Remarks by Julie Schoenherr
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We have other companies now, and we just found out that Verde still owns how many locations that you? Three. You only found three?
And they can sell those. Heidi's going to ask for your name.
They can ask for variants to have a sign if it's for their business, if Sioux City's growing you know, north or south or east or west, they can ask for that for the city to grant them permission to have a billboard or a large sign or whatever they want there. Correct. To open it up to a possibility of eleven hundred more when we're already fifty five percent higher than any other community, and I put the square of miles in for you by the way, we're still 7 out of all of those were higher.
If we're growing and they can't have a billboard by them advertising, hey, you know, come over here and go to Costco or whatever it might be. They can ask for permission to get one and ask. Is it a variance?
Or if they wanted it. They could say, hey, we're investing $10 million in your city. We want a billboard. We can grant them permission to do that.
Are the digital signs generally two and three-sided?
about doing it, but I don't think we did. It's expiring.
How we calculate how much we did that way back, right? But this is the agreement to do this for one year or locked down to two years. That's just what we're deciding now. It's nothing to do with money. The budget, nothing. We're just deciding.
That's what I'm going to follow Craig's lead on that one.
And I think there will be fewer questions when you can offer us events that you have actually landed, have gotten to that convention center. Those dollars are what are the return on the investment with whatever your vision ends up being, what those videos that you're investing in produce. That handball tournament that you supported, you didn't land that. Corey Westra did. Would you agree with that? I would not agree with that. Well, I'm sorry, but that's not true.
Right. So let's go beyond that. The Sports Commission grant, we apply for a grant every year. Someone fills out the application, one person that's in the room, which Angela did, correct? Correct. This new format was new to everyone, every city. The money was different. The splitting of it was different. In the past, it's been a fixed amount. You apply for this $70,000, and that's how it is. the gates were opened up, the commission went back and forth with the whiteboard, let's ask for more money, let's elevate it, et cetera, et cetera. And you just stood before us and said that Explore…
It leads back to what people ask, the return on the investment.
How many events are coming to the convention center? Because that's what I get asked. That's what I get asked, and I'm responding to it. I say, well, I don't know if they have any booked events. Can you answer that question? Do you have anything on the books for the Sioux City Convention Center? Not at the moment for the Convention Center. That is what is super important that we get that Convention Center filled up.
Let's just move with the super. They hit the super running for one year.
So there's a motion and a second this is to approve to approve the payment and to Have a one-year letter of understand is this to amend?
It is. That's a great idea. Thanks, you guys.
I was going to say that you can drive either from a rider's perspective.
I'm going to agree with Craig. I'm not really ready to do a two-year at this point either. And actually, I'd like to bring it back.
Janelle Bertrand, Human Resources Director, yes. It's up to them if they want to. Participate in it or not. They're already out. They have to opt in.
They have to sign up if they want it. Right.
What we've been kind of working towards for all the packages. Yes, we have.
Chris, do you have those capita numbers with you?
First, let's talk about this for a minute.
Omaha, Des Moines, all of these other cities are huge, right?
We are, but I'm just saying that even though these cities are massive, we're still above them in the number of signs.