Downtown Development Authority Board - Regular Meeting

Yeah. Then it'll be summer. Sometimes summer

keep saying is like I think it hits you like right the older you get where I was like man summer just seems to keep getting shorter and shorter when you look at the calendar you get out you know first week of June morning yeah morning so it's like you plan a couple things couple trips and you're Then we'll be back in small. Y how you doing? Good. No complaints.

Three, four in a row. 80 was going through all the DBA board term stuff last night and we somewhere messed up. You serve in that pleasure. So your term doesn't expire which makes more sense but until the board finds somebody else, right? And so based on the previous discussion with the board and if you were still on board with this plan, we'll have you stay on at least until November. Okay. And then depending on if you remain on the board or if somebody else wants it, we can at that time have the discussion with the town board. Perfect. About this seat if that works for you. Right. Okay. And that works whether I end up staying on or off. Right. Right. Perfect.

Yeah. Cuz I would like to pass the torch. Yeah. Are you ready for that? I want to pass the torch. Oh, I'm getting some blood.

I'm thinking about you a ton. Thanks. Good job whipping out back deck coffee shop. That was me. My wife. Yeah, I haven't seen it. You're getting good at it now. Yeah. It's wonderful. Updated last year when we put it up. Oh, good idea. So, you can put it back together like a quick Yeah, that's smart. Well, it used to take my dad quite a while to put it up. Yeah. And I always wondered why and then I realized he never had any of it like number it. So, the pieces that he built only fit certain places. So, yeah.

Hi, remember that with like I think he did that on purpose. He really enjoyed doing it. retired. I'll take my time. Yeah, it takes his time out there looking tires. Yeah. All the hell. Yep. I got some good [ __ ] out there with your father on back deck. Yeah.

Catherine. Good. Good. Hey, how you doing? So, um, I hurled my car, but I have a brand new one. I fell asleep at the wheel. Oh my goodness. God's grace carried us

600 600 feet through the desert and landed us gently on a big pile of boulders which really polish off the frame, but I have an extra set of tires and rims need to get rid of. So, I'm going to post them online. They were the wrong size for Sarah for a 2014 Subaru Outback. Yeah. Which I just posted online. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So, I fig you can't sell anything you use. Oh, yeah. So, someone would probably love to have those if they'll fit their car. Okay. Did you have the Are they the winter ones? These are They are This is more of the summer tires. Okay. But, um I bought the extra rim so I could switch summer. Yeah. Makes easier, man. Well, that's that's intense.

Yeah. It was really That happened once and I like hit the buzz bar. I was like, I think I just nodded off a little bit. Yeah. Yeah. It's scary. Yeah. Oh, now if I even think I'm tired because I had started slapping myself. Were you by yourself? No, Dennis was he had fallen asleep. But there was no screaming. He was awesome. He was really calm the whole time. You can't park here. Are we here already?

The tow truck driver when he was looking at the we came and checked it out on the pile of rocks. He said, "Well, the frame's not bad. It's gonna be by the time I drag this car to rock." Oh, wow. I will. What did you What did you 2025? Nice. Yeah. I had wanted one, but I decided to put another was the last one. I actually called the dealers from the accident site while I was waiting for good. How are you? $500 deposit

and uh there wasn't much negotiating because you know it's like yeah I told you West it was a great experience. Yeah. So all consider we're on Okay. Roll call. Oh, Katie Souls, Bill Palmer, Park Thompson, Tiffany Gatesman, Steve Fitzgerald, Nick Crab,

Greg Beckler. Do we have a dismissal from Barry? Barry? Yes, Barry. He sent me an email just this morning that he Okay, cool. Awesome. Um, can we get in Can we get a uh approval of the agenda? So, moved. Second. All in favor? Hi. Hi. Hi. Um, can we get an approval to uh for the minutes of the last meeting? So moved. All in favor? Second. Second. All in favor? I

I I. So we have open forum here. Do we have anything for that today? Seats are packed. discussing impossible action. Winter Park and Frasier Chamber and Town of Frasier event and marketing updates. Katherine Ross and Sarah

both level. But um yeah, just invited Catherine. We wanted to let you guys some of the different stuff that's going on. uh to hopefully bring this instruction to produce. Thank you.

Um well well thank you for inviting me. Um and I'll pass these out. We um the Winter Park and Frasier Chamber was requested about five weeks ago to get summer started sooner. That's right. And so um and we were we were asked to do um to really activate Memorial Day weekend. Um as far as

as far as we know, there's an anticipated opening of Chessel Bike Park and the Alpine Slide for that weekend. I emphasized the word anticipated. Skyhigh News chose to leave that word out when they when they got the press release. Um so it's going to be really warm this week. I would think we're looking at a strong possibility of that o of the resort opening. Um and so then we pulled together um things that were already on the calendar as well as we are having a free concert at the rendevous Event Center on the Saturday of Memorial Day weekend on May 23rd. Um and Matt Carney and Rob Drafkin will be playing. It's a free show. Um if if you if I say m Matt Carney and you don't know who he is, just go on and Google him. you'll know about eight to 10 of his songs that you just have heard a lot.

Um, so we're looking forward to hosting that. Um, along with that, of course, we're uh there there are lots more things than what are on this poster in the press release and so we as as we get informed of other activities that are happening, we add them to the page on our website. But this was what we could pull together for now, including the Frasier Bike Park opening, which um we have a a link to your page on our website right now so that we all are saying the same things about it and it's been in the eblast. It's on our calendar, all those things. Um but yeah, but that's what we're really uh we want to let everybody know we're doing this. And then if there are any businesses that are doing something special for that weekend cuz they might be because it's Memorial Day and traditionally I know we don't have uh in this community like a big oh it's summer right for Memorial Day but it feels like we might this year. Um so we just wanted to make sure that we're open everybody's open and activated in all the downtown corridors and that we you know anything we can do. So, if you hear of anybody who has a special and it doesn't have to be like a like it doesn't have to be like a giving things away or if they're just open and they're having stop by our deck is open, right? Anything that they want to say, they just need to send it to Maria at mch chavez atplaywinnerpark.com or to me and um and we'll get it on that page because what's really important is we want everyone locally in Grand County to come down, right? Yeah, that's great. But we're really trying to get that incremental visitor to to come on up here, you know, a few weekends early and start and kickstart our businesses a little bit more than where they're at right now. Um, that's so the difference that that is what the Winter Park and Frasier Chamber does is that we we're out there on the out there regionally trying to

push people in to look at all the great marketing you have for Frraasier and and get to Frraasier also. So, um, so I wanted to give you that and I'm going to leave these posters. These are the posters. Summer starts sooner. Um, then the other thing I wanted to talk to you about really quick, the rest of it is all on the website. Yes, there's like barely a time to breathe this summer. We're activating as much as we can. We were going to fill in the Thursday nights. We were going to start Thursday nights early between Memorial Day and when we're and the 18th of June, but um there's too much construction in the park right now. If you haven't noticed, there's some things happening there. Um and so we have and and we we don't want to be in their way because we really want them to be done on June 18th.

So um instead, uh so we'll so we'll be pushing the rest and pushing everything else that's happening. Another change for this summer though is that so Rebel in the Park which was last year was the first year for that. That's a partnership with Bonfire Entertainment in the Winter Park and Frasier Chamber. So we have a a bigger music producer promoter who works with us on that. Um we last year we didn't have camping. So this type of festival that with the genre of music and the targeted audience that we're bringing, a lot of those people like to camp. They like, but they don't want to like camp in the forest. They just want to they just want to bring their sprinter van and like and then like all six of sprinter vans that know each other, hang out and make a campsite and they camp. I I feel like I'm talking about my children when they were in high school and they went camping here at Middle Park High School. That's how I talk about these campgrounds. Um so, uh so we we've made uh an we've reached an agreement with Grand Park

with um Colorado Adventure Park. So, the campground will be there. Sweet.

And um we think that's a really good guest experience because the summer tubing will be going. They already have music planned for that Friday night. I don't think I would love for them to change that to Friday afternoon because the music in Winter Park's Friday night, but um we're working with the lift to have a shuttle going back and forth. Um we're going to really emphasize how here you are in in Frraasier and that you can, you know, right from there hit all the trails to go mountain biking and hiking that you don't have that like look at this great community that we have. You just right from here you just go. You don't have to drive somewhere to get to a trail head. all that good stuff. Um, so we're excited to have host them. We're hoping the camping the campground's really successful. So that'll be a whole bunch of people that come past Safeway. I'm saying,

right, they hear that a lot. How are you going to get the people past Safeway? So they have to go past Safeway to get to the campground. So, and I think it's a really good partnership um to to be able to work with uh Colorado Adventure Park cuz that's a great amenity and trying to get that out in front of everybody that

it's kind of like a secret about summer tubing there and stuff. So, um so we'll be that's the last weekend in July. So, we'll be pushing that the whole time. So, um and then on September 2nd we are have we are in partnership with Anshoots Entertainment Group aka AEG. Some of you may have bought tickets from them for shows in Red Rocks. They are bringing the Beach Boys to Winter Park. The Beach Boys, there's one original Beach Boy, Mike Love, is still touring. They're on their celebrate 250 years of America tour. And uh this is their only Colorado show on that tour. So, Wow.

But it's Wednesday, so I know you're all always telling us, everybody's always telling us, you got to do something in the middle of the week. Why don't you do that? Well, we're not taking the financial risk. AEG is and we'll see how that works out. So, um, and it's a ticketed show. That one's all them. But that's kind of our goal in life is to get more third parties, like quality third party events in that venue so that we're not risking public dollars on those events. We'll be packed. It's all old people and everybody's retired. They don't work. We have one day off.

Well, that's they're they're rolling the dice on that. And I have to say we have had when they announced many phone calls in the information center asking if there was an accessible um if there was an accessible seating area, if there was accessible parking. It was pretty funny. It was worse than Jazzfest. So um yes. Uh do you have any questions about everything else? Everything else is just I don't want to bore you with the whole website. It's it's full. It's my question. My only question would be if Colorado Adventure Park is playing music. No, I'm not worried about it. They don't. Yeah, but the Do you know who it is?

It's up to them. I would I would just say that they I told them not to because they're But but they'll still have a whole parking lot for right for extra guests. So the park we won't they won't be camping in the parking lot. So all the regular customers can still go in there. Yeah. Yeah. It won't It's not like um Adventure Park's closed. Yeah. I just didn't know if they're hiring a competing act.

Someone here's the deal. Like the the ticket for Revel in the Park and the other thing is is kitchen dwellers play Friday and Saturday night. So if somebody wants to hang out at the campsite on Friday night, the the t the two-day ticket is a bargain. like you'd kind of be foolish not to or whatever time they finish music out there is probably when kitchen toiles are going on. Cool. And in Winter Park, but um that's awesome. I I you know what and I we're we're all playing together. My job is to play together nicely with everyone. I have a question for you, Katherine.

Yeah. So this side of Bertha, Cindy used to host that on Facebook for local music that was happening every week. Who? I don't know. Oh, anyway, but it's not happening anymore. I don't know. I have no idea what's That's okay. It's on our website. If anybody's playing any music, there is a separate space for like happy hours and music at bars. There's a whole page of all that stuff that gets updated every week. I just have to get in there and see it. Yeah. So anybody that's hosting music can contact you guys and you guys plug it in your calendar. Yeah. And a lot of times we just look in we just look on the calendars and make sure that we get everybody. But they do have to tell us, right?

It's they have to be responsible for that. But yeah, but all that's up there. Awesome. This is exciting. I'm excited. Summer sooner. Here we go. Starting a month and a week earlier than usual. All right. I'd like to if we do it next year, I'd really like in five weeks, but we're going to make it happen. Um, and I will tell you right now, the chamber um has full recognition that it will rain in snow on May 23rd and we understand that that is what is going to happen and we will be taking credit for all the precipitation. So, when fire danger goes down, you just give us a call. All right.

Awesome. Great. Good job, Catherine. See if there's some ways we can work together.

Can you pull up there a little? Okay. Um, so I kind of saw the writing on the wall a few months ago when I was able to start biking in early March. So, I um set up a Google ad starting March 8th and that was the video that we had shot um actually early last spring and it looks very similar to what the conditions are now. Snow cap peaks um you know kind of like nice flowy single track. So, I started that and so far we've had 40,000 almost 40,000 people click on that. Wow.

And 300 three Well, what is that? 371,000 impressions. Um, and you can see where it starts to go up. I dialed it back where it dropped. I dialed back the spend just a little little bit just cuz I had to watch my budget. Um, but I'll probably crank that up in a couple of weeks. Um, anecdotally, it really depends on the weather this time of year. Um, I think people look to see what the weekend's going to be, if they want to come up here or not. Now that it's getting warmer, I think we're going to see more people. But like I have seen a bunch of people out on the trails, whether it be local or tourist or something like that. I have met people from Denver out there that are driving up too. Um, and then also on that ad, um, can you go to the next page? You can see which ones the headlines people were clicking on the top ones. Find your flow. Start planning your Frasier bike trip. where Colorado comes to ride. Plan your Frasier single track adventure. Um, low snow means early dirt. Start planning your Frasier bike trip. Now, I used stuff like that um just to keep get people thinking. Um, but again, this was back in March, so I'll probably go in and tweak those headlines a little bit saying, "Hey, trails are ready to ride. Come on up." Um, also with the bike park grand opening, I think that's going to be huge for us. Um, now we have something centrally located. You can actually park there and then ride the bike park, go out to rendevous or, you know, St. Louis Creek. Um, I think we're set up for honestly a great summer around here just because of all the biking access we do have. And then the next one, um, is a mountain flyer ad. I don't know if anybody is familiar with the magazine Mountain Flyer. Um, they're kind of a niche

publication specifically for mountain bikers. It's large format. I wish I would have brought in so you could actually see what it looks like. It's more visual than what you'll see in a regular magazine. Um, and they have kind of a a cult following. So, I'm going to do an ad there. I've also talked to them about doing a larger um basically 8 to 10 page article about the Frasier Valley. Um that's going to depend on collaboration with Graanby Ranch actually and um Grand County Tourism Board. I'm asking them for some money because it's kind of pricey. So um but in the meantime, I'm going to do an ad with them and see how it goes. Um, and then the next one is just an update on the bike park grand opening. We have a Facebook event, the sky high full page ad that will be next week, Friday I think. Um, and then I'm also going to do another Google ad with them. It'll probably just be a display ad with some pictures of the pump track and hey, come up to Frasier, hang out. We've got bike park opening and and uh all kinds of trails to ride. paid.

I like the idea of more active promotion to try and build a stronger reputation. Bruta did that about a decade ago and it's paid off, right? Um, and like personally like I think we have some of the best mountain biking 100% in Colorado. So, and the like I said, the bike park's just a huge ad to that. Yeah. Yeah. So, um, yeah, I think we're going to do good this summer just because of all the the trails and and we could start riding right now if anybody hasn't. The trails are in great condition. Been for weeks. Yes. Months. Yeah, literally months. That's it. Any questions? Good work. Thanks.

Thank you. Thank you. Before you guys move on, I don't care if I just say one thing about Please do. grab the whole

um I just wanted to let you all know that what we part of like looking at everything and looking at everybody's websites and ways to collaborate. Um, we have asked I haven't gotten past you personally, but um, the if you haven't been on the part of the website, the flow part of the Frasier website, there's lots of great videos and maps and and we were embarking upon that ourselves to update ours and we preach do not duplicate and so we're we're not going to do the exact we're not going to duplicate. We've asked for permission which to you to link to the Frasier website which should help drive some traffic to the Frasier website

and Steve just so you know 30 years ago I trademark Mountain by Capital USA. There you go. So I I just I just I just want you to I just want you to know like it's not it's just that at this point in time there's just so much biking that we our budget can only go so far. So, we're kind of because we're out of the region, we're trying to we go more for like the active the active vacationer, not not which is great. You guys are are are zoning in on mountain biking again because then we don't have to do it again. We don't want to duplicate. So, you're doing a great job. Sarah's doing a great job. So, we just we just link over to her stuff and that's

it. may be your fault that I'm here cuz um in the early 90s I first came to this valley for a mountain bike race, the King of the Rockies. He's I'm sure he came to King He's there and I learned real quickly that flatlanders who don't train at altitude get their ass kicked. I'll move to altitude. Yep. But we had patrol. Thank you everybody. And thank Before you go, Katherine, sorry. I did want to mention um Abby is actually online as well, I think. Um she got on the Zoom portion post a roll call, but she's got a few questions and her hand up. Go ahead, Abby.

Sorry, I'm in a car with the kids, so brace yourself. Um what is the expected headcount for Rebel in the Park, Katherine? for Rebel in the Park. Um, we're thinking 3,000 a day. Whoa. Okay. Um, well, we had almost 2,000 last year, so I don't feel like we're I feel like that's a realistic guesstimate. What What is capacity for something? 5,000 if we're sitting down, 10,000 if it's big gigantic. And we know, and I can say that with full confidence. 10,000 with some room at the top. if you didn't want to be close to your friends. Go ahead.

That's great. Uh that was it. You know, 3,000 is is awesome. So awesome. Good work. It's a long ways, Abby. It's a long ways away. So like looking at ticket sales now. That's my That's a guesstimate for sure. That's our our that's what our budget is built up. For sure. Well, I mean, we we strategized with our trail rides. We were going to move the horses and use them for something else, but we're like keeping them in town for certain weekends. Um, based on your communication last year with Rebel in the Park being more country focused, it doesn't matter. But, um, I think a couple other companies were asking me questions about what the expected headcount was.

And AB and Abby, if you can send that to us, like a little write up about trail rides, we'll include it in the ancillary activities for Rebel in the Park. So, we are host some yoga here like we did last summer and then at the campground and then we're going to come talk to you ladies about um doing a bike park. Oh, great. Like doing a bike park clinic. Okay. And we'll have a skate clinic at Hideway Park. So, we're just trying to think of other activities people can do, but we learned last year not to make them too formal because everyone's camping. So, okay. Yeah. Great work you guys. Thank you. All right.

The other events that you guys did like the guided hikes and stuff like that. Did they did not work? They did. Okay. So, that's we not You were kind of implying Mattage. So, I We're not doing any of that. Those things they just know when you have to sign up. You have to sign a liability. We Winter Park Resort is offering a new promotion this year. You come to any ticketed event. You bring your ticket up to the resort and you get you can get a gondola ticket for half price. Okay. Yeah. So, well, but yeah, all the guided hikes and stuff, nothing. Although yoga works. So, you see, yoga worked really well and it was a lot of local people who just like kind of wanted to come on your grass and it was great. Yeah. And it was great fun. And so, it is great grass and so Yeah. So,

yeah, because we didn't have any at Ronda Buso. Do you think the hikes were due to the demographic? because they they can they hike on their own. Yeah, these are independent people. They don't they don't they know how to they they bike on their own. They hike on their own. We just have to give them right info. Um we plan on making a big map core plus map for the campground that shows where you can hit the trails and where they go to. So, with a QR code so people know how to like find all those rides that are on the, you know, so for people who don't know their way around, they can just get the info right there if they're camping and then we'll have one at the also. All right. Thank you, Catherine. Okay. Thanks. All right. Have a good one.

Good work. We'll see a couple of you later. Tomorrow marketing meeting. No, just plain air. When is that? Tomorrow. Plain air. Not me. Oh, okay. Something must be the team. Maybe it's just okay. Yes, thank you. So, DDA board seats right now. That's the next discussion. I think Katie's seat is over.

Yeah. So, actually a couple clarifications. Um, we somehow got information wrong on our website. So Katie actually serves at the pleasure of the Town of Frasier board of trustees. Um and we spoke with them earlier about her seat and with Katie and the Oh, that's okay. Are we good? Yeah.

Okay. Um, so the plan is given that we have four board of trustee seats open this November, including Katie's, um, the board wanted to wait until November. Um, and then see who joins the board and decide if Katie is still on the board and wants to continue or if they want to appoint somebody else. This is at both Katie's and then who's who else from the board is their students are open. So Katie Katie and Louis Lewis um Adam Adam got it. Yeah. So exciting time.

We're looking for some new blood to serve on our port. Trick is they got to live within the town of Frasier primary residence. That's the hard part. Some old blood is also appreciated. That's very throwing that out there or have business. Yeah. Well, well, no, no, no. So, right now we're talking about board of crazy.

So, Katie's seat is out of the equation. Nick, um Nick's seat is up this June as well as Steve's and that we also had incorrect on our website. Um, so those two seats, they are both welcome to apply again as Bill and Tiffany did, but we have those two seats open and then potentially we had started with an 11 member board. We're now at a nine member board. We could go up to 11 again. Again, I think that is a really large board.

Um, but throwing that out there. So, you could potentially have four new board members or you could have zero new board members if Steve and Nick wanted to continue and they were the selected applicants.

Um, that said, I encourage you guys to help spread the word. Um, applications are now open. They can get to that application and I can send this out to you guys in an email through our web page. both. Um, if you just go to the search, I think the easiest way to navigate is just to put in DDA and it'll pull up the DDA page and at the top there's a link to apply. We're going to keep applications open through June 1st. So, it's about 3 weeks. We'll push it out on social media um today. I wanted to just check in with you guys to make sure you didn't want to change anything. Um, I'll have KFFR push something out and we'll have it on our website. Um, we can also send something out to like local businesses. We have emails for those. Um, but I think word of mouth is a great way to encourage folks that you think may be interested and may be a good fit to apply. As a reminder of how the process works, um, they are actually appointed by the Town of Frasier Board of Trustees, not this board. So those applications will go to the board, I believe, at their June 17th meeting. so that our next DDA meeting, which would be in July, we would have those new board members there to to step in.

Are you guys thinking about reapplying? I didn't know my term was expiring until about an hour ago. Okay. Yeah. So, so does that mean if they did reapply that they're they'd only be on for another year or No, they'd be four years. They'd have four years. Okay. Yeah. to stagger the board so you don't have everyone's terms ending at the same time when we formed the initial board. Got it. We had two seats expiring every year. Once we get through those every years, um then everybody when you apply it's for four years. Yeah. Right. Got it. That makes sense. Okay. All right.

Yeah. Yep. Any questions? Does that mean that we're having a meeting next month and I'm sure of the vote or

No, because it's the board of trustees. So, I was going to say we did previously um I mean the DDA board can definitely weigh in and provide a recommendation to the board of trustees. So, I don't know if we wanted that to be Parks and Tiffany or two other members, but if there's two members that if we wanted to form kind of a subcommittee to provide a recommendation to the board of trustees once we get those applications, we could do that. if we wanted to hold a special meeting for that purpose in June. We could do that. Um it'd have to be that first week of June. Originally, again, when we got applications, we got a ton of applications. Um and they just all went to the board of trustees. And then when we've reopened it, when we've had seats up this last round, we just had Bill and Tiffany apply. So, that made it easy. Um, so I really don't know what to expect, but um, I don't know that we need to have a meeting, but you guys can definitely weigh in if you wanted to provide recommendation to the board.

Well, I think those also people it the word really didn't get out for that reapplication much. Yeah. And it's interesting because we pushed it out the same way we pushed out the initial round. Yeah, I also have had like multiple like I was contacted directly by board member multiple board members asking me to apply and then they asked me to contact people so I did and I know those people contacted people. So it really is word of mouth. Yeah. So if you do have someone that you think is going to be cohesive or if you want to stir the pot, whatever.

Yeah. Get you're going to have to tell people like because it really is like an urgency thing. Like when I contacted 10 people. They all applied, every one of them. Because I was like, "This is going to be really important for the town. It's not a huge time commitment in comparison to other boards. Not as serious as you think. It's more fun." Whatever. All those words get people to apply. You're like, "Yeah, these more meetings are super boring and, you know, we don't get anything done and we don't have much money to spend." That's not going to get people on the board.

Yep. Definitely agree. So, help spread the word. Um, any questions, other comments. Great. All right, then. Red road sign update. Do we have those signs here? We do not. So, this is pretty quick. Um, but the signs are completed. Parks say they look great. They look good. Yeah, we're kind of at the mercy of Amtrak right now. Oh jeez. Never get up.

Yeah, they uh had hoped to be here kind of now working on their platform improvements, but once they are here, they will hang the signs. Um we did push back on that thousand licensing fee and it is now zero. So cool. Um and we are continuing just as a general Amtrak updates conversations with Amtrak and C do DOT to kind of work through funding and get started um on some ADA improvements and just some basic kind of structural changes for that building so that we can get that open as a new station

um which I think will open up some great opportunities. And then we do, as I've mentioned previously, have some funding with SEAD. Turns out there's more restrictions on that than originally anticipated, but we can at least start kind of some conceptual designs, community engagement around looking at that larger lot and space because we don't need that whole building for a waiting area in terms of looking at what that will look like. So, when that engagement process starts, I will definitely let you all know. I think it'd be great to have kind of the DDA way in, but I think there's just a lot of exciting potential kind of opportunities around that station development as mountain rail picks up and we hopefully continue to see more people coming up here via both bus and train. Um, I did talk to the sign shop while I was there and looking at the signs and I just kind of asked, you know, what happens if the sun beats down on them super hard and in 3 years we one of the signs is, you know, trashed. And they said that that was super simple for him to go up and peel it down

and put another one up or redo the sign for very little money, like 120 or 200 bucks for a reprint. So, cuz they would already have the real piece cut. So, that would be the big issue. They just pull it down, strip it, and put another one on. So, just so that if uh something does like our harsh environment up here does something, they're they're sort of guaranteeing that. Great. Yeah, that's good to know. Good. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, thanks for hooking us up with that perks.

Oh, no problem. Those guys are awesome. I would recommend that when they offer to bring them here and put them here, you take that cuz or try to get that done cuz sometimes you'll call those guys and the resort will then put them on projects and they have 900 signs to put up shop. Correct. Yeah. Keep on them. Yeah. And I call him the other day to say that. Yeah. If he could bring them over here when it's convenient. I don't know that there's an immediate rush, but um if they're here, then it's easy for our guys to get them to because if if Amtrak is like we're coming next week, it could take them a week or two just to bring the signs over here. Great. We can always go get them oursel, right? Okay.

Like we can always shoot up there. They're laying there. They're ready for us. Y any Frasier town worker or I could go do it. Just that' be great. It is better if they're here. Okay, good to know. Yeah. Yeah. They're big. They're like here to the end of the table. 90 something inches. 92 inches. I think I can just pick it up too. Yeah, if you have a truck bed, it's easy. Yeah. Okay, cool. Perfect. Um, that's it. Come up conference update. We had a really good turnout at the last one.

Um, and we did some new things. Um, I think the moderation was good this time having uh the panelists that we did and then just some moderation. Greg, how did you feel about that? He was on the panel. So, yeah, I thought it went well. I think it took a very organic like question asking and response turn, which people seem to get a lot of value out of it and ask questions that were pertinent to them. So, I thought it went well.

Sweet. Um, I did end up asking some of the people that texted me and said how their, you know, was a positive response for testimonials. And so we got three business owners or co-owners to do testimonials with their picture and we made a post and that looked really professional. So professional that the chamber reached out and wanted a private meeting. So I went up there and talked to them. And I said they really want to be involved. They were like, "We don't want to take this event. We don't want to be in the forefront of it. Any resources you need,

anything, we're happy to use our staff for it. We really want to get involved with this because they said they could have thrown that event and no one would show up." So they were really happy that we did it. That's great. Um, so DDA Cali, good job. Cool. Yeah. And it's squarely in their mission, right? you know, helping drive business intellect and activity.

That's right. And I think, you know, for the last one that we did with real estate being a touchy subject, right? Um it really kind of opened up people's minds that you can you can start getting involved whether you're ready to buy or not. Um and that things aren't as far out as you think they are. Like a lot of the real estate agents have said, they've seen people come to the table with $1,000 at closing. Like, you know, you can get into a house if you want. Um, so I thought it was really good. Um, for the next one, it's marketing and branding. Sarah is out of town, I think, I've heard. So, we aren't going to have Sarah Wick, which is

kind of sad, unfortunate, because I would really like to have her on the panel. Um, I volunteered my wife for it because she's done so much branding for Rocky Mountain Roastery previously and then Gran County Roaster now. Um, she doesn't want to do it. She doesn't like talking to people and on a panel. She's like, I really want to be there in the I like asking questions and being in the in the field, but I don't want to be on a panel. Um, so that's tough. Uh, so we kind of have Do you want to switch the topic up between this one and the next one? We could switch.

Just off the top of my head, I know two or three people who are accomplished marketers. One was a CMO for multiple companies. I'd be happy to reach out to them. So, the one thing that when I was talking to the chamber, right, is what brings people to this event and as of now at least is that this is somebody that you know talking to you. I was worried about

cuz we we started going up the line like that cuz I was like what if we go to Alterara right and I bring in some of these guys and they're like yeah that's a little I think that your the business model that we have right now it's really good now down the line if we can get all these people to continue to come then it would I think be helpful to bring in a CMO and a be bad to have somebody one of one of those people I mean in the other Yeah few Yep. Have someone that's

I thought maybe Carl Frey with the resort just because he's worked his way up and he started with owning a bar in town, you know, so a lot of people know him. Um, but that was the the highest that we went. So, we could keep it at marketing and branding and just kind of reach out to other people or we could switch topics. And if Sarah Wick does want to be involved, I do think that we should switch topics because it would be good for the town of Frraasier to plug itself into this event multiple in multiple ways. Yeah. Right. So maybe we switch it up.

Yeah. See if you can get Sarah to She would commit to the next one. So I'd say let's just put a big question mark by the conference right now and um we'll look Yeah. We'll look at different topics and see if there's one that hits. Does anybody have ideas for future topics? I mean, make note of.

So, the real estate one last month seemed to be very heavy on residential. Um, I feel for the come up conference since it is business is to have another real estate one that is just commercial real estate. So that is a really that is a good um topic and I think we should revisit real estate. I do think having a little breakup in between is good.

And there's even been there was a lot of people from both conferences that reached out to me directly. Probably at least 15 for each. So I really wanted to be there couldn't make it. So revisiting topics is a really great idea and adding something like okay this time it's going to be more heavily focused on commercial real estate versus yeah residential would be good. Um,

one idea I've seen when I've kind of been at some of the different conferences and just looking around that I think retail, as we all know, is getting trickier and trickier, right? Like everything's cheaper on Amazon. So, how do you incentivize people into the brickandmortar and the kind of umh I'm blanking on the word now? Is it experiential retail? But things that kind of um like I think Simple Coffee has done a great job with this, though I recognize it's also a lot of work of kind of marketing different events and happenings and things like that. Um I mean I'm guessing you're busier on a trivia night than a regular night. Um I'm looking at Nick for the record. Um but just things like that. So I don't know if something around kind of activating bringing people into businesses might make sense. There's also the I think one of the big topics in the outline is mindset and personal growth

and we haven't touched at all on that and there's a lot of specialists around here on that. So that could be kind of cool is doing some some of that maybe. Um, I think I think that's super important also to let a lot of the younger generation know that it's shitty owning a business and that people struggle, but it's not that it's reality and it's okay, but there's support. I think that's really big.

Yeah. And you can develop a really great brand and guess what? Someone comes in and has a bad experience because of an employee that you hired had a bad day and that can really really mess things up for a while or rumors or whatever could spread. You never know. Oh yeah. Yeah. I think that's a great great time. Rated on Google and one person has a gives you a one. Oh yeah. And everybody else gives you fours and fives down to three. And that really matters when it's when you only have 50 reviews or 25 reviews and it takes a long time to get hundreds of reviews. It does. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. 100%. So if one person comes in and has a bad day

Yeah. because someone delayed their beer to them. Oh my gosh. But anyways, um, so yeah, let's like, um, a conference about like tech stacking too, AI, that's pretty current right now. Um, does that make sense? No. Text stacking like uh different softwares um with AI. It's a pretty wild word world for even my smaller business. Um,

what was it? 10 years ago when they started their first AI controlled uh software that you could that would do all your all of your posts for you. All you'd have to do is upload 20 photos and then it would make context and put them out. I think

man, I didn't hear about that one. But um on the same note, Wheatly Creek um is a great company that has been involved with that. That could be one of your marketing people. Um, I'm spacing uh CA Cassie Casey Casey. Um, and they're both locals and Aaron went to high school with her husband. But that's a a good marketing media uh connection if you need somebody if you're going to stick with that subject for next month. And I was going to say I think uh June and July is a is a wild time period to go into like mindset stuff just as like a coach with that. I feel like sometimes it's easier for people to absorb that information when the sun isn't as bright if that makes sense.

I agree. Who wants to be inside here? Yeah. And like the it's the time when people are able to like activate um their endorphins a little bit more easily. Um even though this winter was rough and I think people didn't have the adventure category uh with the snow that weren't able to activate their endorphins, their adrenal glands. Um but anyways, that's my two cents on that stuff. I agree. And it's just so busy. Our lives are so busy. And once July happens, July, August, it's like October, October, November are really big months for um

so be less deep is what or wait no wait until maybe even wait oh just don't have a conference switch that's me you want to keep going I think if we have monthly right I think that it you got to keep consistency Right? I mean, if you want any success of any business or event, it has to be consistent. So, it has to go. But it does mean that it could be more fun and more networking based summary theme. Yeah. We could do a for everybody that's come, come back and network, then you're kind of this chamber mixer thing.

Oh, yeah. Definitely don't skip a month. But more so just saying that if you do do a mindset like personal growth thing like closer to late fall is when people are hungry for that subject matter. Um, okay.

And yeah, and then right now what I'm noticing in some of these economic um I went to one of the classes the that Patrick Brower and Diane are putting on. They're talking about like what can we do right now as a small business or bigger business with the lack of revenue from this from the winter um and that we're a bubble. So like talking about like special economy type tools to um like how do you save money? How do you forecast stuff like that is what um the state is doing. Yeah. I mean the subject

I get that definitely before crunch time happens like before I have lines out the door. I like to get my mind right though and I think you know it's right about when it's happening and people go oh no it's all back like having a positive approach and a positive mindset going into these major busy seasons is definitely in is helpful you know so I I don't know if it would be more geared around that but being prepared

yeah if you're like oh my gosh these crowds are coming and you're going into it with that mindset, like you're crushed for the you're quitting your job. That's what it is. But I totally agree with certain levels of that. I just uh I do think that if if you're going to have tens of thousands of people flooding into the valley, you should be mentally prepared for that. That's gratitude. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. Please come. I think they're for May when they're not here. And then when they come, it's good because we need them here. Here.

I just watch service go to absolute crap around here once there's lines out the door. Yeah, that's what happens. It's really great right now. You walk into a restaurant, they're happy to see you. You get to talk to them. They're like, "Oh, my locals, my friends." Yeah. So good to see you. Yeah. Let me make your lo. Let me make you a burger. What do you want on it? You know, when they come, they're like, "What do you want? get out of here. Like, let me just It's It's clearly turn seats all the time and it like is cool usually through June for a part, but like once July hits, it's over. Service is gone. It's just pump them through, get them out.

And like having that having that mind, like having your mind prepped for that, it goes a lot smoother. Maybe like um not a mindset conference but um just customer service. Yeah, just an experience. Yeah, like customer experience or something. Find like a good server that everyone loves and like a good retail manager or something like that and have them talk about like this is how you treat customers and everything like that. That could be cool. Yeah. Maybe less entrepreneur, more like prepping for what? Yeah. The job you're in. Yeah.

And how staff supervisors and staff and community can support those workers managing. Yeah. You know, to help build them up through those hard times. I think that's a big thing. They don't feel like they're in this isolated horrible bubble. You know, it's like we all appreciate them. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I

think Abby had something in the chat. Yeah, I was just saying what Sarah was going off of is like what I see everybody doing where they're, you know, doing like a multi-level experience in their storefront. I think it would be cool to see who is successful and why. I think Stoked Coffee, I'd like to hear him talk um Andras about some of the things he has on the horizon. and I don't think he's shared much of it, but he's worked really well with um his like instore experience where it's not like it's not a popup or it's not a special event. He's just as a corner in the market. Um and where he's created multiple revenue streams. Same with you Parks where you've ventured into the the roasting. Um but I think the multi- like uh multi levels of revenue stream that some of the business are doing that help them leverage uh economic changes and climate changes um is would probably be pretty interesting.

That's all I got. Sorry. Cool. Does anybody else have anything for the come up com conference series or any ideas or should we let's move stuff move

for future thing? Um I don't know if we've done anything like uh finances like uh where to like like uh procure capital or like because that's usually the barrier that most people face is like they don't have the money to do it but there's resources available that people probably don't know about. Like I didn't know I could ask for tax exemptions when I opened up and I was like that would have really helped I known that. Um and like other financial um resources I guess um that would just help. Um Patrick Brower would be good person to have there.

Yeah. But like that's usually like the big barrier that that people have when they're trying to open a business and that would probably be important one to have I don't know. Okay. Later on. Yes. So, I do have financial on here and I wanted to bring in Megan Leine as a CPA and grant Foundation. Um, just cuz she has so many resources for people. Um, but there would be three other seats open, two other seats of Yeah, I do think Brower is a really good one suggestion I get because he he he helps people get access to capital all the time.

Okay. I know of a person that that helped me out a couple times too. I can ask her because she's like pretty personable and usually pretty available. So, okay. Ask her as well. And Nick, so I think you're referencing kind of some of the different economic incentives that the town has offered at different times in terms of the tax. They're not tax exemptions, but they're tax basically rebates or credits. Um, and those were available for a set time and then they were brought back. So, you may have kind of been that bad

missed the window. You were you were I was not here when your business started, but um but I just wanted to say if if it would be helpful to have um somebody talk about incentives that are available through the town or the DDA um would be people kind of building um are you volunteering? Uh yeah, I could I could because I feel be pretty good at it. We have a CPA. We have Patrick Brower possibly. We have a meet up from me and then a town member. That'd be a good like rounding. I feel like that would be pretty informational. Yeah. Yeah. So, sounds awesome. I mean, maybe we should go down that line. Yeah. See if people are in town for

Yeah. See who's available. June. All right. Let's instead of brand new marketing. Oh, it's the second week of June. Yeah. I'm gone that week. Yeah. Everybody probably is. I I know because I was like, "Oh, I won't miss a DDA board meeting because there's not one." But I would I will miss whatever. Yeah. Planned it around this. All right. Um you do it for the next one after though. Um should it be August or Sure. Yeah. Because I do think maybe the marketing and branding is going to be real popular and maybe that should be pushed into like the when people are here

like in the October range, September range, like anywhere in there. is going to be a good time because people are going to say, "All right, now I have time to actually develop marketing and branding going on." Yeah. And that's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. I think that the attendance will probably be a little shorter in the summer months. Yeah. June's going to be tough. I feel like it's going to have to be interactive in some way, less panalized. Maybe a evening uh brewery with a patio could be good. Mhm.

Let's think on it. We'll get some emails and stuff going. I don't think it's it needs to be right now that we come up with it. Let's move on to the budget. I think budget update. Wanted to apologize. I actually changed your file. I meant to make a copy and then change that one, but I changed your file a little bit. I added on to it. um for the budget. Okay. I I don't know. But you have that file. Yeah, you sent it to me here. Okay. So, whatever version I have I don't have your version. Okay. Um because I don't think it was like a shared document, right? Thought it was. Maybe it's not.

Maybe. Maybe they did make a couple. Oh, I might have. Okay. Um well, are your changes on the version that I just passed out?

No. No. Okay. All right. We'll talk about that offline then. So, I did pass out a slightly updated version from what's in the packet and largely I just wanted to provide you kind of what we've spent money on and where we are at to inform our next conversation about the sidewalk project. Um, so we'd spent some money this year versus last year, which I think is good, um, to let you know kind of what's going into these different categories. And Greg and Abby, um, I did email out the version that is printed here, um, which maybe has Nyx updates, but, um, so that you have access to that. But um so we have spent a little over 5,000 on community outreach and that category kind of includes um the comeup conference stuff. So just uh a little bit of money at the roaster um to provide some coffee and treats for those um rotate media which was the video for the ski ride save and then those Google ads. So, that's what's going into that bucket of expenses there. Um, district enhancements includes the ski signs, which not the ski signs, they were done by the ski shop. The um the rail station signs. So, those came in about 1,400 when it was all said and done. So, well under budget. Um, and then the design for the sidewalk was supposed to be a little over 5,000. It was like 5280, I believe. that came in a bit cheaper. Um, so that was $4,679 for the design. So that is what is currently in there for district enhancements.

We do have to pay treasures fee to the county treasurer um for collecting our tax increment and distributing it to us. Professional services includes the DCI membership. Um, and then there's just kind of an estimate of um, for Troy because we haven't gotten an invoice from him for this year, but he was doing some work on um, just kind of looking over the Fraser Valley Arts proposal. Um, and just weighing in on a couple different things there. Travels, meals, and lodging would be for the hotel stay for the DCI conference that Tiffany attended. Um, we did get a free conference event from our membership. Um, but that is pretty much the money we have spent. Uh, the money that's come in from the tax revenues, um, that just shows where we're at at this point in time. So, we do still expect that we should end up around that 42,000 for tax increment for the year. Any questions about any of that? So right now, how much money do we have to spend?

So in current in terms of what is in the bank? Yeah. What's in the bank? Um we have about 39,000 in terms of revenues over expenditures. That's in the bank before the sidewalk happened. Correct. Yep. So any of that's gone. Well, we'll we'll jump to the sidewalk and yeah, we can talk about that what that looks like. Um, I mean, a lot of that money is because we rolled over most of our funds from last year. So, we had that unassigned fund balance of 36,143.

Um, and then again, we should have more tax increment coming in throughout the year. Okay. So, that's spread out throughout the year or they if they play quarterly. There's kind of different times when people tend to pay. Um, but yes, it is spread out. Okay. Yeah, cool. Um, we all Anybody Any questions? Any more of the questions there? No. Resolution 202651 approving North Frasier AB sidewalk construction.

So, the design came in a bit cheaper. Um the change order that would include the project um came in more expensive than we were hoping. Um so it did come in at a total of 34,189. Um a lot of that expense does have to do with the complications around drainage right there, which was part of the reason the town hadn't originally included that stretch of sidewalk, as well as not having the full space. And as we've discussed before, um the full space in terms of we'd have to purchase some property for an easement from the property that the sidewalk runs adjacent to. And then as discussed before with the Frasier Valley Arts Center going in in that construction um knowing that some of that sidewalk might get torn up, which unfortunately is kind of true for all of the sidewalks we're putting in along Clayton Court with just trying to get sidewalks in now for existing residences and businesses versus waiting for the full buildout. So that's just one of kind of the complications and balancing acts that has to happen. It's not completely ideal, but we don't want to wait 10 years to put sidewalks in. So largely we were going to do this because there was a business down there moose and merchant which is now not going to be there. Correct.

We need another and now Jolly Bear is going to be there. Is there a different Greg would know?

Um Moose Merchants not terminated their contract. Um we've started talking to other groups because um you know they've been delay they haven't been closing when they're supposed to be and uh have voiced that they may not have the funds to open that business as planned due to delays with that street getting in and having to open kind of after the summer with the current timeline from the town. So it's kind of an abandoned asset right now. Uh we do have a backup plan with a another group that isn't quite a bakery but more of a ice cream baked goods kind of u establishment that I think would go well with the street. So we do have a good backup plan but right now Mooseen Merchants uh yeah they're refusing to close until that street's done and um yeah not not a lot of confidence from whoever's managing that project on the town side to get that done that it is going to get done. Um, so I think my my thoughts as it comes to this sidewalk is I agree, you know, it was to get there. So if there's a business there, they have pedestrian access to their site. Um, it sounds like the town was not able to get the land from the Alves um property. So, if there's going to be a $34,000 change order to add this sidewalk, there should be a deductive change order that more than covers this that I think the town should, you know, then cover this sidewalk from. Um, but yeah, I I I don't think there's as big of a rush. I don't see the town meeting its obligations to get this street in this summer. So, I think the priority on this has kind of gone away. Um, it's unfortunate, but that's probably going to sit vacant for another year.

Greg, do you think we should push this and shoulder this for next year? I mean, yeah, I don't think I don't see a business going in there, to be honest. Um, I think if there is a business going in there, um, they're not they're not opening this summer. No one's going to open without that road in and the town put a date out at the end of September. So, and even if they could, it would be a major push for them to do the buildout in there. I've talked to the the guys that may want to purchase that space. Yeah. And they have another business they're trying to build out already. Yeah.

And they have other ones in their mind. They're trying to do five in one year. So, I can't imagine that they would get that done. Even if they did say move out Moose and merchant and close, I think that it would be a struggle for them to open. Yeah, it was a good

Yeah, I mean my my my only concern would be not having any pedestrian access. You know, if we if we got the southern side of the street done as planned with the sidewalk around the Alves property, then something could open there. um you know, it's it's going to be an abandoned asset for me at this point. Um and there's probably going to be some, you know, litigation at some point. So, I don't really want to involve myself too much in it, but not having a um not having a means of access for whoever wants to open a business there. You know, if we push it, then I can't sell that business. you know, no one's going to be able to get a loan for opening that business without adequate access. You know, you're saying, I'm going to open a bakery or whatever, and people don't have a means of getting to my store. Um, so I think not having anything will be a problem for someone trying to buy that business, unfortunately. That being said, I don't think this DDA should come out of pocket to provide that pedestrian access just because the town was unable to do what they needed to do to get the easements on the other side of the street to provide access to the whole street. I think there should be a big deductive change order on the town's contract with phases and they should provide access to the developments that they've approved on that street. This being one of them. Thank you so much for being honest, Greg. I really appreciate your input on that. That's huge.

Yeah. So, where the town is at, as I understand it, um is we are rebearing some power lines that got put in and were not put in deep enough in that stretch. So, the utilities are being finished um and now or in the next couple weeks. And then they expect to start the work on the streetscape and the sidewalks. Once that is done, it should be within the next month is kind of the current estimate.

Um, they are meeting on site with Mr. Alvarez, I believe May 22nd. Um, and he just hasn't property owner has been very forthcoming with where they're at until they meet on site. Um, the town's trying to work out different arrangements to get his sign off so that we can complete all the sidewalks at once. Um, but if that doesn't happen, we will complete the sidewalks that we can, which again is not ideal, but in terms of trying to get the sidewalks in. So, I'm still cautiously optimistic they'll be able to do the full sidewalks. Um, you know, that don't include this stretch, but that include the other stretch, but that is to be determined um based on negotiations with the property owner. I would say based on that, Sarah, that we should table the northern sidewalk. And what I would what I would think should happen is the town goes forward in earnest with um Lafayette regarding the land, you know, the easement for the sidewalk and the right ofway acquisition. If he provides that, then there will be a sidewalk on the southern side of the property. There'll be an extension from the 8 foot sidewalks around Kosalig and there'll be a crosswalk from that sidewalk around his property to you know whatever business should go in at that bakery spot. So there will be means of access um if he provides that right ofway after that meeting. So, I think without having a business, you know, begging to open like we did a few months ago, um that makes most sense to me. And then if the town does not come to an agreement with um Lafayette around

his uh you know providing that land for the sidewalk then the town could look at removing that scope from their contract with phases and adding the sidewalk to the north or you know another means of providing pedestrian access to the street they're putting in from the north. you know, whether that be changing changing it putting in a sidewalk on the north or changing it to a oneway. I don't know what they want to do at that point, but hopefully, you know, he plays ball and the town's able to give him something that he sees as equal value.

So, we need do we need to make a movement then to table this till further discussion or just We can table it. Um, what can I just chime in? Just I wanted to make sure I heard Greg clearly. Um, does Greg need assistance in finding um a possible person to purchase what was going to be moved to merchant or is that just tabled until road stuff is solidified? Yeah, there I haven't formally terminated anything with them. there's kind of just too much unknown for them to feel comfortable closing and to get a bank, you know, to lend on it without the road in for sure. Okay.

So, I have a contingency plan with another group. If you know another group that would be of interested in the building, I'm happy to talk to them. Um, yes. Yeah, it's kind of, you know, I'm not I'm not kicking Moose and Merchant out by any means, but as soon as I have real dates from the town and they have something real to work off of, they can decide. And then if they're out, we'll work on a backup plan. Okay. All right. Thanks, Greg. Yep.

And my understanding, um, unfortunately Paul is in a meeting right now who's kind of overseeing this project. Um, my understanding is the town was not looking to fund this portion of sidewalk. Um, ultimately, if we end up at an impass with Lafayette, maybe that's something that could be revisited. Um, I think the town is hoping that that doesn't happen and ultimately there is a process of the the condemnation process if it comes to that. That just takes a lot longer and really I don't think it's desired by anybody. So, I mean, the town is definitely trying to play ball. We're just not getting much back at all from the the property owner right now. I talked with him once. Paul's been talking with him. Um, Michael Brack, our town manager, has been talking with him. Um I don't think he's opposed to a sidewalk going in. We're just not on the same timeline. Um

one question too on that design of the sidewalk. Did the um elevation for that kind of curb and gutter change with a sidewalk in versus the previous design without it in? Because my thought is if that sidewalk is eventually desired to be there um and it wasn't contemplated as being there in the initial design that removing this design change and not funding it may make the road that's going to be constructed without the sidewalk not need to be substantially changed in order to provide that sidewalk in the future. Do you get what I'm saying? Um, so that may be like a argument for continuing to try to proceed with the sidewalk, but I think like from a DDA perspective, it's a huge portion of our budget.

Um, it's no longer to fast track a business opening there. Um, so I think it makes sense for us to table it, but um, it was the last piece of the puzzle. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, wait two months and see. Now, this might be something you can't answer and don't if it's confidential, but what's the price of someone buying that space? Um, that space, I mean, it would be probably roughly $400 to $435,000.

And that's just for the space without any buildout, correct? Um no that would be with um quite a bit of work that was done by the you know the planned bakery um you know that wouldn't be FFN and equipment but that would be 95% of your flooring counter uh no no so that I consider that like FF so that would be like your you know electrical buildout slab underground plumbing uh you know bin No finish work. Yeah. So depending on,

you know, the the the user, that could be 15 to $100,000. Yeah. Okay, cool. Thank you. Yeah, that helps me. Hey, I'll make a motion. Yes, sir.

To table our sidewalk construction until things wash out down there. Um, that would be bad. Um, for future funding as necessary. And we can always circle back. Assuming they're still building the sidewalks, I imagine a change order could be added if we have more information come July on the situation with the other lot. Um or, you know, we can look at putting it in when the art center is going in and you know, that makes more sense from a construction. Could we maybe get someone to come in and just

review with us the plans for the summer for all of the infrastructure? Yeah. So, right now the the power lines um they're they're working on kind of all the utilities and that's just been a whole deal with Excel and Mountain Parks, but um that is supposed to be happening now. Um and then they'll start the sidewalks and streetscapes um after that. And then we should have a mostly completed street and sidewalk streetscape. Um again that Alvarez property is kind of the one still in question um by the end of the summer. So

which property the Alvarez property if I can picture it in my head. It's so it's across the street from where this sidewalk would be going in. Kind of that corner northwest corner property on Clayton Court where the the washing JNL JNL excavating property. It's Yeah. The f your favorite people to deal with, right? Can we get a clear motion on this? Okay. A motion. Go ahead. We need a motion and a vote to do nothing. Okay. because we're trying to keep it for the next Okay. I think I think we're trying to keep the design. Correct. Yeah. So, you don't need to do anything or you can make a motion to table it and we can relook at it. And let's not make a motion. Perfect. All right.

Table it for table. Great. Perfect. Awesome. Um DCI in the game conference take Tiffany. Um did you ever get that presentation? No. Sorry. a couple times. Okay. I was going to say I've sent a couple emails. I haven't gotten it. I don't think I'm missing other emails from I always like Oh, really? I'm like, is she part of the email? Um, yeah. Sorry, I don't have it. So, I don't know if you have it and want to pull it up or just talk through it. Yeah, it will a minute to pull it up. That's so strange because obviously

you know I'm like I keep on sending it to you. I get other emails from you. There's something funky with the attachment that's keeping it from

I wonder. And Tiffany, you'll just want to um use the Zoom link from the agenda to log into the meeting and then you can share your screen. While she's pulling that up, I'll go ahead and pass out a document for the next agenda item. You stood in

way longer than Well, like I the internet is just still thinking. Um, so yeah, the DCI conference was really really awesome. It was in um Grand Junction um just at the end of downtown and this like definitely next year recommend um other people to go for sure. I definitely want to go again. Um but it

was very heavily concentrated on like hands-on experiences. So in the morning there was um like an hour of some talks and then um midm morning you could stay at the conference and have some more um talks or actually go do some hands-on works uh shops. Um but basically the conference center was just downtown. So, we were just walking around downtown visiting local businesses um and learning from those businesses. Hold on one second. Um but yeah, super super cool people

in progress. I have a friend in Grand Junction and she felt like their DVA had started to really drop the ball on organizing and supporting events. That was a couple years ago. She was she used to do marketing actually. So, she has a critical eye crossed my mind at one point keeping our DBA active future.

Yeah. Their DDA has been around for a long time and they have a pretty significant budget compared to our little DDA.

Oh, yeah. savage her. All right. Um so yeah, uh they definitely So we got like a lot of tours of downtown and everything. Um their downtown is beautiful. If you guys have never spent any time downtown Grand Junction, really awesome, but very huge in uh streetscapes and history and everything like that. But it is very historical area. Um, but I took a bunch of notes and learned a bunch. Um, this isn't a very pretty presentation, but just some ideas that really um, uh, stuck out to me. So, Grand Junction uh, does a lot with agriculture, but they also had um, one of their local aronomists come in and talk. So, Colorado is top three in the nation for agro tourism. Um, and I just agriculture is really close to my heart. So, I really really like this talk. Um, just trying to engage local agriculture a little bit more into our community. I feel like um, Graanby does it pretty well just because um, there's just local farms that actually have local businesses and restaurants and everything that um, supply to those. But I'm not very familiar with how many local businesses in Frraasier actually use local agriculture products. So trying to influence that a little bit more, especially with new restaurants coming in or maybe us trying to find people that are more willing to use local agriculture or something like that. Um, eggs, meat, whatever. We don't really have green houses too much anymore. Um, but yeah, that was that was

really cool. Um, one really cool thing that I thought that Grand Junction did, they have this annual barbecue and they have um, stock trailers. I think they start somewhere in Mesa County. It's basically a whole county thing. They drive through all the downtown communities like including downtown Grand Junction with all these stock trailers and it's like a big parade and then they end somewhere um I think at the fairgrounds or something like that and have a big barbecue. Um just a thought like I was just kind of thinking cuz our you know engaging we're very into mountain biking and everything like that but Grand County as a whole our community is very act driven especially the western side. So trying to communicate and collaborate with the western side of the county, trying to do something like that. That would be cool idea. Um some for the future, but just thought. Um there's also some discussion about public Wi-Fi. A lot of people didn't really go into it, but some communities have public Wi-Fi. So, basically, I think basically in the downtown areas, uh, the city provides public Wi-Fi that people can just attach to while they're in the parks and everything like that. Um, a lot of these ideas that that I put down are probably, you know, way in the future, but something for us to just kind of think of. Um, especially with our parks and everything. Um some other fun things that people uh had a lot of success with and this was a few different communities in Colorado and um they also had some speakers from I think Florida and New York too come in um but a dress up downtown bar crawl um and it was

basically just you know every Saturday night there's a new theme um everyone dresses up and They said, some communities said that it actually engaged tourists a lot more because people would stop these crazy people on the sidewalk, be like, "What's going on?" And they're like, "Oh, it's a bar call. Like, you should come." And just influence a little bit more engagement with the public, like with the community. Um, something for the community to look into, but also engaging the tourists and be like, "Oh, this place is pretty cool. Maybe we'll come back next next month or something." Um, and so I can't thought of some other uh come up conference ideas. So there's this uh uh business lady. She owns Outgrow Your Garage and Basically her business is to go around and help with business education. Um, and I talked to her and she said she would love to come out um, and talk either for come up conference, something like that. She said she usually needs about one to two months in advance to schedule it, but um, really cool lady, very eccentric, um, very personal. She was actually at um the, uh, I don't know if you met her at the the Grand County Tourism Board, I think, a couple years ago. I remember you were there.

Yeah, I did. Diane Butler and I have spoken with her. She's got cool online resources to help. Very much meant to be like at your own pace kind of modular form.

Um so that was um that was an idea. And then another uh consultant um this gentleman I think he's from the western slope as well um but he is he basically does a bunch of consulting um to empower youth um not necessarily uh people out of high school but like middle schoolers and high schoolers and just how to empower the youth into the community and everything. So I thought um not necessarily bringing him out for a conference come about conference but just another idea or something but another main idea of empowering youth in our community. Um some communities I know that we were before quite a few months ago we were talking about like those little selfie stands and everything. They actually just hired high schoolers and middle schoolers to find the best selfies places.

Um because Yeah,

like they're really good at selfies and like all that kind of stuff. So, um and they said it was really really successful. So, they had like four groups of kids go out try to figure out where the best selfie places are and then they came together and collaborated and were like, "Yep, this place, this place, and this place are the best." and then um and then they put out their selfie stations in those areas and it just really empowered the youth into that community and so they were connected to it. Um another thing that I thought of empowering our youth um most likely high schoolers, maybe some really cool middle schoolers or something. um maybe having like a a guest student on our board or just always asking them to come in for their um input or even having them on the come out conference um maybe like a senior or something like that um committee just to I don't know empower them just another idea of helping those youth um I went to a little talk about this so this is open rewards it is an app. I think it's really cool. Um, we can talk further about it. You guys can do your own research about it, but this is it's a reward app. So, like when you go to the coffee shop, you buy 10 coffees and you get a free coffee or something like that. It's very similar to that, but this is when you spend money, you get a certain percent um back to you. Um, and this is it's an online platform. Kind of confusing to understand. It's online platform. Businesses don't have to do anything. They are not required to sign up. They're not required to pay anything. Um, it's actually the town or

the DDA um, in this example for us that actually funds the rewards. Um, so anyone can get the app and you can connect your credit card to it. So whenever you use your credit card in the town of Frraasier, it automatically goes into this app and tracks all of your points and everything like that. Um, if you don't want to put your credit card information on it, you can take a picture of your receipt or you can physically upload your receipt. And then after you can kind of see on the image um there's like a rewards balance and how like in that picture it says $20.50. So you can't necessarily go to the brewery and be like hey I have $20. Basically what you just have to do is go to the brewery get that receipt or use your credit card and then right after you just say uh redeem your rewards. Um, and if you are okay with it, you can, um, connect your Venmo to it or I think it's Venmo, PayPal, and Zello. Um, and then it just puts the money right in your account. If you don't have any of those, um, it'll write you a check and send them to you. And typically, I think they said, uh, people receive the checks like within four to five business days. Um, so good for anyone that doesn't really like all that technology stuff.

I would imagine at a point where it reaches a certain value. Yeah. Like 20 bucks, 100 bucks. Yeah. Yeah. Um,

but yeah, so pretty cool that way. I thought it was a really cool incentive. Um, so like I said, the businesses don't do anything. The town or the DDA in our circumstance would fund it. So, basically, we would pay this app um money, and I talked to the developers of the app and everything, and they said for a community about our size, for about 5,000 people, they recommend starting out with 5 to$10,000. Um, and so that goes into an account um with this business. And then you know so that one person that just redeemed $20 it would be taken off that five $5,000. So basically we are funding the reward programs for all of these businesses and the goal is for people to come in locals tourists things like that. Um they have like all these rewards and it works at every single business not just one coffee shop you know. So going to the coffee shop and the brewery can spend hundreds thousands of dollars in one weekend and then make money off of it. So it just kind of influences more purchasing. Um, and so if let's say the year goes by and no one does no any rewards and our $5,000 is still in um the the account for on this business, we can take it out. No charge or anything like that. We can be like, "Nope, we don't like this um program. We're going to take all the money out. If $2,000 gets used, we have $3,000 back or left. We can take that $3,000 out or we can just roll it over to the next

year, which is kind of cool. Um and oh yeah, so the app uh so like if we did do it, the DDA would have their own app um for this program and it has live stats and data so we can see where people are going, where people are using it, how much everything like that, which is pretty cool. Um this is so there's two communities in Colorado that already have this app. They've been using it for a few years. Anglewood and Littleton, they actually used it. They got it to help influence traffic um in their communities because one, there was like a devastation or something um one of the towns and they used it to encourage a lot more foot traffic and it definitely helped. I think Littleton was going through a really really big construction project. It's basically closing off a lot of the majority of the traffic and they put this in and they saw an increase in traffic um like a lot of the local businesses did and everything. Uh so that's pretty cool. Also, there are community members, front rangers that do know about the app, so that is kind of nice as well. So some Coloradoans do have familiarity with it. Um my thought was uh because they were talking about engaging locals to come out as well. Um but ACE is in our DDA and there's a lot of people that spend a lot of money at ACE. So if you know Fred with the construction company always goes in there and he's racking up all these points then he can take his whole crew to the brewery and you know get some money back for that. Um giving

money to the brewery getting everyone like those locals that would not normally go out and spend money in Frraasier to spend money in Frraasier because they're getting that reward. Um, so that was just kind of Tiffany, the money they get back though just goes back to them. They don't have to spend it locally. Nope. Okay.

Yep. So yeah, they they have to associate that with um so they have to purchase something and then basically you go on the app. So it was really cool um during this um uh little conference. They gave us um $10 credit for us to like play around with the app. So, you have to make a purchase with the app and then you ask, you go to the app. You can kind of see instant payout on that um picture there. So, you basically you hit that and it says, "Well, what purchase did you make?" It either has information on there of your last purchase that you made because of your credit card use. Um, or you just upload a picture of your receipt and then it'll be like, "Okay, so you just spent in this community. How do you want us to pay you back?" And then just press Venmo or something like that. Um, but it's super easy. I put my credit card in there. So, I spent I went uh to a little gift shop. I bought something automatically connected it to it and then yeah I just pressed pay me out and I got $10 in my Venmo

and it would be any transaction in Yep. in the community and then yeah basically we kind of like set the parameters of where that community sent. Um so this so you guys can QR code that and save it if you want. You can Google open rewards. Um the website is there openrewards.com. They als if we are interested they I do have the contacts of um people at the business and they said they are more than willing to hop on Zoom with us and give a presentation and get a lot more in depth on it um before we make any serious decisions. But if people are are a little bit more curious and that's really interesting

want to look into it a little bit more. But I thought it was a cool opportunity. um we have to use our own money. Um but I don't know, it could be pretty good, especially with the Amtrak um advertised somehow or I don't know. Yeah. One thought too, Tiffany, I've seen similar programs. Actually, Durango had one when I was there for the DCI conference a couple years back that was similar. Um but they did it as a way to try to get people to shop local during the less busy shoulder seasons. So, it was like for the month of April or, you know, the month of October, November, something like that.

Um, and I think the way theirs was set up, if I remember correctly, was you could turn in your receipts, your spending, um, and then you got a gift card that had to be spent locally, so it kind of had you keep spending. Um, so there's a couple different versions that I think could be explored if the board wanted to to look at that. Nice. That's cool.

Yeah. done this um to they like you can go in like I said there's a live app that has data um you can go in and be like this weekend is supposed to be really slow like you get 50% more credit or something like that to like incentivize people to come um and then whoever has that app will get a little message being like hey are you just giving out free points is uh Safeway in the DDA Yes. Mhm. Would be paying a lot on. Yeah. So that Yeah. And that's another thing

like those big businesses like Segway and ACE then that would be a question for us. Um because then people are just taking away that money and not really incentivizing like that like kind of geo mark them out. I that's a good question. Or like change the percentage. Yeah. We could just like do it for the small business area. You know, I think we geo mark I'm pretty sure you can. Do you guys want to bring this back to a subsequent TDA board meeting to explore further? Yeah, I do. I like that you brought up the where it's more of a gift.

Yeah, that is very nice. Yeah, it would definitely be more of a reciprocal thing. Yeah, in this one I think the idea is you encourage people to spend money locally, but then you've got that double layer of um that incentives and rewards programs then could this have anything to do with the Amtrak? We couldn't like use rewards for them. I feel like didn't we have a receipt process for people for the Amtrak folks just had to show their train ticket and then they got like a promo at some of the different businesses that were participating. Okay. So, this wouldn't be useful for that. Well, well, it would be useful if they had an app and then got off the train.

There could be a way to link it. It would it would drive traffic into town. Right. Right. To a static display at the train station. Yeah, exactly. And there is download the app, you know, with the um welcome to Frraasier to save money by downloading the app. That's Yeah. I mean, especially when you I mean, have you if I just think about how much my parents spend when they come for like a month, they would be like all over this. And I don't I hate to like talk about your a like certain ages, but once you're like over 70, you're kind of looking at those things like a like a game. They're like, "Oh, I made um I don't know. I just feel like my mom would be really into it. It's kind of cool."

So, good work. Question is, where in the budget would it fall? That would be in the the next discussion, I think, because pull in five to 10,000 and then, right, I would probably see it as it's titled community outreach, but I've kind of thought of it as community outreach slashpromotion. So, it's been community things like the comeup conference as well as the advertising pushes. Um, so like the ride, ski, save. Yeah. So, whether it's something we look at for this year or if there's interest and we want to add room for that, more room for that into the budget for next year. Um, that's a possibility, too.

Yeah, I think it'll be more of a next year thing, planning ahead for it. Yeah, forgive me. I have to run. I have a client conference to get to, but see you all next. Um, happy summer. What else you That's That's it for me. Okay. So, bring it back to a different discussion.

Oh, yeah. The last thing was this is uh um I think this place is in Colorado. Uh this is just um what the town put up on their website of how to advertise and then like it just how to participate in the program and there's just step-by-step things. So, um, something you can we can put up on our website, whatever program we get or whatever. But I just thought it was nice and I just liked how it was they had a stepby-step um process on there with pictures and everything to be like, okay, this is what we do. I think excluding major franchises would be like a a big deal with that.

Yeah. You know, they have their own rewards programs. So, it's like Wendy's has their own rewards. They they ship you stuff to your mailbox to like come in. We don't we don't Yeah. So, however we could manipulate that, I think that that would be best. Yeah. Does the town have any connections with um No, they're coming. Any of those other towns that have programs have they could ask them? We can always reach out. Yeah. Um, we reach out to other communities all the time to ask some questions about stuff they're doing. So, knowing which ones have it. Um, that' be helpful. Try to figure.

Hi, Abby. Hi, guys. I've got to go load the kids. Um, but thank you. This was super productive. Thanks, Abby. Hi, guys. We'll drop this off for Abby. All right. um event sponsorship policy.

So, we've very briefly touched on previously um the idea of having an event sponsorship policy. Um it's discussed in the DDA work plan. It kind of has come back with um one of our board of trustees members when the town has when the winter park film festival asked for money. His question was, "Why isn't the DDA sponsoring this?" Um, I know Sarah brought up the possibility of the GDA helping to fund kind of a giant ice sculpture um for fire and ice. Sorry, I can't put thoughts together right now. Um, and I will just say I think there is something to be said and I've talked with Sarah about this just at the town level as well. like it is a lot for the town or the DDA to put on its own events, but if there are people out there putting on good events that are bringing people to town or enhancing community or helping to kind of activate downtown, some of those things that we would like to see as part of the DDA plan of development. Um, I think it's worth considering if that's a good use of DDA money to help support those efforts um without having to do all the work of putting on our own events necessarily. So, um, this is meant to be just a draft. Um, I apologize. I shamelessly used AI to help put this together. Um, and I think it is what I was looking for, but in a longer version than what I was looking for. Um, so just wanted to go through it quickly and get some kind of initial feedback and thoughts and then if this is something that the DDA wants to move forward with, we can bring kind of a formal policy for approval at our next meeting and kind of an application process. Um, but the idea is that it would be aligned with both the uh DVDA plan of development as well as our kind

of TIFF investment strategy document that Troy helped put together. Um, and really kind of focusing on sponsorships that do things like encourage residents and visitors to stop, stay, and spend in downtown Frasier, support locally owned businesses and economic development, foster arts, culture, creativity, and placemaking, enhance community connection, and quality of life, reinforce Frasier's unique identity, character, and funky spirit. So, that is all taken directly out of the plan of development. Um, if you want to jump down to kind of eligible sponsorship activities and once again, Greg, this is in that email I sent um if you want to be able to reference that. But it talks about different um areas that we could consider sponsoring. Arts and cultural events, live music or performance programming, community festivals, farmers market, promotional events, shop local campaigns, um which would be something probably similar to what we were just talking about with the rewards program, seasonal or holiday events. Um, I would actually add in I meant to have it in here kind of I think it is further down kind of focusing on those shoulder seasons again when we're maybe trying to bring in more foot traffic when it's not already just occurring because it's crazy busy anyways, you know, on a popular weekend. Um,

to funding considerations.

Yeah. Looking at eligible events that either would occur within or directly benefit the DDA boundaries. I think that generally would be stuff taking place within the boundaries, but um again, if it's just outside and it's bringing traffic into our downtown, I think that makes sense. Um things that are open to the public that could be via doesn't necessarily prohibit ticket sales, but versus kind of exclusive invite only type events that aren't open to the general public. Um things that encourage visitation and economic activity downtown and that demonstrate community benefit. Um, it walks through potential sponsorship priorities, um, including partnerships between kind of businesses and nonprofits, um, highlighting Frasier's unique identity and culture. A lot of this, I feel like kind of covers what is up above there as well. In terms of some different funding considerations would be thinking about event scale and anticipated intend attendance economic impact um alignment with DDA goals. If you go down to potential sponsorship structure options and sorry I'm going through this quickly because I know we don't have much time but there's any questions. Um but considering things like you know what level of match would we require? In most places, it could be that we are providing $1,000 towards a $50,000 budget, you know, depending on the event, but looking for kind of that bare minimum, the same as we do with the business enhancement grants that the town has. um you know, do you want to provide a sponsorship for something that benefits largely a single business cuz that's where the event is occurring or I would recommend maybe looking at things that are going to benefit multiple businesses so that there be some

collaboration. Um but I will throw that out. There's some different kind of considerations. Um, but if this is something that we want to pursue and just any again, we don't have too much time. We've got about 10 minutes left in our meeting. Um, but what the board would want to prioritize in terms of putting together kind of a formal policy. And again, this is something that could be started immediately or that we could look at including specific space in the budget for next year. But again, I would see it as part of that community outreach line item that's kind of community events and kind of community promotion.

I'd like the opportunity to take a look at it. Yeah. And then bring it back, give you more feedback. Yep. And in the meantime, since our budget's pretty little, if somebody did come forward, still would have to be approved by the town board, right? an expense or does that is that all approved by us? We have left intentionally left our line items fairly broad to provide flexibility as opportunities arise during the year. Um, you know, moving forward in the future, I would see the GDA maybe having a more structured budget come budget season for the next year.

But right now, again, I would see this within community outreach and we have spent um just over 5,000 in that area um and 10,000 was budgeted. Yeah. So, as long as we are not amending this budget to a significant degree, we don't need board approval. We don't need town of Frasier board approval. And our um come up series, that's also part of that community outreach. That's how we fund the coffee and the goodies. So,

yes. And that is our own event. This would be if somebody else, for example, wanted to do a comeup conference series and was looking for some funding that they would be able to apply. Consider it. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. So, I Yeah, I think that this isn't a huge hurry. Probably not. I was kind of thinking for this year, our come up series is going to use up that extra that next 5,000. No. No, you don't. No. Gosh, no. We've spent We spent like 30 to 70.

It's been like I think the first one I have it right here. One of them was like $75. So, the whole point of the comeup conference was to have zero expenses pretty much. The refreshments are like very little, you know. Um Okay. Yeah. One was $84 and the other one was7.

When I originally went to the mayor with this idea, he was saying, "What kind of money do we need to bring up a big level consultant and bring them in?" And this is a great idea. And I was like, "That's good idea, but that's not going to drive our demographic into listen." So that's why we went with local stories. Your daughter was there last time. It's basically free. The come up conference is as close to free for an event as we can get. Yeah. Most of the money and it drives traffic which is these ads we published. That was the vast majority of the $5,000. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. Yeah, that's right. It was actually the production of the ad. Yeah.

And I would think kind of like we talked similar with like the business enhancement grant. If there's stuff that the town board would like to maybe get off their plate that we could focus on, that might be helpful. Yeah. And I think other things that maybe we're not thinking of, right? And I think like with this your biggest and most, you know, um I guess pertinent is application requirement. That's going to be when people come here. That's what we're going to want to have dialed.

It's not necessarily going to be all this other stuff in here. I mean, yeah, some of it, but a lot of times every it's just going to fall in the outreach. So, if it's under outreach, it's going to be requirements like, hey, how much money are you putting down? Um, you know, what's your estimated attendance? that that's the sort of thing we're going to want to know because if it's 10 people and they want like if if it was a come-up conference series and I was coming here asking you for 2500 for one of them like I would be paying myself you know

like the money wouldn't be getting spent and that's something I just saw with enhancement grants in Graanby is they had a lady come in and ask for more money for all these facade improvements and she listed off like a hundred facad thought improvements and then in the same sentence was like, "Oh, and I didn't spend all the money last year that you gave me and I was like instantly in the crowd like thumbs down. You are not eligible. Like you should not get any money if you went and paid yourself with that money and didn't use it." And they didn't hire specific contractors like licensed they use their family to do the work. And I was like that is major problem. Like that wouldn't fly in Frasier.

Yeah. Well, and so I'll just say, yeah, there's bullet points that kind of speak to that. I think all of this is kind of informing like who is an eligible applicant. Um, I will say in my mind, similar to the business enhancement grants, it's recognizing one that sometimes it takes money to put this stuff on. um the same that it takes money to improve your business, but if we see a community benefit to these invent events, trying to incentivize people, businesses, entities to take this on, right? So, if this is something that we do decide to establish

and it is well advertised, it's out there, people know it, is there, you know, they can consider doing these things and requesting some funding. Yeah. I just think we want to exclude things like if you're going to pay a band to come into your shop and play and I think that's the idea around it being something that would require local businesses and be participating and Exactly. Yeah. But I think that incentivizes businesses to do things. I mean, obviously the events that Frrazier does have are already funded by things, but having more things going on.

Block parties would be cool to see. Again, they haven't been in Frraasier in a long time. Block parties would be cool. You know, farmers markets would be cool. Those sort of things like if someone wants to get in front of those, that's very useful. You know, like Tiffany, your suggestion from the conference of doing a dress up pub crawl, right? if the pubs themselves want to put that on. I don't know that they necessarily need money for that. But I mean, but that's the type of thing they're moving around to different businesses. We're activating the community for advertising. We don't have to do the work. We just say here's $500 or whatever it is, right? That would be huge. That would be something that Yeah. I mean, I feel like the first thing

be super $500 for her. That's what I immediately thought. I was like that's continues to get bigger and like can do it all on our own. That would be super easy even if it was just used for advertising. Yeah. Any Facebook go really far. Agreed. Yeah, they are. And then they're also doing the promotion for us for Frraasier, right? In addition to the actual event or activation. Yep. Cool. Do we want to discuss this more or just

you have been emailed this as well. um if you have any comments or feedback that you want to send me over the next couple weeks and then we can bring back um something for the next meeting if that makes sense. Oh, I did have something random now that we're on the last open forum here. Um there's been a lot of reported surrounds in the bike park. So, electric dirt bikes, which heavily like we either need way better signage there or something saying that you will be fined, but those are heavy and that asphalt is not meant to take a 200 lb.

So, code enforcement has been called previously. They are not allowed. We've added some smaller kind of no motorized vehicles. The actual signage for the bike park is with the resort bike shop now being printed with the goal of having that up before that May 30th opening. Um so yes, we recognize it's a problem. They will tear that stuff up. Um I know other bike parks talk about getting the electric like or even just like um motorized dirt jumpers, dirt bikes can't and things like that that will also tear up the dirt as well as the asphalt.

It will. And I think just having something on there to deter them because most of them are like 17, 18 year old kids. They don't care about your sign that says no motorized vehicles. They need to be like this is going to fine you $5,000. So even if you don't do it, that's what's going to deter a child. So for enforcement, let's say for people that are there that see it, do we have a vehicle where they could take a photo of the violator and send it to the town? Sure. Or no, they They'd call the police department and code enforcement would come out. Okay.

Yeah. And I don't know, Katie, something we could discuss with code enforcement is if it makes a difference if like the town board formally passes like an ordinance. Yeah. Or something. And I don't know if you're allowed to minor, but if it went to a link to code enforcement to say, "Hey, this is a problem." I think that if the best thing that you can do is is put a sign out there that says you're going to get fined, your family will be fined, whatever. And even if you don't enforce the fine, just put a high number on it because that's what's going to deter somebody. It's true. So, if it's more than your dirt bike,

well, I feel like we need a board action to do that like to it. It's probably worth it because that cost you $1 something million dollars to put in and they're going to crack that asphalt. Okay. Yeah, we'll make a note. Uh okay. Thank you. Make a motion. Second. Second. All right. Cool. All right.