Remarks by Mandi Remington
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Yes, I began the next program in the Professional Development Academy leadership courses. I met with, sorry, I attended the Food Policy Council meeting. They elected their leadership for this next year and are also working on planning for the 12th annual forum. Also been doing work with the field mediation team. Training will be starting in November. They are Narrowing down specific dates with Iowa Mediation Services right now, but that will be next month. Also working on performance reviews. Supervisor Fix-Morris mentioned our meeting with Oklahoma City Councilor Jo Beth Hammond. And wanted…
I was just going to say, move approval. Second.
Yes. Last week, some members of the League of Women Voters and myself and the self-advocacy coordinator at the Center for Disabilities and Development led a conversation on voting at Mayor's Youth Empowerment Program. That was a really
I also have been looking through Gallatin County's water quality and quantity plans. I attended the Indigenous People's Day observations at Terry Trueblood last weekend. Always a great event. Not nearly as cold and windy as it was the last couple of years, which was nice. And then on Monday, Supervisor Fix-My-Rise and I met with a director of policy from San Antonio and local progress program manager learning about San Antonio's housing investments, including their work with a group called Resident Owned Communities USA, which was able to help them make their manufactured home community…
Move we waive three readings of the proposed ordinance associated with zoning application REZ 2607. Second.
I move we adopt the proposed ordinance associated with zoning application REZ 2607 of Luke Mayhew. First and second considerations.
I just want to note, Josh, to handle this, but I do want to note that the attachment links for this item are not working. So we'll need to make sure that those get Yeah. Yeah. I'm just looking. Let's make sure that was noted so I could, yeah. Yeah. No, yeah, I know it sits down in the bottom, but just, yeah.
Yes. Similarly, the Heritage Area Agency on Aging is still trying to figure out what their regionalization is going to look like. They have recently discovered that Agencies that are not lead entities for their region will be losing each about $270,000 in funding per year to the lead entity. So they are still working on navigating that as well. Had liaison meetings with public health and ambulance. My youngest and I attended the Wings and Wild Things Festival at Kent Park over the weekend, which are... conservation team is greatly involved in, thankfully, because I ended up in not the same…
I was just going to say when you were talking about how the kids do the whole pancake breakfast, I go to a lot of the pancake breakfasts for a lot of different causes, and there's actually like a real They're teaching them real customer service. They're not just serving you. They actually walk around and check on you while you're eating and take your plates. And that's not something that's very typical of most of those pancake breakfasts. So I always enjoy interacting with them. Thank you. Thank you.
It's natural to support those who have supported you. And as I will continue every time you're in this room, say thank you for everything your organization has done for Johnson County residents and for me and my family. It has been seven and a half years since I left, and I am still healing. It does not just stop when you go. And I would not be in this seat without DVIP. Thank you.
that our entire community was I certainly felt that viscerally in the moment but I had never framed it in my own thinking that way so I I greatly appreciate that thank you also you know there's there's a lot of kinds of abuse and there are some times of abuse even physical that the person experiencing it might not even recognize as abuse One of your advocates had to walk me through turning a situation in my mind from he was being an asshole and he was being unsafe to no, that was actually vehicular assault. I was not in the state that I was in and what had been done to my mind. I was not…
Yes. I'm out with our field mediation team. I attended the Johnson County Affordable Housing Coalition anniversary and annual meeting. Had a PDS liaison meeting, city of literature meeting. I joined our PDS team in Swisher at the city council meeting to introduce the new financial assistance development program and also attended the Haycap Food Reservoir Hunger Day of Action. There were a lot of representatives there. There was somebody from the executive director of the North Liberty Pantry was up there And it was a good event, good panel. Continued working on the water work. And then I also…