Ryan White Planning Council - Executive Committee - Regular Meeting

recording um has started. So, you're good to start whenever you're ready, Randall.

That's Stephen trying to get in. I just let him in. Okay. All right. I'd like to welcome everybody to the executive committee meeting for the Ryan White Part A Planning Council for Maricopa and Panal Counties. Um today is Monday, February 23rd, 2026. We're scheduled to meet via Zoom um Teams um from 12:30 to 2:30. Um and we'll start off with quorum. We have four out of six members.

Okay. It's been established that we have four out of six members at 12:35 and then we'll give the floor over to Gwen who will do our welcome introduction and declaration of conflict of interest. Thank you Randall. So I'll be calling the names of everyone who is a member of the executive committee or anyone who is scheduled to speak on today's agenda. So, when I call your name, please state your name and list any conflicts of interest you have. We'll begin with Randall Furrow. Uh, Randall Furrow, planning council chair, no conflict of interest. Alan Barnes,

Alan Barnes, team chair, no conflicts. Eric Een, Eric Een, co-chair, chips, no conflict. James Michael Brown. Uh, James Michael Brown. Uh, no conflicts. Jeremy Hiveron. Jeremy Havon, America County. Thank you. So, that's everyone on the committee and everyone who is scheduled to speak. So, I can um hand it back to you Randall to proceed with the agenda.

Great. And we'll start off with item number three on the agenda, which is, excuse me, a review and acceptance of the agenda. Uh, you should have received a copy of the agenda in your packet. It's also on the screen now. um just take a glance over it, make sure that we have it. Um I cannot add any items to it, but I can change the order of items if someone has to leave early or something like that. But other than that, um if we could just get everybody to nod, letting us know that you are familiar with today's agenda and approve. Next is line item number four, which is a review and approval of the minutes and action items from our last executive committee meeting uh which was held via Teams on December 15th of 2025. Again, that's an item that uh again, that's an item you should have received in your packet and hopefully have had a time a moment to look at it and let us know if you have any changes that need to be made or corrections. Um if we don't have any, then the chair would go ahead and entertain a motion to approve those minutes from December 15th. Randall, this is Alan Barnes. I will make a motion to approve the minutes from December 15th, 2025.

Alan, I appreciate that. We have a motion on the floor by Alan Barnes. Do we have a second? This is Eric Don. I approve. Great. And we have a second from Eric Een. Um do we have any last minute questions before we um do the I'm assuming we're going to do a roll call vote. Yes. Okay. So, we can go ahead and proceed. Um, with that roll call vote. Okay, we'll start with Randle Furrow. Um, yes.

Alan Barnes, yes. Eric Een, yes. James Michael Brown, yes. Motion carries.

Okay, fantastic. Um, next is line item number five. Um, which is the chair update. Um, just want to remind everybody that today's executive committee meeting is my last executive committee meeting. Um, as your chair, um, my term ends on February 28th, um, just a couple days from now. And I am um not going to be able to run for off or chair won't be able to run for chair again because of term limitations on that. But I'll remain on the planning council for a while. Um, so I just want I want to thank everybody that um is either um an elected member of the executive committee or um a de facto member of the committee by the fact that you're a chair or a subchair of one of the committees. Um appreciate all the hard work and everything that you've done um to make this committee um and this planning council go so smoothly. So, um, again, you guys are my heroes and I appreciate everything that you do for the people that live in the Phoenix jurisdiction. Um, next is line item number six, which is the Ryan White HIV AIDS Part A recipient update. Um, and Jeremy, I know, is very excited. He's got some good news to share with us as well. So, Jeremy, I'll turn the floor over to you. Good news only today.

I will try. Uh, excuse me if I cough or sniff during this. I just came back from up up north in Flagstaff this weekend and it was really cold. Um, uh, but I'm going to start out first of all with just an update. Some of you may have already heard this at the committee meetings, but uh regarding the our part A site visit corrective action plan, everything was submitted uh on January 15th to HERSA. Um they approved in early February. They approved all of our submissions and marked everything as resolved. Uh so we are good to go. We've begun releasing um some updated policies and guidance to providers, particularly our contracts policy, which includes some more robust sections on our subreient monitoring and site visits, um program income and 340B monitoring. Uh, and just a thank you to the council and and and all the committees for all the hard work on getting your your pieces done um and uh um timely so that we could get board board approval where where needed and get those submitted. We really do appreciate it. Um uh couple of general announcements. Uh we have uh the national Ryan White conference is coming up in August. uh that will be in Washington DC from uh August 4th through the 7th. Um part A and EHE are required to send a set number of representatives for each grant. It is part that's written into our notice of award that we have to send uh folks to that this year. That actually for the part A grant includes three spots for planning council. um they are earmarked for one for planning council support staff, one for the

planning council chair, and one for an unaligned consumer member. So, uh uh more to come on that, but just wanted you to know that's where um uh they're starting to ask about potential who would be going um from each program. So, we're we're we're working on some stuff. So, more to come uh there. Um, also, uh, we sent out an announcement, I believe last week, regarding the Maricopa County, uh, community health needs assessment survey. Uh, so you should have gotten that in your email. I'm going to drop the link in the chat to take it. Um it is open to anyone ages three and up living in Maricopa County and it's uh running through April 30th. Um and this is an opportunity they d they directly use the results from this to help shape the priorities um and guide funding for uh public health programs across Maricopa County. So please participate, encourage people you know who live in Maropa County to participate. Uh it would be greatly appreciated. our uh uh partner program in the hope division are the ones who are facilitating this survey and then we do have a couple of outreach events coming up. Alan, did you have a question?

Yes. Um you said this is a survey and it's from three years old and up. Is that 13 13? Oh, okay. Okay. 13 and up. Sorry. By the way, if I said three, I totally gave that note to Kate. I wrote it wrong for swag and she said three and up. And everyone was like, "Huh?" Um, and it was Yeah, it was a typo on my I'm sorry. I did correct it on my notes, but I might have still said it wrong. It is 13. This is the practice for tomorrow. Remember this, right? Practice for tomorrow. 13 and up. 13 and up. I will make sure to say it that way tomorrow. Um, but yes, if you hear me say three and up, correct me tomorrow. Yes, Jimmy.

Jeremy, your three-year-old doesn't have an iPhone.

Uh, my 11year-old has an iPad and could totally take it. It is a very short survey. Um, uh, it only took me about, uh, 5 to 10 minutes to do. It's really, really simple. So, uh, please participate if you can, uh, and share it with other with, uh, your your friends and family if they're in Maricopa County. Um, as I said, we do have a couple up upcoming outreach events that the positively outreach team uh which includes when uh will be at. Uh the first one is a uh AIDS Arizona which is on March 21st and then Rainbows Festival on March 28th and 29th. They are backtoback weekends. Um so if you are interested in working the the booths for that uh please do. Rainbows Festival is free admission. uh AIDS walk to walk. Uh it is there is a registration fee. We are unable to cover it because it's a fundraiser, but if you want to walk work the booth with us, you are more than welcome. Um and then any questions before I jump into allocations updates?

Yes, Jeremy, I do have to go back when you said about the conference in DC and you said more to come. Does that mean you'll let us know if we should uh request to go that we'll get an email or something? Yes. Thank you.

Um moving on to allocations uh updates. I'm going to start with the with good news is that we did receive our uh partial notice of award for part A for the next grant year. um the award amount we which we sent out and shared with you via email. It's also came in your packet for today's meeting. Um so that award amount for the partial award is just over just under uh 3.3 million. Um and that represents about 43% of our anticipated formula funding. Um that's per HERSA and then it also is about 28 includes about 28% of our MAI funding or minority AIDS initiative funding. Just as a reminder, we get formula funding that is based on the calculation of uh now the calculation uh based on uh um prevalence rate based on last known zip code for people living with HIV. So that's a set calculation that they do. We also get supplemental funding which is based on our application and our scoring of the application or our non-compete continuation in this case. Um and then uh MAI is kind of is separate from that and then also we'll be applying for carryover again this year. Um we have not received our EHE partial notice of award but we were told uh this morning that it's not a matter of if but when it will be released. Um they are hopeful it'll be issued this week but it could be delayed slightly. Um the services will continue at current funding levels until we receive the full and final awards. Um and then we'll come back to you all for the part A to talk about final allocations and such. Let me grab the allocations report and we'll talk through that.

Go. All right. Let me know when you can see my screen.

I can see it. All right. So, we are currently right now projecting to be uh uh 573,000 um under spent in part A and NI funds. Now, if you remember, uh part A carryover is capped at just uh around 348,000 u for grant 20125. That cap is based solely on that formula funding am that I was just talking about. It's based solely on that piece. Um the 5% of formula funding is all we're allowed to carry over. We have to spend all of our supplemental. We have to spend any carryover from the previous year first. Um however, MAI does not have that same uh cap. We are allowed to carry over 100% of any unspent MAI funds. And so we are going to have some unspent MAI this year which will uh allow us to carry over the remaining amount of what we have not spent. So we should not we should we are not going to have any and we shouldn't have any issues there. Um we are projected to be under spent in primary medical care by about 350,000. That is because we have we're anticipating some uh changes to go into effect with all the discussion about Medicaid and such happening. Um but that has that has not that's not going into effect now until later this year. Uh so we um uh that has been under spent uh compared to what we had originally projected. We are projected to be uh slightly over in uh referral for healthcare um by about $43,000. Um and um uh currently we're projected to be a little bit under spent in health insurance premiums, but we did uh start enrolling and remove the weight list for the dental insurance program. So there

may be uh some increases there. We're also uh working with uh Delta Dental to ensure that we wrap up any lag claims before the end of the year. So we expect a 13th kind of bill for them to look at any leg claims that come in. So we should be uh in line there if not slightly over which will will help in the carryover amount. Any questions on that bit? Those are the major updates for today on the allocations report.

Looks good. We are going to have more carryover this year than we did last year. Um uh once we find out what our final award will be for uh the coming year and what that final carryover amount is, then we'll be coming back to you all to determine where those final allocations would be and if there is room to um up allocations in any of the service categories. with some uh cautious notes about um Medicaid changes. Uh Jimmy, correct me if I'm wrong, but we're uh not projecting to see any impact from that until late 2026. Um and so uh that could be um we we're we'll be holding cautious for that, but it may not have as much impact as we originally anticipated in in this coming grant year either. So, um, more to come as we as we continue to try to learn more about when those changes will be going into effect and how quickly they'll be rolled out, questions, comments and I am complete.

You are complete. Um, you also have item number seven, which is a review of the recipient and PC budget items. Yes. Um, so for this one, I do have a very uh uh draft thing here. I do want to remind you all that the planning council budget uh per se is part of the admin uh administrative line item. It is not considered. We do do a little bit of a separate reporting for HERSA but in the buckets they are reported together um uh under the administrative uh cost. So any associated costs under planning council do get uh covered under the administrative uh cost category. um last year. This draft is based on what we did last year. I know we had some discussions in uh committee about um potentially adding some activities. Um but we didn't do that last year because we were uh because of the concerns about funding. I didn't know if the committee was was wanting to revisit that any of those. So, we've kind of left most of it the way it is currently right now. Um you'll the general supplies item which includes things like um anything we need for inerson meetings uh um you know stuff for PSR um uh you know the packets we ship out those kinds of things any kind of general supplies for conducting the the planning council work uh outreach materials really the only cost we're spending there anymore is for the postcards um so I actually we reduced that from 2,000 down to 500 because

those postcards don't really cost that much um for us to make in bulk those little postcard flyers that we use when we're doing outreach. Um so you don't need a huge lift there. Planning council when they're doing outreach generally uses the stuff that we pay for out of e for like the giveaways and promotional items. um uh so that uh doesn't incur expenses for you all. There is travel in here built in. Um mostly this is for the the national Ryan White conference, the three travelers there. So it's about 2,000 per individual for those three positions to go. Um and then some software and technology uh and event parking and reimbursement uh at 2,000. That does not add up because I did not total it up myself. Sorry, that's not the total right there. Um, so that would be actually only 10,000 as a total. Any questions, thoughts, things you'd like to see different?

Yes, Alan. I would just like to say, I've said this before, the outreach materials, the amount $500, if you say it's been cut, the $500 that is being spent, it's being well spent. I see those postcards all over, you know, um, and we give them out and they are very, very helpful. So, that is money definitely well spent. That's my comment. I believe actually for the amount that we we've gotten each year, it's only about $250 um that we that we spend. It's really it's a or or less. It's a really good deal that we have. I just wanted to keep it at that in case we needed. Um

it's the biggest bang for the buck, believe me.

Money well spent, huh?

Yeah. And then as you see at the bottom, we are we made this dec made the decision kind of guess last year that we would if we did our smaller needs assessments that we're working on uh for chips for this year that those would be done inhouse. We may have the ability to do some incentives for those this year. Um but that would be we have uh we have that we will have that in e funding. So we want to worry about incurring any part a expense there. That is a potential questions, comments. If not, Gwen, do I I do we need a vote on this? Yes, I So, it's um we only have to review this at executive. It doesn't go to the full planning council. Um I think we we could vote on it just to like have that signed off. Does that sound good, Brandle? I think that's an excellent suggestion.

Yes, I agree. Yeah. So, yeah, we let's do a motion in a second and then we'll vote. Okay. Alan, is your hand up because you would like to make a motion or you just waving? I'm sorry. Take it down. Exactly. Thank you for reminding me. That's okay. You put it back up, Alan.

I've planted a seed in your head. Now you're going to um so we would be looking for a motion to approve the items that were um just covered by Jeremy in the uh planning council support budget. So do we have a motion? Okay, we have a motion on the floor by Eric Een. Do we have a second? Rando Michael Brown, I'll second.

Hey, Michael Brown. I appreciate it. So, we have a motion on the floor by Eric E. We have a second by um Mr. Michael Brown. Um and do we have any last minute questions or comments before we proceed to a roll call vote? Hearing none, I'm turn it over to Gwen and she'll do that roll call vote for us. Randall Fro, yes. Alan Barnes, yes. Eric Een, yes. Michael Brown,

uh, yes. Motion carries. Fantastic. Um, next on the agenda is item number eight, which is a review and approval of the grant year uh 2026 2027 meeting schedule and Gwindelyn will share that with us and then we will also make that a votable item. So if you could share that with us Gwen please and thank you.

Yes, thank you Randall. And um yeah, this was sent out in the meeting packets last week and I'm just sharing it here again for us to review. And um yeah, so this goes through the entire grant year starting with March and ending in February 2027. I'll scroll down a little bit so we can see all those dates and then once this is reviewed, we can accept a motion to vote. Mhm. And oh yeah, the only date we haven't so PSR, we haven't um picked a date for that yet, but that's the only one that we have TDD on there.

And then December 15th, is that the in-person meeting? Yeah. So that um that's like the the week before the Christmas holiday, so that's why we do it the week early. Um, and as always, like these dates can change, but this is technically when we would have that in person meeting. Yeah. Go ahead. Do we want to discuss dates for PSR? Do you have an idea of I don't know. Did you all like Friday, Thursday, Friday last year? Oh, that time frame. Yes,

I did. We can always like confirm that tomorrow with providers to or that will be on that that are planning council members. Um the conference is the 4th through the 7th preferably not the week after that we get back. Um, uh, Shante, do we have dates for when things are due to the board? Depending some things we have to send to the board for approval after you all after you all meet. Um, for PS,

let me check if they sent me the new schedule. I don't know if I have the new schedule handy. Hold on. And Jeremy was I know there was discussion but I don't know it what level it was or where it went but were we talking about one of the two days of PS potentially being in person I believe so. And did we proceed with that or was it just kind of discussion and drop or

No, I think that that's a chips think uh thing they're going to be revisiting as they talk about PSR and start planning for PSR. So I think a inperson day two I think is what everyone thought right was the feedback that we got. um having that in person if it was discussed.

Yeah, we could do the potentially the last week guess. Alan, go ahead. My only comment is um I know when I interview new applicants, they are because that's our big meeting, the longest one, the the the quicker we can firm that down and you know, pick a date and especially if one is going to be in person,

that is really important to them. And I think that helps with I'm not nagging I'm just saying that really helps with attendance too because it's like six months and that might not that sounds like a long time but people are planning their vacations now or whatever. So the the quicker we confirm those times it's better for the attendance of the the members. Thank you Allan. Back in the old days, we used to do it on like Saturday, Sunday

and it was in person and they there was like a couple of times they fed us like uh you know breakfast like coffee and pastries and then a full lunch and and then what is that? Sorry, that's Tena Drake. I just let her in. That's the phone number. Oh, I was like, strange. Um, well, Randa, we can confirm the the the timelines. Uh, but we can look at the but by tomorrow and then we could do potentially like

if you're looking Thursday and Friday, that would be like a 20th, 21st or 27th and 28th. And I did confirm Labor Day isn't until the 7th, so that wouldn't interfere with Labor Day weekend. you know, people leaving early on a Friday for Labor Day weekend. So, uh those are options and we can bring those to the committee tomorrow to uh or to full counsel and you all can make a decision tomorrow if you want. That sounds good to me. So, um we won't have it as a votable item today. We'll just carry it over till tomorrow and make it votable tomorrow. Does that sound fair? You can improve it as it is right now,

right? Yes, we can. Does anyone want to make that motion to approve the schedule as it is? And then if we have Randall, Michael Brown, I'll uh motion that we approve the tenative meeting schedule for 2026 27. Great, Michael. I appreciate that. So, we have a motion from Michael Brown. Do we have a second? Randall, this is Allan. I will second that motion.

Hi Allan. I appreciate you seconding that. Do we have any last minute questions or concerns? I'll count in my head till about five. Mississippi and Gwen, can you go ahead and do a roll call vote for us, please? Randle, yes. Alan Barnes, yes. Eric Een, yes. Michael Brown, yes. Thank you, everyone. Motion carries. We're getting good at that. As long as it's a small committee, right?

Nice and easy when it's only four. I know, right? Um item number nine is um to discuss the design and assessment of the efficiency of the administrative mechanism or AEAM and Gwen has a PowerPoint and she'll tell us briefly what exactly is the AEAM and what does it constitute and what are we doing with it.

Thank you Randall. So yeah, we're going to take a look at the questions for the assessment of the efficiency of the administrative mechanism also known as AEAM. So just to quickly look at what this requires. Um so um every year the planning council is required to assess the efficiency of the administrative mechanism in rapidly allocating funds to the areas of greatest need within the eligible area and at the discretion of the PC um assess the effectiveness either directively or through contractual arrangements of the services offered in meeting the identified needs. Um, additionally, the planning council must conduct an annual assessment of the administrative mechanism to ensure that services are being funded as indicated by the PSRA, that funds are contracted in a timely and transparent process, and subreient providers are reimbursed in a timely manner. So, now taking a look at what the questions look like. These are the same questions as last year, but I will read through them again um just so everyone can get a refresher of what these look like. So question one, were part A subreipients reimbursed within 30 days of receipt of a completed invoice? And this question reviews whether subreient invoices were paid in a timely manner and if funds were available in the community for service delivery. Question two, were contracts with part A subreients signed and executed in a timely manner? And this question assesses the processing time from contract award to board of supervisor signature as well as the timeline from receiving the full award to issuing task orders to subreients. Question three, at the end of the grant year, did the part A grant have 5% or less in unspent formula funds that were eligible for carryover? Um, as Jeremy uh mentioned earlier, the part A grant allows up to 5% of formula funds to be carried over to the next grant year,

while all other PAR A funds must be spent within the grant year. Minority AIDS Initiative or MAI funds do not have a carryover limit. Question four. Did the final expenditures for part A for the 2526 grant year match the service category funding levels and percentages identified during the PSRA process? And if not, were variance explanations sufficient and reflective of planning council reallocation approvals. So, the planning council approves a budget based on service use and need after the final part A award is received and regularly approves reallocations throughout the year. Variance explanations should include details on how funds were reallocated to meet identified needs. Question five, were part A resources reallocated in a timely manner to ensure the needs of the community are met? And this question specifically reviews whether the part A office acted upon planning council uh reallocation approvals in a timely manner. And our last question, question six. So this was a new one that we added last year. Did the part A office notify clients of any applicable planning council decisions that directly impacted services and eligibility in a timely manner? So this question will review whether the part A office released client communications in a timely manner specifically on planning council decisions that directly impacted the availability of services and changes in eligibility requirements. So that's it. It's just those six questions and again they are the same questions as last year. Um, so I will now pause to let committee members ask questions or if you would like I can go back and revisit one of the slides.

I just had a question. Um, do we have any recollection when Hersa was here for their site visit? Did they look at that component and did they have any comments positive or negative about it or certainly if it was negative we would have it would stand out. at home.

There were no findings regarding the AEM. I don't have feedback. I'm not sure Jeremy if you had anything that you wanted to share. I don't recall specifically them saying anything. I am looking to see if there was anything in the report. Mhm. That they like any like recommendations.

I don't believe I saw any of those either. I don't remember. I don't recall any of those either. Oh, for one moment. No. Oops. There any other question? Um while I'm looking for that. Yes, I have a question in the interim. Is that okay? Mhm. Mhm.

Um so regarding the final question six saying about how the timely manner that the decisions of the planning council were right exactly were told to clients. So, what we're talking about like when we the dental coverage was changed and then the decision was made and yet and then emails were sent out to all the recipients in a timely manner letting them know what happened and how it was decided. Is that it? Yeah. That we did our job in getting the information out to the clients timely. Yes, that's what you're looking at.

Okay. Great. Great. Good. So, we must have done well on that one. All right. Good. Since we've been since we've increased client communication, I think that was the the thought was to add this questions to to keep that kind of top of mind that we were continuing to do that quickly. I did glam I did look I did a search really quick through there was nothing. Uh um never mind. Um, I'll I'm continuing to search cuz the thing is not searching. That's why I was like, "Oh, it's not finding anything." But, uh, I'm It's not my search function is not working. So, one second.

Yeah. Allan, it's it's crucial when anything happens in the community that we let clients and people that it involves know as quickly as possible and how it's going to impact their life and um you know if they need to make changes or whatever in their personal situation that it gives them time to work on it. Exactly. And it lets the clients know that the planning council was involved in this decision makingaking process which is composed of community representation. So that's important too.

I agree my friend. There were no uh f uh recommendations for improvement uh related to that. The only one that they the only other recommendation for improvement that wasn't a finding that we haven't started yet was uh they wanted a uh they wanted us to further define. So they they said we had a successful project process on how we were reviewing uh monthly budgets and monthly expenditures. Um but they want us to further write out how we're doing rapid reallocation and reallocation processes. So, we will Gwen and I will work on getting a draft of that um to uh this committee um in the coming months so that we can do that this year, get that process done. That was the only other that was an improvement idea. It wasn't required.

Right. So, so they didn't have a problem with the work or how the work was being done. It's just they want some place that they can go and refer to, you know, this is the procedure for how it's done and Yep. Okay. We can always make that happen. Um, that being said, would anybody like to make a motion to approve the AEM questions for 2627?

This is Alan Barnes. I so move. Alan Barnes, thank you for that motion. Do we have a second? East. I second. And Eric Eastston is making the second and I appreciate that, sir. Um, do we have any last minute comments? Hearing none. Um, Miss Gwen, can you do a roll call vote for us, please? Randle Furrow. Yes, Alan Barnes. Yes, Eric Een.

Yes, Michael Brown. Yes. Motion carries. Great. Thank you everybody. Um, next three items on our agenda are our subcommittee updates. And we'll start off with line item number whatever that is 10 which is the training education and membership or team committee update. The chair of that committee um is Allan Barnes and I'll turn the floor over to him for his update.

Thank you, Randall. Thank you. You're welcome. I'm going to begin by tomorrow especially I'm going to reiterate the dates of the outreach the rainbows festival and the AIDS walk. I don't think that can be repeated too many times. And Gwen, is there still open sign up slots available? Yeah, we still have the um Survey Monkey open. I'll probably send out another email in the next couple of weeks to remind folks that there's still some spots available. We've had three people sign up.

Three. Okay. Um and I'm one of them. Soay. Uh but I will mention that again tomorrow that there are sign up uh slots available and the the two events upcoming. All right. And the only other thing we have in the team committee today is we have to approve the um application for new membership for um Stacy J. Cavalier and uh hopefully tomorrow he will be at the planning council and he will be uh allowed to introduce himself but uh the the executive committee must vote on his application today. So at this point I would like a motion not to go into executive session but that the members who are I mean the folks who are here today who are not voting members of the executive committee to remove themselves from this meeting and stop me if I start getting this wrong so that the people who stay are voting members and then we will have a short discussion and then we will come then no then we will bring you folks back and we will have a vote an open vote. Is that correct?

Yeah, I think the motion is still to go into executive session, but the explanation is the rest of us will leave and rejoin the meeting and be stuck in the waiting room until you're done. That's what I said. See, I I was putting it very politely. You will remove yourselves. I didn't say get out. I said you will remove yourselves. It's the wording. So, do we have such a motion, please? First motion. Thank you, Eric. Do we have a second to that motion, please? Michael Brown, I'll second. Thank you, Michael.

Thank you. So, we'll just do a roll call vote. First, are there any questions or comments before we go to the vote? Um, all right. I'll start with Randall Frow. What? Oh, we're voting to open the executive session. Oh, yes. I'm sorry. That's okay. Alan Barnes, I thought you were asking me to remove myself. I'm so stuck on that. Hillary Eric Een. Yes. and Michael Brown. Yes.

Thank you everyone. So the motion carries. So now I will ask if you are not a member of the executive committee if you could please just leave the meeting and then rejoin using the same link. You will just be placed into the waiting room and then as soon as the executive session