Parks and Recreation Commission - Regular Meeting

Counting on a few more seconds. Welcome, everybody. I'll call us to order in just a moment.

If anybody needs the bathroom pass, here's the pass. Through that door and over there.

Okay, we're within a few seconds of our start time. I'll be forgiven for calling us to order a little early, not very much. So we are now called to order. It's just before 3 p.m. on July 10th, 2026. And we'll begin with our Pledge of Allegiance.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

All right. Thank you, everybody. Just after our July 4th and also after a really wonderful turnout, we could hear more about that at the County Historical Museum for the fair as well. It was just a lot of fun to be able to participate in and see so much great turnout. So what we'll do next is move straight into our agenda, which begins with the adoption of the agenda and approval of our consent calendar. So we'll begin there. The consent calendar today, I think, is actually only the approval of the minutes, if I remember correctly, for this session. 26-1165 approval of the minutes. And If everybody has had a chance to take a look at those, I'd like to also open it up to the public. We have a couple of individuals in the room today, nobody online. Any comments at this time on the minutes? On the consent general calendar in general? Okay, not seeing any or hearing any at this time, either from commissioners or from the public. Do we have a motion to approve the consent calendar?

I motion to approve the consent calendar.

Do we have a second? Second. Excellent. There's multiple seconds. That should make the intensive very easy. All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right. That's the end of our consent calendar. Thank you for that. And we'll move immediately into now the report from staff, 26-1166, Director LaValle. Thank you.

Bryce LaValle, Library Director. So the El Dorado Western Railroad presentation is actually postponed. So it was set for July 21st, but the library department is going to add a few additional items to that presentation, and then it'll be taken to board. So we'll have our new MOU with the Railway Foundation. There are some leases that need to be renewed. There's also a license agreement that we're Reviewing and that's with PSVR. That's a Placerville and Sacramento Valley Railroad. So our friends to the West and in Folsom. So the July 21st presentation that will be pushed out into the future. So hopefully by the end of the year we'll have all those items completed and that'll go to the Board of Supervisors, County of El Dorado. And that brings us to the fair. Thank you, everyone, who was able to help during the fair. I know that I have it listed at nearly 1,800 visitors, but I think the final count was closer to 2,000. Yeah. And for a while there, there was a pause. with the museum and participating during fair times, of course, with the unexpected closure of the museum. And then of course, opening back up and all the progress that's been made. I think this is our second year where we're getting back into that groove with everything. And there's so many possibilities and opportunities that continue to be identified. And so with next year, I mean, we've already discussed some of the railroad elements, blacksmithing elements. There's just so many opportunities. But a huge thank you to the commission and all the volunteers and staff. And it was all hands on deck for several days. Did you want to add any specifics?

I do. I just want to note, at least for me, the difference between the fair this year and last year. I felt a lot more relaxed with it coming on and knowing that I had all of this help and just not even having to worry about kind of what was happening on the floor besides people, ensuring people have their breaks. It was very nice. So thank you is important.

And then how was the year over year thing?

I'm looking for those numbers and I couldn't find it all the time.

It felt like there were more. But it was a feeling on my part.

I wasn't sure. I know there was more, because there was more every day. Absolutely. The last two days, Saturday and Sunday, we were at about 600 per day.

And I know we did that. As far as the fare and the rides, when you first into the fairgrounds, there was a lot more open space near the museum. And so that was an improvement. We've talked about banners in the future. I was only there for one of the days, but a lot of visitors said that they hadn't been there for a while. 20 years. And so they were yeah, consistently impressed with the space. I mean, the space looks fabulous, and there's, of course, multiple exhibits that have been rotated through and refreshed.

Right, and getting the, yeah, I think you specifically wanted to say that, getting the Chinese objects back from the Fountain Tolman right in time for that, and then Fountain Tolman letting us use their signage for that and just kind of seamlessly putting in that there and making that look so professional and so nice in that corner. And then also all the help with the 250th slash civic celebration exhibit, getting that done in time. Just absolutely. Sorry to interrupt.

No, that's great. And a lot of visitors are now more familiar with the research room. So some of them, they were kind of curious and said, oh, you can go in there. That's research room. explored that area and a lot of folks had questions that were answered. Commissioner Owens, I think you, was it 75 properties? A very impressive number and the public, I mean, some of them were just enthralled with the information. I think I saw, I mean, at least, at least two couples in particular where they were, they were probably there for, for 20 minutes or so. And then I, uh, naively thought that my property would not be interesting. And then you looked it up and I was like, that's interesting. Thank you. I don't know if you wanted to add anything else to your experience. Yeah. It was, um, great. Um, set up through the computer and the screen and some of the supporting kind of documents, but you can see everything on a larger screen and it's very much a success.

Anything else we should add to? Probably that I can't hear. We're on the desk. Okay.

What?

The maps that you have right next to you.

Oh, the ones that we were giving away.

Oh, yeah.

Sorry, I want to make sure a lot of those come out the door. They were really interesting.

Yeah. I don't know how the rest of the days went outside of I think we were there Thursday. Thursday, yeah. But folks, this year, I think the way the flexibility of the lab docents this year, Kelly, worked really well. not being necessarily stationed in one corner, but being able to walk the gallery and kind of, you know, go between exhibits and find opportunities to engage people. And so just waiting for people to come to use, because people don't want to talk to us and just want to go at their own pace. Other people are curious. And I think engagement was much higher this year because people, we came to them when they wanted us. And we were able to do that because we weren't just stuck in one corner. So I think engagement, people's interest and excitement is noticeably higher this year. So it was really fun for me, gratifying to see people so excited to be in there.

On behalf of our commissioners, I think if you guys agree, I'd love to specifically positively call out administration from library and museum for execution for planning, first of all, execution, I think also communication advertisements was a big part of that too. There's been more of an awareness effort. And it pays off in attendance and excitement from the community. And we're clearly on a trend there and that's really excellent. And for the collaboration externally with other groups, which we've really tried to promote and encourage. so our kudos to administration for uh for doing that and a question for administration too which is uh do you feel supported by uh the commission i assume yes i know but are we doing enough to help you in every way absolutely yes very supportive um and it's uh you know we have continual excitement uh around whether

museum and the offerings are now, but then also all the potential. And as you mentioned, this is the first year or this is the first time in a long time where we also, uh, advertised, uh, of course we advertise the museum, uh, cataloging collection, and then also advertising the railroad in the, uh, wheelbarrow, Studebaker, uh, pamphlets, I guess you could say. Yes, it's through that group.

That's some good advertising there. We just stumbled across it, and I was like, Bryce is savvy. I didn't even know this was here.

It's a good little... Yeah, it was brought to my attention from somebody outside of the department, and I was like, well, you know... Anyways, it was successful. And we're looking very much forward to next year at the fair. And it'll be even larger and better in many ways. And I joke with staff that I'm going to have outreach aprons. We'll have different deliverables that we can offer people. So I'm just serious for myself. So nice.

I'll let you borrow the outreach.

But I also noticed with some of our younger visitors, they were very interested in, I mean, we only have one or two items that are, I guess you could say, what's the word? We'll use that. I think we have One display where we have, or it's related to, yes, thank you. Maybe one or two interactive displays, but that was a great catalyst for conversation and seeing some of our younger patrons, you know, very excited about all of that.

So I think that's an opportunity to get various manipulatives in the future.

This is what your mom would have been wearing.

Oh, okay. Yeah, we had some great questions around so many items. I know in particular with some of the irons where it's almost like a crimp or a crease. Somebody that's into textiles would know. But we had a great question from a patient.

And Bergdosen's explained kind of the history and what he scores. That was fabulous. That was Jerry. Yeah. Any other things to add with? Fair updates.

Yeah, nearly 2,000 visitors. Fabulous. Somewhat related, we're working on our museum and railroad bookmarks. And so we'll advertise the museum through a catalog on one side, and then the railroad. And we're targeted at bringing awareness to the fact that we're always looking for volunteers. And so we should have those in the next, let's say, the next month or so. I know I shared recently that the entire department has all received new business cards. And we have the three QR codes on the back. So we're promoting the library, the museum, and then, of course, the railroad. Now, a few of the cards early on I had passed out. There's my personal card. So if you have one of those early cards, consider it a collector's item because there's a typo in those early cards. And so we've got the new ones now. But the team is excited about this because everyone in our organization has a business card now in that same format. The Museum of Facebook, when that was created, it was part of our or may have even been before, you know, more so our business portfolio and that, or that e-portfolio. And so we needed to make some changes to that to ensure that we had full access, including the, the other Facebook pages that we, that we managed. So we went through that process with Facebook. It was a little more cumbersome than we initially assumed, but we have, uh, full access to that e-portfolio now so we can make full modifications with that page. So we're looking forward to making some changes around the museum Facebook page. Deed of gift. The commission provided input during our last meeting with stained glass window. Is that what it was?

The Georgetown Gazette.

Yes. With a desire to have some language that would ensure that if the Mountain Democrat decided that they no longer wanted that item, then it would be returned to the museum. So with the deed of gift, there was some language added. It mentions in the event that the Mountain Democrat newspaper should wish to dispose of the Georgetown Gazette window, the Mountain Democrat newspaper. turn the Georgetown Gazette window to the County of Colorado Historical Museum. So we have that piece there. Thank you.

It uses the word yes, folks.

Yeah, that's disposition.

Should it then say in the light condition it was received? Oh, bro, here you go.

It's been signed in return to us.

It's standard legal language, I believe. So it was reviewed by council.

So now we have that piece in there. Yeah, unfortunately, not unfortunately, but rather if the commission's recommendation was to support the transfer, all of that, and I apologize because I was not here the last time, but I would have supported this too. Um, I was helping to take care of a relative. So I apologize for that. But then, um, I don't know if we can impose a condition.

We didn't have language yet. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. That's everything I have. Happy to answer questions or if anybody has things to add.

Questions from the commissioners? Comments or anything to add? Expressions of excitement? Doubt? No. Let's go to the public then. Who is I think represented today the county of El Dorado in its entirety by two individuals from the public today here in the room, not online.

Big step up from just me.

We've doubled our public. Any comment at this time from the public?

I have something to say because last...

I don't mind stating your name for the record also. Sorry for the formality.

Darriotta Barrett for those newcomers. The transportation room wasn't open last year. And I noticed that a lot of people really liked going in it and they were like, oh my gosh, is this new to like the whole thing? No, but they've really enjoyed seeing it. And especially like the newer people that were coming the last couple of years. So that was exciting.

That's a, I'm glad that you, that you mentioned that because that was our experience as well. And I think it's been quite some time since that, that entire room was, was available. And it's also, I mean, there's an item on the wall there, and it's a Winchester rifle from, I think, 1873. So that is a unique item that's on display that you don't find any other item similar to that in the rest of the museum on display.

Thank you for your comments. Okay, we're going to move on in our agenda then. Go back to that. Okay, so discussion and action items, collections committee, nothing in that section at the moment. So we'll move to museum program updates, beginning with Eldorado Western Railroad. We have a representative today who can represent for EWR. I can probably speak to that. Am I stating your name? We're Cunha, president of the Eldorado Western Railroad Foundation. Insanity.

I think that probably just covers it all. We have apparently found our niche and we are selling out every single day we run. It's just the yellow car is not so much. And that's old news. But the big train, every week it runs, it's boom. And it's can't complain. You get what you ask for.

Very happy to hear that. Any elaboration that you'd like to hear or any questions from them?

I know that some people were really interested in the July 4th one. And so that was all decorated and everything. And the kids really loved having their little noisemakers. They had a choice of about four that they could get in their bubbles. And so it was really fun. And I mean, I think there was only one clapper that didn't make it back. It fell off the train. But there were a lot of walk-ins as well. And we still have, we still have the, it's decorated, but it's not like the special event train. So tomorrow it's going to be decorated. And I think we're going to be giving away the excess clappers and everything. So they'll have fun. And I mean, as Ed said, everybody like it's sold out completely. Yeah. There's a lot of walk-ins.

50 people are going to wear it in the first round.

I like hearing it. I heard it all day on TV.

We're a very popular YouTube channel, by the way. So for those who are watching or recording, just a quick reminder, you can go online. Obviously, Ida Drew, is it only through Facebook? I can't remember. Or to buy tickets. It's on the library.

There's a link there.

So probably the easiest way, pdwr.org and that takes you to the railroad page through the library website and then you can click on purchase tickets that's what it's supposed to be is not private

I'm trying to get to it.

So it's on the right side there. There's a few updates we need to make to this page because I'm not sure if it's fully mentioned. Excursion.

There's some wording that I think I sent out, some e-mails about spitting that out.

Well, all things can be improved. However, it looks so much better than it used to. Thank you for that.

And within that page, there's a link that goes to the digital ticket or online ticket purchase. I think we just should buy tickets down further. There. So I want you to click that. There we go. We'll update that. the logo here pretty quickly on that page as well. Brandon is working on those pieces. So I'm not sure if we have the schedule yet. And we've had a handful of volunteers that have been traveling around out of the area. So the updates soon on that page.

Beautiful. Well, compliments for the upgrades to all of these sites also and their maintenance. All right. Are there any additional questions or comments before we continue on in our agenda, either from commissioners or public? We'll move to the research room next then. Not seeing any comments. Thank you again to the Eldorado Western Road as we transition over. Just great success and so much to be proud of there. All right. Dean, can I put you on the spot for a quick update on research room or anybody who wants to step in?

Well, We've had lots of people walking in and research and email requests. And I think the last time I finished over 1,800 maps. I'm done with the maps.

And I'm working on the aerial photos.

It's complicated. I haven't got it all figured out yet. Is there any progress with getting a computer so we can start scanning things?

No. No updates from ?

No, desktop is, they are very short staffed right now.

Could we use one of our computers to do it?

Not sure about that. I'll check into that.

I will call one of our IT folks next week, see if we can't get this resolved, because it's been a while, even though I understand that they're towards that.

That's when I checked in that.

That was, OK. OK. So we appreciate your patience for just a little bit longer. Yeah.

Well, Kelly, we have a new volunteer who's going to be working in the research room. She's going to be across training research room. And so Jill, she's very excited to learn everything about that. And so I think that's going to, we're trying to think of, we're making lists of projects and things for people to do and get finished up a lot like these math inventory that she's been doing. So We have a list of things.

She's a great addition to the group. I think so. The whole time I spent with her at the fair, very impressive.

She's committed now to Thursdays and Fridays. So I'm pretty excited about that.

The research-related catalog it. There continues to be new records added. So I think each week, maybe three, four. I think that's been kind of the pace, so slowly but surely.

In some weeks, we'll see more items than that added, but I think it's been around three or four in the last few weeks.

I'm just logging in to see what the collection is. The count is the thing, but yeah, 786 individual items.

And I think we have maybe around 250 that have been published. So there's a lot in that staging area.

So just cleaning up or producing the metadata and then publishing them.

And then we plan to, if I have a more professional term, I've been, I've been talking or referring to some of the records as super records, I guess, where we have multiple items, you know, in time there'll be, uh, photographed, but then they're, they're linked. So it makes like this super set collection.

So we have, let's say, um, medical tools and then a journal from a person who owns them and sort of these items that are connected. So it creates kind of this, this meta, meta record. So we're excited about that.

There's an accession record and then all of those were going on accession record. Each thing gets an individual . And you just click on one, and you can see all of them. So they're related entries. And we're doing that with some of the photos as well. There's a photo of one person, and we have several photos that we can relate all that.

There's a few records, and they're like that, where they're associated. I think there was one that involves a certain train. maybe a few others. But our first record that contains artifacts, that'll be a very extensive super record, I guess. Because we do have medical tools. We have medicine. We have journals. We have books. So that one will take a while, but

Thanks again to the friends who I think were responsible for donating the initial seed money to purchase the catalog, if I remember.

They don't know how much of a gift it is, actually. It's just wonderful.

I thanked them on a few different occasions and, of course, shared the database with them. And I have another. I'll join one of their meetings later this year as well. But that was the El Dorado Hills Friends of the Library.

that got us up and running with that first year.

So they provided a donation of approximately $1,000 to get us started.

Of course, there's this exponential return on that investment. And I can't remember, is that every year it has to be renewed, or was it a one-time purchase in the term?

It's an annual subscription. But their pricing is very competitive. We very much enjoy the products, and I think we have every add-on possible. In the future, we'll be able to share media to that platform.

I think the vendor is still working on enabling some of those pieces, but then that's when we can have that railroad footage and so many other.

Yeah, we can store it now. We just can't publish it.

Interesting. Anything else on the research room topic at this time? Any comments from our commissioners? And from the public, I'll check online. Nobody's online at the moment in the room. Okay, we'll move ahead then to exhibits and tours. And you had already opened earlier with some updates on new exhibits.

Some of the new exhibits. And it's just so nice to walk in there and see them. Again, the Chinese exhibit. And then have the finished... of celebration and parades that have been really nice. Also, since our last meeting, we have reached the end of the fiscal year. And so that is my time to cry or shine, however you want to see it. And that's when statistics are due. And so just a couple from the museum, because this is our first full fiscal year. We had 2,706 visitors. over the last fiscal year and had 1,924 volunteer hours. And I want to give a shout out to Brody and Dee. They each had 500. Oops, they each had a quarter of the volunteer hours.

And I don't have the research requests yet, but I just wanted to share that out. And then in May, we started doubling our

Well, we can't count June, but maybe we doubled our visitors in April, and that's when we started to have the extra days.

And looking at the guest book during the fair past few months, seeing not only locals, but individuals from Texas, North Dakota, Florida,

South Carolina.

So all over, which is great. And our story is they flew out here specifically for the Alberta County Historical Museum. As we said, we would be a nationally recognized museum.

That's the story. We're going to be. I did want to touch on that too. So we did get the artifacts from the Golden Mountain movie set returned on Tuesday. And everything looks great. In fact, they mended the the saddle braces that went with the saddle. So they fixed those. So they came back better than... All in scale, everything there.

Very easy to work with.

And once it was a good experience.

I'm not sure if this question can be answered, ignore it if not, but I was just curious if in that loan agreement, um, Was there any type of mutual advertising that happened or an opportunity, a promotion for the awareness of this? No, that's okay. I just was curious if that was a condition of lending. It's encouraged but not required. Yeah. Does that imply then that the topic was raised, they were open to it, and it's just follow-up that's needed if we have capacity to do it, that is?

With this type of loaning, this is the first time we've done this. And so we needed to build the process and the corresponding paperwork. And it was a very short timeline. But now that we have those pieces in place, we can always add to it in time. For future opportunities. Yes, because some museums charge and they have other requirements. So with this being new and with the timeline, so we had language that encourages promotion and even donation to the appropriate nonprofits, but it wasn't required. Sure.

And we did ask for credit. You may. It wasn't redlined.

Thank you for letting me ask. I'm just curious, I think, in particular about opportunities that may arise from time to time. This one may be a big one, right, where awareness of the historical museum is raised. For example, in loaning out artifacts from the museum, maybe just in credits in the movie itself when it comes out, things like that. And wanting to take advantage of every opportunity to ourselves to that vision statement that we've agreed to here, right, and put together. And we're doing it. There's no question. Yeah, okay.

There will be a lot of opportunities, I think, when the movie is out that we can connect ourselves with. That'd be great. Yeah.

They're usually pretty good about crediting where they get things from.

Yeah.

The only problem, biggest problem is when you go in one country to another. Right. And they use fill-in stuff. And I've experienced where the fill-in stuff became what got in the final print. So it's just a bunch of fictitious names.

And they all got credit for making the movie. Hopefully they didn't have just a fill-in thing there and that happened, but.

This is a top-notch production, so they should probably, it'll be one of those ones you watch with.

Yeah. Well, I made sure to include some larger items that could be, you know, careful if you're looking at it carefully, watching it. That is our carriageway there.

And your cameos also will be there. I assume that you appeared somewhere.

I taped very small close-up pictures of Crystal on every single one. They think it's the accession number, but really it's a picture.

I don't want to spoil it, but I'm the lead. Have there been any tours recently also?

We had a tour today, and it's a basket leading group. They came in and we were looking at the basket where Rhea specifically told them to come in on a Friday. And Maria was there. They were there for a good two hours, looking at the basket, came over, brought some additional basketry out from storage so that they could see it.

Are there any questions at this time from the Commission regarding to exhibits and tours? OK, not seeing any. We'll look online for the public. Nobody has joined us yet. And we'll go into the room then and comments from the public. More questions? any additional or last updates that we didn't cover for our museum program. We'll transition then into our museum commissioner comments section, and we'll just kind of go around community engagement updates, as well as any general statements.

Anybody have any comments at this time?

Well, tomorrow there is a event, historical society event that we'll be referring to. So this is the potentially the largest stretch of an immigrant trail on private land that we're aware of at least right be aware of anybody there is that land Yeah, and we don't get to see the whole stretch. But we're going to see. Kirk found, when we went out, Sean and Jacob and I went out with Kirk.

The property owner. The property owner earlier.

And I had the line where the immigrant road was. And we walked over to where it was. And then he said, well, he could just tell. We're going to walk to a spot where he found the swale on the other side of a fence. But he could really see it very nicely. And then, so we're going to walk down that right next to it, and we can see where it went further. The grass is up, and you don't really see a rotor, but that's where it was. And then we get to go down an air shaft, right, from the peak relief. And looking down that, it was so cool. You could get right this bend, and it's right there. It has a giant opening.

Yeah.

Is it blocked off usually? It's got a fence around it. It's on his private lands. People just don't get to see it.

Okay.

I mean, I wonder if it's like a swimming pool, you know, like if he's liable if somebody...

He hasn't closed it because he said it is a source of water for irrigation on the ranch and that they may tap into it.

Interesting. And it's so beautiful under those sedimentary

So there's the hike in the morning at 830 before it gets too hot. We'll get to go out to this long stretch of the trail on private land that no one really has seen or known about. And then we come back and Brandon Batiker, the geologist for El Dorado County, will do a presentation on the Deep Blue Leap. He'll be last. First will be Kirk Taylor, owner of the property, and then followed by Dee on the trails and the Gold Rush Era Emory Trail, including with Brendan Batyker. So just under this beautiful chestnut grove that Smoky Ridge has on their Apple Hill Ranch. It's just very nice. And then they can cool off and then learn about what they just saw. So it's sold out. Sorry, public.

Thank you for your support.

And then we have the Historical Society's member picnic potluck, which is open to anyone who wants to join the Historical Society. But it's a really neat presentation because Dave Bolster, county agricultural commissioner and former president of the Apple Hill Growers Association. His father was one of the original three ranches to found Apple Hill Growers Association. So he'll be doing a presentation to membership on the history of Apple Hill. And then in the fall, we'll be working with the Growers Association of the Fountain and Holman Museum on a special exhibit featuring artifacts from the original Apple Hill Farms. And Kelly and I spoke a little bit about maybe future opportunities to transition that exhibit and maybe grow it at the County Museum. So that could be due. We'll see what happens, but those are all from the private collections of the growers. And then our next thing, and I just want everyone on the radar, I think I might have mentioned it in the last one, the Historical Society has a really special program planned. It is going to sell out really quickly. And that is for the goat doctor of Mosquito Road. He was a alternative healer.

He's like a folk hero in El Dorado County.

And his ranch has been split into two different properties.

We've gotten special permission, the Historical Society, to hold a field speaker program touring both properties, so the original ranch, seeing where the doctor's home was, where his cabin stood, as well as where he received patients, visitors, and then where he and his parents are buried on an all-overlooking the American River Canyon. And it's a very peaceful, beautiful place, private land. No one gets to go out there now. But it's going to be, for obvious reasons, it's going to be a really neat experience to learn his story, as told by Mike Roberts from Save the Graves, president of Save the Graves, who did, I think, an eight-article series on the Go Doctor for the Mountain Democrat.

What date is that again?

That is going to be August 25th, Saturday, August 25th. And we do anticipate that will sell out very limited seating. You have to use special shuttles. You can only get the address to bring people in. Blindfolded. They had problems in the past with treasure hunters because he was known for burying all the coins that he paid him with.

And we want to be respectful of property rights.

I just had the opportunity to watch a friend of mine exchange the Mochila in Folsom for the Pony Express as they came through. And they opened their museum for free for the people who were there for that. And it's a tiny museum that they fused the space so well. If you've never been there, I really suggest you look at it just to see where minimal space is utilized extremely well. Makes me think if we could find a spot where we've got so much stuff. We could do a small thing like that somewhere. Of course, someday we're going to be big, and it won't be a problem. But I know right now we're using every bill available, an inch, a museum proper. But it was a good experience. So I just guess it's a nice little museum downtown, their historic district. You can see the turnaround, the train, what do they call that? Help me out. Turntable. Turntable, right. Head turn. I couldn't remember.

it's like a frog something yeah what's that i have that interface well that's where is that different that's where the switch occurs when switching here is the real world of the switch the point is to switch okay and what's that thing called again what's a frog is it's called a process okay just wanted to share that i remember hearing about a frog i don't know exactly what it was i got that's approach today i guess yeah randy what was the museum thing which what was that in the museum uh

also a museum. I don't remember their specific names. They have a section about the rodeo. I don't know if that's temporary because the rodeo was coming up. But that was interesting. They do have a little area of interactive stuff for kids. Once again, our space is a problem. But maybe in the spring, when the weather's nice, we could figure out something outside, an interactive thing with kids, other than gold panning. Not the gold painting's a problem. Kelly, did we share last time some of the updates around the VR?

I don't remember. Looked great. Yeah, much better.

Your cleanup.

I don't know if we shared that. Facilities helped.

Facilities really did good by us. Was it before the last meeting? Everybody here has been helped. maybe ? You may not want to go in the back end. But they used the forklift. They thank you very much for that. And cleaned a bunch of stuff out of the front, especially over by the fair, the actual fairground side. So that's been cleaned up. A lot of the small engines that were there were put elsewhere. looks really good. And then now our groundskeeper, he specifically takes an interest in the museum's records. He really does well. And he just brought in a couple yards of pea gravel this week and replaced some of the stuff that was in the email.

So we're good. He goes above and beyond. Yeah, he has some pea gravel.

I mean, in the past, he's also, I guess, cauldrons and other things that he has trained for us.

He makes sure there's no standing water or any other things that catch water.

That's a great job.

What's his name, if I may?

His name is Tony. I don't know his last name.

Tony, if you're ever watching this, we would love to welcome you here to the meeting where we can thank you in person. That extends to all of the facilities as well for the support that has been provided. Yeah, it really reflects well on the county and visitors who come often to see the historical museums. So thank you all, and Ed as well, for getting that forklift coming out here.

Yeah.

Commissioner, is there other community interactions that you'd like to share at this time?

Well, I could say some years ago, my mother was treated by a goat doctor. She had bad arthritis, and so it didn't help her. What was the treatment?

You were talking about that. You were telling Kelly what was the treatment.

He would lay boughs, you know, like cedar boughs on the ground, and then she would lay on that, and she would have that treatment for some time, like maybe a week or two weeks. And so she, of course, lived on a farm, so we have plenty of trees, so it did help her. And another thing about the money, this friend of my brother's, I won't even say the name, Donnie Schwartzfeger, he had a, some of you might know him, He had a bulldozer. He was doing work, and he did bulldoze up, and he'd start his business by finding a whole can of money. Yeah, so anyway.

There's actually a documentary on that someplace. It was on TV. I remember when they found the money.

I think there was a lot left of something that he just found. They never really knew how much there was.

I think this is doing what we don't like. As far as we know, actually, it's been combed over. It is all gone. They did have people come and call me. Yeah, it was pretty well investigated. Yeah, exactly. And again, we will not be passing out any addresses at all for this. We're very intentional about making sure that doesn't happen. One thing I'll add on a related quick topic before we start wrapping up this section is to say that for those of you who are historical society members also, I would love to see you come to the July potluck there. And the reason is that the, among other things, great programming, great location, food, and all that. But additionally, Save the Graves, which has already come up in one of our topics here, an independent organization, obviously, by 1C3 as well, helping with the county cemeteries, has decided with the Historical Society to align. And so the membership of the Historical Society will be voting on that alignment. And what that means in terms of alignments is, frankly, we've got nearly the same missions. The Historical Society is a little broader, and Save the Graves is very focused on cemeteries. um and those are complementary features of the two groups and it makes a lot of sense for those two things to uh become unified and aligned together and so if you have an interest in that and want to learn more i would strongly encourage you to come to that meeting because we will vote on that alignment in that in that meeting i'm saying this with public too who may watch afterwards um So let me wrap there and ask if there are any questions or additional comments at this time from the commissioners related to the community engagement. Okay, then let's look online for public. Nobody has joined us. Refuse to feel sad about that one day. One day we'll be the most popular YouTube channel. And then how about in the room? Any comments from our public? Okay. Excellent. So we're going to now move into our public forum. Public forum is an opportunity for members of the public to address the commission on subject matter not on the agenda and within our jurisdiction. Comments during public forum are limited to three minutes per person. Commission chair may limit public content. Looking online again. Sorry for the formality, guys. Nobody has joined us even still. And how about in the room? Any additional public comment at this time? then we will be moving towards adjournment. And I do so move. Do we have a second to adjourn? Okay. We are adjourned.

Thank you.

This is a record, folks. I heard somebody say that I wasn't running a fast enough meeting. Let the record be corrected.