 And we'll try to work that out in the meantime. I apologize for the issue. All right, well, go ahead and get the meeting started then. All right, good morning, everybody. So I'm going to call the meeting to order and I have something that I need to read beforehand due to the pandemic. So, due to the provisions of the governor's executive orders and 2520 and and 2920, which suspend the 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 COVID-19. The SRT BIA board will be conducting today's meeting in a virtual setting using zoom webinar. Committee members and staff are participating from remote locations and or practicing appropriate social distancing members of the public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website. And as noted, and as noted, noticed on the agenda. So the public wishing to speak during the three minute public comment or during our public hearing items will be able to do so by utilizing the raise hand feature or pressing star nine on their phone. They then will be given the ability to address that committee. All right, so thank you. Now, recording secretary is the roll call. Wonderful. Thank you, Brad. Welcome. Here. Donna, I see that you're there. We still are unable to hear you. Peter Rumble. Oh, thank you. Rafael Rivera here. Brad Anderson. Wonderful. And there. Here. Thank you. All right, thank you. All right, so moving on to item number two. We now open it up for public comments. So do we have if we have any members of the public wishing to make comments on the agenda. This is a time to do so. I'm going to raise hands at this time and I do want to note that we did not receive any emails or voicemails, not only for general comments, but we did not receive any for any of the items on today's agenda as well. All right, thank you, I mean. All right, so moving on to item number three of the agenda. It's approval of the minutes. We're from our January 28th meeting of this year. And I hope you have had the opportunity to review the minutes. So I like to then hear a motion to get the minutes approved. Moved. I'm going to second. Second. All right, so all those in favor say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed. All right, so minutes from the January 28 2021 meeting are approved. Thank you. All right, moving on to new business. We have 2021 budget discussion. Chair, if I may. It looks like approximately we will have $20,000 for the year. I do caution the committee to be aware that most budgeting is happening in the last half of the year, because we're still not sure where it's going to go. We haven't even finished Q1 yet, but based on what projections are, that is my most recent estimate for the totals available to the committee. Thank you for that report. Any further discussion. Okay. And we don't seem to have members of the public on the call. So, we do have three members of the public, but no one has their hands raised at this time. All right, well, excellent. Thank you. So now we're going to move on to item number five on the agenda event support applications. And we have item 5.1 the country summer music festival, the application for the country summer music festival, which is taking place June 18 through the 20th of this year. The application is attached. I don't know if you had a chance to review it. But the request is a man requested is $30,000. I like to open it up for discussion. I guess, you know, I'd start the conversation off by, you know, gauging my colleagues sentiment about the possibility of hosting an event like this at all. I'm going to go back to June, which is not a comment on how wonderful the event is by any stretch of the imagination. It's, it's a tremendous event. As are the other events on the on the agenda, the, I'm getting to that comment because the state still hasn't provided guidance on large events. Any events. The president is suggesting that by July, we'll start to get back to small, you know, family gatherings and parties, which would be fantastic if that is the case. It just seems like having a large concert outdoors, though it may be in June is a little unrealistic. But that's one person's opinion. I just put it out there. You can make that two person's opinion. I agree. I don't think now is necessarily the optimal time to host a large gathering, such as a concert and like you said nothing against country summer. I think it's a wonderful event. I just think with the current situation. I think it's going to be a little too soon to host a massive concert in my opinion. That's, that's just my opinion. Yeah, and Brad, we, we, we don't know. Have they talked about anything related to doing something virtually or they made that proposal or not at this point, they still are showing it as an event happening. They have the countdown timer on their website showing 84 days that the event is happening. As a member rumble did state the state of California has not even provided direction so under current California regulation this event is not even permitted. It is my understanding that the state may provide some limited direction for smaller meetings and gatherings by the end of this month, but that would not be for larger venue sites like this. So at this time it's still not permitted to happen. Well the ask is $30,000 we obviously, I mean we don't even have anything close to that. TOT numbers are still, you know, struggling in the new year. So, I guess we need to make a decision we're going to support it or not. So do I hear a motion for approving anything related to support this event, which is again, very unfortunate. Yeah, I mean, I, I'm going to try to think out loud to get to emotion here. I would certainly want to make sure that we have the opportunity to consider supporting this event should circumstances change in the date move, right? Because I don't I honestly I don't think it's going to happen in just, but if there is something later on in the year where it becomes apparent that a concert like this could happen. I wouldn't want to preclude us from trying to support the event at, you know, at that point. So, I, you know, if there's a capability to have a motion of not know just not now. For lack of a more elegant term. That's the motion that I'd make. Yeah, we could actually propose a motion to discuss it at our next meeting in two months. May 27 is the next meeting so you could have a motion to postpone it till that. Yeah, that would be my motion then. How many people are in attendance? About 10,000 a day, a little bit fewer on Friday but Saturday and Sunday around 10,000. I was looking at I mean like baseball in April already saying potentially up to 2025,000 in the stadium so I mean I think, yes, cautious but I think odds are probably better that it probably will happen. The stadiums were a lot larger though where they could do more social distancing than the fairgrounds but that's just my two cents. I would second the motion that delayed us till the next meeting. Okay, so again the motion on the floor was to entertain this proposal and this have a revisit the proposal at our next meeting which will be on May. Sometime in May. So and then Peter made the motion top second the motion so any further discussion. Any comments from the public any hands raised. There are no hands raised at this time. Okay, so all those in favor to entertain the idea of revisiting the proposal at next month meeting, say I I motion passes thank you. All right so moving on to the other item 5.2, which is another event also the rock and revelry music festival. Also around the same time, they have a event support application, and their request is $60,000. Any further discussion regarding that one. Kind of the same comment from for me. Yeah, I hate to be the one to be such a downer in our meeting today but I love the optimism from from Vern and as a season ticket holder I can't wait to attend a giant scheme. Yeah, well the event is in June so we'll be meeting again in May so perhaps we just also make the same motion to revisit the proposal in May. If it's a motion or second. All right, so I made the motion Peter second the motion, second the motion. So all those in favor to visit in in our next meeting during our next meeting. Do you need public comment first. Yeah, any, any hands raised. There are no hands raised at this time. So all those in favor. Say I any oppose. All right. Thank you motion passes will revisit in May. The following night on 5.3 less swab tire monster truck and hot rod drive. Sounds very exciting. You got a pretty cool poster here attached. This event is actually being proposed for in the next couple of days through April 4. I think it's only $3,000. Is this again happening. According to this it starts tomorrow. It does it as a drive through. Can you can you talk about how that's going to work a little bit more. So similar to like some of the functions are the fairgrounds have had. You're not getting out of your car you're in your car going through portions of the fairgrounds and seeing stuff so it's not a in. In person gathering of a large bridge you're not sitting in Chris back arena and watching the events. Take place. But it is it is this weekend. Besides staff rooms or not sure how many overnight guest room people would pay to from the outside area to come and stay. Although they have been partners for a long time. And the. It is late of the day this will just sort of boost their last minute media push or do you have a sense of, I mean I know that the application says it will be used for media outreach room costs. Side fees. So, yeah, I don't know how much of a meeting media push outside of Sonoma County, it would be right. I really don't. Don't know to drive additional room nights at this point. That's from. That's from my colleagues here. I like the idea that it's a drive through and I've. Over the past eight months I've experienced. Some drive through events. We've had a couple in Roseland, one of the LBC. So as long as you know people are following the safety protocols, it's definitely a positive experience. You know you got to be in your car. But I don't think I think we've gone through this last year to we don't they don't really generate any room nights. And that's also I didn't mean to go ahead. Minimal impact I think we've gone through discussion last year as well. Was that too I mean if we give them money at this point I don't see it being used to bring people in from outside the area and put heads in beds. You know I like monster trucks and all the. My personal opinion is, you know we only have 20,000. And I think towards the end of the year or later on is the COVID situation gets better I think we're going to need that money for other events. I would make a motion to not support it. But with that you know I think it's I want to include that I think it's a great event. I just think at this time in the current situation, both financially and with COVID I don't think it's would be a good use of our funds. I would agree. I mean I think already I mean, I think locally we're almost sold out this weekend as it is so I would I would agree with that God. Alright, so there's a motion on the floor not to support this event unfortunately, you know, given the current conditions situation health orders. The fact that it's like tomorrow and we're not 100% sure that I will support room stays and such. There's a motion not to approve the application. So, so all any further discussion. Any comment any raise hands from the public regarding this item. We have no right hands at this time. Alright so all in favor not to approve the funding for this year's less swap tire monster truck application support say I. Okay, so motion passes not to approve the event. Hopefully we can do it next year with things that restrictions. Change and people are vaccinated and things look brighter and brighter. Alright, so that leads us to the end of our sRTBI meeting. Any last minute comments. Okay. All right, item number six, it's meeting adjourned so adjournment of the meeting. Thank you all. Ladies and gentlemen, Donna. Great to see you. And meeting is over. Thank you.