 Okay, we are streaming. Great. Thanks. Hello, member bound Gartner. If you'd go ahead and check your audio and visual, please. Thank you. And member pointers, if you would go ahead and check your audio and visual for us, please. Member pointers, if you would go ahead and just test your audio for us and your visual, if possible. Yes. Hi. Great. Thank you. I just needed, I have, my camera's not, it's not hooking up, it'll just take me a second. Oh, no worries. Thank you. Member sayers, if you would go ahead and test your audio and visual for us, please. Member sayers, if you would go ahead and, oh, there we go. If you can just test that for us. Yeah, I'm good. Wonderful. I'm choking for you. Do have a quorum at this point. Great. Thanks, Eileen. All right. With the intent of being timely with our today's meeting, I will now bring the October 3, 2022 meeting of the Art and Public Places Committee in discussion. 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 meeting via Zoom webinar. Members of the public can participate in the Zoom in the meeting by visiting the link or by dialing in. Eileen, will you let our public know any other announcements about today's meeting? Yes. Members of the public wishing to speak during item 3, public comment or during items listed on the agenda will be able to do so by utilizing the raised hand feature in Zoom or by pressing star 9 on their phone. They will then be given the ability to address the committee. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Next, I would like to do roll call. Apologies. Member Puentes. I see a yes. Thank you. Member Baumgartner. Present. Member Sayers. Present. Wonderful. Chair Kiefer. Present. Let the record reflect that all members of the board are present with the exceptions of Vice Chair Jones Carter, Member Nathanson, and Member Esderian. Oh, and I let me amend that. Member Esderian has just joined. Moving on to item number 3, public comments. This is the time where any person may address matters not listed on the agenda but are within the subject matter of the jurisdiction. The public may comment on agenda items when the item is called. Each speaker is allowed three minutes. Eileen, do we have any general public comments for today? We do not have any written or comments or any voicemails for this meeting. Okay. Moving on to approval of minutes, item 4, we have two meeting minutes to approve today. First, we have the August 1st, 2022 regular meeting of the Art and Public Places Committee. And then we also have the special meeting minutes from our meeting on September 13th, 2022. Can I get a motion to approve or do any members have any recommendations or amendments to make? Member Plice, you're muted. My apologies. I would like to make a motion to approve as submitted. Can we get a second? And you're muted. I was not there. I'll second it. Thank you. All right, and then we'll move to a vote. So I'm a member of our bomb gardener. Which meeting were you not in attendance for? August 1st or whatever, the first one in August. Okay. Eileen, a bit of housekeeping. Can we vote twice on these then? We will need to vote twice. Good. Okay. So for the August 1st meeting, Member Puentes. Yes. Member Sayers. Yes. Member Baumgartner, you've already indicated that you were not present and need to abstain. And Chair Kiefer. Yes. And Member Asderian. Yes. The meeting to approve the August 1st meeting minutes approved as submitted has passed. Great. Thank you. The vote for the next meeting, which is the September 13th meeting, is I'll go ahead and take that. Member Puentes. Hi. Member Sayers. Yes. Member Asderian. Yes. Member Baumgartner. Yes. Member Kiefer. I'm sorry, Chair Kiefer. Apologies. Eileen, hold on a second. We need to change Member Sayers' vote to abstain since he was absent, I believe, on the 13th of September. Okay. Sorry. That's okay. Don't worry. No worries. That acknowledged the meeting minutes for September 13th have been approved as submitted. Great. Thanks for that bit of housekeeping. Moving on now to item five, our scheduled items. First item 5.1, Art Surround. The Art and Public Places Program, sorry, the Public Art Program, is participating as an advocate and funder for the Creative Sonoma Grant Program, Art Surround. Staff will present the projects located in Santa Rosa that are being supported by grants from the City of Santa Rosa, as well as present two projects proposed for City Hall, which are recommended for approval. I will hand over to Tara for the presentation. Thank you. Great. Thank you. Hi, everyone. Jessica and I will be presenting today, so I'll start off and just hold on one minute while I share my screen and get the presentation going. Okay. Is that visible to everyone? Great. Well, interrupt me with questions as we go through this. Don't feel like you have to wait. This is a presentation to show the committee the Art Surround projects which are being funded by the Public Art Program and to ask for approval for two of the projects which will be cited at City Hall. This is a program, Art Surround, is a program that was created by Creative Sonoma, and the Public Art Program has been participating as an advocate in the program, along with other government agencies, businesses, tourism agencies as advocates, meaning that we either can fund projects or house or site projects on our property. I'll also shout out to Nathan as an advocate for his site, Escalar. So that really kind of gives you a sense of the different types of advocates that have been participating in this program. So before we jump into the presentation, I just wanted to remind the committee that the funding from the Public Art Program for these Art Surround projects was allocated in last year's annual plan. We thought that this program would be up and running and we would have started working on this earlier, but such as it is, here we are in fall starting to launch it. So last year's annual plan had a line item for $50,000 towards grants for artists. And so the opportunity was presented to us to partner with Creative Sonoma on this program, Art Surround and to be an advocate and to use that funding towards grants through this program. I'll also make a distinction that we are issuing grants to these artists to do a project that they came up with through the Art Surround program. We did not commission these pieces. So the process, the selection process and the process by which the committee is hearing about these and taking action on them is slightly different from when the Public Art Program commissions a project. So if there's any questions about that, I'm happy to go into more detail, but I wanted to call that out as we start out. So I will start off here with a little bit of background about Art Surround and the focus on community engagement through the arts and community arts engagement as a primary goal of the Creative Sonoma program. Sorry, was there a question? No, okay. So the Arts Surround goals that were generated through Creative Sonoma's kind of program development were really to focus on kind of two strategies, supporting artists and engaging businesses and then looking at how to support the kind of interface between those two things. So one of the goals was to engage businesses and public agencies that have a goal already of enhancing community livability through the arts, but bringing to specific attention how you can do that through working with artists. And then the other main goal was really to support artists with grants and training to do projects here in Sonoma County. So there were two different cohorts or groups for this program, an artist cohort and an advocate cohort, and they were kind of brought along parallel but separate tracks to increase community arts engagement across Sonoma County. And because this is a Creative Sonoma program, this is a countywide program and the Public Art Program is just participating as an advocate in the way that we are funding projects in Santa Rosa, but it's countywide. There are I think 25 participating artists and something like 27 actual projects. There was a couple artist teams and or maybe it's 27 and 20. Anyway, it's there's a couple artist teams and there's around 27 projects being funded all throughout Sonoma County. The ones that are in Santa Rosa are seven projects in Santa Rosa. So for the advocate cohort, like I said earlier, this included staff from cities, towns, arts organizations and businesses with a goal to engage artists to incorporate their work into public spaces. And the Public Art Program is participating as a part of the advocate cohort as a partner and funder. This is a shot of our final day of training with the combined group of the cohorts of the artist and the advocate. Springboard for the arts was brought in by Creative Sonoma to lead a two day, well two and a half day, two days with just the artist and a half day with the artist and the advocates in person customized training that really focused on creative place making and community arts engagement as a kind of a method of working in the community. Artists who completed the training were able to work on proposing a public art project and then paired with an advocate to host and or pay for their project. I'll turn it over to Jessica now. Sorry, I'll turn it over to Jessica now just so she can go over the projects that are being funded by the Public Art Program. Thanks Tara. Yeah, so these are the projects or the artists that the Public Art Program has been paired with. You'll see there's seven artists or artist teams, they're all at different places. These are these are the project titles and where they're at and then these start dates are somewhere a little bit aspirational at this point. We're still trying to pin down when exactly each project is going to get started and in a few slides from now I'm going to go I'm going to give a little overview of each project individually. Tara, where are you? We kind of talked a little bit about this. So these first five are the artists or artist teams that are just being funded as a grant through the Public Art Program and then you'll see in the slides when we get to the last two the two that are being that we are seeking an APPC approval on are both at City Hall. So this first project here is Adam Sharon. He's doing or he's proposing to do light sculptures in the courtyard of Miracle Plum. He he did light sculptures for open and out so it's they're similar to that project and he's hoping to get started in the fall. His grant is for 7000 and I believe Miracle Plum has agreed to keep the light sculptures up sort of at their discretion after the first couple months that they've agreed to have them there. The next project we've got is Jessica before moving on. Yeah could you remind everyone where Miracle Plum is? Yeah yeah thanks. It's under the freeway intersection of where Third Street and the freeway entrance are. Does everyone know where that is? Kind of near Whistle Stop and there's a bank there on the corner to end up in Railroad Square, Santa Rosa. Yeah their address is on Davis Street but there's this little tiny cute white building tucked in between the the higher rise bank buildings right on Davis Street as you approach Third Street. Thanks and yeah please jump in if you have any questions about the projects as I go along. This next project by Danny Burleson is one of the ones that's going to be at Escalar. She's doing a pretty comprehensive literary project that's going to be working around themes of ancestors, migration, belonging, and she's compiling a chat book of different people from Santa Rosa telling their stories and then she's going to have them translated into the languages that those people speak at home or that their ancestors speak. She's also going to do a writing workshop around the same themes and a sort of a launch celebration at Escalar when she puts the chat book out. And we just newly moved this one to the spring so that one will get started next spring and her grant amount is four or five thousand excuse me. Kristen Troupe is proposing to do a sort of large-scale walking trail and she's going to do artist renditions onto like weatherproof decals that will make up the walking trail and each decal will feature a person from Santa Rosa history, probably some of the lesser known histories of Santa Rosa. She's doing a lot of research with the library and each decal will have the person and then also a QR code and that QR code will lead to an audio description of the history of that person in Santa Rosa and also where they can find the rest of the decals to complete the walking trail. Kristen had hoped to do it this fall and winter and and we'll see if we're still on track for that and her grant is for ten thousand. This one is you'll recognize these names MJ Linda Lawyer, Joshua Lawyer and Maria Kijos. They are each proposing to do one mural in Santa Rosa. This is sort of a continuation of the mural project and they've secured one location so far which they hope to get started on either this month or next and the next the other two locations we're still hoping to we're still tracking down the best location for that and this grant amount is 30,000. You'll see a little asterisk there that we're using ARPA funds for that so that so we could manage this one along with the rest of them at the 50,000 amount. What building is this on? Oh this is just an example of their past work so this is not a sketch for a new one. And then the one building that they did secure are you able to announce that or? Yes oh gosh I have it in my notes and I can I can follow up with that. Okay I forget where it was now I'm sorry. And then it is in Rosalind though and then I'll have to be in Rosalind. Okay okay wonderful and then sorry just to go back the Kristen one that is going to be how big are those decals or those with the QR codes and stuff how large are they and are they're just going to be placed on the cement or the ground and how many different locations and where are they're just a certain area or they're just going to be spread throughout Santa Rosa? Yeah good questions I can't remember I think they were either 18 or 20 inches and she's going to she's having it go kind of like downtown JC again I can give you the actual location I can follow up with that. But they're all planned for roughly like downtown JC area and she's going to do a lot of work with with people's you know houses who sidewalk they're in front of to make sure that people are okay with that and I think it's 12 12 decals make up the trail if I'm not mistaken and she'll go pretty in depth with with each story for each one so it's comprehensive in that way and that she's telling a lot of detailed history of Santa Rosens of the past. Is there any question that I missed? No no no thank you. Sure yeah okay and this is the other one that is at Escalar this is Nicole Jones um she's doing a project called the California Native Food Garden where um she is creating it planting a whole garden at Escalar that will focus on indigenous food plants and medicine plants and um she in the end will this will be open to the public and she'll be sharing those plants that are grown there with uh with her elders and her community. She's also going to do a like a workshop nature sketchbook workshop where she'll um provide the participants with journals and they'll they'll do that kind of journaling um you'll see there there's a little mock-up of a of a plant sign too she's she's doing little burned burned into wood plant signs for what the plants are and if I'm not mistaken she's going to have the have them in their native language also on the on the plant signs again this one is for the fall and they're they're getting going on this ASAP because they're trying to stick to a planting schedule and this project is um the grant is for 8600 and where is this located I know you said the garden at Escalar but what's the street and um yeah good I don't know where the street where Escalar is located I have yet to make it out there um I'm sure Tara or Nathan could jump in and it's on Dennis it's on Dennis Lane at the northern very northern part of San Rosa the northern part of the copy part neighborhood in your kind of open space thank you and Jessica will you have information on when uh the workshop is available for public to attend yeah absolutely we'll have we'll be sharing all the information um with you all at the APPC about all of the projects and the dates um everything else should also go out through creative Sonoma and we're going to use our out there Santa Rosa channels to promote all of the events associated with the projects a lot of the dates are still being pinned down at this point okay and as a reminder these last two are the two that are that staff is seeking an APPC approval on and while these all are grants they somewhat resemble commissions in that um sorry I got distracted by the chat um I think that I can step in Jessica the the difference is that because these there are two projects that are being cited on city property and for that reason the APPC needs to give approval this one is temporary um a couple months is what's expected for the installation and then the second one you'll see that cited at City Hall is a little bit more permanent but that's the reason they that they are cited on city property so APPC is required to approve these differently than they would just be informed of the grants that are being given out for the others thank you Tara um okay yeah so this one is Barbie Watts water for art from air she's proposing to put up three water collecting sculptures like do collecting sculptures for roughly three months this is out front in a city hall where there's already a drought tolerant sort of demo garden and her idea is that she would like to these are movable sculptures and so she'd like to move them uh what weekly and see what the optimal like a optimal arrangement is for due collection and she'll be posting about that as she goes and this one is she's going to get started in the spring and this would be for 4,990 oh Jessica um what's the scale on these size yeah um um what I they're like I'm gonna say like roughly human size okay good yeah and they're made out of materials that uh she said plastic metal nets and acrylics apparently these types of sculptures are made all over the world and those are some of the traditional materials used for for the water collection great thank you yeah okay and finally we have um Julian Bellotti and Anna was Yardé they are guilders and they are proposing to do a botanical line drawing in in gold on on either side of the two towers that are in the center of city halls um the courtyard there they would like to also plant a native rose garden at the base of the towers and they would like to do a big community event um where they would talk about the native rows and also hand out cuttings for it and celebrate with music and stuff uh this one they would like to get started in the spring of 2023 and this grant proposal is for 17,827 Tara did you want to do the last two slides here all right my turn again thanks Jessica um so to review uh the public art program is participating in creative Sonoma's countywide grant program art surround as an advocate and funder the public art fund is supporting seven public art projects in Santa Rosa we are seeking approval from the committee today for the two projects proposed for city hall because they're on a city property and again those are the ones you just saw Barbie Watts water collectors and the gilded rose drawing at city hall so our recommendation today uh is that the committee approve both of these projects proposed for city hall as a part of the art surround program that's the that's the end of our presentation today we are happy to answer any questions and go back and look at any slides if needed so let me know what would be helpful great thank you Tara just some housekeeping and um for how this meeting will go first we will do some clarifying questions uh any questions to Tara and Jessica uh then we'll go to public comment we'll have a motion a discussion and then a voting so first up we have clarifying questions and you have your hand raised um yeah I just uh just curious did um Tara and Jessica did did the city ask for projects in this space did you like put that into the or did the people artists choose this space yeah good question um most of the artists had some idea in mind for a variety of spaces to be honest um the very one of the very unique things about this program and what's been really exciting to be a participant in offering grants rather than commissions is that we were able to essentially fund whatever the artist wanted to do they didn't have to conform to a proposal of what we were asking them to do so uh what what was the common conversation that Jessica and I had once we knew which artists were essentially being assigned to us to fund because of the fact that they were in Santa Rosa um we met with the artists and some of them had a very clear idea I this is exactly what I want to do I know exactly how I'm going to do it and we were like great go for it we love it you know proceed um others had like five ideas six ideas and they were trying to pair them down to what would be feasible and they had questions about what kind of contracts we use and how much insurance they might need and you know they needed a little bit of help these are artists participating in this program that range from people who have haven't done any kind of public projects ever before to folks who maybe have wanted to but never really got a chance to folks who have done it um a few times or regularly and feel like this is kind of their normal way of doing their art practice so quite a range and some of the conversations were like okay the artist had an idea but they didn't really know where to put it so um Jessica and I kind of helped in that conversation by offering suggestions of city sites that we would be able to you know offer up or make use of and so um I think that we did help with citing a couple of them but to be honest most of them completely knew what they wanted to do and where they wanted to do it great thanks interesting we see you behind Grace yes I have a question too yeah um actually Tara did answer a lot of the questions I did have previously but so when these artists were thinking of these ideas and stuff the applications that they had were completely they were reviewed by both creative Sonoma and you and Jessica yeah correct so um again this is a unique program that we haven't really done something quite like this before because usually when we do a program or a project that we issue a call for artists for it's a very set process of doing a call for artists setting up a selection process all the kind of things that you've participated in that you've seen this is very much outside of that process so the actually the only application process that existed is when the artist first applied to be a part of the artist cohort as a part of the art surround program and there was very kind of general criteria um to participate one you had to be a Sonoma County artist um and you know I think that it was encouraged oh and and you had to agree to do the springboard for the arts training so you had to agree to participate in the training in person for three days two and a half days and then it was encouraged through that training and through the rest of the process to not come in with preset ideas on what your project should be the um focus of the training was about how to collaborate how to develop ideas with community and with an advocate or with someone who is either offering a site to you or is funding your project and so some of the artists still had an idea and they kind of carried it through the training and to the end of the process others had an idea and then completely let that go and changed their idea after receiving the training and some didn't have an idea at all coming in and just really was they were open to developing ideas within the process of the the cohort um so the once the training was complete the artist had I think it was about two a two month period about eight weeks to develop a proposal um but they it was a back and forth it was like okay well who's your advocate how do we decide what um site considerations there might be knowing that if you're going to be paired with an advocate you might need to know something from that person or that agency before you start developing your proposal so essentially creative Sonoma went through a matchmaking process first to pair artists with sites and funders so um and really it was really more of a matchmaking related to a site and then the funding came either from Creative Sonoma or Sonoma County Tourism was another funder the Chamber of Commerce was a funder and then the City of Santa Rosa Public Art Program was a funder so once that matchmaking was complete Creative Sonoma essentially let us know who we were paired with and then we started having those meetings with artists to help the process of their proposal being developed. Ah got it that answers a lot of questions um I have one more and it's regarding um the centers of the Rose um the native Rose I don't recall anything ever being painted on any of the walls in the City Hall has there been ever? Not to my knowledge okay so I've been there yeah I'm really trying to visualize that because you know I've been there I've stared at it and the walls can be pretty drab but it's and it's not flat surface completely flat surface there is some texture there so I'm just I'm trying to visualize it and if anyone can help me out here and you know bring some light you know I haven't been there for a while so would be appreciated well I think that the thing that the artist offered up in their kind of conversation about their planning process was that first firstly it's not actually paint it's it's gold leaf essentially and so not that that changes exactly what you're asking because they think they're probably similar questions or considerations about how you apply that material to a variety of surfaces such as like very porous cement in this case but it's also like a ridged finish right it's got grooves and so they took that into consideration I think they have a plan to present it with that in mind and to make sure that the image reads well they are considering putting a shadow behind so painting a shadow of the gilded surface of the gilded line drawing to help reinforce what the image is so that is one of their considerations I think they're leaning towards that the last time we talked to them but that is that that's exactly the type of thing they are trying to make sure they're addressing so that the image reads correctly I would add to that a couple other things one thing that they're really interested in in doing this project is that those towers peek over the building of city hall so you can actually see it from Santa Rosa Avenue and that that was appealing to them because they can sort of like it's like this little you know it in live in city hall and for many it pass or by and then the other thing that I want to add is that the material is gold leaf which is traditionally used outside like on domes and signage and stuff so it's actually meant to be outside and to weather really beautifully over time okay and how long is this supposed to last that one's pretty permanent okay okay but it will definitely give character to city hall that character that it once hasn't had yeah yeah and I okay um this is just my personal opinion but I think it's a bit elegant too okay yeah okay great thank you thanks Jessica thanks Tyler so Lisa um context for location I believe looking at the photos these are the two towers that you see when you are like in that courtyard right below where the council chambers are so if you walk up the stairs to the council chamber is you're looking at the the towers on the side is that correct sorry um yeah generally I mean they like Jessica said they do extend they're the tallest part of city hall so you really can see the tops of these towers for lack of a better word from the parking lot from D street from Sonoma Avenue from Santa Rosa Avenue all the surrounding surface streets they are visible but yes if you were in the center of city hall in the middle of the courtyard below the stairs that go up to the council chambers you would be right next to them and you would be right next to the um the planting area where they will be planting the actual plants of the native roses oh my questions were answered but thank you Tara could you let our group know a little bit more about um when ARPA funds are being used for the murals in Roseland how that process is a little different yeah we we came across the opportunity to kind of leverage another series of funding to be able to fund fully all the projects that were assigned to us or paired with us the projects in Roseland are also uh fitting under the use of the ARPA funds that were assigned to economic development to develop a small business support program and we are in the middle of um preparing to launch an application for small businesses to apply for a facade improvement grant that can be used towards um facade improvements on their business it can also be used to um fund creative elements of permanent parklets and to offset the first cost first year design costs of permanent parklet um and then a kind of sister element to the funding for the facade improvements is to pair businesses who want to have a mural on their building with an artist who will create a mural for that site and so because that is a part of that program already we were able to um essentially um have a separate funding source for this one project within the art surround program so it's still part of the art surround program it's still they those artists still all participated in the training they're part of the artist cohort um they're still receiving support from the city of Santa Rosa to do the project um we're just lucky that we have another source of funding to help supplement what the public art program has for this project great thank you that helps paint a picture of how these funds can be flexible in to allow multiple types of projects and uh whether it's a facade improvement or um fitting in under the art surround grant program that gives our our team a bit of flexibility yeah great Lisa did you have another question yeah I have another question I'm sorry um so I know it's the $50,000 from the previous um year that we had set aside or we've allocated for this but the additional funds that you're saying that you're applying have those been secured and they've been secured and that was an additional what was that like 26,000 or the additional yeah the additional funds for that are being allocated to um MJ, Joshua, and Mario's murals in Roseland uh it's $30,000 which are come which is coming from um the um the ARPA funds okay so all of the funding for theirs is coming from that yes correct okay then that makes sense yeah I'm wondering why it wasn't okay wasn't that enough yeah well and I believe that if you actually did the math you would see that all the other projects are slightly they all equal a little bit over $50,000 but that's because they include contingencies and we don't expect all of the projects to use their contingencies and so um we're being hopeful that will we'll come in on budget okay if no one uses their contingencies we're just under $50,000 my like $50 or something okay Jeff go ahead yeah hi um sorry everybody I was a few minutes late but for some reason couldn't be elevated to a panelist so I'm glad to actually be here Tara I might have missed a detail on this um forgive me if I did but I uh can you talk a little bit more about the facade improvement um project uh which I know is um separate from arcs around but sort of parallel and just um and you and I talked the other day about a wall that we identified um that I'd love to see something happen on so just maybe a little bit more about that program please yeah I don't we I want to be careful of not um violating the brown act by talking about something that's not on the agenda so I would love to bring back a full presentation on what we're planning it's not launched yet so what we're at is just we've been gathering information we've done a lot of research we've surveyed businesses in the eligibility areas that we've identified to see what would be most helpful and we'll be launching the program really soon but I'd rather not go into more detail today just to make sure we have the item agendized got it thank you one other um small detail that I just wanted to mention in case no one's asked but in case anyone has any concerns um Nathan is escalar it's his site right it's his um kind of creative space with the art studio and gardens and everything else that they're on the property um he he's participating as an advocate in arts around um but not a fund funder or not receiving funds so while he's offering his site to the artists who have been paired with him um there's not a conflict of interest with him participating in today's vote because he's not receiving any funds just want to make sure that's clear thanks I was curious I know I'm sure you were the one that would ask right thanks these were some great questions so far uh would like to move to uh public comment Eileen have you received any public comments for this item we have no public comment and there are no hands raised at this time okay going forward um I would like to see if anyone would like to put a motion on the table uh we can start with the recommended motion and go from there but would like to open that up before we move on to any discussion I'll make a motion that we uh accept the recommended projects for the city of Santa Rosa and fund those um as put out to us today exactly okay just to clarify Anne I think the motion needs to include the language that um you are approving the two projects um uh on city hall property okay great I've met that so yes should I restate that or is just you saying that does that I think we got it as long as Eileen's okay with that yes yes we're fine thank you thank you great and then Jeff did you second that yes I second the motion great thank you now we can move to a discussion so is everyone clear on the differentiation between fund allocation for the arts around grant program and then the need to approve these two projects on city hall property as is the purview of appc sounds like everyone's okay took me a minute of talking through to understand but um I'm very excited to see a more flexible opportunity being presented before us today as a way to kind of kick start more more art projects in our community and really meet that creative Sonoma has created this opportunity for artists and advocates to join together um in many different forms whether they are funders or like Nathan providing a location for artwork to be experienced um so I was very happy to see this brought to our committee today thank you staff for doing the work thanks Kristen I also want to just make sure that you all um if you hadn't I haven't looked at it yet um take a look if you're interested at the press release that jessica forwarded to you from creative Sonoma because it outlines all of the projects throughout Sonoma County um and talks a little bit more about the overall goals and the process and um kind of the farther reaching aspects of the program rather than just what we are concerned with which is with within the city of Santa Rosa so it's got um it's got some great additional information in there and project descriptions well I think these are great launching points uh are great locations for this this round of activity this program that creative Sonoma has put together I hope that I hope that these projects really enliven our community and provide opportunities for a different thought about what is achievable in in non-traditional spaces or spaces where it hadn't been thought about before for public art so I'm I'm very pleased to see this happy happening does anyone else have any comments before we vote mine was for the water catchment and um that to work basically that is a bog is required correct sorry did you say a bog fog fog um I I think you know part of her her art project is experimenting and seeing just what we can get um it might not be like as much water as we hope for but my understanding is that that there is more moisture in the air than we then we know about and and hopefully these sculptures will back that up okay yeah and sometimes I think in what she kind of researched and what she's interested in um collecting data on is um kind of the changes in temperature that happen overnight versus during the day that can cause condensation and that these materials in the shapes various shapes that are used in different parts of the world actually um can kind of facilitate water generation from from condensation so I am not a scientist I may have totally just gotten that all wrong but that's what my understanding is from from how she talked to us about it and what she was interested in experimenting with so okay okay great thank you and in this proposal from Barbie uh she notes that she will be visiting or will be relocating these elements possibly weekly or um but uh I guess my question is does she expect that she'll be checking on them daily or will they be catching rainwater in or sorry will they be catching do in the designs themselves is that part of the I'm just very curious to see how this works so yeah so they won't really be relocated their positions will just be changed on the pole that they're on and so she is planning on having like have you ever seen those rainwater catchments that show you how much so one of those um something like that will be underneath and I I think she is checking daily but posting weekly it's very neat great okay well if there are no more comments or discussion items um I would like to move to a vote Eileen can you coordinate a roll call vote absolutely member sayers yes member pointus I member nathanson I member bound Gartner yes thank you member esterian hi cheer keifer I let the record reflect that the motion has passed great thank you everyone great I'm excited to see these projects and live in our community next we have item 5.2 program and project overview staff will present updates on current projects I will hand it over to Tara and Jessica thank you thank you yeah we'll just do our project updates and program updates um on things that are have been ongoing or in the work so Jessica if you want to get started with your list and then I'll chime in after you okay perfect um okay so we've got we've got Unum and Tara and I are continuing to work with the artist and the fabricator um to accommodate the ADA requirements for the base of the sculpture and we're we're still the timeline is still hopeful for the end of the year for our rotating exhibits we've got two new exhibits up they just went up this last week at the Finley Center and the person senior wing they are both free and open to the public um and they're going to be on view through the end of November at the Finley Center we've got the artist workshop of Sonoma County and that's uh over 40 different artists professional artists and at the person senior wing we have the POMO project um which is featuring mostly POMO artists and they're actually having a reception this Thursday you're all welcome to come it's going to be from five to seven again at the person senior wing and Tara and I have also been working on the citywide art audit we're um at the beginning stages and we're working with other city departments and we're beginning to meet with the APPC task forces individually um once we've met with every all the task forces and we're a little farther along we'll present that at an upcoming meeting um also we have been Tara and I have been invited to present at an upcoming career day for Rosalind College Prep and we're going to go for it we're very excited to talk to the teenagers about careers in the art field and lastly the public art program is participating in the Bay Area Urban Manufacturing Week which is put on by SF Made that's next week so we have coordinated with some artists to to highlight artists as manufacturers um so we coordinated two tours and demos uh with Santa Rosa artists and I'll send a follow-up uh I'll send a follow-up to all of our project updates with a recap of everything and that will include links to those Bay Area Manufacturing Week demos thanks great thanks Jessica um I'll add on our update on conservation and maintenance uh the peanuts bronze in Depot Park of Snoopy and Charlie Brown um has been fully cleaned and treated and the fence surrounding it repainted um that's been needed for quite some time the Schultz Family Foundation had been taking care of the bronzes that are a part of our collection and this year we have transitioned over to having our conservators do the work but the Schultz Family Foundation is still contributing to the cost of maintaining them so the other two pieces the Marcy Bench on 4th Street near the library and the Lucy and Schroeder piece in the Fountain at Finley will be treated soon as well as part of our um comprehensive plan for all those pieces um recently Wellspring and Coffee Park was also repaired it was a little bit unexpected to need repairs so soon it's a relatively new piece but it turns out that one of the filler materials used in the seating elements was faulty and didn't hold up as expected so the fabricator came on site for three days did all of the cleaning and repairs and replaced the filler with a stronger material the artist also came on site and did a repair of the mosaic on the cement pad which was missing a few pieces tile pieces so it's looking should be looking great now that was completed back in August the Asawa art panels I also will mention that while it's still slow going with getting the engineering and design drawings finalized they are due to be given to the fountain contractor as soon as possible we're hoping within the next couple weeks so that the fountain proposal can move forward with getting its permitting through the city and and constructed and then we'll move forward with the artwork's foundry process of casting the panels into bronze um no new updates on the artist in the general plan project um although we're still moving forward with it but nothing nothing new to report there and I believe that's it for today but happy to both just can I can answer any questions about all of those updates sorry I had a question about the Asawa fountain so you said I'm assuming she's going to come back did she freeze for everyone else too and contractor will get the panels hi sorry you froze for a second um please ask your question again I didn't get it oh thanks sorry I was wondering if you could give a sorry just rewind on your recap on the Asawa fountain I'm okay my internet connection is unstable so thank you oh got it okay no worries I just stated that it's slow going getting the final engineering and design drawings completed um but we are working on them with artwork's foundry and with their engineer and they will be provided to the fountain contractor as soon as possible so that they can proceed with getting the review and approval from the city to start construction thank you did anyone else have any questions about our updates for our projects and programs seeing none thank you guys for giving us an update move on to item six our committee member reports uh item 6.1 ad hoc task force reports and discussion first off we have diversity equity inclusion and access do we have an update from that group at this time and or I do not have an update unless you want to speak for you and yeah we're we're uh we have not been coordinating together so we're going to get together and come up with absolutely no don't need no no shame no no one needs to feel bad it's okay it's okay um and you you can say that you are you had you you did a little bit of work because um you were able to attend the presentation by kimson creative back in September and that was work toward the work yeah so hey you got you got one thing okay good yes I got my badge from that we did do that I love it yeah that was great that's that's wonderful so I'm going to be missing the next one that's coming up is that set in stone or is this a place I can ask that which is because it's diversity training that we're all going through yeah so the next one is scheduled for October 13th at noon I believe and I think that I know you had said you couldn't attend and I think it was very problematic to look for another date given all the schedules they're trying to coordinate so it will be recorded you can watch it you know unfortunately you won't be able to participate in you know live but it will be recorded okay is there a series of those I wasn't quite sure on the whole scope of it maybe it was brought up in the August meeting I missed yeah there will be a series of four so this will be the second one out of four um and then in addition to those workshops they're doing for the entire committee there will also be mentoring sessions with with an Ecos team with the task forces so that that will be we set them up directly for engagement task force and the DEIA task force and what I'd like to suggest is that the project development task force members join whichever one they want so that you can receive that training as well very good I the dates just didn't come to me ahead of time so I was totally I did not ever have that second date on and I don't have the the rate the later dates so if those have been scheduled could we get nothing yeah nothing else has been scheduled except October 13th okay perfect thanks yeah so it was that October 13th you said yeah I'll have Kevin um Sara send out a reminder and make sure that we can still get the majority of our group to be there um because I know that that schedules get crazy as we go along and if it's not like already on your calendar then I'll have them check in with everyone okay great thank you okay next uh is there an update or discussion from the community engagement task force um yeah just briefly we we helped to coordinate the dedication event for the fifth street mural in the parking garage and it was well attended and really just felt great to be out there with um you know dedication refreshments and and the pop-up with the logo um that was all great so and I really was glad that we were able to participate and do that and thank you to uh to staff and everybody who pitched in really appreciate it great thanks uh I'll speak for project development uh we got a little preview of the citywide art audit sorry citywide art audit map and uh believe that uh was a great conversation with Jessica and Tara and um looking forward to more um conversation with the other task forces and then our group as larger conversation with our group thank you um my update for project development we're excited to see that next going to item seven we have department reports oh sorry Jeff I have to add one thing I really want to um add to my report on community engagement I have to credit Melanie because I did very little and she did all the work and she so anyway um she's not here so I will sing her praises in her absence great thanks Melanie okay moving on to item seven department reports this is time reserved for city staff to provide a briefing on issues of interest no action will be taken on these matters except to possibly place on a future agenda for consideration I don't believe I have anything to add today under department reports um at some point I will bring back a presentation on our progress without their Santa Rosa um but um don't have that prepared for uh today so none for me thanks mean me neither today thanks right thanks guys uh item eight future agenda items time reserved for discussion about whether to place matters on the future on a future agenda for possible action do we have any other conversation items um Jeff I know you brought something up that we'll have to schedule for another time but um I we can go ahead and add that to the list for sure okay we can put down facade improvement grants and out there Santa Rosa update um and we can plan on doing that at the next meeting if if the agenda allows great thank you next I'll move to adjournment thanks for everyone participating in today's meeting uh our next regular meeting will be on Monday November 7th and we will look forward to email from Miko about October 13th training so um and the other announcements we will look to our emails great thank you everyone thank you everyone