everybody thinks we're quiet it's still busy you know there's so much behind the thing that we have to get ready for and in the building so that you know we had a fantastic last year which every single day was busy basically right so now we have our maintenance crew you know getting things ready even though we have our friday we have our other shows coming up but we have to get ready for the with the new season to make sure the building can handle has been jumping through hoops to get the new usually it's on new year's day but this year it's january third last year they came in on january third which is a little unusual and they had one of the most successful gaijin so now they don't want to break the law are going to stay on january third and it is it's great for the entire family they have  what's going on and ways will join or a club that's the best way had to vent ways with or you know we had lots of shows the way mary had shows and we don't ever have a dull moment around here so even while we're doing this and he was she's in africa she's ok show the doing the participation of residents and their local government is very important to the well being of any community volunteer advisory boards and committees are a great opportunity for local governments to engage their citizens in the process of crafting policies and tackling issues the city of sarasota has over twenty five advisory boards and committees with numerous opportunities for our citizens to volunteer their time and expertise from parks and recreation to public art to the historic preservation board just to name a few many advisory boards require some experience in particular field or professions and some only require residency in the city of sarasota but more information on the city of sarasota is advisory boards visit sarasota f l dot gov and click on the government tab there you can find a list of all city advisory boards and vacancies and you can even download it now application  thank you mark so i understand you went to hofstra so are you a new yorker i'm a new yorker born in brooklyn raised on long island and i went to hofstra and i left there back in the early eighty's and went to florida and  construction in town and turned into a retail retail services company in the ninety's you had about eighteen employees when i bought in one thousand and four how many employees today i think we're about two hundred twenty employees right now i'm not surprised it seems like wherever i drive i'm seeing cool today trucks everywhere so you must be having a great summer you are wasting a lot of gas no i don't think so i don't think so at all now today is much more than just see you have a lot of other services that you supply as  plumbing today as well oh ok and we are a company called energy today electricians so we do heating air conditioning plumbing electrical and all the related services around those three disciplines if you're working with me on my house you'd be making a lot of money so that's terrific you guys do some personal green initiatives right you guys you're really into so tell us about that we are part of the sarasota partnership the green business partnership that's been ongoing with the county and we have a solar array in our building and we recycle and we recycle much of our materials that we take out of homes right now we recycle the mercury out of thermostats we properly dispose of that  tubes the fluorescent lights and we recycle cardboard we recycle just about anything that all the metals are recycled so we were cycle just about everything we can recycle now your one of our presenting sponsors for friday fest do you are you involved a lot of other community things here in town yes we were involved with particularly the arts flow repertory theater some of the some of the shows there in each year we did some work with the players right you and i've come from east coast big east coast communities it's a standing o much for the smaller population bases in the i fell in love with the arts when i when i lived in new york and used to go to new york city to see some of the great places going on back then it was nothing like if i remember we were there for the first year i've been to everyone every year like that fantastic we expect to see you again you need to come over into the v i p section will have little beer that sounds like that sounds like fun i would certainly going to be warm so you'll need to pop over and very very good very good we need to make you a sponsor of our full season that sounds that sounds interesting but you guys are doing a great job with your with your lineup and your and your show mix and it's something for everybody well i think we've used that but if you want here i was eighty seven we might go see tony bennett together he's a little before my time but he's right in his sweet wife saw him a couple years ago he does a wonderful concert your father would just fall in love with the evening i have as his album 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help you and other boaters enjoy a waterway safely say on the water will we just finished what a great guest from president of call today and this really hot summer he has a pretty busy and since we let him walk out with janet who's in charge of our sponsorships he's me that night but she not only eats up the audience she eats up the scenery she gets off the back she owns that stereo she's just got out of the greatest voice already what i've worked on ever at this point and such a great person absolutely and then our fourth one is is reverend barry and punk sticks soul soul and funk adeleke and when he was here last year the dancing was i mean people were dancing all the way up the they were all into you know he really creates a dancer vironment it was it in probably six or seven different cities i've hamilton six seven different cities i'd never get tired of it it's just terrific and my daughters who were in their twenty's when they first saw my parents who were in their ninety's all the love the way they do the music is so weird factious frankie valli the four seasons songbook is amazing and then some classical to you because you're one of our classical that's right we have the national symphony of cuba which is that that's the first time they've been here obviously  looking forward to that and in our backyard basically not really that far from us so anxious to see them and see what they have and that is march march the great repertoire but it hasn't been announced yet so i  perform with all kinds of costuming and it's one of my first introductions probably to theater when i remember going when i was like third or fourth grade and we went to philadelphia to see that the moment chance and it was just blew me away i didn't know what to expect so that was great i'm twenty six and there is a school time performance as well that's good that's great and ballet boys and only boy now that's an interesting why are they all guys in the show and they're mary will love this one she'll be the front row because the it seems like