good evening ladies and gentlemen good evening welcome welcome to the city of North Miami commission for women uh board meeting uh along with Miami D County com uh commission for women my name is Maria Tien chairwoman for the Nomi uh commission Forman for so I'm delighted to be here this evening at this time I'd like for um um to call the meeting to order and please stand the meeting has been called to order please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you you may be seated at this time I'd like to do a roll call for our board members chairwoman Marie oen that's me present Vice chair Dr Naomi Blu present board member Rose gamier present board member Dr Magda de Merit present board member Dr emanuela flont pres board member Nori um um Glickman Pleasant all right at this time I'd like to ask if there is any Amendment to the agenda do we have any amendment can I entertain a motion to accept the agenda as presented so move second all in favor say I I I thank you um at this time I'd like to ask everyone um um to please take a moment of silence in honor of all the victims in Haiti I'm sure you've been watching television you have seen what women children families uh are facing in Haiti right now during this crisis it is a humanitarian crisis and as a commission for women we we believe that human rights is sacred and that we need to keep them in our prayers so I'd like to ask for a minute of Silence thank you well it's been uh quite a while since we've entertained the thought of having a joint meeting with the Miami D County Commission uh for women so at this time I'd like to ask the president to say a few words and welcome her board thank you very much for gratitude of inviting us here Jo meeting the mic the mic press press the yeah I don't remember a board meeting on the road like this um you guys have literally welcomed us that maybe we can come here every other month you know if like if we get this attention we'll come but um thank you very much and then we'll finish yours and we'll go to our board meeting thank you um once again we welcome the entire Board of the um Miami de County commission for women it's a pleasure for having you I also would like to acknowledge um my mother who's in the room Mrs Lucian ILY and my cousin Stephanie reny ien I also like to acknowledge the president of the Miami chapter Black Nurses Association Dr Constance Miller who's also the treasurer for Global Innovative Foundation I'd like to acknowledge the commission for women for the city of Doral and all the commission of women who are watching who is here we also want to acknowledge the city of North Miami Beach commission for women and of course there's Rose please stand up Ros and we want to make sure that uh we uh acknowledge all of you who are important and we do have Dr alud Pierre uh uh founder of course of the uh yis love welcome the vice president of the Haitian American Nurses Association Miss Mell Flur welcome and Winnie Tong from the Asian hi Winnie how are you welcome all right so I don't want to call every single name but I do have the president of the Jamaican Nurses Association with an entire board who showed up Dr Beverly Allen welcome and the immediate past president miss John Howard who's also on the board of global Innovative Foundation welcome all right so uh we have two sets of minutes that we need to approve and of course you know today was been very exciting and I told Kya please no stress uh we can review those minutes and we can make a motion to approve them at the next uh the next U board meeting so I would like uh to table the minutes um for the last meeting as well as the one previously uh we had a transition uh that's still not complete yet because our leison um Aira Miss Aira Bas was an amazing uh liazon to the city for us and she's U moved on to another position and so uh we're still waiting for our newly Isam and so at this time I would like to acknowledge um Miss Kya filipo who uh the is the city um chief Chief of Staff who's done an amazing job uh collaborating and organizing with us to put this meeting together and again um Miss Gertie U jier who's just if you notice the beautiful flowers the food everything she's helped us and we want to make sure we acknowledge her and miss dunia Sant Miss dunia is in the back uh with the monitor thank you very much for all your hard work so um I've already acknowledged um the Chamber of Commerce of Broward dejan who's here and uh odar so all the BR folks who came by we appreciate you at this time um as you can see on the agenda we'll keep it very brief because we had our special presentation by the vice mayor uh Mary um ese Irvin who actually presented the proclamation uh uh already um um at the reception she presented the proclamation to um the Miami day uh County Commission as well as to our commission so I wanted to make sure um miam did you have your Proclamation you can Nina you can open it up so everybody can see yours so this was presented to us tonight and I wanted to make sure that we acknowledge the vice mayor and the council uh for uh giving this beautiful Proclamation and of course we always acknowledge our mayor who's not here with the council and moving forward everybody knows who's Dr Alex desulme our mayor and of course with uh the esteemed Council of the city uh we're moving on to new uh discussion this is very important um I had spoken to the board and I said you know we need to Showcase what we do uh for the past two years but it would not be fair to take time out of this meeting because this meeting is a joint meeting and we want to make sure we we we become you know very Equitable at the time and so uh once again we will table that presentation but we will um go with the nomination and selection for the new commission uh uh for women chair for Nomi I have had the privilege of serving for two years as a chairwoman the very first chairwoman for the city uh and and it's a privilege and I say that because everybody know I'm very humble um and you given me an opportunity uh and I and I remember our first meeting um Dr flont said to me uh you can do it Dr eten I believe in you right and so um Nori um thank you for entrusting your votes uh on and knowing that um that I would do a great job and I have uh had the pleasure of working with each one of you uh Dr uh uh the Blu Dr de Merit it's been an absolute pleasure working with this board and so we have done many things um uh for the county uh for the women in our city um I will do that official presentation at a later date but at this time we are going to ask among the four of us uh five of us we're going to ask uh for nomination and and selection of a new chair um I did decline any more terms um because uh everybody knows that I am the new president for the Florida Nurses Association among other hats that I do wear and I do want to do a great job and so I want I want to remain with all of you because my term is finished on the board on the board uh in October but as two years it's in it's in April so before the next meeting I would like to have a new chair so the floor is open I'd like to entertain a motion um or for nomination among who would like to make a motion who would like to run and serve as Vice chair please raise your hand if you have any um questions would like to speak and I you'll be acknowledged like to speak okay um at this time uh I would like to make a motion to nominate Dr Naomi blir as the new chair for the north Miami Commission women thank you it's been noted that uh nomination okay by um Dr Magda de Merit do I have a second I can second it okay all for it okay it's been second by oier any discussion is she accepted oh that was we still there's a nomination um have you accept the nomination Dr BL thank you so very much Dr Demmer it would be an honor I accept the nomination okay um so is there anyone else who would like to nominate for anybody for the chair okay ladies and gentlemen the um nomination has been made for Dr Naomi BL to be our new uh new chair and at this time I'd like to get a vote from the board by calling each name okay Nora Nori Glickman yes thank you Dr Emmanuela yes flont Dr b i obstain Dr um D yes Martian yes okay ladies G me you have your new chair Dr Naomi um as the new chair and this uh she will take over next meeting but as of now I will continue with uh tonight's meeting we're excited I want to say that it has been a pleasure working with Dr blir as the vice chairwoman because uh um she's very um um well Poise uh she's articulated well making sure that we on point with the support of the board it's been a pleasure uh working with you and um I'm here and whatever I can do to support the the agenda that's what we'll do so congratulations okay would you like to say a few words we'll keep it short because we have the agenda wow good evening esteemed members of the commission for women for North Miami and Miami day County distinguished guests elected official friends and family I am deeply honored and humbled to stand before you today as the newly elected chairwoman for the city of North Miami commission for women this moment marks not just a personal Milestone but a collective Triumph for all those who have worked tirelessly to advance the cause of gender equality women's empowerment in our community in our city and in our state first and foremost I want to express my heartfelt gratitude to each and every one of you my colleagues fellow Commissioners who have chosen me for this esteemed position your confident inspires me to redouble my efforts in serving our community and advocating for the rights and well-being of the women in North Miami I look forward to working closely with each one of you to advance our shared goals and make meaningful progress in our community together we can create a future where every woman and girl in North Miami has the opportunity to reach her full potential and contribute her unique talents to our Collective success thank you once again for your support I'm excited about the journey ahead and as we can continue to Champion the rights of women in North Miami and Beyond thank you uh next on the agenda I would thank you Dr Blum next on the agenda we have uh the business expo event updates Dr for us we put the business expo aside to concentrate in the health and wellness Expo on set of the business expo okay so um Dr dearit and Dr flont you want to talk about the upcoming health Expo go ahead go ahead start all right all right good evening good evening everyone good evening Madam chair so we met uh Dr flairmont and I we met to discuss the conference that we will be having it will be in June June 1st and it it will be at the Scott Galvin Community Center formerly the Wildcat Center and essentially we drafted an agenda for this event um it's going to consist of a registration a breakfast a welcome we're going to have the panel discussion we really like the my story that we um had last year so we're going to go ahead and have a repeat of that uh all of the panelists and moderators all that is to be determined we haven't gotten that far yet but we will have a lunch and learn we'll discuss Finance we'll do some stretch and movement motivational speaker we'll discuss mental health and Wellness HIV and disease prevention and then we'll have a presenter recognition and closing remarks so in the coming months we will get together meet plan put everything together and we'll report back to the board on our progress as time goes on yeah and to add to what Dr Deary just said we have a University of Miami that will provide lunch and breakfast for our guest and the require that everybody register to the event prior before U because they need to plan H uh for food and beverage for everyone that's coming to that event and also we we would like to discuss about the budget of the event the budget mjd wellness and Community Center will cover the um the photography and videograph the live streaming because we want to the show to be live in case someone cannot make it that day so that we'll be able to watch on Facebook and then um we the wom commission so we have to sit down with Kata to discuss the budget regarding um Center PES for the event and other uh flyers and other um preparation that we will need to make that event successful um do we have any questions regarding the what was discuss no no questions no questions all right hearing no questions um I'd like for everyone to please um mark your calendars um we do want to see um all women uh in attendance last year we had a couple of mens actually and it was beautiful so uh this a beautiful conference June 1st uh what's the time in you have in l 9 to 4 8:30 8:30 8:30 to 4 8:30 to 4 yes 8:30 is registration M and then uh we will start the first panel which is my story again um on at 10: or 9:45 10 okay you don't give us the agenda right now I just wanted to I just wanted to make sure we have a Sav the date and asking everyone to please save the date in your calendar if you are watching uh this conference is for you and we want you to uh take the knowledge and all the resources that we'll be bringing forth to you okay next uh we want to keep it we do have seven more minutes uh we want to make sure we uh finish it by 7:30 so next we have uh the fundraiser for the business master class that was voted on by the board uh Dr Bloomer thank thank you so right before we go into the business master class I want to point out that we have not voted on a Vice chair so I will I will do this in about hold on hold on let's continue with the business okay please report okay wonderful so I will con I will go over briefly the presentation for our master class so last year in 2023 I proposed to the board that we bring forth a master class for business owners well for women who desire to enter the business industry and have not yet and for whatever reason maybe she's fearful of entering the business industry maybe she she doesn't have money maybe she doesn't have access to the tools in order to start the business and as a small business owner myself I understand how important it is to give people tools and so we presented to the board a $225,000 investment where the board would raise the the $25,000 and it will give 50 women in the city of North Miami the opportunity to start their business for the very first time uh thank you oh go ahead oh sorry so this uh this this coaching master class was presented to us by build your business LLC From the Inside Out School of etiquette in Broward County they would present a eight a five week program with eight modules and so the mod modules will include motivation to to be committed and run the full course from start to finish uh week two would include step step one to building a solid foundation for your new business week module three would include Global Going Global and never looking back learning how to effectively articulate your business module 4 would include knowing where to find wholesalers and resources for your products money transactions databas database platforms e-commerce mod module five would include branding and consistency business etiquette and image and then for week four you would be in module six which would include learning how to effectively communicate with competitors and fellow entrepreneurs module 7 which would be week five um they would go over marketing how to collaborate with business to help to help your business Thrive and the power of giving back to your community and the last module which would be the week five would position your business for launching motivation to keep uh keep moving and succeed and the women would actually open their business during that last and final module and at this point we're looking for the report back from City Administration on how we move forward uh because we voted on this item the board here voted for it so it's um I was informed that would be great if we as the uh Commissioners actually try to raise the funds and of course my response was I would love to see each of the Commissioners actually contribute uh out of their uh funds and if each of them give 5,000 5,000 here 10,000 there we would we would easily uhu make this happen again this is Four Women in the city and we want to make sure that we have a thriving Workforce we want to make sure that business women in the city have um you know uh have the knowledge they need to be um to be marketable and to make sure that the business are successful thank you Dr lamur um we will continue to discuss with um vice mayor I'm I'm hoping that the vice mayor will take on this beautiful project as well and or any other Council uh Council men and Council women who would like to take this on um at this okay have a question can I have yes I have a question what do you think if we merge the the business expo with the funraising after the the session and then to close everything so we do an expo where those women can meet with um business owner or other professionals so instead of doing two almost the same thing and we don't have your budget hold on a second uh are we referring to cuz right now we're discussing ing the business Master Class proposal yes for for that woman you know the that was presented to us that is a a eight-week that is a five-week program with with those modules so that has nothing to do with um no that that like I told you we going to do it at if we can do it at the end of the class let's say is the five weeks right at the end for the closing we do a celebration so that celebration will be the business expo where those women can meet other business owners like they I like the idea I like the idea so uh we can further discuss among ourselves for the sake of time uh we can discuss it and I do want us to um come back to it but we do want to make sure um we respect the time that we said we would give the floor back to our uh colleagues um thank you Dr blir for your presentation on that so we will follow through uh public hearing um at this time I'd like to open the floor to the public uh if any of you would like to come to the podium to say a few words and make a comment this is the time that uh you can please come forward to and what you would do is introduce yourself and who you are and where you reside please come forward please come to the mic yes Dr Jer please note that we do have one minute left and I want to respect that good evening all on behalf of Miami dayve County's black Affairs Advisory Board the women that sit on that board bring you all greetings as well as celebrating March our social work month I am so thankful to be in the company of my fellow colleagues Miss nades V and Dr Magna de Merit thank you thank you thank you very much all right um ladies and gentlemen it is 7:30 we will right um if we can uh please respect the time we have 30 seconds left I would like to acknowledge uh one of my former student who owns cat's restaurant Miss Edward you literally have 10 seconds she was before yes I will acknowledge her good evening everyone I want to um thank you thank the board thank Dr Maran and congratulation to Dr Naomi blim um for being the new um chairman of of this great um chapter so thank you everyone and I want to say that um we next door the cat restaurant and we open every day from 9:00 in the morning until 11:00 at night thank you very much all right the only reason we give you that extra few seconds because you you fed us all the food came from cat's restaurant um I do I do want to acknowledge you I respect you and everybody knows but I must respect the time and so um please stand up for one you have literally 10 seconds before it come to 32 I can take 10 seconds everyone Christina olivo on behalf of the Women's Chamber of Commerce of Miami Dade County I just wanted to say thank you I love what's going on and as a small business owner myself I appreciate it so thank you welcome all right the floor is um well these announcements are listed so we don't need to um read I think you all have copies we do have um those announ announcement the ladies of hack Hof and honor of women history hosted by the Haitian American Chamber of Commerce and mayor Alex dul May will happen Thursday March 31st at 6 p.m. at mocha Courtyard Global Innovative Foundation fifth annual P influence luncheon at the uh that will be held on March 22nd at the builtmore hotel Pearls of Life wind Foundation 7th annual women and empowerment luncheon March 23rd at the Newport Beach uh Beachside Hotel in aspa South Florida Chapter women's her story she made it brunch Saturday March 23rd at Scott Galvin Community Center uh vice mayor ese Irvin women's and empowerment luncheon Thursday March 28th 11:00 a.m. at FIU Coen Center and the Haitian American Nurses Association uh 40th uh annual scholarship and fundraising Saturday April 13 2023 at the Hyatt Regency ladies and gentlemen at this time i' like to entertain a motion to adjourn so move thank you uh it's been move all in favor say I I the meeting is adjourned at 7:33 and we did start 2 minutes later so Nina I mean U Madame President Madame chairwoman you have the floor you took an extra minute from us yes I did because we had food um I would like to welcome everyone here um approval of our agenda for the Miami date commission for women make motion I second I'll make the motion thank you I'll second the motion receive our minutes no pass that table that for April I would like to recognize the commissioner bestin for coming out tonight and giving us the pl and thank you for all her support to the Miami date commission for women and the two board members that we have because of her thank you I would like to recognize the Miami day commission from North Miami for welcoming us again okay thank you um I would like to recognize commiss um board member from Dural as we're going to have a joint meeting in May we'll send out that information and hopefully you guys can go to Dural I would like to recognize Miss Jenkins from the Miami dat County Foster and adoptive parent that's right Association we are helping her um collect uh candy gifts baskets or if You' like to do a check so she can give a little explanation quickly regarding that Miss Jenkins please come forward to the mic so we can all hear you we'll give you 20 hi I'm chamelle Jenkins Miami dat County Foster and adoptive parent Association I represent the more than 1,200 youth that are in foster care as well as those adopted in relative care every year I do a plea for 2,000 Easter baskets for these children in Miami day County you want an Easter basket they want an Easter basket so if you can buy an Easter basket for your family and buy some for our kids thank [Applause] you you're around to the end so you can get thank you our next meeting is going to be September 24th at the Steven Clark building if I mean April [Laughter] 24th I'm ahead of myself may we will be doing it in the city of dado we'll get that date to you guys and the most important thing is the presentation at the Miami International airport [Laughter] okay [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] video video is in the airp mial airp [Applause] nice M you can talk there we go yeah you don't have to hold it just let it go okay woman's Hall of Fame on April 2 introduction ceremony at 11:30 in the conv chamber April 2nd at 11:30 in Miami day commission for women in the commission Chambers can you all hear me yes we will be introducing inducting the state attorney Kathy Rond Fernandez congresswoman fra Wilson and former congresswoman Elana Ross Le to the Women's Hall of Spain you are all welcome to go it's going to be April 2nd at 11:30 in the commission chamber aiss meeting prior so whenever you get there we will be there inside 11: a little so make sure if you can ride the train Metro Rail Metro Rail rail yes young women's Preparatory Academy scholarships we are opening that up next week um visit the commission for Miami day commission for women's website for information as the scholarships are going to be opening next week the communication committee will have to review those and report back to us by May so communication committee please make sure that you get with Nina get a date mention the last meting expanded beond the communications commit in order for them to scholarships so we awesome thank you the next event we have coming up is the woman's impact awards ceremony this is this Friday March 22nd at 6:30 p.m. at Zoo Miami one of our members will be receiving an a ward on that dat Dr Lynette long this event is open to anyone that would like to attend please make sure if you'd like to attend and you don't have the information come see one of us and we will give you the information so you can register please try to re register as soon as possible it is free and that is with commissioner McGee that is hosting that event okay the commission wants to recommend that we host another commission for women maybe a workshop panel discussion um any ideas that you guys think we can do and I think we should join your event coming up on June you yes yes okay amazing and if you need speakers I we do have a couple here that are very good okay right here she's from North Miami okay up hands up ladies okay okay well what else anything else I try to speed this meeting up because I wanted to make sure I got you out of here by 8:00 a does the public have anything an opportunity to speak now I'll give it to youa up train the city of just in regards to the event that you just discussed that I would love to see an event where all the commission for women in Miami day County could come together for a day we could have um any any type of motivational speaker some type of professional development it's a it's an opportunity for all of us to get to know know each other and to Network and and eat um we other things um we um Michelle I know you were present lur us I think you were there too we go back a few years um we have mariena Tano come speak to the commission meeting uh marielena Tano is I'm not going to say how old she is right now but she was one of the original uh on the commission for women has lots of years of wisdom and incredible experiences and it was a treat to have her there and it'd be great to have some women who are no longer on the commission maybe they've retired maybe they're doing other things but to come back and tell us what it was like 10 or 20 years ago when when they were trying to put this together that you're all sitting as part of so that that just wanted to add my suggestions for that okay now uh Saturday April 6th in the city of Dural at the Dural cultural Arts Center which is right across from our city hall we will have women in Focus I only brought one copy but I'm going to make sure that everyone gets that digital flyer we will have networking 101 digitally digital marketing revamp foreign degree no problem presented by Miami day college women negotiating salaries invest in your future retirement with New York Life women and financing and public speaking strategies all free from 9 to one and we see this as an opportunity for women to have professional development so that we can do better make more and get rid of that that Gap that exists between men and women with money thank you good evening everyone good evening um chairwoman and all the board member of Miami D County this is a great opportunity for me to to invite you to June 1st to um to our health and wellness so the health and wellness is education like it's spe specifically for women but we have men's that coming we welcome them where we will discuss um infection disease that's a is a case that people in our community we don't talk about we will have Finance and then we need a motivational speaker if you need one like she um said earlier we need one that can improve or help the women to get up like the mayor said the other day and one even I went to say women need to get up and then do things we sometimes lay back but we have to follow what our mayor said so we welcome you we want you to participate because we need to educate our young whomever to let them know that your health and wellness is priority so if you don't take that in consideration we are not educated ourself we cannot educate our community so thank you so much I just wanted to mention it's sad that I we have forgotten this but um Dr Lynette long is from the the city of Miami Beach commission for women oh my goodness I just can you please can you can you please Madame chair Madame chair Madam chair I don't want to be out of order on at your meeting can we please have her say a few words I know I just realized Madam that's right I'm a former college professor and about 15 years ago I walked into the US capital and and I walked into the Rotunda and there are eight giant paintings like 12 by 18 feet and I noticed it hit me like a ton of bricks the only woman was Pocahontas on her knee before God and man and I was like what and then I looked up at the freeze around the Rotunda which told our whole history of the nation from the Spanish landing and again the only woman was Pocahontas so I continued on the tour and uh the guide was pointing out that there's a hundred statues of women in the US capital two from each state 100 statu of people and I was overwhelmed because these statues are 10t tall and they're made of marble or bronze donated by each state and I looked around and I said to the guide how many women in these hundred because I noticed and I didn't even recognize most of who they were and I'm like okay how many women she said proudly nine we just got Helen Keller and I'm like nine out of a hundred there's something wrong and I said I'm going to change that and she said no they've been here 100 years it's impossible you can't do it well at that moment my eyes were opened and everywhere I go I see the overwhelming preponderance of men in our culture you just have to look at the money and it's all men and they're not all presidents and you have to look at the street names and they're mostly all men you can walk by I counted them all in Miami Beach recently 20 men to women you know I'm like at the podium no no point some women and you just have to look around and everything from the markers to the statues it's all men I mean uh New York City and Central Park had so many states and they only had two statues of women Mother Goose and Alice in Wonderland so um my quest has been to get more recognition for women of History because if girls don't see thems eles how can they have confidence that they can do anything so I would urge you in North Miami if you have women who've accomplished things name a street after them get a historical marker for them name a school after them have girls see themselves because if you don't see yourself you don't believe and I'm telling you the sexism from these subtle things it's like the Chinese water torture we used talk about one drop at a time it sinks in you and it says you're not important and it hurts me so much and I argue on behalf of women everywhere and because I count and this month in Miami Beach for commission for women if you get to the beach we put up 10 giant posters of women rock stars this year and we put up Gloria Stefon and um don't tell me Judy Garland Barbara strand Madonna artha Franklin Whitney Houston bana Ross um I'm trying to think of all 10 and they're giant posters right on Ocean Drive and it wasn't a lot of money the year commission could do it it didn't cost much it cost $1,000 to print them and I got the money from eileene Higgins and we put them in frames and next year we'll pick a different theme and we put them up and everybody walking by like right here on 125th street or whatever gets to see them and say yes there is women's history yes we have done something and yes we deserve to be seen so I hope you take up this and do it here in your town because I don't know the people from your town and uh it's up to you to make it happen because when little girls see that I I have two I have a daughter and two granddaughters and it touches me deeply I don't want them to grow up in the world I grew up in where we were totally invisible you know someone said to me Rose she thought I she I was 10 years older than her I'm 75 I'm going to be 76 this month and I'm not going to quit until it's done thank you we have one more all right at least I know how to you can you can you can go a little bit more if you want to oh my God how do I follow so powerful um well Prosperity my name is Nashville St the executive director for Prosperity Social Community Development Group um March 30th we have a mind body and soul we challenge every woman if you have a daughter niece bringham if you have a my all of you guys should have a man because I always have a young girl that I mentor and always follow them with me so if you have any of that in your life we ask that you do bring them on the 30th at Scot Galvin between 10 to 3 where we would have a lot of woman wellness fitness makeup makeover um they get a chance to pick up a dress that they would like to to give to someone else like foster care kids and many other ones that we work with so we ask that you do bring your daughter your niece your cousins on the 30th and we have also great panel of mental health that will be there also so hope to see you there on the 30th thank [Applause] you good evening ladies wow what an amazing amazing heartfelt speech thank you so very much thank you uh it's as we're closing I was sitting up there and I said to myself what a great opportunity to Champion something countywide so as my first initiative as the commission for woman uh chairwoman for the city of North Miami I would like to propose before you a countywide summit which I would work with the current chairwoman and we can do this together and we would connect every single woman in Miami day County and start a movement there's so much that women can do there's so much that women want to do but they need to see someone else doing it or they need someone else to tell them you can and so I would like to put that before you um I am willing and able and I look forward to partnering with you guys thank [Applause] you hi everyone okay so I just wanted to quickly talk a little more about the Women's Chamber of Commerce once again my name is Christina olivo I'll I'll make it fast um as we're celebrating women's History Month uh the Women's Chamber of Miami day County was created by Elma Gibson not many people know that this was created 40 years ago we're celebrating 40 Years of the chamber and so this coming September is our 25th um annual Thelma Gibson award so even though it's 40 years we started the awards so um award ceremony 25 years ago it's Wednesday September 25th at the builtmore hotel I would I think it would be amazing if the women's um commission from every every um city in Miami would would show up we'd love to have you so um 25th Annual tho gibon Awards Wednesday September 25th at the builtmore hotel thank you at what time oh okay I get okay great um I I don't have the time it's it's going to be in the evening I'm looking at the information right now it's in the evening but if you go to www.wccu.org WCC miami.org okay let's Boogie um Madame chair if I have the privilege um since this is my last meeting um and I'm witnessing history having this joint meeting was the perfect opportunity to show True collaboration I would like to say thank you for allowing this moment to occur and um this is history it's women history we are making history being the first uh chairwoman for the city of North Miami commission for women I am just so happy to leave everybody in good hand I will continue to serve as you and know we just push yourself to the side but we know having the Miami dead County Commission tonight at the city is just heartwarming and I just want to say thank you for the opportunity thank you for the invite invitation our meeting is adjourned also all right before everybody leave before you leave I would like to uh make sure we take a group photo in the chamber this is history those who stayed will be I I'm hoping that the photographer yes he's still here so what we'll do we'll do a group photo uh we can still sit where we are uh I would like the audience to um come on each side of the board and you get to make history this is history and the making and thank you D you can close you can close the uh yeah this because the meeting hasn't been adjourned yes and of course um