 And play from there, right? So Yes, so how's everybody's Halloween good. Hmm. Everybody's been holding up hunkering down Yeah, it's just colder weather It's great, but you know, we're planning to have Thanksgiving outside and I'm like if it gets really cold What's it gonna be like? eat outside You just Eating lamps. Yep. Well, we don't but my on a walk yesterday a neighbor volunteered to lend us his so Might take him up on that Yeah, I get a good idea really don't want to light any fires right now No outback campers. Yeah, how much longer is the fire season? Well, whenever it starts raining then then we can sort of breathe easy if it ever starts raining. I Read the once we get about an inch of rain That's kind of the indicator for a shifting of the season it has to be about an inch That's what I read. That's too bright. I Saw I don't know if you see it in PR has a really good program called nature that Uma Thurman narrates and It's really It's really positive because it shows all these habitats that have been restored. It gives you a good feeling It's sort of amazing how How quickly Nature can recover if you give it a chance. I mean this I have a question. So this is being recorded right now In the streaming live on YouTube, okay I'll be quiet Just again, so you stay very neutral right now Oh, you know what I just noticed so the color for my face is a huge difference when because I Always have the nightlight on on my Computer And it takes away the blue so when it takes away the blue it makes my face more red So Just figure that one out Okay, so it is 329 and it's still just us. Oh good. There's There's Hi Nina. Hi Okay. Hello Are you guys all doing? All right I just heard my daughter on that KGO radio from she's in DC, but it was in San Francisco. I just Hi Tara, we didn't see you last time. Oh She's muted you're on mute Tara Sorry, I was on another screen couldn't find the mute button. Yes, I'm here the city changed their policies about staff presenting So now staff can be on video Presenting but we were only gonna see hear your voice and I know well that was the previous Standard so it's nice to be more normal. I guess Well, I miss you guys Yeah, I'm missing everybody in person Strange eight months. I miss just seeing people in person. Yes How you doing Lisa I'm doing okay I'm doing fine on this, you know Eve of the election. Oh, you know, I'm Thank everybody's a bit anxious, but First, you know, I'm okay Alright, so it's 331 I think we have are we ready Eileen We are the only person that we're missing at this point is Jeff member Nason said Okay All right All right, I call this meeting to order What is the record reflect that everyone is present with the exception of member Nathan said and Oh, yeah, okay. Thank you So due to the provisions of the governor's executive orders in dashed to five dash two zero and in 29-20 which has been certain's requirements of the Brown Act and In the order of the health health officer of the County of Sonoma to shelter in place to minimize the spread of COVID-19 The art in public places committee will be conducting today's meeting in a virtual setting using zoom webinar Committee members and staff are participating from remote locations and are practicing appropriate social distance Members of the public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website and as notice noted on the agenda members of the public wishing to speak during item three of a comment or during or Public hearing items will be able to do so by utilizing the raise hand feature or pressing star nine on their phone Then they will be giving given the ability to address the committee the recording secretary will take roll, but you Will you go at this point? Let me just amend that rule to say that all members are present Next up on the agenda is number three public comment I'm sorry, I didn't hear you. Oh, there are currently no hands raised Thank you Then we can go ahead We I saw Nathan and then I don't see Nathan Yeah, there he is. Okay, since we do not have any comments from the public Let's go ahead and move on to the next number number four approval of minutes 4.1 copies of February 3rd 2020 meeting minutes have been distributed for your review Are there any additions or corrections to the minutes? If not, do I have a motion to approve these minutes as written? Yes, so moved Do I have a second I can did All in favor Hi, hi Meeting minutes approved as written moving on to 4.2 copies of June 29th 2020 Special meeting minutes have been distributed for your review. Are there any additions or corrections to these minutes? If not, do I have a motion to approve the minutes as written? So moved Okay, do I have a second? Second second All in favor Hi, hi Minute meetings approved as written Moving on to the next Itemment on the agenda number five scheduled items 5.1 Creek Bridge mural design Stephanie Lennox will be will present a community art project proposed for Creek overpass wall on the on Gammae Street, did I say that right Gammae Street in Northwest Santa Rosa the Transportation and Public Works Department has approved this location for an art project and the Creek Stewardship Program supports the mural Great. Thank you Lisa. Chair Puentes. I will go ahead and introduce Stephanie Lennox and Geo Benedetti Stephanie Lennox you may recall has worked with Art Start in some environmental awareness projects with the storm drain installations and she is here to present the design and proposal for this mural and similar to previous projects that are community driven not funded by Public Art funds or the committee It is a it is a design Approval that they are seeking for this project. Thank you. Go ahead Stephanie All right. Hi, and I'd also like to bring in Geo Benedetti who's here representing Art Start and We as a team are very appreciative of your time to give you this information and to seek your Approval of this concept of this mural here as well as just wanted to inform you about the overall Idea of this project. So I am Stephanie Lennox and then Tara is going to be my clicker For the slideshow. So if you would just do I think three clicks we'll get this first slide set up With our collaborators Art Start. I'm environment, but the City of Santa Rosa hires me to do their environmental education outreach and stewardship actions and As Tara mentioned we of last time this team was before you was in 2017 when we were asking for approval of our we small curbside murals To have people be able to see that the storm drains are indeed Holes that lead to the closest creek the water doesn't stop. It doesn't get treated or cleaned It's a direct delivery system and if you click one more time there You'll see that it's just building upon our previous efforts to just constantly be helping our citizenry be aware of The fact that our creeks are here. They need our protection They need our care and if you do one more click you'll see the ours to protect Sign there too. So we've got these two things happening and we want to continue on with these successes by having the potential possibility to be doing Creek Bridge murals and Yeah, we've been doing great. We have over 20 drains done in Santa Rosa We are expanded beyond Santa Rosa now into other Communities that have seen these murals and have wanted to have them for their own city So we're we're wanting to write on the theme of this To explain to you what we're what we're thinking about the Creek Bridge murals as well as just the successes of these murals themselves Especially being right down on the curb and geo will speak more to that. Okay, if you click again You have these two or four pages that we prepared just to have all this information in your hands If you do one more click Tara, that's the second page. So everything we're talking about here is on this Package this document that you have. All right one more click So the idea of this Pilot project is that we would take this particular location on the Gammae Street Bridge over Steel Creek and Install a Creek Bridge mural on it and then from that and from all the different ways that we're pulling in the community We'd be able to create a robust project An offering for other neighborhoods who would like to do the same thing one more click And we are trying to have Creek think murals on the sides of a bridge To bring joy and beauty and inspiration for neighborhoods to see their creeks and to care for their creeks resulting in real Water quality and health benefits of the creeks and another click so here's our location and Tara you can just kind of click and tell all my text is on there. I'm just placing us here It's at the corner of Zinfandel Gammae and Jennings. You can see Biela in the background Biela elementary school in the background That's Steel Creek as it runs underneath in this case where we're standing to take the picture And going downstream and then I've got circled in orange there of that location the bridge a face Abutment is another word that we're calling it. All right. I believe it's Geo's turn to take it away Hi everybody, my name is Geo Benedetti. I hope you can see me. I can't see me on the screen So I'm just gonna go with faith and hope I'm representing art start. I'm the project lead on the Art on Streets for clean creeks and I I'll explain a little bit more but my apprentice and I just graduated high school senior now freshman at the junior college Her name is Malia Marcu. She and I made a cartoon To really just let you know everything about this project in the goofiest way yet also most accurate way possible So I'm Tara if you would wouldn't mind playing that little video that I think is next on the slideshow Yeah, I think we have that up close mural and then we have your video. This is the true heart and mission of the project I'll do It's all right, we're working on getting that back up hold on one moment Holding on and then once it's done. We can keep rolling through the slideshow I have like I think I get one more slide on there just to talk about the art piece. Oh Here comes Maybe if it doesn't go I can just tell you all about it It's the big reveal. That's all right It might be It might make more sense to just go to the next slide That's fine okay, so first of all the cartoon was great and we were stick figures and It was delightful and just imagine a delightful cartoon that really just enthused you about the project and now moving on This is the proposed artwork That we would put on there all of these fish designs are designs that we've already done They're tested and proven we put them up on curbs all across Sinema County So we'd just be enlarging them Some of them to just bring out the impact and make them big and vibrant and beautiful They are all native species to our creeks The community would also be invited to paint with us So we've been making little kits during COVID and we send out these kits full of paint and we have Instructional videos that show people how to put the paints on our mural fabrics so that people can paint their own fish Or their own rocks or pieces of foliage We collect them and then we are able to install these big murals that have However many community members we can get to participate we get all of their art up So we reach out to the community of all ages to get their art up there And then the installation is also open We can get some community members involved in that as well as the usual art start young adult apprentices And that's what it'll look like ish and there's a budget. I think you all have this in your packet So if there's any questions on budget Let us know we are not looking for funding directly from you We're looking for permission, but this is what our budget looks like if you're curious and we'll be looking for funding on our own. Yes Monica can you wait till they're done after and then we can go through questions from the um members, okay? All right Thank you I'm gonna pass it back over to Stephanie high five. All right with just one more click We're gonna bring back our mission statement and we appreciate your consideration for helping us continue to inspire Santa Rosa to see and care deeply for our creeks Ta-da All right All right. Do any committee members have any questions for Stephanie or geo regarding this item? If so, you please raise your hand and just a reminder this questions only at this time no discussion Monica, oh well My question is these Fish are going to be painted separately and glued on is that what I is happening Yeah, so the the process uses a material It's got a bunch of names We call it poly tab over at the art start warehouse and it is a mural fabric and you apply it Yeah, you glue it. There's some good adhesive And then you were able to adhere it to whatever we've been putting it on curbs for the last three four years putting it on on walls on floors kind of everywhere and then you you apply a sealant and It's it's great Thank you. Yeah I should add that there will the backgrounds will be painted So there will be actual painting on the on the bridge And then once the backgrounds are there then you apply the the pre-painted Poly tab elements and then you seal the entire thing a question I know you've been doing this for a few years and I Seen many of them all around and they look Still really good. Have any of those been replaced? How long do you think they're gonna going to last or I just Yeah, what is this? So the the the curb ones that we've done have been up for I think three years but this actual material and the way that it that we've done these murals I just came on with art start in July. So this is what I have learned from the creative director Jennifer might get Tatum and She was saying that some of the murals that they've put up with the poly tab Adhering it sealing it have been up for over 20 years And they haven't had issues. So it is pretty Bulletproof if there is an issue you can go in and you can clean it up and reseal and because it's Individual elements not the entire mural if if for whatever reason an individual element was peeling You could go in and either fix that or replace it without too much actual structural or You know dealing with the entire mural The first ones we did were in the railroad square area And those ones are still looking great. None of those elements have been replaced I just go once or twice a year with a group of interested Community members students and we just take just a wet cloth and we just wipe away the grime That's the only thing that's happening is that there's this layer of grime that's building up So I'll drive past them. Oh, yeah, I got to get that one on the list So that's the maintenance so far that they have required to continue to look vibrant Yes, I saw those over the weekend just this past weekend and they looked great and that's why I was asking I think there's no better test of the stability of that process and the mural than putting it right down next to car tires for years on it. Yeah Do we have any other questions From the board Yes, I have a question. Okay Um, do you have a list where we if we wanted to go look at some of these? Um, do you have a list you could send us? I would love to get you a list of the current Sonoma county and or santa rosa locations for these storm drains Great. Yeah Nathan Oh Jeff Jeff I gotta do full screen. Sorry about that That's great. Um Oh, first of all, I really like the art start projects and um near the museum where where You know, I'm located the you know, the curb curve looks great. All of them look great I'm just curious about these bridges. Are they all at street level like the one that you're doing as a pilot or are any of them in Um Let's see a more challenging location where access or or Scaffolding is required or anything like that That's a good question. We did pick this pilot location to be um, you know of lower There's a lot of traffic that goes through there, but there's a stop sign right there So that creates a little bit of an ease for the people installing it and then the city And the creek stewardship program is constantly available to us to help us with traffic control and those other elements to keep the project You know rolling along safely And uh, we have throughout the installation of the storm drain murals have found that there really are no two Storm drain a curb faces that are similar Each one comes with its own set of challenges and geo can speak much more to that Because he kind of problem solves those challenges You know one might be more like full of ruts and pits and one might be more of like a kind of a grooved texture to it So we've had many different kind of surfaces to You know apply the same mural technique too And so I have noticed that lots of the bridges around Going over our creeks are similar to that each one's kind of got a little bit of a different You know construction and a face and uh and a texture to it Does that answer your question? Yeah, yeah, thank you Just when when we've kicked around the ideas The that that's about the the tallest of the mural bridges The creek bridges that we've been thinking about doing murals on some of them are a little bit lower But uh so far nothing that would be that high or would require any sort of scaffolding I have a question In to dovetail off of jeff's question about other locations that you have been identifying for murals Have the majority of them been in sonoma county or are you looking outside of the area? They've all been in santa rosa and um the idea was like floated Uh just just the beginnings of it in roner park, but um the only real serious Uh serious inquiries were all santa rosa creek bridges from all of our our little get-togethers Okay Another reason we chose this location is because a neighbor who lives in that neighborhood Had the original vision of what a great backdrop and how she believed it would help citizens take better care of the creek By just you know really you know beautifying that bridge face and you know with the creek life that is actually there And the hope of this project is that we would be able to find the next location based on interest from the community to have one in their neighborhood so that it would be driven by community desire and participation and um That's just like another element of why we're we haven't picked like oh, this is where we want to go next And this is where we want to go next if that makes sense. We're hoping that the community will see that be able to reach out and um begin to be part of the process of trying to create one in their neighborhoods Melanie Do you anticipate that the budget will remain the same for every single project going forward or Some economies of scale to get the price down Um, I think that we could I think it could absolutely be I think one of the things that's really A little bit more challenging is a lot of the time art start can We can have a bunch of apprentices and volunteers really helping to do a lot of the install work And right now we're really limited in how many people we can have out installing a project So it ends up taking a little bit longer and it ends up being more hours for the lead artists who are all paid independent contractors So As soon as we can have more people in the space Yeah, I could definitely see the price coming down And also a lot of it is based on um square footage Once Oh, there's some there's some line items in there also that uh are for the beginnings of a project where we have to create the video tutorials And that by step process is to send out to any community or um apprentice members that want to paint remotely So once that's done off of the first one so long as the design doesn't change Those would not be reoccurring costs so the the fish that we see in the um In the presentation those same fish maybe in a different format would be replicated throughout all the different bridges Is that the theory? Yeah. Okay. Okay I had one more question about follow-up when you're stating that the intent is for murals to be community interest driven Where should community members reach out to in terms of a potential location? Would that be reaching out to you Stephanie or reaching out to art start? How was that envisioned in terms of public outreach? That's a great question and both art start and myself which i'm representing the creek stewardship program are available to be contacted to get a conversation of ball rolling and we are considering putting on um And I guess i'm since we considered it. We should probably show this to you guys. Um the qr codes That are out there that somebody can dupe dupe with their phone and then learn more information about it I mean, it's usually just a little, you know Tiny feature that's there, but that's one of the things we were considering You know to answer Any questions you might have about, you know, who did this mural and what's it about and and then that contact information to And then one more question in terms of reaching out for the packages for painting remotely Is that a connection with art start? How does that connection? Is that made to inquire about the packages for painting? Um for For kind of each project that comes up. There's almost always a community element that's driving it So for this particular one, there's the elementary school right next to the bridge and the community member That brought the idea to us has connections to her residential community and There's some other housing developments in and around there So that that's kind of our our inroad and then we would just be following up on that If we don't get any interest From those then there's also just the the larger pool of art start volunteers art start apprentices and then our um You know our art teacher allies at the different schools so It would be like the most direct community access and then it would get a little bit more removed But still keeping it to interested Sonoma County artists as it moves out of those spheres And with the storm drain project we've shared that responsibility of creating kits and distributing kits So it's you know, I work at the yellow school You know helping them learn about their creek and so I would probably bring a kit with me and drop that off in a normal year Just slightly more organizing in this type of a year Um, and so we we both kind of remain available to support the project by distributing kits Any more questions? Eileen, do we have any public comments regarding this item? No, we have no hands raised at this time. Thank you. Okay Is there a motion to approve the artwork design? I make a motion to approve the artwork design Do I have a second? Okay, Jeff Okay discussion is now open for this item committee members wishing to comment or discuss please physically raise your hand anyone Then I'd like to call a vote to approve the artwork design as presented all in favor I any oppose the motion passes unenamously and Let's see here. Sorry about that Okay, so the motion passes Thanks committee. Yes, very much your support. Um, how would you like us to keep you updated and informed on our progress? Tara Hey, thank you. Stephanie. I think you and or geo anyone else who wants to just um, let me know when it's being installed If there are Things you want the committee to know or be aware of They did ask for information about the other storm drains. So any communication you would want with the committee Please send to me and then I can distribute that but I think definitely knowing when it's getting installed So that they can come out and take a look if they'd like that would be great Okay, great. And thank you for asking for that list of storm drains I've been wanting to create a list so that we can have community members, you know Have a little bit of a fun scavenger hunt I'm looking for that that beautiful art out there And then as we continue to hopefully maybe find, you know, another location in a while Did you do you want us to come back to you and ask again for another location approval? So we'll have to have discuss that generally as our As our kind of procedures dictate now Any location that's city owned if it's at artwork Needs this committee's approval So we would work through that location by location But what I would say is we could work with you on if you if you have identified a variety of locations That you may be interested in doing this on or you have interest from neighborhoods Or funding perhaps we could put that together as a package. So to be more efficient Not have to have you come back every time. So let's discuss that and I'd be happy to work with you on that Okay, fantastic. And then we are circling around the encroachment permit And getting that fully set up and um, Tara, did you have a contact Person? Yes, I'm still waiting to hear back from our engineering division as soon as you all make sure that you are put in contact with the right person All right, great. Well, those were all my um parts. Thanks again for your time and your support Thank you, Stephanie. Thank you. Geo. Thank you all very much. Looks great. Thank you guys. Yes, all right Okay, next item on the agenda 5.2 Open and out program report Tara will now present more information on this item Tara Great. Thank you. Yeah, I'm really excited to finally present this report of the art that has been Placed within the open and out footprint downtown Um, if you recall back at our june 29th special meeting I presented the opportunity to allocate the funding that the committee had set aside for temporary Art in courthouse square Towards this project and the committee approved that proposal So $40,000 of funding went towards art In the open and out footprint and as a part of this program So i'm very happy to finally show you um if you haven't seen it all in person But I put together a presentation with the help of cadence our Partner at the downtown action organization in metro chamber This presentation that shows the artwork that has been funded by the $40,000 There's a larger group wider group of artwork that encompasses the other funding sources as well But I thought I would start with what the funding from this committee has gone towards And then answer any questions that you have and a lot of this I'll try to remember and mention which ones are still up that you could go see in person if you haven't already And some have come down already This is a snapshot of the website, which I think I've sent in a couple email updates to the committee The open and out sr.com website has a artwork map on it And if you click on that map it actually shows you the location of each one And then if you click on each of those little Icons it'll tell you more about the artwork. This is just a picture not interactive But if you go on the actual website, it will show you that next slide This is a piece um by jane ingram allen Which you can still see although the color in the petals has faded just a little bit And it will be up in place through the um end of our current phase of open and out Which is through january 31st It was installed in early august and it's on fourth street in a vacant storefront Next slide, um, this was a mural I think one of these had a video But we're in you don't have the powerpoint version of this available. Do you eileen? I hate to switch midstream. Maybe we'll come back to it later. Let's just go through this for now So this was a a mural actually on the street of a labyrinth on the 700 block of 4th street by melissa jones It was interactive. You could walk the mural. There were kind of instructions assigned that Invited you to engage with it. It's not there anymore. It was made with tempera paint Which is easily wash wash easily washes away with rain and when we were Anticipating some rain a couple weekends ago, which really was more like a drizzle We had to wash it off before it rained per our storm drain requirements So it's no longer there, but it was a fun thing to interact with next slide This piece is still there and you can see it. It's on the corner of fourth and e streets It is called foamy delight by a local sculptor adrian lintman Um, it will probably be up ongoing for a while Um, the temporary nature of these varies project to project They were all intended to be temporary to some extent, but some last a weekend some last One month some last multiple months. So Next slide This is a mural piece installed on the exterior of Um belly Yeah, belly left coast kitchen's Parklet out in the street on the 500 block of fourth street by ray sumster Sorry some sir Next slide Again this format for some of the art projects was pretty popular to have artists design and create pieces that were installed on the kind of barriers around Different parklets for restaurants within the street area So this is another one of those by ann bob bum gardener This was right in front and still is a part of gerrard's outdoor seating area The 700 block of fourth street Next slide Here's another one. Although this one has a kind of amorphous shape It doesn't conform to the rectangular shapes of the sides of the parklet by josh lawyer Um Mural parklet mural on the outside. I believe this one is In front of jojo sushi's parklet Oh, no, is this jojo? No, that's sing-how. Sorry sing-how sing-how restaurant Okay, sorry next slide This was an interesting piece done by mj lendo lawyer That we had her do it was much more temporary than some of the other ones But she did a design for social distancing circles within the green space at courthouse square Encouraging people to gather without being too close to one another So the design was kind of cool. It was made with field marking spray paint essentially same thing you would use for like marking a soccer field or a baseball field Um, and so it's gone now. It's it's washed and worn away, but it was it was probably visible for about two weeks. I would say Next slide This is a piece done by art start with the lead artist rima. You may know rima marquette. She has done the monarch project And also works on large-scale social justice themed murals And this was a piece that was a part of her monarch project down through art start butterfly decal the same material that the That the creek mural was just talking about it. So thin fabric type material that's adhered to various surfaces and this is on a utility signal box right on the north side of courthouse square along fourth street Next slide This is another parklet mural in front of the fourth street social club This was by amanda linn And it's still up. You can go check it out. It's very vibrant and colorful. Next slide This is still up and you can see it. There's three different locations within the fourth street area Adam Sharon if you recall did a installation Through a grant he received from creative sonoma on another city property a couple years ago It was on that college and fourth street split There was a light installation there. This is very similar same materials same idea These are up in the trees come on at dusk stay on until morning and Again, there's three different locations within the fourth street area next slide This project is in progress that has not been completed yet, but alex cole will be painting The large tall pillars that say downtown san rosa or san rosa downtown There's just four different ones throughout different locations as you kind of head into downtown She'll be painting them with this kind of color palette abstract landscape type designs And we're working with her. She should be installing those very shortly within the next couple weeks Next slide These are really fun. Um, great for a Halloween theme too. They're monster ballards. So, um, jill The land Valavanas, sorry, I always pronounce her last name wrong Valavanas she created these nylon sewn nylon slip covers for the ballards along the fourth street side of courthouse square that are all little different monster designs Next slide And these will be up for another couple weeks I think they're coming down the weekend. Um The week of Thanksgiving so another couple weeks This is a project by martin zunega and they are large drum sculptures that are painted. Um, they were painted with the help of local Youth and they have messages to encourage people to go vote They are in the north part. These are not these pictures are not taken on site But they are installed currently on the north end of courthouse square right in the space where the permanent Installation will eventually go for the square next slide That is that the last one Yeah, okay, so, um, I think there was one very short video of the mural of the labyrinth mural, but um It that's okay. Eileen. Don't worry about going to find it. Um I just wanted to make sure that we were showing you all of the wonderful Temporary pieces that were created with the funding from the art public places committee in the public art fund and The projects are now continuing originally Open and out was slated to go through October 15th, but because our current health order situation and the need for continuing outdoor space for restaurants in particular Um The city has extended the permit for the program to last now through january 31st That may be extended again. We don't know yet. Um, and then changes are happening like the 600 block of forestry is now reopened to vehicle traffic So there's some changes that are happening within that footprint But there are still more arts activities planned for the winter months. Uh, the metro chamber is honoring their traditional winter lights Exit or their winter lights event that they're not able to have the same way this year But they're going to extend it from the friday after Thanksgiving through january 1st In terms of creating a kind of winter environment with activities for kids with treasure hunts and winter themed installation. So there will be some activity Activating the space in the in the winter months as well Um, so I think that's it. Oh, I wanted to share that. Um, all told with the other funding sources that we were able to Combine with the public art funding Over a hundred thousand dollars was spent on on art temporary art installations So that includes the 40 000 from public art fund and includes other funding sources such as the creative sonoma n e a grant as well as private donations and The metro chamber and downtown action organization And that so that a hundred thousand went towards 25 different installations So I think that's what I wanted to share with you today. I'm happy to answer any questions So I've seen a couple things That I thought were part of this open and out program downtown, but you didn't Show them and I'm curious. Um, if you know Maybe they were funded by some of this other organizations. You just mentioned one is this gold um mailbox that's on courthouse square and the other one is um across the street from corax, I think That is a kind of a display With some small art pieces in it. Do you know? Yes Yes, both of those both of those are part of the open and out program But they both were funded separately. So the golden mailbox is actually A project by jessica rasmussen who works for the public art program And some some collaborators who helped her with that project So it was funded through the open and out program just from a different pot of funds essentially So it's still a part of this project So is the tiny galleries, which is the display you're speaking of it's an artist exchange program Where small pieces are shown and in kind of like a vending machine format and An artist can trade their art for a piece of art that's currently in the case that was done by Robert van vandalwald and don thomas and it was funded separately through a creative sonoma grant that they had received But hadn't been able to place it anywhere yet And so it was just a great collaboration to be able to include it within the footprint of open and out So tar, do you know besides those two pieces that I mentioned are there others? Yeah, there's a handful of others. So I believe the list That I shared with you is the 15 pieces and so there's 10 additional pieces You just mentioned two of them. So there's eight more That are part of the open and out program but weren't specifically funded through the available funding from this committee. So There's a project that is Um Was done by scape. It's a street mural across from like beer baron and Kind of on that block of fourth street That was done. Like I said by scape Sonoma County artists promoting equity Rima markin was the lead artist again on that that was one of the projects that was specifically funded through creative sonomas grant from the NEA And there's there's a few others But those those three are the main ones that are coming to mind. There were some temporary activations of the space Through performers. So like ballet folklorico came out one weekend and did little pop-up Like five minute performances on different corners in the closed area Tyco Sonoma County Tyco did some performances as well And then there was a couple chalk installations that were very temporary only lasted a weekend or so um Those are the ones that I that I know of So how are these publicized? I mean if if you had kids and you wanted to take them on an outing downtown or whatever is I guess You know, there's could you do QR codes for that or is that just too temporary So these were all marked with a sticker that essentially was placed on the ground in most cases next to each piece That kind of brand them as open and out with the website So you knew it was a part of the open and out program and you could go to the website to find more information um And then pretty much all of the marketing What for the art itself was done through social media So the downtown santa rosa instagram and facebook pages did post multiple times a day with pictures of all of the art to try to get people to come check them out Monica did you have a question could there be a listing of some of those? Um you You're still on mute Meena asked my question. So that okay, that's fine Okay, but I'm uh, but I I'm sorry. I haven't been checking out that uh instagram site That you've been posting on it's what is it called? um, it's downtown sr So let's see. I can I can make sure you I I can't remember if I I may have sent it in a previous email But I'll make sure that you have it after this meeting. Um, it's the downtown action organization So the downtown districts Um social media channels. Um, they are the ones that have been promoting it. Okay Okay All right, so we're ready to go on to the next agenda item 5.3 project updates tara Sure, great. Um, there weren't eileen. There weren't any comments on that item, correct? No, there were no public comment. Okay great Okay, so the next item is just a project update item for the variety of other projects we've been Working on throughout the strange the last several months I have been sending project updates every month when we especially when we don't have a meeting To keep you all informed. So not all of this is brand new information, but I wanted to let you know Where we stand with each of the projects that we have that have been active over the last several months So coffee neighborhood park reopened last week. It was just a really wonderful Completion to a a very quick in the scope of construction projects But a but a long journey for that neighborhood for sure and everyone helping with the project so Um because of co vid and the restrictions, we were not able to hold a traditional Park opening ceremony dedication ceremony or anything in person. So our city's communication and marketing team put together a video which included interviews from various stakeholders and And neighbors and showed the park showed drone video footage of the park. It was a really sweet video I believe I sent that out in a link to all of you last week We will be working with the artist specifically probably in the next couple weeks to do additional publicity and outreach specifically for the art, but there was a request and they kind of I don't know a a respect we wanted to share for the art for the park itself being reopened and completed And and then follow up after the fact with more information about the art We still can't gather in person to celebrate the art unfortunately, but we will be doing more information Through social media and on our website to celebrate that the art has been installed and can be enjoyed now in person You know one family at a time so So that's what's going on with coffee park The imagine art in old courthouse square project has has been kind of inching along the selection committee selection panel has been doing an amazing job With their thoroughness and thoughtfulness But we have been delayed obviously by current events including the glass fire So where we are at now is the selection committee has narrowed down the five finalists to two finalists who they are now asking additional design questions of In order to make a final decision That final decision is not anticipated until after Thanksgiving We're giving the artist a few weeks to respond to the questions that we are now posing To them in order for the selection panel to have as much information as they can to make a final decision So because we have not spoken with all of the artists yet I can't share which artists have made it to that final cut But I will as soon as that information is shareable with you and And we will have a revised timeline Posted on our website as soon as we can once we know How long the selection panel may need to make their final decision? But I'm anticipating it to be in mid early to mid December The public art program crisis response and strategic planning has been going on all kind of behind the scenes with Two two or yeah two members involvement to committee members involvement in different phases of that The meeting next week which you all responded to a doodle poll about your availability And it looks like everyone is available to attend a special meeting a week from today. So November 9th An agenda will be put together and issued on Wednesday with the information about that But that is the purpose of that meeting is specifically for our consultant's third plateau to do a facilitated Excuse me discussion with the committee about where we are at with both of those planning processes and to get the committee's input into the strategic planning process So that will be what is taking place on the 9th Um Yes, it will be our same meeting time Um zag is uh installed and if you haven't all seen it you should go check it out some evening Especially now that the time change makes it a lot darker sooner. Um, it was actually installed Uh over a month ago But the original programming that the lights had on the sculpture Were the demo version of the program and not the artist programming And so it was a couple weeks before he was able to correct that It is now fully functioning as he intended and is quite magical to watch Um We have some photos that we had a photographer taken we will again be doing our own Outreach to publicize that that piece is finally complete and installed Unfortunately again, we can't gather in person like we normally would to celebrate and dedicate that piece But um, it is up and we will be sharing that um as soon as we can I think that is everything that I had on my list to update you on and I'm happy to answer any questions Do we have any questions? Does the zag does the zag sculpture sculpture. Um, is that um activated at dusk or Yes, correct. So it's connected to the same. They're called photo cell I believe sensors that turn on street lights in your neighborhood. So um, it it detects when There's not enough light. So at dusk turns on and then we'll turn off early morning anyone else Any questions for tara? Eileen, do we have any um public comments? Or questions? There are no public comments at this time Item on the agenda and number six Many member reports. Does anybody have any reports that they would like to To announce or any events that They would like to yeah Yeah, um, well first of all, I want to thank the city of santa rosa through inside out Uh santa rosa for being a sponsor of our dia de los muertos Outdoor exhibition in the museum of sonoma county's sculpture garden Uh, we opened the exhibition a couple of weekends ago and have had um Very very good attendance. Of course masks are required and we Only allow up to 30 people at a time. So People can social distance but over this past weekend starting saturday night and winding up For tonight We have evening hours from 4 p.m. To 7 p.m. It's illuminated at night. It's a really phenomenal installation Some of the artists who were involved. For example, um, Mario you rebay and martin zuniga, um, of course, they've been really involved with the public art projects around around the city Anyway, it's really really worth seeing if you haven't come down to check it out and we Tara I kept thinking I had to send you an email to Say thank you for the the funding. I'm just going to say it in person. Well sort of virtually in person here We appreciate the support And the the exhibition will continue With daytime hours from 10 a.m. To 1 p.m. This coming thursday through sunday And then we'll we'll deinstall it Anyway, uh, it's it's really a great project and glad to be able to Provide this sort of dea dailas huerto's activity and exhibition for the community even in time of kovat Oh, by the way, we've had um, I think At last count over 600 people have come through, you know over a couple of weekends. So it's um, It's really been popular Yes, thank you. Jeff. I just wanted to clarify the funding that the city was able to provide towards that sponsorship came from our Tourism fund. So it came through our out there and insight out there campaign. Yeah, right. Yeah So I think I got that a little bit wrong but uh, thank you, Tara So I missed the presentation that you had for that is that is there a recording available for that? Uh, which one we had a couple Oh, are you are you talking about honoring the dead the Are you are you referring to honoring the dead, uh, which was um a comparative cultural and religious traditions around death and dying That was on thursday. Yes, um, it was recorded. I think it's being edited and should be Hopefully, um, we'll put the link out this week. I don't know for sure, but it will be available And if you're on if you get our um emails every week or if you are If you like the museum on facebook, you'll you'll get the link. You'll see it Great Monica you're on mute too. Monica. No, I think I unmuted. Oh there. Okay. There you go. Thank you. Jeff I I want to go see that exhibit, but um the I think I mentioned last time that I was going to be in an exhibit in In calistoga and it's up in spite of all the smoke and fire and everything It's called hope is the thing and there are 21 artists in it and it's really a great show. It's really a good thing. I hope you all can Get up there to see it at sophie contemporary arts Great Does anyone else have any announcements? anything Okay I'm gonna go ahead And move on to the next item on The next item on the agenda and that is number seven department reports Tara, do you have anything for department reports? I don't think I have anything at this time. Thank you All righty then then The next so the next item on the agenda is adjournment and our next regular meeting is scheduled for monday december 7th And this meeting is now adjourned Okay, thanks everyone. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you everybody Thanks everybody. See ya. Thank you Thanks, Nathan