- Any microphones on? Okay. Let's direct the show to all members of the present with exception of Ronnie
- Van Biedenberger. Approval of minutes. Did you have a chance to look at her? Yes. Identify a motion
- to approve. Second. Serena. Who made the motion? Me. This girl here.
- No, just the basic electric different things. We made the transfer.
- And I don't think there was anything highlighted on that sheet. Basically, the ones highlighted are
- the ones that were the ones since the last meeting. I think there was a lot of stone charges from the
- Heritage Center when they put in the... You know, that kind of thing.
- Yes, and that reminds me, the windows getting cleaned at the History Center. Are they really still doing
- that? It's a quarterly charge, it's $40. Do we really need that done? Do they? Okay, I just didn't know
- if anybody ever verified that they actually got done. Okay, just wanted to check if something got made. Okay.
- Okay. I would move, I would ask for a motion to review the counts payable. I will make a motion. Second.
- I'll second. Serena? Jimmy Durnall? Yes. Laura Hale? Yes. Katie Michael? Yes. Emma Kelly? Yes.
- Motion passes. Can you open this, Serena?
- No old business. The only thing that is, I guess, considered old is the meeting dates, which I had had,
- I think I sent out to everyone, maybe. I really can't remember. Now, we have them listed as every month,
- and I think Noel did that. Are we going to continue a month or every other month? I'm thinking yes.
- What do you all think? Monthly? It doesn't matter to me.
- Our meeting, they did approve the raise for the members, but you do have to be present, which I will
- keep track of, which I do anyway. And to be paid for the meeting, you have to be present. So these are
- the dates for next year, if we go to the monthly. For this year or next year?
- Well, you said next year. So. That's all for all the first Monday except for September meeting, right?
- It should be standard. The first Monday of every month, unless there's a holiday, then it will go. And
- those can be changed. They you know how things go.
- If something comes up, we don't have a quorum, you know, whatever. They're subject to change, I guess.
- I think, you know, like, if we can't meet on this Monday night, we'll try it on next Monday, maybe.
- I think we would have about too much problem. Okay. I didn't realize how expensive the... I'd make a
- motion to approve the meeting dates. Well, a lot of that was putting in the landline. Oh, okay, that
- makes sense. I'm sorry, I asked for a motion to approve the meeting dates.
- I'll motion. I'll second. Serena? Yes. There's two dates in June. What? June the 8th and June 22nd.
- No, that's council. Ours are on the agenda. Okay. Oh, I'm sorry. Yeah. Never mind. I thought we were
- special. Okay. Jimmy Durnall?
- Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
- Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
- Right there, should be green. Can you hear me now? Like I said, I can't really call it the Frisbee for
- all that because you've got to get their permission because of copyright thing, but I could call it
- the spring fling. And what I would do is I have food trucks, some music because Denise, she has these
- speakers now. Have you ever seen them? They're on stands and you can like, you know, talk to them and
- play music.
- pretty sophisticated. I don't know where she put them at. She had Mike and I, Mike Byrne's training
- session one day, how to use them. Of course, I'd have to have a revisit because it's too many moons
- ago, but it is a nice system. So you could have music. Then I'd have different booths set up, things
- that you fling or throw, like have one where you throw
- footballs through holes, you have frisbees through things, you can buy this stuff all enough, forget
- what it's called, it's a book, you buy like sporting stuff like frisbees and ring toss and all that
- stuff, and have like maybe five, I don't think I sent it to you, but I made an outline here of different
- kind of booths and maybe have like five or six things like that where people would purchase so many
- tickets, it'd make it like really cheap so that people
- because I have plenty of money in the account that I could cover some of this cost. But you'd buy so
- many tickets, and then you would go around to the different booths and just give them a ticket to play
- that event. And you could do it over and over again. So if you bought 10 tickets, you could play the
- same thing 10 times, or you could play something, you know, two or three times. And then have whiteboards
- set up at each booth that would track the best like time or the best number of things.
- throughout that afternoon for that maybe three-hour session, because you don't want to have it drag
- on forever, but maybe do it for three hours. And then at the end of that, I could give like a little
- gift card to the one with the best thing or whatever. That would maybe give incentive for people to
- kind of hang around. And I'd have to get, I know Denise has got a listing of food vendors that she uses.
- So, I mean, I could probably promote that pretty well and do something like that. When the weather breaks,
- it'd be like probably nice enough in May, but I had to try to pick a date that, you know,
- baseball season starting, there's a lot of kids, there's a lot of travel teams in Ellisville and Bloomington
- that play tournaments every weekend. But that's only a small percentage of the kids, you know. So I
- think we can still have a good turnout. I also have about 20 or 30 other ideas for other stuff. I'm
- just trying to think of something that would be adults and kids might have fun doing and promoting something
- like that. If you think something like that would go okay,
- You know, the idea would be you have it up here or do it over at Marcy Jane Lewis Park. Because you'd
- have to have parking and you'd have to have enough area where you could set the booths up. Now, certainly
- over there is probably I could do it over there. Probably like a Sunday afternoon or a Saturday.
- It'd be kind of hard to do it up in the evening time. I mean, you could, but it'd work better doing
- it like one to four or something in the afternoon or something like that. I mean, do you think something
- like that would draw enough interest? I'm just trying to think of something. I'd like to try to promote
- two big things, one in the spring and one in the fall. I've got the 5K race. That's already established,
- and that's running pretty good. Like I said, 155 people last year. That's pretty good. And I just renewed
- that for this, because you have to tell them whether or not you're going to do it. So I just renewed
- and said, we'll do that again. But I've kind of got that down pat now. That's not a problem. We'll try
- to take care of the bank next time, too. What's that? We'll take care of the bank. Yeah, sorry about
- that. I told people where to park.
- four or five places, and I just didn't think to tell people, do not park in Bang Park. But it was,
- to me, I thought it was kind of like silly, because we didn't really impede anybody from going to work,
- and customers could have gotten in. I don't know what the deal was, but... Yeah, but anyway, so I'm
- sorry about that. So maybe next time when I put the description in the sign-up, I'll put big bold letters,
- do not park in people's State Bank. And maybe I can make up a sign, too.
- the set over there, and it enters where you come into Feral Gas and say, don't park over there. Yeah,
- I felt bad about it. I didn't mean it, because I knew he was upset that day. But anyway, I mean, if
- you think that I'll start work on making up the booths and doing that kind of stuff and trying to promote
- it and get it, because I know I have Avenue's way to promote stuff with Mike Glass on 98.7 and their
- community calendar and then
- and stuff like that. I mean, if you think that'll work, I can start doing it. So if that's the case,
- then you'll start seeing hours from me putting that stuff together and trying to build a boost and getting
- all that ready, if you think so. I mean, what I have found, stuff like that, is all in the promotion
- and how you set it up and the organization, if things go smoothly and people, the object is,
- for people to have fun. And it'd be an Ellisville family day kind of a thing, and people come out. But
- the problem is, you've got so much stuff going on, because now there's basketball going over here at
- the EYS, and then you've got baseball, and then you've got, now they've got, they do the football,
- I think, now they're doing that. And then you have volleyball girls playing, so there's just so much
- competing for kids' times now.
- It's not like when I grew up, you know, you went in the woods and played all day and you didn't do travel
- ball and that kind of stuff, you know. Or if you don't think that'll work, I can think of something
- else. I mean, I got plenty of ideas I can try to promote. It's just how to make things work, you know,
- feasible, makes it feasible or not. I think it's a good idea. Just something different to do. I think
- people will like it.
- Yeah. Do you think you can do it up here? There's a lot, much better parking up here than down there.
- And I do have, there is space, I mean, between the parking lot, how it goes around, I mean, I'm sure
- I could work that out. Plus you got the bandstand area too, the cover, one side bandstand, but you know,
- the cover area that you could, if you had to speaker set it for music, if it got a little drizzly or
- whatever, I mean, that would be the only thing too is like,
- What do you do if it rains? Because I know with MAG-7 for the race, I have to have, to be able to be
- in a MAG-7, I have to have a rain day plan. In other words, I have to be able to sell it. If it rains
- downpour or thunder this day, we're going to do it, here's what's going to happen. But on something
- like this, it'd probably be either it works or it doesn't, you know, just hope that it doesn't rain.
- I think I'd like to see it up here.
- Now you'd probably have to order a couple of bathrooms or a couple of... Yes, that's what I was going
- to ask you. Are those restrooms going to be finished? I don't know. I would hope so, but I don't know.
- DNR? That's not a problem because the lady at... What is it? Where I got the polar potties. Itsy Rentals.
- She's very nice because usually it's about 250 bucks for... She only charges me what she charges the city.
- And I think it's like $95 a porta potter. I mean, it's something like that. I mean, she's really very
- good about what she charges me for that. And they come and set them up the day before and come and get
- me. I mean, I could do that. Do you have some money to start this? Oh yeah, I've got, what is it? I
- got over a little over $2,000 in that check account, the money I made from the race that we took it
- from the race, you know. Sounds good. So yeah, so I'll start buying some materials and I'll do like
- I did the race.
- I'll just pay for stuff, and when it's done, I'll give you an item. I sing with the receipts, and you
- can just reimburse me out of that. And I'm sorry that I haven't really done more. Shame on me, but it's
- like I've had so much stuff going on. It's like when you retire, you think that you've got all this
- time, and you find out you've got less time when you're working.
- I don't know, I'm wondering it myself. I've tried it twice and it didn't work out very good. I bought
- this lake house. I've been remodeling it myself and it's like, man, I'm just like, it takes your time.
- So, all right. What do you think we need to utilize social media to advertise an event like that? Yeah,
- well, actually, wait a minute. You've been using the, Denise has it on the Ellisville Facebook and then
- I use Hi Neighbor. But like I say, I tried to, I got kind of burned on that a little bit
- comments about a couple of things when I was doing the track at the field and that. So. Okay. Any other
- moved in this Serena? We have election of officers. Did we already approve the meeting dates? Yes. Okay.
- And the election of officers, um, and we have the, the only right now, the only term ending is Katie's
- and hers is January 10th. So we will need to,
- vote her back in. She has mentioned she would like to serve again. So Ronnie also said that he would
- like to serve again also. So we can. So could you get this on the agenda for the town board? Yeah.
- And so our election of officers is the president, the vice president, and the secretary. And I'm going
- to tell you, and you're not going to like it, but I do not want to be the secretary anymore. I'm really
- sorry, but I just do not have time anymore. With working the three jobs and not having time to do it here,
- It causes some undue stress that I don't really need. I think I have a candidate I'll have to ask her.
- Okay. We'll see. Okay, down to the election of officers. We'll get the candidate down the road,
- so to speak, for secretary. You can do it separately to individual officers, or you can make a motion
- to leave the officers the same.
- or how would you like to do that? If everybody wants to just stay, I'm fine with that. Is there a motion
- to that? I don't think I do. No motion. Okay. Emily. Okay. Okay. Jimmy Durnall. Yes. Laura Hale. Yes.
- Katie Michael. Yes. And Emily Kelly. Yes. Okay. Now let's back up here a second. So who made the motion? Me.
- Emily and Katie seconded, right? Laura seconded. Second. Let's vote and recommend that Katie Michael
- and Rodney VanDever be presented to the board on January the 12th for another four-year term. Is there
- a motion? I'll make a motion. Thank you. Laura? I'll second. Emily? Thank you. Jimmy Durnall? Yes.
- Laura Hale? Yes. Katie Michael? Yes. And Emily Kelly? Yes.
- Okay. Olivia has a lot to say. Tell him.
- What do you want to say? I didn't. All right. How do you vote, Olivia? 18 months. All right.
- Nothing else. Is there a motion for adjournment? I'll make a motion. I'll second.
- for the last time.