City Council Work Session

Ms. SummerfieldstaffSo our landmark events would be the 4th of July, Fall Festival, Chocolate Lovers, those of which we're getting over 10,000 people in attendance. Then we have our kind of mid-tier events, typical Rock the Block, we're looking at 5,000 people. And so we did, we do have a cost breakdown, I believe, that's been shared of each event and the estimated attendance.

I would say next would be fall festival just because we are looking at a full day of closing down streets utilizing you know police fire public works and our staff and

Speaker 26It can certainly stay in service. The issue, the benefit of replacing it is that it would be able to be actually utilized more. Right now, it's a very large unit. You have to be trained on how to drive it. It is not easy to access. It's not a quick and easy take it to a command post vehicle. It's the vehicle you've probably seen at July 4th. We used to position at the fall festival. We've moved toward different command post options for those, but the vehicle we have currently for that is very large. What we would be moving toward would be more of a vehicle that's easier to drive, personnel can operate it. It would be stationed at the believe would be the goal. Right now it's down at the shop or at the fire department. It's not

Rachel McQuillenI don't want something permanent. I was more thinking along the lines of when people are coming into our city since we don't charge them to attend our events, usually like our fall festival and things like that, but they do need to drive into our cities usually and most of our residents can walk or take the Q bus or some other form of transportation that doesn't cost them anything, just along the lines of things that we've discussed, proffers, entertainment, things that people coming in would be paying. but just ideas. Yeah.