So there is no approval for minutes. I discussed this with Anne as a procedural aspect. We're posting everything on the way. Is that the end posting the the zoom session on the website? Anna, are you there? Yes. Doug, Doug posts them every month. And so in lieu of minutes, we'll just refer people to our website and the full recordings of our board meetings are on there as long as we're holding them on Zoom. So, do you mean? Sorry, go ahead. Do you mean? I'm invisible for whatever reason, but do you mean that we don't have a record of minutes? We have to go listen to the whole meeting. That's correct. We also don't have a secretary, so it's turned out that this has been an option. Oh, we have a lead. I meant to ask before we got going, the only thing we have formally on the agenda is Gail Waldorf of Olpo has a proclamation that I'm assuming that we've all had an opportunity to look at that she wants our endorsement as an organization. And then we have governance and the consultant effort with Harriet. I'm my understanding as for our conversation, Jan, you don't need to learn landmark. Is that correct about TAMS or anything else? There's really nothing new on landmark just to mention to people if they notice anything We're not going to be going to be going to be going to Well, with that, why don't we get started with Gail Waldorf of OPA and her proclamation about the city's sister city effort with Riverside. Gail, are you there? I'm here. Thanks so much, Pete. And thanks to the board for letting me come on the agenda and present the proclamation. The last time I spoke with you, we were just in our infancy with the idea of having a sister subdivision with the first subdivision for I recall, I'm stood to sign Riverside Illinois and Druid Hills being the last subdivision that he designed. So since then, Alita and I have been working with the folks at Riverside to see how we might proceed with this idea. And we said maybe it's best to start small and come up with something that kind of outlines the mission that I think their group and our group have in common. And so the end result is this proclamation that I'm presenting tonight. And this is the same proclamation that the Riverside folks are presenting to their organization. So it's kind of it's a beginning. We're certainly open to suggestions, but we think this is nicely crafted to show the intention of the idea. And so I wanted to come before you all, before we go any further and seek your support. This will also be presented next week to OPA for their support and then I think to follow up This could be sort of a seed we might say as part of Umsted 200 which is the big anniversary of Unsets birthday in 2022 and the National Association of Umsets Parks is supporting and will be pushing a huge nationwide celebration of Umsets birthday. And so it kind of flows nicely into our idea of creating a partnership in some way shape or form using with Riverside using the proclamation is the first step. So I entertain any any any questions and I know that and and Sue have been really on it getting us all together. I think Anne 13 groups were represented at the meeting you had at OPA regarding the whole issue of, um, instead 200 and the communities working together. And I really appreciate that effort was a very good meeting. And we will certainly come back in September and with your group. And we can flush out details and ideas that this might, this proclamation might generate. So they only have one question on the on the population itself and that is in the last paragraph in the parentheses when you refer to OPA and in the population it just says the linear parked alliance. Yes, it will be. We've between all of us working on this, we had several drafts and this was kind of next to the last draft, but that last draft will have the correction in your right. Okay. Well, I make a motion that the HCA adopt this resolution to partner with as a sister city Riverside Illinois and going forward for the own state 200 celebration. I second that motion. All in favor? Hi. 5, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. Hey Rob, are you holding your hand up? Not up. I'm not a board member. Oh geez, that's right. I forgot. Sorry. One, two, three, four, five. You need to attend. It's as important. One, two, three, four, five. Leon, is your hand up? Are you? Yeah, please. Good. Seven, eight. That is your hand up. Yes. Yes. Elite I'm assuming 11. 13, 14, 15, 16, 17. Everybody that I can see as their hand up. Oh, I from Kathy. I believe I have 19. Yes. Is any opposed? I from the Kathy chived. I and Sandra. Do you vote? I. Yeah. I'm going to go close. I'm going to go close. I'm going to go close. I'm going to go close. I'm going to go close. I'm going to go close. I'm going to go close. I'm going to go close. I'm going to go close. I'm going to go close. I'm going to go close. I'm going to go close. I'm going to go close. I think it will create a lot of interest. So I appreciate all of your support. Have there been interactions between the two cities today or the two areas that we've people visited or sport visiting? All we have done, Mike, is communicate with conference calls. Now I have been personally to Riverside. It was many years ago, but I took a tour because I knew I was in Chicago, and I knew about Riverside at that time. And I wanted to go visit to see, well, just because I live in Druid Hills, it seemed like it would be a fun tour to take, which I did and it was unbelievable. It's very beautiful and it's so familiar when you go see it, you know, you feel like you're a little bit in Druid Hills. So I talked to the parks manager there about what they do about bicycles and bicycle paths and use that me information. I think I shared that with the traffic committee. Mike there will be a range though an exchange or a visitation of Riverside delegates here and vice versa, is that right? I think that it could be a very, a very possible exercise to get travel again. Yes. Fortunately, I'm said 200 is in 2022. Fingers crossed that we will be able to do more than. Yes. Well, thank positively. You know, for us as an organization. So we've got this motion carried. This is for us as a DHA. There's a small piece of the puzzle for the tour that Sue Sullivan is putting together. I know her and Bonnie Wolf and Wallace, Alita and a number of other people are already hard at work on this thing and Sue's got an amazing concept for the tour focused around the linear parks and the homes around the linear parks. So anybody who wants to get involved in it, I encourage you to get it on the ground floor early. We can really, really have an amazing provided the COVID thing gets under control. We can really have an amazing tour in 2020. So we have this one small piece of the puzzle squared away and hopefully the rest of it falls into place. So we all get to work on that, okay? Good deal. Thanks, Gail. Thank you. Thank you, Gail. Do you think it's all right if I exit? Yeah, absolutely. Sure. I don't wanna go if there's anything left on this. Oh, no, no worries. You got what you came for when we were happy to get it. Yeah. Much appreciated. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Thank you. Alrighty. So does anybody else have anything? I'm going to want to turn the floor over to Harriet Lane and governance. Does anybody else have anything that they need to report on before that? You're supposed to make an announcement that the deadline for the next issue of Dr. Hill's news, which will be September issue. The deadline for articles is August the 10th to framputiny, R to Jenny Richardson and they ask, you know, that committee chairs and different groups, please write what's been going on and you know, find some good news and things that have been happening for the summer. So the deadline's August the 10th. OK, well, I'm sorry. Can I just give a quick update? We kicked off our sidewalk inventory. I guess a news we had a little blurb in the newsletter that went out yesterday. I've already had seven or eight emails with pictures of the offensive sidewalks that are broken and crumbling and the location. So people are following the directions. There are many people that seem passionate about it. So just a reminder to everybody that's something we're doing sort of first step. don't know how we would pay for any of this, but we need to kind of understand the size and scope of the problem. So let your friends and neighbors know we're trying to tackle one that seems to be one that many are interested in. And you also signed the contract and sent that off for the CSX project, right? We did. That that analysis is underway to sort of assess the as we're calling it the Eastern Gateway to the neighborhood. So thanks to all for making that happen. And we we should have the report from that. I think I had suggested to the vendor that we would look in mid August to have that report in our hands, which we can then share with the county to help with assessment of cost and vendors. Thank you, Doug. I really appreciate the effort that you put on that man, deliver on the meeting potatoes. Thank you. Thank you. You remember it. You met Gail and Alita and I. Okay. All right. Thank you all then. Alita, so I didn't mean to disparage your contribution to this effort. Thank you so much. Okay. Very gracious of you. Okay. So with that, unless anybody else says anything they want to contribute, I'd like to turn the floor over to Harriet if I can. Harriet, you're on. Thank you. So, um, Dad, can you, um, when Mama Doug's going to give me the control so I can present on my screen? Great. Can you see my screen now? No. Okay. One second. Sorry about that. I don't know why it wouldn't. Okay. Now we got it. There we go. Yeah. Okay. I'm just updating you on what's happening right now. I sent over the contract to the DHCI agreement for the scope of work and to the executive committee where Steve Meisner took a look at the contract. So after that, the next steps are, I'm going to start talking about the working group. So, and that was in the DHCA scope of work and what we were talking about at the last session, if everyone can remember that we would have a working group. So the working group is the purpose of the working group is to collaborate with the governance committee to make recommendations to the board about the strategic direction for the Juryd Hill Civic Association based on the feedback gathered from the neighbors during the listening effort. The Working Group's task is to review the information and engage in constructive dialogue during planning meeting sessions facilitated by Terry in the form of an actionable plan with measurable objectives that can be tracked and reported to the community. So the divorce during this process phase two the board excuse me the board of directors will make the decisions the working group will make recommendations to the Board of Directors about the strategic direction of DACA, the vision mission strategic plan, and the governance committee will make recommendations to the Board of Directors to align the organizational and governance structure So, Kit will be making, um, sorry, someone went out and came back in. So, Kit will be making those appointments for the working group. So, the schedule. We've already got two of the, first two meetings and the first two meetings will be planning session one where all board members will meet with Terry on Wednesday, July 29th at 7.30. And then planning session two with Terry again was priorities and goals will be with Terry on Wednesday, October 5th. And these two sessions are with the entire board. I think that's our last period. We said October. I did. I'm sorry. Obviously. So I'll send out a, I'll send to the executive committee the Zoom meeting information and they can get that out to you. So on the scope of work on the scope of work is all I guess we will be voting for, let me make sure. Yeah, that's the week of November 16th, we would be finished. So there was a couple of questions about how this would work towards the end of the year. So I wanted to let Doug and Darren update you. We just let Doug and Darren, they volunteered of communications and we had a couple of vendors that gave some information that we could design a RFP and Doug and Darren did that. So I'm gonna let Doug just update you really quick on that. You're muted. Let me unmute. Sorry, I was on mute. Just quickly, I think we we tried to make it sort of a quick and dirty exercise without overthinking it. But this really the past five or six days, we've sort of collaborated and come up with a reasonably short, what we'll call an RFP that we will hope to send actually tomorrow to the vendors that have, you know, or individuals that have reached out with some sense of expertise and interest in the work. We've tried to position the work as both an exercise in internal and external. So there is a, how do we communicate better with our residents and members as well as the opportunity to address how we better market and communicate about our neighborhood with external stakeholders. So we've included both. Obviously the communication internally is the thing that we're probably most focused on. And I've put a pretty quick timeline since the folks that have expressed an interest have already shared some details and their thoughts. So we've tried to keep the responses to less than four pages. And really, within a couple weeks we should have a digest of responses that we can share with the board. There anything to add? Not much other than thank you. You did much or most of the heavy lifting here. I think most of my feedback was merely cosmetics so thank you for getting the ball rolling on that. I look forward to what we get back. Great. So the scope of work, I'll be sending out to the entire board as soon as the meeting's over. It gives you a timeline, the dates of... And I would probably be a little bit flexible these dates or the week of. Hopefully we'll get all the dates set up on Wednesday, which is our normal board meetings. But this should be a little bit flexible because we just don't know what's up. You know, we don't know what's going to up. We don't know what's gonna happen. We don't know if we'll be able to meet in person. We just don't know anything. So if you could stay flexible, that would be greatly appreciated. As far as membership, we, the government has to discuss membership. We, I have actually Renee is crafting a letter that will go out to the members and we'll use Wild Apercott, but we haven't crafted that letter. That will be sometime next week. We'll probably send that to the executive committee. But that won't start until August and September. Maybe we will have something different to put in it. But as of right now, we'll be working on that next week. The annual meeting will most likely happen January and 2021, and that will be to vote a new slate of officers. Is there any other questions that we have right now going into phase two and three. And? Yeah, the letter that you're drafting you just said is going out just to D HCA members. Is that right? Or is this going out to residents to solicit membership for 2021? We are not going to solicit. We're going to ask for members to stay on more like a letter that you got. Did you get one from your gym this year that says, hey, please bear with us. We're going through this. We just haven't crafted that particular letter. I don't know what it's going to look like, you know, until governance takes a look at it. So there will be no start to a membership campaign, which we usually start in November. You're saying we do not do that this year? I don't recommend that, but governance has not talked about that completely. As of right now, we have discussed and thought that we should just send out a membership to stay on board with DHCA. We don't have anything right now as of yet for membership to be excited about as of right now. That's not to be said that that won't change in some of the upcoming sessions that we have. So timing wise, we need to be looking at a budget and it needs to be approved next month at our meeting. So what would we assume about membership if we're not going to have a membership campaign? That is something, Governors, we'll be talking to John Geichrich about. We discuss that and have, I need to get with Governance next week or the following week to discuss budget. And to hopefully have John Geichelmport with that, that's the next step. Because it really should needs to be presented. Budget needs to be presented to the board prior to the August meeting. So we have at least a week or 10 days for people to review. Right. I will try to make that happen with everybody's schedule. Yes. Any other questions? There's no other questions. It is the dog days of summer. So everyone can be forgiven. If there are no other questions, I figure we can adjourn. My brother just showed up and I hear them all screaming and yelling over in the living room and I'm missing out. Does anybody have any questions? I'm going to adjourn. Okay, I second that. We are adjourned. Harry, thank you so much. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to the next slide. I'm going to go to me so I can grab the recording. Yes. How do I do that? I don't know, but I can't grab it from you. I tried. You click on my name and then more. Yeah, it keeps hold on. I. Everybody can drop. I suppose there's no. I'm trying to, and it won't, oh, here it goes. Everybody can drop. I suppose there's no. And I may still be able to get it. I was just afraid it may lock it in and then maybe you can only access. I don't know how that works. I'm trying to and it won't, oh, I lost you. Is everybody frozen? I'm not frozen. Van. Thank you. Thank you, much. Hey, Doug. Yeah. Before you go away, I just wanted to. Sorry, Van, I lost you. Is everybody frozen? I'm not frozen. Van are you there? Van? Looks like he's frozen. I'll stick around. Go ahead, kid. I'm waiting to ban to unfreeze. I don't want to leave before he's had a chance to talk. We can all honor him by assuming the same pose. I don't want to leave before he's had a chance to talk. Okay. We can all honor him by assuming the same pose. Maybe we can chat with him. And can you chat? Can you post something on the chat? Nice, gone. He's gone. Okay. All right. Meeting each other. Thank you so much Doug. Bye bye. We'll see you.