 being recorded. Okay. And it's being recorded. It could be shown on Amherst Media or broadcast on the Counter Amherst YouTube channel. This meeting is now called to order. So I'm volunteering to take minutes and be the secretary for the meeting. And our very first item on the agenda is to approve the minutes from our June 3 meeting. And there's I have nothing bad to say about those minutes. Does anybody else have any comments on the June 3? I love those minutes. So we'll I think we'll do a show of hands. All those in favor of approving the June 3 minutes raise your hand. I see unanimous approval of the minutes. The next thing I don't think there's any public so there's no public comments. The next thing this is an odd thing. What we're going to be doing is at the this is going to be our last meeting. So the very last thing we're going to do before we adjourn is we're going to approve the minutes from this meeting. But first we have to vote that we're okay with approving the minutes from this meeting at this meeting. Paul explains. Whatever it takes to. So I'm I'm making a motion that we allow the minutes from our August 23rd meeting to be approved at the end of this meeting prior to adjournment. Any comment? Any questions? All those. I second. Good. All those in favor of this motion raise your hand. And it's unanimous. Good job. The next thing we're going to do is we're going to vote that we are in favor of dissolving this committee. Now we can't actually dissolve it. I think either the town manager or the town council has to dissolve it and that's their problem to figure out legally what has to be done. But we're going to vote to dissolve and then we'll send the results of that vote onto the town manager. Anybody have any comments before we vote to approve dissolution? I'll make a motion then. I move that we send a letter to the town manager recommending that we dissolve the dog park task force. Comments, seconds, anything? Second. All those in favor of this motion that we recommend dissolution raise your hand. It's unanimous. I got to get speech out of that. So as I said, I'm going to write a letter to the town manager. And I just want to say to the five of you who are here just thank you so much for everything. And it's been a long haul, but we did it. And it's, and other people helped too. And it is really exciting that it's done. So good job, everybody. Yeah. Thank you, Jeff. Again, and all of you. Pleasure working with all of you. Yes, it really was. It was a fun committee. I feel very proud of the park. It's really lovely. I've gone several nights and there's just starting to already be like regulars. Yes, people. I think the people are enjoying it as much as the. Yeah, that's my observation. Yeah, I went today and I just was chatting with somebody said, you know, have you been here before? And she said, Oh, I come every day. Yeah. And then another another neighbor appear in our neighborhood. And he said, I go every afternoon. And I agree. I think the people are enjoying it more, almost more than the dogs when I've been there a handful of times and sitting on the benches and the dogs just all come down and they sit around the benches and they sit with us and they listen. I'm like, no, the dogs are happy to sit with us. You have to get a play facilitator. Yeah, there was one of the labradoodle who was going to do it. So okay, so so basically my minutes are going to look something like this, that we started the meeting, that we approve the minutes from our last meeting. There were no other items not anticipated. There were no public comments. We voted to allow approval of the minutes. We voted to dissolve the task force. And I mentioned that I'd be writing a letter to the town manager. And that's what the minutes are going to look like. So now I move that we approve the minutes from this meeting. And all those in favor, raise your hand. And luckily it's unanimous. And that's it. Anybody have any comments before we adjourn? Any chance of seeing the grandbaby? Is Lenny still upstairs? I'd like to ask Carol, just because I've had very positive interactions and my dogs are really enjoying the park. But Carol, have you had just curious if there's been any incidences of, I don't know, dog fighting or people fighting? Any complaints? No, actually not, guys. Because it done my heart good the other day. I went there after emptying those stations twice a week. And I'm going to add a little something to that after I tell you this story. And so I'm in the small dark park. There's hardly anything in the barrel. But the other day I went down there on Sunday to empty it. And there was about five or six how old? 79. But there were old people in there. And they were all underneath there, you know, the awning thing. And I walked over, talked to them. And they all thanked everybody for building it. It was the best thing ever happened to Amherst. And one of the guys said, well, we haven't met each other for about four or five years. Now we come here every Sunday. And we have a coffee and we talk. And there's a, you know, again, you know, all little guys running around, like you said, running around all over the place. And I had to give a few treats and things like that. But when they got up to leave, some of them, it's what I thought was going to happen. And I was praying it would happen. Because, you know, when I go out to the mill districts or the mill valley and all those places that are a problem, I see people getting out of their cars with their walkers or canes, you know, and I see several guys there, they had to get help getting up off the bench and walking out. But I thought, well, this is what this is really intended for. And then on the big dog side, the only thing I've seen, and it seems to be working out just great. So I turn around and look the other way. I don't care. I see more little dogs in the big dog place. And that's fine. I mean, they're not, you know, they're not really little, but they don't fit the criteria. What I've seen is that people have been very good about recognizing which little dogs are better off in the big dog. And even some larger dogs who are very, very timid, who are better than the little side, you know. And the handful of times I've been there, there's been a lot of dogs on the little side. And there'd be one couple of people, one or two people coming in from the, for the big dog park. And they just ask, I'm like, we're really here to socialize and my dog is okay. And everybody agrees. It's a consensus. Everybody says, you know, yay or nay, it's very respectful. Yeah. So people are figuring it out on their own. So it's great. I think you're right. And I think my, my thing, Gina, has been onto the 21 years I've been here. If it isn't broken, don't try to freaking fix it. Leave it alone. They'll work it out. And you know, we pray and knock on wood. There'll be no dog bites, but we know they will. At some point, it's just bound to happen. It's my human nature. But for one of the things I wanted to tell you guys, and I shouldn't be telling you guys this, but those, those barrel are the, first of all, we haven't had any bags in there for about a week and a half. And I got after Alan Snow about that. And he ordered them from the same place where I get mine from. And I got the invoice back from them. But I don't know where the bags are. But the other problem is, I wished that someone that somewhere down the road would snap too. Because when the big dogs, if you don't empty that at least two to three times a week, it's about 50, 60 pounds. And when you try to lift it out of that little thing, it catches on all of those boats. And it's really hard to pull out of there. So my suggestion is to buy like a 30 gallon, like I got my other conservation areas. I couldn't convince Dave to do it, but I bought them myself and Brad painted them green. We put them up there and they work great. You put them trash, bigger trash bags in it. It's easier to lift out. You can get a little bit more in it. So those are my only suggestions. It's a pain in the ass to empty those right now. A little dog, no. I don't think I've ever taken more than five pounds out of the little dog as I started. We haven't eaten dinner here in Denver yet. It sounds to me like a problem. The Friends group should be on that. Don't you think? Definitely. The Friends group. We talked to the Friends group, Carol. We're dissolved. Well, guess what? I did talk to one of the Friends group and he agreed with me because he helped me lift it out. The guy that's mowing the lawn, but he can't figure out where the weed eater is. There's no bags and I'm going, well, I can't help you there. I don't have the bag. I told Alan to give me a few of those bags and I'll keep them in my truck just so that when I pull in there, because I'm not walking away over that guy, I'm too old to be walking over that shed and unlocking that goddamn thing and bringing them over there. I just take them out of my truck and bring them in there. I do know a lot of people have bags on their leashes. Yeah, that's a good thing. Otherwise, it'd be in trouble in there because there's been no bags in there. We sold all that out and still the little dog bags out and put them in the big dog bag. So I don't know. We'll work it out. I guess we'll work it out. I mean, at some point, somebody's going to have to take it over at some point. I mean, I'm doing it now, but there's a courtesy to everybody and I don't mind doing it because I'm empty my own and then I, you know, the dump is right there. So it takes me two seconds to go over there. It's just an issue, like I said, pulling those bags out of there. I don't think that was the best thought out idea. The other barrels, the conservation or the DPW picks them up and empties them, but there's nothing in those. Right. Well, I'll sort of pass this along as a little extra note. Well, yeah, thank you, Jim. I was thinking that. I was thinking maybe if you put a bug in Dave's ear about it, and I did tell that one guy, forgot his name, the guy that's doing the mowing. The one wants to mow, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, he wants to mow. But I haven't seen anybody else that wants to fill the bags and do all that stuff yet. I haven't bumped into any of them. Right. I don't know who they are. Right. To be identified. Okay. I think we're ready to have our final adjournment. So all the second. Is the baby, can he make it a quick appearance or is he busy? Busy. Got other meetings. Never mind. Okay. He's busy. He's on the other, you know, it takes a while. You can send me a picture, Ted. Okay. I had great pictures. I'll send them to the whole committee. Okay. Okay. All those in favor of adjourning our last meeting, raise your hand. I'll raise one. Yeah. It's unanimous. Okay. We are adjourned. Yippee. Thank you, everybody. This is awesome. Bye, guys. Bye. See you. Bye. See you at the dog park.