- of America. The new republic for which it stands, one nation, ungod, indivisible, with liberty and justice
- for all. I have the honor of becoming for you again this evening. We thank you so much for this little
- town. We thank you to our four board members as they come together to support the uh part four to this
- faction. We thank you for Ricky who has to be with us through all of our arduous efforts to send you
- the same. Amen.
- Yes. Yes. Oh, I mean, Kelly's. What's what you're
- I'm here. Okay, review of accounts payable. We don't have any tight minutes for the last couple of weeks.
- Just really trying to work that out. So you've looked at some of the normal things up at Entertainment
- Motion to prove the accounts payable. All right. There you go.
- Who means what? I'll say it. And Kate. I'll motion. Kate motions. And Emily second. Roll call, Ronnie.
- Jim McGirr? Yes. Ron Nader? Yes. Katie? Yes. Emily? Yes. Okay, passes. Yeah, I brought a copy of the
- organizational plan. Emily's had a little chance to look through it. Next time, I'll bring a copy for
- everybody. I think
- It looks to me like a well-done report. Of course, I was involved a little bit in the public safety
- part of it. Parks, I think they're going to stay at five board members. So we'll just have to see what
- happens after November, whether it goes through or not, and find out how we're going to let the record
- show that Laura Hale is here. Sorry.
- It's so bad trying to get from that stuff. Any idea when they're going to be done with that? At the
- end of the year. Probably not. We have just reviewed the accountants payable. And it was 4.0. We won't
- make it 5.0. That's yes. OK. Noted.
- I got an organizational plan here that you can look at. It says draft. I think it's pretty well what
- to put in. But I'll bring a copy for everybody next time just to make sure we have what's going on.
- Parks board secretary, we're rushing up, patching it together. Leah's gonna help me with the agenda
- and notifying you all. And thanks for your response today. I guess it worked pretty good. Everybody's here.
- pretty well direct contact with Kate. As soon as I say we're gonna have a meeting, I saw Zach over.
- Yeah, he said you have a parks board meeting, so I said, okay. If Leah can't do something, let me know.
- Okay. And I'll be a backup. Okay. However you like. Thank you, Ronnie. Appreciate it. The memorial service,
- I'm gonna turn the memorial service over to the Jill Thurman in the chamber and the other committee
- downtown, Elstville there.
- participate as a deal through them, because I'm just winding down. So our next meeting is June the 1st,
- 2026. Is there any comment from the board members? Laura? No. Ronnie? No. Kate? None. No. Ricky? Going
- to be off a short meeting. You want to talk a little bit?
- I guess, other than just to say I... Explain what you're going to do. I sort of owe people an apology,
- I think. It's just that I really would like to do more things, but with that fair thing, I mapped it
- out and I realized, gee, I need about 10 or 12 volunteers. There's no way I'm going to get that number
- of people to do something. So I need to start thinking smaller things or things that I can pull off
- that's just me or maybe one or two people.
- You know, I'm still trying to, my neighbor, the, who's golf, head of golf for DePaul, I think he just
- did the, the conference championships. He had one girl qualified to go to the NCAA because she's ranked
- like 17th in the country. So that's in two weeks. So when that's done, his season will be over. And
- he told me that he would be a golfer. I could pull that off just myself. So things like that, you know,
- where I can just,
- do it myself. And so I just do it myself. I know Jimmy and I had this discussion in my head. I was just
- going to say, you know what? I just can't really devote myself to this like I want to. But then I realized
- that the race would not happen in that instance. And I don't want to race. Because people are, I think
- they like to race. I get bigger numbers every year. And this year, I've already lined up chip timing.
- That will even draw even more people.
- because I had a little issue with getting the results and some things with not doing chip climbing.
- But I know that was also next for people. And then when I talked to Jill Vance, I don't know if you're
- 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
- series had decided that our race was their secret gym race in the series. So people who run our race
- get extra points.
- people who run all those races throughout the series, the more races they run, the more points they
- get, and then they get something they can get some reward at the end. So they're gonna give extra points
- to people who run our race, because I think Joe likes to race. That's definitely a tribute to you. You
- have done a wonderful job. Yeah, so I'm definitely, I'm already starting to prepare for that. Like this
- year, I made two signs today. Nice, circular-sized stand-up.
- So I can put a sign out there. Don't park in people's state. Unless I talk to them and kind of talk
- to them and say, Hey, would you let us can we have half the parking? Yeah, I mean, I don't think it
- really kept them from having. So stuff like that. So if I could pull some other stuff off.
- I will, I mean, there's another thing I'd like to do, like a superstars thing, but that's, again, it
- would take a lot of people to help me out. And if you guys can tell me where you think I can get volunteers
- from, please let me know. I don't know if I could post something.
- I know, do they still have that Main Street thing that they do? Yeah, that's the other Main Street.
- Do they have volunteers that sign up for volunteer work? Yeah, they have some in their committee. Like,
- Jill's a part of that too, Jill Thurmond. See, they got a committee, though. Yeah. People who join that,
- and then the people who are part of that, they can volunteer. But I don't have that. There's no LSBell
- Sports Club.
- committee or membership or something, I don't know. I know what you mean, because I have a hard time
- with volunteers for the moral service every year. And then the last thing is that they took all my stuff
- out of that office that used to be the playing department and put it upstairs up there in the crate.
- So they took the printer and just had it on top of something in the crate. I was worried about it getting
- damaged. So I took it out and took it home.
- until you give me some place so I can put it, because I don't want that printer to get damaged. It's
- a nice printer. And then I went through that crate and I took a bunch of the supplies, our two floors
- and fours that I had and took it to my house and that's where I didn't work until this week and last
- week. The science cut stuff out. So when I get those done, I also have a bunch of science over there.
- like my mileage markers and stuff like that, that's still in that crate up there. So do you have a place
- that I can store stuff other than upstairs and above that new office, that utility building? Well, I'll
- have to think about it. I'm not sure, I guess. Does it have to be secure? No. I'm just going to want
- the model marker signs and stuff. You don't care about that. I mean, it's just valuable, other than
- that printer. Yeah, let me look at it. I'll see if we can find some place in the police department for
- it to put it.
- storage area across in the old planning? Is it in use? Oh, no, they're, they're keeping that open for
- a reason. The, the storage room. Oh, I don't know. Is there storage over at that heritage building?
- Upstairs, yes. There is an upstairs up there? You want to pack it up there? You're probably gonna go
- get it again. So well,
- What do you want me to do with the printer thing? I'd like to have the printer back at the station.
- Where should we say station? Police station. All right, so I'll bring it over there tomorrow. Yeah,
- let's bring it over there and we'll store it over there. Let's make sure that- Yeah, because it should
- be sitting in that crate up here. No, it's probably not. I mean, it looks all right. It doesn't look
- like it was damaged or anything, but they had it thrown in there. Yeah, let's just put it over there
- and we'll take care of it there.
- And the last thing, one more thing, may I talk to you offline about the pickleball net? Yeah, we need
- to talk about that. Mike's been kind of distant. Of course, I was off all last week for my head injury,
- so. Well, there was a guy that called me about, well, when you were going to put the net up. And I said,
- well, I said, we're still trying to decide. So I explained him all the places he could play, like at
- Flat Rock, and Spencer Y, and Southeast, and all those places.
- RCA parking at, switch our parking at, but people were saying like in Flatwoods, it's kind of busy.
- So if you go there, there's people playing, you may not be able to get on the court there, but they
- have nice courts there at Flatwood. That's the reason we can't put them in it. Just having somebody
- being responsible for it. Well, the question I was asking Jamie is you could put it up and just leave
- it up. The problem was,
- You had every weekend, you had the music thing, I'd go take it down. Now, they're not having that. Then
- you had people renting the place. Now, I realize that during the music, you don't want that up there
- because people sit all over it. But like if they're renting it for a birthday party, that thing is so
- big, they don't need the whole thing. They can still have their birthday party at that end with the
- net up. Now, the only thing you run across is,
- I mean, there's a big sign up there that says no bicycles, blah, blah, blah, blah, into the shelter.
- But you know, somebody like riding a bicycle into that net and getting hurt or something like that.
- I mean, I guess you have the liability issues. But you have that with anything. People can get hurt.
- So I mean, I could put it up and just leave it up. But the only problem is that when it rains,
- I never really, you know, you do something, you don't realize the stuff that could happen.
- But when it rains, that gets all soggy down in there.
- and dirt and mud run down to that court. And it gets really, really, you can see the court, but it needs
- a good scrubbing and power washing and cleaned up or repainted. I repainted it last year because it
- gets kind of yucked up because of overflow and mud coming up because the water seeps down in there.
- But I could put it up and just leave it up if you think that would be okay. It's in that utility building.
- behind the bathrooms at RCJ. You know that little utility room back there? I put them against the wall
- way in the back there. Now the neck needs to be fixed because that crank, the gears inside that crank
- and tightening that, that metal is so soft. I don't know why they manufacture it that way. The gears,
- you can't really tighten it.
- 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
- else in there. I can make it work. Have you heard anything about the new nets that they're coming out
- that are basically stationary? They're like a fence that you can leave them up year round? I haven't
- seen that. Yeah, I've seen it a couple places. But then you'd have the question, do you want to leave
- it up all during the summer?
- carry it or not. I mean, that would be the question you'd have to have. I don't think it would last
- very long. Katie, what do you think? I don't see why it would be a problem. I mean, just leave it up.
- If you... I can do that. I can get it set up. And I can try to... I bought a scrub brush. You scrub
- before with. And I have a power brush of my own. I could go down there and I can try to power wash that
- 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
- to just leave it up.
- Just people want to go play. They just want to go play. If they see it up all the time, they don't realize
- 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
- go down here and I'll clean it off. If you need handling that, I'll give you my number. I'll handle
- 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
- to restring that through the net. I can get it.
- Get it up, get it tight. That's not a problem. The issue is whether or not you want it up or not. So
- I'll get it up. I'll get the chord playing. I'll get it up. I'll get townspeople want to play pickleball,
- and we've got a chord that needs to be up. And you know where you had to sign up for all the concerts
- that were during? Yeah. Well, that sign's taken down. But those two posts are there. I think it would be.
- a good place that I could put up a piece of board that would kind of be like a community bulletin board
- and like do stuff I could post it up there or anybody could post stuff up there. How about that? Is
- that idea okay? I have a board I could. I got a leftover board for materials I've got that I could put
- up there, I'll paint it and people can tax stuff up there because why waste those two posts for?
- It's a perfect spot to have something there to put a notice on. Now, I just want to say to you, because
- I've been in this position of kind of give you about your own. The town has money to do some of this
- stuff. So don't rely on your own pocketbook. You're already paying taxes. All right? Yeah. That's why
- we have a budget. Yeah, I know.
- The major stuff I've turned in, I've turned in every single thing because like I said, I'm not doing
- this because I want to help Ellis, but the big stuff I've turned in. I'm careful about my time too.
- I still keep an exact record of everything I do. If you want to see that, I got a notebook, it's there.
- I also have money in that.
- account that I have from the race that I have plenty of money in there too that I could, I mean that
- was a purpose that I think even last year when I, you know, when you start to sign up for the race there's
- a description thing there and it describes a lot and that's where you put, oh it's gonna be chip timing
- this year and then I think I put in there that any money left over after proceeds is going to support
- Ellisville sports activities. So, you know, so that's why
- that money, and I think I got about $2,000 from the prior races, I think. So that's why I can afford
- chip timing this year and all that. So if I get to where I have 200 people, I'll have plenty of money
- to do stuff. Well, we really appreciate what you've done for us, and I understand fully
- I'm sorry. I just got a little discouraged there for a while. And you know, you get old, you get tired.
- And it's like, you know, the seawall at my lake house is now collapsed. I got to replace 70 foot of
- that. And it's like, oh gosh, how many more things can you do when you're 70 years old? You know,
- it's like, you know, got less time when I was working. You know what I'm saying? We've got three weddings
- coming up, three reception or practice, what do they call them? Rehearsal.
- Rehearsal dinners? Yeah, three of those coming up to the house. We've got a lot going on too. That's
- one reason I felt like I had to give some stuff up. You don't have baby showers yet? I have two baby
- showers. No, two wedding showers. I'm sorry. It's all out of the same family and all three of them are
- saying I'm going to have the first baby. I think the town of Elstville should be proud of the town.
- Oh, yeah. Sounds pretty nice. We've got things going, you know. That woman on Wednesdays, it gets on
- there with glass. She says, oh, Ellisville's the place to be now. You know what I mean? She's on the
- board for the town of Bloomington, I think. And she was complimenting Ellisville even on her before.
- She won a few. And the Trojan horses coming over here. Yeah, that's right. The Trojan horses coming
- over. That's right.
- Now is they gonna close down in Bloomington of Wonder? I don't know. I read that they aren't. They aren't
- gonna close? She lives on Union Valley Road. So they're older guys? No, I didn't know that. They came
- up with a name for this park. We ought to come up with a name for that park. You wanna do what? I said
- 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
- asked me, what's the name of that park?
- and I said, well, town hall park right now. But that's something that maybe the town board can come
- up with, make a recommendation or whatever. What day is your race on? It's always the third Saturday
- in September, so it's the 19th. It's the old festival weekend.
- I already picked out my shirt colors at night out, and I already got that going, so. Okay, hang up.
- Is there a motion for dismissal? I'll make a motion. Second. Okay. Got you. Ronny? Laura? Yes. Senator?
- Yes. Emily?
- Yes. All right. Thanks for coming. We'll see you next time. June the 1st is the next meeting.