welcome you all tonight for this. I think this is an exciting time for the fair. Kind of bring back the fair to maybe the days of old and probably a lot of us remember when it used to go all the way to what ring was. So I think
this is an exciting time. I told several people that I think it's time to kind of rebuild and look at things the way they used to be and bring some things back on that. Um, I think everybody got a packet in your chair for
this. So, I guess we'll move the contact list. Everybody should have one. We're going to take a roll call on this. You can just say here Alana here. Amanda Griffith party
here. Blake Hamilton here. Brad Thomas here. Brian Outlaw here. Chris Paige here. Clay Whitehead all the way. Mr. Greg Alvarez here. Heather
Hines. Jeffrey Johns Johnson. much of a name. All right. Jimmy Smith here. Joanne here.
Judy Ser here. Caitlyn Van Dus here. Kevin Thompson. Lisa Holdenor here. Marty Shaw here. Michael Heer here. Pam Will here.
Roxander here. Sandy Wood here. Phillips here. Hope I didn't butcher that. And Yolanda Strong B. I'm sorry. Um Heather Heather Hindlay.
Okay. Real quick, I would like to just go around. I know I called R. You just stand up a minute, say your name and one or two sentences of what you would like to see maybe moving forward with this committee. You know, something that you'd like to see. And one thing I've
talked about with a few people is I don't think this board is just going to be because it's a fair. This is a the ground that the county purchased. It's going to be a whole year of events that needs to be thought about out there, not just the week or so of the fair, the 10
days of the fair. So, um, I would just like to get other people's inputs on what they're thinking in mind of what the fairgrounds could be. Um, we could start, you know, Miss Strong, on your side, or I go the other way if you like me to,
please. I'm Shaw own Bank of Smith real here to start. Uh I was on Jacksonville Association. I saw a lot of good things that they did up there and I hope that we can return the Bradford County Fair to some of these prior excellence in the
way they handle things. Make it a better place for community. I'm Brad Thomas. Well, I've been at TRU 45 years. I've been involved since my kids were 28 and dealing with everything in town. Um been
heavily involved with the fairgrounds on the agricultural side probably the last 8 to 10. Uh volunteered not on the board before that. So uh we put in a lot of work down there and we just feel like we've watched it slip away for the last
four to five six years and we want to get more of community involved. think that as a larger group with more of a voice and there the ceiling is is not touched. So hello I'm Amanda
party start for 25 years now 22 years. I also my kids have shown at the Bradford Fair since my oldest one was 27 so since she was eight. My passion for being on this is to get the horse arena back. Not a club but the horse arena. and I have
numerous numbers that can make it work if we were to rent it out and things would be changed and done. So that's my main and I'm with the doors of Incorporated. My main goal is to bring
more cultural activities to the county fair. I didn't I am somewhat retired. I am a community advocate. I work for the little people.
I just want to see the community come together and I like people to be held accountable. I like to see things happen at the fairground. I like to see cultural I like to see
complete events. I want to see everybody everybody do something at the fairgrounds. It's a wonderful place and it's underutilized. So I want to somebody do something there all the time. And I want
people to be held accountable for everything that should be done there. And that's why I'm here. I'm work um for the state. I work for Department of Commerce. I help employers and employees find each other. Um I've
lived in Bradford now eight years. I moved here because a county commissioner told me nobody cared about Bradford. So really can't come live here. I've moved here. I've left the Gaysville Career Center and now I work for Tallahassee, but I live still in Gainesville. So I'm
sorry, it started. Um I'm excited to be here because I see the potential uh not from before, but for the future about concrete, about boys and girls uh clubs and boy scouts and all kinds of things that happening on just the concrete, let
alone in fields. So, I'm excited to be here and I think I have opportunity for great writing and for funding that Elatch County has for you that you're not utilizing in workforce dollars. So, I think I have some secrets that I'll be able to share with you. Thank you.
Hey, I'm Pam um from the chamber. I use that as my last name. Um yeah, Pam at the chamber. I just go by that. Um, I've worked with the fair association, the fair group for years now. Um, doing the strawberry festival. We did the bike
fest out there and other numerous things that we do where we utilize this the space. I've helped with touch truck a year or two and things like that. So, and I am very involved with a lot of the events that happen. So, I know what's going on and what we can maybe we've
outgrown downtown. I mean, people have begged to bring the strawberry pencil back to our town. We don't do it. We get them. We don't fit. So, um, you know, we just want to see those kind of things happen. Hello, my name is Elena Borer. I
currently work for Camp Landing Range Maintenance. Um, I've been on both sides of the fair involved in the agricultural part. I was an exhibitor for four years. Um, Before that, I helped out with friends who showed livestock. Um, since
I graduated and, you know, aged out and showing, I've volunteered with the fair, help the sale and everything. Um, I've also worked multiple events, helped out with strawberry festival, helped out with a lot of things that my aunt
Christie owns papers, um, m banquet, things like that. um feel very strongly for community involvement and really just want to be able to see the fair get to a good place and and help in any way I
can back you know that I'm the agriculture teacher of the North Quarter Technical College. Um I've been around for nine years my kids show at the fair. I put on the poultry showmanship part of the Bradford County Fair. One of the things that I want to see back years ago, back in building 3,
there used to be school booths. If you've been to any other county fair, like Columbia County, Jacksonville, and so on, each school has a designated booth back in that building. That building's been underutilized. Um, this year when I walk back here, my kids are in 4, and there are very few projects
back there. We need to reach back out to our school districts and bring those youth back in. You want parents to come in and spend money on admissions and tickets and things like that, they need to re be there even if their kids not show. And for some of those younger kids below that eight years of age, that plant, that chicken, that rabbit, that
fair project, that art project that they did in their school class needs to be back in that building. And that's how you drive traffic in. That's how you reach out. That's how you buy and support and build a community. When people feel valued, we need to bring back our vendors. We need to utilize building two to bring back people that
were in there, our advertisements, walking around any other fair. My mom puts on the poultry show over at the Columbia County Fair and she comes in to judge our showmanship and all. Walk through that fair. Walk through any other small county fair. If I judge slank county poultry, they have booths. They have people come in. They have
services at the fair and we need to bring that back. Thank you. My name is Judy Ster and I work for department correction. kind of retired there 25 years FBSP and I set out for a year and I had to get up and do
something else. So I went to the school worked there eight years. I love children you know community and I retired from the school last year and I am very involved with the community and when this board came up I said the fair
board I said yes I want to get on that fair board. I said even if I don't get on the fair board I am going to get involved because a lot of kids and stuff say I'm going to clay fair board. I said y'all come well they don't have nothing there. I said, "Okay, I'm gonna make
sure they have something there. I'm g talk to someone. I'm not even trying to get involved. The community come together and get whatever need for the people can come here from the one outside to come here." And so like it used to be, but everybody used to be
excited about the it used to be a good board. So much stuff going on, but we really need to get it back together. Community come together. And I mean, I'm breath of Catholic my whole life. And I love this kind of little children. Want
to bring everybody together and that's where I want to be. Hi, I'm Roxan Roger. I've been involved in the association for 37 years. I do uh involve myself with 4 and all, but I see that we have honestly lost the
community's energy to get involved. It's the adults is going to drive the kids. Little kids want to do things, but they're not able because they don't have a driving person, adult. And I just think that we need to stress to the
adults how important it is to carry on the tradition of a baby, whether it be agricultural, business, speech, whatever it may be that we have because we have a lot of stuff goes on. But you have to get people involved.
Hi, I'm Tammy Glitter. Um, I'm on the old fair board. Um, I want to see the fair back to the way it used to be years ago. Um, we've lost that here lately and
there's no one participating. There's no one coming to ride rides, um, visit the booth and everything. So, I would like to see it go back to the way it used to be years ago. Um, Ma, I've been in the community
involvement for about 15 years with all of the chamber. Um, I can remember when I was a kid, the fair was a thing to go to. And the last five, six years, like Brad was saying, it's just went to nothing and I hate that. Um, I really want to see us get back to where it used to be. There's actually a picture in the
chart that I need to get from the 90. I want to see that. My name is Michael. Uh I'm retired and uh now I
do. Uh I do the Fourth of July splash bash, do the touch of drug, do a bunch of events around the community and like to see the other 55 355 days of the year as busy as it is during the 10 days in the
springtime. Create plans and put on programs. You tell them what you want. I've been involved in the fair since I think 1978 was my first um dating myself. First time I showed a pig in the fair and been involved ever
since. Um again, I can sentiment everybody what you said and I can agree with pretty much everybody in this room. It needs to get back to what it used to be. We need to have a horse arena there and those kids need something to do. um
because right now they have to go out of county and there's no reason for that. Horses drive a big portion of of funding and if we can tap into that that's definitely a good revenue source. Again, the fairgrounds, just like I think Miss Strong said, needs to be rented out
every single week, every weekend. There needs to be something going on down there. There is no reason for that place to sit empty. has many things that is happening outside of our little community that we can bring right here to this community. And that's not just
livestock shows. It's um like you say, cultural events. It's truck car shows. Any of this stuff. I've been to all the fairs all throughout the state of Florida, Georgia, even Alabama, Kentucky. Get out there, see what's out there. Bring ideas back because there's
no reason our fair would not be as big or bigger as some of these. like that. So that's why I can't talk to nobody back here. My name is Greg Alvarez and uh I like what started off with about
returning the horses. The fact that we had a fair grounds and realize this probably None of you never attended the Bradford County Fair before we had the fair grounds. You're sitting where the fair
used to be held. Do excuse me. Do Conor County of agriculture state was from this county and he wanted to get something. So he had the state farmers
market that species of land that was developed. On that he included the fact that there would always be a right club in Brad County. We were the only fair association on state property to have a
roping club in the state of Florida per in 1967. Chamber of Commerce had a calf scramble. I participated in that. I called cat. I was in the 11th
grade. I just got out of misusing class a bag. [Music] Ying the clock. I said one or two sentences. I
knew I told I can't The thing that has happened is it caused a lot of distrust when the roping club was dissolved. It was like a slap in the face to a lot of people.
Not only that when we lost the involvement and people without an interest pursued people to in enter and exhibit in the fair. I heard this young lady and I can't remember her name. She told me that she had outgrown
she put it very nicely drawn the age of show. They had adults 65 and 70 years old building quilts, making jams and jellies and hand painted articles. I know nothing about that, but
that needs to be pursued so that everybody has a part of community involvement and a part of the fair. I exhibited something in the fair. Even though I got a white ribbon, I had something in the fair. The deal
is you can't have people that don't have part that have no idea about how you unload a cow and get it into the pin. A chicken, how much space is required for a chicken? Can you put them three dead tie over each
other? That would take less space. That sounded like it'd be good to me. Unless you know that the ones on the bottom ar and that's what's happened if you have the unknown lead from the
headquarters as I've gone to other fairs for 20 years I exhibited the Bradford County Fair exhibit in the state fair in Tampa each county in the state of Florida can go and put in an educational exhibit in the state fair. 35 years in
the FFA chapter, we put in an educational exhibit in Jacksonville fair in Jacksonville. We exhibited in the Klay County Fair. We exhibited in the Nassau County Fair, the Central Florida
Fair. All of that represent Bradford County. And I'll take a line from President Trump. I would like for us to make the Grab County Fair great again. But if you have any other interest, if you're tied to money, you don't need to be in
here. If you have an effect on I want to see something happen down there and I want to revenue seat myself, I'd ask you to leave one of these doors right now because that's the way I feel.
God, I'm 75 years old. I've lived in Nebraska County in the same place where my grandfather lived for 74 years. I don't intend to go nowhere. I don't think that someone who is not
from Bradford County, if you don't have a residence here, you don't have a business here or you don't have a job here, I would ask that you also leave because someone from another
county will not have the heart for Brad County and they need to exit the door. Now, that's a little rough. But that's the way I am. I don't go behind your back. I'll tell you to your face. Exactly. I don't mean that to
offend you, but I mean that because that's how my feelings for Bradford County. And everyone here needs to have a vested interest not only in a fair but to see that it's done right.
not behind closed doors and somebody else pulling the strings and the ones of us that are here take the blame for what's happening that we didn't have anything to do with when I used to be on the fair
association in the early years everyone who volunteered to have a livestock superintendent the swine the poultry the hand goods, whatever division of the fair,
those people were volunteers. They were not paid. They were there because they wish to be there. They had a vote. We sat at meetings and we voted. We decided what happened at the
Grand County Fair. I see it's 9:30, so I'm going to quit. Uh probably uh Jimmy Smith uh I believe uh I agree with everybody here. They're talking about the horse arena when it was shut
down. I think the biggest mistake they ever made in B County. Uh I remember as a young kid going there. Uh I believe we fell in a rut at the fair. Didn't bring any new energy to it. Just went along
and all that stuff. Uh, I do I hold events, cherry boil events and stuff like that. I'd like to see like barbecue contest out there and stuff. Uh, she can with the commerce, whatever.
She's uh help us out. But, uh, we do uh barbecue events, chil stuff like that to help chill chariots and stuff. So, other than that, I just like to see uh what everybody else ideal is. Not sure we're not going to get them all tonight, but
uh I'm sure when everybody walks out, they'll each one will have an idea that dam should anyways two senses Phillips. Um I'm here because I was born and raised here and I grew up at that fair. My dad was on the fair
board way back in the day. It's like when Greg talked, he's called a pig or a cow or whatever. I I remember those days and it was the best place in the world to be was at that fair and I was there every night. That's where you saw everybody. That's where you just it was
just a great place to be and I want that back. Hello, I'm Heather Mines. I work for County Public Works and again I'm here to see the fair board become a better place um for my younger children that are growing up going to be in the showing. Um I also grew up at the arena
riding horses. I would love to see that back open and anything else that I can do to help. My name is Clay Whitehead. Uh born and raised here, grew up um through showing and involvement with agriculture and the show side.
Um I guess my role here and what I would like to see done is of course the emphasis of the agriculture um involvement in the fair and the different things that we can bring to the community and from an educational standpoint for agriculture and also the fairgrounds will be utilized for the
betterment of the community throughout the year and um just have things for all everyone in the community to be able to come to and utilize and like everybody else said just bring it I'm Brian Outwall, 10 years with the state patrol and then the last nine with
federal agencies all over United States. I've seen bears all over the country uh doing a lot of crazy stuff that I've done and also my daughter and niece, they've been showing the last 5 years. So, thank you everybody. So, I'm Jeff Johnson and it's closest
I've been to a cow or a pig or a chicken's on the grill. So I don't know what they're talking about but people talk about these parts but uh expectation uh you used to expect when the fair the week before the fair you
expected stuff to get excited you know whatever it was whether it was the concert or the gospel night or whatever you want to talk about we got to increase expectations but someone can't remember exactly somebody said they just lost it they just lost the drive the
people the people just just lost interest for one reason or another. I'm not going to point fingers. Not going to be that's me as Greg. There was preach on there was some there was some things that we've got to
get back up and we got to get people to expect when the fair comes everything's going to happen down and we've got we've got the facil facility. I mean I mean gee manetti if you've been down there and walked around that's a beautiful place building
and uh it's just waiting on us to do something and I've never rode a horse I was hunting so that either I'm sorry I didn't do any of the animal stuff but u I'm looking forward to it. I think we
got everybody in here. Um I guess I'll tell them about myself. I'm Paul Huntley. I've been involved with the swine association as the president for about 10 11 years now. I got kind of put into that position unexpectedly and um I'll be honest with you how I got
involved with this Lizzie Whitehead called me and said Paul said this boards could been be put together. She said I know a guy that he works great with the steers and the swine. She goes he knows about the fair. He works good with the kids and he loves the kids. I said man that's a great person. So we need to put
him on board. She said, "I'm glad you think that way. I'm gonna nominate you." So, I called Brad. I said, "Brad, you know what Liz wants to do?" Paul, I was thinking that myself. Said, "You ain't helping me." I called Mr. Blake said, "Mr. Blake, you know what Lizzy and Brad wants me to do?" He said,
"Paul, that's great." Like, so I said, "Well, dang it." Then Mr. Scott got a hold of me and asked me about it. I said, "Scott, I thought everybody in the world would try to talk me out doing this and everybody thinks we ought to go for it." So here I am, but I have a passion for kids. Um, my
kids showed pigs and that's where my my heart is. And I think the fair has really fell off the wagon for the kids itself. And when I just say the kids, I don't mean and me and Brad talks about this a lot. It ain't all the kids. It's
it's all the kids, you know. And when I say all the kids, it ain't the agricultural kids. It's the community kids that don't come to the fair no more. You know, those are missing out on a lot of things. And um I think we've really dropped the ball. When I say we,
I look at this as part of everybody's stuff now is we um so I'd love to bring that back. Y'all brought up the Porsche Arena. One of the things I agree with Amanda. I was eight or nine years old riding horses with a man and all them
down there at Porsche Arena. So, I know all that history there as well, and it was a shame that they closed that down. But one of my thoughts is I want to bring it back, but let's bring it back in a way that makes it better to more utilized for the
facilities that are there. And when I say that, they don't need to go way out there in the north 40 where it's at. Bring it closer to the barns. You talk about grants. Can we get a grant? Make it a green arena. We already got the nicest barns in the facility in the
state I feel like for show animals. Let's put an arena in there that everybody goes, "Man, look at Bradford County show arena." You know, am I expecting that this year? No. Is it next year? Probably not. You know about grants. Um it can take a little while,
but those to me are future plans. you know, let's bring back the horse arena, but make it in a way that it can be utilized to cover it, you know, to always try to build for the future, not just for today, you know. Um, so that's
where I'm kind of at with it myself. I think it's, like I said, it's an exciting time, I feel like, to bring back some of the old stuff. You mentioned gospel music. You know, I remember when the bands used to go down there to the fair, you know, and I keep referring the fair. Like I said earlier, we got 51 other weeks we got to
think about, but the fair is probably the biggest thing that can come around, you know, but uh I just think there's a lot of tradition that can be brought back. Um, one of the things I always hate when people say, "Well, we used to do it this way." Well, that don't always mean that was the best way, but a lot of
times there were some good ways, you know, and I'm a believer in let's try it. If it don't work, try something else, you know. But if you don't try, you don't know. Um, so one of the things moving forward, I feel like this many people that we're
going to put together an executive board. And when I say that, we're looking at a vice president, a treasure, and a secretary to try to help this board moving forward in that direction. And then I believe we're going to look at trying to add a few more members to an executive board.
We're still going to have all everybody will be a voting member. But like I said, with this many different people, we've heard this many different ideas that I don't think we would still be sitting here 6 months from now if we all want to talk about what we want to do.
Um, so with that being said, I think what we talk about doing is we're just going to take some nominations for a vice president and uh then we'll vote on it. piece of paper. Yes, sir. Are we going
to go by the charter or what are we going to go by? Yes, we're going we're going to go by the chart. Okay. Well, we've already broken it. Nowhere in here. Does it mention the county commissioners would elect a president?
the bylaws in the charter says that the board director I think Scott was going to address that part of it. Yeah, that was stipulated in the agreement that the county board of county commissioners signed with previous air
association. And if I can Greg, the first first item of agenda is rewrite the charter. And the only way we can do that is start out with an executive board vote that will come to another
board, the main board for votes and leave move into but it's making a new charter is not going to happen overnight. I' never said that, but in the election of the altars, if you're going to go by the charter that exists, if we've already broken the charter, then Smith,
I thought, are we going to go by a charter? We are going to go by a charter. This charter, this is the only one we have. This is the one that I was given for tonight. I think that was one of the guidelines, Scott, correct me if I'm wrong, of what we're going to look at doing. What's the date on that
charter? Started in ' 61. 1967 on that so yeah like that he put that in there more as a guideline what the charters will look like but like Brad said we are going to try to put together a new board and come
up with a new chart yes m I don't want to I don't want to admit like I I really don't. But I've I've heard you say that you've been talking to
Brad. That's out of the sunshine. No, it will be out of sunshine. It's not out of sunshine yet. Once he became um once they voted him in, anytime he said something to you, because they voted all of us
in, and anytime he said something to you about anything that um about this board and discussion, No, I'm talking about me and Brad taught way before we ever put these board together on Yeah,
he's been uh So should we like to make it clear or clean like we're all the 25. So should we vote for a president just to kind of concrete what happened and then say at 605 today it starts I mean should we do
something like that or is it not necessary? Okay. So, I'll It's not necessary. It's sort of stipulated in the agreement by the board county commissioners. I just want to say if we're going to vote tonight, I really don't know
anyone. How am I supposed to vote for someone that I don't even know or to even nominate anyone? I know I know we got to get started. I understand that. But I think that in my opinion that we
should kind of mingle together at some point to get to know each other or whatever or have a field trip to the fairgrounds or something to see what it looks like. It's been 100 years since I don't even know what's out there really. But but I I I can't vote for anyone
tonight because I I don't in good conscience I don't know who to vote for. Well, I can answer. Okay. Find my opinion. Yeah, of course. No disrespect whatsoever. We got to get it up off the ground. We got to get moving. You got a fair that's
either going to be October, March, or the following. We've got events that needs to be discussed. Uh we got insurance. We got charter. There's there's just so many things here that have to be addressed. Mhm. And I just feel like at some point in time with 25
people, you have to set somebody to take the bull by the horns, if you will, or take the lead and get get the ball rolling. I I'm agree. In my opinion, Mark and just to to just to piggy back on with that one, the folks that are in
this room, we're vetted, for lack of a better term. So there's already a core of people that have the best interest at heart of what we are all trying to do. We're all in agreement on that one. So if like like you said and with you and you're absolutely correct. I mean I would never really know who I want to
vote for specifically for details. But I know that if you're sitting in one of these chairs, you're here for the good of the community and the kids. And that to me is enough to say let's let's go get the ball rolling. And then we can always we can always pivot, adjust, and do what we need to do in the future.
Could I? Yes. Y'all vote me out at first or ask me to believe it. I'll be glad to. How many of you happen to see and were here because you even knew they were looking for a fair board? Did anybody see the ad in the
classified section? How many of you got a call and said they needed people to join? You don't have to tell the truth. I already know a handful of people that that's what happened. So to say that we didn't stack the board, that's
something that's that's kind of out of the ordinary that's already been out of the bag that that happened because when it was happening there was not enough people that applied to that ad. I think I don't how can pronounce your name
Corn and if I forget that I taught school 40 years I can't even remember my name but at the meeting when the applications were in if that was if I'm correct was there not people that were called and asked would they submit an
application because I have no personal knowledge but I'm sure they were yes okay so to speak to the to the fact that a lot of people aren't here because someone called in suggest that they get
on the board for reference. You know, we need to be uh as I told you, I want to be fair and above board with everything we do at camp. I'm going to walk out here and turn turn my resignation in. Well, in
saying that way, I have uh Um, I have a bachelor's degree in accounting. I have years of experience.
I am a money person, but I was on the throwaway list. But did you see the ad? I saw the ad. I turned mine I turned mine in. How many people saw the ad and turned theirs in because of seeing the ad?
Yeah. So you see that most of the people in here never saw that ad where I thought that should have been on the front page. It was buried over in the back. It should have been on the front page. So everybody in the county I know
it was hid in the back of the paper. That's why you don't get support. You got an agenda predisposed and that's what happened. Exactly. What's at the board of county commissioner meetings? It's been till I
mean it's been on it was on the meetings. You were at the board of county commissioners meeting about fair. You heard about it. Yeah. It's live. People watch it live. How long is the term? How long will the person be treasurer vice president and like
that'll be establishing the establishing new chapter? Okay. You know, once we get in and it's like that, we got to get something going. Start getting these things. I mean, we began a board when we began the retirement board for the police department. We had to start just
basically about what you're doing right here, right? And there is some stumbling block just like people are talking about. But you've got to get started. We got to get started. You can always throw darts. You can always uh have an opinion. And I've got one, too. And a lot of them don't want to
hear it. But I've got an opinion, too. But you've got to get started. If if you're going to get started, elect who you're going to elect, elect an executive board, and get this thing started. And then first thing you do is get the ordinance and get it established. You know, like we went from
two-year terms to fouryear terms. I mean, it was a constant moving. I mean, what you do tonight is is probably not going to be that way next year. This is who takes the first step on making a motion. I feel like that
falls in line of what we're supposed to do. I'd like to make a motion that these people in here tonight vote to a vote in a board and vote a term for that. Whether that's three months, six months. It don't have to be a year. We can vote in an executive board for three months and then if you come back and things
aren't working out like you're supposed to, then somebody else can be put on the board in three months. That'll solve the issues. that'll get the ball rolling, that'll get us to where we can, you know, conversate and know one another. And if we want to do something different, there's all big boys and big
girls in here. And if you're not doing your job and you get voted off, then you know, hopefully you still shake my hand when you put me on. Most of the fairs have a one, two, and a three revolving so you don't lose the experience. Some
people just want to be involved for one year because of time. going to be in there for three years. So, I feel like to save time though and because of some people's concern, we should vote in a more with a short term. Before you make the motion, let me ask
Amanda something. Amanda, what's the what's the time for the um getting the new um bylaws printed, redone and printed. You the bylaws that you have in your
packet are the ones that were approved by the previous fair association. You guys are that fair association. That charter is your charter. Those bylaws are your bylaws. If you want new ones, you have to make them. And once you do that, then you can have them. But what
you have in your hands is the actual document for this organization. I said once the once the award gets back, then we can review these bylaws and make our changes that we need to do moving forward. Question. So on this board, the fair
board is 21 people that's on this board. Was that the number y'all were looking for? 21 25 or what? You have to have 20 to have a membership? 20. 20 plus.
You have to have 20. Yes, ma'am. And is appointing a president, vice president, treasurer, and secretary the only four that will have voting power? We all have voting. Yeah, we all have voting power. So you're only assigning people. We're basically trying to take the okay accumulate the questions, put them
together, you know, and then we're going to presume and everybody will be voting. So voting for somebody now doesn't take away any power of anybody in the room. And I don't think Brad might have an idea. You know, we want to vote in a six-month term and then we readress the officer. So what is what? I'm sorry. What was your turn? What did you say?
Three or six. Yeah. And we can I mean it's just a a small motion, but I I I'll just get something going. I I'll make a motion to go three months. I'll we readress and then that should make everybody happy and then you're going to find out who really wants to be here in
three months anyways, right? All right. So Brad made a motion. We're going to vote in a three-month term for the executive board. And there was a second, I believe. And I second. I second.
I'm sorry. Um I need six months. Six months. Yeah. Six months. Yeah. You can discuss and amend if you would like. Yeah. Why why would you want to consider six instead of three? Three. Three. Oh,
no. I'm just asking. Okay. I just thought about uh 6 months instead of three. Yeah. Usually this like why? All in favor of the three months. Any
oppose? All right. We're going to run a threemon term for the executive board. So without moving forward, do I have any nominations for a vice president? Brad Thomas. Any other nominations for vice
president? All in favor of Brad Thomas for vice president. I'm sorry. I'm gonna get this fried one day practice. You do. Well, I'll be
honest with y'all. I thought Brad I mean I thought Mr. shot was going to run this and go. Well, I'm going to let introduce you. I'm going to let you run the meeting. I said, "Okay, try." And I do want to say thank you for the ones that know how it's structured. I'm
I'm going to be honest with you, a lot of us don't, you know, I mean, so to stay within the rules and regulations, it's going to take a team effort. Yes. To learn a lot of that stuff. So, yeah. Sorry. Do I have any other nominations for vice
president? Bri, I make a motion to see the nominations. I have a second to that. I see it. All right. Brad, you the vice president, the position of
treasurer. Have any nominations for treasure? I'd like to nominate Miss Strong. She haduc. I mean, do we have to ask them first? Yeah. And I guess I'm going to be the first person. So, just no disrespect. I
just know what I just what you said. I don't know you, but what I do know is and I don't like Teresa. I'd like to dominate Teresa. I do not want to be. I was late coming here because I was waiting on the customer doing my job. No, somebody else
take that off, please. So, she's We've had two holidays now. Two deeres. She I declined. Look here. I was late cuz I was I got nothing on my hands as far as that goes.
Anybody Tammy, did you do that for the U? No, she didn't. Tammy say no. Come on, Tammy. Your banking, all your banking experience. Let's go, Tammy. Her nominations.
Yes, I got her. Is there anybody else? Oh, Chris. Yes. Chris Paige. Chris was on the board before. He knows how to study. Ask Chris.
Maybe we don't need to ask. at the bank. Chris is at the bank. Do I have a second for [Music] Chris? Chris, would you be up for it? So now they both stand up when we get to
here. I have Chris Paige and Miss Strong as treasur. Any other nominations? Did you want to withdraw now that you got somebody that's willing to do it? That's what I said. Don't worry, you got one more spot to
fill. Don't worry about it. Go ahead. You want to put good Chris? I want make a motion to seize the I move that to the nominations. Second, Michael
second. All right. So, Chris Page, we are treasur secretary. Any nominations for secretary? Any nominations for secretary. Something about that back coming in
late. Don't want to do nothing. You have a second for Miss Hans. You want to decline, Miss Hans? No, she doesn't. She feel downs would be great secretary if I'm
secretary I can talk I said that. All right. So, we got another nomination. Don't you have two? Who else? Who do you have? She accept. You had a motion from
Marshall. Second on that one. Wait, where are we at? Is that everybody? Then any more nominations for Secretary, we need to bring us to a vote. Did we get
make it a lot faster. What you could do is ask I don't know. Stand up for me. They asked for another quick introduction. Tell us why you'd be good. And why would you be good for a secretary?
I do it every day of my life. County public works. I keep up with all the booking over there, the bills. You name it, I do it. So, I mean, you want me to be it, I'll be it. If not, we won't. I'm sorry. Can you start with names?
Heather Public Works. Okay. Caitlyn Ven teacher. Uh I'm also serving as the president for the last two years of the Florida Association of Agriculture Educators. I serve on the Florida FFA board and the Florida FA alumni and foundation boards. Um so I serve on
numerous boards already and I'm familiar with how the secretary positions work. Michael, retired fireman. Uh serve as secretary to the our local union on the executive board. um served as secretary on
previous boards and have a strong working knowledge of Robert's rules of order and can help facilitate any of the discussions that we have. If y'all don't mind then just write down on the paper or anybody else. I got one
All you have to do is pray the Google all the been handed I will tell you what I need. I think 90 seconds. Don't tell me Looks like Heather Hines. Congratulations.
Heather had 10 votes, Caitlyn had nine, and Michael Heater had four. So, let's go. More than I expected. That works out great. We're going to cut the meetings unless everybody has any objections to the fourth Thursday of the month.
And I know everybody I'm sorry fourth yes ma'am fourth Thursday of each month Thanksgiving um is 5:30 good with everybody I know I mean like I said I come from Gainesville so I made a be line to get here but I
mean it's 5:30 good with everybody or y'all want to we know most people don't work that's I was hoping Tuesday. I'm sorry. It'll be fourth Tuesday
of every month. At six. Is six good everybody? All in favor of six. Did you get hit? So far 6 a.m. on Tuesdays. [Music]
So 6 pm on the fourth Tuesday of each month. This is where our meetings will lie. They'll remain here. Yes. Right here. Our meetings be I went through a lot of these in Zuma. I like in person myself.
We got to accomplish. Um there are several events here on our agenda event planning. I think you need to back up and let's address meeting structure.
whether we address it tonight or whether we agree that the executive board could come with a meeting structure uh recommendation and I'll just go ahead and tell y'all just because I don't know
how many of you been in meetings with a lot of people but if you don't have some sort of structure then you're super unproductive so I can't really just give you exactly what that outline in my opinion is, but I do believe you need to come with a meeting structure
um of some sort. Whether you open up the floor, you have discussion time, you have whatever you have because if you don't have a structure, you're going to be spinning your wheels. That's called agenda. We'll have you know new topics, old
topics brought up and um thought process the executive board probably we'll probably meet 30 minutes before the six o'clock meeting just to get our topics on board and then you know we'll have our meeting
at six is what I'm looking at doing. So, back to the event planning. There's several events in this packet that was listed. We're going to table top that till next month, but that that's in your
packets. Um, last page. Schedule B. Yes, ma'am. Schedule B. Y'all, we just kind of look those over and we're on table talk. Y, with all due respect, there's a lot
that goes in the Fourth of July. If it's going to be table, you take the Fourth of July off. I have got to move forward with that. I have a pump. I was hoping we have a decision tonight about extra logistics. Um, I've got coordinated fireworks, food trucks, the concert lined up. I got thousands of dollars
tied up in that. I If if it's tabled, I'm okay with that. I'll just move it to a different venue and then we'll revisit the next year. But that you need to discuss that. Didn't that one have to get table or what was Well, we tabled it because we didn't know
where we stood with this this form and this were too many questions. So, we now I'm okay with it. I just need I just would like to confirm that if we're going to table it then we'll just we'll we'll cancel it for this year and then move forward. If you want to discuss it
now and yeah let everybody what it's going to look like what you're going to expect from the other board members and then it gets through here tonight then we can walk it on the agenda next Tuesday for the board to
Okay. That's I mean if you want to stand up and and speak about it or or what? I I'll be very brief. Um so this will be our fourth year doing the Stark Spangled Splash Bash. It is our Fourth of July event. We outgrew the football stadium.
Last year we had over 8,000 people turn out. This year we're expecting about 10,000 people. Um we have sponsors for the fireworks. We have uh sponsors paying for the entertainment. We have a the van faster and the flash coming in to perform that evening at military
recognition. Um water slides um you know water spray for the kids and food trucks and everything like that. It is normally set up where we would begin after the parade that breaks a completely separate animal. I'm doing that in the morning, but the event would start around 3:00 in
the afternoon on the 4th of July, goes into the evening, fireworks going off at 9:45. Uh the original plan was it's paperwork was to extend it into that Saturday, July 5th with the entertainment of the kids. We would not
do fireworks when we would not do um the concert. We would have, you know, DJ music playing off of my my setup. But we that was our original plan. The backup plan is to shift it to one day and relocate depending on the how you how
you guys want to do this. If we want to move it to we want to push off until you know and then make it a one day event offsite. I'm good with that one because next year the Kowanas Stark have expressed an interest in being the sponsor of the
event and they would help facilitate the actual event coordination with this board using the fairgrounds as the location but it would be a standalone event. So, that's where we at. But because of the down payments, because of
the timing, the logistics, hiring security, hiring paramedics, and everything I've got to do, um, if we table it till next month, that gives me a whole five or six days to put it together. That's not going to work. So, I've already got everything kind of on
hold right now, and I can go either way. It's not like I'm pressuring you. If you guys say, "Yeah, that's cool. That's fine." I'm okay with that one. But I would I need I need the four weeks that we have in order to protect I pull this off if we're going to use fairgrounds.
If not, then I pivot to uh I have a secondary location which is the stadium. Uh we can go back to the stadium, make it a one-day event, and we just keep on going. I'm good to go. You're in. This is some of the unknowns that I think we're yet to
determine between what we're doing here and the county still. So, I have to rely on Mr. tried a lot on this. Scott, I mean, what is your recommendations for this? I mean, so I I just spoke with Commissioner Sper. She's here tonight. I should have introduced her earlier, but
thank you for being here, Commissioner. Um, it occurred to me after I said what I said earlier about taking it back to the board. We really don't even have to do that because that was one of the events that stipulated and prepared. So if you guys want to press on with that
then all you need to do is come up with a consensus and I guess Michael can move forward. Now obviously there's money. Yeah. That's what I was going to ask. We know what kind of money we're talking about. Are we having to spend money? Do we have money? So last year um I brought it and I paid
for it. Uh this year I have uh two sponsors that have stepped up. Uh the city of Stark is paying $10,000 for the fireworks and they are using the contract that the school district uses for the football games. So that is an independent project they are doing. Uh
Brian is doing the shooting. He's got the insurance. We're providing fire protection. We that's that's code faster than Flash is the band. I've already stroked a check and paid them. So they're paid. Uh then uh the only thing I would the only other money that would
come and I'll pay for it out of pocket like I did last year is I got to pay for security and paramedics. That's about 800 bucks. I I don't care. I'll throw the check to make the event happen. Um if uh at this point the only money that I really counting on was TDC money that
got shot down. So I'm paying for the advertisement on the radio and newspapers. Uh, other than that, there is no other money that's being spent and I'm not spending a dime of county money. I'll I'll pay for it myself or I'll figure out something else, but at this point, it's not going to cost the county anything. Is there revenue? Is there
money anywhere? The the only revenue that would be generated uh which is what we did last year was that uh we charged a vendor fee uh for vendors that wanted to come in and we had it was really successful two
years ago. Wasn't as successful this past year. Uh so we get the u the vendor fees for the food trucks and then those would like to sell items, patriotic stuff like that. I pumped the brakes on it because I didn't know what the plan was. So, I have vendors that are waiting
to hear if it's going to happen and if they are, then they're willing to do that one. The question is, if we're going to have vendor fees, who do they pay? Pay to county, pay to association, pay to whomever. And that's that's the that would be the big
question. If you don't want to mess with that, like I said, you guys don't want to mess with that this year, I'm okay with that. Um, but next year is our fifth birthday and the nation's 250th birthday in 2026. That's a big one and we're expecting thousands upon thousands
of people to turn out to. So, uh, I would pivoting this year is fine. Next year, we already have plans. We're already working on a Facebook. What's a rough number that you get off the revenue like vendors that vendors? It was it was in the neighborhood. And again, it depends on their sales, but I
was charging them $100 for 10 by 10 space for one day and 250 for both days, which is ste. And how many vendors do you have right now? Eight. Well, 10 that express an interest, but I kind of I kind of I'm holding them at bay. They
have other events. They may have they may change their minds and go elsewhere just because we haven't been able to pull the trigger yet. So, I can't I can't give you an honest number until back out, right? So, so how does the fair association um how do we what might come to us fair
association going to get anything out of this? Because we're saying that we got to start somewhere. So, yes. So, just said if a vendor wants to come out for one day, I think what you're saying is okay. It
is a rental. Yeah. 10 10 x10 space on the grounds for $150 for one day or $250 for two days for my event. That's what I'm asking. So you're using it, but what I'm I'm saying asking say
is there a fee for someone using the paragraph are you doing are you doing this? Right. Is there a charge to get in or I'm not going to charge you for a patriotic event. Now other events if we do if we do the railroad festival if we
do the fair we do this yeah there's some people use simple tickets pay tickets in advance whatever I I cannot in good faith charge people to come so this was already so this what you're saying is previously this
was a event put on by the fair association and basically I think kind of to allude to her question about a rental and necessarily the only thing that would generate money from a rental standpoint would be if we get vendors. Correct. Correct. I think that's what
you were trying to ask. Was there an entity putting this event on? But it sounds like it was event that the fair association had put on in the past. So therefore, the only income or revenue to generate from this event would be from a vendor from a vendor coming in
standpoint. From the fair association standpoint, you talked about the cost, but is there any cost, any cost that we know of from the fair association standpoint in order to make this event happen from a cleanup standpoint, trash,
dumpsters, any kind of thing that's got to be done at the facility prior to this event. You said the insurance and all that was already took care of. Yeah, the insurance, the fireworks, they have their own insurance using the brown, which again county Browns account insurance if we need to
we do that one. Uh I normally handle the cleanups. I do it after the concerts and stuff. But I do the dumpsters are already there. There's already a contract in place for for trash removal and removal through the county GFL or whoever has the contracts.
You talk about Yeah. for picking up. There's two dumpsters that are out there and then we have a carpet we use for moving trash cans and everything will be held outside on the grass. Everything's on the grass and then we clean and m maintain the bathrooms
there. So you you get with the fair association to let them know how many vendors you have with the uh the board and who you know there to pay the monies to and all of that. Okay. So, I guess my question would be Mark
will um we table this to vote to let you continue to have it by the next meeting. You could at least tell us, hey, I have these amount of vendors coming. We have total agenda of what you're going to be doing. We know what's going to be there and then
we can know what the association would be getting roughly back. Does any vendor coming in have to sign any type of agreement or from an insurance liability standpoint? Is there a vendor agreement? Just like any other event that
I I think we're waiting too long. Like you said five days. I I would say go ahead and tell this. I know we're getting a little long so I want to wrap this up. Um first meeting out the gate. It's live stream. I don't want to say, well, look, they just shot down the 4th of July.
Let's be possibly, but our next meeting is June 10th, so it's not 4 days before July 4th. We had a meeting. This is May. So if you say the second Tuesday because right now we want to be on the
best outlook of what like I said my my thing is is we're trying to promote the new thing that we're doing here and first thing we do out the gate is swash something that's going on for the kids and the community. What are we sitting here telling? I'll make a motion to move forward with the uh splash with the
splash bash second with Michael coming more information at the next meeting because I don't think we're going in the wrong direction no matter what. We got some particulars. If you're heading it up, you're on this board. I'm only uh assuming that you're willing to do it properly and right and we all can adjust and move because I think there's some
things we can do with chair to maybe save some money and we can all work together to do that through the process. But I would like to make a motion just let him go ahead and move forward. I second that motion. All in favor? Any oppose?
I appreciate that. Thank you. Thank you. We do one day too. Uh well with that vote that'll increase revenue for the So so since we kind of cleared up the splash y'all would just look over the
other events like we'll tableop everything else to next month. Um I know we kind of ran a little long out here tonight. I'm sorry about that. Yes ma'am. Are there any other July June or July events? These don't
have dates. No, ma'am. I don't have no This is This is what I have to So, I don't have know of anything coming up other than the four. Okay. So, if you look at the list, um the events that we had discussed. Hey, Michael, real quick. Can I just Okay, that's fine. Let's
table all them to next month because I don't think there's anything. I think all this is pre-planned stuff. Michael, if I'm not mistaken, he's got nothing that's money's out there or we're waiting on the decision to say yes or no. I'm going to be considering everybody's
time in here. Like I said, we're an hour and 15 minutes into this. Lizzy, you had a quick question. I just want to introduce myself. I'm Lindsay Whitehead. I work at the extension office. Anyone know what the extension office is up there? They want to know what we do. Someone just shout out some things. There's a lot of things that we
do for the youth event. So the reason why I think that the board and a lot of people had a lot of emphasis on Paul to lead this group. The first thing he said was that I'm here for the youth and the county, right? And that's why we're here. Okay. So I wanted to also, if you
guys have a minute, we've waited a year and a half, I think, or a year and a couple months to get to this point of having a new board. So, thank you guys all for submitting your applications. I am a non- voting member for my position in extension. I cannot have a vote. I'd love to serve on this board, but I'd love to support y'all. So, whatever
y'all need from the extension office. Um, if you have any questions, please reach out to me. But, um, please thank Amanda and Scott for working late hours, early mornings dealing with getting their hands on the property and then getting you guys an today. Um, because
without them, we wouldn't be here. and the commissioners, commissioners and all the other commissioners, too. Um because it's been a long time coming. I've worked in this office for 5 years and I've seen a lot of things. So, um I'm just thankful that we're here at this point and work together, be a good team,
support each other, support the events that you guys put on and that's all that I have. set if we can set a date that we could visit the fairgrounds. I would like really like to and have a tour of the maybe we could move a motion to uh make our next meeting at the fairgrounds.
So move second. There was a gentleman that was walking around. He said he's got like pictures of layouts and stuff. So we could have that information too. I shot the drone video. You probably have to use
building a you know a lot of y'all may not see it. Um here again, thank y'all for for volunteering for this and doing this and um bear with me. Like I said, I was asked to step into this. I just for the
kids and the community, I think this is a great opportunity. I do appreciate this and just bear with me for the stuff that I fumble through. I'm learning a lot of this stuff as we go too, but I think if we all come together and work together, um I think the fair could be great
again. And when I say the fair, the whole fair grounds down there can be something that this whole county is proud of. And uh Paul, if I could interject, you guys are going to need to go ahead and make a decision about the location for the next meeting because it
has to be noticed. Okay. And then we've also got the issue of the live stream. So let's do building three at the fairgrounds. Are you going to be able to live stream? No, no, we cannot do that. We can do a
tour of the fairgrounds and then everybody can come back here and we could complete the rest of the meeting or you can just have it there and we we've noticed the meeting but we would not live stream. You would still be within sunshine miles just wouldn't be. So yes, so your choice is go ahead and have the meeting down there, not live
stream or go down there to do a site tour and then come back here and have your meeting in this facility. I make a motion we don't live stream. We just have it there. All in favor of that. Like I said, thank y'all. If y'all have
any questions, um, I think everybody got a contact list. Feel free to reach out to me. Um, like I said, I hope we're all here to work together and make things great again. Do I have a motion to return the meeting?
second. All in favor? Thank you all.