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here. We've got an open spot here for commission. We got Parker Mitchell be nominated.
>> Yeah, I was going to speak about Parker and I'm glad he's here today. So, Yeah, you bet.
>> Oh, here you go.
>> Yeah, you can just speak up. It's fine. Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> Parker's been here forever.
>> I knew him when he was a young nine.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. And one of the original Holiday Island. You know, most everybody moves here.
>> Country Club.
>> That's where my dad lives. We moved Bob White and moved up country club. I got placed down state.
>> And I know you.
>> His grandparents were.
>> Roy and Elanor Williams.
>> They're both deceased now.
>> Okay.
>> But yeah, obviously been here a long time and um has a a lot of good things that he's done. Uh has his mechanic certificate, I guess, if you will, and has been doing the mobile mechanic thing for some time. That's how I met Parker. uh I had a issue with my vehicle and googled up a mobile mechanic and he came right up. So, uh did good work and obviously recommend him to anybody that needs that stuff done because he still does it. Uh but anyway, he I figured he'd be a great pick and a good fit uh for what we're doing here.
Um, we're a little different than other &p commissions in that we don't have a $2 million budget. uh it cost a lot of money to create content and uh for them to go back and edit it, it takes a lot of time. Uh we did some of that last year and we're using it for the chili cook off this year for what we paid for the drone services last year. And uh but looking at, you know, future events, um even the parades that we're going to be joining in Eureka. I mean, there's going to be it's not just events here. We're going to be creating content all over the place. We can't afford to put it in our budget to do so based on what it would uh the projected cost would be. And so we're gonna kind of do some in-house stuff here kind of like I'm already doing except Parker really fits in this well because he's in that uh kind of digital age and he's uh associated with drones and he's already done some drone work for AMP last year. Uh what I forget the event that was in the ballroom.
>> Two drones did New Year's Christmas.
>> That's right.
>> And I did couple other things. Golf courses.
>> That's right. That's right. The golf tournament.
>> Excellent.
>> Yeah. So, we'll be using that this year.
>> New York.
>> Right?
>> Yeah.
>> That's why you got me.
>> Yeah. Yeah. No, other than that, yeah, that's a really good fit for it. So, I think we'll be able to team up and uh be able to start producing some stuff and keeping it on a regular, you know, basis and and divvy up the time doing it. Uh but other than that, yeah, it's just kind of uh getting us exposed as much as we can and uh I'll be able to kind of doing my thing with NA and all the other networking that I'm doing uh and not have to be bogged down with the time of going to create the content. We're going to start going around to the businesses around here and kind of doing little interviews if they want to do them, you know, and just kind of uh going around doing that. We need to expose everything here and keep it in the rotation on the algorithms out there in the algorithm world. So, in order to do that, uh we need another hand in here to help create that stuff. We can't afford to do it yet. I think we will in the future. We'll get bookings up and uh, you know, create more tax in in in that regard and be able to afford things because it takes a lot of money to get set up as we well know. Once we get past that hump, then you know, maybe in the future we can really start affording to do stuff like that hiring out. uh, you know, we're not we're not going to be a professional uh drone uh team or whatever. We're going to be kind of learning on the fly, but he's already produced work for us and we've used it and it's really good and it's not much to it. I'm getting a little practice as as we speak uh with my real estate stuff, too, that I'm doing it with. So, I'm getting all kinds of practice, but uh but yeah, I think uh Parker's going to make a great fit and we'll be off to the races on creating content and getting all that stuff organized. So, I think we should absolutely nominate him.
>> That sounds fantastic.
>> Appreciate you stepping.
>> He's been here quite a while and we need to promote it. I mean.
>> Yeah, for sure.
>> We'll we'll have a hand youngsters now, too.
>> Right. And that's the deal. He understands why we need this place exposed and promoted. You know, we we we need the help. They're they're coming here to use our facilities and our roads and infrastructure and everything like that. So, it's time that we get some help from the people coming to use it and he understands all that. So, it's it's it's good.
>> You like to nominate.
>> I would I'd like to nominate Parker Mitchell to the uh open spot on the AMP commission.
>> And I'll second that.
>> Roll call vote.
>> Commissioner.
>> Yes.
>> Commissioner.
>> Yes.
>> Commissioner. Yes. Commissioner Hall.
>> Yes. All.
>> In favor? I.
>> All right. I'll get this turned into the city.
>> Okay.
>> City council meeting tomorrow.
>> Yep. Cool.
>> Yeah.
>> Yep. And then you'll be meeting.
>> Yeah. I'll come down here, too. That'll be great.
>> Yep.
>> Appreciate it, Parker.
>> Yeah.
>> It's been tough to find people to step forward and.
>> Yeah, I know.
>> I'm so glad he did. We still have an open spot for the uh AMP commission, short-term rental or restaurant.
>> Yeah.
>> Anyone out there wants to uh step up, come in and talk to us.
>> Yeah.
>> All right. On to the next one. A&P Commission float trailer for the Eureka Springs parades.
>> Yeah, I've just kind of talked about that a little bit earlier. Um, so that was the idea of the kind of back to the budget deal. I looked at what it would take to, you know, there's advertising uh companies out there that have the trailers fit and all they do is plug in your data and it puts the advertising on to go in a parade or whatever. Well, those are about $3,000 a day.
>> I mean, I knew it was going to be more than what we could do, but I was just curious. I was like, "Whoa, I'm I'm in the wrong business. I need a fleet of those." Uh, but at any rate, so it got me thinking, you know, we can do this uh ourselves. Uh, there's there's really not much to it. And we can create a a frame to hold a couple of uh TV screens that'll be our digital advertising and and uh go in every parade that Eureka has and decorate uh the trailer according to the theme that that they're having. And um, you know, there's been some of this done in the past like we talked about. Uh, there's no reason why we shouldn't be in every one of those with a trailer with a TV on each side of that uh frame uh showing what we have here.
>> There's so many people that come here just like we talked about and always do have no clue we exist. And as long as they can get, you know, a three to six second view of what we have on that TV screen, it's going to be different. No one else has a digital sign going in the parades that I've seen.
>> We would kind of be the first ones to have digital.
>> And it would be easy. These are TVs are pretty cheap these days. It's just a computer screen.
>> Is all it is and I can operate it from my phone.
>> You know, so it's not hard to do. I do it, you know, the reason I came up with the idea is because I've dealt so much with these screens and having big gettogethers in Tulsa and, you know, operating it from my phone. It's like, we can do that on a trailer. There's no reason why we couldn't. And I think it be memorable. There's not going to be any other digital boards going by on a trailer and it's going to catch their eye and they're going to remember it and it's just going to be kind of, you know, still, you know, nothing moving crazy fast or anything like that. We got to have them be able to read it and they're only going to see it for three to six seconds as it goes by, you know.
>> But that's a lot of people to get visible to and at a very low cost. It's going to be, you know, a lot of volunteer work uh to get that done. But I think we have that here and with that idea to do it. I think that's going to kind of give some motivation to people to get involved um to to mo, you know, to volunteer and that sort of thing. But yeah, that's that's kind of the idea behind the trailer. I really as far as the float uh as far as any cost involved. I mean I've got a little bit of cost as far as screens and that sort of thing what the frame would take but I believe all that can be donated and I think I have some people that are willing to do it. So we might get the equipment and everything just donated.
>> What size screens are you talking.
>> Uh similar a little bit smaller than that? I don't know what that is but I mean the 65 in that's. Yeah, that's probably.
>> That's a 75.
>> That's 70. It's It's close to seven. Yeah, it's a big one. Uh, yeah, 65 in TVs. I mean, they're, you know, I've got one in my Airbnb. I've got one in my basement. I need to see if I can get working. I don't know what happened to it, but anyway, they're cheap these days. Oh, yeah. And and they're all over the place. So, if we did have to spend money on the TVs, um, I think we would be out less than $1,000 for the monitors.
>> You know, but I I think we're going to be able to get them donated.
>> All right.
>> Yeah. So anyway, that's kind of the project as far as uh that goes. And the first thing I'm doing is getting a list of the actual parades. Kind like we talked about going to the CAPC to talk to them, find out what they're not events, but a list of parades. You know, there's got to be a permit list or something that we can get to so we know the actual when the parades are and just uh plan accordingly, you know, and get them lined up throughout the year and the volunteers lined up. Hey, do you want to hop in this uh parade in August? You know, maybe someone can't be here in the spring during some. But I don't know how many parades are in Eureka Springs a year.
>> A lot.
>> I mean, 30.
>> At least 52.
>> Pretty much anything that happens there.
>> Yeah, that's a lot of car parades.
>> No, right. Just all the Yeah, the car parades are.
>> Yeah. You think there's less than 20 parades that we could get into? St. Patty's Day and then.
>> They got Marty Gro Marty Gross canled two of them.
>> There's two right there. They just had that cancelled.
>> And the Christmas parade and.
>> They got a.
>> Zombie.
>> The Halloween zombie crawl.
>> Zombie crawls.
>> Yeah. Now the Jeep thing had a separate parade besides the Jeep thing, didn't they? I thought I remember seeing pictures of everybody in the street. Maybe that was.
>> I don't think they had floats.
>> There were floats.
>> Yeah, there was just floats in that Jeep deal. And maybe it has to be Jeep related. We get a Jeep sponsor.
>> All the golf carts, all my buddies have new golf carts, right? They all have Bluetooth, so we can also play music.
>> That's right.
>> You know, we could do an advertising.
>> Coordinates all the way around.
>> That would be cool. See, there you go. We just need to get together and get some ideas.
>> I know the lots of guys that would be love to do that.
>> It'd be fun. Yeah.
>> The golf carts, right?
>> It wouldn't be that hard to get together. So.
>> I think so.
>> And that's one of the reasons I was going to come talk to you about if you thought about. You've already thought about this.
>> Okay.
>> I got nothing else.
>> Ben's our think tank.
>> Yeah. Right.
>> Well, call me. I'll get volunteers together.
>> Okay. Great. Well, I appreciate it, Pat.
>> Well, are we going to vote on getting into these parades or.
>> Well, I you know, I don't even know if it's something that we have to vote on necessarily. We're we're we're looking at a donation-based deal. We're not spending money. We're going to go with it on a donation volunteer based deal. I just thought we'd bring it up and kind of get it in the air. Yeah, I'll just say that we're just all in agreement to pursue the.
>> To pursue the project. Yeah, I think so.
>> Well, I I'll donate to for St. Patty's Day, the rainbow thing, but somebody's going to have to buy about.
>> $20 worth of balloons.
>> A lot of time to get them all blown up.
>> Yeah.
>> I'll get a helium tank.
>> I don't have the lung capacity.
>> Right? Sure. You want to fill them up with helium because.
>> Yeah. Then Yeah, they lose. Healing is pretty expensive.
>> Great anyway.
>> Yeah. Right.
>> Right. That's a good idea. Yeah. Let's get into it and see where we go with it.
>> You might want to think about I mean everybody throws candy at.
>> Yeah.
>> Those things. Can we get candy made with a rapper that says something about Holiday Island or.
>> Possibly, but usually what people do, they'll throw out candy along with some other stuff that's, you know, Yeah.
>> Maybe a $5 discount at the golf.
>> A koozie. You know, koozies are, you know, real cheap stuff like that. Yeah, I was looking at a number of things to get for us to uh start using because I'm talking to the uh Naturals, the uh Northwest Arkansas. Is that is it Northwest Arkansas Naturals?
>> Yeah, they play the Tulsa Drillers, I should know. But at any rate, um talking with them, that's another subject we'll be talking about. But uh to possibly have a day at the ballpark and we get a big table and the con you know the walk the concourse steel that they have you set up a table full of holiday island stuff and talk to people's hat.
>> There you go. Yeah. Yeah. So talking to them about that. So, we're going to have to approach that subject probably on next month's meeting, put it on the agenda uh to do just that to talk about getting some merchandise type stuff uh to start using in in certain situations. You know, nothing we can afford probably to get enough to go in every parade right at this second, but um uh at least for the projects that we could go to, such as the naturals, that's a really big thing. And not to mention the so he's on the the NATO uh association with us and has really extremely um helpful and and going to be making it at a very affordable rate for us. They're really pulling for us. I mean they're, you know, hey man, we'll figure out a different rate. We understand you're just get started. I mean they get it. You know, an AMP commission is in its infancy for probably three years.
>> You know, we're not out of diapers yet. So.
>> But at any rate, yep. So, we'll move forward with some merchandise talk in the future.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. I was thinking, you know, that the little rubber bracelets that you could have.
>> Uh Holiday Island and then have the website.
>> That's right.
>> On that and that's something that they could hang on to, you know.
>> Yeah, definitely. Yeah, absolutely.
>> Koozies and all the other stuff, you know. So, I'll have a list together before next meeting so we can kind of look at it. Prices and all that stuff. Sounds good.
>> Yeah.
>> Anything else on this one?
>> No, I think that's it on the PRA talk.
>> All right. New items for the Ozark Rocks magazine. Back to you, Ben.
>> Yep. So, um uh the mayor actually forwarded forwarded me an email and I guess they were sending uh information somewhere else and they caught it so forwarded it to me and it's a a good publication. It's good. It has a lot of uh coverage and that sort of thing. I'm having to look As a matter of fact, let me put that up. The um the cost.
>> Do you have a paper or a do you want it by chance?
>> I'll pull it up. But it it looks like it would be a good opportunity for us to um get into and like their half page deal was pretty affordable and it looks pretty impressive what they did last year. It's pulling up here. Their their 2025 um edition that they pulled up. I mean it looks spectacular, but it goes in a lot of different markets. Tulsa is one of them. U you know we've got a pretty good pull from Tulsa coming over here all the time. Springs and that sort of thing a lot. Uh so there's a pretty heavy dose in that in that region. But I think it would be good coverage as far as where they actually are are putting this. Not to mention the digital side of it. Um that sort of thing. I'm trying to find the cost real quick. I'm sorry. I thought I entered that when I sent you the email, but I may not have.
>> Okay. Here it is. Okay. So, the uh they got a back cover. It's $1,250. That's out of our league. Um, sorry, just increased here. Uh, the inside front or inside back is $9.95. Uh, page three premium spot 9 925. A full page inside the magazine somewhere 8.95. A half page is 625 and a quarter page is 425. Um, those are the two I was considering uh that we might get into that half page. We're we're going to be in, you know, the the tourism guide that's getting ready to come out next month. You know, we've got our pretty good spot there. That was a pretty good price. This looks even like a maybe a better deal. Now that I'm kind of studying how, you know, the different the amount of publications they put out, where they're putting them, and that sort of thing, compared to our tourism guide, this matches up pretty good. Um, and for $625, I think it's a half page. I think we need to not mess around with little quarter page things. We're trying to get started here. And if we have the money uh to use it and get noticed better, we need to do it.
>> Out the gates. for 26 advertising print materials. We only budgeted 1750.
>> And for online.
>> Yeah. And I think some.
>> Pretty we're pretty light on on what we budgeted. We budgeted the most for grants for events.
>> Right. Right. Yeah. The online advertising and and print you know, some of that kind because anytime you do the print, it goes digital. I mean, they have it's kind of for both. So, I think when we were talking about uh and how those were separated, that's kind of really one number for the overall print and digital, if you will. Um, so how much was the total on the print?
>> Print material was 1750 for a year.
>> And then digital a,000.
>> Digital.
>> And then digital was another thousand, right?
>> So, about 2,700. So we can tie those two together. Correct.
>> Right. That Yeah. Because of the way it shakes out when you order do the advertising, you know, I mean this is going to go on their website and be digital too. So where do you really apply that in the.
>> That's right. So it's print, but it's actually print and.
>> Digital.
>> Digital.
>> Now there is such thing as just straight digital uh cost just such as the uh uh commercial we just did on K&WA. is $500 and um that I know of that's not going on any print. See, so that is straight digital. But I think for our purposes, we need to use both those figures uh as one kind of advertising digital and and print. I think when we when we split them up, we decided that that's kind of how it would probably shake out. So, that's in my head I've been going off about $2,500. And uh right now we're we're 500 in on the commercial and um the tourism guide which was you remember what that was? I don't recall.
>> 13.
>> Was it 12 or is it a little over $1,000? It's like 1250. I think you're right. I think you're close to.
>> Around 1300.
>> Yeah. So, we're bumping up. I mean, that's too two big ones out of the way, but you're looking at what what to really do the rest of the year as far as print goes. Um, this publication, let me make sure real quick.
>> Well, we discovered that we're just not billboard. I looked at another I was going to bring up that too that I did look at another one that's available right now with Lamar and she got the contract and everything but it's $450 a month you know for seven months and we that's 32 whatever $100 and you know it's that's the probably cheapest billboard we could find and it's in a good spot and everything. It would be I would love to have it. Um, I mean, it would be really great, but we just don't have That's why I'm thinking we need to go after these areas and publications that we can get for $625 and get a half page that goes out to, you know, yeah, there's a lot of people driving by that billboard, but we're not spending $3,500 either. So.
>> You know, that's kind of what we're forced to get to here as far as that goes. Now, you know, part of the budget on do we have something separate? Um, you know, such as the naturals wanting to uh do a deal with us. Where's that going to fall? I mean, that's not really a print or a.
>> Online uh deal. That's going to be in our miscellaneous uh figures potentially. And if I remember right, did we have.
>> We have reserve?
>> Right.
>> Okay. Event because.
>> Right that's right. Yeah. So there's a firework deal July stuff. So.
>> Yeah, it's it's tough. We got a brief budget. Darn it.
>> Well, you know, maybe we should not do the the publication um because we do we do have some events coming up that we, you know, that we are going to be around and then we got the Eureka stuff to.
>> To jump on. So, we got the tourism publication going and we have a little commercial out.
>> But you know, that's and that's for this month obviously only, but that's pretty decent start for what we have.
>> Yeah.
>> And I know the little commercial that goes on my Facebook, I share it every time I see it.
>> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I saw it again yesterday. Yeah. They're showing it. and some of the money that we've already had to spend because of the building the website and that stuff. We won't have that again.
>> That's right. That's why.
>> And so we'll be able to.
>> You got there's some fixed cost there that or not fixed cost actually just one time charges that won't be applying going forward, right? We're still setting up.
>> You know. So, it's kind of I think we said last year, 20 27 will probably be the first year we really are able to have probably a $10,000 advertising budget or something maybe. You know.
>> Uh but until then, we're still paying to get set up. You know, the firewall, that was a big chunk of money.
>> The.gov, the you know, they keep throwing these new rules at us and it costs money.
>> So, okay. Well, let's just stay out of the public. Let we're good in the tourism guide uh that's coming out and we've got this commercial going. Let's save the money for other stuff going forward. There'll be plenty plenty to spend on. So.
>> Um.
>> But next you're doing a budget remembering that we are the advertising and promotion commission. That's right. So, advertising needs to be.
>> Yeah, it is.
>> Yeah, it does. Once a bigger budget to do so, we'll get in there. But yeah, so okay, we're good. We're not going to do that.
>> We'll stay out of that.
>> All right. Little more billboard.
>> Yeah, we're just We've kind Yeah, I've kind of mentioned about that. It's just out of our league. Once again, it's got too much money. So.
>> I wanted those things on the agenda while I was I wish I had had the research kind of already done by then, but I wanted it to get on there just in case.
>> I just don't want to worry about it for right now. That's right.
>> All right. Meaning stipen for AMP commissioners.
>> Um, yeah, so there was some more research done about that. Um, it's there's quite a bit to it. U Tabby was able to get some answers from the CAPC on on kind of what they do and that sort of thing, but I there's more to go on it. There's a little bit of a I mean it would have to be even something that the city would have to run through because based on the state um legalities of it, you have to go through a local, you know, whatever government you're going through to to have that established. But before that, we, you know, we had to basically hand that to them and say, "Here's what we came up with."
>> You know, again, our budget's pretty thin. I don't know what we're capable of doing compared to what other AMPs may be doing, but um, yeah, it it's quite a bit of money. I mean, I know it's not much per meeting. It doesn't sound like a lot, but when you got six commissioners and you're it adds up, you know, it adds up quick, but then again, you know, so does our time and mileage and and that sort of thing. So, I think it could be that it's not a stipen situation. It's a reimbursement.
>> And to start keeping mileage um and that sort of that's where that's what everybody else is kind of pretty much doing.
>> Yeah. Is a reimbursement program based on you know, there's some probably a a format for that you know, a template or or something to go by. For me, me personally, I don't I do not want to get on this commission as a member of the city council.
>> Sure. That's right.
>> That's right.
>> So, I want to continue that.
>> Okay.
>> On this.
>> I do think at least you because you go to meetings and and other things for us. Yeah. That I would like to get something in the budget that we could reimburse you for your.
>> Sure. That should be there.
>> Yeah. Okay. That's that'd be great. Um, me and I just don't.
>> Right. Right. I hear that. And I'm I mean, I'm here too on a volunteer basis. Came here, didn't expect anything different uh whatsoever.
>> But just kind of researching on how others do it and what they're doing and that sort of thing. It's like, okay, well maybe we need to look at that a little bit. So, why don't why don't I figure out um how the reimbursement protocol.
>> Goes with other ones and we'll look at that and maybe next meeting or the next. It's no rush.
>> Right. You know, we'll have to do we figure it out. It may not be till next year or whatever. And that's that's fine. We'll figure it out.
>> Right.
>> Yeah. Sure. Exactly. And that's all it would really need to apply for. Not for these meetings. We're here.
>> Yeah. So.
>> You do other traveling for.
>> Yeah. The content.
>> Sure. Content creation and that sort of thing. But, you know, that's all kind of part of it. So, it's it'll work out. But, yeah, re a reimbursement protocol of some sort that we can go by. Maybe uh we can do that and just kind of mileage and and per meeting something. Yeah, we'll figure it out. But that's what I found. there's not much stipen stuff going on that you get into some gray area on conflict of matters that come up out of that. So people stay away from it. Most most AM commissions are all volunteer-based.
>> Commission. So I mean that's that's what we are.
>> So okay well we'll look at that and I'll maybe come up with something uh to propose next meeting.
>> Okay.
>> All righty. Anything else on that one? got this type of taken care of. Any commissioner comments.
>> Um.
>> I see everybody survived the ice storm.
>> Yeah. Yeah, we got out of that. Yeah. I guess I was going to mention a little bit something about the commercial that's playing through the month, that sort of thing. There are people messaging me and say, "Hey, we saw the commercial." Like, "All right, so people people are seeing it." You know, like they're not just playing it at 3 in the morning.
>> Yeah. It's actually during the Olympics and they gave me a schedule and everything. I was like, "Yeah, I want to know when these are playing watch, make sure they're playing it." You know, they said, "Now sometimes, you know, they warned me they may have to switch around that schedule or whatever, but it ends up we're getting in more than the 10 that they guaranteed us.
>> Probably.
>> It's good. We're going to be 20 times or more.
>> Yeah. So.
>> Yeah. And that's another outfit that's really working with us. Um I mean, she offered some more stuff for the Olympics. we just don't have the money for it. But she was giving it like half price to us. Like they I mean they're pulling for us. They really want us to get involved. So it's I mean I I wish we had the money. I would have been all over. Half price to get, you know, on a 30 second commercial during the Olympics. That's Yeah.
>> But for $500, I thought that was a bargain.
>> Yeah, that's great.
>> I think so. So anyway, that was kind of it back on the map on the commercial business. All right.
>> Any online comments, questions?
>> No. Unfortunately, I was not able to get this thing running. I don't know what happened between our meetings or whatever, but it's recording voice.
>> Okay.
>> Okay.
>> So, we'll have we'll have.
>> Apologize for the online.
>> Yeah. Um, it shows it's live here, but it doesn't show us.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah.
>> I'm not going to come up to me when I do this.
>> I I think it is. It's It shows that it's recording our voice. So.
>> I'll check it out.
>> Yeah. Any public comments?
>> We have a public today.
>> Yes, that's right.
>> We do. We have couple of people in the public. So, great.
>> Steve Elcowski from the Chili Book Off. I'm going to be be applying for a $500 grant.
>> Good.
>> We'll use that money just like last year. We'll probably buy it and fun guide and time.
>> Okay.
>> Great.
>> So, did it work last year? Did it help out a lot last year? Okay, good. Yeah. Yeah, last year was a pretty decent turnout.
>> I'll get that in couple weeks.
>> Okay.
>> That sounds great. We'll be happy to do it. It'll be.
>> You're welcome.
>> Oh, you're going to make me get up.
>> Well, yeah.
>> Yep.
>> I think you.
>> You can't sit down all the time.
>> That's okay. I just came primarily to apologize for I didn't fill out the form that we wanted to for our host thing and you were kind enough to give us some money last year for October.
>> Oh, yeah. So, I filled that out and finally gave it to the barn. Okay.
>> And we're going to be applying for again. We'll do the same thing again this year. In April, we're going to have a a comedy music show in the barn.
>> And I'm going to fill out one of those for some advertising. It's going to be very small.
>> Cool.
>> Probably $100 or so.
>> Yeah.
>> But just to let you know, primarily I want to do that. What I really want to do is come and tell you that I think I've got a trailer. It would be a nice thing to do something in one of these parades and bench way ahead of me. Oh, that's so great. We're on the same page, man. I love it.
>> Just call me. We'll work on it.
>> No, I appreciate it. Yeah, we absolutely will. Yeah.
>> There's no cost in place.
>> Right.
>> Right. That's why I was like.
>> All we got to do is get the people to get together out uh, you know, decorate the the the trailer and put those screens on it.
>> Find somebody to drive because last time I drove, my daughter's band was actually on the trailer and a couple of times she said, "Damn near threw me off. Well, here's the problem. The parade is like this.
>> Right?
>> Right.
>> Our trucks.
>> A little touchy. And when a rug rat runs out in front of you to stop.
>> Yeah. You're going to suck and they're going to run out.
>> What happens to the people on the train?
>> Yeah. Right. Right.
>> It would it actually is a lot of fun. More fun to be in a parade than.
>> Sure. Yeah. For sure. I think that would help uh motivate other people to get behind our efforts here and go join us and get on the.
>> Float. Probably four passenger golf carts.
>> Right.
>> Among here that like the mayor and dignitaries could ride it guys.
>> That's what we need. That's what we need. Yeah. We need to look like they do in other.
>> Parade thing about the fire truck. You can put.
>> That's right. You sure can.
>> Run.
>> That's right.
>> I guess we got a mechanic though, don't we?
>> Well, we we just got a mechanic. We do now. We could have Parker look at it.
>> We can make this thing run, right?
>> Yeah. Right. Yeah. I love it. I think that'd be a great idea if we could have that thing in those parades along with our little trailer.
>> Yeah.
>> Hi owns one a trailer someplace, but I'll be darned if I know where they put it.
>> Okay.
>> We used it if you remember a long time ago when we were first becoming a city.
>> Oh, that's when we stood up in the trailer. We That's our That's H Higha's trailer. I can't remember where we stored it, but we remodeled it so you guys could get up and give your.
>> Little speeches, but.
>> Maybe it's behind the barn station.
>> I Well, that's where we used it, but it's not there now. I'll I'll check on it. That would be a permanent thing that we could put.
>> Well, sure. Yeah.
>> Behind the barn or something and.
>> Just leave the frame on it to.
>> Leave the frame on it.
>> Drive it into town and outfit it and go. Yeah.
>> Okay. Is that all the public comments?
>> Any more public comments?
>> All righty. Scheduling. Look like our next meeting is March 16th.
>> March 16th. Okay.
>> Parade.
>> Yeah, that's right.
>> When is the first parade?
>> 14th.
>> 14th.
>> 14th.
>> Now, which one is it? that.
>> St. I might be able to get some high school students to get over.
>> Does that mean time good for everybody?
>> Yeah.
>> The 16th.
>> 16th.
>> You miss.
>> Say that.
>> The meeting on the 16th. Good for you. All right.
>> Irish.
>> All righty. Any more announcements?
>> No, I don't think so.
>> I will move to ajourn.
>> I'll second that.
>> All in favor?
>> I meeting adjourned. Thank y'all for being.