 Hi, Melanie. Hi, Chris. Hi. Happy February. I know. January was, January was kind of long. Oh, the longest ever. Yeah. Okay. So it wasn't just me. No. Is everyone. We have a list of members and contact information and all that. Yeah. You will, you do in your original handbook that was provided to you. Yeah, that old school binder. Yeah. Don't worry. There's changes in the membership obviously as we start a new year with elections having to take in place last year. So there will be an updated roster sent out to all committee members, probably by the end of this month. Yeah. Okay. Great. And Lisa, whenever you are ready, just let me know. Okay. Oh, we have enough people. Actually. We're still shy. I apologize. I should have. Oh, no. You have four. So you could start the meeting, but I would recommend waiting a few more minutes. If you don't. We actually have two more minutes till three 30. Okay. I hope no one's having an issue trying to get on. Okay. I have other people who've signed on and I checked the, the link in the agenda, so they should be okay. Okay. Okay. So. Are we ready? We can start now. If you'd like, yes. Okay. Let's go ahead. I call this meeting to order. Due to the provisions of the governor's executive orders in 25, 20 and in 29, 20, 20 and 20. We have a number of the health officer of the, of the county of Sonoma to shelter in place to minimize the spread of COVID-19. The art and public places committee will be conducting today's meeting and virtual setting using zoom webinar. Committee members and staff are participating from. From remote locations and our practicing appropriate social distancing. Members of the public wishing to speak during item 3, public comments or during the public hearing items will be able to do so by utilizing the raise hand feature or by pressing star nine on their phone. Then they will be giving the ability address the committee. The recording secretary will take roll. Lisa Fuentes. Here. Kristen Keeper. Here. And I'm going to ask you how do you pronounce your last name? Oh, you are muted right now. Baumgartner. Let the record reflect that Ann is here. I'm here. I've lost all this and here we go. Yeah. Melanie Jones Carter. Jeff Nathanson. Here. And here is the record reflect that Nathan at Zarian is not present. And the rest of and Monica Bryant is also not present. So before we get to the agenda, Tara would like to make an announcement. Tara. Thank you, Lisa. Chair Puentas and members of our public places committee before we dive into the agenda. I would like to take a moment and acknowledge Nina bonus. recently. I want to thank her for her over eight years of service on the committee including five years as committee chair and recognize her support of arts in the community, her perspective as a working artist and her astute attention to detail all of which were apparent through her work on this committee. So on behalf of the public art program and the city of San Rosa we want to send her our sincere gratitude. Thank you Nina. I would also like to introduce I would also like to introduce a new member and bomb gardener who was recently appointed by Vice Mayor Natalie Rogers. And I would like to take this opportunity just for a few moments to let you introduce yourself to the members of the committee and we will get to know each other as we move forward through our work together. Thank you. Right. It's great to be here. I am a relatively new member I mean new resident of Santa Rosa. We moved here in the summer of 2019 the end of the summer and then started into a kind of tumultuous beginning with the fires and then rolling right into COVID. So it's been a we came from Los Angeles and I'm a working artist. I'm also a teacher. I have taught everything from little kids to adjunct faculty at a couple different universities. Public art and social practice are kind of a private sort of interest of mind as well as lots of other kinds of public and community making events. So besides the own my own work I do in a studio. So this is really exciting to get to be part of this in a new town and in my new home. Well thanks. Welcome. Welcome. Thanks. Thank you Ann. Next up on the agenda. Public comments. If you wish to make a comment please select the raise hand button. If you are dialing via telephone please press star nine to raise your hand. Each speaker has three minutes. A countdown timer will appear for the convenience of the speakers and viewers. Please make sure to unmute yourself when you're invited to do so. Your microphone will be muted at the end of the countdown. Do we have any comments from the public who wish to make comments on the art in public places? Items that are not on the agenda comments will be heard on specific agenda items at the time it's called. Point is we have no raise hands at this time. Okay. Great. Thank you Eileen. Let's see here. Okay. So moving on to approval of minutes copies of the December 14th 2020 meeting minutes have been distributed for your review. Are there any additional additions or corrections to the minutes? If not do I have a motion to prove the minutes as written? Okay. Do I have a second? Second. Okay. All in favor? Aye. Aye. Meeting minutes approved as written. Moving on to the next item on the agenda. Scheduled items number five. 5.1 Fifth Street parking garage public art project. David will present the draft project plan and draft RFQ for the Fifth Street parking garage and public art project. The project was approved through FI 2018 through 2019 annual work plan and includes funding from the parking parking division. David. Good Lisa. Hello APPC members. Can everyone hear me okay? Yeah. My name is David Ward. I'm the public art project manager with the city of Santa Rosa. Today I'm here to present the project plan and RFQ for the Fifth Street garage public art project. You have all received these two documents along with today's meeting agenda and I'm going to be providing an overview of the project and calling attention to a few key items in both documents. After presenting both documents we can take questions or comments about any information presented and about the project in general. We will first look at the project plan which is a template that we use for all city public art projects to outline the project structure and lays out the road map of the project's process. The RFQ will mostly be a duplicate of the same information however this document is designed for external or internal use whereas the RFQ presents the same information for public consumption and external use. So diving into the public plan or project plan excuse me. The brief history of the Fifth Street garage is that it was built in 1982 and serves the northeast section of downtown Santa Rosa. The garage has five floors dedicated to parking and contains a total of 708 vehicle spaces. As chair Buentz just mentioned in 2018-2019 fiscal year APPC approved this project as part of the annual plan which directed funds from both the public art fund and the parking division towards this project. The project description is for an artist or artist team to design, fabricate, and install site specific public art on the Fifth Street parking garage in downtown Santa Rosa on the exterior southwest corner of the structure facing Orchard and Fifth Streets. The goal of this project is to draw positive attention to and increase the use of the Fifth Street garage which is often not known to the public. The art will distinguish the garage from nearby structures, serve as a wayfinding element through identification, and draw people to the site. This opportunity is an open call to artists aimed at Northern California artists and more specifically encouraging local Sonoma County artists to apply. The site location is the southwest corner of the Fifth Street parking garage in downtown Santa Rosa on the exterior facing wall adjacent to Orchard and Fifth which the RFQ provides photos of the project's dimensions and its quote canvas. Like most city public art projects staff will be working with a selection panel and the APPC through the process to identify and select one artist or artist team for this project. The selection panel which will consist of seven members total including two APPC members, two arts professionals, one representative from the city of Santa Rosa parking division, and one representative from the downtown action organization and they will be responsible for selecting one artist or artist team for the project to recommend to the APPC. The APPC's role will be to be responsible for approving the final artist and artwork selection recommended by the selection panel. A description of the artist selection components is outlined below there and the selection criteria follows the city's basic format and requirements. The unique items for this project are mainly the budget and site location considerations. The project will utilize an RFQ to identify artist candidates for the project and from there three finalists will be paid honorariums upon submitting an RFP. The project budget is a total of $25,000. Total of that $15,000 is allocated from the parking division and $10,000 from the public art fund. I wanted to point out the total budget and artist budgets are different and that's due to artist honorariums are accounted for in the total budget and other site preparation contingency and those aren't part of the $20,000 artist budget which is an all-inclusive design and construction budget that's noted in the RFQ. Timeline review. If approved today the RFQ will be published a week from today on February 8th with an application deadline of March 15th. The tentative timeline maps out an artist selection made by July 5th and has installation and project completion by February 2022. This timeline is subject to change at any time throughout the project's process and that's about it for the project plan on to the RFQ. As I previously mentioned this document contains the same information as the project plan document although it's designed for external use for applicants and for the public. I do want to call out that on page two of the RFQ there's visual aids of the project site and approximate canvas dimensions and also on the last page of the RFQ document which is page four. We have outlined the project's expectations for applicants and for the selected artist when we eventually get there and in the final section we have included the application process and deliverables which are standard for most all city public art projects and I believe that's all the material I have for you today and I think we can move on to questions and comments. Thanks David. Do any of the committee members have questions for David regarding this item? If so please physically raise your hand and this is a time just for questions. No discussion? Kristen? Like Melanie had her hand up? Oh there's Melanie. Did you mean the raise hand thing? You know either or Melanie. That's fine go ahead. Okay so I had I just had a question about the budget. So I mean it's broken down but does the artist have discretion to use the funds? How they so see fit? In the RFQ document we have we have the basic components broken down for the artist budget of that $20,000 that I just mentioned. So yes there's contingency written out in there and then there's also artist payment is written in there too but it is an all-inclusive design and construction budget. I don't know if that answers your question on the way Melanie. So I shared on the screen there that section that the artist fee these are the guidelines for the use of the funds. So the artist fee 20% is $4,000 fabrication and installation 70% that's $14,000 a contingency of 10% is $2,000. Other than that yes it's up to the artist how that's broken down and when they submit their the finalists who are invited to submit proposals will have to submit a detailed line item budget when they submit their proposal. Okay so if an artist submits something saying that their fee is going to be $5,000 and they only need you know $10,000 for the application and installation they would still be within this. Okay that was my question thank you. Oh thanks Melanie. Ann is tell me about the choosing the three finalists are you looking at their portfolio are you looking for them to have similar work in their portfolio are you actually just looking at general vibe and style and you know where do you how is that funneling from a lot of artists to the three? Yeah so it'll be staff city staff will pre-screen applications to make sure that they have submitted all the correct deliverables that we ask for and under the selection considerations and our artist qualifications it maps out generally what we're looking for for originality and other components of that will rate their qualification but we'll leave that up to the discretion of the selection panel to filter through what they deem to hit the project goals and match the site to the best of the artist's abilities. Yeah thanks. Anyone else? Oh Nathan? Jeff? Oh Jeff sorry I just saw Nathan I just called me Nate that's fine. There is already a Nathan sorry about that Jeff. Yeah that's no problem. What was my question oh yeah have so has the selection panel been decided upon yet? No not at the moment. All right just curious. Anyone else? I did have a question my question was you want to specifically Northern California and putting some emphasis on Sonoma County you want to definitely keep that when we're talking about Northern California what are we how broad is that? Tara did you want to chime in? Sure you know I think that there's kind of an understanding Northern California being like the Bay Area and North. I think that we're looking more for the restriction of eligibility is really in place based on the budget amount in this case because there's not a huge amount of budget to spend on travel expenses in fact there's really no specific allocation for travel so by doing that we are hoping to cast a broad enough net to attract artists who would be a good fit for this project but specifically hoping that there are some local artists that can make this work given the the lack of budget for travel. That is thank you Tara. Okay so let's move on Eileen do we have any public comments regarding this item? Uh Chair Fuentes we have no raised hands at this time. Okay thank you Eileen is there a motion to approve this project plan and RFQ? I'll move to approve the project plan. And the RFQ? Here we are RFQ yes. Okay do I have a second? Third time for discussion before seconding or after after seconding? Okay I will second. Okay thank you. Okay so let's go ahead and let's discuss if we we can have a discussion about this and it's so any go for Kristen? Real quick I just wanted to acknowledge city staff that this the the project plan and RFQ is is written in a way that it's very you can choose what is worthwhile and how to respond to it appropriately so I I appreciate the open-ended ability to you know pick whether you want five photos of previous work or ten photos you know there is a range for how on how these artists will will submit their their qualifications so I do appreciate that and wanted to say that I am very excited for artwork to beautify this spot this is an under-noticed I I don't think that's normally a term but it's an under-noticed part of our our city infrastructure so I'm all for beautifying it. Can I ask another question? Is it has has the project come out of seeing other things like this that people actually thought seemed like this would be a great fit for our city like is there any kind of idea of what might come or is just wide open? Yeah I think that we're we're very wide open but I have had a lot of conversations with the city's parking manager Kim Nado. She is very excited about adding public art to garages as you know we have public art on some of our garages already most noticeably probably are the art start murals on several of the garages front and back sides and then there's also an installation on the transit mall side of the first street parking garage as well as a mural adjacent to the front of that garage so anyway there there's been a lot of support for public art on our garages so far and through conversations with Kim and through the funding that the parking division allocated for this project we are really excited to work with her on it and I'll say that both of us keep our eye out for parking garage projects to send each other for inspiration so we've seen things that I think you may have seen in other cities that are kind of like wind activated sculptural type things murals sculptural elements that are lit or their actual light sculptures themselves so there's a variety of things that I think are possible with this project but we did not prescribe anything specific in this rfq do specifically invite artists to bring their creativity to the project nice great excellent okay Kristen oh you're on mute Kristen thank you sorry I if um I will pass if other members who haven't spoken yet want to speak first I just wanted to ask about the the location or how that side of the parking garage was decided upon as the appropriate location um I can try to answer that I think um David and I met with Kim and a parking supervisor down on the site um recently and this location has some elements that I think are attractive for this type of project but not um that that doesn't exclude other parts of the garage for potential future projects we noticed that when we were down there that there are other areas that could also be addressed in the future as funding or other resources allow so this corner in particular is the corner that you may see from more of the heart of the downtown like from walking from courthouse square it is a place where you can see from the intersection of b sorry d and forth streets which is a pretty busy intersection for pedestrians so um and and and vehicles so I guess those were some of the considerations the other considerations were um the whole frontage on fifth street of this parking garage currently has I think like what six or seven very large redwood trees um and that really blocks that facade frontage view and so this corner is just adjacent to that but visible and not blocked by the trees um so those are some of the things we've talked about thanks tar Jeff yeah thank you um so I'm wondering if even though this is um completely open ended and I sort of like that idea that we're looking to artists to bring their creativity there are certain priorities that have been identified in the guidelines for some of the other projects and I'm particularly thinking about how we approach the um old courthouse square public art project that we just completed and certain principles that we we thought were important us a sense of place um community um and um you know there a sense of history of the okay you know there are the certain things that um we're oftentimes looking to public art to try to bring to a particular site or to the community um so are there are there guidelines for the review panelists that might address that or are there any guidelines that should be specifically stated for artists to consider that might be prioritized in terms of how these these proposals are ranked yeah I can I can try to address that I think that um in this case the primary goal for this project as we identified working with the parking division was to draw that positive attention to this parking garage um and so you know there aren't quite the same breadth of goals as there were for the courthouse square project we're not necessarily asking or expecting an artist to engage the community in the same way either so um you know the criteria that are listed in the RFQ and in the project plan really focus on the other the other elements that we kind of score proposals on or score submissions on but when they're talking about how they address the goals we're specifically addressing how did the artist approach the kind of identification of this parking garage the wayfinding element the kind of this is a parking garage kind of identification so that that was the primary goal that raised to the top without like I said without being overly prescriptive about other types of themes that should come into the project great thank you thanks Tara thanks Jeff um do we have any other questions for discussion okay I do have one oh maybe it's a statement I don't know but you know we talked a lot about diversity and within our community so I would hope that somehow this could be even though we're not saying this is what we want but I hope that we have the committee whoever it is has an open mind about um that being an option as well it's something a little bit outside the box then the normal pretty things that we normally do I can't hear whoever that was that was me oh thank you okay anyone else all right so currently the motion on the table is to prove the project plan and the RFQ as presented I would like to call a vote to prove the fish street project plan and RFQ as for me are all in favor hi hi hi any opposed all right the motion passes unanimously correct yes okay so next item on the agenda check my case before you do that um we we do not have any hands raised for public comment but I just wanted to put that out that we do we need to check for that but for public comment after to the vote she called for it earlier Eileen I think we're covered okay that's okay no no that's okay should I do it after we vote or after when the item is called okay yeah so after the traditional time for public comment on a specific agenda item is after committee members ask questions is that that's correct I believe yes yes okay okay what you did what you did we're good okay okay great okay thank you let's see here it's always good to clarify everything so next item on the agenda 5.2 the district plan members of third plateau consulting team will present the final draft of this of the plan outline the mission vision the strategic focus yes and provide and well I'll let them go ahead and they're on do we have them on there Eileen yeah we're working on promoting everyone so stand by just one second and we'll have everyone come on and um you'll remember Jeannie Jonathan and Maya and Alex and I believe Madeline's here I think all of um all of them presented to you previously in in a time when we were getting feedback on this um the the specific vision mission theory of change part of this plan and now here we are so it's my pleasure to introduce Jonathan and the third plateau team and they are going to take it from here wonderful well thank you all so much for having us it's great to see you all again uh member bumgarner congratulations on the appointment it's good to meet you um so we've got a number of people from the the third plateau and capital impact team here um we'd love just to do some quick introduction so that you know who everybody is and then we can dive in so my name is Jonathan Kaufman I'm one of the co-founders and principals at third plateau and have been um spearheading a lot of the work with the city of Santa Rosa for the last several months um let me go just around here Jeannie will you introduce yourself real quick so hi everyone um Jeannie howl I'm a senior director here um third plateau and been working with Tara and the committee and the team um since about the beginning of the year um and just looking forward to uh seeing what's uh what's next what about thanks Jeannie Maya you want to go next hi everyone my name is Maya Kageyama I'm a director at third plateau and I've been working with Tara Risa and the crew for the last few months especially to really pull the plan together so it's great to be here today Alex with the the background that's making all of us jealous you want to go next hi everybody Alex Tegave and I'm a partner with capital impact and we're uh in many ways a sister firm at third plateau and I've had the pleasure of supporting the team particularly on the economic development pieces of the of the plan fantastic and Madeline hi everyone my name is Madeline Lobosco and I'm a researcher with the third plateau team and been thankful to lead some of the learning in this process and I'm very excited to see what comes next wonderful so um it's really great to get to be here with all of you and um really represent a phenomenal amount of hard work that has gone into the document that you've seen uh what I'd like to do is do a short little presentation to walk you through what's there and how we got to it and then we can open up for some conversation and we'd love to hear what questions are on your mind and as you turn to implementation what's uh what you're thinking about um so we've had a um our process we've worked with the city uh in the public art program on a few different aspects but the strategic planning work we've done um really kicked into gear in beginning of July um these three core phases we spent the first several months over the summer just trying to learn everything we could and when I say we I don't mean third plateau and capital impact I mean third plateau capital impact and the steering committee which I'll show you the roster of here in just a second but working very closely with with Tara and Reisa and the rest of the some key stakeholders about really um what's what's doable here um lovely shout out here to member Jones Carter who is one of our our steering committee members as well um so we did a lot of research to make sure that we were informed about really the context that we were operating in as a public art program um working with the community working with specific stakeholders looking at trends of what other cities have done with their public art and that got us into the fall and really thinking through okay now that we're informed what do we want to do here in Santa Rosa what's meaningful to us what are some of those core goals that we have what do we want to prioritize and uh through a couple of really dynamic retreats and several brainstorms afterwards um we got into an iterative design phase um where we were really drafting documents sharing it with key different stakeholder groups um we came to all of you back in November or December with the draft for you to weigh in and take a look at some high-level pieces the mission the vision the theory of change and some core vocal areas and since that meeting we've been working very closely with Tara and Reisa um and this in the steering committee to really flesh out what the rest of that plan should look like specific actions and tactics um implementation timeline some metrics and eventually the expenditure plan um in terms of the group that was working with us Tara you can go to the next slide there um it's a roster here of all of our steering committee members um coming up here in just a second yeah sorry working on it's not working for me so while you're waiting so the steering committee uh consisted of a pretty good cross-section of the stakeholders we're trying to engage um you'll see some specific names here in a second but everything from city staff to artists to local nonprofit leaders you know arts arts leaders here as you can see our our fearless committee um and this committee really worked with us in the retreats to help process what we had learned in that learning phase to identify some core areas that we maybe want to focus in and then to really just provide a lot of critical feedback throughout the process um probably the most uh most significant one was at a steering committee meeting back in December and really getting to like take a big step back from the plan take a look at it holistically and start to identify you know where is this really strong and where does it still have some room to um to grow and and um probably better fulfill the ideals that it's uh it's trying to push and then we got to work over the last month and a half to really uh work that out so the plan itself Tara you can go to the next one here um plan itself is anchored on uh our vision and our mission and the theory of change which we talked about last time but you can see how these have evolved a little bit the vision is really the statement about what we're trying to build the world we want to see um this is not specific to the public art program this is about the community we're trying to build knowing there's lots of other city agencies and nonprofits and community leaders and for profits that are all working towards building this as well but where we landed was an empowered thriving and inclusive Santa Rosa community connected through the power of art now we don't do we can't do that alone um that is a the metaphor I like is that's the full puzzle that we're trying to build and everybody's bringing their own unique puzzle pieces and we want to get clear about what is that puzzle and then what is the puzzle piece or puzzle pieces we bring to the table to help as the public art program and that's really where our mission is so we champion we help bring that vision to life through by we champion artistic expression and amplify community voices through a diverse array of public art experiences the theory of change that you can see in the in the draft plan outlines how we think this comes about um and how we start to take that um that mission and how that can eventually lead to that vision that we care about so that's the biggest picture now the rest of the plan if you get into the the fiscal year 21 through fiscal year 24 goals this is where we're going to focus in the next three and a half years to make sure that we are being as productive and effective as possible towards that vision and our committee ended up with five core focal points here so the first one diverse diverse voices are represented included and celebrated within the programming process outreach and infrastructure of the public art program this is really trying to embrace the moment and recognize sort of where we've been strong and where we need to get better and where we need to really address some shortcomings as a as a as a community and how we can really diversify whose voices are being amplified and being supported and brought into the public art conversation um i'll talk about each of these in a little bit more detail here in a second second one is that neighborhoods are infused with art and community leaders across the city champion arts programming so it's really trying to see a much more broad coalition moving this agenda and this uh this movement around public art three public art is funded and maintained as a core component of place making and economic development so really owning where we sit within the um the structure of the city within economic development and understanding what is our role as part of that um as part of that division for the public art program and the art and public places committee um are rightfully seen as positive and familiar and as key assets in and for the community right this is saying let's stop being such uh like we don't we don't want to be background noise we want to be in the conversation we want people to know who we are how they can leverage us and our resources to help further their agendas and how we can really just be a stronger partner in the community and fifth the public art program is more nimble better resourced and better equipped to deliver on its mission and fulfill its vision for santa rosa so this is a goal about looking internally and saying how do we become a stronger operation as we think through how we are structured and how we operate so i'll get into each one of these and just uh um uh to give a little bit more specifics sorry you can go to the next slide here so there's first goal around diverse voices um the plan is organized with with three tiers of information in red and with uh roman numerals here you can see our our goals right those five goals i just talked about underneath each goal are specific strategies about where we're positioning ourselves and where we're going to focus to help make it happen and those are represented with capital letters and emboldt and then underneath that um are specific tactics the actual actions we're going to take to operationalize that strategy in pursuit of that goal so for this first goal around diverse voices being better represented there's really two strategies the first one is to blow the walls out on what we what we consider to be public art and let's do that in a way that's more expansive and more culturally accessible to the full population in Santa Rosa the second effort is to ensure that there's more community voice in the commission process that that's not simply something that is happening to the community but really happening with the community and happening with a broader diverse stakeholder group within the community um and really not catering to specific groups but really trying to say let's be more representative let's be more engaged with the entirety of the Santa Rosa community the second goal um which again is focused here about uh thinking beyond just the the downtown area and how do we think about other neighborhoods having public art um two two core um strategies here the first one is to bring art into areas in the city that don't currently have public art programming um and in line with what we talked about with goal one I think it's important that we get ourselves out of a mindset of thinking of oh that means sculptures right that means what neighborhoods don't have sculptures because the first thing we're trying to do is think about public art in far more expansive ways so this is experiences it's performances it's artistic expression in any way um sculpture and and installments is one option but there's so many other ways we can bring public art into the city um and the second one here is to that empower diverse community leaders to champion and shape arts programming so this is let it's it's trying to say that we as the public art program or the appc um we know how to run the operations really well but we don't necessarily know what's best for every community and we want to be in conversation and partnership with communities to help them identify what is meaningful and powerful for them and be allies and supporters with them to help them bring that to life and so we need to be able to build um these relationships and find these great allies and ambassadors in all of these different communities help them understand how to leverage what we bring to the table and really work in partnership with them the third goal which is focused on um funding and maintaining public art as a way of placemaking and economic development two core strategies here one is to deepen existing relationships with local businesses and associations and two is to better leverage the public art we have and that we can create to drive economic activity um one aspect of this that I think is a notable departure from our current operations and how we think is a real focus on maintenance um so in addition to be able to build these relationships with with local businesses and figuring out how we can improve foot traffic visibility just the general vibe and economic vibrancy of of a neighborhood is that once we make investments somewhere and we're doing something we want to make sure it stays good um this is really critical for us staying in good relationship with our artists and with our local businesses nobody wants something falling apart outside of their business and no artist wants to see all their hard work going to waste and being ignored and so making a real effort to actually maintain that work um and investing accordingly to make sure that we can keep that a sustained economic activity the fourth goal uh is is thinking about how our brand and our relationship with the community the public art program and appc what's our relationship look like with the community so two core strategies one we need to invest in public relations um people are not going to organically just come to us and find us we want to be proactive and helping people understand who we are and what we do this also ties to the second strategy about improving outreach and demystifying our processes um obviously this is a cohesive plan so these things you should start seeing a lot of similarities and themes if we want to bring in new voices to our process we need to make our process as accessible as possible and to as wide a range of stakeholders as possible so let's make sure that the full community understands who we are and what we do and let's make it as easy as possible to understand it and to engage the fifth goal is the one that looks internally um and this is thinking about how do we become more nimble and and stronger and more sustainable and again two core strategies the first one is to increase opportunities and decrease red tape for temporary projects allowing us just to be more responsive in the moment um being able to see when communities have a you know neighborhoods within santa rosa have a need or an opportunity and our ability to move on it a much faster than we historically have been able to do and acknowledging not every project needs to be a permanent installation we can do temporary things that bring a lot of vibrancy and and um cultural relevance to neighborhoods and the second one is to increase staff capacity and strategic collaborations for public art and it's no secret to you we have a very very lean staffing model for the public art program a very lean staffing model and this is saying great that's that's wonderful and we can celebrate it but let's also make sure that we've got the right supports in place that we're working with the rest of the city in really smart ways and that we are maximizing the resources that are available to us and the relationships available to us now all of these goals together you can go to the next slide tar um there's some specific things that i think if if i'm sitting in your shoes as a committee member i want to know all right what am i getting for this investment we're going to spend all of this energy doing something what would we expect to see be different three and a half years from now than it is today and these i think are those core um those core indicators that something is moving in the right direction so we'd expect to see projects from a wider variety of art mediums right thinking about public art in more expensive ways and really getting as creative and inclusive with that as possible second we'd expect to see a broader and deeper engagement with and support of artists from diverse backgrounds the people that engage with appc that get funding that get support from the the public art program we want to see looking more like santa rosa we want to see representing a greater diversity of the artists that we have in the city um and really trying to think about how we can make that more and more equitable and more and more inclusive third is we'd expect to see an increase to the number of neighborhoods with public art and public art that they're proud of that they feel represents things that they want that excite them that ignite them that inspire them and that are meaningful for the people that live there and shop there and do business there and have a relationship with that community next we'd expect to see much deeper relationships between the public art program and the business community um these should be a constant conversation that's continually getting deeper and deeper um every opportunity there's such an amazing way that public art can help fuel their agenda and benefit the businesses and there's such a great way that businesses can help us bring public art to more and more places and so finding that mutually beneficial agenda and deepening those relationships i think is really key to both public art program and the business community rebounding and coming out stronger after the pandemic and building a much more vibrant city next as i mentioned earlier we'd expect to see better maintained public art installments that go in uh in you know one year really staying strong and staying exciting and staying relevant many years later um and being able to to hold our end of the bargain with our local artists to make sure all of that effort that they're putting in is not going to waste and our responsibility with public funds to make sure that we are investing in things and able to keep it good next is we'd expect to see greater responsiveness to artists and community needs so as things like the black lives matter movement or the pandemic or things that really just transform the way people are thinking about themselves about their neighbors about their community public art has to be there for that conversation we can represent it we can help market and we can help fuel it but only if we're able to be really nimble and creative and how we partner with artists and communities so finding ways to to cut down on some of the red tape and be able to be more responsive and and more present with them and then finally we'd expect to see greater awareness and support of the public art program and all of the things that the city can do to help support public art so investing in the strategic plan these are the results i would expect you should expect to see three and a half years from now the needle really moving on every single one of these factors so it comes at a cost we have to spend money and invest to make this work so as you can see in the plan it breaks down the budget in a few different ways this is the way that i think is probably most helpful especially for committee members here is that it breaks this down by year and by sort of the category of what we're investing in that you can see the total three and a half year investment is just over $380,000 i want to note that is a delta investment on top of our current expenditure plan this is not replace the expenditure plan this is designed to enhance the expenditure plan the current annual plan um we don't spend this all at once right this is not just okay year one you know if you vote and approve this tonight it's not like you have to allocate all this money tomorrow morning um in fact we've designed this in a way that has almost no financial burden at all on fiscal year 21 in fact i think that money has actually even come from other places already and i don't even know you can probably speak to about is there any of that $2,500 that hasn't already been like reallocated no that's really already been dealt with through available funds this year and so we're good for this year we'd be looking at the next fiscal year as the real start of the but the expenditure implications so you can see there's some significant investment in year in fiscal year 22 and fiscal year 23 is we're building out what some of this looks like and you can see the vast majority of the funds are going to programming and projects and we're also investing heavily around our our governance and administration to make sure that we can operate as effectively as we possibly can and really thinking through how we um how we really support and partner with our community okay that's already too much of me talking at you i would love to um i'm happy to answer questions i'm happy to help you if you guys are having a conversation among yourselves help support that in any way i can i've got some specific questions i would love to hear from you but why don't we start with any clarifying questions either about anything in the plan or anything in the presentation that we just walked through do any of the committee members have any questions for third plateau jonathan in particular jeff i just want to um uh you know compliment you on pulling together um a lot of information um from many different sources uh i i think they process our committee went through was um pretty well focused um and it's interesting to see how the strategic planning advisory group that you assembled which um i think i know everybody in that group so it was a great great team the one thing though that um i think i expected to see in this uh you know final um presentation is that um there's a lot of talk about uh community and um partnering with the business community but i don't know maybe i've phased out for a moment but i i don't think i saw specifically um partnering with um arts and cultural organizations um i i think it's kind of baked into it but i don't know that it's specifically um mentioned and um as as a representative here uh from the museum um i you know i have a you know a very particular interest in this aspect of it but i think about all of our cultural um partners you know throughout santa rosa and the county so i just wanted to ask about your thoughts regarding you know that aspect of partner partnerships yeah i think that's a great thing to flag i'm i'm happy to weigh in and would invite um uh tara eraser or member jones carter to also weigh in on this so my short answer is absolutely i fully agree um i think those relationships are you know they're they're already pretty strong and they can always get stronger absolutely um and i think the the arts community um is really going to be critical and the arts nonprofit community is going to be critical for executing on a lot of these strategies um the business community has called out more explicitly because there's a there's more room to grow there um in our relationships and there's more room to grow i think the two types of relationships that are called out and given more weight in the plan it's with the business community and with uh diverse community leaders and i think the focus there is because that's where the relationships are um the most uh i have the most room to grow and i think have the most leverage opportunity if we can get them to be in healthy strong places but by all means to execute on uh you know our ability to make sure diverse uh voices are represented our arts nonprofits are going to be key partners in all of that to make sure that neighborhoods are vibrant with public art our nonprofits are going to be key you know resources and all of that um i'll have to comb through the tactics to see where they're specifically called out but i think your point is a great point and they're not they're not uh they're not ignored here um they're just not given the same real estate in the plan that uh the business community and diverse community leaders are yeah and i'll i'll just add that i think it is um almost um i don't know it's almost intertwined to a degree that you almost can't necessarily pull it out of this plan the amount that we do say uh to partner with community partners um i mean i feel like right on the theory of change document um it says engage with city departments and community partners to amplify our reaching capacity um under um goal one uh strategy a tactic to partner and build stronger relationships with culturally diverse and local and regional community organizations and associations so i you know if if there's one thing that maybe we didn't specifically spell out it would be um arts organizations but i feel like and if that is something that we need to address we can but i i feel like it's addressed by by by grouping it with the larger partnership kind of relationship building we will be doing with a broad range of the community nonprofits and that that's why i said maybe it's just baked into the plan um i guess from my perspective i'd like to see it actually um articulated in one or more of those um uh you know tactical points um so it it it's understood in a way if you read between the lines but it's not specifically stated i guess is you know what i'm looking at but anyway thank you other committee members have any any questions and you need to take yourself off from you oh sorry i'm there you're there oh there okay i'm there thank you um i'm new to this so it's really coming in as a newer member of santa rosa area from los angeles if for those that didn't meet me earlier um one thing i i love to talk about organizations and community businesses this and that but i sort of feel like this is my vibe and i could be wrong but it feels like well a we're in a really hard time right now all of us we're all you know cocooned in so we're going to need to find a way to get back together and reach out and hear each other and listen as a community but um in la that's just such a generative kind of um you don't ask permission you just do and you just start there's a lot going on so what i guess i'm asking is how can we find the people on the ground doing that are doing things that are actually people that could make some of this move in a way that isn't top down um that is more side to side or finding people that are out in communities that actually may not even see themselves in those ways of those kind of empowering sort of things i haven't done this kind of community you know direction so i'm just curious do you know what i'm actually talking about or could you respond to that kind of how can we get our fingers into the lower not the top down but the right across and underneath so i guess how you raise your hand oh melanie you go ahead you're on mute though yeah we talked a lot about in the strategic plan about this committee actually doing a lot of that type of work we all hear about things on our own we see the graphics we see something but you know how do we get those and inviting those people people to our meetings so that we can see what it is they want to do so we can support them so that other they can the message can get out there you know um so it's it's up to us really yeah that's where it starts it's awesome yes yeah yeah i'll i'll just add to that that i think there's a lot of um there's a lot of work on many levels that we need to do to make connections to um other parts of the community other organizations that are um better equipped to get a message out to invite participation um and so that's another that that's another approach i mean i think if there's it's it's all all hands on deck kind of approach committee members um staff um partnership building there's a there's a lot of things that i think can help um move us forward on that right um this is race uh i can also uh say one of the things that we talked about that's in this plan um is our interest in um encouraging the community to understand the difference between public art programs and art in the public realm that they can pursue um and in this way we've been uh successful in identifying new community-based members who are not interested per se in going through the formal process of a public art uh program however um we've been able to enable them and encourage uh the creation of art uh that wouldn't otherwise go through our program and so a toolkit is one of those things that's called out i think in this plan but that that is identified in that way as well excellent okay i think it's great just to add on another piece of this really to focus in on on goal four and goal five um are really geared towards what you're talking about here and actually i'd say one of the key themes overall in this plan is exactly what you're asking for which is to not take a top-down approach right we we cannot get more diverse we cannot get more equitable with a top-down approach and all of the efforts here are about how do we build stronger relationships so that people can leverage us the way that they want to to get the things that they need and so um i think that's a theme throughout the entire document but really zeroing in on on goal four is about making sure that more people know about us and understand how to leverage us as a resource and then goal five is about how do we make sure operationally we aren't getting in their way and that we can you know we can vet it appropriately but making resources available and support all of these creative efforts from these individuals or small groups that have an idea and want to run with it and we can really just add fuel to it and help them do that so i think that's very much in the spirit of where this plan came from yeah yeah thank you okay Kristen hi thank you i had a question about a specific project that came online in 2020 um wondering if there were any lessons learned or any um successes during the open and out project of the you know closing fourth street and inviting artists to help beautify the parklets that had been installed out there or or street closure opportunities if there were lessons learned there that have informed our strategic plan going forward kind of wondering how that process informed well i think that it that that program opened now with a partnership with various groups including the metro chamber of commerce the downtown action organization creative sonoma the city of san rosa public art and economic development divisions um and then some private um partners as well um i i think that it that itself just that that it was a strong partnership um was a great thing to participate in and something that we want to do more of um um having you know the i think we already had certain goals to accomplish with speeding up some of our processes that are long and lengthy the red tape we're talking about especially related to temporary work um we've already been talking about that for a while but i think open and out was a good example of when um the artists payments artist agreements the contract itself the commission's process isn't going directly through the city um that the process was a little bit faster well a lot faster and um maybe more nimble and able to um get things done a little bit faster so that's something else i think we already were aware of but it worked well in this case so those are the things that are immediately coming to mind great thank you just hearing about the strategic plan goals i was reminded of some goals of opening out so i wanted to compare do we have anybody else that has any questions any other committee members okay eileen do we have any public comments regarding this item there are no hands raised at this time okay great thank you is there a motion to adopt this public art program for the 20 the year 2021 and 2024 strategic plan so moved do i have a second second melanie you second thank you all right this is wonderful so we can go ahead and i'd like does anybody have any other um topics or any discussion they would like to have on this sorry about that you guys just i do have one turned off my screen here okay jav i i just want to say again i'm impressed by the final product here and thank you all so much um we it's it's really strange not getting to be in the same room and spend time on this but um having been through so many strategic planning processes i i appreciate the work so thank you thank you jav and i also just want to say how impressive to to jump on now at this kind of cusp of something really huge just amazing work i know that so much more went into it but um it's just really beautiful i had looked at it but to hear you talk about it really made it come alive and i'm super excited about it melanie um so we we could approve the budget is it going to be realistic so the expenditure plan recommended in there is there yes you're adopting this plan but you're not taking a specific action to set a budget so um so i mean it's still a valid question can we afford implementing this plan um i will be presenting to you um at the next meeting with a proposed annual plan for next year starting july one um which will show that our um our implementation of this will be the alignment with the current expected expenditures we've seen over the last few years will be right in alignment with this it will not push us too much farther over and the reason was that you know jonathan was saying that this is a um this is this is only in addition the implementing this plan and the expenditures are in addition to a regular programming well a lot of our regular program programming will take the place of the some of the items the projects that we'll be doing within the implementation of this plan so you know no we're not going to have another huge courthouse square type project on top of implementing this plan but um the projects that we're able to do in in alignment with um kind of our normal expected expenditures keeping in line with the revenue we're seeing coming in um is very reasonable and very doable okay and um tariff may again this is race and we are also looking at the economic development uh division budget as a whole and again seeking better alignment between the individual programs this being one of them um and so we're looking for opportunities related to non-public art program budgets as well okay so tariff i just i want to clarify everything that we've just went over so every year though we're gonna um have be presented you know our yearly um our yearly financial amount that we approve each and every year and that's going to be just like how it is every year but instead of a yearly plan we actually have a four-year plan now and we have this plan that is using around the same amount of funds but we're directing it in a different way and more of a way that we feel as a group as of right now that it would be used more wisely than as previously how we used to go ahead and do it yeah i i would agree with that to a point i think that there's um you know having a plan like this changes our focus prior and priorities um it it shapes a little bit how projects are prioritized so for instance um you know i you know i'll use the courthouse square example again that that was a priority because that project was called out on the master plan for courthouse square it had certain funding that had to be used for public art associated with that project um there is a kind of a community expectation that we were going to fulfill that that project as a part of the master plan for that space um you know this this is somewhat similar in in a way that now we have a four-year three and a half four-year plan that outlines the types of things we should be focusing on and prioritizing over over other things but it doesn't specifically call out projects like courthouse you know it's not a project by project roadmap and so the way that uh david presented the parking garage project today that type of project planning process will be similar when we start tackling the projects and programming that you see in that plan in this plan so there will be a process in which we start saying okay we are you know this is um fifth year 22 is going to start we're going to look at what programming and projects um are a part of this year of our strategic plan let's start planning for those projects and we'll we'll look at um the types of things that we develop when we um write out those project plans so um so the funds you know so that's a long way of saying that you know there are some additional funds like investing in more PR and marketing some of those expenses have not existed in our budget so but so there there there are additional expenses to implement this plan but I guess my point is is that instead of saying okay we have the opportunity to do a certain amount of projects this year how should we prioritize our projects that piece is done for us because we can look at the plan and we can say okay in this year this was called out this is our focus here's that budget that we has um that we had uh anticipated for this and then we start planning that project so I hope that that answers your question it's a little bit of a puzzle and maybe Jonathan wants to try to clarify that no I think I I agree with everything you said there Tara I just wanted to provide another perspective on this um is that you should think about the budget as the volume knob for the plan you've got you're aligned now on strategies and priorities and the the how much money you want to pump into it is going to dictate how loudly you do it and how like how quickly and what kind of splash it makes the budget that you see the expenditure implications that you see in the plan are trying to balance and right size what we think is reasonable with also the outcome that we really want and to make it as effective as possible and so the budget you see is the recommended expenditure of how we think you can get the best bang for your buck as you're investing it but everything that is on there you could scale it up even more if you had additional funding there are ways to find ways you know there are ways to do some of those things in a scrappier manner but what's there in the plan is really like this is the it's not the you know the platinum version of you know everything I'm sure if if we set Tara and Ray so loose with okay what would you want to spend it would be a lot more than this this is really trying to gear towards what's the right balance of what we think we can afford what's justifiable and what kind of impact you're going to get as a result that you can turn that volume knob up or down based on whatever funds may or may not be available but the plan can keep moving forward regardless I love this I'm I'm excited that we finally have a structured plan a process you know towards community building and it's long term this is great and then I also like to that every year we get to like reevaluate what's working what's not and maybe make a couple tweaks and some changes my only just out of curiosity or just what I'm thinking of is because unfortunately we do have some disasters and some events and here whether it be fires whether it be the pandemic how do we have enough room to be able to mold or to change for those kinds of you know events unfortunate unseen you know events that come up happy to at least start to wait on that I actually think this plan is designed especially with that in mind this plan makes us far more equipped to be relevant and to help when the context changes dramatically if you had this plan in place a year and a half ago you would have seen a much more vibrant COVID response in the art community you would have seen the art community be even more present in the Black Lives Matter movements I think this is really like a as the context shifts this plan make sure that you've got the relationships to actually understand how it's shifting and to be on top of that and internally to have your operation shifted so you're able to move quicker so I actually think well this has a very clear plan about how to support and what to grow it is designed in a way that makes it far more resilient than maybe what past strategies have been so that we can grow as the context may or may not shift with things like other disasters hopefully not or as the pandemic continues or whatever else might come our way that we don't foresee this plan is able to adjust and actually positions the public art program in a way to be far more resilient and responsive to the community in those situations I make I obviously hope you don't ever have to do that but I'm excited that you are better equipped to actually do it should the time come wonderful Jeff yeah and just a couple of comments because I I thought Jonathan your your answer was right on point but Lisa you bring up a really probably one of the most crucial topics for us to consider in this community and it's really interesting to me because after the 2017 wildfires there there really it wasn't a public art plan or the museum didn't have a strategic plan and other organizations really didn't have plans for how you respond to that kind of disaster and so what happened is we scrambled but by partnering with creative Sonoma and organizations in the city we were able to quickly bring together over 50 people from the cultural sector to talk about response so in the in the following year when the museum went through a strategic planning process we sort of had that in mind but you also have to recognize that when things happen that are completely out of your realm of experience like this pandemic it also gives you the opportunity to stop and take stock and to look at your plan actually Tara and Rayisa we're just part of a meeting we had for the museum to just go so we couldn't go into phase two of our plan the pandemic destroyed that possibility so now what do we do but at least you have a point of reference and so I feel good that public art has a reference and and when if we have to reevaluate and shift gears we know what the foundation is upon upon which we're building our our next plans thank you thank you Jeff Jonathan did you have anything else to say I would say sort of after after you guys have a chance to vote before we before you kick us off but I'm okay for now unless there's other questions people have okay any other committee members no okay so then I'd like to call a vote to adopt the public art program for the year of 2021 through the year 2024 strategic plan is presented all in favor hi didn't we already do that yeah you did for the the motion this is for the vote okay no any opposed all right the motion passes okay yes the motion passes can I can I jump in really quick yes you can first I just want to say congratulations that's a massive like this is fantastic and we are thrilled for you and it feels funny to celebrate it with such a like with this meeting to your point we couldn't be in person but this has been so much work that has gone into this and it's um this is really months and months of great thinking and collaboration so giant kudos to all of you congratulations and really excited for you I would also be remiss while I've got your attention to not say something else that I would love to bring to the attention of the committee which is that the team at third plateau in capital impact we get to work with leaders all over the world in every issue area you possibly imagine um we've worked very closely with Tara and Raisa and you have got two phenomenally capable passionate and collaborative leaders that are spearheading this that give me this is a nice plan and I have confidence that the plan will be executed and good things are going to happen because you've got amazing people that are staffing this and running with it David's also wonderful we love getting to work with him too we worked very very closely with Raisa and Tara and you guys are I hope you know how truly blessed and special it is to have a staff that's that capable and that strong it's been a joy to work with them and you guys are in very very good hands and I'd be remiss to not say it while we've got the space thank you so much Jonathan I I have to acknowledge that and thank you so so much for your partnership and your uh flexibility or just trust that we're going to make this all work during this odd time it's not what we set out to well it's not the conditions we thought we would be working under when we set out to do this plan so um it's been really wonderful working with all of you thank you I hope we get to do other projects in the future yes I would like to say thank you to third plateau and to everyone this when I read this complete plan it I just I was amazed it looks there's obviously so much work that went into this and I'm I'm like so excited I could barely contain myself when I would completely read through the whole entire thing the whole entire plan all right um thanks again and we will move on to the next item on the agenda great thank you all Jeannie Alex Madeline Maya thank you all Marie say hi to Marie for us anyway thank you everybody thank you all congratulations thanks thank you okay so let's see your 5.3 project updates Tara you will now present us updates on current projects I will let me find my notes here okay thank you hi everyone um that was exciting okay so I only have a few very brief project updates um for today given we've been a little bit focused on a few other things so um to let you know the imagine art and old courthouse square project the courthouse square project we are still working on finalizing the artist services agreement with the artist the selected artist blessing Hancock um and going back and forth with our city attorney's office so we will be working um to get that started as soon as we do the final signing of that document I'll let you know um what that will do to our timeline it has now we were hoping hoping to get that done this week if that pushes out too much farther it'll probably push our timeline back by a week or so um but that's kind of where we're at right now um the depot park public art project which some of you will remember from many many years ago um it looks like we may have the opportunity to revisit that project finally after I think it's been about a three-year hiatus so uh we had a meeting last week um that looks like we're we're there's some interest in looking at how we can combine some landscape refreshing of the landscaping and looking at placing that art piece again working with the artist again so I will keep you updated on that and let you know um if there's an opportunity to present more details on that that's the only update I have at this point um and then for conservation and maintenance we are looking um at what we need to accomplish in our next round of repairs and cleanings and maintenance um on our current existing collection of public art probably slated to start this spring um so I will be reporting back to you on which pieces will be worked on and uh share share some before and after photos uh the next time we have that ready so really that's all I have today if anyone has any specific questions I'd be happy to answer them but that's um those are the only project updates I have um anybody have any questions can we turn to that first one the imagine art um is that a person's name you gave I didn't I just couldn't catch it yes sorry and um the the selected artist is blessing Hancock okay first name blessing um last name Hancock so uh you can find out more about that project um on our website and see her her proposed piece um it's all on the imagine art website um but yes that's that's her name thanks Melanie yeah I I had a question um not about projects but you said we would be looking at the budget the next meeting yeah most likely yeah most likely I will provide you with um our an annual plan which will essentially mimic the year the first year implementation of the strategic plan um but I'll prepare what I normally prepare for that however because of how we're we're moving forward with implement implementing the strategy now the you'll see when I when I put together the plan usually I break it down by project this time it will probably be strategy based rather than individual project and then we will do the development we need to on each project as we move forward um so it might have a slightly different format but yes I will be bringing that to you at the march meeting so last year I remember we voted right there at the meeting is there any opportunity for us to see a draft of the plan before the budget before the meeting or no so it usually gets sent out with the agenda so but but if you'd like it sooner than that and that you I try to get that to you um five or so days before um but I can I can try to get it out sooner than that if you'd like more time okay it was my first time last time I just was like oh okay I'll make sure you you have a chance to review it okay leave time Jeff yeah um so I was just wondering if there's an update on the ruthasawa um fountain uh that installation yeah thanks for asking Jeff I hopefully by march by the next meeting I'll have another I'll have more to share on that right now I can tell you I actually don't know if there's any update on the starting of construction of the fountain itself I haven't heard anything um in a while I've been relying on um a couple sources to give me updates on that and I haven't heard any movement um I know they want to get started as soon as possible but I don't have any uh news on that in terms of timing of construction um for the artwork side we are in conversation with our conservator our structural engineers um the the family of ruthasawa about um how best to move forward with the project given how fragile the original panels are so um when I come back to you in March that is the going to be the focus of our conversation is um some options we're looking at for uh how best to make sure the panels prosper on into the future that is the number one question I get from anybody it's coming back the the panels and the fountain will be back in the square I just can't tell you exactly when when was it taken out let's see this wherever it was reunified yeah it was 2016 and 2016 okay and for my sources I think the best information for a timeline or a schedule for construction that would probably come from the downtown action organization that's what I've been tuning into for information about the Ruthasawa fountain so I keep telling people no it's not our job they have monthly meetings where the Ruthasawa fountain uh is a regular standing agenda item and I also wanted to just chime in I uh think we missed the opportunity for community member committee member reports but I wanted to applaud some of our neighbors um well let's let's wait till we get to that item on the agenda we're not there yet no worries I won't um I'm sorry that's all for project updates and I will bring more more information about those other questions um okay I had a question Tara but um I know you're limited on information on this so if you don't have the information but regarding the depot when you just said that um are we still considering the same artist that was previously approved and for the same design we still have a valid contract with that artist um uh James Din and so you know we would like to revisit that project talk to him about you know if he's still available to move forward with this we have a contract with him there the funds are kind of you know you're marked for that project um so so the there things have changed so much since then there's a lot of interest in seeing some other developments at depot park uh we're gonna yeah like I said I really don't have enough information to share back much more details than that um other than we're gonna start revisiting it and see where it goes but he's still a consideration well we yeah he's the selected artist for that project we just need to start the conversation over again okay I just want to make sure we're not starting completely over on that okay perfect thank you so let's so now we can move on next item on the agenda is number six committee member reports do any of the community members wish to make a report at this time if so please physically raise your hand Kristen thanks lisa sorry I got excited um I just wanted to commend a few of our neighbors in the downtown community who unfortunately have had vandalism or accidents that you know they couldn't predict or prevent and has altered the facade of their buildings and two examples that I can think of uh when they put up the plywood in front of a window that had been broken reached out to local artists to beautify the space so if you haven't seen the rotating murals that are at hot couture um and then a shady oak barrel house they unfortunately had some vandalism but uh dom chi local artists painted a beautiful set of murals there so I wanted to commend our resilient community and not lose sight of those artistic opportunities that are happening without our committee without our committee's role so that's that's exciting to see thanks Kristen jeff um first of all Kristen thank you for mentioning that because I think that's really great when the community members and businesses partner with artists um just you know even flying by the seat of their pants it's it's really great anyway I just wanted to um bring to everybody's attention a couple of things that the museum is doing um in our virtual programming next week on Wednesday we are presenting a panel discussion women in policy and politics this is in conjunction with our um um suffrage from um from suffrage to me too exhibition that you can see online and the panelists are Natalie Rogers who is the new newly elected councilwoman Suzanne Smith and Dr. Cynthia Boaz from uh Sonoma State so it's next Wednesday February 10th at 7 p.m. and you can get the information either from our weekly newsletter that goes out tomorrow or on our website and then a couple of weeks later on Thursday February 25th we're presenting the program collective arising a positionality of insistence from Black Bay Area artists with um our co-presenters these are actually visiting guest curators for an upcoming exhibition. Shara Econdio from Oakland and Lucia Momo who is a assistant curator at the Berkeley Art Museum so um both really important and exciting upcoming virtual programs um I will also um I would just like to say before we adjourn our meeting I would love to um take a couple of minutes to um more officially welcome our new newest member Ann. Thank you. It's nice to have you join us congratulations. Yeah thanks. Appreciate it. Is that it? Do I have anyone else? Okay so go go ahead and we'll move on. There's one more item department reports. Tara do you have anything for department reports? Yeah just briefly um as as you heard me say at the beginning of the meeting obviously we have um some membership changes on the committee so I just wanted to share a little bit of some of the um a process going on there um so due to the shift in due to the shift to council district elections some council appointments to city boards committees and commissions are going to be aligned by districts as a default but there are there's other considerations as well such as maintaining continuity with current members and or chairpersons so um so last week there was a process where council drew names of their two newest new newly elected members so they could determine which of the old no longer ceded council members who that who's who's appointees would replace who's appointees essentially uh on all the city boards and commissions so that may also be changing some of the membership on our public places committee I'll provide more information when I can some of those things are still in flux as um one of the new members still has not appointed any anyone to APPC yet so um so I just wanted to let you know that there are things going on that um that kind of affect boards and commissions and committees across the city when there's an election and especially because we are moving to the district elections the council members are elected by district now so Brice is there anything else you want to add to that I kind of just wanted to mention um that that is something that our department is working on I know I think you said it uh well but if there's any questions we can answer those okay that's it okay thank you Tara thank you Raisa um so only thing we have left now is adjournment um the next regular meeting of the art and public places committee is scheduled for Monday March 1st at 3 30 the meeting is now adjourned thanks thank you everybody you great to see you all and uh and nice to meet you terrific all right thank you everyone have a good night thanks everybody