 Calling the Human Rights Commission meeting order at 637 in pursuit to chapter 20 of the acts of 2021 this meeting will be conducted via remote means. Members of the public who wish to access this meetings may do so via zoom or by telephone. No in person attendance of meetings of the public will be permitted but every effort will be made to ensure that the public can adequately access the proceedings in real time via technological means. And then I will do a roll call so I will start off with Erica. Here. Cedric. Here. Liz. Present here. And then I myself fill up there here and then with two absentees. Then. Next, it looks like we have public comment. Anybody from the public in the waiting room. Wanting to speak. Now is your time. Yeah, looks like she doesn't want to speak today. Okay. So we'll go on to any Human Rights Commission members reports. I don't think said usually does a housing report, but I don't know if anybody else has anything. And I'll just say when he does that it's always on the agenda below. Yeah, you want to kick off actions. So the first item on our actions and discussion is support letter process. So that came about when I asked the group if they wanted to create a letter or statement in regards to supporting Ukraine. And Sid had said in the past when he'd asked about support meant for other countries will say that were black or brown skinned that he was told no. And so that was probably before my time but I wanted to have this group just have a set process so that that doesn't happen because we can't just support some without supporting all right. So I just wanted the group to kind of take a vote maybe and and agree or disagree to support all. Right. I'm totally in favor for definitely supporting all and not just picking and choosing what countries. Anybody else. I second that. And we if that's can we make the motion a little more together and let's state that it's a motion and so the way that process is going to work is, you're going to call the motion or someone will call the motion someone will second. It'll open up for discussion. If there's no discussion, then we take that final vote on it and it passes. Then I will motion that the Amherst Human Rights Commission will support any country in need that will. I don't know how to wear that that just any country that needs help or needs recognition in a time of their crisis. HRC will support any country in need of support. There we go. I second that. And so I have a question. What exactly does that mean we'll write in a statement about it we're going to try to raise funds for them. And what are the parameters that we would say wait a minute we need to rethink this. Not that I'm not in favor of Ukraine. Yeah, I think that's a good point. I would say definitely starting out with a letter of support. Like having an acknowledgement that we kind of see what's going on. I don't know. Good. I don't know the ins and outs of city. Funds would there be a way Jen that maybe it could be. Funds being risen for. I think that if that's how you wanted to. That you could do things like that or hold different kinds of fundraisers as the commission but I can, I will check in to confirm that and send you guys an email tomorrow. But I think it's a valid point and I would so maybe we could, because the motion hasn't been voted on we could say HRC will support any country in need. Of support by a letter of support to start. I don't know. That's a lot of support right there. Well we could also say that the HRC is. I just said, well acknowledge any country in need of. Oh, can I have I had it in my head will do written support, make a verbal written statement in support of any country that may be in crisis, or something like that. Do we want to say country I mean I guess, like, we did one for George Floyd, and that was the country here us. I mean are you looking at it. So when you say country. Country, person, state, individual. So how about HRC will acknowledge any crisis that is part of the human rights right. Any crisis humanitarian, any humanitarian crisis that occurs, regardless of. I think you can just say that any. I think it should be written acknowledgement. HRC will create a written acknowledgement for any humanitarian crisis worldwide. Sounds better to me. No, I'll be thinking something different to say and bring it back up next time. Toes. Okay, I can go up did anybody have anything else to add in while we were talking. I saw something on my screen that came up. So, Liz, do you want to state that again. Okay, what did you write. I'll share my screen. So you can see it. Yes, please. Scroll up. I highlighted it in yellow. Create a written acknowledgement for any humanitarian crisis worldwide. I like what it says I just don't like the wording. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it. I don't like it at all for me, but we can leave it there for now. And work on it. But we just want to make sure that we acknowledge. When. Humanitarian. Areas come up that are. Not good. I guess. You could say HRC. Will support worldwide humanitarian crisis. I don't know. We said support twice. Yeah. HRC will create a written acknowledgement of support for any humanitarian crisis worldwide. So acknowledge. HRC will create a written acknowledgement for support. For supporting any, for supporting any humanitarian crises worldwide. That make that says. You don't have to have capital acknowledgement either. I know. Well, that started off as a capital sentence. I mean, that's the beginning of the sentence at one point. That makes sense. That makes more sense to me. Right now anyway. Okay, so we need someone to second it. I'll second it. And then Philip, you need to open it up for comments. Okay. Open it up for any other comments on this motion. No comments. Then we will go to a vote. So we'll just go on the order of my screen, Erica. I agree. What was, how do you say that? I support it. I second. I hear you hear you. Yes. Just say yes or no. Yes. Cedric. Yes. Liz. Yes. And I myself, and yes. Two absentees. I didn't go first. Just about that wrong. I'm going to stop share now. So. Do you guys want to create that letter now? Or it will, you had a statement, Philip. That you had sent me a while ago. That was a while ago. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know what I put in that statement now. Let's see if I can find it. Here, Jen. I just found it. I forwarded it to you. I'm on my phone. So let me pull it up. Even if you. Um, the statement of support the Amherst human rights commission acknowledges the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yep. As a human rights issue. I'll share. I'm all locked in. Does that sound good for folks? Yes. I think that's excellent. Alright. That's excellent. Good job. Good job. High five. Well, thank you. So then would I put that. To vote. Jen. Or that. It's a decision. Okay. Let me get back to my minutes here. Right. Well, then I will motion. The statement. And then we will need a second. Second. Then opening up for discussion. Well, no, I think your motion needs to say a little bit, like what it is to use the letter of support. Okay. All right. Then I will motion to use the letter of support for Ukraine from Ukraine drafted or written by written by me. I always felt so weird saying Philip and talking myself in the third person and seconded idea and open for discussion. No discussion. Oh, I do have a discussion question. So when we draft these letters of support, where exactly do they go? Do they go on our official record? Do they go to the town council so that the town council knows that we're in support? They go on the web page, HRC web page, and I will send it out on the Facebook page. So then I would say further discussion. Any further discussion? And it looks like we will take it to a vote. Erica. Yes. Cedric. Yes. Liz. Yes. And yes, for me and with two absentees. All right. Oh, I got that stuff done. I'll work on that tomorrow for everyone. All right. And next we have the HRC collaboration with Julius Ford slash Harriet Tubman, healthy living community. Yeah. So the. Julius Ford, Harriet Tubman, healthy living community, which is actually Sid's sister is a member, came to me and asked for, you know, if we could kind of if I could kind of help them. And I thought that this would be a really good thing for the HRC to collaborate with. So I included the age. So the HRC is now collaborating with them. And really what's going to happen is on May 7th, they are having a event at Mill River with taking over the whole court. And it's really just to celebrate their Julius Ford. They will also recognize any seniors. And I thought it would be a good time to have the youth hero awards. So if folks would like to have the youth hero awards, I mean, I think May 7th would be best instead of us trying to do one thing and then try to have them at another event. And the Julius Ford Foundation is fine with that. So does everybody know who Julius Ford is or was? Acknowledge that I do not. So Julius Ford was is was married to Deborah Fuera, who is Sid's wife and he, I mean, Sid's sister. And he was an integral part of the community as far as young men. He and another group of young men were workers at the Men's Resource Center, took on the ABC boys and some other young men under their tutelage in order for them to be better African American, Black, Latino, BIPOC. Men in the community. He did a lot of things going towards healthy lifestyle, you know, a lot of hikes, a lot of nature walks, things like that. And unfortunately, when his son, Phoenix, who is now a senior at Amherst Regional and he's got a son. Why am I blanking on his name? Onyx. Onyx at the time was six weeks. Phoenix was six years, almost six years old when Julius had a heart attack and died. So from that, Deborah and the group of people that he was with still continue to do healthy living activities with the students and people in the community. And. Yeah, Sid probably could tell you a little more. But yeah, this is. And this is specifically geared to BIPOC community members. And they really institutionized within their group the community lifestyle where the kids all kind of grew up together because they attended these. The different meetings and events that this group had. And, you know, so everybody has bonded. And it's really one of those things where people lean on each other in a time of need. So you're right, Sid could probably do a better job and thank you, Liz, because sometimes they just assume everybody knows what I'm talking about. So thank you for taking that time out to explain that. Yes, thank you, Liz. And so. Thought this would be a great place for the HRC. So they were coming to asking for me to help support them in different ways. And it just seems like it would be better for the HRC to support it. And, you know, we just helped by that happening, the kind of waived some of the fees that are associated with the different things that they're trying to do. And we also just it kind of just gives me the ability to take on the stuff so that they don't have to deal with the town so much, which gets, you know, can be confusing when you're not in the municipal world. So. And then I wanted to know if folks thought that that was a good time to have the Youth Hero Awards because the Julius Ford community said that they would be OK with that. They're doing an award ceremony for their seniors and they have one individual who's receiving their doctorate and they wanted to acknowledge them. And it's also the day before Mother's Day. So they would do an acknowledgement for Mother's Day. You know, the folks from the young versus old basketball team are involved. So it's really coming together as like a larger community event. There'll be food for purchase and they'll have activities for the kids. So exactly what is it that they want in our support, just to help out with programming or they want us to help out with food? Do they want us to help out with awards? I mean, if we're doing our awards on that night that day and which I will not be there, unfortunately. What is it that they need specifically from us? Yeah, it's going to be just a huge collaboration. We're going to do our part. They're going to do their part and we're going to be bonding together to do things together. Yes. And at this point, I asked they don't have it mapped out exactly who's doing what because they're still at the brainstorming. Part and so they when I asked that question, the response was they're not sure how they want the HRC members to support, you know, at the event necessarily quite yet or for the event. So so if we are going to do our youth awards, we need to get on the stick because it's middle of March. We have five weeks. So what I was saying is that, you know, with everyone's OK, I will send out and update the letter that we typically use year to year or no, we have a new letter that we use last year, but update it and then send that out to the schools and the folks at the Julius Ford, Harriet Tubman, Healthy Living Community and local churches to see who nominates. And and have that wrapped up. And then as per usual, I'll go get the gifts and create nice little certificates and stuff like that. So I'm good. OK, to me. So the HRC I was going to say, let me know what you need to since I won't be there that day. You know, I do all kinds of behind the scenes stuff. So if you need me to help go shopping and pick up stuff and order food and all of that, please let me know. Is the hero event the thing we did at no river? Yeah. Yeah. And so I know for food that they're going to have, they're looking for BIPOC, BIPOC businesses to come and sell food. And they're just trying to do things. You know, it's always really hard when you try to do free food because with free food, it tends to go really quick. And then people who come in the later part aren't. There's no food for them. So they will be selling food. All activities will be free otherwise, though. And that way we're supporting our businesses. It was a little hard to ask the businesses who are recovering from COVID to donate food. So they would like it to be sold. And then my guess is there'll be a few businesses that say, you know, we don't really have the staffing for it, but we will donate. And then that feels a little bit different because it's not us asking their volunteering to do that in a way to be productive. So I will get on that tomorrow. Is it since they don't have everything all laid out, is it is somebody going to be attending meetings with them so that we can so you will. All right, I just let me know if you need me to accompany you. I'm not used to anybody saying like I'll help, but. I said I would help. No, I'm joking, Erica. This is probably the group that is volunteers to do actual the most. Boots on the ground work out of the commissions, so it's really nice. And thank you. I appreciate that. Liz, yes, I will ask. All you have to do is ask and we'll like help you. You just got to tell us what you need help with, because otherwise we're just sitting here and hanging out. I'm always volunteering. I just say whatever you need me to do, call me. You know, I come to your office and we say, OK, we got to do this. I'm not going to be able to be doing that this day because I have track or whatever, but I will do this. So I'm willing to go to meetings. I'm willing to help you with any food runs or whatever. OK, thank you. And I, you know, we will meet, I think, again next week. So I'll ask if they want folks from the HRC to attend. They meet at nine in the morning, so I know that's hard for some folks. OK, hello, the retired lady. I know I said some folks, right? That's why I said some folks. But I also, you know, keep them abreast. So they're creating a flyer at this point, I think, like a save the date. Interesting. And so tomorrow I will send that letter to everyone just to make sure everybody's OK with it. So if you could respond to it as soon as possible, that would be greatly appreciated. And that's really does anybody else have anything else about the Youth Hero Awards? The agenda of the Youth Hero Awards was up next, but it seems like we covered that. We have HRC event calendar. Yeah, so I'm going to share my calendar, my my screen again. And I have a list of events that are coming up in April and May. And so what I really need to know is which one of these do we want to just kind of have an acknowledgement that goes on Facebook similar to International Women's Day or which ones you guys want to try and craft an event for and each year it can change like next year. Some of the ones that we did, we can not do next year or do the following year, the ones that we didn't do this year. So we've got Community Service Month. And that seems like it's something we might want to just make an acknowledgement for. Yeah, acknowledge it. And Earth Month. So I will say that the Community Participation Officers are hosting a town-wide clean-up day on April, no, yep, April 30th. So it'd be great to see some folks out there. It'll be from about 10 to noon. That would be interesting. So we just go around with our bags and pick up trash and recycle things. And why is we give out gloves? We give out gloves and the what are those long like reach things, reach things where you can pick up trash from. Oh, yeah. OK. Yeah. And also gloves, garbage bags and the long reach things and water. OK. If they're doing an event that day, then I think we should probably just acknowledge it and put on our Facebook kind of their event, just highlight. Absolutely. That sounds good to me. Autism Awareness Month. I know that the kids at the high school do a little a lot of stuff around that. So I'm wondering if we could make a presence at least be present at some of their events. And then what we can do to help support their events. Yeah, I would. Get a hold of Kathy Olson. And this is at the high school. Yeah, let me try to get a hold of her tomorrow and get back to you. I have a meeting with the leadership team at the high school tomorrow and I try to touch base with her then. I'm going to text Jonathan right now in the top door. If you want to, you don't have to worry about it. OK, OK. Sure. Look at that, folks working together. That's what I like. What about Arab American Heritage Month? I think that that one would be a lot very interesting. But I don't know that this year we have enough time to pull that off because I don't even know where to start with making connections with folks unless someone else has a little bit of has a, you know, a connect. Have any connections? Is that another acknowledgement for this year? Yeah, I think that's a good one. What's the last one? Celebrate Diversity Day. I think we could try and do something for that. What day is that? It's it's I got to stop share because you don't want to see my crazy as calendars. Hey, I got a I got a question while we're doing. Yeah. Oh, my. This isn't on the thing on the agenda. But did we think of anything? Figure out anything about Facebook, the Facebook. How do like one of us can post it and take over that? Yeah, so they do not. Want multiple people from out of the town posting on it. So I will be posting on it. Good, because I didn't want to do anything extra anyways. OK, it's a month. So it's Celebrate Diversity Month. It's also the Tartan Scottish American Heritage Month. But another interesting one that we might want to look at, it's also Youth Homeless Matters Day and Youth Homeless Matters Day Acknowledge so we could do an acknowledgement for Youth Homelessness Matters Day. April 7th is also International Day of Reflection on the Genocide in Rwanda. So you guys want me to you guys want to do acknowledgement for those. So what I'm going to ask is for once we get through this list that people kind of pick because I'll post whatever you guys give me. I just need someone you guys to help out with creating the actual post. It's also National Day of Silence on the 24th. I don't really know what that one means, but you know, basically be quiet. And then so it says March 25th is International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery in the Translantic Slave Trade. You said March 25th. March 25th. Yeah. I can do a quick post for that one if you guys want to acknowledge it. I think we should definitely acknowledge it. Say March through May. So three twenty. I mean, I have to write. I can't type this all out at the moment. World Autism. We're going to the schools. International Day of Reflection on Genocide in Rwanda. That looks like it's April 7th. And then the Youth Homeless Matters Days on the 20th. So let me go back here. Now I can share. OK, I will create the post for the Intern. International, the Remembrance of Slavery. And then April 7th on Genocide. So does anybody want to create a post for International Day of Reflection on the genocide in Rwanda? Would anybody know what that might look like? It could just be words like the Human Rights Commission just wants to acknowledge and support. So it doesn't necessarily have to be like a full blown out picture of something. But and then the 20th. So four twenty. The Youth Homelessness Matters Day. Does someone want to create a post for that? I can work on that. Since the Celebrate Diversity is a month long event, we could do something towards the end of April. If that if people, you know, want to do that, I'm not sure what you want to do for something like that. Are people interested in doing an event? Sorry, I wasn't listening because I was trying to do an email to Kathy Olsen. What was the question? Are people interested in doing an event for Celebrate Diversity Month, which is in April towards the end of April? You didn't respond and just put yourself on mute, Erica. Well, because I wasn't I wanted to process before responding. Like, what were you thinking about doing? I guess I don't know. I guess that's kind of on the table right now. I guess the first thing that comes to my mind as far as diversity. I'm a big food advocate. I don't know what town stuff is happening, but maybe we can have some type of pop. But the event. That's just spitballing, spitballing an idea that does not have to stick. I would say if we do that, let's do it at one of the pavilions that may be graph because it's easily accessible. And then I have to check in. So one of the things that I've been finding out with the events is all all this inspections through the inspections department. But it turns out if I just get surf safe or safe surf, then I can be considered the event planner and then everything can fall underneath the event. And then we can avoid all that. But it helps the process. You already are. And that is very helpful even for. The events are the Julius Ford Harriet Tubman collaboration. So that is fantastic. I know celebrate diversity. This is food and dance and music. Right, like a party. Yeah, we could do something at graph. Thoughts. Liz, Sadi. When? Well, we can determine the date now. Well, because my weekends are done because of tracks. So that's why I'm asking. Are we thinking like an event where it's kind of like the the heroes event? How are we? How are we blasting this out to the town? Uh huh. Or I think that's or I think maybe that's after we say yes to this, we can start thinking about that. Yeah, I mean, then for upcoming future for sure. Yeah, I think so, we know the cleanup day is. The 30th, which and so, you know, where it gets a little bit hard in April is that the week of the 18th through the 22nd is school vacation week. So then I'm inclined to say the weekend of the 9th, but that's super early. So since we have an event on the 7th, should we want to make an acknowledgement and work on it for next year? Where we can plan it out better. I agree with that plan. That might be a better plan. I agree. I really do like I do like the food and dance though. Like I think for real, like I think this is a cool event. Like kind of like the like how we do the town events where, you know, people come to the, you know, parade, like, you know, how we do block party or something like where we really can make this something special. So I like it. I just, yeah, time-wise, I don't want to rush something. But I do want to execute on that. Yeah, I think that makes sense. Is there anything else later on in the year that kind of has a similar type of tone? Well, I've capped us pretty much at May because I, you know, Juneteenth is coming. So that's a whole other beast. And we are planning in this year, Juneteenth is on a Sunday, which means we're trying to celebrate Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Sunday will be the Jubilee on the Common, and then I can't really disclose too much about Friday and Saturday yet. OK. So in May is National Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which I definitely think there should be some kind of event for that. And we can put it in the middle of May so that we have next month to do some heavy planning for it. Yeah, I agree with that. So I got a question because is it May Mental Health Awareness Month, too? Listen, there is Asian Heritage Month, Indian Heritage Month, Jewish American Heritage Month, Mental Health Month, South Asian Heritage Month, Personal History Awareness Month, Speech and Hearing Awareness and Older Americans. So can we you want to try to collaborate and do something around mental health and how it affects people of color? You get what I'm trying to get at and like, hey, let's do like an awareness of pliers or some sort of educational thing around mental health in these communities. Because let's see if they have a theme. It says it's their theme. This advancing leaders through collaboration, advancing leaders in the federal and D.C. governments do what this one says, advancing leaders through collaboration. That's what their theme is. I mean, Erica, we could just try if if we're going to do one at the beginning of the month, we can do one towards mental health awareness towards the end of the month. And that might be even better because by then, Adama and Y set will be fully functioning and up and running. Does that work? One seems like I was just trying to throw out like an idea. No, I appreciate that. And it was a good idea. But so one seems a little more. Well, if we're using their theme, then I I don't know. What do you guys want to do? It's really not up to me, my bad. I think we should definitely acknowledge mental health. And then to your point, if Y set is going to be kind of running, their focus is for people of color, right? Youth of color. So that kind of does tie in with what Erica was saying. So maybe we just highlight. What they're the work they're doing or find an event possibly with them, maybe. It's Adama. African Geosophore Mental Health Association. Y set is the case management, but they work hand in hand. So, yeah, it doesn't really there's a lot of things to acknowledge here. And we can just take two and have events towards two where we can just merge them into one. Everybody needs mental health. So I do kind of like the idea of merging them into one. I lean towards that and highlighting the need for mental health. The BIPOC people. Some of others feel I don't know if you can see my thumbs up, but I give a thumbs up to that. And so are we just going to acknowledge the other ones, which is Asian Heritage Month, Indian Heritage Month, Jewish American Heritage Month, South Asian Heritage Month, Personal History Awareness, Speech and Hearing, Hearing and Older Americans Month. I wonder if older Americans of the senior services will do something. And if there's one, I said one would hope. Yeah, and maybe, you know, our, you know, membership commissioners attendance would, you know, surface as participating. OK, so who wants to help me with the collaboration of that? I think that's Erica. That was her vision, right? Did she leave because she's not unmuting? Oh, what am I like? What am I doing? You and I are going to plan to the event for National Asian American and Pacific Island Heritage Month and Mental Health Month. OK, and that's in May, right? Uh huh. All right. So I think we should we'll talk first and then we'll kind of solidify a date when maybe everyone can attend. Sounds like a plan. And again, I'm thinking food, so I don't know. You know, I'm always on food. I'm I'm thinking food needs to be part of it. So we will and may hopefully it'll be nice stuff we can eat outside. We don't have another version of not Omicron, but. And so just to throw out there for June. So there's a World Day for cultural diversity for dialogue and development. I mean, that could serve. That's on the 21st, though. That's not. Oh, that's in May. International Day of Biological Diversity. So June is Pride Month, which the town council will do a flag raising proclamation, most likely on June 1st. And the. June 12th is Loving Day National Dengeness People's Day. This in June, French American Heritage Month. We can't hear you, Liz. So that's a lot of things to acknowledge all at the same time. And for us to be a small committee. Oh, Lord. Well, right, it is. But I think, I mean, I kind of feel like so when I when. When I did the goal is to have this go on the town community website, which so anybody who's linked to it will get notified. And then our Facebook. So our Facebook amount of people are more geared to human rights. In general, because that's something that they're they're into. But when it goes on the community calendar, even if it's not an event, that is going out to a whole different population, not completely different population, but a wider, broader population of folks. And so there's some, you know, honestly, these things could be as easy as so the Jewish American Heritage Month and just a paragraph about what that means and and what that is. So you can do that by speaking with someone from the JCA, perhaps, or if, you know, you know, someone who's Jewish American or you could just use Wikipedia, right? So we can find those things and it doesn't have to be long. Just needs to be enough so that people understand what it is. And for the sake of April. I can take on the Community Service Month and Earth Month is already kind of taken care of, but we can still put something out on Facebook. So Arab American Heritage Month. I can do and divert and celebrate diversity. That one sounds really fun, too. So then I have Cedric for four seven and Philip for four twenty, right? So let's divvy up May. That makes sense, right? And that gives everybody a little bit of time. Who wants to take so the National Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Mental Health Month? Eric and I will do who wants to take care of who would like to create a post for a Haitian Heritage Month that you could grab pictures of food. I mean, there's all kinds of things like if you Google how the Haitian community celebrates their heritage month, then you could just grab photos of, you know, if they use food and dance. Is that you, Cedric? Are you saying yes? Yes. No, I thought you said Asian. So I thought I was like, well, aren't you doing that? But you say Haitian Haitian. OK, yeah, yeah, I'll do it. All right. That's what I'd like to hear. Indian Heritage Month. I love Indian food. I don't like. So somebody might would like to connect with councillor Shalini Balmene to see if they are going to host an event last year in the fall. It was a little late, but they did a Pakistani and Indian. What was it? Independence Day celebration out in town and the feedback that we got from the Pakistani and Indian communities was that they were really excited to have something from their heritage and culture celebrated. At the town level, I could take on Indian Heritage Month. Jewish American Heritage Month. Can we nominate members that aren't here? I can do it, too. If it's just said post. Cedric. All right, yeah. And I think, you know, with Eric and I doing the two combined, they still need to be acknowledged and opposed separately. So Eric and I can work on that. South Asian Heritage Month. Was that you, Liz? Yeah. Listen, I'm not a Facebook type of person. I'm more hands on type of person. So if we're doing something like in person, then I'd like to help out with those type of things when it's just writing letters and putting stuff on Facebook or putting it on a webpage. That's not me. Well, you don't have to do that. I do that. What? You just have to create it and then I do it. Huh? I'm not good at that. I have to know. You have to know your limitations of what you're good at. So Liz, I'm putting you up here with Eric and myself. Well, what? For creating an event for National Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month and Mental Health Awareness Month. OK, no problem. All right. So that looks like it might be said. I don't have a full understanding, personal history, Awareness Month, speech and hearing, Awareness Month and Older Americans Month. So I could do personal history, Awareness Month. Imagine that has to do with something like Ancestry type of stuff, right? So looking up. I was kind of thinking about just knowing your own personal self and your history of yourself. So I thought that was kind of a neat one too. Speech and Hearing Awareness Month. That's going to sit. An Older Americans Month. I can just do that one to make it easier. Because I'm just going to work with the senior center there. All right. So whatever posts, you know, Cedric, you have one for April 7th. So if you can get it to me, you know, by the 5th or 6th, so I can post it because I can pre-post. Otherwise, I'm going to say they probably the ones that are the full month length, I guess I would post it. Like. So that's my question is, am I giving this? I mean, I've given it to you at the beginning of the month because they're both May. So I'll definitely give it to you before that. My question is, are you wanting to post it? I mean, I just answered myself, but I'll give it to you at the beginning of the month. You can post it whenever you want to. What date you want to post it on? Yeah, so I'm going to want to post everything on the first, right? And so the way that it's going to look on the town website one is it's just going to be like a cultural heritage. And then when you click on it, it'll have snippets of all the different months stuff in it. And I'll leave that up for the entire month, right? The Facebook one, I think what will end up happening is I think I'll have to post like the first and then I'll try for the middle and then I'll try for the end of the month, but I'll post each thing individually, maybe. For the Jewish, you said the Jewish month? Or just Facebook, you said. So all three, you're going to post individually on Facebook? Well, everything for the month of May, like I was just using May as an example, I'll post those separately on Facebook at different times throughout the month, I think, right? And I don't know if I can pre-post on Facebook. Does anybody know that? You can. You can? Well, that'll be helpful too. So once I have them, I can just set it for different dates consistently so that they just repost throughout the month. Sound good? Yeah. Go back to June and see if there's anything else, like, big that I'm missing. I saw somewhere that said World Refugee Day, I think it was June 20th. I don't have that one. I do have Race Unity Day, Race Unity Day, which there is a group of folks, but that's Race Amity Day. And what did you say the 20th was? I'll put that in my calendar. World Refugee Day. Yeah, and I think, honestly, right now, we got to just test out how April and May goes before we get too farther and farther. And then during the May meeting, we can talk about the summer months, if that works for folks. OK. What's next on the agenda? Next on the agenda. So I'm going to pull it up again. We have a AHTF update. That's the Amherst Housing Affordable Trust. And Sid's not here to give that update. And I don't have one. All right, then we have the AHRA, DEI, and Cress Update. Yeah, so AHRA is the African Heritage Reparations Assembly. And they are working on a black census. And they are also going to, I think they would like to do a town-wide survey for community engagement to kind of gauge where people in the community feel about reparations or what they know about reparations. And then they will send it out more specifically to the African-American community of Amherst, a separate one afterwards. So that's pretty exciting. Diversity, equity, inclusion. I think they're getting ready to interview the director for DEI. So that's exciting. And the Cress Director for Community Responders for Equity, Safety, and Service will start on Monday. And I will try to see if he can come to our May meeting just to introduce himself. And you guys can be acquainted with him. Those of you who are in school, Ann Liz, this is being connected with Cress and Wyset and Adama are really good for the families that you know that are in need. And so there is a referral program, which I'll send out the referral that you can refer people to either three of those resources if you feel need and Philip, right? And so I know that the Cress Director is going to go down to the ASC too. So I think four we can skip because we just kind of, I haven't twice. Yeah, then it says other topics. Anybody else want to bring anything up? Yes. When are we going to start meeting in person? I mean, no masks in school. So I understand why it is that we still have to be in the stupid screen. Yes, I think this is this is how we're rolling until April or June. I can't remember. I think it's April and then it can be descended. The other thing that I wanted to talk about is that next, so I think April and then maybe we can have our retreat. So we need to be able to have our retreat at a time where we can be together and if we can't be together in a meeting, I guess we can have a retreat. That makes no sense. Because why is it that I want to mandate to schools but they don't lift a mandate for four or five people to come into a meeting? Okay, seven, but you know. Well, so there's a couple of things about the meeting. That is a different order from the governor that allowed folks to do it this, to have meetings. So I will talk to Paul and see if we can meet in person now that the mask mandate and everything has been lifted a bit because I know council half of them meet in person and half of them do the Zoom. They do a hybrid meeting. I don't know that we could, the benefit for this is we've had a lot more people attend different meetings than we did when they were in person. So there's pros and cons to meeting online versus in person and the hybrid would be the best way to go but I know that that's a little bit unrealistic for the manpower that it requires for all of the board and committees and there's only one room structured and set up to be able to do that and that's the town room. And as we're having this meeting the planning department has a meeting or the zoning board of appeals has one of them have a meeting, you know and so there's just consistent meetings on what, you know every day of the week. So it's hard to get them all to be able to do hybrid. So I will check in with Paul and I will send that in the email tomorrow. Okay, second. New members, aren't we down too? Yes. Including a student? So Ben said, sent an email and said that he was gonna follow back up with the same individuals that he had sent something out to. I think he reached out to Talib and another individual. Okay. I would say maybe you guys in Erica or Liz knows like another adult that's connected with the student population a little more that could suggest a name or two in person meetings. And there was something else I needed to follow up on. You want me to shoot them like admin and email regarding hey, do you have any students that you would want to see in a role of the Human Rights Commission with the Human Rights Commission? Yeah, that'll be good. So next month also too, I'm gonna do a report on complaints. So we've had a couple that have come in for various different things. None of them turn out to actually end up being human. A lot of them turn out to be more like I didn't like that rule, right? But I will give a full listing and report on the Human Rights Complaints next month. I didn't add it, I unfortunately did not add it to this agenda and I think it's too big to talk about under items not discussed. So. Okay. All right, any other items? And then it looks like we are going to adjourn at 748. I make a motion we adjourn today's meeting at 748 p.m. I'll second that. That's the one thing you don't have to make a motion for. Well, we're gonna do it anyways. I know it's a great feeling, right? Sometimes I'd be at non-town meetings, like my hand is raised so high to make any motion or to second it because I never get to do that. There's like power in that, right? I second. Okay guys, that's about it. On my end, have a good night, everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, have a good night.