Call the meeting to order. Okay, go ahead. I think on 607. Go ahead. Hey, I couldn't use my helicopter. I had to use my car. Best friend. Very nice to see you, sir.
I haven't seen you in some time. How are you? Hey, good to see you. Good to see you. How's everybody? How you doing, sir? Doing good. How are you? How are you? Team here. I'm glad this week. We're glad to be here. I think uh combined age is 3,000.
Um we do the regular. Okay. You want to do that, right? If you sledge to the flag of America, to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,
indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. This seats Okay, thank you all for being here. feel like we really have an allstar team and I'm looking at my minutes here beginning with not business.
So, okay. So, we have no public comments. It's order of business right now. So if you want to add anything, delete anything, defer anything, or keep the agenda as is. So let's begin with um the purpose of
the objectives. It's pretty obvious. We want to raise money and the the proceeds from this funds are to go to um Veterans Park and the proposed memorial. So anyone have anything to add to that or
Yeah, it's not a memorial. It's a veterans wall because our names are going to be on it. We're not quite dead yet. Veterans wall. Veterans wall on. Don't call it. Mike was very much alive since.
[Music] Okay. The goals and sets of the success of the metrics. Well, again, that's pretty obvious. And first off, we need to talk about the the event overview, the date, the location, and the schedule. It's it's been recommended and
I think we all agree that uh the new Miami Links Golf Sports the new place will have them the coffee battle. Okay. And the next thing would be the biggest challenge for the moment would be the date
and mentioned that a Friday would be the best day for an Audi based on the business experience. Yeah. I got a little push back. I spoke to John Reed on more than one occasion about that and John was pretty adamant
about, you know, not having an event on Friday. His reason being that he wanted to reserve that day for the members and he wanted to attract members whatever $10,000 or whatever it is and he wanted to have the date open for the
members to play and that Monday would be the suggested date. only at one point I realized that you know I wasn't getting any headway so rather than have you know having defend the reason why I want to do that I backed off and hopefully that you know that maybe Fred or someone else
would have a better approach maybe through the grand company any comments on that the date the dates aside what month were you looking at doing it well we talked you know we talked about the end of February but we're open to
the date based on availability with the compost Yeah, we kind of this uh we threw a date, you know, planted a flag on the date, you know, February 26 just to give us planning date to reverse plan from. Mhm. But it's it's subject to shifting
depending upon, you know, when we can get the grand companies to agree to allow us to use their golf course. [Music] I haven't reached out to you. No, I was just saying the one thing uh about it I've only saw one time I went
to Naples one time on a Monday cuz sometimes the members they like you said they like to reserve it for but you know I think what we really need to do is push the veteran aspect of it. See the veterans yellow green blue yellow white
there's no almost nobody dislike a vet almost. So I think if we go for that standpoint and still try to stick to the Friday. See the problem is when are most people off? See, you know, you can work Friday and then that's the weekend. But if you're talking about getting up on
Monday, that's the beginning of another week. I'm just I'm just saying we had one over like I said over in Naples. We drove over there about 7:00 in the morning. They started about 10. We finished about 2:30. We're back over here about 5. But that's the only one in all my years I ever played in the
tournament. And I've already played in two. I got two more, but before I turn them, they all on a Friday. Okay. I think it needs to be on a Friday, right? I mean, and I also think, you know, we should do it at Miami League club and Oh, yeah. No doubt about that. And, you know, I mean, I I see Stew
every once in a while, the CEO company. I have not approached him yet, but like I saw him today. I know Charlie look. Oh, I can ask. Danny Danny Martinez is pretty much Yeah. Right. Yeah, he is. Yeah. In charge of the whole operation. Yeah. Did
you get you get any response on that? No, I haven't talked to him yet. Well, if you hit Danny and I hit Stu and you hit whoever, you know, talking three sides, we're looking at February 26. Right. Right. Right. I mean, it can move. If they say it has to be in March, we can move. Yeah. Right. Right. Right. Right.
We'll do whatever whatever Friday they give us. 26 is a Thursday, so we I think we're all in on that. February 27th. Great. Uh, logistics and accessibility.
I think again, you know, that's going we're going to have to approach that as we get closer to the date. Okay. The format of the golf tournament. What do you mean by logistics and accessibility? Well, that would mean that would mean, you know, my understanding would be, you know, how would we get everything out
there? Who would, you know, what uh what items would have to be draw there? I mean, that would be further down the road. What is the golf course responsible for? What are we responsible for? They going to get the cards. They going to put the names on them. All that kind of stuff and whatever we need, right? That that that's one of the
things we would have to do and that's one of the things why I need you guys because you're experienced in doing these golfing events and it's the first time for me. So, I'm pretty much in the blind. So, just just take over and jump in. I mean, we forget about Robert's rules here. This is a discussion professionals.
For the record, this will still follow Robert. We'll we'll stick to Roberts. You can't amend you can't amend in town rules. When you when you've put these things on before, because I heard that the one that you uh sponsored was uh really uh
class act. Did you uh defer to other people to to do the leg work or did you already have some sense of we have people doing you know different things. Yeah. Uh but uh you know we can have one person
and going after the sponsors. Yeah, because you know people, you know people, you know people, uh, you know, there could be sponsors and could be, you know, get one of the levels that we whatever we decide, you know, to do. Uh, and obviously Miami will be a major sponsor,
you know, and we'll do a whole one as well. uh you know so um but you know I mean we did have a couple of people that went after vendors because vendors um there are plenty of
them cigar makers uh u you know beer and and booze uh you know there are quite a few I know some people and you know there could be you want those people to be present the radio announcer on the wanted,
right? You want those people to be there to uh, you know, and then they'll uh, you know, they'll bring their products, you know, to to show to showcase their product and then give it to us for free. Yeah. So, what vendors should we have?
Uh, wine. I don't know about wine. Beer. Beer and liquor. Yeah. Cigars. Cigars. Food. Huh? Food. Different brands. Food. I'm not sure that uh you know food you want to save it for the end you know
if you want to if we're going to do the uh you know the award ceremony or whatever in the end that's where you should have the food you know but not uh and usually uh u you know you either cater that uh you know from from
one of the local restaurants I mean I'm sure we can get Gabrielle and Vamperef you know to pitch in uh maybe a couple others Yeah, I was going to call out the mission barbecue. Mission barbecue. I think they would do it. They're having
a tournament for the um uh the trip go to DC on November 3rd at uh Plantation uh Plantation uh what no pin lakes go. So if anybody was that'd be a good time
to plan a ride and see the general lay of the land, see how they have it all all done. Uh the big thing is that you got to have 90% of your money made as you say before they hit the first ball. The balls is that's gravy. So you do the
whole sponsor 100 bucks a piece or 150 whatever you say for a whole sponsor and you get however many you get 25 you just put two two on the hole. That's the big thing is the sponsorship and trying to you want all like I said you want most of the money already made before they
show up on the day. Yeah. the sponsors uh the sponsor should cover the cost of the uh right pretty much the whole thing 85%. M the rest of it comes from the foresomes and you know that uh some people may not
be uh on on one of the sponsor levels but they may buy a forome for some music goes for about 800 bucks you know big what should we show should we talk about sponsorship levels what do you have in mind
okay I looked at it here's golf tournament that's coming up on the 25th of November it's done by the parents of the people in the Air Force Academy and it's got some outlines of what some of the sponsors or sponsorships are sponsorship packages
and yeah don't we have established uh through the town we have various levels but each one's different for each organization each level
this is just one example And I thought it was pretty good and I like the idea. I mean, I I'm not afraid to ask, you know, $1,200 for a course. I mean, I think it's in this day and age, it's not a lot. And I think that because for the veterans, my people get food.
And, you know, the other people that could support an event like this would be um golfing either stores or manufacturers, you know, guys at, you know, clubs. We don't hit all of this. I just, you know, I want to I'm looking forward to getting the package together and just
hitting the payment and going out there. And the first thing is that whenever we have a brochure or we have a a packet, right, the next time we because the next time we meet, so if we see like I'm thinking about Walmart, I'm thinking about maybe they may donate a TV.
Exactly. That kind of stuff. So auction, right? Yeah. or use a silent auction or sell tickets. It's $5 a piece, you know, five for 25 or five for 10. Well, people buy those things by the by the roads and then it's all free. So,
whatever they whatever they get, it's not costing us uh uh you know, any money. I also was going to reach out to um Dick Sporting Goods was I was at one the other day. They donated a golf bag full of balls and everything else. uh then the golf
course may offer force them you know if you went you got this winning ticket you didn't force them to play within the next 90 days so like I said the sponsorship is for me but I know straight up no more than I but it drives it drives the whole thing
I think they had 500 the lady that I know she was a she was a she was a sponsor she did 5,000 and she did three teams they gave her three teams on a logo and a big corporate sponsor, you know, she's a
psychiatric service, one of the largest in South Florida. So, that covered quite a bit. Then they had a couple of medical thing like like human uh those kind of people said, "Hey, you know, could you give us a donation or you know, could you be out there that
day and maybe they would bring some some clinicians there, do some blood pressure or do something else he was talking about and charge?" Great idea. Yeah. Do you charge them like a fee for would it be like a $2500? Yeah, there should be a fee for, you
know, for for somebody to put their tent there, right? And their product because they are going to be announcing the, you know, promoting their whatever they they sell. And uh so it should be a fee for that. Exactly. Pedro would be very helpful in getting a
couple of the clinics. He knows all those. He's great. He's he's he's a friend of all those all those people. So, I'm sure that we can call on him for that. Um there are a couple more, you know, here. Drip is usually available,
you know, to do all kinds of things, you know, we come up to help and we help shots and you know, all those things that people like. So, do we what's what's the sponsorship level that they use for Well, I know our reindeer fund is very high. We got
10,000 then it goes down. Um but for the mental health task force 12 festival I know they have a goal and I think the goal is 700 you know we can always make goal double thousand and go down there. I had a question on that bill. I thought you know they want to announce
Yeah. I mean it's always better like suggesting let's copy stuff. If you look at this short one I just gave you on the the Air Force. The uh looks like Amor Cadillac and you know Florida Healthcare are the primary just just like headquarters Toyota was for the reindeer run.
These two were the top ones for that. Is that something we want to do for that creative tier for some top sponsors to be like the main That's what I'm asking about. Yeah, that's what I'm driving all at the same time. So, you know, that's the way I roll. Well, you said 10,000. I'm thinking
that's nice. So, let's let's uh Yeah, why don't we take the mental health task force one and because on each one of these levels, the town says they'll provide the following stuff and it's already laid out in that sponsorship agreement for
mental health tasks. You know, that includes website presence. They make a sign. They make a sign. They do the uh the banner or whatever they do. Uh there's a banner requirement. So that tells us also who we need to contact because we'll probably have to have a banner
printed. I wonder if anybody here has a son-in-law or banner. You want to have a banner back. Yeah. One of those pictures for the you know, you know. So, I'm really thinking AC Graphics has some
work for us to do. So, you know, that way we can use them and they'll give us a great price and, you know, be fine. It'll be a win-win for both. Um, so yeah, so we'll if we can use that as a template, send it to Larry, Larry, you just fix it up. Um uh you can change
the amounts but what's good about it is it gives you the time it gives you exactly what the town will do and also you know what we would have to do as committee mainly that backdrop and that way we have this kind of like all figured out and we just have to
figure out the dollar amounts if we want like a $10,000 there's a platinum sponsor you know one of those one of those like we have a reindeer run you know we should discuss that. Maybe two or three $5,000 one.
Yeah. I mean that's the thing. We could have you know maybe one maybe we should I don't know first of all what's our costs to uh get golf course on Friday. We have to first determine what our costs are so that way we can figure out how much we need to raise by sponsorship and how
much we need to raise um and you know paying for the game. I heard $150 a person was an estimate was okay. So that's kind of high. That's what that's what Danny John
Yeah. That's what I say. If we both said, "Hey, this raised this." So let's say it's Yeah. It's 15 about 80. Yeah. And he's charging $10,000 be a member now too and you got to put 20,000 reverse. So with a running number of 150 bucks a person, how many people
I think that can be reduced. Yeah. Okay. for M for eight on each hole. I think it's 144. Okay. So, it's one one. How many total players you talking about? Listen, if you get eight on each hole
eight time eight times what? Eight time 18. Eight starters on each. Eight time 18. Yeah. Mean a shotgun, right? Yeah. Eight on each one. We're talking about 144* 144. Yeah. If we get if we get 150
150 players should be fine. Okay. So if we have 150 times 150 that tells us what we're looking at $22,500 just to get the golf groups. All right. And they're going to probably require at
least half down. So we're looking at 11,250 clubs. So that should make us focus on what we want our sponsorship bubbles to be, you know. So maybe
we want one $5,000, a few $2,500 and a few thousand ones or $500 ones and then the lowest one we have maybe is 500 bucks, you know, although maybe 250 would be good if we get like 10 or 15 250s, you know. Mhm.
So, but I mean, send it to him and then he'll, you know, figure that out and uh that way we can have a start. But we we should be shooting for sponsorship money. Whatever it adds up to should exceed $22,500. So, we have the whole golf tournament for golf paid.
And then we have the additional costs of beer and liquor. It'll be vendors. So, they'll be they'll be they'll get paid. you know, cigars will be vendors. Um, we could do uh,
you know, food. We'll try to reach out to Mission Barbecue and see if it comes free. Yeah. Maybe we want to do a silent auction. You know, auction is a good money. It's not a real big money maker, but just doing a few shots
because most of the gifts that you're going to have there are free. Yeah. Whatever they bid on is going to be profit. Yeah. Now what they what they did with that one, they had tickets. So somebody
wanted a 55 in TV order $5 ticket. So what they did, they had other people. We're going to have to have some ancillary people to help. Somebody sell the the 50/50. Somebody said they get a 50/50. You know, if it's $400, the winning ticket get 200. other 200 going
to the pot. So, they did a 5050, they did a um um raffle and something else they did. I know they did the 5050 and and the raffle and you sell them right at the entry when they coming in. Uh you say, "Okay, maybe $5
for a ticket or three for $20 or 10 for $50 or something like that." You said, "Okay, here here's a card. Give me 10 tickets." So, give me five tickets. But that money is already that money is already there. All the prizes are already they already paid for because the people are donating it. Make a
cruise company, you know, get them to do a little uh uh they did that with the um uh honor flight. Uh somebody the cruise people were there. They donated a little weekend cruise. People did it on you know. So or they
got it with a ticket. So I don't know if you want your ticket. The place with that is we got to have a nice display where they are so as people come in they can see them. And I don't think we're gonna have a clubhouse over there. Would we have enough space? Usually you would do that right at the registration.
Right. That's what I'm saying. You'd have a have a big wall and you'd have all the same tent tank is still there. Yeah. Yeah. I think they have a little bigger one now that and then you have a sheet you'd have a sheet by each one and I'd be at 250.
Well, I'd be at 255. Well, I'm gonna go back and be a 260 or somebody else be 260. I'm gonna be at 275 and then at when everything is over, you snatch them all up and then you say the winning bid for this is that or you could do like I said with the ticket, but that's quite a
bit. They gave away a 55 in TV with a $5 ticket. But you also have you also have, you know, we could designate a hole as a challenge hole, right? Or minimum gave or you could put on there minimum. Yeah, that was great. Get on the green. You buy the ticket right there. You pay
them for the tickets and then if you give a double. Yeah, that was fun. Yeah. Yeah. Are we limited to how many hole ones we can have, you know, for for caring? I don't think we are. They know.
They usually the insurance companies, they usually they pretty familiar with their golf courses. They usually, you know, tell you what's No, not that one. Oh. choose this one. You know, a little bit more difficulty, you know, not not too difficult, but
well, if it's one if it's only one, you know, if we we could have some more equal. Yeah, we could. Maybe a golf cart giveaway on a hole in one or, you know, doesn't that necessarily have to be a car? Could be a different prize. Sure. It could be a different price. Absolutely.
And and what about um for sponsorships? What What about banners on the different holes? I mean if if a company want to sponsor $100 $100 I think they that would be a whole sponsorship you know they will sell to different companies right
usually the same companies that are participating in the uh tournament they want to see their the name insurance companies health companies attorneys all those all those u you know all those Walmart
get out and start doing I saw about 25 or 30 at the last tournament So what you do is you put two on a hole because you only have 18 holes, right? Then whoever at the driving range, that's another one, the driving range sponsor. You may want $500
for that cuz everybody's going to hit balls from the driving r. And so that's a big amount than it is if I'm just a whole. I'm on number 18. So I mean, I just paid $100 for 18. But if I want to be the uh the the sponsor where the
driving range dude, then that's a little bit Isabella. Can can the town develop a liar or some promotional item for this golf tournament, you know, but the date February 27th?
Well, first you have to confirm that date with the vend. [Music] Well, the reason is because if we have some kind of flyer, we have some kind of material, we can start gigas,
you know what I mean? Okay. If there's something on, you know, I'm not sure, you know, how we would do that, but we can have something on the town website and then have like a flyer to help them to be determined. Well, we need to I think we need to
define the the sponsorships going. Yeah, I think we need to get the date in in stone. Once we get the date in stone because if I get a brochure and say, "Well, when is it determined?" It's sometime in February. No, it's February 26. Can I can you commit right now to give me one
gift by February 1st? All right. All right. So, advertise 27th and the vendor is like, "Yes, they later." Okay, that's fair enough. That's fair enough. So, I guess the first thing is get to my old age. also one label one level that I can see here is a t-shirt
that's a the person actually donates the shirts yeah actually pays for you know in the company like the chamber yes there's a level for the t-shirts so I wasn't that sponsor of that uh
you know that part of it too that way our name was going to be on every you on every uh t-shirt. Is that something you want we want to do for the shirt? What level should we have? Right. So, we have a t-shirt level. Let's write this down. What else? Hole
in one. Right. Well, hole in one. Uh hole in one. Yeah, you you could have that as a sponsor, but it's a given because I I'll do that one. So, you don't have to look for unless you want to have another. No, another one. Yeah. Well, the car one will be yours. If we
have another one, we'll set up car. We use a different item. Yeah. And then we'll have the regular platinum, gold, bronze level. Is that what you guys want? Well, there's a title sponsor, too, right? Title sponsor. If you if you uh
usually the title sponsor, whoever they are, if you have more than one or two, should be the ones top contributors. It should be the ones Yeah. So, so you're obviously going to be a
type of sponsor here, right? Depends on how much we'll make it for you. I know. I know it's way down the line, but we also we could talk to Costco, have them donate soda, water, and chips.
And what you do is you have a golf cart and you just ride around while people are playing. Oh, wait. Give me Gatorade. Oh, give me a soda. And that's all that's all complimentary. What they did the last one, they gave you two tickets. So you had one drink on the front, one drink on the back.
And that was that was complimentary. That was part of your that was part of your course. And at the end, you know, we thought we were going to sit down, they just gave a box lunch. Oh yeah. Yeah. But I think if we could contact Mission Barbecue, like I say, the more we push the military,
I think the more likely that people want want to help us. So we can tell mission but see they going to be there on no I guarantee they going to be there on November the 3rd or whatever that first Friday is in November. They bring their big deuce in a half truck. The the
workers actually volunteer to come and feed the veterans that day. So they supply everything. They got all the plates spoons all the food you can eat and everything. All that's sponsored by Mission Barbecue Donations. Now whether they would do that for us or not, I don't know. But that's one of the
things they do every year. They uh and you know they got about five or six store uh restaurants. I don't know if you ever eaten at any of them. If you're a beverage, just tell me you're a veteran. They give you something. You know who would be our best contact? Yeah, I I I'll take that. We'll take that one.
See if I can find cuz I we got one right there in uh right off of 75. I think I may be closer. Is that the closest one to us? 75 and that Griffin. So
I go in there. You brought up a really good point about volunteers. So we need volunteers at registration. Oh, absolutely. I spoke with Anna Sa from the Barbara Golden High School and of course being on a Friday the kids have school, right? So we're working on trying to get a teacher's work day,
but we need a date to to uh work on that. Yeah. Well, we need one at registration. And we need some and we need some people walking around. That'll give us some honor students. I saw about 12 or 15 people at the one they had brought. Oh yeah. Easily easily.
This was uh and I'm also going to contact him at the Chamber of Commerce. Miami date. U Yeah. Miami date. Chamber of Commerce. He he played in our group. How many how many volunteers did you have at your chamber of commerce? We had
we had the ladies from uh Zanta Club doing the registration. U we gave them a donation out of the proceeds. Um then we had all the members all the war members of the uh of the
chamber. They were all you know were all volunteers getting something to hit up. I wonder if we could get volunteers from the Northern Legion. And then what about the auxiliary? The auxiliary from the American East
will be the one going to be the one in the registration. Yeah. So what I have as volunteer for tasks is registration, the water soda cart, the silent auction,
the 5050 raffle, a beer cart, which will probably be the beer vendor. Beer vendor beer cart. Oh, you could put in the same one. have one for beer and soda and one water. Okay. We'll either get for that one we get the we'll get the tank. They usually, you
know, like to do those things. Okay. Cigar cart. Somebody drive around sell cigars. Yeah. So, those are the volunteers. I mean, I guess the beer cart and the cigar cart will be run by the vendors. Yeah. Because they're making money off. So,
we're having the uh the people the golf carts will set it up for. Yeah. They'll put all the soda and all the water and then we'll just you just have a volunteer just to drive go up to the hole number five. Would you like something to drink? Yeah. As a matter of fact, give me give me a beer and then they just give you a beer and
you just keep registration and sign auction and 50/50 raffle are the ones I see so far. We need volunteers auction. So, how many volunteers do you think we need for registration? Four. I would say four. Yeah. Four to
five. Four to five. What's the idea that people pre-register and then they just come in and they get their bag that has Oh, yeah. Oh, that's the other thing, too. You got to get a little gift back. Yeah. So, I also buy the the bags. Oh, okay. And then we could get some
people maybe one sleeve of golf balls, couple of teas, or maybe it's a thermometer or something. And some like some health person might get something. Put their little name on it. You drop it in the bag. We load them up the night before. As you register, you get your shirt and you and you get your bag, you throw
it in your cart. Renee Garcia's office, they do they have golf poles with with her name on it. So that's one approach. I contact Renee Garcia Garcia office. Do do you know him personally? Yeah. Yeah. You want you want to pray? Yeah, I'll take care of that.
So silent auction, how many folks do we need for that? Do you think two? Just two people running the silent auction little signs. want to do a silent auction or do you want to just uh win by ticket? That's a lot. But can we do let's do both. Let's do both.
Well, we got the 50-50 raffle which is really just one or two people selling. Yeah. Right. Yeah. Somebody walking around. The silent auction would be do both. I mean the uh the silent auction you could do whatever you know whatever's out there. We just went to one recently where they had volunteers. They had health health
supplies, beauty supplies, perfume, cigars, liquor, all these different things you bid on. And there and they some of the stuff we paid I I bought some stuff I paid more than what it was worth. Yeah, that's the way it goes. That's a fundraiser. Went to charity. But that was one thing.
And then and then the uh the auction the um the raffle itself drawing the thing. That's fun. I really enjoyed that. Fred had it. That was that was a blast. Everybody was there were big baskets with Yeah. one stock everything. Yeah. The first one that we did, we actually
had the uh the board members who actually bring a gift basket. Yeah. Okay. Donate a gift basket. That's why we have Yeah. We're all donated by us by the way. We're going to take the restaurants if they want to do a dinner for two. Yeah, exactly. A dinner for two is a
very nice thing. That's either either a drawing or a bid, either one. But we could have a certain amount, you know, bid, you know, sign auction and then we could have and I think we're going to find a lot of the people, the same sponsors, people that are going there are the ones that are going to be, you know, buying that stuff and throwing
money in. Yeah. Okay. But the big thing is to get the date firm and then we print everything to get the date. So when you take it to the person say, "Okay, how what are you going to do?" Okay. I'm going to give you one goth back. Okay, sir. Who's the contact
person? Okay, what day can I pick this up? Can I pick this up February 15th? Okay, who's my contact person? Because it may be corporate in Pennsylvania, but I might pick it up right there in Pennsylvania. Okay, what if I were to go ahead and I were to make up the sample sponsor? Yeah, that's what I'm saying.
It won't be s in stone, but it's a sample of the one for us. We can we can take a look at it and then we can and I'll send it out. I'll email it to everybody. So, we have our next meeting. Always add to it. Okay, I I'll have that for next. The first time people say is what what day is when you have it? And this is a
good time because you know we talking what four months now? Three three and a half four months from now. We got plenty of time. Yeah. Why wouldn't we why wouldn't we use the reindeer run template for the sponsors? Because that has the same higher level
as opposed to perhaps a mental health is you know more. That's fine. Either one. either one because both have the same the town provides the same things. We just people pay more at the reg change the amounts. Yeah. So you can send them either one but but that way it details um you get
the a golf shirt, you get a booth, you get the advertising. And where is this going to be advertised? Is it going to be through Eventbrite? Is that where you sign up for it? We use Eventbrite. Yeah. So that people because I'm assuming that the draw is going to be the golf course.
Everybody wants to play there. Brand new and it's brand new and we need it's a high-end course first annual. So if we put it on put it on event that might draw a lot of people we're going to call it is how there's an issue of raising the
the the amount of money we need to give the golf course uh whatever it is $20,000 whatever it is. Um, we need to we will need to raise money to get that first in order to pay the golf court. At least half. They'll probably want half.
All right. So, we need to we need to get half from our sponsors to pay them up front. Is that basically the way it works? Yeah. So, we need to get all this as soon as possible. Yeah. Yeah. And how much time will they give us once they give us a date? Because we need to give them They need us to give us a date and we're not going to hand them a check
the day they give us a date. Right. So, we need We'll put them there. But let's say two weeks before, three weeks before, a month before, maybe a month before. But we have some conversations that need to happen. I think you said you're going to talk to somebody
and then you as well. Yeah. Uh you're going to talk to Danny. I'll talk to And then you And then what's your role as uh the rest of the team is talking to influencers. Are you going to then go back and look for a date? Are you going to leave? I think I think at this point
I should leave to this guy because I they've already given me a lot of negative push back on it. So rather than have them reinforce why they're pushing back to be fresh faces, you know, professional people going and approach it from a different angle. The other thing is like you said, what
is going to be the the title? There you go. That was the next call. Yeah. first annual military sponsor golf tournament in Miami Lakes at the new Miami Lakes Golf Course. Something that's a long that's too long.
That's too long. But I'm just saying the feature of the golf course and also put the little let people know it has something to do with the military. Well, I think the notion of the mon the money going towards uh this wall, this veterans wall would entice some people
who otherwise might be like another, you know, whatever. Should we go veterans waller golf course fundraiser and we can put on the bottom donation? Somebody somebody fundraiser. Somebody that doesn't play golf may just
want to donate $100. They may want to donate. Get a bunch of people like put a donation. You got to have the war veterans there. Yeah, you got you got to have that. Tell them what it's for. And then the other thing is we already have renderings that are going to be approved October 2nd. I got an architect to do
the renderings for the wall and it's inside us. It's he did it, you know, he took a picture of the where it's going to be in Veterans Park and he put the thing there and uh I gave you the first draft, but he's giving me a second draft, third draft. I got 3D
view. I can walk around and uh and anyway, so we will be able to put on that brochure what we're trying to raise money for, right? Proceeds will proceed will a portion of the of the money will go to building the wall in Miami
and honoring our veterans, right? Yeah. Where the other portion would go? Well, Mr. James retirement fund. No, we can we can name we can name an organization or what about the scholarship fund for the uh the one that we do at the end of the year for we're running out of veterans in Miami
Lakes are eligible for we already got one that's gotten it three times you know it's kind of a sad commentary right you know and it's uh you know it's there's what about something for disabled veterans well we got ideas I mean if we if we're
going to um have any extra spare of money for the besides all it going into the wall, you know, we could always give it to the American Legion Post 144, right? Because they have a relief fund that is actually used quite a bit. Yes. You know, where we help uh you know,
some of the veterans in there fix their cars because they have no money when sale renting small loans. We we give them small loans, you know, zero interest and they pay what they can pay. Hey, you know, and some guys we know are never going to pay it back, but they only get one at home.
But I mean, you were weren't you here last month for two years? We actually have a guy who's come back to us a few times. His car broke down, then his air conditioning broke down. Just some bad luck, but he's been paying it. He's been paying it. So, we're like, as long as you're paying it, we'll keep on giving you a loan,
right? And I mean, it saves him. It saves him, you know. So, it's uh when I when we started it, I didn't think it was going to be used, but it's being used a lot. You know, bedroom is being real busy being asked. Sure. He's doing a good job. I think calling calling the uh
tournament, the veterans the Veterans Wall Memorial golf tournament and then all go to the wall. I like I think Memorial Draft tournament. Well, not memorial. We're not dead. Veteran Veterans Golf Tournament. First
Veterans Monument. Yeah. Veterans Line Lakes Veterans Monument. Golf Turtle. Golf fundraising. Golf tournament. Along those lines. Golf tournament. Golfing event. Golf tournament. Golf turtle. Golf tournament. Veterans monument. Golf monument.
I say monument off. We can say the veterans golf tournament. That a little That's a pull in the wall. being specific cuz like uh I think was mentioned people will say you know what I don't want it but I I'll give a I'll give a hundred bucks for the walls veterans
yeah Miami Lakes Miami likes veterans veterans monument fund raise [Music] And so we can kick this around and come up with a few different names and we'll finalize
it our next story next time. Yeah, that's what I Miami Lakes Veterans Monument Golf Tournament Fundraiser says what it is. Helps because that's and then we have pictures of the wall that were the monument we're trying to
build. Everybody sees it. And then uh memorial is always goes always goes to the Boy Scouts. The chamber goes to all the charities here in Miami. Four kids, AR of South Florida, teachers playhouse.
Uh you know, so it's it's better to uh let the people know where the money is going to go. Okay. So, what we have right now, just just to reiterate, you got Fred and Bill are going to go ahead and contact the grand
company. All right. We're going to get a date confirmed hopefully before our next meeting. We haven't announced that yet when that will be, but hopefully it'll be in in maybe two or three weeks. The uh we're also talking about a sponsorship package that we can start putting this together without dates. I'm
going to I'm going to make up an outline for that. I'm going to send it out to to you guys and you can add to it. just whatever you want to add to it or change it, whatever. Just an idea. It's an outline to get it going. We're also going to work on the name to to include the um the monument and the tournament.
And hopefully we'll have something that we can next we'll vote on that the next time we meet. We'll pick a name for it. Um the sponsorship packages. Uh again, you know, I just I'll just lay some numbers out there based on what these other tournaments have been doing. Fred gave me a couple of them. And I got this
one over here and I got a couple more that we'll see what they basically charge and try to stay in line with what they've been doing. Um sponsorship opportunities uh volunteers we're looking to we mentioned we talked to the women's auxiliary for the
American Legion maybe get them to handle the registration uh once we have a date. Yeah, once we have a date we can start. Uh any other ideas for volunteers? We will we got the volunteer but that could be
the same people we did the silent off the end. Just do the setup. Everybody can do the setup and then they just kind of tally who won each thing. I mean we are somewhat limited as far as
the uh dinner, you know, or whatever it is. It's just a lunchon, right? Be a lunchon because it's under the tent. So you don't want to can't be too fancy. No, that's why that's a perfect one for you. He bring the truck in and
kids jump out tables up and next thing you know you're going to the line. They have two or three kinds of meat, have beans, colelaw, water, soda and beer. So what's the the uh wait time from the
time we we have eight people per hole everybody starts. So if you start at 8 all you should be through by 12:31. This about 4 hour appointment. You start at 8:00. It's a shot story. Everybody be off at 8.
Play that. You should be done by 12 12:30. Right. We start at 8:30. We at 12:15 we were done. Yeah. There's a lot more details to work out the announce. Get you get a breakfast sponsor.
A breakfast sp that's a great idea. They coffee bloody mary bloody mary. That's funny. Billy you got to watch this smoking cigars. Drinking bloody mary's mimosas 8:00 in the morning. Somebody be Chick-fil-A at one but they had those sandwiches.
They just gave a sandwich out. They had some orange juice there. You just grab and then they have a little fruit, have banana, apple, uh tangerine bakery to donate. That's right. Yep. 300 boxes
inside there. You have a hand, you know, everybody likes that. Yeah. And it's and it's kind of clean, you know, you just hand the uh you register the people just hand the box, right? And uh the Chamber of Commerce, that'd be a great place to advertise or
Yeah, we'll do that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, yeah, also too, I like to do it when when we play on November when I plan a tournament at November for Honor Flight. I'm hoping that I'll have some brochures or something.
Is it any kind of way we can send it uh to the U for people that want to want to play, you know, do you want to play in the uh first golf tournament? Just send it out for our correspond. Is that possible? you know, uh, sorry, not even
mass emailing. Yeah, mass email first. I don't think they have the capability. Yeah, we don't do mass emails. We usually use social media or what type of event we have that once we have the date, we could do that, right? And then also we can approach the Miami Laker and stuff like that.
Miami. Yeah, it helps us. We need a photograph, too. We can talk about that down. Yeah. Well, especially if the Graham I mean if the Graham companies are gonna like hopefully I'm going to ask them to give us a break on the cost, you know, right? Um I think it's
that would be nice if they give us a break. Yeah. Then it's their paper, right? So they'll be able to advertise. You get a photo. Probably serves a two-fold purpose because they're still trying to generate interest in the golf club. Yeah. So this turn Hey, I think I want to join.
It might generate some uh memberships. Yeah. It certainly would generate people would be aware. Oh, it's up and running and it's over here. Yeah. Just beautiful. I think it'll work out. They did that, right? I went out there about two weeks ago. Which other person was supposed to go?
Pardon me. Which other person was I supposed to call besides Danny? Uh Danny the mean the guy from the from the golf course. No, the grand Martinez somebody else that you say can
you call him? Oh, it was Renee Garcia. Yeah, golf boys. Fine. Yeah, he could come. That'd really be nice. A couple of VIPs. What about What about
attendance from the town officials? Well, I would need the date and the details for that, but we'll they'll be invited. Yes. When I briefed it to them, they were very excited. Yeah, they have to pay. Of course they got to pay. Well, we can invite the governor, you know. I mean,
they want to get next to the government. It's going to cost us these guys. Got this for nothing. I know the vice mayor is he has a serious portion that he usually plays. Oh, yeah. Usually. So, Brian mentioned something about the wall that at that council meeting. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
the vice mayor was beat in the last one. Yeah. Yeah. So, there you go. There you go. I I pointed at my go. Yeah, but he had a He had a pro. I know. I made I know. I told him. A ringer. He had a ringer. You have a ringer. Yeah. Had a ringer, but
not as good as a pro. He had a ring ringer. Yeah. Yeah. Friends up said he cheated better. Darn him. Yeah. Right at the beginning. I'm gonna beat you this year. Okay. All right. That's great. That's great.
Yeah, that sounds good. I think there's basically not a lot more we can do here. Yeah, let's do a motion for adjournment. Anything else any wants to add? Do a roll call. That was another Oh, roll call. Uh Perez present. Borman
present. Michael present. Mr. James present. All present. We have quorum. Yeah. Hi. Yeah, it's still going to be close. When would be a convenient time you think for the next I mean
No. Are do you guys prefer Mondays, Tuesdays? Same time six o'clock. Monday's good. Monday. Yeah, Mondays are good. I got pretty much meetings Tuesday. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Yeah. What as we're as you suggested doing the
backward planning sequence at this event is in February. At what point do we expect to have things locked in with sponsorships, events? Because we're already planning our October meeting. That doesn't give us that much time. October, you know, less than so October,
November, December, January, four months. Well, Bill will make his goal. I'll make my call tomorrow. Okay. Yeah. We I mean, I'll be honest. I'm I'm going to ask for the February date and a March date, you know, and I'm going to push I'm going to say February, March or April. What can you give me,
you know, and see April, you're running the spring break and it's you don't want to do it because of the rain. You get brain injury February is ideal, but you know, because I'm worried about
the timing issue getting, you know, we got to get $11,250 I don't think that's hard to do. I just I feel good about it. Everyone I spoke to about they seem willing to and I've already spoken to a few people. I I think it'll be a pretty easy thing. I'm glad you're
and I I'm I'm looking forward to [Music] I'm looking I'm really looking forward to getting out there and starting to solve this thing, collecting monies. All right. So, when do we want to have the next meeting? It's Monday's uh six o'clock. Okay. October 13th is available. So I
make a motion for Mondays at six o'clock. Yeah, that's good. They're not next Monday. All those favoritis. Yeah, that's right. I can't put that down. Okay, between now and then, we'll see if we can line up some of the volunteers,
right? I will be in Portugal, gentlemen. So, just let you on the 13th. I'll be for the whole month. The whole month I'll be gone. You got to have a meeting. Nice. You want a fat one? Yeah. Beautiful.
Camino Santiago. Oh, wow. 150 kilometers. Portugal is beautiful. I've never been. I've never been to any place civilized people. People very educated, very uh
I've been doing all I've been going to civilizations now. They're a lot better for vacation. Yeah. You don't have to wear you don't have to look like wear much less body armor. And the front of the sanator is beautiful. I've never seen that experience. I'm really twice.
Is it was that date available? Yes. The 13th. Okay. So, will you set up for that date? Uh I believe at 6 o'clock. It's February. I'm exc Monday 6 p.m. here. So, good day. Yes. If there's nothing else, I'd like to make a motion to adjourn.
Okay. Seconded.