 Okay, I have 515, I'll call the meeting order. Sarah, did you want to take attendance or do you have it? There's only three that I haven't seen anything from, so all the person, Betty Ackley, are you online at all? No, Tom Mitchell, are you online? No, and Cole Phillips? All right, everyone else is accounted for. Okay, I just want to remind everyone that in the chamber, if you need to speak tonight, go to the middle microphone. With that, I'll call the meeting to order and stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, to the flag of the Republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Okay, has there been any correspondence, Sarah, other than what you sent out to everyone? Yeah, just that on September 28th, I sent an email to everybody with a copy of the letter from Mayor Zieger from Esslingen, and he was writing that letter in order. Patrick, can you please put yourself on mute? And he was responding to a letter from Mayor Bannerstein. So hopefully everyone got a chance to look at that letter that I emailed out. And that's the only thing that I have. Okay, thank you. Okay, we asked for approval minutes of July 9th, 2020, which Sarah had put on the website and console docs. Okay, Henry, motion approved, or is it second? Caroline, second. All in favor? Opposed? Okay, minutes. Okay, possible donation of international coins from Shoreline Metro. I'll turn this over to Sarah. Okay, so Derek from Shoreline Metro has offered to donate their supply of international coins that they have accumulated. He estimates that there's about $50 worth of Canadian coins and about 100 or so international coins of varying value. So I guess this is open to discussion in terms of if we're interested in taking this donation if there's any thought as to what we may do with international coins, totally open-ended. Okay, okay, got it. Any thoughts? Is it something we would cash in and then make a donation somewhere, take it for us, or just make a collection of them? So any thoughts from homebound or here? Either that or we take them as a donation and keep them and then decide in the future too. So that could be another option. This is Patrick, I don't see why we wouldn't take them. We could always turn them in to any bank and certain banks will take coins and turn them into American cash if we need or whatever we need. Okay, so you wanna make a motion, Patrick? I would say I will make a motion that we accept a donation from the Metro line of the Canadian informed coins that they have collected and maybe we can use them for something in the future. Okay, is there a second? Anna? Okay, any discussion? Hearing none, all in favor? Sixth by saying aye. Aye. Aye. Okay, any noes? Okay, motion carried. Thank you, Sarah. So I think I got a piece of paper at home yet I'll send a thank you to Derek. Okay. So, okay, it looks like, if you saw the letter from the mayor, Segar, that he suggested that we look at a trip in May or sometime in 2022. And so it's open for discussion to see if we wanna start planning for that time. I know it's a way it's off, but yet we don't know what the situation is, but we've planned trips two years ahead already in the past. So what are we thinking about taking up the offer to visit in probably May of 2022? I think he suggested May in there as a possibility. Any thoughts? Mike? Mayor Mike? You should be on. No, there it is. There we go. Well, Mayor Segar generously allowed us to shift our trip back. I mean, right now you can't travel back and forth anyhow. We don't know what the situation's gonna be. And this is at a time when it's really hard to get people interested and go flying anywhere. So I hope that this will give us enough time that we'll get our vaccines and things will get back to normal. And we can hopefully get a robust delegation to make the trip over there. Any other comments? So I'm open to making that a formal motion to plan a trip for then, or we can just keep it on the table and as we move forward or to accept the, maybe to accept the invitation. Anyone? I'll make a motion that we accept the invitation. Okay, Patrick made the motion to accept the invitation. Is there a second? Second. Okay, got a second here. Okay, any continued discussion on this? Carolyn? Rich, can you, can you, Rich? Hold on, your mic's not on, hold on. Rich, you got to turn your mic on. Up on top, middle, yep. Oh, no, it's off again. Carolyn, can you pull it down? There you go. We're gonna proceed with this. I don't think we can really do anything until probably April or May of 2021. And that's when that subcommittee could probably contact Discovery and see what we can do. Because hopefully the COVID virus will be, hopefully slowing down. Maybe we could just, I mean, give them my heads up and say, put this on your memory bank that when things open up, we'll be contacting you. So any other comments or discussion? Hearing none, all in favor of the motion to accept the invitation from Mayor Sigur and Esslingen for May of 2022, signify, say an aye. Aye. Okay, any opposed at this time? Okay, motion carried. So is this something we can draft a letter or note to them saying, we'll accept their invitation pending life. So, okay, next thing in agenda, it's kind of an idea that I came up with. We're kind of in a lull right now. And we are the Mayor's International Committee and I know we promote our Esslingen partners and Sobami, but I thought it'd be kind of neat to kind of highlight the other organizations in the city that have international relationships and put it on our website or if we want to put it in the city newsletter or just kind of promote them and use this time as our committee, because we don't have a lot of, the only time we get any really press is right before when we come back from a trip. And I like to see this as a more of an ongoing thing that we're promoting. Like I know Mayor Mike, you have a good relationship with some of the mayors in Canada through your organization. That's something that hiled. I know one of the churches has had a long 20 year relationship with El Salvador, they support students, they visit. So now I'm not talking about companies or businesses, I'm talking more about, organization churches, whatever, to that. And I thought maybe we could use that to kind of promote that. So I'm throwing that out as an idea. I mean, I'd certainly chair it and it would come through me and I talked to Sarah. We do have our website that, I'm not website, Facebook page, that from Essing and Fests that turn over to Mayor's International Committee. So this will keep our name in the front of things and then when we have our next fundraising, maybe more people will know who's doing this. Cause we do, I don't know about you, but it's like people to people and Mayor's International Committee, oh, you're on that, what do they do? And maybe this is a way to keep them out there. What do we do? So what are your thoughts on that? Rich, do you know, is there any type of resource that lists or a list of all of the organizations that do have international ties? I don't know if there is, but I certainly, I might be able to go to the chamber and see they might have that information because there's a lot of groups that are part of the chamber, like nonprofits and stuff already that are part. So I'll contact them and check that out, see if they have a listing of those. We have partnerships, you know, I know Rotary May and International may have, I mean, Optimist may have organizations and stuff like that. I know we as Kiwanis we do, so I think that's just something to promote what that we're not just, that Sheboygan has more tentacles out in the world than a lot of people think we do. So can I get a thumbs up on that? So we're going for a thumbs up instead of a motion? Make a motion. Yeah, yeah, we'll just, we'll do it. I'll bring back, maybe I'll show an example. I mean, we'll put something in and do it next month and if we wanna formalize something along the way, we can, so, okay, thanks. We have two foreign exchange students that are here and we need some hot way to get gift bags to them, right, Sarah? Yes, so I reached out to the area high schools that I normally reach out to every year with regard to when we're planning our high school exchange student dinner and just to see, does anybody have any foreign exchange students? Well, South and Christian do not. North High has won. His name is Felix and he's from Germany and Lutheran has won. His name is Yunhu Park. He's from South Korea and he's in a continuing exchange program because he was also here in 2019 and 2018, although he was not able to go to either one of our dinners those years because he had a schedule conflict with a soccer banquet that happened at the same time. So he did receive the gift bags that we assembled. So he got the same thing that everyone got in previous years. His host family came to pick it up from City Hall. So if we were to consider putting together some sort of gift bag or something for Yunhu and for Felix, we might wanna change it up a little bit because Yunhu has received what we did in the past. It'd be nice if we could maybe see if they might be able to coincide giving them those gifts with maybe a future meeting of our group. And Felix is the exchange student from Estlingen. Right, that's what I thought, Mike, maybe at their next meeting because we would have had it in November anyways. So thoughts on that? Just to, can you speak in the room? Oh, go ahead. I was just gonna, you know, we spend quite a bit of money when we do that pizza dinner and everything. What would you think if the chair, the mayor, would take those students out for a dinner or something? Would that be something that would be? No, no, I don't think that's a good idea. Nope. No. We could purchase some pizza coupons for them so they could go on their own. Yeah, I mean, we have the funds available to kind of do whatever we want. So I guess it would be a matter of if there was someone in specific who would be interested in kind of spearheading, just put it together, make it happen. That's not a question. What kinds of things have been put in the gift baskets in past years just to get a sense of how we might think differently about that this year? Well, we have t-shirts, sunglasses, water bottles. You're all city logo items. Yeah, all city logo items, essentially, and they're in a canvas city bag. So, you know, we were handing out what, 20 or so of them at a time. So it wasn't a ton of stuff, but now we only have two people. So we can kind of maybe ramp it up a bit and make it a little nicer. We could put a couple of Subami birds in there. I mean, and I'm not saying it to be funny, but I mean, because it is part of our other sister city to show, you know. Oh, the printed, the 30-pinted cranes? Yeah, the cranes, yeah. I forgot what they were. I know they're birds. The cranes, the cranes. The cranes, yeah. What's that? Well, that's kind of why I'm throwing it out here that maybe someone could just opt to take the lead on this and just make it happen. That's kind of why I'm throwing this out here. I don't know that our group has to thoroughly discuss every single little thing. Just make someone kind of the lead on this project and make it happen. Is there a, would there be a suggested cost limit? I know some of the gifts are already here, but, right? Oh yeah, I mean, we've still got all those logo items. But again, you know, Yunhu has already received those things and maybe those things we would give to Felix, but maybe whatever the other things are, there are maybe a little bit more value. Is there anyone out there or in here that would be willing to head that up? Well, first of all, should we do it? Okay, we should do it. Now we need someone to head it up. Well, I guess it dies from a lack of interest. So, pardon? Sarah, aren't most of the items here? Well, if we're just talking about the logo items, yes. But I think, as we were saying, we want to kind of go above and beyond because there's only two people there. You know, we're not having a dinner with all the stuff. And that's why it really could be a person can take this and make this as much out of this as they want to. Yeah, I don't think it should be a dead item. I just, I'm not sure what we should all put in there besides the city items and some pizza certificates. I'm not sure. I think I'd have to think about that. Maybe some other folks could maybe email you too if they think of something else. Well, that's why I'm saying I think one person should take a lead on it and I'm not volunteering to do that. Right. One person should take the lead on that and I will happily supply the logo items, but it's the whole concept of the what else. Yeah, I'm not real creative. I don't have a good imagination. I'm probably not the right one. I don't think it's got anything to do with imagination. It's just someone collected. It's need someone to collect the items and put together the gift bags. Yeah. Anything that- I'm gonna do it. Okay. It's in brainstorming. Okay, thank you. I appreciate that. Okay, so we're gonna go forward with the gift bags and- Okay, so Annie will take the lead. I will certainly help you. Yes? Okay. Thank you. Uh-huh. And then I will extend an invitation to those two to attend our November meeting to receive them. Okay. And if that's not doable, then I guess we'll figure something else out, but that'll be what I'll do. Right. Okay, thank you. This has been on the agenda before. Now that we know that we will be attempting to go to Essingen, we did not ever Essingen Fest this year. We didn't have many other opportunities. We thought about having a broad fry, which would have been coming this, and Essingen Fest is coming Sunday, which we're not having. So, I haven't heard much other than from Mark and Shar in the past about things that we could do. I think we, you know, we got to start thinking about some kind of fundraising, whether it's an online auction, I'm just throwing these out. I know other non-profits are starting to do online activities. You know, we do have an older group here, and I know a lot of us don't want to necessarily do a person-to-person broad fry because of that, but I'm not looking for complete answers, but I think we need to start thinking about some other fundraising options. And it got any thoughts out there? Patrick, you're pretty smart in this area. You're the only one that's got the video on, so that's why I picked on you. Give Pat some tickets, he can sell them. I have to share their videos so you guys can see each other. At the top of my head, I do not have any great ideas. I think we need to get through a mess that we're in right now and hopefully we figure something out. Okay. Maybe we do something early spring instead of a broad fry in spring instead of in fall to raise some money or, you know, I think a broad fry is an easy way to make money. I don't think an online auction, I don't know what we would have to sell. Hey, Rich, when does people-to-people usually have their broad fry? That's March? In March, yeah. And we haven't met, so I don't know what our future of our broad fry is this year. It's a lot going to depend on, you know, everything else, so. I have a couple of ideas. I have a couple of ideas. Go ahead, Mark. You know, one of the reasons we're not at the meeting is we're social distancing. We're going to continue to social distance until probably Memorial Day weekend, more than likely. I don't see anything happening anywhere in the near future. First of all, about a third of the people will refuse to get a vaccination anyways. So this ain't going to go away anytime soon. I think if you want to do something online, fine, if you want to do something in person, I'm not interested. We've given up. Not until May. Yeah, not until May. May or June. If we would do something. Okay, well, that's very legitimate and I have some of the same feelings, but Ann? Yeah, I definitely share concerns about needing to social distance for a while from now as well. And so some of the ideas that come up in my mind that are things that maybe we could do to allow people to still socially distance are some kind of like drive through type way to show the arts, like, you know, there are a lot of great artists and musicians and things like that here in Sheboygan. And so we could have, I don't know where we would do this, but have something like have different art pieces in a place a little bit maybe similar to the holiday lights in Evergreen Park where, you know, you go and you drive through and you can go with your family and your vehicle, but you really don't need to leave your vehicle to enjoy the experience. So maybe there's some kind of, some other kind of arts thing that we could do that would highlight people's international heritage or something, you know, like maybe there are, I don't know, paintings or other kinds of like visual arts that people would like to share that might reflect something international or that was inspired by something that's internationally related that we could do in some kind of similar way where maybe we could actually even Evergreen Park maybe in a different time of year than when the light show is or, you know, some spot where that's easy to drive through and drive through slowly. Maybe we could set something up so that people can, you know, still socially distance in their vehicles but still experience something. So I don't know what that would look like, but I just, I do think there are some opportunities that we could, where we could be creative in this kind of way to still kind of keep something international in but also, you know, ask for donations on the entrance or something like that to fundraise a little bit and also to keep spirits up in these difficult times. Okay, thanks. Yeah, I think, you know, just, you know, if you have ideas that send them to me or to Sarah, she'll get them to me and think about that. And I think part of the reason I wanted to do that, promoting other organizations that have interest relationships, you know, maybe we can get a little partnership or something like that and maybe we can get some ideas off of them. And as Annie was talking, that kind of got me thinking about how we can have the international aspect to something that would be, you know, people staying in their car and driving around, perhaps a scavenger hunt type of thing. There's lots of landmarks around the area that we could try to get people like, hey, go out to this spot, like Essling and Park. Go there and learn about whatever. And if that's just an awareness campaign or if we can somehow tie a monetary thing to it, that part we'd have to figure out, but. Yeah, I did that with my students at Teller Academy. I had them a city scavenger hunt. So I had them running all over town to figure out the old landmarks. So that is very doable. Yeah, good idea. Okay, thanks. Okay, well, just keep them coming. I mean, you know, we got to, you know, I know this is a tough time, but we got to, I just don't want to see this commission committee kind of fade away. We got stuff to do. So, okay. And the last one is Sabami's sister relationship. We were waiting for a letter to be drafted and I've not seen it yet and I have a difficult time getting in contact with the person who is going to do it. So therefore that keeps kind of on a back burner. The only other thing if we could find someone else who does understand and know Japanese and could maybe draft something for us. So any other business that come before this committee? Hearing none, I will entertain a motion for adjournment. Okay, Henry to adjourn. Is there a second? Second. Okay. Okay, we got four seconds. Very good. So, okay. All in favor signify by aye. Aye. Any opposition? Aye. Okay. Thank you very much. First Thursday in November is our next meeting and hopefully we can have either present just for a little bit our two foreign students from in Shibuya. Thanks a lot.