Range with the partner.

But that's been a topic that has come up in conversation in the city again and with other external partners.

So I just wanted to make sure that you were aware of the fireworks are still happening, still happening in Soldiers Field, still at 10 o'clock.

We will be amplifying that message so that folks in the community know, but we are not going to be on site.

We are not having any bans or any in-part activity.

Another change we have is we've had some staffing changes.

So we, as you know, we are the three uh staff members that are full-time with music.

In the summer, we have a part-time production assistant.

And that is a position that Paul and I will hopefully be hiring next week or in the next two weeks.

We have interviews this week and the next for that position.

That's a summer position.

That is a person who comes to us in the summer and helps Paul basically with all of the hands-on things that he needs assistance with with getting things up and running in the parks.

This person also kind of is a floater.

They're not working on things for setup or teardown.

They also do things like sometimes they do crowd counting, sometimes they do surveys, sometimes they're at the uh tent with us doing kind of um community outreach, customer service stuff.

And so you may have met um, we had Jason Miller Dunbar with us the last couple of years.

He is no longer able to take on that role.

And so we're hiring someone new.

So that position is hopefully gonna be filled soon.

Then we um we also have a summer intern who will be joining us.

We have hired that position as well.

And so she will be starting as my Gina.

She'll be starting in April, April 20th, you said.

And so fortunate to have her last year was our second year having a summer intern.

Um, and really a very critical piece for us.

They they help with a lot of the operations work with Mary.

Um, and then we take full advantage of whatever skills they come to us with, which um because these seem to be folks who are college age, tend to be very fluent in things like um media, yeah, sometimes video, sometimes photography, sometimes graphic design, sometimes social media.

So all the things that we really could use help with.

Um, so that we're excited about her coming to join us.

Um is that a good position?

Yes.

Okay.

Interesting.

Yep.

Um, the other, so we did have also a role with us that was a um, we call it a limited term appointment.

So with their 14-hour week positions.

And so we had a staffer, uh, Rosie Skipper, who was with us doing social media.

Um, due to kind of marketing priority shifting with the department and uh limited resources.

We kind of redesigned that role.

And so that position is going to be a marketing manager position that we have posted and will be um conducting some interviews for soon.

So basically, that is um we're looking for a 14-hour week position as a kind of a consistent across the year, years.

It's it's there isn't an end date.

Um, and that person would, if you're familiar with a marketing manager position, they basically are kind of a project manager operations person for marketing.

So we don't have an embedded marketing staff member.

So we work with uh various folks to get our marketing stuff done.

Uh the comms department in in the city does graphic design.

We sometimes have external contractors, we work with sponsors, we do a bunch of different people are involved, obviously all the bands.

Um, so it gets to be a lot of cats to wrangle, and it's it's pretty difficult for um, it's typically me and Mary who are trying in vain to uh to get that across the finish line.

So this role uh will be doing that work, basically kind of holding all the thread and making sure the people who need the information are getting it and that we're coordinating, people are getting the bits and pieces they need so that we can successfully do our marketing campaigns.

Just clarifying, you said it's a 14-hour week position.

Yes.

So it is it is a it's obviously tag teaming with Mary.

So they're not doing all of the um there's going to be stuff that stays with Mary, stuff that stays with me.

So stuff like marketing plans, things like that would be with me, um, things like ordering um banners and all the materials and working with all the vendors to get all that stuff done.

That'll be Mary.

But um the marketing manager, for instance, would be going to our media sponsors and saying, Hey, you know, you're a media sponsor, we're gonna need your banners by X date.

Um, you know, make sure you send us your up-to-date logos.

We need it by this date to put in this advertisement, that kind of a thing.

Um, doing a lot of that following up and relationship building that is just really critical, but hasn't lived consistently with one person um since our department uh our marketing position in our department was was reallocated um internally.

So that is kind of those are the big changes that have happened and are happening.