Tuesday Night Live

JOHNSON TUESDAY NIGHT LIVE COMMITTEE MEETING MINUTES OLD MILL PARK, JOHNSON VT TUESDAY, JULY 9, 2025 Present: Howard Romero, Tim Mikovitz, Sophia Berard, Charles Flaum, Geoff Hollis, Tom Moog, Tom Carney, Lois Frey, Don Garrett, Isabelle Sullivan Note: All votes taken are unanimous unless otherwise noted. The meeting started about 5:10. Committee members discussed what has been done for publicity. Lois put the TNL events on the Seven Days calendar. Posters have been put up in various locations. The group walked the field and decided where the bandstand, vendors and canopies should go. Howard can provide 3 canopies. One will be for kids’ face painting, one will be for the trash station and one for the TNL committee. Jasmine Yuris can provide supplies for a kids’ bubble making station if someone can be found to run it. Someone is providing cornhole. Isabelle will provide kickballs and kids can play kickball by the backstop. There was discussion about how to handle parking. It was suggested that one person should be at the entrance to the park telling people where to go. Tom said he will periodically patrol Railroad Street. It was agreed that one parking lot should be blocked off with sawhorses until the other one is full. Tom and Howard said they can help with parking if needed. Tom can provide some cones. Howard said the sheriff’s department will have deputies there. There will also be an ambulance. There will be a total of 3 portalets. It was agreed that 2 of them should be placed near the corner of the parking lot by the playground. Howard said there are 120 parking spots, not counting roadside parking. It was agreed that the committee should put out the message that people are encouraged to carpool. Howard said one parking lot will hold 32 cars. The other will hold 37, but the TNL committee will be using some of the spaces, so there may be about 30 open spaces. There are 18 spaces by the rail trail, 22 by the lower storage building and 20 where the town stores rocks and soil. The sheriff’s deputy said people should park on just one side of Lendway Lane. Howard will cover existing No Parking signs there. Howard asked the selectboard to allow parking in the sand and salt area if needed. Donna said they don’t want to allow that. They feel it would be too dangerous because kids would climb on the sand. Charles suggested asking if people can park at Jenna’s Promising Goods. Charles asked if anyone has a clicker to get a head count. Sophia said she thinks she does. If she can find it she will bring it. Howard shared the report he got from Rosemary about cash on hand. We have about $10,220. We still need to pay the bands and Johnny Betts and pay for the radio ad. We don’t have enough money on hand at this point for all those expenses, but we will get money from the raffle and we don’t have all the vendor fees yet. Tom said he thinks he can bring a couple of people to help. TNL Committee Meeting Minutes p. 2 July 9, 2025 Charles, Howard and Sophia all said they can bring chairs. Charles said he could bring a table. Sophia said she could bring the oven committee’s table. Howard said Tom Galinat said the town could provide tables. Howard said a couple of people are working on painting the new signs that are needed. It was agreed to work on putting up signs on Sunday. Tom said if it isn’t done by Monday he can help then. Charles said he reached out to the drone operator again about getting a flyover for a headcount. It was agreed that committee members will take turns as MC during the evening. Charles said he and Howard had discussed announcing the raffle at the beginning of the night, having half the raffle right before the show starts and then having the last raffle about 2 songs before the end. Tom suggested telling people to bring cash because there is no internet, but Howard said there is a phone signal and we can use Venmo. There was discussion about where to put the signs directing people to Old Mill Park. It was agreed that nothing special needs to be done to handle end of show traffic. Geoff suggested that everyone bring a flashlight. The meeting ended at 6:25. Minutes submitted by Donna Griffiths