WEBVTT 00:00:00.642 --> 00:00:08.519 - All right, I'll bring this to order for stand for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the 00:00:08.519 --> 00:00:16.244 - flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, 00:00:16.244 --> 00:00:22.974 - indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Do we all have the recorder today? Okay. 00:00:24.674 --> 00:00:31.704 - Our Heavenly Father, we come before you this evening, and thank you so much for the many blessings you've 00:00:31.704 --> 00:00:38.469 - bestowed on this little town and the families represented here. We ask that you be with us tonight as 00:00:38.469 --> 00:00:44.902 - we make the decisions that affect the community. We ask these things in Jesus' name, amen. Amen. 00:00:44.902 --> 00:00:50.142 - All right. Roll call, Jimmy Dernal? Yes. Laura Hill? Yes. Ron Ben-Needle, yes. 00:00:50.370 --> 00:00:59.288 - Katie Michaels. She couldn't make it because of sickness. And Emily Kelly. Yes. Thank you. No, we have 00:00:59.288 --> 00:01:08.466 - accounts payable there. We've got several. June and August. We have June through August accounts payable, 00:01:08.466 --> 00:01:17.210 - if you want to look at it. OK. But we have not voted on all that. So we need to get caught up. Yeah, 00:01:17.210 --> 00:01:18.942 - I've seen that one. 00:01:26.498 --> 00:01:41.623 - I've seen him. I'd make a motion that we approve the accounts payable for June, July, and August. I'll 00:01:41.623 --> 00:01:54.398 - second it. Second. Thank you. Hang on just a minute, Ron. Take your time. Sorry, guys. 00:01:56.354 --> 00:02:05.633 - Okay. Okay. Roll call, right? Okay. Jimmy Darnall. Yes. Laura Hill. Yes. Katie Michael Absent. 00:02:05.633 --> 00:02:15.790 - Ron Van Diemen. Yes. Emily Kelly. Yes. Okay. Old business. We've still got the review of organizational 00:02:15.790 --> 00:02:24.190 - plan on there. I think we pretty well know what's going on there. So our next meeting 00:02:24.706 --> 00:02:32.790 - is an October, but I have another. October 8th. Huh? October 8th. Well, is that a Tuesday? Is that going 00:02:32.790 --> 00:02:40.721 - to be okay for everybody? I do not know what date that is. This one says October 6th. Is that correct? 00:02:40.721 --> 00:02:48.805 - I don't know why she's got Wednesdays. You got October 16th. I got Tuesday. The 6th is a Tuesday, right? 00:02:48.805 --> 00:02:53.502 - Yes. Is that going to be okay for you guys to do that? Yeah. 00:02:53.666 --> 00:03:01.758 - Okay, just making a note on these minutes that I'm crossing out the 8th and putting the 6th at 5 o'clock, 00:03:01.758 --> 00:03:09.621 - right? Yeah. Okay. Oh, that's the one you had or that's the one I had. That's the one that I got given 00:03:09.621 --> 00:03:17.485 - to me. Okay. Yeah, it'd be the 6th. Actually, it should have read the 5th and move into the 6th. Okay. 00:03:17.485 --> 00:03:23.134 - Is there a motion to move the meeting from the 5th to the 6th in October? 00:03:23.618 --> 00:03:40.472 - I'll second. I'll make the motion. I'll second, sorry. Let's do the sixth. Okay. Jimmy Journal? Yes. 00:03:40.472 --> 00:03:51.486 - Hang on, I'm putting initials. Laura Hell? Yes. Emily Kelly? Yes. 00:03:55.682 --> 00:04:04.295 - or yes. Got way ahead of myself there, I'm sorry. Organizational plans. Plan I I think we're pretty 00:04:04.295 --> 00:04:12.994 - well ready to go on it. I am it really. You know, it's a lot of discussion on Facebook every once in 00:04:12.994 --> 00:04:21.951 - a while and it kind of dies down, so I hope the people and. So you live in the city limits and you live 00:04:21.951 --> 00:04:24.190 - in the city. So you know, 00:04:24.866 --> 00:04:31.323 - over at Bean Blossom, they had three meetings over there that said they wanted to keep Ellsville as 00:04:31.323 --> 00:04:38.039 - their primary or secondary backup for fire. And it was obvious, all three meetings, that we didn't want 00:04:38.039 --> 00:04:44.625 - the district. Not that they think this is the district, it's gonna be too expensive. Four days later, 00:04:44.625 --> 00:04:51.147 - after a third meeting, they voted in the district. Also, the district's going to Bean Blossom. Yeah, 00:04:51.147 --> 00:04:53.342 - yeah, and it'll be, it starts in, 00:04:53.602 --> 00:05:01.417 - 27, Peggy, is that right? So our taxes will be increased. I'm not sure if next year's tax should be 00:05:01.417 --> 00:05:09.702 - increased or not. We're talking about our house, about $900 extra a year. By no way, yeah. Anyway, that's 00:05:09.702 --> 00:05:17.986 - just what the Richland people need to understand is Monroe County is gonna run over and it's not careful. 00:05:17.986 --> 00:05:22.206 - All right, Fall Festival Parade starts at 10 o'clock. 00:05:22.434 --> 00:05:28.959 - Saturday morning. I don't think we, are any of you involved in that parade? I have a kid walking in 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:35.810 - there. Oh, do you? Well, good. You're involved in it. I'm not walking in it. You have a kid? Yeah. Y'all 00:05:35.810 --> 00:05:42.726 - still have kids? Yeah. So like I said, 10 o'clock and then of course the festival down to the fairgrounds 00:05:42.726 --> 00:05:49.382 - or the grounds get going about noon, so. Everything starts tomorrow, right? You said it starts really 00:05:49.382 --> 00:05:52.318 - tomorrow. About four o'clock tomorrow, yeah. 00:05:53.794 --> 00:06:01.299 - They've got a nice setup for entertainment down there, so. Do we need to approve the minutes? Ricky, 00:06:01.299 --> 00:06:08.953 - I'll have you talk about the marathon. Well, it's fine. You can't do this. OK. He might be running for 00:06:08.953 --> 00:06:16.533 - 26 miles. I'm sorry. Just wondering. So you kind of have an idea. Can I approach the bench? You can't 00:06:16.533 --> 00:06:23.518 - really approach the bench. I always make out this checklist. So it starts, I guess, this way. 00:06:25.826 --> 00:06:33.599 - So it's like these are things that pre-race, and then here's day before the race, morning of the race, 00:06:33.599 --> 00:06:41.371 - during the race, and after the race. So all these things in red I've got done pre-race except for just 00:06:41.371 --> 00:06:48.917 - a couple items. Some of these things I don't have to do next year because once I make a sign stand, 00:06:48.917 --> 00:06:52.766 - for example, please don't park in people's things. 00:06:52.994 --> 00:07:01.466 - I'll have that signed for next year. I don't have to do that again. I did. So some of this stuff, 00:07:01.466 --> 00:07:10.629 - you know, once you get to the point where you've got things made, it becomes more balls in order process. 00:07:10.629 --> 00:07:19.619 - But that's just to give you an idea. There's a lot of stuff that you have to do to do this right. Right 00:07:19.619 --> 00:07:21.694 - now I've got 66 people. 00:07:22.722 --> 00:07:30.423 - But I just checked on my account for last year. Last year, after this date, from tomorrow on, 77 people 00:07:30.423 --> 00:07:38.124 - signed up. Because they always wait until the last week. I don't look to check in weather, or they just 00:07:38.124 --> 00:07:45.602 - procrastinate. So I'm thinking that if I have more than that, I'll probably have nine or so sign up. 00:07:45.602 --> 00:07:51.230 - So I'm looking at probably 150, 160, 170 people this year. Oh, really? Wow. 00:07:51.970 --> 00:07:59.529 - This is something I made up that I put around to all a bunch of businesses, the flyer, like the library, 00:07:59.529 --> 00:08:07.160 - and all that kind of thing. And then this is this year's color. First year was orange, then it was green, 00:08:07.160 --> 00:08:14.575 - then last year it was yellow, and this is approximation. I don't know exactly. When I talked to Cindy, 00:08:14.575 --> 00:08:21.342 - I told her, I said, hey, I'm sorry about it. I told people where to park, and it wasn't here. 00:08:21.986 --> 00:08:27.301 - But this year, in my description, I said, don't park in People's State Bank. And I told her I'm going 00:08:27.301 --> 00:08:32.512 - to make up a sign, which is about like that, about like that, with her photos posed. And I told her 00:08:32.512 --> 00:08:37.671 - that I'll also make up a sign saying, 5K parking for Ferrell Gas, to sort of direct them that way. 00:08:37.671 --> 00:08:42.934 - I mean, they know how to do that, but that'll sort of get the idea that, hey, you're really supposed 00:08:42.934 --> 00:08:48.510 - to come over here to the right. But I told her, I said, I can't guarantee that people won't park in there. 00:08:48.610 --> 00:08:56.593 - She said, oh, I understand that, but I just want to have enough spaces for people. I don't think it 00:08:56.593 --> 00:09:04.656 - really hands people getting in there. I understand. But I was pretty budged with everybody about the 00:09:04.656 --> 00:09:12.958 - conversation. So Ricky, real quick on parking. I emailed you and Jimmy about where the Village Inn was. 00:09:13.186 --> 00:09:20.715 - Oh, yeah. Right. Well, I all I'm trying to find out is who owns it. And if we could give permission 00:09:20.715 --> 00:09:28.621 - to people park there and also people can even park on Vine Street since it's a dead end. But there would 00:09:28.621 --> 00:09:34.494 - be we can get 50 60 cards in there. A good spot would be the Lutheran church. 00:09:35.010 --> 00:09:40.341 - I've called them repeatedly last year. They never return a call. I called them again this year. They 00:09:40.341 --> 00:09:45.724 - don't ever return my phone call. I don't know what the deal is. But that would be a really good place 00:09:45.724 --> 00:09:51.108 - because it's really close. They just walk in. Yeah. So I'll keep trying to see if I can get people to 00:09:51.108 --> 00:09:56.492 - park. I mean, Marcy J. Lewis isn't that far. I run way further than that to go to race. I'm not going 00:09:56.492 --> 00:10:01.875 - to say they're runners anyway. That's not. That shouldn't be a problem. Yeah. OK. But I do would like 00:10:01.875 --> 00:10:02.878 - to try to find out 00:10:03.170 --> 00:10:12.184 - where the old village and who owns it and see if we can get permission because I sent out email blasts 00:10:12.184 --> 00:10:21.547 - I sent my last one out there for yesterday to all participants who've done it the last three years telling 00:10:21.547 --> 00:10:29.598 - them hey every last reminder I've got 12 door prizes that I give out Bobcat gave me an ADCC 00:10:31.170 --> 00:10:38.840 - Leap blower this year. Oh, really? And then IJ gave me a $50 gift card. O'Reilly always gives me a bucket 00:10:38.840 --> 00:10:46.076 - with a whole bunch of dishwasher stuff in it. Starbucks is always really good. They gave me several 00:10:46.076 --> 00:10:53.601 - bags of coffee, a couple of those really nice coffee mugs that they put in there. Sip, what is it? It's 00:10:53.601 --> 00:10:57.726 - called Sip the Brewery. Oh, Sip's up here by Vendorship. 00:10:57.826 --> 00:11:03.554 - poker chips, which are free beer tokens. So I'll probably do those like two at a time. Maybe I should 00:11:03.554 --> 00:11:09.283 - give them all to one person. That would be nice. That's something I kept for the day there. Make sure 00:11:09.283 --> 00:11:15.067 - they're 21, too. And then I got JiffyTree always giving me gift certificates. And so I'm good on that. 00:11:15.067 --> 00:11:20.852 - I got no prizes. No one else really. No other race really. I know it does that. So I think that's kind 00:11:20.852 --> 00:11:26.468 - of a draw. And then I still have those mugs I give out where it says record breaker. And I have all 00:11:26.468 --> 00:11:27.198 - the records. 00:11:27.522 --> 00:11:33.270 - on the website, here's the records for all the age groups overall, so people do try to do that. And 00:11:33.270 --> 00:11:39.076 - I had a pasting chart signed up, I had the record signed up, I had the Bell Station set up, so I try 00:11:39.076 --> 00:11:44.825 - to make it really something that's really nice. I'm gonna put together a book that says, here's who 00:11:44.825 --> 00:11:50.631 - you call for the Portico Potties, there's a number, here's a contact person, here's who you call for 00:11:50.631 --> 00:11:51.838 - your overall awards, 00:11:52.162 --> 00:11:58.532 - Kelly Slankard there at the award center. So that way, if you said something one time about maybe taking 00:11:58.532 --> 00:12:04.720 - this over at some point, or whoever, it'll be kind of like, I'm trying to get to the point where it's 00:12:04.720 --> 00:12:10.847 - like dummy proof. Here's the pages, just do what it says, and you're good to go. We appreciate that. 00:12:10.847 --> 00:12:17.156 - So HB Timing is going to do chip timing this year. So if he tells me what he says, as soon as you cross 00:12:17.156 --> 00:12:21.342 - the finish line, he's supposed to have some kind of thing posted up. 00:12:21.666 --> 00:12:26.284 - on a screen where you can walk over and you can see where you finished in your A group. Because my idea 00:12:26.284 --> 00:12:30.901 - is to try to get those results out. I can pass out. So this is a new timing system. You've been telling 00:12:30.901 --> 00:12:35.430 - us about that. Yeah. Before it was, you had to look at your bid, and he was running a bid. Yeah. This 00:12:35.430 --> 00:12:39.959 - is all computerized now. Yeah, but this is through a chip, and it automatically prints. All right. So 00:12:39.959 --> 00:12:44.443 - that way, I'll probably get to the results sooner, because I'm trying to get it so that people don't 00:12:44.443 --> 00:12:48.350 - have to stand around. I don't want to do the door prizes until people are done walking. 00:12:48.674 --> 00:12:54.770 - Yeah. You know, so the runners kind of have to hang around a little while. Where do you do the awards? 00:12:54.770 --> 00:13:00.866 - I do that right after the... Where at? Right there. Okay. The finish line. Okay. I have everything all 00:13:00.866 --> 00:13:06.962 - set up. So I'm giving three places this year. I was going to give it two before. I'm giving three this 00:13:06.962 --> 00:13:11.934 - time. So I'm trying to like figure out ways. This guy says he has a speaker system. 00:13:12.418 --> 00:13:19.468 - The last two years, I was supposed to have a speaker system there, but it never worked for some reason. 00:13:19.468 --> 00:13:26.314 - There was always an issue. I never could get that, but now he tells me he's got that. Do we not have 00:13:26.314 --> 00:13:33.296 - something? Yeah, we do. They're big units, and I had a little lesson on how to operate it about a year 00:13:33.296 --> 00:13:36.414 - ago. If you think I'm going to remember that, 00:13:36.514 --> 00:13:41.467 - If somebody could come and help me, we do have those speaker things. The park board has a thing for 00:13:41.467 --> 00:13:46.420 - the... But the only problem is you have to have power to plug in. Right, you have to have power. We 00:13:46.420 --> 00:13:51.769 - can try to get Bobcat to let us do it. Well, I was going to ask them. I looked at the other little building 00:13:51.769 --> 00:13:57.069 - except for the cellar. So I was looking around that building. I said, well, are there any plug-ins around? 00:13:57.069 --> 00:14:02.022 - I didn't see anything. Maybe inside. We could probably get something from inside. Yeah, in there or 00:14:02.022 --> 00:14:04.350 - something. That'll work. So that's pretty much 00:14:05.026 --> 00:14:10.814 - I think all about the race. I can't take it. You said you're going to have this officer there at the 00:14:10.814 --> 00:14:16.659 - corner. Yes. And you're going to start the race. Right. What's our time frame? What time are we going 00:14:16.659 --> 00:14:22.448 - to start the race? Well, the kids run is at 8. You don't have to do that. OK. 8.30. 8.30 is when you 00:14:22.448 --> 00:14:25.886 - want me there. OK. And then there's plenty of refreshments. 00:14:26.530 --> 00:14:32.620 - Last year, the extras, I took them to the police station. The department one year, I took a bunch of 00:14:32.620 --> 00:14:39.011 - stuff there that people don't eat. But I think last year, they all kind of ate everything up. They didn't 00:14:39.011 --> 00:14:45.221 - realize it was going to happen. It's hard to judge when you've got 155 people, like, OK, how much food 00:14:45.221 --> 00:14:51.853 - do I buy? I don't want to buy too much stuff. I wish I'd left over. But then I don't want people complaining, 00:14:51.853 --> 00:14:53.662 - like, I didn't get my banana. 00:14:54.882 --> 00:15:02.420 - So then one of the things, I've got this flyer. I haven't set it out yet to Denise to post, haven't 00:15:02.420 --> 00:15:10.110 - put it anywhere yet, but this is kind of what it looks like. Remember on the 14th, I'm having, what's 00:15:10.110 --> 00:15:17.874 - her name? God, I'm gonna have a senior moment. Oh, Erin McCormick, she's a fitness trainer. She's lost 00:15:17.874 --> 00:15:24.734 - after the Y, but she kind of works independent, and then a retired physical therapist guy. 00:15:24.834 --> 00:15:31.970 - that I golf with who will do sports injuries and she'll do stuff about fitness in the heritage building. 00:15:31.970 --> 00:15:38.494 - I already reserved it for 9.30 to 10, 10 to 11 on Saturday. I'll bring like more fruit cups and 00:15:39.170 --> 00:15:44.477 - Is that after the race then? No, that's on November. Oh, November, November, okay, okay. So, 00:15:44.477 --> 00:15:50.240 - but as that date, it's too early to get this stuff out now, but about a month beforehand, I'll start 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:56.175 - trying to get the word out for this. Okay. I don't know, I'd start getting that out. You think so? Yes, 00:15:56.175 --> 00:16:01.938 - sir. Okay. I would start getting that information out. So, I got that, and then I'll try to think of 00:16:01.938 --> 00:16:08.158 - something else that maybe I can do just to take a whole lot of it. Right now, the only thing about the race, 00:16:09.058 --> 00:16:16.642 - is volunteers. I mean, there's me and my son. Okay, Ron said he'd help. My wife. Noelle said she'd help. 00:16:16.642 --> 00:16:24.226 - Okay, good. Now, my wife always helps. And then my neighbor and a mutual friend of ours helps with that. 00:16:24.226 --> 00:16:31.882 - But my grandson has an event that day that I don't know if my wife... I'm getting pulled away from. ...if 00:16:31.882 --> 00:16:38.238 - my event or not. If she does, I'll be fine. If she doesn't, I think I'll still be okay. 00:16:38.338 --> 00:16:45.323 - You make it there and I'll have you go down and I think you might be at a turnaround. I at least want 00:16:45.323 --> 00:16:52.308 - to have somebody at the turnaround for the one mile and then at the 5K. Other stuff I do is like just 00:16:52.308 --> 00:16:59.224 - putting stuff together there that the morning of that I need somebody helping me with that. And then 00:16:59.224 --> 00:17:05.182 - when people come, I try to get people to come the night before to pick up their stuff. 00:17:05.378 --> 00:17:10.651 - Not a whole lot of people do that. So everyone wants to come and pick their stuff up there. That's where 00:17:10.651 --> 00:17:15.523 - the chaos is. So that's where I really need one or two people helping out. The night before? No, 00:17:15.523 --> 00:17:20.596 - the day, the morning, or the rights. I can have my house. So if you come, you try to be there by 730 00:17:20.596 --> 00:17:25.618 - if you can, because that's when they start coming. They got this window between 730 to 8 to sign up 00:17:25.618 --> 00:17:30.791 - if they want. But AV timing will handle that. They'll get the late company. But it's the people who've 00:17:30.791 --> 00:17:34.206 - already registered, but they did pick up their shirt and their bib. 00:17:34.818 --> 00:17:40.840 - I'll try to have them in packets so that they come up and say, Paula Jones, oh, Paula Jones, put that 00:17:40.840 --> 00:17:46.920 - gift here and you're good. Wouldn't you hand out shirts to the people that are coming? Well, when they 00:17:46.920 --> 00:17:52.883 - pick up their stuff. OK. That's just before the race, is what you're saying. I thought I had them in 00:17:52.883 --> 00:17:58.787 - little baggies, little packs. I pulled them up. That was a lot of effort. Pulled up a shirt, put it 00:17:58.787 --> 00:18:02.270 - in there with a couple of pins. But that was the clearest. 00:18:02.434 --> 00:18:07.835 - you just go to their bin, their name, pull it out, here you are. If you don't do that, then you have 00:18:07.835 --> 00:18:13.237 - the stack of shirts, like smalls, mediums, large, extra larges, and a box of pins, and then the vids 00:18:13.237 --> 00:18:18.638 - that you have here in numerical order, and when they come, oh, your vid number's 289, you go through 00:18:18.638 --> 00:18:24.039 - there, you pick out 289, then they gotta pick their shirt out. It's not quite as fast. If you've got 00:18:24.039 --> 00:18:28.478 - a few people before the race, that's okay, but if you've got like 50 people there, 00:18:28.994 --> 00:18:35.685 - And there's always that few that want to come in like five minutes before the race and then want to 00:18:35.685 --> 00:18:42.377 - get in the race. There's one guy who does this every year. I know his name is Pip and he's an older 00:18:42.377 --> 00:18:49.202 - guy and he comes and he has a check and he wants to come, he wants to get in the race and he wants to 00:18:49.202 --> 00:18:53.886 - throw the check down and he's like, what? You gotta get your sign in? 00:18:54.050 --> 00:19:00.678 - So I'm ready for him. I know he's coming now. So it's just a little stuff like that. OK. Now, actually, 00:19:00.678 --> 00:19:07.179 - if you can come up with the ideas of other stuff, like this fitness clinic kind of thing or whatever, 00:19:07.179 --> 00:19:13.871 - let me know. But it's going to be something that doesn't take a whole lot of manpower. I've got a couple 00:19:13.871 --> 00:19:17.886 - ideas as to stuff that I'm trying to get done. So that's that. 00:19:18.914 --> 00:19:28.524 - Good job, Rick. Thank you. Well, Ricky, thank you so much. I appreciate that. Oh, can you still get 00:19:28.524 --> 00:19:38.999 - that? There'll be two golf carts or two ATVs there, and one the night before, for sure. Any public comments? 00:19:38.999 --> 00:19:45.822 - All right, entertain a motion to adjourn. I'll motion. I'll second it. 00:19:50.690 --> 00:20:08.734 - Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.