Group D, Panel Discussion, Dec 17, 2020

 Panel discussion 9: Group D (second time)

◆Topic

We will make a cleaning day every Sunday morning!!

◆Discussion members

Spenser Donald / architecture  ✳︎Moderator

Qinglong Cai / a pharmacist

Matilda Sugino / famous singer’s agent

Karen Arkin / clerk of CD shop

Julia Adams / career woman

◆Contents

< Qinglong Cai >  For → For

     He agrees with this idea. He has three reasons. First, to clean the Apollon is good for Apollon. It can be kept the scenery of nature. Second, it will be the chance to communicate with each neighbors. They can know each other well. Third, it will be the protection of animals in Apollon. Therefore, he agrees with this topic.

< Matilda Sugino >  For → For

     She agrees with this idea. She has two reasons. First, Apollon’s main industry is tourism. If there is dirty in Apollon, no one come here once again. It would be the opportunity to attract many tourists. Second, social contribution activity is good for not only industry but also environment in Apollon. Therefore, she agrees with this topic.

< Karen Arkin >  Neutral → For

     She is neutral for this idea. Because she thinks that it is a good activity to communicate each other. However, she can not understand why do we need to do clean activity. Because Apollon is already clean at all. Therefore, she is neutral for this topic.

< Julia Adams >  Against → For

     She disagrees with this idea. She has three reasons. First, she thinks that it is difficult to keep the number of people who are joining to this event. They have some works like housework and tasks. Second, it takes cost to clean the Apollon. It needs to prepare the tools to clean, and she can’t imagine where the money comes from. Third, she don’t have any friends near her house, so it’s lonely and she doesn’t want to join this events. Therefore, she disagrees with this idea.

◆Questions from the audience

1. Matilda said that you invite the famous artists, but it doesn’t connect with the cleaning seriously. It’s a unnecessary thing. What do you think about? (Mia Williams)

     Matilda  answered this question. She thinks if we give the ticket to the people who want to meet the famous singer. They can meet artists. It attracts many people and we can make Apollon more clean. We will separate the time to clean from meeting artists.

2. What is the benefit for the artists to join the event? (Mia Williams)

     Matilda answered this question. She thinks they want to clean the Apollon without income. So, there is no problem of the income.

3. How will we clean? Picking up? Or sweeping? (Theodore Symons)

     Qinglong answered this question. Hw said that he thinks we do anything with the way they want to clean.

4. How old people can participate for this event? (Ethan Baird)

     Qinglong answered this question. He thinks under 6 years old, and they need to be with their parent.

5. Under 6years old people would hurt themselves even if they are with their parent? (Ethan Baird)

     Qinglong answered this question. He said maybe it’s not problem. Because there are some adults who is neighbor. In addition to this, we need only one people from one family, so it’s not matter.

6. When it rains, we can’t clean outdoor and also communicate with neighbors. Then the events would be canceled? And how do we know the cancel? (Scott Philip)

     Qinglong answered this question. He said if it’s so, we postpone it next week’s Sunday. And we tell it to residents by the broadcast systems until the day before the cleaning day.

7. I think there are some people who can’t participate like Julia. So, I suggest that Apollon’s cleaning service. What do you think about that? (Minnie White)

     Matilda and Qinglong answered this question. Matilda said that it costs a lot, and it doesn’t make connections with neighbors. So, she thinks it’s good idea but she can’t agree with this suggestion.

     Qinglong said he thinks it is the meaning to clean by themselves where they live.

8. Qinglong said that there is a penalty when there are the people who don’t come to the event. But I’m worry about the problem due to the penalty. Their life style is person to person. So, you should consider about the person who can’t participate. What do you think about that? (Sow Lee)

     Qinglong answered this question. He said the penalty is for the person who don’t have reason not to come. 

9. Julia said that she can’t participate at night. But you said that you works at midnight when you discuss about the 24h convenience store. What is this? (Jordan Nakasy)

     Julia answered this question. She have to work Saturday at midnight. But Sunday’s evening time is holiday. She is very busy every day.

10. You divide three area, but at first we clean everywhere in Apollon. How do you clean the wild place? (Robert Brown)

     Spenser answered this question. He said that we add only three city, so we clean the all of Apollon.

◆Result

They did not reach consensus.

There is already ‘Sunflower clean day’. And they need to discuss more about detail of clean day’s plan, and place out of city.

At this discussion, they decided the time and area of clean each time.

[Time] 1 hour in the morning and 1 hour in the evening, and once a three month.

　　　We can choose the time which they join.

[Area] Apo city, Sunnyville, Portlandry

　　　We clean the area where we live.

Qinglong: stay agree

Matilda: stay agree

She felt that final plan is good.

Karen: change to agree 

She thinks that this is low cost and it could be the communication place. It could make tourism to be active.

Julia: change to agree

Detail is changed, so she could participate easily. And she can understand the aspect of cost.

◆My opinion

     I agree with this topic. I have two reasons. First, if there is a two time plan, which is in the morning and in the evening, many people can participate easier than before. There are a lot of people and they have each daily lives, so it’s kindly for anyone. Second, clean day is good idea, and it would be more good if there is the place separated by times. I think that to decide the detail of the clean day makes our life richer and efficiently. Therefore I agree with this topic.