<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Dear All, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Victor and I would like to extend our apologies for not having a meeting this year so far; it has been very busy on our end. Historically we have had meetings once a month on Wednesdays 11-12pm, rather than stick with that time, we are launching a poll to see if we should change it to another day or time. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Please fill out the poll using the link below <b>by 11/16/2026</b>  and we will go with the majority vote. We plan to have the meetings start back up in January 2027. Please let me know if you have any questions.</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Link to poll:<a href="http://goog_1915875458" target="_blank"> </a></font><a href="https://forms.gle/EQeKgGTeHy3qw1sN7" target="_blank">https://forms.gle/EQeKgGTeHy3qw1sN7</a><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><div style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif">Thank you, </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif">Paige </font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><b><font face="georgia, serif">Paige Mejia, MBA</font></b></p>

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