Emily Cho

“Speaking of Palmer, I am wondering, Eddie, maybe if you want to, in your follow-up email, invite them to our August meeting.”

“So we can skip over everything. We are skipping items 3 to 6 because we do not have quorum.”

“maybe a good next step is to maybe we can like, like as a commission and as commissioners, we can sign up as a group for the various volunteering opportunities in town to support the existing efforts to provide relief and support for those experiencing homelessness.”

“this is from Marie. It's an international cooking class, potentially partnering with someone like, uh, like companies like Dirty Apron to host a series of cooking classes featuring signature dishes from each of our sister cities.”

“It looks like we have 2. Yeah, 2 vacant seats, or no, 3 vacant seats actually. Yep. Do we have a timeline of when we might have new commissioners join us?”

“We do not have quorum, so today will mainly be a discussion, which is pretty fitting since most of the items that we have on the agenda are more discussion-based. So I'm going to call to order the meeting, 6:08 PM.”

“At our last meeting, we discussed joining Sister Cities International. We are postponing the actual final vote of joining in August, but I wanted to remind folks to please visit their website and educate yourself on what it is, what it does, and the benefits of us joining. The annual cost for us would be around $1,030.”

“We do have a— we do have some vacant seats.”

“That sounds like a nice community mixer since, um, It would probably— we'll probably have to dedicate a meeting for that because I would assume that if we invite all these leaders, we want to take the time to like get to know them or at least have them like talk about their community”

“So we do not have quorum. So today we'll just review the agenda and we'll make some more action items in August.”

“The unfinished business around the potential new sister city of Recife, Brazil cannot continue because Claudia is not here.”

“the first idea that Anna shared is the International Carving Festival. Anna is involved in planning the event, and it's right now it's in its early stages, and it's like a 2027 kind of event.”

“So we will shelf that and loop back around in August when we reconvene.”

“we can have them speak prior to our final vote on whether or not we actually do fill out the very short online application. To become a member of the Sister Cities International. And so that will be in August.”