 Okay, he'll be right back. Go ahead and call the meeting to order. That way we can get out in a good time, and hopefully it doesn't start pouring rain on our way out. But... Pouring rain. Well, worse. Worse than what it is today. Just want to let you all know that we still need volunteers to staff our task force tent at Monday's MLK on Main Street Celebration. This event commemorates Dr. Keene's historic visit to Fort Worth on October 22, 1959, and includes the unveiling of a heritage trail marker. The event will be held from noon to 7 p.m. at Journal of World Square. Rabbi Bloom has agreed to present remarks on the task force behalf during the noon hour. I'd also like to thank Lily Bigans and Travis Boswell for volunteering. We need at least three more volunteers to staff the tent for one hour each at 4, 5, and 6 p.m. Let us know if you can attend, please. We need you there, okay? At this time, I'm going to go ahead and open it up to opening remarks. Lily, you want to start off? I'll start. As I was reviewing the minutes, I realized that there were some things in the minutes that people wanted to add to their recommendations. So I would just ask you to please pay close attention to those and make sure they got picked up. I think they probably all did. But, you know, the one thing that we don't want is to get to the end of this and somebody said we didn't capture what I said. And that's what happens when you don't pay close attention. So the other thing is I was going to say if I sneak out of here in a little bit, it's because I don't drive in the dark, but I wanted to just think about Rick Sanders for bringing me this afternoon. You know, he just scooped me up and bought me on out here. So I want to thank everybody for getting here and what a beautiful asset this is for the city of Fort Worth. So it's really nice and if the weather were better, we could appreciate it a little bit more. But I want to thank everybody for bringing the weather to get here to make this program so we can get the business done. Thank you. Rabbi? Yeah, it's funny that on Saturday in Synagogues all throughout the world, we read about, it was pouring down rain there, we read about the story of Noah and the Ark. So I almost felt like I needed an Ark to get here today. But one of the, an Ark stands for acts of random kindness. I hope that throughout what we're doing, we can become permanently kind in that we find equity for each and every person here. Because kindness starts at home, but kindness has to come from here, not only from words within the paper. So I hope that we not only write and give recommendations, but we also live the recommendations as well. So thank you all for being here. Barbara? I hate to follow him. He's always got one of these stories. He's preacher stories. No, um, no, I just want to also say thank you. It's time it's coming in. Is there a baby here? There is a baby here. Congratulations. Congratulations. I just, again, just echo what other people are saying. This has been a long journey, but it's almost a, that's my, that's my first thing. You know, daylights coming from a long night. Daylights coming. You know, you've all done great work and we've still got a little bit of work to do. But hopefully by the time we get this in the city council, we'll have people on board who are ready to support these recommendations, ready to fight for them if they think they're worthy. And, you know, after we turn it over, we've done our job. I mean, you can all stay involved, of course. And if they decide they want to keep a task force going, you're welcome to be honest without me. Tell us how you feel. No, it's been good enough. I'm proud of what we've done. Just ready to see it through. Thanks a lot. All right. You did good. You did good. You did that good. The next thing on our agenda is the approval of minutes from our September 24th meeting. Has everyone had a chance to review that? Move approval. Second? Second. All in favor? All in favor? All those have it. Summary of public comments and draft recommendations, Michelle. I gave everybody a handout that has the comments that we've gotten, both from the public meeting and from emails. So I apologize for not getting that sooner, but people were still sending it to me this morning. So I've also included along with the public comments a statement that we got from United Fort Worth and a memo that we got from the City of Fort Worth Diversity and Inclusion Committee with their comments on the recommendations. I do have a few more people who've said they're going to send comments who have not, and I know there are some committees that took notes that if you want to share those with me, I can put those all in one document. And as I get additional comments, I can send them to people just so that you know what other people are saying, but this is what I have to date. You know that you may not have had enough time to digest all these comments. So I talked to Fernando a little bit earlier and sorry to talk to the co-chairs about this, but a thought was that we review these based on the recommendations of each of our committees. So that way we can see if there's any amendments or revisions that need to happen with our recommendations. But we want to put a deadline on there because we want to keep to our schedule so that we could say that to give us the time to do that so that our committees can meet at least one more time to review any comments. Some of the comments may change, some of them are recommendations, some may not, we don't know. But the deadline would be October the 31st to get any revisions and so forth back because we do need to get to where we can put a final together. So that's one process that we wanted to discuss, but we do want to review any of the comments if anybody has any questions or so forth. Charles. Okay, so I was able to read this afternoon. So the document we got from United Four Wars, one of my questions about the second page of their document they said, favoritism was exercised. What they're saying is they were not afforded an opportunity to address us. And they cite some examples of other people like the bar owners on West Side Street. We all know why those things were done. But is that an accurate statement on their part that they requested to address us and were denied that opportunity? I mean, obviously we have these comments now, but... They did send in a request. And as co-chairs, we viewed that at that time it wasn't, you know, something that we were, because we already had all these other individuals and departments to come and visit with us. And basically city departments in the county, you know, that came to visit it with us. And really came to us basically because the 3E, and I've already written their 3E plan, way prior to what happened with the... Sorry, I don't remember what you're leading. Craig, just Craig, before that Craig incident. And I guess, in addition, we had plenty of other avenues for input, right? Yes, exactly. We had town halls. We had town halls. We had conversations. We had any comments which we now have. And Charles, my recollection was that they and some others wanted to make sure there would be citizens voices heard at our meetings that we had decided that people could listen and they could express themselves at any of these public meetings that we had. But at this meeting, we would not have a citizens presentation like they do at City Council because we just didn't have enough time, number one, to do that. But they had access to the online comments. They had access to any of the community conversations. And as far as I know, nobody would shut up. And they showed up with signs to protest which they were allowed to do without any inference that I don't have, right? Let's also, unfortunately, they asked for a meeting with us after they publicly slandered us at an open mic at the council meetings. So you're not going to slander someone. I can tell you personally, I had to go look up in the dictionary what they called me. But they went out and slandered us publicly and then asked for a meeting. So sometimes, you know, it would have been easier had they said we wanted dialogue instead of we wanted... Well, they're not the only group that we didn't meet with that asked. There's still much time we could have to meet with them. But also, some of the concerns that they raised, we've addressed in here, right? Some of it's not even under our burden. Right. I appreciate the answer. The only thing I will mention not related to this, but at one of the open houses that I attended, which was full of the A's Army piece, there were at least like four members of the Human Relations Commission who were there because they had met the same night. But two of them specifically asked, and I'll ask you because I haven't reviewed everything, they didn't think that we were addressing the LGBT community specifically in terms of general justice and overall in our recommendations. And I told them that there was representation, obviously in those discussions that come up. And as far as I was concerned, those issues were addressed. But I don't know how specific any of those issues were. So, and they said there were... And they made me listen to it, but they said they were going to sit down. We did have a few comments that were addressing LGBT and then also there were quite a few comments about the people with mobility. Oh, yeah. Can we answer the comments from the ADA that we met with? Yeah. So, those are in the comments that we have. Okay. So there again, one of the things that we could do is look at all these comments that have been made so that the committees could go back and revisit to ensure that, you know, we have touched on those, you know, any of these comments or if we need to revise any of our recommendations. Well, if y'all want to read them all now and then we'll talk about them after. We'll do it later. So, Michelle, do you have anything else you want to say? No, I am... The top page shows you the participation and the comments that we got. So, obviously we would have liked more. Michelle, I want to publicly say that I wish the great job that you did with setting these meetings up and the organization, the structure, and just so well done. And I think that, well, I know from the conversations that I've had with several people, people really appreciated the amount of work that you and your team put into preparing for this and how succinct everything was laid out so it was easy to understand. And I especially got comments about how the committees were laid out so you had an opportunity to seek information on whatever committee it was that whatever issue it was that you wanted additional information on, just very well done. And I think all of you who came out to help to staff some of that, it was great that all of them were very well done. So as you suggest, as you outlined here for us, a lot of people didn't come and I would hope that it's because we've been so public with the information and the posting of everything that we've done. So I'm hoping that people got their needs met and then the document you sent out today I've read all of that. And so additional comments are here. Thank you for a great job. I will say that one thing we did in addition to the emails that we spent and the organizations that we reached out to to get participation in the meetings, we also on social media did paid advertising which we don't typically do for a city I never do it so. But to try and get more interest and actually the one post where we shared the video when we did that paid post, it was actually shared and clicked through for 249 times which was a very good response and so that's why I was hoping that would equal more people coming to the meetings but like Lilly said, maybe they got their questions answered by looking at the stuff online or maybe they did email their comments in. I'd like to say the last one I attended was at Diamond Hill and we had very few citizens who showed up but I wasn't expecting a lot of people to show up at these meetings because most of the people we had something to say had said it. That the town halls or the community conversation or whatever. So I wasn't disappointed that some of these we didn't have a lot of people showing up because I feel like this indicates that people were engaged and we made an effort to get them engaged so and they'll have time to comment to the city council if they don't like what we did or if they do. So I was very pleased and Michelle did a great job. Any questions on Michelle? So Fernando, can you talk to us about revising recommendation and authorization for a final report? If we're going to... I understand that the task force may wish to meditate a motion calling on each of the committees to meet at least once more between now and October 31 to review the respected committee recommendations in response to various comments that we received through the public meetings and through the website. It may be good to take most of that effect and to refer to the appropriate drafts of the recommendations that will be the basis for that review and toward that end I would suggest that the task force consider endorsing the latest draft the October 10th draft you will recall that you endured the previous draft and you're meeting on September 24th subsequently the co-chairs have met and have spoken with the chair of criminal justice. The only significant change between the September 24th draft which you previously discussed in the October 10th draft is a change in criminal justice recommendation number one which is entitled civilian oversight of police department and essentially the change deals with the recommendation calling for consideration of multiple models of civilian oversight including the civilian review board but also including what is commonly called the investigative model it was commonly called the monitor model the idea is to rely upon the city manager in cooperation with various interest groups to determine what model or combination of models is most appropriate for Fort Worth and not attempting to prescribe the details to the city manager in the task force recommendation so that's the major difference we've also reinsert the request of co-chairs arrest data as one of the criteria for measuring progress in respect to civilian oversight so those are the significant changes between the September 24th version and the October 10th version and so if we're asking the committees to review these recommendations again in respect to the comments it may be advisable to refer to the appropriate version in your motion we can just I'll just call you you know I think I would even mess up I know it was sent down to me last week I didn't have the opportunity to provide you with my comments to say and not to make that an excuse but I personally and I don't want to speak for court or the rest of the criminal justice committee but it's hard for me to really I really try my best to get behind the new proposed civilian oversight and the troubling part for me is that it didn't come from us it came from the city manager's office it is not what our committee had proposed it is something that essentially it's a name call report that's put into our recommendation it's not the work that we spent almost a year and a half doing if I knew at the end of coming November when it was time to submit our recommendation I was going to be giving a recommendation that the city manager's office I probably would not have wasted so much time and effort going forth with this effort we all agree that there needs to be some form of civilian oversight whether that is the citizen review board whether that's an investigative model to be determined but I feel more comfortable again not speaking from the full criminal justice committee in court more than willing to speak for itself but I feel more comfortable going forth with the recommendation that we've submitted and if the city manager decides or the city council decides okay let's take this approach then so be it but I think going ahead and pretty much submitting a watered down recommendation this makes us look weak and it gives a bad impression that the city put their thumb on the scale and we don't want that this is what we recommend and the city decides this is what we're going to go with so be it but what actually came out of here is what we actually gave is what needs to be in court I personally once again it's it has nothing to do with me or any of us here it has to do with all of us I actually think that a new recommendation how it's been formed I actually think it's stronger than the older one why because I think it has much more in my view once again because it has much more of a chance of mixing and matching in order to get what needs to be done I feel that the old recommendation it's either a yes or no you accept it or you don't accept it it's black and white I was trying to embrace a little of the gray so there's a way to make something work I don't see how the original one is going to allow it to work so you're going to be accepted or rejected here with this it could be a civilian review board it might come out like that or it might come out another possible if the first one is rejected what impudence is there for the city council or anyone else to come up with another one my burden is on the city council to come up with something but what we said if I said ABCDEFG that's what I said I didn't say one two three four five I said ABCDEFG and that's what we recommend we didn't come back and say okay well they said ABCDEFG but how about one two three four five you know that's never what we say it these are recommendations the city does not have to take them it's on them we're not saying do it or don't do it this is a recommendation now you take that and you enhance it or you use it as a springboard to come up with something so it's not a take it or leave it you get the law a day hollow take it or leave it now it's not that it's what you think this is what we came up with and we're done that's the recommendation there is not old recommendation it's the only recommendation from the criminal justice community that's the there's not an old one there's not a new one there's only one that's the one that we spend time on if it like you said Reva if it turns out it ends up being that let it end up being that but don't come and say we saw it but that's not what we're done with we think this is a recommendation if that's the recommendation one of them should have been on the committee that's my point we said one, two, three, four, five not ABCDFG yeah I I think we should submit the following I definitely I was under the impression for some reason the tie was in on the discussion I was in the discussion and we submitted but then the most recent one that came up last week I did a black line of I think I had maybe 20 words that was left in the one that we had worked on and you know I'm all for cohesiveness all are working together but I think there's a difference when we're working together pushing out a product versus being told what our product is I totally agree with you and I also was saying that when I heard that your recommendations came up that the city manager's office was already thinking about something regarding some kind of disability review I was encouraged by that and thought hey maybe we're all on the same wave but I didn't know without a doubt because we appointed you chair and you remember this committee to go with whatever you suggest and as I said many times in this group when we've been told that certain things will be dead on arrival that it was not our decision to abort it before it got there but they were going to kill it, let them kill it exactly and so I'm supporting you I would agree that we want something to happen but I want to make sure that the record is clear and the minutes reflected accurately I'm not saying the city manager's office approach is wrong or that correcting that all free versions of which one is the best one to be implemented that's the wrong way of doing it that's not what I'm saying I'm just saying that I think the recommendation that we submit that comes out of our task or should be a product that we actually uses the information that was provided to enhance the original with the data points but I think the ultimate recommendation just my personal viewpoint I know it's up to the co-chairs and the rest of the bodies it's up to all of us let's respond to all of them now what about that recommendation that you worked on with I just went out with Valerie sorry that recommendation that you worked on with now what's the difference in it the action items of one of the things that actually take place it is one thing and actually doesn't mean he's saying that she's one of 11 members or one that we discussed with Valerie Valerie you're here to feel very corrected it was still having the action items with that citizen review board but also evaluating other options that made the enemy better suited but also in the complaints intake as well the new recommendation we're just going to do a lot of research and do diligence before we move forward my theory is we'll move forward with the audit or monitor role but then our review board would be the police chief's advisory board and I think that would be a disservice to I think that would be a disservice to the city and it's not just that I'm saying you have to start somewhere and that's the suggestion, that's the start but I think it would be doing us every one of the services like this is what we came up with what this speaks to is the integrity of the process I mean as the chair of one of the subcommittees I find this discussion a little alarming we set forth a process that we all agreed on to follow and I think what Ty's speaking to is the integrity of that process that our work product we put forward is a product of that process I just think it's important for all the rest of us who are feeling less fraught subjects in criminal justice perhaps but equally important and whatever we've sent up, what we said and whatever it transformed or trans-morbidized into after the fact that's what we thank you guys so again we can still go back and modify we're going to send a new thing if necessary that reflects the suggestions from the city manager's office as well as our previous one it's time off work for the next two weeks I can finally get that scene you're working you're going to have baby duty you're going to have baby duty look at this is there I mean we've said this is there any way to include something that says however the city manager's office has come up with these ideas to go to get or understand as based on your committee I can tell you what I'm thinking that's going to be what I was personally thinking is when we submit our original recommendation and maybe finding somewhere that city manager's office has suggested approaching this particular recommendation in XYZ way or just so it's out there okay this is a setup or a recommendation or a model of what is already being developed and thought by the city manager's office incorporated into our recommendation if that's what it is that's what I was going to say you would just need to incorporate that to Katie's point though I want to make sure that we all understand that there are no flaws with the integrity of the process we've left it to the committees to put together what they have recommended yes we have the responsibility to look at those and make sure that they meet the criteria for being measurable and then actionable so we've done that Ty though we know what the hotspots are this is one of the hottest spots of our work because this is the one that drove the whole process the whole point of the task so what I think we got lost in a little bit if we are lost and I don't totally agree with that is when we tried to take what everybody felt about it and towards Smith of a little bit and then to give credit for what's already been done what's already in process and I think we kind of maybe got lost in that but certainly the integrity of the process from all six of committees now what's 7 7 it's not lost we've recommended all the notes you've come here and I started my presentation earlier today with my comments with make sure you look at the minutes because some of you had some concerns with what was captured in the minutes well if you ever take the minutes you know that's always a possibility of losing something and capturing everything but I cautioned everybody make sure what you said last time got picked up in these minutes because it's all about the last thing we want to have happen is for us to feel like we have a flawed process because we've been so transparent and everybody's been so upfront we definitely don't want to get to the end of this process and feel like somebody's been betrayed and if I can you know I want to speak on one thing our four co-chairs we've had a very direct and open bond of communication throughout this modification of that particular recommendation we have communicated it's just unfortunately I wasn't able to voice my concerns as requested by last week so this was the only form that I had the opportunity to much more important than anything else that goes on but I know we're in a public setting and I want it to be construed that I'm saying that anything that comes back and it's been very transparent and open about the discussions regarding this particular recommendation as well as what Fernanda as well as the city manager's office as well so I don't want to make sure I just make that clear what I heard you say was the final document really didn't capture because Bob put some takes that have taken place within the meetings that took place so what you need to do is just make sure that it captures and again we can get those by October 31st that is the dry dead day that's the dry dead day we don't want to get it in we don't want to lose some time the co-chairs will meet on October the November the 5th it's our next meeting and that's why we're asking for all the recommendations to come back by October the 31st and then we as next task force will come again and meet on November the 19th November 12th November the 12th back at Botanic Gardens we've been following meetings and I'm sorry I can show you something yes so we just we're almost done done a lot of stuff right yeah exactly as a matter of record it's important to entertain a motion asking the committee to meet again and making a reference to the September 24th at the version of that we'll consider model do we hear a motion second all in favor we'll get that see no right by balloon a response to the written and final question yes I will first start by saying everyone has the right to free speech even speech that we may not like or agree with we still believe everyone has that right to free speech however there are certain things that are put up that whether they be bigoted whether they be racist however we see it are inappropriate and we know that the signs the flyers that went up and what was written above the bridge goes against equity goes against the building of a community I think I said in the first meeting that the word shalom peace which is for all of us is made up of the root of the word unity so I think for us we need to make a statement of unification one condemning that hateful language and the flyers two talking about education what to do and three talking about unification as a city saying we reject such language under tab three there is a draft there's a draft in tab three we've been working on this for the better part of the week now so I would hope that we are a task force on the race and culture it's up to all of us to make a statement and someone threatens the race culture, religion anything else it may be in terms of our city so I think it's very important that we go on the record doing this I know I did it for my community and for myself immediately after it happened and this is our first time together so I think we should do this as a group as well and then Angie do you want to let everyone know because the HRC met this morning at 7.30 there was an email sentence we could update everybody on that HRC met at 7.30 a.m. to discuss the incident they did vote on a statement very very similar in the structure of the race and culture proposed they also had asked staff to bring back they want to do some proactive community building activities such as hosting a movies that matter special screening on hate crime and possibly having a discussion afterwards they also want to consider becoming a gold star city as part of not in our town and I can send a link out to the task force with that information but there are certain steps that have to be completed for that to happen which includes community involvement and collaborations to work together to build strong communities so we staff will be bringing that very specific recommendations to the commission at their 5th 5th meeting I believe there are no 5th regular scheduled commission meeting so in summary that's what happened and also please be very gracious to be learning into their questions and you also talked about hostages of community forums yes absolutely is everybody aware of what happened everybody is because explain what happened there was a banner of the 3rd 5 on one of the bridges that talks about immigrants to leave for all immigrants to leave and then there was flyers on ticker tickers and so forth on bottom line and so forth now the bridge not the city on bridge but somebody took the flyer off and of course they got posted they took it off and so forth and this is sort of an education component that we can work on now to let people know when they do see any of that type of information out to call the police so the report can be made but the police can take it down if they have taken it down go ahead and still call the police they can follow it can we just get some clarification of what the police does they take the banner down the police weren't the ones they took it down who wasn't the one speaking to the police I'm just curious when you get that referred to you what do you do with it well we also recognize the freedom of the first amendment and for us we do have a city ordinance that basically violates anybody putting banners, flyers, stickers on city or public property and so we're able to enforce that city ordinance it's only a classy misdemeanor but nonetheless it gives us at least some leverage point to do something with people putting those type of flyers around our city if it's on city property the abandoned sign ordinance is that kind of what it falls over? not abandoned signs it's actually placing itself on city property or public property I just have one comment I have no disagreement with the state in dealing with such language of action at the same time as one little victim aggressive and somebody minority group of people sometimes you bring more attention to them by reacting to them than you do by ignoring them it seems that we haven't ignored them so it should be a statement maybe the public thing how much other stuff you do to me it gives them more credit than they deserve but that's that's me the commission was very cognizant of that so they specifically made a point not to mention the group at all and that the actions they want to take are actions that are good actions for the city and we can teach them Jenna? I have a couple questions about it in response to our presenter's comment I would say that without I agree that we don't want to specify and bring attention to that particular group but I think we also have a responsibility to communicate to our citizens our community that we are in support of them and that we don't support this community and that our silence could be construed as a difference after they are not caring for us and I think some of that is why we are even here today a year later doing this work and so I'm an advocate of issuing a statement I don't think that this is an opportunity I think this is an opportunity where you can err on the side of overcommunication and issue statements mayor and council could issue statements because if we really are trying to be one for work I don't think I'm sorry or a bold star city or a passionate city or a welcoming city or any of those things I don't think we can under every group in our community in our city that's not what we want in our city now if it's okay and I understand the borderline of free speech but that's also where I think to your point where I agree with you this is an opportunity to educate what's free speech what's hate activity what's hate crime and so one of the leads into some of my comments about the statement it's more about are there others that are famous besides your relations with us I think one of our open housing services mentioned that the mayor had issued a statement but I don't know if that has happened can we get a copy of that please also just kind of walking through a process maybe FAQs that support this kind of thing it says reports been made what happens and the reason I bring that up is because my understanding is my friend who took down the second banner it was on the bridge and my understanding is she had some trouble we had to really encourage her to call the police even after the fact make a report on emergency number and she was challenged in getting through and then where's the right place for that so I just want to make sure that we are clear of what's that process and then what can citizens expect to happen with that I think what I've seen in my neighborhood why they may be hesitant when they want to bother reporting just rather than take matters in their own hands is because oftentimes you have a break in the neighborhood somebody's car well they left values in sight or the doors were unlocked and I know in some ways that's a needle in the haystack or they still try to address but from a citizen's perspective that kind of falls in the same category I'm reporting but where does it go so I think having some of that be communicated we take advantage of the educational opportunity I think it will work otherwise again line up this task force well and I was going to send my question is there's an emergency number on here to call and I noticed you all had the same number on your statement that the HRC was doing what happens I think they called I know she bothered to answer this question this morning so whenever they call there's two options that they have one is they can follow the floor online they don't necessarily have to have an officer come out we encourage them to have an officer come out because we're able to gather a lot more information and find out where the crime is located making the time frames whenever the sign is put up and it helps us investigate that crime just a little bit more we encourage anyway we also heard this morning maybe the reluctance on the Hispanic community because of the trust factor with the police department and we have different avenues in which you know they can report we have MPOs throughout the city neighborhood patrol officers that work hand in hand with the citizens and they're Spanish speakers we have all different types and they can talk to their MPOs they can talk to the school resource officers we have many many officers around the city that are able to take a report like this what happens after afterwards this report specifically it's assigned to our downtown detective unit our central investigative unit because it's a classy offense it falls within their realm however a copy of that report was given to our homeland security unit because our homeland security unit monitors the Facebook all social media sites in reference to some of these groups and so they keep tabs and keep records on incidents like this as well and it allows you to track and track all of that information if it goes through one portal if it goes through the police department then you have the opportunity to look at the magnitude of the problem is an isolated incident where you can see a tarantula something taken when did it appear three weeks ago there was one last week and then one the week before last week was in late afternoon so I think the woman was on her way home for more so is it in place for the same location I don't think so not in two different locations all the paths to the best there were two apparently I don't know if the first feeder said the same thing it's the second the second fan that I know will take out my friend I want to say the south side the north side the north side the south side I love Jesus or something like that so going back to the statement we know I'm assuming we've got buy-in from everyone or support I'm just going to make an editing statement I would say Fort Worth is a community that is learning to value diversity and inclusion we change our missions we're striving to we're having this discussion in a task force that was set up because we don't have any questions so start us towards diversity one is just the wording in the second paragraph where it says residents reporting any activity that may target a segment of our community and then in the last paragraph the second to the last line it says uphold our values and not allow any segment of our community to target that may target a segment of our community and then it says allow any segment of our community to target the antagonists or the protectors or any one individual to target the individual to target any segment of our community target any segment of our community or not that you get those captured the task force is saying that the statement should be modified in the first sentence, in the first paragraph Fort Worth is a community that strives for well it should agree with what we put in our mission statement well actually it wasn't the mission statement it was the the interim report in which we modified the in some way maybe we just want to be congruent we said at the time the draft that said Fort Worth in its racial and cultural diversity and the task force changed it to read Fort Worth desires to take pride in its racial and cultural diversity so we might want to say here Fort Worth is striving to become a community that values is striving to become a community that values our city Fort Worth is striving to become a city that values diversity includes in the first paragraph we can uphold our values and not allow any individual or group to target any segment of our community those would be the changes that you would consider the appropriate change of motion to this then at this time do y'all hear the revisions we'll accept a motion to accept with the revised comments then that statement will go out on the show send it out so you're going to do a press release or something like that I can and I can put it on our Facebook page the next on our agenda is future meetings Monday November the 12th at the Tannock Gardens and that's where we'll approve the final report and then December the 4th task force presents the final report to city council and we urge you to be there with us as we give that report to council and then on Tuesday December 11th city council will consider a resolution accepting the final report and if any of us can be there again at that meeting then on your calendars closing comments I'll start with Bob Ray tell us how you feel again two things once again congratulations to sarin west clinton elementary do you want to know how important education is for elementary and bringing about for the entirety of the school she can tell you about the medal with the national recognition that you just won yes well our school was recognized as one of america's best urban schools by the national center for urban school transformation and so we traveled to san diego and received our silver medal award one of 18 school donations yay at this time because we are coming close to the end I would ask each of you to make a comment as well about this journey that we've all taken just to hear from you all we just don't have to hear from the board of chairs but we want to hear comments from you all I'll start with you I think when I started I was skeptical can we speak up I'm sorry I was saying that even when I started I was a little skeptical what to expect so what I see through this process is that we've started that conversation in our community and I think that's what has been valuable to me to be able to talk to across the aisle and hear their stories with each other that we're trying to communicate at a level that we can understand just even personally from this whole process that we're listening to or at least starting that process it's been great having the community have the opportunity to have all these conversations but I've also found the process but you went back to the integrity of the process fascinating the fact that we needed all those communities and that we all did need to spend time and delve into policies I think when we first sat down I don't know if we envisioned that it was going to be that kind of work and I know even in my own work I have taken that back to other employers other groups that needs to go back and look at some of their policies you just don't realize how out of date and how some of those things impact things in your organization and then the community that you don't see happening and I think this is just a good exercise and process about the need to look at policies to communicate on a positive side devices all those kinds of things are good for all of us to think about all the time our daily work and in our community work I agree the same work is one city one community one neighborhood one city one county one nation five children four girls one boy and a good racial mix of several years ago I think President Obama was about to be inaugurated Bob Reis had a reporter call me and I didn't know why he said we want to come and you have an interesting family and I didn't know why and it was on the front page it says long hair and green eyes have a son who's skin is this white is yours and blue eyes have a daughter who's white skin long straight hair have one with curly hair it's diverse and on 4th street where we live I told Bob Ray I said I could only imagine what happened on the Judges probably 50 years prior by the KKK what they would think about my family living on 4th street on 4th street so Fort Worth is becoming more progressive and I don't mean liberals or conservatives or anything like that we got to get ahead of the ball and stay ahead and continue to be the one Fort Worth is an enlightening experience I wish everyone in this city would like to tell you why I don't care who it is whatever side you're on if you get in the same room you will come out a little better understanding I kind of want to echo some of the same comments I've been a great experience for me I've enjoyed the journey I really liked the fact that the community was involved throughout the process I think we mentioned earlier the transparency and visibility that was captured and available and so I really look forward to to see what the city looks forward to you started a journey Charles I've appreciated the process I'm proud of the product I have a lot of curiosity about what happens when it gets delivered in every city council but I'm a very optimistic Sarah, since you've been with us such a rush it contributed tremendously What an incredible honor and opportunity to be part of this group I'm just so proud of our city our mayor and city council for being proactive in opening up a can that's sort of painful and definitely uncomfortable and problematic sometimes when they didn't really have to I just so admire that they wanted to go reach into our community into our hearts and minds and hear the pain I feel like acknowledging and giving ear to our pain and our struggle of the marginalized people in our community and the disparities that exist and exposing them that's always the first part of healing is exposing the wind and I really feel like that happened in this process it was just really touching and it created empathy that maybe didn't exist before among different groups and it was really beautiful and just extraordinary and I just feel like the work was really rigorous and academic the research and the time that went into the subcommittee work and the development of recommendations and so it's just a really historic opportunity that our city's taken on and just really proud like Maryam when I was a little hesitant and even throughout the process I had my doubts people were like how's it going but it was kind of the day of the meeting but I think at turning point credit to the co-chairs and I think Fernando's guidance actually was the interim report may I'm still cautiously optimistic like some of my colleagues to see what will happen in December and what will be implemented but the fact that we've gone through this process we've opened up dialogue there's more groups that are talking to them than ever before they know each other there's groups that I was in conversations with that said that they were going to continue networking amongst themselves and so I hope they will and have it and I think this was also a good opportunity for some of our younger generation to speak up and get involved in different ways and have their voices heard because to be honest they're the ones going to be around the show here pretty soon Millennials are the next biggest generation so I'm not in that group but I'm going to be trying to hold on whatever I'm a Gen Xer for sure so again I think it's been painful at times but I think worthwhile so I'm glad to be part of it it's good I felt privileged to be part of this I am I was a little I'm still carrying with me a lot of the pain we heard in some of those town halls and I'm hoping that all of our city leaders are carrying that pain with them I wish we had a little more time to examine things like white privilege because I think that's still a huge issue not talked about enough in this city but like Jennifer I know groups that sort of found each other in this process that are still talking to one another various faith groups various groups within communities I know in the housing subcommittee the staff work was incredibly supported undergirded a lot undergirded our work completely and the research was very our learning curve was very steep and the staff was very rigorous in their work my hope is that when we present this on December 4th which has to be my birthday I'm hoping that we will give this to the city not as a finished product we will hand this to the city is the beginning of a discussion of the beginning of things that can happen where there will be results they will do some of the things that we but I'm hoping that our work will speak into existence the awareness of what is still needed in this city and by having spoken it out loud I mean the rabbi knows the power of the word I mean and we aren't people of the word we speak things out loud until you say it to one another it can't happen and so I'm hoping that we will push some envelopes that we will push some buttons and they will push this city forward well first I'd like to thank the four co-chairs for giving me this opportunity and I don't take it lightly what it means to sit here in the city and occupy you know when I had the opportunity I didn't know what to expect I had a big eye full of hope thinking that we can change the world in one day and you soon learn that that's not possible but it doesn't mean you don't try and I think having the opportunity not only to work alongside everyone and to develop relationships that will go past this task force has been great and also I think the meaningful work in giving it to the community talking to the people from different backgrounds and different socioeconomic statuses has really not only helped me personally suffer from it but it also allowed me to put myself in other people's perspectives you know I think it's important that the work that we have done here doesn't just stop here and I think it's incumbent on our elected officials it's incumbent on our city senior staff and incumbent upon ourselves to not let our work die and you know I believe in order to know where you're going you have to know where you're being and I think we've captured a lot of information a lot of heard a lot of data a lot of great things that are happening within Fort Worth and I think just particular about my particular criminal justice committee it wasn't always the easiest and it wasn't always fun it was quite frankly it was hard balancing my day to day but then also my city to the city the citizens of Fort Worth since I was their voice and to ask the hard questions and have the tough discussions but I think in the end I think not only did I grow a much greater respect for the PD which I already had but I would like to think that I left PD with some relationships that they understood the work that I was doing as well and so I just want to thank you all again for giving me this opportunity and it was in doubt Well I can honestly tell you that in the short time that I had a chance to just integrate what I felt was part of city activity having been working in the city of Fort Worth you think you know some of it because you're always a city council but I was just in the housing department I thought well I pretty first got an idea but once you get in here you realize that you had almost no idea of what in effect is taking place I think from that perspective what you learn is not only just grassroots but also the diversity of Fort Worth as a whole the thoughts, feelings, the expectations even the different theology which I thought was interesting and in the public form there are so many different levels of understanding of what local government is and you realize that you're one of the most fortunate persons in the world here to be able to hear it to be able to be a part of it and to be a part of people so competent as everyone on this board I thought this is the voice of what in effect makes us great and if we can understand what it means it also gives us an idea of what we're called to be as a people, as a city and obviously as a people of different races and cultures and for me I thought that was just indispensable that's the greatest thing that I take with me is understanding that I have a voice and at times I don't see it because I don't understand but also because I don't get involved and the people that did get involved and the people that do are really the ones that understand this from a completely different perspective and to that I just want to thank the Fort Worth and every time I didn't have a question I knew where to go to so somebody would answer and I guess and the competent the competence is one thing but just the willingness to share and be of yourself and the number of people there I thought that was just excellent I just wanted to thank everybody for this wonderful opportunity and I hope it's not the last I really enjoyed this we all heard it we all heard it I heard it well I want to thank you all especially to share those comments because it has been a long road it's been a year and a half but like Katie said this is a product that should just be the beginning because the only way we're going to get better is by continually having this conversation over and over and over again but we don't want to reinvent the wheel to come back 15 years all over again we've got a starting place now and we just need to move forward with that but I also want to thank Fernando and Michelle and Angie and the city staff that has been our liaisons and the people that have had to guide us and I appreciate for making sure that we were always legal so thank you all and you know we're not done and hopefully that this will also engage other people to get involved serve on board to commissions serve for the city, serve on non-profit so that way you can get more engaged and that's how we get better thank you all for being here