1 00:00:00,780 --> 00:00:12,580 Okay, thank you, Becky. We're on the record here. It is 3rd day March 19th at 9.01. We'll follow our meeting to order for the Utah State Fair Park Authority. 2 00:00:14,710 --> 00:00:16,630 Becky, do you want to do a roll call to get us started? 3 00:00:16,630 --> 00:00:22,740 We're really being blessed here, you know what, your family person. 4 00:00:26,810 --> 00:00:27,650 We hear it? 5 00:00:27,770 --> 00:00:28,130 You're okay. 6 00:00:28,870 --> 00:00:29,350 Next year. 7 00:00:32,370 --> 00:00:33,010 Steve Lawden. 8 00:00:37,440 --> 00:00:38,420 All مع breaking. 9 00:00:45,080 --> 00:00:46,020 Under the sand all. 10 00:00:49,050 --> 00:00:50,650 Beverly Selede here, 11 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:53,320 on team. 12 00:00:53,920 --> 00:00:54,040 Here. 13 00:00:55,660 --> 00:00:57,700 Tommy Jowley, have worked 14 00:01:01,220 --> 00:01:02,180 with us as well. 15 00:01:03,020 --> 00:01:05,160 Great, thanks everyone for attending today. 16 00:01:05,340 --> 00:01:08,800 I appreciate being here on this fine march morning. 17 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,180 Our first item of business is to approve what appears 18 00:01:12,180 --> 00:01:19,900 to be a slew of, so we've got February 19th, all of which were your packet, by the way. February 19th? 19 00:01:23,440 --> 00:01:28,730 Is that February 23rd? From the 19th to the end of the 23rd. Yeah, because we didn't. 20 00:01:31,470 --> 00:01:33,710 I'm sorry. Yeah. Okay, and then March 5th, 21 00:01:35,940 --> 00:01:37,320 Ocean 2, except those minutes? 22 00:01:38,400 --> 00:01:41,120 I think we did. I've got it. I think not all of them. 23 00:01:54,220 --> 00:01:56,820 Okay, subject to that change. I'll go back to 24 00:01:56,820 --> 00:02:01,980 U-Ted and entertain a motion to show move, except those were second. Second. Second, thank you. 25 00:02:01,980 --> 00:02:02,740 I'll take William. 26 00:02:03,360 --> 00:02:04,020 I'll take William. 27 00:02:04,020 --> 00:02:04,620 All in favor say aye. 28 00:02:05,060 --> 00:02:05,320 Aye. 29 00:02:05,740 --> 00:02:05,880 Aye. 30 00:02:09,750 --> 00:02:10,750 That's unanimous. 31 00:02:10,830 --> 00:02:15,710 The next item on the agenda is the review. 32 00:02:18,270 --> 00:02:18,710 Thank you. 33 00:02:18,850 --> 00:02:19,610 Welcome, Senator Sandle. 34 00:02:21,620 --> 00:02:27,440 We did not get through January financials in our last more any of the February meetings. 35 00:02:27,900 --> 00:02:35,100 And therefore, Alan, who's joining us remotely today, is going to take us through January and February financials. 36 00:02:35,220 --> 00:02:36,300 The floor is yours, Alan. 37 00:02:36,300 --> 00:02:47,080 All right. Thank you, Mr. Chair. Good morning, Board. January revenues, they were up about 9,000 compared to last year. 38 00:02:47,300 --> 00:02:57,780 They were up 20,000 against the budget, so it was a pretty decent January revenue-wise. February revenues were down 10 compared to last year. 39 00:02:57,780 --> 00:02:59,680 and they were down on the budget tent. 40 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:02,580 We didn't expect that to be quite as light. 41 00:03:03,420 --> 00:03:07,220 But overall year-to-date revenues are in a good position. 42 00:03:08,020 --> 00:03:12,760 Our expenses for January are up 13,000 to last year 43 00:03:12,760 --> 00:03:14,720 and they're up 1,000 to the budget. 44 00:03:15,500 --> 00:03:18,280 For February expenses were down 10,000 45 00:03:18,280 --> 00:03:20,880 and down 10,000 on the budget. 46 00:03:21,200 --> 00:03:26,840 So overall, the ordinary income is down 4K 47 00:03:28,300 --> 00:03:35,780 on last year and down 10,000 on budget. That was for January. February was down 1,000 48 00:03:35,780 --> 00:03:41,740 compared to last year, and it was even against the budget. So, it puts us in a pretty good 49 00:03:41,740 --> 00:03:49,980 position. Our, our income was actually very comparable. It was 39,000 for January and 35,000 50 00:03:49,980 --> 00:03:58,460 February. Year to date, again, revenue is down 1,000 to last year and we're up 11,000 against 51 00:03:58,460 --> 00:04:02,380 our budget. The expenses, what's that? 52 00:04:03,700 --> 00:04:05,160 Nothing, just the car. 53 00:04:07,170 --> 00:04:11,490 Our expenses are down 4,000 to last year and down 10,000 against our 54 00:04:11,490 --> 00:04:19,330 budget. So that means that our ordinary income is down 4K overall against last year but we're 55 00:04:19,330 --> 00:04:21,270 We're already up $21,000 on our budget. 56 00:04:23,150 --> 00:04:28,330 The other income is down $3,000 on last year, which is a good position. 57 00:04:28,930 --> 00:04:33,430 Any questions on the financial state, the income statements, profit and loss? 58 00:04:38,080 --> 00:04:40,620 Our cash position is really strong. 59 00:04:43,080 --> 00:04:48,820 We're up $1.94 million on last year in cash. 60 00:04:49,740 --> 00:04:56,000 So that puts us in a really good position. Our receivables are down 81,000 to last year. 61 00:04:56,680 --> 00:05:06,680 Accounts payables up 21,000 last year, just very comparable. The change in our financial position is up over last year, 1.26 million dollars. 62 00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:13,740 So we continue to be in a very strong position. Are there any questions at all? 63 00:05:13,740 --> 00:05:14,380 None 64 00:05:18,860 --> 00:05:23,720 from us, Allen, appreciate you're being on call today, even though you're away from the office. Thanks for your input. 65 00:05:24,480 --> 00:05:29,400 No, not a problem. If you'll excuse me, I'll, I'll, I need to drop out, so. 66 00:05:30,280 --> 00:05:32,880 Sounds great. Thanks, Allen. All right. Thanks, guys. 67 00:05:34,440 --> 00:05:37,400 I mean, we, we see negative numbers. There's still red numbers there. 68 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:43,560 What we expect that and that's the budget through. I'm meeting so much that can take us a half a year to get back out. 69 00:05:43,560 --> 00:05:49,860 So yeah, there's some of you ourselves are down, but our expenses are up because we're profit for the summer business 70 00:05:49,860 --> 00:05:56,080 Right, so in January we surfaced the floors from the grand and the pioneer and there's you know a head and right now 71 00:05:56,080 --> 00:06:02,140 We're doing a bunch of work on the malls, and so it's just the time of year where we need to prep that's all so it's spending 72 00:06:02,140 --> 00:06:04,280 His up, brother is down this time of year. Yeah 73 00:06:04,940 --> 00:06:10,660 They let the record reflect that at Steve one's joined us. All right Becky. Hey, thanks Steve. Welcome to the meeting 74 00:06:12,120 --> 00:06:22,100 Okay, the next item is to go into closed session and to talk about some negotiation issues 75 00:06:22,680 --> 00:06:23,960 on our real estate. 76 00:06:24,640 --> 00:06:27,440 So I need to read the right statement, Larry, and I broke. 77 00:06:27,620 --> 00:06:27,980 Are you there? 78 00:06:28,240 --> 00:06:29,440 You want to take us into closed session? 79 00:06:29,900 --> 00:06:32,080 Would you like me to take you into closed session? 80 00:06:32,960 --> 00:06:34,600 That would be great, just to get it right. 81 00:06:35,260 --> 00:06:35,620 Okay. 82 00:06:36,020 --> 00:06:39,180 The chair will now let you take the motion to go into closed session. 83 00:06:41,260 --> 00:06:43,100 Is that a nice home for 84 00:06:45,470 --> 00:06:45,970 Lincoln? 85 00:06:46,730 --> 00:06:48,350 We have a motion from way to second from Ted. 86 00:06:56,420 --> 00:06:58,220 Yes, didn't we? 87 00:06:58,420 --> 00:06:58,580 Yes. 88 00:06:59,020 --> 00:06:59,900 Kelly Pearson. 89 00:07:00,340 --> 00:07:00,720 Yes. 90 00:07:02,280 --> 00:07:03,180 Wait for it. 91 00:07:03,300 --> 00:07:03,640 Yes. 92 00:07:04,080 --> 00:07:04,600 Dave Lewis. 93 00:07:05,080 --> 00:07:05,300 Yes. 94 00:07:06,260 --> 00:07:06,780 Yes. 95 00:07:11,120 --> 00:07:11,440 Lewis? 96 00:07:11,960 --> 00:07:12,120 I 97 00:07:25,560 --> 00:07:26,240 understand that. 98 00:07:41,170 --> 00:07:41,990 From each of Lucia. 99 00:07:43,890 --> 00:07:47,670 And Paul, do you hear of Paul? 100 00:07:49,290 --> 00:07:51,150 Looks like Paul's meeting me a step to way. 101 00:07:51,530 --> 00:07:55,710 So that's unanimous with exception of Paul who did not vote. 102 00:07:55,710 --> 00:08:02,630 so that we're going into close session then um then by is is on the call as well I see the only 103 00:08:02,630 --> 00:08:10,350 one that's around board member that we'd have to oh brook yeah I'm not quite down yet okay oh 104 00:08:10,350 --> 00:08:15,250 sorry is that correct right yes okay so I 105 00:08:20,780 --> 00:08:24,200 need to vote so there's sandal do you vote to go into 106 00:08:24,200 --> 00:08:24,800 closed section. 107 00:08:28,600 --> 00:08:36,040 You're normal. Sorry, yes. Okay, thank you. Okay, so the the purpose of the 108 00:08:36,040 --> 00:08:42,660 procession is to discuss the purchase exchange or lease of real property in a court with section 109 00:08:42,660 --> 00:08:53,360 52-4-205 subsection D. The date of the closed meeting is March 19, 2026. The time of closed meeting 110 00:08:53,360 --> 00:08:59,440 is 9-10-am. The location of the closed meeting is the State Fair Administration Building, 111 00:08:59,660 --> 00:09:06,980 located at 155 North and 1,000 West in Salt Lake City. Are there any other persons, other 112 00:09:06,980 --> 00:09:12,100 than board members, attending the closed session, and if so, please identify yourself. 113 00:09:14,140 --> 00:09:14,900 It's been lunch. 114 00:09:17,740 --> 00:09:19,120 Aaron, will you identify yourself? 115 00:09:22,580 --> 00:09:24,280 It's been lunch with you for district. 116 00:09:24,280 --> 00:09:24,360 I'm sorry. 117 00:09:25,940 --> 00:09:29,000 I'll be to follow your lead, Mr. Chair, on it. 118 00:09:29,320 --> 00:09:29,940 I will get to stay. 119 00:09:33,470 --> 00:09:34,710 Not beyond the call, then. 120 00:09:34,910 --> 00:09:37,750 And then we'll invite you back once we are about a close session. 121 00:09:38,450 --> 00:09:38,890 Great. 122 00:09:39,370 --> 00:09:39,870 Thank you. 123 00:09:40,230 --> 00:09:40,810 Thanks, Ben. 124 00:09:46,110 --> 00:09:48,130 We are now going to close session. 125 00:09:48,550 --> 00:09:48,570 We 126 00:09:53,820 --> 00:09:54,600 want you to stay Becky. 127 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:57,000 But everybody on is a board member. 128 00:09:57,580 --> 00:09:58,820 So I scanned the list, right? 129 00:10:00,020 --> 00:10:02,440 And we got our meeting here with Larry. 130 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:02,700 Okay. 131 00:10:03,220 --> 00:10:04,140 So I think we're in good shape. 132 00:10:04,140 --> 00:10:10,580 So the board now now adjourns closed session and removes into an open need. 133 00:10:11,620 --> 00:10:13,580 Hey, you want to let Ben back in. 134 00:10:28,020 --> 00:10:32,740 The next item on the agenda is the 2025 fair volunteer banquet. 135 00:10:33,620 --> 00:10:35,160 Lillian, you want to take us? 136 00:10:35,460 --> 00:10:36,460 Yeah, we need a saccharine. 137 00:10:36,620 --> 00:10:36,960 Yeah, I know. 138 00:10:37,120 --> 00:10:37,240 Great. 139 00:10:41,040 --> 00:10:45,100 Wait, Mr. Chairman, would you like me to bring the board up to speed before we're out with 140 00:10:45,100 --> 00:10:49,020 the days of 47 agreeable? That'd be great. Thanks, Larry. Happy to do that. 141 00:10:49,020 --> 00:11:01,780 So we're making really good progress, there's still a few items that we're working through and some of that is just helping that group understand some of our expenses and where those expenses are coming from. 142 00:11:02,740 --> 00:11:16,360 They would really like to have an agreement that's based on our actual cost and where we're at is we need to not only cover our actual cost but we need to put 10% on top of that for admin and a little bit of profit, mainly admin. 143 00:11:16,360 --> 00:11:20,540 And one example of why we need to do that is even though the majority of our employees 144 00:11:20,540 --> 00:11:26,620 are not eligible for the pension plan portion of the URS retirement plan, the company 145 00:11:26,620 --> 00:11:29,640 is still required to put a contribution in regardless. 146 00:11:30,540 --> 00:11:34,940 And so that's just one example of an expense that's not going to show up on their reports 147 00:11:34,940 --> 00:11:37,460 that why we need that additional 10% to help cover that. 148 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:42,220 So essentially a lot of the individuals that are not participating in the pension portion 149 00:11:42,220 --> 00:11:45,200 of the URS plan are subsidizing those who are on the plan. 150 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:46,960 And that payment comes from the company. 151 00:11:47,540 --> 00:11:51,400 So there's expenses of the company paid out that are not directly tied to like an expense 152 00:11:51,400 --> 00:11:56,600 like you would see if you got a quote for a hourly labor or a rental equipment and things 153 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:57,160 of that nature. 154 00:11:57,720 --> 00:12:01,500 So we're trying to get that gap finalized and then we've talked a lot about utilities. 155 00:12:02,340 --> 00:12:06,980 They wanted to see some proof that our utilities are really as much as we claim they are, which 156 00:12:06,980 --> 00:12:09,420 they have now seen and they've been really great to work with. 157 00:12:09,920 --> 00:12:12,800 And as we've shared that information with them, I think that's helped them understand 158 00:12:12,800 --> 00:12:18,580 that this is a very expensive property to run and maintain. It's essentially a park and so they're 159 00:12:18,580 --> 00:12:22,640 starting to see that and be a little more empathetic and so that I do it. So I feel pretty good about it. 160 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:28,300 They've been great to work with. So plus plus 10% looks like it's going to be the it really needs to 161 00:12:28,300 --> 00:12:34,300 happen. Otherwise we're going backwards. So we think by next month we should have I would hope 162 00:12:34,300 --> 00:12:35,580 I would like to think of that. 163 00:12:37,620 --> 00:12:40,840 Sounds great. Thanks for that update Larry. Welcome Sakura. 164 00:12:40,840 --> 00:12:47,020 appreciate you joining us today. Your name is as frequently mentioned in this 165 00:12:47,020 --> 00:12:53,720 meeting and all in in good terms and blowing remarks. So William and soccer why 166 00:12:53,720 --> 00:12:58,440 don't you take the floor? Well mostly gonna let soccer you know we didn't have 167 00:12:58,440 --> 00:13:03,120 but we're coming along great and I say we because I'm not really soccer has 168 00:13:03,120 --> 00:13:08,980 taken this on. The whole staff has got buy-in and they I sat in yesterday on 169 00:13:08,980 --> 00:13:14,680 their meeting and everybody's asking, from each to part review, what about this, what 170 00:13:14,680 --> 00:13:15,120 about that. 171 00:13:15,240 --> 00:13:16,000 So it was wonderful. 172 00:13:16,940 --> 00:13:23,800 Their invitation has gone out, software has gone through you guys, we've invited plus 173 00:13:23,800 --> 00:13:24,140 one. 174 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:29,520 We've got to get a little fail for a little fault in making sure that's all in the legal 175 00:13:29,520 --> 00:13:29,840 area. 176 00:13:30,360 --> 00:13:36,780 Once it got approved, then the invitation's went out and you remain in the day to get 177 00:13:41,460 --> 00:13:48,040 So if any of you, she's going to give you these information, the any of you, please RSVP, 178 00:13:48,400 --> 00:13:51,660 if you have a plus one, and we're getting it, accurate count. 179 00:13:52,020 --> 00:13:55,440 They've done spectacular soccer, you can go from here. 180 00:13:56,280 --> 00:14:03,200 Okay, so I brought an invitation to either have it see it, so that you guys can look at it. 181 00:14:04,720 --> 00:14:11,540 So we're doing this celebration to my special thanks to our staff, our volunteer for our 182 00:14:11,540 --> 00:14:16,420 partners of the fair and you 183 00:14:19,330 --> 00:14:21,110 guys also on this. 184 00:14:22,370 --> 00:14:30,210 So right now as it looks we've got the catering, taking care of and then we'll get the members 185 00:14:30,210 --> 00:14:30,790 on the Monday. 186 00:14:30,790 --> 00:14:39,370 So far today when I just checked we have about a hundred RSVP's not counting our staff or the border or anything like that 187 00:14:39,370 --> 00:14:45,290 So that's just RSVP's and the plus ones. So we got about a hundred people so far. So it includes the plus ones. 188 00:14:45,630 --> 00:14:46,310 Yes, okay. 189 00:14:46,470 --> 00:14:54,150 Yeah, so it goes through Sunday night, but we won't shut it off till Monday and then I have we have to get the caters and the 190 00:14:55,270 --> 00:14:59,930 The rental company for Lin is a channeled, a final channeled for that. 191 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:27,960 But we are coming in on your budget on that. Everybody that's working on parts and pieces, they're really getting good quotes and going back and tightening up the quotes. So I think it's looking really good that we're going to be coming in under the $25,000 more. The $25,000 is based on how many on the attendees. Right. So once we get the final count, then we'll get the new quote for 192 00:15:27,960 --> 00:15:32,860 Um, for catering and all that and so that'll be, which is that more. 193 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:33,920 Um, 194 00:15:36,390 --> 00:15:40,330 the downstairs we're going to program with some interactive activities. 195 00:15:40,530 --> 00:15:49,250 The people can mingle and get to meet each other, bridge a little timeline with some photos of the fair park during the timeline from 1856 to present. 196 00:15:49,610 --> 00:15:54,730 And then the staff can put little stickers on when they started, what year they started. 197 00:15:55,630 --> 00:16:00,870 We also have a game that we're calling the Department Passport, so they're going to 198 00:16:00,870 --> 00:16:04,990 just meet three people and a different department and their own mother down there, just mark 199 00:16:04,990 --> 00:16:08,850 a card right there named on the back, pop it into a basket for our drawing at the end 200 00:16:08,850 --> 00:16:09,370 of the night. 201 00:16:10,330 --> 00:16:12,290 We'll have some music playing downstairs. 202 00:16:12,930 --> 00:16:18,830 We have a couple of roaming acts in a timetable, so Marcus is going to bring that. 203 00:16:18,990 --> 00:16:23,490 He's also going to have his photo booth set up there, where he's sitting on something 204 00:16:23,490 --> 00:16:27,290 any desk, the green screen in the back and you're sitting on a whale or something like that. 205 00:16:27,630 --> 00:16:32,550 Then we'll have our fair part photo in the fairies downstairs. So we're going to, 206 00:16:33,330 --> 00:16:36,670 as people are coming in, we'll crawl through down there for about 45 minutes, 207 00:16:36,690 --> 00:16:41,210 and then we'll send them upstairs to eat. And then our program will start at 5.30. 208 00:16:41,790 --> 00:16:47,550 It'll, our portion out there will end at 6.30. So that gives people time to go back downstairs 209 00:16:47,550 --> 00:16:52,070 and finish stuff that they didn't get to finish or just sit and talk for a little bit. 210 00:16:52,510 --> 00:16:56,250 and then that we were not talking all the way till seven so we're trying to 211 00:16:56,250 --> 00:17:00,790 convince all that into an outward but so far everything's good the staff's 212 00:17:00,790 --> 00:17:04,650 fought in on it and everybody has a part to play in a piece that they have to 213 00:17:04,650 --> 00:17:08,430 take care of and then we'll have a follow-up meeting next Wednesday and start 214 00:17:08,430 --> 00:17:12,770 set up on Friday. Well that sounds fantastic, Sarkar. Thank you for all your 215 00:17:12,770 --> 00:17:16,490 efforts and thank you William and Gassar, thanks a lot all those of me. 216 00:17:28,590 --> 00:17:45,730 I think the plus ones is pretty minimal right now wasn't it the 18 plus ones I think there's that's 30 now 30 now be 20 fuck 20 point so there's been some good response and I think this 217 00:17:45,730 --> 00:17:50,830 When we approve this money, there will be several comments that we should continue this and 218 00:17:52,010 --> 00:17:54,670 That's our plan is and maybe to do a January 219 00:17:55,270 --> 00:17:56,990 So do we have like that 220 00:17:57,870 --> 00:18:03,210 25% response or 30 50s, but we sent out a box 221 00:18:04,290 --> 00:18:11,310 Staff we had 296 staff members, but we didn't have emails for every one of them 222 00:18:11,310 --> 00:18:15,410 Yeah, so we have to go through some I9s to get other emails and then 223 00:18:15,730 --> 00:18:25,310 we sent out like the livestock, volunteers, rodeo, my demonstrators and volunteers. So if you have 224 00:18:25,310 --> 00:18:32,110 everybody's emails, we've probably sent out about 3.30 so far maybe, roughly right in there. 225 00:18:32,450 --> 00:18:37,490 You've got about a third in. Yeah, so Jennifer has her hand down. 226 00:18:40,330 --> 00:18:46,630 Thank you, Mr. Chair. This sounds absolutely wonderful. I'm so pleased with all the hard work 227 00:18:46,630 --> 00:18:49,230 complaining that went into it. So thank you, you all. And I 228 00:18:49,230 --> 00:18:53,070 apologize in advance if I've missed an email related to the 229 00:18:53,070 --> 00:18:55,290 invitation, because obviously if we're online, we're not 230 00:18:55,290 --> 00:18:58,590 getting it handed to us. Has this been emailed out to the 231 00:18:58,590 --> 00:18:59,210 board yet? 232 00:19:00,350 --> 00:19:03,550 Sorry to slur it. I emailed it to you. It's probably in your inbox 233 00:19:03,550 --> 00:19:07,210 right now. Just today. Okay. With the last few minutes. 234 00:19:07,430 --> 00:19:12,810 Okay. Let's see. That makes me feel less irresponsible. Okay, 235 00:19:13,010 --> 00:19:14,510 got it. Thank you. 236 00:19:14,510 --> 00:19:15,090 The 237 00:19:18,740 --> 00:19:24,760 other thing I was going to ask is, so on the RSVPs are we going to overshoot that 238 00:19:24,760 --> 00:19:28,280 by 10 percent, 20 percent for people that just general up? 239 00:19:28,780 --> 00:19:36,800 Yeah, so talking to you Fred, we were thinking 10 percent might be a good number depending 240 00:19:36,800 --> 00:19:37,720 on where we come in. 241 00:19:38,200 --> 00:19:42,580 Fred is food and beverage manager, yeah, so that would be the item, the food beverage, everything 242 00:19:42,580 --> 00:19:44,820 else you can scale up or scale down rather quickly. 243 00:19:44,820 --> 00:19:50,420 For example, there is one more thing they're doing, they're doing something, they're doing 244 00:19:50,420 --> 00:19:57,680 a bunch of interactive or working down there and there is several things that they're engaging 245 00:19:57,680 --> 00:20:07,200 that people in, just seeing a courier or gathering out of people to guess the weight on different 246 00:20:07,200 --> 00:20:16,360 particles in that part. And so they're going to fill out a form and and get the weight. So 247 00:20:17,320 --> 00:20:22,160 Sakura said, I don't know who's going to count that. So I graciously, there's a board on there 248 00:20:22,160 --> 00:20:29,500 that counts those. So we could find out who the closest to us. So I'll leave some help counting those. 249 00:20:29,500 --> 00:20:33,160 Um, we'll have our, um, clients committee do a lot at the point. 250 00:20:33,160 --> 00:20:33,400 Right. 251 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:39,790 If you're there, you'll ask the only one, wasn't it the guest the way? 252 00:20:39,970 --> 00:20:40,150 Yeah. 253 00:20:40,370 --> 00:20:44,410 Because the other things are, they're doing stuff and putting them in a fishbowl to, for 254 00:20:44,410 --> 00:20:45,690 a drawing or something. 255 00:20:46,230 --> 00:20:51,870 We're going to just, statistics board just on the, on the 2025 fair, but we haven't decided 256 00:20:51,870 --> 00:20:57,690 if it'll be a game or just kind of, the board with stats like, I don't know how many, 257 00:20:57,690 --> 00:20:59,890 you know, animals did you sell? 258 00:20:59,890 --> 00:21:04,330 how many people entered on their RV, how many girls life were considered. 259 00:21:04,690 --> 00:21:08,270 So, I think it's only the cost of just some of you to help count those. 260 00:21:08,750 --> 00:21:14,530 Then we are recognizing, yes we're doing, um, there are, I believe 13 people were going to recognize. 261 00:21:14,690 --> 00:21:19,290 So we had to pick a jumping off point. So we're going to go 20 to 24 years. 262 00:21:19,430 --> 00:21:22,570 People that have worked that many bears, not years but bears. 263 00:21:22,970 --> 00:21:28,370 And then 25 plus bears. So we have five people and 25 plus. 264 00:21:28,370 --> 00:21:34,290 and then we have the rest in the 20 plus and then we'll introduce what we're 265 00:21:34,290 --> 00:21:39,450 going to start doing next year with like a 10 to 15 year marks. We had to start 266 00:21:39,450 --> 00:21:45,890 somewhere and next year we'll have two staff members that have been here for 267 00:21:45,890 --> 00:21:49,790 30 fairs. So yeah so that's really cool. We'll 268 00:21:52,730 --> 00:21:54,250 include some of our past board members 269 00:21:54,250 --> 00:21:54,830 on the invite. 270 00:22:06,090 --> 00:22:08,650 We're just going to leave you that and we're working on the run of 271 00:22:08,650 --> 00:22:14,430 show right now, and that runoff show is also going to provide an opportunity for the board 272 00:22:14,430 --> 00:22:19,550 to be introduced to the full volunteer staff, so many that don't even know who our board 273 00:22:19,550 --> 00:22:19,770 is. 274 00:22:19,790 --> 00:22:24,370 So it's a good opportunity for us to recognize the board and all volunteers at the same 275 00:22:24,370 --> 00:22:27,270 time, so they can put a name and a face together. 276 00:22:27,770 --> 00:22:31,190 So we'll also provide a little bit of time for you to speak to the audience if you'd like 277 00:22:31,190 --> 00:22:34,450 to, because we're really going to encourage this collaborative effort and there's a lot 278 00:22:34,450 --> 00:22:34,930 of sharing. 279 00:22:34,930 --> 00:22:39,750 it. It's a big family is what it is. Yeah. Well, great. This sounds wonderful. 280 00:22:40,490 --> 00:22:43,510 Thank you. Any questions for Sakura or Lily before we move on? 281 00:22:44,050 --> 00:22:47,690 Thank you. Yeah. Yeah. This is fantastic. Thanks for all your efforts. 282 00:22:48,010 --> 00:22:50,110 So live on. Thank you. Okay. 283 00:22:52,630 --> 00:22:53,750 Thank you, Sakura. I appreciate you. 284 00:22:53,930 --> 00:22:58,610 I'm in. Let's move on to our committee reports. I'm going to switch the order a little bit, 285 00:22:58,750 --> 00:23:04,130 Ted. Can I put you first on your safety security? And I'm going to put slash compensation 286 00:23:04,130 --> 00:23:07,590 committee. You want to give us an update on those areas? 287 00:23:08,510 --> 00:23:13,790 Well, two different committees basically. We got to be sure. We indicated last time that 288 00:23:13,790 --> 00:23:18,930 once Ali had a chance to attend the global 289 00:23:21,330 --> 00:23:24,850 COVID now, an international conference regarding 290 00:23:24,850 --> 00:23:34,570 security that we would then meet as a security committee to believe from Ali what she's 291 00:23:34,570 --> 00:23:39,970 learned and to find out. This is really staff intensive. I mean, the committee can pay attention 292 00:23:40,390 --> 00:23:46,410 and try to be informed on behalf of the board, but the real work continues to be done by 293 00:23:46,410 --> 00:23:53,170 the staff. And we'll just try to keep up with staff on that conversation as a different matter. 294 00:23:53,310 --> 00:24:01,290 We've had some serious, scheduling difficulties. I was very hopeful that we would be able to deal 295 00:24:01,290 --> 00:24:09,830 with, it's basically incentive compensation for our director for 2025. We've had some 296 00:24:11,110 --> 00:24:17,230 difficulties getting together and getting things organized, and we've actually made a 297 00:24:17,230 --> 00:24:25,310 couple of changes and determined that we're going to invite all of the board members to fill 298 00:24:25,310 --> 00:24:34,330 out of an evaluation, and I'll include some careful instructions with it, but we're 299 00:24:34,330 --> 00:24:39,250 going to invite you to respond on the areas where you can respond. 300 00:24:39,810 --> 00:24:46,690 If you're too new to have dealt with some issue or don't ever cross-pads on that, we're 301 00:24:46,690 --> 00:24:53,170 not asking you to just make a wild guess about something, we're asking you to make an evaluation 302 00:24:53,170 --> 00:25:00,770 on the areas where you feel competent to make an evaluation and I'll give detailed instructions. 303 00:25:01,310 --> 00:25:07,030 I'll try to get that out within the next week. A couple of decisions were made just in the last 24 hours 304 00:25:07,030 --> 00:25:11,710 about how to make that effective and meaningful for the board. 305 00:25:12,490 --> 00:25:18,630 And our dealing with our director's compensation is one of the things that falls squarely on the board. 306 00:25:18,630 --> 00:25:25,190 we're going to accumulate your evaluation of responses and then we will come as 307 00:25:25,190 --> 00:25:28,690 a committee with a recommendation that our next board meeting. 308 00:25:29,410 --> 00:25:29,570 Right. 309 00:25:30,290 --> 00:25:31,370 Thank you to appreciate it. 310 00:25:31,530 --> 00:25:32,170 Thanks for your patience. 311 00:25:32,550 --> 00:25:33,250 Yeah, appreciate it. 312 00:25:33,250 --> 00:25:34,190 Thank you for your patience. 313 00:25:36,140 --> 00:25:44,320 I need a couple more pieces of information from you, but two of that is we're, I've been 314 00:25:44,320 --> 00:25:51,400 talking with Larry about how we would change the evaluation from last, the last year of 315 00:25:51,400 --> 00:25:54,360 a year before that Lillian works so hard on, 316 00:25:56,760 --> 00:26:02,780 anticipate issues or areas of focus for 317 00:26:02,780 --> 00:26:12,680 incentive comp that arise because of our involvement with the district, LHM, and to 318 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:13,300 those things. 319 00:26:13,800 --> 00:26:20,600 And I think we probably need to change the, add some focus for a couple of items, but I'm 320 00:26:21,000 --> 00:26:22,220 working through that with the Larry. 321 00:26:22,580 --> 00:26:22,720 Great. 322 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:23,180 Thank you. 323 00:26:23,560 --> 00:26:24,280 Thanks, Ted. 324 00:26:24,480 --> 00:26:25,100 Appreciate you. 325 00:26:25,420 --> 00:26:27,000 And Jennifer, your efforts as well. 326 00:26:27,160 --> 00:26:29,540 And we'll look forward to, I'm on that committee as well. 327 00:26:29,660 --> 00:26:32,200 We'll look forward to that recommendation for our April meeting. 328 00:26:32,860 --> 00:26:37,180 Talking about April, Becky, you just want to make sure that we get that on your base calendar. 329 00:26:37,420 --> 00:26:39,040 Is that the 23rd of April then? 330 00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:42,480 That's going to be an important meeting for all of this. 331 00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:46,100 I want to make sure we're, that's the 4th Tuesday. 332 00:26:47,400 --> 00:26:48,240 That was... 333 00:26:48,240 --> 00:26:49,500 It's always the 3rd and 3rd. 334 00:26:50,240 --> 00:26:51,240 Oh, the 16th. 335 00:26:51,700 --> 00:26:52,040 Okay. 336 00:26:52,040 --> 00:27:04,080 Oh, I do see it on there. So you've already sent it out, Crata. That's going to be an important board meeting for us. Obviously, what Ted's talking about will come before us then, but also the Larry H Miller discussion. So make sure you mark your calendars for that. 337 00:27:04,760 --> 00:27:19,920 Okay. Thank you, Ted. Let's move on then. Steve, anything on the legislative committee that you have. And frankly, we just finished a session. Is there anything that anybody has on the legislative front that might affect the fair park that we need to discuss? 338 00:27:20,980 --> 00:27:25,060 I'm not a word of anything that's going to affect the fair park that we discussed. 339 00:27:26,660 --> 00:27:32,080 So from a legislative front, Larry and I have had a couple of conversations about it 340 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:40,440 and really there wasn't a lot that we could see that that was going to affect the fair 341 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:40,840 park. 342 00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,880 Larry, do you have any additional information on that? 343 00:27:45,860 --> 00:27:46,460 I don't. 344 00:27:46,460 --> 00:27:50,520 So there are so many bills that there's a possibility there's a bill that would have some 345 00:27:50,520 --> 00:27:54,660 impact and we're still going through that but as of today, nothing really is consequential 346 00:27:54,660 --> 00:27:55,420 to the fair park. 347 00:27:55,620 --> 00:28:00,780 Larry, I know we'd mentioned procurement provision that was in one of the BS, so it 348 00:28:00,780 --> 00:28:01,820 would affect us to that pass. 349 00:28:02,180 --> 00:28:02,760 That did pass. 350 00:28:03,300 --> 00:28:08,820 So we'll be able to secure the food providers that are necessary to support a fair without 351 00:28:08,820 --> 00:28:10,560 happening to go through a whole bit process. 352 00:28:11,320 --> 00:28:11,440 Okay. 353 00:28:12,400 --> 00:28:13,520 That would be hugely impactful. 354 00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:21,980 Well, just to say of relief that they're done and things aren't still in flux, yeah. 355 00:28:22,300 --> 00:28:23,800 One thing, can I say something? 356 00:28:23,900 --> 00:28:25,360 Let's go to Darryl and then Lilian. 357 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:30,940 So I just tell him, hapline provenance passed, I did send you a thin list of hapline provenance, 358 00:28:30,960 --> 00:28:38,280 so I saw that variant with a lot of other construction, not bearing real wealth, hapline provenance 359 00:28:38,280 --> 00:28:40,920 hit very well this year, so that there are parts, yes. 360 00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,700 I don't have my let's pull the front now to email to you that we did get all the requests 361 00:28:45,700 --> 00:28:47,700 that I was recommending so. 362 00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:53,020 Now we received great support from Darryl and DFCM and one of the more important projects 363 00:28:53,020 --> 00:28:58,140 is to address this entryway and clean it up and make it safer for pedestrians and more 364 00:28:58,140 --> 00:29:03,580 efficient to get vehicles in and out and so we're really looking forward to seeing that project 365 00:29:03,580 --> 00:29:04,380 come to fruition. 366 00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,100 It's really being more and more important. 367 00:29:07,100 --> 00:29:09,680 that we're starting to see on our front, 368 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:14,060 whereas artists wanted to share of your beverage sales 369 00:29:14,060 --> 00:29:17,340 to help offset their fees and costs and their profits. 370 00:29:17,780 --> 00:29:19,860 They're now they're starting to dip their toe into parking. 371 00:29:21,060 --> 00:29:23,220 So being able to be efficient in parking 372 00:29:23,220 --> 00:29:24,600 is going to become even more important. 373 00:29:25,100 --> 00:29:25,240 Yeah. 374 00:29:26,420 --> 00:29:28,940 Any other major projects that were approved 375 00:29:28,940 --> 00:29:30,140 that are kind of on that docket? 376 00:29:30,660 --> 00:29:34,340 There was quite a few, but just improve a project out here 377 00:29:34,340 --> 00:29:36,740 There are no other major countries that haven't been there. 378 00:29:37,120 --> 00:29:38,900 Well, Darrell, thanks for advocating for us. 379 00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:41,620 I know you're a big part of why that works well for us. 380 00:29:42,080 --> 00:29:44,400 So, appreciate you, your participation on the board 381 00:29:44,400 --> 00:29:45,740 and advocating for that budget. 382 00:29:47,160 --> 00:29:47,480 Louis. 383 00:29:47,960 --> 00:29:51,080 Oh, I just wanted to note that, very nice. 384 00:29:51,260 --> 00:29:54,100 Well, yesterday, he had gone on the hill 385 00:29:54,100 --> 00:29:56,700 and left every legislator and every senator, 386 00:29:57,260 --> 00:29:59,620 the economic impact study. 387 00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:28,580 He took them up and they were placed on every guest. And I emailed my senator and let's say if you guys would reach out to yours to make sure they received it. It may just be a heads up and they might look for it, they might not, but just seem, is there a lot to turn that in? Yeah. That's a good point. We ought to mention as well. Thanks Larry for getting that out. It was very timely to get it out during the session where eyeballs are focused on that kind of a thing. 388 00:30:28,580 --> 00:30:32,160 I think any summaries you want to tell us about it though. 389 00:30:32,820 --> 00:30:34,980 I haven't received a tremendous amount of feedback. 390 00:30:35,260 --> 00:30:37,460 I did speak with Mike Mauer, the governor's office, 391 00:30:37,800 --> 00:30:42,360 and he was very thankful of our efforts to keep the fair part vital 392 00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:44,560 and an important part of our community. 393 00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:46,320 I'm very grateful for that. 394 00:30:46,460 --> 00:30:49,800 I did not have a chance to visit with the Speaker of the House 395 00:30:49,800 --> 00:30:50,620 or the President of the Senate. 396 00:30:50,740 --> 00:30:54,100 They were very busy, but I did make sure that they had copies delivered to them. 397 00:30:54,740 --> 00:30:54,780 Okay. 398 00:30:54,780 --> 00:30:59,220 These are hard copies, not emailed, so they should be stressed here. 399 00:31:00,480 --> 00:31:01,400 Senator Sandal. 400 00:31:04,990 --> 00:31:09,510 We ought to reflect in the record how positive that the impact report was. 401 00:31:10,030 --> 00:31:11,510 It was a great report, right? 402 00:31:12,490 --> 00:31:16,470 Let's make sure we include that in our record in our minutes as well, Becky. 403 00:31:17,170 --> 00:31:18,390 Okay, let's keep moving on. 404 00:31:18,590 --> 00:31:21,330 Steve, any updates on the Education Committee? 405 00:31:22,430 --> 00:31:35,870 Yeah, Sakura and I are going to meet after this meeting, but Dave Seacrest with Utah State University has put together a theme of producers. 406 00:31:37,210 --> 00:31:44,510 And we're trying to focus on, he's invited me to be a part of that as part of the Fairboard board board. 407 00:31:45,250 --> 00:31:51,390 and the whole focus is on young producers and he wants to be a part of the 408 00:31:51,390 --> 00:31:59,770 education committee here and I think what we'll do is we're going to work in 409 00:31:59,770 --> 00:32:06,590 tandem with them so that we're not duplicating efforts but I think that moving 410 00:32:06,590 --> 00:32:11,930 forward with them and with the help of Utah State we're going to have a much 411 00:32:11,930 --> 00:32:18,890 better product this year. Sounds great. I think the message was great last year and the 412 00:32:18,890 --> 00:32:25,330 agenda was great. Steve, we didn't have maybe as many as we would have wanted, but certainly 413 00:32:25,330 --> 00:32:30,030 we can make that grow and build on it. So thanks for your efforts there. I think we can make 414 00:32:30,030 --> 00:32:39,470 it grow. And I appreciate that. I'm still looking forward to it. There is a meeting this next week 415 00:32:39,470 --> 00:32:47,490 down in in St. George down in Washington County for it's it's a cal producers 416 00:32:47,490 --> 00:32:51,090 meeting down there that I'm going to attend. They generally have some really 417 00:32:51,090 --> 00:32:56,470 good speakers at that meeting and so I can report more on that after that 418 00:32:56,470 --> 00:32:56,810 meeting. 419 00:33:00,410 --> 00:33:00,670 Question. 420 00:33:01,230 --> 00:33:01,630 Jennifer. 421 00:33:04,230 --> 00:33:08,590 That I was just the studio had mentioned a meeting and do we have an 422 00:33:08,590 --> 00:33:10,670 education committee meeting right after this? 423 00:33:10,670 --> 00:33:17,130 just it's just gonna be like a 10-minute meeting to catch up see if everybody see 424 00:33:17,130 --> 00:33:22,970 what anybody has and everybody has nothing nothing more real detailed right now 425 00:33:22,970 --> 00:33:25,510 not even an agenda so 426 00:33:30,690 --> 00:33:34,390 there is a committee meeting I'm just I don't I'm no 427 00:33:34,390 --> 00:33:38,810 I don't have anything on my calendar Jennifer it's not gonna be an official 428 00:33:38,810 --> 00:33:43,630 committee meeting we have not scheduled about meeting for after this it's 429 00:33:43,630 --> 00:33:50,190 Okay, mainly Sakura and I just catch you up to see what's what's going on and what we need to do to move forward. 430 00:33:50,770 --> 00:33:55,010 Okay, great. Just want to make sure that, yeah, you're good. 431 00:33:55,670 --> 00:33:58,570 Taking care of my responsibilities. Thank you. 432 00:33:59,050 --> 00:33:59,230 Yep. 433 00:34:00,670 --> 00:34:02,950 Okay, well, thank you Steve. Appreciate your efforts there. 434 00:34:03,670 --> 00:34:06,230 Let's move on to the fair committee, Lilian. 435 00:34:07,130 --> 00:34:11,010 Yes, they're moving along great, great speeds. 436 00:34:11,610 --> 00:34:16,810 There's some offers out for concerts, but we don't disclose that to it's actually signed 437 00:34:16,810 --> 00:34:23,010 to the state by says that every time, but there is some I'm excited, it's some of these, 438 00:34:23,600 --> 00:34:29,150 it's just so expensive, rock, country, plastic, rock prices have not come down from these 439 00:34:29,150 --> 00:34:35,670 inflated numbers we've seen in the past very prices have not come down a good example would 440 00:34:35,670 --> 00:34:44,470 be Leonard Skinner. There is no surviving members on that band whatsoever. And they're starting 441 00:34:44,470 --> 00:34:50,610 prices for $400,000. So this is a tribute band if you will. 442 00:34:54,410 --> 00:34:56,010 We've got quite a few offers out 443 00:34:56,010 --> 00:35:01,650 there. It takes me on Lillian's comments. It's a painstaking process because Utah is so competitive with 444 00:35:01,650 --> 00:35:05,670 a number of performing arts venues, so now they just call everybody else and see if they 445 00:35:05,670 --> 00:35:06,190 get a better deal. 446 00:35:07,750 --> 00:35:11,210 Alright, so they're working on that and I appreciate that diligence because that's 447 00:35:11,210 --> 00:35:11,530 a lot. 448 00:35:11,730 --> 00:35:14,890 These go back and forth, back and forth, and then they say no, we're not coming. 449 00:35:15,130 --> 00:35:19,490 So there's a lot of time and effort that doesn't come through fruition, but you have to go 450 00:35:19,490 --> 00:35:20,310 through the process. 451 00:35:20,730 --> 00:35:24,410 What is kind of like deadline for that to be out finalized, you know? 452 00:35:24,530 --> 00:35:28,490 We told them that we really need to have good direction the next couple of weeks, and so 453 00:35:28,490 --> 00:35:33,530 in Iraq, so working on second, third backup offers for different bands, just so we can 454 00:35:33,530 --> 00:35:37,810 roll right into it. And then right now we're giving them about 30 days. That's typical 455 00:35:37,810 --> 00:35:41,290 to the norm, but the next one will get two weeks, right? We've got to start pushing people. 456 00:35:41,290 --> 00:35:44,770 Right, right. They have to make a decision because it has to help. And there's some great 457 00:35:44,770 --> 00:35:48,390 talent we've got offers out. We're just waiting for them to say yes. We keep hearing 458 00:35:48,390 --> 00:35:53,730 yeah, everything was great. We're, but they're checking for a better off. They're checking 459 00:35:53,730 --> 00:35:58,230 for a better off. So this year they are working on the America 250. 460 00:35:58,230 --> 00:36:03,010 that's a lot of the theme this year even though we're after the 4th of July. If you're looking 461 00:36:03,010 --> 00:36:08,490 at your packet, there'll be showing you some grounds entertainment and so that's a lot of the 462 00:36:08,490 --> 00:36:14,930 focus. And Osanker is working with the fiber arts and trying to have different demonstrations geared 463 00:36:14,930 --> 00:36:20,890 toward that. So I'm really excited about that. I think it'll be a wonderful celebration. Very good 464 00:36:20,890 --> 00:36:28,330 50-50. Other than that they've got the grounds under him I think is all finalized and they're just 465 00:36:28,950 --> 00:36:35,590 bringing all that and I think all the stages are now completed. Pretty close. Yeah the fair 466 00:36:35,590 --> 00:36:42,010 programming is was essentially completed. Yes. Still you know dialing it on some of the events 467 00:36:42,010 --> 00:36:47,650 that we're going to host to support the 250 celebration but it's getting very close. Yeah. 468 00:36:47,650 --> 00:36:49,030 I think he's put a lot of work into that. 469 00:36:49,450 --> 00:36:50,810 Yeah, I'm really excited for that. 470 00:36:51,030 --> 00:36:54,630 And then what I thought, the food vendors are usually 471 00:36:54,630 --> 00:36:56,250 on buying that I think that's right about that. 472 00:36:56,250 --> 00:36:58,450 We just opened that up yesterday, right? 473 00:36:58,610 --> 00:37:01,590 So we're just now starting to solicit those entries. 474 00:37:02,510 --> 00:37:02,990 Yeah. 475 00:37:03,290 --> 00:37:05,490 Hopefully we have a cheaper than $20. 476 00:37:06,230 --> 00:37:07,410 That will happen. 477 00:37:07,710 --> 00:37:10,130 Well, with $5 diesel, I went on older breath. 478 00:37:10,310 --> 00:37:12,150 And $10 pound of beef. 479 00:37:12,950 --> 00:37:13,170 Yeah. 480 00:37:13,170 --> 00:37:26,030 Yeah, you know, we're certainly going to push that, you know, it's a good opportunity to talk a little bit about while you're on food and beverage and a fair is the contract that we had with our previous beverage provider expired. 481 00:37:26,450 --> 00:37:41,490 So we did send that off our RFP and PICI was a very important part of that when we looked at awarding that and the successful respondent is Pepsi Cola and their pricing was significantly less than the other. 482 00:37:41,490 --> 00:37:42,990 because they were getting down. 483 00:37:43,410 --> 00:37:45,710 It wasn't even in the same zip code price wise. 484 00:37:46,570 --> 00:37:48,050 And so that's how we have now, too. 485 00:37:48,230 --> 00:37:49,290 It's who we have now. 486 00:37:49,670 --> 00:37:52,470 But we were surprised to see that the price gap was that big. 487 00:37:52,650 --> 00:37:54,530 And when I did speak with that other company, 488 00:37:55,570 --> 00:37:58,610 the representative did mention that they were worried 489 00:37:58,610 --> 00:38:01,010 that the prices were too high before they even presented it 490 00:38:01,010 --> 00:38:03,470 to us and tried to get their management to bring the price down. 491 00:38:04,350 --> 00:38:06,170 And so it's a delicate balance that everybody's fighting 492 00:38:06,170 --> 00:38:07,710 on price and profits. 493 00:38:07,710 --> 00:38:13,950 But it was without mentioning exact dollars, it was double the price. 494 00:38:14,330 --> 00:38:14,790 Wow. 495 00:38:15,510 --> 00:38:19,450 This makes it more workable when you have someone willing to put in the patent. 496 00:38:20,370 --> 00:38:23,710 And they also provide other, you know, sensory stuff. 497 00:38:24,130 --> 00:38:27,730 So it's a good relationship with Pepsi right now. 498 00:38:28,190 --> 00:38:28,610 That's great. 499 00:38:29,730 --> 00:38:29,990 That's all. 500 00:38:30,350 --> 00:38:30,570 Okay. 501 00:38:30,810 --> 00:38:30,990 Thanks. 502 00:38:31,030 --> 00:38:33,530 I really appreciate all your efforts and the effort of your committee there. 503 00:38:34,030 --> 00:38:35,570 Wade, where do you with rodeo? 504 00:38:35,570 --> 00:38:37,870 Not a lot other than here 505 00:38:42,740 --> 00:38:51,480 we've walked everybody in raises I mean hold the get here locations killing them as well 506 00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:55,080 It just more 507 00:39:03,660 --> 00:39:04,400 money the 508 00:39:09,650 --> 00:39:11,330 all aspects of our fair 509 00:39:11,330 --> 00:39:17,910 Yeah, it was put more people to see it's right. Yep. That's what we've got to do. You're in for sir 510 00:39:18,950 --> 00:39:20,550 Jim livestock that 511 00:39:30,470 --> 00:39:31,350 chairman now our 512 00:39:36,180 --> 00:39:37,120 family gets on board 513 00:39:37,120 --> 00:39:41,960 I think it would be better if we could time it all together with Sammy right and go from there 514 00:39:41,960 --> 00:39:48,400 Okay, but I'm pretty encouraged by what you're doing. Yeah, so I know Jason's kind of working on the final guidelines there 515 00:39:48,400 --> 00:39:49,180 Several 516 00:39:55,200 --> 00:40:03,000 things one of which was the new drenching rule. I have not received any feedback on the drenching rule other than it's out there and that it's 517 00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:08,100 You know, you didn't know you heard anything on it. So I guess no news is good news 518 00:40:10,260 --> 00:40:10,740 Yeah 519 00:40:11,740 --> 00:40:12,220 Yeah 520 00:40:12,220 --> 00:40:18,290 Yeah, yeah, and then the way Darryl and I 521 00:40:20,790 --> 00:40:22,450 building design people on the new building, 522 00:40:22,450 --> 00:40:27,950 and it's where we started those meetings. Every other week on Tuesday I think they are, I think 523 00:40:27,950 --> 00:40:29,970 I mean, first being went really well, and I 524 00:40:32,660 --> 00:40:35,080 have to eventually make, but you 525 00:40:38,850 --> 00:40:39,250 know, I know 526 00:40:39,250 --> 00:40:44,690 I had to see it that early on that meeting, but it'd be possible to move that meeting up because 527 00:40:46,550 --> 00:40:52,850 I've got a consistent conflict on Tuesdays that I already went back from 11 to 11.30, I'm 528 00:40:52,850 --> 00:40:54,290 Yeah, but I don't know the thing. 529 00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,000 And is that the actual designer that 530 00:40:59,960 --> 00:41:05,370 I think him would hire so we're going to hire the designer. We already have that. 531 00:41:05,870 --> 00:41:08,670 So that we're just to the next level of the designer. They don't 532 00:41:09,350 --> 00:41:14,290 can be the ones that design the entire. They all get us 99% of the way there. 533 00:41:16,700 --> 00:41:20,580 The old fairgrounds players been working with us for a while. They've actually gone on trips with us to 534 00:41:21,080 --> 00:41:26,120 instance the Denver year ago. They travel along with us and that's what this specialty is designing 535 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:30,420 barns for fairs and fairgrounds, so that's their 4j. And they're the ones that are doing them. 536 00:41:30,700 --> 00:41:36,920 The Colorado State Fair, it's the Colorado State Fair, the Iowa Fair, they did the New York 537 00:41:36,920 --> 00:41:43,780 building, but they're concerned there though. No, that's just curious. If we were hiring them, 538 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:44,760 or a birth 539 00:41:47,030 --> 00:41:51,250 test for whatever effort, that would probably be the 540 00:41:54,860 --> 00:41:56,520 same thing as the youth fair. 541 00:41:59,350 --> 00:42:03,730 It's somebody involved that actually understood how fairs work and the fair programming 542 00:42:03,730 --> 00:42:08,450 from a livestock perspective because what fairs do is a little bit different than how you generally 543 00:42:08,450 --> 00:42:09,670 you know poke 544 00:42:13,380 --> 00:42:17,200 about the initial designs and we present a familiar information I think we're 545 00:42:17,200 --> 00:42:21,220 going to have a really good product. So do we end up one client laterally again did we end up 546 00:42:21,220 --> 00:42:26,740 laying on two barns for sure yeah I don't know about for sure but yes that was the original that's 547 00:42:26,740 --> 00:42:28,180 the direction thanks 548 00:42:33,200 --> 00:42:36,820 Jim hey chairman if I could reel the quick I meant to bring this up during 549 00:42:36,820 --> 00:42:42,200 wage rodeo, but just so you're aware, JC was actually selected as one of the top 30 550 00:42:42,200 --> 00:42:48,180 under 30 women in the country for rodeo, so she'll actually be in Calgaryl magazine and they'll 551 00:42:48,180 --> 00:42:53,520 do an article on her. So that's a great accomplishment and just give us an opportunity to highlight 552 00:42:53,520 --> 00:42:58,800 the fair, so we'll take an ad out to support her recognition and promote our own rodeo 553 00:43:01,620 --> 00:43:02,300 editions of 554 00:43:02,300 --> 00:43:07,160 copies and then we will get some extra copy, or at least the picture of it, sent it to the board. 555 00:43:07,160 --> 00:43:11,920 but yeah, so it should actually be in Arlington on May 23rd and that's where 556 00:43:11,920 --> 00:43:16,740 next I have the ceremony at the war presentation. Fantastic. So congratulations for her. Yeah, 557 00:43:16,800 --> 00:43:19,920 let's put that on the record as well Becky and make sure you pass along our 558 00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:27,420 congratulations from the forward. Before we get too far to the end here, Ben, can you hear us? 559 00:43:29,660 --> 00:43:33,780 Yes, I can. Hey, Ben, I want to make sure you know you're invited to that Saturday 560 00:43:33,780 --> 00:43:42,260 March 28th celebration as well with your plus one you should see an invite in your inbox but if not 561 00:43:42,260 --> 00:43:44,440 know that you're invited to that as well. 562 00:43:53,640 --> 00:43:58,020 Agenda. I maybe had just one more question. I noticed 563 00:43:58,020 --> 00:44:02,340 that we're replacing the roof and I saw a leverage report on the market that will 564 00:44:04,990 --> 00:44:06,510 sell in those to 565 00:44:06,510 --> 00:44:12,830 LA Jam. Why would you want that? Those projects were approved some time ago and some of it is the 566 00:44:12,830 --> 00:44:17,690 interior work to which will benefit us while we continue to use it. But the overall 567 00:44:17,690 --> 00:44:20,530 objective has always been to make sure those assets are protected and that's 568 00:44:20,530 --> 00:44:23,470 all we're doing. So filling that obligation to make sure the asset is 569 00:44:23,470 --> 00:44:26,930 preserved. I mean, that's fine. I just don't worry about that at all, buddy. 570 00:44:27,030 --> 00:44:29,790 It's a little more important to make sure it's a good question. Yeah, that's no 571 00:44:29,790 --> 00:44:33,650 thing like something that won't change when they take over and remodel or retro print. 572 00:44:33,970 --> 00:44:38,750 But we get have funding that through the floors as well, which we chose not to do 573 00:44:38,750 --> 00:44:43,490 because it would not only be dust back, we did it with the underground utilities, 574 00:44:43,490 --> 00:44:47,070 but it would look like so it would be foolish to put new cement to have a cut back out. 575 00:44:48,370 --> 00:44:51,770 But some of this also is going to benefit us. They're going in and they're putting all 576 00:44:51,770 --> 00:44:56,370 of the earthquake tie-ins, so that roof was never tied into the walls, so they've been doing that, 577 00:44:56,370 --> 00:44:59,850 so it's going to be a safer product all the way around it as well. I mean that's fine, I just 578 00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:06,400 That asked the question and bring it up. That's a very good question to ask. We understand why. Mr. Chairman. Yes, but yes. 579 00:45:08,460 --> 00:45:29,040 Senator Sando. You've got the floor. Sorry. Sorry. My service is really bad right now. I don't know why. Back to where I can be part of the meeting. I just wanted to recognize. I think I saw Lillian's name come back up for renomination for the board by the government. Is that right? 580 00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:34,780 Congratulations. Congratulations. All happy to support that nomination. 581 00:45:35,880 --> 00:45:41,000 Thank you. Yeah, we got a letter from Governor Cox. If you'd signs asking me to be 582 00:45:41,720 --> 00:45:46,160 reappointed. So thank you. Yep. I just want to recognize that, Mr. Chair. 583 00:45:47,220 --> 00:45:52,660 Thank you, Senator Sandom. And you're a great resource for the people. We appreciate all your efforts. 584 00:45:52,660 --> 00:45:54,640 So thank you for being early to serve you. 585 00:46:04,560 --> 00:46:19,680 Okay, we've reached the end of our agenda, anything else we need to schedule for our next month, next month's going to be a pretty good meeting when we talked about a number of these really hot topics, so anything else we need to bring up an agenda for that meeting. 586 00:46:19,680 --> 00:46:24,140 I just got a question made it for this meeting real quick, because like I mentioned earlier, 587 00:46:24,380 --> 00:46:30,080 the SCM's got a report back to the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on potential 588 00:46:30,940 --> 00:46:35,920 Olympic impacts statewide, and I know that's 10 years down the road, but we need to start 589 00:46:35,920 --> 00:46:39,920 thinking about now, and I got a report, or the SCM's got a report, hopefully, not made that 590 00:46:40,520 --> 00:46:41,960 by May 1st. 591 00:46:42,620 --> 00:46:47,840 There you know if there was any impact to the fair park during the last Olympics, parking, 592 00:46:48,580 --> 00:46:55,320 anything like that, that this might be the service box or anything like that 593 00:46:55,320 --> 00:47:00,100 that would need improvements. The last the last Olympics, the fair did not play a 594 00:47:00,100 --> 00:47:05,700 very big role in the Olympics. It was mainly a what they would call a marshalling 595 00:47:05,700 --> 00:47:10,540 yard which is where sound lights were dropped and things of that nature. Our goal is 596 00:47:10,540 --> 00:47:14,000 to play a much larger role this time so hopefully we start to see some clarity on that a 597 00:47:14,000 --> 00:47:17,680 little bit. I thought I'd bring it up so what would you like the 598 00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,980 We would love to host one of the country's houses, right? 599 00:47:22,160 --> 00:47:27,760 So they all have a, like a hospitality housing, 600 00:47:27,860 --> 00:47:28,960 but each country will set up. 601 00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:31,020 And the grant would be a perfect location 602 00:47:31,020 --> 00:47:32,460 for one of those countries to use 603 00:47:32,460 --> 00:47:35,700 as one of their hospitality locations during the Olympics. 604 00:47:36,900 --> 00:47:39,180 I know Larry, they also had awards, 605 00:47:39,660 --> 00:47:42,140 the actual Awards ceremony within you, 606 00:47:42,160 --> 00:47:44,060 was downtown next to church. 607 00:47:44,340 --> 00:47:45,080 I saw that lot. 608 00:47:45,340 --> 00:47:45,660 Yeah. 609 00:47:45,660 --> 00:47:50,980 I mean, might there be an opportunity to host something of that nature here because we have an infrastructure? 610 00:47:51,580 --> 00:47:54,460 I think there's a lot of opportunities for still just exploring. All of them, there's been 611 00:47:55,300 --> 00:47:58,500 discussions about what we should do with 3-day festival here during that, right? 612 00:47:58,560 --> 00:48:04,200 So people would like to do that. So there's a lot that's happening, but we want to make further line with the Olympic effort first. 613 00:48:04,720 --> 00:48:08,600 We don't want to create something that competes with what they're trying to show. 614 00:48:09,120 --> 00:48:11,580 Yeah, so do we sit in on those discussions? 615 00:48:11,580 --> 00:48:18,400 How do we ours that fair park be integrated into those like every other than you so then you're just on a list. Okay 616 00:48:19,100 --> 00:48:22,320 Some bend you to their Darrow. I mean higher priority. I'd like to you 617 00:48:23,440 --> 00:48:28,940 Is your report to them to say hey their state properties and here's their availability is that no? 618 00:48:29,180 --> 00:48:30,080 It's just for 619 00:48:30,820 --> 00:48:33,240 potentially planned venues or 620 00:48:33,780 --> 00:48:40,080 Infrastructure needs you know park needs just okay. How the state might be impacted and how we might use 621 00:48:40,600 --> 00:48:45,020 state resources with other venues and what that impact my own it's a pretty 622 00:48:45,020 --> 00:48:50,940 short timeline and I don't know I need to get with others that are aware of 623 00:48:50,940 --> 00:48:54,560 what's going on and find out what information they have and this report back it will 624 00:48:54,560 --> 00:48:59,440 be a pretty high-level report at this time because obviously in 45 days we 625 00:48:59,440 --> 00:49:04,740 can't begin but that's just something I've got to work on so yeah we have some of 626 00:49:08,020 --> 00:49:20,860 I will approach the Olympic committee, I know Brad Wilson really well, he's actually married to my first cousin, so I've been open for ever, and I will, I will, I will 627 00:49:23,520 --> 00:49:28,360 venue and what possible there as they begin to plan events. 628 00:49:32,210 --> 00:49:36,370 We're in urban area, so I would assume we should be on the options there. 629 00:49:36,790 --> 00:49:39,170 If you remember, the first one, too, they did concerts every night. 630 00:49:39,550 --> 00:49:45,750 They did, they were kind of free to the public and I'm sure, by the way, I mean, I'm not going to get rid of those. 631 00:49:45,910 --> 00:49:48,930 But the events, compared to the last one, at least we had here, almost doubled. 632 00:49:49,230 --> 00:49:52,810 So there can be a lot more needs than there was supposed to be. 633 00:49:52,810 --> 00:49:59,140 And unfortunately, I just worked, I worked many years with the home and play and seek 634 00:49:59,140 --> 00:49:59,420 foundation. 635 00:49:59,460 --> 00:50:00,580 Let's call him, help him. 636 00:50:01,220 --> 00:50:02,040 That's my resource. 637 00:50:02,240 --> 00:50:04,260 I'm going to be reaching out to him and say, hey, what's going on here? 638 00:50:04,420 --> 00:50:05,480 I don't know if we don't need to get with. 639 00:50:05,660 --> 00:50:06,260 That's it, of course. 640 00:50:06,540 --> 00:50:08,480 So I just thought I'd ask. 641 00:50:08,620 --> 00:50:09,660 Good question. 642 00:50:09,700 --> 00:50:10,600 Oh, that's a great question. 643 00:50:10,840 --> 00:50:13,640 And then some of us have a lot of a lump experience. 644 00:50:13,880 --> 00:50:19,060 I worked for NBC Television and the International Broadcasting Group that actually filmed and broadcasted 645 00:50:19,060 --> 00:50:20,160 and had the rights to the Olympics. 646 00:50:20,580 --> 00:50:22,700 I spent a lot of time up there with all those groups. 647 00:50:22,700 --> 00:50:28,100 It's just so we've got some resources that are available to people who are unaware of so that's great 648 00:50:28,100 --> 00:50:30,260 Ted just one small item 649 00:50:31,220 --> 00:50:35,740 At least some of you know I'm very involved in the local fair park community council 650 00:50:36,200 --> 00:50:39,720 The suggestion has been made in our in our meetings that 651 00:50:40,720 --> 00:50:43,800 We consider teaming up with the fair 652 00:50:45,380 --> 00:50:49,380 And getting third north or tenth west 653 00:50:49,380 --> 00:50:55,860 Just renamed to Fair Park Avenue or Fair Park Boulevard or something like that. 654 00:50:55,980 --> 00:51:02,720 And I said to the group, well, I would sound out the board to see what they think about 655 00:51:02,720 --> 00:51:02,960 that. 656 00:51:03,360 --> 00:51:07,500 If the board is supportive of it, it's certainly something we'd like to pursue. 657 00:51:09,450 --> 00:51:10,250 To be straight with that. 658 00:51:10,810 --> 00:51:13,090 Either third nor third, or tenth, west. 659 00:51:19,990 --> 00:51:20,730 What are the next mean here? 660 00:51:20,850 --> 00:51:23,230 Do we, we can't take action because it's not a gendered bit? 661 00:51:23,270 --> 00:51:25,810 Well, I don't know that we need to take action at all. 662 00:51:25,810 --> 00:51:32,810 I'm just looking for board opinion or it's a little feedback it seems positive. I see nothing negative in that anybody else 663 00:51:32,810 --> 00:51:43,370 What's the process to get that change? Don't know. Okay. Yeah, it's a big city thing. All right. It's a fence. I think it makes sense. Yeah, so like so like city council 664 00:51:44,050 --> 00:51:44,490 Okay 665 00:51:45,470 --> 00:51:52,570 We we have an in there sounds like we have some positive feedback for you though. Thank you. And so take that back to your group 666 00:51:53,090 --> 00:51:54,110 Will do okay 667 00:51:54,110 --> 00:52:00,190 Okay. Okay. I think that concludes our meeting for today. I'll entertain an 668 00:52:00,190 --> 00:52:06,370 motion to adjourn. Thank you Ted. We have a second and a second. That's all 669 00:52:06,370 --> 00:52:11,410 favors say aye. Aye. Aye. Just unanimous. We are adjourned. Thanks everyone. 670 00:52:11,650 --> 00:52:15,230 Appreciate everybody being on today. Make sure you mark your calendar for the 671 00:52:15,230 --> 00:52:16,350 16th of April.