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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, June 16, 2014 Page 4 PARKS & RECREATION - Bill Thomas Mr. Thomas reported, I did want to again re-emphasize the tremendous effort that everyone put into Cruise Night. It really starts with the Activities Committee and their planning process. It goes from there to Danielle Echt and Sean Supler, my two staff inembers who really followed through with that to Doug's staff and Scott Sipos and their crew who do a phenomenal job of setting up and cleaning up. It's yeoman's work. Doug, your staff should be commended. I really mean that. Mr. Metzung replied, thank you. Mr. Thomas added thanks to the Police Department and Rich and his staff and all that you do to keep everything safe and running smoothly and the Fire Department of course and all of our volunteers who put in a lot of time and effort to make that successful. It really is a nice effort from everyone. It was nice to have the addition of the Health Department this year. They did a great job adding to the festivities. We had pictures from Jeff from The Sun. We will make sure everyone gets that in their packets. Mr. Thomas continued, the other thing I found interesting, and John, you will fmd this interesting. I met the General Manager of Orange Leaf Yogurt that just opened up on Thursday or Friday. Mr. Marrelli replied, Saturday. Mr. Thomas stated, there were a lot of people in there. I e-mailed the owner of that store because John and Debbie Garbo gave me his contact. I said, you know, you really ought to try and get your store open come Cruise Night and I know that you were dealing with your signage issue. It worked out. Mr. Dinardo stated, we had a special2 %2 hour meeting. Mr. Thomas stated, it worked out. He was fully operational on Cruise Night and I am so glad he was because that store was packed. The other thing we did, Tommy V approached us in October or November of last year saying, I would like to bring a band in so we can draw people down our way. We always have had the band down by SOlVI Center Road past the ATM machine. He said, I will pay for the band. Niy ears started listening. He got Armstrong Bearcat. He's not really a`50's, '60's band, but he drew a lot of people. It was nice. Doug and Scott and the crew set up a third stage down there. It was great. We had people down there. I was concerned because there was a distance of 230 feet between the bands. I really did not think we could have Ricky and the Rockets playing at the same time that Armstr•ong Bearcat was playing. One of our sound guys we work with, Sam Messina, suggested we alternate. We