2026-09-02 - KACCB

00:02Does everyone know?

00:05>> Right. And we have Courtney and Carolyn

00:08are online. Cool.

00:09>> Oh, hi guys.

00:10>> Hey.

00:11>> Although uh Carolyn checked in earlier

00:14and found out that I was on the wrong

00:16floor, so she might be. [laughter]

00:19>> Okay.

00:20>> I'm here. Hi, everybody.

00:22>> Hi.

00:23>> Are you streaming from upstairs?

00:26[laughter]

00:27I am streaming from my do outside my

00:30daughter's gymnastics class. So,

00:32apologies for any noise.

00:33>> They're looking at us.

00:37>> All righty. Uh we can call this meeting

00:41to order uh for the September

00:44uh keep out of county municipal board

00:46meeting. Um

00:50and I think the motion for that um

00:54approved

00:56Do we want to do the member things?

00:59>> Yeah, I was going to go. Yes. Um, we

01:01have three new board members in the

01:03space and then we also have everybody

01:04else who has seen each other but they

01:07don't know some some of them don't know

01:09who we are. So, let's um do names and

01:12then

01:14uh maybe what yeah what what you do

01:17outside of KCCB. Um so, my name's Ezra.

01:20Um, I've been on the board, this will be

01:22our third year and I'm the volunteer

01:25coordinator of the council nation.

01:27>> You're also the chief.

01:28>> I'm also the new chair. You're not

01:31saying that.

01:32>> No, no, no. Yeah.

01:33>> Hi, I'm Alison R. I'm a county

01:35commissioner and I'm happy to be here

01:37for 13 years as the mayor's liaison.

01:41>> I'm Carlos Pinto. I'm the literal

01:43business.

01:45Sorry. a special literal business

01:48specialist for Keys and Beautiful. I've

01:50been at the role for seven years.

01:55>> I'm Joe Hill. I work for Robins

01:58Financial Credit Union and uh this is my

02:01second tour of duty, my first tour of my

02:05first term

02:07for the second time around.

02:10>> I'm Johnny Patterson. This is my first

02:12board meeting and I'm the aftermarket

02:14manager for Benchmark automation. We

02:16make uh custom packaging machinery.

02:21>> Yeah, welcome. Thank you.

02:23>> I'm Erikica Murley. Um I uh work for

02:26Senovis and for Lucros as well outside

02:29of here and this is only my second

02:31meeting.

02:34>> I'm Kila. I've been on this board for I

02:37think about two years um outside of this

02:40board. I'm on the business committee on

02:41this board. Um, but outside of this

02:43board, I work in real estate and I hang

02:47out a lot in the art and music

02:50community. And

02:54I'm Elizabeth Miller. Um, this is my

02:57third the beginning of my third year on

02:59the board. Um, and I'm a wildlife

03:01biologist for US Department of

03:03Agriculture.

03:05Hello, I'm Meg Kazanti. Um I this is

03:08start of year two um on the board for

03:11me. I've got uh volunte based on being

03:14married to the trash man. So you can see

03:17us probably picking up trash around

03:19town.

03:21>> My name is Eping that I'm also in the

03:23beginning of the second year of the

03:25first. Yeah.

03:27>> I work at at Scott County government and

03:31I also aside from the board do real

03:34estate.

03:35I am Stacy Frell. Um, I have been with

03:39this board for 24 years.

03:42Um, and outside of that, I do this.

03:49>> Hi, I'm Stacy Smith. I work for Keeps

03:52Park County. Beautiful. I am the program

03:54coordinator and it is 15 years.

03:59>> Uh, hi, I'm Florenza Roger, Chico.

04:02That's what everybody calls me. I am the

04:04treasure. This is my gez either my third

04:08or fourth stint doing this bad boy. So I

04:11know this is my second year to my

04:12three-year term. So

04:16hey I'm Learius. Uh and this is my sixth

04:21year. Yeah, my last year

04:24>> for now. Um but um and yeah, so I uh

04:29actually have a DJ and production

04:32business. So, that's what I do. A lot of

04:34weddings,

04:35>> a lot of favorite dances, a lot of

04:37theaters.

04:39[laughter]

04:39>> Um, and I'm Katie Floyd. I'm the

04:40secretary. Outside of uh Oh, this is my

04:42third year on the board. Um, it's great.

04:45I love it. Uh, outside of this, I work

04:47for UG as staff and I want to apologize.

04:51>> Cool.

04:52>> Carolyn, do you want to go?

04:55>> Um, hey everybody. I'm Carolyn Tru. I am

04:59on the outreach committee and the

05:02business committee here at Keep Athens

05:05Beautiful. And I guess I'm starting my

05:07second year. Um, outside of all this,

05:11I'm just I just do a bunch of stuff. I'm

05:15just a community. I'm involved in a lot

05:18in the community and I um I'm a I guess

05:21my main reason for being here is as a

05:23compost advocate in for the school

05:26district.

05:30Courtney, are you on a spot?

05:32>> Hey. Yes, I am. Hey, I'm Courtney

05:34Meadows. I am the vice chair. This is my

05:38fourth year, despite the fact that I'm a

05:40figment of your imagination through the

05:42phone today. And um when I'm not at Keep

05:48Athens Park County Beautiful meetings,

05:50I'm at the um Athens Community Council

05:52on Aging with my co-orker Ezra and I'm

05:55the marketing director.

05:58Great.

06:00>> All right. Um, we're missing just a

06:02couple board members, but we have

06:04quorum, so we're we're good to roll. And

06:06then we do have one additional new board

06:08member, Chloe Simmers, who's not here

06:11today, but we'll be at future meetings.

06:13Um, Chloe's great. She is with uh UG

06:18government relations office. So, um, so

06:21we'll have another friendly face to join

06:23us next time. Um, plus a few others. So,

06:26the next thing we have to do is um

06:27approve the August minutes. Um there a

06:31motion to approve August minutes.

06:34>> Motion.

06:36>> Uh I'll second.

06:39>> Um and then all those in favor of

06:42approving the August minutes say I.

06:44>> I.

06:45>> Any opposed say nay.

06:48Right. Um cool. Then August minutes are

06:52approved. Uh, we'll go to Stacy for the

06:55treasures report.

06:57>> No.

06:58>> No. Oh. Oh, sorry. Oh, yeah. I got

07:01excited about tech report. What about

07:04it, Chico?

07:05>> All right. Uh, reports, though, we've

07:08got a a couple of things. Uh, under

07:10income, we did get a UG donation. I was

07:13going to check if that was from Rivers

07:14Alive. It was a $500 check. That was I

07:17still

07:20collections.

07:23And then uh for Dirty Dance, we had

07:25$2,500 uh between our two sponsors.

07:28Thanks to those guys. Uh we received our

07:30$2,500 check for our Georgia Beautiful

07:33grant. And then we transferred $6028 for

07:36PayPal. So that was a total of 5,560

07:38bucks at 28. Uh we did take out, let's

07:41see, it was 2806 for those wraps rivers

07:45alive $500 love you live grant. And then

07:48we did take out $400 for the cash box at

07:50this uh for our dirty dance. So our

07:53total net revenue for the last month was

07:55$4,6322.

07:58Our total money situation for the end of

08:00August. Our checking has $16,429.38.

08:04Our money market has $23,2512.

08:08Our 13-month CD is still going. That's

08:1025,000. That should mature in March or

08:12April of 2027 for those who don't know.

08:15That gives us a total account of

08:17$64,634.50,

08:20which is up from last month. So, and we

08:23definitely will be depositing a lot of

08:24money tomorrow from the dirty dance. So,

08:28>> any questions?

08:32>> Yeah. A comment though, you probably

08:34you're going to be in the envelope I

08:36gave you, there is a bunch of money

08:37coming in that is allocated to Rivers

08:40Alive. there are sponsors coming in and

08:42um as a partner for that event we take

08:46care of the money and so we've gotten a

08:48couple other checks.

08:50>> You mentioned one from the library

08:53that I was unaware that that had come

08:55in. Is that the one that's on your

08:57report?

08:58>> Yes.

09:03>> All right. Yes. Do

09:05>> we know what our total was last year for

09:08Dirty Dance? And how does it compare?

09:10>> We're not the information up. I don't

09:12have a quick We should have it, I'm

09:14sure, by the time we do our meeting.

09:18>> Yep.

09:18>> We'll have a might be able to find it.

09:21Yeah.

09:28>> Is there a motion to approve the

09:31Treasury report?

09:35Okay, cool.

09:37>> Um, for all those in favor of approving

09:39the treasure report, say I.

09:42>> I, Captain.

09:43>> Any of those opposed, say nay.

09:45>> None.

09:49All right. Uh, by that vote, treasure

09:52report is approved. Uh, now we can get

09:55to the exact report.

09:56>> All right. Well, first and foremost, you

09:58guys, I didn't send out the email

10:00because we're still calculating numbers,

10:01but I just I mean, I want to just say

10:04thank you so much to everyone for what

10:07seemed like a pretty seamless

10:10um and pretty well attended event. Um,

10:14for those of us that have been around

10:16for a while, there's always seems to be

10:18something like moms who are upset about

10:21their kid didn't win the dance contest.

10:23Uh, right. uh you know some hula hoop

10:26madness um you know some what have we

10:30what else we had you guys I don't know

10:31some uh food truck food truck issues you

10:35know this year it seemed pretty smooth

10:37and that is thanks to all of you um many

10:41hands make light work and I think that

10:44this v event really does prove that so

10:47um an immense amount of gratitude to

10:49everyone for coming to the event and

10:51hopefully everybody had a lot of fun so

10:53this is one of our main fundraisers for

10:55the daffodil project. Um I do think we

10:58made more money than last year. So we

11:00don't have

11:01>> we came up with 8,000

11:04$11324

11:07last year

11:07>> from last year. So as you can see there

11:11is sort of the breakdown of what we made

11:13and that does not include um money from

11:16however much money we made on the drinks

11:18at Little Kings. They haven't told us

11:20yet. So there'll be a little bit more

11:21money coming in. Um, but as you can see,

11:25you know, we made almost 1500 at the

11:27door. We uh the raffle, we did a great

11:31job with the raffle, over $4,000. Face

11:34painting, $41. And then on top of the

11:37two sponsorships that Chico mentioned

11:39earlier, we also had a donation of $500

11:41that came in um as well, kind of

11:44specifically for the project. So that

11:47kind of means the, you know, between um

11:50our sponsors and that donation um that

11:54that uh was an extra several thousand.

11:58So our total without Little Kings was

12:02$8,474.94.

12:05>> So well done. Well done.

12:09>> We um shared here our raffle winners.

12:12one of our very own and solid waste won

12:15Suki Jansen and I think for those of us

12:18I I was very excited that she won

12:20because every year she don donates

12:21anywhere from 75 to $100 um or doesn't

12:24donate she buys that many tickets every

12:26year. So for all these years she's been

12:30waiting to win

12:31>> and she won. So I was particularly

12:34excited that she won. Um and then I

12:36don't know the other folks. Does anybody

12:38know the other folks that won?

12:42No, always kind of fun when you know.

12:46So, um, so those are the folks that won.

12:48>> Who were their winners? What were their

12:50names?

12:52>> Um, Rachel Schwarz

12:55and Chris Garcia

12:58and then Suki Janser.

13:00>> Okay.

13:03So, um, we will put up like tomorrow,

13:07um, we'll do a Google doc. will send it

13:09out to we always like to ask for, you

13:12know, suggestions or things we notice.

13:14We do it called a wrap-up report and

13:16then that way when we go to start

13:18planning next year, we can look at uh

13:21some ideas or some, you know, way to

13:24maybe improve on upon things um if they

13:27didn't go as particularly well as we

13:28thought. Um but does anybody else have

13:31any comments?

13:32>> Well, I wrote some notes. Yeah, that was

13:35just like I think as we went, but it was

13:37like I think overall really good. Um,

13:41yeah. What did we say?

13:42>> We said we said that it would be good to

13:45have a square swapper.

13:49>> Square what?

13:50>> Square reader.

13:52>> Yeah.

13:52>> What else did you say?

13:54>> Uh,

13:55>> oh. Oh, yes. that the drinks that are

13:59donating the dollar to us, it would be

14:03good if it was served outside to kind of

14:06divide the line because the line was so

14:08long.

14:08>> They needed more bar to come.

14:10>> Yeah, the first year we've ever really

14:12experienced that. And that was that was

14:14true from the get-go from like 5:30. It

14:17was a problem. They did try. T was

14:19telling me they tried to staff more and

14:21they ran into problems with scheduling

14:23and people just being like too tired

14:25from working shifts before that. Tried

14:27to get a third bartender on and I think

14:29was aware that it was going to be a

14:31little messy because they were not able

14:34to.

14:34>> Yeah. Or having those drinks premix.

14:38>> They they did have preach.

14:39>> Yeah, they had they were pre-batched.

14:41The problem was like I mean I had a lady

14:42in front of me who walked up and ordered

14:44eight apperal spritzes

14:46>> and I was like well that's what we're

14:48all waiting 15 minutes for now.

14:50>> They also seem to have an antiquated

14:52system.

14:53>> They take Yeah, they they handwrite

14:54cards and everything.

14:56>> That was part of

14:56>> that's probably the [laughter]

15:00other part too that some people were one

15:02time up and then gone. So they're like

15:04getting eight drinks, checking out and

15:07done. And so, you know, people had tabs.

15:10I don't know if they would do that, but

15:12they had tabs. You're just up there. You

15:14just want to refill.

15:15>> Yeah. And, you know, it was a good mix

15:18that that shows how many people were

15:20there. Bash cocktails were great.

15:21>> Yeah,

15:22>> they were great. They always they always

15:24come up with a cocktail for us and allow

15:25us to name those cocktails. And um, you

15:29know, again, we've never ever I don't

15:31believe we've ever had that problem in

15:33all these years. It was very clear that

15:35they were missing. you one extra

15:37bartender would have done it. Um so um I

15:40think it just with what is kind of

15:42happening right now with their

15:43bartenders. So

15:45>> small price to pay for the uh compation.

15:48>> That's right. That's right. They do not

15:51charge us and hopefully the bartenders

15:53made a good bit of money. I always want

15:54to make sure that people take care of

15:55them. So

15:57>> yeah,

15:57>> I feel like we asked a few people that

15:59were coming in like oh like how'd you

16:00hear about it or like uh you've been

16:03before? and it was like a kind of a good

16:05mix of answers like I've never been here

16:06or I've never heard of this and they

16:09like it about and other people like I

16:11came specifically for this. So um we

16:13were at the door most and it was like a

16:15good flow and a good mix of people I

16:17thought. So

16:18>> well you know I have a question about

16:19that because I didn't write down the

16:20number of attendees because there were

16:23two there are two clickers and two

16:24different numbers.

16:25>> So did you guys just use

16:27>> just one just one the silver one?

16:29>> You just use the silver one.

16:31>> Okay. So over 300 though it was like

16:34seven and eight or something like that.

16:36>> Just a silver one. Okay. We weren't

16:37sure.

16:38>> But that's not counting any like um

16:40>> performers,

16:42>> right?

16:43>> Because they can like

16:46>> that's I'll put that in my notes. What

16:47should we count next time?

16:49>> Yeah.

16:50>> Yeah.

16:53>> Okay. So over 300 paying folks. That's

16:56right.

16:57>> And then

16:59Yeah. There were a couple of folks I saw

17:01sneaking into the gate.

17:02>> So, can I ask about that number ending

17:05the door? What amount was 148860? How do

17:08we come up with that amount?

17:09>> I'm sorry. Say that again.

17:10>> It says we raised up the door, 1488.

17:14>> It's Well, I don't know how it's

17:18>> not even because PayPal takes it. If

17:20they play they pay with PayPal, it's not

17:22going to come up.

17:24>> Yeah.

17:26>> Yep.

17:29Yeah, but we'll send that doc out. So,

17:31if there's anything that you guys want

17:33to add to it, um, don't be afraid.

17:38>> Our DJ was fantastic. It was so good.

17:42>> Was there

17:44was there was sitting at the raffle

17:46table saying like, DJ was really good.

17:50>> Jesus litter couldn't come originally

17:52and then he something happened. He was

17:54going to be in town and he just says he

17:56said it. I actually was with him after

17:58the event for a little while. He's a

17:59personal friend. He's just like, you

18:02know, this event is so much fun. Like, I

18:03just wanted to come like to participate.

18:05He's like, I love seeing the families. I

18:07love seeing the kids dance for their

18:08their parents. I love everything about

18:10it. He's just a huge supporter. So, and

18:13he raved about the DJ. He was [laughter]

18:16like, "That guy's good." I'm like,

18:17"Well, he's a professional."

18:21>> And the music was great.

18:22>> The music was great. We lost one wig.

18:25The blonde wig. Did we? Yeah. That's

18:28always We have casualties with those

18:29kids. They're having so much fun running

18:31around, but it is often like, "How many

18:33of those costume pieces will we get

18:35back?"

18:36>> Yeah. Yeah. I I caught on

18:39the heck out of that blonde wig. That

18:41little

18:41>> Oh, I couldn't find him. [laughter]

18:47>> Yeah, he had a blonde wig on. I'm like,

18:49I was looking for [laughter]

18:51>> Yeah. drove me nuts.

18:54>> Uh question.

18:55>> Yeah.

18:56>> Uh for the sponsorships here, uh I see

18:58one that says Richmond. Is that a

19:00person?

19:01>> Oh, it probably meant to be.

19:03>> It may have auto corrected Robins. Yeah.

19:05Sorry about that. Thanks for catching

19:06that. We'll change it.

19:08>> Sorry, Joe.

19:09>> That answers my question. I wasn't

19:11bringing up.

19:12>> Yeah. [laughter]

19:14Um, and then like outside of

19:15memberships, uh, is there a way someone

19:18can just make a donation that that could

19:21come to the event?

19:23>> Absolutely. Uh, yeah. Yep. They can they

19:26can make a donation whenever they want.

19:32>> People talk to it.

19:35>> Did we get any memberships this year?

19:38>> Alison, did we get any memberships this

19:40year?

19:41>> Not at the side. We we weren't we didn't

19:43feel like we were a money table.

19:45>> Yeah.

19:46>> Suki brochure sort of a take. We we

19:49tried have no empty hands leaving that

19:52table.

19:53>> Yeah.

19:53>> I want to know how many people still

19:54have their tattoo on. They can't get it

19:56off.

19:57>> Really? [clears throat]

19:59>> Anyway, couldn't put it on. [laughter]

20:04>> Okay. I gave the donation.

20:07>> Yeah. Not that.

20:09>> Yeah. So that went in with the door.

20:12Yeah. Um, well, anyways, thank you guys

20:15again. It was it was a great event. It's

20:17kind of one of the bigger events that we

20:19do and I feel like it was successful. We

20:21made a little bit more money than we did

20:22last year and that's the goal. So, um,

20:26kudos to everyone.

20:29All right. You can see all the revenue

20:30there. We um have received some just

20:34miscellaneous purchases like from people

20:36wanted to love where you live signs. Uh

20:38we do have been getting in some revenue

20:40from the phones. We sold uh one compost

20:43bin, a couple memberships, and then

20:45we've been getting in a a bunch of

20:46Rivers Alive sponsorships, but that it's

20:48flow through, so it's not really doesn't

20:50ever necessarily

20:52get specific to that event.

20:55Um

20:57all right,

20:59expenditures.

21:01Uh we did have a Love Where You Live

21:02grant for the Little Gardens Everywhere.

21:05Um, and this for those that are new,

21:07this is why we raise money is so that we

21:09can just give it right back out to the

21:10community. That's kind of our jam here

21:13to give um, love where you live grants

21:16or green schools grants. So, green

21:18school grants for schools and love where

21:20you live for places other than schools,

21:22oftentimes churches, nonprofit

21:25organizations, um, that want to do some

21:27sort of beautifification and or

21:29aesthetic, you know, change the

21:30aesthetics of their outdoor environment.

21:33And then request for funds. Oh, so the

21:36one the one thing they did do, David my

21:39David Hyde uh ended up paying the uh fee

21:42for the bill, the bar tab for KCCB

21:47because they messed up they they

21:49associated him with KCCB. And so all of

21:53the drinks that he was putting they put

21:54on our tab and it got a little

21:56confusing. And at the end of the night I

21:58asked and they separated his out. But in

22:01the moment he said, "Let me just pay it

22:02the tab." And then so um I just wanted

22:06to make sure that we can pay him back

22:07for the $70. Those came from drinks. We

22:11did give out uh drink tickets, free

22:13drink tickets to sponsors. Um and then I

22:18and then Learius, I was, you know,

22:19making sure that, you know, he needed

22:22something that our GM was well um

22:25hydrated. Um, so I just wanted to make

22:28sure that that was okay. Um, to do that

22:33and then the other thing I guess so

22:35that's the first one and then there's

22:36another one that's not on there.

22:39Anybody have any questions about that?

22:44Um, and then the second one is I would

22:47like to donate some money to Learius for

22:50stepping in when we needed him. I we

22:52every year we pay DJ less litter. Um, he

22:56does it. You know, it's not a ton of

22:57money, but he does it. Uh, and I think

22:59that we should pay Larius the same

23:01amount that we would pay it with DJ.

23:03>> Agree.

23:06>> Well, you can choose to do it if you

23:08want, but it's only fair stepped in.

23:11When DJ left, couldn't do it. So, I just

23:14feel like that's the right thing to do.

23:18>> Those are those are my two requests for

23:19money.

23:22Do we need like a number for the second

23:24request or can we just say

23:26>> so I would just I you know I didn't I

23:30forgot to look up what we did for him

23:32last year. So I it's under $500. I it

23:37was $250 for a while. I think it may

23:40went up last year. Can you CC might Cece

23:43might be able to tap into it or Chico?

23:46>> He's looking.

23:48>> We can just approve up to

23:49>> Yeah. Okay.

23:50>> Yeah.

23:51>> Um, yeah, we'll need

23:53>> Okay,

23:54>> two votes.

23:54>> Sorry about that. That I didn't have a

23:56chance to look that up.

23:57>> Okay. Um, is there a motion to um

24:02reverse David Hive for the KCB tickets?

24:06>> Motion

24:08second.

24:09>> For all those in favor say I.

24:11>> I.

24:12>> I.

24:12>> For all those against say nay.

24:16>> Uh, we have approved that. Um, and then

24:18is there a motion um to compensate DJ

24:24Larius for his work? Um,

24:29dance.

24:30>> Motion. Second.

24:32>> All right. For all those in favor say I.

24:34>> I.

24:35>> All those against say nay.

24:37>> All right. Cool. That's been approved,

24:38too. So, um, then we need another motion

24:43to,

24:44um, approve the executive director

24:46report. Somebody's out there.

24:48>> Motion.

24:49>> Second.

24:51>> For all those in favor of approving the

24:52executive director report say I.

24:54>> I.

24:55>> For all those against say I.

25:02>> It's the cadence.

25:04>> That's right. [laughter]

25:06>> Response.

25:07>> Was um I forgot the two. What did you

25:09guys were you guys feel good about the

25:11taco truck? Oh yeah. It was so good.

25:13>> Yeah.

25:14>> Their food was fantastic. I felt really

25:16really good until I got to the last bite

25:17of my burrito, in which case I clearly

25:19accidentally put in a little bit of sour

25:20cream.

25:21>> Oh,

25:24>> anyways,

25:26>> I had a great I had a great night.

25:29[laughter]

25:33>> We did, but I mean I mean I had sour

25:36cream, so that was an issue. [laughter]

25:41>> All right,

25:42>> we did a great It was super It was a

25:43great event. You guys do a great job.

25:45>> I mean, you guys do.

25:46>> I mean, we all do a great job, but

25:48>> I know it's a lot.

25:54>> Um, now we can go to the committee

25:56meetings. Um,

25:58start with business and industry.

26:01>> I am Joseph Sty.

26:02>> Yes. Again, um, so Joseph couldn't make

26:06it. I just found out like 10 minutes ago

26:07that Joseph wasn't going to make it to

26:08the meeting today. So, I'm not as

26:10prepared as I would like to be. Um, we

26:12do have our business meeting, committee

26:14meeting that we are planning on having

26:15tomorrow at Hidden Gym. Um, we're going

26:18to meet up there around 5:00 if anybody

26:20wants to join in on that. We are going

26:21to be talking about um the vape disposal

26:25buckets, getting this out to

26:26restaurants. A couple of us have already

26:28on the side since our last meeting been

26:31talking to a couple of places about

26:32implementing that and having them there.

26:34So, we've got a couple of places that

26:36are on board. uh at the business

26:38committee meeting tomorrow. We also kind

26:40of plan on mapping out a little bit what

26:43the rest of the year looks like for us

26:45as a committee and what kind of other

26:47little side projects we want to take on.

26:50Um Joseph will be sending an email out

26:52after this meeting either tonight or

26:54tomorrow morning for the beautiful

26:55business of the month. Um,

26:58if you per per usual, if you have any

27:01businesses um that you've seen around

27:03town that we have not mentioned or have

27:06not been nominated, um, feel free to

27:08shoot me or Joseph an email and let us

27:12know. Um, if you can snap a photo of,

27:14that's super appreciated. If you can't,

27:16I can always figure it out and make it

27:18happen. So,

27:20>> and that's all.

27:21>> You could scream out recommendations

27:22right now.

27:23>> You could you could scream them out

27:24right now and I would write them down as

27:25fast as possible.

27:28got a lot of new businesses in town or

27:30new restaurants.

27:30>> We got a lot of new restaurants

27:32unfortunately so far. Um I mean, you

27:35know, there's a couple that are downtown

27:37that don't really have much

27:40storefrontage or space to really do too

27:43much with. I've not gotten over to like

27:46Gobbies or anything like that to see

27:47what it looks like outside there, but

27:49I've heard they've tried to do a pretty

27:50good job with that building. Um, but

27:53yeah, we have a couple of places on the

27:55east side, too, that have recently

27:56opened. So, there's definitely some

27:58businesses to be uh exploring that we

28:01haven't had a chance to mention yet. And

28:03I actually just spoke right before

28:05walking into this meeting to um the

28:08owners of Henbar that'll be opening

28:10where Tristophers was. And I'm sure

28:12they'll do something uh pretty creative

28:15out there for their patio area. Some

28:18good vibes.

28:19>> Did we do Nova Mesto yet?

28:22Then you can take the picture while you

28:23have your meeting. Oh,

28:25>> and I'm I'm all and I'm already at

28:26nobody very much there all the time. So

28:28we can definitely have that experience.

28:30Their patio is too beautiful.

28:33>> Climbing right next to it.

28:34>> Active climbing is right next to

28:36>> active climbing.

28:41>> And then you

28:44last one last time. Yeah.

28:45>> Oh, I wasn't.

28:49>> They really really appreciated that too.

28:50I think they actually shared it and um I

28:54told them they asked if there was an

28:55award. I told them there was an award

28:57and I would give it to them shortly, but

28:59um the owners of News just had a baby.

29:01So they're very in the weeds of

29:06first time parents right now with a

29:07newborn. So I don't think that their

29:09KACCCB award is at the top of their

29:11priority list necessarily, but they have

29:13they've inquired about it. So

29:16all right, so you said active funding.

29:18Great.

29:22wire pretty much [laughter]

29:24your head.

29:25>> Yes.

29:28>> Yeah. But like I said, if you guys see

29:30anything, I mean, and feel free to get a

29:33little creative with it. I I don't

29:35personally make it out quite as far on

29:37the east side very often. Um, if there

29:40are some people who do, by all means,

29:42like, let me know if there are

29:43businesses that

29:44>> Problem is, they don't look that great.

29:46So, like Jake's Place just opened up.

29:48Yeah, I said I was going to ask.

29:50>> I went there for lunch today. They're

29:51highly understaffed. If you need a job

29:52being a waiter or waitress, they need

29:54some folks. Um but they didn't actually

29:56do anything um on the outside. There's

30:00there's nothing to welcome flowers or

30:02plants.

30:04>> That is um Firefly Farm Stop an option.

30:07>> Yeah, we nominated them last month. They

30:10were one of the nominations. And that's

30:11the other thing. We have a ton of uh

30:13businesses that are nominated that have

30:15not won. I'm I don't see any problem

30:18with them being kind of tossed right

30:20back in the pot for a potential for

30:24winning if they haven't yet, especially

30:26if they are maintaining a really nice

30:28space. So, it's not like we don't have

30:30anything to pick from right now. It's

30:32just that we've kind of all seen what

30:34what we do have and if you have anything

30:37new, I'm happy to throw it in there.

30:38Otherwise, I'm going to kind of keep

30:39going through some of the ones that have

30:41not won yet that have been eliminated.

30:45>> [clears throat]

30:46>> That's it for me.

30:49>> All right. Um events. Hey. Um we just

30:54had one

30:56>> and we talked about it

30:58uh during the executive director's

30:59report. Um we haven't actually had a

31:02meeting since um our last one yet. So um

31:05we'll kind of come with some updates in

31:07the meantime. We because we had the

31:08Kendra Scott event that came up. Um

31:11>> Oh, how' we do with that, Courtney?

31:15You know, I haven't thought about that

31:16until just now. I'll find out how much

31:18we made from it. I haven't heard from

31:19them.

31:20>> Okay.

31:21>> Oh, yeah. Um, and then, uh, once again,

31:25just like a much huge appreciation to

31:27everybody that helped put, uh, Dirty

31:29Dance together. Um, really wonderful,

31:32amazing, uh, hot but not too hot event.

31:35>> We got lucky.

31:36>> Got lucky. And um and then uh one of one

31:39of the things we want to make sure that

31:41we do and we'll um we'll have that

31:42resource out to everybody is um for

31:45everyone that picked up donations from

31:48uh our local businesses and

31:49organizations. Um we'll have a a thank

31:51you letter. Um and then you'll just each

31:54person kind of personalize it to

31:56wherever you picked it up from. Um I

31:58think the uh on the spreadsheet should

32:03have the values there. Um, some of them

32:06might be non-existent. So, I don't know

32:08if you

32:08>> I think we did pretty good this year.

32:10Does that have a tax?

32:12>> So, yeah.

32:12>> Yeah. Yeah. So, it'll it'll be like a a

32:14tax letter. Um, so we'll basically

32:16personalize it and send it out to each

32:18business. You do it by email and drop it

32:20off person. Um,

32:22>> and but really I want to just stress

32:24like for everybody that got their

32:26donations, like it's a template. It's

32:27pretty easy to do, but we just we don't

32:30want to forget to thank somebody. So, we

32:32really sort of in the office want to

32:34hear back and make sure you've done it.

32:36Um, or if you're having trouble doing

32:38it, let us know and we can do it. But we

32:40just we don't want to ever forget to

32:41thank our local folks for always

32:44contributing. And you know, if you think

32:45about it, the ba the baskets were almost

32:49all rated a thousand or over.

32:51>> Yeah.

32:52>> So, it's like $3,000 worth of stuff that

32:54is just from our local community. Um,

32:57and we're so grateful and thankful. So,

33:00we need to make sure we thank them. So,

33:02we'll make sure we're going to send that

33:03out and we'll pester you until you get

33:05it done. That's that's what we do.

33:08>> Um, also, and then Elizabeth from Old

33:12Pow is going to uh write us a check

33:14tonight. Uh, I'm not sure how much it is

33:16exactly from.

33:17>> Oh, from the front.

33:19>> Okay.

33:20>> Um, and that's it for the moment until

33:24we have our next meeting. It's usually

33:26kind of sort of in your mind.

33:29update you with new stuff.

33:30>> The next time we meet, we'll talk about

33:32the other sort of small things we talked

33:34about with past doing. Okay.

33:36>> How do you feel about karaoke again?

33:39>> As long as you're you're DJing it.

33:42>> I mean, Carlos and I had a great time.

33:44>> Yeah. [laughter]

33:45>> I mean, I thought it was super fun. We

33:47were It was kind of like we were

33:48piloting it, right? Because we didn't

33:50get the information out till last

33:51minute. We didn't get to do a bunch of

33:53publicity.

33:55Um,

33:57I thought it was super fun.

33:58>> You know, Mesa's been having some pretty

34:00good luck with their karaoke nights,

34:02too. And I think it's because they're

34:03they just started doing it. They're

34:04doing their second one coming up soon,

34:05but they said their first one was like

34:07pretty I think it's because the space is

34:09like a little bit more open and they use

34:11that projector for like lyrics and

34:14everything. So, it's a little bit easier

34:15for people to

34:17move around while they're doing it. I

34:20know that we love Old Pal too. just

34:22didn't know if there was a because

34:24there's parking.

34:25>> I don't know that we've ever hosted like

34:27a karaoke.

34:29>> Um although we have seant nights where

34:33we but it's it's less like a and more of

34:36just like a bunch of old men getting

34:38together in a circle. So [laughter]

34:41similar but different.

34:47Um, so I mean I don't want to say no,

34:49but we haven't specifically done

34:50anything like that. But

34:51>> I could just say no.

34:53>> No, but Rachel, we've talked about we've

34:55talked about doing quarterly dance

34:57parties, like fall dance parties. Um,

35:00you know,

35:01>> what's that?

35:01>> Someone adapted your discos.

35:03>> Yeah, some adapted the discos. We I

35:05remember we talked about it after the

35:06last one and and talked about maybe

35:08starting it a little bit later and you

35:10know, you know,

35:12>> it's hard to sing and dance when it's

35:14still light outside, I find. What is

35:17that?

35:21[laughter]

35:25>> Blackout window.

35:29>> Um but yeah, so we'll we'll send out

35:31updates with that. So just check your

35:33email um for those uh letter resources

35:37and then we'll kind of get everything

35:38obviously.

35:40Um, I I'll go next. And then do we have

35:43any more of those um like literish

35:46shelfish shellfish stickers?

35:48>> Yeah,

35:48>> those would be fun to add into the

35:50because I people love those stickers and

35:52like any bar or any would could like

35:56either take the sticker themselves or

35:58put it up on like their wall or

35:59whatever. Whenever like I have them out,

36:01people are like, "Where'd you get that

36:02sticker from?" It's like

36:03>> I gave my away.

36:05>> Yeah. So, like I don't know if we

36:06there's a way that we could like if you

36:07can go to the KCB office, pick up those

36:09stickers when you drop off your letter,

36:12toss those in the envelope or whatever.

36:13I think that would be the fun little

36:14like

36:15>> spread in case KCB off the like here's a

36:18fun sticker.

36:19>> What else?

36:20>> Nice. Uh, all right. So, outreach uh

36:24committee. Um, yeah, as Stacey

36:27mentioned, we did have a love where we

36:29live grant and that we had talked about

36:31that last meeting as well. Um but so far

36:33in the fiscal year which is started in

36:36July to pet one. Um so yeah I do know of

36:40organizations that u might be interested

36:42in finding the space. Um reach out have

36:46them reach out to us. They can apply. Um

36:49and then we do have a litter league at

36:50the end of this month at the library. Um

36:53and that's during the library book sale.

36:54That's all squared away. Carlos I put in

36:57the request for tools this afternoon.

37:00So, and then we're squared away at the

37:01library. Uh Jackie helped us with that.

37:05So, that's great. Um and then we had

37:07floated a second one like the weekend

37:09after. And then uh I think it's just

37:12like too much. So, we just stick with

37:15one for September and we want to look

37:17for more. We'll look for another site in

37:20uh October, Decemberish, November times.

37:24Um, so if you have a spot around your

37:25neighborhood that has a good location

37:27for a little league pickup, um, let us

37:30know. Um, we've been trying to float

37:32around throughout the throughout the

37:34county. So, um, that is it. Outreach

37:38folks,

37:40>> you guys have a meeting coming up.

37:42>> This good question. This is on the uh,

37:44this is on the let's grab people on the

37:46way out question. Um, but yeah, we we we

37:49did have a Thursday night meeting

37:51regularly. Um but we are decad that's

37:54too late in the evening. So we need to

37:56find a new time to meet probably. Um so

38:01when we have that I'll send it out. I

38:03don't have nothing planned right now but

38:05we will get it planned soon.

38:10Questions?

38:12have a question back to the dirty dance

38:14which may require research on

38:17confirmation on how many years we've

38:18been doing dirty dance so that if next

38:21year is in fact 10 years maybe we think

38:24about it a little different

38:29>> it might be nine but somebody asked me

38:31actually when they were at the raffle

38:33table how many years we've been doing

38:34this and I said that's a wonderful

38:36question

38:37>> yeah I don't know the answer

38:40>> we'll look that up because we Don't

38:42actually know the answer either. Just

38:43[laughter] we just like roll the egg,

38:46you know. First folder says 2020.

38:51>> Oh no.

38:58>> Is it well intended?

39:07>> Um,

39:09>> all right. I think we're good with the

39:10committee meeting. We don't need a a

39:12motion for that. But uh we'll go to old

39:15old business.

39:17>> Um

39:18>> yeah, so normally we start to Azra and I

39:22I mentioned it. I think we talked about

39:23it at the last board meeting just a

39:25little, but normally we try and have a

39:26board retreat that's really really great

39:28for new board members uh but also fun

39:31for us all to be together and really

39:33strategize, right? And that's where some

39:34of the best work for some of these

39:36committees has come out of that. It's

39:38usually three hours. We do dinner at a

39:40location. Um, and it's usually in

39:42October, November, December. Um, it gets

39:45a little squirly when it's in December

39:47because Christmas and all the madness,

39:49you know. So, I would really like to not

39:50have to do that. So, when I look back in

39:52November that we try and do it on the

39:55same day that we always have our board

39:56meeting, but I am going to be in keep

39:59George a beautiful thing for the

40:00November board meeting. So, I just

40:02wanted to bring it up to see if Ezra and

40:06I meet and start talking about November

40:08day. I I don't know that we can pull it

40:10together by October. It's hard to um we

40:13might be able to, but um but if in fact

40:19we're looking at November,

40:21you know, if folks are going to be okay

40:22if we look at another day or another

40:24time kind of a thing. Um which we don't

40:28really have a date or time. I just know

40:29it won't be able to be on the day that

40:31we normally have our board meetings. I

40:34won't be here. I mean, I guess you guys

40:35could do it without me.

40:38That'll be kind of fun.

40:41>> What's that?

40:42>> I won't be hearing too.

40:44>> Okay.

40:45>> Send out a Wednesday.

40:47>> So, is that okay with We'll send out

40:50Maybe we'll do a poll or something.

40:52>> Yeah. This on the 11th. Y'all could

40:53celebrate my birthday, but don't

40:56>> you want to go to for three hours on

40:58your birthday?

40:58>> Yeah. As long as there's cake.

41:00>> I'll be the 11th

41:02>> and karaoke.

41:0312th is our anniversary. and we're going

41:07to know that our we got married the day

41:08after your birthday.

41:11>> Um,

41:12>> okay. I just kind of want to bring that

41:14up.

41:15>> The 11th is a holiday.

41:16>> It's better.

41:20>> I mean, it might be a little early for

41:22November. So, I just want to like get

41:23everyone thinking that way. You know,

41:25we'll send something out, but um

41:29>> but the main idea is that it it replaces

41:32the meeting. It's not like you you're

41:34looking for date. That's right. It's the

41:36one date.

41:37>> That's right. Yeah.

41:39>> And not that it matters, but the merit

41:41commission regular meeting is that

41:43Wednesday because of election day on the

41:45Tuesday.

41:46>> Okay. So, I don't know what might be

41:48circling department.

41:51Would the last week of October also be a

41:54consideration instead of November?

41:57>> Yeah, we can throw, you know what I'll

41:59do? I'll put a little out there. Throw

42:01it out there. I mean, I know that the

42:03reason I want to bring it up, I know

42:04that other people have standing meetings

42:06or board meetings, you know, every

42:07Thursday of the third, you know, and so

42:10when we have to do this, it seems that,

42:12you know, we get a little bit

42:13challenged, but you know, maybe we could

42:15look at a Monday night or something

42:16because often, you know, Mondays seem to

42:20be a little bit easier sometimes for

42:23meetings, board meetings. So, we'll send

42:24Ezra and I'll get together, we'll throw

42:25out two days, we'll do a poll and we

42:27usually like to take it's worthwhile to

42:29come. We always have a really nice

42:31dinner. It's like three hours. We get to

42:33like interact, you know. Um it's also

42:36the opportunity for new board members to

42:38really kind of dig in a little bit with

42:41everyone, get to know everybody and

42:43learn more um about about uh KCC. So,

42:49>> and each committee what each committee

42:51does

42:54>> and which committee will make them cheer

42:56up stuff like that. Which meal? What?

43:00We'll make the new people become cheer.

43:01>> Oh, right. Right. Yeah. If you don't

43:03come, you're volunt Yeah. I mean, that's

43:04not a good idea to not come. I'm just

43:06gonna say.

43:08>> All right.

43:09Cool. I know it's new business as well.

43:12>> So, Rock Lobsters. So, um All right. So,

43:15I did and I'll look really quick just to

43:17see if she mail me back, but um they put

43:22up their notice for nonprofits to put an

43:27application in for Chuck Cook um like

43:30last month or something. So, I went

43:31ahead and I did it. I selected a couple

43:34dates kind of around the time. But the

43:36girl that I usually work with, Lindsay,

43:38she's still there, but she now has

43:41somebody else that's doing a lot of

43:42that. Um, her name's Bella. And so I've

43:45been asking Bella.

43:47I don't have a date. It's going to be

43:49sometime toward the end of January

43:51again. Um, we try to get a date that

43:54works well with whatever their theme is,

43:56you know, that kind of thing. But I also

43:58found out they have another nonprofit of

44:00the game that we might be able to throw

44:02our hat into as well, which is just a

44:04different situation where they donate.

44:06It's not blue checker puck. They just

44:07donate the money to us. So, I'm trying

44:09to get us in on that, too. But I just

44:11wanted to throw that around to you guys.

44:12Sometimes people say, "Well, what's our

44:14next event or what's the next thing?"

44:15And and really in terms of us being

44:18together doing, you know, program for a

44:20couple hours, it's usually chuck a puck,

44:23which is nothing but fun when Kila

44:25dresses up as a lobster and dresses up

44:30as a lobster. [laughter]

44:32>> See all those pucks?

44:33>> I've improved it. After the last one, I

44:36went home and I had like all of the

44:38strings connecting. All of my arms were

44:40no longer connected and I was like, I'm

44:42gonna have to figure this out because I

44:44had just like strings hanging off of my

44:46whole body. Never mind the fact that I

44:48was also like 110 degrees. But we It was

44:51great.

44:51>> You're so good at it, Chico. You're so

44:53good at it. The two of you

44:56[laughter]

44:57guys were having way too much fun. Yeah.

45:00So I love happy

45:04>> there was a lot of

45:06weren't there last year

45:10sides. So we had a little competition

45:11going. So we had two tables not one and

45:14so it got a little competitive

45:18>> in who won.

45:20>> Yeah.

45:24>> We won the boys. There were chance the

45:27puck.

45:29school. We had the camera. We had the

45:32camera thing.

45:33>> Oh, we had the camera thing.

45:36>> We had more documentation.

45:37>> We didn't have the front door, you know.

45:39>> Yeah. The front door spot.

45:43>> The first year was nice.

45:44>> Yeah. Just catch them right as they

45:46walked in. And the first year they

45:48didn't have an official mascot yet. So I

45:50was the person

45:56they've been trying to beat you ever

45:58since.

45:59>> They've been trying

46:01>> like where's the female lobster?

46:04>> So I did just get an email back from

46:06her. She said that the application

46:07process closed last week and they're

46:09starting to go through the applications

46:10now. It should be all released in the

46:12next couple of weeks.

46:14>> I think they have a lot of applications.

46:16I'm really hoping since we are one of

46:17their first nonprofits that we can

46:20maintain one of those rods. So,

46:23>> all right, that was it. That's about the

46:25rock roster.

46:27>> Does that application process ask like

46:30you know what the projected like how

46:33many people we think will get in the

46:34door as a part of like what does it look

46:37like to

46:38>> No, the year before we sold the most

46:41seats of any nonprofit. So we brought in

46:44the most people because you know we get

46:45money for that too. We get $5 for every

46:47ticket we sell through our special code

46:49or whatever.

46:50>> This new person know that. I will remind

46:52her of that tomorrow.

46:54>> A notes section.

46:56>> Our credentials that make sure she

46:59>> didn't know who we were.

47:00>> That's right.

47:01Well, one thing I would say is Lindsay

47:03like her boss I think we you know we

47:05have a great relationship and she really

47:07loves our organization and are they

47:09still active or and so they're a part um

47:12the Rock Lobsters the hockey players are

47:14actually part of our adopt a highway

47:16program so they they do service them

47:19>> so we have personal connection

47:20>> a personal connection

47:22>> yeah that needs to be also

47:25>> so

47:27and then the last thing before we were

47:29about to be done I I couldn't remember

47:31if I brought this the last time, but I

47:33think I did. But anyways, this is for

47:36this is I'm gonna uh probably this week

47:38or next week give this to um ADDA for

47:42sponsoring the $2,000 for the

47:46dirty dance.

47:48>> Sounds awesome.

47:51>> Cool. Um upcoming events litter league.

47:56Uh then the litterment steering

47:57committee. Um, yeah. I think I've been

48:00to one or two of those. They're a good

48:02time. So, if you haven't three on a

48:04Friday and you want to get more into

48:06litter stuff,

48:07>> like Carlos now.

48:08>> Yeah.

48:10>> And that's just so you know, that's

48:11Dolly Parton Day.

48:16>> We're gonna have some music playing.

48:18We're gonna do that. Do something.

48:19>> We'll do something about that.

48:21>> Make sure it's southern food.

48:26>> Yeah. Um and then we do have a a board

48:28cleanup um in midepptember on a

48:31Saturday. So um I think Carlos you sent

48:35out a a [clears throat] calendar for

48:37that. Um yeah the two dates there the

48:40Saturday September 19th from 11 to noon

48:43and if that day just turns out to be a

48:45bad weather day. The second most popular

48:48day was a Sunday on October 11th and

48:52then we'll have one in December which is

48:54usually usually our holiday themed one

48:56and that'll be during the week that's

48:58TVD but that's that's

49:01>> yeah and for for new folks um the board

49:04adopts um the

49:08exit ramp and entrance ramp of like okay

49:12in the loop. Um, so we park at

49:18like the store and then we pick up that

49:21ramp. Uh, we do that at least four times

49:22a year. So, um, just like other adopt

49:25the highway groups do. So, it's a good

49:26time and it's like it's a good time to

49:28pick up litter. Um, and we try to we try

49:31to do it between like a weekend and a

49:32weekday kind of load it for different

49:35people's schedule. So, we can make it

49:36awesome. If not, we understand it

49:39because it's it's happening. So, and

49:41then remember live's coming up. I did it

49:43last year for the first time. It's a

49:44good time. Great.

49:45>> Awesome. Um, and then daffodil planting

49:48is a November.

49:50>> It's the 20th. I'm sorry. The date on

49:52there. It's always the Friday right

49:54before Thanksgiving

49:56before Thanksgiving. So, it'll be the

49:5720th. Yeah.

49:58>> And that's a great uh volunteer

50:00opportunity. I can never do it because

50:01I'm working that day with my volunteers,

50:03but uh get out and plant some daffodil

50:06bulbs. I think many of you guys have

50:08done this before.

50:09>> Group. What's that? If I have a group of

50:12people like from my brokerage that are

50:14interested in as a group coming out for

50:17that, should I just have them show up or

50:19should I let you know?

50:20>> Let us know because the sign up actually

50:22goes through Give Pulse. We work with

50:24Josh who is no longer on our board, but

50:26we do work with Josh.

50:28>> Um, and you know, we if you've never if

50:33anyone on this board has never done it,

50:34you should try and come out to do it.

50:36There's two shifts because it's fun. Uh

50:41it also the first of your labor you know

50:43in a couple of months you see the work

50:45that you've done and it's very

50:46gratifying um and you just meet new

50:49people.

50:50>> What site are we doing this year?

50:51>> Oh yeah.

50:54I was waiting for somebody to ask.

50:56>> I believe unless something changes we'll

50:58be doing College Station.

51:01>> Yay.

51:02>> That's great.

51:04Yeah,

51:05>> cut down all the

51:06>> crate burrs.

51:11>> That's good.

51:12>> Um I think that that is all. So um

51:18adjourn the meeting once we have a

51:19motion and all votes. So is there a

51:22motion to adjourn the meeting?

51:24>> Motion to adjourn.

51:25>> Nice.

51:25>> I'll second.

51:26>> Perfect.

51:28Where you

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