Yeah, now it's trying.

Okay, so Tuesday, August 4th, 2026 meeting of the redevelopment commission calling it to order.

We apparently do not have minutes.

No minutes for ready today, and we do not have a voucher.

Okay.

Streamlined.

So we'll move right on to new business.

And uh first item is resolution 26 ERC24.

This is a resolution of the City of Evansville Redevelopment Commission approving a first amendment to the agreement for management services with venue works of Evansville, LLC and VW Sports of Evansville LLC.

And Nick, a little background, and then we'll ask our guests.

So we entered into uh our last agreement with VenueWorks, although VenueWorks, you may recall has been the manager of the building since it was originally built.

Um but we entered into a new agreement on let's see, I guess it was dated May 1st, 2021.

Uh we're coming to the end of the five-year term on that.

The current agreement provides that upon mutual agreement of the parties, it can be extended another five years.

Uh we've been pleased with their with their uh management of the building and and they want to keep doing the work.

So this this amendment just extends it for another five years.

Thank you very much.

And um the commission has been very pleased with the job that venue works has done with the Ford Center, um, keeping it pretty active most of the time.

Can't seem to control their water, but other than that, they seem to be doing doing quite well.

And we have here with us today uh Scott Shaughnicke, who will walk us through the annual report for the fiscal year 2025 and talk a little bit about uh the year to come.

Scott Thanks.

Scott Shaunek, executive director of the Ford Center and Victory Theater.

Um it's I guess we're this is a recap of 25.

Uh generally our audit comes out by the end of May uh March, so that's why it's always kind of delayed somewhat, but always wait till the audit just make sure there's no surprises or changes.

Um kind of going through it.

We can kind of skip the corporate support uh the local businesses have been still very strong supporting us.

The suites and the loges and the sponsorships continue to be our one of our strengths.

Been sold out.

We do a little rotation through every once in a while, but you know, there's always a company to step up and move in.

Definitely give affords us a lot of of the kind of a fixed income because the biggest thing of these buildings, we know there's a fixed expense.

This gives us a fixed income that really kind of balances that out, that really kind of gives us breathing room that we don't uh have to kind of worry as much on events trying to make you know push the markets as uh we'll talk a little bit about later uh and kind of what to do with the markets.

Uh something that's probably less known.

Uh you know, we use a lot of local nonprofits uh in the concession stands, uh the Thunderbolts we do Chuck Apuck, we do that.

Um last year we we wrote checks for over 343,000 dollars to the local nonprofit group.

So um a lot of groups that are you know making some good money there.

Uh and it's fairly easy work.

Uh you know, they can do it with some groups as far low as four people to ten people, so it's not uh you know that's these groups can manage that uh volunteer level and they can make some good money on that side.

Um Thunderbolts, uh, you know, this uh back-to-back champion, so that's kind of a big deal.

Uh you know, uh so that's good.

We won it's really it's in 26, so really it's kind of outside the parameter of 25, but we won in 25 and we won in 26.

So I'll take credit for that.

That's came a long way from the beloved Iceman that never made the playoffs to uh the Thunderbolts now.

We have back to back champions.

Uh hard part about that is is uh you know, after that we're losing a lot of players as the other teams go up and down, and uh so you know not that a three-peat uh isn't possible, but it sure makes it harder when you do the repeat, and we'll probably lose our top two lines.

Uh most of them are going to ECHL up.

Um, which is good for them, and that's the man of the developmental league is to move up.

Bad thing is when they move up.

Um, yeah, like I say, I think we're we'll lose at least half the team going up this year.

So uh but still coaches there putting a team together.

I think we'll still be competitive.

Um never want to say we'll win championship, but uh never say never.

Next page is you kind of go through the social media reach.

I mean, it's in 15 years that have been here.

Uh you know, basically, you know, it went from uh print and radio and TV is now it's all basically digital.

Uh you know, as you see in Facebook there, we're getting over 12 million views.

Even the Victory Theater is getting quite a few views.

You know, so I mean, all those are separate Facebook pages, so that isn't kind of utilizing one.

That's so overall, we're over 33 million views off our three Facebook pages.

So obviously you can see what people are looking at, how they're utilizing us.

Um, you know, the website views uh you know at the Ford Center is at 1.7 million.