Remarks by Mary Starrett
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“Thank you. So with that, I would move approval.”
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“Okay. Well, I spoke with him and he was sort of a little surprised by it. And I don't want to overstep, obviously, if the committee made that decision, they do have, for the bylaws, the ability to do that. But I want to make sure, because in reading these emails... Reading these emails from Cynthia, she said, yeah, I basically kind of overstepped. I think this might have been in regard to Jessica's application that there was some, the process wasn't followed.”
“But as far as the chair, appointing the chair, the committee does have the authority to do that. And then the board would.”
“the committee has the authority to appoint a chair or to nominate a chair and then the board would approve it. So that's where we are today. I just want to make sure that in terms of the discussion that went on at the meeting that everything was followed so it wasn't just a we're going to submit, we want this to submit it to the board of commissioners.”
“advertising the anytime we want somebody else on on it, because I think we, you know, I'd really like to make sure. And I know there there might be a disability designation in this particular application, which is is great. But we also would like to cast the net pretty widely for veterans and folks who use user. So I just want to make sure we're following those bylaws.”
“So if we could just put this off till next week, we can try to figure out where we're maybe not following the rules here.”
“Just so that we can get everything squared away because I think there's a lot of confusion and Cynthia was saying, hey, maybe I didn't follow the process, but I want to make sure that did or didn't happen. That's all.”
“We had our meeting, our monthly meeting of the Suicide Prevention Coalition. I want to thank, Kelsey's doing a great job of getting a variety of different stakeholders together. One of the things we talked about was a youth outreach project, a banner project to get messages of hope regarding suicide prevention more broadly in the schools and different things. Something else which is new, and every time you turn around, there's another threat to the mental health and wellbeing of our youth, but apparently kids are using AI as therapy a therapy for chat, where they're going to AI and asking…”