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Just a number of cafes in here. How many cafes do we go? A second age old business school. Number two. No, I'll fix that. That is going to be Connie. Because at the end, Connie is here. Sure. Yeah, I was just kidding. I'll fix it. I didn't touch that one. I was here twice. Yes. There you go. Me and my doppelganger. Everybody has one. It's my sister. Facebook is for the same person. That's crazy. It helps. Everybody not? Any changes? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. Any changes, additions? Just a one. Can we have approval? Sorry. Can we have a motion to approve on that? I don't know. You're still reading? I'm just saying. I'm going to be approving with the correction. With separation. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. All in favor. 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I've been very busy and I'm still trying to get out all the estimates and the contracts and the information to the people that they want which brings us to a total of 22 revenue events in 2021. In the garden, Grove planted annuals around the sign just to put a little color in the bed until we plant the perennials. During one really hot weekend in June when we had multiple events we froze the air conditioners up which I've never had happen before. We had to completely turn them off overnight and fortunately we were able to turn them back on the next day for the events that we had and we're keeping an eye on them. I've moved out brand new air conditioners and it's crazy to me that we're having those kinds of problems already. June, March, July is pretty busy. In addition to the clubs we had a 60th wedding anniversary on Saturday with food from Niwa Market which I had never had them drop off before so that was kind of interesting. We had some beautiful salads. We had a memorial on Monday with Grains Point catering and we have a 50th wedding anniversary party on the 31st of July with Spice of Life I think as long as they get the quote out to the lady. On the grant we're continuing to work on that. It's due August 1st by noon. We've received a number of letters of support from the community and we had an article in the paper on June 24th and then it was also carried in the older camera the next day or a couple days afterwards and it was also posted online. We're going to present the grant to City Council on July 27th at the meeting in order to get approval for Brian to sign the grant agreement because it's an intergovernmental application or an intergovernmental agreement between the city and the state. He's the only person in the city who can sign it. I updated First Aid CPR at TIPS. I've put that off my plate for a couple years. Like I mentioned before, Bending Hub is going to resume charging for their services so we're not going to see that anymore but at that I put in here our budget spent mostly on wedding sites and services the knot and wedding wire. I'm reading the minutes. I'm sorry about that. I'm reading the minutes instead of like, I don't need your support. I went like this instead of turning the page and started reading the minutes. I'm sorry. I'm sorry about that. Sorry about that. I'm sorry about that. My hair is kind of blonde right now, so. Careful. Actually, I'm just talking about me. And then obviously we booked a lot of new events. You can see what we've got. We picked up a drop-off with 60th wedding anniversary. The Memorial Reception was new since last month. The 50th anniversary party was new. We booked a 50th anniversary party in mid-August. We picked up two days of meetings with Balfour Senior Living and we picked up a rehearsal dinner in September and a celebration of life in September and a graduation party for next year. Great. And a drop-off. That's their opportunity to bring like centerpieces, alcohol. Some events have a drop-off. Some of them, like weddings, have a drop-off with a rehearsal. So and we do charge for it because otherwise they waste our time. So it isn't revenue generated yet. They don't generate a lot of revenue, but every little bit adds up. Wedding sites and services announced that they were currently closing at the end of June. The current issue of the magazine is going to stay on store shelves until they're sold out. The website closed on the 30th of June. So we won't be getting any more leads from them. The recreation made a decision to publish a fall brochure. Now I'm currently updating the Callahan House information for the brochure, which is going to go to print soon. It will include our September Art Walk and our December Santa Open House, which we want to confirm the date for. If you take a look at the revenue expense actuals, you can see that we are in the black by almost $10,000. $9,000 in change. So that's really good news. After a year when we spent money out of the fund, I don't usually staple mine. I clearly need to not staple mine. They're just a lot easier for me to handle. We're up to a total of 64 events with 446 guests and that number is climbing quite rapidly. If you take a look at the event actuals, you'll see that we have a lot of grant working sessions in addition to two tours for the museum. Eric Mason's doing his historic West Side tours and we did a tour on June 15th and another one on June 16th with about 12 people in each one. They were here for about 15 minutes and one gentleman stayed sat in the garden while they hoofed around. If you take a look at the special events, you'll see the list is quite long. We did a celebration of life on June 11th with a drop off on the 10th. We did a wedding with a rehearsal on the 12th to 13th. We did a number of tours, most of the rest were tours and or planning sessions for the events that are coming up in August and September. You take a look at expenses, which you'll see as we're starting to have normal operational expenses. We pretty much hadn't bought anything for a year. So I'm having to replace or get supplies for lots of things like the dishwasher, first aid kit, zip ties for the PA system, paid for potting soil for the pots. And then if you look under professional contract services, you'll start to see rentals for the outdoor events, admit staffing for the events, and then our normal advertising expenses. And then as usual, on the last page on the city finance system is a little behind my spreadsheet. So the numbers aren't what's on the first page that was completely up to date. And the city finance record is up to date as of the end of June. Any questions? It is not in these reports. It's about $37,000. And I wouldn't quote me on that, but it's close. What was the question? It's in these reports. I can pull it. Remind me of how I got it. And like I said, it takes us to all business and grant updated discussion. So I'll get it here. So we sent to all of the board members a draft that was submitted to History Collo for their review. We expect to hear back from them June June 22nd, July 22nd, with their comments and suggestions. That was our one pass. So it's assistance and direction on that. So before that, in the meantime, if anyone has anything to say or any comments or suggestions, please feel free to email me. We still can make changes obviously right up until the last week of this month. I don't intend to wait until August 1st to submit this though. So you all know, I think realistically, I'd like to let everyone know if you can get back to me with any comments or suggestions by next Friday, the 23rd. That's what I would really appreciate. After that, it's very popular piece. Well, the Denney deadline is a Sunday. So I'm going to be submitting this Friday prior because I'm not interested in it. And I don't want to be one of those less than some things going on with the system because they have some system issues pretty easily. So maybe the 28th or the 29th. I would like to as soon as council says yes, and Brian signs, then I'm going to go ahead and submit it right here. We're still getting a few letters. I think if anyone wants to see the letters, you're welcome to. We had them all scanned. We had a couple more comments instead. Okay, we'll continue. That would be my question. I can still submit a letter then. Yes, because when you were asking for him, it was like, I don't crazy this. I'm through and now we're down to our topics so far. But we're still taking anything that is going to outweigh our topic. Okay. Okay. I met yesterday with Jade Krueger. She's the new historical preservation person in the city of Longmont. And she's historical visions perspective. So that'll give us another option. We do have a lot of letters to support from many different areas. It turns out that's over 20. Wonderful. I think that's closer to 30. We've had some beautiful letters to really, really nice letters. So yeah, it's good to see the community support the breath of it, just across every line. Let's see, at this point, we are finalizing the attachments that go to the grant. That includes historic pictures, includes current pictures of damages. It is just a huge list of additional things. We're getting close to being done. Today, we'll be reviewing what last week, we reviewed damages of the windows, the plexiglass and driveway. This week, we're today after we were reviewing the damages to the paint, they started paint and we're looking through the historic pictures of the cars and the driveway, the house, the garden, the county family. We have, we also reviewed a group map site plans and drawings that are going to introduce attachments, as well as demographics of Longmont timeline down in the north, born to D from June 1938. And coming we'll be finishing the history of the house. We have all of the bits that we're submitting that we refer to in the grant application. We're collecting and finalizing all resonates that includes the contractors. So we have a few more of those to collect, including mine. Okay, because we will get it done. And other than that, I'm going to get an aerial photo of it right away. I do have the house plans that the students from the CDC did back in 2002. And I had them reduced to a size and then also put on a flush drive. So we have a little copy of that now. The CDC does not have that program anymore. They're going to re reapply it or for the students. But they did kind of lost the program about seven years ago. So they had no access to those records. So that's why I took the whole plans to have them reduce and to get to get a smaller hard copy. But also have a maximum copy so that we have her future glints lower. But the drawings are beautiful because they do show all of you know, the aspects of the house, the floor plan, the the landscape, the property in its entirety, each floor. And on the front, north, east, south front being was drawings of all that. So that helps to illustrate the magnitude of the driveway. And though a couple of the Missy Colorado advisors had come to tour and we'd show them on all of our projects. And we're confirming about the driveway because that's kind of a sticking point. We don't just realize concrete and parking lots. But this is special. It's different. It is original to when the Calhouns did the massive recall of the house and garden. And so it does apply. So that's great news, obviously. But to be able to show the readers of the grant applications, just how huge this historic decorative driveway is, why it's important to preserve it, is going to be part of that when we have to show that through our language and the content of the application. And also the pictures. And then that if anyone has any questions, we also included a current photo of the house, which is great for what we need to show. If anyone has any questions or any comments, or any concerns, please feel free to ask as soon as you can. So if you're solving the address of the board, open right on track. And we're going to be very close to being completely open, which is a place that is a huge kind of place here. That's for sure. Great. And I think the content is wonderful, very helpful as part of what we're asking for. So it just as an FYI, if we are awarded the grant, then we'll have to issue an RMP and get bids again. So that's required both by the state and by the city. So the earliest we could start work would be sometime in 2022. So why don't you just do on the board? Scary. It'll do I'll have to talk to purchasing about having to break the bids up. Because it would be nice if we could get started on the window in the library sooner. Not only because of the state of the window, but also because we could do it in our off season, instead of trying to do it while we're really busy. And not necessarily make time to be able to do that. So that's for you. So when will we hear from them? Yes, or Mr. Colorado? July 22 is when we hear their feedback, their feedback. They're after once we submit August 1. I think it's October. I think it's around October 1. Is it? What happened with the, the delay has to do with the stipulation part of it? We're still working on that. There's just so you understand, there's a there's a we have to see has to sign an agreement, a 20 year covenant with the state, which basically says that any changes or modifications we make to the house have to be submitted for their review. So that they can be sure that we're not affecting the historical nature of the property. So we're in the process of that's the reason why we were delayed in going to council or one of the reasons we were delayed in going to council is the covenant. So I sent a note to the state historical fund to give some clarification on that so that Jeff can present the council. I think all it is is an ask. I mean, the land the landmarking pretty much does the same thing. You know, the historical landmarking, especially for the exterior of the property, but the historical landmarking really doesn't affect what we do inside. And I think they want to say in both what goes on outside and inside, which we've always operate under the exactly what was there before in the first place. Yes, I don't think it's an idea. It's just more a matter of explaining. Okay, I'll let you know if you have this time's call article. When was it dated 71? Wow, I don't know. I have to go live. I went to the museum and we've done through the archives and took pictures of everything that's in there. There are a bunch of scrapbooks. You don't want that? Well, it's been in here for I don't know how long. So thank you We'll check the scrapbooks. Definitely. Yes, I think we have it. Is that the waffle breakfast? It's your breakfast. It's a picture of dinner club. My husband's grandparents are in the dinner club. But anyway, that's amazing. That's why it's like, let's be careful with that because what I'll do is I will probably take it to Eric. And add it to it. Yes, that's what needs to be. Yes. And I also, Kathy, I've told you this before. I have the deed to property when they sent us a scan for that. Yes, I went to look for it last night and I don't know which file it was stuck in. But anyway, when we can get that. I'll see what you have because what I did is I called the recorder and they can be and have them provide me with an electronic copy. I would like to make sure that what you have is what we have. I would love that. If you need help, I'll come over. Thanks to the opera. They don't do that anymore. They go across the whole page. Well, I'm glad we take that one. Look how big the page is. Yeah, it's just fabulous. I don't want to touch it. I was like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, my little black goes. I've got them in there. You can buy a special envelope or cover for that. That's acid for users. Yes, I have some of those to like to do that by the way. This is in my basement. She has all kinds of things. Yes, let's move to new business and our walk, which I'll just have. The selection of artists is going quite well. Right now we've got four confirmed. The first one Diane Wood is one that Marine has been speaking. I haven't actually touched basic or something. I want to touch base with her to make sure she's confirmed it. And I may have told her wrong, because when we talked a while back, I wasn't aware that you did a lot of painting demonstrations. I think that was before I came. It may have been. She did it on the front. Right. I don't remember that. So I think it might have been a year before I came or something. So I also I was going to talk to her today and say, Diane can do it on the court. She wants to know where that so I mean, we may have to think about where we put her if Doug does some music. Yeah, that's the only thing. Well, we can figure that out. Right. So I'll we'll touch base marine on that. And then we have Dev Nichols. She does referral paintings. Jeff Gauthier. And he's been here before. He does the beautiful with carvings. Okay. G-A-U-T-H-I-E-R very nice. I'm thinking that maybe this year instead of putting him upstairs, because I'm not only not for that way, but we could use a dining room for him to set his house. Yeah, he just needs to bring less stuff. Yeah, that's Kathy's comment. He had a lot of stuff left. We had we had two like an L shaped kit set him up. And some of the stuff was quite big. Yes. Wood carvings. And they're just beautiful. He was upstairs. Yeah, he was in the dining room last time. That was where he wanted to be. Exactly. That's what he asked for. Yeah. And I'll decide if we wanted to. So that's still available, right? It is. Well, we can also put it in our house. I thought you won't get as much traffic. Yeah, unless unless yeah, I think that would be so. And then I found a new girl. And I saw her. She's seen her art. Her name is Jenna Sekau, S-I-C-K-E-U. She does watercolors that are kind of like feathery of animals. And it's just beautiful. And I contacted her and she's going to come to. So that's four artists. I think that's plenty. That's what I was thinking. I think that's plenty for one. For the first one out of it. Yeah, we don't want to crowd too much. So I was just thinking, though, if Diane Wood does go on the porch, you might have room for one more in the house. If somebody wants to recommend somebody, I would definitely at least look into it. But so just let me know. Otherwise, I'm pretty sure I'm just going, I don't have a photographer yet. You know, usually have a photographer or something. That's neither camera there really. But anyway, if you do have somebody you want to recommend, just let us know. Sure, you could sure talk to that husband and wife. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I can't think of his name. I didn't get it. I got it in my tongue. Yeah. Yeah, they both do really nice work. If you really wanted to add somebody else. Yeah. And music is a no. I just need to send an email to the front and see if he'll do it. He's never said no yet. And it's great fun. Yeah, I think we have plenty. I mean, and garden gardener. What? Oh, you mean we need one? Oh, do we? Yeah, we have Dev Nichols and she does. She's going to be in the garden. Oh, no, she but she does florals. Oh, I'm sorry, you meant somebody out in the garden art. That is, you know, we used to have a lady who did a lot of what you mean. Yeah, I think that was she's she's I know she's I know she's probably not well sunset is 715 on that day. Okay. So I think the garden art's easier than they just because of the light issue. We have had that guy with the metal sculptures. The problem with some of the garden art is sometimes they bring their stuff and they don't take it away. We know like the guy that guy that have the big metal flowers and stuff, we literally had to call him and say, come get your stuff. We have a wine. We had a lady with the whirligigs. Yeah. Well, we that we also had that lady that used to make the the totems out of the out of the plates and dishes and stuff and those were beautiful but she doesn't do it anymore. So we maybe we'll just keep our eyes open at art festivals and fairs and see if we can find somebody that would be appropriate in the garden. That would be fun. And that's actually how I found this Jenna. I was at a house home show up in Loughlin. She was showing the house. I was out in the garden having coffee with the friend one day and the lady came and sat up in easel and was painting and and the time we sat there and had coffee maybe 45 minutes. She did a beautiful painting. Yeah. It was gorgeous. I don't know why didn't stop her and say, why don't you card? Yeah. Yeah. Next time. Next time. I did that all the shows. Yeah. Interesting coming back in. I try not to do it too much because I just I don't want to hoard. You know, I don't want to disappoint. I'd rather under commit over delivery. Right. Tell people they can come and then not have room for them. So the one thing I have to do now that the artist that we do have confirmed and if anybody else comes up is give them the instructions and that consists of and I just want to make sure we're staying as we've done in other years and that is from new to one we have set up. So we need that to come. I need to know how many floor easels they'll need. I know we haven't had a huge amount of tables on easels. So I'm just going to count that but five each. I usually limit it to five unless they really have well and that is somebody doesn't want that. Maybe we have more. I have to read them though. So that's why they don't know how many. So that's my to-do. So I will definitely get that letter out. So do you want to do set between we tried three to four. 2019 which did you like better. I have no opinion. 12 to one or three to four. The nice thing about three to four is if the artists have traveled a lot you know they live farther away. They don't have to have three hours of playing time you know. Right. So are they all local or are they reasonably local. In fact hey Diana Wood I guess is Devin Nichols is. Jeff is up in Lyons and Jenna I believe she's lowland. So not too far but still you know it's up to you know they could hang around town for a couple hours. Well what's your I think we need to do what's convenient for us. For me it doesn't matter because either way we're here you know it's still on if we have it at noon to one I have to you know come and then go and come back again or just stay through it. So we have any other input on that or I think it's for you and me and the artists. So I would go for the three to four set up and then they're here. Right. You know I think um for you. Yep it does and we're usually pretty quiet so if anybody you know it's not quite done by four I don't think it's a huge right huge crisis. Yeah What day is this again? It's just Saturday. September 11th. All right I'm going to forget. Okay so we've got set it from three to four. Four to eight. And then the show is four to eight. What we also need is to have several of us here. We can split it up it's what we usually do. It's only four well it'll be five hours if we start at three. So if somebody wants to take the first. We usually do four to six thirty and six thirty to eight for the shifts. Yeah. Yeah. So we have a little bit of an overlap. Do we want to start the first shift at three since we're here? Actually no we don't get everybody here at three. Just you and I. I think everyone just knows to be here about 10 minutes before your time. Actually four to six and six to eight. Let me we always had a half hour overlap. Yeah. In case people had to go over earlier come a little late. Right. So we weren't left without staffing. So four to six and six to eight for the two shifts. It says I'm going to be here at three y'all. Can I put the cleanership? Yes. Okay so that's me and who else wants to be on the first shift? Kathy I want to be on that. I'll be here the whole time. You don't need to ask me. I can do it first. It's okay. I'll do whatever you need. I'm flexible too. So okay so we got Kathy, me and Candy. Okay and then six to eight. Who wants to be on that? You can place me on this. You can put Karen and Karen on there. Karen and Karen. We'll just drip. We'll squeeze in morning Janet and Connie. Right. Wherever they want to be really. Yeah. We're pretty much over here. So wherever they want to be. Well I know. I think that we need they need to split because we need to have coverage upstairs and downstairs. That's true. Right. Not and one person can't cover. Right. Cover. Somebody can cover the upstairs easily. One person cannot cover the downstairs. That's true. Okay and also the second shift usually helps with a little bit of this. With the tarragon. Tarragon. Yeah. That's why I turned six maybe to eight thirty because I just I always know and I stay late to clean. I'll see if Jacqueline can come but if she has an opportunity to work for Grace Point she needs a lot more money there. So sure. We'll play that by ear. I didn't make sense to have her actually here because it's not necessary and it's an additional expense but we really have to have so we'll see. She helps a lot. Yeah she's doing good. If it makes sense. Okay just to reiterate then we have my session as a gig. Yeah we'll have to set up three to four. We divided up the work from four to six and six to eight. Four to six would be Kathy, myself, and Candy. Sixty-eight and Karen and Karen and then Marie and Jim. Jan kind of. Jan Connie. And Connie and Connie. Well do you want to do four to six thirty and six to eight thirty? So there's a little overlap. Yeah that works. All right and we have a half of four to six thirty and six to eight thirty. We're a lot of practice. I keep having to rethink stuff we've already done. Yeah, we always have a thirty to four. Okay and then when do you want, I'll send the letter out in a few weeks to the artists. I have kind of a what a plate that I used and I'll just touch up all the changes. So about two weeks before I should definitely hit the number of pieces on everything. Okay so that's. And all what I'll do is I'll put a stake in the ground with all events for an order so that they don't all go somewhere else and then we can just tweak it when you get me to count. Okay and then one question on the artwork. I'm number two you had written sponsorship. What is what do you mean by that? We have always at least since we started like officially participating we've always paid for sponsorship with Art Walk so that we can get into the advertising and I'm still trying to talk to Elaine. She's committed every week to meet with me and we still haven't met so we're supposed to meet tomorrow so hopefully I'll have an answer. Okay so all right well that's all I have on Art Walk and again call me if you have any suggestions. Yeah what what I don't know about the sponsorship is since they're doing it like all summer I what I don't know is if they're actually doing any printed materials for September 11th and if they're not doing printed materials then it really doesn't we don't gain anything by having a sponsorship so that's the question I need her to answer for me before I hand her money so that's kind of where I am. Should we put anything on the city website here? We will. It's on my list. Okay that's all I have on Art Walk. The next one is Santa. I don't know who's talking to Santa. I'm talking to Santa. No word for people. Yeah I've been really good at work. A little bit of sad news are normal Santa. Santa John has some physical medical issues that he's that he's struggling with and so he is significantly limiting his appearances and is also doing a lot of virtual stuff as opposed to in-person stuff. He's walking with a walker having some issues. He and I had a long discussion. I think what we decided was in the format that we need and that we have done in the past it's really not his kind of gig anymore. So Sam Calhoun gave me the name and email for the Santa that the city's using for Longmont Lights. His name is Pete Schwenker. I think that's how you pronounce him. And Pete and I have had a very preliminary conversation but he has agreed to do it. I am hoping that we're going to go with our normal date which is the first Saturday or first Friday of December which would be December 3rd. So I wanted to get you guys to approve the date or recommend an alternate date if that doesn't work and so that we can get back to him with a date and time that's fixed and then we can go from there. So Santa Pete does lifeguarding for the city? He does. Well the other good news for us is Santa Pete is a city employee so Santa Pete gets paid city employee prices so instead of you know a hundred dollars an hour for Santa Pete we're probably going to be paying somewhere less than 30. I don't know what the exact number is so yeah Santa said she had it but I didn't get it. I think it was actually under 20 but that's neither here nor there. Kathy, why do I have something with Calian House on me? What you have on the 3rd is the December meeting and the lunch. Oh we're going back to the 3rd hour. Well that's what we did the last time and that's what people wanted to do was do it all in one day and be done with it. So we did, we did, we did it in 2019. We did, we did it in 2019. That's what we were really affected. That's yeah what we voted for was to do the meeting and then the lunch and then the the Santa open house all the time. That's where we were all wrong people in those. I thought it was amazing. It went amazingly well because honestly the meeting the meeting that day is very short it's really more of a gift exchange at a lunch. I already have the lunch booked because I called Susie and you know 10 minutes after we opened up from COVID and said would you just take our lunch and move it to this year so that's already booked. Already all dressed up so. Right that's true. Here we go. So what time are we doing? The meetings at 10 and then we usually do a gift or an exchange and then the lunch is at noon and then I was thinking we could either do four to seven thirty or three thirty to seven thirty since Santa Pete's probably got more bandwidth and energy than Santa John. And we need to the thing I need to know is we need to settle on the date and the time so that we can get it into the brochure and into the city line when the dates when the time comes up for December. So thoughts. I liked doing it a little earlier which we originally did with Santa John because we get the little the little babies you know and the kids that aren't in school if we start at three thirty which gave people a chance to bring the infants and the preschoolers before we got mobbed with elementary school kids. So you suggest we start at three thirty? I think we should start at three thirty and go to and cut the line off at seven thirty. So it would probably be three thirty to eight. Does that seem too long for you? Now I'll have to clear that with Pete too but I wanted to have some agreement here before I. So starting at three thirty? We'd start at three thirty and go to basically the we would cut the line off at seven thirty. So December 3rd is a busy day. Does somebody want to make a motion? I will so move. It looks like December three thirty to seven thirty. All in favor? I just took the words out of Ann's mouth. I threw my voice. Okay so we have and I'll I'll get an agreement for Pete if the time's changed I'll let you know and of course we're not going to plan for it yet. The other thing I would ask is that she starts thinking about your availability either the week before Thanksgiving or the week after Thanksgiving to decorate. Anything else on Santa and Christmas? Let's move on then to the permanent sign planting plan and again I'll turn that over to Karen. So we have a working plan of what's going to go in the bed around permanent sign. We've made a couple of changes to it based on Anna who grows suggestions and a couple suggestions for me and I'm not spring and I think we're open to hearing if there's any particular plant or company or something that you guys think would be nice to be included in there and so if you wouldn't mind email that to me let's say by this Friday because I'm going to meet with Will Joett from the flower bin to go over and make sure spacing is appropriate, size is appropriate and we'll have a good plan and come back to show Anna and say how do we think this works for work but we're getting very close and and I'd like to get them purchased as soon as possible. I need to double check with them about their ability to hold them if I pick them out they can hold them plants at them until we're ready to plant them or what that might be better than one. Well if this kind of weather kind of holds we could plant it now. I just don't want to say it when they're 90 or 90 degrees. Is the sprinkler system good there now? We'll have to rip and we're probably not going to but that because it gets at least hit with the grass first. I was going to say the ground there is nice and moist because of the lawn and the trunks. Because I remember that hit the one that cut it when they hit it. That was a big deal. That's fixed and that's a big expensive deal. But yeah we won't do that again. There wasn't anywhere we could put it that it wouldn't have gotten cut because it runs that whole length. I think it'll be so just please if anyone in the pet has any other thoughts in their minds about criminals that they think would be beautiful cute and they're on that side. We're trying to keep them low and do you have any further suggestions? Yes. I can email one to you all. They're the same group that I sent back in September 2019 before I left the board for a year. But we've switched out. Instead of the Carolin's Hope Pinstamen even though it's flowing and open it would grow a little bit tall potentially block the bottom of the sign. So we'll set it that and have a wonderful idea about putting in mini mini mouse and mini skirt pastas which are beautiful to stay with. Hostas. So they don't they don't grow tall. They kind of grow quite large. And they make a beautiful hinge like to make a surrounded with mini. And so if we don't end up doing the border around that a house solution for that metal edging to take that metal edging out to have a composite edging for them which is prettier. It's a dark brown. It blends in. It looks woody. So that might be an option if we can't do that. We probably covered this metal thing with coins because what we're concerned our concern is that um that turning and mounting might damage clients if we're having too close to the border. So we don't want to create a maintenance issue. Just by trying to make the sign pretty we don't need to create a turf issue. I can certainly today I'll email all the board members the list again and the planting pictures and things that we're looking at so that you'll have a visual and can understand you kind of how it would look on each side so that the person I mean to the point not the sign. But the columns on the outside of the columns we'll get it all. So keep that in mind. But not too bushy. Not free narrow. It needs to stay nice and it's compact. Inside it needs to be upright. Um but yeah I think they're tall. So they have the ornamental grasses that get about three feet tall. Because they're going to they stay kind of yeah I they have one that have this view. Those tend to be really they do grow their grasses. Yeah they're they get one. That's grass. We don't have any ornamental grass in the garden. There's I think we put in a couple um that had some interesting color. They're they're more like a Japanese grass but they're variegated. Um that I when we put in all those perennials last year we did not put in any grasses. And actually I'm not a real fan. I just said that because I know they're Thomas Kitty but they they just shed their seeds everywhere. And then you end up with grass everywhere. Yeah. Yeah. So I I'm not saying that. All right. No grass. No grass. But I'll email that too. And no companion arms. We have plenty already. I don't know what. Um they're really pretty but they're very tall and they have those purple bell flowers and they're very invasive and because of all the rain this year they're everywhere. What are they called? Companula. We've been trying to eradicate them for five years and they're they're they're found at home. They're well they're and it's going to pull them all this week or next week. But they spread underground. They have kind of a lot of enzymes. It's just good. Another thing that does good in shade that's real low is just pear people. Yes. You know that has and it even when the flowers are done it's pretty terrible. Yeah. But it stays really low. The jacked frosts are pretty too. They get like a purple flower stock. They have a green leaf. There it was white variation in it. And then they have a purple stalk flower. Those those are doing quite well out here by the auto house. Didn't we want to have all premiums? Did we talk before about we need to leave a little room for couple of the bills? Yeah. We're going to leave some space and we'll see you in the planning plans. There's a lot of inpatient areas where some of the does actually went to pop color. Yeah. Probably begonias. Yeah. Yeah. The begonias do really well. So I'll leave that to everyone. You know me back by Friday. If you would, I don't mind it too. Some of these to consider within the next couple of weeks. Any more on the flowers? Okay. And then the next thing is historic west by walking tours, which once again I will turn to I think you're popular. Yeah. Well, when I was at the museum, diving through the archives and just enjoying myself thoroughly. I talked to Eric. She's not so good there. Right. I'm telling you that little tree house up there. It's nice and peaceful up there. Pretty views. But anyway, I mentioned to him that I really enjoy going on his downtown historic walking tours both east and west sides. And I asked him, you know, on the tours, I hear other people saying that they would love the opportunity to go inside one of the historic homes. Actually, that's not possible because they're all privately phoned. Except for the documents. And so I said, if it's possible, would you include a little, never of your time in your tour? Would you be interested in including an inside tour of the county who was supporting your historic future? So he said, he was being hilarious once. I loved that. I said, wonderful, let's start a new year. So that immediately mentioned immediately. Which mid the next tomorrow. Yeah, switch mid because I was there on a Friday. It mid the next Tuesday and he was like, let's do that. And of course, I was going out of town and I said, Kathy, guess what you're doing next Tuesday? That's an an you're available to help, right? And I was like, I promise I will cover the ones in September. But I think we need to hop on this because it's a wonderful opportunity. The open house didn't include the museum and the wonderful history tours. And of the county, that's the interior open available to the community. So that's the cleanest that happened. Yes. And so we are going to go ahead and continue with that. Going for it. He does have very minimal tours, but they work quickly. I mean, as soon as they're posted, they're 12 people at a time and they limited it. Yeah, he carries out, they work headsets so they can hear. He speaks and they only have so many headsets. But it's both tours from one east and west side. I don't know. He does a wonderful job. He's incredibly interesting. He's always just a joy. He's going to Africa. He had a big hat. Yes, that's cool. He wears a hat. It was kind of a tacky word tour. What type of day does he do them in? They are generally, yeah, there are some that are day and then there's some that are usually even so big area, but you have to look at the museum website to find when they're there. Or if you're a member of the museum, you can nicely notice. Yes, it's coming. Mark the calendar to sign up because it looks up. Carol, did you embark to the museum? Okay, because you were talking about it. Talking about it. It's on your list. But that's a wonderful thing. And I'm hoping that if you ladies are okay with it, it's something that I don't want to plop on Kathy. So I'm hoping that the board members will also agree to be present for those short. I know you have to be here because of the case. So I might as well do them on a plan. But it's part of our responsibility to be able to be It's like 15 minutes. It's not the drive, but I will welcome your help if you want to be here. Yeah, good to be here to help answer questions from the investor. And now it's just, yeah, we get a pleasant experience for it. I'm not sure he has any set up in September. He told me he would let me know. He told me he was planning something. So maybe he's keeping that. I don't think there's schedule tests for now. Yeah, he waits to get his schedule out. But and I can respect that. So, but yes, I told him I will handle while I take care of the second one. Well, and it'll depend on if he comes during the daytime, if we have clubs. Yeah. All righty. Let's move on to other business. I did think of one thing for other business that actually probably should have been a new business. And I forgot to, you know, the brochures and the self-guided tours specifically self-guided tours. And I know you're talking about the brochures because you're reprinting the suit. But the self-guided tours, both those materials, we need to update them. I have some updates for them. I'd like to have anyone who's interested in helping with update them get together with me so that we can properly do the revisions prior to the September 11th. Prior to when you go to press with. Well, we need to go to press with the history brochures to work out. Right. So students, just to mean next week, next month, September. Well, in the meantime, I'm just reprinting. They're kind of, the print's not great because my printer doesn't have the right capacity. But probably August, I'm trying to get bits for it right now. I need to go through Swell and get a bit from the guy who said print brochure, the recreation brochure. Now you said on the self-guided tour, that's a little staple. What exactly are you trying to do? There's some dates that are kind of weird. There's some things that need to be changed. Some of the content needs to be tweaked. Yeah. And the flow, I'll change a little bit. So that's a little bit more of a musical when entering the house and going from room to room. So, you might. I'd be glad to help you. You might. That's all right. And I can just be now. Yes. And check in with your schedule and then come out. But yes, I would love that. So it's after the submission of the great. You know, is that okay because you said August? I don't think it's going to, I print the room by room tours here. So we don't go to print for those. And I can print the history brochure. I would like to wait till after the first August. I'm going to do that too. As long as you're okay with my printing marketing brochures till. I'm fine. Okay. But I'd rather, I want to get the grant done. And honestly, we're picking up a lot of events. There's a lot of event work right now. Yeah. And so I want to wait till after the first August. That's nice. Let's have priorities instead of trying to do everything at once. Right. I know that's your special team. I know that's your special team. But I actually, well, I'm multi-testing on many levels. Well, that's the problem with it. I have seven, eight events right now that I'm trying to crank out estimates and contracts and walkthroughs. And we have two weddings the first week of August. So I don't want to take, I don't want to do, commit to something I can't do. I appreciate that. I can't. I appreciate that. So let's finish the grant and then we'll move on to the next one. Okay. Just don't crank brochures. It's like, won't any other, other pieces? Sorry about that. Anything else that I wanted to bring up? All right then. Let's move on to the future agenda items. And I was going to give that to Kathy, but. These are very favorable. But this is what I'm using right now. I'm just turning them up. Right, this is, this is one of these. I know, I know, but those are the ones we're out completely out of. Okay. So I already made some of the changes. So I think it's pretty close. I didn't completely change it. And you know what, would you have a problem with Garrett and I and just get together beforehand if just by chance to top out things and then we're not going to make changes. I just want to change the words. Let's not change the format at all. Oh, yeah. Yeah, because it's all set. Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. But if we get together and it doesn't have to, we don't have to bother you. That's fine. The other one we can change for her it's content because it's just a document. Right. Right. Yeah, this is laid out in publisher. So I don't want to work it. Yeah, the rebel thing. Yeah, the rebel thing. It's laid out in publisher, yeah. Okay. All right. I think that's all the other business we have. So we're going to move on to future agenda items and Kathy. Okay. Well, just come on, Kathy. We'll just let Karen's. Karen's meeting. Yes. Today. Oh, no. Well, I could, I suggested these for, for, because they said that I, I thought of and impact prior to the year before I stepped off the board. I thought, you know what, I'm going to do that. And, and I'm, and I'm the one who kind of got us going on having an annual past and present board members house manager tea, which I think is important to continue. So I'm hoping to do that again this year. It does start two purposes. It brings the basically the sisterhood together past and present. It helps us all to share what's happening at the house now and what's coming. It helps to really engage past board members who may be interested in stepping back on the board at some point. Also helps to get the word out through them, whenever we're meeting to fill a vacancy on the board, or if the break it seems coming up. So I think that that's something that I'm going back to see is something we should probably talk about to plan when that would happen this year. I think in part it goes hand in hand with what Connie's response was and that she said, I'm doing anything for the 150th celebration. And so we can kind of be back to two or combine the two. So the 150th celebration would probably current garden just be open and then for the community, but potentially the beginning of that could be our annual gathering past and present board members and house managers. And then we need to open the garden celebration for the 150th celebration. I'm not crazy about adding that public event this year. We've just got too much going on. So that's just my two cents worth. Are these future agenda items? Are we going to talk about them now? Oh, just a brief introduction of them. So we can talk about it next month. Going back to A, the house manager photos. We don't have all of the house manager photos up on the wall. And I mentioned that we don't have all pictures. I mentioned in 2019, we need to properly honor house managers and let's get some photos and dates of service. And I think we can collect them. It's just going to take some effort. So that's something that we can. I know when Paul, that's when I prepared for Paul was, there was a newspaper article on here, I remember it. They had a nice picture of her at the time's call. Yeah, I would have been. There's been probably 15 managers. So we get maybe three. Yeah, sure. I was wondering that because she talked about that. Yeah, that might not be. I think we need to get as many as we can and do a good thing forward. Yeah, I think we can tackle it. So the V, the housecraft book, I think we need to update that. Obviously, there are things. I don't know that anyone's really looked through it, but there are things that are probably that are not in their edition. So I'd like us to get another project. We haven't actually been maintained for probably five or six years. So I've never seen it. This was to Ginger used to collect things for it, but nobody since I've been here, nobody's taken a very active interest in it. So, you know, the process, what do you do with those scrapbooks? Well, you can leave them open in open house events. You can leave them set out on the table. People don't really look out of them. We tried that. Yeah, they wanted it. Yeah, the scrapbooks mostly just sit. And most of the scrapbooks that are here cover, you know, like a decade, you know, at a time-ish. And since two Ginger left, there really hasn't been anybody who's had any interest in them. So it's your points well taken. What's the oldest? I bet in the 70s, I think. I just looked at them recently, 70-ish. So we haven't really maintained them. And there really hasn't been a ton of stuff to put in them, other than picture board pictures and stuff, a couple articles. So we'll have to decide what that looks like. And if somebody's interested enough to do it, because it's a job. Well, I'm hoping someone more or others might be interested in joining me in that process. Because I do think if you recall, it's kind of an archive of a little bit about the homes of the house. And while they cannot host everything up or hang everything up on the walls, there are definitely kinds of people would be interested in seeing, you know, what the original house looked like. Look at that photo. We can put that in the scrapbook. These are things that I think are important to share with the public whenever they're asking for it. And to have them available that'll leave my parents' repos. It's really not an archive piece. OK. Jumping back to house manager photos. Candy, can we have a nice photo of you up there? We do have some pictures of me in the garden that are more informal. We should know we get a nice picture. Yeah, at some point. We could start from now. As you do, you guys need some of the more recent ones. Yeah. So we should start from there. Well, you could cover all of this century if you could just get ahold of me and Leslie. That would give you 20 meters in the light. Yeah. So let's start with you. Leslie. Now, even before that, she worked at Fox Hotel. Joni Hales. Yeah. She's around, too. Yeah. And Marge, wasn't there a Marge who came in and they ate? There's a homeless. But we know we're three in the garden. Yeah, we're not three in the garden. The guys say, let's get what we can. Well, we do have a few pictures upstairs. Yeah, there's a few older guys, which are nice to have. Yeah, maybe the opposite. So Leslie, Pam Vancell, Sylvia, Ortega, Joan Petals, Caleb Phillips, Marge Culley. Some of them were here, so such a short period. Marge was there very long time. It was 77 to 89? I think that's a significant age. I don't know. Oh, it is. I thought she was here last time. I think there's a picture upstairs, though. There was a man here. There was a man here. I guess there was. It's Mr. Jack Barg, part 80. 77-1. So who went? Yeah. I think it's... Dude, there was a man here. Dang, I'm getting like, that's gonna be very interesting. Wonderful. These are doable projects. We can do it. If we can find them. And it's not something that's gonna require your money. It's hard. Yeah, if we can do it. If we can find them, that'll be the trick. Yeah. We'll do it. Fine. Does the city have records? They were in the city employees, so couldn't we welcome the city records? I'll let you choose. Can we laugh now or later? Picture, yeah. Pictures are not a thing, but you can always check. But you would have phone numbers and we'd be a way to contact them. But they'd be really old. They'd be old. They don't inflate. They don't maintain records on employees after they leave. Yeah. And not all of them. It doesn't go from this point back as the first house manager because it wasn't time. They weren't. This is the third one. Let me see this. Well, Mary's picture is up on the wall there, and she was actually... Mary Shy was the first house manager. Her picture's up there. Yes. See, that was 36, right? That's good to say. Yeah. Wow. Well, 38 is when they... 38 is when they gifted the house. Okay. That was great. But... Okay. So, this woman lived... Hediko Kendall. She lived in the house. Well, people lived in her house until the year 2000. Yeah. Ish. Yeah. She was all... Joni lived here. And the bride's room was there, but... Well, my office at the bride's room were the manager's rooms. Yeah. I came here and asked me when I took the job if I wanted to live here, and I said, oh, how loud? I don't want to live at work in the same place. No. I know. I don't want 24 hours a day. 24 hours a day. Right. They were like, I'm scared. I want more of them. You don't want to, do you? Yeah. No, you don't want to. I just want to thank you when you flew the car. You let things have a shower. I guess it's not scary. Right. There's that. There's that. All of her... That's what I say. You see, Mary, I'm just scared. And she says, no, that's beautiful. I'm like, well, I couldn't sleep in that house alone. No, I wouldn't carry Charles sleeping. Charles wouldn't even sleep. Carlos is a custodian in the memorial building. He won't be the manager. Oh, my God. He brings me things. He stands up in front of the door. Yeah, he's a man. He's a man. Is there a ghost or something? Over solid. I don't know which there are. Okay. All right. Interesting. Okay. I want to just clarify for myself the past and present board members to you what date or what you don't have a date. We don't spend a date, but it's something that we should talk about. It's a future agenda. Maybe next month's agenda should be on there. We'll work on a date. Okay. Okay. So it's good to put now. No, I don't think so. I don't think so. I said enough. What do you want? That's what you thought. That's why you do that. These are things worth doing. Yeah. That pretty much covers our agenda before I move to adjourn. Is there anything else we want to talk about? Karen? I think she's the fucking murderer. I don't know. What's so funny is when I was interviewing with Ryan Bagley to come back on the board, he said, you served two terms back to back. It's wonderful. You're off and you served, but I had to call him house again. I said, well, and then I went on my own. Oh, that's a funny story. I guess it's supposed to be a five-minute interview. No, I just share with them just how beautiful the moment is. And its purpose is a treasure. I mean, how amazing their views were at that time in family. I mean, what do you think of that? What do you think? Gift. Do you want to agree on that? Gift. So, what's your purpose? Anything else? I do have one thing. We do need to start thinking about recruitment. See? See? See? So we'll have two positions open. This year unless people opt back in. So, just, I'm just putting a bug in your ear that is coming up. Okay. I met Paula Fitzgerald the other night, wrote the book about all the parts of the moment, and she worked for the city. And I didn't say anything to her, but afterwards I thought, hmm, I'm going to just be tired now that it might be nice to have her on the board. Yes. Paula's a gem. Yeah. I said what I thought, though. Yeah. That obviously she was there. Yeah, that's very good. If people are just in their first term and they want to read up, but we need to at least start thinking about that and, you know, just back your mind. Because if we leave it to the last minute, we end up with open spots. Yeah, okay. Care to me? Can I do it? I do. Okay. She's taking notes. Well, I'm busy. She's writing me a way. Okay, then I, can I have a motion switcher? I'm going to turn. Second. All right. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. All right. Thank you. Nice. You're welcome. Thank you. Thank you.