And what I thought was you got it running. You got I believe so. Oh, wow. It's a long wall. It's 150 ft. And so while she's putting that out, some of the ideas that I had posted, if
you go on to the town hall site or like the Pelican mascot, um Martha Olner, who the the park is named after, um maybe Aaron Richie, that drawing would be cool to replicate
of him. Yeah, especially like in So for this it says you were at Olner Park on this side and then I did arrows. So like the indigenous American, I figured maybe there we could draw an indigenous American um person or some kind of reference to
Olner Park since it is such a big part of the history here and the indigenous tribes were in this area. Um so we could do that and then do like a call to um Mr. Richie and the first post office and stuff. I was thinking about doing like a
postcard but then I thought I don't know. So, I think we want to do a post somewhere in the city, maybe on one of the restroom walls or something, but this is such an elongated wall. Yes. And and these squares here are like glass blocks that are within the wall. So,
that's what that is representative of. And then I didn't do all the little blocks, but you can see there's little, you know. Um, and then I did the City of Port Richie Centennial logo right there, the City of Port Richie Police Department, and then the fire rescue.
And then a cool like modern looking welcome to Port Richie established 1925 with like uh tropical flowers and things. Obviously there's a lot of white space but we could fill all that in. You know what I mean? And then there is the mural reveal where people can do their
signatures. Not only everyone who is, you know, participating in getting the mural finished, but everyone who comes to the mural reveal itself, they could sign their name to it and then we could seal it at location after the day is done, after the reveal has, you know,
commenced. That's good. Good job. Thank you. I don't know if you even would want to fill in the white space. Oh, well, I just I know for instance here I've got to drop the arrows a little bit. Well, yeah. I mean, that's this is
just a a rough draft. Sorry. I mean, very rough. Yeah, that looks good. Very good. Good job. Um the other thing was like the mascot of the um pelican which is our exactly. So that's where I was thinking it could
go um we could put so where it says older part either there or here because there's this big white space right here that we could fill in and then there's over top of all around the glass there's all that space there as well and then this is all going to be whited out too
but I figured we could do oh I figured we could do like a two-tone you know that the the mural so itself is white and Then uh above the mural those the
the brick thing. Thank you. We could have one color maybe like a sea green or one of those like sea colors or whatever turquoise like like a like a sky water something that something to pop you know so that um but it blends it
doesn't doesn't blow out at you but it Exactly. Um, and all of the colors that we would choose would have to all be complimentary. Yes. To each other. So, we can't have like a bunch of crazy colors. We we would want to for the entire mural to make sure that they the
colors complement each other. The good thing about this too is it's such a massive mural that's going to bring a lot of um huh attention. Thank you. That word attention. Um, and there are a lot of people all
over the country. they travel to take pictures in front of murals. There's an Instagram account I follow and that's all she does. That's her job is to take photos in front of murals. So, um I it the mural obviously has to be modern but something that you know speaks to the
city as well, you know, which is which is why to grow with the city. It can't just it needs to be Yeah. something that goes forward. I thought, you know, Lor's idea to do the centennial your idea. In my entire life, I did an
okay job, but that Yeah. So, um, and then since there's the stilt house already in the Centennial logo, I thought I didn't really want, like she said, it's it's clean and it looks very it it would look very like professional
up there with those logos and um Yeah. I like having the fire. Mhm. Well, they're an integral part of the city. Absolutely. you know, and so I thought that we could do an honor to them and have them on the wall and that will also like encourage them to come
out to the event and, you know, and it'll memorialize their service here. Um, I also wanted to get the dates. Do you all know the dates of the when the city police was created?
I don't know. When they were established, I'll try to find out. Yeah, I would love to have that so that um we could add that to the mural. I just didn't know the exact year. So, um but I I think that would be cool. Um and then
Yeah. Any other Are we still going to have room to add things like the stilt house, you know, shrimp boats and the the centennial? Okay. symbol. So, because we want to put a second one there because there are other things
like you mentioned. I mean, the shrimp boats. I mean, there are other things. I would like to see the shrimp boats in there. I would like to see Martha Olner in there since it is her park. Yeah. And I love this picture. I don't know if anybody could would replicate it or how we could get it on, but it's Johnny
Cash, Billy Graham, and June Carter at the Stilt House. Love to see that. I know a lot of people would love to see that on there. It's kind of like our little claim to fame. And that's what I thought. And more than that, Johnny Cash was also part indigenous. Am I correct?
So, well, this Yeah, there's it. I just thought that it may not be true. Oh, well, it's not true with me either. My name is Cherokee. So, but that's what I thought like here because it's sort of oldfashioned looking and park and then with the arrows, we can do like uh the
indigenous people, Johnny Cash, uh Mr. Richie, uh, Martha, you know, get those portraits, but have the portraits be in one spot. That way it looks, you know what I mean? That way it looks like So it floats. Yes. Here's the portrait. Then here's this. Yeah. So we have, you
were park and then we have like the portraits around it, right? So that would look really cool. That would look like a postcard, you know, and we'll just keep that in the center, right, alone with the established dates from the the police and the fire rescue. And then here we could add something as
well. We could add since it's like more, you know, with the the leaves and the flowers, we could add the birds, dolphins, man. Oh, yeah. That'd be perfect. I could even do like I was thinking about adding it on here, but I didn't know for sure because we, you know, hadn't really, you
know, but we could do like a sunset scene, like a small sunset scene right here with the water and like um you could do a sunset scene at the end or end of the end of the day sunset and there's the end of the thing. Yeah, because there is more space. I I did I
only I cut it off because I did again I didn't know exactly how big like the sunset is the end and then put it at the end of the of the mural. That would be cool too because it kind of slopes down as well. So that might be um but yeah there's still a lot of space. Yeah. This
one if you didn't get to see the pictures that I posted scroll through that and then down below she she said we could see that and Um I think it's a great idea. I think um you know I'll I'll save till the final.
Yeah. Um I guess well the thing is is I I sketched this. This was freehand rough draft. Okay. This is not you know what I'll do then is put it into a mural program. Okay. So I will recreate this
inside of a program and then we'll it'll be really easy for other people to paint too. So it's like not just me. Um we'll just project it onto the wall and we can do paint by number you know. That's a good idea. that that'll be the easiest way to have as
many people working on it at the same like you know so that someone doesn't have to like be seven days a week working on it you know and I think h you know being able to paint in the evening will be uh crucial thinking about that because like you know July the rest of July I think they're going to end up
we're going to end up and into August and it's hot as heck and then so this may go into late September October can start actually painting but um The city's agreed to, you know, pressure wash that whole wall and then
paint it all white for our backdrop, right? I mean I mean it's that's what the city manager told they could probably do that. Okay. I mean this doesn't happen to this doesn't have to happen in this fiscal year, right? Is correct. Well, so anyway, whether if it
does that's fine, I would think. If it doesn't, then it's fine for next year. Those funds and make sure there's enough to make sure this happens. Well, um, the funds are not going to be that much of a big deal because we can get the it's we can get money from the paint. Okay,
that's cool. Um, then a business to donate some painters because it's a local thing and if we have a local paint store like we have Sherman Williams, they're not in the city but they're not in Port Richard but Walmart has paint as well. They do.
That's right. section. Now, Hooters is kind of like, you know, an icon, but then you get into, are you going to advertise one business and then not another? That's why I didn't do that. I was thinking about doing the river. But I mean, if you got them to
agree to it. Yeah. And a corporate. I just didn't want to start with that because I just wanted, you know. Yeah. But then you got But then you have catches who's been here a long I mean, so I I would hate to one business over. going to get me to do murals at their place. So, yeah, Craft Shack's been here
forever in a day. You know, I'd hate to start. Cool. Yeah. So, I don't know what you all have to do next, but that's what I came up with if the the bones, you know. So, do we have the budget established for this? Um, well, it's going to be the
cost of the paint like to to have a professional artist do it. We had gotten quotes before and it was like $5,000. Um, it might have even been more because I did give them the measurements of the wall and they said about 5,000.
I talked to a couple different artists. Well, I like I said, I am volunteering my time for that. So, I you all don't have to, you know, this is like a gift to the city for the centennial. You can look at it like that. And we have other artists in the city too. like um if you guys know of any other artists, you can
tell them about the project and each each person could take on maybe a different and people like me that really aren't artistic. I can fill in, you know, wherever you need by number. Yeah, I can do paint by number easy
and um so we can all participate in it. Exactly. That's why I thought that the projection idea would be the best. Um exactly. you volunteered to like organize the whole because I was worried about having a hodge podge of oh this one does this one does that and it's
just going to look too you know hodge podge but with you with you designing the whole the whole wall I love it thank you when you get this on your on the program it can maybe be split up into
excuse me the old you like the old the park section and the emblem section and then the welcome, you know, we can be split up and then we can put that out to the public and say who wants to volunteer for what section? The emblem section or I mean you might get artists, you know, or the the shrimp
boat. I don't know. I mean, if we if you split it up into different areas, maybe people can eat the elephant one bite at a time instead of the whole elephant, you know, maybe they'll you'll get more participation. Is it possible to do like a screen of the logo and just put it on
there? Not like a sticker, but is there something like that would be paint that you could put on a What do you mean? Something like that. Like like a um like the projector. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I meant. Like a projector. project. We
would probably need So that's where doing it one piece at a time probably will come in like we'll have to probably do it one piece at a time unless we have like two projectors. Then another group could work on another piece at the same time. Um but that that would that would be how we would have to do it. I mean we
could trace it and stuff but that's an incredibly complicated process and it's just going to be easier I think with the hands that we have to be able to just project it onto there like on there. Obviously, it'll have colors and things in it, too. So, it'll be Well, what
about some of these wraps? Can you do just for the logo and maybe some of the people a wrap that would look It's hard to paint sometimes certain pictures, especially people. We would have to find out from the rap people if that would stick on. Do the
difficult parts. Yeah. Like I I would I would suggest like I was under the assumption that we would hand paint Okay. all of it. Yeah. All right. I mean, we can get I I know there are other artists, too, to
help out. And I mean, I guess you could parent um there are these sort of like uh parchment paper, like see-through parchment paper. You could get it print out on there, but I mean, the projector does the same thing. And there's kind of less work when you look at it that way
because you can just paint over it and you don't have to remove something and any kind of adhesive to the wall. It might damage the paint on the back of the wall too, like on the the white part. I I don't know. And it's not going to be exactly perfectly smooth either
because it's block. Exactly. Um is there are there any other aspects of the city that that we're forgetting? Put the Cody River in there somewhere. Oh yeah, the river. I did mention that. That would definitely How about the river running along the bottom of That's what I was thinking. idea. The whole the
whole thing just, you know, just a winding river. And like I said, I only did like the bones type thing because I wanted to have more people be able to chime in and add those ideas. Um, but I I like I said, I wanted to put like the river in there, but then I was worried
about businesses and I didn't know like, you know, because there was one aerial picture river and fish, you know, like don't plan. I mean, you know, I mean, so I don't see how the Cody River is a symb, you know, a symbol of any particular business,
though. Oh, and then I just meant the the picture that I was going off of had a bunch of businesses and I was going to draw all the different houses and things and decided that was just a river that would make it too busy. Exactly. Which is the of the river
itself, you know, like it's a blue river and then pick a stupid color pink, right? Cody River, you know, you know, something like that inside the river. So that but I would fish that would be a good idea. Uh, one last thing for me, just I would like to see a proposed just budget. So if it cost zero dollars, we
could tell everybody it cost zero dollars to make this. It cost $100, we tell it cost $100, I would go to the city council. They'd have to approve it and then people watching can go because you'll always have these people like, "How much does that cost?" Yeah. Right. Be like, "That cost us." So why don't we ask for a a dollar amount?
How much do you think you're an artist? How much do you think it would need? She would bring the paint. I mean, for a piece that big and a good quality paint that'll stay. Exactly. Cuz it we also have to buy sealant because we have to seal it so
that it stays. Um a gallon of paint cost what 40 50 bucks, right? They That's the background's already going to be done though, right? Yeah. I think Eric, like you said, I think Sherman Williams might even want to donate something like that. Maybe if they could have a credit at the very bottom somewhere. Paint, you know.
Well, we could add anything like we could add anything like that to like the mural reveal section. We could put that if someone did decide to donate anything, we could put that into the mural reveal section and seal it there. You know what I mean? And we could write like paint provided by and then that
company's name inside there so it's not somewhere else and looks a little weird. You know, we're probably going to need like 20 different colors. Oh, yeah. Um, I'm thinking it'll be somewhere between 500 to $1,000. I'm thinking 2500. 2500
to three. A lot more than really for just the paint to have an artist do it. So, I'm going to suggest a point of order. If we could just talk about a maximum of $500. If it needs to be arranged after that, we can talk about that. It needs to go
to city council to get approved. $500 for the paint for whatever for the project. Oh, that's not enough colors. Yeah, I'd say I'd say minimum of a thousand only because if it's $50 because you want the good paint. If it's $50 a gallon, it's only $10 and you
still have to seal it. Yeah. Sher Williams, you can start a commercial account no matter who you are. I have a commercial account there and you get a great a substantial discount. So, it's like 40% 50%. So, but the more we ask for, if we don't
have it, that's great. We can still do the commercial, but the more we ask for, I'd hate to go back and say, well, we asked for a,000, 500, but we only need more. I'd rather ask more, use less, and then give it back. You know, I'd say 15. So, I motion for $1,000 for this project
than girl. I second that. I wish for discussion. Um, all in favor? Any any comments from the peanut gallery? Yeah, Dave, what do you got? Oh, I see your shiny head. Dave Mueller 5439
Blue Point Drive. Gotcha. Um, you don't need to seal it if you use exterior house paint. Um, Sherwin Williams does have a good discount. I have access to that and I'm sure a lot of people do. Um,
the river idea. I was right on the same page with you there. Um, but we ought to have the mouth of the river run up to the bridge, have the bridge in there. Um, and then potentially
place these things where they geographically reside. you know, the stilt houses at the mouth, the Olner Park kind of in the bayou where it would open up and you'd have the bayou there and then the bridge which was the
old 19 um crossing there, you know, those are all parts of it. But I think we almost need to look at this and and and do like a background first and then add to that the areas that you're going to want to define like the river, like
the parks and and stuff like that. But I think um I think the city manager has the authority to spend up to 2500 without even asking us. Is that right? Is it? Yeah. So up to 10
Okay. So, it is what it is. Transparency. I'd like the public to know how much we actually spend. Oh, we would definitely have that because you're going to have to to, you know, state your case, right? Oh, it's going to be a a multi-month process. It's not going to happen in like the next council
meeting. And this is going to be one of those incremental spins. In other words, you're going to start on it. You're going to see how far you go and then you're probably going to have to come back to the well. But the point is is this thing has been sitting here for 7
years since I've been here and I've been arguing to get this thing done and I'm glad to see um this thing moving ahead. Thank you. I would like to have this project completed this year. This will be our major project for CAC. So I think I'm looking at you know hopefully we can
start in mid or late September painting. And of course, they're gonna have to clean it before that and spray paint the background. And um and then of course it has the design has to be approved by the council. So
Chris Mayor, 4591 Harbor Point Drive. We're in the middle of a wayfinder project, which is the branding for the city, possibly a logo change and all that. I don't know how long that's going to take, but that might be something we incorporate into this so we get the new logo and all that
in there. Can you explain more about that? We have uh budgeted uh to hire a company who is going to come in and get public input. They're going to get um employee input, city council input, committees like yours, and we're going to have a uh
a wayfinder uh and also branding uh project that's going to put our city back on the map where like right now you cross over the bridge and you're like, where are we? Next thing you know, you're in Hudson. you don't you don't know where you are. Um and that's going to incorporate a lot of things um that are going to happen in the near future.
Um so I just thought you might want to be aware of that so we could good or All right. Thank you. Okay. So in regard we we will need sealant
to definitely put that on there even if it is outdoor paint just because of the type of weather here and the heat and stuff there. like you can look it up on murals. It's a different thing than just painting your house. So, we will have to have sealant. And then the logo um won't
really be of concern because we're using the Centennial logo, not the logo of the city. So, we don't have to worry about that unless the police department and the fire department are going to change their logos too right away. So, I don't if they change their logos and we can do
that. Um but I do have to go. Okay. Um, do you want to keep this? Should I take it with me? Can Can you take it with you and maybe um add to it as you have find Yeah, of course. Oh, of course. Yeah. Or do the computer thingy. Yeah, I'm going to thingying. Yeah, I'm going to put it
into a mural program and then um just keep keep bringing it um and add to it and add the stilt houses and things like that as we need it or as we Okay, good job. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for
all that work you've done so far. It's going to be a great project. Did we have any more discussion on this? No to budget $1,000 for paint. I
Okay. All right. Motion is approved. And I think Seth has to leave also, right? I have five more minutes. Five more. It's okay. Pull the picture up of Johnny Cash on the ST home. That kind of like boring
picture. I don't know. I mean, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's cool, but Well, there's other pictures if you wanted to adjust Johnny Cash, but I I like adding Billy Graham in there, too. Yeah. I mean, it's just kind of like looking off kind of
like a dolphin, you know? Well, the devil's in the details. We can get into the details. Do we have any other comments from the general public about anything? No. Okay. and some comments from committee members. We'll start with you, Seth,
since you got I have nothing right now. I'm good. We have any live plans for the city of They're not having fireworks. Yeah, Newport Richie's fireworks are tonight. Yeah, Newport Richie tonight.
They had them the other night. Oh, I'm sorry. Apologize. St. Pete's tonight. They had some fabulous fireworks. That's right. They did have less Saturday. Good show. It was really good. Sounded good from my house. Yeah.
Christine, did I call you? I don't. All right. He stepped in. Thank you. Um Okay. You're welcome. I did not secure a meet and greet at Can Cancun Beach, but I'll keep working on that. um
future cleanup. Now, somebody said that there's garbage somewhere and I said, "Where is it?" You know, because we just had we had clean up. But if you guys see garbage laying around somewhere, please bring it to my attention and we can I just pick it up.
I I walk down road every day and I just pick up the garbage. So, I understand, you know, just complain. Yeah. Well, some people just like to have something to complain about. ask the community to just pick up some garbage. Sometimes it doesn't have to be a planned event. If
you're taking a walk, take a bag, take a little I think some of these people complaining are actually in the county of they're not in the city. Does Richie have any kind of like contracts for work release guys to clean
up? I saw on Ridge Road with an armed guard between here and Thank you. 91 Harbor Point Drive. I saw a van and a whole group of uh work
release people right here on Ridge Road. They were working doing the I don't know cleaning weeds or mulching or something. That's what county. Can they help out if are can you all able to contact them and get them to help out like the parks or anything like that? I mean we we have
the adopt a road program. You know, there's right it's adopt a park. One park is being adopted right now. Um we're going to adopt a road through our dealership there. One road and and so other people should be encouraged to jump in. The more we encourage them to do that, the better. Is there a fee for
that? Do you have to No, there's not. It's all it's all absorbed by the city. Adopt a road. Yeah. To adopt the road. I'm put your name on a sign. You get all your friends and family together. I think it's business related, but it could be family related. could be could adopt your road, you know, for that
matter. Yeah. Yeah. I was thinking about that because what if somebody came and adopted my road and did something the road that I take I cleaned up the trash in your road and they do it once a quarter and I do it every day. I'm like and their name is on it. I mean, I think it's a great opportunity to adopt a
road. Yeah. Great. I think everybody should adopted by Boy Scout. I think it is. We go towards the beach hunter. Well, so I brought it up because I know you posted the thing, the golf ball cart cleanup thing or but I was working. There's like a lot of people that
couldn't there was so in Kentucky we did the thing where like a church city would pay for their church camp if they cleaned up the entire like city or particular road or whatever. It worked out really well.
We've done them numerous times. One time it was Eric and Dave and Lori and I. That was it. And then it was posted forever and it was just the four of us. They were in one golf. But then we all did it. So, you know, we just drove down Bay Boulevard and then another time it was on the Boy
Scouts and about 10 of us. Yeah. With the adoptter road program, they have to go out I think is it four times a year? Quarterly. Yeah. That is not just like hoping and praying somebody shows up when you say, "Hey, we're going to clean up trash this weekend." So, yeah, we we used to clean up the parks and stuff.
The problem with that sometimes having some of those is is um we used to find needles and so it can be very dangerous too. plenty of them out there. Take that in case you're not here. They'll have to share why
there by the power. They're sticking out through the center of that just underneath the leaves a little bit. It's almost like they're coming back for them later. You have to be really really careful. Okay. So, the next thing was I had asked
Linda was chair before um Claudia was chair and Angel was a chair. Nobody has a copy of the mission statement that we did years ago and I asked um Ashley to look for it. She couldn't find it. So I asked chat GP
the citizen advisory committee of the city of Port Richie is dedicated to fostering transparent responsive and inclusive local government through active citizen engagement. Our mission is to provide thoughtful recommendations to the city council by gathering community input eval
and promoting collaboration between residents and city leadership. We strive to enhance the quality of life in Port Richie by advocating for sustainable development, public safety, economic vitality, and the preservation of our unique coastal character. To me, I
thought that was perfect. That sounds great. I mean, I did try to find some other ones from other cities, and some of them just have a do. They don't even have a mission statement, but of all of them that I researched, I thought this was exactly what we do and it sounds the
best. But and you don't want it to be too specific in some areas. But Right. Well, I think this is real good, Lori. Very good. So, do we want to adapt that as our mission statement or I didn't know the Pelican was the city mascot? See, you're going to learn all
kinds of things tonight that we did over the years. You know, they took us they banned us for like eight years. We We didn't even meet. And before that, we only met like twice a year. I've been on this this board like almost 30 years. Co was part of that. I don't think they
wanted they like all the boards because at that time I didn't think they wanted anybody knowing what was going on. That's probably true. But anyway, um good old boys. Yeah. Then you know we had a revival and a lot of us and that's how I got to know Linda and a lot of friends that I have just
you know getting on this board and doing things together and meeting a lot of really neat people in our city that really care about the future of our city and you know, the make ways to make it better. So, it's a it's a small um volunteer
and commitment um just to help your community. So, um some of the things we've done in the past is coordinated slogan which was it used to be little city by the river and then they supposedly changed it to it was
officially changed to our gateway to the Gulf. Some people still use the little city by the river, but it was officially changed. Um, coordinated survey for the waterfront over over being renamed the Cody River Landing and
coordinated competition with high schools for the new sign models. Um, we had the high schools uh students designed all different signs and then we took pictures of them. They were here in the city hall. This is before Eric was here and um before I was here and people
voted on them and said, "Well, this is the design that we like the best." But it was nice to work with the the high school students and they actually picked our sign and made it and that's what we went with because there's a problem where no one knew where our boundaries were where where it's Newport Richie,
where it's Port Richie, where it's Fort Richie County. So, that kind of helped with that. Um and we helped with colle collecting three bids and interviews for the cost of the new signs through throughout the city which helped the council. Um we've coordinated meet your
neighbor events to help highlight local businesses. Coordinated made pelican the city mascot and encouraged citizens to put pelicans in their yards. Some things sound silly but it's little things that mean a lot. Flamingo.
We've coordinated women cut ribbon cutings for new businesses in the past. I think the council has kind of taken we're always willing to help it help out coordinate that if you want. Um we organized many libraries throughout the city and and made books available. Um we
painted the kiosk at uh Nicks Park. We've organized park and road cleanups throughout the city. We've done follow up with with council. Um when not this last hurricane, but a couple of hurricanes before that, I know we
offered help and rides to get sandbags, medical supplies, or evacuate during hurricane season, we with our just, you know, one of us on council on the committee would help out and do that. We didn't have a lot of people that needed help, but it was nice to
offer it. Um we coordinated debates with questions prior to elections. Since since that time, Newport Richie has has joined forces with and taken care of that. But we did first. We did a good job. We did. We had great questions
and the questioned uh Yeah, that was my job. We asked the citizens, "What questions do you want to know from your candidates?" So, a lot of those we write down and ask for um inform citizens about community
events and city issues on social media. organize Christmas decoration contests in the city and assist with fire truck Santa parade throughout the city. That's fun. That was fun. So, we like to have fun, too. So, um that's some of what we do. I know Christine was wondering what
do you what exactly do you do? So, I thought I'd make a list. So, anyway, getting back to the mission statement. Do do you want to um does anybody want to advise the statement that I want to read it? I read it too then. I
know. But did you want to see it and read it? Any of you? I just heard every word she said. I was just offering. Sounds like she slaved over it all night. Yeah. Took me two seconds. As you took more credit for that. I know.
I move we move we use the mission statement as written. Okay. Do we have a second? Christine, any discussion? Um I think we should just table it till next so we can actually go through a little more of the
fine tooth comb. But I do I do like it. Okay. Then we'll table this and do this. Okay. Create a welcome pack for new residents. This is something that was mentioned at the last meeting, but real estate agents are already doing that. They do. Yeah. I mean, when you get a
new house, you get all this letter stuff, packets, and but do they know what's in Fort Richie specific? Well, and then if people want to know, there's there's all kinds of pamphlets here at the city hall. I mean, what all do you want to We talked about that at
city council. Um, and we talked about putting it with with when they signed up for their water, but I don't we talked about you guys talked about it briefly. Say we we said that the CAC should probably put that together. I thought that's what we said. Is that what you said? I didn't I didn't recall that. Yeah. I What did you say? We talked
about that at city council about putting a welcome packet together when somebody would come and sign for the water and and it put some important information in there. We didn't we didn't assign it to anybody. I thought we said that that would be a good project for the CAC if I recall though. I don't have a pen. I got
a new purse, but no pen. Okay. So, we would need to give them information on like, you know, what water company, what phone numbers to contact. Um, basically the website has all this now. It's really like the guy across the street that that's where I got I mean, I've talked about that for a long time, you know,
that. But the guy across the street was like, I didn't know that I that I could put brush at X spot or I didn't know know when it got picked up or he didn't know certain things. So I was like, yeah. So I I'll go pick his brain as being a new resident to the area to find
out what did he not know. Okay. Well, I don't have that problem because everybody in my neighborhood has been there forever. You're the new You're the new be on the block, right? 25 years there. So think of that new residents would have that we want to include in this
packet and we will work on that as a project as well and email me if you have any ideas or suggestions that you want to put in there just um well you can't I guess you have to email Ashley and then Ashley will send it to me. I would add more to the uh how do I on the city of Origy website because it's pretty plain.
There's not a lot of things that it says you I mean it talks about my I agree with that but a my thing is a lot of these people don't have don't know how to navigate the website. So if we put it in that and then we can shoot them to that but have the basics into
the written form. They they'll read that. What if the website says put your debris on your own property? I would have to tell my neighbors I'm stop putting on mine. Yeah. Appreciate it. Okay. All right. Take care, sir. Bye. Um, have a good weekend. Yeah. Happy 4th.
Make lots of money. He's one of the judges for the golf cart parade. Oh, is he? Oh, okay. So, he has to go. Um, I guess I I forget who brought this up, but we had future. That's on the event committee, I think.
Okay. So, that'll be events committee. Yeah, Caroline brought that up. I think she's been in conversation with uh TJ to do another one. Uh, but okay. the uh the event committee is one person shy of of having a minimum uh group. So I
I've heard there's a couple people that are in interested. So hopefully we'll get meeting soon on that and that' be one of the first things that we talk about. I'm just gonna because we tried to do this car show years ago with the CAC and
it got so discouraging because that that property's in a trust and they have all these rules and they're like well the cars might leak oil and then it took forever to get the permit and then oh you can't have alcohol. Oh, no one can make any money at the park. It's like, you know, you go down to Newport Richie,
I know we there's people that want to be like them, but we're not going to be like them with that park because the one thing they have that we don't have is alcohol. And that place was packed for Fourth of July.
You could you could there were vending um places and but it's hard to get people to go and congregate a large group of people without being able to offer that. So just something to think
about. Well the car show at Walmart which is probably yeah the car show that you just did was excellent and that was perfect. and then they there's still an option to go to the restaurants that are around there. But when we work with that park, it's almost like a useless park.
It gets to be so frustrating. So that's why I didn't want to be involved in anything with events with that park anymore after that. I I will bring up uh because I've had several questions about that as well about alcohol and what you know I I think the ability there is to to license certain events have something
there. Um but we'll I'll bring it up counseling. There's a there's a trust document that they have um that has all the details of that and I have I don't think it outright restricts alcohol, but I think they just need to be in approval capacity. So,
well, that's what they told us. So, we tried to do it because we knew that would be it. Yeah, it was a big thing with with like she said with the oil, they didn't because it was older cars and they because it's supposed to be rural and it's supposed to be environmentally safe and so that that was eight years ago, nine years ago. a
long time ago, but it was still a thing. So, all right. So, I I love I love the fact that you're going to organize an events committee to take care of that that stuff. So, that's going to be great. Um Veterans Appreciation Day.
When is Veterans Day? November 11th. So, let's work on that. Um I do we even have like a veterans memorial area or with a flag or anything anywhere because I know we had talked about doing that um in that little uh triangular
piece of property that's um right before Washington. Yeah. Um across from the apartments. It's kind of a useless piece of property. We thought of doing like a memorial for the veterans and having a flag there. Yeah, that's a good idea. I don't
remember that, but that's a good idea. Would we want to take that on as a future project? We can't do all of these in one year, but and with it being in November, um I think it'd be nice for our city to do something for veterans. At least a flag, you can at least put a flag pole
in a flag at this time and then future have to do it all all at once. But those are how much money? I don't know. I don't know. But there used to be a gazebo there in the middle. I remember that. It was It was bad.
So, next on the list is school backpacks and teacher needs fulfillment. I had somebody write to me about that. Um, she well it's something where you pay them to do it, but they focus on teacher needs and they ask what teachers need
and I I have friends that are teachers and they told me some of the things that they need. So I don't know I I'm going to table that till our next meeting. Um that's something we can still work on during the summer and for well Danny Fields when when does he have his thing? In eight in July, right? like in two
weeks they start their because school starts the beginning of August or middle of August time. So he um he has a Danny Fields in the ministry that he works for forget the name of the congregation. Um
but it's soon I remember when I was listening to the meeting it was it was like July 11th or something I thought. I don't know. I could be wrong on that date. Well, if we're going to do things for the teachers, and he's already doing backpacks for the kids. He does. He does do backpacks for the kids. He does a lot
of We don't have to have it right when school starts. We can actually give it to them after school starts and get a collection. So, there are all year matter what time. July 26th. 26th. Pick up times at 10:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 12:00 noon. Waterfront Park. Reg
reservation begins on the 1st. So reservation started a couple days ago. Yesterday or Yeah, yesterday. Oh, two days ago. You're right. And moving right along. The next on the list
was Dave Mueller had suggested this to do like a competition of the front doors of Port Richie, like your front door. Who has the best front door? I don't know if we want to do that or not, but it's something that's interesting and
unique. We put it on longterm goals. I don't want to take on too much. I really want to focus on getting that mural and getting that done this year. I think the mural and the flag pole at that place would be a really I can put this on is not a long-term goal.
Or do we even want to do the doors at Fort the what? If you'll take pictures of people's front doors or they can take pictures of their front door and post it on our social media. You can do it. I don't know if I would have a contest right yet. Picture of
your front door. So you can draw a manatee on it or something. Mine has a 12 foot skeleton on it. Or a 12oot skeleton on it that's dressed Christmas or still Christmas in July at Matt's house or something. Yeah, there you go. Yeah,
he's got Hawaiian shirt on. Oh, he's got Hawaiian shirt. Okay. I've been down there lately. They can't walk that far anymore. We'll think about that and I'll bring it up at the next meeting and um discuss that. But long-term goals, we still want to work on this update on the community garden. Do we know if we're going to be able to use that land or is
that the community garden idea? There's a plot of land over near Yeah. I don't know where that's at. Um I think with the new city managers coming and going with um um who was the who was the girl
that used to sit there? Um Lorie McClean. Yes. Lori. Yeah. She was that was her pet project. She was working on that with Matt. So I don't know where that was. Lorie. Lorie McClean. Wasn't Caroline involved in that too or something? I thought she had I don't
think she was. I don't think she was. She might have been but I'm not I know Lori was heavily involved with Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yes. She contacted people. I remember meeting with USF and Matt and they went to the to the to the plot of you know to the area and um she resigned
right from the committee. She was kind of I don't think she did but I don't think she's at the time. So she did resign from the committee. Yeah. I'll uh I'll see if I can have city manager reach out to her and get whatever information she had to um we had to we were going to like maybe I think is that
owned by the county or something? But they were willing to No, we own We own it now. Okay. Because they were going to give it to us. Was it owned by them previously? Yeah. Yeah. County, they got it on a flood mitigation thing, I think, and so they transferred to us. So, we own it, but
um I think we paid $10 for it. So, we could Dave was upset about that. Please order should have been You want to negotiate a little bit more? I I think that's a unique project to work on for next year. So, I want to keep that on our future long-term goals.
Any other uh projects anybody wants to work on? I think we got lot to keep us busy. Matt said how do I want to take this? We just as we were looking through this
the um can't turn your mic. Oh, sorry. um apply for residential commercial grant and the entire page looks like it's just for roofing. It's like kind of misleading. You would have to delve into it pretty far. Do we still have grant writer? Yes.
Okay. If you look, there's a picture of a house that's mainly a roof with a guy with a paintbrush. It's like a cartoon roof repair. The city is giving some grants for improvements up to 5,000. I'm saying just the overall how do I we could put in the welcome packet and
there is a packet here right right there but this also needs to be handled because this this looks like it's just roof repairs that would anybody who does go to um as you guys put together your packet of important information and what
questions we should ask whatever I agree I think you should uh take a look at what's on the website because ideally you'd want digital links to all that packet information that somebody could go just find it all right there. Um, but you could also in the how do I do this
link or whatever, have that changed. Really easy to change that stuff. So, if you guys want take if you guys want to take that on and and say, "Hey, we need to add this or take this off or whatever." Get all that documented, get it to to staff and and S can make those changes on the website.
So, they got to get it to the city and touch staff, right? Well, they can submit it to to staff. I mean, but city manager, whatever. just get it get it to somebody that can Dave I'll drop the updates at your your front door there sir.
Now with that with that grant is was there a res a one-year residency required before you can apply or is that immediate? I don't recall. I have to look at the packet. Yeah. Be smart to make it immediate because homes that are recently purchased are in which one you
do the most. There is a residency like you have to live there. It can't be a rental, right? somebody buys it and then they turn it into a rental. That's not what we want to do. So I don't I'll have to look at it. I'll pick used that 5,000 when I
moved in my house. Grant is available as well. Oh, that's good to know. Right. Weren't Weren't you Didn't I hear something at a council meeting that somebody you were going to maybe change it so that you can allow them to pay for
tree removal down the road? I saw somebody speaking about that. He wanted money had a person come in and I um we um we talked about potentially changing that. Yeah. Um we haven't done that yet, but
that's that's something we discussed. Yeah, I we had 50 trees that were dead on our property. Yeah, I so far I've spent $30,000 just on tree remov. And we didn't even We even did some of the part of it ourselves. That
was after you were floating and I don't have a son-in-law that's a tree turner anymore. I get a family discount. I I'll bring that back up as well. Council dangerous. But some of these trees are like ready to fall in some of these houses and they're dead. They're not coming back.
And that's from Idealia. It's not from Helen when and we didn't know like people didn't even know to tell you know FEMA or I don't know if they pay for it or not but that you didn't know until a year later when your trees were all dead. I went down Howard a couple weeks
ago and all the trees are dead down there. I mean all of them from the salt water. I mean the pal palm trees are fine but the other trees gone. Gone. Well, that's good that you're going to allow um for the CRA funding to be used
proper way. Well, I don't I don't know if trees are on there. No, it's not. But they had talked about maybe making it available. I'll bring I'll bring it back up and I can't remember if Nancy had to look into that or not, but I'll get back on that. Okay. um my personal project
I'm going to work on since I was giving nothing when I was chair and um I want to start keeping a record. So I'm going to start a binder that says you know what our mission statement is, what we've accomplished, our past notes and then that I'll be to the next person so
that we have record and and everybody knows what's going on. So I have all my stuff I can put that in the beginning if you want. Oh yeah, if if you have stuff, please give it to like all the stuff that we changed, you know, Dakota landing, all those things. I have all Yeah, I would like to just start a binder and keep it all together
that we can hand down to the next chair or whoever. Don't we have to elect that pretty soon? I think I think October October. Yeah. Okay. Oh, no. We did it um I I don't know. I know we did it in January when I broke my ankle that time when that was
when I was elected to chair, but I don't know if that's the time or we go late. I'll have to we'll have to find out. Okay. All right. Um, anything else comments? Do we have a motion to adjurnn?
Somebody and somebody who was first and who was second? I think Matt was first. Okay. All in favor? I okay motion.