Meeting of April 16, 2026

Okay? So, as we look at the engagement of the audience of visitors that attended, people stayed on average a little over 2 hours each Friday night in downtown. And the majority were was there for at least 2 and 1/2 hours. So, not only were they coming, they were staying, they were visiting other businesses as well as enjoying the festivities there. Next slide. What kind of impact does Friday After 5 have? We know we've got a huge name here in in Daviess County, but we also saw attendance from 32 states across the country. So, the market reach is is very strong. Next slide. I know on on this particular slide you got you got the four different cities that are obviously Owensboro, Louisville, Bowling Green. Are Is there significance to that? Is that identifying those Those are the areas that that really heavily attend coming into Owensboro and Daviess County as for Friday After 5 events. So, yeah, that's why we're highlighting them. Okay. All right. Thank you. And then how do we compare? If you look within a

50-mi radius of Daviess County, we were ranked second only behind Holiday World and Splashin' Safari. If you look at the state of Kentucky with attractions there, we ranked we ranked one out of 196 venues that people had the opportunity to visit. Happy to say that due to this popularity and and the outreach of Friday After 5, we are currently in the process of trademarking our logo. We have filed for a state trademark, so we will own that. Next slide. Not only do we get great support from local media TV stations, newspapers, things of that nature, we also rely heavily on social media. And currently we have 34,000 followers. Again, you can see the primary markets within the area, but also if you look at the international outreach in Canada, Nigeria, Philippines, and the United Kingdom. So, it's not just a Kentucky thing, it's a worldwide thing. And then next slide. We communicate to our to our visitors through email. We currently have 3,500 subscribers, sent out over 50,000 emails,

which I find really really interesting. If you look at the 4% open rate for those emails, we were we had 25%. Click rate on those emails, we're at 2% with a national average of 1%. We do have a goal for this year of hitting that 10,000 subscriber mark. And feel very confident we'll be able to do that. Next slide. On the website performance, again it's we have 26,000 visits to our website and with over 50,000 pages viewed on the web. So, again with the notoriety there. Which brings us to the last slide of the presentation looking at what's ahead for this summer. We have a 13-week summer plan beginning on May the 15th and ending on August the 7th. One call to your attention that on July on June 5th and July 3rd, we kind of deem those as mega events as we are partnering with the Convention & Visitors Bureau of Owensboro and and the city to really expand the stages on those two nights. They are preceding other events that will occur on Saturday, but it's going to be a larger stage. It's going to be kind of in the back corner

of McConnell Plaza and instead of in the amphitheater where it where it usually is. So, those two weekends especially are going to be really really big with with other events to follow on Saturday. We expect to see 200 to 250,000 in attendance this year, which is a considerable increase over the 120 we saw last year. We are highly recognized as the region's most most award-winning free concert series. And that's that's probably my favorite part of Friday After 5 is the free portion of it. It is it is a place to where not only citizens of Daviess County, but really around the region and and around the world become to hang out on Friday night and have a great time. The Air Group has stepped up their game this year. We work hand in hand with them. They they book our talent for the main stage. And they've really dug deep. They've got some really really big bands in this year. We also have the Overlook Stage, which will will start at 6:00 on Friday nights. And that's we showcase more of the local and regional talents there. Diane Dameron, who is on our board, books those bands for us. We had our big reveal this past Monday. And at that reveal, Club 180 President &

CEO of the OEDC spoke. And he said that estimated 120,000 attendees meant about 2.4 to 3.6 million dollars in local economic impact. If you take that and you and you figure in the 250 that we're hoping to see this year, that could increase up to about 7 and 1/2 million over the summer. So, as he said, Friday After 5 is doing real revenue. And on behalf of Friday After 5, I just want to say thank you all for your support of Friday After 5. Hope you continue to come out and enjoy the festivities. Thank you guys for your time. Thank thank you. I do before you go away, I do want to just say that you know, Friday After 5 has been been a long time a long long time serving our community providing entertainment. My my folks have both deceased now, but I know they used to they used to text or call when they got home and say we should come back to that nice music they had down on the river. And and they quite honestly introduced me to Friday After 5 way back when it first started. I I am curious what you said that your attendance last year was 120,000 and

you're hoping to double that more than double that. I'm just curious what what you are basing that hope on, I guess. That's a really good question. Obviously, the two more nights will help that number. We will also we've kind of expanded, I guess that's the safe place to say, the street or the street fair, which obviously brought more sponsors. And we've added some new vendors there as well as we've got a lot more craft vendors involved with it, so there'll be more down there for that from that perspective. We are opening a community partner village for our community partner sponsors to have a place to be every Friday night if they want to set up and showcase their their businesses. The bands this year, if you look at take a look at the lineup, there's there's a lot of those bands that have very big followings. And I think just with the success of last season that it will build upon itself. Okay. Thank you. One of one of my favorite stories before I leave the stage is I'm down here on Fridays from about noon to about 11:00 at night. And after I get set up, I like to walk around and just meet people. And there's not been a Friday night yet that I stopped and talked to somebody from Owensboro or Daviess County. It's always

been from Michigan, it's been from Alabama, Illinois, you name it. And just talking to them and in turn hearing people say we're moving. We're moving here because we like what you all have going on. So, I think it's a huge success and so excited about the opportunities coming. Yes. I'm excited too. I know Commissioner Connor, Commissioner Cason, and myself were we did the bus tour to northern Kentucky the same day you did your Atlanta reveal, so we were unable to Commissioner Marksberry had intended to be with us, but she had reason not to come with us. So, anyway, that's why we didn't show up for it, but anyway, I'm sure you had a good turnout for it. And we're looking forward to a good year. Thank you. Thank you and you're welcome for all that you do. Thank you all. All right. Thank you. All right. Thank you all. — [applause] — See, Treasurer's report for March of 2026. Mr. Johnston. As of March 31, 2026, the total cash balance is $83,962,956.77 for all funds. General fund balance is

$50,997,867.72 minus operating reserve restricted funds, cash for general fund operations is $40,744,912.01. This completes the third quarter for the fiscal year. All variances have been reported and are normal and explainable. And all funds are operating within projected allocations. I have nothing else to report. Thank you, Mr. Johnston. Do any members of the court have any questions for Mr. Hearing none, I'll make a motion to approve. And by the way, that's just a presentation that's available in the Treasurer's office if anybody wishes to see it. Two, consideration for approval. A, minutes of March 26, 2026 Daviess County Fiscal Court meeting. I'll make a motion to approve. Second. A motion and a second. We've all had the minutes for a few days to review. Are there any corrections, additions, or deletions? Hearing none, all those in favor signify by saying aye. Aye. B, all claims for all departments. Motion to approve. Second. A motion and a second. These are all the bills due and payable from the Daviess County Fiscal Court. Do any members of the court have any