- of the United States of America. One nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
- Our heavenly father, we call us this evening and thank you so much for this little town you serve. We
- thank these board members of volunteer time. We thank everything that we do. We thank our co-scriptor,
- Ruby, and we thank Rachel. She is interested in the town, the town history center.
- Amen. Amen. Amen.
- We're back to approval minutes. We have a motion and a second. Ronnie, roll call. Yes. Yes.
- Ron Van Diemen, yes. And Emily. Yes. All passed. Who made the motion? I did. Katie. Katie did, right. OK.
- Counts payable unless we didn't have much this month, but you want to take a look at them, you're more
- welcome to.
- You want this? OK. I make a motion that we pass the accounts payable and expenditures. Is there a second?
- I will second. Ronnie, roll call. Jimmy Darver. Yes. Katie? Yes. Myself, aye. And Emily? Yes.
- Thank you. Old business, none. I'm going to insert Ricky first on the agenda for new business. If you
- want to go ahead.
- Okay. Um, just want to give you a kind of a quick recap on the race. We, uh, we've increased each year.
- First year was under a hundred. Last year was like 103. This year we had 155 registered people. So I
- keep getting more people. We took in $3,583. I had 14, 19 expenses. So it was all said, uh, $2,000 and
- almost $2,100 went to them.
- that I used to run the race. I already had about 600 plus in there. So right now I got about 26, $2,700
- in the account to use for some other stuff. So that seems to be going pretty good. So I got some ideas
- for spraying, but I'd have to have some volunteers who run off something like this. You tell me if you
- think this would work okay. I'm thinking about like late April, May,
- before baseball season really kicks in, basketball's over, there's a lot of competition for things for
- the kids. They have this thing called, we call it the Ellisville Spring Fling. And I can set up all
- these different stations for contests, like you throw a frisbee at targets, all that sort of stuff.
- Have the contests, who can throw one the longest, have food trucks come in. We had that sound system,
- now I could have music. I even got money to even have the DJ come.
- try to make it family so that older people would want to come and do stuff too. So the concept would
- be, you buy a string of tickets, and then you use those tickets to play the different events like you
- would at a carnival thing. So it would take me during the winter to build the things that I would need
- to set up, which I can do that easy enough. That's not a problem. So you think something like that would work?
- It's all about promotion. Usually when you do something is how well you promote it and marketing, you
- get the word out, you build up, you know, excited about the thing. I wanted to call it the Frisbee Frawling
- because one of the things I wanted to do is over the course of the afternoon, say, had this thing started
- at one, it ends at four or whatever.
- and then have someone who can make the longest grammatically correct sentence with the words epithet.
- Kind of a fun thing. But I did a little research and I cannot use the word frisbee because
- that is copyrighted, believe it or not. I have to get their permission to use it. Now, they said they
- usually grant to things like this. They don't get too excited about it, but they want you to ask their
- permission, which means I have to sign something. So I suppose if that's the case,
- the city attorney would have to review. I suppose it's not too involved, probably saying that, you know,
- you can't do this or that with Frisbee. Or the other thing to call it is spring fling, because you're
- flinging something. Or you could use the word flying disc, but the flying disc doesn't quite have the
- pizzazz that Frisbee has, too. You're talking about, like, I think Frisbee, I could even design a shirt,
- sell a few of those at the race. But if you're okay with that, then I'll start trying to plan over the
- winter to do something like that. And I try to aim for, like,
- mayor, you know, weather, the weather race. So the problem with the spring is that it rains so much
- that if you did it, you'd have to announce, I think a rain day, say we're going to do it on this day.
- The rain's no good. Then we're falling back. So people would know. I got a list of about 20, 25 different
- things that we could do. Uh, that's just one of them.
- I can share that list with you and you can go down through there, Chief Durnall, and say, hey, I like
- this one better or something. But to do something like this, I'd have to have some volunteers. Because
- I've been running a race basically with my wife and I, my neighbor, and my son coming down. I can get
- by with that. But something of this nature, do you know where I could get volunteers from? Well, one,
- we're on cats now. So cats, TV.
- We're on TV now. So this is recorded. So that can draw people in that want to volunteer, that doesn't
- know about the things that they can volunteer for. So that's one way of doing it. Because like I say,
- with the right promotion, I think it would really make this a fun afternoon event for people to come
- and do. Because it's just something different. Because we're so used to baseball and this other stuff.
- We have a PR company, too, that takes care of a lot of our public
- information that gets it out. So we can get it out on that as well, so. Because right now I've been
- relying on Ellisville High Neighbor. I asked Denise to put it on the town's Facebook site. Now with
- the 5K race, I have a way of blasting everyone who's ever been in the race with their emails. I can
- do that with that, send people emails that way. And I got my glass of whatever I would do,
- He would, he's let me come on the air before I announced that. He would let me do that. And then the
- lady, well, she retired, but the guy who does jumping GCL, their community calendar, he puts stuff on
- the calendar for me so I can put it there. So, I mean, so there's ways it can work out. And I post stuff
- around flyers around town too, so. Rachel oversees High Neighbor. Yeah, I don't see a lot of them. But
- beside you there. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I have from time to time Girl Scout clubs, the troops, or 4-H.
- the extension office that have volunteers. I've been a little hesitant about Elksville High Neighbors
- because you always get the negative little back sometimes. Well, when we do that, if you report the
- comments or the post, those people will get deleted or suspended. Rachel's on top of it pretty good,
- if you tell her. If you tell her, she's on top of it pretty good. She's got the big hammer.
- It's not perfect. Ricky, on one thing that I'd like to
- I saw at a community event, and I think it'd be pretty simple to do, is do a par three corn hoe, 18
- hoe corn hoe field. So basically you would just be like what you have down here at Pup Putt, but you
- do it in a cutout area with a hole position. You throw the bag so far, pick it up,
- throw it again. That's correct. Because you always think of that 20 feet or whatever. Yeah, this would
- be kid friendly, family friendly and stuff like that. So yeah, that would be a neat thing to also try
- to come up with. I'm sure I can work something out on that. I can make it created and do something with
- that. Cool. Let me know if I can help. Yeah. Okay. All right, Rachel, let me introduce you to the board.
- Yes. Katie Michael.
- This is Rachel McCarty. That's my middle name. This is Kathy Emily and this is Ronnie and you know me,
- right? Yes. Okay, go ahead. Okay. Well, I just want to come tonight. It's been at least more than a
- year, year and a half, two, with Chief Durnall at
- the Ellitsville History Center. He gave me a key. We've been working there. From time to time, I look
- up things for people. We've met people that want to see things or donate things. But now we have a regular
- Tuesday at 10 a.m. volunteer hour. And so we've had some people come and we're trying to get it so we
- can have it open on a more regular basis. But I come to you tonight to let you know that, first of all.
- And I talked to you, Mr. Donald, we need someone to look at the computer there. Because I've never been
- able to turn it on. And I would like to see what potential budget we have to get display cases and things
- off tables in the future and see how we can raise money. Maybe we can have something at the Spring Fling event.
- And I'm gonna probably form a new Facebook group, because I've been trying to find out who started the
- original Facebook group, and I don't think they're no longer in that group or active. And then, I just
- wanted to see if you had any suggestions. I'm just trying to gather the history of the History Center,
- too, just to find out. I have Ann Blackwell helping me.
- Oh, good. And one of our new volunteers is with the DAR. But I don't want to welcome a whole group of
- volunteers and not have something for them to do. But right now, we're starting with the yearbooks and
- going through that. I'll have to go through our budget here. I know they have transferred. I'm going
- to bring it up in a minute. They transferred some of our money over to the Heritage Center to finish
- it out. But it's part of the parks system also.
- But let me let me go here with Serena tomorrow and see if I can come up with the money, amount of money
- we could possibly use this year and I'll let you know. Now when I took over the History Center, everything
- was at the Methodist Church. That's when the old elementary down to old high school was diagnosed with
- mold. I mean, just mold everywhere. So they had to take it all out. Now that's the last thing I know
- where it was at before it came to where it's at now. And through that period, we've
- gutted the whole inside and made a big wide open space. And for what we've got, I think it's pretty
- good. It is, yes. We have a lot of history and a lot of people are interested in seeing it and a lot
- of neat artifacts. I just would like to be able to see the records of, you know, Mr. Smith donated this
- or... Some of them are there. Some of them are there. They're upstairs.
- You're 10 o'clock tomorrow then? 10 o'clock tomorrow, yes. I'll try to get down. Okay. Try to show you
- something. Because eventually we would like to have internet. Yes. And things like that. But if you
- are anybody watching on CATS, if they're interested in volunteering, you can always show up at 10 a.m.
- on a Tuesday. If we're not going to be able to be there, I'll try and post a note on the door because
- we do have some other commitments.
- or my name, Rachel Peden-McCarty, you can find me on Facebook and send me a message and we'll... I'll
- see what I've got a fellow that might bring with me tomorrow, see if he can just give us an idea of
- what we need to do. Excellent. Okay. All right. And I just wanted to come to one of the meetings, so
- thank you. All right. Well, thank you very much. We have a couple things, other new business here. I
- just told you about the parks, or the Stewart Park, that they're transferring some money, about $6,000
- that we had
- Available to them and I still think we have more money to maybe buy a couple a couple of cases if you'll
- put some of that stuff in also, we have Terms ending this year with Kathy Or Katie. I'm sorry and Ronnie.
- So are you are you interested in doing it again? I'd like to do it again, but I'm not gonna fight anybody
- for it. Okay Okay, same Katie same. Okay Right now we don't have anybody lining up the doors. I'm sure
- you'll be as you am
- Any public comment? Your kids want to say anything? I want to bring out your attention to the town board
- has. Increased our month or meeting amount. $200 a meeting. But they're requiring that you be at a meeting
- to get paid. So if we have six meetings, we're still more than what we've been paid in the past.
- I don't know, did you want to continue every other month or try to do it every other month or do you
- want to try to go monthly? What's your thoughts, Katie? I'm neutral. You're what? Neutral. You're neutral?
- Yeah, I don't have a sway either way. I mean, every other month is fine with me. Every other month's
- all right. Ronnie? I'm neutral. That means you leave it up to me and Katie then. It didn't bother me
- to do it every other month, sorry. Okay. Every other month it's fine with me. All right, good enough.
- Okay. If there's no further, I entertain a motion to adjourn. Do we have to have a motion on that? Or
- is that just done by the time? Maybe we should have a motion on that. I'll need a motion on the transfer
- of funds for the Stewart Park.
- Thank you. Go ahead. I'll second. I'll second. OK. Ronnie. OK. Jimmy Durham. Yes. Katie Michael. Yes.
- Myself, I, and Emily. Yes. Motion carried. OK, back over. Repeat now for the motion to adjourn. I'll
- make a motion. Second. Thank you. Ronnie. Jimmy Durham. Yes. Katie. Yes. And Ron. Yes.
- and Emily. Yes. Thank you all for coming. Rachel, thank you for stirring up the history center. Appreciate it.