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Minutes of the Regular Meeting of Council Monday, November 18, 2013 Page 2 We have done some preliminary infrastructure work. We have a very nice and usable paver- based stage. We have a pathway. The Service Department did a great job of beautifying the area. It is a very unique and beautiful setting to do a lot more. The Committee selected four programs. We all felt we could do a concert. What we wanted to do is experiment and see if we could do other things with this venue. Those of you that were there or heard aboitt it, I think you would agree that they were unique events and they were successful. Hopefully we will have snow this winter. Part of The Grove hill is designated as a sledding hill. The Service Deparhnent will be putting up signs to encourage people to use it and to use it carefully. We had our Open House. There were about 125 people in attendance. We got good feedback. We received over 80 responses from the survey. People took the time to fill them out. Some of the things are not surprising. We are going to look at answering some of those. Some of the suggestions were musical performances, Farmer's Market, something in the arts. We have talked about movies.. We had the Cleveland Shakespeare Festival akeady comtnitting to us for a weekend in July. We have the opportunities. We have done a yoga event. We are going to keep experimenting. I am convinced our local newspaper will join with us at some point in time with an insert or special that will result in a seasoned announcement and hopefully down the road there might be some corporate sponsorship of events. Diane did a great job with our fliers. We got some good press and good comments from the press as well. There were also some informal events that took place at The Grove beyond the Committee. I am pretty sure someone got married there. We prepared a billboard of events and placed them around the Village. Dancing Under the Stars was successful. There are a lot of things we ca.n do under the stars. This was our first event. We had perfect weather. We had a good turnout. As we build infrastructure, costs will come down on a per event basis. We looked for a dance floor to put on a recital type event. We had a perfect day. There were at least 250-275 people there. We had a good turnout for the yoga event. It was a spectacular morning. We worked with the Metroparks for a nature walk before. Should we do this again, working with the Metroparks will enhance it. Bill is going to try to take the lead on offering yoga at The Grove on a regular basis. It's a good venue for that.