City Council — May 5, 2026

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And all those who are comfortable doing so

with love and kindness. And we remind ourselves that we must never Real worry of doing what is right. Amen.

Council Member Chavez, would you please lead us in the flag

salute? I pledge

allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all. All right. Madam Clerk, would you please do the roll call?

this evening.

That brings us to our public comment period. Members of the

Hi Council, Vice Mayor. I'm the owner of the Hardison House which is on Ojai Road it's a historic house from 1883 and we've been doing some film shoots at the location and we're always respectful of the neighbors we always stay within the care few times and recently we were more aware of the payment process of the ordinance with the city That payments would be required for Which is which is all valid. It's just some of the scale of the payments like some of the crews that we have are Very small like it's like student projects or five ten people Sometimes it's not more than like 15 people but I was wondering if this the council could review some other the payment fees and having to have a business license for, I know those things are administrative.

It will deter some of the smaller film shoots from being able to come to Santa Paula and when people come to Santa Paula they're amazed They've left the city, some people say they're coming up from Los Angeles. They've never been to Santa Paula so I'm all for trying to make Santa Paula the history of Santa Paula and restoring that house and the barn. It's a long process but we're getting closer and closer to making it as good as possible where it used to be restored.

So if it could be reviewed, if we could put some comments from emails to what I think would make it a little bit easier for people to film there and just become a team. Film shoots do come to Santa Paula more and they work within the rules of the city and most of the shoots we're doing are always contained inside the property so not on the street. Thank you so much.

Can we make sure that we have his information so we can follow up and make sure that we understand the dynamics? Do you have it already?

Greg, I do.

OK. All right. Thank you. So that finishes our general public comment and we will move on to our first presentation which is Older Americans Month Proclamation. And let's see before I read this so y'all don't have to stand up there while I read it, I will read the mayor's proclamation And then after that, I will invite Director Barnes and the Senior Advisory Committee to come on up. But I'll read this first so you don't have to stand up there while I read it.

Older Americans Month 2026. Whereas the City of Santa Paula includes a growing number of older Americans who contribute their time, wisdom and experience to our community. And whereas communities benefit when people of all ages abilities and backgrounds have the opportunity to participate and live independently. And whereas the City of Santa Paula recognizes the need to create a community that offers services and supports older adults and supports older adults may need to make choices about how they age. And whereas the City of Santa Paula can work to build an even better community for our older residents by not limiting our thinking about age, exploring and combating stereotypes, emphasizing the many positive aspects of aging, inspiring older adults to push past traditional boundaries, and embracing our communities diversity Further, I urge all residents to recognize older adults and those who support them as essential contributors to the vitality, resilience and strength of our community.

And reaffirm our commitment to building a community where everyone can age with dignity, respect and opportunity. Now therefore, I Carlos Juarez on behalf of Carlos Juarez City of Santa Paula On behalf of the City Council and all residents, do I proclaim May 2026 as Older Americans Month in the city of Santa Paula. Director Barnes and the Senior Advisory Commission.

I just want to say thank you all for your support. We've been working very very hard To try to bring our seniors together and because of your support, we've been more and more successful. And we hope to continue with this relationship and make it stronger as we go. So thank you.

Good evening. So I'm a recent senior and have just joined the Senior Center, and I find it wonderful. I find it wonderful. I'm taking advantage of as many classes that are offered. So thank you. And I hope we continue and we have new ideas and more seniors that come. So thank you so much.

Thank you.

So thank you. This is Pam Marshall, our vice chair and Cynthia Reyes-Cruz who's a committee member as well and I just want to make it quick plug in recognition you're going to hear presentation next about the master plan for aging so we just Did that strategically in May, since it's Older Americans Month. But also just want to let the community know that the seniors are having their annual wellness fair tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 1 30 p.m.. At the Community Center we have vendors and food and I've asked already who should catering it tomorrow?

Spencer McKenzie is catering it tomorrow for the seniors, and it's all at no cost. So just want to let the community know something we do annually to kind of recognize and celebrate Older Americans Month. So thank you to council for their proclamation and for recognizing them.

And if there's anyone watching at home that says oh I want to come down for the senior lunch what time does the lunch begin?

10 a.m., so 10 a m at the Community Center will actually be in the back at the Cultural Arts building but they can just go to the Community Center and back of the property. Thank you

All right, shall we all go on down and we'll present the proclamation unless there's anything else anyone would like to say?

No. And I also just want to let you know our staff is here too supporting them so they're going to join us in the picture if that's okay.

Yeah perfect.

Thank you.

Thank you, Vice Mayor. I just want to reach out and acknowledge the senior community in Santa Paula as well as the resident oldest and senior member of our council having just turned 70 this last year so We have I live in a senior community and a lot of my neighbors participate in the activities that are offered by our parks and rec department in our senior center. So there's it's really important, and it really keeps our community very alive and forward thinking To see where we're going and also to make sure that our seniors are looked after. So I really appreciate staff and all the work that you do to make it a wonderful, the senior center, a wonderful place for our seniors. Thank you.

Council

Member

Chavez

May we be so lucky to be active seniors. Our seniors are our elders, and I just want to say thank you for being positive role models because we all hope to be able to be active seniors one day and be able to reflect in life. Deal with isolation and have been active and being connected is so important for a vibrant community. So thank you to everyone involved, Director Barnes, staff, the community members, and all those support services that go around ensuring that our seniors are just starting in their next chapter of their lives.

I'll just echo that and say, um, I've been to some of those events in the past. And it was great to see people that I recognized growing up here in town that were there having lunch or helping set up or just talking amongst themselves and how nice it was to see Some people that hadn't seen each other like, oh my god hi how are you? I'm sure that's still happening.

Like Council Member Chavez said, I hope to be an active senior like you all and be a part of something this fun and involved as what we have here in Santa Paula so thank you all for what you do.

Well i just want to again thank our Parks and Rec staff especially those who work with the Senior Center For all the ways that you continue to support our seniors. Thank you to all of the seniors that are involved, feel free to invite a friend right? The more the merrier and to those who serve who are seniors who serve on our Senior Advisory Committee thank you for your service.

Madam Mayor just as a point of inquiry is there still vacancy on the Senior Advisory Committee? No. Great thanks.

All right. So that brings us to our Senior Santa Paula Master Plan for Aging update. Director Barnes, I'll pass it to you.

Thank you, Vice Mayor, Council. I'm going to be brief. Michael Schouten, our Administrative Analyst 2 will be making the presentation this evening to you. He's really been the driving force to keep us on task and make sure that this plan is not just sitting on a shelf but that we're addressing it on a regular basis There are a number of recommendations. We're not going to get into every single one of them this evening, but we're going to touch on things that we have been addressing kind of give you what we wanted to do is be able to give you an annual update on where we are what progress we were making and at some point probably even come back to you Might even ask for some help because there's some advocacy items that we need during the budget cycle.

There might be some things that we need to ask to be addressed in the budget, but this evening we just wanted to kind of give you an update and so that's why we're here tonight. And as you know this is part of your two-year strategic goal Was exactly that, to not just let this sit on the shelf but to address the items and to report back to you. So we did come to you and you adopted it. We've been meeting, we formed an ad hoc committee with our advisory committee. It's gonna need to turn into a standing committee cuz this is something that isn't short term.

But we meet with them monthly, the Ad Hoc Committee members along with staff and also other departments. Mr. Mason has met with us too. to kind of address housing issues and you're going to hear more about that this evening. But with that, and I would like too if I just could, you know Michael's been really the driving force at the staff, the lead staff on this but it is a team effort and I want to thank him publicly for that effort but I also want to think early on in this process as you know before it became an adopted master plan and early on Dr. Maria Munguia and Mr. Ray Wellman were really the champions for it early on when the county was working through their process and helped us kind of get moving in that direction, and then we kind of took it and ran with it.

So I just wanted to publicly thank them for their advocacy early on in the work that they did but that's why we're here this evening to share this with you so I'd like to invite Michael up if I could and he will take you through the presentation.

Good evening Vice Mayor, members of council and members of the public. Just real quickly just taking a step back why a master plan for aging? So the percentage of older adults in Santa Paula is actually expected to grow to 21.7 by 2050 that's about one in four people in Santa Paula will be an older adult. Master plans for aging provide frameworks for coordinated services using evidence-based data to better address diverse needs for our older adults and their caregivers in the community As the population of older adults in this city continues to grow, so too does the demand for applicable elder services and city-specific supports.

This is a real just brief snapshot of everything that was laid out in the master plan for aging. There were five bold goals. Those five bold goals were housing for all ages and stages what we commonly refer to as housing, health reimagined which we refer to as health, inclusion and equity not isolation which we commonly refer to as engagement Four, caregiving that works. We call caregiving and five, affording aging which we call finance. There are five bold goals within those five bold goals California State University Channel Islands and Dr. Ronald Burkowski and his students took the survey data, took the master plan for aging that was presented or was produced for the county and produced for the state and then ultimately produced the document which council adopted in that document there are 75 recommendations Of which in year one, we've completed 11 of them.

31 of them are in progress and 33 are pending. So that's about 56% of the recommendations that have been engaged in year one. This is kind of the layout of how we'll go through it. We'll go through all the five bold goals. We'll talk about highlights and then I'll hand it over to Greg to round us out. In housing, we had 19 recommendations Real briefly there, there's a stat that says 63% of survey respondents indicated that housing was important to them and should be prioritized in the Santa Paula Master Plan for Aging. Of those 19 recommendations two have been completed seven are in progress and ten are pending So we have ADA units and citrus flats That's a highlight five standard ADU plans which were released by the building and safety department Which streamlines new housing options And then we were actually one of the first cities to allow residential housing and commercial loans.

Health, goal two there were 16 recommendations of which one has been completed eight are in progress seven are pending and our highlights here staff work to secure a grant from the National Recreation and Parks Association and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention to implement the Arthritis Foundation's Walk With Ease program. We're on cohort three, it's been pretty successful they walk. The idea is that we know we have seniors in our community who just maybe aren't as active right and that and we can't just say all right join our walking club and tomorrow we're going to go on an hour walk alright everybody ready? Like nobody that's just not how it works so this program actually starts it gets seniors every week ten more minutes ten more minutes ten more minutes so by the end of their six weeks are at 60 minutes or an hour of walking It's amazing.

My aunt is actually in there, and she's 90-plus years old in our Walk with Youth program. We actually also established an Alzheimer's support group. That's something that we're pretty proud of. Sorry. Oh, am I too tall? You are not. You are much too tall for this. OK, how's that? Better? Better? All righty. So then we had goal three engagement. There were 19 recommendations Three have been completed. Ten are in progress, six are pending.

In engagement there was this stat that really stuck out. 45% of survey respondents felt that technology education could improve digital literacy among older adults and so we don't have a computer lab at the senior center and we don't have Troy as our IT person or one of our IT people and we don't have a million of Troy to teach everybody and teach all of our seniors. But what we did do is we continued to foster those partnerships that we engaged early on with CSUCI, so they actually produced the Master Plan for Aging in consultation with the city. But then Dr. Ron Burkowski, he's a professor at CSUCI, he actually now has his students engaging in our Master Plan for Aging. So we get 30 individuals to look at our Master Plan for Aging every single week and then they go and they break out into teams And then they address specific areas of the mask plan for aging.

Just an example of that was last Thursday actually during our seniors lunch, students from CSUCI went and they taught seniors how to use technology, avoid scams, the grandparent scam those types of things. And they'll be coming. Again and again. And so that's just one of the partnerships that we've been able to continue. BC AAA Coalition provided LGBTQ plus older adult training for staff, really eye-opening. We have older adults in our community who identify as LGBTQ plus. And so how is staff? Are we maintaining that we're cultural competent, that we're ready and that we understand that we're maintaining an environment that's welcoming and accessible to everyone?

Really great training. We'll be expanding MAC to increase intergenerational programming. MAC is our mobile activity center, so it goes out to the parks on spring break but we thought what if we just also just started adding things that seniors could do like golf put or a chess and we took it out? And then what if grandparents took their children to the park right on those spring breaks and summer breaks and those things? Intergenerational programming is the key there Goal four, caregiving. So in this goal there were 11 recommendations to have been completed three are in progress six are pending some of the highlights here are we have integrated the caregivers into the senior wellness fair so that senior wellness fair tomorrow some of the agencies will also be providing information to caregivers so not just to our seniors but also to their caregivers that attend the center with them as well.

We have ongoing support for the Santa Paula Social Service Coalition I actually met with them on Friday Their spring into summer wellness fair, which will be at the sports park. More details to bring all that up to you. We've launched a physical bulletin board connecting caregivers to seniors in our senior center so now if a caregiver is like hey I provide these services and they can put their name up there on the bulletin board and a senior's like hey I need somebody who provides those services they can take from it it's just a great way simple no cost easy way to address some of these goals within caregiving To round out, we have goal five and this is finances.

There are 48% of survey respondents expressed support for financial literacy and retirement planning workshops. Of these, there are 10 recommendations, three have been completed, three are in progress and four are pending. Some of the highlights here, we have the city council increased investment in the senior nutrition program to kind of offset some of the cuts that were happening at the state level allows the community to serve meals Monday through Friday Staff has applied for the AmeriCorps Retired and Senior Volunteer Program, RSVP. That'll allow us to really build out a volunteer program that's really focused on our older adults and the skills that they have and that they bring to the table. So whether that be mentoring one of our teens with homework if we have a retired teacher maybe is good at math or algebra can come in and help us with that.

Or simply just having somebody, an older person to go to and say like this is what's going on type thing Employing a workforce, this one here is something we've been working on. It's employing a workforce that is representative of the population we serve. Real intentful with the language really what we mean is that we're providing opportunities for older adult employment which is enabling peer-to-peer support so when you go to a youth center ideally you want people who are around your age who kind of understand you know what's going on what's the new lingo similarly seniors also Also, we found through the data while they do appreciate engagement and they love engagement with younger people. They also do really appreciate peer-to-peer support somebody who understands what it's like to be at the age that they're at right now to go through what they're going through right now.

And with that I will hand it back over to Greg. Thank you.

It's too high for me. So so as you can see this is not just been sitting on a shelf. There's been some deliberate digging into it with staff and our committee members to really work towards that we have a long ways to go 75 recommendations are quite a few recommendations, not all of them are with our Scope to solve and that's why I opened with we'll need to come back to you all for help with Advocacy or some funding or kind of making those connections similar Vice mayor to what you did connecting us with the county for the Barranca project Making you aware of where we're at in our status.

We just hope that if you find an opportunity Please, you know connect the dots for us or try and help us in that way So just to kind of close You know, this slide talks about challenges and constraints in continued advocacy. We don't take the cup is half empty approach to things but we also have to be practical about our capacity and we do spend time on this but it's not enough time. We'd like to spend more but if you know as department capacity allows but you could tell there has been work going on funding Like everything, there's only so many pieces of the pie that are there. So we'll have to be strategic and present that to you on things that we think are priority and obviously have the Senior Advisory Committee weigh in on that and then bring that to you all for consideration at some point.

Coordination across departments as you know housing is not in Parks and Recreation. We work with Director Mason and his group on that As two separate departments, we're working on day-to-day so we have to just be committed to come together. And so we've scheduled future meetings and we're deliberate about that but sometimes that can be challenging when you're trying to coordinate all those things.

The continued advocacy which will bring back to you all but also in our department alone, we have three initiatives were working on right now. And so sometimes there's a little bit of fatigue when you're working on all these master plans and different initiatives. So those are things that we face, but we want to leave you with the understanding that we are working on this. It's not just sitting on the shelf and we're committed to that.

So what's next? Continuing to pilot various initiatives and will continue to work on some of the items We'll continue fostering partnerships to complete initiatives, and we'll look to develop criterions for prioritization of the remaining recommendations. We're really beyond the moon pleased that Cal State China Islands and that they're continuing to work with us. That is super invaluable. So that relationship that we formed early on is paying tenfold even now because we still have students and professor engaging with us. We are very thankful for that.

And with that, that's our presentation. We're happy to answer any questions you might have and Michael is available as well.

Okay. Questions from Council? Council Member Corneo.

Thank you Director Barnes. I recently become the liaison for the Senior Advisory Committee and For the council and it's I just think you do extraordinary work and I credit this department and what you're doing for seniors in. Not just taking victim status, the money is gone we can't do anything you are doing innovative things and staying on top of it. To make sure that the services are still provided because when you have a service such as meals and that sort of thing were to just drop for lack of funding. That's, that's a huge life changing event for our seniors or others benefit from these types of programs so to stay on top of that it's just a huge credit to the department to make sure that these things are maintained sustained and I that's no easy thing in this environment really appreciate the work

thank you

Right. Council Member Ornelas?

Just, it was nice how this followed up the previous, what is it? Proclamation. Thank you to your team for everything that they've done to reach all of the things that have been completed and for all of the things that are in progress. It's great. And I'm excited to see next year and how many things get done.

Thank you.

I know that your department is already really busy. So, I'm pleasantly surprised to see that as many things have been accomplished as they are and that really is a credit to the really hard work that you're...you and your staff put in and so I really want to thank you for that and look forward to the ways that you can bring back that we can continue to help support what you guys are doing.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank You Council.

All right. That brings us to our City Manager's Department Report. Mr. Singer

Thank you, Madam Vice Mayor and members of the Council and the public. This department report reflects the period of November through April so about five months. And despite the fact that I don't have pretty pictures like most of our departments do, it doesn't mean we weren't getting a lot done. So I want to just highlight from both the city managers including our new deputy city manager and our fellows some of those initiatives and achievements as well as our human resource division or public information, I'm sorry, our IT division and finally our city clerk.

First of all, over these last five months we've been hard at work working with our consultant on our city employee survey and subsequent engagement in focus groups. And more to come on that. We assisted with the contract that was brought to you that you approved with the Chamber of Commerce Also worked with the police department on the independent audit that they had done and kind of releasing that to the public and getting that coordinated with the media.

We also engaged with the Athens Ad Hoc Committee regarding the requested rate increase, and that'll be coming back to the council in June. Of course, you had the special meeting on cannabis. So there was a lot of effort that Mr Mason and my department city attorney put into the presentations to the standing committee meetings as well as to the final decision for the council.

I had a chance to go to Washington DC with the mayor. To do some advocating for Santa Paula, and I think that was successful. And also spent a good bit of time in the negotiation process with Lewis Lee Manera. On the development agreement amendment that we brought to you, I guess that was in January. In part and maybe not fully understood by the public because the new development agreement will enable the city to be in receipt of ongoing funding for community services in future years. That was a really positive step that will help with Some economic stability for Santa Paula. On the legislative side, our team was hard at work updating your ledge platform and bringing that to you to deal with updates in advocacy for a Santa Paula hospital of the topic of immigration and also updates to disability law.

And then we issued seven support or opposition letters over that course of time Our public information and outreach function was hard at work, and I'm really pleased to report we had a goal by the end of last year of trying to achieve 3,000 subscribers to our electronic monthly newsletter. And if you're out there and you haven't signed up... Please do. As of last month, that subscription is now at over 4700.

And so we're really pleased that people are in receipt of that monthly newsletter. It's chock full of information and a great forum and format for us to communicate with our community. Of course, we oversaw the Santa Paula Creek Bridge groundbreaking. Helped with the farm worker monument brick program which Parks and Rec has just launched. We've been busy with our future leader academy and have also updated some media information on our animal control and animal services page With our animal control officer and then finally have been helping community development with the mobile home rent control workshops and format on our website that helps to monitor and provide that information including a survey.

On that topic, when I do my city manager update, talk about the next forum that we have coming up. We developed and created a new wayfinding signage for our city infrastructure, distributed 10 press releases, lots of social media outreach. Our fellows gave support to the business round tables in our Business Connect program and to supporting our ad hoc immigration committee Worked on the hunt design for our new imagery and iconography, and of course helped manage our social media and monthly newsletter.

On the human resources side we recruited and employed seven new employees two in our police department three in our water department and one in finance No two in finance and our deputy city manager. We had a number of employee initiatives, some lunch and learns, seminar on deferred compensation, a communication skill for supervisors training, customer service training, workplace violence prevention training, hazardous waste operator training The city clerk oversaw some additional training on public records requests as well as our and biannual ethics training.

So we've been Hard at work doing that. And finally, speaking of our city clerk, she processed 26 agendas over that five months. So a lot of meetings, a lot of agendas. Four bid openings. Obviously we had the council do interviews of new commission and committee appointments and the clerk helped oversee that. We processed 135 public records requests Posted six notices of publication and then began the election process for later in 2026.

So that kind of concludes a summary of our activities over the last five months, happy to answer any questions that the council might have.

Any questions from Council? Council Member Chavez.

Thank you Leader Singer can you share a little bit about Maybe a summary of how the first forum for the rent control went. Because that ties to April, the end of your report?

Yeah and I was going to do that during the city manager update but let me do that now. So two weeks ago, week and a half ago, Community Development Department and our city attorney coordinated a community form that was really targeted towards the residents that live in the five mobile home parks that are under our rent control ordinance. We had around 150 participants. It was standing room only at the community center, a very engaged conversation and I believe we took in around 100 surveys right?

So we have a survey that's also online and we welcome people to participate in filling that out. It will help inform us as we approach drafting an ordinance because it's helping us understand some of the challenges and opportunities that exist in our parks. That was just the first of a couple of forums, and then eventually draft ordinance will wind its way forward after a workshop with the council to the planning commission and then to the city council so there's still ample opportunity for participation but notably in just another couple of weeks I'll pass this out If you don't mind passing that around.

We have a second workshop, again really designed for mobile home residents serving in the parks but in this case and Mr. Mason if you want to speak to it real quickly, it's also going to involve stakeholders and park owners and folks that have an interest in helping to craft a new ordinance

One thing I did want to address is the mailers that went out. What we found out was a lot of several of the parks, their addresses weren't necessarily correct and some have addresses some have space numbers. So we've remedied some of that. We'll see what happens at 150 people in the community center that was pretty packed so I'm excited to see what happens this next time around but the first round went out yesterday and today, and the rest of those mailers will go out tomorrow. So that's close to 700 mailers.

Can you share where the survey is I've been trying to locate what that it's

actually the QR code on the Flyer will take you to the survey if you do that on the phone,

but it's not on the website right? It

is on the website. It's um

it's

on

the I'm looking under news and updates And I don't find anything about

so it does it's not under the city initiatives towards the bottom If you go to the forum

and it was on the newsletter also

It was announced in the monthly newsletter that went out on Monday.

If you can just make sure it goes on the website because that's a landing platform for folks.

Yeah, we'll do that.

Any more questions for the City Manager? Seeing none, thank you for your more than quarterly report. All right. That brings us to City Council reports. Council Member Ornelas, do you have anything that you'd like to share?

I always forget something but I do have one thing to report that was neat. I had never sat in on a... I don't want to get it wrong. Planning Commission meeting? Yes. Okay. I went with my 12-year old. She was very interested in the topic at hand because Dutch Bros was on the agenda I was glad to see other people there, but I didn't know for what. So it was educational for myself as a council member but also community member. I didn't know that homes that are built on our hillsides need to be approved so that was really cool to watch. But also nice to watch the members up here on the dais have dialogue and expressed their concerns about the homes or Dutch Bros as a business coming into town and then them voting for it to, or approving it. So that's exciting And one of the commissioners said something that I think all of us would agree with It's really nice to see that Santa Paula is getting something that none of the surrounding cities have yet We don't have a Dutch Bros anywhere around here, so it's exciting to have something new.

And also the conversation we've had about bringing more jobs and more businesses here and being more enticing for people from outside of Santa Paula I spoke to the gentleman who's in charge of construction and maintenance for the buildings in seven different states around the U.S., and he shared that they hire local, and when we stepped outside, he mentioned that just to run the day-to-day operations there will be 30 jobs, and he talked about the full scope of maintenance and work that'll have to be ongoing for the building It could be upwards of 100 jobs that could come to Santa Paula just with that business. So, that was exciting to hear and I just wanted to share that out to council and to the public that's here or listening.

And I'm sure I forgot something but thank you. Okay, thank you. Council Member Chavez?

Well, it's good to be back. I was away for two weeks. I took a two-week vacation for the first time in 13 years and I went to Europe and so I got an opportunity to travel to six countries and just have a new perspective. Obviously it was my first time going to those places and spaces and I was proud that I was representing Santa Paula everywhere I went To anybody that I talked to and just love our city, it makes you appreciate what we have here. And it's good to be back and I came back, I left at 49, I came back 50 so it's all good.

Thank you, my share. Happy belated birthday by the way. A number of events and meetings since our last council meeting on April 16th I represented the city on the VCOG, Ventura Council of Governments meeting I attended that same day the Ventura College East Campus 100th celebration at our Ag Museum. It was a great event, great food and well-attended, great entertainment as well.