 I'm going to call the Board of Finance to order at 5.04 p.m. or February 6th. And this is a short meeting with one, just one item on it. But before we get to that, we do have a public forum warned. Is there, I do not see anyone here in person interested in speaking to a Board of Finance. Is there anyone online? There's no one on this. Okay, we just not appear that there's anyone. So I'm going to close the public forum. And we will go to 3.1, which is sponsorship agreement for the Black Experience Black History Month 2023. This is an idea I didn't discuss last week. Director Jim Carson. Oh, what is that? I don't think they're quite done that. Thank you. Let's, let's, let's do that. Can we have a welcome motion on the agenda? So moved. Second. Any discussion? Seeing none. Let's go to a vote. All those in favor of adopting the agenda as presented, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. I guess, given that we were plotting ahead improperly or check again. Is there any member of the public interested in speaking in the public forum? I don't know if that appears so. So we will now, now we are at 3.01, which is the sponsorship agreement for Black Experience Black History Month 2023. That was just saying Kim Carson. Director RAB is here for this item. Kim, do you want to update the board? There's some discussion this last week and some questions are asked. Maybe I'll turn over. Sure. Kind of quick summary of the discussion that last week or, or, you know, pick us off in this discussion. Absolutely. I think what was. I'm sorry to interrupt. I'm also just noting that Councilor Hightower has just joined. Great. Sorry. God, thank you. It's my understanding that following me, there was some requests for further information. More specifics about how the money was being spent and to make sure that it wasn't being spent on things that the city. Was not supporting. So I wanted to first say thank you for the opportunity for being able to clarify those questions. That were posed at the last meeting and to bring some clarity about the event. The Black Experience event is a philanthropic effort by New Wave Equity Corporation and for the City of Brampton. So I want to be very specific with that. It's very different from what happened and how they participated last year. Last year it was tied in with Juneteenth. This year it's a separate pre-stand event in regards to Black History Month. This is now a two-day event. Last year it was a one-day event. And it's covering a broad spectrum of things for the community. One of those things, so on February 25th, they're going to have the UVM Health Network there providing screenings for the community. Part of that is education services about the health passport to help patients be able to access their health records and other screenings like BMI and blood pressure. They're also going to provide community education and about inequities in healthcare to better inform the public. And then also from that we'll be able to collect data in a way we hadn't before about how many people that were served to better increase our efforts the next year. Also, we wanted to take a look after some of the things that went on over the past few years in the community in regards to Black bodies. And so they really want to take a different look and a different theme this year of celebrating Black bodies in a different way. And so that's where the partnership or having the Philadelphia dancers there to highlight Black bodies in a way that is not abuse of the Black body, but celebrating the strength of the Black body. And so with that we also want to partner with local artists to share their experiences so there'll be conversation about that. And then there's also not just the performance for the fillet they go. They're also going to work with and talk to different community groups and discuss the history of their dance court and how they came to be in Philadelphia as a response for not having that access historically to marginalized communities in Philadelphia. The next day they're going to come back and do another presentation and another opportunity to engage with the community. Within, as we move forward with the REIB, we're really focusing our efforts on our domains that were identified and then we're going to be expanding them through the race, the roadmap, strategic roadmap. What we're looking at is with all our programming is not necessarily focused on completely just being about celebration and commemoration but also making sure that we hit and provide services within the community that hit on those domains. Community belonging, health, social and human development, economy and physical environment. From that, we are working with the city attorney and we were working with them to create the fiscal sponsorship agreement, and we have the draft of that, and that specifies what specifically those funds are being used for outlined. And so it's the $15,000 for the venue costs, $10,000 for marketing and promotions, $20,000 for supplies vendors and organization, and then $30,000 to the Philadelphia dance troupe and local black artist. Right. Thank you for your doing great. Thank you. Thank you for the initial information. I think it's a fuller picture of the city's sponsorship here, President Ball. Thank you. So I had, I had asked both Kim and Katherine about an amended motion language could be posted as posted under public comment. Just to get us started, I would, I would move that amended motion language. For the sitchand item. Great. So that's the amended language right there. Yeah, I mean, oh yeah, it's just a it just specifies it puts the memo language that gives the list into the motion as opposed to it just being part of them. Okay, thank you. So that's a motion do we have a second for that. You just made that motion correct. Do you have a second for that motion. Sorry, can you just clarify with the change. If you look at poor docs. That's right there you can see that the original it just details what the $75,000 sponsorship is going towards in a way that the original motion did not is the change. I just, yeah, I just copied. I copied the list from the memo that's right above the motion language or details actually Kim just just you just listed. Okay, and we don't see an issue with this in terms of like balancing stuff staff feels like they can do that if it's a thousand offer or whatever it doesn't have to come back to board of finance correct. I think what you're trying to say counselor high tower is if the amount should change for instance the venue would go up to 16 and marketing would go down to 9,000 like, are we pretty sure in the line item amounts. Yes, great. Great. Then I don't know if there's been a second but I can second. Councillor Jang seconded, I believe. Yes. So we have a motion we have a second I think we're all clear what the motion says, are there further for the discussion questions. I was wondering you anybody from the organizers is here online. There's specific questions for them. Not that I'm aware of unless. Did you did you expect them to make it out so I don't just couple phone numbers so hard to see what they are but I mean, I don't believe that this this year's event is explicitly excluding from the new. Because last year they were performers from the new American community and also buy by organization, but also included in the programming. So I wanted to understand what is the reason that exclusions here. And maybe can answer. I think last year, my understanding was tied more to a larger celebration, which included it was about being integrated in Juneteenth. This one is specific to the federal observance of Black History Month, which is a very small scope or what we're talking about and that's experience of specifically what has been omitted from American history, putting that back into and celebrating that through education and things in a different way. And so this is really about just a subgroup of black people. And that can happen from time to time this is a federally observed holiday that is specific and way, excuse me, observance that's specific in the way that it should be observed. So we're really having problems with that specifically because when we talk about Black History Month, it does not make a distinction between African American and also black. It's just black in general. And I think at least having at least that from from all the blacks that are foreign born is nothing hard to do and to make it happen. And I'm really concerned about the way specificity of this event, which is open to anybody whether you are black or white, Asian or whatever it is. And really want to talk to new wave, I think, but it's in call. But I think it will not change my vote, it's a part of it, but I think some follow it maybe at the next idea committee. So to invite them to be so beautiful specific. Without a doubt, I think there's also needs to be some communication and we can do this offline about the nature behind the specific federal events. And I think these are not things that were created necessarily to represent all populations, but a specific population because the historic way in which people of descendants of slavery were omitted and their specific efforts histories contributions to American history were taken out. So this is not necessarily just black history. It's writing a wrong about American history specific to this. And at the time that this was created in 1986, it was very small in scope, and it was reflective of other events that led to this in the education. I think there's other spaces where we can celebrate other black voices and the continuum or the of the black American experience but even in the language to start it with descendants of slavery Negroes and Afro Americans which are very specific categorization of people that were Americans descendants of slavery that happened to do black. And so I think with this particular commemoration, it's very different we do celebrate it, but it's really about never forgetting what happened in this part of American history and not to remove the contributions of former enslaved people and their descendants. So I mean I think it will be better just maybe to make a formal invitation. Thank you. Okay. Any further discussion before we go to answer Jane appreciate your points I know the department wants to make sure you know what the department's responsibilities certainly include belonging and welcoming to the entire community including recent immigrant communities, for sure. And so I'm, I think your suggestion that we talk about further how we make sure we're accomplishing that and upcoming meeting makes a lot of sense to me. With that, we will go vote all those in favor of the motion please say aye. Is there any opposed. Motion carries unanimously. And thank you for the follow up work. Thank you to the board for this important discussion about this item and to work clarification about what's happening here and I'm glad though we'll have further further discuss about where we go from here with with these with the investments we make and events like this and making our community welcoming it for all. So with that, I think we have completed the more agenda so if there is no objection. I will adjourn us at 519pm.