Order April 16th meeting of recreation cultural support. Roll call. Here. Here. Here. You are. Here. Sorry. for the consummating side. This is part of the adjustment. Okay, sorry. First, real edge of night. Council meeting. So I think this is part of the adjustment. Okay, sorry. First, realtor of night, I guess approval of minutes from the January 15th meeting. Motion that we approve the minutes from the January 15th meeting of this year. Second. All in favor? Aye. year. All second. All in favor? Hi. All opposed? Old business. I feel like we're probably going to go over the events that we just had. So, right, later in the, OK, I don't have any old business. I'm just old. All right, new business. So we have a beautification award nomination that I submitted for a neighbor on a brelitzry. I can give you the packet you can see. I wrote like a little write up about it. I guess I can do a shorter summary for you guys. He's done a lot of like landscaping. There's a lot of vibrant flowers and palm trees And he has added like a lot of light Scaping so like at night. It's really really beautiful. You can see the photos But I think nice the one Binch in the corner. Yes, yeah for, for the kids. So the reason I wanted to nominate him, not only did I really like what he's done, I mean, he's a neighbor that I personally know, but he also, he built the bench for the kids so they don't have to sit on the ground. Little off the ground, one. Yeah, and it's like a nice size one, you know? And then he also has like a zip line and like a trampoline and like a clubhouse and all of it and he like is very welcoming. Like all the kids know that they can play at his yard and like it's not a big deal. Like it's really nice. It's I feel like he's done like a really nice thing for them because they're just sitting there, you know. So, and that bus stop is for every single school, every age group. So, he really is that I- thing for them because they're just sitting there. And that bus stop is for every single school, every age group. So I think he's done such a really nice thing. No, I didn't tell him. How long is this hip life? And where does it go from? It's just like one side of his yard to the other. Across 30. Yeah. Okay, why me? It's back here. It's like a... I was sitting back here. It's yard to the other. The cross 30. Yeah. OK, why me is it? It's back here. It's like a. I at least in backyard. It's like on the side. So he's a really long lot. His backyard backs up to a canal, so he really doesn't have a backyard. It's a really all-side yard. And so you kind of. It's visible from 30. Yes, you can see everything you can see the clubhouse they have a slide they have everything My thing is not seeing it is my thing is when he's not there if somebody's gonna get on Yeah, no and it's not like we're gonna promote it as somewhere for him to for people to do that I just think what he's doing is a really nice kind of stands out Anybody spend time under yard makes it look 100% better. Yeah. And this guy, I mean, I've always noticed this guy's properties. Yeah. So it's really good. I love the lights, I love. Yeah, the hardscape. And it being a corner lot and very visible. And they take pride in what he's doing. Obviously, you've got a considerable amount of money involved. I can tell you that. Yeah. Between the palms, it's definitely done nice. It's interesting about me. And there's a lot of yards or homes on the street that don't want, they line their driveways with stuff so you can't park. And you can, it's not accommodating for parents that are picking up their kids. You get neighbors that are like, get out of here and you get other neighbors who are like, pull on into the driveway, it's okay. And Jim's just very kind with everybody. So I think it's a- Well if they pull on the edge of my yard, they have to call it record to get them out. Oh no. You know, it's like a ditch drop off there. So I kind of thought he was worthy of it. So I don't know, are we voting on that? I was gonna say, do we need to vote on that? Or can I just present it? Say. get dropped off her. So I kind of thought he was worthy of it. So I don't know, are we voting on that? I was gonna say, do we need to vote on that? Or can I just present it? Say it also has a reminder that we may as we have a representative submit. Okay. So like a demexing. Okay. Perfect. Historical preservation. That kind of thing, because we think I have an amount of of things come to the office that are put in a chair. She's also the gentleman in psych starter who showed up at the office to ask about some things. I feel like they want to do something. One guy wanted to start... ...cowlaw being the items that are there in the museum. ...that's what I think it's worth to come and see. or direction or direction or there's another thing they do with There's another thing they do with the museum is they need people to scan the paper documents and stuff like that, the historical documents onto the computer, put them on file so people can look them up easier that way. They were always looking for volunteers to do that. At New Zealand? Hmm? In New Zealand? Where? Where were they doing that? What museum? Well, that was, they said all those archivists down and knew some earnabins of the old courthouse. In that place, they are always looking for some people that can stand that stuff. That's time to That's time consuming. Yeah, we have a lot of things. Some are documents and some are just all kind of artifacts. And the history of their inquisitors and calendars, and the office. Yeah, there is a lot of documents down there. I've seen so. So are you looking to like put together a group of people to work on this? Maybe I just may have a question. Or did you are you looking to do an event around it or you're not sure? There's just all this energy around them, which you've shown up. Okay. Maybe. Maybe. I'm about to found her safe there two times. Yeah. Maybe have them like Andrea mentioned come to a rec or meeting and possibly you know collaborate and get direction on what they feel from input from them they would benefit this idea. That's what I was going to say. Ideas from them of what they would like. Maybe just direction, maybe possibly helping them planning. Yeah you mentioned Joanne, Sykes. And I know this is silly, but immediately my mind went to growing up. Joanne used to have all of these puppets. There were birds, one of them was bird-trued. I will never forget. And she used to do like shows and stuff. So like, I almost picture like doing a show for the kids on the history of Edgewater at like one of the Edge Fest events or something. For like a puppet show or something. I think if you guys come up with ideas, we might mobilize people that would be interested in the other realm in this role. Yeah, I say let's invite them. I mean, they can always share a public comment anyway, right? But we can also have them put on the agenda to like present ideas, okay? Is there anything being done right now like where is anything historic? Is it in your? Yeah. So if we gathered, if we created this initiative that, you know, gathered some more things, where would a good place to display it be? You have enough room? Okay. Yeah. Yeah, now from what I understand Joe a lot of Joe and stuff went down to the smur. And probably gonna be probably get stuck there I don't think they'll probably be back. Oh I never thought about that because they're not a big space down there. We'll just hide it underneath your counter. I like going through that sort of thing. And if we had a way of scanning here. The other thing I do is pull out some dates, because I'm going to talk about boundaries a lot of times. And these are like some of the years that things happened. Back in 21, we were talking about founders. And they know how many years away that was. So do you guys ever do thing about doing this? There are several different interpretations of founders. Yes. The years. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, I wish to. Next year will be 175 years since, wait, not 175. No, not 175. I'm a liar. 155, that's not as exciting. I was going to say since they were found it, since it was settled. So I've always carried thinking of this 1865, because that's when John Milton Hawks came here. Yeah, that's when it was found it. But we've got several, I mean, I remember Tracy Barlow had a different day. And it was a, it was a, I think it was Thomas that had a that's the 47th out there since it's been incorporated. So it's like, because I was shooting for that, originally the 15th, the 2015, but. Well then they did that confirmation in 1990s, stating of founders day, they were the ones that were calling they were trying to change their brains. We were the members of the show, the show, the ones that was when the land was purchased. Yeah, that's when he came after the Civil War, he came by barge up the intercostal figure. And he brought Matthias Day with him, or caught, or met Matthias Day, who tended up founding Day-Tonne Beach. And John Milenhock's also basically started that township in Port Orange, which was a friendship bill or a factor still here, historical signs down there about that. But his wood shop or his wood mill was in Port Orange, which he originally wanted it called Orange Pork. But some reason it got changed, somebody said it was because they already have an orange pork someplace else. But, and that's where all of his workers came. When the freed slaves came down on barges and stuff down to to poor Orange because of the wood mill and everything that they had there. That's where all that was going on. And I've read up on some of those books. There is some books that are library. I've got a couple copies of different things. And John Milton Hawks also wrote the first Almanac in the state of Florida. And it was interesting to read. But I think I like to go in 1865, because that's when he got here. He bought man to here and that's as far as, you know, that's what I feel like. So now whether or not we have a county government or something like that, it was going to etch be 75 years ago. Yes, 1951. You're exactly right. There was an incorporation date with different. Then his found. I think he wasn't the... What was it saying that the incorporation date? Corporated 1951. 1951. That's a town itself, I believe. Yeah, that's when it became a city municipality. Yes. Okay. We're talking about business as a you're right. Settled in 1871. So, 1865 did he set up a corporation to broker land or did he set up a corporation for his wood shop in Port Orn's that made dignified year. Yeah that's where the wood mill was. And, but, so, somewhere along, at Parallels, the railroad tracks were historical. So I mean. In 1915, it was incorporated as Hawks Park. And then in 1924, Florida legislature renamed it, City of Edgewater. In 1915, I think that, yeah, that sounds right. That was when they did the corporation. I mean, that's Wikipedia, so there could be errors. Oh, well, that's gospel living. Like Google. No, there's so many different contradictory things. Now, there was a gentleman that made a presentation at that New Samarna Museum who I went down and saw. I filled that museum and he was he was a historian and a in the bloodline of one of the streets that go like from ocean or something. I remember his name. I met him, he's a real nice guy. He had a lot of photos and stuff. I'd never seen before. Um. Falker. Didn't I cut through that? Yeah. I bet if I asked the guy at New Sumerna, he's the only member because they had refreshments laid out and some homemade cookies which were not really edible. I mean nobody took them with the details. Well I go for the cookies and the east I describe does the last name. Yeah, I mean Yeah, but these these sugar cookies tasted more like salt cookies, but that's what I'm In fact, they may have been but Maybe I I'll get do we have any time on that library open down there in New Sumerna? I can, because I wouldn't mind going down there because I get doctor's It's an appointment standard. You can use some more all the time. That's the time. That's the place. Tuesday through Saturday, Saturday, 10 to 4. 10 to 4 and that's Tuesday through Saturday. It would be kind of cool with that group that wants to do some sort of history maybe some of the items that we have smaller, possibly build a base and maybe incorporate that into going to elementary schools to get them interested into our local history. Maybe into some of their local history, a book fair, maybe even displayed at an event, so that way it may get them involved and more interested in the local history or an edgewater. Something small that would just spark their interest, obviously, kids, something that they would not know what it was today, obviously. We've got a few items in the glass case that would probably, I meant, one would be a rotary phone, honestly. It doesn't know that our rotary phone is now. No, they don't. But I've just, I'm something along the lines that would they'd be like, intrigue them to get involved with community history. Yeah. They used to do it with like the day or stuff, you know, they'd bring, because obviously, when you see something, and physically it's like, it sparks more than just physically reading it. So seeing it would intrigue them to get involved in possible local history. For sure. For sure, especially something brass, something that's obviously not going to be damaged, but explain to them what it was used for, what who would use it, and it was something that was used regularly in this community, whether it was Dr. Hawke's something, whatever that may be, it may treat them to get more involved. So yes. Maybe this is this. Well, I mean, so we used to be this a city historian that was actually a position where she was in charge of it all and got fallen to years. Yeah, I've pushed a lot of time with her. I was going over history from O'Kill and from... I've got a lot of people that are involved in the local cemetery that's out there on air, Mark and stuff and those type of committees are self-motivated kind of do their own things. So I mean, maybe this group that has been coming in, we've seen them a couple times. Some of them have particular things there. I just said the one moment was more, it's written the history of the church and whatnot. And maybe as a whole, Oak Hill has a history that book, and I believe Edgewater has one as well. But you know, taking some of the core things or maybe even things that aren't there, you know, I mean, who would know that Dr. Hawk was connected to Port Orn with a wood shot, you know, and what he had said about, you know, Daytona and those things that may not be in that book and putting all those things together. Maybe even just bullet points of, you know, key things that happened to get us where we're at today. Now Esther wrote a book also, Esther Hoss. It's why, which was very good. I'm nominating Glenn as the historian. He's already been at it. Yeah, well, we've tried to have it before, but. It's so hard. I mean, if we get cookies involved, you'll know every week. Yeah. That's all right. If we get cookies involved, now my wife will kill me. So a couple of years ago, when Katie was here, she was really active in trying to get a founder's day thing going on. And at the time, we had gotten an approval to be able to do ambassadors type of club, which is someone that didn't have to meet under the whole, you know, basically, yeah, basically, like it doesn't have to be announced, so they don't have to be nominated. There's not like, you know, it's just kind of like a more casual, they can get together. I mean, we could, you know, if Glenn wants to, I mean, I'm not gonna totally just nominate you, but maybe if you want to maybe be the head of that and help them, I mean, they could meet and then kind of meet the kids. You'd be the liaison. They're liaison Us and then. Yes. I understand. They had a group of volunteers. Yeah, and then they could report to Glen if they need to. And then report to the board. And then he can kind of, because I feel like I don't know any of the history. And I'm more of an event side of things. But I still love all of this. But I think that Glenn would be so good at that. I just wish I could find some way of getting archives from. The house, maybe the house, the first duty to this group to see if we can get that to happen. I mean, maybe it's a guidance. Well, for young people, they might be interested in going up to like Charlotte or whatever and where the hospitals were, that John Milton Hawks and Esther Hawks worked in during the Civil War because there was a lot of history there. Of course, John Milton Hawks being, he was the only doctor that would work on black soldiers. And their hospital was outside of the main hospital in tents. They weren't allowed to be in. And John Mellon Hawks not only worked on union soldiers, but also Confederate soldiers, they were, because you know a lot of blacks were recruited in the Confederacy, and there was a lot of history there. And of course they say that Esther Hawks was the one that started Memorial Day. So there were publications to say because she had the ladies had gotten together and collected flowers, wild flowers, and they lined the road from the cemetery where all these soldiers being laid to another point and that that was done many years ago. But since then, there's several other entities that have claimed that right or that. But it's in the books, in fact, it's an Esther Hoss book. It describes in detail that day. So, of course, Esther went back up north and he came down here, but she's buried up there. He's buried down here. I'd have to get my head back in the game because it was a lot of history that I was going through and just well didn't go anywhere and like maybe you have the ability to relate that to these folks to do the legwork to help you complete this picture. Yeah. Well somebody may have, you know, I'm sure there's library information up in the Carolinas that could, that maybe if somebody a student or somebody that would want to come up here and add or start hyping and getting the connections made to where we could make this picture a hole, especially now that the internet, they don't necessarily mean they don't have to go up there. Well, even if we don't have a celebration having a location where you can see and read, like you're talking about in an army scene where it would be posted a wall or something that would describe the history. Or even more monument areas in our city that are dedicated or are noticed for their particular presence of what happened there in that particular day. And you know certain areas that are obviously solid in history, this is where this happened. And then you know it'd be nice to be able to identify those areas within our city. Yeah. Yeah, it could be nice if I could find a way to finding out the history of the 31st USCI, which was the unit that Milton Hawks was assigned to. That's the 31st US colored infantry was who used a science tube. Now, Esther Hawks was made an administrator at the big hospital. Unofficially, she was a temporary, she was a villain because they would not allow a woman to be in that position back then. Okay, Glenn's the curator. Yeah, I know, I just did a lot of reading. OK. I believe in a month. My mind is still remembering the stuff. But here's the thing. I understand what you're saying, but it needs to get down. But before we lose all this. In other words, you're wondering when I'm going to die? Oh, I didn't say that. But if you keep eating salt cookies, we lost a lot of information. we lost going. Well, she seems, Ms. Lexus came to the office correct her daughter. Yeah. So I mean, it seems like she's wanting to be involved. So maybe something that she has passionate that may be able to put what her mom. Well, my mom was city clerk here for 33 years. So she, I mean, knows more than ample amounts of history. The wind was one of her closest friends. She knows, the reason I said I know there's a history of Edgewater book is because mom's literally in it. Like, she may be, I don't know how much'd be willing to like do a ton but she is somebody we could talk to and get direction and she may know where some stuff is or who might know where something is direction she makes a hobby anyway perfect yeah city clerk here for 31 years she's got a no-self. She knows where the buys are buried. I mean she's been retired for 17 to be fair. So but we're talking almost 50 years she goes back to being in the trenches and everything. All right, we've got to figure something out. Well, I say we start with the very first thing. Inviting them in. Yeah. Yeah. And maybe they have an idea of something that they want to do. Yeah, give them, I mean, some sort of collaboratively come up with a direction and maybe an objective and, you know, work on that. Well, if we can set up meetings with the group and with Joanne Starr and you know, just to get some of this information together and see what we can gather. Yeah. Yeah, because some of this stuff is not, we're not going to be able to find. But I think it's still out there. And I think it's in the archives that Newsomurna, because they've got stuff stacked in boxes. They have a lot of stuff. And that's where I just wish they had a decent scanner. Well, they may have now, I don't know. You can sit there and open this thing and put something down for just a certain amount of time and then you're done. So when you can shoot them through, it's a lot easier. Of course, she's the one that's got all this work. I was going to say we can do it from our phones pretty easily nowadays. Yeah. Yeah. I still have trouble texting, but that's for side of it. So we don't need to vote on that or anything right? Yes please. Okay. Oh we can put it on the agenda for the next meeting as far as discussion goes. All right public comments. You've already made them. Can you please come to the microphone? I'm just going to take your address. Take your address. Discussion items. Before Jason goes, can I ask, like, what we need to do about Carolian? Oh, that was on the agenda, was it? I didn't see it. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don I know somebody who has been like dying to do it. She has already applied. She's on a board now But would rather be on this board. I know she would resign from that one if Theresa haven't given her yes Yes, she's She's amazing. She's super involved Yes, and she was a part of our ambassador group, and I had my ambassador group. She's very, very active. She needs to get with Bonnie, correct? Tons of ideas. This was the original board she wanted to be on it, and remember I told you about it, and you were like, I can't find her application because we were full. She's on plan and zoning. She had put planning and zoning as her second, and they pulled her and got her in, that's why you didn't find her application. Teresa, he- T-E-R-E-S-A. and zoning. She had been claiming it's only as her second and they pulled her and got her in. That's why you didn't find her application. Teresa, he, she, R E S A. And then it's H E A V E at like heaven or. Oh yes. Oh yeah. I already did. Yeah. Okay, cool. And then you guys could make it a digital on that site. You want to add it into the meeting or if you want to wait until she's following this up. Well, there's other applications. Well, she technically did apply. Yeah, that's what I was going to say. How long are the applications, like once they're filled out, how long are they good for? I think in order to vote in the right members and make sure that a lot of rejections are not going to be there. Oh, I mean. So same with the public information. OK. OK. Should I have or do another application just in case? Well we'd like to read it too. Yeah obviously. Yeah. I mean I'm new to this. We have two potential candidates. How do you decide? We kind of just go back like look at the. We're not missing. We're we are we are. We are. No, the axe not on board anymore. And Carol Ann's not here anymore. But, Hayley is. Oh, Hayley took Zach's spot. Yeah. Where did Carol Ann take Zach's spot? Somebody. Yeah, each one of them took Zach's spot. OK. Just one. I'm going to go. Yeah, push. Please, one more. But we can keep a number on it because. Well, and I was going to say the other person who, like, if we chose one and not whatever, maybe we mentioned to the other one this historical thing and being part of that. And I mean, you guys would collectively vote, I believe on who you want. How would a subcommittee work? You guys could vote to establish more. And but we don't have to have separate meetings. We have to, I mean, what's the, or would it just be an item agenda under our? To, to establish it? Like once we have. Or two. Okay. So we're in something a little less formal than that. What would that be? The ambassadors being an ambassador. Or a workshop. The workshop to me would be one time or a couple times. Yeah. That would obviously have reporting liaison power. They report to someone on the committee. And that's yeah, that's basically have an item listed on on the agenda reporting. I think we have a face. I think we have an edge water and founders. Oh, face. Because we what we were doing is we were doing two separate ones. One was me trying to get Teresa and a couple other moms in town to help with the events. And then the other one was with Katie. Yeah. And that's what we were doing it by the book. That was the right way to do it. So, because I remember like we had to go through a bunch of things and it was the only way to where we didn't have to have minutes and the person didn't have to be there We didn't have to record it we didn't have to do whatever and then we discussed it at our meetings Maybe that's something we discussed with the group that when they come we obviously offer that because then it would be a little bit less more informal They don't feel like they have to be somewhere. I mean, obviously you want them to kind of congregate, but at the same time, if somebody's got something going on, you're not going to affect minutes meetings. Yeah, and we met at your building. And one of the residents there. That's perfect. I mean, the museum's there. Yeah. And then maybe we ask the lady who submitted an application if she wants to be a part of that. And then you know, in the event we have an opening in the future, she would be that. Mm-hmm. Now, this is a little off of that subject, but back on the history real quick. Is this building for this house next door is it still Is it limbo or what the one about back here? Yeah Don John Hawks original house Some of the one on Riverside Drive or the one behind here by the police When I get to one behind our on Riverside Drive is the next house So we're the one that's been painted different colors. Oh, I'm not sure I believe that I was I was in Hawks original house. Oh, I think so many resides I mean, it's had different owners. I just didn't know a thing. Well, I thought his original house at one point was City Hall like became City Hall That's why it's here. Oh, that's why City Hall. Like became City Hall. That's why it's here. That's why City Hall is here. And he built a house next door. So, right? No, I mean like his house that he used to reside in, I thought became City Hall. Right, like, and then later he built that house. Okay. Yeah. I mean, maybe the sanitary am needs to be rebuilt down here. I'm going to start. I was just state sanitary. Directors report. All right. So we've internally been extremely busy. obviously events. There's some flyers that Audrey has done. That upcoming events we have, you know, Earth Day Saturday April 26th. We have the laser light show that will be coming up. May 17th. The school's out. out glow party May 31st and obviously the fireworks. We just had our Easter event I believe if I'm not mistaken 15,000 eggs 15,000 eggs. I could get them to pick up trash the highway as fast as they got those eggs. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. I'm going to be clean. I mean, literally it took us hours to put them out and four and a half minutes to pick them up. Isn't it crazy how fast it goes? It's insane. I think that we were, this year I have to say that we exceeded last year's, the amount of people that attended by far. I've seen a lot of folks. It was good to see the little kids, and the very little one in Field One, that's what it's about. They had a great time. It was a well-received event, trying to think the event prior to that. They've been running all together. What did we do? The princess ball. Princess ball. You know I talked to Amy about that and you know I was trying to go back and think about it You know it landed literally in bike week this year and it was just I Don't know if that had anything to do with the attendance, but it just it didn't seem like we Had it attended. There's a lot of couples out of the edge of our neighborhood. But we don't. Yeah, so I mean, it was weird. So we're looking at the way the calendar falls. We even stared at it. I think Amy don't quote me stated that it was kind of around the same time. And I was like, I don't remember that. I just don't think it was as attended as it was at that. We had the circus that came down. That was recently as well. We have the new pickleball courts going in. So that's at a, they're literally getting ready to start construction on the courts themselves. So they've got a lot of the site work is completed. The infrastructure's in. They've got the curb's port for the parking and entrance. So the last thing I received that they were doing the courts is coming week. So it was a lot of activity over there. There is a turn. So that will be completed and then will be face too. So there will be some more courts added. But I wanted to pass these photos to law. So this is the, and keep in mind this is very early early early. I don't want to say Contestille like what this could look like. We are still in design. I want to emphasize that, but we're looking to phase the park into two phases for funding and grant purposes. So we can kind of take advantage of one particular grant cycle and then utilize another grant cycle for the phase two. So in that boat house to the right area we've been talking about so the police department has got a grant for a new boat. It's a larger vessel so being this park is going to be a design from the ground up. They initially were talking about trying to get permitting and putting a boat house here and having a boat literally ready to deploy. So we said, obviously this park being very small and it's just the permitting, why don't we design it from the ground up and incorporate it into this park? So they're going to use police impacts on fees, funds that they can utilize for the design and they're going to incorporate that into this new park. So they'll have a dedicated docking area, they'll have a lift, so they'll be ready to deploy, they back up to it and potentially respond to anything, you know, whether it be, you know, obviously with our fire department, So that'll be great. The goal is to obviously have multiple two-sided docs last launching areas. Some of them dedicated to smaller vessels, some of them dedicated larger vessels, a restroom, and potentially in these other photos behind it, you know, incorporating up a playground, incorporating more pickleball courts, a pavilion area, walking area over the lake. So we're looking at doing this obviously in two phases. So Sandy's been working very hard to obviously explore grand options. DMC is, this is their forte with riverfront and waterfront parks and design. So they've been great. It actually helped us to the process. I believe they just signed the FIND grant paperwork to go forward with FIND. I believe we got more funding than we anticipated so Mr. Dabb, buddy Dabb, reports on the find. He wants to see this park come through fruition so he's helping the police department and he's been helping us tremendously to see this vision come to Ed's World. We own the property There's a lot of infrastructure that was kind of laid early, so we're gonna utilize that but We've talked about using the stormwater area that's in the middle there as a as an outdoor classroom marine classroom area for kids in the, and maybe trying to do a partnership with possibly Boston Whaleer, you know, Boston Whaleer Outdoor. I was just gonna say, Whaleer is right next door. Correct, we're trying to do something collaboratively because obviously this property was to help with Whaleer staying here in edge water. So we did a partnership where we're obviously utilizing that pond for some of their storm water. So it's a way to honestly incorporate edge water park with predominantly with a vendor, a big vendor that provides a lot of jobs here in edge water. So So it was like a good size buffer between a high biscus in there. Part high biscus. No, this is our... Cassienda? Cassienda. This is... Correct. You are with the mate, okay? No, this is the property wheel next to Whaler. Got it. Yeah, okay. So, yeah, this is a good buffer right here. Is it 20 acres? Now I was originally with 68 or so. Yeah but Wheeler bought good buffer right here. 20 acres? No, I was originally with 60 acres. That one. Yeah, but Wheeler bought some for their parking curriculum. Yeah, their new parking lot. Oh, yeah, their new parts. So it's kind of a, I want to say the road's called legendary way. It kind of comes in and then. So it's early on. Is there a thing for this project? It's, yeah, It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. It's early on. My head that we named it in the fine project. Okay. So it's early on, obviously, things are changing. We've Sandy and myself and the police department are going to have another meeting with the MC and talk about, obviously, what we can do for the most bang for our buck early on and take advantage of grants. And our main goal, obviously, is in the first phase to get the docs, get the restroom, and get the things towards opening and functioning, parking, and then eventually start to grow it in that second phase and incorporate pavilions, a playground, and those things. So, it's you. It's you. It's you. On the screen. Oh. What is the one? It's a walkway. Over the water? Very cool. It's over the water it's early on so I mean so it's I mean it's kind of got a city center vibe you know so I mean we're we're we're looking at this one's got an observation yes so I mean this is obviously for veins but I mean again it's early on okay Okay, yeah, yeah, I love how it looks. Yes, yep, so it's early on, we're exploring surface, surface parking surface materials that would perk versus something hard, obviously with our flooding issues, something that we're not going to create more issues. We're looking at multiple designs to see if we can utilize. Like out here there's a grid system for parking. It's not paved. I'm at the main road is itself, but the parking process itself are grid and at 5.7 so it allows the park. So we're looking at that option. So it's, again, it's early on but we're trying to get everything finalized and basically to the end to where we can start putting shovel to dirt. So obviously there's construction phase that will go out for bid, but we're utilizing grant money right now for design, engineering, and we're utilizing the edition of the boat dock area that the police department is incorporating their implementing police impact funds. So it's a good way to utilize the funds and see something come to edge water. Yes. Well needed between river breeze and Kennedy. That's a good deep water like there was. Yeah. Yeah. I know they'll be. The way we're going to reach it, they'll go all that out. It dredged it out, so which deep can test it? They're still doing testing. They're going to do obviously samples and course samples and stuff. But getting to where we want to see what we're going to, obviously, put out to bit is where we're headed right now. So it's kind of exciting to see it come to physical pictures and implementation of seeing what this possibly could look like. This is a pretty good design. Just make sure that playground has some shade. Parents sitting. Shade is the biggest thing. Yeah. When you're sitting there watching them, we're just like, I think that's probably the most feedback that I get from whistle stop. We are a part of from the very, I mean, this part of the party. I see that there's a group on Facebook with stop moms. I'm always Really? There are, there's a couple of Facebook with stop moms. I'm always there are there's called the with stop moms. I get wait, are they nice? Are they happy? Are they? It's your typical mix. I know what it is. More more friendly more if anything, they're very a voiceress in you know, obviously if there's concerns or issues That are equipment maintenance related I've got a for my wife is friends with someone in the group so they're she's always getting the information She's like you need to change these swings. I'm like, okay got it on it. So Little things, but you know It's the typical teenage stuff you know the skate park and kids and those things. But the I think that for coming as like a parent that uses parks for parties and whatever that obviously whistle stop is the number one because there's so much to do there's so much stuff but before that it was just river part our river breeze because oh oh absolutely yeah the whole thing just being I mean we recently I don't know if you've seen the YMCA lately we've completely redone that one yeah um we added shade structures to Monard we added shade structures to Lake Analyst. Awesome. Umbrella, the censored park's got to be there. Yes, I saw that. I don't know where I'm going to say. So, yes, shade structures. Obviously, yeah, you want the kids to be comfortable. And obviously if you're monitoring your child, you want to be comfortable as well. Yes, it's good. So, yes, I will mention shade structures, as we go to phase two. Yes. Um, perfect. That's imperative. I love that. That's perfect. Obviously, I think in there's some pavilions that are like physician like theirs. I know that's great. So I mean, because that's another thing with Liz stuff. I think you have one. Is there one? Yes. So, um, and that such a big park and there was so much that we added there, that like budget started going, okay, what are you doing? It's not really, budget was a perfector, but it's actually the amount of concrete that's there. Oh, okay. It hinders any additions. So this is nice being able to. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's there's quite a bit. Because I mean, you've got obviously the water front that in capitals that takes water. But you also got the larger storm water pond. Because obviously anything that you pour, you have to offset by holding that water. So there's calculations that engineers use. And that came into a factor at whistle stop. Right. OK. Makes sense. other that, we are getting into the growing season. So internally, you know, the guys that cut crews, they're out on the highway, they're out on the median. They're getting into full blown, you know, summer mode. Our maintenance team, we've got a lot of projects. I mean, I don't know if, you know, from the past, we've almost morphed into a construction company for the city internally, you know. We've all done great at that. We've literally built the entire gun range, the animal shelter expansion we built, the new building department we built. So we're not just grounds, guys slash custodial for parks where we have an internal team of skill up to five people. Yeah, that we build office additions, change light bulbs. I mean we go to this entire chambers and new carpet and paint. So I mean, the guys are, as a whole, our department has became a, literally, a, can do all for the city. But there's, you know, very few things that we don't do internally. And I think it's beneficial to the city for obviously cost savings, but not to mention the Lead time and getting somebody to repair something or do something so internally. We've grown And the additions to areas especially out on 442 all these trails that they added to the the south side of 442 That connected the bike path go all the way to air park and then the other one that's on the other side to the north side that goes from mission and well even goes to the near 95 all the way back to airport you know all those things are hand-edge in mode so there's a lot of additions that we've as a city have incurred that these guys have adapted to and I can't say between Andrea taking on more because everything we do as a project leads to X amount of paper that has to be filed receipts and Andrea does that on her own. She's taken on a massive amount of work in what we've done internally. So I mean, we're looking to grow this year. Obviously, the budget's coming up, so we're looking to grow, not just machine wise, but obviously labor. So we are definitely growing, you know, with Deering Park coming and all these big communities. I mean, it's going to be interesting to see how as a city we adapt as a service. So it's been it's been definitely a journey from when I started. Yeah. For sure. Well a good portion of our tourists are daily tourists come from come for the water. So with that, what that said and people may not notice, we are since whistle stop came on, you mentioned that. We have literally a lot of our well all of our operations prior to whistle stop were seven to three thirty. Now that whistle stops coming on board, we actually have a two to ten thirty shifts. The park staff from open to close. It's the first park in Edgewater that we've fully staffed. So with that said, we also have an individual that works with nothing but weekends. So we're staff seven days a week. So that gentleman takes care of park reservations that Miss Andre takes over the week. He'll implement those park reservations and see that everything is fit for somebody that refers. There's a pavilion, a park. He's keeping up on the restrooms, keeping up on the dog parks, keeping up on the, because when you set it yourself, a lot of the people are, are, are people that are from a different county that utilize this ramp and come here. I mean, if you were to come down here on a Saturday, I mean, if you guys live here, obviously do. I mean, this whole street's covered, that lot's covered, this lot's covered, and the trash cans are overflowing. His restrooms are open 24 hours a day, so he's battling that on the weekend. And then he runs the medians and gets US1 and 442 prep for the guys that come in Monday. So that way they're not bombarded with massive amounts of trash. So he's prepping their cut sites. So it's a moving machine, even behind the scenes. It's kind of like Disney. You don't know the stuff happens. There's a lot of moving parts and a lot of key people in our department that keep that going. Obviously I have transitioned to Sam. Chris loves, I don't know if you've met Mr. Love. He's the gentleman that is now in my role. Great guy. I couldn't have, I didn't even have to pick. He deserves a wish. Mr. Love, I'm trying to, he's always on the edge of what are animal shelter. They always picture him with the dogs. He's out cleaning the parks and you've got pictures of dogs. You've met him really tall gentlemen bald Super I mean he probably his dog could die tomorrow and he's smile right in your face. I don't think I've ever seen him on half super nice guy Well, you got a lot of those. Oh, yeah for sure for sure But Chris is a great guy. And he's taking the reins and the daily operations. It's been cool to watch the transition. Pretty much all of them. No, my name. They all know you, Mr. Power. I'm like, hmm. I still have no, no, they're not. Well, they just know you from Reesa Cross and Marissa. They know you from all the events. By the way, who was the driver of that truck in the parade when I was the grandmarch? Alex, yes. Alex, what's his last name? Coleman. Okay. So him and his brother used to work in our department. His brother just left and moved to Cali. I'm a house in Cali, but I've nothing disturbed him that day. That's good. I mean, you could probably fired off a shot, get next to his head. He's got a CDL now, so we could see L class together. So I've known Alex since he was probably nine years old. So he's... Well, he guy. For sure. But I'll introduce you to Mr. Love when I see you. He was at the Easter Egg event. Okay. I'd have to just pick him out. I know, I know one. I talked to you just about everybody there. For sure. So, by the way, is the tree fixed at whistle stop. The tree fixed at whistle stop. The one that was then over. Yeah, hell front. Months ago. Well, I mean it was down again this past weekend. Oh, I haven't even heard about that. The one out front. No. I'm assuming this is your wife. No. I, after the Easter egg hunt, I went down there. I walked the park and walked around and stuff. Okay. But I thought they had roped it up, but it wasn't sufficient. Is that the entrance? No, it's a halfway down the dry. Oh, okay. I know it's when you're speaking about. Yeah, that's the's the one I mean that little wind storm a couple weeks ago. Yeah, it was on a median out in the parking lot. There's that the one you're referring to by the maintenance bar. Yeah, okay. I'll get the guys down there tomorrow. Yeah, it was down again. You know, they could Can I have to use cables on that to hold it up? Absolutely, they're gonna need that. Because they were using rope bonk. No. See it's still down. I mean it's down again. Yeah, down again. Yeah, we'll have to get it up. We have that wind storm. It was pretty nasty. But other than that, I'm trying to think of we're trying to I'm trying to get the soccer lighting. We've got the soccer lighting upgrade budgeted so I'm trying to get some bits together for that. We just finished the Veterans Park, green infrastructure grant where we did the parking and they did some new plannings there, incorporate some swales. That was a project between the city and young bear environmental. So, I'm working with the engineers now and we're looking to put the RFP together to finish Monard May Doh. One that's been damaged for quite some time. So we've I'm I'm new to this so I'm working my way and Sam's been great but there's a lot of things she had in motion and I'm trying to pick up and see where it's at and oh you're gonna be stuck on a cross stuff for a while. I literally have that. So I found out you can only make a list so long. We repaved Kennedy Park that got repaved the entrance the entire road inside got paved whistle stop got completely repaved and that looks good and so we originally whistle stop was a FEMA project so that was part of the damage so that was so we put that out to bid a local company Massey here in town was awarded and we had a $75,000 budget to do the entrance of Kennedy Park. We put that in our general fund to fix that. So by utilizing, piggybacking off a county contract, we utilized Massey who was here mobilized so for 75,000 we were able to do the entire Kennedy Park and Menard for that $75,000 price because we did not have to mobilize so we were able to save that much money at both parks done. So there was a 19 or 20,000 dollar savings so it was a good opportunity to take advantage of while they were in town. So all the plants aligned and we did that. Well, I think you know, your guys are doing great. The events are set up great. I mean, I was impressed with the extravagance again. Of course, the Princess Ball was fun, but my tutu didn't fit, so but at any rate, it was way off the cooking. Yeah, I think it was some of the cupcakes she used to bring. It was great. I love those things. Looking forward to all the new events, obviously we incorporated that new Christmas event. That was last year. That was a great one. We're looking to grow that one. I think the incorporation of the banners and the medians have helped. I'm at the very nice, the league of all. Yes. Actually, they've been utilized for the building department as well recently. So we're always open to obviously any type of comments, concerns, Facebook. We have that option, not Facebook, but our city page. We have that option to obviously submit concerns and comments. and we're constantly trying to obviously be proactive but there's times where things pop up and that's a good communication tool that the citizens can reach our department, generate a maintenance ticket or concern and we can obviously investigate it. That's pretty much what I have. What do I see? being utilized right now. My wife is walking wish will stop park right now. She's on the back stretch. So you said you can't text, but you can track her. Yeah, right. Yeah, they put track around here and if they're going to track me, I'm definitely going to know how this thing works. There you go. So well we got the grand kids and everybody in here. So just schedule next meeting. Next meeting. Did you have sex meeting in mind already? Well some are just going to be busy. So I feel like last year we did it in August because July was crazy. I mean, we can still, I didn't mean we couldn't look, I just feel like last year we ran into nobody could meet on the same day. I, well, I can in July on the second or the 30th. I can in the second. I'm free on the second of July. Or we can come on August 2nd. That's my birthday. Bring a cake. That's a Saturday. Oh, it's a good day. What do you think? I'm good for the second. 30th is Dead Lives. Okay. July 2nd. Yay. And then we can vote on the beautification award. OK. You can do the debt to Zon and the debt to you. OK. OK. 530? 530. So is one to please commercial, one to please residential? Yeah. Or sometimes we don't have commercial though. I think that there's two places that just redid there so it was the frosty thing. The car wash that they did next to that, they did a really nice job. Did you guys see that on the North Side of town? What's not car wash? Excuse me, is the ice machine place? Oh yeah, and then they have that thing for the food truck. That was kinda cool. Yeah, that is cool. I agree with that. And then first you can just sit there whole, there whole, they don't have a lot to truck. That was kind of cool. Yeah. That is cool. I agree with that. And then, first, you can just sit there. I think they're whole. They're whole. But they didn't have a lot to work with and what it looked like before. It's nine day. And they look. Yeah. And they've offered something that is unique. Yeah. Yeah, it is. I think that idea was pitched at one point in time where kind of where Murphy is now Mm-hmm. We're kind of trying to do something like that. But I mean, it's definitely cool that that's kind of a multi-use spot being that it's odd and it's kind of at a sight out of mind. There's the the new biker bar, but I mean they've like painted and added like nice seating out there. There's a bunch of people going. I mean, they had a block event just recently. Yeah. They and it looked like it was well-attended. Yeah. I thought it was a city event. I was like, wait, what did I miss? Yeah. And then we talked about the frosty king because they did a lot of innovation. Yeah, they did a bunch of stuff across the city. Yeah, yeah, that was the other one. Yeah, so there's a couple people. Maybe they just. And then the one right next to Mike's tires, where the old school hall, where. Yeah, I was gonna say that building looks amazing. Yeah, pretty. But that. There's a lot. I already did. Thank you. Oh, I don't know. He's in nice historic mode in historic mode I can I can It's a conflict of interest That's what I thought for us But it's not Okay, so I'm going be for us again. All right. All right. Are we good? Yeah. So can residents nominate people as well? Yeah. Okay. Anyone can. They can self nominate or they can nominate someone else and then we just verify that that's... It's kind of like the same, the Christmas lights. Yeah. I like to have another business. think that people just don't like remember. I don't think they're aware. It'd be kind of cool to have this. We get it. They are when we have council meetings, which we have on Monday. Is it kind of cool to have them? Oh, that's a good idea. To have the notification awards, the domination things here during cost of the council meeting. Or maybe we could ask them to say something during a council meeting. Maybe have the council nominate somebody as well. You should get the first one. Well, we could have them announce it and just say that our, you know, Parks and Rep Board, I mean, it could just be a line item just to say, yeah. They've nominated and voted and this is who they picked. Yeah, or have until May because we haven't till May 29 wait what was it it may first it's may something feel does that newsletter that be kind of kind of oh may first feel does that newsletter yeah our science fixed at the office now we got two sides but if if you feel like, I mean, if we're not even going to vote until July, well, it says the awards sign will be just, I'm sorry, that it'll be announced by May 30th. Oh, yeah, that's what it does say. Can you just do an email thing like you do for the Christmas light. For us to vote. Oh. Like send us a list of them to look at so that we know what we're voting on. Okay. Do we have to have a special meeting for that? I'm like the next gathering is after that date. Yeah, yeah. Our next meeting. Okay, when it was what did we decide on as the next I'm going to direct meeting. July 2nd. And when did it say what was July date on that? The deadline to enter is May 30th. And then? Can you just push it to June 30th? For the winners to be announced. No for the deadline to enter. The deadline to enter. And then the winners will be announced after our meeting. Okay. 30 and then we're going to will announce July. Yeah, we'll use that as part of the marketing. We'll say the date to enter has been extended. Okay, yeah, I like that. There's nobody else that's entered, but me. Correct. There we go. Okay meeting. Okay. A journey at 6.55. The mic is loud enough. She did it. Did you hear that? I make a motion when you're doing it. What happened? She tried to hit it. She goes, I don't love the gavle. Okay.