 After acknowledging compliance with all FOIA rules that we have followed, I would ask for the clerk to call the roll. Okay, Melissa and I am able to verify that the meeting was advertised in accordance with the South Carolina Freedom of Information Act. At this time, I will call the roll. Ms. Teresa Wilson. President. Ms. Melissa Gentry. I think she's on mute. Missy, I think you may be on mute. President. Mr. Ryan Coleman. President. Thank you. With those members present, I think we've established a quorum. Am I correct, ma'am? Yes ma'am. Okay, and we'll move into our new business. The first item being the adoption of the Articles of Incorporation approval of the bylaws and other matters relating to the organization of the Columbia Community Investment Fund. I forbid you those, Mr. Season and Mr. Norris. So at this time, do we need a motion to adopt those Articles of Incorporation bylaws? Yes, that'd be appropriate. And this is Brandon. Just to be clear, this would be the approval not only of the articles which have already been filed, but in the bylaws as you noted, but also several other actions that are listed in the prepared resolutions that you have before you. So that would include Ms. Wilson approval of your waiver of sole incorporator, you know, waiver of notice of this meeting, the election of the officers, which Ms. Wilson would be president in your capacity as city manager. Ms. Gentry would be vice president and her capacity as assistant city manager for development. And Ryan Coleman would be secretary treasurer, his capacity as economic development director. To adopt a fiscal year of July 1 through June 30. To authorize steps needed to apply for an employer identification number. To authorize generally the opening of a bank account, obtaining insurance, and to ratify actions of officers of the corporation prior to this date to the extent any have been taken. And to sort of authorize any other steps needed to finalize the organization of the corporation. Thank you, Brandon. Thank you for your motion. I'll make a motion to accept. Thank you, Missy. The second. Second. Any discussion. Okay, seeing none. Madam Clark. Call the roll. Mr. Wilson. Aye. Ms. Gentry. Aye. Mr. Coleman. Aye. Thank you. Thank you. And item two authorization to submit application for recognition of exemption under section 501 C3 of the internal revenue code to the internal revenue service. Brandon, is there any explanation here you need to give. There's a Jeff Allen on the phone as well. Jeff, are you there? I'm here. This is Jeff Allen, Mr. Wilson, and he helps and really guides our clients through this application process. I'm going to step to the side and let him explain this. Okay. So this is an authorization to file a form 1023 with the internal revenue service, which is the form that is required to be out from organization be recognized as a 501 C3 organization. It's a form that we would work and help you all prepare and get filed relatively quickly. As part of making sure the organization's in good shape for providing for CD status. Okay. Thank you for that. Jeff. With that said, is there a motion. I'll make a motion to approve. And a second. Second. Any discussion. Thanks. Seeing none, the clerk will call the roll. Mr. Wilson. Aye. Mr. Gentry. Aye. Mr. Coleman. Aye. Thank you. Okay. Item three authorization to submit application for recognition of community development entity status to the community development financial institutions fund of the United States department of the Treasury, the CDFI fund. Brandon, you want to take us through this item. Sure, it's a relatively simple application to complete and that and Jonathan, I would say feel free to jump in here if you've got any thoughts or can provide some color but the. It's it's maybe the first step in a series of steps that are needed to apply for new markets tax credits allocation. Only CDEs can apply for that allocation and so it's just we're asking the CDFI fund to recognize you this entity as a CDE under the new markets program. Brandon's exactly right it is overwhelmingly perfunctory. I can think of two sort of substantive aspects of it. One is that we are for the first time being asked to identify our service area. That's a topic Missy and we have been discussing and we'll confirm that decision before making that application. Second, we are required to identify at least several of our accountable board members to show that we meet the statutory requirement for being accountable to low income communities. There are some implications for getting at least several of our advisory board members approved ahead of making that application. Other than that it's really just identifying who we are, and I expect that that certification application will be due about two weeks after the NOAA the notice of allocation authority comes out, and the industry is literally on day to day notice at this point we think the NOAA could come out, you know, any day now so that gives you a sense of timing. Excellent. So with that I would ask for a motion to submit application for recognition of the Columbia Community Investment Fund as a CDFI entity or with that status. I'll make that motion. A second. Second. Thank you any further discussion. Seeing none, Erica. Ms. Wilson decided to call the roll. Miss Wilson. Oh, I'm sorry I miss entry. Mr Coleman. Thank you. Michael Brandon Jonathan we're not usually on this side of the, you know, call and making the motions right. Okay, you're doing a great job. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Any other business that we need to take up gentlemen. If permitted, I would just make a couple of housekeeping comments. Okay. Go right ahead. Great. While I've got Michael and Brandon on the call. Guys, do we were we able to pull an EIN number? That's a, that's a prerequisite to getting that Amos certification completed. I don't know if you have any questions for us. I don't know. I don't know if we have a follow up on that. I don't know if there's any higher-ups yet. We have not. Okay. We will, we will check the follow up after this call. Jonathan. And I know that we want to have a conversation. On our side with, with our next steps. Yeah. If we don't have it yet, give me a call. We do this pretty routinely and we get pretty quick turnaround. So maybe there's just a, maybe there's a miscommunication on that. So happy to talk it through. Okay. We just wanted to make sure that we're providing of the deadline for. Getting certified. And Jeff appreciated your comments about filing for the not for profit status. I think everybody understands, we just want to make sure that application has been submitted to the IRS application is putting together the financial projections. And so I'll be reaching out to you for help with that aspect of the application. That fell off my radar. So let me circle back with you, Jeff, to make sure I know. In fact, I'll just ask right now, if you have a simple form that you can take any names away from to show me the kind of financial information you'd be looking for, I'm more than happy to prepare something for Missy's approval that you could use. I will send it over to you shortly. Wonderful. Last miscellaneous item, Missy, I believe Kylie and I are expecting to work with Lynette as kind of our counterpart to get you guys logged into the Amos system to get you an account on Amos. We can't do that until we have the EIN. But Lynette, I'm expecting to be our counterpart to make sure she's aware of how that system works. Is that correct? Yes, that's correct. Very good. That's all I have. Jonathan, one item that you, I think you mentioned it by email before this call, do you want to speak a little bit about the advisory board? I think you mentioned getting together with Missy to start reviewing names or finalizing names and things like that. Yes, happy to. Missy was very kind and got us a very good long list of potential candidates. We are narrowing that down. I expect within the day, Missy, that we will come back to you with maybe our top priority, top seven, and then who would be the next group below that if you didn't like some of those names or wanted a larger advisory board. At that point, I'd love to just reach a decision about who that slate of candidates are, get that approved. And that way we could start, whoever you designate, we could start reaching out to those individuals and invite them to join the advisory board. As I said, it would be important for us to at least be able to put, let's say, three of those names into our certification application. So given that we think that'll be due within two to three weeks, we'd love to keep the process moving forward. OK, sounds good. Michael, did you want me to go further into that? Like, what is the role of the advisory board? OK. Unless board members have questions, I just wanted to keep the sort of 2-2 items in front of us. That's all. Perfect. Do we need? Ms. Wilson, back to you. OK, I was just going to ask if we needed to get the executed documents. I think maybe Ryan had one to sign as well to Erica. Or do we need to get them to one of you? Brandon, do we need, or Jonathan, do we need originals of these documents to be submitted, or can we use scans? Or at least in the meantime? Yeah, I actually don't believe they require us to upload documents. I think we just literally, in the certification application that is, we just literally go through and we say, here's who we are. And then even, yeah. And so I don't actually think we need any documents submitted on their system. They sort of assume what we're doing. For purposes of just, I'm sorry, Michael, go ahead. No, no, no, no. I was going to say, just for purposes of record keeping, we, I mean, if we receive originals, we'll be putting together a corporate notebook that contains all the organizational material and would send originals back to the city and copies in whatever number are requested. Or if the folks with the city would prefer to keep the originals, that's fine. We can put together notebooks just with copies. But if we get the originals, we'll put together notebooks with the original sentiment, send them back. OK. Erica, what's your preference? Do you want me to send these originals to you, Bea, Ryan, and then you get them to Brandon and Michael? Yes, ma'am. We can handle it that way. OK. And from a timing perspective, on the 1023 side, if we could get scans of at least the side bylaws, I will need those for the 1023 side. OK. And I think those are signed by Ryan, isn't that right? That's correct. By the secretary, treasurer? Yeah. Yeah, that was Ryan. Or is this the document titled Organizational Resolutions of the Board of Directors? Or do the actual bylaws need to be signed by him as well? It would be. I think we would go ahead and ask for Ryan to sign both. So he would sign the Organizational Resolutions and the bylaws. And then Ms. Wilson, I believe you signed the only other two documents, and you've already signed those. OK. All right. I got those. I'll get mine done and executed, and I'll get them back to you all tomorrow. OK. Ryan, did you see that we sent out a revised draft of that right before this call, Ryan, of the bylaws? Yeah, I saw that come through. OK. OK. I'm not sure I get the right version. OK. Sounds good. And are you going to give those directly to get them to Brandon, Ryan, or to Erica? Brandon, who do they need to go to? Ultimately, if they come to me, that would be maybe the easiest way for us to compile everything in one notebook for y'all and send it back. So yeah, if you want to route them through, Erica, that's fine, or if you want to send it directly to me, that's fine, too. It was easier. And it sounded like you preferred a scan copy as soon as possible. So Ryan, if you could go ahead and scan the bylaws once you sign those documents, scan them back to Brandon. That would be helpful. And then if I could get that corporation notebook to keep on filing the clerk's office, that would be helpful. Perfect. We'll do. Thank you. Got it. Thanks, y'all. Other business? OK. Seeing none, I will ask for a motion to adjourn. I'll make that motion. Second. I will second. All right. That first meeting is adjourned. Thank you, everyone. Thank you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Bye. Bye-bye.