So give me back my studio.

You can have it.

I can't get it to work.

Is yours working?

Let me see yours for a second.

Maybe my batteries just I can't get to work at all.

Commissioner Healy, I just gotta have you check in, please.

I'll bring the Butte Silver Bow Council of Commissioners, Committee of the Whole Meeting to Order for Wednesday, September 24th.

Uh can I please have a roll call?

One presiding, seven present, four absent.

Okay, please let the record reflect that Commissioner Shea, Walker, Mankins, and O'Leary are excused.

Commissioner Thatcher, can you lead us in the prayer and the pledge?

Almighty God, we implore you.

Look upon us and guide us this night as we make decisions which so greatly affect our community of Butte Silverbow.

Direct our thoughts, words, and deeds so that we please you and best serve our fellow citizens.

Amen.

Next item on tonight's agenda is any public comment on any items on tonight's agenda.

If there's any member of the public that would like to speak on any item that is on the agenda tonight, now would be your opportunity.

Okay.

Seeing none, I'll move on to the report of the chair.

Um I don't have anything to report tonight, so I'll move right into section one, bid openings, public hearings, and or presentations.

We do have a couple of presentations tonight.

Number one, communication 2025-459.

Stephanie Feast Feist.

Thank you.

Um excuse my uh small cold that I have this morning.

Um I believe you have a um a short notice from me and then an invoice related to our ongoing relationship.

But also you would have received um the what I call a general impact statement.

It looks like this.

Um it just talks about the different things that we do.

But specific to the pool, in addition to what relates to the pool on that side.

Um just this evening we passed out something that has a swimmer like this on it.

So you've got two documents that talk about statistical stuff in general terms.

Um what I'd like to point out that's not on the general impact statement, is we bring roughly 1900 athletes from outside the Butte Silver Bowl area to come and compete in swim meets here.

That brings in revenue related to hotel space and restaurants.

Some of those meets span over two days, so likelihood of one to two nights versus just one night stay.

An additional use also beyond the Fritz Apostle third grade learn to swim.

Each spring six to seven elementary school use us for their year-end field trip.

This also extends to people living in the White Hall, Ramsey, Sheridan, Drummond areas.

So we truly do have uh outreach that goes beyond and comes back into our community to serve all of Silverbow area.

People actually travel from as far as an hour away to come and make use of the aquatic center that was built roughly um 25 years ago and supported by a bond by the Butte Silverbow area.

We also provide a location for a local scuba and deep water rescue group to train.

And within this past year, we've had the naval reserves in our aquatic center doing training.

The rest of it is kind of in those stats.

I don't like to read stuff that people can obviously read themselves.

I've certainly made myself available for any questions you might have related to the YMCA.

We are very proud of our Fritz Apostle Learn to Swim, bringing in every single third grader from in the Butte district from Butte School District number one as well as Central, and we are trying to work out something with Ramsey on transportation, but also our active teens program, which brings in every sixth grader from the Butte School District number one central, and then again we're trying to reach out and figure out transportation beyond Butte.

I would like to say that without the support of Butte Silverbow and what's been ongoing for the last 20 plus years, we wouldn't be able to keep our aquatic center open and maintained in the direction it is.

I've been um a proud resident of the Butte Silverbow area for two and a half years, and within that time, we've spent the 42,000 dollars on repairs each year that I've been here and just completed some this fall.

I'm open to any questions that anyone might have.

Thank you, Ms.

Feist.

Um I just want to thank you and your group for what you guys do for this community.

I know there's a lot of children, adults that utilize your facility, and it's always good to see that we still have that going on in our community.

So thank you for that.

Um just some information for the council.

So this communication that's before us tonight is is kind of in two parts.

One part um is the request to do the presentation as we just had, and then the second request is that um there's a copy of an invoice for 42,000 that Ms.

Feist would like this council to accept.

And so just procedurally, just so everybody's aware, this first section is just the presentation, and then later on in the agenda is where we would you know confirm or deny the the invoice later tonight.