So now they have this new green light.

So and then we do have another recall.

That's too much money.

We've got the sign highs in the room.

Right.

Super.

Like to welcome everyone to tonight's uh special event.

Arena committee meeting.

It's Wednesday, June 4th, 2025.

I'll go around the room.

We'll go around the room, and each person can introduce themselves, and then we'll take the meeting from there.

Ben Basson, committee member.

Mark Vinson, new committee member.

Katie O'Bart Smith, committee member.

And Stefania Walk's committee member.

Wonderful.

And Stefania is joining us via phone.

Not attending tonight.

Patrick Clayton, Jan Short, Doug Vodry, Walt Roseman, Stephanie Sherrill, Fred Lowry, and Buzz Goodridge.

A lot of people not here.

Oh.

And Annika.

Is that Buzz or Bud?

Buzz Buzz.

Z like E Z Z, right?

First thing that we'll do is approve the prior meeting minutes.

And that is the one that you took the notes on tonight.

So the first order of business would be to approve the prior meeting minutes.

I motion that we accept the minutes.

Seconded.

Done.

Great.

Introduction and welcome of new members.

Oh, tonight's an exciting night.

We often don't get new members.

The excitement in the room is high.

So let's just take a few minutes and uh we'll have these two gentlemen uh introduce themselves and uh love to hear from you.

Go right ahead.

All right, yeah.

My name is Oliver Herrera.

Um I recently in the last year have moved to Draper.

Um I um uh got a home just close to here to when it was that new neighborhood by the Chick-fil-A, so I always tell my friends and people like oh, oh yeah.

Where do you live?

I'm like, that is like everyone's like, I know where that is.

It's either that or Des Froze.

People are like, I know exactly what they're doing.

So I bought a home there, uh, love draper immediately, it's just amazing.

Um I became uh HOE president, met the um land developer, and he told me, hey, you should you know try you know being part of the committee, it's a lot of fun, and you get to be more involved, and um uh he also knew that I had some political interests as well, so that's why I'm running for counsel.

Um and so that's you know, I'm here to kind of just help learn from ground up foundational and and moving forward, you know, um draper, it's people, it's culture, and uh the special events committee, um arena committee, like really stood out to me because like I like to think not to toot my own horn that I'm an interested person.

I do a little bit of everything.

We'll be the judge of that.

Oh yeah, and if there was a bad way.

Uh not to be uh super confident, but um I have a lot I feel like to offer to the table, connections that I have from friends and such that could be incredibly useful, and that could be a great resource, so I wanted to offer that help um if needed.

So like I was talking to Mayor uh Troy and he uh mentioned like yeah, if you have connections for like stuff like the amphitheater so we can have more concerts and stuff.

I told him uh that I have friends who like own venues downtown like the Metro, like the Kilby block party court, Philby Court and all that, and you know I could possibly facilitate meeting, you know, bands and stuff stuff like that.

Um I do a little bit of everything, so I'm definitely a jack of all trades, so that could be really helpful.

So I think I have a lot to offer, and I was excited to be part of it, not only the committee, but the services that well come aboard.

I'm Mark Vincent.

I like this committee already because I see that at least the majority of us that are here have the same hair issue that I do.

That was very cool.