 I like it. Yeah. Does the city shut down at all, Tara? I'm taking some vacation time, but really the only days that are actual holidays for us are the 26th and the second. Oh, okay. Good. Hi, y'all. How are we doing? Happy Thursday. I just have to check. I was like, what is this? It's the holidays, y'all. It's happening. I'm starting to feel like I'm disappearing. And Ann just said, you know, I also saw the cake stand and I literally thought she's going to use the app to stand. I said brilliant because I'm literally at my brother-in-law's place and I literally was like looking where I need a shoebox. Exactly. You got to get it out. I know. I was like, this isn't working. The cake stand is perfect. It's perfect. I couldn't tell that you could see it. That's funny. I would just pay attention to what I was doing. Wow. Nico, I don't think we talked about this. Are you and Kevin going to be sharing the presentation from your screen or do you need us to run it? Kevin will be sharing it. Kevin will be screen sharing it. Thank you. Are you out of the state, Nico? I'm in LA. I was in like New York City last week. Then we packed up to back up hometown Petaluma and then we like drove all the way down. You know, I would say that that drive to LA, if it was just four hours, even five hours, but it's an extra two or three hours that really gets me. It's true. Especially getting up to, if you're coming up, once you got to get across the bridges and come up again. It's too much. The five, the five is so fun. It's just a bad drive. I just see beautification. Hello, everyone. Hello, Kevin. My mom told me that she really wanted to go to Switzerland, specifically just to see cows. I told her that she just lived way too close to the Central Valley to go with her in a year up to see cows. The answer is literally in your mouth. This is Kanawa County. I love it. Drive out to Point Reyes and go see some happy cows at the coast. Yes. I always look at them. I'm the shaggy one. The Scottish cows are like, man, if I ever come back to the cow, that's the cow and that's the place I want to be. There's a farm in the city of Boston, just not far from my apartment. They have two Highland steers. Compared to the Sonoma County cows, they're just so sad. It's like snowing. They're in this little barn. Why do we live in Boston? Why are we here? Oh, no. I've got curses. Everybody else in Boston is like, why do we live here? Part of the cultural identity of the city. Is it snowing now? Are you getting part of the storm that's coming in? Are you going to have it? One of the nice things about being close to the ocean is that a lot of it turns to rain by the time it gets to us. Vermont and Western Mass, they're all getting a lot of snow this weekend, but we're just getting pretty consistent rain for the next couple of days. Okay. Let's do it. Yeah. I mean, it's enough rain to shut down the 101 for... But here it's just... It doesn't sprinkle there. No, exactly. Where is everybody? I know. I'm texting some folks. Eileen, I don't know, do you have a record of who said they could attend today? The only person that I know can't attend was Sayers. That's the only one I need to. Okay. Let me see if I get any responses back. Great. We'll wait a couple more minutes. Yeah. While people are still trickling in, thank you all so much for taking the time to meet one-on-one with me over these last couple weeks. It's been really great. It's been really just helpful. I've been so excited by our conversations that I keep in our planning conversations with Nico. I'm like, and then there's this, and then there's this. And he's like, right, but we are very specifically right now working on this. One thing at a time. I love it. By the way, he was talking, I was like, I think Tara has a new employee. Yeah, you're hired. More cows in your future, Kev. Invite the mama. Come, Kev, come. Yes. All right. We officially have a quorum. Oh, there's Lisa. Yeah. All right. We do have Lisa. I'll wait for her to join. There we go. Hi, Lisa. Hello. Hello. Good afternoon. Yeah. Yes. Cold afternoon. Yeah. For here. Yeah. All right. In the interest of keeping this meeting on schedule, I will be kicking off our meeting this afternoon. So welcome everyone to the December 15th special meeting of the Art and Public Places Committee. A little bit of housekeeping pursuant to Government Code Section 54953E and recommendation of the Health Officer of the County of Sonoma. Art and Public Places Committee members will be participating in this special meeting via Zoom webinar. Uh, Recording Secretary, can you please let the members of the public know how they can participate in today's meeting? Yes. Members of the public wishing to speak during public comment for items listed on the agenda will be able to do so by utilizing the raised hand feature in Zoom or by pressing star nine on their phone. They will then be given the ability to address the committee. Great. Thank you, Eileen. All right. Moving on to item two, we've got our roll call. Eileen, if you could please take roll call for the committees on our Zoom today. Absolutely. Member Puentos. Member Baumgartner. Present. Vice Chair Jones Carter. Here. And Chair Keifer. Present. Let the record reflect that all members are present with the exception of Member Azderian, Member Nathanson, and Member Sayers. Great. Moving on. I will take a public comment now for items not on the agenda. Eileen, could you notice? We don't have that on the agenda. It's not required for special meeting agenda. For the special meeting. Okay. Then in the spirit of keeping going, I will move on to item three, scheduled items. Item 3.1, workshop number four, authentic relationships in program design presented by the Kimson creative team. This final workshop will focus on synthesizing the content of the previous workshops towards building authentic community relationships and how to honor these relationships in the pre-production, production, and post-production processes employed by the art and public places committee. And the public art program. At this time, I'll hand it over to Tara to give an introduction to our team. And thank you for being on. Hey, everybody. I don't need to say much. You all know Niko and Kevin. They've been amazing to work with throughout this process. I'll just turn it over to them to lead us through this final workshop agenda. Thanks. Awesome. Hi, y'all. Thank you for having us again today, showing up with a lot of gratitude on our final of our series of four professional developments. For those tuning in, watching, we'll watch the link later. My name is Niko Kimson. I'm the founder of Kimson Creative, an arts and equity consulting group. Our work is to create greater communities of belonging. And that kind of starts with our co-collaborators here, the APPC. And I was just thinking back to our last professional development to kick us off. And I was thinking about Professor Danny Dominguez, who really investigated community-based participatory research. And there's this phrase that just continues to be stuck in my mind about moving from transactional relationships to transformational relationships. And so to start us off in that spirit, I would just love to, to me, there's no better way to move from transactional to recognizing that we're all complex human beings showing up on a Zoom room today, Thursday at four o'clock than just starting just with gratitude as we kind of either are easing into the holidays or running full sprint and we'll hit a wall at some point. But just would love to start with gratitude of how we're showing up to move into more transformational relationships. And so I'll kind of start, and then I'll pass it up. But I'm just showing up with a lot of gratitude for this collective, getting to know who the humans behind the APPC that we've heard about that we've, you know, we've been in more relationship with through our Task Force meetings or our PPs and the hearts that you have for the community that you serve. And just to kind of really join that and see how we can best support that because really believe in the what happens when community needs artists and the potential, the possibility. So really, really excited about that and really showing up thankful for that. And I'll pass it to Anne. You're on mute. Sorry about that. I'm having gratitude for just a lot more connections in the city right now. I was just telling some people that the person that appointed me onto this board was committee is now the mayor. She's a council person who just they take turns in our smaller city. If you don't know that kind of model. And then she got elected by her peers to be the mayor. And I had recently had a long meeting up with her and kind of connecting lives. And then her wanting to know about what we're doing and wanting to establish more of a communication back and forth about it. And so it was just like, I didn't really, she was even interested. And it was just like opening up another relationship. And then I was the funny part is that next morning she texted me and said, Anne, I'm the mayor now. And because it had happened the night before that she had that she got voted in. So it was making me laugh. Just the funny things that you can feel on the outside and the inside and we're really all on the inside. And I'm just finding lots of places in the city that are feeling like inside. And I want to bring more people into that. Yeah, come on. Transformational relationship. I'll pass it to Cherokee. Great. Thank you. This afternoon, I want to express gratitude for the artists in our community and for the continued relationships that I've been able to foster with some artists. And I, the other day had a coffee and a nice hangout with a good friend who is an artist in our community and wanted to hear more about her experience and her show that she is having artwork in that just opened up today. So I'm very excited for new opportunities for artwork as or sorry, it's an existing space but new artwork being shown there. And for just kind of the ever evolution of how our artists take opportunity to express what's meaningful and connect with our community. So I'm very optimistic and very grateful for the artists in our community. Love that. Great. I will pass off. And member Nathanson, we're just kind of going around expressing gratitude is what we're showing up grateful for today. Member point. Yeah, so I have some I have gratitude for the group of people that I'm able to be in as of today and how we are acknowledging where we're at and where we need to be. And how we want to move forward and progress. And we're willing to work together to take these steps and to move forward. Yeah, yeah, love that. I'll have to vice chair Joan Carter on mute as well. I said, okay, I'm thinking. I think I'm grateful for the fact that people committed to this process that we're going through right now with the eventual outcome that people feel rededicated to the committee and more action can be taken from the committee. That's what I'm hoping I can be grateful for. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. I'll pass it to member Nathan. Hi, everybody. I'm sorry I'm not a few minutes late to this session. I was in another meeting that ran over as the story of my life. But I'm grateful for being here, actually. And I'm actually very grateful to be able to work professionally in the arts and to have the majority of what happens in my life, the interaction with creative people, the cultural community, and to be able to contribute in the manner that I can. And to just be a collaborator and partner in culture and the arts in this particular community, which I find really inspiring. Amazing. Yes, yes. Thank you. And I'll pass it to Tara. Hi, everybody. I'm thankful for all of the committee members and our wonderful consultants for committing to this process. As others have said, I'm also grateful for our team of people behind the scenes that you don't see very much helping us run all of these meetings as currently we're troubleshooting an issue, which I'll have to tell you about in just a minute. So, yeah, thank you to just everyone for for bringing everything you have and what you are able to give at these meetings. It varies sometimes. And I want to respect that some days are not the same as another day. And just whatever you can bring is really appreciated. That goes for everyone. Thank you. Yeah, thank you. Amazing. And I mean, there's so much overflow here of gratitude. And I'll get to you, Kevin, as I intro you. But I'm especially grateful for Kevin, who will be facilitating this last professional development with us. Kevin is a dear friend of mine. He is a dramaturg. And if you don't know what that is, that's okay. He's a consultant. He is a creative producer at Art Emerson and at multiple other organizations. And was this amazing advocate for more inclusive theater space and performing industry. And I'm just so incredibly grateful that he's going to take us to the journey today of implementing our newly learned muffled and how what that means for this committee. And so I'm going to pass it off to my dear friend Kevin here and Kevin to start us off. What are you grateful for? Have you shown up for gratitude, my friend? I am grateful for I feel like we are in a stocked pantry. Like I feel like there are so many great like ingredients in this group and in the in the city of Santa Rosa and just like in the PDs that we've had like this is like a season finale episode of chopped. And what I am like hoping that we do today is like look at some containers and be like what are we actually cooking here? And we'll come up with something great. Or we'll come up with a few ways to go about cooking something great. So yeah, I'm just really grateful for all that's possible. It's not always a given every day that we get to think about what could be. You know, sometimes we're so in the the go of it, we don't get to stop and be like wait, why are we doing what we're doing? And who are we doing it for? And how can we do it better? And how can we have better impact? And so I'm always grateful to be able to take a little bit of time outside of the kind of race to say like, who are we and let's do this better. Before I dive in, Tara, I just love the technical difficulty. So I wanted to give you a second to see if there's something you'd like to share with the crowd. Yes, thank you. Eileen may chime in with more information. But unfortunately, two meetings that are city meetings that are happening concurrently were created in Zoom with the same person's account. This being one of them and our design view board being another, they start at 430 and they have to continue their meeting and essentially adjourn because they don't have a quorum to deal with the issue that's on their agenda. So we are being asked to end our meeting at 420, take a 15 minute break and reconvene at 440 some, no, I don't know. Sorry. Eileen, could you go over the exact times of what we can expect here? And thank you all for your patience and understanding. I'm so sorry about this. It's a very unusual and unprecedented situation for us. Eileen, are you there? Could you give us the exact timing that we need to go by? I'm sorry, I forgot to hit unmute. We will be stopping the meeting at 425 and then I will be restarting it right at 440. Right after that, if you all want to come back on using the exact same webinar information, we'll be good to go. Again, so sorry about that interruption. But Kevin, I just want to see in the next nine minutes, is there anything you want to get us started on that we could take those 15 minutes to work on? Is there anything like that that might fit into our agenda here? That is a great question. Okay, we're going to do a little bit of some work on the fly here. So stick with me. All right. I am going to do this. I'm going to share my screen. I'm going to get into presenting mode here and actually going to get out of presenting mode. We're going to skip my joke about being the person that emails you all the time. And we're going to just show a little bit of a spoiler alert. So when we have a little bit more time, what we're going to do is that we're going to look at kind of the highlights of the past few PDs. And we're going to think about kind of things that Socorro shared, things that Lindsay shared, things that Danny shared, and really revisit those principles. And then what we're going to do is we're going to apply them to as I understand the two, two aspects of the annual work plan. I've watched a lot of your meetings, we've spent a ton of time together that you don't even know about. So thank goodness for the public record. And yet I cannot claim any kind of expertise in the kind of intricacies of these processes. So as we go through these kind of looks at what you've put forward, stop me, correct me. I'm really looking at Utah for things at the city of things like, oh, wait, hold on. And I'm looking for you, the members of the APPC to say, actually, we have a different vision for this, or we think this might work differently. And what I want to emphasize is two things. As we go through these kind of different focuses of Community Advisory Board and the toolkit, we are not obviously in a position to make any decisions today. And the benefit of that is that we can just talk, right? We don't have to worry about motions or seconds or quorum or approval. This is actually just that space to kind of talk through what does all of this mean? And what do we actually want to achieve with this? And how do we do it with diversity, equity, inclusion, access, belonging, honoring the artist's voice, and considering the role of the community as collaborator? Okay, so that's one thing. And then the way that we're going to do that, as it's said in the nice little copy about this session, we're going to kind of split it into three sections. Nico and I are theater people. It's a curse. We can't get away from it. But we split everything into pre-production, production, and post-production, right? Casting, building sets, opening night, and then getting people on unemployment. So we're going to transfer that over to the work of the APPC today, thinking about what are the steps and considerations we make when approaching a project? What happens when this project is working and going and in go mode? And then what happens after? How do we intentionally communicate the learning so that the next time we approach a process, it's done better? So some questions that we will look at together are, for something like the Community Advisory Board, why are we doing it? Who needs to be there? What do they need? What does the APPC need? What resources do we already have? And what resources do we need? So I'm going to be asking these questions in real time. So in our brief adjournment, I would love for you all to have some answers ready. And to think about who is really a question of diversity? What do they need is really a question of equity. Not everybody needs the same thing in the same way. And so how are we designing something like a Community Advisory Board to meet people where they're at and to honor their needs? What does the APPC need? Something that's so important when building partnerships is it's not charity, it's collaboration, right? And so it is your partners will feel honored when they know what you need from them and you are transparent about it. And then therefore they can be transparent about what they need from you. So what does the APPC need? What resources do we already have? And then what resources do we need? The answers to both are money. But maybe there's others. You know, maybe there are things that we haven't considered about how we can find impact in this work. So essentially the same questions we will look at time permitting in we're gonna just skip forward the old fashioned way. I know that we're coming on adjournment time on the toolkit. Who is this toolkit for? This toolkit, first of all, I loved this meeting because you all fought for this toolkit. Tara was like, I don't know guys, it's a full year. And the members of the APPC were like, this is the hill for me. I'm here for this toolkit. So let's get into it. Who is the toolkit for? Who are you making it with? Who does what? Whose job is what in making this toolkit? How is the toolkit made accessible? And how does it stay relevant? I love a strategic plan because a strategic plan makes a beautiful paperweight. It makes a beautiful filler in a bookshelf. I love it. We don't want the toolkit to be like that. We want the toolkit to be a living breathing document that people engage with that people update that people say I tried that and it didn't work or this worked better than I ever imagined it could. So here's my testimony in this toolkit 3.0 about how great it was getting my mural approved. So these are the things that we will dive into when we come back in just a few minutes. And what I will do is I have just downloaded those slides and I'm going to throw them into an email and send them to Tara. If you could please send those out to our committee members here to review, have those questions. And what I will also say, Kevin, if you want to pop up the consideration slide that we've created that has the three is as we're looking through those, we've created a tool for you that summarizes the learnings from the past professional development. And so you can kind of look at them as a series of filters that says when I'm thinking about the advisory council, let me go through diversity when I say who, right? When we say what do they need equity, let's revisit these definitions and the tools that we've been given. And then we can move on and say, great, the committee, when we go back to the state of the artist, how did we center their hopes and dreams, right? What do they need? What tools? What resources? What education training, right? So here's the new muscles in kind of a summary sheet that allows us to process and be a filter for us as we move through these questions. So I packaged these in an email. I'm going to send it to Tara right now and Tara will send it out to the collective. And I guess that will be kind of our 15 minute break is to be thinking about these questions and then come back to a facilitated conversation with Kevin. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you. Thank you all for your understanding with this. I'll send that out as soon as I get it from Nico. And then please log on using the same meeting link at 440. Thank you everyone. I'm going to end the stream now.