Cecil Flournoy

“Thank you. Mr. City Manager, Hon. Mayor and council members, a big part of this also includes things such as the city seal office. It's my understanding that's a placeholder up there in the council chambers. So that's part of the work that will go into the product. The consultant is here in attendance, want to make note of that. And it's a very interactive, community engaged process that will meet throughout the city with various departments within the city, as well as stakeholders in the community to make sure that Compton is depicted in a way that you can be proud of. And so, again, it's very. It's a consistency as it relates to everything we see from gazebos and kiosks along our major thoroughfares, colors of bus stops and that. That nature. So we have consistency across the board, across departments and all the imagery that we have within the city. So with that, I will receive any questions you have as it relates to the particular contract,”

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“Yes, ma' am. And that's a good point. So thank you for raising that. This is absolutely going to be engaged with the citizens of Compton as well as the leadership of the city. This is inspiration, something that's coming from Director Flournoy or for that matter, City Manager Hopkins. It's absolutely going to be a product that's other citizens and stakeholders in Compton. And so we went through an extensive process of Identifying a firm that had capacity that also has done a really good job in other challenging communities. There's a number of them listed there. They worked in about 50 cities throughout the state of California. And that was a compelling argument for us. They've done the, the branding for Los Angeles Airport to give you an indication of the skill that they have. I believe they did Ontario, too. So now I'm calling off the top of my head, they did West Hollywood. So there was a number of cities that have similarities as it relates to business, attraction and tourism, quite frankly. And so I feel that we, from an economic development standpoint, have a lot of opportunities from cultural tourism and particularly as it relates to our goods and movement along our Alameda. Alameda corridor. Along the Alameda corridor. And so we want to be able to harness the strengths of Compton and attract people internationally and put our best foot forward, quite frankly.”

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“And if I may add, there is the flexibility if there's not enough, enough community engagements or we feel like we need to, you know, kind of close the loop and have a couple more engagements, we can also enhance the contract to facilitate that as well. So again, it's at your direction and your leadership.”

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