uh to order this is Tuesday March 11th 2025 and you want to give us the synopsis here yeah M so the council previously discussed um want to come back talk about tourism especially in light of the TC updating their strategic plan so I think it's up for all of yall
to have discussion you know kind of Direction You' like to see us take and then um we will bring back anything y'all would like to see for future action and Direction so it's up to you on we here to answer any questions M do we have a um are you to develop
a categories say several categories that we want to highlight uh now and in the future you know because we I know we're a historic town but there's more than just our history we want to tourism to enjoy but that's
probably the most prominent thing um so how do you want to start this it's it's up to all of you so I think it'd be best for you to formulate y's ideas and then we can take and put that into something actionable bring it back to you mayor I guess I can kind of
maybe help us get started here so in my in my tenure uh on the TDC uh towards the end of it they were you know trying to promote North Walton and and come up with ideas for what to promote for North Walton because obviously for South
Walton they're going to promote the beaches the beaches are the the Golden Goose um the I will say this the one thing that the TDC wanted to promote for defunc in North Walton was
ecotourism and while I don't disagree with that I think that that is one small facet of what is defc Springs and what is North Walton County so I would like to see um us maybe kind of talk like
brainstorm some some more ideas because obviously downtown is uh uh more than just ecotourism uh even though I think there's opportunity to even continue to develop our town like Amanda and I you know maybe I shouldn't say this in a public meeting but Amanda and I have kicked around the idea of like you know
what would what would it look like if we had a shop downtown that had pad board rentals that you could go to and Pad board like almost like um an Orvis but you know local not not a chain you know that could offer that type of um outdoor type
Adventure um but it's more than just that you know it's it's retail um for sure but then there's the the historical aspect of it uh that you know people can enjoy the the walking tour that's already been established around the lake you know there and I don't see that very
much as ecotourism so um we we certainly have other things to offer here in defc Beyond just that so that's kind of where I want to maybe start just a tag on what you said that because we had we were thinking about as a city
maybe starting try to incubate something you know with the bicycles paddle board kayaks stuff and you know should we on the lower level of the amphitheater down there by the bathrooms have a facility big enough to have vending just certain
months of the year and hopes that somebody in the down town would take it over as a business you know but I mean we would make try to we probably would make a profit would make money uh if we did it as the city but I
thought you know I've been a little disappointed that we have not attracted more activity than we have I'm I'm a little bit surprised uh go ahead so a couple things to that I mean the TDC is one component of that but the Eda
is the other part of that and if we provide Direction in terms of we go through this exercise and we identify and we get some public input in terms of the different categories and where they'd like to see the emphasis I mean the next step is we're not going to wait on TDC I mean we're gonna go to Eda um
because one of the things that we did pursue downt toown uh you know through private investment development was getting YOLO to come up here yeah so we were trying to get YOLO or someone like YOLO to go ahead and open either at the bank bank was one of the locations of I
mean if the big store opens up or the other one opens up you know and it was acquired and available that's another one that's a potential location that corner you know where the bank is leading to the lake is more natural but I think um I think what we talk about
now it's going to become a bigger thing it's going to become part of you know Parks plan it's going to be part of the city's website in terms of available stock photography it's going to be about what we have as press releases that are available for immediate release it's going to impact what we do in terms of
our Eda and where we want them to to search for businesses because right now we're eda's you know the more of you all are involved with Ed than I am but you know there's a lot of talk about manufacturing there's a lot of talk about you know big retail big industrial
there's a lot of big things um but what we're talking about is an entire uh category of of businesses anywhere in the city not just a specific hey we want an Amazon we want a you know Distribution Center that we want another
you know want Home Depot to compete with you know whatever so one the thing that I've been throwing out was and I did this letter that I handed out before you know so if you just look at a couple things we got the ecotourism is a bunch of stuff and we're working on in terms of trails
networks I mean hiking camping rural character RV parks you know all those are part of that in between those then you got the the farm Associated uses you know farm table which ties to the downtown retail and restaurants but also you know farm tours I mean wrestling
it's amazing you go up there and then you go you pick so it's a business you go pick and then they actually go and sell outside of there you know but they sell a multitude of different products and they have set it up beautifully um now we want to focus
within the city but you know we may have to have a relationship with folks outside the city if they're doing things inside the city you know so they're coming and they're selling at the farmers market now got a connection okay I feel better about that it's including a nonprofit in our downtown it's including our downtown um and bringing
visitors from outside because they're coming to buy there instead of going up to the farm um so that ties into Educational Tours and then obviously in between you end up with actually before I jump into that one that actually ties into the fair Association we should be
having part of this conversation with the for Association I believe because what do they do well they do livestock and they do the fair activi and they work with Farmers you know so again there's a natural another natural tie in um in terms of getting the local businesses and the Farms working
together once we start talking I think we're going to find relationship we just got to keep talking about it the transition between all those is you know weddings well add to that while while we're adding add to that the theater downtown from a cultural arts perspective and then I would love to see
and I'm really hoping that the CAA and the CRA work out and and we get the CAA up here because that would be a tremendous draw from from an Arts perspective as well all kinds of weekend activities and how does that tie into TDC funds I mean they actually do pursue
TDC on their own so you know one another way to do this you know skin this cat is to we actually just partner with people that are just aggressively pursuing TDC funds and maybe that's how we end up working with TDC maybe we're not doing great on our own maybe we need to get
our for defunc when they do their event their working with TDC maybe they actually pursue more events it is Main Street that they're pursuing more events uh and being the connection to those TDC dollars as they do now help them apply for funding um that's another if I would
hope that's just another Branch rather than the whole tree that we pursue but you depending on how it goes it maybe it is all these things all these Eco and all these things actually tie into uh weddings which I think are a complete natural thing uh and then we got to talk
about you know whether we talk about larger things like stay before you stay this is something I don't know if you've ever heard me say this stay before you stay was an idea that we talked about at Main Street and just in general downtown and what that mean is with a lot of
people from Atlanta they're cramming to get down here as early as possible they want to they don't want to miss a day um and so what they do is they get here too early on a Saturday and they're everyone's leaving they're coming in and they can't go into their rental units and they're stressing and leaving in you
know middle of the night to get down here they all love to leave Atlanta on Friday leave Atlanta on Friday leave Memphis wherever you're coming from stay in Dunc do a BNB have breakfast downtown chill out all afternoon walk
around and then go down to the beach I I'll actually add to that the uh I don't know if he still owns it but the gentleman that owns the holiday in express out there behind leom um he said that that is that is 100% part of his
traffic is people that will come down and stay at his holiday in on a Friday night so they can get up Saturday morning and and basically spend an entire day at the beach they they're already doing that already so to your point how do we expand that and how do we TDC starts marketing it yeah we
actually have that active campaign and turn it turn an idea into a campaign stay before you stay and then we we have to do our part too we have to we have to start putting this stuff on our website and pushing it out to our nonprofits and
again Ford defc is not as much of a uh entertainment based one but Main Street is uh so that's a natural for getting out information and then anyone that's a Main Street partner they should be pumping that out and things like sunbrite I mean this will be a huge
support for sunbrite sunbrite has invested probably $2 million into our town yeah um and every time I don't see that parking lot full you know it makes my stomach hurt me as well so stay before you stay is a natural feed for them we should be
working with our businesses that provide the services and we should you know we should be reaching out and get them in these meetings how do we do this and then get them to the TDC meeting because no one goes the same as the TPO yep no one goes let's
just what the Zone have we learned nothing come on so um I one of and I don't want to monopolize this I want I mean I'm happy to just have it be as open and lo the mayor
feels comfortable with but yeah I mean I think we can start with um with a category of um we threw out several things you know more rural you know kind of retail you know commercial uh purely entertainment
and caas and then uh another category we haven't talked about is um improvements to our infrastructure like the amphitheater you know see I still say we go back to TDC and push it still haven't been able to get the bathrooms done um we've got some things that we can that
we need to legitimately gripe on um but understand that the longer we take to do this as a community the further behind we're going to get because free port's coming up hard they're about to have five hotels they've got a multi-story one
going next to the public which is publ which is going to be as probably going to be really nice um because probably going to have a restaurant and if it doesn't have a restaurant in it they're building a restaurant out front of it we're about to have a lot more competition they can't compete with sun right they can't compete with the
lakeyard they don't have those things yet so we still have an advantage um and we also currently have all the hotels which are generating the revenue which is why I think you should be all right getting some of the
revenue I have talked to uh because it's been off and on about a couple of hotels here and there I don't think anybody you know if anything that has been sounded least bit definite Kobe I know that over there next to
the track Supply they were talking about doing something on that pond uh which if if they don't put something really nice in front of that pond I'd say drive that Rascal up or run the road across it doesn't mean it's like Bo that's a waste of good
land if you don't take advantage of but anyway that's one and of course on the other side they've had two hotels projected for seven or eight years five or six years um I know the owner of one of those uh Parcels um and he's talked
to me about it they can't they're they might do it any day but they're not committed to do it at any day yeah yeah I understand and so we'll we'll wait on that but anyway I just uh
I think the entertainment part of it is really good I think that the stock theater is a very cozy nice atmosphere it will handle 255 255 so I mean that's that's
pretty good little crowd then we also need something that'll handle a thousand uh and Dam theater do it if you were able to shade the thing you know and course in the winter months I would just skip it and uh and I
I've been talking to Tony about the uh the old Armory and uh it could be used for a lot of things it could be an open facility like it used to be I guess it still is open have y no
but any walls right yes sir there's no walls in the main hall uh the office there are offices along the perimeter would have been there for a long time yeah and I don't know how many it would see or you know whatever kind of a you know meeting
or concert or whatever youd have there it would sit uh but I know it would sit several hundred but um you know and I would uh I know 120 used to fall in formation in there oh we can start doing midnight
Raves and not tell anybody and just get money off the books on that yeah but anyway there's a lot could be done with that I don't know U well I mean kind of kind of along the the same thought process in this is one of the things I was proud of is in the current strategic
plan for the TDC was the Hall of Brotherhood so I've never you kind of kind like the bathrooms I've never been able to get any kind of traction on actually doing anything and um but but it's in there and to me it should stay in there until until they actually follow through on it but
you know maybe we should instead of the the Armory let's let's help them or get them to help us with the the amphitheater and the Hall of Brotherhood it's already in in in a plan yeah yeah I think yes ma'am melen Henderson resident of the
city one thing I would like to see is a Scenic byway start up at the highest um point in the county come around the circle go down into the valley and come back nothing could be more beautiful the
uh bicyclist in the triathlon extended their route just so they could go up and down those Hills and see that beautiful scenery nfield or up here um down into the valley yeah that's where they go um
another thing is we had the cemetery and when we were leading those Cemetery tours uh they grew quite popular I don't know if we have anyone else that could do that we might could turn that into a ghost tour I don't know
um the um Freeport SE um no wait a minute South Walton uh High School does a senior prom for seniors it is very very very popular the
merchants support it um the parents of the students support it and um some of our seniors couldn't get down there because they didn't have a way and they didn't drive at night but that might be an idea
um I to say about talking about prom it could be held in the Armory or in our um behind Harbeson homeall yeah Civic Center um
and I hate to say this but if we can get the Veterans Memorial in a prominent place it will draw a tourist it's Unique enough that it will so that's another thing they could
do in terms of walking tours the shiaka tour we've got the brochure for the homes Tour St Agatha's is the only remaining Church in uh from the Shaga era is open for tours anytime anybody
any group wants it uh we could even Mount uh a tour of our downtown if we could you know get the verbiage together and people to to lead it um that's all I got right
now so Dr Henderson um for the byway I would recommend reaching out to Scenic Walton because they actually deal with that specifically yes knows okay uh have you been on the agenda with them yet no we're talking
okay is that the green Beltway it's sort of it's um so C Walton's the one that did the uh or helped put together the uh the guidelines for Scenic 98 which has a lot of design restrictions um and the
bill Bo restrictions and and they've done a lot of the uh leg work to do the landscaping and the medians on 98 and some of the what you're seeing South on 331 so the roadway Landscaping a lot of that is through their efforts and there is a a program for
state and right depends on how well we can go um how well we can do how much publ can get on up the line yeah and I think that was first lady Eisenhower that started the first movement with that and and so it's an extension of that with with Scenic
America Mr Harrison jump in so yeah you know when we first started this we're like where where do we start but when you start listing the things the attributes that we have it's quite a long list um you know when Freeport is growing but they they don't have you
know the character they'll work with other things and work with what they have because they're doing a great job of that but we have a unique uh a lot of unique things here actually um and some of these already been mentioned but of course the historic district as far as tours uh Circle Drive part of that uh
the shiaka building Library uh the depot all of that can fit into an educational type of uh tour walking tour whatever um um the trails uh system and the biking I think that's going to be
absolutely huge one day uh especially if Bike Shop kayak shop those kind of things here um that can be a big thing for us uh because we have the golf course here as well and people can ride the golf course by the the golf cart
Trails out there it's a County Recreation Area basically what it is and and and it's beautiful I don't know if you'all been all through the golf course but it's hilly Rolling Hills ponds I mean it's absolutely gorgeous uh so people on bicycles or or or just walking hiking that that could be a huge part of
the overall tour system uh of the city um and it's a it's a historic golf course in the state of true that's right yes ma'am um the Arts and entertainment thing uh is I think we're on the cusp of
of of becoming known for that I know people are working very hard towards that and it already draws a lot of people here from other parts of the County uh and not just County you have an idea where you ticket sales are for the songwriters tour they're coming from
different areas other than just Walt County that's right um so that has a lot of potential to really uh explode and draw people here the weddings of course it's a beautiful town uh the festivals that we have uh we got lak Fest um
marble flight will be huge if we get that back at the airport um uh gentleman last night was talking about the air shows that used to be out there um man that just that just started my mind spinning about the potential uh out
there with that uh but Marty grow uh shito Winery has two festivals a year uh which are huge they continue to grow um Cemetery tours as as you mentioned that's fantastic um and the Veterans Memorial I think could add a whole lot
as a stopover Point um and that's just here you know and I think we could also play a role in outside the city limits the e tourism Agri tourism uh can be because in North End of the county where
the farms and the ranches and the forest and all that stuff are there's no hotels up there they're all going to stay here right they're going to take part in these things we're we're talking about so the more we can contribute to those ideas and help that aspect of tourism in North Walton grow I think the more it
will help our local tourism oh and of course if the mayor can get amtr to stop here one day well okay okay so so I I had this this thought occur to me um I've been following um the development of um
bright line down in South and Central Florida uhuh how how um Forward Thinking would it be of us to engage with bright line and say hey have you thought about the I 10 Corridor as your as your next project
because they're actually bright line is actually looking at developing The highspeed Rail between Vegas and um La that basically the state could never do so what if we were to you know engage with brightline and kind of lead lead
the charge on on that up here I think all that's a fair game when when it was being talked about I've got someone that we can talk to and find out I believe the once we start to establish a line um you know the track the track is is the
thing um who actually provides passenger service is an open question um so it's not one it's not exclusive to one or the other if it's popular or not um but really the line is the thing once you have the line you can really look to
you know whether you want to go you know semi-private private or or public um there's an option so I I I think I've got someone we we can reach out to the southern rail Alliance people we've actually I've been talking to them a good bit in the past nothing recent but
in the past we were talking lens think about an Excursion train in North Florida they do that during the uh Leaf season uh maybe we could pick a route and and children of today don't
know what a train is they come just to ride I know in Chattanooga we had done private rides where it's not on a public rail it's an old Rail and they've got trains and that's actually quite popular I don't know how that would function with an active rail
um so it's a question um but boy that that we really need a heck of a partner we we need a lot more people come in town to get there but I think we could get there eventually something came up when Mr Harris was talking uh it's
um it's been going on for a while in the South End on 38 where you used to have all the all the races and and parades and and really because of the the population and the inability to have other routes the the county has really frowned on them closing down 3A anymore it's
become a problem we don't have that problem uh and we also have a great place for parades and races and there's actually a couple of uh uh nonprofit events that were going on on the south end one of
them was being sponsored by a company that I'm familiar with and I was actually trying to get to their CEO to tell like dude in the yet just move it up here now they have rental housing on the south end but it still so far that
we couldn't figure it out it's like hey 38 I don't want you anymore come on up yeah we're open for business yeah the land's beautiful experience something completely different you know if you're gonna be down here for a week you know you're not going to spend every day on
the beach you cook for a couple days and you're trying to just recover that that fourth day from the sunburn come on up uh do the do the races do the parades do those activities then here it'll probably cost you less um and you can
bring some of those South End sponsors we've got some sponsors let's let's start talking about some of these events that are no longer happening on the south end because they just can't handle it anymore you know forgive me for for those of you that may have heard this little spill
but I was thinking back to the founding of defc right uh 1884 it's what's it's what's on our seal right well that was the railroad right but what was what was the significant event that brought that that
really and truly Grew defc From just another Whistle Stop into to what it is today it was two years later Shaka came and shiaka brought tens of thousands of people every year to our location and so
to a certain extent we were the OG tourist destination in this County we you know and we were built on tourism we weren't built on oil we weren't built on Timber we weren't built on you know anything else that would typically grow
a town we were built on tourism way back in the 1800s it's the resort yeah we we were the resort we were the Magic Kingdom before there was a Magic Kingdom right so um from from that perspective I think it it's important for us to always kind of
keep that in in our mind and know that you know we we always kind of want to embrace you there's a lot of people that say oh you know I don't want defc to change but at the same time What right exactly exactly we we grew based on
tourism um and I don't you know I agree that there there there's a certain charm to defc um that everybody sees and and it's funny because Amanda and I made this this observation and it I literally heard it this last week standing in our
store lady said oh we're here from and I can't remember where she was from but they were obviously from out of town and not close and she said in just in conversation you know this down town down here reminds me of my hometown I can't tell you in the last six years of
being downtown how many times someone has walked in our store and said that and so Amanda's kind of coined the term where everybody's Hometown America's yeah yeah so maybe that's something we need to embrace we obviously we're talking about tourism
but you know how can we how can we Embrace tourism without losing the charm that everybody loves right and and you know be respectful of the people that are here and that you know grow up here and want to kind of keep it the way it is but at the same time how do we Embrace tourism and bring welcome those
people in the same way that all of us at some point are we're welcome in welcomed to defunc yeah we start to push it more in that direction um you know welcome home U was
something I felt our son should have that you know come in town it's like welcome home Mr said at one time I thought of this idea do you remember the housekeeping seal of appr yeah okay
we need to have AA seal of approval for the various events around that we have entertainment or arts and so that when people hear about it they
won't say oh just they'll say oh this has the chal of approval and they know it will be high quality uh nobody would buy when I was trying to tell it but maybe right now we have
musicians we have songwriters and we have producers um at one time I proposed a DFS Folk Fest and uh we've got VI including the churches that and the lakeyard
um forette could not expand to take that on and I tried to get the performers to take that on but they were all willing to perform or produce but not to leave the festival so if we could have people for that that would be another we have a
small one coming up uh well there is a music event coming one fix come up real soon some of the front porch musicians well we've been that's I've been talking about the porch Fest thing there is a porch Fest where's that one that's the old one that's going on right now it
might be this next weekend um but there's one locally yeah but we've been that conversation been going around the main M Street board from years and years and years ago but I think someone is actually taking it more seriously now and pushing ahead with the idea but I
don't think anything's officially been announced yet well was something I just bought a ticket for online it's the summit and yeah yeah there's music there's the yeah the Opera cowgirls the Opera cowg girls yeah it's Friday night on
the they're coming to the theater on April 4th that's right yeah which one you so is this open for need come no that's all right go ahead we're the smaller crowd okay great so um one of the things in South Walton besides
the beach which is like Mr be says is clearly the Crown Jewel uh you could have nothing else going on down there they didn't need to build one restaurant one hotel people still would have go to that beach however we understand the development is happen long one of the
things that fueled that development was South wal has a very strong and I'm going to use this word music scene meaning that people would plan their trips so that they could make sure
that if they if they were here in 2004 and they saw this local band that they really enjoyed but that local band doesn't play regionally or anywhere else and they they fortunately were able to make enough money in that scene that exists in South Walton that we've
created over the last 30 years that we don't have to do like a lot of other places where where they have to go from Atlanta to other towns to make money but they have an actual scene there and what we have here now because of what Tim Jackson's done at the theater with
bringing in different artists um having last stop having music having uh Southern having music Ernie will sometimes have music live music mus at Nola I i' I tried selling the idea to my
people that are all in that scene on the south end I I've been trying to sell them the idea guys there's going to be a music scene in defun at Springs let's be the ground floor of that let's let's be part of
that and I've seen more interest from them kind of coming up here and stuff but that was a big economic driver because people would go to that restaurant specifically to spend a couple hundred bucks to sit there and watch you know I'll just use as an
example The Pickled Pickers if you go to AJ's every Sunday it's packed because they've got a band called The Pickled Pickers and it's made up of five or six different just excellent musicians who
formed to band and they have a a crowd that will like a church I mean if if you want to find somebody on a Sunday night you can go there and you know they're going to be there because that's what they do on their Sunday nights I'd like to see us have some things like that here in
town be it the historic district obviously is the greatest spot for it anywhere in there but just the idea that we have our own scene here so that when people are coming through they might be like no let's let's leave on Thursday night because I
want to be there Friday because Friday after no at 4:00 this band's going to play at this place in defunc and I don't see them playing on any of the other you know kind of so wall things I think we have an opportunity there it's just just
throwing that in the pot as far as ideas of to ways to get eyes on our our options of of what you say in the last five years you've seen or at least heard more people interested well
abely yeah and and I know in the Arts as well I have a couple right now that have been in the arts for over 50 years they're M and and they're they're saying we're trying to decide where we want to move to F or not I said you
do they have put on some huge venues across the country and so I think that would be a real plus but and it's not a duplication of what you've seen it's it's kind of an expansion of what we've seen so I love that yes
ma'am we have the best movies set in the world we got all different kinds of arure all different kinds of outdoor scenery from the Farms to the forest nobody has mentioned promoting uh
hunting and fishing and it's a different kind of fishing here and it is on the coast I don't know why we don't have a um Cinema committee
or a movie committee or something some people say that we don't have the U periphery people the cameramen and everything like that however they're all in Atlanta yeah Atlanta's becoming a scene
for uh movie production yeah it's Hollywood yeah and so we're getting to be in a place that we could Supply that she's right about that too because one thing that we can do in W County that other places necessarily can't do is you
could be at the Gulf of Mexico and film a movie and tell people that that movie was filmed in Taiwan and then you could drive 30 minutes north and go to the right part of the valley and say you were filming in North Carolina because of the way the hills roll way the sun
sets there and the Farmland so uh and then in between that you've got Freeport with the shipyard and things like that so we have some very unique land features that other places don't have that I think we could definitely uh approach uh production
companies and say Hey you know it costs a lot to go there but it cost you a little less to come here and look what other things you can do while you're here yeah I don't know that that's necessarily going to bring tourists but I promise you this you get two or three movies made
here people on Instagram and you'll see thousands of posts from people where they went specifically to a place because they saw I was watching Sling Blade before I came here today so uh yeah my brain's a
little slow right that but you know that was a small town in Arkansas but people now want to go to wherever that place was filmed so that they can go like this in front of the cafe yeah but
imagine imagine seeing people taking selfies in front of EDS yeah because you can't get more old school Southern din Diner than the tasty fruit you know what I mean yeah we have a lot of those different kinds of features that we could really
be is that um movie producers are used to places that give them some sort of Inc Florida does not right so I don't know if we'd be able to or not so let me address that so good news bad news good
news is that uh back in the well back about 10 years ago we started to see a movement of decentralization of some of the people that work on movie sets and so some of the rigers the lighting people sound people they actually aren't living in La anymore they aren't living in Atlanta anymore they're actually
living wherever they want and they're just traveling because there is no central location that's doing all the movies so it doesn't matter where you live uh there are lot of lighting warehouses and Cinema houses in New Orleans uh because they were doing a lot of production work there because
Louisiana was funding so so the good news is that uh we actually have a lot of people here that are in the industry not not just liting people and and uh cinematographers and some of the support people but we actually have some people that are producers I've got a producer
client he moved from LA to toh Atlanta and he's doing a you know two houses in carolon um and he's been in TV shows and produced shows and and he's an interesting dude uh Florida State fan but um that's the good news so they are
aware these people have seen this place and we do have the people that can actually do the work problem is that Florida got away from their tax credit they did away with that and basically everyone that was in Orlando went to Atlanta and New Orleans and la and Vancouver and Toronto and
Chicago and you know I think it's Toronto that anytime you see New York it's Toronto I mean if you're seeing a PCT scet tape of New York it's not New York it's it's Canada so um good news is we actually have the
people the people are familiar with this place they are aware of it and I think we could get some excitement bad news is that uh we lost the state level funding that would bring that in now if we had a bigger TDC pool you could actually attract large Productions using cash
because we don't have a tax incentive uh if there's another way to generate an incentive I'd be all ears to it um but other than cash but you saw how hard it was just to even do the paper bear thing I still say that I think that there's still some value obviously I
don't think we need to dump you know more than $50,000 into it I'm not even saying that like let's spend in my mind let's spend 2500 bucks to produce what they call like a Sizzle reel which
is where you know you go to the the various locations that Mr Jeremiah is talking about and you capture the sunset over the Rolling Hills and you literally package that together into a reel and you have it available on YouTube and on our website and a couple of different places and obviously because it's there
it's it's kind of Evergreen right it sits there and it slowly gets traction it gets link to you know it's SEO optimized and then hopefully over time you get people to start inquiring so I think the other thing we could do we could actually do is we could take
concrete steps to maybe formalize what our policies would be and and the procedures would be that okay if if we have a um what was the Jim Cary movie that did Seaside The Truman Show if we have if we have The Truman Show come knock on our door tomorrow and say we
want to film around the lakeyard at the piank Springs how would we respond to that as a city you know what permits would we issue what stipulations would we put on them what you know uh security requirements or police requirements like let's formal let's go ahead and get it
ahead of the game and let's formalize that so that when when they do come a knocking we can say well guess what we we've been waiting on you and we're prepared for you here here you go I think even making those kind of steps could be seen um to a lot of people as opening open and inviting open for
business could the TDC fund that do we want to talk about that actually that's some of the things that this morning was my first meeting with Matt and the staff and they get to know everybody and what their functions were and a lot of the things that we're talking about here now are a lot of the things that they were
opening me up to to stay before you stay um this exact function with hey people want to come in and film and and do um some type of movie or video and and before they do that it goes through them
they help them Market that or figure out we don't want you to look at something that's going to turn people away but actually bring people to us so a lot of those functions and clearly today was my first opening to it some of that was
talking about prepared in the bud and that may just be my personal opinion because we did have a group here want to do some movies back eight nine years ago and but they were wanting to turn the fiac into a real ha Mid City and that
was going to be the gesture behind their the whole subject of the movie and I thought I don't need that reputation we don't need that reputation because it may it may get out in front of us and we can't ever put it out that we are a just an haunted City full of
ghost and but that's what they wanted to do they were very interested and I movies are low budget sometimes that's the first ones you got to start with oh God just well hold on you can f that it probably wouldn't be
that expensive start right and I understand your point Mr may we we would want to be known as The Haunted City but at the same time and like you said that's your personal feeling that's my spiritual feeling my
I'm not a big horror movie fan per se but I will watch one but but there is a lot of people that don't view that negatively and that you know if somebody made like a murder film here we wouldn't necessarily be you know Turning Away
people because I don't want to go to defunc because there's murderers there or there's ghosts there I think it's that the internet has expanded so much that it would probably benefit us more than it would hurt us now I understand about getting out ahead of it but I
really think that um just eyes on most people don't pay attention to where the place was or a movie was filmed unless they're really into it and a lot of times it's just like at the very end in the credits you
know that kind of thing I I would worry less um about gaining a reputation from the movie than I would the the benefits of of bringing more and more of that year
because I'll take is like one um Fried Green Tomatoes you and then we're that town you know but uh also the other thing I was going to say about that is movie productions 15 years ago 20 years ago you know you'd
have huge production uh setups a lot of it's now done on a camera this big right with three people and a gaffer I mean the the production Crews have come that got so
much smaller that you could do a lot in a little space without having to shut down the whole city like they did for free for I mean for The Truman Show in Seaside which again but they made that movie what in 905 somewhere around there you see the
frogs Yeah Yeah you see frogs every year every year my family goes and watches frogs at Eden on it really it we busted loose after that movie I mean nobody want to come down [Laughter]
here was Sam Elliot when he was like 27 years old so I think actually I actually want to take a step back and actually I do want to talk about the mayor's point there there's a there is a second thing to talk about here so there's a difference between a movie production
which is a fictionalized thing that actually highlights a real place and what the mayor is actually talking about was the Ghost Hunters they're not talking about a fictional thing they want to come in show you the place and they want to turn it into a ghost tour
destination that's that's a different type of animal that's like having it's like filming cops in in the neighborhood and and and getting a reputation that way you know would we want to have cops filming inun I wouldn't do we want to have um do we want to have a ghost tour
you know just saying how oh the the hotel is haunted and this is haunted and everyone com on and you know do your golf weekend Victorian tour and and spook the place out I mean I I think there is a legitimate conversation to have there versus you know you know
actual Film Production and actual movie production I think it's is a real sells the film well I I think Mr Jeremiah is is is on to something because he's exactly right that the Netflix's the Apple TVs the Hulu of the world have completely redefined Film Production
right and he's exactly right you don't need the large sets the large amount of people anymore he's exactly right it's it's five or 10 people they're shooting on an Ari or they're shooting some of them are even been shooting on iPhone rigs so if we could cater to that and
again if we could already have the structure in place you want to come film with your five or 10 people uh you know and produce something that's going to end up on Netflix or or the like you know here's here's the structure that we already have in place to issue you a permit here's here's the parameters you
know if you want to shut down a street or whatever for filming or if you want to drive through the middle of town with someone hanging out the back of one of the follow cars or you know Etc we if we could get ahead of that and we could say we're ready for business because here's here's the there's a lot of that
online yeah here's the framework here's the framework right yeah so Florida state has a film school we can do a competition through their school for the best one in do a prize for whoever can produce the the best you know highlight reel for the
community or the one that can you know I don't know we we can come up with a competition that can be something we can do because it pays for a student's tuition or helps with a student's tuition maybe it is a a Year's tuition that's not depends on how good the
grades are it might be compensative might be a really cheap one I don't know but um we can do things like that to actually bring down the costs and do and then we can pick from different things and it also starts to bring the more important part about it is become it becomes a competition that's open and V
and visualized and seen so they actually distribute it through social media themselves they actually put it out in the world which gets the eyeballs on if we put out a real it's like I mean how we gonna mark it how we GNA get it out unless we go to show to shows and
and conventions true but we've got to start somewhere right that that's my point is let's start with something small that we can easily that we can easily handle and let's continue to build upon it from there so produce so I think one thing I'm hearing is maybe this is this one that we all want to try to produce funding through
TDC for a Sizzle reel so to speak Good Start yeah I don't see why we don't try to see what what we can get from them on there try something one of things that's a good idea though that he just had was if if it was um a comp
competition between several different entities from different schools and you and you did it right what you could do is now you possess the rights to that real that they created so
let's say somebody from WF creates one somebody from FSU creates one somebody from um what's my w call now Northwest Northwest the point is let's say that you got four or five of them
you like parts of this one but you like parts of this one too now you can take those because we have the rights to them because the way that we did it and edit them together with the perfect Sizzle real that that your Council feels best represents the city and what we're
trying to accomplish and by doing it as a competition and only offering a prize in return like a scholarship or something like that I'm sure there's a way to get those funs a little bit easier than asking we want
to make a cool movie can we have some money instead of saying we want to provide a scholarship through this competition and we need donors to put into that scholarship and and again I don't think it's going to have to be in more than five grand I mean that's a kind of a high figure too yeah because you're
going to be asking for a two to five minute Max production so if you did it right that way instead of just getting one thing you get several different people's perspectives different views and then you can kind of pick and choose from
that and put together the pur so so what he's saying is I know this is not the topic of this meeting is that something that we want to go ahead and factor into Budget moving into next month and say hey we want to allocate 10K for
scholarship funds then or marketing we can just call it General marketing allocate it based on that yeah um but I think we still pursue through the TDC oh for sure oh yeah definitely um so you know it's been a little while
I think we can try maybe pin down a couple of items I guess I real quick you know I I agree I think we probably need to like focus in here but you know I go back to the beginning part of the meeting when we all were collaboratively naming off
all the different features I really would like to see that I was even in my mind like I'm gonna go back and rewatch this and just sit there and make a list of every single event that we named off because to a certain extent like somebody's got again somebody's got to
start start somewhere with a list of all of the activities and everything that we have um I think that's one thing that we need to do as a city let's let's as a city let's bring together everything that happens in the city from Arts from events from you know triathlons etc etc
like let's let's put our arms around that and maybe have a spot on our website where you have all this to me that that would be step one and then you know I I also agree with you know the idea of let's let's think about what does it look like from a city
perspective to actually support some of these events how how do we do exactly because again we don't want to be picking and choosing favorites right we want everybody but you know that might be a tough nut to crack but
there's also the idea we got all these I mean like I said we've got things under different categories like we got hiking camping uh and then on the Arts we have you know Performing Arts which is you know live music you know writing workshops writing Retreats that'd be a great thing to Market actually uh
concerts in general larger concerts larger venues small venues indoor venues outdoor venues I mean every time we break down a category we've got subcategories within that and then we've got the farming table and and the rural and then we've got the you know just the Beach connection stay before you stay so
there's and they're all going to piggyback on each other you know if you do this if you do the events right the stay before you stay works so much better if you do it to where people want to come down on a Friday night because they want to see someone it's like Saturday at red bar or Sunday morning at
Red Bar sorry I mean if you're local you do Sunday morning at Red Bar because you know who's playing and sometimes it's now it's become generational now the the kids are the musicians are now the musicians and they're playing and they it's all family uh and and the great
thing about that is because of that you get the younger supporters so you got the high school kids that go to school with them are coming hanging out with their parents to listen to music on the Sunday them home they get their because Mom and Dad aren't
behaving but yeah it's um it's phenomenal in terms of just Community that's wonderful for Community I don't it it's taken 25 years for them to do that at least 20 years I think it's
taken 25 to get there yeah it's it's it's taken two decades but it's it's now like a u it's become so prominent that if you sell a hamburger there's going to be a guy in the corner with the guitar singing to yeah at just nearly every
place you go and South wall and so that's a great resource to draw from to a place that feels more like what it used to be because really why so many oldtime locals moving to Dunc from the
sou but I love what Todd and Miss Henderson were talking about with the Chago with thing because this place used to be the Apex of class and culture in Florida for you know several years because of
chaga if if we can figure out a way and the historic tour would be a Wonder thing because it would show people that I really like what they they have down on the lake with the big billboard that kind of explain one and shows you you know The Walking t
that's another we don't I don't think we promote that enough I tell people about it and they're they're amazed that it exists when I show them that they can do the walking tour on their phone and I think you can do it at the cemetery too I think those are things that we should really promote because that's a great way to kill a day like like you were
talking about earlier day or you're just sunburned you're just done with the salt and water but you still got two more days and all of a sudden you find out well we can we could take the kids on this spooky tour around the cemetery at night or or we could take the kids up to the lake and walk around and they could
actually learn something while we're here um I'd also like to to start highlighting the legends that we've created here not when I say Legends I don't mean like fantasy Legends I mean people that were actual Legends like you
know not many people know that the guy that scored the most touchdowns ever in a football game is from here or people like um who's a baseball player uh that was from here that uh Richburg what was his name Richburg
wasn't it but we have so many of those types of people that came from here uh just like when Nancy Hasty does the uh Jackie you know we should we should be highlighting that kind of historical
value that we already possessed and selling it to people the kind of people that want to go to St Augustine because they love history you know yeah we were working on that for a while one of our main players out of New
Orleans I don't know if he got sick he was really our our real engine running the thing but I don't think it's dead but they're still trying to bring it back and ly Haven because his nephew
lives in ly Haven who is a musician and all that as well he he's going to have something done there but we're supposed to also featur it over here maybe have a happy McCormick Hank Williams day yeah see the cool thing about that is that's
ours that belongs to us that connection belongs to us even if other people do it those individuals had connections to many other yeah that doesn't change the fact that they still had a connection to us yeah no I I agree with Mr Mr Jeremiah that um
there's a really neat mural in my wife's Hometown uh back in Joplin and it highlights various people that have gone on to be astronauts and you know well-known sports players and you know just well-known like public figures um
uh what's the uh is it Booker T Washington he's he's you know had a thing up there near where where she is from her hometown or is it Carver I can't remember one of the two um but I I agree we need to kind of document you
know if anything for posterity sake the the the well-known people that have come from our our area our hometown here that that have left an impact on on Society for sure yeah how did sh Taco Festival end
here and become Lake fist that that's one thing somehow or another my mind so I can tell you exactly so Florida shiwa Inc was running the shco festival and had been running the Sho Festival since
I think the early 80s if I remember correctly um what it boiled down to was there was about five or six people that were putting it on and they were tired they' had been putting it on for 20 plus years and so they decided that it really
hadn't it wasn't doing what it originally set out to do anymore it had just become this different kind of Festival than what it was originally set out to be so they decided to if there was no one going to step up and run anymore they were just going to shut it down and unfortunately no one else
stepped up um and so it I think it was right around the early 2000s is when they when they quit doing it um and then that's lake Lake Fest U came along as as a you know complimentary idea to to what
the original Festival was but as as the president of the Flor should talk about I think that there's definitely an open openness to resurrecting that um but I think it needs to be more representative of the
four pillars of shiaka which is Arts education Recreation and religion so if we're going to do that um and we're going to kind of revive the actual shiaka event you know I think I can't speak for my entire board but I do think that there's an openness to it
but I think that that's something that the community is going to have to come together and say that we want and let's how can we put it put it back on and and resurrect it that's a lot of what we're talking about here today already anyway yeah D Pick R about the Chicago assembly
in about the 90s mid90s and she carried it out and a lot of money went out of her pocket and um then two different people decided they were have one and things kind of disolve and then the
to board picked it up and they I think they did well for a number of years but it's we just finished it did you see anybody in town I mean they just finished I agree with her that it came it comes and goes like a ghost now but
like he was saying it had four pillars but one of the principles of of the original talk was was discourse towards progress and it was a progressive thing it wasn't just they didn't come down here to see something that happened 200 years ago yeah they came down here to
see what was then and now that's why they would bring the people that were you know the the most popular writers the most popular artists and musicians they would bring them in here and I think if we approached it from that standpoint as opposed to like you know
having just a reenactment or um putting up some old tents and things like that that's that's not if if Chicago had a just kept going and going and going they wouldn't be doing that they would be bringing down you know symphony
orchestras from Chicago and New York they would be bringing in people that we we would pay a lot of money to go see because otherwise we wouldn't get to see them unless we traveled to those places we were we were the original TED talks yeah that's a good best way to put it to
put because it was pushing forward policy and ideas and and you know National issues um talk with New York right now is big big events big uh you know National orchestras Phil harmonics
you know bringing them in from out of town exhibits you know lectures by you know famous writers that are brought in to speak um it's just so big I'm very concerned
the fact that some some really well funded people and well uh and very capable people have had trouble with it is what gives me pause I think for the time being we need to we need to build the infrastructure that would allow that
to happen a little bit more easily and if we had the day-to-day stuff if we had if we had Trails if we had the sizzle reel if we had the the music going on and the and just keep feeding the restaurants that are are opening up the business that's coming you know get that Outfitters I think if you had those
things it gets a lot easier to do that big event yeah I mean because right now I mean because we would be talking about it's like hey let's try to get the amphitheater done one way or another whether it's you know CRA or or or through TDC I still think it should be TDC um you know let's get that in place then we're not worried about where are
we going to do this we're going to do it there it's fantastic and if it rains we go inside we got the theater it's fantastic and renovating it would become part of that same process because it is a venue that is is relevant to the entire tourism industry so I just I just
I get I get worried because so many people have been trying to do it and there's capable people have been trying to do it for so long that it's just the infrastructure for the stuff to support it's not there let's get the other stuff right and then that'll happen I mean that one was just magical I mean it was a huge group they came in they already had an established Fair they just
brought it down they traveled with what they already had yeah we were just yeah it was already set up you know they had the audience we don't have we're building the audience and so we need to develop the infrastructure we can develop a local audience we can get enough energy
to get get that stable just just stability then we can really grow but I think honestly I think we get place it's just going to happen on its own and we're not gonna have to do a thing yeah I completely agree well should talk what you know back in the day a lot was
developing in this country technology inventions in the 1920s I mean it was exciting time and of course that was that was a a current that was current topics current issues that they talked about and in modern time at least here in theud act talk has been more about
history more about the past and as a history teacher I value history don't get me wrong and I think uh you know we need to pass it on and people need to learn about it young people older people um because a lot of people don't follow it especially today because we're
everybody's scrolling in in and in the exact moment you talk talking about 100 years ago you you lose kids today and I I was seeing that in the classroom and we' Shar would always have speakers they come out there we'd pile 800 kids in the auditorium you know to hear them speak
and they would be speaking about uh something that you know was a long time ago the kids just couldn't relate to the speakers were often people that they did not know and they had never heard of you know except unless they heard I always prepared them before the events you know
so they would know somebody was but they would literally sit there in their chairs and go to sleep uh and so you know if Shak was going to survive in today's culture um it it needs to be
something more in the in the moment uh with some history attached to it but something that people can relate to today that's what energizes people otherwise you're going to lose them before you get them you know before you start um but there's a lot of potential
with you talk well I I will say that what do we you want to walk away from us may I think um the notes that I've taken from from everyone talking I think what we're doing and I don't know if anybody else is you're creating a strategic goal for the city right what I've been we've
been talking about um the city need as we go to the budget I'm going to ask you to create more to me if you'all feel this passion about this is a strategic goal right you create it you say the goal is whatever the goal is if it's stay before you stay if that's the goal and you Branch off of that and what what's next is that objective number one
is arts and entertainment and then you go from there and you say Okay arts and entertainment includes infrastructure and then that's that's how staff is how we start to create we're here to fix the empat we're here to support the theater we're here just to do this and do that I think that's what you're creating Without Really seeing on paper I think
if I can take the time we take time bring it back to you and show you what you're talking about I think it's gonna come together in a big picture so what what really and truly though would would the Strategic goal be de developed tourism that to me that's the that's the Strategic goal and then one of the
attendants would be stay before you stay and if you're andom is PR with the TDC plan you go on there you'll see you'll see the goal and you got the objectives within the goal so you create the goal and then the objective is whatever it may be Arts entertainment then we work through that
so you've created one in my opinion and I think that's what you're I think yall want to see when it comes to budget times how do we start to pursue that goal how we start to create plans wrapped around it moving forward to me um I think uh you know we've talked about marketing the city how we do that
I can see the yall are pretty passionate about I want to see some changes in that so I I've been contemplating some things I think I'll go ahead and do what I was thinking about doing and talk to you some about so we can do that the website you know we're redoing that now hopefully May will be the launch date part of that is a whole dedicated page
to basically I'm not we're gonna call something different than Visitor Center but it's for those visors to click and it has all the City events we're going to reach out to all the different organizations bring the events it's going to have information about the city so it's not just going to be a little B section on there packed in there um I think something and this is
if y'all would like to do it or not uh the city doesn't have in my opinion slogan so if you look at other cities and I'll just give you two for examples that I've seen recently um the city of Venice Beach City on the gulf the city of or Orange Beach life is better here
now they're on the water but I think what you just say like America's Hometown that's a slogan that you build around in my opinion and I don't think we have one Curr currently didn't we do anything with naturally well-rounded I mean we went through that marketing exercise with that program I think that I think they had to walk away from that
because I think it was already copyrighted um I mean well I think welcome home's been taken too but I still you know America's Hometown America's Hometown you just went through this exercise Orlando and of course they were
talking about you know they were trying to get their statements done and out of all Target and Walmart all of them the only one that stood at SC is one that's got a big check mark Nike Nike and you know what their
statement is just do it just do it they've never changed it everybody else changes it and it loses its value so you really need to pick something you can stick with you know once you do welcome home America's Hometown short I I kind of like of course I'm partial to it because that's
what am man and I coined but we're everyone's hometown everyth Massachusetts longer is what is America's Hometown worksh I think we need to do think actually that goes to one of the things I was going to bring up it's like I
actually would like to do the list just let's just make the list of all the stuff we talked about just yeah make the list yeah of all the different categories I actually wanted to get public input appreciate y'all it's not a whole lot of Public public we've got de
we've got good demographic variation but flid right yeah so all that but a survey well if we add two people to the audience we're 100% we increase it by 100% so a survey so just a survey C and we could just get a rank of you know
where the people reacting to whether it's hiking camping concert music F what I don't know let's see what people think I just want to know what people think uh where should our emphasis be I think we still do the real to promote the community I still I'm still working on the
photography library to try to capture a library I think TDC could F that as well um or at least share theirs it was mentioned today too yeah I mean I've brought that up before um so that having that Library having that stuff do the
sizzle reel uh I think the stay before you stays we got to do it I think we just have to do it to me that's an initiative that I think we should we should focus on for sure and uh again that's not a huge traffic generator because it's it's it's going to be it's limited by accommodations and we don't
have that many uh I think it's going to tend to be a little bit more high-end I think sunbrite is our Target and existing rentals around the historic district which will support historic restoration and preservation if people want to fix their properties and put on
a short-term rental well if we're if we're going to do that as a code and land use Review Committee we probably need to put on our agenda to review the bed and breakfast code because if I'm not mistaken it's extremely restrictive right now and basically requires Council
approval yes but we we have a local local ordinance that's fairly restrictive that kind of almost discourages people from doing it and and yet we love Sunbright in why would we not encourage more Sunbright ends in our historic district right and what it did is it really kept Outsiders from
investing in our community because they felt like well gosh you know they all know each other they're all a bunch of buddies they're not going to let me do it they'll let their buddy do it but they're not goingon to let me do it so that was the perception true or false that's what people said to me when well yeah we wanted we saw a great place and we wanted to restore it into a BNB but
we were G have to go to the council and it's like and they don't know us yeah we also should add camping have wonderful camping oppal City you know they've done a lot of work
up there on their cabins I think they' got some glamping stay before you stay to add that to the accommodations because some people might want to just you know it'd be fun if we just camped out the night before uh at the lake up there and then
went to the beach the next day so there's there tourism as well important thing is we don't want just the traffic we want to make sure that they're sp00 Dollar in town and bounc on those dollars over and over and over in town the more Bal more times we get that dollar to balance within our community
the better off we are yep um I used to do a lot of organizational development and consultation in that area one of the most effective things that I saw done here was um when CRA did their annual
report they had the Consultants had this huge thing up and it had a lot of things on it and they had these little um things that people would come and vote by putting it Mir on the things
that they wanted and we could do something like that without having a formal thing you can just advertise come by Thea Center and tell us what you think best and put your little thing your little little sticker
yeah well I think Kobe has collected a lot of what we have mentioned I think as he sort of condenses it puts together in something we can look at our next round probably be even more productive but I think it's been very productive yeah I
but we could go on all night so it sounds like I think we're good I'm glad Jeremiah Was Here his feedback too and Dr Henderson yeah absolutely listing these things like you said and and maybe you know prioritize
like some of them I'm looking down this list that I I read off you know some of them we could do of course immediately just some marketing and the walking tour thing more promoting it's already in place you know we just don't have people utilizing it we actually need to clean it up something if we if we prioritize
and and look at the things that we have in place that we could we could shortterm get this stuff moving because other things like the trails that's the ways off yet stuff like that but that will that will tie into everything the music is it's it's already in place
to a degree right and and there's a lot of room to grow but there's a lot of things that have to happen like the amphitheater for bigger venues and that kind of stuff but if we not only list them but also look at what we can immediately begin implementing and then what's going to come down the road and that will help in our planning with our
budget and everything else do we need have lot of re expertise also down on the coast that they would be willing to share their expertise with you do we have the I know Chris you know
everybody loved Chris's uh Cemetery tour out there but do we have some sort of script or recording of that that we can then turn around and actually not sure did anybody by chance record it the last time he did it before he left I saw some
stuff on YouTube at one point and I'm trying to remember if it was whole and it might be something we just need to pay him to get him back that's literally what I was about let's just hire him to come back out here passionate about it and he did a really good job yeah CU he's got to a
certain extent he's got all that that internal internal knowledge so why don't we just pay him to come back down here for a weekend get him with some sort of videographer and let him do the tour again and actually have it but then we can with it recorded like that we could then record the information we could
document the information that he's he's discussing in in said tour and then you know at that point we could turn it into an app or a walking tour you know or a script for the next person that wants to do that Bingo Bingo and I wouldn't take away the importance of it with him
either though if he wanted to come down and continue it year to year that that's important to him that's that's his value you know but you're you're absolutely right we would need that documented and recorded because we're not all going to be here one day and that when that day
comes that other person's got to be there to to pick those rains up and move on yes I agree Mr we really need to if he wants to do it we need to he developed it I mean he did it on his own initiative and i would support that because I don't want people to feel in
the future like they shouldn't develop things for us like they're gonna get just cast aside right with budget though that TL that Cemetery needs some TLC now say it again we need to give the cemetery some TLC come budget talks I
think the da of the Revolution are going to come back again they've gone through there now of course now they go to the veterans and they clean up those monuments that were black and they just do a phenomenal job are we supposed to meet them again next day or two Thursday
Thursday 930 so they'll be back again are they gonna be there yeah da they'll come out there going to be clean in the summit that's coming up the 1 of April there's one section in there on how to take care of
historic cemeteries and how to clean The Monuments and things like that so y want come if they come in the clean this time or what yeah they'll be cleaning on um these aren't any young girls either I
think they working hard and they're my age and older that would be a really cool thing as a time lapse of that like before when they they get there and it's all dirty and then like you know you film it throughout the day but then when you post it it's it's a time lapse so it
goes really fast but you get to see it black and then brand new all those in a very short period of time that' be a very inspiring certain length of time I think it may be up to two weeks and they come back and then they wash it off or
something and but all of that is in that video that Chris did and it may be on the friends of molia cemetery or something the Facebook page I want to say I've seen that before
somewhere it was something he was trying to get to he was trying to put together before he left with a friends of Mag cemetery and get people in I'd like to see how they do it Thursday what time Thursday at 9:30 and they would love to
see y'all and would love to hear y think awesome website will it be more interactive and have links to these other things that we've been discussing talking about like C to all these other yeah so so the goal of it the reason to
do it for me is to to clean it up because it's very complex and even though it's complex doesn't go anywhere um you might click on a link and you have to click on four different links or four different drop downs to get to something so nobody ever knows where it's at and then it'll link you back to something useless so uh Jesse and I are
working through that now going through starting to work through that and disconnect these things and delete stuff that is we don't need redundancy we don't need I don't need to see the same page five different ways and five different locations um so we want to make it clear and then we're GNA hopefully as things move forward um you
know make things easier and more interactive like Maps um available and Stu like that so yeah that's the goal and make sure the documents are current because I know I can get to different documents depending on the link I'm using and get documents yeah with
different dates okay yes ma'am we GNA try and wrap this up okay I'm so thankful for all of you it hasn't been that many years ago we would have never had this from our council members and
thankful for your backgrounds and your education in your ability to bring it together thank you two final two final notes we have to go here Cemetery um staff we have internally created a 5year master plan for Cemetery address so I
think we've kind of finalized it we'll have that on the next semetary board meeting which I think is this month sometime April first of April and then we'll bring actually they look at it and we'll bring it to all of you to kind of talk about because it will require it will require attention during the budget time that's something that we all want to do obviously I try to work in
Progressive increases in funding over time so we get a hand on it first and work toward that so we'll have that hopefully in the next couple months for y to look at and let's talk about um and then secondly I do think there's a low hanging free we can get I don't I don't want y'all to think that I'm here trying
to stifle y slowest down I'm really not but I have been around long enough to know that we it isn't y'all it isn't the council right staff we don't have we haven't taken the time to put things in Paper so no one we don't have the ability to go back and say okay well we had this listed and we did it so I want
I want to try to provide y'all stuff you can visably see and you can point people and say well look this is what we took action on this is what we said we're going to do we did it that's what I'm trying to get to so I I do want to do everything quickly but I want to make sure we can document it and show that has been done so that's why I kind of talk about putting this stuff on paper
and bringing it back so and a lot of that's tracked still through that spreadsheet you developed right where you're showing progress on the okay but you all have access to that's the council action sheet so you do have access to that as well great job good thank you good all
right we're going to during this Workshop