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we need to start without facebook live
well tim

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yeah yeah and tim
maybe give it another try in a little

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okay that sounds good we're uh reporting
but just not live

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so it is 5 28 and we'll call this public
hearing to order recording of the role

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please

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all present thank you
and we'll open the public hearing to

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hear comment on a blight violation
of detroit de novo llc at 143 west oak

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street
parcel number 52-27-204-260

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okay as you guys can see um tom's
pulling up a

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powerpoint presentation here um
a little background on this property is

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we've had
some issues here with the previous few

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people that owned
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the most recent it was purchased from a
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2000

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um we've had issues there on going back
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this year we've sent notices on june
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july 16th august 31st
so again there's some photos tom has if

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you can
go down through them on the left is

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beginning of this summer and on the
right is today

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in this afternoon um some progress made
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photos the next photos down or
the side of the building what it looked

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like
in july on the left and today on the

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right so
there is some progress being made on the

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property so i can't deny that fact that
it's gotten a lot better

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the next photos are the left one being
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august and the right one
right here being today and we still have

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some issues there
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mattresses furniture that kind of thing
that was in the house when this uh

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individual has purchased it so

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and there's one more photo on the next
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the rear of the hull switch compared to
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a lot cleaner up by the house

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i don't know if the commission has any
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any comment

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is if there's no commissioner questions
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um tim is there any public that would
like to comment on this matter

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all right let me find out for you
if there's anybody present in attendance

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that would like to make
a comment to the commission regarding

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this
this property please raise your hand and

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that's by pushing the
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screen

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all right looks like we're good in it
okay thank you

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and um of the commission
any other comments before we close this

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hearing any
no okay we'll close the public hearing

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at 5 32 and
i call the regular meeting to order

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please stand for the pledge of

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allegiance

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i pledge allegiance to the flag
of the united states of america and to

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the republic
for which it stands one nation

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under god indivisible with liberty
and justice for all

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and just verifying um with tim that
um our phone link or um

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online link is working yes
thank you recording of the role please

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all present thank you
item c approval of the consent agenda

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is there a motion to approve i'll make a
motion to approve the consent agendas

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presented
thank you is there support

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motion by commissioner core consecutive
by commissioner mildren

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to approve the consent agenda is
presented any other comments questions

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roll call vote please care

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corcoran yes mildred yes
simo yes virtua yes

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motion carries unanimously thank you
item d approval of the agenda

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before you make a motion i just want to
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to one item and that's under old
business

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it was added to take action on the
public hearing that was missed

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so just want to make sure everybody has
that current

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agenda
make a motion to approve the agenda as

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presented
support motioned by commissioner mildred

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and seconded by commissioner corcoran to
approve the agendas presented

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roll call vote please corcoran yes
mildred yes simo yes care

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yes virgil yes motion carries
unanimously

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thank you item e are there any citizens
wishing to address the commission on

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items that are
on tonight's agenda

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okay so any um
anyone that would like to make a comment

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uh please raise your hand
and it looks like we have one so far so

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jeff barker i will allow you to speak
um and then just have to unmute yourself

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good evening everybody jeff barker here
um 1146 south washington lansing

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michigan
on behalf of some local ironwood

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residents hoping to get a commercial
marijuana permit

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i want to say again i know it's been a
long road um

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even before i became involved uh late
last year uh you guys have put in a ton

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of work on this ordinance
um and i'm really hoping that that we

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can move forward on it tonight
um i'm really appreciative of the edits

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made after the meeting
uh two weeks ago um i would still

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just point out that the signage
restrictions are still

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overly restrictive um not allowing any
graphics on the on the signage um seems

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to be hard for some of these brands to
be able to

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um to get their brand name out there um
to to set themselves

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apart from others if they're only
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do just plain lettering for their
signage i think that's going to be

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problematic and i hope that you can
look to maybe allow graphics

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um as i mean if you if you want to get
rid of the green leaf

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um and things like that that's not a
problem um most

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most companies nowadays don't even use
that in their in their marketing for

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for various reasons um and then i would
also um

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just like to to see if the commission
would be willing to

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increase the cap that they have set um
to reduce the likelihood of any

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potential litigation
when the scoring happens um

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but outside of that i just wanted to

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again say say thank you for your time
and consideration

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on this and i hope that we can move
forward um and we can start getting some

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applications filed in the next
couple of months so thank you so much

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for your time
i look forward to watching the

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discussion
thank you any other citizens wishing to

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address the commission on items on the
agenda

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all right so same thing anybody that
would like to address the commission

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please raise your hand
all right annette we don't have anybody

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okay
moving on to any item f citizens wishing

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to address the commission on items that
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all right same thing anybody that would
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please raise your hand

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all right looks like same thing okay
thank you we'll move on to item g

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update on the kobit 19 response

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thank you we'll go through our our
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and have uh paul then tom and andrew
provide any updates for the commission

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in their reactive areas
thanks scott um from the finance side of

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things
um not a whole lot to update the

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commission on
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earlier that day on august 24th i think
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the state completed their august revenue
sharing consensus

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where they were going through the
current fiscal year budget

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state's current fiscal year budget and
and the future budgets and

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really doing some estimates on sales tax
um income tax things like that from the

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statewide level
um i'm working through that data and

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calculating the impacts to the city
i hope to have a much more thorough

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i will have a much more thorough report
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at the next meeting when i typically
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reports but just in short we did receive
um some cares act funding um from the

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state
this was uh the that replace

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they're calling it replacement for the
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statutory revenue sharing essentially
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and this took the place of it um the
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received was about 150 percent of what
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august statutory revenue sharing was
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so it's a good thing however it is still
less than what we originally budgeted

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for so
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it is something again the cares act
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some reporting requirements and there
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need to be used in accordance with the
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fortunately for us public safety
payroll and and other expenses do

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qualify for that
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will have plenty of eligible expenses to
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so those are the cares act dollars
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i did sit in on a mml webinar
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two of the other programs that we've
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as well as the payroll reimbursement um
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april and may they haven't released that
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they're hoping to release that early
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so that would be tomorrow and wednesday
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the state will be sending out at least
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funds later this week um they did res
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available uh for the hazard pay
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and i believe they um received anywhere
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40 to 50 uh 40 to 50 million
in requests so they're going to have

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some excess funds available out of that
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on the payroll reimbursement program
there was 200 million available

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and the requests to date were upwards of
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so with that those payments once
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all of the requests it's looking like
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so if you remember we submitted
reimbursement for about two hundred

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thousand dollars
for those months of payroll so we're

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probably looking
somewhere between 50 and 55 percent of

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that amount
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so again we're waiting to hear we're
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of course as information becomes
available we'll definitely let the

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commission know
um that's the end of my report unless

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there are any questions
thank you

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all right um thank you there isn't a lot
to report from

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community development however the grants
through the michigan restart grant

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program
are now being sent out my understanding

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is is that there are some businesses
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received checks from the state um so
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those that money is being distributed
throughout our community now

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to i believe what it was 31 businesses
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so hopefully that will help people
as you may have heard another

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cara another package at the federal
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so it sounds like there won't be any
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after the election
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election is our understanding so
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we're moved to now bi-weekly updates
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where we have an opportunity to hear
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as
new grant opportunities are presented

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we'll definitely share them with the
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thank you thank you

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um from public safety not much to report
we continue to work with city staff and

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community members
on uh covert 19 issues

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we're reaching out to people if there
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issues we would like to be the liaison
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contact social service programs those
continue to be a challenge

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according to some people in our
community so if there are any issues in

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the community
uh obtaining information to these social

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service programs we do encourage them to
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our office to work out the details to
come in contact with those agencies so

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other than that nothing new to report

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any update on on numbers uh andrew
i don't have an update on numbers we are

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trending downwards
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western u.p health we do see a
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uh mainly directed with the testing at
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thank you any other covet 19 updates

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no other updates thank you thank you

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moving on to item h an audience with
amber hollenbeck from the ironman

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tourism council and tim
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development director regarding
um updating the commission on marketing

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efforts from the ironwood tourism
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okay thank you annette um so amber and i
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presentation
um you know that about a month ago

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um you had requested um us to update you
on where the itc and city environment

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partnership is at
so i'm just going to share my screen

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quickly

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all right can everybody see that
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all right yes thank you um
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sorry one moment

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okay so uh
travel ironwood or iron tourism council

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so what
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questions are a little bit more
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presentation
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beginning just because
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that are watching this
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so it's basically the marketing name for
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and the iron tourism council is made up
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ironwood
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funded directly through assessment tax
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and also amber and myself are the staff
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for the tourism council

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and maybe just a little bit of
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how i guess our partnership kind of fits
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the city's plan um
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the city of ironwood went through a very
comprehensive um branding process

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and in which we developed a a
new logo we got a brand standards guide

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a platform and a new tagline the finder
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and all of this happened through the
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strategies
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constantly taking it one step further
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our different committees and
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economic development corporation and
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retention of businesses
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community
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development mechanisms that we
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i guess specifically is in in helping us
market through the redevelopment ready

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communities program
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relocation packets for to employers
priority redevelopment sites we

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advertise those
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maintenance of
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strategy of the comp plan
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um one thing that we do the iron tourism

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council
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and this really just kind of enforces
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when tourists are are in our community
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we've done that through uh the creation
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um most recently would be the the us2
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i don't know if anybody has seen them
but every other poll on us2 has

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new banners the downtown banners as well
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program but
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that we're placing
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guide maybe tourists to different
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is is one of our i guess key key things
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it's about a year and a half old and
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everything that you can think of doing
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we're out there advertising it we're
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just unique uh pictures and
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our different things
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is really our our um i guess foundation
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um because everything that we do points
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so let's see
the next page and i'm actually going to

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turn it over to amber
um so amber if you want to yeah maybe

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take the next
um if you haven't met me before nice to

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see you all
thanks for letting us present to you um

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so travel bloggers influencers um are
really popular marketing tool that we've

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started to utilize
our first influencer we had was shalee

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wanders and she is a nationwide
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what these people do is they come to an
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they um explore the area then they write
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they post about it on social media um
so she came actually last year during

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platter day
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factory tour
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latter day and um the downtown and she
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she went to copper peak she went to the
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um and then we took her on a sunrise
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and it was really great we had a really
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response from her coming um
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lindsay she's a
minnesota-based blogger she came this

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past winter
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skiing
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they did some winter hiking
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different businesses
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went and what they did and what they
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we don't really tell them too much where
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organically do that
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well
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these are two brothers from down
state and they explode

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for michigan in june
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provided copper
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all the falls paddle boarding
um they have a blog a podcast

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they're also on all social media
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kind of a newer um social media platform
for mainly younger people the videos

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that they did for us
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um and they are coming back this fall
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tour so we're going to be their first
stop and they're doing that all across

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the u.p
and we're hoping to work with them in

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the winter as well
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um and we've had
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kind of talked about that um so we've
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hired videographers for videos that we
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to showcase the area attractions
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have the sisu ski fest as one of the
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um we've hired brad vara for these
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um tim were you gonna share one of those
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yeah one sec i just have to stop one
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okay it's a little bit tricky

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okay so one thing that we wanted to just
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is um is maybe one of the videos that we
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channel and i will i guess make it big

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can't really hear it you can't hear it
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i guess we can just kind of watch it i

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it's more effective with the music and
everything absolutely

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yeah but i'm sure you guys have seen
these and and you can go to our

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youtube channel and watch all of them
they're really

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pretty awesome videos

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guys so along with um hiring brad

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i can hear you yeah i think my uh
my computer froze when i stopped the

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share
amber are you able to move on without me

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yeah i'll i'll keep going
okay i'll just try to wing it here um i

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got i came back
okay so with along with brad

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um for those videos we've hired jake
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ironwood stories and those will be
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um sharing different families that why
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live in ironwood and what they love
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um and those will be coming out i think
at the end of september we have one and

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then for the winter we'll have another
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we've also hired brad umvara and lexi
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for photography so we could build up
our stock