 Hello Todd Can you hear me? Yes You at the hotel or your Hello, good morning Terrific and Peter if you would do the same. Good morning. How are you? Good. Thank you so much. I think do you know if oh five is Donna or burn? No, that's me Wait one more minute to see if Donna or Vern Join us. Oh and Vern is on. Hold on one moment, please Rafael should I promote Tonya Rainey as a panelist? Sure. Hi, Vern. Greetings. All right. I'm on desk duty right now. So I may pop out for a second. Okay Waiting for my relief. Nice jacket Thank you, sir Any Tanya? All right. Well, I think we have a quorum. So We'll go ahead and get the meeting started All right But before doing so I need to do some reading real quick and I don't know where my glasses went So here we go. All right. So calling the meeting to order so Call meeting to order then okay do the do the provisions of the governor's executive orders and dash 25 dash 20 and and dash 29 dash 20 which has been Certain requirements of the Brown act and the order of the health Officer of the county of Sonoma to shelter in place to minimize the spread of coronavirus 19 The city that Santa Rosa tourism business improvement area board committee will be conducting today's meeting in a virtual setting using soon webinar committee members and staff are participating from remote locations or participating in and using and and practicing social distancing protocols Members of the public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website and as noted on the agenda members of the public wishing to speak during items item three Public comment or during our public hearing items will be able to do so by utilizing the raise hand feature Their hand to raise their hand or pressing star nine on their phone They they then be given the ability to address the committee so that they can address the committee afterwards All right, so Requests the recording secretary to take roll call Eileen, can you take a roll call, please? Yes, I see that all members are present with the exception of and Rock I hope you could give me a hand here. I know that we are missing one individual. I apologize But I don't have their name handy Oh Thank you so much. I truly appreciate that That will be recorded Okay, thank you All right, so moving on to item two. We just did the roll call and call the meeting to order item two is public comments Okay, I do not see any raised hands at this time All right, thank you. All right, so moving on to item three is approval of some minutes that We had a pending for the last couple of meetings so We're going to go ahead and approve the minutes for the july 23rd meeting And those meetings minutes are attached to the agenda. I don't know if you had a chance to review them But if anyone like anyone would like to make a motion to approve those minutes feel free to I'll move to approve this Okay, I second Thank you Okay, all those in favor to approve the july 23rd meeting I Say aye Okay, any opposed Okay, and now um item 3.2. We have some additional minutes from our Meeting a special meeting uh on august 6th so I'll need to have somebody make a motion to approve those meeting minutes approve Okay Burn motion to approve meeting minutes from the meeting of august 6. Who second? Peter my second. Peter. Okay. All those in favor of approving the meeting minutes from the august 6 2020 meeting Say Aye Aye Aye Any opposed no I'm going to abstain From august as well Okay, I don't have the meeting for july or august long abstaining Got it both both Eileen did you get that? I did. Thank you. Excellent All right. So moving on to item 4 It's uh event support application. So we have two applications listed On our agenda And I know that we have had some previous conversations regarding budget regarding uh event support. We did have one application at the july meeting So here we have two so Item 4.1 is the application that was submitted from the country summer music festival folks and this is an event for slated for july 18th through july 20th of next year so we'll need to Make a motion to Possibly I'm thinking discuss Given that the currently the program is sort of Uh on hold Due to budget constraints Um, I don't know if you want to add anything else brad Yeah, as staff of vsr. My recommendation is that we Do hold off on making the decision until january Currently, we don't have a budget this year based on current circumstances. However, these both these take place in Late or middle of uh next year. So june so we have time I would recommend that at this point we postponed making decision until the january meeting when we have a better idea of budget for the 2021 fiscal year and just as a side note For everyone the november regular schedule november meeting is thanksgiving day Therefore, we would not have a november meeting. So any additional applications that come through between now and then would Also be reviewed on that january date unless the board determines to have an emergency meeting to make a decision that's something prior to a january event but Based on the city of santa rosa's and the sonoma county's not issuing permits for large events at the end of the year I don't think That would be an issue again If something did come up before the november meeting we could call emergency meeting But my guess is that any applications coming in after this would also Be pushed to the january regular scheduled meeting Yeah, that's a good point. Thank you brad and the amount Requested is $30,000. So uh, we could definitely discuss it at the january meeting. So i'll need to make a motion to Uh, continue our discussion and consideration for this particular Uh application for the january meeting Uh, so all those in favor to have that discussion in january say i Uh, hi I can i'm sorry raffa could we copy out that just to say, you know, we'll we'll reach out to the applicants to let them know What's going on? I will take care of that and reach out to alan jepobee who Put in these let him let him know that that And that charlene and i if any applications do come across before january, we will have those conversations with Everyone and again if there is something that comes across that we need to have a decision on we can I will uh full make sure raffa alan eileen have that is to create uh to request an emergency meeting Since the next review date is not till january Okay, and i'm sorry ali did i skip that part where i uh request comments from the public? Yeah, um Yes, and um if i just wanted to take a moment We've had an additional person joined by a phone. Um, if you would like to make comments You simply will press star nine and that'll let us know that you would like to make a public comment Member river if you would like to request those comments that would be great Yes, um any, um Um comments from the public I see no hands up this time Okay, all right, we'll move on to item four point under uh item four 42 Which is another application and this one is from the same folks, but this is a rock and revelry music festival sounds very exciting. I think uh, they're going to be playing music by metallica and all those kind of things Um, so again, we got the same situation. They're actually requesting for a total of $60,000 um, so um I'm not going to go into further detail. You have all the information there in front of you regarding this particular application and request So I would like to make a motion again to have this further this past some further discussions regarding This second application for our january meeting once we know a little bit more On where we are with uh budget related items Yeah, I second that Any comments from the public at this time? I see no raise hands at this time Okay, so motion passes to have the further discussion You gotta you gotta vote. Oh, yeah All those in favor to have the discussion in january All right Okay, any opposed? Hi Okay All right, so motion passes to have further discussion regarding the uh This other music festival, uh, which is a rock and roll one Slated for january 25th through the 27th of next year. So Okay, so uh that Concludes our meeting. I don't know if there's anything last minute items that we need to bring up That are on the agenda all right, well, uh Meeting is adjourned have a wonderful weekend. It's going to be hot and some potential psps so be on the lookout and Please stay safe and I look forward to seeing you back in january for clarification again Our next coming meeting would would have been On the third on the fourth thursday of November which falls on thanksgiving So we're going to skip that meeting and then hold our regular meeting back in january All right Thank you all Thank you, Ali. Bye Todd