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[DECLARATION OF A QUORUM AND CALL TO ORDER]

[00:00:03]

OK. BEGIN MEETING 5:30.

ALL RIGHT. YEP.

FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS APPROVING THE MINUTES FROM OUR LAST OCTOBER 25TH 2021

[1. Approve the minutes from Regular Called meeting on October 25, 2021.]

MEETING, IT'S BEEN A LITTLE WHILE.

THEY ARE INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKET.

I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE MINUTES FROM THE OCTOBER 25TH MEETING.

ALL RIGHT. SO WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE AND A SECOND.

SO ARE ANYONE OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT. GOOD TO GO.

ALL RIGHT, SO SECOND ITEM IS JUST A DISCUSSION OF PROGRAMS AND SERVICES GENERAL UPDATES

[2. Discussion of programs and services updates for Keep Angleton Beautiful. ]

FOR KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL.

SO WE'LL JUMP RIGHT IN WITH THE CITYWIDE, THE SPRING CLEANUP THAT'S COMING UP ON APRIL 2ND. SO I HOPE EVERYBODY IS LOOKING FORWARD TO THAT.

JUST TO GIVE YOU SOME GENERAL UPDATES.

ALL VENDORS ARE BOOKED.

THE SCHOOL SITE IS SECURE.

WE'RE WORKING ON SOME ADDITIONAL THINGS WITH THE EVENT AS WELL.

SO YOU GUYS ARE ALL FAMILIAR WITH HOW THE EVENTS RUN AND WHAT THE THE ITEMS GOING ON THERE ARE. SO OF COURSE, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE PAPER SHREDDING, ELECTRONIC RECYCLING, LARGE DEBRIS, WASTE DISPOSAL AND TIRE RECYCLING, AS WELL AS THE TREE GIVEAWAYS PARTNERSHIP WITH TREES FOR HOUSTON.

SO TO GIVE YOU SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, WE HAVE RECEIVED ADDITIONAL GRANT FUNDING FROM HOUSTON, GALVESTON AREA COUNCIL AND FOR SOLID WASTE REDUCTION GRANT, SO IT'S GOING TO BE ACTUALLY HELPING FUND THIS.

AND SO THERE'LL BE A LITTLE BIT MORE FOR THAT.

OUR LAST AGENDA ITEM, WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHERE THAT'S GOING TO TAKE US, BUT I DO WANT TO LET YOU GUYS KNOW THAT WE ARE HAVING ADDITIONAL FUNDING SOURCE THAT'S OFFSETTING OUR COSTS SO WE CAN ACTUALLY DO MORE WITH THE FUNDS THAT WE ALREADY HAVE BUDGETED.

SO CURRENTLY WE'RE WORKING ON A NUMBER OF THINGS.

ONE PRIMARILY IS THE MARKETING AND PROMOTION, GETTING PEOPLE TO THE EVENT TO GET THEM TO PARTICIPATE AND THEN ALSO TOO WORKING ON SOME ADDITIONAL PARTNERSHIPS.

ONE BEING WITH BACODA, WHICH IS THE BAY AREA COUNCIL ON DRUGS AND ALCOHOL.

AND WE'RE GOING TO CORRESPOND WITH A CIGARETTE BUTT CLEANUP IN ONE OF OUR PARKS AS PART OF THE CLEANUP. AND THEY WILL DO THAT SO THEY'LL HELP BEAUTIFY A PARK AREA.

BUT THEY'LL ALSO DO SOME RESEARCH TO UNDERSTAND THE AMOUNT OF CIGARETTE BUTTS AND TOBACCO WASTES THAT EXIST IN THE PARKS AND HELPING SUPPORT THE POSSIBILITY OF A FUTURE TOBACCO AND DRUG FREE PARKS ORDINANCE THAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DEVELOP WITH THAT.

AND SO AS FAR AS MARKETING AND PROMOTION GOES FOR THE EVENT.

SO JUST KIND OF GOING ON WITH THAT, I DID PROVIDE THE DIGITAL FLIERS TO ALL YOU GUYS, BUT ALSO JUST SOME PRINT FLIERS FOR YOU GUYS TO TAKE AND DISTRIBUTE.

AND SO WITH THAT, YOU SHOULD SEE TOMORROW A PRETTY REGULAR PRESENCE ON SOCIAL MEDIA WITH MARKETING FOR THE SPRING.

I KEEP I WANTING TO SAY FALL I GOT THAT IN MY HEAD FROM LAST TIME.

MOVING TO A NEW SEASON, SO THE SPRING CLEANUP, NOT ALL THIS ROLLS OFF THE TONGUE QUITE YET. SO THE SPRING CLEANUP AND YOU'LL SEE A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE ON THAT FOR THE NEXT MONTH. SO ABOUT EVERY WEEK, WE'LL SEE A COUPLE OF POSTS PROMOTING AND EDUCATING ABOUT THAT.

ONE OF THE UNIQUE THINGS WITH THE HOUSTON GALVESTON AREA COUNCIL GRANT AND THINGS AS WE DO NEED TO INCLUDE THEM ON OUR MARKETING AND PROMOTION MATERIAL.

SO YOU'LL SEE WE ADDED THOSE ON THE FLAGS DOWN THERE.

THERE'S THE TCEQ LOGO AND THE HOUSTON GALVESTON AREA COUNCIL LOGO, WHICH TAKES A LITTLE BIT OF IT'S NOT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF EXTRA TIME.

I DID SIT THROUGH A GRANT TRAINING LAST WEEK TO UNDERSTAND THE COMPLIANCE OF THE GRANT, BUT WE NEED TO INCLUDE THEM ON ANY MARKETING MATERIAL AND HAVE THEM APPROVE THAT TO MAKE SURE THEIR BRANDS ARE BEING REPRESENTED WELL SINCE THEY ARE FUNDING THOSE EVENTS.

IT'S JUST A LITTLE EXTRA STEP, BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO HOLD US BACK TOO MUCH.

ADDITIONALLY, WITH THE WATER BILL INSERTS, THAT'S SOMETHING WE'VE TRADITIONALLY TRIED TO DO WITH THIS PARTICULAR ROTATION.

WHEN THE ACTUAL EVENT [INAUDIBLE] BEING ON APRIL 2ND AND THEN JUST OTHER THINGS THAT WERE ALREADY IN THE QUEUE.

THE TIMING SPECIFICALLY FOR THE WATER BILL INSERTS DID NOT WORK IN OUR FAVOR FOR THIS TIME AROUND, BUT WE ARE GOING TO SUPPLEMENT THAT WITH A NUMBER OF OTHER MARKETING CAMPAIGNS AND WE'RE GETTING SOME PAID ADVERTISING THROUGH ALSO WITH THE GRANT SUPPORT, SOME ADVERTISING AND THINGS THAT WE HAVE HAD BEFORE.

SO WE INCLUDED THAT IN OUR GRANT FUND.

SO WHILE THE WATER BILL INSERTS ARE THE MOST DIRECT, WE ARE GOING TO PLAN ON GETTING SOME DIRECT SUPPORT THROUGH THOSE OTHER AREAS AS WELL.

AND THAT WILL BE THROUGH DIRECT EMAIL, THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA, THROUGH DIRECT FLIER DISTRIBUTION. SO THE ONLY THING WE'RE LOSING OUT IS THAT DIRECT MAILING WITH THE WATER BILL INSERT. BUT HAD WE GOT IT IN, THE RISK WOULD HAVE BEEN THAT FOR APRIL.

THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN RECEIVING IT SHORTLY AFTER THE EVENT WITH IT BEING ON THE SECOND.

AND SO JUST THE TIMING OF THAT WAS NOT IN OUR FAVOR KIND OF THING.

AND AT THAT POINT, TOO WE WERE ALSO WORKING BETWEEN ALL OF OUR VENDORS IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO IDENTIFY WHICH DATE WAS GOING TO COINCIDE SO EVERYBODY COULD OFFER.

BUT WE DO TEND TO OR WE DO PLAN TO SUPPLEMENT WHERE WE'RE SHORT THERE ON SOME OTHER MARKETING MEANS AND THINGS TO GET THAT GOING UP AND UP AND RUNNING, SO STILL HAVE A GOOD

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HIGH PARTICIPATION EVENT.

SO NEXT ONE IS ARBOR DAY TREE AND BUTTERFLY SEED BALL GIVEAWAY THAT'S ALSO COMING UP IN APRIL. WE'RE PREPARING FOR THAT.

WE'VE WORKED WITH TREES FOR HOUSTON AND IDENTIFIED THAT THEY'LL BE PROVIDING THE TREES FOR THAT EVENT. BUT WE'RE WORKING ON THE DETAILS OF THE BUTTERFLY SEED BALL GIVEAWAY TO BE ABLE TO HOST THAT EVENT AGAIN AS WELL.

SO WE HAVE LIKE I SAID CONFIRMED THE AVAILABILITY OF TREES FOR HOUSTON TO PROVIDE THOSE TREES FOR GIVEAWAY AND MORE INFORMATION WILL BE PROVIDED DIRECTLY TOO FOR THAT EVENT ON APRIL 29TH. SO SOME UPDATES ON THE GREEN RIBBON PROJECT AND THE LOOP 274 MEDIA LANDSCAPING AND ONE OF THE, IN OUR LAST MEETING, YOU GUYS APPROVED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH LANDSCAPING ONE OF THE MEDIANS AS PART OF BASICALLY A TEST FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR SINCE WE HAD SOME MONEY AVAILABLE FOR THAT.

AND THEN IN HOPES OF BEING ABLE TO SEE WHAT THE GREEN RIBBON PROJECT OR SEE WHAT THE PRODUCT WOULD BE. SO WHEN WE HAVE GREEN RIBBON PROJECT PARTICIPATION, WE CAN DO THE REST OF IT IN THAT SAME STYLE.

WE'RE STILL MOVING TOWARDS THAT.

I MET WITH THE TXDOT REPRESENTATIVES LAST WEEK TO GET AN UPDATE ON THOSE PROJECTS AND WHAT PERMITTING OR ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT WE NEED TO DO TO BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD ON OUR PROJECT AND GET A BID OUT THERE TO ACTUALLY COMPLETE A LANDSCAPE.

[INAUDIBLE] MEETING THIS YEAR. AND SO WE HAVE THE INFORMATION FOR THAT.

WE'RE MOVING FORWARD ON GETTING THAT SO WE CAN GET A BID OUT THERE TO BE ABLE TO COMPLETE ONE OF THOSE MEDIANS.

I ALSO CONFIRM WITH THEM THAT WHATEVER OUR DESIGN IS THAT WE COME UP WITH OR WHATEVER OUR PREFERENCES ARE, WHENEVER WE GO TO BID WITH THE GREEN RIBBON PROJECT, THEY WILL FOLLOW WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR WITH OUR MEDIAN BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT TO DO ONE IN A STYLE THAT WE APPROVE OF. AND THEN IT COME OUT WITH A DIFFERENT DESIGN.

WE HAVE LIKE ONE ODDBALL, SO THEY'LL FOLLOW OUR DESIGN STANDARDS FOR WHAT WE DO THAT WHEN THE GREEN RIBBON PROJECT ACTUALLY GOES THROUGH.

TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THE GREEN RIBBON PROJECT STATUS THAT ONE IS ANTICIPATED TO GO TO BID IN THE FALL AND BASICALLY HAVE APPROVAL FOR THAT PROJECT TO MOVE FORWARD AND A PROJECT THAT'S GOING TO BE TAKING PLACE ACROSS A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT CITIES.

HOWEVER, NOW WITH THAT, IT'S LIKELY THAT ANY CONSTRUCTION FOR THAT WOULD BE AT THE EARLY SPRING AROUND MARCH OF NEXT YEAR AT THE EARLIEST TO COMPLETE ADDITIONAL MEDIANS.

SO IT'S BEEN PUSHED BACK A LITTLE BIT, BUT THEY ARE MAKING PROGRESS ON THAT.

IT'S MAINLY THE COORDINATION OF THE MULTIPLE CITIES INTO ONE REALLY LARGE PROJECT THAT IS PUSHING IT DOWN THE ROAD JUST A LITTLE BIT.

BUT AS YOU KEEP UP WITH AT THE GREEN GARDEN SERIES PROGRAM, THAT IS STILL CONTINUING, WE STARTED LAST MONTH WITH OUR FIRST ONE.

THERE HAS BEEN A LITTLE BIT OF A TRANSITION WITH THAT.

STEPHEN BRUEGGERHOFF FROM TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE, WHO HAD KIND OF CHAMPIONED THE PROGRAM AND HELPED PUT THAT ON LAST YEAR AND GET IT ONLINE AND THINGS, HE'S CHANGED TO A DIFFERENT POSITION. SO WE'VE TRANSITIONED WHO'S HELPING US WITH THAT? SO WE DO HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE AND BRAZORIA COUNTY MASTER GARDENERS ARE HELPING US PUT THAT ON.

SO WE'VE BEEN REDEVELOPING WHAT CONTENT IS BEING PUT OUT THERE, GETTING THINGS SCHEDULED.

THIS FIRST COUPLE WITH LAST MONTH THIS MONTH HAVE BEEN A LITTLE SLOWER TO GET THE INFORMATION ABOUT THE CLASSES OUT.

BUT JUST SO YOU GUYS KNOW, THAT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE A WHOLE NEW GROUP OF PEOPLE WORKING ON IT AND KIND OF FIGURING OUT HOW IT WORKS.

SO WE'RE GETTING A LITTLE MORE STREAMLINED.

OUR NEXT ONE WILL BE TOMORROW AT 6:00 P.M.

AND WE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT LANDSCAPE WATER CONSERVATION.

AND SO THAT'LL EITHER BE ABLE TO BE VIEWED THROUGH FACEBOOK LIVE OR THROUGH ZOOM.

AND THAT LINK AND EVENT WAS PUBLISHED ON OUR K.B.

FACEBOOK PAGE AND THE AGRILIFE EXTENSION SHOULD I BELIEVE BE SHARING THAT AS WELL.

BUT WE HOPE TO HAVE THOSE OUT AT LEAST A COUPLE OF WEEKS IN ADVANCE AS WE GET A LITTLE MORE CONSISTENT WITH OUR NEW PROCESSES WITH THAT.

ALL RIGHT. SO JUST A FURTHER KIND OF UPDATES TO THE GOVERNOR'S COMMUNITY ACHIEVEMENT AWARD APPLICATIONS THAT WAS COMPLETED ABOUT TWO OR THREE WEEKS AGO.

AND THAT IS JUST WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR, FOR ADDITIONAL RECOGNITION AND FUNDING PROJECTS WITHIN THE CITY.

SO THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED ON OUR BEHALF.

THAT APPLICATION IS GOING THROUGH ONCE WERE RECOGNITION OR NOTIFICATION WOULD HAPPEN AROUND THE TIME OF THE KTB OR KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL CONFERENCE IN AUSTIN.

SO WE'LL EITHER FIND OUT BEFORE THAT OR AROUND THAT TIME IF WE'RE RECEIVING ANY RECOGNITION OR AWARD AS FAR AS THE GOVERNOR COMMUNITY ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS.

AND I THINK MOST OF YOU ARE KIND OF FAMILIAR WITH WHAT THAT IS, BUT IT IS BASED OFF CITY SIZE AND YOU HAD DIFFERENT CATEGORIES.

SO WE FIT INTO A CERTAIN SIZE CLASSIFICATION, SO WE WOULD BE UP AGAINST OTHER CITIES IN THAT SIZE. AND MEGAN, IF YOU CAN REMIND ME, HOW FREQUENTLY CAN YOU BE? YEAH, IT'S EVERY THREE YEARS AND WE PLACED SECOND LAST YEAR, SO WE WERE ELIGIBLE.

IT'S THE FIRST YEAR WE'VE EVER DONE THAT.

YEAH, ARE WE? WE'RE STILL GOLD STANDARD, RIGHT? WITH KEEP [INAUDIBLE] BEAUTIFUL.

YES. AND SO THAT ACTUALLY LEADS INTO OUR NEXT ONE.

SO THE NEXT THING THAT WE'LL BE DOING THIS MONTH, SO MARCH 25TH, I BELIEVE IT IS.

OUR APPLICATION FOR OUR BASICALLY OUR ANNUAL REPORT IS DUE TO KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL AS FAR

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AS OUR PROGRESS AND WORK OVER THE LAST YEAR.

AND THAT ANNUAL REPORT IS WHAT INDICATES OUR GOLD LEVEL OR OUR RECOGNIZED LEVEL.

WHATEVER OUR STATUS IS WITH KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL, WE DON'T ANTICIPATE A CHANGE FROM GOLD LEVEL. AND SO THAT APPLICATION OR SORRY, THAT ANNUAL REPORT WILL ACTUALLY BE COMPLETED IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS, AND IT'S MUCH LESS COMPREHENSIVE THAN THE GCAA APPLICATION.

SO I'M HAPPY TO GET THAT ONE FINISHED.

THE OTHER ONE GAVE ME A LITTLE BIT OF HEARTBURN AT THE LAST MINUTE, AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT ANOTHER TIME.

[LAUGHTER] I DON'T ENVY YOU.

IT IS A TOUGH ONE. YEAH.

I INADVERTENTLY DELETED ABOUT THREE QUESTIONS OF MY DRAFT, AND THEN WHEN I WENT TO SUBMIT THE ACTUAL THING, I COULDN'T FIND THOSE THREE QUESTIONS.

SO I HAD TO GO RE-FIND THEM.

SO I THOUGHT I WAS DONE AND I WAS LIKE, YES, I'M FINISHED.

AND THEN THERE WAS THREE ESSAYS REMAINING.

SO BUT IT IS, I THINK WE REPRESENTED WELL BASED OFF WHAT'S BEEN DONE WITHIN KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL AND JUST THE GENERAL COMMUNITY THAT, YOU KNOW, IF I THINK WE HAVE A GOOD SHOT OF BEING ABLE TO BE RECOGNIZED IN THAT WAY.

BUT YEAH, AND SO THE ANNUAL REPORT THAT SHOULD BE COMPLETED.

I MAY REACH OUT TO SOME OF YOU GUYS WITH SOME SPECIFICS BECAUSE THERE ARE BENCHMARKS AND THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE MET IN DIFFERENT CATEGORIES AND THAT COMES DOWN TO JUST DIFFERENT PARTICIPATION LEVELS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO JUST TO LOOK OUT FOR IF I REACH OUT TO YOU AND JUST ASK THEM SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY KIND OF INVOLVEMENT AND THINGS LIKE THAT, JUST TO GET SOME EVIDENCE OF SUPPORT FOR THAT APPLICATION. A COUPLE OF VOLUNTEER PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON THAT WILL HELP SUPPORT KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL.

I'M ALSO GETTING THAT LINGUISTIC OF KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL AND TEXAS BEAUTIFUL, AND IT'S WE'RE GETTING THERE.

SO I HAVE TO SAY ALL OF THEM ALL THE TIME AND IT I GET THEM CONFUSED.

BUT THE VOLUNTEER PARTNERSHIPS THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH DOW RECENTLY, DOW HAS A VOLUNTEER COORDINATOR WHERE THEY FARM OUT THEIR EMPLOYEES TO HELP SUPPORT DIFFERENT THINGS IN THE COMMUNITY AS FAR AS VOLUNTEERISM AND THINGS.

SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IDENTIFYING JUST GENERAL VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES AS FAR AS CLEANUPS OTHER TYPES OF THINGS THEY CAN DO WITH HELP WITH BEAUTIFICATION OR OTHER PROJECTS THAT ARE NEEDED FOR US.

THE GOOD THING ABOUT THEIR VOLUNTEERS IS THEY ARE A MIX OF JUST GENERAL SKILLED VOLUNTEERS, BUT ALSO LIKE SPECIALIZED, SKILLED LABORERS AND THINGS.

SO THERE ARE CERTAIN PROJECTS AND THINGS THAT WE CAN REQUEST OF THEM THAT MAY BE ABLE TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE COMPLICATED IN SCOPE AND THINGS.

SO WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM WHERE WE CAN PLUG THEM IN WITH PARKS AND RECREATION, AS WELL AS KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL AND JUST TO BE ABLE TO HELP SUPPORT PROJECTS OR INITIATIVES THAT WE'RE DOING. ADDITIONALLY, WE'VE MET LAST WEEK WITH [INAUDIBLE] FOURSQUARE CHURCH AND THEIR YOUTH. THEIR MIDDLE SCHOOL YOUTH ARE LOOKING TO GET INVOLVED IN VOLUNTEER PROJECTS SPECIFICALLY AROUND, LIKE BEAUTIFICATION, LITTER PREVENTION, CONSERVATION AND THINGS, SO WORKING WITH WHERE WE CAN PLUG THEM IN.

AND SO AS WE GO FORWARD WITH THAT, SO WE OBVIOUSLY HAVE OUR EXISTING PROGRAMS THAT WE CAN PLUG THEM INTO, WHERE WE CAN GET THEM INVOLVED IN OUR CLEANUPS AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT ALSO TOO WHERE WE MAY HAVE OTHER AREAS AS WE'LL LOOK IN OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, WHERE WE NEED SOME ATTENTION.

IF WE HAVE A VOLUNTEER GROUP AND WE HAVE AN AREA OF WORK, WE CAN MATCH THEM TO THAT WORK AND MAYBE EXPAND OUR SERVICES BEYOND THE PLANNED EVENTS AS WELL.

SO WE'RE BEING VERY OPEN ENDED WITH HOW WE APPROACH THE VOLUNTEERS RIGHT NOW AND GIVING THE EASY OPPORTUNITIES AS FAR AS WHEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO PLUG THEM INTO SOMETHING EXISTING, BUT ALSO TOO IF THEY HAVE CERTAIN TIMING OR NEEDS OR WANTS, WE CAN PLUG THEM INTO OTHER UNIQUE WORK THAT MAY NOT CURRENTLY BE ON THE AGENDA AS WELL.

AND THEN ALSO TODAY, IN WORKING WITH ANOTHER GROUP, AS WELL AS A POTENTIAL GROUP OF VOLUNTEERS THAT ARE LOOKING TO GET INVOLVED.

SO THE HOPE IS THAT WE GET ALL THESE GROUPS INVOLVED AND THEY START, YOU KNOW, CARRYING OUT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANT TO SEE JUST BEAUTIFYING ANGLETON IN GENERAL.

SO KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION MEMBER SPOTLIGHTS.

AND SO I WANTED TO BRING THAT UP AGAIN JUST SO WE CAN KIND OF GET THAT MOVING AS PART OF OUR INITIATIVES.

AND SO TO MAKE IT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE, WE'VE ACTUALLY CREATED A SURVEY QUESTIONNAIRE I'LL SEND OUT THIS WEEK.

AND THAT BASICALLY IS LIKE, WHY DID YOU JOIN KAB? WHAT BROUGHT YOU HERE? WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE PART SO WE CAN GET MORE OF A NARRATIVE OF YOUR EXPERIENCE? AND THAT WAY WE CAN DO SOME JUST KIND OF BIOGRAPHY AND TESTIMONY ABOUT EACH OF THE MEMBERS AND WHY THEY PARTICIPATE IN KAB AND WITHOUT THE SAME AS MINE, WITHOUT NECESSARILY THE REQUIREMENT OF HAVING TO PRODUCE VIDEOS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO MAKING IT A LITTLE BIT EASIER, BUT I'LL SEND THAT OUT LATER.

AND THAT WAY, IT'S JUST A SHORT QUESTIONNAIRE THAT YOU CAN PROVIDE AS FAR AS YOUR EXPERIENCES AND THINGS.

THOSE ARE THE GENERAL UPDATES.

DO YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE GENERAL UPDATES? ALL RIGHT.

JUST SQUEEZE IT ALL TOGETHER.

KYLE I HAVE ON THE TREE GIVEAWAY THAT WE'RE DOING AT THE CLEANUP.

MM HMM. I KNOW AT THE LAST ONE, WHENEVER THEY WERE DRIVING AWAY, THOSE FLYING EVERYWHERE. YES.

SO YEAH, WE'VE LEARNED A LITTLE BIT.

SO ONE OF THE THINGS AND I'VE TALKED TO MEGAN, I MAY HAVE TALKED TO A FEW OF YOU GUYS

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ABOUT IS ONE OF THE THINGS IN LIGHT OF OUR MISSION IS TRYING TO ANY KIND OF PROMOTIONAL OR THINGS THAT WE GIVE AWAY, TRYING TO MAKE SURE THEY DON'T TURN INTO ADDITIONAL TRASH OR LITTER. AND THAT WAS A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF HOW THAT COULD HAPPEN WHEN THEY BLOW OFF.

SO YEAH, WE WILL, IF WE PROVIDE THE PLANNING INSTRUCTIONS, WE'LL PROVIDE THOSE DIGITALLY.

AND WHILE IT WAS A GOOD IDEA AND IT LOOKED NICE ON THE TREES AND THINGS THAT THEY DID BLOW AWAY SOMETIMES. AND SO, YEAH, AND THAT'S YEAH, WE CAN HAVE THOSE AVAILABLE, SO WE CAN CERTAINLY DO THAT AS WELL, FOR SURE.

BUT NO, YEAH, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE LEARNED PRETTY IMMEDIATELY ABOUT THAT ONE.

SO WE'LL MAKE ADJUSTMENTS THERE.

ANY OTHER THOUGHTS OR QUESTIONS? IS IT NO, THIS IS ACTUALLY A DIFFERENT ONE.

AND YEAH, AND THEY UNFORTUNATELY, THE ONES IN THE FALL HAD THE TRUCK BREAK DOWN, SO WE DIDN'T GET TO FINISH AND SO WE HAVE A DIFFERENT ONE THIS TIME, AND IT'S ONLY DIFFERENT BECAUSE OF SCHEDULING TO BE ABLE TO GET ALL THE VENDORS AT THE SAME TIME.

WE DID HAVE TO MAKE A LITTLE BIT OF A CHANGE THERE.

SO YEP. ALL RIGHT.

WELL, MOVING ON, BECAUSE WE DO KIND OF HAVE AN ACTION PACKED AGENDA, MAYBE EVEN A LITTLE BIT MORE SO THAN WE HAVE, AT LEAST IN MY TIME.

SO I'LL TRY TO GO THROUGH IT AS BRIEFLY, BUT AS YOU KNOW, TO MAKE SURE WE GET ALL OF OUR OUR ITEMS COVERED AND THINGS AS WE CAN SO.

[3. Discussion and possible action on Keep Angleton Beautiful Strategic Plan progress updates for 2022. ]

SO ONE OF THE THINGS WE WE DID LOOK AT IN OCTOBER WAS THE STRATEGIC PLAN UPDATES AND THINGS AS FAR AS WHAT WE WERE CURRENTLY DOING ANNUALLY.

I UNDERSTAND IT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT WE'VE DONE AS FAR AS JUST DOING AN ANNUAL SURVEY TO SUPPORT WHAT THE COMMUNITY LEVEL OF SERVICE AND HOW KAB IS SERVING THE COMMUNITY, WHAT WE'RE ACCOMPLISHING AND THEN FIND THAT TO OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.

SO WE DID LAUNCH THAT SURVEY AND GATHER SOME RESULTS, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE A LOT OF YOU HAVE ALREADY BEEN ABLE TO LOOK THROUGH IT.

BUT WHAT I WANT TO DO IS GO THROUGH SOME OF THOSE SURVEY RESULTS, GO THROUGH SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS AND THINGS, AND THEN GO THROUGH OUR STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WE HAVE IDENTIFIED AND JUST SEE IF THERE'S ANY THINGS THAT NEED TO BE ADDRESSED OR ALTERED BASED OFF THE SURVEY RESULTS. SO WE CAN PLAN FOR THOSE MOVING FORWARD AND FOR THE REMAINDER OF THIS FISCAL YEAR AND SEE IF ADDITIONAL THINGS WE MAY NEED TO PIVOT ON OR ACCOMPLISH.

SO THE SURVEY WAS LAUNCHED ON OR BACK IN JANUARY 2022, IT RAN FOR PROBABLY ABOUT THREE WEEKS, SO WE COLLECTED A GOOD NUMBER OF RESPONSES AND A GOOD NUMBER, LIKE A GOOD BIT OF QUALITY FEEDBACK.

AND SO WHAT I'M JUST LOOKING FOR AFTER WE GO THROUGH THIS INFORMATION AND GO THROUGH THIS STRATEGIC PLAN IS ANY RECOMMENDATIONS OF ADDITIONS, CHANGES OR DELETIONS TO WHAT IS CURRENTLY ON OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.

SO IF YOU LOOK AT OUR AGENDA ON PAGE 17 OF THE DOCUMENT, THERE IS THE WAY THE SURVEY WAS STRUCTURED IS WE HAVE OUR FOCUS AREAS OF LITTER PREVENTION AND SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND EDUCATION AND RECYCLING, AND WE STRUCTURE THE SURVEY IN THAT WAY.

SO EACH SECTION WAS ON A CERTAIN AREA OF THOSE THINGS, AND SO GIVE ME ONE SECOND.

THIS IS WERE.

ME. OK, SO THE FIRST ONE WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT, SO THE ANSWERS REALLY ARE ON PAGE 17 OF THE PACKET IS PLEASE RATE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ON BEAUTIFICATION IN ANGLETON.

AND SO EACH STATEMENT WAS PROVIDED WITH A STRONGLY AGREE DISAGREE, DISAGREE NEITHER AGREE OR DISAGREE, AGREE OR STRONGLY AGREE.

AND I'M JUST GOING TO GO THROUGH AND JUST POINT OUT THE OUTLIERS.

YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE STUFF KIND OF FELL THROUGH WHERE WE WOULD EXPECT IT OR MORE KIND OF AVERAGE, BUT I'VE HIGHLIGHTED THE OUTLIERS OF THINGS THAT MAY NEED TO BE CONSIDERED FOR DISCUSSION OR CONSIDERATION OF STRATEGIC PLAN.

SO THIS ONE REALLY [INAUDIBLE] I HAD A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE CITY'S BEAUTIFICATION PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS, WE WERE A LITTLE LOWER ON THAT ONE, A LITTLE MORE NEUTRAL.

SO THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE WRITING THAT STRONGLY OR SORRY, AGREE OR NEITHER AGREE OR DISAGREE, WHICH JUST INDICATES THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT ANSWERED THE SURVEY WEREN'T REALLY AWARE FULLY OF WHAT KAB DOES, WHICH JUST FURTHER SUPPORTS OUR NEED TO JUST EDUCATE AND BE ABLE TO ALLOW PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND THE SCOPE OF WHAT KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL DOES FOR THE CITY OF ANGLETON.

ANOTHER ONE IS I'M AWARE OF THE CITY'S BUTTERFLY GARDEN LOCATIONS AND HOW THEY SUPPORT BUTTERFLY POPULATIONS.

THAT IS SOMETHING THAT'S FAIRLY UNIQUE, OF COURSE, BUT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE, YOU KNOW, HAVE FOUND THAT JUST ANECDOTALLY DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT.

BUT IT'S ALSO SUPPORTED IN GENERAL THAT WE KIND OF HAVE A SPLIT OF YOU EITHER KNOW ABOUT IT OR YOU DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT KIND OF THING.

AS FAR AS BEAUTIFICATION GOES, THOSE ARE ONES THAT WERE REALLY THE OUTLIERS, THE OTHER ONES WE HAD BASICALLY ABOVE AGREE OR ABOVE KIND OF SCORES WITH THAT.

AND SO WE CAN DO IT ONE OR TWO WAYS.

WE CAN KIND OF LOOK AT EACH SECTION AND KIND OF MAKE COMMENTS ABOUT THE SECTION OR WE CAN GO THROUGH ALL THE RESULTS REALLY QUICKLY AND THEN COME BACK TO JUST GENERAL COMMENTS.

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DO Y'ALL HAVE ANY PREFERENCE ON JUST GOING SECTION BY SECTION OR JUST GOING THROUGH THE SURVEY AS A WHOLE AND THEN COMING BACK TO COMMENTS? IT'S ONE WAY OR ANOTHER EASIER TO DIGEST FOR ANYBODY OR.

YEAH.

FOR MY NOTE, TAKING GOING SECTION BY SECTION, BUT OTHERWISE.

YEAH, YEAH.

THE FIRST SECTION. SO WITH THE RESULTS, [INAUDIBLE] OTHER RESULTS THERE, BUT SPECIFICALLY THOSE TWO ITEMS. AND THEN WE'LL THIS IS MORE FOR NOTE TAKING.

WE'LL COMPARE IT TO THE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES AS WE GO.

BUT IS THERE ANY KIND OF COMMENTS, CONCERNS OR QUESTIONS IN REGARD TO WHAT WAS SHOWN AS RESULTS FOR THE BEAUTIFICATION EFFORTS? AND THEN MORE SPECIFICALLY, THE ONES THAT WERE SOMEWHAT MORE OUTLIERS ABOUT THE BUTTERFLY GARDENS AND THE GENERAL UNDERSTANDING OF PROJECTS? WELL, GIVEN THAT THERE'S I WOULD SAY IN GENERAL, IT'S PROBABLY NOT A POLARIZING AREA FROM INTEREST, BUT IT'S PROBABLY ONE THAT YOU'RE EITHER REALLY IN TUNE WITH IT OR YOU MAYBE AREN'T.

SO THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE CONSISTENT WITH IT.

THAT MAY BE IN LINE WITH THE BUTTERFLY GARDENS AS WELL AS LIKE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT INTERESTS YOU SPECIFICALLY. YOU'RE GOING TO BE MORE IN TUNE TO NOTICE IT.

WHERE, IF NOT, YOU MAY JUST KIND OF LOOK OVER IT AND THINGS.

BUT JUST TO COMMENT ON THAT, TOO, AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS IN STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES.

ONE OF THE THINGS WE'VE LOOKED AT DOING IS ACTUALLY GETTING A LITTLE BIT MORE INTENTIONAL WITH OUR MARKETING CALENDAR AND HOW WE NOT ONLY MARKET BUT EDUCATE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'VE BEEN PUSHING THROUGH LIKE EVENTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

BUT HOW ARE WE SUPPLEMENTING EDUCATION AND INFORMATION THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE YEAR AND JUST CREATING AN INTENTIONAL PROCESS FOR THAT? WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE SO.

WE CAN JUMP OVER TO THE NEXT SECTION.

AND SO THE NEXT ONE WOULD BE PLEASE WRITE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ON RECYCLING AND LITTER PREVENTION IN ANGLETON.

AND THAT'LL BE ON PAGE 21 WHERE THE SUMMARY IS.

AND SO THE TWO SPECIFIC ANSWERS THAT I HAD HIGHLIGHTED ON HERE, IS THERE IS SUFFICIENT AMOUNT OF RECYCLING RECEPTACLES IN PUBLIC LOCATIONS, WHICH WAS OUR LOWER OF THE SCORING.

AND THEN I BELIEVE THAT THE LEVEL OF ENFORCEMENT TO REMEDY ABANDONED, JUNKED OR UNKEPT PROPERTIES WITHIN ANGLETON IS SUFFICIENT.

AND THAT WAS THE LOWEST SCORING OF THE TWO.

THE OTHER ONES WERE MORE KIND OF AVERAGE ABOVE AVERAGE WITH THE SCORING.

SO IS THERE ANY SPECIFIC THOUGHTS AS FAR AS LEVEL OF RECYCLING, LITTER PREVENTION IN ANGLETON AS FAR AS THOSE RESULTS GO? THAT JUST NEEDS NOTED OR AS WE MOVE INTO THE OTHER PART OF THE DISCUSSION WITH STRATEGIC PLANNING. I'M WONDERING WHAT WOULD MAKE.

WHAT WE NEED TO DO TO PROVIDE MORE RECYCLING IN THE CAUSE, THAT'S I MEAN, THAT'S ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE YOU EITHER HAVE A RECYCLING AREA IN THE CITY WHERE PEOPLE JUST BRING THEIR THINGS, YOU KNOW? THIS IS, YOU KNOW, VERSUS BECAUSE EVERYONE THAT HAS A THAT'S WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS HAS A CAN.

YOU KNOW, IF THEY HAVE A HOUSEHOLD, THEY HAVE A RECYCLING CAN SO.

THAT'S THE ONLY THING I CAN THINK OF.

I IMMEDIATELY I IMMEDIATELY THINK OF OUR PARKS JUST HAVING AND THAT'S BEEN MENTIONED BEFORE, AND I THINK WITHIN PREVIOUS STRATEGIC PLANS, WE'RE WORKING ON DEVELOPING A NEW STRUCTURE AND PARK STANDARD FOR CONTAINERS THAT ARE SIDE BY SIDE.

WE HAVE A BLUE AND THEN A BLACK ONE, BLACK BEING TRASH AND BLUE BEING RECYCLING AND THEN JUST INCORPORATING THAT AND STARTING WITH OUR HIGH FOOT TRAFFIC AREAS LIKE BATES, B.G.

PECK AND FREEDOM, AND JUST SEEING HOW OFTEN THEY'RE USED.

I KNOW THAT'S BEEN SOMETHING THAT WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO WORK ON.

IT JUST HAS NOT BEEN IT HASN'T COME TO THE TOP WITH THE NUMBER OF PARK PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE GOING ON IT BEING SOMETHING THAT WOULD FALL ON PARK STAFF TO FABRICATE.

WE JUST HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET IT STARTED, BUT WE CAN MAKE IT A PRIORITY THIS YEAR.

AND WITH THAT TOO, AS WELL, WITH LIKE SOME OF THESE ADDITIONAL FUNDING SOURCES AND SPONSORSHIPS AND THINGS THAT WE'RE RECEIVING TO OFFSET FUNDS, WE WILL POTENTIALLY HAVE THE ABILITY TO REALLOCATE FUNDING TO SUPPORT THINGS LIKE PUTTING IN RECEPTACLES AT PARKS

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WHERE THEY MAY NOT HAVE BEEN PREVIOUSLY PLANNED, OR THEY MAY BE PLANNED FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD THAT WE'RE WAITING ON FUNDING FOR.

SO THAT IS ONE OF THE BENEFITS OF SOME OF THE ALTERNATIVE FUNDING THAT WE'RE SEEKING IS THEN WE GET TO REALLOCATE FUNDS TO OTHER INITIATIVES AND THINGS.

SO, YOU KNOW, AND HOPEFULLY THAT CONTINUES.

AT LEAST SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, WE'VE SEEN PRETTY GOOD SUPPORT BETWEEN JUST GENERAL SPONSORSHIP AND AS WELL AS OPPORTUNITIES FOR GRANT FUNDING.

SO I THINK THERE MAY BE WAYS TO ADDRESS WHAT MEGAN WAS SPEAKING OF.

I'M THINKING SO TOO. AND WE MAY EVEN FIND AT THE KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL CONFERENCE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT ACTUALLY FITS WHAT WE NEED AND POSSIBLY EVEN A GRANT SOURCE TO PAY FOR IT. YOU KNOW, YOU JUST NEVER KNOW ONCE WE START DIGGING.

YEAH. LIKE, FOR EXAMPLE, THE SOLID WASTE GRANT THAT WE'RE RECEIVING FOR OUR COMMUNITY CLEANUPS, THAT IS A GRANT THAT COULD BE PURSUED.

OBVIOUSLY, WE'RE IN PROCESS WITH THAT GRANT NOW, BUT SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT WHERE YOU COULD ACTUALLY PAY FOR LIKE RECYCLING INFRASTRUCTURE.

AND SO IT WOULD JUST BE IDENTIFIED WITH THOSE NEEDS.

AND SO. AND JUST ONE THING TO MENTION TOO THROUGH THAT GRANT PROCESS, AND YOU GUYS MAY ALREADY BE AWARE OF THIS OR WE MAY HAVE DISCUSSED IT BEFORE, BUT THE THE WASTE CONNECTIONS, THE LANDFILL, LIKE THEY'RE STILL GOING TO BE PROCESSING AND PICKING UP RECYCLING. BUT THE RECYCLING DROP OFF OPTION AT SOME POINT, I BELIEVE, IS GOING TO BE DISCONTINUED WHERE YOU CAN'T DROP OFF RECYCLING DIRECTLY AT THAT SITE.

NOW IT'S TO BE PICKED UP IN PROCESS HOW THEY WANT TO.

BUT I JUST SAY THERE'S SOME DAMAGE TO THE SITE AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO THEY WORK TO CONTINUE THE RECYCLING DROP OFF AT THAT SITE SO THAT JUST IT'S ONE LESS REGIONAL LOCATION THAT IF YOU HAD A LARGE AMOUNT OF RECYCLING THAT YOU'D BE ABLE TO TAKE IT SOMEWHERE, SO. AND THEN ALSO TOO I THINK, YOU KNOW, I ALWAYS THINK WHEN I HEAR THESE THINGS ABOUT JUST THE LARGE SCALE RECYCLING DROP OFF LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE ONE DAY'S EVENTS. BUT IF THERE'S PLACES WHERE THERE MAY BE OPPORTUNITIES FOR JUST CONTINUOUS DROP OFF THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY LOOK AT ALL THESE THINGS AS WE TALK ABOUT THE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE ITEMS AS WELL.

SO. ANY OTHER THOUGHTS ON THE THE GENERAL RECYCLING OR LITTER PREVENTION? PICK UP THE BAGS FOR THE RECYCLING.

INFORMATION ON.

ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT LIKE EACH NEIGHBORHOOD LIKE RANCHO, FOR INSTANCE.

SO WE HAVE ONE NEIGHBORHOOD WEBSITE OR FACEBOOK SITE.

AND IF YOU'RE HEY, YOU KNOW, COME ON BY THE POOL OR WHATEVER, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN COME BY AND PICK UP. SO I DON'T KNOW HOW ACCESSIBLE IT IS.

I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S EVER BEEN LIKE ONE THING WE COULD LOOK AT IS SOME OF THE COMMUNITIES THAT ARE BEING DEVELOPED OR, YOU KNOW, SOME EXISTING COMMUNITIES IS JUST ENGAGING WHOEVER THAT COMMUNITY'S LEADERSHIP IS AND YOU KNOW, WE CAN PROVIDE SERVICES OR EDUCATION AND THINGS LIKE THAT OR PROVIDE RESOURCES DIRECTLY TO THEM.

AND THAT COULD BE SOMETHING WHERE IT JUST EXPANDS OUR REACH AS FAR AS THE CLEANUP INITIATIVE OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

SO I THINK THERE'S WAYS TO EXPLORE, JUST LIKE BETTER RECYCLING AWARENESS AND EDUCATION WITHIN SPECIFIC COMMUNITIES FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, BUT AS FAR AS LIKE MORE OF THE COMMUNITY DRIVEN FROM THEIR PERSPECTIVE, I THINK THAT'S MORE THAN LIKELY GOING TO BE THE INDIVIDUAL COMMUNITY'S KIND OF LEADERSHIP TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS, BUT I'M NOT 100 PERCENT SURE ON THAT AS WELL, BUT IS THAT SOMEWHAT CORRECT? YEAH, I MEAN, I'M JUST I'M NOT SURE I'M UNDERSTANDING EXACTLY.

ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT JUST EDUCATION ON THE USE OF RESIDENTIAL RECEPTACLES OR.

WELL WHENEVER YOU HAVE THE BLUE BAGS.

OKAY. TWO THAT REMINDS YOU TO RECYCLE.

OK, SO I DIDN'T KNOW OK. SO THAT THEY WILL ACTUALLY OK, I GOT YOU.

ALMOST LIKE STRATEGIC INDICATORS, IT'S JUST LIKE PERIODIC REMINDERS THAT, HEY, JUST ENGAGE IN THIS SERVICE, THAT'S.

MM HMM. AND THOSE ARE THINGS I THINK WE CAN LOOK AT AS FAR AS LIKE HOW WE AND WE CAN PROBABLY COORDINATE THAT IF WE LOOK AT OUR ANNUAL SCHEDULE OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHEN ARE WE OFFERING THINGS LARGE SCALE, LIKE WHEN ARE OUR BIG CLEANUPS AND THEN WHEN ARE THEY NOT SO WE CAN ENGAGE THEM IN BETWEEN THOSE THINGS AND STUFF LIKE THAT? SO CERTAINLY. ANY OTHER THOUGHTS ON RECYCLING LITTER PREVENTION JUST RESULTS AT ALL.

ALL RIGHT. LET ME JUMP UP TO THE WE'VE GOT ONE MORE SECTION.

AND SO THE OTHER IS PLEASE RATE THE FOLLOWING STATEMENTS ON SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL IN ANGLETON.

AND THE WAY THESE QUESTIONS CAME ABOUT AND JUST IT'S BASED OFF THE IN THE CHARTER FOR THE

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KAB COMMISSION, LIKE WHAT THE AREAS OF FOCUS ARE AND THINGS, AND SO AND WHAT THE ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES WITH KAB ARE AND SO SOME OF THE THINGS ARE DIRECTLY, YOU KNOW, WE INFLUENCE SOME OF THE THINGS ARE JUST THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING WITHIN THE CITY.

SO JUST KEEP THAT IN MIND AS WE GO THROUGH DIFFERENT ITEMS. BUT THE MAJOR ITEMS I HAVE AS FAR AS SOLID WASTE DISPOSAL AND HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE IS THERE ARE ENOUGH NEARBY RESOURCES TO MAKE IT EASY TO PROPERLY DISPOSE OF HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE. THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT RANKED LOWER.

THE HEAVY TRASH RESOURCES IN ANGLETON ARE ENOUGH TO MEET THE COMMUNITY NEEDS.

THAT ONE RANKED GENERALLY LOWER, BUT MORE EVENLY SPREAD.

THERE ARE ENOUGH RESOURCES TO MAKE IT EASY TO PROPERLY DISPOSE OF YARD WASTE.

AGAIN, THAT WAS LOWER BUT MORE EVENLY SPREAD, AND THERE ARE ENOUGH TRASH RECEPTACLES IN PEDESTRIAN AREAS TO ENCOURAGE LITTER REDUCTION.

AND AGAIN, LOW BUT SOMEWHAT EVENLY SPREAD WITH THAT.

SO WITH THOSE ITEMS, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS OR JUST NOTES TO MAKE ABOUT THOSE SPECIFIC AREAS OR ANYTHING ELSE YOU NOTICE FROM THAT SECTION OF THE SURVEY? WELL, I'LL START FROM THE BOTTOM.

AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS ABOUT ADDING TRASH RECEPTACLES DOWNTOWN, YOU KNOW, AREAS WHERE PEOPLE WOULD.

SO I'M NOT SURPRISED AT THAT.

AND I WASN'T SURPRISED AT ALL ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THAT THERE ARE ENOUGH NEARBY RESOURCES TO MAKE IT EASY TO PROPERLY DISPOSE OF HAZARDOUS WASTE.

I WASN'T SURPRISED WITH THAT RESPONSE.

AND TO MY UNDERSTANDING, WE'VE TYPICALLY REFERRED THEM TO OTHER LOCATIONS BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE IMMEDIATE RESOURCE.

YEAH RIGHT.

SO WHERE CAN THEY TAKE PAINT? AS FAR AS IF IT'S BEEN SOLIDIFIED, IT CAN BE COLLECTED WITH NORMAL TRASH.

OTHERWISE, IT HAS TO GO TO A I FORGOT THE TERM FOR THE BASICALLY A HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL FACILITY, THERE'S THE ONE IN PEARLAND THAT YOU CAN TAKE THINGS LIKE THE LIQUIDS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

AS LONG AS YOU CAN PROVE YOU ARE WITHIN THE COUNTY. RIGHT.

YEAH. AND SO THAT'S OUR CLOSEST PLACE, BUT THE EASIEST.

THE EASIEST THING TO DO IS SOLIDIFY THAT PAINT THAT COULD BE DISPOSED OF NORMALLY.

INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, WITH THAT, THOUGH, IS THAT WAS A SPECIFIC QUESTION THAT WAS ASKED BY THE HOUSTON GALVESTON AREA COUNCIL TODAY ABOUT SOME OF THE SERVICES WE HAVE IS WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TREATED AND UNTREATED PAINT AND HOW DO YOU DISPOSE THE DIFFERENCE? AND THAT WAS. WHEN PEOPLE DRIVE UP AND ASK ADDRESS, PHONE NUMBER OR WHATEVER.

AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A PRODUCT THAT'S LIKE SOMETHING THAT MAY BE THAT WE COULD LOOK AT DISTRIBUTING FROM A STANDPOINT OF LIKE IF WE SEE THAT UNTREATED PAINT OR LIQUID PAINT IS AN ISSUE AS FAR AS PROPER DISPOSAL, IS THAT ONE OF OUR INITIATIVES THAT WE CAN PROVIDE INFORMATION MATERIAL WITH A PACKET OF YOU KNOW WHAT'S USED TO SOLIDIFY THE PAINT AND THINGS? JUST THIS IS JUST I HADN'T THOUGHT ABOUT THAT TOO MUCH UNTIL JUST NOW.

BUT WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT EDUCATING, IT HELPS TO GIVE THEM AN ACTION ITEM AS WELL.

SO BUT I'LL NOTE THAT DOWN AS LIKE THE SOLID OR THE LIQUID PAINT AND OTHER LIQUID ITEMS. WELL, AND ALSO THE HEAVY TRASH RESOURCES IN ANGLETON ARE ENOUGH TO MEET THE COMMUNITY NEEDS.

I THINK THAT WAS A PRETTY GOOD RESPONSE THERE THAT THE MAJORITY FELT EITHER AMBIVALENT, YOU KNOW, THAT THEY WEREN'T SURE OR THEY AGREED AND I DON'T KNOW.

I THINK THE PART OF THE HEAVY TRASH IS JUST UNDERSTANDING THE SCHEDULE OF WHEN IT'S COMING AND THEN PEOPLE PUTTING IT OUT CORRECTLY, YOU KNOW, IF THEY DON'T HAVE IT OUT THERE CORRECTLY, THEN YOU KNOW.

OK. YES, MARK STIPEND TO THE CITY TO DO A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT.

SO WE'RE ACTUALLY PROOFING THE VIDEO THIS WEEK.

AND SO IT TALKS ABOUT PUTTING OUT PAINTS OR PUTTING OUT BRUSH AND WHAT DOES FOUR CUBIC YARDS LOOK LIKE AND WHERE DOES IT NEED TO BE IN RELATION TO THE CURB? SO WE'RE GOING TO PROOF IT THIS WEEK.

HOPEFULLY, FINAL CHANGES.

SO PROBABLY THE NEXT MONTH IT'LL BE OUT AND WE'LL SHARE IT.

IT'S KIND OF A GOOFY, FUN EDUCATIONAL THING, SO.

BUT, YOU KNOW, WE DO SOME OF THE RULER STUFF AND, YOU KNOW, USING ROTARY INTERACT KIDS TO DEMONSTRATE WHAT FOUR CUBIC YARDS LOOK LIKE AND, YOU KNOW, PROPER TRASH CAN, YOU KNOW, KEEP MAKE SURE THE LID IS CLOSED AND NOT PILED HIGH AND ALL THOSE KIND OF THINGS.

SO IN THE NEXT MONTH, IT'LL BE OUT.

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THANK YOU. THANK YOU.

YEAH. AND I THINK JUST WITH THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT CAN EASILY BE INCLUDED IN LIKE OUR ANNUAL EDUCATIONAL CAMPAIGNS AND THINGS BECAUSE I DO AGREE, LIKE SOMETIMES LIKE WE SET STUFF ON OUR CURB LIKE WHY HASN'T IT BEEN TAKEN? AND IT'S NOT EITHER PREPARED PROPERLY OR IT'S NOT AN ITEM THAT'S ACCEPTED OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT AND JUST THE GENERAL EDUCATION AROUND THAT IS PROBABLY HELPFUL AS WELL.

SO NOTING THAT ANY OTHER ITEMS SPECIFICALLY IN THOSE? AND I BELIEVE IN LIKE PREVIOUS CONVERSATIONS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT, LIKE A LOT OF IT, IS JUST GENERAL AWARENESS AND COMPLIANCE WITH WHAT IS PROVIDED AND JUST WORKING ON US KIND OF BEING ONE OF THE VOICES OF WHAT IS AVAILABLE TO THE COMMUNITY.

ALL RIGHT. SO JUST A COUPLE MORE THINGS JUST TO NOTE.

AS FAR AS COMMUNITY CLEANUPS, MOST OF THE PEOPLE THAT DID PARTICIPATE IN THIS HAVE PARTICIPATED IN OUR COMMUNITY CLEANUPS, EITHER THIS YEAR OR WITHIN THE LAST ONE TO THREE YEARS. THERE'S ONLY A HANDFUL OF PEOPLE THAT WEREN'T FAMILIAR WITH IT OR WE'RE FAMILIAR, BUT HADN'T PARTICIPATED.

THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT WOULD PARTICIPATE IN ADDITIONAL CITYWIDE CLEANUPS IF THEY WERE OFFERED WAS ROUGHLY 50 PERCENT AND 35 PERCENT MAYBE SO YOU COULD PROBABLY ROUND THAT OUT TO LIKE 60 SOMETHING PERCENT.

AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE WITH OUR LAST AGENDA ITEM AS WE GO.

THAT'S WHERE WE GET TO BE CREATIVE.

AS FAR AS THE TYPES OF EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS TO BE PROVIDED THROUGH KAB OR IN COLLABORATION WITH KAB.

GARDENING, EDUCATION, LANDSCAPING, EDUCATION, NATURAL RESOURCE AND CONSERVATION ORGANIZED GROUP CLEANUP EVENTS, THOSE WERE THE ONES THAT SHOWED THE HIGHEST RESULTS, WHICH IS GOOD BECAUSE THAT'S THE DIRECTION THAT WE'VE GENERALLY GONE.

SO I THINK IT'S WE CAN LOOK AT INCREASING OUR PARTICIPATION, SOME OF THE THINGS WE DO AND ENHANCE SOME OF THE OFFERINGS THAT WE HAVE.

BUT THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THOSE WERE OUR HIGHEST RATED AREAS.

AS FAR AS GENERAL COMMUNICATION AND MARKETING SOCIAL MEDIA WAS THE PREFERENCE BY A GOOD BIT, FOLLOWED BY EMAIL SO THAT DIRECT ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION THAT DOES OF COURSE, VARY BY POPULATION.

THEN IT GOES TO THE MAIL OR THE INSERTS LIKE THE WATER BILL AND WEBSITES AND MONTHLY NEWSLETTERS. AND SO THOSE ARE ALL THINGS THAT WE'RE PURSUING AND WORKING WITH.

SO I THINK WE'RE IN THE RIGHT LINE IS THAT IT'S JUST THE WHAT RATIOS AND WHAT FREQUENCY OF THOSE DIFFERENT COMMUNICATIONS IS WHAT WE'LL START FIGURING OUT AND TESTING OVER TIME.

AND THOSE OF YOU THAT DON'T KNOW ME QUITE AS WELL, I KEEP TRACK WITH A LOT OF INFORMATION REGARDLESS, LIKE EVERYTHING WE DO, SO WE CAN ALWAYS GO BACK AND LOOK BACK IN HOW THINGS PERFORM. SO AT SOME POINT YOU'LL PROBABLY SEE WHERE WE MAKE SOME CHANGES BASED OFF THINGS JUST EITHER NOT PERFORMING WELL OR PERFORMING REALLY WELL.

SO WE ENHANCE THEM AND THINGS.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION GATHERED.

THE NEXT FEW ON PAGE 31 AND BEYOND THERE.

THAT'S JUST A LOT OF THE OPEN ENDED QUESTION COMMENT.

SO THERE'S A LOT OF REALLY GOOD INFORMATION IN THERE, BUT I WON'T BELABOR ANYBODY BY, YOU KNOW, READING SPECIFIC COMMENTS.

BUT THAT IS SOMETIMES WHERE YOU FIND SOME OF THE BEST INFORMATION OR THE SPECIFICS THAT SUPPORT THEIR GENERAL ANSWER.

SO PAGE 31 THROUGH ABOUT 35.

SO NOW WE'LL JUMP WE GOING THROUGH THOSE BASIC SURVEY RESULTS, WE'LL JUMP TO PAGE 36, WHICH IS 36, 37, 38.

THAT'S OUR CURRENT STRATEGIC PLAN DOCUMENTS ARE AS IT SITS RIGHT NOW, SEPARATED IN A SIMILAR WAY AS A SURVEY.

SO JUST BASED OFF WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT AND NOTED, AND I JUST STACKED MY NOTES AWAY, I'M SORRY. WE TALKED ABOUT THE FREQUENCY AND THE AVAILABILITY OF RECYCLING RECEPTACLES, THE EDUCATION AROUND JUST DIFFERENT SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND HAZARDOUS OR LIKE HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT.

AND WE TALKED ABOUT LIKE JUST GENERAL AWARENESS OF LIKE BEAUTIFICATION PROJECTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. AND SO AS WE GO THROUGH THE DIFFERENT ITEMS ON THE STRATEGIC PLAN, ARE THERE ANY SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES OR IDEAS OR THINGS FROM THE INFORMATION THAT WE'VE GAINED THAT WE'D LIKE TO PURSUE? AND I WILL POINT OUT TOO A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT WERE REVEALED IN THE SURVEY ARE THINGS HAVE ALREADY BEEN IDENTIFIED IN OUR STRATEGIC PLAN.

IT'S JUST WHETHER OR NOT WE WANT TO GIVE MORE FOCUS TO THEM OR ADD ADDITIONAL EMPHASIS IN A UNIQUE WAY WHERE WE WANT TO ADD OR CHANGE AN ITEM.

BUT FOR THE MOST PART, THE THINGS THAT CAME UP IN THE SURVEY WERE CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WAS IN OUR EXISTING STRATEGIC PLAN.

SO, AS WE GO THROUGH THERE, I'M JUST LOOKING FOR ANY THOUGHTS, IDEAS AS FAR AS LIKE ANY KIND OF ACTIONS OR THINGS THAT WE WANT TO MAYBE MOVE FORWARD WITH ADDING TO THE PLAN OR MAYBE THINGS THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, POSSIBLY BE REMOVED FROM THE PLAN OR CHANGE IN FOCUS AND AND WE CAN GO THROUGH THESE WITH AS MUCH.

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SO LITTER CLEANUP, WE TALKED ABOUT ENFORCEMENT OF ORDINANCES AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

THAT'S SOMETHING THAT DEVELOPMENT SERVICE IS WORKING ON AND PERMITTING IS WORKING ON GOING THROUGH. SO THAT'S CONTINUATION.

YOU SHOULD HEAR MORE ABOUT THAT IN OUR NEXT MEETING WITH SOME UPDATES AROUND THERE.

LITTER CLEAN UP EVENTS.

WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THAT BEFORE EXPANDING THE NUMBER THAT WE'RE OFFERING PER YEAR, AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE IN OUR LAST AGENDA ITEM AS WELL.

BUT WHAT THOSE LOOK LIKE, THE FREQUENCY OF WHAT WE'RE OFFERING WITH THE LITTER CLEANUPS, AND THEN WE SPECIFICALLY HAVE ADD RECYCLING IN PARKS HERE AND SO WE CAN ADD MORE DETAIL TO THAT OR KEEP THAT WHERE IT SITS AS WELL.

ANY THOUGHTS ON ANY OF THOSE ITEMS IN THAT FIRST SECTION UNDER LITTER PREVENTION? AND SORRY, I JUMPED AROUND A LITTLE BIT WITH MY COMMENTS THERE.

READING THROUGH THE COMMENTS FROM, YOU KNOW, AND WE'RE HITTING EVERYTHING IT SEEMS LIKE.

YEAH, WHEN GOING THROUGH THE STRATEGIC PLAN, THERE WASN'T A WHOLE LOT IN THE SURVEY THAT WAS LIKE AN OUTLIER OF SOMETHING LIKE, HEY, THAT'S REALLY, REALLY UNIQUE.

YOU KNOW, I THINK IT JUST COMES DOWN TO WHERE WE WANT OUR EMPHASIS TO BE AND THEN WHAT LITTLE BITES WE WANT TO TAKE OVER TIME AS FAR AS EITHER CHANGES TO PROGRAMING OR ADDITION TO PROGRAMS AND SERVICES.

SO. SO JUMPING DOWN TO SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT, WE TALKED ABOUT HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE A LITTLE BIT WITH PAINT AND OTHER CHEMICALS AND THINGS.

YOU KNOW, I THINK IT'S NOTEWORTHY TO CONTINUE WITH THAT.

BUT ON OUR OBJECTIVES, WE HAVE INCLUDE INFORMATION ON PUBLICATIONS, HOW TO DISPOSE OF SMALL VOLUMES OF THINGS.

SO THAT IS IN OUR STRATEGIC OBJECTIVE.

I THINK WE JUST NEED TO LOOK AT WAYS OF MAKING YOU INCLUDE THAT IN OUR COMMUNICATIONS PLANS AND OUR ACTION PLANS TO MAKE SURE THAT'S BEING MET THROUGHOUT THE YEAR.

SO I FEEL LIKE THAT COMMENT, AT LEAST AS FAR AS A WEAKER ITEM IS BEING MET IN THE PLAN.

IT'S JUST FOLLOWING UP ON THE OBJECTIVES AND INCREASING THAT EDUCATION.

LARGE TRASH PICKUP.

LIKE I SAID, IT'S KIND OF A REPEATED THEME.

WE SAW THE SAME KIND OF INFORMATION IN THE SURVEY, I THINK THEN WAS PRESENTED BEFORE THAT. SO TRASH CANS AND PEDESTRIAN AREAS KIND OF THE SAME.

WE HAVE THE SAME KIND INFORMATION THERE.

BEAUTIFICATION. SO OF COURSE, WE HAVE THE YARD AND THE BUSINESS OF THE MONTH INCENTIVE THAT'S ALREADY GOING ON AND GOING WELL, VEGETATION POLICIES FOR THE FACILITY.

WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THAT MUCH TO THE SURVEY, BUT THAT WAS SEEN AS SOMETHING THAT'S GENERALLY POSITIVE FROM THE SURVEY IF WE HAVE ANY KIND OF STANDARDS FOR VEGETATION AND THINGS.

BEAUTIFICATION EFFORTS THROUGHOUT TOWN.

AND SO WE TALKED ABOUT GREEN RIBBON PROJECT A LITTLE BIT EARLIER AND THEN WE'LL TALK ABOUT BOX REPS AND THINGS IN JUST A LITTLE BIT.

BUT ARE THERE ANYTHING WITHIN THE BEAUTIFICATION AREA THAT YOU GUYS WANT TO SEE ENHANCED TO FOCUS ON OR MOVE TOWARDS WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR OR ARE WE GOOD KIND OF MOVING FORWARD WITH THE OBJECTIVES WE HAVE AND JUST TRYING TO REALLY TAP OR TAKE AWAY AT THOSE? IT LOOKS GOOD. YEAH I'M LOOKING THROUGH HERE.

NOW, EDUCATION, THERE WASN'T A WHOLE LOT IN THE SURVEY ON EDUCATION.

WE DID TOUCH ON IT, BUT I KNOW THIS LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WITH DIFFERENT CHALLENGES, WITH COVID AND GATHERINGS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

THAT'S PROBABLY AN AREA THAT AT LEAST SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, I HAVEN'T BEEN INVOLVED IN AS MUCH EDUCATION WITH THAT.

BUT THINGS AS WE GET MORE ACCESS, WE CAN MOVE BACK INTO MORE FREQUENT EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES, ESPECIALLY WITH YOUTH.

BUT GIVEN THAT, IS THERE ANYTHING WITHIN EDUCATION BECAUSE WE HAVE ORDINANCE AND POLICY AWARENESS, WHICH WE'VE TOUCHED ON A LITTLE BIT THROUGH SOME OF THE SURVEY RESULTS AND TALKING ABOUT. ENGAGING YOUTH THROUGH EDUCATION PROGRAMS, WE HAVE SOME OF THE ITEMS ON THERE THAT I THINK WE CAN RETURN TO AS WE GET MORE ACCESS AND GO.

AND THE WHO AND WHAT IS KAB, WHICH WE'VE TALKED ABOUT A LITTLE BIT ABOUT JUST SHARING OUR STORIES AND PROMOTING IT AS WELL.

SO ANYTHING AS FAR AS ADDITIONAL OBJECTIVES OR ITEMS THAT YOU GUYS WOULD LIKE TO FOCUS ON JUST GENERAL EDUCATING OF THE PUBLIC.

EXTENT OF OUR EDUCATING.

I MEAN, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

YEAH, SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, NOT A WHOLE LOT BECAUSE OF THE ACCESS, BUT MEGAN CAN PROBABLY SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE TO THE HISTORY OF THAT.

YEAH I THINK WHAT WAS IT A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO WE DID LIKE MONARCH EDUCATION, MONARCH CONSERVATION EDUCATION, I BELIEVE WE ONLY DID THAT AT NORTH SIDE ONE YEAR.

AND THEN ONCE COVID HIT, WE WERE NOT ABLE TO GET IN THERE.

SO WE STARTED COLLABORATING WITH ANGLETON LIBRARY AND MADE IT A FAMILY OPPORTUNITY.

BUT WE DIDN'T GET A GREAT DEAL OF PARTICIPATION.

AND SO THAT WAS ONE THING THAT I WAS GOING TO MENTION ON EDUCATION.

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YOU COULD SEE IN THE SURVEY THAT THERE WASN'T A GREAT DEAL OF AWARENESS ABOUT THE BUTTERFLY GARDENS, AND MAYBE WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT AND EITHER ASSESS, IS THIS PRODUCTIVE? IS THIS WHERE WE NEED TO BE SPENDING FUNDS? IS IT JUST MERELY, YOU KNOW, LACK OF EDUCATION? DO WE WANT TO TRY EDUCATING THE COMMUNITY BEFORE WE TURN OUR RESOURCES IN OTHER DIRECTIONS? SO THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING TO CONSIDER.

AND I WAS ALSO GOING TO SAY AS AN ADDITIONAL NOTE AS WE MOVE MORE TOWARDS JUST NATURAL RESOURCES AND OUTDOOR PROGRAMING AND THINGS WITH PARKS AND RECREATION IN GENERAL, THAT IS SOMETHING WORTH KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL.

AND JUST WITH THINGS SUCH AS NATIVE PLANTS, BUTTERFLIES, MIGRATIONS AND THE DIFFERENT THINGS WE DO WITH THAT, THOSE ARE THINGS THAT COULD BE INCLUDED IN SOME OF THE EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS THAT WE WORK WITH KIDS.

ONE THING I DID LEARN THROUGH MY FIRST FORAY WITH THE GCA APPLICATION IS IT'S NOT ONLY WHAT KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL DOES, IT'S WHAT THE COMMUNITY DOES AS A WHOLE.

SO SOMETIMES IT'S JUST CONNECTING WITH WHAT MAY BE ALREADY OFFERED IN SCHOOLS OR OTHER AGENCIES THAT ARE GOING ON, WHICH THEY ARE MEETING THE MISSION OF KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL, AND WE JUST NEED TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT.

SO THAT COULD BE SOMETHING AS WELL WHERE WE JUST LOOK AT WHERE THERE MAY BE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES THAT SOME OF THESE NEEDS ARE BEING MET IN DIFFERENT SEGMENTS OF OUR COMMUNITY. AND WE JUST TAKE NOTE OF THAT AND LOOK TO PARTNER AND COLLABORATE WHERE WE CAN, BUT ALSO TOO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THAT SOME OF THOSE THINGS ARE BEING MET.

AND SO THERE MAY BE OPPORTUNITIES AGAIN, THOUGH, LIKE WHERE WE APPROACH YOUTH EDUCATION, MAYBE NOT DIRECTLY FROM THE KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL DELIVERING IT.

BUT, YOU KNOW, THROUGH SOME EMPHASIS OF SOME OF THE NATURAL ITEMS THAT WE FOCUS ON THROUGH OTHER PROGRAMING WITH OUR YOUTH AND THINGS.

SO. THAT'S A GOOD POINT BECAUSE I KNOW, LIKE KELSEY.

I WAS GOING TO SAY, I KNOW AT NORTH SIDE KELSEY DOES HAVE OUR GARDEN CLUB.

RIGHT. EXACTLY. THAT HAS STEMMED BACK FROM SEVERAL YEARS AGO, SO SHE IS CONTINUING THAT.

YOU KNOW, I THINK OUR SCHOOL KNOWS A LOT ABOUT THE MONARCHS.

I DON'T KNOW ABOUT OTHER SCHOOLS IN THE DISTRICT.

OTHER SCHOOLS. YEAH. AND I KNOW TOO.

LIKE, FOR INSTANCE, WEST SIDE ELEMENTARY HAD COME OUT WHEN WE INSTALLED THE DICKEY BUTTERFLY GARDEN, OR THEY CAME AND THEY DID TREE PLANTING, MAYBE IN CONJUNCTION WITH IT, BUT THEY WERE INTERESTED IN HELPING TO MAINTAIN THAT GARDEN SINCE THEY HAD EASY ACCESS.

AND SO IF WE JUST RECONNECT WITH THEM, I THINK IT REALLY TAKES SOMEONE LIKE KELSEY OR YOU GUYS THAT ARE IN THE SCHOOL SYSTEM TO REALLY CONNECT TO AND HAVE THAT RELATIONSHIP TO WHERE WE CAN HAVE A POINT OF CONTACT AND SAY, HEY, WHEN CAN WE SCHEDULE A, YOU KNOW, BUTTERFLY GARDEN CLEANUP OR PLANTING OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? THE AG PROGRAM.

YES, OF REPRESENT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, BUT HAVE A CONTACT PERSON THAT FROM EACH SCHOOL THAT YOU KNOW, YOU CAN KIND OF COLLABORATE WITH AND ASK, WHAT ARE SOME OF THE THINGS YOU DO THAT WOULD ABSOLUTELY WOULD MEET THE NEEDS? HELP COMMUNICATE. I MEAN, BECAUSE EVEN THE TEKS, I MEAN, THERE'S SOME I WANT TO SAY IT WENT FROM AND AND YOU ALL TELL ME I'M PROBABLY WRONG, BUT IT WAS FAIRLY EASY TO GET INTO THE SCHOOLS WHEN THE MONARCH LIFECYCLE WAS DISCUSSED, BUT NOW IT'S A WASP OR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.

THAT'S, YOU KNOW, NOT SOMETIMES NOT NEARLY AS FUN OR ENGAGING TO TALK ABOUT.

I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TIME IS SPENT ON THAT, BUT IT'S STILL DISCUSSED IN FIFTH GRADE SCIENCE, I BELIEVE. AND THERE MAY BE.

I WAS GOING TO SAY, THERE MAY BE SOMETHING MORE GENERAL IN THE REGARDS OF POLLINATORS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHERE WE COULD TIE INTO THAT.

AND SO AND I CAN LOOK INTO WHAT KTB AND KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL OFFER AS FAR AS EDUCATIONAL CURRICULUM SUPPORT.

I KNOW THAT CAN BE DIFFICULT SOMETIMES WITH THE TEKS AND OTHER THINGS LIKE THAT AS FAR AS WHAT CAN BE PROVIDED.

BUT I WAS JUST THINKING AS WE'RE TALKING, LIKE ONE OF THE OBJECTIVES THAT MAY BE WORTH ADDING IS MORE JUST RESOURCING AND RECORDING WHAT IS SUPPORTING OUR OBJECTIVES THAT'S BEING OFFERED OUTSIDE OF KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL.

SO WHEN WE LOOK AT JUST WHAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS DOING, WHAT OTHER GROUPS ARE DOING AND THINGS LIKE THAT, IF THEY'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT MEETS WITHIN OUR EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES OR OTHER NEEDS IS JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THOSE, RECORD THEM AND RECOGNIZE THEM AS LIKE, YOU KNOW. AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS I HONESTLY LEARNED THROUGH THE GC A APPLICATION IS THERE ARE SO MANY QUESTIONS THAT WERE NOT RELATED TO KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL SPECIFICALLY. BUT JUST WHAT IS ANGLETON IN THE SURROUNDING AREA AS THE COMMUNITY DOING. AND SO FINDING INFORMATION ABOUT LIKE WHAT THE SCHOOL DISTRICT'S DOING? I KNOW THROUGH THE CTE PROGRAM AND THE AG PROGRAM, THERE'S ENVIRONMENTAL AND SOME OTHER ECOLOGICAL STUFF THAT APPLIED AND THERE'S A LOT GOING ON THERE.

SO IT COULD BE JUST AN IDEA AS FAR AS IDENTIFYING OTHER AGENCIES THAT ARE

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CONTRIBUTING TO THE COMMUNITY OBJECTIVES.

I GUESS OVERALL FOR WHAT KEEPING ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL.

DOES THAT.

I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT SOUNDS IN THE LIKE AN ACTUAL OBJECTIVE RIGHT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. BUT BASICALLY, JUST LIKE LET'S FIND OUT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE DOING THAT ALIGNS WITH THE MISSION THAT WE'RE FOCUSING ON.

SOUNDS LIKE WE JUST NEED TO SEND LIKE YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF IT WOULD BE LIKE FROM YOU OR ONE OF US TO SEND OUT SOMETHING IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND JUST TO ASK FOR A CONTACT PERSON FROM EACH SCHOOL THAT CAN KEEP US UP TO DATE.

IS THAT SOMETHING THAT HANNAH CAN HELP US OUT WITH OR.

HANNAH BUT THAT WAY LIKE WHEN YOU EMAILED ME WANTING TO KNOW.

I KNOW WHAT WE DO THAT I REALLY DIDN'T EVEN KNOW EVERYTHING IS KELSEY KNOWS A LOT OF THAT.

SURE. SO SOMEBODY FROM EACH SCHOOL THAT COULD [INAUDIBLE].

THAT WAS SPECIFICALLY WHEN I WAS GOING THROUGH THE QUESTIONS I FOUND OUT I DIDN'T HAVE ANSWERS FOR. [LAUGHTER] YOU KNOW.

I WAS JUST SAYING I THINK WE'D BE SURPRISED AT HOW MUCH EACH SCHOOL DOES.

NO FOR SURE. ABSOLUTELY.

YEAH I AGREE. AND EVEN AT LIKE TEXAS AGRILIFE EXTENSION OFFICE, THE LAB GROUP THAT WE'RE A PART OF I MEAN, THEY HAVE COMMUNITY STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES THAT I'M SURE THEY ARE ADDRESSING AS WELL, RIGHT? WE PROBABLY JUST AREN'T THINKING OF THEM AS A, YOU KNOW.

YEAH. AND THEIR MISSION AND THEIR FOCUS IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT.

BUT THERE'S SO MUCH CROSSOVER WITH LIKE ESPECIALLY IN THE GENERAL REALM OF BEAUTIFICATION AND JUST GENERAL CONSERVATION.

SO WHILE THEIR MISSION AND WHAT THEY'RE ACTUALLY TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH MAY SOUND A LITTLE DIFFERENT, THERE'S A LOT OF CROSSOVER THERE.

SO.

OUR COVID ERA OR ARE TOWARDS THE WHEREVER WE'RE AT WITH IT.

THERE DOES SEEM TO BE A LOT MORE DESIRE FOR GROUPS TO VOLUNTEER.

I JUST SINCE I'VE IN THE LAST PROBABLY A MONTH OR TWO, I'VE BEEN CONTACTED A LOT MORE FREQUENTLY ABOUT PEOPLE JUST LOOKING FOR OPPORTUNITIES BECAUSE THEY EITHER HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO VOLUNTEER THEMSELVES OR THERE'S NOT AGENCIES FOR THEM TO VOLUNTEER WITH.

AND SO IT'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE THOSE PEOPLE TO KIND OF INCREASE OUR CAPACITY AS WELL SO WE CAN ALWAYS LOOK AT HOW WE ENGAGE VOLUNTEERS IS, YOU KNOW, AN ITEM AS WELL SO.

BECAUSE THERE WAS A TIME WE TALKED ABOUT LIKE A JUNIOR KAB GROUP OR SOMETHING.

YEAH.

THEY'RE GOOD CONTACTS FOR THE THAT WOULD BE GREAT.

THAT WAY WE HAVE A POINT OF CONTACT.

YEAH, WELL, I THINK TOO, BECAUSE WE LOOK TO ENGAGE JUST YOUTH AND TEENS AND THINGS AS WE GO LIKE THAT'S GOING TO BE THE NEXT GENERATION COMING UP.

SO WE ABSOLUTELY WANT TO PREPARE THEM FOR THINGS.

BUT THEY ALSO THEY HAVE THE NEED OF VOLUNTEER HOURS OR JUST PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND THINGS LIKE THAT TO PREPARE THEM FOR WHEREVER THEY'RE GOING IN THEIR LIFE.

SO IF WE CAN HELP, YOU KNOW, MUTUALLY BENEFIT THEM BY PROVIDING THEM EXPERIENCES, BUT THEM ALSO PROVIDE US WITH A LITTLE BIT MORE ASSISTANCE AND ALSO TOO JUST MORE DIRECTION, LIKE WHAT'S GOING TO APPEAL TO THE STUDENTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO WE'RE DOING THINGS THAT ALIGN WITH WHAT THEY'RE WANTING TO DO.

I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GREAT STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

SO DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY OTHER THOUGHTS AS FAR AS STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES OR THINGS WITH THE THE STRATEGIC PLAN? WAS THERE ANYTHING AND ALL OF THE ITEMS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT ARE, I BELIEVE, ADDRESSED IN SOME CAPACITY FOR THE MOST PART WITHIN EXISTING.

BUT IF THERE'S ANYTHING WE WANT TO HIGHLIGHT SPECIFICALLY BASED OFF OUR CONVERSATION WE CAN LOOK FOR RECOMMENDATIONS AND ULTIMATELY MAKING AN ADJUSTMENT TO THE STRATEGIC PLAN WOULD COME IN THE FORM OF A MOTION TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR ANY CHANGES, ADDITIONS, YOU KNOW, KEEP ON THE SAME PATH OR REMOVE ITEMS. AND SO I JUST LOOK FOR YOU GUYS TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION ON WHERE YOU GUYS WANT TO GO WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN FOR 2022.

THANK YOU. STAY IN OUR LANE LIKE WE HAVE BEEN.

I THINK YOU'VE GOT A GOOD PLAN DOWN AND WE CAN ACCOMPLISH.

GET OVERWHELMED. THERE'S A LOT ON HERE.

NO REALLY. REALLY GOOD.

DO WE SHOW UP AT? HAVE WE EVER DONE ANYTHING AT PEACH STREET FARMER'S MARKET IN ANGLETON? JUST CURIOUS.

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PRESENCE. DID WE HAVE A PRESENCE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL? I DON'T KNOW THAT WE DID.

I DON'T KNOW THAT WE DID.

BUT THAT WOULD BE A GREAT I MEAN, I CAN HELP WITH THAT.

YEAH, WE COULD CONSIDER TO JUST EVEN SOME OF THE GIVEAWAYS AND THINGS THAT WE HAVE.

I MEAN, WE COULD BE GIVING TREES AWAY, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TREES FOR HOUSTON, ALONG WITH MEMBERSHIP INFORMATION AND ANY OF OUR LIKE RESOURCES THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DEVELOPING.

AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS AND WE DIDN'T MENTION SPECIFICALLY, IT WAS LIKE KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL MEMBERSHIPS, BECAUSE THAT, I MEAN ESSENTIALLY HELPS OFFSET FUNDING AS WELL. BUT I'M MORE THAN WILLING TO GO TO DIFFERENT OR LIKE DIFFERENT EVENTS OR DIFFERENT PLACES AND THINGS TO KIND OF REPRESENT WHAT KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL DOES AND PROVIDE ANY KIND OF PRESENTATION OR TALKS OR JUST DISCUSSION ABOUT WHAT WE DO JUST TO GARNER MORE JUST GENERAL COMMUNITY SUPPORT AND UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WE DO.

AND THEN HOPEFULLY THROUGH MEMBERSHIP, WE GET ADDITIONAL ENGAGEMENT WITH PEOPLE AS WELL.

SO THAT HAS, I THINK, BEEN A LITTLE BIT, EXCEPT FOR THE INITIAL INCEPTION, A LITTLE BIT OF A HARDER SELL TO GET PEOPLE TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT CONSIST OF.

SO I DO THINK IT'LL TAKE THINGS LIKE ENGAGING IN DIFFERENT COMMUNITY ITEMS TO GET THE BROADER COMMUNITY TO UNDERSTAND ONE JUST WHAT KEEP ANGLETON BEAUTIFUL DOES AS A WHOLE.

AND THEN ALSO TWO LIKE WHAT MEMBERSHIP IS REALLY, YOU KNOW, PROVIDING OR HELPING PEOPLE WITH SO.

NO I DON'T THINK SO.

OR SOMETHING TO PUT ON YEAH, WE COULD DEFINITELY LOOK INTO.

YEAH. FARMER'S MARKET, YEAH, WE CAN DEFINITELY LOOK AT A TENT AND THEN FOR SURE, OUR TABLE COVER AND STUFF.

YEAH, WE CAN BRING ALL OF OUR MILKWEED.

THAT'S RIGHT. [LAUGHTER] YES. SEEDS, PLANTS.

YEAH, EVEN AT MARKET DAYS.

THAT'S COMING UP. YEAH, IF WE JUST HAVE A AND I DIDN'T MENTION THAT. THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID TALK ABOUT SPECIFICALLY, BECAUSE MARKET DAYS IS THE WEEKEND PRIOR IS DISTRIBUTING THAT THROUGH MARKET DAYS AS WELL. THAT'S ONE OF OUR ITEMS AS WELL.

BUT I'LL ALSO MENTION TOO LIKE THE AGRILIFE EXTENSION, SO BACK A LITTLE BIT.

SINCE YOU MENTIONED THAT. THE AGRILIFE EXTENSION, THE MASTER GARDENERS GROUP, SOME OF THE OTHER BACODA, LIKE WE HAVE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS THAT WILL ALSO BE PUSHING OUT OUR INFORMATION AS WE PARTNER WITH THESE.

SO IT WON'T JUST BE GOING OUT THROUGH OUR CHANNELS, IT'LL ALSO BE GOING OUT THROUGH OUR PARTNER ORGANIZATIONS THAT WE'RE DEVELOPING CHANNELS.

SO WE'LL GET A BROADER OVERALL REACH JUST THROUGH SOME OF THESE PARTNERSHIPS THAT HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED. SO DIDN'T REALLY MENTION THAT AS A SPECIFIC BENEFIT, BUT BRINGING IT UP AS FAR AS MARKET DAYS.

THAT JUST KIND OF REMINDED ME OF THAT.

JUST AS FAR AS ENHANCED REACH, WE DO HAVE MORE PEOPLE THIS TIME AROUND THAT WILL BE PUSHING THINGS OUT ON OUR BEHALF THAN WE DID, LIKE GOING BACK TO THE FALL.

SO.

OH, GARDEN SERIES, AND SO I WILL CONFIRM WITH THAT.

BUT I THINK THEY WILL BECAUSE THAT'S IT'S KIND OF DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT'S ARRANGED THROUGH TEXAS A&M AGRILIFE EXTENSION AND BUT THEY ARE THE ONES THAT ARE OFFERING THAT NOW.

SO I DON'T WANT TO SAY YES ON THEIR BEHALF, BUT I'LL CERTAINLY APPROACH IT WITH THEM.

I MEAN, I, YOU KNOW, I THINK WITH OUR PARTNERSHIP THAT WE ARE DEVELOPING, I'M PRETTY CONFIDENT THEY WOULD HELP US OUT.

AND WE CERTAINLY CAN I JUST NEED TO LOOK AT THE LOGISTICS OF HOW WE WOULD ARRANGE FOR THAT AND JUST VERIFY THAT WE HAVE.

WHEN IS MARKET DAYS? IT'S THE WEEKEND BEFORE THE SECOND.

I CAN'T LAST WEEKEND OF SPRING BREAK IS HOW I WOULD.

YES. WELL, THAT'S ANOTHER WAY OF LOOKING AT IT AS WELL.

YEP. YEAH.

IF YOU GUYS ARE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING IN THAT, WE CAN CERTAINLY, MEGAN I CAN LOOK AT THE LOGISTICS OF HOW WE COULD DO SOMETHING THERE, BUT WE JUST HAVE TO FIGURE THAT OUT WITH THE PLANNERS.

YEAH, YEAH, MAKE SURE WE HAVE SPACE.

I MEAN, ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE IS AT THE CHECKOUT LINE TOO I MEAN, WE, OUR STAFF ARE WORKING THAT SO WE CAN HAVE RESOURCES.

SO THE 19TH IS THE MARKET DAYS.

NO, NO, NO. LET ME MAKE SURE I'M NOT YEAH, I'M TRYING TO LOOK FOR YOU.

MARKET DAYS IS THE 19TH.

IT'S MARCH 19TH AND 20TH.

YEAH, THAT'S RIGHT. TWO WEEKS BEFORE OUR EVENT.

THAT'S RIGHT. NEXT, WE HAD THREE ALTERNATE THREE POSSIBLE DATES FOR OUR EVENT THE WEEK AFTER MARKET DAYS, APRIL 2ND OR THE FOLLOWING WEEK.

THAT'S RIGHT. SO I WAS THINKING.

WE WERE JUST TRYING TO AVOID A COMPETING EVENT, FOR SURE.

OH, YES. ALL RIGHT.

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WELL, AND WE'LL FOLLOW UP ON THAT AND WE CAN FOLLOW UP WITH THE GROUP DIRECTLY AS FAR AS WHAT WE MAY ABLE TO DO WITH MARKET DAYS, BUT DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY SPECIFIC RECOMMENDATIONS AS FAR AS THE STRATEGIC PLAN IN THE FORM OF A MOTION? SO I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE CONTINUE WITH THE STRATEGIC PLAN AS WRITTEN AND PROPOSED.

ALL RIGHT. I SECOND THAT MOTION. ALL RIGHT. WE GOT A MOTION AND A SECOND IS ANYONE OPPOSED ? ALL RIGHT. MOTION CARRIES.

ALL RIGHT. NOW WE GET TO MAKE SOME MORE DECISIONS.

SO THIS ONE, THIS ONE DOESN'T HAVE QUITE AS MUCH TO EVALUATE THERE BECAUSE WITH EVALUATIONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED.

SO THIS IS THE TXDOT BOX REP.

SO THE NEXT ROUND FOR THIS YEAR.

[4. Discussion and possible action to recommend KAB approval of the top three TxDOT traffic controller cabinet art wrap submissions. ]

SO WE HAD A NUMBER OF PIECES OF ART SUBMITTED AND IT HAS BEEN WITH SOME OF OUR FAMILIAR ARTISTS THAT HAVE SUBMITTED PREVIOUSLY.

SO WE DID GET RANKINGS FROM YOU GUYS AND PROVIDED AND TABULATED THOSE AS FAR AS OUR TOP RANKING ITEMS. SO THE THREE LOCATIONS THAT THESE BOX REPS WOULD GO WOULD BE LOOP 274 AND PLUM STREET, BUSINESS 288, AND MAGNOLIA STREET AND HIGHWAY 35 AND CHENANGO.

AND WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR IS TO GO THROUGH.

WE HAVE THE THREE ITEMS AS FAR AS THE TOP SCORING ONES.

AND THEN ALSO TOO THE LOCATIONS ON WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO GO.

AND WE'RE JUST LOOKING FOR KAB'S APPROVAL TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THOSE, SELECTIONS BASED OFF THE TABULATIONS OF THE VOTES OR THE SCORING.

AND THEN ALSO TWO, IF THERE IS PREFERENCES ON WHICH PIECES OF ARTWORK GO TO WHICH INTERSECTIONS. SO YOU CAN SEE THERE IS THE FINDING BEAUTY IN THE MOMENT.

IS ONE OF THEM THERE IS THE ONE WITH THE BLUE JAY AND FALL MAPLES, AND THEN THERE IS ONE WITH THE CARDINAL THAT IS ON THE BRANCH, THOSE WHERE OUR THREE TOP SCORING ONES BY OUR THREE DIFFERENT ARTISTS.

AND SO. SO LOOKING FOR APPROVAL TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PLACEMENT OF THOSE AND THEN ANY PREFERENCES AS FAR AS THE THE ACTUAL LOCATION WHERE EACH ONE ENDS UP.

SO LOCATION, THE FIRST LOCATION.

CAN YOU READ THOSE AGAIN? YEAH, LOOP 274 ON PLUM STREET.

AND LET ME SEE, IT'S ON PAGE 40.

YOU CAN SEE THE MAPS ON THERE.

OK, THERE YOU GO. YEP, THAT HAS THE ADDRESSES AND THE SPECIFIC LOCATIONS.

AND YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF WHICH PIECE OF ARTWORK DO YOU FEEL HAS THE BEST CHARACTER FOR THAT SPECIFIC LOCATION IN TOWN, I GUESS, YOU KNOW, OR IF YOU.

ANOTHER OPTION WOULD BE JUST TO APPROVE MOVING FORWARD WITH WHAT THE GROUP TABULATED.

AND THEN WE, YOU KNOW, SO. THE ONE THING I DID NOTICE, AND WE MAY BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THIS AS WELL, IF YOU KNOW, IF IT TURNS OUT YOU DON'T HAVE A PREFERENCE ON PLACING IS WHERE THE ARTWORK FACES IN RELATION TO WHICH SIDE THE BOX IS ON.

BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME BOXES, LIKE WHERE THE PRIMARY FOCUS OF THE ART POINT WOULD BE ON ONE SIDE OF THE BOX VERSUS THE OTHER, AND JUST MAKING SURE IT'S ON A BOX WHERE THE PRIMARY FOCAL POINT OF THE ART IS FACING THE MOST VISIBLE AREA.

AND SO THAT IS ONE CONSIDERATION AND DIFFERENT PIECES OF ARTWORK ARE GOING TO KIND OF BE AFFECTED DIFFERENTLY BY THAT.

WELL, I THINK.

AND I DON'T REMEMBER WHERE EVERYTHING ELSE IS, WE HAVE THE ONE THAT'S SIMILAR TO THE FIRST ONE. THAT'S BY THE RICE BUILDING.

YEAH. YEP. I JUST WOULD WANT THAT TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE OF A DISTANT, YOU KNOW, DISTANCE FROM THE OTHER. IT'S RIGHT WHERE SOMETHING BLUE RIGHT IN FRONT OF SOMETHING BLUE THAT KIND OF WATERCOLOR.

AND THAT'S WHAT WE COULD LOOK AT TOO BECAUSE THESE ARE SIMILAR ARTISTS OR SOME OF THE SAME ARTISTS. SO WE CAN LOOK AT JUST HAVING A LIKE JUST DISTRIBUTING THEM IN A WAY THAT THEY'RE MORE EVENLY DISTRIBUTED.

SO THEY'RE NOT RIGHT NEXT TO A SIMILAR PIECE BECAUSE THEY DO FOLLOW SIMILAR THEMES BECAUSE RIGHT YEAH, THE ONE YEAH.

THE WATER COLOR ONE.

THE RICE BUILDING ONE IS THAT'S THE PURPLE, SO THAT'S THE WENDY DELGADO.

THAT'S LIKE THE SECOND IMAGE IS THE RICE BUILDING THE RIGHT IN FRONT OF SOMETHING BLUE AND LIKE, BAM IS THE FIRST ONE.

THAT SAME TECHNIQUE.

BUT IT'S MAINLY BLUES AND WHITE.

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AND THEN, KIND OF SEPARATE.

AND WHICH INTERSECTION WAS? THAT WOULD BE LIKE MAGNOLIA AND [INAUDIBLE].

YEAH. SO DIFFERENTIATE THE ARTIST THERE.

YES, BECAUSE THERE'S A COUPLE RIGHT THERE THAT ARE NEAR EACH OTHER.

AND SO AND OUR OTHER SO THEN WE HAVE THE ONE AT CHENANGO AND HIGHWAY 35, WHICH IS FAIRLY CLOSE TO THE ONE BY THE RICE BUILDING.

AND THERE'S ALSO THE ONE THAT'S OUT HERE IN FRONT OF CITY HALL AS WELL.

SO. YOU COULD LOOK.

RECOMMENDATION IF YOUR UNSURE IS JUST MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO APPROVE THE LIST.

AND THEN GIVE THE STAFF THE GUIDANCE, TO PLACE THEM WHERE THEY YEAH. YEAH, I AGREE.

YEP.

IT SOUNDS GOOD WILL YOU PUT YOUR TRUST IN A MOTION.

[LAUGHTER] OK, SO IN MY MOTION.

MAKE A RECOMMENDATION SURE TO PLACE THE ART IN THE DESIGNATED ADDRESSES THAT WE HAVE HERE IN THE AGENDA AND LEAVE IT UP TO STAFF TO DETERMINE WHICH ONES TO PLACE BASED OFF OF, YOU KNOW, AESTHETICS.

OK. OTHER.

ARTIST DISTRIBUTION? YEAH, ART THAT'S ALREADY OUT THERE.

WE'RE NOT TWO NEXT TO EACH OTHER AND DO WE HAVE A SECOND? ALL RIGHT. ANYONE OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT. MOTION CARRIES.

ALL RIGHT, SO LAST ITEM ON THE AGENDA, I BELIEVE SORRY, THIS IS I GOT MY STACK OF PAPERS.

I HAD NOTES ON IT. ALL RIGHT.

LET ME JUST USE MY HANDY DANDY TABLET HERE.

SO THIS IS ONE.

SO WE TALKED ABOUT BRIEFLY MENTIONED THE HGAC, THE SOLID WASTE GRANT THAT WAS RECEIVED.

[5. Discussion and possible action on the addition of a third citywide cleanup event supported by grant funding provided through the H-GAC Solid Waste Grant ]

SO WE GOT OFFICIAL RECEIPT OF THAT OF MARCH 1ST.

SO IT'S ALL GOOD.

SO WE'RE ACTUALLY GETTING FUNDED TWENTY SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS TO OFFSET THE COST OF OUR EXISTING CLEAN UP EVENTS FOR THIS CALENDAR YEAR AND NEXT CALENDAR YEAR.

SO IT RUNS DIFFERENT THAN OUR FISCAL YEAR, BUT THAT WAS WRITTEN IN A WAY BASICALLY TO FUND THE MAJORITY OF THE COST FOR THE SPRING CLEANUP, THE FALL SWEEP FOR BOTH OF THOSE YEARS.

NOW, THE WAY THE GRANT WAS WRITTEN WAS THE REASON WERE OFFSETTING THOSE COSTS IS BECAUSE ONE OF THE STRATEGIC OBJECTIVES IS TO GET TO FOR COMMUNITY WIDE CLEANUP EVENTS.

AND SO THIS IS DONE SO THAT WE CAN ADD A THIRD CLEAN UP EVENT.

SO WITH THAT, THAT CAN BE DONE AT OUR CHOSEN INTERVAL DURING THE YEAR.

I WILL SAY ONE OF THEM WILL NEED TO TAKE PLACE WITHIN 2022 BECAUSE OF THE CYCLE AND BUT ALSO TOO IT IS OPEN TO THE SCOPE OF THE EVENT AND THE STYLE OF THE EVENT TOO.

SO IT DOESN'T HAVE TO LOOK JUST LIKE OUR SPRING CLEANUP OR OUR FALL SWEEP.

IT COULD BE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT APPROACH.

AS LONG AS WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS TOWARDS ACCOMPLISHING SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT, LITTER PREVENTION AND CLEANUP, AND WE'RE BASICALLY REALLOCATING THOSE RESOURCES THAT WE WOULD HAVE SPENT ON THOSE OTHER TWO EVENTS TO SUPPORT THE ADDITION OF A THIRD EVENT EACH YEAR.

SO WITH THAT, WE'RE REALLY PRETTY OPEN ENDED FOR WHAT THAT EVENT MAY LOOK LIKE OR WHEN THAT EVENT MAY SCHEDULED.

SO I'M LOOKING TO KAB FOR GUIDANCE AS FAR AS WHAT WOULD BE BEST TO PURSUE KNOWING THAT WE NEED TO PURSUE ANOTHER COMMUNITY WIDE CLEAN UP EVENT THAT TAKES PLACE WITHIN 2022.

AND THEN ONE THAT WOULD TAKE PLACE WITHIN 2023.

SO I FEEL LIKE THAT REALLY GIVES US BASICALLY FROM APRIL, MAY TO DECEMBER IS OUR TIME FRAME BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH ARE ALREADY BEHIND US TO ADD SOMETHING ADDITIONAL, BUT ALSO NOT CONFLICT WITH OUR EXISTING EVENTS.

SO THAT WOULD JUST BE MY ONLY NOTES WITH THOSE.

BUT SO WITH THAT, I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE OPEN ENDED INFORMATION.

I DID WANT TO JUST START TO SEEK RECOMMENDATION AND IDEAS RELATED TO WHAT A THIRD COMMUNITY CLEANUP EVENT COULD BE, SO WE CAN BEGIN SCHEDULING THAT TO ONE, JUST BETTER SERVE THE ANGLETON COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO FULFILL OUR REQUIREMENTS FOR THE GRANT THAT WE RECEIVED. KYLE DID YOU WANT TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE IDEAS THAT YOU HAD FOR ADDITIONAL CLEANUP? AND SO THERE'S A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT THINGS WE CAN LOOK AT, BUT THERE'S JUST A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT IDEAS. SO ONE WE HAVE THE TWO LARGE COMMUNITY CLEANUP EVENTS THAT ARE GENERALLY FOCUSED AND DO VERY, VERY WELL.

AND SO AND JUST GENERAL DISCUSSION AND THOUGHTS AROUND THIS IS LIKE WOULD A THIRD EVENT

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KIND OF SATURATE AND LOWER THEIR PARTICIPATION IN THE OTHER TWO EVENTS, BUT ALSO TWO CONSIDERING THE TIME OF YEAR IS WHEN WOULD BE A GOOD INTERVAL TO OFFER A THIRD EVENT.

IF WE DID SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE AND DID THE MIDDLE, THEN WE'RE TALKING MID-SUMMER AND WE'RE COMPETING WITH VACATION SCHEDULES AND IT'S HOT IN TEXAS.

[LAUGHTER] SO YOU CAN LOOK AT DIFFERENT STYLES OF EVENTS, DIFFERENT TYPES OF THINGS.

SO WE COULD LOOK AT ALTERNATIVE TYPES OF CLEANUPS WHERE WE FOCUS ON A DIFFERENT NEED BEYOND WHAT IS SPECIFIC TO WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING WITH FALL LIKE SO IF THERE'S OTHER SERVICES WE MAY WANT TO PURSUE AS FAR AS DIFFERENT TYPES OF WASTE MANAGEMENT.

SO, YOU KNOW, IF THERE ARE SERVICES THAT WE COULD POSSIBLY LOOK AT FOR LIKE HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE A COLLECTION SITE HERE, COULD WE BASE IT TO A COLLECTION EVENT HERE THAT THEN COULD BE TRANSPORTED WHERE IT NEEDS TO GO? THAT'S JUST AN IDEA, NOT NECESSARILY A SUGGESTION, BECAUSE I WOULD ALSO WE WOULD NEED TO RESEARCH WHAT THOSE SERVICES AND COST AND THINGS ARE BUT SOMETHING LIKE THAT THAT SUPPLEMENTS WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY OFFERING ARE OFFERING SOMETHING THAT IS A SCALED SIMILAR VERSION OF WHAT WE CURRENTLY OFFER, OR MAYBE NOT OFFERING ALL FOUR SERVICES, BUT THEN FOCUSING MORE ON VOLUNTEER AND ACTUAL COMMUNITY WIDE CLEANUP WHERE PEOPLE ARE GETTING OUT IS MORE OF A VOLUNTEER BASED EVENT.

THE MONTH OF MARCH IS KEEP TEXAS WATERWAYS BEAUTIFUL, SO I'M NOT SUGGESTING THAT FOR THIS EVENT, BUT I DID WANT TO BRING THAT UP BECAUSE THAT IS SOMETHING WE TALKED ABOUT IN OUR LAST MEETING ABOUT PURSUING FOR A POSSIBLE ADDITIONAL EVENT, ESPECIALLY WITH THE OPENING OF LAKESIDE PARK AND DOING DIFFERENT THINGS THAT AFFECT TEXAS WATERWAYS.

SO THAT COULD SERVE AS OUR FOURTH EVENT.

AND IF WE FOCUS AT IT ON A PARK CLEANUP THAT COULD BE PRETTY EASILY DONE AT MINIMAL COST WITH THAT LOCATION TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT.

SO NOW WE'RE IF WE LOOK AT OUR WHOLE BREADTH OF SCHEDULE, WE HAVE OUR APRIL SPRING CLEAN UP FOR OUR GENERAL CLEANUP, OUR FALL SWEEP IN THE MID FALL, LOOKING AT A WATERWAYS EVENT IN MARCH.

AND SO IF YOU LOOK AT IT ACROSS LIKE A CALENDAR, YOU KNOW, WHERE WOULD SOMETHING ELSE POTENTIALLY FIT WELL? AND SO AND ALSO TOO WHAT WOULD GIVE US THE MOST TIME FOR PROPER PLANNING AND EXECUTION WOULD BE A GOOD ONE AS WELL, AND SO THAT REALLY LEAVES THE FALL SOMETHING ADDITIONALLY, IN THE FALL IS THE EASIEST OR SOMETHING LIKE LATE SPRING THAT WOULD BE LIKE SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAT DOESN'T COMPETE WITH THOSE OTHER EVENTS WHERE WE CAN GAUGE PEOPLE BEFORE IT'S REALLY, TRULY SUMMER.

AND SO ALL THOSE THINGS BEING SAID, I CAN'T THINK OF ANY OTHER.

I SAID THAT. GREAT IDEAS.

YEAH. AND SO IT JUST AND SO I'M LOOKING FOR THE DIRECTION FROM THE I SAID WE DO HAVE TO FILL OUR GRANT REQUIREMENTS TO OFFER THAT THIRD EVENT.

WE DO NEED TO HAVE SOMETHING THAT SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTS THE COMMUNITY, BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE A REPLICA OF WHAT WE'RE USING THE GRANT FUNDING FOR.

SO I'M JUST LOOKING FOR IDEAS, DIRECTIONS, THOUGHTS AND THERE MAY BE THINGS THAT I HAVE NOT THOUGHT OF AT ALL.

I THINK THE HOUSEHOLD CHEMICAL THINGS WOULD BE GREAT BECAUSE WE'VE HAD THAT AT ONE TIME OUT OF THE FAIRGROUNDS, AND I'M NOT SURE IF IT WAS DOW CHEMICAL WHO HOSTED THAT OR WHO HOSTED THAT AT ONE TIME.

BUT ALSO COMING THROUGH WHENEVER THE PEOPLE ARE COMING THROUGH, THEY ALWAYS ASK ABOUT GLASS, WHERE CAN THEY TAKE THE GLASS, WHICH I KNOW THEY CAN TAKE IT TO PEARLAND I THINK.

BUT THAT MIGHT BE SOMETHING WE CAN INCLUDE SOME OF THOSE THINGS THAT IT'S LIKE, YEAH, A GLASS RECYCLING. THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.

I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE COMMENT, SEE HOW IT GOES, I MEAN.

YEAH. YEAH.

RIGHT. NOW I WAS ALSO GOING TO MENTION PART OF THE EVENT COULD ACTUALLY BE EDUCATIONALLY DRIVEN AS WELL, LIKE WHERE WE DO A COMMUNITY CLEANUP THAT SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACT SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT AND HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE MANAGEMENT AS WELL.

BUT ALSO, THERE COULD BE A CORRESPONDING EDUCATIONAL COMPONENT TO WHERE WE ENGAGE EITHER YOUTH OR JUST THE COMMUNITY KIND OF THING.

BECAUSE SOME OF THE MONEY THAT IS FUNDED THROUGH THE GRANT DOES GO INTO SUPPORTING PROMOTION AND MARKETING FOR OUR EXISTING EVENT.

SO THAT WOULD ALSO PROVIDE SOME ADDITIONAL LEEWAY OF RESOURCES TO POSSIBLY DEVELOP SOME EDUCATIONAL OR PRINT MATERIAL OR OTHER TYPES OF MEDIA TO CORRESPOND WITH WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO. BUT LIKE I SAID THE EMPHASIS IS WE DO NEED TO MAKE A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON THAT FITS WITHIN SOLID WASTE.

SO WE CAN'T JUST GO LIKE ON A PURELY AN EDUCATIONAL EVENT.

WE STILL NEED THE CORE OF IT TO BE A REDUCING SOLID WASTE AND THE COMMUNITY OVERALL.

SO AND I LIKE THE IDEA OF DOING THE LIKE ADOPT A SPOT TYPE THING FOR THE DAY.

WE'VE USED TO DO THAT IN THE PAST.

IT WAS MORE OF A COMPETITION, BUT YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WOULD BE A GOOD TIME BECAUSE WE WOULD RECRUIT SCHOOLS AND MAYBE EARLY FALL OR LATE IN THE SPRING AND TOWARD

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THE END OF THE SCHOOL YEAR. BUT YOU KNOW, THOSE SCOUT GROUPS AND DIFFERENT CHURCH GROUPS AND STUFF TO ADOPT SPOTS AND DO CLEANUP.

WELL TO THAT CREDIT TOO THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU JUST REMINDED ME OF.

LIKE THE EVENT THAT WE RUN, IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE A SINGLE DAY EVENT.

IT COULD BE SO LIKE SIMILAR TO LIKE THE GREAT AMERICAN CLEANUP THAT HAPPENS OVER THE COURSE OF A MONTH OR THE WATER, LIKE IF WE WANTED TO DO A MONTH LIKE ALONG THE LINES OF ADOPT A SPOT TO WHERE WE ARRANGE AND PROVIDE RESOURCES FOR DIFFERENT GROUPS THROUGHOUT ANGLETON TO DO THIS MORE, YOU KNOW, WE COORDINATE IT, WE WORK WITH THEM, BUT ARRANGE THEIR SPECIFIC AND WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH.

AND MAYBE JUST WITHIN THE MONTH, YOUR GROUP'S GOING TO ACCOMPLISH THIS AND WE'LL HELP YOU GET THE LOGISTICS OF THAT WHERE IT DOESN'T HAVE TO NECESSARILY LIKE.

IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO FIT ALL AROUND A SINGLE DAY EVENT.

IT CAN BE AT THE END OF THE DAY LIKE IT COMES DOWN TO LIKE OUR FUNDING THAT GIVES US THE OPPORTUNITY IS THAT WE'RE INCREASING OUR CAPACITY FOR SOLID WASTE AND WASTE MANAGEMENT.

AND SO AS LONG AS WE'RE ACCOMPLISHING THOSE GOALS, THEN, YOU KNOW, WE'RE FULFILLING OUR OBJECTIVES. AND THESE ARE ALSO TWO THINGS AS WE MOVE FORWARD TO LIKE WHAT OUR GENERAL RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE.

I WOULD ALSO VET THESE WITH OUR FUNDERS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T DEFAULT ON SOMETHING FOR, YOU KNOW, BASIC UNDERSTANDING.

BUT I THINK AS LONG AS WE'RE MEETING OUR MAIN OBJECTIVE WITH THAT, THAT WOULD QUALIFY BECAUSE IT'S THEY'RE FUNDING OUR EXISTING EVENTS SO WE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO DO MORE.

SO ANY THOUGHTS ON AS FAR AS EVEN LOOKING AT MORE OF A COMMUNITY WIDE INITIATIVE AS OPPOSED TO A SINGLE DAY EVENT IS THEIR PREFERENCE ONE WAY OR ANOTHER OR IS THERE OPTIONS FOR A COMMUNITY WIDE INITIATIVE THAT TAKES PLACE OVER A SERIES OF WEEKS OR A MONTH, BUT CORRESPONDS WITH A SINGLE DAY EVENT OR ENDS WITH A SINGLE DAY EVENT LIKE THERE'S THIS IS KIND OF THE WORLD IS YOUR OYSTER KIND OF AREA.

AND THEN ALSO TOO WHATEVER SUGGESTIONS OR THINGS TOO LIKE FEEL FREE, WE CAN GO THROUGH, FIND SUGGESTIONS, GO BACK AND RESEARCH THEM, AND THEN PRESENT THOSE FINDINGS AT THE NEXT KAB MEETING AS WELL.

BECAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE JUST GETTING THIS INFORMATION, SO IT'S HARD TO PLAN A WHOLE EVENT IN A FEW MINUTES, BUT I DID WANT TO OPEN UP THAT WINDOW AS WELL.

SO WAS THERE ANY GENERAL THOUGHTS SO FAR AS FAR AS LIKE, I GUESS ONE OF MY FIRST QUESTIONS WOULD BE LIKE SPECIFICALLY TIMES OF THE YEAR TO AVOID COMPLETELY.

LIKE THAT'D BE THE EASIEST THING TO NARROW OUT.

AND I KNOW SEVERAL OF YOU WORKED WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THINGS, AND THERE'S DIFFERENT PRESSURES AND THINGS AT THE BEGINNING AND THE END OF THE YEAR.

DOES THAT AFFECT, DO YOU THINK, COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT AT ALL AS FAR AS LIKE THE SCHOOL TRANSITIONS THAT THE LIKE AROUND MAY AND SEPTEMBER? OR IS THAT MORE OF JUST A? NO I THINK IF YOU ARE, PEOPLE KIND OF GETTING BACK IN THE SWING OF THINGS AFTER THE SUMMER WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AROUND SEPTEMBER THEY ARE ALREADY INTO SCHOOL.

AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE COMMUNITY.

AND JUST MY THOUGHTS ON WE USED TO DO THE CLEANUP LIKE THE ADOPT SPOT TYPE THING.

WE DID IT LIKE IN ONE DAY AND IT WAS KIND OF A NEAT THING.

WE ENDED IT WITH OUR HOT DOGS AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

AND THEN IT WENT INTO LIKE MORE OF A YOU HAVE THIS TIME SPAN TO DO IT DURING.

AND TO ME, IT JUST KIND OF LOST THE WHOLE FLARE OF IT.

YEAH. AND YOU JUST DIDN'T, YOU KNOW, IF THEY WERE THERE THEY COULD COME AND BRING THEIR TRASH. WE HAD THE WASTE MANAGEMENT TRUCK THERE SO WHERE THEY COULD COME AND BRING THEIR THINGS MEET US.

AND YOU KNOW, IT'S MORE OF A COMMUNITY.

AND THAT BRINGS UP A GOOD POINT, TOO.

THAT'S ONE OTHER WAY THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IS KIND OF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS WE STILL DO SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES THAT'S SIMILAR TO OUR OTHER COMMUNITY CLEANUPS, MAYBE NOT TO THE SAME DRIVE THRU TYPE SCALE, BUT WE OFFER SOME OF THOSE SERVICES.

WE OFFER A COMMUNITY WIDE LIKE ADOPT A SPOT TYPE THING AND THEN THAT WHEREVER WE'RE DOING THIS, CLEANUP IS SCHEDULED THAT BECOMES OUR CENTRALIZED, LIKE OUR DROP OFF SPOT.

SO LIKE ONCE THEY'RE DONE WITH THEIR AREAS, THAT'S WHERE EVERYTHING THEY COLLECTED IS BROUGHT FOR PROPER DISPOSAL.

AND YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR SOME CELEBRATION OR SOME, YOU KNOW.

THERE WAS SOME REALLY GOOD PRESENTATIONS ON THAT. AND PROBABLY THE LAST KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL WE WENT TO. YEAH, I WISH IT WAS A LITTLE EARLIER BECAUSE, YEAH, BECAUSE I THINK WE'LL HAVE TO BE MOVING FORWARD BY THAT POINT, BUT THERE CERTAINLY PROBABLY WILL BE SOME ENHANCEMENTS AND THINGS THAT WE CAN ONCE WE GET A KIND OF A FOUNDATION WITH THAT.

SO I DO THINK SEPTEMBER WORKS OUT WELL IN THE CALENDAR BECAUSE IF WE ARE LOOKING AT EARLY NOVEMBER TYPICALLY IS WHEN THE FALL SWEEPS FALLING.

THAT GIVES US A MONTH IN BETWEEN.

IF WE MAKE THE FOCUS DIFFERENT ENOUGH THAN WHAT THE FALL SWEEP IS, THEN IT WON'T FEEL LIKE A DUPLICATION OF EVENTS.

AND THEN LOOKING AT THE KEEP TEXAS WATERWAYS CLEAN, POSSIBLY WITH THE OPENING OF LAKESIDE PARK AND THEN THE SUBSEQUENT SPRING CLEANUP.

SO THAT'S TWO IN THE SPRING, TWO IN THE FALL.

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THEN WE'RE MEETING OUR OBJECTIVE OF FOUR CLEANUPS IN THE COMMUNITY FOR THE YEAR.

I THINK WHEN WE DO OUR BIG CLEANUPS LIKE FALL SWEEPS.

IT SEEMS LIKE WE GET LIKE AN OLDER CLEANUP AND EVERYTHING, AND THIS WOULD BE MORE, YOU KNOW, IT COULD BE OLDER, BUT IT PROBABLY, I WOULD THINK, WOULD FOCUS MORE ON YOUTH.

ON YOUTH WELL AND THE DOW GROUP WOULD PROBABLY COME AT AT THAT EVENT.

AND I LOVE THE IDEA OF DOING THE ADOPT A SPOT AND HAVING THE CELEBRATION AT THE END.

I REMEMBER ONE GROUP IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, AND IT WAS I MEAN, IT WAS A BIG DEAL LIKE THEY DID THAT ALL DAY LONG, KIND OF IN A LITTLE BIT OF EDUCATION.

THEN THAT NIGHT WAS THEIR BIG EVENT THING.

I DON'T REMEMBER IT'S BEEN YEARS AGO WHAT CITY THAT WAS.

WHEN DO OUR CONCERTS RUN? THEY ARE MAY AND SEPTEMBER.

I JUST WE TALK ABOUT IT LIKE AN EVENT, LIKE IF IT COULD CORRESPOND TO WHERE, YOU KNOW, THIS IS ME SPEAKING OUT OF TURN A LITTLE BIT, BUT IF THERE'S ALREADY A CELEBRATION GOING ON, YOU KNOW? BUT JUST, YOU KNOW, ALWAYS THINK OF WHAT ARE WE ALREADY DOING AND HOW WE CAN ENHANCE EITHER SIDE OF IT.

SO. SO I MEAN, IN GENERAL, LIKE JUST THE NOTES I HAVE IS LIKE THE ADOPT A SPOT GETTING THE COMMUNITY ENGAGED AT A LARGER DEGREE.

WE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT GLASS RECYCLING, HOUSEHOLD HAZARDOUS WASTE, PAINT, OTHER CHEMICALS AND THINGS LIKE THAT AS BEING A NEED.

IT SOUNDS LIKE THE PREFERENCE FOR A MORE CONCENTRATED EVENT AS OPPOSED TO LIKE A WIDER INITIATIVE WOULD PROBABLY HAVE MORE BANG FOR ITS BUCK.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER? AND IT'S ALSO A GOOD EVENT TO GET PICTURES FOR OUR GACC COMPLICATION.

YES, CAPTURE LOTS OF PICTURES.

I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW MANY I WOULD NEED.

I'LL BE ASKING FOR LOTS OF PICTURES MOVING FORWARD.

I MEAN, IF THE COUNCIL WAS COOKING, YOU KNOW, IF WE WERE DOING SOME OF THOSE THINGS, EVEN IT WOULD, YOU KNOW, WELL, AND THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DO OR WHO WE ARE.

YOU KNOW, MAYBE IT WOULD.

AND I THINK IF WE HAVE BETWEEN NOW AND IN SEPTEMBER, LIKE WE CAN ENGAGE A LOT OF PEOPLE TO GET ADDITIONAL THINGS THAT MAY NOT EVEN COST ADDITIONAL, BUT JUST ADDITIONAL ENHANCEMENTS, ADDITIONAL BY ADDITIONAL COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, KNOWING THAT WE'RE PLANNING SOMETHING NEW SINCE WE ALREADY KIND OF HAVE THE TEMPLATE FOR OUR FALL SWEEP AND SPRING CLEANUP, THEY KIND OF HAPPEN ON A ROUTINE NOW.

THERE MAY BE ADDITIONAL OPPORTUNITIES ENGAGEMENT BETWEEN NOW AND THEN.

SO I THINK LIKE LOOKING AT IT FROM A STANDPOINT OF SOMETHING THAT'S ENGAGING AROUND THE COMMUNITY, DIFFERENT GROUPS THAT KIND OF IS A LITTLE MORE CELEBRATORY IS WHAT I'M HEARING AS WELL. THAT SEEMS TO BE THE DIRECTION THAT I'M HEARING.

IS THERE ANY THOUGHTS AROUND THAT OR IS THAT? SOUNDS GOOD? ALL RIGHT.

YEAH. AND SO WITH THAT SO, I THINK IT'S MORE THAN REASONABLE THAT WE TAKE THAT INFORMATION, GO BACK AND RESEARCH IT AND JUST PRESENT SOME OPTIONS AT OUR NEXT KAB MEETING. AND AT THAT POINT, WE WOULD NEED TO MAKE SOME SPECIFIC DECISIONS.

AND SO WITH THAT SAID, YOU CAN PROVIDE A SPECIFIC MOTION IF YOU WANT TO OR JUST IN RECOMMENDATION, AND WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT.

BUT I THINK MOVING THE SPECIFIC PLANNING OF THAT TO OUR APRIL MEETING, SOMEBODY WANTS TO MAKE THAT IN A FORM OF A MOTION.

WE CAN PUT IT ON RECORD.

YOU GOING TO LOOK AT ME AGAIN. SO I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE REVISIT THE ADOPT A SPOT PLANNING OR WHAT OR THE THIRD EVENT FOR OUR APRIL MEETING? DO WE HAVE A SECOND? I SECOND THAT. ALL RIGHT, ANYONE OPPOSED.

THE MOTION CARRIES.

AND THAT WAS OUR LAST ITEM, I KNOW THIS IS LITTLE LONGER THAN OUR NORMAL AGENDA.

GOOD JOB KYLE.

SO BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF ACTION, A LOT OF UPDATES AND A LOT OF INFORMATION THERE.

SO THAT'S IT.

SO WHENEVER YOU'RE READY, YOU CAN.

6:55 MEETING ADJOURNED. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

THANK YOU APPRECIATE IT.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.