Santosuosso jokes about Nancy Melissas and permit history

I love that.

And then pivoting a little bit, my other question was about general liability insurance, which, if I recall, is required in the process of applying for the permit.

Have you heard feedback recently from any organizations that the cost of that or anything about that process is preventative for them in terms of applying for a permit or securing a permit?

Thank you for that question.

Yeah, that insurance comes up quite a bit.

I do want to emphasize 95% of our events that we process permits for are for events with attendees under 500 people.

Right.

So that means that there's, you know, like if you want to do a birthday party, if you want to do a picnic, there's no insurance.

You get the permit and that's it.

So we are talking about 5% or less of the permits where insurance is going to come up.

But, yeah, people have shared that information.

with us and like we've worked with our colleagues in our general counsel's office.

When it comes to insurance, it is something that is a little bit out of our hands in the special events office because our council then talks to the law department about coverages and they collectively determine whether or not

There's flexibility about whether something requires insurance, and if it does require insurance, what that coverage amount should be.