETHING TO JUST SORT OF HAVE IN THE RADAR.
UM, WHILE OTHER THINGS ARE, UH, ARE THINGS THAT YOU HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT AND WORKING TOWARDS FOR A LONG TIME AND WILL PROBABLY BE JUST ONGOING WORK, UM, THAT, UH, THAT TAKES NEW STEPS ALL THE TIME, UM, IN WORKING TOWARDS THAT BIG GOAL OF DIGITAL INCLUSION, BRIDGING, BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE.
UH, SOME OF YOU WERE VERY SPECIFIC IN, UH, SORT OF A VISION THAT YOU HAVE FOR HOW YOU CAN IMPACT, UM, THOSE THINGS.
AND, UH, AND FOR SOME OF YOU, ESPECIALLY, UH, NEW COMMISSIONERS, YOU MAY BE BE THINKING THAT IS MY PIE IN THE SKY AND I'M READY TO ROLL UP MY SLEEVES AND START, UH, FIGURING OUT WHERE, WHERE WE REALLY, UM, CAN, UH, CAN START PUTTING, PUTTING FEET ON THE ROAD, UM, ON THAT PATH.
ALRIGHT, SO FOR THE NEXT, UH, THE NEXT SECTION, UH, CJ'S GONNA FACILITATE AND DAN HAS MADE COPIES FOR YOU THAT YOU MAY WANT TO HAVE, UM, OPEN THAT MAY HELP YOU OUT.
AND THIS IS THE ANNUAL INTERNAL REVIEW.
UM, IT MAY HELP FOR YOU TO HAVE THAT OPEN TO THE PREVIOUS YEAR CHALLENGE STATEMENTS, WHICH ARE ON THE THIRD PAGE.
SO JUST IF YOU NEED THAT FOR REFERENCE, UM, PARTICULARLY NEW COMMISSIONERS, YOU MAY WANNA HAVE THAT OPEN TO JUST HAVE A REFERENCE OF, UM, OF THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DONE MOST RECENTLY AND, AND IS ONGOING.
SO THIS SECTION WE'RE GOING TO BE REVIEWING THE PREVIOUS WORK PLAN.
UM, SO IF YOU COULD TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND, UM, WE'LL TAKE SOME TIME TO, TO READ THROUGH IT AND FAMILIARIZE OURSELVES WITH IT.
UM, CAUSE WE'RE GOING TO WRITE SOME INFORMATION DOWN ON POST-ITS YET AGAIN.
UM, IF YOU COULD PLEASE SKIP TO THE NEXT SLIDE, UH, WE HAVE SOME COLOR CODING THAT WE'LL BE GOING THROUGH.
UM, SO LET'S TAKE SOME TIME TO READ THROUGH THE WORK PLAN AND WITH THE IDEA OF, OF FOCUSING ON ITEMS THAT ARE IN THERE THAT YOU WILL WANT TO SUNSET.
SO FOR WHATEVER REASON, UM, IS IT SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE WORKED ON ALREADY AND THE ITEM HAS BEEN COMPLETED, OR IT'S SOMETHING THAT IS KIND OF CHANGED FOCUS, THE, THE COMMISSION HAS CHANGED ITS FOCUS AND IS NO LONGER RELEVANT? UM, THEN WE CAN SUNSET THOSE ITEMS, GET THEM OFF OF THIS UPCOMING PLAN, AND THEN WE'LL FOCUS, UH, FOLLOWING THAT, WE'LL, WE'LL START TO FOCUS ON INCORPORATING NEW ITEMS. SO IF YOU COULD PLEASE TAKE ABOUT 10 MINUTES, LOOK THROUGH, UH, THAT WORK PLAN AND WRITE DOWN, UM, JUST ON ANY STICKY, UH, WHICH ITEMS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUNSET.
ACTUALLY, CAN YOU SKIP TO THE NEXT SLIDE? UM, ON THE BLUE, WHICH ITEMS YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUNSET AND ON THE YELLOW, WHICH ITEMS YOU WOULD LIKE TO CARRY FORWARD.
DON'T WORRY ABOUT ANY NEW ITEMS YET AS WE ARE JUST KIND OF REVIEWING WHAT HAS, WHAT WORK HAS BEEN PUT ON THE PREVIOUS WORK PLAN.
UM, SO YEAH, ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO SUNSET OR CARRY FORWARD.
SO SUNSETTING, UM, AGAIN, UH, ITEMS THAT MAYBE YOU JUST ARE, ARE NO LONGER RELEVANT OR ARE ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN COMPLETED AND ARE, ARE NO LONGER GOING TO BE WORKED ON IN THE UPCOMING YEAR.
CJ, CAN I JUMP IN WITH A QUICK STATEMENT JUST TO YES, HELP EVERYONE? UH, IN ADDITION TO WHAT CJ DESCRIBED, YOU'LL WANNA ALSO TAKE A LOOK AT THE BYLAWS, UH, WHICH ARTICULATE WHAT OUR SCOPE CAN BE REGARDLESS OF WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING, UH, BECAUSE THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS I KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, UH, THAT YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT THAT ARE NOT IN THE CURRENT THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING THAT HAVE MEANT TO ADDRESS THAT.
AND AGAIN, UH, DUST GUPTA, UH, FOR THOSE ONLINE, IF YOU WOULD JUST WRITE YOUR ITEMS DOWN AND SEND THOSE OVER TO DAN.
UM, WE WILL BE INCORPORATING THEM AFTER THIS MEETING.
UH, ONCE THE, THE PLAN IS KIND OF FLUSHED OUT AND, UH, WRITTEN DOWN, YOUR ITEMS WILL BE INCLUDED IN ALL OF THE DOCUMENTATION.
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AND JUST TO CONFIRM, UM, THAT'S ONE OF THE ATTACHMENTS IN THE, UM, WORK RETREAT? IT IS, UM, IT IS THE PDF THAT IS ON THERE.THERE'S THE, I BELIEVE IT'S TITLED ANNUAL REVIEW.
IT'S, UH, I, UH, IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT DOCUMENT.
UH, I'M NOT SEEING THAT ANNUAL REVIEW.
WHEN WAS THAT SENT? IT'S IN THE CALENDAR HOLD AN OUTLOOK.
THE CTT C WORK RETREAT EMAIL FROM DAN.
HAS ALL FIVE ATTACHMENTS ON THERE.
SO WE'LL GO UNTIL ABOUT EIGHT 15 CENTRAL TIME AND THEN WE'LL DISCUSS.
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WE WILL TAKE JUST A COUPLE MORE MINUTES.ARE YOU LOOKING FOR US TO WRITE IT DOWN IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF MINUTES? I'M STILL READING.
YOU CAN, UM, SUBMIT ONLINE AFTERWARDS.
YOU CAN SEND IT TO DAN AND IF ANYBODY ELSE HERE NEEDS MORE TIME, WE CAN DEFINITELY ACCOMMODATE.
AND, AND TO CONFIRM, ARE WE LOOKING AT EACH INDIVIDUAL WORKING GROUP LEVEL OR ARE WE JUST LOOKING AT THE HIGH LEVEL EACH INDIVIDUAL WORKING GROUP? YEAH, WE'RE POINTING FIVE TO SEVEN MORE MINUTES.
WE'LL DO, UH, A TIME CHECK AT 8 28 20.
IF YOU WANT TO PUT LIKE THE, THE NAME OF THE WORKING GROUP AND THEN 1, 2, 3 WORKING THE NAME OF THE WORKING, HOWEVER, UM, YEAH, I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.
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IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE ABOUT ONE MINUTE LEFT.HOW'S EVERYONE FEELING ON TIME? UH, I AM NOWHERE CLOSE.
UM, THIS PDF FILE IS NOT OPENING.
I'M HAVING A LOT OF DIFFICULTY.
I'VE SENT THE UPDATED PDF FILE SAYS IT'S A ATP SCAN IN PROGRESS.
ALLOW IT TO, UM, RUN AND IT WILL, IT SHOULD COME THROUGH.
IT USUALLY TAKES ABOUT 30 SECONDS OR SO.
AND COMMISSIONER DOS GUPTA, IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO, UM, TO GET A LIST IN THIS PORTION OF THE EXERCISE, YOU'LL STILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, TO SUBMIT SOME NEW ITEMS IT THAT YOU MAY NOT, MIGHT NOT NEED TO REFERENCE THE DOCUMENT FOR.
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ALL RIGHT.WE HAVE ABOUT ONE MINUTE LEFT.
HOW'S EVERYONE FEELING ON TIME? GOING ONCE, GOING TWICE.
AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT YOU DIDN'T, AGAIN, WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE IS NOT GONNA BE SET IN STONE BY THE TIME THAT WE LEAVE, SO THERE'S DEFINITELY OPPORTUNITY TO ITERATE.
SO, UM, WE WILL START BY DISCUSSING WHAT ITEMS WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE SUNSET.
SO THERE'S A, A PAPER UP HERE.
IF YOU WOULD PLEASE STATE YOUR, THE WORKING GROUP NAME AND THE NUMBER OF THE ITEM AND WHY YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE IT SUNSET, THEN UM, WE CAN GO THROUGH THAT AND THEN ALSO DISCUSS YOUR, YOUR CARRY FORWARDS CHAIR.
UH, OKAY, SO TO BEGIN WITH HERE, UM, LET'S START WITH THE DIGITAL INCLUSION.
WE'LL CALL IT THE, UH, THE DICE.
P I W G WORK WORKING GROUP, THE DICE, PI WORKING GROUP.
THAT SEEMS EASY ENOUGH TO SAY THE DICE PI WORKING GROUP.
UM, BEFORE I MOVE, CAN I MAKE A SUGGESTION? CAN WE DO IT BY WORKING GROUP? DOES THAT, WOULD THAT MAKE MORE SENSE? A ROUND TABLE, A WORK GROUP, ROUND TABLE, THEN SWITCH TO THE NEXT ONE FOR SURE.
AND YOU WANNA DO BOTH SUNSET AND CARRY FORWARDS ON THE SAME WORK GROUP? YEAH.
INSTEAD OF GOING THROUGH ALL THREE.
UM, THAT MIGHT HELP LIKE COMPARTMENTALIZE THE, THE THINKING AROUND IT.
YEAH, IT SOUNDS GOOD TO ME TOO.
UH, OKAY, SO THEN WELL I THINK THAT WE SHOULD SUNSET DECA EXPANSION WITH CITY OF AUSTIN ONLY LEADERSHIP.
AND TO BE CLEAR ABOUT WHAT I'M SAYING WITH THAT IS, I, I THINK WE SHOULD CONTINUE TO TRY TO EXPAND DECA.
HOWEVER, I THINK IT'S A MISTAKE, UH, TO FOCUS CITY RESOURCES, UH, IN ALONE IN MANAGING THAT.
SO IT, I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE MUCH MORE OF A COMPREHENSIVE AND, UH, COMMUNITY LED ENTITY RATHER THAN CITY LED.
IF IT'S GONNA BE EXPANDED, UH, THAT WILL BE NUMBER DIGITAL IMPACT.
I THINK THAT, UH, AND THEN, SO THAT'S ALL I HAD REALLY FOR THAT WORKING
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GROUP THAT I WANTED TO SUNSET.WHAT I WANNA CARRY FORWARD, I'VE GOT A LOT MORE.
SO I'D LIKE TO RECOMMEND WE CARRY FORWARD.
NUMBER ONE, INVESTIGATING WAYS TO ENABLE HOMELESS POPULATION USING DIGITAL MATCHING PROGRAMS. I THINK THAT WE SHOULD CARRY FORWARD WITH NUMBER TWO, INCREASING RELATIONSHIPS AND PARTNERSHIPS WITH LOCAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES.
AND THE INITIAL TIME, I'M NOT GONNA GO INTO HOW WE'RE DOING THAT OR, OR, OR MAKE A, A PITCH FOR WHY, BECAUSE WE ARE REALLY PRESSED FOR TIME.
UH, I WANT TO RECOMMEND THAT WE CARRY FORWARD WITH NUMBER FIVE TO CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR INCREASED FUNDING FOR LIBRARY WIRELESS HUB AND PLATFORM LENDING PROGRAMS. I WANNA RECOMMEND THAT WE CONTINUE WITH OUR DIGITAL INCLUSION TOWN HALLS.
UH, AND WHY THAT IS NOT A NUMBER I DO NOT KNOW, BUT THAT'S SOMETHING WHICH I WANT TO CARRY FORWARD OR RECOMMEND ME CARRY FORWARD.
UH, YEAH, IT'S JUST NOT SPELLED OUT AS DIGITAL INCLUSION TOWN HALL, SO YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE FOR, UH, TO MAKE SURE.
EMERGENCY BROADBAND RELIEF NUMBER SEVEN, THE EMERGENCY BROADBAND RELIEF CARRIER EVALUATION.
AND NUMBER EIGHT, UH, STATE LEGISLATIVE TECH AND TELECOM COM POLICY EVALUATION.
AND, UH, DIGITAL INCLUSION ECOSYSTEM SUMMIT PLANNING.
UH, THAT'S THE LAST ONE THAT I HAVE FOR THAT WORKING GROUP CARRY FORWARD FOR THIS WORKING GROUP.
UH, THAT THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE.
UH, BUT I THINK IT'S A DIFFERENT WORKING GROUP.
AND WHEN IT COMES TO NEW, UH, FOR THIS WORKING GROUP, UH, GOOD.
SO DON'T NEED TO WORRY ABOUT HAVING THOSE WRITTEN DOWN YET.
SO, UH, QUITE CANDIDLY, UM, DUE TO MY TENURE, I DON'T THINK I HAD ANYTHING TO SUNSET.
UM, I THINK I HAVE A LOT MORE TO ADD FOR THE NEW PART, BUT I'M FINE WITH CARING FOR IT.
EVERYTHING HAS THIS EXISTED? IT'S FAIR.
I MYSELF DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO SUNSET FOR THIS GROUP EITHER, BUT THERE WERE A FEW THINGS THAT I WANTED TO CARRY FORWARD.
SO, UM, NUMBER ONE, INVESTIGATING WAYS TO ENABLE THE HOMELESS POPULATION TO USE A DIGITAL MATCHING PROGRAM.
UH, INCREASING THE CTT C'S RELATIONSHIPS WITH LOCAL TECHNOLOGY COMPANIES SHALL BE NUMBER TWO.
NUMBER FIVE, UM, CONTINUING TO ADVOCATE FOR INCREASED FUNDING FOR LIBRARY WIRELESS HUBS AND PLATFORM LENDING PROGRAMS, AND OFFERING BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY COUNCIL.
UM, NUMBER SEVEN, EMERGENCY BROADBAND RELIEF, UH, CARRIER EVALUATION.
AND NUMBER 10, COLLABORATION, CIVIC ENGAGEMENT AND LIVED EXPERIENCE SHARING WITH THE DIGITAL TOWN HALL SESSIONS BEING A PART OF THAT.
I PUT THEM, I, BUT THEN YOU TAKE, DON'T SEPARATELY.
I FORGOT TO GET MENTION ONE EARLIER.
UH, AND THIS IS A SUNSET, AN EXPANSIVE REMOTE PARTICIPATION UNTIL
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THE CITY CLERK'S OFFICE COMMITS MORE RESOURCES.UM, I WOULD LIKE TO CARRY THEM ALL OVER, EXCEPT FOR FOUR.
FOUR, I ADVOCATE FOR ZOOM LICENSES ADMINISTERED BY LIBRARIES FOR CIVIC GROUPS.
YEAH, THE REST ARE GOOD TO CARRY OVER.
MM, COMMISSIONER I, I, I, I AGREE.
I JUST DIDN'T LABEL THAT WITH THE WORKING GROUP.
SO, IN THE DIGITAL INCLUSION WORKING GROUP ITEMS, I'D LIKE TO SUNSET AND I, I WON'T GIVE AN EXPLANATION FOR ALL OF THEM SINCE WE ARE PRESSED FOR TIME, BUT THERE ARE A FEW KEY ITEMS I WANT TO POINT OUT.
SO, ITEM ONE, UM, AROUND THE DIGITAL MATCHING PROGRAM.
I THINK THIS NEEDS TO BE SUNSET, BUT LIKE, SORT OF REFRAMED, UH, TO ENGAGE WITH THE LIBRARY COMMISSION, UM, OR THE HOMELESSNESS COMMISSION SPECIFICALLY.
UM, SINCE THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF OVERLAP FOR THAT ONE.
ITEM THREE, I DON'T THINK IS ANY LONG IS NEEDED ANY LONGER SINCE WE HAVE THE OPTION TO, FOR REMOTE PARTICIPATION FOR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS.
UM, ITEM FOUR, ADVOCATING FOR ZOOM LICENSES.
UM, AGAIN, I THINK IT'S, UM, PARTNERING WITH THE LIBRARY COMMISSION ON THAT PIECE.
UM, ALSO NOT SURE IF, UM, ZOOM ANY LONGER IS, UH, NECESSARILY THE BE BEST TECHNOLOGY.
UM, THERE ARE OTHERS OUT THERE, SO I THINK WE MAY NEED TO DO A TECHNOLOGY EVALUATION, UM, WHETHER IT'S USING TEAMS OR, OR WEBEX OR, OR SOMETHING ELSE.
UM, ITEM SEVEN, I'D LIKE TO SUNSET THE EMERGENCY BROADBAND RELIEF CARRIER EVALUATION.
I THINK THE STATE IS ACTUALLY ALREADY DOING A LOT OF THIS.
UM, SO MAYBE IT, IT'S REFRAMED INTO SOMETHING A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.
AND THEN ITEM 10, UM, I THINK, AGAIN, I THINK THIS NEEDS TO BE THERE.
THERE'S A NUMBER OF SUB-COMPONENTS.
THERE'S A 10, A ONE, 10, A TWO, 10 B, ONE 10
UM, ALTHOUGH WE SHOULD CONSIDER, WE SHOULD CONTINUE THE, UH, TOWN HALL LISTENING SESSIONS.
I THINK A LOT OF THE SUB-COMPONENTS OF THE, OF THIS ITEM CAN GO AWAY.
AND THEN ITEMS I'D LIKE TO, UH, CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD, INCLUDE 2, 6, 8, AND 11.
COMMISSIONER ISLAND, ARE YOU ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME SUNSET AND CARRY FORWARD ITEMS? YES.
SO I HAD, UM, FOR SUNSET FOUR, FIVE, AND 10.
UM, AND I TOOK THE LENS OF WHAT ARE THINGS THAT MAYBE WE NEED TO, UM, OUR, MAYBE SHOULDN'T BE OUR DIRECT RESPONSIBILITY BECAUSE WE HAVE SO MUCH GOING ON WITH SOME OF THESE, UM, WORKING GROUPS.
AND SO, UM, I VOTED TO, TO SUNSET FOUR, FIVE, AND 10 AND THE REST TO EITHER CARRY OVER OR MAYBE TAKE A LOOK AT, UM, LIKE THREE, FOR EXAMPLE.
DO WE, OR DO WE STILL NEED THAT ONE? RIGHT? UM, AND THEN ALSO ON SOME OF THE SUNSET PIECES, THERE MIGHT BE THINGS LIKE THE TOWN HALL.
I THINK IT'S BECOME A MUCH LARGER THING.
SO IT'S A SUB ITEM UNDER ONE OF THEM.
SO THAT ONE SHOULD PROBABLY BE EITHER, UM, PULLED OUT ON ITS OWN ENTITY OR, UM, COULD BE COMBINED UNDER SOMETHING ELSE.
AND GUPTA? YEAH, SO I DID NOT REALLY BREAK IT DOWN BY WORKING ROOM, BUT I LOOKED AT ALL THE DIFFERENT ITEMS THAT ARE LISTED AS WORK ITEMS FOR THE COMMISSION WHEN I WENT DOWN THE LIST.
AS FAR AS SUNSET, C3 AND C4, LET ME READ IT OUT.
NEW SOURCES OF FUNDING FOR ACCESS TELEVISION PROJECTS.
I DON'T RECALL DOING MUCH THERE EVER.
NUMBER FOUR, C4, NEW SOURCES OF FUNDING FOR COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY PROJECTS.
WE HAVE RECOMMENDED TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR FUNDING ON DIFFERENT PROJECTS, BUT WE HAVE NEVER REALLY GO OUT, GONE OUT, EXCUSE ME.
PARDON? PARDON THE INTERRUPTION.
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UH, WE'RE NOT FOLLOWING, UH, THE FIRST, WE, WE ACTUALLY ALSO I THINK, AGREED TO FOCUS ON ONE WORKING GROUP AT A TIME.SO THIS, MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE WANT TO ALIGN WITH WHAT WE'VE ALREADY ALL DONE, JUST TO MAKE SURE THIS GOES WELL.
UH, SO I KNOW YOU MADE YOUR LIST THE WAY YOU DID, BUT MY RECOMMENDATION IS, CAN YOU JUST FOCUS ON THE, UH MM-HMM.
I, I PERSONALLY DON'T HAVE ANY FEEDBACK ON THAT.
SO LET'S GO TO THE NEXT WORK GROUP, THE KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION AND DATA STEWARDSHIP WORKING GROUP AND CHAIR PITTS.
I FIGURED IT OUT BY THIS POINT.
UM, SO NUMBER ONE, AND, AND YOU KNOW WHAT, LET ME PAUSE FOR A SECOND, UH, BECAUSE I WANNA CLARIFY.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I GET UNDERSTANDING ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE.
OUR GOAL IS TO GET OUTTA HERE LESS THAN AN HOUR.
AND ALTHOUGH I'VE GOT STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT ALL THESE THINGS AND CAN MAKE ARGUMENTS FOR THEM, WE DO NOT AGREE TO THAT PROCESS.
SO CAN WE ESTABLISH A DECORUM ABOUT HOW WE'RE GONNA HANDLE THIS? UH, THAT'S GONNA WORK? CAUSE I KNOW WE'RE PRESSED FOR TIME.
SO I, I WAS, I THINK A SHARED DRIVE WOULD BE HELPFUL THAT WE COULD EACH COMMENT ON, ON ALONGSIDE EACH OF THESE.
AND WE CAN COLOR CODE THEM VERY SIMILAR TO THIS, ACTUALLY PUT THE POST-ITS THERE AND OUR NAMES CAN BE THERE AND IT'LL, I THINK, BE MORE LEGIBLE AND COHERENT FOR ANY OF US TO FOLLOW AND TALK ABOUT LATER.
AND, YOU KNOW, THE MAIN REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE ABSENT US STAYING HERE WITH NO TIME CLOCK, AND THEN ALL, YOU KNOW, DISCUSSING THE PASSION, HOW WE FEEL ABOUT EACH ISSUE, WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE EQUITY IN THIS PROCESS UNLESS WE CHANGE IT.
SO IF WE HAVE A SHARED DRIVE, I THINK COULD WE SHARE THAT OUT AND THEN US ALL JUST COMMENT AND HAVE LIKE A DUE DATE, MAYBE NEXT MEETING THAT WE'LL HAVE OUR COMMENTS IN? OR WHAT, HOW DO WE WANNA ADDRESS THAT? UH, WHAT DO YOU THINK? UH, VICE CHAIR, CHAIR, UH, YEAH, I'D CERTAINLY BE OPEN TO THAT.
BUT I GUESS I WANNA ASK OUR FACILITATORS IS THAT, UM, HOW, HOW, HOW WOULD YOU ALL RECOMMEND, UH, SHOULD WE INSERT THE DATA OURSELVES BETWEEN NOW AND THE NEXT MEETING OR SOME OTHER WAY? I, WHICHEVER WORKS BEST FOR YOU ALL.
AND THE, THE PURPOSE OF US BEING HERE TO FACILITATE IT WAS JUST TO HAVE THAT OPEN CONVERSATION.
UM, BUT IF IT WORKS BEST FOR YOU TO MM-HMM.
AND WE CAN GIVE YOU LIKE, SOME OF THE TOOLS THAT WE WERE GONNA BE USING AS FAR AS, UM, YOU KNOW, COLLABORATING AND COMBINING LIKE IDEAS.
YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO, TO TAKE THOSE TOOLS FORWARD.
A QUESTION FOR THE GROUP, DO WE HAVE, UM, LIKE A PUBLIC MURAL BOARD ACCOUNT? YEAH.
DO WE HAVE A MURAL BOARD ACCOUNT? DO Y'ALL KNOW, DO Y'ALL KNOW WHAT MIRO BOARD IS? YES, I DO.
BUT DO WE HAVE A, WE HAVE A CITY OF AUSTIN.
WELL, THE CITY OF AUSTIN DOES HAVE A, A MURAL ACCOUNT, BUT ONE THING THAT I WANT TO THROW OUT THERE IS THAT THE, UM, COMMUNICATIONS OFFLINE WITH THE COMMISSION, UH, NEEDS TO BE LESS THAN A QUORUM.
AND SO, UH, THAT INCLUDES ANY SHARED WORKING SPACE.
WE, YOU WOULD ONLY BE ABLE TO HAVE INTERACTION BETWEEN LESS THAN A QUORUM OF THE COMMISSION.
SO THAT, THAT IS A CHALLENGE THAT WE'LL HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO STRUCTURE THIS.
BUT, UH, ONE WAY THAT WE COULD DO IT IS IF WE JUST WANT A ONE WAY FEEDBACK TO HAVE, LIKE, ESSENTIALLY HOMEWORK MM-HMM.
I THINK THANK YOU FOR JUST, THAT'S HOW WE'VE HANDLED IT IN THE PAST.
SO I, I THINK AS A, AS A NEXT STEP, UH, MAYBE SOMEONE COULD OWN SETTING UP THE TEMPLATE, WHICH DAN, UH, YEAH.
WOULD, WHETHER YOU, WHETHER DAN ACTUALLY SETS IT UP OR NOT, I THINK DOES, DOES IT MATTER? BUT LIKE WE, SOMEONE WOULD HAVE TO OWN SETTING UP THE TEMPLATE AND THEN IT WOULD BE ON US TO SUBMIT THE DATA TO DAN.
I THINK THAT'S THE RIGHT APPROACH.
AND SO WOULD YOU LIKE TO SHIFT NOW TO GOALS TO FOCUS ON FOR THE NEXT YEAR? WOULD WELL, WELL, THE THING THAT I WAS TRYING TO, THAT I WAS RECOGNIZING WAS UNFOLDING IS, UH, WE EITHER HAVE TO TAKE THE TIME TO WORK THROUGH ALL THEM, ALL OF THEM, AND TO THEN, YOU KNOW, TALK, TALK THROUGH THEM OR JUST
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COMMIT TO NOT PROVIDING JUSTIFICATIONS AND JUST GIVE, YOU KNOW, SUNSET, CARRY FORWARD AND NEW.IF WE CAN'T, YOU KNOW, DO BOTH, THEN WE HAVE TO JUST BASICALLY CHANGE OUR COURSE ALTOGETHER.
WE HAVE TO DECIDE, YOU KNOW, WHICH PATH WE'RE GONNA TAKE.
UH, OTHERWISE WE'RE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE.
SO WOULD YOU LIKE TO TABLE SUNSET AND CARRY IT FORWARD AND FOCUS ON NOON FOR, I THINK THAT'D PROBABLY BE THE BEST USE OF TIME.
AND THEN IN, IN THE MEANTIME, WE JUST NEED TO FIGURE OUT WHO'S GONNA SET UP THE TEMPLATE.
WILL THERE BE A FUTURE DISCUSSION ABOUT SOME OF THESE? THE ONLY REASON I ASK, WELL, ONE OF THE REASONS I ASK IS BECAUSE SOME OF THESE USE ACRONYMS THAT AS A NEW COMMISSIONER, I'M NOT PRIVY TO WHAT THAT PROGRAM IS.
SO AS, UM, COMMISSIONER
I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO SUNSET OR CARRY FORWARD.
SO I FEEL, EVEN THOUGH I'VE READ THIS BEFORE, I'M AT A DISADVANTAGE HERE.
SO IT'S HARD TO REALLY MAKE A, A CONSCIOUS DECISION.
WELL, I I THINK THAT WE COULD WORK THROUGH THE ACRONYMS QUICKLY, UH, IF YOU, IF Y'ALL ARE COMFORTABLE WITH THAT.
ARE THERE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS YOU HAVE? WE PROBABLY ANSWER 'EM NOW.
DO WE WANT TO WHICH COMMISSION? BECAUSE THERE, THERE ARE ACRONYMS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE YEAH, LET'S JUST TAKE 1 0 1.
WE HAVE THREE NEWER COMMISSIONERS.
AND YEAH, I THINK THAT, YEAH, GETTING IT DONE NOW WOULD BE A GOOD USE OF OUR TIME.
IS THERE, UM, LIKE AN ACRONYM, ONE PAGER THAT'S
WE'LL SEE A PROCLIVITY FOR ONE PAGES, MAYBE IN MAYBE SOME FAQS AS WELL.
LET'S START FAQS FOR ALL THE ACRONYMS. LET'S GO WITH THE POCS.
WHAT IS THE TERRA OFFICE? TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND REGULATORY AFFAIRS.
TELECOMS AND REGULATORY TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND REGULATORY AFAS.
JESSE OR RONDE, DO YOU WANT TO JUST GIVE A FEW SENTENCES ON WHAT THE TARA, THE SCOPE OF THE TARA OFFICE? ALRIGHT.
RONDELLA HAWKINS, TARA, OFFICER.
UM, SO YEAH, SO OUR, SO OUR DIVISION IS UN IS IN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT.
AND OUR OFFICE IS, UM, WE, WE ADMINISTER MANAGE, UH, RIGHT OF WAY FRANCHISE AGREEMENTS, UM, WITH PRIVATE UTILITIES.
AND, UM, SO THAT INCLUDES CABLE, CABLE, TV, TELECOM, UM, NATURAL GAS UTILITIES.
AND WE ALSO HAVE, UM, CONSUMER PROTECTION FROM, FROM THE PERSPECTIVE, WE TAKE COMPLAINTS FROM RESIDENTS FOR, UM, ABOUT CONSTRUCTION AND IN THEIR, IN THE YARD BY TELECOM AND UTILITIES.
UM, THEY DIDN'T RESTORE IT PROPERLY.
SO WE'RE CONSUMER COMPLAINTS, BUT WE ALSO, UM, HAVE A COMPLIANCE PROGRAM FOR PROTECTING, UH, CONSUMERS FROM PRE PREDATORY LENDING PRACTICES.
UM, PARTICULARLY THE PAYDAY AUTO TITLE LENDERS.
SO WE, WE HAVE A CITY ORDINANCE THAT WE ACTUALLY, UM, ENFORCE COMPLIANCE OF, OF THAT ORDINANCE BY DOING AUDITS AND TAKING CONSUMER COMPLAINTS AND, UH, A LARGE, AND WE'VE, IN OUR, AND, UM, TARA HAS ACTUALLY STAFFED THIS COMMISSION FOR AT LEAST WELL, EVER SINCE I'VE BEEN FOR MANY, MANY YEARS OVER, OVER 30 YEARS.
SO, UM, SO WE'VE STAFFED THIS COMMISSION AND WE, WE ALSO HAVE A VERY, UM, UH, ROBUST, UH, WE'VE BEEN GROWING OUR COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY, UH, INITIATIVE, DIGITAL INCLUSION, DIGITAL EQUITY, UM, AND, AND, AND OF COURSE THAT'S A BIG FOCUS OF THIS COMMISSION AS WELL.
AND THEN ALSO, WE, UM, WE MANAGE, WE ACTUALLY, WE CONTRACT WITH A NONPROFIT TO MANAGE OUR CITY'S PUBLIC ACCESS TV FACILITY, UM, COMMUNITY MEDIA FACILITY AT 1143 NORTHWESTERN AVENUE.
WE'RE CELEBRATING THE 50TH ANNIVERSARY THIS YEAR OF, OF, UH, OF, UH, PUBLIC ACCESS TV IN AUSTIN, TEXAS.
SO WE'VE DONE IT'S CONSUMER PROTECTION, COMMUNITY MEDIA, COMMUNITY TECHNOLOGY, REGULATORY.
UM, IN ADDITION, WE ALSO HAVE RATE MAKING, UM, EXCUSE ME, THE CITY OF BOSTON HAS, UM, RATE MAKING AUTHORITY OVER OUR PRIVATE UTILITIES, ELECTRIC AND GAS COMPANIES.
SO WE ALSO HAVE, UH, FROM THAT ANGLE AS WELL.
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IT IS A VARIETY, BUT I THINK THE FOCUS OF YEAH.BUT I DID WANT TO GIVE YOU A BREADTH OF, OF THE DIFFERENT AREAS WITHIN OUR PURVIEW.
SO JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON THE SUNSET AND CARRY FORWARD ITEMS AND THE TEMPLATE THAT WE DISCUSSED, UM, I WILL DEVELOP ONE AND SEND IT OVER TO DAN, AND THEN DAN WILL SEND IT TO EACH OF YOU SO YOU, UH, CAN FILL IT OUT INDEPENDENTLY AND THEN SEND IT BACK TO HIM.
SO WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS ESSENTIALLY A SPREADSHEET WITH LINE ITEMS THAT ARE TAKEN DIRECTLY FROM THE WORK PLAN.
UM, AND YOU'LL HAVE THE OPTION, UH, LIKE A DROPDOWN TO SUNSET CARRY FORWARD, AND THEN A COLUMN FOR YOUR, UH, RATIONALE.
ONE MORE? YES, THAT WOULD WORK.
WOULD THAT BE IN THE FORM OF THE SPREADSHEET? YES, I THINK THEY SAID YES.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE FOR ANY OF OUR NEW COMMISSIONERS, DAN OR I ARE HAPPY TO WALK THROUGH ANY ITEMS THAT Y'ALL AREN'T SURE OF THE HISTORY OF, UH, WE, WE GENERALLY WOULD BE ABLE TO ANSWER ANY, ANY QUESTIONS, UH, THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE ABOUT ANY OF THE ITEMS IN THE WORK PLAN.
YEAH, THAT, THAT'S A GOOD POINT.
AND, UH, I KNOW THAT, UH, A COUPLE OF COMMISSIONERS MENTIONED THAT YOU HAVE A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS.
UM, MAYBE THE MOST EFFICIENT THING WOULD BE FOR THEM TO SET UP SEPARATE TIME WITH JESSE OR DAN.
WELL, LET ME ASK YOU ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE IN A LOT OF THE FACT THAT THE WORKING GROUP CHAIRS HAVE THE MOST RECENT INSIGHT ABOUT EACH WORKING GROUP, IT SEEMS LIKE THEY SHOULD BE INVOLVED AT LEAST, UH, SURE.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, UH, THE INCLUSION OF DAN AND, AND JESSE, OF COURSE, IT ALSO MAKES SENSE IF WE WANTED TO EXPAND THAT, BUT I THINK AT A MINIMUM, THE WORKING GROUP CHAIRS NEED TO, TO MEET WITH THE NEW COMMISSIONERS ABOUT THIS STUFF.
WELL, I KNOW THERE'S DISCUSSION ON MODIFYING THE COMMITTEES, RIGHT? UH, WELL, YEAH.
WE DON'T HAVE ANY COMMITTEES NOW, BUT YEAH, THERE'S DISCUSSION.
UH, I KNOW THAT WE, WE CHAT, WE CHATTED ON FRIDAY, WE TALKED IN THE PAST ABOUT CREATING SOME COMMITTEES, AND WE, WE MAY HAVE SOME TIME TO TALK ABOUT THAT TONIGHT, UH, GENERALLY.
UM, AND THEN FOR THAT TO BE ADDED TO THE SPREADSHEET, IF WE CAN AT LEAST GET SOME, YOU KNOW, HAVE SOME DIALOGUE ABOUT WHICH COMMITTEE SHOULD BE FORMED.
UM, WELL, AND WE MAY, UH, SO WITH, WITH THE NEW CATEGORY, UM, WHICH WE'RE GONNA KIND OF COMBINE WITH THE GAPS THAT YOU GUYS IDENTIFIED ALREADY.
UM, WE'RE, WE HAD, UH, WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE YOU GUYS GENERATE SOME IDEAS AND THEN START LOOKING AT WHAT MAY BELONG IN A COMMITTEE AND WHAT WOULD BE, WHAT WOULD BE WELL SUITED FOR A COMMITTEE AND WHAT WOULD BE WELL SUITED FOR A WORKING GROUP.
DOES THAT SOUND, DOES THAT SOUND GOOD? I THINK THAT SOUNDS GOOD.
SO, UM, YOUR ORANGE STICKY NOTES, IF YOU NEED SOME MORE, PROBABLY, UH, I THINK THAT SOME OF, YOU'RE PROBABLY GONNA NEED SOME MORE AND WE'LL, WE'LL BRING THEM AROUND NOW FOR THESE, GO AHEAD AND MAKE SURE, ONLY PUT ONE THING ON EACH STICKY NOTE, BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA START, UM, WHAT WE'LL START DOING WITH THESE IS BEGINNING TO CLUSTER THEM TOGETHER.
SO, UH, WE WILL PUT TOGETHER SIMILAR IDEAS THAT YOU HAVE INTO CLUSTERS, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA START TRYING TO, UM, TO LOOK AT WHAT MIGHT BE WELL SUITED FOR A COMMITTEE AND WHAT MIGHT BE WELL SUITED FOR A WORKING GROUP.
SO, FOR NOW, LET'S START JUST GENERATING SOME IDEAS.
SO ONE PER STICKY NOTE, UM, NEW OBJECTIVES AND PROGRAMS, UM, THAT YOU THINK THAT THE COMMISSION, UH, THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE COMMISSION TAKE ON IN THE NEW YEAR.
IF THERE'S SOMETHING, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO JUST GO AHEAD AND MOVE YOUR ORANGE STICKER FROM BEFORE OVER, UH, TO ONE OF THESE OTHER THINGS.
SO IF YOU'VE WRITTEN IT DOWN BEFORE AND YOU FEEL LIKE IT'S A, YOU KNOW, UM, AN OBJECTIVE, UM, IF YOU'VE DONE SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY BIG AND BROAD, SOMETHING LIKE, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE, BUT I'D LIKE TO SEE IF WE COULD HAVE SOME INVOLVEMENT IN TRAFFIC.
UM, AND MAYBE START TO, TO HONE THOSE DOWN A LITTLE BIT AND SEE IF YOU CAN GET SOME SPECIFIC THINGS DOWN ON STICKY NOTES.
SO JUST ONE IDEA PER STICKY NOTE.
UH, LET'S DO 10 MINUTES, UM, OF JUST IDEA GENERATION.
UM, AND THEN WE'LL, UH, WE'LL START MOVING THESE STICKY NOTES AROUND INTO SOME GROUPS.
WE HAVE SOME NEW, UM, COMMISSION MEMBERS.
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SHOULD YOU SPEND ABOUT 10, 15 SECONDS, 30 SECONDS EXPLAINING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A WORKING GROUP AND A COMMITTEE? YES.WE'RE GONNA DO THAT IN BETWEEN THE IDEA GENERATION RIGHT NOW.
UM, AND WHEN YOU BRING HIM UP HERE, WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, UM, A COMMITTEE AND A WORKING GROUP.
THANK YOU FOR KEEPING THAT FRONT OF MIND.
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WHEN, ACTUALLY, I DON'T ANYMORE.HOW ARE YOU GUYS FEELING ABOUT TIME? FEEL LIKE YOU'VE GOT SOME GOOD IDEAS.
YEAH, WE'VE GOT SOME GOOD IDEAS.
SO WE'RE STARTING, WE'RE KIND OF SKIPPING, SO WE'RE COM WE'RE NOT SKIPPING STEPS, WE'RE CONSOLIDATING STEPS HERE.
SO WE HAVE STARTED WITH SOME TOPICS THAT, UM, THAT WE THINK THAT SOME OF THE GAPS ARE ALREADY FITTING INTO.
WE'RE GONNA START, I'M GONNA START BY READING THE, UM, THE SORT OF TOPIC AREAS.
AND IF YOU HAVE SOMETHING IN THAT TOPIC AREA, I WANT YOU TO GO AHEAD AND, UM, SAY WHAT IT IS AND THEN BRING, UM, BRING THOSE UP FRONT.
SO LET'S START WITH, UM, BREAKING DOWN SILOS.
DO YOU, DOES ANYBODY HAVE AN ADDITIONAL IDEA FOR BREAKING DOWN SILOS? IS IT LIKE, SILO WITH US AND THE, THE BROADER GOVERNMENT? OR LIKE IN WHAT WAY DID YOU MEAN THAT? WELL, THANKS FOR ASKING.
WHEN I SAID SILOS, I MEANT FROM THE METAPHORICAL STANDPOINT MM-HMM.
ALTHOUGH OFTENTIMES, UH, THEY'RE LEGACY BARRIERS THAT, UH, THEY'RE IN USE, BUT PEOPLE DON'T CHALLENGE THEM.
AND SO THEY JUST KEEP ON STAYING IN SILOS.
UH, SO, YOU KNOW, A FEDERATED MODEL OF, OF, UH, GOVERNANCE IS KIND OF INNATELY SILOED.
UH, BECAUSE THEN YOU HAVE CHIEFDOMS AND YOU HAVE PEOPLE THAT HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, FIGHT OVER STUFF MM-HMM.
SO THE SILO DECISION OF LIKE THE BROADER GOVERNING BODY AND US, UH, NO, I WAS REFERRING TO, UH, SILOS THAT EXIST WITHIN, UH, THE FEDERATED MODEL, UH, SILOS THAT EXIST WITHIN, YOU KNOW, THE DISCONNECT BETWEEN, UH, CITY SERVICES AND THE PEOPLE THEY AFFECT.
SO EVEN THE FACT THAT WE'RE COMMUNITY, UH, AS A FOCUS AS A COMMISSION MM-HMM.
THAT'S CLEARLY BECAUSE WE HAVE THESE SILOS.
I WOULD, I'M GONNA ADD TO THIS, UM, RELATIONSHIP BUILDING, BECAUSE THIS IS SUCH A BROAD TOPIC, RIGHT? BREAKING DOWN SILOS, UM, YOU KNOW, WITHIN, UH, WITHIN, UM, COUNCIL AND COMMISSIONS, BREAKING DOWN SILOS BETWEEN, UM, BETWEEN DISTRICTS.
UM, SO REALLY WE COULD, WE COULD ALSO FRAME THAT AS RELATIONSHIP BUILDING AND SOME OF YOU TO TOUCHED UPON, UM, RELATIONSHIP BUILDING BETWEEN GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, BETWEEN, UH, THE CITY AND THE COMMISSION AND, UM, PRIVATE, UM, AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR.
SO HOW ABOUT, LET'S LOOK AT THIS REALLY BROADLY.
SO RELATIONSHIP BUILDING BETWEEN AGENCIES, PUBLIC SECTOR, PRIVATE SECTOR, UM, COMMISSION AND CITY DEPARTMENTS.
SO ANYTHING RELATED TO RELATIONSHIP BUILDING OR BREAKING DOWN, UM, SILOS.
TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE AND GO AHEAD AND BRING IT ON UP.
UH, I PUT THAT WE SHOULD PILOT TECH NETWORKING EVENTS BETWEEN OUR COMMITTEE AND TECH LEADERS IN THE AREA AND FOCUS ON SOME OF THESE THINGS THAT WE'RE DEBATING TO CARRY OVER AND HAVE THAT BE LIKE THE THEME OF EACH OF OUR EVENTS SO THAT THEY KNOW, LIKE HOW THEY CAN GET INVOLVED AND INVITE THE RELEVANT PEOPLE TO GET THEIR FEEDBACK.
AND ALSO BRIDGE BRING AWARENESS.
I THINK PILOTING THOSE, SEEING WHO WOULD GET INVOLVED AND SEEING WHAT COULD COME OF IT.
BECAUSE IT DOESN'T REALLY SEEM LIKE WE'RE, AT LEAST, AGAIN, I'M VERY NEW HERE.
I'M NOT SURE WHAT OUR RELATIONSHIP IS RIGHT NOW WITH THE BROADER TECH COMMUNITY.
SO I THINK HAVING THOSE WOULD BE COOL.
CG I'LL COME, WE'LL COME GRAB THIS.
AND, UH, ALONG THOSE SAME LINES, SINCE WE ARE, DID KIND OF CHANGE THAT TOPIC TO BE MORE BROAD, I THINK LIKE, UH, CONTINUING, UH, I THINK WE NEED A SPECIFIC EITHER WORK GROUP OR COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY LISTENING SESSIONS THAT WE'VE ALREADY BEEN ENGAGED IN.
UM, SO AT, AT THE, AT THE MOMENT IT'S BEEN MOSTLY, UM, MOSTLY SUPPORTED THROUGH ONE OF THE, THE WORKING GROUPS, BUT I THINK WE NEED A SPECIFIC CALLED OUT, UM, WORKING GROUP OR COMMITTEE TO SUPPORT THAT EFFORT.
IT'S KIND OF A COMBINATION OF, OF THE THINGS.
UM, MY QUESTION WAS MORE HOW MIGHT THE COMMISSION CREATE, UH, A BRIDGE BETWEEN ALL OF THE ACRONYMS? SO THE DECA, THE
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GA A, TN, THE C D T, THE ABC, THE ALL, ALL OF THE SILO DEPARTMENTS.UM, AND IT MAY BE A COMMITTEE AND IT MAY BE A WORKING GROUP OR IT MAY BE A HAPPY HOUR, RIGHT.
BUT IT'S THE RELATIONSHIP BUILDING.
BUT HOW DO WE OPERATIONALIZE SOMETHING LIKE RELATIONSHIP BUILDING? YOU KNOW, IT SEEMS VERY KIND OF, UM, NOT ESOTERIC, BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE, WELL THAT'S, LET'S BUILD RELATIONSHIPS.
WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE IN PRACTICE? SURE.
UM, AND HOW DO WE CREATE SOMETHING WITH A STANDARD CADENCE OF, YOU KNOW, MAYBE ONCE A MONTH WE MEET AS A, AND MAYBE WE'RE NOT ABLE TO BECAUSE OF CERTAIN RESTRICTIONS.
BUT JUST NAVIGATING THAT A ASKING THE QUESTIONS TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN CREATE THAT, UM, YES TO, THERE WAS AN END TO THAT, THAT STATEMENT.
HOW MIGHT THE COMMISSION CREATE A BRIDGE BETWEEN ALL OF THEM, UM, UH, AND CREATE A BROADER, UM, KIND OF NETWORK AND ECOSYSTEM OF, OF FOLKS, UM, UH, PUBLIC, PRIVATE, AND THEN SOCIAL ORGS, NONPROFITS TO CREATE THIS SORT OF DIGITAL INCLUSION ECOSYSTEM.
CAUSE IT ALREADY KIND OF EXISTS THERE, BUT AGAIN, IT'S SILOED.
SO ALL OF THESE ORGS ARE DOING THE SAME SORT OF WORK, BUT HOW DO WE KIND OF ALL PUT OUR HANDS IN, RIGHT? CUZ MANY HANDS MAKE LIGHT WORK.
SO THAT'S MY, THAT'S MY THOUGHT.
ANYTHING ELSE ON BREAKING DOWN SILOS OR RELATIONSHIP BUILDING? UH, YEAH.
I'VE GOT, UH, INDEPENDENT OF THE DECA PIECE, UH, PUBLIC-PRIVATE PHILANTHROPIC PARTNERSHIPS, UH, SLASH COMMUNITY.
UH, COMMISSIONER DAS GUPTA, DO YOU HAVE ANY FOR RELATIONSHIP BUILDING, UH, THAT FIT INTO SORT OF THAT CATEGORY? UM, I'VE BEEN THINKING ABOUT IT AND I'M SOMEWHAT CONFLICTED.
SO LET'S TALK ABOUT, LET'S TALK ABOUT SILOS AS THEY EXIST IN THE CITY.
UH, THERE ARE MULTIPLE SILOS HERE.
I DON'T THINK AS A QUESTION, WE HAVE THE, UH, EITHER THE CHARTER OR THE AUTHORIZATION TO AFFECT THAT.
WELL, WE, HOWEVER, HOWEVER, SURE.
THERE ARE OTHER, OTHER ASPECTS THAT CAN BE AFFECTED.
SUCH AS THE WAY, UH, THE TECHNOLOGY, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE USER INTERFACES, ET CETERA, ARE PRESENTED TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS P AUSTIN SO THAT THEY SEE A SEAMLESS, UH, ENVIRONMENT FOR THE SERVICES THAT THEY EXPECT.
THAT'S WHERE WE CAN PROBABLY HAVE MUCH MORE INFLUENCE.
HOW DO WE MAKE IT A SEAMLESS ENVIRONMENT? OKAY.
SO FOCUSING ON THAT, UM, THAT, UH, CONTINUITY BETWEEN, UM, BETWEEN DE ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT CITY DEPARTMENTS? ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENT GOVERNMENT AGENCIES AND COMMISSIONS? CITY DEPARTMENTS.
UH, BECAUSE THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT, THAT THE CITIZENS OF AUSTIN DEAL WITH MOST.
UH, THE SECOND PART OF IT IS, UH, ABOUT, UM, ACCESS TO TECHNOLOGY.
UM, AND COMMISSIONER ISLAND, DO YOU HAVE ANY, UM, THAT ARE, THAT FIT INTO THIS CATEGORY? NO, I THINK Y'ALL TOUCHED ON ALL OF THE KEY POINTS.
UM, I THINK WE ALSO, I HAD MENTIONED IN, UH, CONVERSATIONS ALSO MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE TALKING TO THE RIGHT PEOPLE, UM, AND FINDING THE RIGHT LEADERS THAT CAN HELP US, UM, WITH THE WORK THAT WE'RE TRYING TO PUSH FORWARD.
SO I THINK AS LONG AS WE INCLUDE THAT, UM, CITY MEMBERS AS WELL.
LET'S MOVE ON TO, UM, TO ANOTHER SORT OF COMMONALITY.
UM, IT SEEMS LIKE THERE WAS A LOT HAVING TO DO, UH, LET'S SEE.
WE, WE DID TOUCH ON, UM, AUSTIN, TEXAS.GOV.
ANYTHING NEW OTHER THAN WHAT YOU ALREADY PUT UP ON A STICKY NOTE THAT MAY ALREADY BE UP HERE.
SO WHAT WE HAVE HERE IS, UM, ALREADY IS ACCESS, UM, OF THE ACCESSIBILITY OF THE AUSTIN TEXAS.GOV WEBSITE.
AND I THINK THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL DETAILS HERE ON MAKING THINGS JUST EASIER TO FIND, JUST EASE OF USE IN AUSTIN TEXAS.GOV.
DID ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY IDEAS REGARDING THE CITY'S WEBSITE THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO BRING FORWARD? YES.
WE, UH, NOT LIKE A, NOT, NOT LIKE A, A WHOLE CITY APP.
NOW, THERE ARE APPS OUT THERE THAT, UM, ARE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT APPS OR, UH, MORE SORT OF FUNCTIONAL, UM, AREA APPS.
UM, BUT THERE'S NOT ONE THAT'S
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LIKE A WHOLE CITY APP THAT COVERS EVERYTHING THAT AUSTIN TEXAS.GOV DOES.BUT IF THAT'S ONE OF YOUR IDEAS, I WOULD SAY GO AHEAD AND PUT IT UP HERE ON AUSTIN TEXAS.GOV, UH, IN THAT SORT OF REALM.
ANYTHING TO ADD TO THIS ONE? UH, I WOULD JUST SAY IT SEEMS LIKE WE MAINLY BUY, UH, WE DON'T BUILD.
UM, WE HAD A LOT GOING ON WITH, UH, WITH EQUITABLE, EQUITABLE ACCESS, DIGITAL DIVIDE INCLUSION.
WHAT IDEAS? UM, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ADDITIONAL TO ADD TO THIS? YES.
SO I DON'T KNOW, UM, HOW WE'RE BROKER THIS, BUT THE IDEA WAS LIKE UTILIZING SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY, LIKE STARLINK TO, UM, AID WITH THE ACCESSIBILITY ISSUES THAT, UM, COMMISSIONER DI GUPTA WAS SPEAKING ABOUT EARLIER WITH DISTRICT FOUR.
LIKE, UM, AND, UH, AN IDEAL A CONCEPT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, UM, FINDING A WAY TO UTILIZE PUBLIC FUNDS THAT WE HAVE ACCESS TO, TO MITIGATE SOME KIND OF CIRCUMSTANCE WHERE WE COULD PURCHASE THE ROAMING DATA FROM STARLINK FOR, UM, SPECIFICALLY LIKE TARGETED AREAS OF AUSTIN THAT WE FEEL LIKE HAVE THE GREATEST ACCESS AS YOU.
SO IF IT'S DISTRICT FOUR, THE MAJOR ZIP CODES IN THAT REGION.
AND, UM, JUST BUNDLING UP A QUOTE FOR HOW MUCH IT WOULD BE AND LIKE USING GRANT FUNDS TO DISTRIBUTE, WHO WOULD BE ABLE TO GAIN ACCESS TO WHAT, OR JUST FINDING A PUBLIC CENTRAL SOURCE, LIKE A LIBRARY IN THAT AREA THAT WILL BE LIKE THE HUB FOR BEING ABLE TO ACCESS THAT KIND OF, UH, INTERNET CONNECTION.
MAKING USE OF HUBS, MAKING USE OF LEVERAGING, UM, AND RESOURCING EXISTING TECHNOLOGIES FOR, UM, DESERTS FOR THE, UH, THE ACCESS DESERTS.
WHAT ELSE, UM, DO YOU HAVE THAT MIGHT FIT INTO THE EQUITY INCLUSION DIGITAL DIVIDE? MAY, MAY I ADD A COMMENT? YEAH.
I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE A STRONGER RELATIONSHIP WITH A I S D AND ACC TO ENSURE GREATER AND BETTER ACCESS TO ENABLING TECHNOLOGY, 5G BROADBAND, YOU NAME IT.
BECAUSE WHEN WE EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN, THEY GROW UP TO BE RESOURCES THAT LOCAL INDUSTRY CAN HIRE.
SO THIS IS AN AREA WHERE WE CAN HAVE A PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP.
SO UTILIZING OUR, UM, PUBLIC EDUCATION SYSTEMS AROUND TO, AS SORT OF OUR ENTRY POINT, UM, TO REACH THOSE STUDENTS WHO MAY NOT HAVE ACCESS CURRENTLY.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS FALLS INTO THIS CATEGORY, BUT I FEEL LIKE THIS IS THE CLOSEST ONE TOO IN TERMS OF LIKE, UM, I FORGOT WHICH WORKING GROUP FOCUSES ON THE, UH, TOWN HALLS.
SO FOR DICE, UH, PROBABLY HAVING LIKE, UM, UH, AI INFLUENCE LIKE CHAT G P T AIDED PROMPTS FOR LIKE COMMUNITY SESSIONS BECAUSE IT WOULD GALVANIZE THE MOST LIKE, COMMON TOPICS.
AND THEN LIKE PREEMPTIVELY AID IN LIKE HELPING THE COMMUNITY FULFILL, LIKE, THE AWARENESS GAP.
BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHEN THEY, WHEN THEY RECEIVE INFORMATION, LIKE FOR INSTANCE, IF THE LIBRARY IS LIKE, OH, UM, WEB THREE IS A PART OF THE BILL FOR THIS YEAR, VOTE ON IT.
PEOPLE WILL HEAR THE BUZZWORD AND NOT UNDERSTAND THE CONTEXT.
BUT THE COOL THING WITH LIKE LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS IS BECAUSE THEY'RE IN CONVERSATIONAL DIALOGUE, A LOT OF TIME WHEN YOU HAVE LIKE TOWN HALL MEETINGS AND LIKE EVERYDAY VERNACULAR, PEOPLE CAN REALLY DIGEST EXACTLY WHAT IT IS THAT THEY'RE CONSUMING.
AND IT ALLOWS FOR MORE LIKE PALPABLE KIND OF LIKE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, CONVERSATIONS.
PEOPLE BE LIKE, OH, THIS IS WHAT IT REALLY MEANS.
LIKE, NOW THAT WE'VE THIS CONVERSATION SEVERAL TIMES, TOWN HALLS NORMALLY HAVE A TRADITION OF LIKE FOLLOWING A THEME WITH THE PUBLIC.
LIKE THE PUBLIC WILL HAVE A THEME IT'S AWARE OF YEAH.
BUT THERE'LL BE FACTIONS THAT ASK IT DIFFERENTLY BECAUSE OF THEIR PERCEPTION AND THEIR IDEA OF WHAT THEY'RE ASKING.
BUT WHEN YOU HAVE LIKE SOMETHING LIKE A LARGE LANGUAGE MODEL THAT KIND OF GALVANIZES ALL THAT INFORMATION TOGETHER AND THEN JUST KIND OF SPITS OUT THIS ONE GENERIC PROMPT THAT IT'S VERY EASY TO DIGEST AND UNDERSTAND.
WELL, WE'RE KIND OF SAYING THE SAME THING.
THIS IS THE OBJECTIVE WE WANT TO GET DONE.
AND SO IT'S REALLY GOOD FOR CREATING OBJECTIVES, IT'S A CATALYST FOR THAT.
AND THAT KIND OF AIDS IN LIKE MAKING THESE THINGS A LOT MORE EFFICIENT.
SO IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE YOU'RE, UM, LIKE YOU'RE SAYING THAT WE COULD LEVERAGE, UM, AI FOR DIGITAL LITERACY AS WELL AS SORT OF CIVIC LITERACY, RIGHT?
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YES.UM, IN ORDER TO GAIN, UM, INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT CITIZENS ARE REALLY LOOKING FOR, RESIDENTS ARE REALLY LOOKING FOR.
AND, UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING FOR, FOR THE CITY TO GAIN ON THE CITY SIDE, BUT ALSO TO BE ABLE TO GIVE GOOD, UM, PROMPTS AND ANSWERS TO.
SO DIGITAL LITERACY, BUT IT'S ALSO CIVIC LITERACY.
I THINK IT ALSO TOUCHES ON INCLUSION, THE, THE TOPIC THAT YEAH.
BECAUSE IF YOU THINK ABOUT FOLKS THAT ARE ENGAGING AT THE TOWN HALLS, AND FROM MY LIVED EXPERIENCE WORKING WITH THE URBAN LEAGUE TO DEPLOY THESE DIGITAL, UM, TOWN HALLS AND LISTENING SESSIONS, WE HAD OUR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS, 10, 12 OF THEM JUST ON STANDBY ANSWERING FOLKS QUESTIONS.
I DO THINK YOU CAN LEVERAGE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE NOT ONLY TO AGGREGATE THE QUESTIONS TO KIND OF PULL THE COMMON QUESTIONS OUT, BUT ALSO AN AI CHAT BOT WHO IS AL THAT'S ALSO AGGREGATING THOSE RESPONSES THAT YOU GET TO PULL OUT THE QUESTIONS THAT FOLKS ARE ASKING.
AND IT CAN ALSO, UM, IF WE PROGRAM IT TO PUT, PUT THE OUTPUT COULD BE THE RESPONSES AS WELL.
BECAUSE THERE ARE TIMES WHERE IF A TOWN HALL'S AN HOUR LONG, YOU DON'T HAVE TIME TO ANSWER ALL THOSE QUESTIONS.
BUT THE AI CHAT BOT, WE COULD PROGRAM IT TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS THAT ARE COMING IN THROUGH THE CHAT IF WE HAD AN INFLUX OF QUESTIONS AT ANY ONE TIME.
SO I THINK LEVERAGING AI IN A NUMBER OF WAYS, BUT ALSO AI NOTE TAKING APPS THAT CAN CONSOLIDATE EVERYTHING THAT'S SAID INTO A ONE PAGER.
BECAUSE AS YOUNG FOLKS, LIKE YOUNG ONE PAGERS, AND WE COULD USE THAT TO PUSH OUT AFTER THE TOWN HALLS SO THAT FOLKS THAT WEREN'T ABLE TO ACTUALLY ACCESS IT LIVE CAN GET THE NOTES IN A SORT OF SUCCINCT AND CONCISE WAY.
SO WE NEED TO, UM, WE NEED TO KEEP THE CADENCE GOING.
SO IF I'M NOT GETTING TO ALL OF YOUR IDEAS, AND FOR THOSE OF YOU ONLINE, UM, WE'LL MOVE ON TO ANOTHER CATEGORY.
I KNOW THAT THIS IS A REALLY BIG BROAD ONE, RIGHT? SO YOU MAY HAVE OTHERS THAT, UM, EVEN POP UP AS WE'RE HAVING CONVERSATION.
UM, IF YOU HAVE SOME STICKY NOTES LEFT AT YOUR TABLES WHEN YOU'RE DONE, WE'LL HAVE YOU STICK 'EM UP HERE AT THE END.
AND FOR THOSE OF YOU ONLINE, JUST MAKE SURE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU, UH, START TAKING NOTES HERE AND IF YOU START CLUSTERING YOUR OWN, IF YOU START THINKING I'VE COME UP WITH A WHOLE CATEGORY ON MY OWN, THEN GET THAT CAPTURED IN YOUR NOTES AS WELL.
SO LET'S MOVE ON TO ANOTHER CATEGORY.
UM, WE HAD A COUPLE OF THINGS RELATED TO, UH, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS AND EMERGENCY, UM, UH, COMMUNICATIONS IN AN EMERGENCY.
SO CITY EMERGENCIES, EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS, UM, AND COMMUNICATING DURING AN EMERGENCY.
DO YOU HAVE ANY NEW IDEAS THERE? YES.
SO, SO THIS CAME UP RECENTLY IN OUR KIDS WORKING GROUP.
WE HAD, UM, INDIVIDUAL ONE ORTIZ GIVE US A PRESENTATION, UM, FROM THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT, CITY OF AUSTIN.
UM, SO I THINK WE NEED TO CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO FURTHER PROMOTE THE CITY OF AUSTIN WARNING SYSTEM, UH, AS WELL AS LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO PROVIDE INPUT FOR THE SYSTEM.
AND THEN, UM, I'LL JUST DO MY LAST ONE SEPARATELY CUZ I DON'T SEE A, A TOPIC AREA FOR IT.
BUT I THINK WE, WE NEED A, A GROUP TO CONTINUE TO MONITOR, UH, ACTIVITY FROM THE BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE AND SPECIFICALLY LOOK FOR ANY OPPORTUNITIES, UH, TO, TO SUPPORT THE CITY IN, UM, ON THE REGULATORY FRONT.
UH, PERHAPS IDENTIFYING FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE COULD THEN, UM, SUPPORT TARA OR THE CITY OF AUSTIN WITH SECURING OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT COMES FROM THE BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT OFFICE.
AND, AND BECAUSE THAT OFFICE, UH, IS NOW GONNA BE STOOD UP IN, IN PERPETUITY, UM, UH, I THINK THAT THAT IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO HAVE A LONGER STANDING, UH, BODY CONTINUALLY MONITORING THE ACTIVITY COMING OUT OF THAT BODY.
I JUST THOUGHT OF THIS SO I DIDN'T HAVE A TIME TO MAKE IT A STICKY NOTE, BUT CONSIDERING THE CYBERSECURITY CONCERNS IS PLAGUED THE CITY, CITY OF DALLAS, I THINK FOR EMERGENCY PROCEDURES WE SHOULD HAVE A CONTINGENCY RESPONSE PLAN FOR A CYBER ATTACK TO WHERE IF THE CITY WEBSITE IS ATTACKED, THERE IS A BACKUP PROCEDURE ON HOW TO COMMUNICATE WITH STAKEHOLDERS AND NOTABLE OFFICIALS BE LIKE THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION RESOURCES TO HAVE SOMETHING IN PLAY TO WHERE PEOPLE COULD STILL COMMUNICATE DURING THE ATTACK AND GET BACK AND OPERATING IN A DECENT AMOUNT OF TIME.
SO CONTIN SOME CONTINGENCY PLANNING AROUND, UM, AN INTERNET SECURITY EMERGENCY.
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CAPTURE THAT ON A STICKY NOTE ALSO.AND WE'LL GET THAT, WE'LL GET THAT PUT UP THERE.
SO THAT IS ALSO A CATEGORY, UM, CYBERSECURITY, ANYTHING ON THAT ONE? SO I HAVE A COMMENT ON THAT.
SO AGAIN, I WILL BRING UP THE MAGIC WORD AI.
SO LEVERAGING AI AS A WAY TO SUPPORT THIS, MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET THAT ON YOUR LIST, UM, UNDER THE CATEGORY OF CYBERSECURITY.
AND, AND WE'LL GET THOSE ALL SENT OVER TO DAN AND HE CAN KIND OF ADD THEM TO WHAT WE'VE GOT GOING HERE.
UM, WE ALSO HAD, WE HAD SOME INNOVATION GOING ON AROUND TRAFFIC, SOME THOUGHTS AROUND, UM, HOW WE MIGHT BEGIN TO, TO LOOK AT, UM, UH, TRAFFIC AS AN ISSUE THAT YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO IMPACT.
DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ADDITIONAL THERE? OKAY.
I THINK WE'VE COVERED, UH, LET'S SEE, WEB ACCESS.
DOES THAT KIND OF GO, UH, WOULD YOU PUT THAT HAND IN HAND WITH THE BROADBAND? DO YOU SEE THAT AS A RELATED, UM, ISSUE? WEB ACCESS, BROADBAND DEVELOPMENT, UM, AND REGULATORY? UM, TO ME, I THINK IT'S, YEAH.
TO, TO ME I THINK IT'S, IT'S DIFFERENT BECAUSE, YEAH.
UH, I HAD ANOTHER COMMENT BY THE WAY.
WHAT DO WE MEAN BY WEB ACCESS? UM, YOU KNOW, I, I ADDED IT WHEN I WAS JUST LOOKING AT, UM, COMMON WORDS.
SO WE CAN, WE CAN COMBINE THAT WITH SOMETHING ELSE FOR SURE.
LEVERAGE PUBLIC FUNDING TO BOLSTER WEB ACCESS THAT SOUNDS WITH EQUITABLE ACCESS.
IT'S, YEAH, I THINK THAT EQUITABLE ACCESS, ALTHOUGH THE LEVERAGING FUNDING, I THINK OF LIKE SEARCHING FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING SOURCES.
BUT THAT COULD BE KIND OF AN OVERARCHING FOR THESE OTHER ABSOLUTELY.
AND, AND JUST TO BREAK IT DOWN, I GUESS, LIKE, TO ME WEB ACCESS SEEMS LIKE AVAILABILITY OF THE INTERNET AS WELL AS QUALITY.
SO I HAVE ONE UNDER THAT THEN.
UM, OR THE LINES OF WHAT WE'RE THINKING.
SO, UM, I THINK THIS IS KIND OF IN THE FORM OF QUESTIONS.
HOW MIGHT THE COMMISSION WORK WITH THE CITY AND, UH, INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS TO, TO CREATE, UM, AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY PROGRAMS? THERE ARE, LIKE VERIZON HAS THEIR OWN, BUT IT'S NOT SOMETHING I'VE SEEN HERE.
I KNOW GOOGLE FIBER HAS ONE, AND I KNOW GOOGLE FIBER IS TRYING TO EXPAND ACCESS HERE IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN, BUT WONDERING HOW WE CAN, UM, LEVERAGE THAT AND THEIR DESIRE TO BE A MAJOR I S P HERE IN AUSTIN TO SURE.
TO CREATE THESE AFFORDABLE CONNECTIVITY PROGRAMS AND HOW WE CAN USE THAT TO ASK, YOU KNOW, SPECTRUM TO DO THE SAME AND VERIZON TO DO THE SAME.
SO YEAH, JUST EX UH, KIND OF BRIDGING THE DIGITAL DIVIDE BY LEVERAGING, UM, THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND HOW WE'RE GROWING SO QUICKLY.
AND SOME OF THESE, JUST SO YOU KNOW, SO THAT WE'RE CLEAR, SOME OF THESE STICKY NOTES, WE'LL PUT THEM UNDER A, A, UH, YOU KNOW, ONE CATEGORY OR ONE CLUSTER.
UM, BUT THEY REALLY MIGHT FIT MORE THAN ONE.
UM, BECAUSE IT MAY BE THE WORK OF MORE THAN ONE WORKING GROUP OR MORE THAN ONE COMMITTEE TO ADDRESS SOME OF THESE THINGS.
SO AS ONE WORKING GROUP OR ONE COMMITTEE, UM, MAKES PROGRESS ON ONE OF THESE, IT IT CAN BE SOMETHING THAT HELPS MOVE ANOTHER ONE FORWARD AS WELL.
SO WE'LL PUT 'EM UNDER ONE CATEGORY, BUT MIGHT FIT MORE.
THIS IS MORE OF A QUESTION THAN A STATEMENT.
UM, I DON'T KNOW, DO WE, DO WE INTERACT WITH THE DMV AT ALL? MM, I DON'T KNOW.
NO DMV, I THINK THAT'S, UM, THAT'S GONNA BE STATE.
PARDON? THE MOTOR VEHICLES STATE.
UH, WHEN IT COMES TO ANY AGENCY, CITY OR STATE, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S UP TO US.
UH, YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, WE WERE AT THE NET INCLUSION CONFERENCE AND WE HAD THE PLEASURE OF INTERACTING WITH NATIONAL PEOPLE FROM THE FCC THERE MM-HMM.
UM, BUT WE HAVE TO CREATE THOSE OPPORTUNITIES.
BECAUSE I WAS WONDERING IF, UH, IT'S JUST AN IDEA, LIKE A COMPLETE IDEA, BUT LIKE IF, UM, AS FAR AS THE REGISTRATION STICKERS ARE CONCERNED, INCORPORATING LIKE A QR CODE SO THAT PEOPLE WHO WANT TO UPDATE THEIR REGISTRATION BUT MIGHT HAVE PROBLEMS GETTING TO A CENTRAL OFFICE IN TIME CAN UPDATE IT QUICKER WITHOUT A LAPSE IN LIKE COVERAGE.
YEAH, BECAUSE A LOT, A COMMON THING WHEN I WAS AT ACC, THE COMMON THING WAS PEOPLE WHO WERE IN MORE RURAL AREAS WOULD JUST HAVE REGISTRATION LIKE MONTHS BEHIND ON THEIR CARS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T FEEL LIKE GOING THROUGH THE TDM OF ACTUALLY TRYING TO GET TO A
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DMV IN FLICKERVILLE AROUND ROCK OR DOWNTOWN HERE, AND THEN SCHEDULED THE APPOINTMENT FOR TWO, THREE WEEKS LATER AND WHATNOT.AND I FEEL LIKE THAT COULD BE AMENDED BY MOST PEOPLE.
IF NOT EVERYONE HAS A SMARTPHONE, YOU JUST SCAN YOUR TAG YOU ALREADY HAVE AND THEN JUST PAY THROUGH THE SITE AND THEN HAVE THAT KIND OF LIKE, RECORDED IN THE EMAIL UNTIL YOU GET MAILED THE APPROPRIATE, YOU KNOW, REGISTRATION.
YEAH, GO AHEAD AND JOT THAT DOWN BECAUSE, AND I'LL I'LL SAY EVEN IF THAT'S AN AGENCY THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE RIGHT CONNECTION WITH TO INFLUENCE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT YOU, YOU, YOU MAY START TO LOOK AT THAT AS A LITTLE BIT MORE OVERARCHING.
LIKE, HERE'S AN EXAMPLE ON MY MIND IS RE-REGISTERING MY CARD, BUT WHAT ELSE COULD WE APPLY THAT TO? COULD WE APPLY THAT TO, UM, YOU KNOW, OTHER CITY SERVICES THAT YOU, UH, YOU MOVE INTO A NEW APARTMENT AND YOU NEED TO SET UP YOUR, UM, YOU KNOW, YOUR, YOUR AUSTIN ENERGY ACCOUNT, YOUR AUSTIN WATER ACCOUNT, IS THERE A, YOU KNOW, COULD, COULD LEASING OFFICES HAVE THAT QR CODE? RIGHT? SO, SO GO AHEAD AND, AND GET THAT DOWN, EVEN IF IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH ON THAT SPECIFIC THING.
SO WE'VE GOT ONE MORE SORT OF STEP IN THIS THAT I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE AT LEAST GET STARTED ON.
AND THAT IS LOOKING AT WHAT WOULD BE, UM, SUITED TO YOU COMMITTEE AND WHAT WOULD BE SUITED TO WORKING GROUP.
SO WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA JUST START THIS WORK.
AND I KNOW THAT WE ARE REALLY KIND OF RUNNING DOWN THE CLOCK RIGHT NOW, SO WE'LL GET STARTED ON THIS.
IF YOU HAVE, UM, STICKY NOTES STILL AT YOUR, AT YOUR DESK, OR IF THAT IDEA JUST POPS INTO YOUR HEAD, JUST LIKE, YOU KNOW, THEY ALWAYS DO WHEN YOU'RE FALLING ASLEEP AT NIGHT AND YOU DON'T HAVE A, LIKE, YOU DON'T HAVE YOUR PHONE RIGHT THERE TO PUT THE NOTE, UM, ON WRITE IT DOWN, STILL WRITE IT DOWN.
UM, AND THEN, UM, WE'LL HAVE YOU BRING UP ANY REMAINING STICKY NOTES THAT YOU HAVE AT THE END AND GET 'EM STUCK ON HERE.
SO, UH, LET'S TALK JUST REALLY, REALLY HIGH LEVEL.
DO ONE OF YOU WANT TO EXPLAIN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A WORKING GROUP AND A COMMITTEE.
HIGH, HIGH LEVEL DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WORKING GROUP AND COMMITTEE.
SO, UH, ACCORDING TO THE CLERK'S OFFICE, A COMMITTEE IS A FORMAL BODY OF THE COMMISSION.
IT WOULD BE BAKED INTO YOUR BYLAWS.
UM, IT WOULD MEET IN AN OPEN MEETING GOVERNED BY TOMA JUST LIKE THE MEETING THAT WE HAVE TODAY.
UM, UH, TOMA IS THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT, AND IT'S THE, THE REGULATION THAT REQUIRES US TO HAVE THE MEETING OPEN WITH A POSTED AGENDA, UH, CERTAIN NUMBER OF HOURS AHEAD OF THE MEETING, UH, FOR PUBLIC NOTICE.
UM, AND SO ANY COMMITTEE WOULD BE A, UH, AN ONGOING PERMANENT BODY OF THE COMMISSION, UH, WITH MEMBERSHIP, WITH, UH, STAFF SUPPORT.
UM, AND GENERALLY, YEAH, AGAIN, UH, IT'S BAKED INTO YOUR BYLAW.
SO IT'S AN, A LONG-TERM, UH, UH, BODY.
A WORKING GROUP IS A MORE TEMPORARY, TEMPORARY BODY.
IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE AN OPEN PUBLIC MEETING.
IT DOESN'T REQUIRE STAFFING, ALTHOUGH WE CAN MAKE OURSELVES AVAILABLE FOR WORKING GROUP MEETINGS, UH, AS STAFF.
UM, AND GENERALLY THERE IS A TIME, IT IS A TIME LIMITED MEETING.
UH, SO GENERALLY LESS THAN A YEAR'S WORTH OF TIME WOULD BE IDEAL FOR, FOR A WORKING GROUP.
UH, AND IT HAS A VERY NARROW FOCUS.
SO A VERY SPECIFIC TOPIC, AND IT WOULD FORMALLY CONCLUDE WHEN, WHEN A FINAL REPORT IS GIVEN BACK TO THE, UH, COMMISSION AS A WHOLE.
A REPORT WOULD BE DELIVERED TO THE COMMISSION AND IT WOULD, UH, FORMALLY EXPIRE.
UH, YOU GUYS MIGHT NOTICE I JUST ADDED SOMETHING.
JUST A VISUAL AID FOR EVERYONE.
UM, DO OUR BYLAWS ALLOW COMMITTEES? UH, THANK YOU COMMISSIONER DESTA.
SO THE, THE BYLAWS, UH, IT IS ALLOWED FOR THE COMMISSION TO HAVE COMMITTEES.
UH, THERE'S A STATEMENT IN THE BYLAWS THAT SAYS, THIS COMMISSION SHALL NOT HAVE COMMITTEES.
UH, BUT THAT'S A REFLECTION OF THE CURRENT STATE, NOT A PROHIBITION.
AND SO ANY COMMITTEE THAT Y'ALL WOULD LIKE TO HAVE, YOU WOULD HAVE TO, UM, BECAUSE IT'S ENSHRINED IN YOUR BYLAWS, YOU WOULD HAVE TO, UH, HAVE A VOTE TO AMEND YOUR BYLAWS TO ADD A COMMITTEE.
AND THEN THAT, THAT LANGUAGE WOULD REPLACE THE PROVISION THAT SAYS THAT THIS COMMISSION, THIS COMMISSION WOULD NOT HAVE COMMITTEES.
SO YES, Y'ALL ARE ALLOWED, BUT IT WOULD REQUIRE AN AMENDMENT TO YOUR BYLAWS.
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AND THE, THE IMPETUS BEHIND, UM, REALLY IN, UM, INFORMING COMMISSIONS ABOUT, ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WORKING, UH, GROUPS AND COMMITTEES AND ENCOURAGING, UM, COMMISSIONS TO THINK ABOUT COMMITTEES REALLY HAS TO DO WITH TRANSPARENCY.UM, THAT THERE'S GREATER TRANSPARENCY WHEN YOU'RE WORKING UNDER THOSE, UM, TEXAS SEVEN MEETINGS ACT, UM, UH, REGULATIONS THAT YOU'RE STAFFED, UM, THAT THOSE THINGS ARE REALLY WIDE OUT IN THE OPEN.
SO, YOU KNOW, IF THAT'S, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT FEELS LIKE A REALLY BIG PRIORITY TO YOU, THAT YOU WOULD, UH, THAT THIS COMMISSION WOULD HAVE GREAT TRANSPARENCY, UM, WITH THE PUBLIC, THEN, YOU KNOW, THEN THOSE ARE THINGS THAT, UM, IF IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU, THAT YOU REALLY, REALLY VALUE, YOU KNOW, THEN, UM, THEN THAT'S, UM, THEN THAT'S SOMETHING MAYBE TO, TO THINK ABOUT WITHIN THE COMMITTEE, UM, WITHIN THE COMMITTEE STRUCTURE.
SO LET'S THINK ABOUT THE TOPICS HERE THAT YOU HAVE SOME SORT OF CLUSTERED THINGS IN.
UM, ARE THERE THINGS HERE THAT YOU SEE THAT WOULD BE SUITABLE? AND WE'RE GONNA TRY TO JUST SORT EACH OF THESE THINGS INTO COMMITTEE, UM, VERSUS WORKING GROUP.
UM, WE MIGHT END UP WITH SOME THAT WOULD GO ONTO BOTH LIST.
UM, WITH MAYBE A LITTLE ASTERISK NEXT TO IT, LIKE, MM.
LIKE I COULD SEE IT, IT BEING GOOD.
I COULD SEE IT BEING GOOD WORKING GROUP WORK.
UM, AND SO WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA START THIS PROCESS.
IT'S NOT GONNA BE FINISHED AT, AT THE END OF THIS SESSION.
UH, AND IT REFERENCES OUR CONVERSATION, UH, MAINLY BECAUSE, UH, AS WITH THE KNOWLEDGE THAT WE CAN APPLY FOR THE GROUPING MM-HMM.
UH, I'M THINKING ABOUT GTOP S RIGHT.
CAN YOU TELL ME WHAT THE, THE ACRONYM ISTOP GTOP S RIGHT.
THE GRANT FOR TECHNOLOGY OPPORTUNITIES PROGRAM, UH, GTOP PS IS A MATCHING GRANT, UH, THAT THE CITY FUNDS, UH, THAT THIS COMMISSION APPROVES AND HELPS TO MANAGE THROUGH, UH, THE ROLE, THE EX-OFFICIAL CHAIR WHO OVERSEES A REVIEW PANEL, UH, AND INTERACTS DIRECTLY WITH TARA MANAGEMENT ON THE ONGOING, UH, MANAGEMENT OF THE GRANT.
UH, IT'S BEEN A WONDERFUL PROGRAM, BUT IT'S A SPECIFIC PROGRAM WITH T'S AND C'S THAT HAVE TO BE MANAGED VERY SPECIFICALLY.
UM, AND IT'S AS NICE AS IT'S BEEN, UH, BEING THE EX-OFFICIAL CHAIR AND, AND DOING THAT, UH, ON MY OWN FOR THE PAST SEVEN YEARS.
UH, A COMMITTEE SEEMS APPROPRIATE, UH, ESPECIALLY SINCE IT'S NOT GOING AWAY.
AND, UH, EVERYTHING THAT WE DISCUSS ABOUT IT REALLY, UH, SHOULD BE TREATED WITH THE SERIOUSNESS OF, UH, A PUBLIC MEETING, I THINK.
SO I THINK GTOP S UH, STANDS ALONE REALLY AS SOMETHING WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING THAT COULD EASILY BE A SLAM DUNK FOR A COMMITTEE.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE, WE'D HAVE TO DEAL WITH WHO'S GONNA BE ON THE COMMITTEE, BUT IT WOULD CERTAINLY BE MORE THAN JUST ME.
I HAVE, WHEN YOU SAY A SLAM DUNK FOR THE COMMITTEES, WHAT, WHAT ARE OUR PERFORMANCE METRICS? OR WHAT, WHAT ARE THE, LIKE THE MILESTONES, DELIVERABLES FOR A COMMITTEE VERSUS A WORKING GROUP? SO, AS IT STATED RIGHT THERE, RIGHT, GTOP S IS A, BASICALLY A PERPETUAL PROGRAM.
IT'S NOT TEMPORARY, IT'S PERMANENT.
UH, GTOP S IS SOMETHING THAT REQUIRES, WE MANAGE TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR CONTRACTS.
WE HAVE A WHOLE STAFF DEDICATED TO IT.
UH, SO IT, IT'S SOMETHING WHERE, UH, TRANSPARENCY IS CRITICAL.
AND SO OUR CURRENT PROCESSES NOW, NOW LET ME SAY THIS.
I WOULD LIKE TO OPEN THAT UP, BUT I WANT FEEDBACK ON THAT BECAUSE I HAVEN'T DISCUSSED THIS IDEA WITH THE TARA TEAM, AND THEY MAY AGREE AND THINK IT'S A SLAM DUNK, OR THEY MIGHT HAVE RESERVATIONS.
SO WE SHOULD PROBABLY START THERE, BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT'S A NO-BRAINER IF THERE'S GONNA BE ONE COMMITTEE, IT SHOULD BE A G OS COMMITTEE, UH, BASED ON, ON WHAT WE'VE DONE.
BUT I'D LIKE TO GET JASON'S FEEDBACK AND MAYBE IT CAN HELP TO, UM, I'M, I'M OPEN TO, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER DIRECTION THAT THE COMMISSION IS INTERESTED IN, UH, ON THIS, I WOULD, I WOULD DRAW SOME, SOME DISTINCTIONS THAT GTOP S IS
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A, UH, A, IT'S A CITY PROGRAM, OR IT'S, IT'S A PROGRAM THAT WE ADMINISTER.UM, THERE'S PROBABLY, UH, WE, WE GIVE MULTIPLE UPDATES TO THE COMMISSION PER YEAR, BUT THERE'S PROBABLY TWO KEY TOUCH POINTS WITH THE COMMISSION THAT WE REQUIRE ACTION ON PER YEAR.
UM, SO WE DO LOOK FOR THE, TO THE COMMISSION IF WE'RE MAKING SIGNIFICANT CHANGES TO THE PROGRAM, WHICH WE TRY TO DO ONCE PER YEAR AS A PART OF OUR ANNUAL, UH, IMPROVEMENT PROCESS FOR THE GRANT.
UH, AND WE ALSO LOOK TO THE COMMISSION TO APPROVE, UM, UH, THE AWARD DISTRIBUTIONS THAT COME FROM THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW PANEL.
UM, AND, AND A THIRD IS THAT WE LOOK FOR THE COMMISSION TO, UH, APPOINT THE INDEPENDENT REVIEW PANEL BASED ON THE APPLICATIONS THAT WE RECEIVE.
UM, ON, ON ONE HAND, I THINK THAT ALL OF THOSE THINGS ARE WELL SUITED TO THE ENTIRE BODY.
UM, AND, UH, SO MAYBE IT DOESN'T REQUIRE A COMMITTEE, BUT, UM, I'M, I'M OPEN TO DISCUSSION ON THAT TWAIN.
YOU KNOW, I, ON ON THAT POINT, I WANT, I GUESS I WANT TO ASK BOTH CHAIR PITS AND JESSE, I MEAN, IS THERE ENOUGH VOLUME OF WORK TO CONTINUE TO MEET, I THINK IT SAYS AT LEAST QUARTERLY, BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S ALMOST A CONDENSED PERIOD OF TIME WHEN THERE'S ACTION AND A LOT OF ACTIVITY AND DISCUSSION THAT WOULDN'T NECESSARILY, UM, BE, UH, THAT, THAT WOULDN'T NECESSARILY, WE WOULDN'T NECESSARILY NEED WORK THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.
SO I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE DIFFERENT, WE MAY HAVE DIFFERENT ANSWERS FOR THIS, BUT I WANT TO, UH, EXPAND THE, THE CONVERSATION ABOUT GTOP S BEYOND JUST THE THINGS THAT WERE MENTIONED.
UH, BECAUSE WHAT WE DON'T QUITE HAVE NOW, UH, THAT I KNOW WE'VE ADVOCATED FOR A LONG TIME, AT LEAST SINCE I'VE BEEN ON, ON THE COMMISSION, IS A MARKETING PLAN FOR GTOP S THAT INCLUDES OUTREACH TO PANELISTS AND TO ORGANIZATIONS.
UH, THAT'S SOMETHING WHICH WE SHOULD BE PRIORITIZING EVERY YEAR IN A DIFFERENT QUARTER MM-HMM.
SO IF WE WERE TO DO THAT IN A FORMAL BASIS, WE WOULD THEN, I THINK, HAVE MORE IMPACT.
RIGHT NOW, IT'S, UH, A LITTLE OPAQUE SURE.
TO SAY THE LEAST AS FAR AS HOW THAT PROCESS UNFOLDS.
ALTHOUGH THERE'S BEEN, UH, UH, I THINK JESSICA CAN SAY THAT THERE'S BEEN, UH, UPDATES AND, AND CONVERSATIONS ABOUT IT, BUT IT'S NOT THE KIND OF THING THAT'S FORMALLY PART OF A, UH, A STRUCTURED THING WITH, WITH THE COMMISSION.
SO WE, WE'VE GOT IT ON THE LIST.
SO SOMETHING THAT'S POTENTIALLY, UM, THAT'S POTENTIALLY RIGHT FOR, UM, COMMITTEE, MAYBE NOT, UM, MAYBE NOT ABLE TO BE DECIDED TONIGHT, BUT, UM, WOULD, THERE WOULD BE, SO IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S SOME REAL ADVANTAGES TO HAVING THAT AS A COMMITTEE.
UH, IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT MORE NIMBLE DISCUSSION IF YOU WERE ABLE TO DO IT WITHOUT A FULL QUORUM OF SIX.
SO, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD, IT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD STILL MAINTAIN THE SAME TRANSPARENCY THAT YOU HAVE IN THE COMMISSION, UM, BUT COULD DO, UM, WORK IN A SMALLER GROUP.
IS THAT, UM, DOES THAT TOUCH ON A, YOU KNOW, WELL, WELL, THE MAIN, THE MAIN THING MIGHT TRANSITIONED IT OUT OF COMMISSION INTO COMMITTEE.
I, I AGREE WITH JESSE IN TERMS OF THERE BEING VALUE, UH, IN TERMS OF TAKING THINGS BEFORE THE WHOLE COMMISSION.
I DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD STOP DOING THAT BY ANY MEANS.
BUT I JUST FEEL LIKE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, MORE ASSUREDLY SEE ADVANCEMENT IN OTHER THINGS, IMPACTING GTOP PS AND THEREFORE OTHER THINGS IN OUR MISSION IF YOU WERE TO HAVE A COMMITTEE.
UH, BUT LIKE YOU SAID, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD, UH, TRY TO ADJUDICATE THAT NOW.
I JUST THINK IT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S COMPLETELY COMPLICATED BECAUSE EVEN WITH SOMETHING THAT I THOUGHT WAS A SLAM DUNK, AS I THINK ABOUT IT MORE, IT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ADDED SUBTLETIES TO IT.
I'D LIKE TO HEAR WHAT JESSE HAS TO, TO SAY ABOUT THAT IN RESPONSE TO VICE TRAFFIC DOCKER TOO.
I THINK THAT ONE OF THE STRENGTHS OF A COMMITTEE FORMAT IS THAT YOU CAN HAVE, UH, HIGHER LEVEL AND BROADER IDEAS AND MORE EASILY, UH, KIND OF CONSOLIDATE CONVERSATIONS AROUND MULTIPLE THINGS, WHEREAS WORKING GROUPS HAVE TO BE VERY TARGETED.
UM, AND SO, UH, I WOULD SAY THAT, UH, GTOP S IS A VERY SPECIFIC, DEFINITE THING.
UM, AND, AND FURTHERMORE, THERE'S A LOT OF BENEFIT, LIKE Y'ALL ALREADY KNOW TO, UH, HAVING THE IMPORTANT DECISIONS MADE AT THE, THE COMMISSION WIDE LEVEL ANYWAY.
UM, BUT I THINK WHEN I THINK OF COMMITTEES THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, IF, IF, IF Y'ALL WANTED TO HAVE, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME OF, UH, ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF A COMMITTEE IS THAT YOU CAN HAVE A CERTAIN SUBGROUP OF COMMISSIONERS THAT ARE INTERESTED IN A SPECIFIC SUBSET OF WHAT THE COMMISSION AS A WHOLE DOES.
AND YOU MIGHT, UH, YOU KNOW, FIND SOME VALUE IN DELEGATING SOME WORK TO THAT COMMITTEE.
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UH, AND, AND SO JUST AS AN EXAMPLE AND NOT A SUGGESTION.UH, THERE'S, THERE'S, UH, PERHAPS A DIFFERENT GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT ARE MORE INTERESTED IN HAVING SMART CITY CONVERSATIONS, UH, THAN HAVING DIGITAL EQUITY CONVERSATIONS.
UM, JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, AGAIN, SO I HAVE A QUESTION AND A COMMENT.
I ACTUALLY TOOK GTAS AND PUT IT BOTH ON THEIR COMMITTEE AS WELL AS UNDER WORKING GROUP.
AND THE REASON BEING COMMITTEE, MEANING IT GIVES CONTINUITY, HOWEVER, WE ONLY TALK ABOUT IT MAYBE THREE MONTHS OF THE YEAR.
SO THEREFORE, IT REALLY BELONGS IN A WORKING GROUP.
THE BAD NEWS THERE IS THAT, UH, YOU MAY NEED DIFFERENT PEOPLE TO HANDLE IT EVERY YEAR.
UH, BY KEEPING IT IN A COMMITTEE, YOU CAN CONTINUE TO THE SAME PEOPLE WHO HAD EXPERIENCE FROM THE PAST BRINGS THAT TECHNOLOGY, THAT KNOWLEDGE TO THE TABLE.
SO I'M OF TWO MINDS THERE, BUT THE FACT THAT IT IS ONLY THREE MONTHS OF THE YEAR, IT SORT OF DEFIES THE DEFINITION OF A COMMITTEE.
SO THE QUESTION I HAVE IS THAT, IS IT POSSIBLE TO GIVE THE COMMITTEE, YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY DIGITAL INCLUSION WHEN THIS TOPIC COMES UP, THAT WE ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT GTOP PS THAT THEY TAKE THAT ON AS A TEMPORARY ASSIGNMENT? SO WE'VE GOT, YOU'VE GOT A LOT AROUND EQUITABLE ACCESS, DIGITAL INCLUSION.
YOU'VE GOT A DIGITAL INCLUSION, UM, WITH A VERY LONG NAME WORKING GROUP RIGHT NOW.
UM, AND IT SEEMS LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF ACTIVITY AROUND, AROUND THAT.
IS THAT SOMETHING THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, SO, SO MAYBE THAT'S, MAYBE THAT'S ALL THE CONVERSATION WE GET THROUGH TONIGHT.
WHAT ABOUT A TOPIC LIKE THAT? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT, UM, THAT WOULD BE SUITABLE FOR COMMITTEE WORK? I THINK A BROADER TOPIC MIGHT, AND THEN UNDER THAT UMBRELLA BEING HOW WE DEPLOY FUNDS THAT ARE AVAILABLE TO ENTITIES, INDIVIDUALS, OR ORGANIZATIONS THAT ARE COM, YOU KNOW, COULDN BE UNDER GTOP PS, GTOP PS COULD KIND OF FALL UNDER THAT BROADER UMBRELLA OF THE DIGITAL INCLUSION AND COMMUNITY.
WHAT DOES THE DICES STAND FOR? IT, IT'S ANOTHER ACRONYM THAT IT COULD FALL UNDER THAT UMBRELLA
SO IF DIGITAL INCLUSION WERE A COMMITTEE, AND I'M NOT SAYING, YOU KNOW, MAKE IT A COMMITTEE HMM.
BUT IF IT WERE AT A COMMITTEE, UM, ARE THERE, YOU KNOW, WORKING GROUPS THAT YOU CAN THINK OF THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT MIGHT BE, THAT MIGHT SERVE A PURPOSE UNDER THE, UH, TO HELP ADVANCE THE COMMITTEE WORK OF DIGITAL INCLUSION? RIGHT? SO I THINK YOU CAN ALSO THINK ABOUT THINGS THAT WAY.
NOW AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT WE'RE RUNNING SHORT TIME TONIGHT, SO I DON'T KNOW THAT WE'RE GONNA, THAT WE'RE GONNA GET THERE ON THIS, BUT THERE MIGHT EVEN BE, YOU KNOW, STICKY NOTES HERE THAT IF THE COMMITTEE UNDERSTANDS WHAT THEIR, UM, WHAT THEIR GOAL AND THEIR OBJECTIVE IS, THAT IT COULD BE THAT THERE'S A, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE BITE TO, TO, TO TAKE OFF OF, UM, YOU KNOW, OF THE, THE WHOLE MONSTER OF DIGITAL INCLUSION AND SAY, WE'D LIKE TO JUST FORM A WORKING GROUP TO SPEND ABOUT THE NEXT THREE MONTHS RESEARCHING THIS TOPIC, UM, THAT WOULD HELP US ACHIEVE OUR COMMITTEE OBJECTIVE, UM, AROUND DIGITAL INCLUSION.
SO THAT'S ANOTHER WAY TO THINK ABOUT, UM, TO THINK ABOUT THESE THINGS.
IF WE HAD ALL DAY LONG, WE MIGHT START MOVING SOME OF THESE OVER, UM, UNDERNEATH THESE, UM, UNDERNEATH THESE HEADINGS.
I GUESS THE ONE THING I JUST WANNA THROW IN THERE IS THAT, UH, THINKING ABOUT IT THAT WAY, GTOP P'S MARKETING COULD THEN BE A TERMED WORKING GROUP THAT ONLY APPLIES CERTAIN QUARTERS OF THE YEAR TO IMPACT THE CYCLE FOR THE NEXT YEAR.
AND THEN IT COULD CHANGE GTOP P'S MARKETING 2023 GTOP MARKETING IN 2024, AND, AND THEN BE IT A CARRIED OVER WORKING GROUP, BUT YET SUNSET AND THEN SPIN UP AGAIN.
SO I'M GONNA LEAVE IT LIKE THIS SO THAT YOU CAN START HAVING THAT CONVERSATION.
BUT I THINK THAT, THAT COULD BE, UM, YOU KNOW, JESSE, IS, IS IF YOU HAVE INPUT HERE, UM, THAT COULD BE HOW THAT WORKS, RIGHT? SO IF YOU HAD A COMMITTEE AROUND, UH, AROUND GTOP S UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU WANNA HAVE THE TRANSPARENCY, IT'S A, AN ONGOING, UM, IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE BIT LONGER TERM.
UH, NO DEFINITE DELIVERABLE, NO DEFINITE DATE.
UM, BUT THEN YOU'RE ABLE TO LOOK AT THIS AND SAY, YOU KNOW, WE NEED A MARKETING GROUP TO JUST SPEND THE NEXT COUPLE OF MONTHS, UM, MAKING A RECOMMENDATION ABOUT WHAT MARKETING LOOKS LIKE THERE.
UM, AND THEN ONCE YOU, YOUR WORKING GROUP HAS MADE THAT RECOMMENDATION AROUND MARKETING, UM, FOR GTOP PS THEY DELIVER THAT REPORT AND THE WORKING GROUP DISSOLVES.
SO THAT WOULD BE SORT OF THE RELATIONSHIP THERE.
SO YOU CAN START THINKING ABOUT THINGS THAT WAY AS WELL.
UM, YOU KNOW, I, I PUT DIGITAL INCLUSION DOWN HERE.
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YOU KNOW, MAYBE, MAYBE YOU TALK ABOUT THAT IN THE FUTURE, UM, AS A COMMITTEE, MAYBE NOT.MAYBE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT REMAINS IN.
UM, YOU KNOW, IN THE HIGHER LEVEL.
UM, EVERYBODY'S INVOLVED COMMISSION WORK.
UM, BUT YOU COULD END UP WITH A, A, A SORT OF TOPIC THERE AROUND DIGITAL INCLUSION THAT WOULD BE, UM, REALLY WELL SUITED TO COMMITTEE WORK.
AND THEN YOU MIGHT ALSO HAVE SORT OF A SUBGROUP THAT WOULD BE SUITABLE FOR WORKING GROUPS.
THAT WOULD BE SHORT TERM RESEARCH, UM, UH, TAKING, UM, MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS, UM, AS A, AS JUST A REALLY, UH, SHORT TERM THING.
I THINK WE ONLY HAVE UNTIL 10 BEFORE WE'LL HAVE TO HAVE A VOTE IN ORDER TO EXTEND.
SO, UM, I THINK WE, I THINK WE'LL HAVE ABOUT GO AHEAD FOR SURE.
SO I GUESS IF THERE'S, DO, DO WE JUST WANT TO, ARE THERE ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS FOR COMMITTEES OR WORKING GROUPS? THEN MAYBE WE KIND OF HIT THE CONVERS PAUSE THE CONVERSATION THERE.
DIGITAL LITERACY, YOU, YOU'D BROUGHT IT UP EARLIER, BUT, UM, EDUCATING OUR YOUTH, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR OLDER POPULATIONS AND, AND ALSO OUR KIND OF, UH, WE FUNCTIONALLY ARE DIGITALLY ILLITERATE FOLKS.
UM, YEAH, DIGITAL LITERACY, THAT'S IT.
AND I THINK, AGAIN, IF WE HAD ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD, YEAH, WE MIGHT EVEN START MOVING SOME OF THOSE, UM, GROUPING SOME THINGS AROUND THAT MIGHT EVEN MAKE GOOD WORKING GROUPS AROUND DIGITAL LITERACY.
SO YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING TO, TO KIND OF START TALKING ABOUT HERE.
UM, AND I THINK THAT YOU'LL HAVE SOME OF THAT ENGAGED, UM, UH, CONVERSATION ABOUT PROS AND CONS OF SOME OF THESE THINGS.
I'M GLAD THAT YOU HAD A, A GOOD EXAMPLE SORT OF QUEUED UP SO THAT, UM, SO THAT YOU CAN HAVE THAT CONVERSATION.
UM, IS IT SUITABLE, IS IT NOT? UM, ALL RIGHT.
CJ, YOU WANNA WRAP US UP? I THINK JESSE WANTS TO JUMP IN FOR QUICK THOUGH.
UM, ONE OF, ONE OF THE GOOD THINGS, UM, OR, OR ONE OF THE, THE CHALLENGES THAT I SEE THAT A, UH, WORKING GROUP MIGHT HELP TO SOLVE RATHER THAN A COMMITTEE IS THAT, UH, AT OUR LAST COMMISSION MEETING, UH, MORE PEOPLE, MORE COMMISSIONERS WERE INTERESTED IN THE DIGITAL INCLUSION WORKING GROUP THAN THERE WERE SLOTS ON THE WORKING GROUP, UH, AVAILABLE.
NOW, IF WE BROKE OUT THE BIG CONCEPT OF DIGITAL INCLUSION TO SMALLER SPECIFIC TASKS, THEN THAT WOULD MAYBE ALLOW MORE COMMISSIONERS TO ENGAGE IN THE SPECIFIC THINGS THAT THEY'RE INTERESTED IN.
UM, SO THAT I JUST OFFER THAT UP AS A, A THOUGHT FOR, UH, THE VALUE OF WORKING GROUPS.
CAN, CAN WE MAKE SURE WE CAPTURE THAT JUST TO SEND OUT IN THE SUMMARY, SPECIFICALLY BREAKING UP THE DIGITAL INCLUSION WORKING GROUP INTO SUB-COMPONENTS? YES.
IT'S GONNA BE ON THE RECORDING.
SO, UM, WE DIDN'T GET THROUGH EVERYTHING TODAY, UM, BUT I THINK NOW THAT YOU ALL HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT THE OBJECTIVES WERE AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE, THE, UM, NEW STUFF TO COME OUT OF TODAY'S WORKING SESSION IDEAS THAT YOU WANNA SUNSET, I THINK THAT, UM, WE CAN EITHER CLEAR, CLEAR SOME STUFF OFF OF THE UPCOMING PLAN, UM, AND THEN HOWEVER YOU DECIDE YOU WANT TO MOVE FORWARD, I'M NOT REALLY SURE WHAT THE RULES ARE FOR THE, THE VOTE, UH, FOR IF THERE'S ANOTHER SESSION THAT YOU ALL WANT TO HAVE OR, UM, TAKE THIS OFFLINE.
BUT I WILL SEND OUT A TEMPLATE TO DAN TO GET YOU ALL STARTED ON, UM, PUTTING ALL OF THIS DOWN ON PAPER AND INTO, UH, A FORMAT THAT YOU ALL CAN WORK WITH ON SEPARATELY, BUT THEN SUBMIT IT.
UM, SO YEAH, GREAT WORK THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING.
UM, AND NEW COMMISSIONERS, YOU GUYS ARE GONNA BREATHE SOME, SOME NEW KIND OF ENERGY AND HERE, EXCITED TO HEAR WHAT, UH, WHAT EVERYBODY'S DOING OUTSIDE OF YOUR COMMISSION WORK AND KIND OF THE HEART.
UM, I LOVED HEARING WHAT YOUR PERSONAL GOALS WERE, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THE HEART THAT YOU GUYS ARE BRINGING TO THIS WORK IS AMAZING, AND, UH, AND YOU GUYS ARE GONNA BE ABLE TO REALLY, UH, SERVE THE CITY WELL.
SO THANKS FOR LETTING US COME IN AND, UH, JUST KIND OF OBSERVE WHAT YOU GUYS DO AND, UH, BE A LITTLE TEENY TINY PART OF THAT.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR AMAZING FACILITATION.
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GONNA GO AHEAD AND MOVE US FORWARD IN OUR AGENDA.UM, SO ITEM FOUR, WORKING GROUP ASSIGNMENTS.
UH, WE'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO, TO ACHIEVE THAT ITEM TONIGHT.
UM, SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO, UH, PUT THAT ON, ON HOLD FOR OUR NEXT, UH, MEETING.
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WORKING GROUP UPDATES.UM, WE WENT THROUGH EVERYTHING.
WE DID A REPORT OUT FOR, FOR EACH OF OF THE WORKING GROUPS, OUTLINED WHICH ITEMS WE WANTED TO, UM, TO, TO HOLD OVER TO END DATE.
SO I DON'T THINK THERE, THERE'S NECESSARILY ANYTHING THAT WE NEED TO, TO, TO, TO COVER FOR ITEMS FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN.
I KNOW EACH OF THE WORKING GROUP LEADS ARE SUB, HAVE SUBMITTED, UH, FINAL REPORTS TO THE FULL COMMISSION.
UM, SO I BELIEVE DAN OR JESSE ARE, ARE THOSE GONNA BE MADE, MADE PUBLIC AS, AS PART OF THE RECORD? APOLOGIES, I MISSED THE QUESTION.
UM, THE, THE, THE, THE FINAL SORT OF VERSIONS OF THE WORKING GROUP UPDATES, ARE THOSE GONNA BE MADE, BE MADE PUBLIC? YES.
SO WE, UH, I DON'T THINK WE NEED TO COVER ITEMS FIVE, SIX, AND SEVEN.
[FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS]
UH, TWO ITEMS. SO, WANTED TO PROPOSE FOR PERHAPS A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING.UH, ONE WAS THE, UH, RE THE ELECTION FOR CHAIR AND VICE CHAIR BECAUSE OF THE ISSUE THAT, THAT WE RAN INTO.
UM, PERHAPS ALSO, UH, WORKING GROUP ASSIGNMENT, INITIAL WORKING GROUP ASSIGNMENTS.
UM, I THINK BY THEN, IF EVERYONE, YOU KNOW, DOES THEIR HOMEWORK, UH, WE MAY HAVE AN INITIAL SET OF WORKING GROUPS WHO CAN START ASSIGNING OUT.
UH, THAT MAY NOT BE THE, THE, THE, THE FINAL VERSION, BUT MAYBE WE CAN HAVE A STARTING POINT THAT WE CAN START GETTING FOLKS ASSIGNED TO.
SO I WOULD PROPOSE THOSE TWO AGENDA ITEMS FOR A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING, UH, TO MAKE THE MOST OF OUR, OF OUR TIME.
BUT LET ME OPEN IT UP FOR, FOR THOUGHTS ON THAT.
I, I'D LIKE TO JUMP INTO SCHEDULES IF EVERYBODY'S OKAY WITH THAT AND, AND MAKE SURE ONE'S AVAILABLE.
UH, BUT I DO WANNA SAY THIS, I KNOW THAT, UH, BOTH OF THOSE, THAT, THAT BOTH OF THOSE ITEMS WILL REQUIRE, UH, A QUORUM AT A MINIMUM, UH, ACTUALLY, EXCUSE ME, A SUPER MAJORITY, UH, AT A MINIMUM, UH, REALLY TO BE EFFECTIVE.
SO WE NEED TO HAVE EIGHT COMMISSIONERS PRESENT IN ORDER FOR, UH, THOSE MEETINGS TO BE AS EFFECTIVE AS, AS WE ESTIMATE.
SO IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT, THAT EVERYONE HERE AND THE COUPLE LINE WOULD ALSO HAVE TO BE PRESENT FOR THIS NEXT SCHEDULED MEETING.
SO IT DOES MAKE ALL OF OUR CALENDARS PRETTY IMPORTANT.
HOW DOES THE 24TH LOOK FOR EVERYONE? THAT WAS GOOD FOR ME.
AT OUR NORMAL TIME, IT'S EITHER SIX OR SIX 30 WORKS FINE FOR ME.
UM, SO THIS, I THINK WE WOULD DO, WE WOULD DO HYBRID, SO CHAIR PITS MYSELF WOULD BE AT CITY HALL TO JUST TO MAKE SURE, UM, THAT, UH, THAT, THAT WE CAN START, HAVE A HYBRID MEETING, BUT YOU WOULD HAVE THE OPTION TO JOIN VIRTUALLY FOR THAT ONE.
AND BECAUSE IT IS A, A PRETTY SHORT AGENDA, WE WANNA MAKE SURE TO OFFER THE HYBRID OPTION, UM, TO BOTH MAINTAIN FLEXIBILITY AS WELL AS MAXIMIZE PARTICIPATION.
SO, UH, TARA WILL CHECK ON AVAILABILITY FOR, UH, CITY HALL OR SOME OTHER CENTRAL LOCATION ON THE 24TH AT SIX OR SIX 30.
AND THEN, UH, THE OTHER ITEM WAS JUST THE APRIL MINUTES AS WELL.
UM, SO JUST MAKE SURE YOU TAKE A LOOK AT, AT THOSE ITEMS. UH, SO HOPEFULLY WE CAN APPROVE THOSE.
BUT, UM, WITH THAT ONCE, SEE IF ANY OTHER ITEMS THAT WE MAY HAVE MISSED, DAN, UH, JUST THAT, UH, BRIEFING BY, UH, JUAN ORTIZ, THE HOMELAND SECURITY.
NO, UH, YEAH, THERE'S ALSO, I THINK ANOTHER THING WE SHOULD PROBABLY TALK ABOUT, UM, UH, THE I D DV PILOT PROJECT.
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UM, CAN WE ADD THAT TO THE JUNE, THE REGULAR SCHEDULE JUNE MEETING? UH, WE CAN, UH, I DON'T THINK, BECAUSE IT'S NOT LIKE THERE'S A NEED FOR, FOR ACTION.UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALREADY IN LINE WITH THE EXISTING WORK PLAN, SO, OKAY.
AND THEN FOR THE ONE OR TEASE MEETING, I THINK OUR, WE MIGHT HAVE A LOT OF ITEMS ON OUR JUNE MEETING, SO MAYBE JULY CAN, CAN YOU CHECK WITH HIM, DAN, AND, AND SEE IF HE'S AVAILABLE FOR WHATEVER THAT DATE IS.
WERE WE GOING TO REVISIT THE, UM, THAT EXERCISE THAT WE DID AROUND SUN SETTING CARRYING FORWARD? UM, YEAH.
SO I BELIEVE WE'RE GONNA HAVE A, A, A SHARED DOCUMENT WHERE WE'RE GOING TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK THERE.
UM, JUST BECAUSE I'M COMPLETELY BLANKING ON THE RULES AND I WANT US TO BE, UH, SAFE, UH, WOULD Y'ALL MIND IF WE TOOK A VOTE TO HAVE A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING, UM, BEFORE OUR NEXT REGULAR MEETING? NO.
IN FACT, UH, YEAH, WE CAN DO THAT.
I JUST WANTED TO REMIND COMMISSIONERS THAT WILL BE, UH, HAVING OUR JUNE MEETING AT THE AUSTIN, THE, UH, PUBLIC ACCESS STUDIO ON NORTHWESTERN AVENUE.