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Meeting With the Mayor transcript from 06/13/25:
Murdoc: Friday afternoon back at it. It feels good to be back in the saddle. I’ve been I’ve been out fishing and Houston’s been covering and you’ve Been on the road and now we’re back in the seat here live on the cowboy or in your favorite podcast player That’s the meeting with the mayor every week We sit down with Mayor Jason Salomon He we talk about the issues of the day in Rapid City in Western, South Dakota and the black Hills and beyond and Welcome back sir.
Salamun: Well, yeah, well I see welcome back welcome back me.
Murdoc: Yeah, sorry been here Thanks, Jacob our producer you’ve been here with me. Thanks for carrying the water guys. We’re good. We got it I speak of carrying the water.
Murdoc: I read your proclamation last night at the made for shade charity event
Salamun: How’d that feel? Roll out the scroll.
Murdoc: I didn’t I but I didn’t I will say this to Proclamations are a little longer for my taste. So I did maybe edit out some of the middle But June 2025 is made for shade month.
Salamun: They get they get they do get long They get a whole month. Yeah, well made for shade obviously, you know protecting your skin and You know, that’s a that’s a kind of a great deal.
Murdoc: Yeah, I remember it’s I’ve never done that before as a fun organization
Salamun: Yeah, you got great people are very passionate about that making sure a lot of these events You know sports events and things like that people, you know have shade and that that you take cover It’s good to have sunshine, but there’s x amount of sunshine They say until it’s it starts bad damage.
Murdoc: No, they gave out I don’t know 50 60 70 grand worth of grants last night Wow to different schools and organizations and sometimes it’s a playground equipment. Sometimes it’s trees for you know, it’s red Children’s home got like 20 something thousand dollars.
Salamun: Thanks for reading the proclamation for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, man No, I did it wasn’t
Murdoc: I’m sure I wasn’t able to be there the wish version of what they wanted. I is the vibe I got But it was nice of you to write it
Murdoc: Well Okay, let’s get through we got Father’s Day coming up.
Salamun: Yeah this weekend man. Happy Father’s Day to all the guys out there You know, thank you dads and you two Murdoch your dad likewise You know, that’s the big deal with fathers in our in our culture makes such a huge impact You can see a lot of our social issues if you were to really look at the roles of fathers in the lives of people who struggle the most you You would find that the fathers aren’t usually as active Or worse so when you’re a dad It’s a high calling and you’re not only making an impact for your kids But also for our community in our culture around us. So a real big shout-out to all the dads You know that it is again a high calling take it seriously, you know quality time with your kids You’re a provider a protector, but you know so much more even so fatherhoods awesome
Murdoc: I’m seeing a lot of ads for like new underwear for dad Which I thought is odd. Yeah, that’s what I said.
Salamun: Is that like the new tie? Maybe I don’t they soon necktie now You know tie I’ll take cuz it’s whatever socks even but underwear. Yeah, I’ll take I always like a good pair of socks, but Yeah, you know not underwear by my daughter We had to celebrate last Sunday because my dad and mom are out of town this weekend for their
Murdoc: anniversary Yeah, 40 years for them We’re coming my wife and I are coming up on 25 so boy people are gonna try to do math There’s a lot of family history here. I could unpack it all to you, but it’s my dad My mom’s not my biological
Murdoc: You know a lot of stuff families or families in America everyone
Salamun: has I’ve told I’ve talked about my life enough that people start to realize Yeah, there’s probably some things
Murdoc: I wasn’t doing the math until you said it but that’s pretty funny But I love my folks.
Salamun: They’re amazing. So we celebrated last weekend with them and so my dad My daughter Gave me at my gift now one of the things now. It’s a nice. It was a nice picture of us right before There you go before she got she got married a little while ago. And so there’s this kind of candid picture of us Inside and she put it in a frame, but unfortunately my daughter. Oh, she’s such a stinker She put it in a frame that and it’s a little tiny frame little tiny picture in a little tiny frame of a clown Now if you know anything I hate clowns. I do not like clowns. It’s not has nothing It really has nothing to do with it or pennywise Mine is there’s several things. I think it goes back to when I was a little kid at the circus and I were one of my distinct memories is I was like maybe five years old or something and They’re trying to get you to ride an elephant and I was a little hesitant to the elephant and My think my grandmother my mom always like get on that hell of it, you know and the clown comes over like kid Get on you know, just just crusty Just come on kid we gotta keep moving very carny, you
Salamun: know So I think that’s that’s part of it and then you’re like, what are you hiding underneath that makeup? You know, it’s like I don’t know. I just I don’t like it So my dog so my family knows that so they like to To rib me quite a bit with clowns so she put a sweet Awesome little picture in this cute little frame that has a clown around it It’s just like what are you gonna throw that away? It’s a father’s day gift from your only daughter dad You can’t throw that away and So, you know, that’s how much that’s what that’s the kind of love I get, you know I get the love the nice picture, but it’s wrapped around all the nonsense.
Murdoc: I mean, it’s the only way to do it You know, yeah, do you go speaking of dads and dad rock? Yeah, you went to Yachtley crew.
Salamun: Oh, man Yachtley crew last night. I heard it was a hoot. Do you know? It was you know Yachtley crew they call themselves The world’s best cover band, but really they take this to the extreme they take your favorite yacht rock classics from late 70s into the 80s and I mean they
Murdoc: perform put a little production into
Salamun: it So a lot of really great a really great show They’re very funny I’ll tell you the highlight of the night for me was They did Baker Street on that song and there’s a there’s great saxophone in song Yeah They have a saxophonist part of the saxophonist is that what you call it saxophonist you would know this you’re the music I mean, he was all over the place at first He’s doing that solo on the stage and crushed it. We’re like, yeah And then he leaves disappears and they continue the song the next thing you know He’s up in the balcony with the oh Then he’s in the crowd doing it and you’re just like you know what I mean You’re just in your like yeah, this is great and you know, this is the crowd was interesting.
It was a slow slow to start crowd I mean a few people few people ready to stand up and and whatever but everybody’s kind of sitting, you know, I mean it’s kind of a I would say I was one of the young one. It’s a theater show too. So it’s hard It’s always tough by the end of it though, you know, everybody is Everybody’s on their feet having a great time and I would tell you they put on a heck of a show shout out to Yachtley crew Yacht rock is really fun.
Murdoc: Anyways, but they really they were at the brass rail. They enjoyed our downtown.
Salamun: I heard that For a little bit this
Murdoc: way Bands come in and do take in the hills.
Salamun: They said Often you think they’re like we’re all wearing black during the week So you didn’t recognize this we weren’t our sailor outfits because they put on these outfits and those guys could go though It was really fun and You know, I love I love when performers leave it on on the stage. So it was fun I love concerts like that, you know jam band stuff and all that This is you know way more production than a than a jam band these guys have legitimate albums out and yeah Great name for the band to Yachtley crew. It’s a great band name.
Murdoc: Well, so we do some heavy lifting You had a big week with the vision fund allocation. Yeah, we did talk about
Salamun: this So the vision fund made a recommendations to the city council. They’ve been working on this for months
Murdoc: months and months Yeah, no reminder to everybody. This is you know, we’ve been talking about a lot on this show just to keep you informed But it’s you know, it’s roughly 70 something million dollars in asks and we got a Limited down to 12 right so
Salamun: 12 million over five years made it. So, you know, they took kind of the approach of You know, let’s try to to give to as many as we could So they gave to or they recommended to 14 organizations They’re all by the way or by organizations or I mean projects. They’re all city assets That’s kind of one of the big changes we made a lot of parks and recreation projects One of my favorite is the Canyon Lake Park Restoration those pond walls and a lot of the access and Some of the things in there are going to be upgraded. That was one of the I think that was the largest Allocation allocation of money, but they also have parks all over town a lot on the north side We’re looking at a dog park at Vicki Powers Park.
Oh, that’d be great Then Stan be our first fence in park dog park college park in Thompson Park and some of those things I think are going to be great. They had you know Allocated some funding towards things like camera systems that are busy intersections They allocated fun a little bit of remodel funding for even the fire station They there were so many great projects and they gave a big shout out to the ones they they couldn’t Allocate money for because of the price tag and that be one the maintenance facility Which is big and then to the sports complex. So we did have a good conversation We’ll talk more about that here a
Murdoc: little we’re gonna talk about the sports complex in the second break Let’s go back to the maintenance facility. We’ve talked about this on our show before so, you know I might see something that’s like an extravagant want but it but you know Winter here is winter and right. We’re trying to find a way to house in these vehicles, which is a huge money savings Yeah, and not just vehicle equipment.
Salamun: So Imagine if you have equipment and we’re talking snow plows and dump trucks and heavy equipment to weed eaters everything Imagine Imagine if you owned a bunch of Ferraris and just left them outside all the time. That’s a good way to put it And then by the way combines and this is taxpayer money how long is it gonna last and You know, will it be reliable when you need it? And I mean not only that but you have to you know maintain them as well.
So when you’re talking about a maintenance facility It’s also storage. It’s there’s a lot to it. So we are going to continue to work towards that But the vision fund committee did make sure to and John Kaiser our chair did a great job presenting it They gave a great shout out to that project as well as the sports complex. And so those are some big ticket items That I think we’ll still continue to look at how to address down the future But for now they these 14 projects and there’s a lot of baseball fields, which was great I think that’s youth sports. It’s always tough to get everybody There’s there’s lighting for the ignite soccer program on Campbell Street, you know So you have some smaller projects with lower dollar amounts and you have some that that had You know a few thousand a few million associated with it and everything in between and really cool one is gonna be the skate park on Omaha by Cross Street if well, that’s fun We’re the first big golf course in that basketball court area. That’s gonna be a brand new awesome skate park guys That’s gonna be
Murdoc: so is it is that the same group will put the one that’s kind of by the journey then is it?
Salamun: Is that one at the journey? Yeah, there’s a group really behind this one and you know that will That will that will replace the one that’s over there because that one’s not really used for that purpose anymore and Apparently it’s not great for skating as much as a lot of these these parks now So this one will be really accessible Very visible and I think will be a great project and also the special Olympics are expanding the Bachi Bacchorts and That was another great project, you know A lot of just a lot of parks and recreation projects, which is which is what I expected and really what we had hoped for I think the committee agreed as well But they also mixed in you know some other items and by the way, there are some amazing projects that didn’t make the cut Which isn’t a no forever. It was just a no for now You know what I thought one project that was worthwhile with Storbick Island at their entrance and Concession area wanted to make some improvements.
That’s on city property, but they run it. I do think that’s worthwhile. So if you really like story, but Kylin go check them out and maybe donate to that cause but Tremendous projects all the way around and here’s the rare thing They presented it. They did such a good job. They they they’re one of their big critical Points in deciding was how much Overhead would it cost the city to maintain it year after year?
operations and maintenance of it what we call the O &M the They took such care on that that the council just said, you know what? We’re just gonna prove this tonight and so in that meeting which is pretty rare
Murdoc: to do very rare to do Especially on this topic which you know because a lot of people don’t get the things they want and that a lot of these things Have a lot of value you you get a lot of heartache on topics like this, right?
Salamun: The process worked and it’s tough because you know you start unraveling that you got to get you got to get all the council on the Same page frankly shout out to the council and credit to them for proving it seeing the Worthiness of these projects and really honoring the hard work of the committee So great job to the council to the vision fund committee to the city staff who supported it and all those who submitted these projects Well done. You can’t do everything but you can do something and I think we move the ball forward Well, let’s take a break here.
Murdoc: We’re in midway through your meeting with the mayor when we come back Let’s tackle these sports complex and maybe Liberty land we got a lot to talk about when we come back It’s your weekly meeting with the mayor here. On the back half of this week’s meeting with the mayor, my name is Murdoch.
Thank you for joining us and Mayor Jason Salomon here on the back half. So a couple of new songs before we get back to work here. So we manage a band here at Homeslice, his name is Chancey Williams, a younger brother’s band. He’s got a new song out called Pearl Snap Preacher. Okay. It’s got his dad in the video, they shot the whole thing in Wyoming, it’s really good.
Salamun: I’ve heard him, so first of all, he’s great. He’s great. I haven’t heard this song though.
Murdoc: This song, man, it feels just perfect for the time, right? It’s a great song, Pearl Snap Preacher. You know, these old school cowboys know how to be in a lot of senses yet, right? And so it’s got a good song. Kind of like his life example.
Salamun: Yeah, you know, work hard. There’s another one, Gotta Alabama. This is my, I’ve already been texting the kids about this. So I like to take the shot of what is going to be the summer hit. You know, and if you can bat, like the mainstream summer hit. If you can bat 200, you’re pretty brilliant at it.
I’ve never landed Homeslice ever one, not ever. But here’s my, there’s a band, he’s a guy named Pinkbeard, P-Y-N-K Beard. All right. As a song out called, oh, I’m gonna butcher the name of the song, Mine, Something Mine. And it’s gonna be my hit, Pinkbeard. Listen for it. It’s called Mine, Lord Willing. There you go. Good song. All right, is it, is a snappy? Poppy, country pop.
Murdoc: In the shabuzy, real shabuzy feel. Oh, okay, okay.
Salamun: In that sense, right? Yeah, yeah. All right. Pinkbeard, you know, I’ve never heard of Pinkbeard. No one had.
Murdoc: No one had.
Salamun: This is never gonna take. This is just me. I’m like, I’m like, I’m like, I’m the guy who went to Gatling Crew last night.
Murdoc: So, Pinkbeard. All right. So there’s a whole bunch more people in Rapid City.
Salamun: Yeah. So we just got our population estimate for 2024. A just shy of 85,000 people within the city limits of Rapid City that does not include Rapid Valley, does not include Boxelder or Blackhawk or Somerset and some of these surrounding areas. That is an over 10,000 person jump from 2020.
Murdoc: That’s gotta be the biggest in the state. 2020, we were 74,000 in our city limits. And you know, our city limits are funny because we have people that put right up against it. So it’s, it’s a little deceptive, but because our metro area is much larger than that. But that, that was a big estimate, big jump over 3% last year. Do you know if those surrounding communities are growing at the same pace, right?
Salamun: So if you think about that, Boxelder for sure. Our total DMA like on the media definition of it, which includes some odd areas, Scottsbluff and that kind of stuff, give or take 250,000 people. It’s gotta be getting an inch or up to 300 if ever, because all these areas are getting a handful more people. Yeah, they have, you know, they have very specific definitions for, for mark, for marketing MSA, which is different than a small business. Yeah. So like, for example, spearfish is not part of our MSA. They have their own little MSA in the business sense. Like if you’re, if you’re looking at that now marketing, yeah, you, you and I know there’s a five state region here and we talk about that a lot. But you know, for Rapid City, that is a, that is a big, that is, that’s a leap.
Murdoc: That’s a leap. Is this census? Where’s this come from? Yeah.
Salamun: So it’s based on the 2020 census. And then they have these estimates that are put out every year. There’s a whole formula and calculation with it. We actually have somebody on our staff who helps formulate that. You know, now I’m not sure how reliable the 2020 census was because
Murdoc: pandemic was where that census is being taken. I do think some of it was being taken into account, but you have a lot of indicators that go into it. So these are accepted and it was put into our, our agenda to approve that population estimate. And, you know, it’s, I don’t think anybody’s surprised by it. And depending on who you are, you don’t like it.
Some people do like it. Obviously growth, growth can be good if it’s healthy growth, something that we can sustain and that you have the right kind of folks coming here. I think we, our unemployment rate is super low right now at 1.8%. So we always need a new workforce.
3 to 5% is a healthy unemployment rate. So having folks come, I need to stop with that. By the way, I was listening to a podcast and I was like, I said, I’m like 20 times. Oh yeah.
Murdoc: I’m an armor. Certainly is the word I use lately. Oh yeah. Certainly. Well, certainly. Actually. Oh, actually. That drives you crazy, buddy.
Salamun: Welcome to my world. Just so everybody knows, I realize that I try to be real more than I am polished sometimes, but anyway, but getting back to this. So that population estimate, you know, is an indicator of what we already know that, that, that we are growing as a community. We’re certainly on the map.
We’re seeing signs of that everywhere. This is on top of the 3.9 million visitors we get every year. And there’s a lot to the again, but there’s a lot going on. I’m very, you know, I think we have to continue to look ahead as a city and understand that with the growth, there are opportunities and there are challenges.
So we have to make the most of the opportunities. That means trying to bring in new business. That means hopefully better paying jobs, increasing the tax base. So we don’t have to increase the taxes on individuals, those sort of things. I think we all would appreciate that. Simultaneously, the challenges are you’re putting more stress on your infrastructure.
Murdoc: Healthy on them. It’s hard. It sounds like Jumbo shrimp. When you say a healthy unemployment is, is, is the problem. We don’t have a healthy unemployment.
Salamun: Yeah, we’re too low. We brag about being too low, but there’s, there’s the unemployment rate, which is 1.8 percent, be better if it was three to four. And there’s the labor participation rate, which is about, you know, 60.
Well, actually a 66 point to 66, 67, 66 to 67 percent of people who can work are working. But now some of those are by choice. Some people choose to stay home with their child for a season. They came here to retire. There’s, there are factors in that. They could be college students not working, although, you know, I always had to do multiple jobs my whole life. But, but I do think, you know, you look at how do you, you know, get more of those folks engaged that, that should be working. I do think there’s something to be said about people in seasons of life.
Yeah. Whether you’re staying home with a child or whether you are retiring or studying. And there’s, there’s a lot of factors. But all that said, we need more workforce in order to keep things moving. And that’s how we get better healthcare. That’s how we get better prices because we have more businesses, which means more competition, which helps drive the prices, at least keeps them in check.
All of that stuff is, is helpful. No, we got to grow in a healthy way. We don’t want to get out in front of our skis. But that’s been, you know, biggest challenges mayor right now is I’ve, I’ve, I’ve been mayor at a significant time in our growth. So we’re constantly not only trying to maintain what we have and keep it special, but understand that we’re trying to move ahead for the future.
Murdoc: That’s good. I think, I mean, I’m, it’s got, I’m a pro guy. You know what I mean? Growth is good. I’m 44. Of course we want it to grow, right? So like, but I get the perspective of, you know, meet with a lot of mentors for coffee and they miss the old days and they miss the, you know, when the, when the restaurant was there and it’s, it happens, happens every time. Well, let’s talk about new things. The sports complex. Let’s, let’s dig into this.
Salamun: So, you know, there’s more conversation with the vision fund. A lot more people are understanding the sports complex, what we want to do with that, um, that, that it’s coming.
I’m going to tell you, I’m absolutely committed to this. I think it’s going to be incredible for our community. We’re talking about a multi-purpose sports facility that can house all sorts of tournaments and events. Uh, if you don’t realize a lot of our income and our sales tax revenue comes from outside money coming in and people coming in for one day is great, but people coming in for multiple days and not just some people, but entire families coming in for multiple days for events is a big draw.
Murdoc: Well, apply the tourism mechanics to this is average tourism stays. What 2.1 nights. If you make that 2.7, we’re all by an islands.
Salamun: Seriously. Well, that’s pretty extravagant, but you know, I know what you mean. It is, it is going to be very good. It’s a big benefit to our community, obviously to our quality of life too, because that means we have facilities here for our locals to enjoy as well. But you’re talking about everything from soccer to basketball to volleyball, um, all sorts of, uh, events that you can have the monument is at capacity with events all the time.
We have to turn events away, which means we lose state tournaments to across the state or, um, you know, other regional tournaments because we have, you know, upper Midwest region stuff. And we want to be able to host all those things here that fills up our hotels, our restaurants, shops in our stores. I think everybody’s heard this, but a sports complex would be amazing. And Sioux Falls, they have the Pentagon. Um, we’ve also been looking at one that they have in Fargo, but most major areas have this because it’s how you stay relevant. Relevant. And in fact, Gillette has a better sports complex than we do right now.
Murdoc: You sell it, by the way. Everyone’s like, well, the Pentagon, we got a blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 3: Sioux falls that causes problems out Gillette and Gillette works. That’s a sales pitch that would work on these people.
Salamun: My joke is it’s the Pentagon and Sioux Falls, but we’re going to call ours the octagon. You’re going to enter the cage.
Murdoc: Uh, so can we build a 97 side sports?
Salamun: Yeah, I live in an octagon house, by the way. So that’s a, yeah, I do. It’s a, it’s one of them Earthship houses. I don’t, you know, we bought it in 2019. Built in the nineties, but we can talk about that another time.
Murdoc: Some other time. Um, let’s stay on sports complex. Right. We only have a few minutes left.
Salamun: So this sports complex. Where do you have a location? Yeah. So here’s the deal. There, this idea has been around for years, actually. A lot of folks, uh, have wanted to see this. Then now we have a sports commission formed under the leadership of D’Amico Rodriguez. Killing it, by the way.
Shout out to D’Amico, an outstanding leader, great community, a servant and really passionate about this. Um, so we have the idea of one, but yeah, for now you have to say it’s easy to have the idea, but where are you going to put it? How are you going to pay for it?
And how’s it going to be operated? So we’re coming up with this plan. Uh, we’ve been working on this for a while. Uh, very soon, uh, we’re going to announce the location for that. Um, you know, I will tell you that we’re able to leverage another big project coming to town and, and get some land from them. And then, uh, we will look, we will, I know, I know, I did.
Speaker 3: I was just, you’re being, it’s such a great hint, but I just, if you’d, if you’re paying attention, now you know where it is, right?
Salamun: You know, it doesn’t take Sherlock Holmes to deduce, right? I do that. By the way, this is not top, top secret, but
Murdoc: we do want to make a proper announcement. I agree. A proper announcement, but just to say that, uh, we have some generosity from another project. And by the way, it’s a mutual benefit to everybody for the land.
Uh, that land will be excellent. Now we’ll have to figure out a way to pay for it. That’s something we’ve been working on.
I’m talking to everybody from corporate partners. We’re looking at a TIF district that, that we can utilize as well as, um, so a funding source I’m going to bring forward soon, soon just to try to get some skin in the game and get it going this direction. It’s going to take a while to get there, but we are working hard. I’m going to go all in on this. I think it’s really a great benefit to the community.
Um, it will be something that’s going to take the entire community to come together on, but I’m going to tell you, if we pull this off, it is yet another thing that would be a feather in our cap art. And this is about the kids, Murdoch, you know, not to get campaigning, but I always talk about my vision for Rapid cities where kids thrive in families flourish. That’s how you measure a win for the city.
If your city’s not doing that, you’re losing. You don’t have a future. You’re going to be a ghost town, but if you have kids driving families flourishing, everybody wins, including people without kids. I’m with you.
Murdoc: So the sports complex, if you don’t have the kids, then you’re getting the tax benefit offset of it.
Salamun: The sports complex is tremendous. Now we have amazing arts and culture at the monument. They also do some sports, but a ton of hearts and culture. But to have a facility really dedicated to this, maybe, you know, I’d like to see more pickleball or something in it too, or at least that capacity, but we’ll see.
I’d love to see an indoor track. There’s a lot of wants in this, but also every time you want something, it adds to the price. We’re talking probably a 50 million dollar project or so.
Murdoc: Could we add another 30 million? Then we can put a semi pro baseball team out here too. Just tack it out on the end, right?
Salamun: Well, you got to find that’s a whole other. That’s a whole other thing.
Murdoc: If I find 30 million, we get a baseball field.
Salamun: Well, 30 million dollars talks. You’ve got 30 million dollars.
Murdoc: I’ll meet with you and we’ll figure out. 29.999999. I’ll still meet with you. Actually, I meet with all of you every week here, meeting with the mayor, but the sports complex. Now some people are going to be skeptical on this because they’re going to say, we don’t need this, but we do. And this is something that will be for your children, your grandchildren, and it will draw. It will be a major attraction and it will help relieve the tax burden off our citizens. The more other people pay our taxes for us, the better. So we’re going to constantly agree more. And we get to expand other, other events that we already have like the L and I and, and, you know, the wrestling tournament we had recently, we talked about the 7,000 people
Murdoc: showed up wrestling tournament for a wrestling tournament. And, and that’s, that’s one of many events that are going on. And by the way, these kids, they need productive outlets. If they were able to learn the skill, and not that they’re all going to be pro, but they’re going to learn character traits that will carry with them when they’re an adult and perhaps they won’t get in the trouble and be a public safety burden and just live the lives their mental is.
Sat in a meeting this week where the company goes, you know, we just, we, we don’t do it all the time because the position sometimes changed. But for the most part, we look at people who were dedicated enough to be in some sort of student athlete. Cause if you can do that, you can show dedication and commitment and perseverance.
Salamun: Well, it saves true with music. Yeah. I’d say the same. It’s true. Yeah. It saves true with an adventure sport with, you know, maybe you’re in a drama program as a kid or, but you, you have those healthy outlets that teach you how to follow through, be resilient, work in a team, that hard work equals success. When you learn that at a young age, those skills transfer, I’m a middle aged man now, but I can tell you, I’m so grateful that I was able to do those things because things get hard, but you go through it anyways, rather than give up.
And so whether it’s sports and what we’re talking about today, whether it’s an artistic, cult creative endeavor, when you learn those things as a kid, it is not just the skills that teaches you, but it is really the character traits that it teaches you. So that is a big benefit on top of it. So yes, this has an economic impact. It has a quality of life impact.
And I think it has a great cultural impact. And so we’re going to work hard to push forward on this. I appreciated the endorsement from the vision fund committee.
I thought that was a real shot in the arm and the council, you know, even said that several of them indicated positive support for this. And this is something that’s going to take all of us to get on board with. We’ll talk a lot more details as time goes on, but I’m just, I’m on record. We’re going to work hard to make this happen. I encourage you to get behind it. I think a lot of the families in this community are fired up about this, and it’s okay to be excited.
It’s okay to bet on your future. And that’s exactly what this is. So I’m real fired up, as you can tell about these kind of things, because these are things that will have a positive impact in so many different ways. And I’m looking forward to sharing more and more information as we go down the road.
Murdoc: Likewise, he’s Mayor Jason Salomon. Thank you so much. We’ll talk about that and more every week we sit here on the cowboy. We have a meeting with the mayor. You’re always welcome to join.
You can fire away your questions. Go to cowboyradio.com. There’s a little Friday focus section.
Send in a question to any of our local programming at homesliceaudio.com. Thank you, sir. We’ll see you back next week. Motion to adjourn. Don’t you hit the button? Oh, yeah. Or do you do that after?
Salamun: I don’t know. Okay, that’s after. That’s you said the motion to adjourn. You got a second. Okay, we’re adjourned. And then now you have a.
Murdoc: Now we go.
