001Good evening everybody. Uh my name is Jonathan Trop. I have the privilege of chairing the edit task force. I welcome everybody to our meeting of February 12th, 2026. And I call the meeting to order at 7:31 p.m. I would invite everybody please to join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag to the flag of America republics for it stands one nation indivisible justice for all. >> Um as a we're not joined by our our clerk this evening who's going to take the minutes from the recording. So for her benefit and others I will report that in addition to myself and uh vice chair Shalla Fleming we have Rick Bolton and David Rosenberg. and just in the nick of time, Rodney Gray. Uh we are joined by town council liaison
002Jennifer Winshell, uh by uh our ever faithful Bill Chin, and by uh town council Jim Cardone. Um we have received no correspondence since our last meeting. And uh Bill, if you would just check to see if there's anybody who is interested in making public comment. None. Okay. Uh we move quickly to the next item on our on our agenda, the approval of the minutes of uh January 8th. I think that uh everybody except Rodney is eligible. Everybody who's here uh except Rodney is eligible to uh to vote, but uh before there's a vote, there needs to be a motion. Does anybody want to make one? >> Make a motion to approve our meeting minutes from January 8th, 2026. Second. >> Thank you. So uh uh for the benefit of of Joanne Shala has moved the
003approval and Rick has seconded. Uh any discussion? All right. All in favor? That's uh unanimous with uh Rodney abstaining. Thank you all. Um that takes us to the uh first substantive item on our agenda. As previously reported, ah uh for the purpose of of um our minutes, we are just joined by Samantha Miller as well. Good evening, Samantha. Welcome. Uh >> uh our our main item of business for this evening was a discussion with Chief of Police Michael Lombardo. that had been on the calendar for a while, but uh unfortunately he had a a conflicting meeting that came up tonight with the board of finance and it was a command performance. He he has to be he had to be there. Um we all appreciate that. He has graciously agreed to come join us in
004March at our March meeting instead. And so um we'll just table that and I'll I'll put it back on the agenda for next month. That takes us to uh old business and uh as as previously discussed, Shala and I were able to have a meeting since our last since the last meeting of this committee uh with uh first select person Vicki Toro. Uh I didn't keep track of exactly how long it was. Maybe maybe you did, Shalah. But I would say we met for a good part of an hour and uh I thought it was a a very constructive meeting as as uh she always has been. Vicki was uh very appreciative of the the work that we're doing and uh continues to express her support for uh our activities. We asked her for her
005her thoughts on edit and and she shared essentially that. Um we told her that we would like to invite her to a meeting and uh we did not nail down any date but she expressed confidence that we would be able to work that out and and she looked forward to joining us at one of our future meetings. We asked her for uh feedback on the antibbias training that we had arranged for her and the cabinet and some others and uh she she I think it's fair to say was uh expressed views similar to those that uh Tom McCarthy had expressed that uh the the training had been valuable and she appreciated it. She wasn't uh you know sure I think exactly where it should go next but looks forward to regrouping with Tom and talking
006about that and I think she appreciated that we arranged it for the folks and is interested in in considering where else it might be um useful. Uh we discussed with her our uh desire to uh better coordinate with the education department and uh she was supportive of that recognizing that they are essentially fairly independent of of her administration and uh she encouraged us to talk to obviously directly to Dr. SEML and as well to uh to some members of the board of ed which we we can do. And then um the last thing that we talked with her about was the survey that we had sent to her and um that was the in some respects the primary purpose of the outreach to her. Unfortunately, she had not in all of the hurly burly had
007a a chance to look at the survey at that time. but she asked that we send it to her again as well as to the uh chair of the town council which we did. Um notwithstanding the fact that Vicki had not seen the the sub the substance of the survey she was I think um open to uh the uh um use of town means to distribute it. and she indicated that there are some limits to to what can be done. She does not have, for example, a uh a complete email list for everybody in town or other means of direct distribution, but she indicated that potential resources might include posting on the town's website, um disclosure in the first selectman's newsletter, use of the town Facebook page, perhaps uh the senior center has an email
008list that might be uh uh deployed and conceivably even uh the the um superintendent of schools who has emails for families in the school system might might be a a source of some support for us assuming that that Dr. Seml is willing to do that. So that that would be a discussion to have directly with him. Um she also mentioned maybe there's an Instagram page. I don't know if there is. Uh so um that that was the sort of the gist of the conversation with her. Subsequently, we did hear back from the um chair of the town council who appreciated the substance of the survey and had some some sort of procedural concerns. Most significantly, uh her concern was with with um shenanigans. Once you use Survey Monkey, you can't fully control what you get
009back. Whether one person sends you 50 responses or 50 people who have nothing to do with the town send you responses or even people who have something to do with the town and submit only one response can submit nonsense. I don't know that there's any good solution for any of that. Um, the only solution that has occurred to me since she raised the question uh is is whether we wanted to revisit making putting your name mandatory. I'm not inclined to do that, but I I am inclined to raise it for discussion by this group because uh maybe others will will feel differently in light of uh that expressed concern. I don't think she had really any other expressed concerns that that um are worth are worth uh calling out. She had a couple of questions
010that I tried to answer. Um so I'll stop there. I want to give Shala a chance to correct or amplify anything I said and then I'll open it up for for discussion. >> Um nothing to correct. Um, I amplify everything you shared. I think you captured it well. Um, I think the one question that um, the uh, leadertown council did pose that I thought was an interesting one which we spent some time talking about but maybe not entirely is like and what are we going to do with the data or and you know is there a plan to share it and that sort of a thing. Um, and so you know I think that's something we can continue to sort of think about. Um, and I don't think that precludes us from getting the survey
011out. Um, if if there's support for that. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, any questions or comments on that report? >> Yeah, I have one. Um yeah, >> I think that u like to get everybody's thoughts on it, but um can we do like maybe do it in phases like um let's just try to get it on the town website and then see what comes out of that. Then you can do a ne another roll out in another platform and then so on and so forth and then start to collect your data little by little and see how it goes. >> My gut is not to do it that way. Um, I I think if we're rolling out the survey, we want to have people recognize it as a single survey as opposed to having somebody
012think, "I filled that out last month. Why am I getting this again?" And and they fill it out again or whatever else. I'm I'm concerned that uh our message is most clear if we if we are focused. Well, then we would have to probably narrow down exactly what distribution lanes we want to focus on because when you start talking about different department heads or other people getting in the equation, I think it's going to really slow it down, especially if we start talking in the department of education. If we just do two or three lanes, then, you know, focus on that. But I think I me personally I think a town website is a really good start because it shows that the leaders of our town are really backing this survey and um they're they're
013really showing the residents of the town that we're interested in hearing what they think. So if if you want to do one carpet blast across the board, maybe we could decide on what those avenues would look like and which ones would make sense so we can quickly. >> I I I have a thought on that, but Shaw, go ahead. >> Um yeah, I just wanted to as Ren was talking, it did make me think as we think about, you know, what mechanism there is to get the message out to as many people as possible. While for a select person's office does not necessarily have email contact for everybody, um to whatever extent folks in town are signed up for the like, you know, sometimes she comes on the voicemail and he leaves you a message
014about things, right? So like if it is on the town website, perhaps we could use that system as part of maybe another message that's going out or its own message to let people know that is where the survey is, you know, link is located and they can find it there and and you know, complete the survey. I think the use of that system has sometimes been a hot button issue because of different views about what it's intended for. I I inferred from Vickiy's uh silence about that system that that she would be reluctant. >> No, that's probably not the way. Right. >> Sure. The other just the I just want to say one other thing about it is that like I appreciate well maybe I don't but I hear the concern about the noise that
015might come >> in a survey being distributed and you know what sort of you know genuine responses or lack of genuine responses or people acting like there's somebody else whatever might come through. I just uh personally feel it's important that we do not get scared off by that and and and choose not to do it because of that fear. Um I think we distribute the survey and then as we are looking at and analyzing the data we we can figure out right like the extent to which we believe there may or may not be noise in the data but I don't think it should stop us from sending the survey out. >> Yeah, I agree with that. Jennifer, >> is there a way to prevent people from taking it more than once or taking it
01610 times? I mean, I I know people in this town who would take it as many times as they could get a hold of it. >> You know, >> um it's not such an easy thing to do. Uh using Survey Monkey in particular as a as a means of distribution. I'm quite confident that there are ways to spend money to do it more securely, but I don't >> I'm sure there is, but we don't have any money. >> Exactly. Exactly. So, you know, at we have to figure out a way to uh sort of balance the the costs and benefits. >> And I I think uh we're we're likely to be stuck with reduced security in favor of cheap and wide distribution. Samantha, >> yeah, I was just going to elevate uh something similar to
017what you said, Shala, that um I do think there's always a concern when you're sending information out publicly, things like survey around, you know, some of the data there being noise in the data. But I, you know, I think the last time we met, we talked about the data being a a point in time and and and a backdrop to to larger conversation, right? it was to give us information to start um that would inform further conversations that we had. We we talked about whether having an event, a town hall or something else to begin to to to to validate some of that information, right? And the hope would be that then people would want to come out, hear what we've learned and and have more conversation. So again, um I it isn't or the
018way I'm hearing it is it isn't intended to be the only source or the only means of of of information, right? It is a starting point for com for further conversations. >> Yeah. I I don't I don't think that the uh chair of the town council intended to suggest I didn't I certainly didn't understand her question to suggest that uh we not proceed. And my response to her uh I mean to her legitimate concern was u not to let the the need for the perfect be the enemy of the good. U not so much in those words that I just think that we're going to have to accept a little bit of uh noise and and move forward. So unless somebody on this committee feels differently u we're still pushing forward and the just the
019question is at what speed and how. I appreciate Rodney's concern that when you start to try to think about coordinating through lots of different people or places, you you can end up getting slowed down. Uh the you know, the weakest link kind of metaphor that you have to wait for the last of them. Uh we can reach out to Dr. Seml and see how fast he wants to jump on board or not at all and and decide whether to wait for him or not. I think if we can get some agreement on the substance of the of the form and I'm still trying to make sure that there aren't any concerns with the ad from the administration. Uh the the administration would help us to pursue most of these channels all at the same time.
020And so there would just be a single release through multiple town channels trying to get the word out out. Uh I have no problem if we drive everybody towards the town website to get the link. Yeah. >> Although I I don't see any reason why we couldn't include the link in in any in all of these places. Um Jennifer, >> are you um envisioning a a time length for this thing to be out there? Are you going to say, "Okay, it's going to be out on the website for a month or six weeks or two weeks, what whatever." >> It's a that's a great question. U I'll open it up for discussion. I will share my gut reaction which is that yes we should have a time limit for any number of reasons including that
021uh you know if people know that there's a time limit one hopes that they'll actually do it as opposed to if they if they don't see a time limit and I I think we would want to be in a position to be able to say at some point in time we have our results as opposed to having this constant discussion about when do we stop when do we stop because we never said there was a deadline. So >> you don't want it dribbling dribbling in >> that's my that I mean we can talk about how long the time should be and I'm happy to have good advice but it seems to me that once we get it out there if we can get it out kind of widespread um having having the survey be open
022for something like two to four weeks would be appropriate. What do others think? Yeah, that's the time frame that came to mind for me was somewhere between two and four weeks. Um, and just to go back to the issue of uh, you know, sort of like what mechanism I don't know that this is any better. It probably introduces like other types of limitations. Um, but creating a survey using Google forms does allow you to restrict um, to a single submission. Um but the downside is that uh folks need to sign into a Google account. Like it it sort of like requires an automatic um entry of an email address that is Google related. And so we are potentially excluding folks um who don't have a Google account if we if we were to go that
023route. But that is one way that we could ensure single submissions. >> Yeah. I guess you what you're also doing is is causing the u those who are most sensitive to their privacy to fear that their names are associated with their answers. >> Mhm. >> Okay. Yeah. It's not going to be perfect. So, we're going to get noise. It's going to be some issues. It's just about we on the clock because when December hits and we roll into January, that administration is going to be back in the campaign and then we're going to be kind of wait that's going to be the priority and it goes quick. We're in February now. So, I would like to know what clearly what the next steps are. >> Uh well, I I think I wanted to report on
024where we were. Um my my view is that we should circle back with uh with uh Vicki and Ashley and uh perhaps Dr. Seml with Marty and um just get going. I don't see any reason not to at this point if this committee is >> ready to go and I think we are. Okay. Um any further discussion on this? Okay, moving on. Um book club. So uh Shala and I and uh actually David's wife Anne and a number of others attended the uh February 2nd book club difficult conversations with a Jew. Um was it sort of similarly attended in terms of numbers? U we had you know whatever it was a dozen people around a table. It was a somewhat different group this time. Some who had come in the past, didn't for whatever reason,
025come. There were a few new faces. Uh there were a few Jewish faces uh who who had not, I think, been with us in the past. There were others who may or may not have been Jewish. I didn't I didn't take a poll. Um uh it was a good conversation. I think that there was sort of universal appreciation for the book choice notwithstanding the the kuruffle that had preceded the um the event. There was nobody who came out who who expressed concern for the content of the book or the selection of the book. Mr. Block didn't attend. I think he was un unable to attend but I don't know if if he would have come even if he had been available. um there was some discussion of the concerns that he had expressed on social
026media and uh at least the feedback that I understood is that that people were very glad that we had had a chance to talk about that book and I thought that it was a a constructive discussion. Uh shall again I'll give you a chance to uh for rebuttal. >> No I 100% agree with what you shared. Um, I did appreciate, you know, both some of the consistent faces. Uh, I think we have folks who essentially probably, you know, call OG's at this point. They've been to pretty much every every book club. Um, and then definitely the the new faces that were a part of it. Um, I think I think one thing that stuck out to me in addition to appreciating the book itself was that people appreciated the structure of the book, um, in
027terms of it being written as a conversation um, and and and the sort of uh, you know, sometimes aligned and sometimes diverse perspectives that were presented between the two authors. um because it serves as a model for how um we don't like need to jump into our our feelings and our emotions when somebody says something like we just lean in and ask a question or like you know try to understand more um and so so that I think um was a really I think as you know the office is a thoughtful component but but one that serves as a model for how we can engage with each other in in the world at large. >> Okay. Any um comments on that report or further discussion? Okay, seeing none, uh I'll move us on to the
028second part of uh the book club agenda item, which is next book. Uh I'm going to take for granted that we're going to do it again unless someone objects and uh that means that we need to pick a book and a time frame. We received from uh the library a an updated sort of list of potential books. We're not limited to that list, but those are those are books that have been shared with us as ones that the library thinks would be appropriate and that they can get. Um some of those books on that list we've um read. Some of the books on the list we've considered and then I think there probably some that we haven't seen before. Shalah was kind enough to distribute it to everybody. I think yesterday or this morning. I've
029lost track. I think it was yesterday. I don't I don't know if anybody has had a chance to look at the list. What I thought we might do is I mean, if we're ready to pick a book tonight, great. But if not, I thought we might have a a preliminary discussion around possibilities and then see if next month we could coales on a choice and and pick a date. the library will start to get anxious if they don't hear from us uh by by March. But I'm thinking that if we pick a book by March and set set an event in uh June or July, maybe maybe June is better. Um that that that timing would work out pretty well. If if folks think that we don't have the luxury of that time, then we
030could try to work harder to make sure we have a book selected sooner than our March meeting. Um I, as I said, I don't know if people have had a chance to to think about this at all. Did anybody have a chance to think about um books that might be good choices? Okay. So uh I I have given it a little thought and I will share my preliminary thoughts for uh whatever utility it has. Um I was particularly intrigued by I'm sorry Jennifer go ahead first. I was going to say we should pick one that deals with a different type of person than the previous books. Does that make any sense? >> Yes. And the one I have in mind meets that criteria. Uh >> shallow. >> Yeah. I I similarly to Jennifer I think
031something that we have done whether intentionally or not is that we have tried to to >> uh be diverse in the types of texts that we are are reading. Um and so um I I have two that caught my attention because they first of all they're like newer to the list. um they're the ones towards the bottom um are newer that um Kathleen added um and are you know sort of perspectives that we have not engaged with before and then I have two that are just like favorite reads of mine. Um so I was intrigued by uh the poverty by America book and also one person no vote and um how voter suppression is destroying our >> democracy. Um but then I'm also a very big fan of Jennifer Eberhart's book biased and Celeste Hedley's
032book speaking of race. said those would be my top choices. >> Uh, okay. Thank you. Um, so for good or for real, the two that caught my eye were none of those. I I was intrigued by Interior Chinatown by Charles U. Uh, it caught my eye for for a couple of reasons. one as as Shala said, we've been mixing it up. as Jennifer suggested, we should mix it up. And so this would be uh from the the perspective of, you know, a a person of of Asian heritage, which is different than I think what we've been doing. And it's a work of fiction, which is also different from what we've doing we've been doing. >> And uh both of those were particularly attractive to me. And then the other one that similarly caught my eye,
033by the way, not for nothing, but among my criteria was trying to find things that I thought would be easy reads as opposed to uh some others. uh was Good Talk by by Myra Jacob, which is a memoir and graphic novel um as I understand it written from by by an Asian woman, a woman, an an Indian woman, but in connection with uh her her thinking about how to communicate with her half Asian, half Jewish child. And so, uh, although it it it, you know, in some respects it's a nice segue from the last book that we read, it's I think it's rather different in terms of its focus. So, those are the two that that caught my eye. I have uh I'm perfectly happy to consider any of the others that Shala named. Shall
034you identified four of them, right? 27, 31, 32, and 33. >> Uh, yes. 27 31 32 33. >> Okay. So, >> I am also a fan of Good Talk. So, I can get behind that for sure. Yeah. >> Okay. So, the two I added to the list were were 22 and 30. Um that's that doesn't mean by the way that we can only pick from among those six. If if people have strong recommendations about uh anything else on the list or not on the list, we can consider it. Do people want to try to come to a consensus tonight or do people want to have a chance to think and look and we'll come back in a month? >> I Samantha first. >> Okay. I I I had two more I'd like like to throw
035in the mix. Uh and again, a number of these I'm not super familiar with. Some of them I I am. Um but poverty um by Matthew Desmond. I think I I I I read his book Evicted. I think it was an amazing book. um one that Shala had named. So So two two votes there. And what was the other one? >> And then the other one was um disability visibility um was the other one I I I also put out there. >> So I I know anything about that book. I see that it's by a woman who just judging by her name is presumably Asian, but uh disability. We we did the being human book, which is not to say they shouldn't also read this one, especially if it brings a different dimension to it.
036I just mentioned that that there to the extent we're trying to do something a little bit different, that one might might be close to one we've already done. I don't know. Um, so back to the question, do do now we got eight seven books on the table. I don't I don't want to try to force something through without people having a chance to think and and if uh Rick or David or Rodney or for that matter Chris or Jennifer uh and for that matter Jim and Bill if you have views um if if people want to have a chance to think about it and suggest more books we can come back in in a month and try to nail it down. I do want to nail it down next month but uh I don't feel
037compelled to nail it down tonight. I think I think any quite frankly I think any of the books in the list would be a fine read. I I am like you. I was very much the fiction thing popped up as I was looking at the categories like oh what what a what would what form would that take? So I did read the book that you s the description of the book that you identified as being fiction. It's just it's just a change of pace. >> Right. >> Yeah. Um actually before Samantha I was thinking if we have a fairly small number of books on the table maybe we can come to consensus but with now we're out to eight and a couple different >> sorry >> I think we're at seven. >> Okay seven um
038and there does seem to be you know a little bit of um it's a nice mix. I mean, we have several different genres to choose from. Um, that maybe it does it would be worthwhile for us to invest a little bit of time so that each of us really has at least taken maybe 10 or 15 minutes to, you know, read the jacket or whatever's, you know, the brief summary available on Amazon or wherever so that we're making a little more informed decision. >> Okay. So, um, let's do that. the the list that Shala circulated from the library has links to uh blurbs about each book. Uh I would encourage everybody to find a little bit of time between now and four weeks from now to um consider and uh we'll we'll we'll pick we'll
039let we'll let Kathleen know at the library that it's a slow roll for us and uh we'll we'll pick next month. Okay. Um, thank you. Um, speaking of next month, let me give you a quick rundown of the status of our, uh, invitations to, uh, town officers for future meetings. Uh, I've had some productive, somewhat productive, or at least they moving forward, uh, emails with Dr. Seml. I've not been able to speak with him. He's had a busy week. Even before he had a busier week. So, um I'm hoping to sync up with him in the near term. I will plan to talk with him about um the uh survey distribution as well as coming to our our meeting if I can talk to him. Uh uh as I reported, Chief Lombardo will join us
040next month. Uh Reena Balar is out on leave right now. She had expressed some time ago availability for March. I don't know if that will be possible, but frankly my hope is that this works out well in the sense that if if Chief Lombardo now comes in March, then then maybe uh Reena can come in um April. As previously reported, we had a good meeting with the library, but we have yet to kind of nail down a date with them. I have reached out recently and I'm I'm still waiting to hear back. Uh EMS had at one point expressed openness but recently that trail has gone cold so I'll keep pursuing it. um public health. I think I I I know I reported we had a I had a good preliminary conversation, but she was
041sort of new to the job and wanted to be later in the year. So, I did not revisit with her recently, but at some point in the next month or two, it would be appropriate to do that. And uh the only folks that I had I had not heard a word from despite multiple emails is parks and wreck. And so, um, I don't know whether the right solution is to instead approach the the woman who did come and meet with us and see if she can help us or, uh, instead to ask for help from some other source. But, uh, Parks and Wreck has been nonresponsive entirely. Uh, questions, comments on that report, Rodney? Yeah, we including the um want to discuss the um susp suspension data with SEML. >> Uh if he will come
042to a a meeting and if he won't come to a meeting, we may go to him. Yeah. >> Oh, okay. Thanks. That's it. >> Okay. Uh all right. So, uh one item under new business. Rodney was kind enough to share a very quick uh summary of a meeting that he had with the state hate crimes investigative unit. Rodney, I didn't I didn't discuss this with you, but I I would invite you to give a slightly more expansive report this evening if you'd like to do so. >> Oh, yeah. Thank you. And thank you again. Um this is all um in connection to the uh event that I did back in uh November at the Islamic Center. um state police uh actually attended that event and they reached out to me and they wanted to collaborate.
043So I went to uh Middletown uh met with uh two detectives and a sergeant and they gave me a presentation on um what is a hate crime versus a versus a hate incident and learn why it's important to report such matters if it's if one is directly or indirectly a victim of the criminal offense or hateful act. And the presentation emphasized that it's common for victims not to report a hate crime due to fear and consequences, low expectations from the legal system or overall distrust from the police. So I just I posted that and some other um plans and thank yous on LinkedIn. And um it was some heavy dialogue because of the where the where our climate is today. Uh, one of the questions I asked I was interested in is how do you
044compartmentalize if someone is if a if um an issue occurs uh if a if someone's and um experiencing some type of hate crime incident and you come to to a scene and how people compartmentalize and not throw you know in the bag with ice or something like that. Um and they they just say that they have to really just focus on just the matter at hand and the issues that they face in terms of proving a hate crime versus the incident. And the example that they gave me was if you and I were fighting fighting for the same parking space and we get out the car and we start arguing with each other and we start throwing racial slurs at each other. That's more of an incident. And the crime is more of if you
045have some type of I don't know some history or on social media or if they see some type of track record of your that sort of behavior and then you go out and perform such an incident a crime that would be labeled more of a crime. Um I was kind of they said I was kind of on base with it in terms of something like pre premeditated versus manslaughter but that was a little extreme in the example but that's the kind of the gist that I was kind of getting at. Um but they they were very they're very interested in collaborating with me in the future in terms of uh the next event that I will be doing. Um and uh they um were are trying to figure out ways to continue building community trust.
046um that that is something that is truly needed in our society now because of to me everything feels like is division. So um they are I'm meeting tomorrow actually with the um with their senior director of external affairs. His title is kind of long. He's a senior director of external affairs and engagement and hate crimes initiating initiative coordinator. So, we're meeting at Starbucks tomorrow to further dialogue, have a further dialogue about um how to continue that this collaboration and talking with the community. So they they actually have community events that they host throughout the state in terms of explaining these measures, but um this been kind of scaled back a little bit, but they they do have them and they're ready to work with me in in the capacity of the avenues that I have
047when I do my next event. Anybody have any questions coming to to meet with people in Trumble? Uh let us know and obviously keep us posted on the discussion. Any any questions for Rodney? By Thank you, Rodney. Any questions for Rodney? >> Thank you. >> No. All right. Um, any other business for the evening? >> Uh, yes, I do have one more. Um, so I went to a breakfast in Harford. Um, and I met with this lady who, uh, is affiliated with a woman that I spoke to. Now, she runs a social justice leadership network in Connecticut. I'll read this quickly. So they are a relatively formed network with local community groups focused on social justice. Some of the groups are rooted and connected in our town in town government. Some are affiliated with groups
048with concerned citizens. There are 16 to 18 groups in this network in over 20 towns and they're interested to see if Trumbull wants to be a part of the network. uh their mission is to enhance the ability of community- based social justice groups, build diverse, equitable, inclusive, and accessible communities throughout the state. So, her name is CJ Gladstone, and um I'll be meeting with her next Friday. We're going to further collaborate in terms of of what exactly get learn more about what this network does. And uh they actually have a meeting on Monday that I'm going to go to and um their topic is going to be focused on white allyship, what it is and what it's not. So um they do have meetings um let me see they have a meeting in April one
049or two persons per meeting. Wait a minute. one one of our two in-person meetings per year where all groups gather. So, that's kind of further down the road right now. I'm going just go have coffee with her, learn a little bit more, maybe invite her to uh one of our meetings, and um see if this committee would be interested in joining this network. >> Okay, let us know. Um that sounds great. Any any discussion of that or anything else? All right. Uh I would at this time invite a motion. >> I move to adjourn. >> Is there a second? >> Second. >> All right. I think uh it was Rick's motion. Shala's second. All in favor?