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been made into an award winning documentary, My Run narrated by Billy Bob Thornton. Mr. Hitchcock has proposed a couple of ideas for him to participate in the Festival of Lakes 8K run, including: • as a speaker (there would be a fee); • selling signed copies of A Father's Odyssey with $4.00 given to the 8K run proceeds and the remainder donated to Breast Cancer, Diabetes and Aspergers' /Autism; • showing of the film, My Run with Q & A at the conclusion of the showing; • selling signed copies of My Run (proceeds as stated above) Chairperson Branch obtained a copy of the film, My Run, to review and he responded to Mr. Hitchcock via email. There was a question regarding if having this person on site be a possibility to draw more runners to the event. There was concern about if the book and dvd were sold would it be better to have the P & R sell it and receive a portion of the sales, but there were concerns as to how do you know about what percentage of the remainder would be going to the stated charities OR would it be better for him to obtain a peddlers permit and sell the book and dvd himself. After further discussion, it was determined that it would be an appropriate action to consult with city staff regarding doing some additional investigation regarding this issue. There was also discussion about dealing with future requests of this nature 11. Centennial High School — NHS Volunteers There are approximately 15 NHS volunteers from Centennial High School willing to help with the clean -up of one or more of the parks. The scheduled day is 1pm on May ll Chairperson Branch will be unavailable, but he suggested that a few P & R committee members be available to supervise and break up into smaller groups to clean up around the monuments, including pulling weeds and also clean up paper and debris and then record their hours for credit for their volunteer hours. The City Public Works will provide bags and will pick up the filled bags. Chairperson Branch has been in contact with the NHS advisor to find additional volunteers for the summer and fall months. VI. UPDATES 1. Council Updates — Council Member Steve King A joint meeting with the Council, P & R Committee & Commission needs to be scheduled in June, with a date to be determined. Possibly June 19", 3 rd Wednesday. 2. Kiosk Inserts — Committee Member Amundsen The Committee would like to have more historic information included. Committee Chairperson Branch volunteered to look up the history of all the wars and list of Centerville residents involved. Also to be included will be a history of the families plus upcoming events and trail maps. 3. Bike Repair Station