[Music] to allow members more flexibility and increase engagement with the community the city's human rights and relations commission will operate as an ad hoc task force beginning next month the city council recently approved this change at the group's request removing the commission from the city code this means it can now work as a task force allowing members to dive deeper into projects and respond more quickly to community needs as a task force the group has three big priorities supporting City staff as they develop an equity strategic action plan advising on any significant human rights or inclusion issues in the community and 2025 and creating more opportunities to connect and engage with the community diversity equity and inclusion manager Thomas Brooks will continue to serve as staff leison to the group this task force shift uh with the commission members leading the way is a very exciting move because it's allowing us to be as needed hand very Hands-On and supporting the development of the esap and we do need to see that work get done in the first half of 2025 as a task force it would have been um we were quite capable we are quite capable as a commission to do that but in this case we will be meeting more frequently we'll we'll be engaging in surveys we'll be supporting a lot of Staff efforts toward developing the esap and it's kind of exciting this change goes into effect January 1st