CompletedCity Council Listening Session - April 21, 2025

City Council Listening Session - April 21, 2025

Date: Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 4:04 PMActual: Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM

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[0:11] Oh, that's my thought. And I'm gonna call our listening session to order. It is 05:47 on Monday 21 April, our listening session here in the hayke conference room. We have three people who have signed up for a 5 min slot to talk to the council as part of our listening session. We've got. [0:31] Parker, is it Jenny? Janae. Janete excuse me. John hitmaker and Lisa Watsons. Why don't we start with Parker and we will. [0:41] Want a parker URL? Oh, ok. Yes. We ask that you can sign in after you finish up, but as you as you get up your way to turn off a few of the overhead lights, I have a brain injury and it's pretty bad today. Just like a. Is that possible? Appreciate it. Thanks. [1:01] I know. Okay. Is that better? Too dark. [1:07] No, that's ok. Okay cool. I appreciate it. Never done before so take some breaths. Alright, and if you could. Yeah. So everybody's gonna get 5 min to speak. 5 min. I'm gonna cut you off. [1:27] Yeah just because everybody gets 5 min this week and. [1:32] And if you could just state your name for the record and off we go. Okay, sounds good. I'll probably close my eyes for most of this. It just helps me kind of focus on my words as my name, my name my name is Parker Janete. I use she her pronouns, and I'm really honored to meet you all here. Thanks for listening to me tonight. I'm a. [1:52] I'm an artist and a teacher, but 1st and foremost I'm a I'm a disabled person. So for me that means that I've been neurodivergent my whole life. I growing up in public education super overstimulated so as I I just offered this and this is kind of like a sensory friendly moment to bring the lights down, so I'm grateful for that. I. [2:12] I also have a brain injury and I, I manage chronic pain. So disability is a big part of who I am. It's also the work that I do. I serve both disabled people and older adults in inner generational community. And I've with when I moved here almost three years ago, I was just so. [2:32] That struck by Creekside Community Center and amazed that something like that exists with like a day program especially during the last years with all all the senior programs from shutting down. And so I've been trying this year to get to some of the listening sessions as we put together this new Creekside Community Center, and because of my. [2:52] Visibility had not been able to get there. The last one that I I guess happened at creek side, I didn't get communication around. So I've been spending some time listening at Creekside and getting to know, you know, the woodworkers there, the artists, there's so many artists I feel like it's just rooted in art. And based on what I've been hearing and, and. [3:12] Professionally I've been in spaces with Nick and been talking to Leah and Matt and Mark and then all these amazing artists in the, you know, the metal shop, the rock shop and the artist store. I've been going to the Thursday get togethers for the music and I saying last week with a group of people which is amazing.…

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