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[Veteran Affairs Commission on February 12, 2026.]
SO YOU ARE FREE TO, TO BEGIN THE MEETING, PLEASE.MRS. HOUSTON, ARE YOU PRESENT? YES, I'M HERE.
MR. SHERMAN, ARE YOU HERE PRESENT ONLINE? YES.
MR. ORTEGA? PRESENT ACCOUNTED FOR, SIR.
WITH NINE MEMBERS PRESENT, WE HAVE A QUORUM.
UH, I'D LIKE TO TAKE THIS MOMENT TO WELCOME A NEW, UH, MEMBER TO THE COMMISSION.
WE'RE GLAD TO HAVE YOU WITH US.
UH, WOULD YOU JUST, UH, GIVE US A SHORT, UH, BIO OF YOURSELF? WHAT SERVICE WERE YOU IN AND WHAT YOU DO NOW? OKAY, SO, UM, I'M LAKIRA HOUSTON.
UM, I SERVED 20 YEARS IN THE AIR FORCE.
UM, THEN I STARTED WORKING FOR HOMELESS VETERAN REINTEGRATION PROGRAM.
SO I BASICALLY HELP HOMELESS VETERANS FIND HOUSING AND HELP THEM FIND RESOURCES AND JOBS.
SO THAT IS MY FOCUS RIGHT NOW, SO I'M HAPPY TO BE A PART OF THE COMMISSION.
WELL, WE'RE, WE'RE HAPPY TO HAVE YOU HERE.
ALRIGHT, NUMBER FOUR, ON OUR, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS.
DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC SPEAKERS TODAY? NO.
I HAD AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THE COMMISSION.
NOT SURE IF NOW'S THE RIGHT TIME FOR THAT.
IF YOU, IF YOU'D WAIT JUST UNTIL WE GET TO THE ANNOUNCEMENT, YOU CAN MAKE THE ANNOUNCEMENT.
DO I HEAR A MOTION TO, TO, UH, ACCEPT THE JANUARY MINUTES AS THEY ARE POSTED? SO, MOTION PRECIADO MAKE A MOTION.
A MOTION HAS BEEN MADE AND SECONDED.
I SECOND DISTRICT SEVEN SAY, AYE.
THE MINUTES OF THE JANUARY MEETING OF THE COMMISSION HAVE BEEN ACCEPTED.
ALRIGHT, I SEE, UH, SOMEONE FROM FMU, THEY'RE TEACHING THROUGH.
SO, NUMBER SIX, STATUS REPORT OF THE VETERANS.
WELL, THIS ASSESSMENT, UH, DR. MCGEE, YOU WOULD PLEASE.
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HAVE THE FLOOR.UM, I HAVE A PRESENTATION I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE.
IT HAS SOME OF THIS INFORMATION, BUT JUST, UH, IN A MORE, UM, UH, FRIENDLY WAY, I SUPPOSE.
DR. MCGEE SPEAKING, ARE YOU ASKING TO PRESENT FROM YOUR SIDE SOMETHING OTHER THAN WHAT YOU'VE SHARED? YES.
SO I WILL STOP SHARING THE SCREEN THEN, SO THAT YOU'RE ABLE TO, TO DO THAT, PLEASE.
YOU CAN GO AHEAD WHENEVER YOU'RE READY.
I'M HAVING TO DO SOME SETTINGS HERE, WHICH I HAVE NOT HAD TO DO BEFORE.
WELL, WE CAN SEE AND HEAR YOU VERY WELL.
CAN YOU SEE MY SCREEN? I'M TRYING TO SHARE.
I'M TRYING TO SHARE AND IT'S, I KNOW I'VE BEEN ABLE TO DO THIS BEFORE AND IT'S JUST NOT WORKING.
UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT IS GOING ON.
YOU, YOU WANNA PUT YOUR ASKING ME TO OPEN MY SYSTEM? WE'RE WAITING FOR YOU TO GET YOUR TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES SORTED OUT.
UH, COMMISSIONER WESTHAM, MAKE HIS ANNOUNCEMENT.
UM, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO PROPOSE, UM, IN FITTING, UM, MR. UM, DAVID PITMAN, WHO'S THE CHAIRMAN OF A NONPROFIT CALLED HONOR OUR HEROES.
IT'S A DALLAS BASED NONPROFIT THAT DOES LIGHT UP FOR VETERANS AND FIRST RESPONDERS TO, TO HONOR THEM.
UM, HE, HE WOULD LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, SHARE A FEW WORDS AND PRESENT AT THE COMMISSION.
UH, AND SO I WANTED TO PROPOSE THAT TO YOU CHAIR, UM, TO SEE IF, UH, WE CAN SCHEDULE SOMETHING, UH, IN THE FUTURE.
UH, WE'LL TAKE THAT, UH, IN UNDER ADVISEMENT AND, UM, SEE IF WE CAN SCHEDULE HIM AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
IF YOU COMMUNICATED, HAVE YOU COMMUNICATED WITH THE STAFF AS FAR AS NAME AND CONTACT NUMBER SO THAT THEY CAN GO AHEAD AND SCHEDULE? YES, THEY HAVE THAT INFORMATION AND I'D BE HAPPY TO SHARE THAT WITH YOU AS WELL.
WE'LL, WE'LL, WE'LL SCHEDULE THAT AND GET IT GOING.
ALRIGHT, DR. MCGEE, JUST FORGET ABOUT THE TECHNICAL DEAL DIFFICULTIES AND TELL US WHAT YOU HAVE TO SAY IF, IF YOU CAN, DR. MCGEE, TRY AGAIN.
I, I ADJUSTED THE SETTING TO MAKE YOUR PRESENTER, SO HOPEFULLY YOU SHOULD BE OKAY THIS TIME.
GO AHEAD AND TRY AGAIN, PLEASE.
SO, OOPS, IT WENT ALL THE WAY TO THE END THERE.
SO I THINK THIS IS ABOUT THE BEST I CAN DO, AND I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT.
FOR SOME REASON, MY, UM, SETTINGS WON'T, UH, ALLOW ME TO PRESENT FROM MY PDF.
BUT ANYWAY, SO, UM, I HAVE THE FINDINGS.
SOME OF THESE ARE FROM THE, THE MONTHLY REPORT THAT I GAVE YOU, AND SOME ARE BRAND NEW.
SO IF IT'S NOT POSSIBLE FOR ME TO PRESENT THE NEW ONES THAT WERE DONE PRETTY MUCH JUST YESTERDAY BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT ON THE AGENDA, THEN THAT'S FINE.
BUT JUST TO LET YOU KNOW, I DO HAVE SOME NEW ITEMS TO ASK.
SO WHAT WE'VE DONE AND WHAT WAS ON THE MONTHLY REPORT WAS, UM, ABOUT TOPIC MODELING.
AND, UH, I'VE MENTIONED THIS BEFORE, BUT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO WITH TOPIC MODELING IS GROUP WORDS THAT TEND TO APPEAR TOGETHER AND TO REFLECT MULTIPLE THEMES.
SO WE TRY TO GROUP WORDS TOGETHER SO THAT WE CAN GET IDEAS OF THEMES THAT ARE EMERGING IN THIS CASE FROM THE VIIF.
SO THIS IS A STATISTICAL METHOD, AND WE HAVE A LARGE VOLUME OF OPEN-ENDED TEXT ACROSS MULTIPLE ACTIVITIES.
AND WE'RE TRYING TO SUPPORT THE QUALITATIVE REVIEW THAT WAS DONE,
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UM, EARLIER BY REORGANIZING AND SURFACING, UH, RECURRING PATTERNS.SO WHAT WE DID WAS I BUILT ONE DOCUMENT PER TABLE GROUP AND CLEANED AND STANDARDIZED THE TEXT.
SO THIS IS ALL KIND OF BACKGROUND STUFF THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE, EXCUSE ME, IN ORDER TO, UM, FIT THE MODELS, WHICH IN THIS CASE IS SOMETHING CALLED LATENT DEARLY ALLOCATIONS.
SO IT'S A STATISTICAL MODEL THAT, UM, ALIGNS WORDS WITH TOPICS AND, UH, ASSIGNS OF PROBABILITY TO EACH WORD BELONGING TO A TOPIC.
SO WHAT WE CAN DO IS IDENTIFY DOMINANT RECURRING ISSUES AND, UM, REDUCE RELIANCE ANECDOTES AND, UH, PROVIDE A REPRODUCIBLE SUMMARY.
OF COURSE, WE'RE STILL LIMITED TO, UH, HUMAN INTERPRETATION.
SO ONCE WE HAVE A TOPIC, I KIND OF HAVE TO COMPILE IT AND GENERATE IT AND TRY TO INTERPRET IT, UM, BY, SO THE TOPICS ARE JUST LIST OF WORDS, AND THEN, UH, YOU JUST, YOU JUST HAVE TO TRY TO, YOU, MEANING THE ANALYST HAS TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THOSE WORDS MEAN ALTOGETHER.
SO TO TRY TO LABEL IT IS STILL A HUMAN GENERATED TASK.
UM, OF COURSE, OBVIOUSLY WE'RE NOT DETERMINING PO POLICY PRIORITY HERE.
ALL I'M GOING TO PRESENT ARE STRONG MATCHES, EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG MATCHES AND PARTIAL, BUT CONSISTENT MATCHES THAT I FOUND FROM, UM, THE VIIF TEXT.
SO I HAD A CSV FILE OF ALL OF THE TEXTS THAT WAS GENERATED FROM THE VIIF FORUM IN, UH, JULY OF LAST YEAR.
AND WE HAD 10 THEMES THAT EMERGED FROM THE VIF QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS.
AND SO THIS IS NOW A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND WE'RE LINING UP THOSE STATISTICAL RESULTS WITH THE, UM, QUALITATIVE THEMES FROM THE VIIM.
SO EXCEPTIONALLY STRONG MATCHES YOU'VE SEEN THIS BEFORE.
UM, SYSTEM FRAGMENTATION AND SILOING ARE INFRASTRUCTURE PROBLEMS THAT, UH, NEED TO BE ADDRESSED.
UM, TRANSITION AS A MULTI-YEAR CHALLENGE AND NOT A MOMENT IN TIME.
AND FAMILIES, UM, NEED, UH, THEY OFTEN, UH, DEAL WITH A LOT OF THINGS BEHIND THE SCENES AND DON'T GET A LOT OF RECOGNITION OR SUPPORT.
SO THOSE ARE THREE TOPICS THAT EMERGED FROM THE STATISTICAL MODELING THAT MATCHED VERY CLOSELY WITH THEMES FROM THE QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS.
THE NEXT PIECE ARE STRONG MATCHES.
SO NAVIGATION BEING THE NUMBER ONE SYSTEM BREAKDOWN, AND WE'VE SEEN THAT BEFORE, UM, A LOT.
UM, MENTAL AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NEEDS ARE DEEP, CHRONIC AND UNSUPPORTED.
UM, COMMUNITY BELONGING AND SOCIAL CONNECTION ARE ESSENTIAL.
SO THAT CONNECTS BACK TO THE FAMILIES AND OTHER COMMUNITY.
UM, ASPECTS OF, UH, TRANSITION FROM A MILITARY TO CIVILIAN LIFE.
EMPLOYMENT BARRIERS, UM, KIND UNDERMINES STABILITY AND PURPOSE AND HEALTHCARE, UM, ABOUT CULTURE MISMATCHES, REFERRAL FAILURES AND ACCOUNTABILITY GAPS.
I'M NOT SURE THAT, UH, I HAVE TO ADMIT THAT THIS LAST PIECE MIGHT REFER US TO THE VA, WHICH I KNOW THE CITY OF DALLAS DOES NOT HAVE CONTROL OVER, BUT THE NOTION OF NAVIGATION IS SOMETHING THAT MIGHT HELP THAT SITUATION ALSO.
AND SOME CONSISTENT BUT PARTIAL MATCHES IS ABOUT HOUSE HOUSING STABILITY AND LEGAL I JUSTICE ISSUES, UM, INTERWOVEN WITH MENTAL HEALTH, HOUSING AND ELIGIBILITY.
SO THAT WAS, THIS IS THE INFORMATION, UM, THAT WAS PRESENTED.
UM, WHAT WE'RE ADDING HERE IS, UH, CLARIFYING SOME MECHANISMS, SOME COORDINATION, NAVIGATION, TRUST AND CONTINUITY ARE MECHANISMS THAT CAN BE USED TO TRY TO AID VETERANS IN THEIR TRANSITION, UM, AND IN THEIR LIFE AFTER MILITARY LIFE.
UM, AND WE ALSO, UH, WHEN COMBINED WITH THE FEASIBILITY RESULTS, WE HAVE THIS SEQUENCE OF ADDRESSING NAVIGATION AND ACCESS FIRST, STABILIZING TRANSITION SUPPORT, UM, AT THE POINT OF DISCHARGE WOULD PROBABLY BE THE EASIEST POINT TO DO THAT.
BUT, UH, I, AGAIN, I'M NOT SURE HOW MUCH THE CITY HAS CONTROL OVER THAT.
I EMBED PEER FAMILY ENGAGEMENT EARLY ON IN THE PROCESS AND BUILD SOME LONG-TERM DATA GOVERNANCE CAPACITY.
SO THAT'S A LONG-TERM SOLUTION.
SO WHAT I'VE DONE IS JUST KIND OF CORROBORATE THE RESULTS THAT CAME FROM THE VIIF, WHICH I PRESENTED BEFORE.
SO THIS IS WHAT I PRESENTED IN THE MONTHLY REPORT.
UM, WE HAVE, UH, WE HAVE SOME SAME FOUR CHALLENGES WITH TWO INDEPENDENT ANALYSES.
AND OUR MAIN PROBLEM IS SYSTEM FRAGMENTATION, UM, OR AT LEAST FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED IN THE FORUM
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IN JULY.AND, UH, MOST ACTIONABLE EARLY FOCUS WOULD BE NAVIGATION AND TRANSITION SUPPORT, OF COURSE, WITH PEER AND FAMILY ENGAGEMENT.
SO I DO HAVE OTHER THINGS TO PRESENT THAT ARE HOT OFF THE PRESS, AND IF I CAN DO THAT, EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE NOT IN MY REPORT NECESSARILY, I WILL GO AHEAD AND DO THAT.
DO ANY COMMISSIONERS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR DR. MCGEE AT THIS POINT? I, I HAVE A QUESTION BEFORE WE MOVE ON.
UH, DR. MCGEE, I NOTICED IN THE REPORT THERE WERE NUMBERS NEXT TO YOUR, UH, MATCHES MM-HMM
BUT I JUST WANTED TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANY SIGNIFICANCE TO THAT.
SO I, FOR EXAMPLE, I SEE 10 NEXT TO SYSTEM FRAGMENTATION, THREE NEXT TO TRANSITION AND MULTI-YEAR CHALLENGE.
SO I, I JUST WANTED TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANY SIGNIFICANT SIGNIFICANCE FOR THOSE NUMBERS NEXT TO THE, UM, UH, SUBTITLES.
UM, WELL, ONE IN 10 ARE ACTUALLY THE MOST SIGNIFICANT.
SO WE KIND OF HAVE THE, THE MOST IMPORTANT ONE, ONE, WHICH I BELIEVE IS NAVIGATION.
UM, AND THE, THE MOST IMPORTANT TWO ARE KIND OF BOOKENDS.
THE OTHER ONES, UM, THERE'S, IT'S NOT LIKE A ONE-TO-ONE MATCH BETWEEN THE FREQUENCY THAT THEY CAME UP AND THE, UM, AND THE NUMBER.
UM, BUT IT'S, UH, SORT OF IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE.
UM, SO IT'S KIND OF A LOOSE ORDER OF IMPORTANCE.
THANK YOU FOR CLEARING THAT UP.
ANY OTHER COMMISSIONERS HAVE QUESTIONS FOR DR.
MAGEE AT THIS POINT IN TIME? HI, THIS IS MATTHEW DISTRICT 14.
UH, WHAT SOFTWARE DID YOU USE FOR THAT, UM, ANALYSIS OF THE, OF THE CSV FILE? DR. MCGEE, UH, R OKAY.
IT'S SOFTWARE SYSTEM CALLED R.
IT HAS A LOT OF PACKAGES FOR TEXT ANALYSIS AND TOPIC MODELING.
I HAVE A QUESTION THAT I THINK RELATES TO YOUR ULTIMATE REPORT.
UM, A LOT OF THESE ARE VERY INTERESTING, UH, ANALYSIS AND CONCLUSIONS, AND I THINK THEY REALLY, UM, IN INFORMED ME THAT IT OUGHT TO BE IN AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY WHEN YOU MAKE YOUR FINAL REPORT.
I GUESS I'M JUMPING AHEAD A LITTLE BIT, BUT 'CAUSE WE HAVEN'T GOT YOUR FINAL REPORT YET, BUT HOW DO YOU INTEGRATE SOME OF THESE REALLY INTERESTING FINDINGS INTO YOUR REPORT? UM, SO THE REPORT RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE A, A DRAFT OF THE REPORT.
UM, IT'S NOT COMPLETE, BUT WE DO HAVE, THE WAY WE'RE WE'RE DOING THIS IS WE WILL HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.
UM, AND THEN THE, THE NEXT SECTION WILL BE A SECTION ON, UH, THE THEMES THAT EMERGED FROM THE VIIF.
SO WE WILL GO BY EACH THEME FROM THE VIIF AND SUPPORT IT WITH MAPS FROM THE GEOSPATIAL ANALYSIS THAT DYLAN HARVEY AND, UH, DR.
AND HOLLY, UM, HOLLY HARRIS AND ERIC, UH, SCHLITT.
UM, ALL OF THEM HAVE, SO WE'LL SUPPORT IT WITH MAPS AND ALSO SUPPORT IT WITH THE, UM, TOPIC MODELING.
AND THEN, SO THERE'LL BE THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, THESE, UH, THESE STEAMS ANALYSIS, UM, THEY'LL THE FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS AS WELL.
SO FEASIBILITY IS SORT OF SEPARATE BECAUSE THAT'S MORE ABOUT WHAT SHOULD BE DONE FIRST VERSUS SECOND VERSUS THIRD.
AND SO THAT WILL BE IN THE REPORT AS WELL AS A SEPARATE SECTION.
AND THEN WE'LL HAVE A METHODS SECTION FOR PEOPLE WHO WANNA GET, WHO WANNA GEEK OUT AND GET IN THE WEED OF HOW WE ACTUALLY PUT ALL THIS TOGETHER AS FAR AS THE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND THE QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS THING.
IT, IT, UH, THAT SOUNDS VERY PROMISING.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM COMMISSIONERS? IF NOT, THANK YOU DR.
MAGEE, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD? I HAVE SOME NEW FINDINGS THAT I JUST GOT YESTERDAY, IF YOU WANNA SEE THEM.
I DIDN'T, I LIKE, I DIDN'T WANNA, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THAT IT'S OKAY IF I PRESENT THEM BECAUSE THEY WEREN'T ON THE MONTHLY REPORT.
IS THAT ALL RIGHT? THAT'S ALL RIGHT.
ALL RIGHT, SOCIAL MEDIA ANALYSIS.
SO I KNOW I'VE BEEN TELLING YOU THAT I'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR A WHILE USING A TOPIC MODELING ON REDDIT SOCIAL MEDIA DATA.
AND, UM, SO WE INCLUDED REDDIT BECAUSE IT'S A BIG FILE.
IT HAS A, HAS A LARGE VETERAN PRESENCE, AND IT, UM, HAS SOME, WE ARE TRYING TO COMPLIMENT
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THE VIIF.SO THE VIIF WAS MORE OF A FOCUS GROUP SORT OF ACTIVITY WITH STRUCTURED QUESTIONS AND STRUCTURED ACTIVITIES.
REDDIT IS OF COURSE, MORE FLUID AND UNSOLICITED KIND OF IN THE WILD SORT OF EXPERIENCES.
AND SO WE WANTED TO SEE IF ANY OF WHAT WE SEE IN SOCIAL MEDIA COMPLIMENTS WHAT WE SAW IN A MORE STRUCTURED SETTING.
SO, UM, AND THE MAIN REASON WE'RE DOING REDDIT, OF COURSE THERE IS A VIBRANT VE A VETERAN COMMUNITY ON REDDIT, BUT ALSO IT'S REALLY EASY TO DO AND THEY HAVE KIND OF, UH, EASY TERMS AND CONDITIONS TO WORK WITH, WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT WHEN YOU'RE DOING SCRAPING DATA.
SOMETHING LIKE FACEBOOK IS VERY DIFFICULT TO SCRAPE FROM BECAUSE THEY HAVE VERY STRICT TERMS AND CONDITIONS, AND A LOT OF SOCIAL MEDIA SITES DON'T EVEN LET YOU SCRAPE FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, EVEN IF IT'S ACADEMIC RESEARCH.
SO REDDIT IS A LITTLE MORE FRIENDLY.
UM, ANYWAY, WE HAVE POSTS ALL THE WAY DATING BACK TO 2015.
UM, WE HAD INCLUDED CONTENT FROM THOSE REFERENCING DALLAS VETERAN SERVICES AND COMMON BENEFIT RELATED PHRASES.
AND WE HAVE A POST AND COMMENTS THAT ARE AGGREGATED TO YEARLY AND MONTHLY SUMMARIES.
WE'RE TRYING TO VISUALIZE SOME TRENDS HERE.
SO THIS IS MORE OF A LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS.
AND THE BIIF IS A MORE OF A SNAPSHOT IN TIME.
SO WE APPLIED THE SAME METHODS THAT WE APPLIED TO THE VIIF TEXT.
WE APPLIED IT TO THE REDDIT POST.
UM, AND WE COMPARED THE STRUCTURE WITH THE THEMES FROM THE VIIF AND WE'RE ALSO USING, TRYING TO IDENTIFY SOME, WELL, I, ONE THING I DID NOT DO, BUT I WANT TO DO, I HOPE WILL BE IN THE FINAL REPORT, IS TO IDENTIFY EMERGING ISSUES OVER TIME.
UM, SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS YET TO BE DONE.
SO WHAT CAME UP, UM, SO HERE'S, IN OUR TOPIC MODEL, WE SURFACE SIX TOPICS, AND YOU CAN PLAY AROUND WITH THE NUMBER OF TOPICS.
YOU HAVE TO SET THE NUMBER OF TOPICS FIRST IN ORDER TO RUN THESE TOPIC MODELS.
AND I PLAYED AROUND WITH THAT, AND I FINALLY SETTLED ON SIX BECAUSE IT SEEMED TO GIVE THE MOST, UM, UH, COHERENT CONTENT WITHOUT A LOT OF JUNK IN THERE.
SO, UM, WE HAVE THE COMMUNITY CARE NAVIGATION, WHICH COMES UP EVERYWHERE.
SO, UM, AND AGAIN, THESE NUMBERS, THEY'RE NUMBERED, BUT THEY'RE NOT NECESSARILY IN ANY PARTICULAR ORDER.
UM, SO WE HAVE THE PAC ACT AND RECORDS PROCESSING, UM, WHICH, YOU KNOW, THE PACT ACT WAS PASSED IN 2022, UM, FOR ELIGIBILITY ADMINISTRATIVE WORKFLOW.
SO THERE WERE TOPICS DISCUSSED ABOUT THAT ON REDDIT WITH THAT IS NOT IN THE VIIF SPECIFICALLY, UH, MODERATION AND AUTOMATED FORM LANGUAGE.
THIS, THIS ONE, NUMBER THREE, AND I HAVE A NOTE DOWN HERE.
IT'S REALLY PLATFORM MECHANICS AND IT'S REALLY NOT FOR SUBSTANTIVE INTERPRETATION.
SO THREE IS KIND OF ONE OF THOSE JUNK CATEGORIES JUST, JUST GOT THROWN IN THERE, UM, UH, IN DUE TO THE TOP MODELING.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING I CAN CLEAN UP WITH FURTHER DATA.
UM, SO REMEMBER THESE RESULTS ARE PRELIMINARY, UM, HEALTHCARE EXPERIENCE.
OF COURSE, WE'VE SEEN THAT IN THE FORUM AS WELL.
DALLAS HOUSING AND EMPLOYMENT, AGAIN, IN THE FORUM, WE SAW SOME OF THAT ALSO IN FINANCIAL AND LOGISTICAL STRAIN.
UH, BACK PAY TIME ACCESS IS A BIG ISSUE.
UM, LIKE PRACTICAL BARRIERS SUCH AS TRANSPORTATION AREA, LOGISTICS AND ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
SO THE, THE, THE WORDS IN BOLD HERE ARE KIND OF MY TOPIC NAME FOR EACH ONE OF THESE.
AND THE, UH, THE EXPLANATION, THE SENTENCES THAT ARE NOT IN BOLD ARE EXAMPLES FROM THE REDDIT POST THAT SUPPORT THOSE.
SO I ALSO DID SOMETHING CALLED A SENTIMENT ANALYSIS.
AND SENTIMENT ANALYSIS HAS TO DO NOT WITH THE TOPICS THAT ARE DISCUSSED, BUT THE EMOTIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE TOPICS.
SO AGAIN, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF INTERPRETIVE LEEWAY HERE AS TO HOW THESE ARE DONE.
BUT WHAT WE DO IS, SO WHAT I DID WAS I TOOK SOME PHRASES THAT APPEARED THE MOST OFTEN FROM REDDIT.
SO GI BILLS ONE PACKED MENTAL HEALTH, P-N-T-V-R-N-E, AND, UH, BASIC ALLOWANCE FOR HOUSING.
AND AGAIN, THERE ARE OTHER TERMS THAT I COULD HAVE TAKEN.
AGAIN, THAT'S IS THIS IS A ANALYST DECISION.
UM, I COMPUTED, THERE'S TWO WAYS TO COMPUTE SENTIMENT.
IT'S POLARITY IS POSITIVE VERSUS NEGATIVE.
SO JUST THAT'S IT, POSITIVE, NEGATIVE, AND ALSO A, SOMETHING CALLED AN NRC EMOTION PROFILE.
SO HOW DOES THAT WORK? THE NRC EMOTION PROFILE IS A NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL OF CANADA LEXICON.
SO THE IDEA IS THAT THESE LEXICONS
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EXIST AND THE NRC IS NOT THE ONLY ONE, BUT IT'S THE ONE THAT IS, UM, WIDELY USED IN PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH.AND IT'S STANDARD IN R WHERE I DID ALL THIS ANALYSIS AS WELL.
UM, UH, IT IS A LEXICON WHICH ASSIGNS CERTAIN WORDS TO CERTAIN EMOTIONS.
UM, AGAIN, JUSTIFIED THROUGH LOTS OF RESEARCH AND YEARS OF EXPERIENCE WITH THIS SORT OF THING.
UM, WHEN I PLOTTED, SO I'M GONNA SHOW YOU SOME PLOTS, AND I PLOTTED THE SHARES OR THE PROPORTION OF EMOTION BEARING WORDS THAT ARE MAPPED TO EACH CATEGORY WITH THE CATEGORIES, BRINGING THESE PHRASES.
AND, UM, SO WHY I DID THAT SHARES OR PERCENTAGES INSTEAD OF TOTAL NUMBER WAS BECAUSE, UM, POSTS VARY.
THE NUMBER OF POSTS VARIES OVER THE YEARS, AND YOU'LL SEE THAT ACTUALLY ON THE NEXT COUPLE OF SLIDES.
SO THE PERCENTAGE MAKES THINGS COMPARABLE, EVEN WHEN THE NUMBER OF POSTS CHANGES.
SO THIS FIRST PLOT IS POLARITY SENTIMENT OVER TIME, ZERO.
I SHOULD HAVE PUT A RED LINE HERE, BUT THIS IS ZERO RIGHT HERE.
SO ANYTHING ABOVE THE ZERO LINE IS A POSITIVE SENTIMENT.
AND ANYTHING BELOW THE ZERO LINE IS A NEGATIVE SENTIMENT.
YOU CAN HAVE MORE POSITIVE AND MORE NEGATIVE.
SO THIS IS A MEAN POLAR SENTIMENT IS WHAT THIS IS, UM, UH, FOR EACH OF THESE OVER TIME.
SO YOU CAN SEE THE MONTH ON THE HORIZONTAL AXIS FROM 2016 TO 2026.
SO THE LAST DATA WE HAVE IS JANUARY OF 2026.
UM, SO YOU CAN SEE THE GI BILL HAS A LOT OF POSITIVE MENTAL HEALTH IN THIS, UH, KIND OF TURQUOISE LINE.
AND WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA SEE THAT IN THE SNAPSHOT DATA TOO, AS WELL.
NOTE ALSO THAT THERE'S NOT A LOT OF DATA HERE BEFORE ABOUT 2021.
AND I, AND I BELIEVE THAT THE PANDEMIC KIND OF MADE SOCIAL MEDIA TAKE OFF.
SO ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK I'M GONNA DO FOR THE FINAL REPORT IS EXCLUDE DATA BEFORE THE PANDEMIC, UM, BECAUSE IT'S REALLY SPARSE.
AND SO IT'S HARD TO MAKE ANY COHERENT, UM, UH, FINDINGS OUT OF THAT BECAUSE IT'S NOT, THERE'S JUST NOT A LOT OF IT.
UM, I GUESS REDDIT REALLY, AND A LOT OF SOCIAL MEDIA REALLY TOOK OFF, UM, DURING THE PANDEMIC.
SO THIS IS JUST A SNAPSHOT OVER TIME.
PACT OF COURSE WASN'T REALLY DISCUSSED.
THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION HERE, MAYBE ONE POST, BUT THERE'S OF COURSE SOME DISCUSSION HERE.
AND MOST OF THAT SEEMS TO BE NEGATIVE FOR SOME REASON.
AND AGAIN, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT NEEDS TO BE DUG INTO AS TO WHY THESE THINGS ARE COMING UP ON AVERAGE, UM, NEGATIVE OR POSITIVE.
SO THAT IS SENTIMENT OVER TIME.
NOW, THIS IS A HEAT MAP, AND I KNOW THIS IS KIND OF A LOT FOR THE EYES, BUT I WILL TAKE YOU THROUGH THIS.
I HAVE A SLIDE WITH WORDS ON IT TO INTERPRET THIS AS WELL.
SO THE COLORS ARE SHARES AND THE BRIGHTER THE COLOR, THE MORE THE SHARE.
AND EACH PANEL HERE REPRESENTS AN EMOTION.
SO THESE ARE THE TOP NINE, OR SORRY, TOP EIGHT EMOTIONS THAT APPEAR, UM, IN THE NRC.
AND THEY ARE JOY, TRUST, FEAR, SURPRISE, SADNESS, DISGUST, ANGER, AND ANTICIPATION.
OKAY? SO THE BRIGHTER COLORS HERE REPRESENT THAT, THAT PARTICULAR ROW.
SO HERE'S MENTAL HEALTH FOR EXAMPLE, RIGHT HERE IN THE MIDDLE HAS MORE OF A SHARE OF THAT EMOTION.
UM, SO YOU CAN SEE THAT MENTAL HEALTH HAS, HAS ALL OF THEM
UM, THEN WE HAVE HEALTH INSURANCE, WHICH HAS A VERY BRIGHT SHARE, PARTICULARLY IN 2023.
AND I BELIEVE THAT MIGHT BE THIS GRAY BAR, WHICH MIGHT BE VERY HARD TO SEE FROM WHERE YOU ARE IS THE IMPLEMENTATION OF ACT, ACT.
UM, SO THAT MIGHT BE A REFLECTION OF THAT ALSO.
UM, SO IN WORDS WHAT THIS SAYS, UM, MENTAL HEALTH SHOWS HIGHER SHARES OF SADNESS, FEAR, ANGER INDICATING SOME EMOTIONALLY COMPLEX DISCUSSIONS, WHICH ONE WOULD EXPECT.
UM, WE HAVE PACT AND P AND T WITH NOTICEABLE SHIFTS OVER TIME, INCREASES IN ANTICIPATION AND TRUST IN LATER YEARS.
UM, HEALTH INSURANCE WITH EPISODIC INCREASES IN FRUSTRATION, UM, SUGGESTING HEIGHTENED ATTENTION DURING CERTAIN PERIODS.
AND THAT CERTAINLY WOULD BE TRUE DURING THE PANDEMIC, FOR EXAMPLE.
AND THEN THESE OTHER ONES, GI THAT'S GI BILL SPECIFICALLY, UM, THESE REMAIN LOWER IN EMOTIONAL INTENSITY.
SO THIS IS MORE PROCEDURAL OR INFORMATIONAL DISCOURSE.
IT DOES NOT MEAN THAT THERE'S NO EMOTION ASSOCIATED WITH IT, IT'S JUST MORE OF A DISCUSSION ABOUT HOW THESE THINGS WORK, UH, RATHER THAN EXPRESSING
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DIFFICULTY OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT THAT'S, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH A STRONG EMOTION.UM, THIS IS THE SAME IDEA, BUT INSTEAD OF THE PANELS BEING EMOTIONS, THE PANELS ARE THE PHRASES THAT I CHOSE.
SO HERE'S MENTAL HEALTH, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT IT'S JUST KIND OF THE, THE, AGAIN, THE BRIGHTER COLORS REPRESENT MORE SHARE OF THAT EMOTION.
THE YEARS ARE STILL ON THE HORIZONTAL AXIS.
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT MENTAL HEALTH IS KIND OF, WELL, IT'S ALL OVER, BUT MORE BRIGHTER COLORS, MEANING MORE SHARE OF THESE EMOTIONS TOWARD THE LATTER HALF.
AND I WOULD NOT INTERPRET THESE AS SHOWING NO EMOTION IF THEY'RE DARK.
I WOULD INTERPRET IT MORE AS A PROCEDURAL DISCUSSION RATHER THAN, UM, UH, APATHY, I GUESS.
SO, UM, IF WE LOOK AT THESE BY PHRASE, SO THIS IS AN EMOTIONAL FINGERPRINT OVER TIME, AGAIN, WE HAVE THE SAME SORT OF INTERPRETATION, JUST A DIFFERENT WAY OF VIEWING IT.
UM, SO ANYWAY, THAT'S A PRELIMINARY SENTIMENT ANALYSIS.
I ACTUALLY, I FINISHED THAT YESTERDAY MORNING.
AND, UM, SO HOW DO WE CONNECT THIS WITH THE TOPIC MODELING? TOPIC MODELING IDENTIFIES THE TOPICS OF DISCUSSION.
SO BENEFITS, UM, HEALTHCARE, FINANCIAL STRAIN, HOUSING SENTIMENT DESCRIBES HOW THESE TOPICS ARE DISCUSSED.
SO SOME ELEVATED FEAR AND ANGER FOR BENEFITS PROCESSING, UH, EMOTIONAL COMPLEXITY AND MENTAL HEALTH DISCUSSIONS AND OTHER THINGS THAT COME OUT FROM THE SENTIMENT ANALYSIS.
SO WHEN WE TAKE 'EM ALL TOGETHER, WE HAVE DOMAINS OF CONCERN IDENTIFIED WITH SHIFTS IN EMOTIONAL TONE WITHIN THOSE DOMAINS SO THEY CAN HIGHLIGHT WHERE SERVICE NAVIGATION, COMMUNICATION OR OUTREACH MAY BE MOST IMPACTFUL.
SO AGAIN, NAVIGATION IS A BIG THING THAT'S OFTEN ASSOCIATED WITH ANTICIPATION AND FEAR AND SOME OF THE, UM, MORE NEGATIVE EMOTIONS.
SO, UM, AGAIN, NAVIGATION COORDINATION.
IT'S COMING OUT ALL OVER THE PLACE.
AND SO THIS IS DEFINITELY SOMETHING THAT I HOPE THE CITY WILL ADDRESS ONCE THESE RESULTS ARE PRESENTED TO THEM.
UM, BENEFIT RELATED DISCUSSIONS, UH, SHOW UNCERTAINTY AND FRUSTRATION AROUND ELIGIBILITY AND ACCESS.
AND AGAIN, MENTAL HEALTH LANGUAGE IS EMOTIONALLY COMPLEX.
UM, SO THIS MIGHT BE NEED FOR MORE SUSTAINED SUPPORTS.
THIS COULD ALSO INVOLVE COMMUNITY, FAMILY, UH, IN, UH, INVOLVEMENT IN MENTAL HEALTH ALSO.
I KNOW THAT WAS A LOT AND I DID IT RATHER QUICKLY.
SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I AM READY TO TAKE THEM.
DOES IT, DO ANY COMMISSIONERS HAVE, UH, ANY QUESTIONS? THIS IS COMMISSIONER PERCIE.
I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION, BUT I JUST HAVE A COMMENT.
UM, THANK YOU FOR SHARING YOUR EARLY FINDINGS ON THIS.
I THINK THIS IS VERY INTERESTING.
AND, UM, I JUST WANNA HIGHLIGHT THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU MENTIONED IN THE BEGINNING THE TOPICS THAT WERE, THAT YOU FOUND, DISABILITY NAVIGATION, VA HEALTHCARE, I WAS LOOKING FOR THE GI BILL, I'M LIKE, WHERE, WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT EDUCATION? BUT IT'S BECAUSE THAT PEOPLE OR VETERANS HAVE SUCH A POSITIVE, UH, YOU KNOW, OUTLOOK WHEN IT COMES TO GI BILL THAT IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S BEING DONE PROPERLY, I BELIEVE BY THE VA AS SOMEBODY THAT USES THE GI BILL.
I CAN, I CAN AGREE THE VA DOESN'T GET A LOT OF THINGS RIGHT, BUT THE GI BILL WAS ONE OF THE SMOOTHEST AND EASIEST THINGS THAT I'VE ENCOUNTERED SO FAR.
SO, UH, THANK YOU FOR SHARING THE HEAT MAP AND THE TRANSIT ARE, UH, COMING UP.
AND WHAT YOU SAID IS, IS, UM, SUPPORTED BY THIS GRAPH THAT I HAVE HERE, THIS ORANGE LINE WITH THE STRONG POSITIVE SENTIMENT IS THE GI BILL.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? ANYBODY? I HAVE ONE.
UM, I THINK WHEN WE STARTED THIS PROCESS, WE WEREN'T REALLY SURE WHAT THE TOP TOPICS WOULD BE, I THINK, BUT YOUR RESEARCH SHOWS WHERE OUR PRIORITIES OUGHT TO BE.
AND, UM, I HOPE THE, UH, COMMISSION, WHEN WE PRESENT TO THE COUNCIL, WE FIGURE THAT OUT TOO.
I MEAN, I THINK YOUR EVIDENCE WILL BE HELPFUL, BUT WE NEED TO MASSAGE IT OURSELVES AND PRESENT IT TO THE COUNCIL SO THEY UNDERSTAND IT TOO, AND WILL DO, WE'LL DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
AND SO YOUR, YOUR, UH, STUDY HAS BEEN VERY, VERY HELPFUL.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR DR? MAYBE, IF NOT, I WANT TO THANK YOU DR.
THIS TO US AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, THE FINAL REPORT.
I'VE ACTUALLY KIND OF FORGOTTEN WHAT THE SCHEDULE IS FOR THE REPORT.
WHAT CAN, COULD DR. MCGEE OR YOU OR SPIN, TELL ME WHAT THE SCHEDULE IS AGAIN? UM, WE ARE, UH, WORKING ON A DRAFT.
WE HOPE TO HAVE THAT DRAFT READY BY,
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WHERE ARE WE ABOUT A WEEK OUT? SO, UM, BY THE 23RD I THINK AT THAT POINT.UH, AND UM, AND THEN WE WANNA PUT IT INTO A NICE GLOSSY THING THAT WILL BE DUE ON MARCH 2ND, I BELIEVE.
AND THEN WE WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE PRESENTED TO US AT OUR MARCH BOARD MEETING OR COMMISSION MEETING.
THE FINAL PRESENTATION WOULD BE AT THE MARCH BOARD MEETING.
AND THEN SPEND THEM, IT GOES TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE COMMITTEE AFTER THAT.
SO THE PLAN IS THAT ONCE WE HAVE THE PRESENTATION BY DR. MCGEE, UH, SUBMITTED THE RESEARCH COMPLETED AND SUBMITTED, AND YOURSELVES ARE ABLE TO REVIEW IT, YOU'LL HAVE THAT LETTER OF ENDORSEMENT TO SUPPORT IT.
UM, THE COMMISSION, HOPEFULLY AS A WHOLE, WE'LL MAKE THAT MOTION TO ACCEPT IT AND AS IS, OR MAYBE THERE'S SOMETHING OF EDITS, I DON'T KNOW.
BUT THEN AFTER THAT, WE WILL HAVE THAT PRESENTATION AND IT'S GOING TO BE IN APRIL.
UH, THAT PRESENTATION TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND ARTS COMMITTEE WILL BE IN APRIL, THE EXACT DATE I DON'T HAVE IT, UH, WITH ME.
BUT WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL DEFINITELY GIVE AN UPDATE, COME NEXT MEETING ON THE SEQUENCE OF WHAT'S HAPPENING.
AND AFTER, AFTER THAT IT GOES TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THAT PART, BUT, UH, CHRISTINA WILL BE ABLE TO, TO HOPEFULLY BETTER HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT THE, WHAT THE STEP IS AFTER PRESENTATION TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND ARTS COMMITTEE.
CAN YOU HEAR ME? I CAN HEAR YOU.
SORRY I WASN'T ABLE TO BE IN PERSON FOR THE MEETING TODAY, BUT, UM, YES, THE QUALITY LIFE ARTS AND CULTURE COMMITTEE, IT'S A, UM, CO COUNCIL COMMITTEE THAT WE'RE FORECASTED TO PRESENT ON APRIL 20TH.
AND, UM, I, SO THAT WILL FALL AFTER THE MARCH MEETING.
AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD BE THE MARCH MEETING FOR YOU ALL.
WOULD THEN YEAH, BE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR, UM, YOU TO OFFICIALLY ENDORSE THE, THE REPORT THAT SMU IS PROVIDING.
AND THEN, UM, IN APRIL, THE COMMISSION AND STAFF AND I WOULD PRESENT THE REPORT AND, UM, UH, WE'LL PROBABLY TALK ABOUT DETAILS OF WHAT THAT WILL LOOK LIKE, UM, LATER ON THIS MONTH.
AND CHRISTINA, THIS IS COMMISSIONER PRECI.
SO IT WOULD GO TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE WITH OUR STAMP OF APPROVAL, BUT ALSO WOULD IT INCLUDE OUR RECOMMENDATIONS AS WELL WHAT CITY COUNCIL COULD DO? UM, GOOD QUESTION.
UM, I THINK WE, WE CAN INCLUDE THAT MAYBE IN THE LETTER OF ENDORSEMENT.
I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE COULD HAVE ALREADY FOR, TO INCLUDE IN THE LETTER OF ENDORSEMENT OR, UM, WE COULD EVEN DISCUSS IT IN THE APRIL MEETING.
'CAUSE I THINK YOU ALL WILL BE MEETING EARLIER IN THE MONTH AND THAT WOULD GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO KIND OF DISCUSS THAT.
I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A COVER LETTER FROM THE COMMISSION OVER THE REPORT WITH, UH, ANY KIND OF RECOMMENDATIONS OR THINGS TO BE COMPLETED BY THE COMMISSION ON BEHALF OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
AND, UM, UM, I THINK COMMISSIONER CHASE SAID THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE DRAFTING A LETTER FOR YOU ALL TO REVIEW IN MARCH.
AND THEN I THINK IF WE WANT TO MAKE ANY FURTHER, UM, EDITS OR ADDITIONS, UM, TO BE PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL, WHETHER THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE LETTER OR IF THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE PRESENTATION, UM, WE WOULD STILL HAVE APRIL TO BE ABLE TO INCLUDE THAT DATE THAT CHRISTINA, THAT THAT'S GOOD THAT WE HAVE MAY HAVE THE APRIL MEETING TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
I CAN GET A DRAFT LETTER IN TIME FOR THE MARCH MEETING SOMEWHAT DEPENDENT ON WHEN I GET THE REPORT FROM SMU.
BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA BE VERY POSITIVE, SO, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE WE GET IT ON OUR AGENDA ONE WAY OR THE OTHER SO THAT IT GOES TO THE COUNCIL PROPERLY.
AND I THINK ALSO, UM, SPEND, AND I WOULD PROBABLY ALSO WANNA TALK THROUGH WHAT WE'RE PLANNING TO PRESENT WITH QUALITY OF LIFE.
SO YOU GUYS ARE ALL AWARE, THIS IS KIND OF WHAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT WHAT WE'RE SAYING, AND THAT WAY WE'RE COORDINATING WITH YOU ON, YOU KNOW, THE MESSAGING AND TALKING POINTS.
SO WE'LL MAKE SURE WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING WITH YOU GUYS BEFORE WE, UH, GO BEFORE CITY COUNCIL IN APRIL.
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CHRISTINA, WE'RE, WE'RE GLAD YOU COULD JOIN US TODAY.I KNOW, I, WE HAD SOME, I HAD SOME LAST MINUTE DEADLINES FOR 1230 AND I HAD TO GET THOSE IN.
UM, BUT WE, I MISS YOU GUYS TOO.
DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANYTHING, UH, CONCERNING DR.
MCGEE'S PRESENTATION? I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION FOR DR. MCGEE.
ONCE YOU, UH, COMPLETE YOUR REPORT, ARE YOU GONNA PUBLISH THIS PUBLICLY OR IS IT JUST FOR THE COMMISSION? UM, WE WOULD LIKE TO PUBLISH SOME OF THE RESULTS PUBLICLY.
SO I DO HAVE, I HAVE A, UM, UH, A PRESENTATION COMING UP AT A CONFERENCE WHERE I WILL BE PRESENTING THESE RESULTS, BUT THAT WILL BE A MUCH MORE STATISTICAL METHODOLOGY PRESENTATION.
OF COURSE, I'LL PRESENT THE RESULTS, BUT IT WILL BE, UM, MORE FOR THAT AUDIENCE 'CAUSE IT'S A STATISTICS CONFERENCE.
AND THEN I, WE HOPE TO WRITE A PAPER OUT OF THAT AND, UM, HOPE TO ALSO GET SOME SCHOLARLY WORK OUT OF THE ANALYSIS FOR THE FORUM, BECAUSE THAT IS SOMETHING QUITE UNIQUE AND, UM, UH, THAT WE'VE DONE WITH THIS SO WELL, UH, I WOULD ASK THAT BEFORE YOU REDU RELEASE ANY RES RESULTS PUBLICLY THAT YOU RUN IT THROUGH, UH, LEGAL PEOPLE HERE AT THE CITY, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T DO ANYTHING THAT WE SHOULDN'T.
UM, DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG THAT PROCESS WOULD TAKE
UM, UM, MY UNDERSTANDING IS, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH THAT KIND OF CONFERENCE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE INFORMATION BASICALLY THAT SMU IS PROVIDING IS LIKE A WORK PRODUCT THAT THEY'VE SHARED WITH THAT THEY'LL BE SHARING WITH THE CITY OF DALLAS.
AND THEN, SO IT'S ALMOST LIKE WE KIND OF CO-OWN THE INFORMATION, AND SO SMU IS ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, IF THEY, SINCE THEY WERE INVOLVED WITH IT AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THEY CAN ACCESS, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, IT'S THEIR BASICALLY WORK PRODUCT THAT THEY'RE GIVING TO US.
UM, I DON'T THINK THAT THERE SHOULD BE ANY, UM, LIKE, UH, I GUESS, I GUESS, WHAT IS IT CALLED? LIKE WHERE IT'S LIKE PROPERTY, UM, ISSUES.
PROPRIETARY, YEAH, THAT WAS THE WORD I WAS LOOKING FOR.
UM, I THINK, YOU KNOW, UH, THE ONLY THING OBVIOUSLY, WHICH IS SOMETHING THAT SE ALREADY KNOWS, LIKE, YOU KNOW, UH, PRIVATE PERSONAL INFORMATION AND I KNOW THOSE KINDS OF PROTOCOLS THAT UNIVERSITIES HAVE TO FOLLOW ANYWAYS, SO, UM, THAT ALREADY IS, IS TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION.
UM, SO THAT'S, UH, SOMETHING TO NOTE IS WHATEVER, LIKE AS PART OF OUR CONTRACT, WHATEVER SMU HAS PRODUCED, WHETHER IT WAS MAPS OR GRAPHS OR ANY DATA, UM, IS ALSO GONNA BE CITY OF DALLAS PROPERTY.
AND SO, UM, THEY'LL BE SHARING ALL OF THAT INFORMATION THAT WILL BE ALSO KEEPING IN OUR ARCHIVES.
UM, AND, UH, AND THAT WILL BE KIND OF PART OF PUBLIC RECORD, IF THAT MAKES SENSE.
DOES ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, UH, AT THIS POINT IN TIME? IF NOT, AND THANK YOU DR. MCGEE.
DOES ANYBODY, WE'RE GOING ON TO NUMBER SEVEN.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO MAKE TO THE COMMISSION AT THIS TIME? IF NOT, DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN OUR FEBRUARY DUTY MOTION TO ADJOURN SECOND MOTION HAS BEEN MADE AND SECONDED.
DO I HEAR ANY, UH, OPPOSITION? IF NOT, ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
THIS, UH, MEETING OF THE, UM, COMMISSION IS ADJOURNED.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ATTENDING.