Okay, it's officially twelve oh five, twelve oh four uh PM.

Um, want to start the call to order the Port Authority of Evansville regular meeting for May, excuse me, for Monday, June the eighth, twenty twenty-six, please.

Uh, the first of agenda item is our meeting uh memorandum.

I'd like to ask for a motion to approve the meeting memorandum for April the sixth, twenty twenty-six.

Uh, unfortunately, uh, we had no quorum on May eighteenth, twenty twenty six for our meeting.

So moved.

Second.

All those in favor, please signify with the I sign.

I think those opposed.

Motion carry to accept the meeting memorandum.

Next, we have O Business, and um, Mr.

Gunnar, I'd like to ask if you'd be so kind to uh just give us uh a uh follow-up uh update of uh what has taken place in regards to your last discussion with um with uh our commission as well as Markle and your thoughts about moving forward with the board.

Right.

We're talking about the uh the uh barge there at Marina Point.

We're paying almost five thousand dollars a month in rent uh to have it more there.

So I originally thought we would use the city uses this site called Gov Deals, where we auction off surplus vehicles, equipment, um, and things like that, where it's open to pretty much anyone who wants to register.

But it's it's really geared toward uh police cars, fire trucks, and you know, things like that.

So I did some looking and I found a couple sites that actually deal with barges, so I'm thought about if the board's okay to reach out to them to see if they would be willing to look at this barge and see if it would be something they could auction on their side.

So that's kind of where I stand and I uh, uh, didn't know if the board would be okay to do something like that, or go with our original option of just putting it on the up deals.

Do you need a motion for us to it would help to have a motion?

And what we can do is have it have someone look at it and give us an assessed value, maybe, and that we can set a reserve.

So if we don't get the reserve, then we don't sell it.

So I will make the motion to give the city the ability to investigate the specific board or barge site and get some estimates.

Okay, we have a second.

Before we do that, I have a friend that um his family owned Evansville Barge Marine Services, and he runs a site now, it's called Waterway Exchange.

Okay.

I've talked to him, you can just put that in your search engine, it'll pull up his.

And he's interested in helping.

Okay.

He just recently moved to Nashville, so he doesn't live here anymore.

But he's very knowledgeable about what's down there.

I talked to him last week about it.

So I'll get in touch with him as well and okay.

Thanks, Dave.

Find out how he would handle it, or maybe I need to find out how we would handle it as far because he'd kind of be the middleman.

And essentially he would broker the deal or whatever with, but he already said a few people came to mind that would be interested.

So and that's what we would need is get it publicized so that those who are in that business would know that we're doing this, and if I put it on dove deals, that's not gonna happen.

So I'll get with Paul and see if we can take it to the next step with him.

But if the board's okay with that uh that approach, okay.

There's a motion on the table.

I still I still would wonder if we should talk to local entities like legal top or other portal owner, Fleagle Top.

He owns the just down there, um what's it called?

Now I can't remember the name of the and a marina?

Not Molser, they have an actual name for the their port that's down here, but those entities.

Is it all about the gravel?

Is it on a mansion of gravel?

Let me all I uh I can look it up real quick.

But if there's any other local entities that might be interested to.

Maybe we can get the news reporter, the newspaper to do a story on it and drum up some publicity on it.

That's a good idea.

Actually, um, I think the through the resources you're talking about, as well as you, Dave and your Andrew.

I think that you know, combined effort would give us the best outcome and and best uh return on our investment as well.

Now, as you talked about Dave, this gentleman, your friend, he brokers and he works as as a broker.

So I think he would have a lot of insight about this as well to help us.

Yeah, okay.

As long as his fees are not too uh, sorry.

As long as his fees are not too extreme.

Well, yeah, I don't know.

Just teasing.

But no, it'd be good to have his expertise as well.