[0:33] Call the Downtown Development Authority meeting to order. The first item on the

[0:36] agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance. Miss Carne, can you lead us in the pledge?

[0:41] » I pledge allegiance >> to the flag of the United States of

[0:44] America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God,

[0:50] indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

[0:58] » The next item on the agenda is the approval of the agenda. And we've got um

[1:03] two changes that we need to make. The uh first one is the approval of the minutes

[1:07] of the June 25th uh meeting. We don't have those um yet tonight. And I'd like

[1:14] to add an action item, which is the approval of the Pam Frucci plan at the

[1:19] uh Scenic Outlook as an action item. So, with that, I'll

[1:24] entertain a motion to approve the agenda as amended.

[1:27] » I make a motion. >> Motion by Miss Armstead.

[1:29] » I support. >> Support by Miss Carne. All those in

[1:32] favor say aye. >> Aye.

[1:33] » All opposed say no. Motion carries. Next item on the agenda is the

[1:38] presentations, and we have none to Oh, I'm sorry. I need to do roll call. Sorry

[1:42] about that. Uh Mr. Miranda is here. Supervisor

[1:45] Porcerelli. >> Here.

[1:46] » Mr. Anderson. >> Here.

[1:47] » Miss Stanko. >> Here.

[1:48] » Miss Puzak. >> Here.

[1:49] » Miss Ellison. >> Here.

[1:51] » Miss Armstead. >> Here.

[1:52] » Miss >> Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were

[1:53] calling on me. Oh my gosh. [laughter] >> Miss Carne.

[1:55] » Sorry. Here. >> Mr. Jacobs is excused. Okay. [laughter]

[1:59] Now we'll So, there's no presentations tonight and

[2:03] there's no one out in the public, so there's no public comment tonight. So,

[2:05] our next item will be the approval of the June 2026 and July 2026

[2:12] financials. Hopefully everybody's had a chance to

[2:16] look at those and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary on either month and

[2:21] we're approving them both because obviously we did not have a July uh

[2:25] board meeting. So, um

[2:27] » I'll make a motion to approve. >> Motion by Mr. Anderson.

[2:30] » Second. >> Support by Supervisor Porcerelli to

[2:34] approve the June and July uh financials. All those in favor say aye.

[2:40] » Aye. >> All opposed say no.

[2:42] Motion carries.

[2:45] The uh next item is the action item which we have approval tonight and

[2:49] before you you should all have a drawing that shows the

[2:53] um Pam Frucci outlook, I'll call it a sign.

[2:58] Um I actually met with Jay Frucci, Pam's son, out at the site about 2 weeks ago

[3:05] and we walked this area and he presented um the plan that you have in

[3:10] front of you then in the

[3:13] if you look at the second page, um

[3:17] that is going to be a design that's going to be on the side

[3:22] of if you look at it's kind of got an arch to it and it's going to be on

[3:26] either side of that arch. >> Uh-huh.

[3:30] Like where the chains are? >> Um

[3:33] kind of >> Oh, okay.

[3:35] » down here. >> Oh, okay.

[3:36] » to be on both sides here. So, it's going to face north and

[3:41] south. Right now you're looking at it looking

[3:44] east. >> Due east, yeah.

[3:46] » And in that >> Oh, I got you.

[3:48] » design will be looking north and south. >> Okay.

[3:52] » And if you remember back a couple months ago at one of our board meetings, we had

[3:56] a discussion and we approved, um,

[4:00] you know, doing something on the street in honor of Pam, and now they've come up

[4:05] with a, you know, an exact design of what they would like

[4:08] to install there.

[4:15] Is there any discussion? >> Ron, can I just say one thing?

[4:19] » Sure. >> Um, I just want to thank all of you, um,

[4:22] men and women on the board here, on the commission rather.

[4:25] Uh, what happened is some months back, it

[4:28] was it was many months back, and we were going back and forth

[4:31] on location. And we thought we found one, then we

[4:35] didn't, then we thought we found one, then we didn't, and then someone didn't

[4:37] like it, someone didn't like it. So, we thought, let we need to go to the DDA.

[4:41] Maybe they can give us a suggestion because you guys oversee Macomb Street,

[4:46] right? So, you oversee what you put on Macomb Street. So, where would you guys

[4:49] think? So, I'm glad you came up, and we solidified it. I mean, you guys are the

[4:53] ones that said, you know, the Outlook would probably be the best place,

[4:57] um, for it, and everybody went with it, which was good. I mean, this is we

[5:02] needed we [clears throat] needed consensus, and

[5:05] we needed a spot. I mean, we we can't I don't like talking about things for

[5:09] months at a time. I like doing them cuz you got too many to do, and you just

[5:13] keep going. And thank you, guys. You guys, um,

[5:17] you were the ones that really were the, I think, the catalyst to put it there by

[5:21] picking that spot, and then we went with your recommendation.

[5:25] And it moved to this. Then, obviously, and Jay, the son, and the daughter,

[5:28] Marty, um, I I'm not exactly sure, uh, who met with the people that created

[5:34] this, but I know the family did, and, uh, John Rathow was involved, Mickey was

[5:39] involved for a while. So, but thank I just want to say thank

[5:42] you to you guys cuz now now it's actually coming to fruition,

[5:46] you know, it you know, things as you see it going down the road for months and

[5:52] I don't know. It drives me nuts when you can't I I I have to make a decision and

[5:55] move. So, thank you. I'm just saying that. It was a big It was a big

[5:59] help. >> Let's put that.

[6:01] » It It looks a little dark. I mean, maybe it's just

[6:03] » the picture. >> Okay, cuz it's Yeah, okay.

[6:05] » [laughter] >> It's just That's the way it copied on

[6:07] the on the copy machine, but and everybody

[6:10] knows where this is at, right? If you're driving

[6:12] eastbound on Macomb and you basically dead end into the water, that's where it

[6:16] is. >> It'd be nice you don't need lights on it

[6:19] cuz all the cars coming down the

[6:24] » Ron, is there a night time Was there Was there a time on these

[6:29] about going to different things like seems to me there was like something in

[6:34] the ordinance or something to the effect of they you know, they don't want kids

[6:37] there at 2:00 in the morning. But, um I

[6:40] » I have no idea. >> No, I thought there was something in the

[6:42] ordinance. But, when you mentioned the lights and

[6:45] the people coming you know, down the street

[6:48] But, I think that most people obviously would just be there during cuz I don't

[6:52] or I didn't see anything. Did you, Ron? There's nothing with light.

[6:54] » No. I mean, we in the middle of the day.

[6:58] » There was no There's no reason for it. No.

[7:02] Okay. Thanks.

[7:06] » There's no more questions. I'll entertain a motion to approve.

[7:10] » I make a motion to approve. >> I'll second.

[7:12] » Motion by Ms. Armia to approve or by Ms. Stanko to approve the Pam

[7:17] Frucci signage for the scenic outlook location.

[7:21] All those in favor say I. >> I.

[7:24] » All those say no. Motion carries.

[7:27] Next item is our discussion items. Update on the DDA director search.

[7:33] Uh we have gotten I think it's about 10 or 12

[7:39] applications. We've narrowed it down to six and we

[7:42] started interviews yesterday. We interviewed one candidate yesterday.

[7:47] There was an interview today and we're interviewing three more tomorrow. So,

[7:51] one one person has already dropped out that we scheduled an interview. So, by

[7:55] the end of tomorrow we will have interviewed five candidates. And it's

[7:59] the intention that at the end of the day at the completion of the five that we

[8:06] make a choice and then make an offer. So, um hopefully

[8:10] no later than Monday uh a new director will be

[8:14] at least chosen for um making them uh an offer and we'll see

[8:19] if they accept it and hopefully um I think Derek said your next

[8:24] meeting's at the 14th. So, it would go before the township board on the 14th.

[8:28] » It's on there already. >> Is it? Okay.

[8:30] So. That is the intention. Is there any

[8:34] questions? >> Have we ever given any discussion to

[8:38] doing an exit interview with you know,

[8:41] our previous directors? Just to kind of

[8:44] » We did. >> You did an exit interview with

[8:47] » It was quick. >> With Shawn?

[8:49] » Yeah. It was quick. >> Okay.

[8:51] » The uh notice was quick. The interview was quick.

[8:56] » Yeah, he he gave notice the morning after a board meeting.

[9:00] » Right. >> And said he was leaving immediately.

[9:03] » So, there was no advance notice. >> That's why I I wasn't being facetious. I

[9:08] was being I just honest. It was very quick.

[9:10] Walked in, explained it. >> you know, even with Ross or, you know,

[9:14] Angela or even the previous I mean, um

[9:17] you know, we've been through four in I don't know eight years or 10 years. Like

[9:22] » Yeah, it it was >> Seems to be a tough position to keep.

[9:26] » Well, the issue is that most of the candidates

[9:32] are young people. And they they come here and they yep and

[9:37] they they get experience with how government runs and you know how

[9:42] planning departments work and how economic development and DDAs work and

[9:47] um and how just government in general works and

[9:51] when they get that experience they want to move up and

[9:54] then they go somewhere where they can get you know move up in the ranks and

[9:58] you know there's not a lot of positions here at Crozeille that people can move

[10:02] up to and can promote and get you know higher wages and so it it's

[10:08] unfortunately we're kind of like the farm system of a major league team that

[10:12] you know we train them and once they learn the ropes they move on and

[10:17] the other choice would be is is if you found someone that maybe had

[10:22] retired and you know was maybe in their mid-50s and wanted to go back to work

[10:26] somewhere and you know wanted to work someplace for 10

[10:29] or years or so but that's really kind of our our mind and that's not just us. I

[10:33] mean there's other communities that face the same thing.

[10:39] It's just the nature of the business right now. So

[10:44] So if there's no other questions we'll move on to the next item which is um a

[10:47] discussion on uh landscape proposal from OHM

[10:52] and that was included in your packet and I had a discussion with um OHM

[10:58] and um as you can see on the uh

[11:03] bigger um

[11:06] drawing that's in front of you it it sort of has the

[11:09] um concept plan that we had put together for um

[11:14] uh Lions Park and as you know we've done

[11:19] some of the things that are in here. We've we've got there's plantings on the

[11:23] west side of the park. There's plantings on the north side of the park. We

[11:27] installed the um art wall. We installed the GI and we

[11:31] installed the um concrete sidewalk. Uh we've got we've

[11:37] purchased the benches, but right when we were getting ready to

[11:41] install the pads for those is when Shawn left. So, I'm not quite sure

[11:46] um when those are going to get poured, but

[11:49] hopefully it'll be you know, sometime in the next 30 days or so, so we'll have

[11:53] those those pads done and the benches. And so,

[11:56] the area that I talked to OHM is the part

[12:01] that's between the sidewalk and the sidewalk that's in the park and the

[12:06] sidewalk along Lions Park. And then the area along the sidewalk

[12:11] along McComb Street

[12:14] um sort of two if you're looking at this picture sort of to the left of the GI.

[12:19] And those were areas that we had always talked about at one point of having some

[12:24] landscaping done because, you know, as we get funding, we've been doing things

[12:29] in the park, but you know, it continues to look as an

[12:33] unfinished park only because we don't have money to do other things.

[12:36] So, the next step is to start doing some landscaping in

[12:42] that area. And as you know, we had a um irrigation contractor donate to us

[12:48] the irrigation for the trees and it's also was set up with the intention that

[12:54] at some point that system was going to be expanded into these other areas that

[12:58] we're talking about landscaping. So, the proposal is is for really two

[13:03] things. It's landscaping at Lions Park. And then the second part of it is

[13:10] landscaping for our current sculptures and future

[13:15] sculptures that, you know, it was always the intent that we were not going to

[13:20] just install a sculpture on McComb. You know, it had to have a presence. It had

[13:24] to have landscaping around it. We wanted it to be lit. And so, the idea is for

[13:28] them to come up with a a call it a theme to landscape around the sculpture. So,

[13:35] you know, the location of the sculptures obviously we can't follow the same theme

[13:40] at every location because it it's a different situation where each one of

[13:45] the sculptures are. But, a sculpture sitting out there by

[13:48] itself doesn't really have a lot of presence. And so, the intent always was

[13:53] that around that sculpture there would be

[13:56] landscaping to sort of make a statement that you know, this is a sculpture and

[14:01] this is sort of a special thing that we're we're doing along the street. So,

[14:06] that's why there's there's two different tasks really within this.

[14:11] And I didn't have it as an action item because I wanted to have a discussion

[14:15] about that. Um get people's feedback

[14:19] uh what they think. >> Are we talking one sculpture

[14:23] or or numerous sculptures? >> Well, the idea is that maybe they would

[14:27] come up with two or three concepts. So,

[14:33] depending on the size of the sculpture, the location of the sculpture, you use

[14:37] concept one here, you use concept two here, concept three

[14:41] at another one. And then there's another one you you do another landscaping, you

[14:46] know, as we do more. >> Yeah, I guess

[14:51] you know, just to

[14:54] kind of keep the the thought process of, you know, when we utilize this park,

[15:01] you know, um say driver uses it, you know, every year for Pantone red, you

[15:04] know, having having room for like a big big event

[15:08] stuff. Is it if I'm making any sense, I don't

[15:13] know. >> Well, the the intent of Lions Park is,

[15:16] you know, sort of the middle of the I'll call it the oval

[15:20] will always stay grass. There's also going to be

[15:25] a township park right across the street that's going to be

[15:29] » wreck or >> bigger

[15:31] bigger acreage if there was going to be an event that

[15:35] you know it was too big for Lions Park or they had a different idea instead of

[15:40] you know the way we're setting up Lions Park.

[15:44] Lions Park was always designed to be a passive park

[15:50] not active park.

[15:53] You know it wasn't for >> children's play skates

[15:57] » Yeah swings and and those kind of things. It wasn't that wasn't the intent

[16:02] of the park. >> No I know I'm I'm I'm not intending that

[16:06] at all. So the photos indicating that's where

[16:09] their proposed pieces of art would then be?

[16:13] » No this was just the

[16:16] sort of ignore what's in red. >> Okay.

[16:19] » That was just people were sketching around as it we actually planted the two

[16:24] trees. >> No

[16:26] » Where you can see on either side of the GI and that was just somebody's idea

[16:29] where the tree should go. >> Got it.

[16:32] » But we actually moved it closer to the GI so

[16:40] So I mean give it some thought I'll bring it back

[16:44] at our next meeting for action.

[16:50] If there's no other comments

[16:55] I'd like to move to the next item which is Macomb Commons

[16:59] and I spent some time there

[17:04] over the last couple weeks and and some of the park needs a little bit of

[17:09] call it repair kind of tender loving care. The there's an area

[17:13] there that's got a lot of pea gravel that I think that gravel is the original

[17:18] gravel that was installed there 20 years ago

[17:22] and it needs a refresh. So, I talked to Derek um a couple days ago and

[17:27] we do have uh the township does have a contract with

[17:31] um somebody that could deliver a 5-yd load and we just would need to get it

[17:36] spread, but it's it's thin there and and there's also some

[17:42] um some decorative block there that needs to be repaired. Um we probably

[17:47] should have some of the trees trimmed there, so

[17:50] um what I'd like to do is at the next meeting bring back, you know, an idea to

[17:54] get some of these things repaired and bring back, you know, uh what the cost

[17:58] of some of that would be, but um you know, to me there's nothing worse

[18:01] than us having a park and then letting it go

[18:04] into disrepair. So, we we do need to keep these up once we install them. So

[18:08] » Yeah, speaking of wasn't there a bid on the block already or no?

[18:12] Didn't they >> If Shawn did, I wasn't aware of that.

[18:15] » to Shawn about I thought he did. So, let me check. I'll check for you on it, but

[18:18] I think I thought there was a bid cuz I know

[18:21] what you're talking about some of the block work and the cement or the brick.

[18:25] » Yeah, there's the brick wall kind of in the

[18:27] » cracking, but whatever you'd call failing.

[18:29] » yeah, just got misplaced. >> whatnot and he was supposed to have that

[18:33] taken care of before we started the uh 250th. So, what's the plan for July?

[18:38] » go out. >> Same with the weeds that are still there

[18:40] and they've grown bigger and they look like little baby trees now.

[18:43] » Let me >> [snorts]

[18:45] » Well, they I was out there

[18:47] doesn't look nice. >> I was at the market on a Saturday

[18:49] morning and they changed the trash during the market

[18:54] event. Ooh.

[18:56] » That's not pleasant. >> It was not a good smell. So, that So, if

[19:00] that could be done like >> more often

[19:02] » Friday before, that would be great.

[19:05] » Yeah, that's most unpleasant. Goodness. Um I the garbage I at Lions Park is

[19:14] like owned by the DDA. So, it's not part of the ones that they empty along

[19:19] Macomb. Is what I've been like cuz my it got

[19:24] really full and it's just like dog poop and my mother-in-law called and she said

[19:30] they the city told her that it's a DDA so they don't pick it up.

[19:35] It was the only one that picked up. >> Uh

[19:37] can you look into that, Joe, for us? >> I'll write it down.

[19:40] » Okay, thank you. >> Yeah, no

[19:42] » That doesn't make sense. That doesn't If you're doing the whole street then

[19:44] » Right, that's what I was I >> Well, what is there? Two cans?

[19:48] » I think it's just one. >> it's just one.

[19:50] » Yeah. It's just one. I thought each corner had Okay.

[19:53] » Yeah, it's on the Macomb. >> The Macomb side?

[19:56] » Yeah. It's right by a bench.

[20:00] » It's on the Lions Park side. >> Yeah, yeah, I don't want to get into it.

[20:02] I will. I'll

[20:05] I'll check tomorrow. >> I did call Derek.

[20:09] » On this issue? >> If No, if we're talking about Macomb

[20:12] Street. >> Yeah. We Yeah. If there's no other

[20:15] comments on Macomb Commons, I'd like to move to the next item which is just

[20:19] other Macomb Street improvement. So, >> I Some of the like the the flowers in

[20:23] front of the VFW are burnt out. The flowers in front of I think Literary

[20:27] Hideaway are burnt out. So, um

[20:31] just Oh, it's just a bummer that you know, I

[20:34] I physical therapy in Trout Lake and theirs looks so good.

[20:37] » [laughter] >> But, he said they don't water and so I

[20:40] don't know. Their Christmas tree is also partially

[20:46] dead.

[20:48] » Yeah, I um

[20:52] » I Derek said that that I I think we're paying DDA and DDA DPW. Is that right?

[20:58] Am I saying the right initials? >> [laughter]

[21:01] » To to water. So, I I don't know how often and you You when it's super hot,

[21:06] you know, I mean, >> They were looking good. These ones are

[21:10] dead. >> They were looking good.

[21:11] It's a big investment in what we put into those flowers.

[21:17] » I can reach out to Derek about that. I don't know.

[21:20] See the tree even. >> And then also on the sidewalk up and

[21:23] down Macomb Street, the trees, um I know we had a discussion about this prior, um

[21:28] and I don't recall what the actual answer was, but they need to be trimmed.

[21:31] Like you're walking, riding your bike, whatever the case may be, you're getting

[21:35] smacked in the face with those or you have to walk around it. So, who's

[21:38] responsible for those trees? >> Well, that was going to be one of the

[21:41] items I was going to bring up cuz I I've been walking Macomb

[21:44] » Okay. >> last uh couple months and that is an

[21:47] issue. So, I talked to Derek about it and we can

[21:53] the the method to do it is if it's a tree

[21:57] that's on private property, the township can send them a letter

[22:02] and say within, you know, you can make up the day, within 30 days or 60 days,

[22:08] you need to trim your tree and if you don't trim it within the that 60 days,

[22:13] the DDA can go out and hire somebody to do that. And I think that's one thing

[22:17] that we should consider is, you know, hiring a contractor to to go the whole

[22:22] length of Macomb and trim trees. And I don't know what

[22:25] the the right height is, maybe 8 ft up from the sidewalk because I noticed that

[22:30] walking, you know, I had to duck my head,

[22:34] you know, a number of times on both sides of the street. So, it's not just

[22:37] in one area or one property. There's there's a number of properties that that

[22:42] need that trimming. So, um what I can do is talk to Derek, we

[22:47] can get a price from, you know, whoever we have a contract

[22:51] with and see what uh we can do, but um and I put it on the agenda at the

[22:58] open it up to if anybody else has any thing that they would like to propose

[23:02] that um you know, there are some very well-maintained properties on the

[23:08] street and there are some not so good maintained properties on the

[23:11] street and uh

[23:13] you know, part of it is we have to do our job to keep our properties up and

[23:17] then you know, hopefully other people will

[23:19] fall in line and you know, start taking care of their

[23:22] property, too. >> We battle the weeds.

[23:26] We battle weeds. Ooh.

[23:33] » Anybody else notice anything on the street that needs to

[23:38] » What was that? >> be maintained?

[23:39] » Just the weeds. I can't stand weeds. Weeds. We do. I say it every single

[23:44] time. There's weeds everywhere. One of my college kids walked by the uh

[23:48] the sculpture, too. There are and I think

[23:50] it's important. We are having um and April can probably speak a little

[23:54] bit more of this. So, we are having a home show September 12th. So, we're

[23:56] going to have off-island people coming to tour our beautiful island and looking

[24:00] at some really homes um historically for and I again, it's kind of goes back to

[24:05] the July um 250th celebration where we're just really trying to make the

[24:09] township shine and like a diamond and I would really like for some of those

[24:13] things to be addressed before that happens on the September 12th.

[24:17] » Yes, because registration begins on our home street and so there will be cars

[24:20] lined up all down the street checking things out.

[24:25] » Well, we're not going to be able to do anything about the trees before then,

[24:28] but it's just a long-term thing that, you know, we should

[24:33] you know, maybe it's we do this on a yearly basis, you know, every spring we

[24:38] hire a tree trimmer and whoever's, you know, has trees that are over- growing

[24:43] on the sidewalk, um we have those trimmed.

[24:45] » Is that something um a township worker can do? Forgive me for not knowing that

[24:49] for sure, but is that something that would be part of it or because it's DDA

[24:53] they don't? >> I didn't hear what she said.

[24:55] » Can the township [clears throat] staff

[24:56] » Does the township have staff that does tree trimming or is that always um

[25:01] contracted out? >> No, if there's like you're talking about

[25:04] small reasonable like a I don't mean like a regular person could

[25:07] do it, but yeah. There's certain times we do send send them out and

[25:11] um we have them like trees that have broke off.

[25:15] I mean those are bigger jobs too that they do, so you're talking about just

[25:18] trimming that are in the way like on the sidewalk and

[25:21] » Yeah, they're just low-hanging branches. They're low-hanging branches which

[25:25] impede. >> because number one it's safety issue.

[25:28] » Right. >> You know, the Township doesn't want and

[25:31] it might be a county sidewalk, but it's still a Grosse Ile Township property and

[25:35] I don't want somebody going down there walking, you know, with their head down

[25:38] or whatever just for whatever reason and getting poked.

[25:41] » Mhm. >> So, yeah, no, we we do stuff.

[25:44] You know, it's under like the emergency clause or the

[25:47] And we do clean up. And we do clean up stuff, so

[25:50] » And so >> on my list.

[25:52] » Okay, yes, so that's something that can be done. Is that a possibility?

[25:55] » I think that we've done it. I I Derek obviously runs the day-to-day

[26:00] operation and um

[26:03] I mean I just I help him out and so I think we can.

[26:06] » I guess I'm just kind of pushing on that cuz I for the weeds again, I'll go back

[26:10] to the weeds. Susie does not like weeds. Um that I've talked about the weeds

[26:15] this entire year thus far and they still are there. So, what process do we have

[26:19] that we can implement that and actually have it come to fruition instead of keep

[26:23] talking about it. So, talking about the weeds, now I'm talking about the trees

[26:26] cuz we have talked about the trees. >> Can I ask a favor of you guys? Is there

[26:30] anybody um can we go I mean I'll help you out even

[26:35] um can we maybe walk it to get me some addresses?

[26:39] » Yeah, absolutely. >> I mean would that be prudent where you

[26:41] guys could at least you know uh say you know, this is definitely a

[26:45] hazard. You know, something's a hazard, we're going to deal with it.

[26:49] One way or another, I mean we make sure you know, that's a number one priority.

[26:53] But if you came up, I'm going to talk to Derek um

[26:57] tomorrow about a few of these things everything I have on my list actually,

[27:00] but um

[27:03] if if there's actual like you could say, you know, in front of a 7832, in front

[27:08] of 8012, in front of you know, 7999 Macomb, there's a low

[27:12] hanging, you know, on on the sidewalk. >> Mhm.

[27:16] » Then that would give us at least something cuz we have you know, we have

[27:18] those kids still for a little more in the summer and

[27:24] they'll go cut it. I promise they'll go cut it.

[27:27] » [laughter] >> You know, the the the group we have

[27:30] working for us that they do odds and ends for the DPS and

[27:34] you know. >> Like you get the weeds too.

[27:36] » Are you >> Well

[27:37] » Which where are >> Yeah, I don't know.

[27:38] » Specifically where are you talking weeds at the Commons?

[27:41] » Yes, at the Commons. It drives me crazy. I turn in there every single day whether

[27:45] I'm going to work or I'm going to Kroger's and the weeds are just popping

[27:47] through the cracks. They're >> Yeah.

[27:48] » the the round bushes that we have, they're growing up and they look like

[27:52] little little spraket trees growing and it's kind of embarrassing. I was going

[27:55] to go pull it the other day, but I was I had heels on. So

[27:58] » At the Commons, that should be done by our landscaper who's you know, cuts that

[28:02] every every week. So we need to reach out to him to

[28:05] in in we have to do this every year. I mean,

[28:08] it seems like he doesn't do it unless we tell him to do it.

[28:11] » Well, I I'm sure you also know Ron that and then you've dealt with this in the

[28:14] past that we just can't go spray the weeds. I

[28:18] mean, you know, I can go spray at my house. I'm a private person. But to

[28:22] spray to to put weed spray oh, unless you're talking about go down and pull it

[28:27] out yourself. >> about pulling them out.

[28:28] » [laughter] >> That's what I'm talking about.

[28:31] » Okay. >> You said you had kids still

[28:34] » Yeah, well, no, I'm saying you know, we still have

[28:36] » [laughter] >> I guess some kids we got some good labor

[28:38] that >> Pull them up by the roots so they

[28:40] usually don't grow back. >> [laughter]

[28:42] » They can wear their knee pads from hockey and kneel down and get them, I

[28:45] guess. But I'm just saying, some people want things sprayed and and

[28:49] you have to go We have different people, believe it or not, here like at the

[28:53] airport that have to be certified. You can't just spray it. Because it's

[28:57] commercial, it's governmental, there there's rules to that, but we can get it

[29:01] done. You know, let me let me I can need

[29:03] another piece of paper. >> [laughter]

[29:12] » Any other comments on Home Street? I'm going to add that.

[29:15] Improvements, weed pulling. If not, we'll move on to our next item,

[29:20] which is the director's report. Obviously, we don't have our director

[29:24] yet, but hopefully at our next meeting, we will have one.

[29:27] Uh chairman's report, other than what I spoke about today, I don't have anything

[29:30] else. Um

[29:32] Next item is public comment. We have no public comment, so I will open it up to

[29:37] Is there any open business by anyone? >> I just think for the to subcommittee, we

[29:42] need to Once we Once you guys get through the

[29:45] tour, we need to kind of sit down and talk about some action items for Ladies

[29:49] Night Out. >> Absolutely.

[29:50] » know you know, there's a design for the going on, but

[29:54] some of the things that we need to you know,

[29:57] » Absolutely. We can do that before. >> Okay.

[29:59] » Absolutely. >> All right.

[30:01] » Cuz I think some some things we're going to need to start implementing sooner

[30:04] than later for that to run efficiently and be good.

[30:08] » Mhm. >> That's our next big event is Ladies

[30:10] Night Out. >> And the date is?

[30:14] » Friday, November 6th. >> November I believe it is the 6th, yeah.

[30:17] I believe it is the 6th, yep. And that's from 5:00 to 9:00.

[30:23] » When is Paint the Town Red? >> Paint the

[30:26] » I'm not sure. >> Do we have a date for Paint the Town

[30:29] Red, Marie? Do you know? >> Yeah.

[30:32] » I don't know what month it is. >> I I skipped an event, didn't I?

[30:37] » Right. That's what I thought. >> Well, like so September, we have the

[30:40] house tour. And then

[30:42] not for DBA, of course, but it's Township and Township stuff.

[30:46] » Yeah, it's October 2nd. >> Okay, so September is the home tour,

[30:49] October is paint the town red, November is ladies night, and December is Island

[30:55] Glow. >> Mhm.

[30:57] And Island Glow doesn't conflict with um Boris Head at all.

[31:01] » I don't believe so. It's the >> It doesn't this year.

[31:03] » First Friday. Oh, okay. Understood. >> First year already.

[31:07] Is that every 4 years? >> Head year. Yep.

[31:11] And they start meetings on that, too, right now.

[31:14] But, yeah. So, yeah, Marie, we can you guys we can

[31:17] all get together and do the subcommittee and find a day and time. It doesn't have

[31:20] to be what we were doing before. I think it was Tuesdays we were doing. We can

[31:24] find another day and time just to make sure we're on track.

[31:28] » Cafe's open for the >> Oh, perfect. Done.

[31:33] » Any other? >> I got just one comment, if I could. I

[31:35] don't mean to slow you guys down. >> Nope.

[31:37] » Um I know it's with Shawn gone, and I I'm not exactly sure who helps out with,

[31:43] you know, the the special events on Friday nights. That's the last one they

[31:46] just had. >> Um

[31:48] » But, I just want to say if anybody um I think it was Chad and Wendy

[31:53] » Mhm. >> kind of

[31:54] took it. >> Mhm.

[31:55] » Uh cuz obviously Shawn's gone, but anybody else that helped out, and then

[31:58] all of you people on Macomb Street, it really went nice. There a lot of

[32:01] participation. There was a lot of It really

[32:04] Um when I went down there, it was it was pretty crowded. I I was kind of

[32:07] surprised. Um but, it was seemed well organized. It seemed, you know,

[32:13] seemed like there was a lot of people at each of the shops.

[32:15] » Perfect. >> I hope you got a lot of business there.

[32:17] » I mean, that yeah, those kind of things don't draw a ton of

[32:21] sales that night, and that's not why, you know, that everything is not focused

[32:24] on sales. >> Mhm.

[32:25] » Um but, we um we had some sales that night, but we had

[32:29] a lot of interaction with it. There a lot of dogs. It was really fun.

[32:32] » Good. Good. Well, I just I was And I shouldn't say the word surprised. That

[32:36] probably wasn't the best word. But there was

[32:39] many more people there than I expected and I go down just to

[32:42] you know, I can't see what's going on or see if there's

[32:45] what you got to eat or what you >> [laughter]

[32:48] » what's down there. >> Well, thank you for bringing that up cuz

[32:51] actually uh Chad and Wendy really they they they were the ones that helped make

[32:54] this successful. When Shawn left we were like, oh kind of

[32:58] » [laughter] >> That's right. I thought they took it

[33:01] over to help out. And I didn't know if anybody else helped them. I just want to

[33:04] say thank you. You guys did a really good job. They did a great job of

[33:08] » taking it, running with it, but there was a lot of it seemed like a lot of

[33:11] participation. >> Well, I think I actually I got some

[33:14] feedback from the businesses and people who live on Macomb Street. Our little

[33:17] competition we're doing is actually really fun. So we didn't get to do the

[33:21] 4th of July one for July, but um this August the dog house was really really

[33:26] fun. People had all kinds of fun taking pictures and voting on their favorite. I

[33:30] don't I still think it was rigged, Chad. Um but uh

[33:34] » [clears throat] [laughter]

[33:36] » But it was a lot of fun and a lot of people had they had great comments to

[33:40] say about how well it it was and they were very happy.

[33:43] » Yeah. The dog >> The painted dog house has just engaged

[33:46] people. >> Oh, yeah.

[33:47] » My orders still aren't from my building. >> me of an idea that April had that we'll

[33:52] probably run with, too. Mhm.

[33:56] » [laughter] >> Something like that, yeah.

[34:02] » Anything else? We just need to cross I probably would

[34:05] have gone home. If there's no other business, I'll

[34:09] entertain a motion to adjourn. >> I'll make a motion.

[34:12] » Motion by Ms. Pusack. >> Second.

[34:15] » Supported by Supervisor Porcerelli to adjourn. All those in favor say aye.

[34:19] » Aye. >> All opposed say no. Motion carries.

[34:22] » Thank you.

[35:24] » Mhm.

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