The meeting, held on March 6, 2026, covered updates on capital improvements, marketing plans, horse racing, stormwater compliance, and economic impact. Key discussions centered on the absence of horse racing for the 2026 fair, with public commenters expressing disappointment and a supervisor questioning the board's decision not to apply for race dates. The committee also reviewed a $312 million economic impact report and received over 60 industry awards.
I need to serve when I know you are. All right, it's 2 30 something. Sorry, it's late. We're gonna call the March 5th Fair Board ad hoc meeting to order. Will the clerk please call the roll? Supervisor Miley. President Hubbard. Present. Present Jerome Hoban. Present. Rose Johnson. Francis Tuck Moore. John Smith. Gordon Galvin. Here. Sure. Thank you very much. I appreciate the clerk calling the committee members. I don't know that we have always truly understood exactly who is on this committee, but now we do. And welcome to Susan Ranchi for being here. And I know you can't stay here the whole time. But your presence is appreciated. I note that we have members of the public in person. And do we have anybody online? We do have somebody online. So your presence and participation is welcome and appreciate. Um land surplus at informational item. Who wants to start? Good afternoon, Supervisor. We are uh still evaluating potential options, and so it's a big challenge that Andrew and I have discussed a couple times. Um opportunities around the surplus land act and what can and cannot be done, and we have to do this uh body, we will continue to do that in an effort to move forward. We do know that the market is a challenge for the developer that you can press with. So it was on our activities list, and we have had initial conversations with the two. These are initial conversations with GSA and our council account cycle on what the path forward is because we'll go. Any questions from the others on the fair board committee? Questions about that. Do you have a timeline? We'll bring more details at the next meeting. Or anything to add, not really. Okay, I think we're we where we want to uh disseminate on this, okay. But we do want to have a point on the understanding what that process is. So I think at some point, hopefully over the next six months or so, we can get a better idea of the timeline and uh a process. Would it be fair to keep this item on the agendas until we do have more to update on uh Kimberly? Or would you prefer that we simply add this when we do have? You can leave it there. It's an open item, okay. Okay. Alright, very good. Um, is there any public comment on item one, which is hotel land surplus act informational? Seeing none, I'll ask for item two to be an update on the 2026 capital improvement marketing plan.