Remarks by Henri E. Brooks
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Right. Can we, and I don't want to be disrespectful. I'm sorry, Vice Chair Brooks, let me get back in the queue. Thank you, ma'am. You're recognized. Okay. Can we have some, at least some progress on the policy question here in terms of, you know, just have some meat on the bone, if you will, what this position and, and, and around environmental justice community outreach and the complaint process, because we need to pass some public policy that's going to deal with this.
Yes, this item will sit down with a favorable recommendation.
Thank you. I see my colleague over here has picked up some of the patterns. My colleague across the way. I'm fine with you being in my district. I'll be there. I just wanted to announce, Madam Chair, if any of the new commissioners are interested in learning more about payment in lieu of taxes or pilots, there will be a meeting. We're planning a meeting for October here, 1-30, October 15th in the chambers. So we'll have the We're planning for the ad hoc committee as well as subject matter experts.
This item was sent down without recommendation.
This item will sit down with our recommendation.
Thank you. What I'll do, so that I will not ramble on, have you set a time limit?
Two minutes, okay. So, some of you have received a letter from me, everyone should have, but let me just try and keep it within that two minutes by going, summarizing the letter I sent to each of you to let you know that The reason I'm running is I'm in this race is because I'm not seeking a title, but I have been here in this body for 12 years, eight years consecutively, and then four additional years started in 2022. However, I've also served in the state legislature 14 years, and what has really concerned me, concerned me deeply as a state legislator, former state legislator, and a county…
Point of personal privilege. At this time, I'd like to make a statement, if I could, before my vote. Or do I need to?
It's a point of personal privilege, but we can go ahead. I can make it at the end.
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Thank you. Let me just say, first of all, congratulations to Commissioner Event on her reelection. Let me say to this body that I am very happy to have an opportunity to participate in the leadership of this body. Having served as a public policy maker and a statesperson for so many years, I look forward to sharing information, sharing experience, and being a resource. I'm looking forward, in addition to that, serving as a backup, if you will, for the chair, continuing some of the projects that are deeply, deeply important to me as a commissioner and Shelby County, and District 7. The rebuild…
Thank you. I'm not in opposition to this item. However, I did have some questions regarding community benefits. And I think the presenter said that assured me that someone would be here from Regents Bank to expand a little bit more on the community benefits. I know that we've been depositing billions of dollars in Regents Bank for a long time and we enjoyed that partnership. So I want to be able to go back to District 7 and I want Shelby County at large to know that we're getting a great tangible community benefit from Regent's Bank and how we can even expand that.
Thank you. My apologies, but I did not receive that response. So I'm not sure where it was sent, but if you could just maybe focus in on a couple of things in terms of services, maybe benefits to low-income communities, because I know you have banks there in those communities, but what other community benefits that you may receive? already have instituted or plan to institute in low-income communities such that we can see a tangible benefit.
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You recognize? I'm back in here. Thank you. You're going over some of the benefits that we heard in committee, but there were some additional benefits, and I apologize. I don't have my notes, and I did not get the response. So where did you send it so that I might go and retrieve it?
Trustee, did you get it to us? Where did you send it so that I can retrieve it?
Oh, you did? Yes, ma'am. All right. So in order to not to belabor time, let me just say that and reference to CRA the bar is real low and when it comes to affordable housing I think we have a lot of work to do so maybe we can talk offline because I think you know the matrix that they are using it's not a matrix that's going to bring up and fill in the gap of the 30,000 affordable housing gap but that's something I'm really interested in let's just talk offline about that okay glad to thank you so much all right madam clerk please prepare the screen for a vote
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Thank you. Real quick, Director Alexander, I want to commend you on setting up your compliance committee. I'm just, I think compliance, tracking compliance and ensuring compliance is very important. But what I need to know, where will these compliance reports go? I mean, do you send them to a particular committee, the Sheriff's Department, or you just stick them in the system? What's that process?
Okay, so what we need to get in order for us to be informed since we're making this decision about these hundreds of thousands of dollars, well, I need to know that I may pass a great vote. So I need to make sure that they're in compliance with all of these components. and one that I'm really focusing in on is this youth mental health, because I went to a summit, I had a number of children, two or three hundred children were there, and they were talking about they need to be heard, they're not being heard, they don't have a place to go and talk. So I know you have your complement of children…
Okay, okay, so that will cover all of the areas that your new vendor here will be performing services for. That's correct. Okay, thank you. One more thing, one more thing. Okay, let's see. Well, I just wanted to say, just give you a kudo. Someone said something about the compliance team being unique. I just wanted to say that Director Alexander is unique.
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Can we be just a little bit more specific? I understand commitment and I understand working on, but can we be more specific in terms of numbers? Can you just take the last year or maybe the last two years and focus in on the number of small business loans that you have have actually been executed?
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I'm out of time. I'll get back in queue and we can come back. Okay. Thank you.