WEBVTT 00:00:01.058 --> 00:00:08.454 - of America. The new republic for which it stands, one nation, ungod, indivisible, with liberty and justice 00:00:08.454 --> 00:00:15.574 - for all. I have the honor of becoming for you again this evening. We thank you so much for this little 00:00:15.574 --> 00:00:22.694 - town. We thank you to our four board members as they come together to support the uh part four to this 00:00:22.694 --> 00:00:29.676 - faction. We thank you for Ricky who has to be with us through all of our arduous efforts to send you 00:00:29.676 --> 00:00:30.782 - the same. Amen. 00:00:32.290 --> 00:01:01.246 - Yes. Yes. Oh, I mean, Kelly's. What's what you're 00:01:05.986 --> 00:01:17.220 - I'm here. Okay, review of accounts payable. We don't have any tight minutes for the last couple of weeks. 00:01:17.220 --> 00:01:28.137 - Just really trying to work that out. So you've looked at some of the normal things up at Entertainment 00:01:28.137 --> 00:01:34.814 - Motion to prove the accounts payable. All right. There you go. 00:01:35.202 --> 00:01:43.426 - Who means what? I'll say it. And Kate. I'll motion. Kate motions. And Emily second. Roll call, Ronnie. 00:01:43.426 --> 00:01:51.489 - Jim McGirr? Yes. Ron Nader? Yes. Katie? Yes. Emily? Yes. Okay, passes. Yeah, I brought a copy of the 00:01:51.489 --> 00:01:59.633 - organizational plan. Emily's had a little chance to look through it. Next time, I'll bring a copy for 00:01:59.633 --> 00:02:01.150 - everybody. I think 00:02:01.954 --> 00:02:10.069 - It looks to me like a well-done report. Of course, I was involved a little bit in the public safety 00:02:10.069 --> 00:02:18.428 - part of it. Parks, I think they're going to stay at five board members. So we'll just have to see what 00:02:18.428 --> 00:02:26.787 - happens after November, whether it goes through or not, and find out how we're going to let the record 00:02:26.787 --> 00:02:29.790 - show that Laura Hale is here. Sorry. 00:02:32.770 --> 00:02:44.993 - It's so bad trying to get from that stuff. Any idea when they're going to be done with that? At the 00:02:44.993 --> 00:02:57.582 - end of the year. Probably not. We have just reviewed the accountants payable. And it was 4.0. We won't 00:02:57.582 --> 00:03:01.982 - make it 5.0. That's yes. OK. Noted. 00:03:02.690 --> 00:03:09.999 - I got an organizational plan here that you can look at. It says draft. I think it's pretty well what 00:03:09.999 --> 00:03:17.235 - to put in. But I'll bring a copy for everybody next time just to make sure we have what's going on. 00:03:17.235 --> 00:03:24.471 - Parks board secretary, we're rushing up, patching it together. Leah's gonna help me with the agenda 00:03:24.471 --> 00:03:32.286 - and notifying you all. And thanks for your response today. I guess it worked pretty good. Everybody's here. 00:03:32.514 --> 00:03:39.037 - pretty well direct contact with Kate. As soon as I say we're gonna have a meeting, I saw Zach over. 00:03:39.037 --> 00:03:45.821 - Yeah, he said you have a parks board meeting, so I said, okay. If Leah can't do something, let me know. 00:03:45.821 --> 00:03:52.866 - Okay. And I'll be a backup. Okay. However you like. Thank you, Ronnie. Appreciate it. The memorial service, 00:03:52.866 --> 00:03:59.389 - I'm gonna turn the memorial service over to the Jill Thurman in the chamber and the other committee 00:03:59.389 --> 00:04:01.150 - downtown, Elstville there. 00:04:01.634 --> 00:04:13.086 - participate as a deal through them, because I'm just winding down. So our next meeting is June the 1st, 00:04:13.086 --> 00:04:24.427 - 2026. Is there any comment from the board members? Laura? No. Ronnie? No. Kate? None. No. Ricky? Going 00:04:24.427 --> 00:04:30.814 - to be off a short meeting. You want to talk a little bit? 00:04:30.978 --> 00:04:37.459 - I guess, other than just to say I... Explain what you're going to do. I sort of owe people an apology, 00:04:37.459 --> 00:04:43.815 - I think. It's just that I really would like to do more things, but with that fair thing, I mapped it 00:04:43.815 --> 00:04:50.296 - out and I realized, gee, I need about 10 or 12 volunteers. There's no way I'm going to get that number 00:04:50.296 --> 00:04:56.588 - of people to do something. So I need to start thinking smaller things or things that I can pull off 00:04:56.588 --> 00:04:59.294 - that's just me or maybe one or two people. 00:05:00.770 --> 00:05:07.572 - You know, I'm still trying to, my neighbor, the, who's golf, head of golf for DePaul, I think he just 00:05:07.572 --> 00:05:14.507 - did the, the conference championships. He had one girl qualified to go to the NCAA because she's ranked 00:05:14.507 --> 00:05:21.175 - like 17th in the country. So that's in two weeks. So when that's done, his season will be over. And 00:05:21.175 --> 00:05:28.110 - he told me that he would be a golfer. I could pull that off just myself. So things like that, you know, 00:05:28.110 --> 00:05:29.310 - where I can just, 00:05:29.858 --> 00:05:36.704 - do it myself. And so I just do it myself. I know Jimmy and I had this discussion in my head. I was just 00:05:36.704 --> 00:05:43.747 - going to say, you know what? I just can't really devote myself to this like I want to. But then I realized 00:05:43.747 --> 00:05:50.527 - that the race would not happen in that instance. And I don't want to race. Because people are, I think 00:05:50.527 --> 00:05:57.241 - they like to race. I get bigger numbers every year. And this year, I've already lined up chip timing. 00:05:57.241 --> 00:05:59.742 - That will even draw even more people. 00:06:00.194 --> 00:06:07.198 - because I had a little issue with getting the results and some things with not doing chip climbing. 00:06:07.198 --> 00:06:14.413 - But I know that was also next for people. And then when I talked to Jill Vance, I don't know if you're 00:06:14.413 --> 00:06:21.487 - supposed to say this or not, but I don't see why you can't. She told me that the board for the Mag 7 00:06:21.487 --> 00:06:28.561 - series had decided that our race was their secret gym race in the series. So people who run our race 00:06:28.561 --> 00:06:29.822 - get extra points. 00:06:30.370 --> 00:06:36.038 - people who run all those races throughout the series, the more races they run, the more points they 00:06:36.038 --> 00:06:41.990 - get, and then they get something they can get some reward at the end. So they're gonna give extra points 00:06:41.990 --> 00:06:47.829 - to people who run our race, because I think Joe likes to race. That's definitely a tribute to you. You 00:06:47.829 --> 00:06:53.724 - have done a wonderful job. Yeah, so I'm definitely, I'm already starting to prepare for that. Like this 00:06:53.724 --> 00:06:57.182 - year, I made two signs today. Nice, circular-sized stand-up. 00:06:57.474 --> 00:07:03.851 - So I can put a sign out there. Don't park in people's state. Unless I talk to them and kind of talk 00:07:03.851 --> 00:07:10.227 - to them and say, Hey, would you let us can we have half the parking? Yeah, I mean, I don't think it 00:07:10.227 --> 00:07:16.030 - really kept them from having. So stuff like that. So if I could pull some other stuff off. 00:07:16.642 --> 00:07:22.834 - I will, I mean, there's another thing I'd like to do, like a superstars thing, but that's, again, it 00:07:22.834 --> 00:07:29.456 - would take a lot of people to help me out. And if you guys can tell me where you think I can get volunteers 00:07:29.456 --> 00:07:33.502 - from, please let me know. I don't know if I could post something. 00:07:34.146 --> 00:07:40.598 - I know, do they still have that Main Street thing that they do? Yeah, that's the other Main Street. 00:07:40.598 --> 00:07:47.308 - Do they have volunteers that sign up for volunteer work? Yeah, they have some in their committee. Like, 00:07:47.308 --> 00:07:54.082 - Jill's a part of that too, Jill Thurmond. See, they got a committee, though. Yeah. People who join that, 00:07:54.082 --> 00:08:00.727 - and then the people who are part of that, they can volunteer. But I don't have that. There's no LSBell 00:08:00.727 --> 00:08:01.566 - Sports Club. 00:08:01.698 --> 00:08:07.150 - committee or membership or something, I don't know. I know what you mean, because I have a hard time 00:08:07.150 --> 00:08:12.817 - with volunteers for the moral service every year. And then the last thing is that they took all my stuff 00:08:12.817 --> 00:08:18.269 - out of that office that used to be the playing department and put it upstairs up there in the crate. 00:08:18.269 --> 00:08:23.991 - So they took the printer and just had it on top of something in the crate. I was worried about it getting 00:08:23.991 --> 00:08:26.366 - damaged. So I took it out and took it home. 00:08:26.626 --> 00:08:32.253 - until you give me some place so I can put it, because I don't want that printer to get damaged. It's 00:08:32.253 --> 00:08:37.936 - a nice printer. And then I went through that crate and I took a bunch of the supplies, our two floors 00:08:37.936 --> 00:08:43.563 - and fours that I had and took it to my house and that's where I didn't work until this week and last 00:08:43.563 --> 00:08:49.246 - week. The science cut stuff out. So when I get those done, I also have a bunch of science over there. 00:08:49.506 --> 00:08:55.282 - like my mileage markers and stuff like that, that's still in that crate up there. So do you have a place 00:08:55.282 --> 00:09:01.002 - that I can store stuff other than upstairs and above that new office, that utility building? Well, I'll 00:09:01.002 --> 00:09:06.558 - have to think about it. I'm not sure, I guess. Does it have to be secure? No. I'm just going to want 00:09:06.558 --> 00:09:12.058 - the model marker signs and stuff. You don't care about that. I mean, it's just valuable, other than 00:09:12.058 --> 00:09:17.724 - that printer. Yeah, let me look at it. I'll see if we can find some place in the police department for 00:09:17.724 --> 00:09:18.494 - it to put it. 00:09:20.450 --> 00:09:28.839 - storage area across in the old planning? Is it in use? Oh, no, they're, they're keeping that open for 00:09:28.839 --> 00:09:37.064 - a reason. The, the storage room. Oh, I don't know. Is there storage over at that heritage building? 00:09:37.064 --> 00:09:45.370 - Upstairs, yes. There is an upstairs up there? You want to pack it up there? You're probably gonna go 00:09:45.370 --> 00:09:47.262 - get it again. So well, 00:09:48.770 --> 00:09:53.754 - What do you want me to do with the printer thing? I'd like to have the printer back at the station. 00:09:53.754 --> 00:09:58.737 - Where should we say station? Police station. All right, so I'll bring it over there tomorrow. Yeah, 00:09:58.737 --> 00:10:03.870 - let's bring it over there and we'll store it over there. Let's make sure that- Yeah, because it should 00:10:03.870 --> 00:10:08.904 - be sitting in that crate up here. No, it's probably not. I mean, it looks all right. It doesn't look 00:10:08.904 --> 00:10:13.937 - like it was damaged or anything, but they had it thrown in there. Yeah, let's just put it over there 00:10:13.937 --> 00:10:15.582 - and we'll take care of it there. 00:10:16.514 --> 00:10:22.890 - And the last thing, one more thing, may I talk to you offline about the pickleball net? Yeah, we need 00:10:22.890 --> 00:10:29.391 - to talk about that. Mike's been kind of distant. Of course, I was off all last week for my head injury, 00:10:29.391 --> 00:10:35.954 - so. Well, there was a guy that called me about, well, when you were going to put the net up. And I said, 00:10:35.954 --> 00:10:42.268 - well, I said, we're still trying to decide. So I explained him all the places he could play, like at 00:10:42.268 --> 00:10:46.206 - Flat Rock, and Spencer Y, and Southeast, and all those places. 00:10:46.306 --> 00:10:52.239 - RCA parking at, switch our parking at, but people were saying like in Flatwoods, it's kind of busy. 00:10:52.239 --> 00:10:58.173 - So if you go there, there's people playing, you may not be able to get on the court there, but they 00:10:58.173 --> 00:11:04.106 - have nice courts there at Flatwood. That's the reason we can't put them in it. Just having somebody 00:11:04.106 --> 00:11:10.158 - being responsible for it. Well, the question I was asking Jamie is you could put it up and just leave 00:11:10.158 --> 00:11:11.582 - it up. The problem was, 00:11:12.034 --> 00:11:18.828 - You had every weekend, you had the music thing, I'd go take it down. Now, they're not having that. Then 00:11:18.828 --> 00:11:25.427 - you had people renting the place. Now, I realize that during the music, you don't want that up there 00:11:25.427 --> 00:11:32.090 - because people sit all over it. But like if they're renting it for a birthday party, that thing is so 00:11:32.090 --> 00:11:38.623 - big, they don't need the whole thing. They can still have their birthday party at that end with the 00:11:38.623 --> 00:11:41.694 - net up. Now, the only thing you run across is, 00:11:43.618 --> 00:11:48.960 - I mean, there's a big sign up there that says no bicycles, blah, blah, blah, blah, into the shelter. 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:54.249 - But you know, somebody like riding a bicycle into that net and getting hurt or something like that. 00:11:54.249 --> 00:11:59.592 - I mean, I guess you have the liability issues. But you have that with anything. People can get hurt. 00:11:59.592 --> 00:12:04.617 - So I mean, I could put it up and just leave it up. But the only problem is that when it rains, 00:12:04.617 --> 00:12:09.430 - I never really, you know, you do something, you don't realize the stuff that could happen. 00:12:09.430 --> 00:12:12.286 - But when it rains, that gets all soggy down in there. 00:12:12.706 --> 00:12:20.249 - and dirt and mud run down to that court. And it gets really, really, you can see the court, but it needs 00:12:20.249 --> 00:12:27.432 - a good scrubbing and power washing and cleaned up or repainted. I repainted it last year because it 00:12:27.432 --> 00:12:34.616 - gets kind of yucked up because of overflow and mud coming up because the water seeps down in there. 00:12:34.616 --> 00:12:42.302 - But I could put it up and just leave it up if you think that would be okay. It's in that utility building. 00:12:42.690 --> 00:12:49.526 - behind the bathrooms at RCJ. You know that little utility room back there? I put them against the wall 00:12:49.526 --> 00:12:56.296 - way in the back there. Now the neck needs to be fixed because that crank, the gears inside that crank 00:12:56.296 --> 00:13:03.065 - and tightening that, that metal is so soft. I don't know why they manufacture it that way. The gears, 00:13:03.065 --> 00:13:04.990 - you can't really tighten it. 00:13:05.282 --> 00:13:12.277 - So I can kind of, I can redo that net. I can take that what they've got in there and I can put something 00:13:12.277 --> 00:13:19.071 - else in there. I can make it work. Have you heard anything about the new nets that they're coming out 00:13:19.071 --> 00:13:25.799 - that are basically stationary? They're like a fence that you can leave them up year round? I haven't 00:13:25.799 --> 00:13:32.594 - seen that. Yeah, I've seen it a couple places. But then you'd have the question, do you want to leave 00:13:32.594 --> 00:13:34.526 - it up all during the summer? 00:13:35.906 --> 00:13:41.460 - carry it or not. I mean, that would be the question you'd have to have. I don't think it would last 00:13:41.460 --> 00:13:47.125 - very long. Katie, what do you think? I don't see why it would be a problem. I mean, just leave it up. 00:13:47.125 --> 00:13:52.679 - If you... I can do that. I can get it set up. And I can try to... I bought a scrub brush. You scrub 00:13:52.679 --> 00:13:58.455 - before with. And I have a power brush of my own. I could go down there and I can try to power wash that 00:13:58.455 --> 00:14:04.176 - cord off, clean it up. And I can put the net up and just leave it up. Emily? I mean, I think it's fine 00:14:04.176 --> 00:14:05.342 - to just leave it up. 00:14:05.922 --> 00:14:12.017 - Just people want to go play. They just want to go play. If they see it up all the time, they don't realize 00:14:12.017 --> 00:14:17.885 - it. Ronnie, what do you think? I think it needs to be up. We'll just have to deal with it. OK, so I'll 00:14:17.885 --> 00:14:23.581 - go down here and I'll clean it off. If you need handling that, I'll give you my number. I'll handle 00:14:23.581 --> 00:14:29.392 - it. OK. I think I can get it up all right. It's just I'm going to have to put some kind of, I'll have 00:14:29.392 --> 00:14:32.126 - to restring that through the net. I can get it. 00:14:32.322 --> 00:14:38.567 - Get it up, get it tight. That's not a problem. The issue is whether or not you want it up or not. So 00:14:38.567 --> 00:14:45.121 - I'll get it up. I'll get the chord playing. I'll get it up. I'll get townspeople want to play pickleball, 00:14:45.121 --> 00:14:51.428 - and we've got a chord that needs to be up. And you know where you had to sign up for all the concerts 00:14:51.428 --> 00:14:57.982 - that were during? Yeah. Well, that sign's taken down. But those two posts are there. I think it would be. 00:14:58.114 --> 00:15:05.749 - a good place that I could put up a piece of board that would kind of be like a community bulletin board 00:15:05.749 --> 00:15:13.091 - and like do stuff I could post it up there or anybody could post stuff up there. How about that? Is 00:15:13.091 --> 00:15:20.653 - that idea okay? I have a board I could. I got a leftover board for materials I've got that I could put 00:15:20.653 --> 00:15:27.774 - up there, I'll paint it and people can tax stuff up there because why waste those two posts for? 00:15:28.098 --> 00:15:35.440 - It's a perfect spot to have something there to put a notice on. Now, I just want to say to you, because 00:15:35.440 --> 00:15:42.570 - I've been in this position of kind of give you about your own. The town has money to do some of this 00:15:42.570 --> 00:15:49.771 - stuff. So don't rely on your own pocketbook. You're already paying taxes. All right? Yeah. That's why 00:15:49.771 --> 00:15:52.030 - we have a budget. Yeah, I know. 00:15:52.578 --> 00:16:01.397 - The major stuff I've turned in, I've turned in every single thing because like I said, I'm not doing 00:16:01.397 --> 00:16:10.128 - this because I want to help Ellis, but the big stuff I've turned in. I'm careful about my time too. 00:16:10.128 --> 00:16:19.209 - I still keep an exact record of everything I do. If you want to see that, I got a notebook, it's there. 00:16:19.209 --> 00:16:21.566 - I also have money in that. 00:16:21.698 --> 00:16:27.901 - account that I have from the race that I have plenty of money in there too that I could, I mean that 00:16:27.901 --> 00:16:34.472 - was a purpose that I think even last year when I, you know, when you start to sign up for the race there's 00:16:34.472 --> 00:16:40.860 - a description thing there and it describes a lot and that's where you put, oh it's gonna be chip timing 00:16:40.860 --> 00:16:47.124 - this year and then I think I put in there that any money left over after proceeds is going to support 00:16:47.124 --> 00:16:50.686 - Ellisville sports activities. So, you know, so that's why 00:16:50.882 --> 00:16:58.155 - that money, and I think I got about $2,000 from the prior races, I think. So that's why I can afford 00:16:58.155 --> 00:17:05.501 - chip timing this year and all that. So if I get to where I have 200 people, I'll have plenty of money 00:17:05.501 --> 00:17:11.838 - to do stuff. Well, we really appreciate what you've done for us, and I understand fully 00:17:12.258 --> 00:17:18.293 - I'm sorry. I just got a little discouraged there for a while. And you know, you get old, you get tired. 00:17:18.293 --> 00:17:24.096 - And it's like, you know, the seawall at my lake house is now collapsed. I got to replace 70 foot of 00:17:24.096 --> 00:17:29.783 - that. And it's like, oh gosh, how many more things can you do when you're 70 years old? You know, 00:17:29.783 --> 00:17:35.934 - it's like, you know, got less time when I was working. You know what I'm saying? We've got three weddings 00:17:35.934 --> 00:17:40.286 - coming up, three reception or practice, what do they call them? Rehearsal. 00:17:40.450 --> 00:17:46.354 - Rehearsal dinners? Yeah, three of those coming up to the house. We've got a lot going on too. That's 00:17:46.354 --> 00:17:52.259 - one reason I felt like I had to give some stuff up. You don't have baby showers yet? I have two baby 00:17:52.259 --> 00:17:58.280 - showers. No, two wedding showers. I'm sorry. It's all out of the same family and all three of them are 00:17:58.280 --> 00:18:04.126 - saying I'm going to have the first baby. I think the town of Elstville should be proud of the town. 00:18:04.258 --> 00:18:10.545 - Oh, yeah. Sounds pretty nice. We've got things going, you know. That woman on Wednesdays, it gets on 00:18:10.545 --> 00:18:16.833 - there with glass. She says, oh, Ellisville's the place to be now. You know what I mean? She's on the 00:18:16.833 --> 00:18:23.120 - board for the town of Bloomington, I think. And she was complimenting Ellisville even on her before. 00:18:23.120 --> 00:18:29.345 - She won a few. And the Trojan horses coming over here. Yeah, that's right. The Trojan horses coming 00:18:29.345 --> 00:18:30.590 - over. That's right. 00:18:30.978 --> 00:18:37.836 - Now is they gonna close down in Bloomington of Wonder? I don't know. I read that they aren't. They aren't 00:18:37.836 --> 00:18:44.435 - gonna close? She lives on Union Valley Road. So they're older guys? No, I didn't know that. They came 00:18:44.435 --> 00:18:51.098 - up with a name for this park. We ought to come up with a name for that park. You wanna do what? I said 00:18:51.098 --> 00:18:57.762 - we need to come up with a name for that park. If I can remember, I'll try to ask. A lot of people have 00:18:57.762 --> 00:19:00.350 - asked me, what's the name of that park? 00:19:00.546 --> 00:19:10.496 - and I said, well, town hall park right now. But that's something that maybe the town board can come 00:19:10.496 --> 00:19:20.546 - up with, make a recommendation or whatever. What day is your race on? It's always the third Saturday 00:19:20.546 --> 00:19:26.814 - in September, so it's the 19th. It's the old festival weekend. 00:19:27.106 --> 00:19:40.215 - I already picked out my shirt colors at night out, and I already got that going, so. Okay, hang up. 00:19:40.215 --> 00:19:53.849 - Is there a motion for dismissal? I'll make a motion. Second. Okay. Got you. Ronny? Laura? Yes. Senator? 00:19:53.849 --> 00:19:55.422 - Yes. Emily? 00:19:55.554 --> 00:20:04.126 - Yes. All right. Thanks for coming. We'll see you next time. June the 1st is the next meeting.