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Welcome to the regularly scheduled downtown development, 30 minutes Rochester for Wednesday, August 19, 2026. Madam, recording secretary, the roll, please. Missy, please. Here, Lisa Germani, William, Eric, Diana, Bob Bloomingdale, Paul Hague, Roger, Nat, Tony LaPouma, Mayor Jones, Chair Giovanelli, Jessica Clawcer, Bob Di Tommaso, Dan Sinkowitz, Kristi Tervaro, here, there is a quorum. Fantastic, and I was thinking

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I'm thinking that man, it's so beautiful out, it's going to be a struggle, but thank you everyone for making time for us, so we appreciate your commitment to the DEA Board.

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First thing on the agenda, the approval of the minutes from our meeting from June 17th, 2026, is there any questions or a motion in our future?

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I'd like to make a motion.

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Motion by Eric.

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Second.

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Second.

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Second by the Vice Chair. All in favor, aye.

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Aye.

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Any opposed?

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Motion carries.

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Audience comments, I don't think Jeremy's got any questions.

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Jordan's on the agenda, so we're good.

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Liaison reports, Ms. Clauseur is not here.

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No, we're just asking her.

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You may have to freestyle Madam Mayor.

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Oh, jeez, freestyle.

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I am ill prepared.

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What is going on?

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Well, you just heard us about the amplifier.

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We just had a grand opening for this afternoon.

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are ribbon-cutting, actually, officially.

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Other than that, I think we've got a couple things

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that came before us.

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We're probably going to talk about the social district

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and I assume that's something we were just working on.

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We have something a little contentious

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that we're going to be deciding at the next council meeting,

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which is whether or not dogs should be allowed in the cemetery.

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So if you have an opinion either way,

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come to Monday nights meeting and speak your piece about that.

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We also are going to discuss not requiring permits to have a dog in the park anymore.

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So we will still require licenses, that's something that you don't, others do, through Auckland County, we do it ourselves here.

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So there will be welcome public comment to that on Monday night, I guess those are two of the biggest things that are important to the community right now.

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We are starting and have moved forward with no walk your wheels on Main Street and so

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fire.

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I don't know.

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I've got some feedback.

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We have not gotten any negative feedback from it.

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It just started with the chief will come in front of us to give us an update about a month

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into it.

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I know there was signage discussion.

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They had made some signs but Emma said no, no, no, you can't put signs up.

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You know, we want you to put a particular sign up that I think they are making, and Christy might know more about that, but it seems like so far we've had positive feedback about not having bikes riding on Main Street, just as a little too tight and too dangerous, so.

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Certainly not unique to Rochester, that's for sure.

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No, Boine City allows, I was just up there, no bikes, no walking them, no bikes on Main Street, so I think this was a good compromise, and so hopefully it'll work out.

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to the extent that it isn't, we'll stop up the politeness, right?

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That's right. Exactly.

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I would say that's about it.

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I'm interested. Thank you for that update.

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We appreciate the freestyle.

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We know you guys are killing it for us,

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and we appreciate all of your efforts there.

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Chrissy, did you have something to add on the sign thing

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to since it's sort of...

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So, I was working with Jason Warner

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over at the city regarding the signage.

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MDOT is very particular about it.

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When we get to the social district conversation

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based on Jason's experience with MDOT,

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I have some different thoughts about the signage

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for the social district of where that might be placed.

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All right, we'll put him in that.

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He'll come back.

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Fantastic.

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All right.

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Next up the bat, Chamber of Commerce, Mr. D.

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Jamassel, good evening.

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Good evening.

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So, 2026 will be the 20th year of the Sunrise Pinnacle Awards.

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Wow.

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And the nominations and registration are now open.

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They usually take place in October.

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I don't know if they've probably secured a date,

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but I haven't got that.

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But starting now, you can register and make nominations for the 20th annual Sunrise Pinnacle Awards, and that is the crux of my fantastic, that's, that's, that's, that's good stuff there, so thank you for that.

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We appreciate that.

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Next up to bat, Mr. Sinkowitz, historical commission.

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Good evening, everyone, Mayor.

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Thank you.

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First I'll start off with giving a summary of the meeting that was held for the Harrison

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project.

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I've already talked to Bob and Bob will jump in there or the mayor can add to it.

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The meeting was attended by about 75 people at the Community House on August 5th.

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The meeting was very professional, well organized and well managed.

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Each table had five to six attendants at each table, along with a no-taker and a

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spoke person which I had.

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Very good one. So that worked out well and they used

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an electronic surveilant surveying tool so they counted all the inputs and

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then tabulated and that'll be part of the the Harris then proposal. The first

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The first half of the meeting was gathering input from the group about what they thought the future of the property should be.

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About 75% believe the community resource center was the best use for that particular piece of property.

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During the second half of the meeting, the leaders presented plans for the building that would include rental space,

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non-profits and community gathering places, a business plan was presented,

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outlining the experiences from two other similar projects, one in Detroit and

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one in Pontiac. Proposals are due to the Rochester community schools at the end

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of August and the school board will make its selection by the end of October.

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That's a schedule currently.

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From there, the selected project will work with the

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plan and commission in the city council.

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An interesting point was that the most recent city master plan specifically points out that

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the property should be used for community benefit and that the historical building should

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be preserved.

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Twelve members of the historical center proposal committee have handled a publicity including

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We've Facebook post post card distribution at the library post office, Starbucks location,

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Rochester, Rochester Hill City Halls.

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Stories were in the Oakland press and also the C&G newspaper.

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Fires were also distributed to about 500 homes within the Rochester community.

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I'll change now to some of the other activities.

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Can I just hand one quick thing to that, just while you're on that topic, correct me if I'm wrong?

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I think what the Board of Ed is going to do is pick three of the projects that were presented

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and then there will be public form for comments on those three, is that correct?

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I'm not sure about the public form.

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I know that the proposals I do August 31st, sometime in September, they'll review them and

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then select three finalists and then in October they'll interview the three finalists in an

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award winner.

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but I've heard at some point it was going to be done publicly, but I haven't seen anything

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that confirms that.

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Nothing in the RFP says that.

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Thanks.

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All right.

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That's it.

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Is there anybody that doesn't know what the Harrison Center project is?

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Okay.

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Then that's easy.

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Every ported earlier, at other meetings, Founders Day will be held again in 2020-26.

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the date is March 21st and the Historical Commission is waiting to hear back for a final agreement

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from a speaker regarding the Underground Railroad.

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The topic's being suggested at this time are the Underground Railroad speakers and the

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Tony Stoney Creek School House.

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Again, the tentative date is March 21st, possibly at the ground, or still at it'll be done.

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Yeah, that's the pressure. I'm sorry. What date? What date are you looking for? It's next year. He'll be fine. March 21. You said?

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March 21. Yeah. Okay. Long is not same Patrick's day. Long is not a Saturday because that would interfere with item number six. See. So yes. We're happy to help if we can.

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It should be on a Sunday, we'll know.

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Okay.

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It was also stated that one of the speakers for the founder's day is a painting a list

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of possible candidates who, if any, in our cemetery, qualifies for what they call pathway

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to Freedom Marker, working with the sons of the American Revolution, one person buried

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in the Mount Avon Cemetery has been identified and qualified.

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but they did not harbor any slaves. So it sounds like they they assisted in the

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passing through of people more information. They are currently documenting the

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gravesite and the city will take on the cost of the plaque and the ceremony will

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be held at a later date. That's more probably from the

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cemetery commission and from the historical commission but since it came up in

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And in the meeting, I figured it would be a good point of interest.

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And again, heritage days will be held on June 5th and 6th.

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A lot of the people that have attended in the past, the participated in the past are

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very excited already.

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I've received several emails and phone calls confirming the dates and so that's encouraging

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to know that people are really excited about it continuing next year.

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We're also at our meeting at the Rochester Historical Commission meeting.

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We had a couple special guests.

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They were students from the International Academy of Schools, and that's part of their

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studies and their class assignment, so it was very interesting to have them participate

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and listen.

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That's fantastic.

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Any questions?

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Any questions for our liaison?

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As usually, guys, we're getting after it, so we appreciate all of that, especially with

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the multiple projects at once.

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So thank you for your effort and the report. We appreciate it. Thank you very good. All right, on to general business

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The market

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Oh, well, and Christie's gonna handle that was guess I you know, I we've been gone too long

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So you gotta cut me a little bit of slack, right? Yeah, but yeah, I apologize. I apologize. Maybe that's okay

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So for the PSD

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Going to chief George is Halloween and sugar treat downtown and the Halloween fest

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No changes to last year's event that we are going to keep the Halloween Fest on the top of the East Parking Platform.

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It just seemed we started a little bit earlier and just the flow of it being a big oval seemed to work really well.

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Collette's already started on bordering all of the community organizations to be a part of that and we're getting a really great response from it.

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So that was on the agenda and then Rochester posed.

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We've already been recruiting people this year's theme is Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

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So we're very excited. We've also been struck by the lack of females in the rock

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and roll Hall of Fame. So it's going to be an interesting, yeah. Let's put it this way.

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Even had to take Brenda Lee if that tells you anything. But she's doing it. So, very

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interesting. So that's all out there. Also, we discussed a lot of holiday things. The

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Cookie Stroll Tins are already in. That was in Collette's report as well. We did a

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community survey on our social with three different designs and they picked this

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kind of winter, woodland, Scandinavian look kind of thing, which was fun. So those are in.

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We also started Festival Tree's designer recruitment and sponsor recruitment. So that's all

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going on as well. And Kris Kringle market applications at the PSD meeting, we announced that they were

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live. They are now closed. And we're cooking. We're full. The bus is full. That's great.

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Once every year just that event, girls, right? So yeah, we're trying to get a little bit earlier

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We hear this year collect because, you know, she's new.

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She wanted to dive right in.

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And I said, go ahead.

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Yes.

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Something I don't have to do.

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That's off you go.

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Yes.

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Very good.

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Anything else?

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No, sir.

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Thank you for that update.

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We appreciate it.

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All right.

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Now we can move on to the general business.

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All right.

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So we haven't been here.

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We skipped July just because it wasn't a ton to do.

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And literally, I know everybody's on vacation.

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So I mean, even hurting a few cats was hard.

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So I figured we'll just pass and end.

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but thank you again for coming this evening.

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Since we're nearing the due date here in very short order,

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we figured we would bring the Esther of Ceremonies,

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or Jordan Ceremon from Frank Rewald to come,

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and sort of give us a little update onto the project

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where we stand, me telling you where we're at,

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it's coming like third hand, I tried to stay away

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from the sausage-making part of making sausage.

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Christie, Tony, and Bob and Jordan have just been killing it

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and Jordan's been doing a fantastic job.

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Can't thank you enough.

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You've been taking a lot of boats for the team

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and we appreciate it.

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But if you want to come up to the podium there

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and just kind of, I guess, introduce yourself

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to the rest of the board since we're sending

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checks your way, they might not know who you are.

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That's fair.

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Yeah, hi, everybody.

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My name is Jordan Serhan.

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I'm with Frank Rewald and Sons.

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I'm the project manager for the Market Grant Project.

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So first of all, thank you for having me tonight.

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And thank you for trusting us with the project.

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We, of course, love to represent Rochester.

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We have for many years and we're always just honored and honored to be a part of any one

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of these projects.

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So thank you very much for trusting us.

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The job is going great, it's going outstanding.

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I think we've been having a lot of fun along the way as well, which is always good.

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So with that, kind of a schedule update, we're roughly 80% through the project.

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We're on track to be completed in September 30th.

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We expect to be pretty much done, done, move and read.

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So, we're on track there. That was a pretty big lift early on. As you guys know, we've went through a lot to make the job go. And the efforts from some other people in the office, like Sean and Brad and Frank and Jason, of course, a lot, a lot of stuff in and our client alert, a lot of a lot of collaboration happened to make the job go and get an under budget. And so now that we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, it feels good that we're going to meet our date here.

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So a lot of work to continue doing in the next six weeks, as you can see, but we are feeling comfortable about where we're at.

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So we are on the interior side of things. You know what you've seen, we've got the side of not by the exterior, you've seen we've got the addition up.

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So some of that stuff's in the rear view at this point. We've gotten our brick and our windows up around the addition and we've put some of the windows up on the existing building on the interior.

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we've had the rough trades in their mechanical electrical plumbing they're

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pretty well done with their rough in the bathroom addition so the drywalls were

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in there this week and we're expecting them to be finished with drywall

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mud tape and sanded and to this week or maybe early next week and then we'll

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start getting some of the finished trades in there like the painter and the

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tile people and the millwork and the countertops and the bathroom fixtures and

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that in the in the big event space similar status not as not as much to do in

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there though we've got our walls built mechanical room is all built the

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equipment is mostly set the big ductwork is hanging in the ceiling there

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electricians continuing to provide power and lighting and get all this stuff

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run and in a couple weeks here we'll start looking at getting a floor and

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And again, just getting the finished trades in there for kind of the month of

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September to wrap things up. Back again on the exterior, our brick mason is on

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the, what you can see there on the south elevation, the kind of decorative facade

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there on the south side. I think they'll be setting the Graham stone.

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Derrick's, I should be there at 8.30 tomorrow morning, which I will be.

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Yep, I'm plugging away at that and it's been cool. I got a close look at them doing the

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is there and very intricate work there so they're taking their time and it's

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going to look really nice. We got all of our steel set shortly before this for

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the the two entrance can of these there so we'll start looking at getting our

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roof on the three. The addition and the two can of these there will get our metal

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roof on there. Got DTE was a little bit of a it always is getting the utilities

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lined up as always a little bit of a struggle or an unknown but we did finally get

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confirmation that they do have a schedule for next week so we'll get powered

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up, we'll get the transformer set, get powered up and start firing up our

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equipment and getting things going. Our overhead doors are expected in a couple

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weeks so with that and with finishing the facade here and getting the rest of the

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windows in we'll finally be closed in and we'll have an opportunity to control

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the heat and humidity and air conditioning in the space so that we can control

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our our finishes get installed and make sure they're not going to swell or shrink due to temperatures

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as we start getting into the fall here. On the exterior on the site we we're in a position now

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that we're done kind of run heavy-year equipment around the rest of the building we've got our site

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contractor back he's installing underground storm utilities I believe he's finished with that as

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of today and you start and remove all the existing pavement out there so we'll be replacing

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that pavement with concrete in the next couple weeks and yeah again I'm track for substantial

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completion September 30th the budget side of things budget is fully in line we should expect

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to have some savings at the end of the job here we spent a lot of time on the front end as

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you know, getting the job to go and value engineering we call, you know, instead of buying

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this super expensive thing, what can we do to still achieve the function as well as

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achieve a look that's desirable, but do it for a more cost effective way. We did a lot

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of that stuff up front to make sure that there was enough money to build the job. And then

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as we kind of got through buying out all the contracts and making some more smart decisions,

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We were able to save some money and so for the last few weeks we've got a chance to work with Tony and Bob and

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Christie and Bannon and

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Make some decisions about some some things to add to the job. So we're replacing all the pavement on the project with a new concrete instead of leaving

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Some of that old asphalt there, which is going to look really really good. So that'll be a brand new facelift there

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We added the epoxy flooring in the event space instead of just the sealed concrete, which is what we were going to have in there.

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So we're going to have a nice colored solid epoxy in there with a cold base going up the walls, which makes it friendly for cleaning.

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We're looking at replacing the roof on the existing building. We're working through some options there.

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It's not quite as simple as just slapping on a new roof. We've had to take some design things into consideration.

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We're working on a few options there so hopefully we'll be able to get that figured out before the end of the job and get a nice new roof on there to just match the aesthetics of the rest of the building.

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And we were able to get in touch with some audio visual companies and security companies to kind of complete the package and make sure that you guys had screens and speaker systems and PA systems in there as needed for the events.

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with that a lot more a lot to go still a lot of hard work to do in the next six

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weeks but it does appear like we're we're sitting pretty good with money so we

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had some some allowances set aside that we don't appear we're gonna need in

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full so we'll work with you folks and decide if there's more stuff you want to

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look at adding to the job or if you just want to have some money to leave with the

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end of the job for whatever you may need operations or future furniture or my

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12 years on council tells me it's going to be the latter. So let's just talk about that later.

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To the extent that we can do that. But Jordan, I just want to thank you. You have been

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the consonant taskmaster and going through this and the regular communications and the scheduling

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and the hurting of the cats and all that's a thankless job and you are killing it. So I just

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wanted to thank you for that hard work. It's obvious. Chris, do you have a decked or some pictures?

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I do. I do. So we're going to show some pictures too because I don't know if I mean people have

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been driving by and seeing that but not everybody's available to speak and sign and get a peek.

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out off the press stuff. So let's, uh, and then if you got any questions for Jordan,

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we'll keep on running. You can't leave just yet. Sorry.

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Sorry. So this kind of takes us from the beginning.

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This was what happens when I left on the chap road in the, uh, rewalled trailer.

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I was like, Oh, hard hat. Oh, drawings. So there's that. Anyway. Um,

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so this is where we started, if anyone remembers this building seems like forever.

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And then it became this. That was when we thought we were keeping the walls.

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not so much. Still thought we were keeping the walls.

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And then we started working on the parking lot. Still head walls.

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Now we realize the walls don't work. So taking down the walls, almost all the walls down except for the back.

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And here we are with no walls.

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But a really good roof. This de-walled into everyone stopping the farmers' work and saying, the canopy, is it going to be done soon? That canopy. It's a building.

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the pavilion. It's a billion. I kept showing him that picture. I'm like, no, it's a building.

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They're like, where? I'm like, there. This is our farmer's market one day. This is one of the

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historic walking tours. I don't know how many securities he has seen these. I think it's 40 people,

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but most people have the thing. We're asking, what's that? So I thought it was a fun picture. So there's

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and then they started happening. We started pouring concrete around the site and then we started

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painting things and started getting some framing on the walls and more walls and more walls

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and an addition interior shot and this is just a couple weeks ago as you the

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photos you're gonna see now are literally from like the last month because it

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started cooking really fast. There's the addition and there's the addition and the

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front. Windows came in, so I started working on those. There's the front, again,

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more of the front and the canopies. This is today. So this is literally as of

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an hour ago. So this is the interior of the space. This is me push back in the

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corner looking south. This is the drywall that George was just mentioning that

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went up, so that's all again. The one to the farthest you're right with the

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little door. That is actually our little mini kitchen that has the fridge and the dishwasher

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and the sink and some storage. And then next to it is our big, big HVAC unit for the

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whole building. And then on the very end the door on the left side, that's our storage

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for tables and chairs and whatnot. This is the bathroom, not with walls. This is the lady's

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side. There's an inside too. And there's also a family rest. And then this is, as of me,

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stomping through there with my heels. This is what it looks like. And so you can see the

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There are two ways that Jordan was mentioning and right above that is where the 1817 is going to go right beneath those three little windows right there and that will be starting in the morning.

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So that is literally the most recent as of 45 minutes ago.

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That's great.

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The one of the regrets I have, I wish we would have put up a time lapse up in the tree or something to kind of let it.

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That's always fun.

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This is just as good.

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This is just as good.

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Yeah, so anyway, my thought was listening to me drone on,

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bring in Jordan, and Tony, and Bob, and Christie, who really have been driving,

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again, the decisions on finish, and this, that, and the other thing.

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But my main concern is to be a tiebreaker, and a pointer of reality,

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to kind of rub everybody in.

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But Jordan has done a fantastic job, and Tony, and Christie,

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doing those value things that were able to save money and not trip over a dollar to save

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a dime for the future durability and maintenance and longevity and all those things.

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So I think we've had a really good compromise.

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And the good news is it'll be, I see of all, on September 30th, it's fantastic.

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So that's great.

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We have talked about certain things to possibly be for our grand opening.

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The mayor and I have had some fun discussions, so I don't know if we've had some thoughts

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as to doing possibly the state of the city there.

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So which is mid-October, I don't know if the date's been picked yet, but that would be a

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fun time to do both the grand opening, because we're going to have all the dignitaries there,

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and then let the mayor take a big champagne bottle and smash it on the side of the building

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there.

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and like Christine and everybody drink it.

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Yeah, right exactly, yes.

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It's in October.

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Yeah, so I don't know, have you ever said a little bit?

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We haven't, no, we haven't said a day

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and next time vacation right now, but really when you're comfortable,

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we kind of will go with your date, too, honest.

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Okay, like, if you want a way to week or two,

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after September, it's a very good thing.

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Well, I told Jordan that we're doing it on October 19,

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so that way, he had a date to be done for us

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because my experience with trades over my 35 years

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in business has been without a due date.

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Nothing gets done.

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Not that you wouldn't do it.

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I'm just saying, it's always good to have that.

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Yeah, and you guys can invest the date.

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We can work around that.

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Okay, we're 19 to the worst threshold

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as long as the majority of council is available

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and they would like it.

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We do.

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We're very available.

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I will pass it on.

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Other than a booking on March 21st for a founder's date,

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you're very available.

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So anyways, that's sort of all of the updates all positive.

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There's anytime any kind of negativity

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or a thing that could have gone either direction.

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George handled it masterfully in Bob and Tony and Kristi have been in there just to kind

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of pull it through Abby at A.K.A. He's done a great job too. So it's just for whatever

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reason every time I see emails, kind of because I'm on the thread, so I see everything

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that's going on. And it seems like all the time we got to get engineering in there. I'm sick

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of paying engineers. I'm going to come back to my next life as an engineer for these things.

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So that's the one issue we've got with the roof right now because depending on which direction

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and we go, we got to, anyway, so.

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But, Jordan's got it under control.

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I have my full faith and confidence in him and Frank's team,

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so I've done a fantastic job.

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So, I just want to thank you as the represent of the board,

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you know, for all of your guys' efforts

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and, of course, FRS has just been a fantastic partner

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of ours for years.

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So, you know, it's, it's great,

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and it's going to be super fun when it's done

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in that whole area.

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Now, Frank's got to do the parking lot over there

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and then the, on the other side over there

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by the fire station and it won't have the little central district that we've long hoped for,

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so it's going to be great. So anyway, thank you for that. Anybody have any questions for Jordan

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with respect to the project and any other details? I'd just like to echo what you said and say,

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Jordan, you got a great team. I mean, and they have been really good. I've been on a lot of projects,

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and I haven't seen one run this smoothly in a long time once we got it rolling. Once they got,

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We should have gave them the design, but it's so refreshing.

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It's kind of a project to have somebody say, well, if we have made a lot of

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improvements and upgrades to say, well, there's might be a little bit of money

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left over. You never hear that right? What we're going to be on time and there might

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be a little bit of money left over. Yeah, so that's been a pleasure.

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Yeah, for sure. And you guys too, Antonio, I'm sorry, go ahead.

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Sure, and you guys rewalled. I give you guys an A plus. When he picked

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September. I left here saying this guy is fricking dreaming. I mean, you guys, like today

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you went through the heating guys there, the brick layers there, the painters there,

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the drywallers there, the excavators put in the storm and sanitarium. I said, where do

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you see that? You never see that. You guys kicked that job in the butt. A plus. A plus for

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you guys. Tom Hanks and Shelley Long into the money pit with all the trades now. All I got

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two weeks. It's great. But again, thanks for that. And we just wanted to have you, you know,

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show your face to the board so they can see who's really the master of ceremonies. But the

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bad news is, Sean takes all the credit for your hard work, so that's why. But no, we appreciate

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you guys, you know, extend our thanks to, you know, to the Rewald family for you guys taking

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good care of us, so we appreciate that. For sure. All right. You can, you're off the hook now.

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Yeah, I'm sure if you stay, if you want, I mean, it's fascinating.

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Yes, sir.

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Yeah, have a good night.

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Okay, next up on deck is Paul Nairgaden at the Graham.

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I thought.

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Oh, there we go.

438
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So I let Marilyn know she had offered and I let her know it was on the agenda tonight, but she hadn't responded. So I'm assuming that she was busy, but she had offered to us because she had emailed Ben and I because she had offered early on. If there's an opportunity, she'd love to add a pollinator guard, might even be able to find some funding and some labor to help us with that. So she had reintroduce that offer to Ben and I via email. So Ben said, we'll throw it on the next agenda. So the area that we had been thinking about, and this is the map that was in your packet, is that ramp that's coming down.

439
00:30:29,660 --> 00:30:35,660
Right in the out, it's just a really great little garden area that we thought would be a great place for the pollinator garden because it has

440
00:30:35,660 --> 00:30:41,080
Nice exposure. It's gonna a lot of people will see it and it's a nice focal point of the place

441
00:30:41,080 --> 00:30:47,420
So I just wanted to see how everyone felt about that. This is area. We're talking about if everyone's interested in that then I can

442
00:30:47,420 --> 00:30:51,260
Start working with Maryland to make that happen. That'll be a savings on the job as well

443
00:30:51,260 --> 00:30:55,960
If they are able to fund part of it because there was there is landscaping slated to go in here

444
00:30:55,960 --> 00:31:01,040
So then that would be a savings. I talked to Jordan. We're not too late to not order some of the things that go here

445
00:31:01,040 --> 00:31:03,600
So that would be another savings on the job if we could do that

446
00:31:05,600 --> 00:31:08,500
So because this wouldn't require a roll cover

447
00:31:08,500 --> 00:31:14,980
It's not we're not spending money or in theory saving money, right? Like correct as far as I know if something changes in Maryland

448
00:31:14,980 --> 00:31:16,880
Decides that it would cost something

449
00:31:16,880 --> 00:31:24,200
We just look at what we already have budgeted within the grand project for plantings and see if there's a delta if there's more

450
00:31:24,200 --> 00:31:27,980
that would have to be in there, then that would have to be a discussion, but I did not get that impression.

451
00:31:28,300 --> 00:31:31,080
Do we need to take a temporary vote or...?

452
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:37,500
I don't think so. No, this was more information, unless someone has some strong feelings about putting a pollinator garden in this location.

453
00:31:38,260 --> 00:31:41,100
The more pollinated garden is the better, as far as I'm concerned.

454
00:31:41,200 --> 00:31:46,640
Yes, it's right over there. Yeah, exactly. It's right where that cat bulldozer thing is.

455
00:31:47,020 --> 00:31:48,900
That's literally parked where the pollinator goes.

456
00:31:48,900 --> 00:31:50,980
It's a positive, a hundred percent.

457
00:31:51,200 --> 00:31:53,460
No, we're a positive and I was saved by it.

458
00:31:53,700 --> 00:31:57,040
I was going to say the money saver and the poll and everything else.

459
00:31:57,160 --> 00:31:57,500
That's great.

460
00:31:57,840 --> 00:31:58,480
Thumbs up on that.

461
00:31:59,380 --> 00:32:02,580
And Chris, he's about as literally just going to say, it's already in the budget.

462
00:32:02,720 --> 00:32:03,600
The landscaping is already there.

463
00:32:03,700 --> 00:32:06,700
So to the extent that it was over, you know, we may have to do some horse trading,

464
00:32:06,780 --> 00:32:07,860
but I can't imagine that to be the case.

465
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:08,860
It's actually going to be a savings.

466
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:09,640
Oh, yeah.

467
00:32:09,960 --> 00:32:10,740
Well, this is great.

468
00:32:10,940 --> 00:32:14,520
And the more people we can get involved in the project, the more ownership we have in it,

469
00:32:14,520 --> 00:32:15,380
and it's going to be great.

470
00:32:15,780 --> 00:32:24,720
All right, so with that, yes, March forward with the pollinator team pollinator and get back to us and let us know.

471
00:32:25,460 --> 00:32:28,840
Next up on deck, Saturday market at the Grand Madam Director.

472
00:32:29,300 --> 00:32:35,600
So as we've been getting closer, a lot of people, honestly, from even just being a shelter, are you going to do a year round market?

473
00:32:35,760 --> 00:32:39,760
I'm like, I don't even have walls. Hang on. Then the walls came up. I'm like, I don't even have doors.

474
00:32:39,760 --> 00:32:44,080
I've been kind of pushing people out because I was waiting for Jordan to say, yes, September

475
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:47,780
30 is real, because as you know, with any construction projects something can happen,

476
00:32:47,780 --> 00:32:52,620
the last thing I wanted to do is set an expectation and not be able to fulfill it.

477
00:32:53,220 --> 00:32:55,620
I'm feeling a little saucy now, feeling like we are at that point.

478
00:32:55,820 --> 00:32:59,220
So a couple of weeks ago, I've been working at the Farmer's Market every Saturday, kind

479
00:32:59,220 --> 00:33:03,600
of reintroducing myself to the vendors and getting those relationships going again, and making

480
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,820
new relationships with some of the newer vendors, and I was talking to them about if we were

481
00:33:07,820 --> 00:33:10,400
to do a winter market on Saturdays, would you be interested?

482
00:33:11,000 --> 00:33:14,740
And it was just a casual discussion, a lot of enthusiasm for it.

483
00:33:14,820 --> 00:33:16,940
And of course, we have some of our bigger farmers that say,

484
00:33:17,020 --> 00:33:17,900
I don't grow in the winter.

485
00:33:18,020 --> 00:33:20,080
And the winter I take the winter off, which is fine.

486
00:33:20,460 --> 00:33:22,600
But we do have some other vendors that say, yeah,

487
00:33:22,660 --> 00:33:23,840
I still grow hot house.

488
00:33:24,000 --> 00:33:27,300
I still grow some lettuces, some onion, some other little things.

489
00:33:27,300 --> 00:33:29,500
But a lot of our prepared food people have said, yes.

490
00:33:30,200 --> 00:33:32,800
When some people tell me that when they're not at our market

491
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:34,700
for the six months, they don't do anything

492
00:33:34,700 --> 00:33:35,920
until we reopen in May.

493
00:33:36,480 --> 00:33:38,560
So this would be a big game changer for them.

494
00:33:39,240 --> 00:33:45,920
So having said that, in your packet I listed with the, after that I sent an actual electronic survey

495
00:33:45,920 --> 00:33:49,580
just to kind of quantify everything, even though I had the little handwritten notes of what everyone had told me.

496
00:33:49,800 --> 00:33:57,100
But as of right now I have 13 of our existing farmers market vendors that said that they would do a full season in the Graham if we did it.

497
00:33:57,560 --> 00:34:01,200
Half season, I had four vendors say that so that's like an every other week which those are the,

498
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:05,200
we have three things that we offer at the farmers market currently full season, half season.

499
00:34:05,200 --> 00:34:06,340
or then select dates.

500
00:34:06,540 --> 00:34:09,960
So just you can pick a date, you know, some people do once a month, some people just pick

501
00:34:09,960 --> 00:34:11,000
around vacations, whatever.

502
00:34:11,540 --> 00:34:14,300
And I have 10 of our vendors that said that they would do select dates.

503
00:34:14,840 --> 00:34:19,060
When I went and measured everything out, which is my cute little diagram right here, such

504
00:34:19,060 --> 00:34:26,280
as it is, I was able to look, I think we can accommodate 22 vendors, maybe 24, but I'd rather

505
00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:30,980
undershoot and then if we have to push a little bit more, we can, they're 8 foot by 8 foot

506
00:34:30,980 --> 00:34:36,820
spaces within the space in space. So what I was proposing for the market at the

507
00:34:36,820 --> 00:34:40,980
grant because we do have festival trees was going to be our kickoff event in

508
00:34:40,980 --> 00:34:44,700
there that was it's in November which I thought that was safe but now we're

509
00:34:44,700 --> 00:34:47,100
going to be doing state of the city things like that. We're actually with the

510
00:34:47,100 --> 00:34:50,920
festival trees going to able to build in there rather than build the studio and

511
00:34:50,920 --> 00:34:54,580
then move tree trees. I don't know if anyone has ever moved a fully decorated

512
00:34:54,580 --> 00:35:00,860
Christmas tree. Well Dana has. Bob has. I have. It's not super fun. When you have

513
00:35:00,860 --> 00:35:02,300
to move them from building to building to building.

514
00:35:02,520 --> 00:35:04,080
So it's really great that we can build them in place.

515
00:35:04,260 --> 00:35:06,220
So having said all of that and we wanted

516
00:35:06,220 --> 00:35:07,700
to give it its own launching pad.

517
00:35:07,800 --> 00:35:10,900
We were proposing to start it on November 28th,

518
00:35:10,900 --> 00:35:12,360
which is also small business Saturday.

519
00:35:13,100 --> 00:35:14,680
It's a big weekend for downtown.

520
00:35:15,120 --> 00:35:16,560
We have a lot of people already built in

521
00:35:16,560 --> 00:35:18,940
and rather just throwing it on a random day

522
00:35:19,420 --> 00:35:20,540
and talking with a lot of the vendors.

523
00:35:20,540 --> 00:35:21,780
They like the 28th as well.

524
00:35:21,880 --> 00:35:24,040
They thought that that would be an interesting, you know,

525
00:35:24,040 --> 00:35:25,320
because of course, they're all small businesses.

526
00:35:25,420 --> 00:35:27,360
It's all local so it all just kind of makes sense

527
00:35:27,360 --> 00:35:29,840
and gives us a new wrinkle for small business Saturday,

528
00:35:29,840 --> 00:35:32,360
which, quite frankly, the promotions committee has been looking for.

529
00:35:33,380 --> 00:35:38,820
In addition to that, we started looking at the pricing structure because obviously this

530
00:35:38,820 --> 00:35:39,660
is going to be changing.

531
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:45,520
So you may notice it says Graham inaugural, I would like to look at these prices next year

532
00:35:45,520 --> 00:35:51,320
for the full market season to really identify where we want to go with things.

533
00:35:51,680 --> 00:35:56,300
We are, generally as I've been doing some surveys of other markets, we are on the low side,

534
00:35:56,300 --> 00:36:02,140
To be honest, but I don't want to then go crazy and then all of a sudden the vendors that were with us forever decide they can find somebody

535
00:36:02,140 --> 00:36:08,060
Some place better. So I tried to strike a balance with that. So our current market rates daily is $30

536
00:36:08,620 --> 00:36:15,260
I have season which is 26 weeks is 200 or I'm sorry, it's 13 weeks is $250 and a full season for $400

537
00:36:19,200 --> 00:36:25,680
Anyway, what I was proposing for the inaugural is up in the daily to 40 because they are getting indoors

538
00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:28,840
is electricity, they're getting a lot by being inside now.

539
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:33,100
Going for the half season at $2.75, it would be for 11 weeks.

540
00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,440
So only really a $25 difference, but they're getting less weeks.

541
00:36:37,720 --> 00:36:41,140
But it all evens out, they're still getting a discount based on paying ahead.

542
00:36:41,400 --> 00:36:44,680
And then full season going from $400 to $450.

543
00:36:45,780 --> 00:36:48,980
Like I said, I don't want to put anybody off and think, that's really expensive.

544
00:36:49,160 --> 00:36:49,840
I don't want to do it.

545
00:36:49,860 --> 00:36:53,780
I want to make sure that we can fill and then prove value because we are unproven.

546
00:36:53,780 --> 00:36:55,500
And we haven't done this before.

547
00:36:55,900 --> 00:36:58,420
I feel fairly confident that it's going to be successful

548
00:36:58,420 --> 00:37:00,720
because this is literally the first question

549
00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:02,400
that I get when I arrive at the market

550
00:37:02,400 --> 00:37:03,960
and the last question I get when I leave.

551
00:37:04,460 --> 00:37:05,540
This is all people want to know about

552
00:37:05,540 --> 00:37:06,300
as the year round market.

553
00:37:06,980 --> 00:37:08,220
So I feel like we're going to have success,

554
00:37:08,260 --> 00:37:11,140
but I wanted to see how the board feels about it.

555
00:37:11,420 --> 00:37:14,380
And if you like this pricing structure,

556
00:37:14,620 --> 00:37:16,700
this layout, this approach, this everything.

557
00:37:17,260 --> 00:37:18,080
So this is what I know.

558
00:37:18,480 --> 00:37:19,500
I'm going to stop talking now.

559
00:37:19,980 --> 00:37:20,280
There we are.

560
00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:22,100
Oh, thank you.

561
00:37:22,100 --> 00:37:23,360
I have agnized over this.

562
00:37:24,500 --> 00:37:26,220
So it's fairly self-explanatory.

563
00:37:26,420 --> 00:37:30,980
Is there any questions for the director or any opinions on this?

564
00:37:32,380 --> 00:37:34,300
Well, you guys go ahead first and I'll say it won't be last.

565
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:37,300
I just think this was the original goal.

566
00:37:37,580 --> 00:37:39,320
One of the original goals I should say.

567
00:37:39,760 --> 00:37:43,000
And so you're fulfilling what the plan was.

568
00:37:43,200 --> 00:37:46,460
And you know better, I think, than probably us up here

569
00:37:46,460 --> 00:37:47,720
as far as how much to charge.

570
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:50,360
So I feel like we have to respect your math on that,

571
00:37:50,360 --> 00:37:57,940
How many tables or how many sections fit in there? I think it's super exciting. Just when you said that I just thought about the winners

572
00:37:57,940 --> 00:38:04,580
Like and seeing people going there just as an event on a Saturday because it's winners hard here

573
00:38:04,580 --> 00:38:07,560
So I think it will do really well

574
00:38:07,560 --> 00:38:12,020
Yeah, and you said it exactly right. We're not calling it a winter market

575
00:38:12,020 --> 00:38:17,060
We're calling Saturday market at the Graham because we want that to continue throughout because when we get to April

576
00:38:17,060 --> 00:38:20,780
it's not winter. Right. And winter, I feel like, has a little bit of a negative thing.

577
00:38:20,880 --> 00:38:22,940
After you get through fire and ice, everything, everything, everybody's sick of winter.

578
00:38:23,120 --> 00:38:25,800
So it's Saturday, Saturday, Saturday. So it's always that marketing

579
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,920
that there's always something happening on Saturdays at the ground.

580
00:38:28,180 --> 00:38:30,240
So I certainly highly support this.

581
00:38:30,840 --> 00:38:31,860
Yeah. I'm Paul.

582
00:38:32,180 --> 00:38:35,560
I have a question. Are you going to have downtown merchants have a space?

583
00:38:36,340 --> 00:38:40,400
As of right now, I don't, since we're such limited space and I have enough vendors,

584
00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:46,020
I'm going to say no at this time. But if there is opportunity, once we see how everybody sets up,

585
00:38:46,020 --> 00:38:52,600
If there's more room and I don't have enough vendors to fill, then I think that's an opportunity that is something we do at the current farmer's market, but I have

586
00:38:54,060 --> 00:39:00,640
48 spaces versus 22. So it's a little different. So that'll definitely that continues now. I know you guys already have a space book

587
00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:07,040
But I think on Halloween and then and that'll continue with the big market if we have an opportunity that I can't fill a week

588
00:39:07,040 --> 00:39:13,700
That I think we would open it to downtown businesses, but based on my conversation with the farmers. I don't think that's going to be an issue for us right now

589
00:39:13,700 --> 00:39:14,980
as long as we're full of farmers.

590
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:16,940
Yeah, I don't think it's going to be an issue.

591
00:39:17,420 --> 00:39:18,220
Yeah, for sure.

592
00:39:19,280 --> 00:39:21,400
And like we talked about in the very beginning,

593
00:39:21,540 --> 00:39:24,760
this is we're going to sort of ease into it.

594
00:39:24,800 --> 00:39:26,460
We're going to spend some time on it.

595
00:39:26,560 --> 00:39:27,700
And it's like buying a house.

596
00:39:27,780 --> 00:39:29,740
You don't do everything and all the designing right away.

597
00:39:30,040 --> 00:39:32,040
You kind of live in it for a little while and figure out

598
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:33,200
what works and what doesn't work.

599
00:39:33,560 --> 00:39:36,400
So yeah, the only thing that I would say

600
00:39:36,400 --> 00:39:38,460
is with respect to pricing, just make sure everybody understands

601
00:39:38,460 --> 00:39:40,480
this is just a stab for us right now.

602
00:39:40,560 --> 00:39:41,660
And it may change next year.

603
00:39:41,660 --> 00:39:45,620
We just don't know. So I mean, it's it's only fair.

604
00:39:45,800 --> 00:39:48,740
Well, the good news is is that, you know, we're only heating it one day, right?

605
00:39:48,800 --> 00:39:52,360
It's not like it's going to be, you know, 78 and sunny inside there.

606
00:39:52,440 --> 00:39:56,600
All right, very good. So direction.

607
00:39:57,060 --> 00:39:58,860
The direction forward with this.

608
00:39:59,200 --> 00:40:03,840
No, I was just actually going to ask if you have like, I think the chairman just,

609
00:40:04,320 --> 00:40:09,300
if it's only one day, I don't see like a large increment in cost because

610
00:40:09,300 --> 00:40:11,060
as we're only running the heating for one day.

611
00:40:11,220 --> 00:40:14,060
So it was more of a, hey, have we projected like,

612
00:40:14,780 --> 00:40:18,260
or do you have a break even for how much each booth needs

613
00:40:18,260 --> 00:40:22,400
to generate and revenue to at least break even?

614
00:40:22,960 --> 00:40:24,640
Yeah, no, I'm hoping that if they,

615
00:40:25,420 --> 00:40:27,380
with the discounted rate, it's about $25.

616
00:40:27,880 --> 00:40:30,560
So if they can't do that, then it's a problem.

617
00:40:33,040 --> 00:40:37,480
So, just to give, I don't want to give exact in which vendor it was,

618
00:40:37,480 --> 00:40:45,340
but I had a long discussion with one of our farmers and they sell eggs and they sold 153 dozen eggs at the market on Saturday.

619
00:40:46,500 --> 00:40:50,500
And they pay $30 to be there and she's extremely happy and thinks she has to buy more chickens.

620
00:40:51,460 --> 00:40:55,160
Because she currently has 300 chickens, this is my life now.

621
00:40:55,520 --> 00:41:01,640
She has 300 chickens and to do our market and another market she doesn't have enough chickens to produce that but she was one of the

622
00:41:01,640 --> 00:41:07,040
see some people that signed on an under-products bond in all capital letters eggs through exclamation

623
00:41:07,040 --> 00:41:07,420
points.

624
00:41:07,700 --> 00:41:07,960
Yeah.

625
00:41:08,360 --> 00:41:08,860
That's awesome.

626
00:41:09,220 --> 00:41:11,420
Didn't you charge like nine bucks with that?

627
00:41:11,420 --> 00:41:12,640
Nine dollars a dozen.

628
00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:13,060
Yeah.

629
00:41:13,260 --> 00:41:13,500
Hold on.

630
00:41:14,200 --> 00:41:15,120
I just did the math.

631
00:41:15,280 --> 00:41:15,820
So let's see.

632
00:41:16,760 --> 00:41:17,000
Wow.

633
00:41:17,180 --> 00:41:17,340
Yeah.

634
00:41:18,140 --> 00:41:18,240
Yeah.

635
00:41:18,400 --> 00:41:18,460
Yeah.

636
00:41:18,580 --> 00:41:18,660
Yeah.

637
00:41:18,660 --> 00:41:18,860
Yeah.

638
00:41:18,860 --> 00:41:18,980
Wow.

639
00:41:19,540 --> 00:41:22,620
All right.

640
00:41:22,780 --> 00:41:30,360
So the direction for the direction for the director to proceed with this, any question on pricing

641
00:41:30,360 --> 00:41:31,860
or anything else like that, we're good.

642
00:41:32,180 --> 00:41:34,880
Again, we don't know what we don't know at this point,

643
00:41:35,020 --> 00:41:36,220
and we're going to figure out as we go along.

644
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:40,180
So we'll be conservative, but only to a point,

645
00:41:40,380 --> 00:41:41,640
we want to keep the place full.

646
00:41:41,920 --> 00:41:44,360
And I know each event's going to get more and more stuff

647
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:47,900
going on there, and more and more things added, and whatever.

648
00:41:48,260 --> 00:41:51,780
So I know how our team rolls, so it's

649
00:41:51,780 --> 00:41:53,000
going to involve quite lovely.

650
00:41:53,260 --> 00:41:55,900
And I think, you know, come February when it's just

651
00:41:55,900 --> 00:41:57,700
miserable, all people are going to just be digging it.

652
00:41:57,700 --> 00:42:02,500
So the hot cocoa stand for $10 a shot, it'll be great.

653
00:42:02,760 --> 00:42:05,020
For the $20 for a dozen eggs.

654
00:42:05,260 --> 00:42:07,400
Well, yeah, you know, it's just the magic eggs, right?

655
00:42:08,480 --> 00:42:10,580
Did you want to roll into D since it's related to C?

656
00:42:10,780 --> 00:42:11,020
Sure.

657
00:42:12,780 --> 00:42:16,420
So part of this is obviously since everything's getting real now,

658
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:18,360
one of the things that I've had the opportunity

659
00:42:18,360 --> 00:42:21,620
to do when Taylor left is I haven't really touch farmers

660
00:42:21,620 --> 00:42:23,860
markets since, basically, for 27 years,

661
00:42:23,860 --> 00:42:25,180
because I started the farmers market

662
00:42:25,180 --> 00:42:26,860
and then it got handed over to other people

663
00:42:26,860 --> 00:42:31,260
and I never worked on it other than starting it, so I was always on the periphery, so this year

664
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,440
I've been there every Saturday and I've enjoyed the heck out of it because I really felt

665
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:40,120
now in hindsight it's like everything happens for a reason, I should have been there because

666
00:42:40,700 --> 00:42:45,440
it allowed me to really see things from a perspective both of the farmers and also the customers.

667
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:49,240
Everybody coming up every week, I was so excited we finally got the back on the building

668
00:42:49,240 --> 00:42:52,480
because they're like whoa something's happening because every week we were doing the underground

669
00:42:52,480 --> 00:42:57,000
And I knew we were moving forward, but everybody else was like, looks the same as last week.

670
00:42:57,060 --> 00:42:59,200
I'm like, it's happening. Trust me.

671
00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:02,160
Came back at the 4th of July, and we had walls, and people thought it was crazy,

672
00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:03,340
something they'd ever seen. It was amazing.

673
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:08,740
But so in doing that, working with our market managers, we always have seasonal market managers

674
00:43:08,740 --> 00:43:11,200
that work with us. They alternate weeks a lot of times.

675
00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,640
We work together just because there's so many things happening.

676
00:43:13,700 --> 00:43:15,580
And somebody has to be there to run EBT.

677
00:43:15,860 --> 00:43:19,020
Somebody's out there with the vendors, so that I'm just kind of floating around doing whatever I'm doing.

678
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:28,580
So, as we've been doing this, I found that during the week, taking over tailors, I spent at least two days a week on market, and I could probably spend more.

679
00:43:29,420 --> 00:43:41,420
That's basically, you know, doing all the reporting for the EBT, getting all the stuff ready for the next week, scheduling all the vendors, sending out the invoices, doing all the paperwork to the city, all of that, maps for everything online, all the social.

680
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:45,420
That's two days for me, and I know I could be spending more time on it.

681
00:43:45,940 --> 00:43:49,320
I'm fortunate because I've really started building our bench early, so my recruitment

682
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:52,740
I did a lot of it back in May and June, so we're seeing the fruits of that now.

683
00:43:53,160 --> 00:43:58,600
But what I can say is that going forward, I can see that if we had someone dedicated to

684
00:43:58,600 --> 00:44:03,280
that position that was spending those couple days plus their day at the market, I think

685
00:44:03,280 --> 00:44:06,640
there would be a great value to us because I know I could probably be doing more, but I'm

686
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:08,900
doing all these other things that I'm supposed to be doing.

687
00:44:09,460 --> 00:44:13,880
And I feel like if I could dedicate more, someone could dedicate more, it would be more meaningful.

688
00:44:14,380 --> 00:44:16,760
One of our market managers is starting with us this year.

689
00:44:16,940 --> 00:44:18,180
She started Mayer Name's Caroline Hill.

690
00:44:18,720 --> 00:44:21,480
She works with us on Saturdays, about seven hours a Saturday.

691
00:44:21,980 --> 00:44:24,500
She's coming back into the workforce, she's raised her kids.

692
00:44:24,940 --> 00:44:27,140
They're getting older, she wants to start working again,

693
00:44:27,720 --> 00:44:29,560
and she's very passionate about the market.

694
00:44:29,700 --> 00:44:32,360
She's forming all these great relationships with the vendors,

695
00:44:32,860 --> 00:44:35,460
and she's shown interest if we were able to,

696
00:44:35,700 --> 00:44:38,040
if we ever wanted to do something more with the position

697
00:44:38,040 --> 00:44:41,220
that she'd like to see it beyond the season of working with us.

698
00:44:41,220 --> 00:44:45,480
so in speaking with Ben and kind of talking about where I think we're going and how he knows that

699
00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:49,560
this is going to continue to grow. It isn't just going to be a Saturday's only at the market kind

700
00:44:49,560 --> 00:44:55,620
of situation. If the board would be interested in elevating Caroline from seasonal part time to

701
00:44:55,620 --> 00:44:59,860
regular part time and increasing her hours to an average not to

702
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:29,460
The seat of 24 hours a week. There would be no benefits included in this position. As I indicated in my memo, I spoke with Joel and Haynes, so the city's HR director, as long as her hours do not exceed. Thank you, 30 hours. And there's a total of 15, 60 per year. So she can go over 30 hours as an average. So, but it's 1500 and 60 hours per year. We do not have to offer benefits. The only other implication on the budget would be for every 30 hours work.

703
00:45:29,460 --> 00:45:33,160
she earns one hour of sick time, which is really negligible.

704
00:45:33,640 --> 00:45:37,900
And as Ben said, when we were talking about an executive committee from a budgetary

705
00:45:37,900 --> 00:45:43,360
sandboy because we did have a shorter staff this year, there is money still in the personnel

706
00:45:43,360 --> 00:45:48,020
line item, so we wouldn't have to go for a budget amendment to allow this to happen, but

707
00:45:48,780 --> 00:45:53,300
I haven't asked for a new person a long time, and it's still just part time because we're

708
00:45:53,300 --> 00:45:54,720
just like I said, we're getting up and rolling.

709
00:45:54,720 --> 00:46:04,260
We want to walk before we run, but I think this would be a great asset to the ground and to get somebody focused on this to make sure that this continues to grow.

710
00:46:06,100 --> 00:46:06,620
Yes.

711
00:46:07,320 --> 00:46:18,000
The official ask is for permission or for approval to bring Caroline on full year part time.

712
00:46:18,000 --> 00:46:23,660
Four-year break it's the phrases regular part time is what you want to say right now. She's to catarise a seasonal part time

713
00:46:23,660 --> 00:46:25,840
Yeah, just so any allowers not to exceed

714
00:46:26,880 --> 00:46:28,440
1,560 per year

715
00:46:30,120 --> 00:46:35,760
We've got unfortunately fortunately we've got more of that up money in the budget because we were little we're good

716
00:46:36,240 --> 00:46:39,800
We lost and lost some bodies early on that yeah

717
00:46:40,420 --> 00:46:42,720
Everything happens for a reason like you said. So this is good

718
00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,920
So that would be sort of the motion to to authorize that I

719
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:54,520
I think it is monetary, so we would need to do a roll call ball, even though it's already in a budget that's already been approved.

720
00:46:56,660 --> 00:47:01,020
It feels more appropriate to go ahead and do it, but a minimum correct Secretary.

721
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:04,920
I would just make a suggestion that you leave the name out of it and create the position.

722
00:47:05,160 --> 00:47:06,160
Gotcha, perfect.

723
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:06,540
Oh, perfect.

724
00:47:06,720 --> 00:47:07,040
Yeah, question.

725
00:47:07,480 --> 00:47:07,960
Thanks, Susan.

726
00:47:09,300 --> 00:47:10,600
Paul, I'll make a motion.

727
00:47:10,840 --> 00:47:12,580
Oh, okay. Motion by Hague.

728
00:47:12,800 --> 00:47:13,200
Oh, second.

729
00:47:14,240 --> 00:47:14,960
Everybody seconds.

730
00:47:14,960 --> 00:47:16,920
Oh my goodness, there are lots of seconds to have been said.

731
00:47:18,100 --> 00:47:18,340
Thank you.

732
00:47:18,340 --> 00:47:19,680
Thank you, Juan, whoever your favorite is.

733
00:47:20,440 --> 00:47:23,280
Since it's an expenditure of dollars,

734
00:47:23,480 --> 00:47:24,800
we'll see what we'll call about, shall we?

735
00:47:25,540 --> 00:47:26,260
By Bloomingdale.

736
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:26,760
Yes.

737
00:47:26,920 --> 00:47:27,400
Eric Diana.

738
00:47:27,720 --> 00:47:27,840
Yes.

739
00:47:28,060 --> 00:47:28,960
Lisa Germani Williams.

740
00:47:29,060 --> 00:47:29,200
Yes.

741
00:47:29,500 --> 00:47:30,020
Missy Place.

742
00:47:30,360 --> 00:47:30,520
Yes.

743
00:47:30,740 --> 00:47:31,320
Tony LaPuma.

744
00:47:31,500 --> 00:47:31,680
Yes.

745
00:47:31,840 --> 00:47:32,380
Roger Natt.

746
00:47:32,660 --> 00:47:33,620
Who's Paul Hague.

747
00:47:33,840 --> 00:47:34,020
Yes.

748
00:47:34,200 --> 00:47:34,580
Mayor Jones.

749
00:47:34,860 --> 00:47:35,000
Yes.

750
00:47:35,160 --> 00:47:35,840
Churchill Vanelli.

751
00:47:35,960 --> 00:47:36,100
Yes.

752
00:47:36,320 --> 00:47:36,980
Motion Capace.

753
00:47:37,420 --> 00:47:37,740
Fantastic.

754
00:47:38,520 --> 00:47:46,680
And so, over time, and understand that, you know, like Christy just said, we're taking revenue in from this and other things that are going to be happening there.

755
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:51,280
So, this would not shock me to see this position.

756
00:47:51,640 --> 00:47:56,700
The way I feel about the Graham and how it's just going to continue to grow and more and more stuff going on there.

757
00:47:57,300 --> 00:48:02,780
This position could easily be back here in six months saying, hey, we're so slammed, she needs to be here full time and whatever.

758
00:48:03,260 --> 00:48:11,860
I hope that's the case, but the good news in that is that, you know, by and large, it's almost a self-funded position because of the fees that are being charged and that's right.

759
00:48:12,140 --> 00:48:26,080
So anyway, just sort of a preview of coming to actions, but yeah, it's going to be great to have somebody dedicated to it that is, you know, well, I would say 24-7, but it would be a 12-focus.

760
00:48:26,080 --> 00:48:30,640
Yeah well focused right yeah so perfect and she's great too so that you know

761
00:48:30,640 --> 00:48:35,060
again the position that was standing the person that's going to be doing is also awesome too so

762
00:48:35,060 --> 00:48:39,520
all right so that's great do you have sufficient direction in that I do that one

763
00:48:39,520 --> 00:48:48,740
yeah all right shifting completely gears social district update madam director so at the

764
00:48:48,740 --> 00:48:54,360
last house meeting it was second reading and adoption and the social district pass but of course as

765
00:48:54,360 --> 00:48:58,800
As you know, anything that deals with state government moves a little bit slower.

766
00:48:59,100 --> 00:49:03,260
So now our next step is that we are sending it up to the Michigan Liquor Control Commission.

767
00:49:03,620 --> 00:49:04,760
Chief George is doing that.

768
00:49:05,220 --> 00:49:07,200
They have to approve the social district.

769
00:49:07,700 --> 00:49:10,700
And then the restaurants can go ahead and fill out their applications.

770
00:49:10,940 --> 00:49:15,780
We have to get them on a future City Council agenda so they can get that sign-offs because

771
00:49:15,780 --> 00:49:19,680
on the form it says that it was voted on at this meeting, gays, nays, all that good stuff.

772
00:49:20,080 --> 00:49:23,660
And then each restaurant has to send it up to the Michigan Liquor Control Commission and get

773
00:49:23,660 --> 00:49:27,200
the approvals. So it's a little bit of a slow walk, but our goal is to have everything

774
00:49:27,200 --> 00:49:32,960
ready by line up. So November, there's not a lot of people at MLCC chasing social districts

775
00:49:32,960 --> 00:49:37,900
right now, because they did that five, six years ago. So the line is short. We have to

776
00:49:37,900 --> 00:49:42,760
make sure it works. Yes, so the line is short, but George is on that. Everything, because

777
00:49:42,760 --> 00:49:45,460
you have to get something to notarize to a couple different maps after you've sent

778
00:49:45,460 --> 00:49:52,720
a couple different things. So that's going up to Lansing this week. And then we'll be going

779
00:49:52,720 --> 00:49:57,420
from there. So we're cooking. Fantastic. Everybody knows what the social district is, right?

780
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:01,380
So, okay. I'll be talking about it, but I've been away for a couple months and you don't think so.

781
00:50:01,460 --> 00:50:05,480
Yes. Well, in the whole, in the packet, the reason I know it's a lot, but one of the things that's

782
00:50:05,480 --> 00:50:09,880
required is a management and maintenance plan. And I will say that Chief George really knocked it out

783
00:50:09,880 --> 00:50:14,100
of the park with us. I offered to write it and he said, no, no, I'll do it. And I said, okay.

784
00:50:14,440 --> 00:50:18,040
And I'm so glad I did because he did a beautiful job with that. There's no way I would have been

785
00:50:18,040 --> 00:50:21,980
able to achieve this because he really did all the research talk to all the other chiefs and really

786
00:50:21,980 --> 00:50:26,800
put together a great document, so a lot of AI assistants there.

787
00:50:27,060 --> 00:50:31,400
He did, but I was going for the information.

788
00:50:31,620 --> 00:50:31,940
Yeah, right.

789
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:32,240
No, no.

790
00:50:32,420 --> 00:50:35,880
I mean, he can't be a graphic designer, too.

791
00:50:36,420 --> 00:50:37,180
That's hilarious.

792
00:50:37,980 --> 00:50:38,060
Yeah.

793
00:50:38,180 --> 00:50:38,760
Great job.

794
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:38,980
Yeah.

795
00:50:39,060 --> 00:50:39,820
No, I did a fantastic job.

796
00:50:40,180 --> 00:50:44,460
And Chief Jarges, of course, been just a great hire and has been super helpful and he's

797
00:50:44,460 --> 00:50:44,740
been great.

798
00:50:44,860 --> 00:50:45,580
So many different things.

799
00:50:45,800 --> 00:50:47,980
But this one has been great.

800
00:50:48,140 --> 00:50:49,420
So fingers crossed.

801
00:50:49,420 --> 00:50:55,520
We wait for the state. Oh, what was about the signs? Oh, so in the district, you have to have it at

802
00:50:55,520 --> 00:51:00,320
Entrance and exit points to say you're entering the social district, you're leaving the social district in the map

803
00:51:00,320 --> 00:51:07,280
And I don't know if you can really see it very well in this, but the map that I created had little dots and actually

804
00:51:07,280 --> 00:51:13,000
There's only four dots on Main Street. And so what I was suggesting to chief George we go

805
00:51:13,700 --> 00:51:19,180
There's a little star up here where we are going to put it and down here and what he had suggested and

806
00:51:19,760 --> 00:51:34,540
He said one about a frames because their temporary signs, I'm like sure, but then you know I know they blow it down in the winter, they get hit like that kind of stuff, but if we did sidewalk decals, then we don't have to talk them because they're on the ground.

807
00:51:35,620 --> 00:51:42,560
They're not good because they're concerned about people looking and seeing them size if they can get hit, breakaway values, all the kind of stuff. It's stuck to the sidewalk.

808
00:51:42,960 --> 00:51:45,360
We just have to make sure that in the winter that it is.

809
00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:46,180
They don't fall on their butts.

810
00:51:46,180 --> 00:51:49,760
There does well they have one's attraction. Yeah, they had but they're visible

811
00:51:49,760 --> 00:51:54,700
So we just have to make sure that the two areas of the yards by the bridge and then by the two bridges basically

812
00:51:55,300 --> 00:52:00,300
That the snow when it's removed that you can see them. So we're talking about that. So George has a few ideas too

813
00:52:00,300 --> 00:52:01,600
So we'll perfect we'll get there

814
00:52:01,600 --> 00:52:05,580
But yes, and all our team is always coming up with creative solutions to

815
00:52:07,000 --> 00:52:09,160
We're done. So all right. That's great

816
00:52:09,160 --> 00:52:12,620
So can I ask you a quick question about the signage just looking at the map?

817
00:52:13,200 --> 00:52:15,500
Do we have I know we've talked in the past about

818
00:52:16,540 --> 00:52:23,580
Not overdoing the sign, you know, like so there's everywhere. Do we have to really like block it off from the so for example

819
00:52:23,580 --> 00:52:31,160
We don't have university as part of the social district. Correct. Do we have to have signs at the two

820
00:52:32,340 --> 00:52:34,540
like at Main Street, East and West

821
00:52:35,340 --> 00:52:39,400
Because we don't like there's a bunch of spots. I noticed on the map that don't have signs

822
00:52:39,400 --> 00:52:42,920
Yeah, so is that gonna be coming later on to talk about exactly where they have to go

823
00:52:42,920 --> 00:52:47,680
They're marked by the stars all those stars are signs and that's where George says we need them

824
00:52:47,680 --> 00:52:51,920
So see how there's okay by question that I guess is on so on main street

825
00:52:51,920 --> 00:52:56,580
Mm-hmm. If you were to go east or west on university, there's no stars there correct

826
00:52:56,580 --> 00:53:00,680
Because you're out of the social district. Do you have to have a sign saying you're out of the social district?

827
00:53:01,140 --> 00:53:05,060
We probably would like right here is what you're asking. I can't if they're gonna cross

828
00:53:05,060 --> 00:53:08,260
Yeah, yeah, like like probably but I mean you can cross the street

829
00:53:08,260 --> 00:53:12,180
But you can't like you don't want people walking down university towards the library, right?

830
00:53:12,180 --> 00:53:17,060
right, right? Yeah, we're gonna go walk it, but if we did, I would get try to get them

831
00:53:17,060 --> 00:53:21,940
out of the right of way, out to University, and that means right. Yeah, yeah. I just

832
00:53:21,940 --> 00:53:26,160
didn't know how specific they were gonna require. Yeah, we're supposed to walk it to Georgia

833
00:53:26,160 --> 00:53:30,080
and I and look at some things, so I'll point that out to him because he put the stars where

834
00:53:30,080 --> 00:53:33,220
there are. So if he wants them someplace different, I will be happy to put them there.

835
00:53:33,220 --> 00:53:36,720
I just don't know if we need more. Like, again, we don't want to have it, right?

836
00:53:36,860 --> 00:53:41,160
Because, you know, science everywhere, but if we need to make sure we deal in it where

837
00:53:41,160 --> 00:53:45,360
it starts and ends. Yeah, I'll make sure I bring that to his attention and see where we go.

838
00:53:45,580 --> 00:53:54,400
Just put them on these the signs you're entering Rochester. I was in Boine City on Friday night

839
00:53:54,400 --> 00:53:59,180
and I did they do have a social district and they have an event on Friday nights too and I did

840
00:53:59,180 --> 00:54:06,060
partake in the social district and I didn't see one single sign but it really was very you were

841
00:54:06,060 --> 00:54:10,100
and it will be in our town too was very obvious where it would stop and where it would star.

842
00:54:10,100 --> 00:54:14,620
Yeah, but I saw no signage now that you say that so I'm not sure how they handle that

843
00:54:14,620 --> 00:54:19,080
But I think people will quickly understand you signs are necessary for sure

844
00:54:19,080 --> 00:54:26,140
But or the education of right just what is the social awareness exactly you know once it gets going

845
00:54:26,140 --> 00:54:30,540
I think it'll be fine. I just didn't know how how like specific the state was with certain things

846
00:54:30,540 --> 00:54:31,020
I'm yeah

847
00:54:31,020 --> 00:54:37,000
And those honestly if we can get them on just behind the sidewalk kind of university and then we don't have to talk them down

848
00:54:37,000 --> 00:54:40,700
that could be a different thing because we do have light poles right there that we could attach

849
00:54:40,700 --> 00:54:47,260
something to. Laser beam sensors as you triple that. And I also don't think that winter will

850
00:54:47,260 --> 00:54:53,740
be quite as busy in the social district, probably summer. So yes. Yeah, I haven't done as much on this,

851
00:54:53,900 --> 00:55:02,240
but can we have all the places that are providing liquor hand out cards that are give the locations of

852
00:55:02,240 --> 00:55:08,460
where everything is. I don't know. We certainly could. I think we'll put a million cups.

853
00:55:09,920 --> 00:55:14,680
Not because the man's is lost. It might be nice.

854
00:55:16,980 --> 00:55:18,620
You're like a cracker jack box. We got

855
00:55:18,620 --> 00:55:24,200
the thing. You know, like buy it. You know, give a hundred bucks to love local one. You can

856
00:55:24,200 --> 00:55:28,560
have your own cup that shows you exactly where everything is. Well, it's like the mills

857
00:55:30,060 --> 00:55:32,200
I think they're bigger than 16 ounces now, right?

858
00:55:32,700 --> 00:55:36,740
Yeah, I think we are in good shape.

859
00:55:37,540 --> 00:55:40,320
I want to thank Council for their support in this.

860
00:55:40,480 --> 00:55:45,080
I think it's, you know, obviously we're super late to the game, so it's a proven thing

861
00:55:45,080 --> 00:55:51,920
that it's not as having this brought before Council probably in 2021, what a bit of thing

862
00:55:51,920 --> 00:55:57,960
right, but now that it's sort of good time, I think almost every city's got one.

863
00:55:57,960 --> 00:56:03,000
So there's had we did have other Mr. Chairman. We did have other priorities that were pressing in

864
00:56:03,000 --> 00:56:10,680
2021. We wanted to, you know, whatever it's, no, it's good. So thank you for that. And I guess we wait.

865
00:56:11,000 --> 00:56:18,920
As far as the science goes, you know, we want to do whatever we need to do to be compliant, but I don't want to say it's the least

866
00:56:18,920 --> 00:56:22,980
we can do because we always want to do the least we can do, but I just don't want to spend a bunch of money in this,

867
00:56:22,980 --> 00:56:26,240
Yeah, certainly if we don't have chief charge says this is what you need.

868
00:56:26,940 --> 00:56:31,080
Hey, man, that's what the boss is exactly got it very good.

869
00:56:31,480 --> 00:56:37,660
Okay, downtown collaboration studio, that's me, so it's that time again, friends.

870
00:56:39,140 --> 00:56:45,800
Our landlord, Marty, came and said, yes, so at last time that we renewed our lease back in 2023,

871
00:56:46,920 --> 00:56:52,200
chairman Jim and I had suggested that we add a two year option that we could renew at the same

872
00:56:52,200 --> 00:56:56,700
currently straight of year three of the lease, which our currently straight is

873
00:56:57,820 --> 00:57:03,580
282510 and that Marty is asking us if we'd like to exercise that. It's an

874
00:57:03,580 --> 00:57:08,260
incredibly low rate for me straight. I remiss to even post it because I don't want

875
00:57:08,260 --> 00:57:12,120
somebody going to Marty saying I'll pay you more because they really should. But I

876
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:15,980
love our rent and we love our space and it's been really effective for us and so

877
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:21,100
it seems like a good deal to me. So the authorization would be to go ahead and

878
00:57:21,100 --> 00:57:25,980
approve the extension. Was it two years? Two years. Two years.

879
00:57:26,420 --> 00:57:30,060
At the same rate, which is highly unusual, is typically at least accompanied by a cost of

880
00:57:30,060 --> 00:57:38,820
lending adjustment or, you know, inflation adjustment. So, it's a good deal. And I'm happy to support it, but I'll defer to the motion.

881
00:57:39,580 --> 00:57:43,160
Motion by Eric. There we go. Just like that.

882
00:57:43,460 --> 00:57:48,880
So, this is also a legal expenditure. So, it will be a roll call out, Madam. Requiring a secretary.

883
00:57:49,900 --> 00:58:18,860
Lisa Germani-Williams. Yes, Missy Plez. Yes, Eric Diana. Yes, Bob Loomingdale. Yes, Paul Hague. Yes, Tony LaPouma. Yes, Roger Natt. Yes, Mary Jones. Yes, Sergio Van Allie. Yes, motion test. Fantastic. All right. Thank you for that. You may stay in the studio for two more years. Thank you. Yeah. Yeah, you haven't seen the basement. It's going to be a double wide next year. Graham in a couple years. Okay. Okay. So this came up. I'm sorry. Madam Director, go ahead and and tee this one.

884
00:58:18,860 --> 00:58:25,480
And I made a deferred to the mayor a little bit, so I kind of have it from the back end.

885
00:58:25,560 --> 00:58:29,940
I know council has heard about it before, but here's basically there was an email sent

886
00:58:29,940 --> 00:58:35,760
out to, I believe, cities and police departments about a production group that wants to put together

887
00:58:35,760 --> 00:58:38,320
a reality show about parking.

888
00:58:39,820 --> 00:58:45,020
And from that, one of the officers from Rochester, reached out to the production company, their

889
00:58:45,020 --> 00:58:50,240
or Rochester's name in the hat, so last Monday night, they were on Zoom with the council

890
00:58:50,240 --> 00:58:54,560
explaining what the concept is. In your packet was the deck of what the consent to the

891
00:58:54,560 --> 00:59:01,240
council. Essentially, they are willing to pay per episode. It would err on the CW, and

892
00:59:01,240 --> 00:59:07,000
they want to basically follow around our parking enforcement officers and film them.

893
00:59:08,300 --> 00:59:10,220
There are a lot of questions at Council.

894
00:59:10,440 --> 00:59:19,720
I think there are a lot of questions, and at the end of the day, the Council directed

895
00:59:19,720 --> 00:59:24,160
this to be forwarded to the Parking Advisory Committee and the DDA for their opinion.

896
00:59:25,400 --> 00:59:28,500
And I say, yes, you did a better job than I would have done.

897
00:59:28,660 --> 00:59:29,020
It's all I got.

898
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:34,160
You can ask a lot of questions and spend a lot of time on this, but my sense is Council

899
00:59:34,160 --> 00:59:35,780
is not going to support so.

900
00:59:35,780 --> 00:59:42,160
and that is because they really feel like do a show or two.

901
00:59:42,840 --> 00:59:46,520
Let's see what it's all about, and then maybe we'd be interested,

902
00:59:46,780 --> 00:59:49,520
but right now Council does not support doing this.

903
00:59:50,100 --> 00:59:53,700
It just, it's a new idea, we just don't know what direction,

904
00:59:53,920 --> 00:59:57,280
and he did use confrontation that word a couple times,

905
00:59:57,280 --> 00:59:58,960
or you don't want video taping.

906
01:00:04,040 --> 01:00:06,860
I have to believe they want some of that in that show.

907
01:00:12,520 --> 01:00:12,880
Well,

908
01:00:16,620 --> 01:00:29,980
they also said that really what it had to do with, he kept going back to it had to do with, you know, the big bright light show and they want to show their great town and all the events are doing it. I'm thinking. So anyway, I don't think we need to spend time on this just because I don't think it's going to be good.

909
01:00:29,980 --> 01:00:34,060
or any further but they did feel it was very important for the DEA to know about it, it's downtown,

910
01:00:34,140 --> 01:00:41,540
it's obviously, would they have an impact on so. Yeah go ahead. Madam Mayor, two questions.

911
01:00:42,720 --> 01:00:49,220
Did I hear from this could potentially generate revenue for the city? It is somewhere between $5,000

912
01:00:49,220 --> 01:00:56,260
an episode and 25 or 20,000 episodes but they also did say it's based on the size of your city so

913
01:00:56,260 --> 01:01:01,220
Let's face it. We have you five thousand. What is the unrestricted that asset position of the city?

914
01:01:01,800 --> 01:01:03,740
What is it what the unrestricted that asset?

915
01:01:03,740 --> 01:01:04,840
Which fund balance will yet?

916
01:01:05,720 --> 01:01:11,040
The 20 grants not going to move the needle so well, I wouldn't I mean it's not and it won't be 20

917
01:01:11,040 --> 01:01:17,780
Yeah, it would be the other thing it would be the other question I would have is is this could this bring more feet too long

918
01:01:17,780 --> 01:01:24,960
Yacht if I don't need more feed. We do not want more feet for I can speak for the city

919
01:01:24,960 --> 01:01:26,360
We do not want to work for you.

920
01:01:27,380 --> 01:01:28,620
If I can, Mr. Chair.

921
01:01:28,800 --> 01:01:32,580
I did have the conversation with Chief George and with the officer who brought up.

922
01:01:32,700 --> 01:01:34,540
I said, yeah, I appreciate the enthusiasm.

923
01:01:35,180 --> 01:01:38,900
But if I'm going to have something out there that's going to be like our first time really

924
01:01:38,900 --> 01:01:41,160
on a national stage like that,

925
01:01:41,600 --> 01:01:45,140
I don't think I want it connected to parking because I can think of a lot of things in a community

926
01:01:45,140 --> 01:01:46,960
that could have a positive spin.

927
01:01:47,400 --> 01:01:48,460
Parking is not one of them.

928
01:01:48,600 --> 01:01:50,500
I'm either mad that you can't find a space.

929
01:01:50,860 --> 01:01:52,280
You're mad that you had to walk too far.

930
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:54,900
You're mad because you had to pay for it or you mad that you got a ticket

931
01:01:54,900 --> 01:01:57,720
I don't know anybody's gonna back. I loved my parking space today

932
01:01:58,720 --> 01:02:02,600
And honestly, I we also it will bring there will be a film crew

933
01:02:02,600 --> 01:02:06,940
This is gonna have an impact even on labor hours and we just don't even know

934
01:02:07,380 --> 01:02:11,120
Would there be a cost to the city and then you've got people they said well

935
01:02:11,120 --> 01:02:17,080
They wouldn't show their face if they didn't want to be it all seemed very complicated to me and if it if it does really well

936
01:02:17,080 --> 01:02:20,940
They have a show or two on you know a couple seasons and maybe we would jump on yeah

937
01:02:20,940 --> 01:02:24,360
the idea is they'll go to a different city each season yeah I still think to

938
01:02:24,360 --> 01:02:29,860
body the parking enforcement officers should wear a body cam yeah we can just

939
01:02:29,860 --> 01:02:35,340
do our own show we'll just do our own show coming coming from the video

940
01:02:35,340 --> 01:02:40,140
production world in Hollywood for 20 years this show is not going to be a nice

941
01:02:40,140 --> 01:02:43,980
show yeah it's going to be the only entertaining thing about parking is going to

942
01:02:43,980 --> 01:02:47,360
be people getting super confrontation and chasing because otherwise there's

943
01:02:47,360 --> 01:02:52,800
nothing exciting. Yeah, so I would never get sold. I agree. Right. I think we're all sorry.

944
01:02:52,980 --> 01:03:00,080
I don't have any other feelings. I guess I don't have any different feelings. There's a guy that's

945
01:03:00,080 --> 01:03:05,520
probably pees as much attention to parking as anybody in town. I do all the time. I'm always trying

946
01:03:05,520 --> 01:03:11,560
to help people get maneuver these parking meters which I hate a lot of times. But I can't imagine a show

947
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:12,640
will be more boring.

948
01:03:14,640 --> 01:03:15,540
It's real comfortable.

949
01:03:15,940 --> 01:03:17,440
It would be really good.

950
01:03:17,580 --> 01:03:18,860
It's boring, but we don't need it.

951
01:03:19,020 --> 01:03:19,380
I agree.

952
01:03:19,540 --> 01:03:19,720
I agree.

953
01:03:20,300 --> 01:03:23,660
Well, if he lied for parking, I know he's just struggling for content though.

954
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:24,500
We see the lot.

955
01:03:24,520 --> 01:03:29,980
Well, it might take and just, it sounds like the sense of the board is that I don't see any

956
01:03:29,980 --> 01:03:33,800
redeeming values to this positively impact our city and promote our downtown.

957
01:03:35,120 --> 01:03:37,020
And I will take your feedback back.

958
01:03:37,660 --> 01:03:38,240
It's over.

959
01:03:38,660 --> 01:03:38,820
Yeah.

960
01:03:38,920 --> 01:03:39,840
Control, out the lead.

961
01:03:39,840 --> 01:03:41,660
and we don't need any help with line-up.

962
01:03:41,780 --> 01:03:42,880
Yeah, no, we're doing it.

963
01:03:42,980 --> 01:03:45,040
So, but we appreciate, you know, the nod.

964
01:03:45,320 --> 01:03:47,620
And I think it was important to go to DDA.

965
01:03:47,780 --> 01:03:50,900
And whoever, you know, in the PD that brought it for us,

966
01:03:50,960 --> 01:03:52,860
we always want to take a look at all these things.

967
01:03:53,020 --> 01:03:54,980
But I was thinking, there's way more downside

968
01:03:54,980 --> 01:03:55,920
than there's upside-downs.

969
01:03:56,400 --> 01:03:56,500
Yeah.

970
01:03:57,460 --> 01:03:57,660
So, I know.

971
01:03:57,760 --> 01:03:58,060
That's a secret.

972
01:03:59,160 --> 01:03:59,880
All right.

973
01:04:00,140 --> 01:04:01,520
With that positive spin.

974
01:04:01,840 --> 01:04:01,960
Yes.

975
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:04,480
We're seeing regular parts.

976
01:04:04,640 --> 01:04:05,700
Madam Director, update.

977
01:04:06,260 --> 01:04:07,660
Just a couple things that I'll highlight.

978
01:04:07,660 --> 01:04:12,780
obviously you can feel free to read my report. But, um, magical mural tour, um, we actually have

979
01:04:12,780 --> 01:04:16,280
22 murals. There was one mirror list that we thought stepped away and then she just dropped

980
01:04:16,280 --> 01:04:20,140
off from murals. So we're like, oh, you're in. Great. Um, so we have 22 murals that will be displayed.

981
01:04:20,380 --> 01:04:23,900
There's be starting to be installed next Thursday and Friday. So they'll be around for the

982
01:04:23,900 --> 01:04:27,880
whole month of September. They're downtown and then we do have a smattering them in the park as well

983
01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:34,400
for our temples. Um, next on the list, unfortunately, we did not make hallmarks. America's

984
01:04:34,400 --> 01:04:41,680
finals for the mayor's Christmas. How could it be? I don't know. Obviously I'm a little too close

985
01:04:41,680 --> 01:04:47,160
to the light show to maybe feel some kind of way. But I felt that we put together our best application,

986
01:04:47,460 --> 01:04:52,060
but our best foot forward. We really clicked all the boxes. I know there are several people have reached

987
01:04:52,060 --> 01:04:56,220
out to me and said they put out applications too. I really tried to focus on the small town aspect

988
01:04:56,220 --> 01:05:02,180
because if somebody sent the photo of La Niap with the 45,000 people, that's probably not what they're

989
01:05:02,180 --> 01:05:05,160
looking for, I try to keep that away, but all you have to do is Google us and you'll

990
01:05:05,160 --> 01:05:05,520
find it.

991
01:05:05,680 --> 01:05:09,680
So, I'd like to think that maybe we just didn't portray that small town enough, but I did

992
01:05:09,680 --> 01:05:13,340
look around at some of the towns and I was like, huh, that's the photo you send?

993
01:05:13,800 --> 01:05:14,400
Good for you.

994
01:05:15,020 --> 01:05:15,660
So, yeah.

995
01:05:15,880 --> 01:05:16,800
But I still did.

996
01:05:16,980 --> 01:05:17,400
You never know.

997
01:05:17,540 --> 01:05:20,040
But I, honestly, we have so many other good things going on here.

998
01:05:20,380 --> 01:05:21,020
It's okay.

999
01:05:21,320 --> 01:05:21,460
Yeah.

1000
01:05:21,840 --> 01:05:22,420
Maybe next year.

1001
01:05:22,700 --> 01:05:22,800
Yeah.

1002
01:05:23,140 --> 01:05:24,060
So, that's all that.

1003
01:05:24,620 --> 01:05:28,060
And then last but not least, Collette's been with us for a while.

1004
01:05:28,060 --> 01:05:29,800
our new events and marketing coordinator

1005
01:05:29,800 --> 01:05:30,780
filled the second position,

1006
01:05:30,920 --> 01:05:31,680
her name is Ruby Hernandez,

1007
01:05:32,340 --> 01:05:33,780
and she's starting with us on Monday,

1008
01:05:34,040 --> 01:05:36,600
so then we will be back up to full staff,

1009
01:05:36,760 --> 01:05:37,840
and it'll be very exciting.

1010
01:05:38,540 --> 01:05:40,880
I love Collette, but she and I have just the two of us.

1011
01:05:41,340 --> 01:05:43,580
Yeah, it'll be nice to have a third person

1012
01:05:43,580 --> 01:05:46,720
to help out and get that excitement going,

1013
01:05:47,000 --> 01:05:48,640
so it'll be just in time for working on

1014
01:05:48,640 --> 01:05:49,920
all the fall and holiday projects

1015
01:05:49,920 --> 01:05:52,640
and the grant opening and trial by Firehouse.

1016
01:05:52,760 --> 01:05:53,180
It's gonna be great.

1017
01:05:53,880 --> 01:05:55,400
So all good, so we're looking forward to Ruby.

1018
01:05:57,820 --> 01:06:00,680
It's been, what, Collette?

1019
01:06:01,100 --> 01:06:05,380
Collette started in May, so, and then we had a higher and then it didn't work out

1020
01:06:05,380 --> 01:06:08,820
so then we went to hire Ruby, but she had already committed to something else.

1021
01:06:08,820 --> 01:06:12,580
She was doing a fellowship, so she's done with that last week, taking this week,

1022
01:06:12,600 --> 01:06:13,540
and now we'll have the 24th.

1023
01:06:13,540 --> 01:06:15,640
So you guys have just been 50 pounds of dirt in a five pound bag?

1024
01:06:15,720 --> 01:06:16,760
It's been a lot, yes.

1025
01:06:17,280 --> 01:06:21,300
But one thing that I will mention in Collette's report, I don't know if anyone noticed,

1026
01:06:21,620 --> 01:06:23,260
we're getting bootmugs for Crangle.

1027
01:06:23,720 --> 01:06:24,100
Oh dear.

1028
01:06:24,740 --> 01:06:26,800
So this is something we've been wanting for a while.

1029
01:06:26,920 --> 01:06:29,420
They're really hard to get because all the big

1030
01:06:29,420 --> 01:06:31,860
Chris Kindle markets across the country get the boots.

1031
01:06:31,900 --> 01:06:33,260
And then when we try to get the boots,

1032
01:06:33,260 --> 01:06:34,500
there's hardly anything left.

1033
01:06:35,100 --> 01:06:36,820
So Colette started early because she asked if there's

1034
01:06:36,820 --> 01:06:38,540
anything that I wanted that we never had.

1035
01:06:38,680 --> 01:06:41,980
And I said, and she went and got it.

1036
01:06:42,240 --> 01:06:43,080
So I'm very excited.

1037
01:06:43,220 --> 01:06:44,880
So we have a ridiculous amount of boot bugs

1038
01:06:44,880 --> 01:06:46,460
that are coming for the Chris Kringle market.

1039
01:06:46,460 --> 01:06:48,220
As you may recall, one of the big changes

1040
01:06:48,220 --> 01:06:50,580
with the Chris Kringle market is that it's being managed

1041
01:06:50,580 --> 01:06:52,040
by the DBA and PSD.

1042
01:06:52,280 --> 01:06:54,120
So I'll be sending out some volunteer things

1043
01:06:54,120 --> 01:06:55,160
for people that help poor beer.

1044
01:06:55,420 --> 01:06:57,480
We're the best bag stoppers on the planet,

1045
01:06:57,700 --> 01:07:00,820
and we're going to go out and do another bag stop on the day.

1046
01:07:01,040 --> 01:07:01,160
Yeah.

1047
01:07:01,660 --> 01:07:02,020
Yeah.

1048
01:07:02,140 --> 01:07:03,260
As long as the county character shows up,

1049
01:07:03,520 --> 01:07:05,220
and the glory of yours shows up,

1050
01:07:05,760 --> 01:07:06,200
we're...

1051
01:07:06,200 --> 01:07:06,320
Yeah.

1052
01:07:06,800 --> 01:07:07,000
Yeah.

1053
01:07:07,000 --> 01:07:08,420
Yeah, right?

1054
01:07:08,840 --> 01:07:08,920
Yes.

1055
01:07:10,200 --> 01:07:10,640
Okay.

1056
01:07:10,800 --> 01:07:11,380
Vincent Marketing.

1057
01:07:11,920 --> 01:07:12,720
That was, yeah.

1058
01:07:12,800 --> 01:07:13,200
Just the big...

1059
01:07:13,200 --> 01:07:13,860
Kind of both, right?

1060
01:07:14,060 --> 01:07:14,160
Yep.

1061
01:07:14,760 --> 01:07:16,200
Financial port is in your packet.

1062
01:07:16,200 --> 01:07:16,840
Any questions?

1063
01:07:16,960 --> 01:07:19,000
Feel free to ask myself or the director.

1064
01:07:19,540 --> 01:07:22,960
I've been out of town so I'm back in town now.

1065
01:07:22,960 --> 01:07:23,740
I don't think so.

1066
01:07:24,300 --> 01:07:25,440
No, I'm sorry.

1067
01:07:25,660 --> 01:07:25,780
Sorry.

1068
01:07:26,100 --> 01:07:26,940
Holiday Expo.

1069
01:07:27,160 --> 01:07:30,500
We did go ahead and put the vendor applications out to the downtown businesses.

1070
01:07:30,800 --> 01:07:32,280
And now it's to the next level.

1071
01:07:32,480 --> 01:07:36,580
One of the discussions that we had at Business Development is that the downtown Rochester

1072
01:07:36,580 --> 01:07:40,680
Holiday Expo over the years had attracted a lot of people in terms of vendors from outside

1073
01:07:40,680 --> 01:07:41,200
of Rochester.

1074
01:07:41,740 --> 01:07:45,060
And it almost got to the tipping point that half the people weren't even from around here.

1075
01:07:45,220 --> 01:07:48,420
So calling it the downtown Rochester Holiday Expo seemed strange.

1076
01:07:48,420 --> 01:07:54,500
So, we've refocused, and it went out to the downtown business as first, filled as many as we could with that.

1077
01:07:54,660 --> 01:07:58,380
Now we sent it out to last year's vendors that were specifically located in Rochester,

1078
01:07:58,620 --> 01:08:03,380
Rochester Hills Oakland Township, explained to them that we're doubling down on the local commitment,

1079
01:08:03,380 --> 01:08:08,340
and so we're doing that once we go through that, if we don't, we have, I think we're going to fill on burning,

1080
01:08:08,540 --> 01:08:12,460
we have 28 spaces out of 64 that are left, so we're doing well with that.

1081
01:08:13,160 --> 01:08:17,020
If we don't have enough people with that, then we would put it out on our social media,

1082
01:08:17,020 --> 01:08:18,660
Yeah, specifically looking for businesses

1083
01:08:18,660 --> 01:08:20,240
Rochester, Russia's Oakland Township.

1084
01:08:20,420 --> 01:08:22,320
I don't believe, though, we're problem-filling it.

1085
01:08:22,440 --> 01:08:24,100
I've part of me even once it's ended out

1086
01:08:24,100 --> 01:08:25,340
to some of our farmers' market vendors,

1087
01:08:25,340 --> 01:08:27,940
because I know that we would do well with that.

1088
01:08:28,360 --> 01:08:30,140
So, yeah, so that was one big thing,

1089
01:08:30,220 --> 01:08:33,520
but the Expo paperwork is out in the atmosphere.

1090
01:08:33,860 --> 01:08:34,300
So, yes.

1091
01:08:35,080 --> 01:08:35,440
That's fantastic.

1092
01:08:36,400 --> 01:08:37,820
So, anything other than the grant?

1093
01:08:38,040 --> 01:08:39,540
No, we've concentrated on the grant.

1094
01:08:39,720 --> 01:08:41,120
Yeah, we have goals.

1095
01:08:41,440 --> 01:08:42,340
Yeah, there are goals.

1096
01:08:42,460 --> 01:08:43,900
We have goals, and then we have objectives.

1097
01:08:44,380 --> 01:08:46,000
But we've got to get them in September.

1098
01:08:46,920 --> 01:08:51,920
There's only one main goal right now, so I'm not going to have to give back $930,000 to the town.

1099
01:08:52,220 --> 01:08:52,340
Yes.

1100
01:08:52,800 --> 01:08:54,180
We're well on track with that.

1101
01:08:54,860 --> 01:08:56,020
I'm sorry, that reminds me.

1102
01:08:56,640 --> 01:09:00,560
I have to get our paperwork in by the end of the month, but then the county, because of

1103
01:09:00,560 --> 01:09:05,600
our level of expenditure is ready to, they'd originally give us 70% up front, for any of the

1104
01:09:05,600 --> 01:09:06,460
other 30%.

1105
01:09:06,460 --> 01:09:10,140
As long as I have everything in by the end of the month, which I will, then we'll be,

1106
01:09:10,280 --> 01:09:13,840
they'll be also rising that last 169,000 to come over to the city.

1107
01:09:14,260 --> 01:09:14,520
Gotcha.

1108
01:09:14,520 --> 01:09:19,280
All right, with that I have one thing that's not on the agenda, but inquiring minds want

1109
01:09:19,280 --> 01:09:23,660
to know what's going on at NAPS and when she opened it up, so.

1110
01:09:24,700 --> 01:09:30,760
Last night was everybody's fired up and I can't tell you ask that question.

1111
01:09:31,260 --> 01:09:35,120
I want to make sure they're all on the same page, so that's a.

1112
01:09:36,980 --> 01:09:38,860
That's not unusual in this problem with staff.

1113
01:09:39,080 --> 01:09:42,800
Yeah, and we kind of had to kind of back off a little bit.

1114
01:09:42,800 --> 01:09:48,100
That's it because we don't have we don't have enough staff. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to give them more trouble

1115
01:09:48,100 --> 01:09:55,900
Yeah, I just say the buzz is buzzing and you know how small towns work, right?

1116
01:09:56,080 --> 01:10:02,340
So as soon as one of them asking me to and I just say it's coming. So I just I just this is why I figured just you know

1117
01:10:02,340 --> 01:10:04,280
Everybody chill it's we're working on it

1118
01:10:04,280 --> 01:10:08,100
But I've heard the place looks fantastic. You guys have done an awesome job. I don't know

1119
01:10:08,100 --> 01:10:15,220
But thanks for doing that and it's gonna be fun. I can't wait. So you'll let us know when it's time and then

1120
01:10:15,220 --> 01:10:18,600
there's been times I really thought I'd wish to meet a clothing store. Oh dear.

1121
01:10:21,980 --> 01:10:30,300
What do you think about it? I just I texted this to Jane today. It's like how wonderful to have a business that people are just

1122
01:10:30,300 --> 01:10:35,340
clamoring to have opened again. So I mean we really miss it.

1123
01:10:36,640 --> 01:10:41,280
And you guys have been working over time to get that thing done so.

1124
01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:43,300
Well, it's really my son's business.

1125
01:10:45,450 --> 01:10:47,610
You know, he's under a lot of stress.

1126
01:10:48,090 --> 01:10:50,190
I've actually opened three different restaurants.

1127
01:10:50,590 --> 01:10:52,830
And it's been probably the first month of that.

1128
01:10:53,130 --> 01:10:55,370
It's been the worst times of my entire life.

1129
01:10:55,430 --> 01:10:55,750
Oh, for sure.

1130
01:10:56,170 --> 01:10:56,810
Great life.

1131
01:10:57,670 --> 01:10:59,570
Nobody's got a little more happy life than me.

1132
01:10:59,750 --> 01:11:00,830
But it is miserable.

1133
01:11:00,990 --> 01:11:01,890
I don't get any sleep.

1134
01:11:02,130 --> 01:11:02,370
Yeah.

1135
01:11:02,970 --> 01:11:04,270
We've just got all kinds of thoughts.

1136
01:11:04,690 --> 01:11:04,990
Oh dear.

1137
01:11:04,990 --> 01:11:06,210
Well, we'll pray for you guys.

1138
01:11:06,450 --> 01:11:08,610
Yeah, we'll pray for you guys.

1139
01:11:08,790 --> 01:11:11,850
So you'll let us know, and it's going to be great.

1140
01:11:12,090 --> 01:11:13,530
So just wanted to do that little update.

1141
01:11:14,190 --> 01:11:16,770
Any other parting words from the board?

1142
01:11:17,310 --> 01:11:19,510
Seeing none, meeting is adjourned.

1143
01:11:20,010 --> 01:11:20,370
Thank you.