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Home My WebLink About020526 Arts Commission WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.190 Council Chambers: Happy holidays. 2 00:00:02.500 --> 00:00:20.550 Council Chambers: It's nice to see you. I didn't bring it. 3 00:00:20.650 --> 00:00:22.310 Council Chambers: Ready? 4 00:00:22.310 --> 00:00:43.629 Council Chambers: Bang bang on the gavel. Hello, everyone! Welcome to February's Arts Commission meeting. We're gonna call the meeting to order at 3.01 p.m. Let's start with roll call. And we do have some new pushers, but we have a section of the agenda for introductions, so let's just, roll call straight with your, your name and… 5 00:00:43.630 --> 00:00:48.959 Council Chambers: Association at the table today. I'm Alyssa Saravito, Chair, Art Exhibition Arts Center. 6 00:00:48.970 --> 00:00:52.870 Council Chambers: Katie Goodman, staff liaison. Sheena Yuritz, Commissioner. 7 00:00:53.170 --> 00:00:55.080 Council Chambers: Christina Garage, cult laureate. 8 00:00:55.250 --> 00:01:03.439 Council Chambers: Christine Walsh-Rogers, Commissioner. Dan Gosman, Commissioner and Vice Chair. 9 00:01:04.060 --> 00:01:10.969 Council Chambers: Melanie Kasinski, Commissioner. Simon Lynch, Commissioner. Very cool. 10 00:01:11.280 --> 00:01:20.490 Council Chambers: Congratulations to our full table! Look at this! I think we need more newborns at the meeting. 11 00:01:20.930 --> 00:01:33.529 Council Chambers: The, next action is to look at the agenda and approve the agenda. Are there any amendments or revisions that need to be made to the agenda? 12 00:01:45.370 --> 00:01:46.830 Council Chambers: That's the agenda. 13 00:01:47.050 --> 00:02:06.729 Council Chambers: If there are no corrections, the agenda is approved by… We have a new member. Okay, cool, and same with the minutes. Are there any revisions or amendments needed to the minutes from January's meeting? I just saw one, it was a… 14 00:02:06.730 --> 00:02:08.810 Council Chambers: Plural, let's see, where was it? 15 00:02:09.720 --> 00:02:20.749 Council Chambers: Yeah, so under workgroup updates, the Commission discussed giving maintenance kits to the City the City's boundary markers, plural, I think it's just the marker referring to that work, isn't it? 16 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:26.069 Council Chambers: battery marker, so that's all. Is there another one that we're moving? 17 00:02:26.480 --> 00:02:40.030 Council Chambers: Oh, no, there's only one boundary marker. Okay. So the boundary marker referring to them. Yes. 18 00:02:40.030 --> 00:02:49.130 Council Chambers: Okay. You're just calling that to make it really confusing. Yeah. Okay, 19 00:02:50.270 --> 00:03:01.069 Council Chambers: We're gonna approve the amended minutes by consensus as well. 20 00:03:01.230 --> 00:03:08.729 Council Chambers: We're gonna roll right into this thing. And go into public comment. Is there any public comment online? 21 00:03:12.280 --> 00:03:19.390 Council Chambers: Anyone from the… in person here who'd like to input? I could do the… 22 00:03:19.390 --> 00:03:42.790 Council Chambers: If this slide can come up, I'm not sure if it can. It's in your packet. Can I cheat over? So in your packet somewhere, I believe there's this, like, small little report from the Poet Laureate, and… Okay, so I left you with this… I wish you could see it. Just a visual of 23 00:03:42.790 --> 00:03:49.060 Council Chambers: A quote from Pablo Neruda, from one of his writings, 24 00:03:49.310 --> 00:03:53.609 Council Chambers: If it's in there. There you go, there we go. That's it. That's it. 25 00:03:53.660 --> 00:04:00.110 Council Chambers: And I… I went to the Nexus meeting, which Katie usually runs. 26 00:04:00.110 --> 00:04:15.689 Council Chambers: But Melody and I did it. We had a small group, it was an intimate gathering, but it's sort of poetry as process, and we were able to kind of make the connections about how we can kind of get stuck in place sometimes. 27 00:04:15.700 --> 00:04:25.459 Council Chambers: And so what you see here is my step process of art, which I wrote about in this poem called Primary Colors. 28 00:04:25.460 --> 00:04:37.419 Council Chambers: And then we… sometimes we take other poets' words to inspire us to be the person we're capable of being, or appreciate ourselves. So I'll read you Pablo Neruda's, 29 00:04:37.540 --> 00:04:54.890 Council Chambers: Writing. The big trees on the other side of her uprooted. But you, cloudless girl, question of smoke, corn tassel. You were what the wind was making with eliminated leaves. Behind the nocturnal mountains, white lily of conflagration. 30 00:04:54.970 --> 00:05:02.590 Council Chambers: I can see nothing. You were made of everything. And that's from almost out of the sky. 31 00:05:02.860 --> 00:05:19.860 Council Chambers: And so we went around in a circle and talked about artist process, and I did a residency a year ago, and I was fortunate enough through the Poet Laureate program to be able to have an extended residency. Katie helped me work this out. So 3 weeks, and out of those 3 weeks, 32 00:05:19.890 --> 00:05:29.170 Council Chambers: I was able to write the poem for the Katai Lagoon, dedication ceremony, but I also thought about how, 33 00:05:29.380 --> 00:05:39.129 Council Chambers: with… with art, sometimes you work between two different art forms to get yourself moving. And I got stuck. There's this amazing, artist. 34 00:05:39.130 --> 00:05:53.779 Council Chambers: who does, riverbeds and all kinds of things, and I got stuck right here with these rocks. Like, just started procrastinating. I'm like, oh, I don't really know where to go with this. So there it sits, it's in my sketchbook like that. And then the sunset color chart, I'm not, 35 00:05:53.780 --> 00:05:57.500 Council Chambers: Trained in any, like, you know, fine arts 36 00:05:57.500 --> 00:06:22.459 Council Chambers: So, Linda Okazawazawi, who's a local artist, does these beautiful color charts, and I was like, well, let me just start with, like, the subset. I want to paint sunsets. And I started doing this, and you can see how imperfect it all is, and the question in the corner is, how do I control the dilution rate? And I realized, I started doing it without naming the colors, which is, like, really important to making a color chart. 37 00:06:22.460 --> 00:06:39.989 Council Chambers: And so you see these… these crazy things that say, yummy watermelon, because that's what it looks like, but that definitely wasn't the color. But that also is part of, like, the poetic process, the naming of things in unconventional ways. And so… so I'm sharing with you 38 00:06:40.040 --> 00:07:01.969 Council Chambers: this is sort of artistic, poetic vulnerability right here, right? I'm laying bare my soul of all the things I don't know. And, in the artistic, or the visual arts residency I did, when I got stuck here, realizing what I didn't know, I started just doing calligraphy, and I was coming in every day, because the whole thing is showing up to your practice. 39 00:07:02.210 --> 00:07:24.589 Council Chambers: throwing up your politics. Whatever it is, just show up to it, because something will happen, something good will come out of it. And so this, this poem I wrote using the primary colors, yellow, blue, and red, and I was stuck, and I just started painting the words instead. So it's primary colors. I procrastinate rocks in riverbeds revealed and ready under turquoise and commitment. 40 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:29.809 Council Chambers: Bending to color charts. Discipline I lack, lacking education. 41 00:07:29.980 --> 00:07:45.650 Council Chambers: So I bounce and zigzag through taming hexagrams, my wild and timid hand not drawing irises, not entertaining art and fear. Entangled, I must surrender to absurd delight. 42 00:07:45.650 --> 00:07:57.439 Council Chambers: to Art Deer is a book in the library, which is a fabulous book. So what you're seeing on a page in a very chaotic order, is that, 43 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:08.300 Council Chambers: That powerful nexus of where the city intersects with the library, and where someone who loves the library as much as I love art and poetry, is able to speak to that 44 00:08:08.430 --> 00:08:27.349 Council Chambers: vulnerability, but also that sort of pivot point where creation happens. And you'll be seeing more, famous poets work in the next series of, of things in your packets, because I went to the library, took out a stack this big, and I'll be putting some of my favorite poems in your packets. 45 00:08:27.720 --> 00:08:35.070 Council Chambers: Thank you. Thank you. Okay, thanks so much for everything. Really enjoyed it. The dedication was wonderful. 46 00:08:35.070 --> 00:08:58.300 Council Chambers: And that poem will be out in the library, I think, next month, but the inaugural poem is in the poetry case at the library this month. And there's a ton of footnotes that go with the Kai Tai Lagoon one that talks about the history and the politics and also our, challenges with unsheltered, as well, related to… 47 00:08:58.300 --> 00:09:00.790 Council Chambers: Hey, Jenna. 48 00:09:00.820 --> 00:09:12.119 Council Chambers: Thanks for sharing. Bye. There was another public comment, right, that was sent along. Is that adequate? 49 00:09:12.330 --> 00:09:17.989 Council Chambers: You said it as a, like, attachment, like, updated attachment, but I don't think it's attached. 50 00:09:18.240 --> 00:09:19.780 Council Chambers: The one from Lindsay. 51 00:09:20.420 --> 00:09:23.280 Council Chambers: What's that going on? I believe it's from Amanda. 52 00:09:23.490 --> 00:09:32.060 Council Chambers: Have y'all seen that public comment? Yes. Is that going to be cor… that might be correspondence? 53 00:09:32.420 --> 00:09:44.529 Council Chambers: I didn't see it at all, because it came in, like, on Friday. Well, it's not in our packet, unfortunately, we'll probably have to discuss it. 54 00:09:45.140 --> 00:10:03.989 Council Chambers: It was not part in the public record for this meeting. We can go ahead. Okay. I mean, we haven't all had a chance to look, I mean, what are we gonna do? If you want to move about, and I'll go ahead and print it out, and then I can have it later. I can just… would you like me just to read it? Sure. Since people weren't able to see it. 55 00:10:03.990 --> 00:10:06.149 Council Chambers: on Ticker or whatever. 56 00:10:06.780 --> 00:10:14.490 Council Chambers: It's okay. It was part of the pack that I downloaded on page 32. 57 00:10:14.930 --> 00:10:17.460 Council Chambers: I think so. 58 00:10:18.200 --> 00:10:23.790 Council Chambers: Happily and compete, maybe it's me. Oh, I see something. Oh, cool, even better. 59 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:31.090 Council Chambers: Before the meeting, I just grabbed the one off the website. 60 00:10:31.420 --> 00:10:38.510 Council Chambers: on the second. Yeah. 61 00:10:38.880 --> 00:10:55.850 Council Chambers: usually… well, Lonnie does a great job for us in our pack. I would not have looked for the correspondence on page 32. Okay, I'll read it. We want to let you know that the Jefferson County Farmers Market, Port Townsend Pride, and Good Life, Jefferson County's, 62 00:10:55.880 --> 00:11:14.400 Council Chambers: Queer Newsletter community potluck organizer are preparing a joint application to paint a community street mural in Uptown Port Townsend. Our Uptown Community Street Mural includes a Pride Rainbow crosswalk at the intersection of Tyler and Lauren Streets, and a community farmer's market mural on the 600 block of Tyler Street, and at the Clay and Tyler Street Crosswalk. 63 00:11:14.620 --> 00:11:23.270 Council Chambers: Together, the crosswalk and mural are designed to foster community and inclusivity, strengthen neighborhood connections, and create a safer and more welcoming public space in Uptown Port Cousins. 64 00:11:23.270 --> 00:11:46.219 Council Chambers: Pride crosswalks raise visibility and demonstrate support for our queer community members, and such crosswalks have been painted in communities across the United States as symbols of affirmation, solidarity, respect, freedom, and inclusion. At a time when queerness history and identity are threatened with erasure and services are being limited and denied, this mural would affirm and preserve Fort Townsend's historic support for members of the queer communities. Pride crosswalks have also been shown to halt traffic. 65 00:11:46.220 --> 00:12:02.420 Council Chambers: The farmer's market section of the mural is also designed to build community, calm traffic, and improve pedestrian safety in the uptown neighborhood and around the Port Townsend Farmers Market. Street murals are widely used by communities to encourage drivers to slow down, as their vibrant colors and designs draw attention to the roadway and promote safer driving behavior. 66 00:12:02.470 --> 00:12:20.250 Council Chambers: Jefferson County Farmers Market, Port Townsend Pride, and Good Life plan to invite community members from Port Townsend and Jefferson County to participate in the painting process, therefore reinforcing the project's emphasis on communityengagement and shared values. Once you receive our application, we kindly request your support for this project. We look forward to the opportunity to work together. 67 00:12:21.310 --> 00:12:30.480 Council Chambers: Check it out, that's it. 68 00:12:30.660 --> 00:12:34.620 Council Chambers: Very good. Thank you, Katie, for clarifying that. 69 00:12:36.190 --> 00:12:40.259 Council Chambers: Back up to page 1. 70 00:12:40.960 --> 00:12:54.219 Council Chambers: Cool! Now we can go into cootie business. We'll start with Chair Update, which is a big welcome to our two new commissioners. We're so thrilled to have Christine Walsh-Roggers and Doug Caskey joining us here today, and 71 00:12:54.600 --> 00:13:01.540 Council Chambers: As long as y'all have it. Would the two of you like to introduce yourselves in any additional way? 72 00:13:01.700 --> 00:13:21.240 Council Chambers: You can opt in, opt out, totally… Sure. So, I've lived in Port Townsend full-time for, almost 6 years now, part-time for almost, what, 14. Since I've been here, I've been volunteering in a bunch of different ways. 73 00:13:21.310 --> 00:13:36.039 Council Chambers: I volunteered with the film festival, was on a board there. I'm on the KPTZ board. I'm a DJ, on Friday afternoons on KPTZ. I've volunteered with Jefferson Healthcare. It was on their board as well. 74 00:13:36.040 --> 00:13:44.869 Council Chambers: So I try… always try to give back in my community and kind of match my professional experience with my passion for art and music and… 75 00:13:44.870 --> 00:13:56.519 Council Chambers: how that brings community together, so that's why I've decided to throw my hat in the ring for this. We applied for a grant, and it got me very interested in the work you do, so… 76 00:13:56.840 --> 00:14:11.880 Council Chambers: I moved here 3 years ago after retiring from working with the Colorado Department of Agriculture, so I do have a bit of experience working with government and bureaucracy. 77 00:14:11.980 --> 00:14:25.449 Council Chambers: I don't know if that'll help, or just… just make me get in the way. Since I moved here, I kind of accidentally fell into Salt Fire theater, and I've been hearing with them. 78 00:14:25.450 --> 00:14:38.010 Council Chambers: several shows over the last several years, so it's great to be working, and I appreciate everything you guys do. Thank you very much. And now I know where I recognize you. 79 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:41.500 Council Chambers: Likewise. 80 00:14:41.780 --> 00:14:45.910 Council Chambers: Well, thank you both for being here and for, 81 00:14:46.040 --> 00:14:50.830 Council Chambers: participating in the civic process, I think you have a lot of fun, doing this. 82 00:14:51.420 --> 00:15:05.430 Council Chambers: these meetings. I have had, anyway. And, we'll all continue to get to know each other more as time goes on, and it's a lot in the beginning, just because there's so much information, but… 83 00:15:05.530 --> 00:15:09.230 Council Chambers: I know that you're both diving right in, which is really cool, appreciate it. 84 00:15:09.470 --> 00:15:17.330 Council Chambers: The next thing to highlight is on page 5 of your packet, and it's just handy to have a… 85 00:15:17.600 --> 00:15:23.780 Council Chambers: Eyes On, which is, our… Commission terms. 86 00:15:23.970 --> 00:15:37.460 Council Chambers: Which is something kind of… there's daggered because not more than three of us expire in one year. But just take a look, be aware of those terms, and 87 00:15:39.550 --> 00:15:56.549 Council Chambers: No, just that I think we'll just include this, you know, because people don't remember. And also, I mean, just to note that, like, sub, you know, through y'all's terms are up in May of this year, so… 88 00:15:56.550 --> 00:16:11.279 Council Chambers: 28, that's so far away. Yeah, so is there term restrictions? There are not, but it would be… It's an interesting conversation that could be worth having, 89 00:16:11.280 --> 00:16:18.139 Council Chambers: Yeah, but there's not… I think it's a question that's come up in several, you know, across the… 90 00:16:18.980 --> 00:16:37.219 Council Chambers: advisory bodies, or I'm not sure where… I know we're working on some hand… like, a handbook and some updates and stuff. I don't… I don't know if that's being addressed in that committee, do you know? Yes, we are. So, what… I guess the game plan is that when, for instance, like, in May, if all three of you want to 91 00:16:37.510 --> 00:16:41.609 Council Chambers: You know, the idea would be, if there's anybody outside. 92 00:16:41.610 --> 00:17:00.799 Council Chambers: We would still do interviews, just in case, and then the selection would go to just make a selection. There wouldn't be, like, a specific, like, you've served 5 terms here. No, gotcha. That's Dan! We have discussed term limits before, and… 93 00:17:00.990 --> 00:17:02.840 Council Chambers: I mean, my understanding with 94 00:17:03.260 --> 00:17:17.969 Council Chambers: boards and things. There's term limits, or if there could be a chance that people on that committee could have, like, an edge over, you know, new people coming in, but we've actually talked about how the institutional memory has been really helpful to, you know, prior, 95 00:17:18.300 --> 00:17:29.470 Council Chambers: with Public Guard coming up, having, you know, some memory of our last time we did that was over 10 years ago. So, you know, is there… are there any boards or commissions where that's more of a concern? 96 00:17:30.260 --> 00:17:44.460 Council Chambers: Most of the goodness, most of our boards, at some point in time throughout the year, have vacancies. Yeah, it's hard enough to get people, let alone turn them out. I mean, we've got two, I don't know how many applications we have with vacancies. 97 00:17:44.930 --> 00:18:07.139 Council Chambers: But, I mean, it is normally advertised when we have a vacancy, so as you guys will be in your homeowner know, we've had these vacancies for quite a while. So, if you have a big waiting list, we could… I don't know how long you've served, but having served on a lot of different boards and advisory commissions, people 98 00:18:07.140 --> 00:18:27.550 Council Chambers: find their own burnout level, and it's usually sometime between year 6 and 10, depending on who they are, right, and how much commitment they have to something, and so I don't know that term limits have ever seemed necessary on anything I've ever served on, because there's sort of a natural attrition that takes place. 99 00:18:27.770 --> 00:18:33.060 Council Chambers: Yeah, I was just wondering, if it did come to… 100 00:18:34.520 --> 00:18:52.940 Council Chambers: a boat. Like, say there was, like, you know, in May 1st, 2026, there was 9 people that wanted to get in here, and there was some type of, like, determination made about, like, who was going to fill those seats. How does that work? 101 00:18:53.180 --> 00:19:12.300 Council Chambers: Do we vote as the body, or no? How does that work? Has it happened? Has it happened? The appointments are made by the mayor. Oh, okay. So, they would… So, city council will be the ones that voted on… Wow. 102 00:19:12.300 --> 00:19:14.769 Council Chambers: It's pretty important. One other question, so if… 103 00:19:14.770 --> 00:19:35.710 Council Chambers: If you're at a certain position, like I'm positioning 8, with a resignation midterm, then is that vacancy open for the rest of that term, and if someone's appointed, they finish out that term? No, resets? If you leave, the next person who takes your position is 2028. They take that position. They would finish out that term. 104 00:19:35.710 --> 00:19:54.949 Council Chambers: Right. Okay. Throw your hat back in the ring. So the diagram is preserved, right. Position is actually what you're… Oh, okay, so that is why the… Got it, that makes sense. Position 3 was the position that was open. Yeah, so just… 105 00:19:54.950 --> 00:20:04.810 Council Chambers: I don't even quite understand. Yeah, when I got your site, this is normal. 106 00:20:04.980 --> 00:20:16.269 Council Chambers: Oh, I just point out quickly, too, which I think I mentioned that, I guess I, I had… I thought that Fred Obie was our new liaison, but apparently that was just a temporary post until they, re… 107 00:20:16.600 --> 00:20:24.069 Council Chambers: until the new mayor, the new commission liaison, so our, liaison is now… it's actually Libby Wenstrom. 108 00:20:24.810 --> 00:20:28.370 Council Chambers: Who hopefully will be here next time. 109 00:20:28.440 --> 00:20:42.460 Council Chambers: Cool. The other update in the chair update is just to… to touch on Robert's Rules of Order. We do use Robert's Rules of Order, here at the table. There are a couple times 110 00:20:42.460 --> 00:21:05.480 Council Chambers: It seems like maybe once a year, the City of Courthouse takes an available opportunity to come do a Roberts Rules workshop. I have paid out of pocket for Roberts Rules training through Jurassic Parliament, which is, I believe, what the contractors and things use. And I'd recommend it. It was, like, $40, and it was a really great webinar that was very helpful. And… 111 00:21:05.480 --> 00:21:28.290 Council Chambers: I was supposed… I was meant to help find a PDF one sheet that sort of refreshes Robert's rules, and there is one in the new Commissioner Binders, and maybe we can email a copy of that PDF out after the email to everyone, just so it's top of mind. If you have your old binder. So I can email that, but if you have… Yeah, maybe just email with Mary, so I just have an email. 112 00:21:28.560 --> 00:21:48.419 Council Chambers: And as you noticed, at the beginning of our meeting, we learned that we can move through the agenda and meeting process without calling a vote, which is great, because that eliminates one more thing a lot of traffic for us to, like, have to go through for futurely. One thing to flag that I really loved so much about my training with Jurassic Parliament and 113 00:21:48.420 --> 00:21:53.919 Council Chambers: understanding Robert's Rules better was that, the structure of Robert's Rules is, like. 114 00:21:53.980 --> 00:21:58.900 Council Chambers: well, in the words of the Jurassic Parliament instructor, it's like, the truest… 115 00:21:58.920 --> 00:22:23.309 Council Chambers: distillation of democracy in action, and that that also requires everyone to use their voice. And so, something that I'd love to see more this year is that when we are having discussion, that every single… like, the order of operations in discussion is that when we call for a discussion and there's a motion on the table, really every commissioner is meant to weigh in. And so, before 116 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:40.339 Council Chambers: there's any back and forth. So, it's… you don't have to have a strong opinion. You can always say, I have a strong opinion about this right now, or, I'd like, you know, I yield my time, but it's really… it is important that we, like, I hear… that we hear from everybody. 117 00:22:40.340 --> 00:22:43.860 Council Chambers: While you're here, to weigh in, to be part of the conversation, so… 118 00:22:43.860 --> 00:22:50.999 Council Chambers: Do you intend to go around, like, in a circle, or just sort of let people jump in when they want? 119 00:22:51.320 --> 00:22:58.230 Council Chambers: I'd love to… would… what do we think? Like, would you… is that a… like, is that a preference? 120 00:22:58.230 --> 00:23:12.560 Council Chambers: If I drop into facilitator mode, I'm happy, I mean, I can totally do that. I think you've done it pretty well, like, when people speak up that maybe zigzag around, then people who haven't, you say, would you like to add something? Yeah. I think you kind of keep track of who's spoken up and who hasn't, so… 121 00:23:13.770 --> 00:23:34.350 Council Chambers: I personally have, like, a weird rebellion reaction to the idea of it being… it just, like, looks, like, infantilizing to me or something. I know. That's just me. It can feel that way. I can see how… I can see how… It's also way to organize, so it's less chaotic, I guess. Yeah, yeah. What does everyone else think? 122 00:23:34.350 --> 00:23:46.820 Council Chambers: Here he talks. I can't say that the truest form of robber's rule being shown today is, public access TV. Yes. 123 00:23:46.820 --> 00:23:48.989 Council Chambers: You can watch it on our state. 124 00:23:49.080 --> 00:23:59.450 Council Chambers: That's probably one, and then you're gonna feel federal. Nonetheless, not federal, but state definitely would be too much money, but obviously no public access to you. 125 00:24:01.180 --> 00:24:08.209 Council Chambers: It's what you're doing in your spare time. Sorry, I was out of the blue. 126 00:24:09.110 --> 00:24:25.959 Council Chambers: I'm sorry, will you clarify what, like, just the organization that is public access to, or is there a particular… When you watch, when you watch the state, the state in together of the legislation, that is the truest form of brokerage rules that are being done today. Okay. Right. 127 00:24:25.960 --> 00:24:40.249 Council Chambers: But we're not that big. Right. But that's going to be kind of the way, if you really want… if you want to go nitpick Robert's rules, that's what Robert's doing. Okay, cool. Yeah. And they've actually condensed some of it, because they don't want us… 128 00:24:40.250 --> 00:24:47.269 Council Chambers: If you have any person say something, they just give you a time, you raise your hand. Right. You've got 5 minutes. Cool. 129 00:24:51.000 --> 00:25:04.209 Council Chambers: I will also opine that, you know, like, we have a lot of work that we attempted to manage in 2 hours once a month, so, like, I don't… to your point, Joshua, I don't necessarily feel like every… I mean. 130 00:25:04.830 --> 00:25:07.390 Council Chambers: We could all weigh in on this, but other, like… 131 00:25:07.420 --> 00:25:32.369 Council Chambers: There'll be other things that we really want to weigh in on, so, I also respect all adults who, who understand… I hope, understand and appreciate that you are here because your opinion and perspective is valued, and, like, these always feel welcome to speak. That's what we want… I want you to speak. I will say, having served on a state legislative advisory committee, we always would show 132 00:25:32.370 --> 00:25:55.599 Council Chambers: about the times we just needed to devolve into Bobby or Bubba's rules for just a little bit. Because you're right, like, we were working with the legislature, who's very, you know, by the book, and sometimes we had, like, to get the work done. So, I think you, again, you find where it works. 133 00:25:55.600 --> 00:25:57.700 Council Chambers: Okay, well, we can, 134 00:25:58.130 --> 00:26:03.459 Council Chambers: If there's any questions, take a look at the PDF once it hits your email tonight, and 135 00:26:05.300 --> 00:26:13.600 Council Chambers: We appreciate working with you all. Let's move into the Treasure Up Day. 136 00:26:13.830 --> 00:26:20.570 Council Chambers: Oh, so… Davey sent me over the budget. 137 00:26:20.600 --> 00:26:37.289 Council Chambers: The things to note is there's a check going out for Roquina's Poet Laureate stipend, and the award committee chose to use some of the funds to place a full-page ad announcing the winners and the leader, and so that's what the 138 00:26:37.350 --> 00:26:40.839 Council Chambers: 1,320 expenses. 139 00:26:42.090 --> 00:26:52.370 Council Chambers: And this is half price from the usually bull page price, because they were in January, which we talked about last time. 140 00:26:52.960 --> 00:27:00.730 Council Chambers: And then it looks like there's the… an application software… literature and awesome. 141 00:27:01.180 --> 00:27:02.190 Council Chambers: Cool. 142 00:27:03.010 --> 00:27:05.370 Council Chambers: Hello, Steven. Thank you so much. 143 00:27:05.590 --> 00:27:07.060 Council Chambers: Thanks. Good morning. 144 00:27:07.420 --> 00:27:22.100 Council Chambers: We love to see the 4, I mean, it's just so great. Our budget started with a 4, so it's great. Go ahead, Katie, with the staff update. Oh, sure. So, 145 00:27:25.550 --> 00:27:30.590 Council Chambers: Sound check continues to rule my life for the next week. 146 00:27:31.000 --> 00:27:42.549 Council Chambers: I, you know, it will be exciting to be able to announce the award winners as the kickoff to that event. I think that'll build excitement, so that is awesome. 147 00:27:43.610 --> 00:27:46.980 Council Chambers: Yeah, I think it's coming together well, 148 00:27:47.180 --> 00:27:59.009 Council Chambers: would love… so I know some of you are involved in different ways, Simon and whatnot, that doing an open house at Raid Shadow and stuff like that, which is great. But, like, as people who care about 149 00:27:59.260 --> 00:28:00.420 Council Chambers: Earth. 150 00:28:00.470 --> 00:28:25.279 Council Chambers: activities and events happening in this community, like, as citizens or whatever, not necessarily as commissioners, like, I need help, I need volunteers, I need, like, so please help me by activating your networks, like, checking out the volunteer shifts, signing up, letting people know just to come out. It's gonna be really fun, but it's, you know, it takes a… it takes everybody who cares to make it, to make it come off, right? So… 151 00:28:25.320 --> 00:28:41.510 Council Chambers: That's what I have to say about attention. I have posters, I have flyers, you guys can take some home with you. Don't take them home, put that bad side. They won't do any good in your home, unless you have lots of friends who come home. And, yeah, it's coming… 152 00:28:41.510 --> 00:28:50.639 Council Chambers: It's right around the corner. That's what I have to say about SoundJack Questions, yes. I'm just wondering, and you may have sensed something out that I missed, but 153 00:28:50.640 --> 00:29:02.039 Council Chambers: How do we share, how to volunteer, that sort of thing? They're all on the soundcheck web. Soundcheck window. Yeah. Which is? ptcreativedistrict.org slash soundcheck. 154 00:29:03.360 --> 00:29:05.839 Council Chambers: Thank you. Yeah. 155 00:29:06.320 --> 00:29:13.339 Council Chambers: Yes. Doug, did you have a question? Last meeting, you've mentioned needing… DJs has that. 156 00:29:13.340 --> 00:29:37.339 Council Chambers: We're still looking for… well, we're looking… I reached out to Rachel, or… and Genevieve, and Rachel was like, we'll get back to you with an idea, because we still, I think, are looking for the awards ceremony, which is a discussion we'llhave a little later, so we can talk about that. Okay, okay, because I did mention it to not only Genevieve, but to Karen Anderson as well, so… Yeah, I was going to ask you, like, we could help with that, so… 157 00:29:37.340 --> 00:29:43.010 Council Chambers: I think that's more part of the Art Awards, so that's a commissioner project is great. You guys should totally talk about that. 158 00:29:43.050 --> 00:29:45.890 Council Chambers: I would love to have that. 159 00:29:45.910 --> 00:29:49.560 Council Chambers: The other thing I wanted to… 160 00:29:49.560 --> 00:30:11.330 Council Chambers: talk about was… I just actually got back from Olympia this morning. I went to Arts, Heritage, and Science Week, which is an advocacy week for the arts… for arts and cultural institutions, in the state legislature, organized by Inspire Washington, which is, like, the statewide advocacy, nonprofit advocacy group for those, 161 00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:19.200 Council Chambers: sectors, and it was awesome. It was really fun. It was really cool to sit down with our legislatures. I met with, 162 00:30:19.840 --> 00:30:27.779 Council Chambers: I met with an aide for Steve Therringer, I met with Senator Chapman, I met with an aide for Adam Birdman. 163 00:30:27.880 --> 00:30:45.729 Council Chambers: And, like, it's just really awesome to get to talk to… I don't know, you just, like, it breaks down these sort of mythic barriers of, like, this idea of these, like, people up in this chamber making these, you know, decisions, and I met a ton of people who are, like, doing, you know, creative work across the state, 164 00:30:45.730 --> 00:31:08.910 Council Chambers: And I would just highly recommend signing up for… to be an advocate in the future. That's really what I want to say. Again, in the same vein as, like, be a part of Soundcheck, like, be a part of Inspire Washington. It's really a worthwhile thing to do, and especially, like, the state is in a big budget crisis, and parts are gonna get cut unless people speak up and say, don't do that. Like, that… 165 00:31:08.910 --> 00:31:19.589 Council Chambers: the amount of money that goes hard, it's already minuscule. It's not gonna save… it's not gonna turn around a bunch of crises, right? But it's something… if people don't speak up for it, it's gonna be on the chopping block. 166 00:31:19.620 --> 00:31:25.749 Council Chambers: So, I just, I highly recommend. I will… I plan to go, it's always the same week in February. 167 00:31:25.970 --> 00:31:39.910 Council Chambers: So it's really… and next year will be actually a much better year to go, because this is a biennium year, so they're not really doing a whole new budget. Next year is a whole new budget, so it's kind of a bigger deal. It's just really worthwhile, so if people sign up, I will… I can… 168 00:31:39.920 --> 00:31:51.249 Council Chambers: help get you there. Yeah. Question about that, is it kind of set up, you said it's through the… through the week, that there are specific dates, like, oh, I could go for this 169 00:31:51.270 --> 00:32:13.329 Council Chambers: So how it works is there's ver… you can do virtual meetings all, like, most days, and then there's one day that they do in- person meetings down in Olivia. And I've done the virtual meetings before, and that's cool too. I know that that's obviously just what some people have capacity for and, like, the only option, but going in person is much different and makes, I think, a bigger difference for the 170 00:32:13.330 --> 00:32:21.749 Council Chambers: legislator and just personally, to be able to, like, to meet people and stuff like that. But so yeah, I think it's almost… I think it's always Wednesday is, like, the in-person. 171 00:32:21.930 --> 00:32:27.939 Council Chambers: day of meetings, and then there's other programming stuff that goes along with it as well. So, anyway. 172 00:32:28.200 --> 00:32:50.170 Council Chambers: I don't mean to derail you from the rest of your report, but when you're down there with those people, rubbing elbows with those guys, what's their impression of Port Townsend? Are they… it's like a little town with whales, or are they like, wow, an arts hub, or… It's like, I love visiting Fort Townsend! Yeah. I'm like, okay, cool, you know, a lot of people talk about architecture. 173 00:32:50.170 --> 00:32:53.629 Council Chambers: Like, definitely people are like, yeah, and, 174 00:32:53.730 --> 00:33:06.550 Council Chambers: And… but… yeah, I don't know. I think that it sort of… it felt to me like the main impression of it is sort of as just, like, a picture postcard kind of place. Now, like, you gotta have any art stuff going. 175 00:33:06.680 --> 00:33:14.050 Council Chambers: Yeah, per se. Not yet. But, I will say that I don't… that that's not necessarily because… 176 00:33:14.150 --> 00:33:16.000 Council Chambers: I think that's… well, I mean… 177 00:33:16.490 --> 00:33:34.620 Council Chambers: Steve Sarger knows that, for sure. But I would say that, that's just because that isn't necessarily focus. Like, I don't… you know what I mean? Not because, like, Fort Townsend doesn't have that reputation. It's just, like, even if it has that reputation, if arts isn't really a thing, it's not gonna be the first thing they hear. You know what I mean? 178 00:33:36.120 --> 00:33:44.149 Council Chambers: But, yeah, people are definitely having a warm feeling about Port Townes. 179 00:33:44.400 --> 00:34:03.439 Council Chambers: Arts, yeah. So yeah, that's all, that's all the updates I have for today. Arts, heritage, and science, so… Very good, yeah, thanks. 180 00:34:03.660 --> 00:34:12.500 Council Chambers: Awesome, we're gonna move into conversations around our work groups then, and we will hear from the grants work group first. 181 00:34:12.690 --> 00:34:19.480 Council Chambers: May I request a… I'll take an inquiry. 182 00:34:19.940 --> 00:34:26.220 Council Chambers: Are work groups limited to commission members? Okay, thank you very much. 183 00:34:27.810 --> 00:34:45.029 Council Chambers: Who's on our grants? Well, it was… We're no longer here. It was Joe and Simon, but now it's… Hey, Simon! And we haven't met. I don't think there's most of your… No, I don't think there is either, except just to remind… 184 00:34:45.050 --> 00:35:00.589 Council Chambers: commissioners that our next meeting will be a grant review meeting, and that grant applications are due on the 19th of this month, so if you know artists. And for our new commissioners and return, just a refresher, the grants work group is, like. 185 00:35:00.990 --> 00:35:10.669 Council Chambers: under PTAC, there are several pillars of things that we do, like Poet Laureate, these arts awards, grants, and so… 186 00:35:11.140 --> 00:35:29.929 Council Chambers: thinking about the administration of the grants, the process around the grants, timelines, like, really paying special attention to that pillar is what that grant workgroup is meant to accomplish. We're using work groups 187 00:35:30.000 --> 00:35:36.049 Council Chambers: and subcommittees kind of interchangeably here. There is some legal distinction, I suppose, but I… 188 00:35:36.320 --> 00:35:51.790 Council Chambers: No, I'm ready to speak to that at this moment. So I'll just say that, that that's what it is, but there is work involved, so it is appropriate to call them a worker, because it is meant to engage your… you're not giving them a little bit of… 189 00:35:52.000 --> 00:35:55.479 Council Chambers: typing or thinking, you know, expression. So, 190 00:35:55.890 --> 00:36:06.850 Council Chambers: Joy and Simon on the… our grants have evolved over time. In the time since I started serving on the Commission, we did grants every other month. 191 00:36:06.960 --> 00:36:09.579 Council Chambers: Like, $3,600, which was… 192 00:36:09.660 --> 00:36:24.269 Council Chambers: really intense thing, so we've already made some shifts to the programs where we have 3 grant cycles per year, a heftier amount of money, and a staggered amount of money this year, so it's been evolving, and it's cool to see it evolve, and it will continue to evolve. 193 00:36:24.270 --> 00:36:31.650 Council Chambers: to Katie's point about Inspire Washington, the more of the people get involved and stay with their foot on the gas. So, 194 00:36:31.650 --> 00:36:36.080 Council Chambers: My pitch for you, Simon. 195 00:36:36.820 --> 00:36:39.380 Council Chambers: One thing to add to the subgroup, 196 00:36:39.990 --> 00:36:53.770 Council Chambers: subcommittee, we do have the opportunity to have a panel, or like a public art panel, and then you bring in people to answer tough questions. Then we bring in other people from the community. Someone from engineering, residents in the community. 197 00:36:53.780 --> 00:37:07.350 Council Chambers: That's the panel. That's specifically. Yeah, like, where you're jurying in a new artwork or something. It's gonna bother me if I didn't… 198 00:37:07.740 --> 00:37:11.720 Council Chambers: Cool! I'll volunteer. 199 00:37:12.490 --> 00:37:13.850 Council Chambers: committee. 200 00:37:14.110 --> 00:37:14.970 Council Chambers: That's awesome. 201 00:37:15.030 --> 00:37:27.999 Council Chambers: Awesome! Thank you, Dan. We don't have, like, a sort of standing meeting set up for that committee right now. 202 00:37:28.030 --> 00:37:35.450 Council Chambers: I stopped her. But, I will reach out to you guys to schedule something. Probably won't be till March, yeah. 203 00:37:35.490 --> 00:37:43.869 Council Chambers: We are at a stage where our grants are, you know, this could be as, you know, the latter half of 2026 work. 204 00:37:43.870 --> 00:37:55.619 Council Chambers: scope, because we have our plan pretty set for 2026 so far, but looking ahead… Cool, thank you, Doug. We'll move on to put Loria. 205 00:37:55.620 --> 00:38:05.869 Council Chambers: Yeah, I mean, I think, Jen… I mean, I think Rafina… 206 00:38:06.140 --> 00:38:22.300 Council Chambers: I just kind of chose to cover it in public comment, and generally the idea is that there'll be a poll in y'all's packet, and I can provide any updates. I mean, she's doing a ton of stuff, I'll try to keep you guys abreast of it all, but yeah. 207 00:38:22.510 --> 00:38:29.659 Council Chambers: She was like, can I do it at the beginning? I was like, you don't even have to call. She was like, no, I'm gonna call. So… 208 00:38:31.120 --> 00:38:32.939 Council Chambers: Which, public art? 209 00:38:33.150 --> 00:38:41.899 Council Chambers: Committee member would like to speak today. A little update from public health? Update, we haven't really met since we accomplished our last… 210 00:38:41.900 --> 00:38:54.760 Council Chambers: to ask. That's right. Love it. We're ready for the next. Yeah, exactly. We are poised and ready for something next. 211 00:38:55.090 --> 00:39:05.859 Council Chambers: I will add… I will say something about the Public Art Committee, basically, which is just that, on the agenda for this meeting, on the schedule, 212 00:39:05.860 --> 00:39:06.900 Council Chambers: was… 213 00:39:06.900 --> 00:39:26.940 Council Chambers: And in the work plan that the Commission submitted to Council is the idea that the Public Art Committee is going to bring an update of the Art in Public Places policies and procedures to Council this year, not with any necessarily 214 00:39:27.040 --> 00:39:28.890 Council Chambers: specific, 215 00:39:29.290 --> 00:39:39.920 Council Chambers: material changes, but just looking at that document and making sure it's sort of user-friendly and stuff like that, because it's pretty dense. I mean, it's, yeah, 30-something pages, I think. And 216 00:39:40.410 --> 00:39:53.310 Council Chambers: That's what's on, like, the schedule for this meeting today, is to discuss that process, or at least to sort of discuss the process for doing that process. 217 00:39:53.310 --> 00:40:07.529 Council Chambers: And, and I… and I would also just add that I think the Public Art Committee is in a… it actually is, like, has relatively a lot to do, so it's also a committee that could probably use another member, yeah. 218 00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:20.069 Council Chambers: Unlike our grant program, our public art program is part of the municipal code. It is… there… it is real, tangible, felt pieces that exist in the world. Our grant program 219 00:40:20.460 --> 00:40:33.109 Council Chambers: is awesome, but in the last 10 years, for sure, maybe longer, like, the grant, like, PTAC does grants, it's the headline, and public art is really the subtitle, and… 220 00:40:33.540 --> 00:40:41.640 Council Chambers: I think we'll impine that it should be reversed, because, again, the public art is present within the community at all times. It is truly what 221 00:40:41.640 --> 00:40:57.599 Council Chambers: the Arts Commission is… exists to steward, and so it's a very… it's a really critically important piece of the work that happens at Arts Commission, and it's fun. It's fun, it's engaging, it's out there, it's in the world. Christine. I'll follow, too. 222 00:40:57.600 --> 00:41:20.029 Council Chambers: I could also volunteer if you need more. Nice. We just doubled. Yeah, yeah. There is a standing… generally a standing meeting for that committee, which is on the third Thursday of the month? 3, I think? 223 00:41:20.220 --> 00:41:27.339 Council Chambers: Okay, so if we do happen to go down to, say, 8 members, we can still meet, because we're not a quorum of 4. 224 00:41:27.560 --> 00:41:29.150 Council Chambers: Bye, yeah. 225 00:41:29.470 --> 00:41:36.219 Council Chambers: I could go to 7 and have that be a problem. Yeah, okay. Yeah. 226 00:41:36.270 --> 00:41:55.049 Council Chambers: And my… I had a… I enjoyed my time on Public Art Committee. I will say my observation about this… the P4 document is that it's just… there's… it's good information, it's just kind of oddly oriented, so I don't know how to approach it. I feel like I'm probably one of the most… 227 00:41:55.120 --> 00:41:58.259 Council Chambers: Familiar people with the document, second to Dan across, so… 228 00:41:58.790 --> 00:42:08.530 Council Chambers: Any ideas, Dan, about how to approach reconfigure from the stock? Well, I think with the last code that we changed, where we just basically stripped it down to the bare minimum. 229 00:42:09.260 --> 00:42:19.020 Council Chambers: This is really all spelled out with definitions, which is very inviting with a complicated, topic like this, you know? So… 230 00:42:19.100 --> 00:42:43.960 Council Chambers: I'd be real hesitant to, like, start stripping it down. I like what's there, we should really ask what's wrong with what's there. It reads pretty well, it has a lot of detailed instructions, so we haven't always followed, so it's good to… I think one of them is that we have to put together an assessment every year. Right, right. Yeah, I think the idea is just to kind of look at it, like, with a fine-tooth comb, and say, are we doing this thing? Are we following this policy? 231 00:42:43.960 --> 00:42:45.210 Council Chambers: If not… 232 00:42:45.500 --> 00:42:50.640 Council Chambers: should we start calling it, or should we change the policy, right? And, like, making sure that we're aligned with 233 00:42:50.770 --> 00:43:04.829 Council Chambers: Yeah, maybe ask those big questions first. What's it for? What's it doing for us? What's it not doing for us? What do we need it to do for us? Right. Yeah. And in some ways, it's just meandering. Like, it's just kind of disjointed, or just, like, there's… there's stuff on page one that… 234 00:43:04.850 --> 00:43:13.749 Council Chambers: is then repeated on page 6, but maybe slightly differently, where, like, there's those kinds of opportunities. Again, I don't think we're… 235 00:43:13.840 --> 00:43:25.370 Council Chambers: So there is a nice report in the packet, Public Art Plan 2025. Is this online, and is it available to the public? 236 00:43:25.460 --> 00:43:37.200 Council Chambers: Okay, so there… one of my questions was, is there a convenient inventory list for the public? Because I wasn't able to find it. 237 00:43:37.370 --> 00:43:40.700 Council Chambers: It'll be a great thing to talk to. 238 00:43:40.790 --> 00:43:59.739 Council Chambers: And there's now four advocates, just for public art. Actually, it'll line up right there, right now. Also, AP4 is on the website, this document we're talking about. Yeah, 30 pages. They're both on the public homepage. Also, on that, like, on… 239 00:44:00.040 --> 00:44:14.849 Council Chambers: like, revising a document, or, like, what you talked about against, yeah, the same thing on multiple pages. Is it something you can put through, like, a chat GPT or AI or something, or is that against… 240 00:44:15.480 --> 00:44:40.459 Council Chambers: Or you're asking if we could change it by chat GPT? Or just looking for redundancies. Yeah. We will say, I don't think these folks need to answer, because you are a resident and citizen of the residents weren't telling them you can do anything you want with your personal computer, 241 00:44:40.460 --> 00:45:02.550 Council Chambers: I think that's accurate. And you are not a staff member of the City of Portland, you are not… you're not given the benefits of being a staff member, so I don't see why we'd waste or spend a time. Good answer. We're a staff member. 242 00:45:02.660 --> 00:45:27.589 Council Chambers: But that's… everyone take note of who is on public art committee, and if you have questions about public art, or you'd like to discuss or engage with those folks, you can still participate in any of the conversations around any of these committees or workgroups without being on a committee or workgroup. Just talk to your commissioner. We do need to be mindful about, successive meetings, that's part of the Roberts Rules stuff, but when you're talking one-on-one with a fellow commissioner. 243 00:45:28.850 --> 00:45:31.060 Council Chambers: That generally plays pretty well. 244 00:45:31.420 --> 00:45:49.639 Council Chambers: This is a little bit tangential, but how do we get to, how do we prompt a call for new public art? From A before. Really? There's been A before, okay. Show me the money. I will informally have all four of the public art community members with… 245 00:45:49.640 --> 00:46:02.709 Council Chambers: spending a little bit of time with AP4. Maybe this weekend, maybe Valentine's weekend. I'm sorry, this reminded me of something that I… I'm just… I really had a very… 246 00:46:02.710 --> 00:46:08.019 Council Chambers: past week, so I learned something on my email yesterday that's relevant to this, and to my staff update, which is that, 247 00:46:08.020 --> 00:46:31.809 Council Chambers: the City of Port Townsend received the creative disorders and applied for to do the murals on the skate park, which will be a fall for public art that will happen this year, under the… I revised myself. Everyone needs to read AP4. Also because we really should. AP4, the Arts and Public Places Policy infrastructure, is the foundational guiding document for all business under the Arts Commission. 248 00:46:31.810 --> 00:46:35.509 Council Chambers: It really informs everything that we do, and it… 249 00:46:36.520 --> 00:46:55.410 Council Chambers: It'll change your life. In the context of the work that you do as well, reading that document will really orient you to, like, what are we doing here? It's in that document. And I'm feeling extremely advanced as a commissioner here, because I found the inventory of public art. 250 00:46:55.820 --> 00:47:07.180 Council Chambers: Your predecessors have slaved. So, this is a great example. We could talk about this. 251 00:47:07.240 --> 00:47:23.700 Council Chambers: public artwork, project that's, you know, a real, so it is a park. That's considered a park. So, that part of AP4, you know, it's got these cool flowcharts, depending on where they are, historic district, whatever. There's a flow chart here for in parks. 252 00:47:23.730 --> 00:47:35.809 Council Chambers: Why I said show me the money is because you can't really do any of this unless we have the money. Once the funds are there, you know, my experience before is we decided on what the call would be, how it would be advertised, if we were going to 253 00:47:35.820 --> 00:47:44.870 Council Chambers: what the legality was of a local artist versus a national. It also depended on, like, where some of those funds came from. You can't take, like. 254 00:47:45.210 --> 00:48:04.209 Council Chambers: several funds into a local car or something like that. We ended up picking a regional person from Seattle for a couple of our artworks, which then people locally kind of pressed, why don't you pick someone from Port Townsend? And we weren't required to, and there was discussions about it, but it was still a lot of things came up. 255 00:48:04.210 --> 00:48:10.069 Council Chambers: But so, if these funds are now available, then we could basically commence. 256 00:48:10.090 --> 00:48:28.689 Council Chambers: No one knows how to do it anymore. No one knows how to do it anymore, exactly. We've formed a committee, it had its own chair, it had minutes, we have office selection panel. What I was mentioning to Doug, we, there's some rules about 257 00:48:28.750 --> 00:48:37.399 Council Chambers: Canvassing businesses and residents in that neighborhood where it will be, to have them weigh in on… we're gonna have a… 258 00:48:37.580 --> 00:48:45.510 Council Chambers: giant blue heron on the street or something, pop on its feet. Yeah, so exciting. So, what's next? 259 00:48:45.510 --> 00:48:53.050 Council Chambers: What's also exciting about this whole plan, to, I think, have an opportunity to, like, use the documented action and to revise it. 260 00:48:53.050 --> 00:49:09.539 Council Chambers: Is that, in terms of show me the money, like, even one of the reasons to do this now is because ideally, like, there will be a lot more funding for public art coming in through the 1% fund, which was an update that, you know, got made last year, so there's a lot of potential and momentum behind getting some wisdom done. 261 00:49:10.550 --> 00:49:24.880 Council Chambers: I think what's… I think your question was genuine, though, Dan. I think is meeting as public art committee, where you will dive into the plan for this year as it pertains to real public art coming, and I would just encourage you all to, like. 262 00:49:25.080 --> 00:49:32.020 Council Chambers: document the process, you know, internally, externally, think about it, be thoughtful, because to Kate's point. 263 00:49:32.020 --> 00:49:46.010 Council Chambers: Like, this is sort of building momentum again, and, you know, it's like, getting on a bike after not being on a bike for a long time might be a little wobbly, but we can take lessons learned and be ready for a new, expansive world of public art. 264 00:49:46.280 --> 00:49:53.930 Council Chambers: I probably still have the materials from, let's just say Matt Babcock's Blue Heron, you know. We asked for… 265 00:49:54.450 --> 00:50:11.080 Council Chambers: Not only to review the idea that they had, but also them, to weigh if they had the capacity to fulfill an obligation that they were contracted to do, you know, like professional, demonstrated ability. There were a lot of… 266 00:50:11.080 --> 00:50:20.809 Council Chambers: You know, different aspects that we weighed, so… and people who do that kind of thing, they're professionals, like, a lot of them, they just, they have projects already that, like Jerry Sudokawa. 267 00:50:21.100 --> 00:50:26.160 Council Chambers: Anybody? Give me an Oculus. I'll put it… I just saw the one at, 268 00:50:26.420 --> 00:50:39.040 Council Chambers: Climate Pledge Arena, you know, and it's got the one down at the baseball park. So, it'd be really cool, but it really just starts with how much we got, and a substantial amount, of course, yields better art, I think. 269 00:50:39.570 --> 00:50:46.639 Council Chambers: Do you have another question, Ben? Yes, I do. The money that comes in from a construction project. 270 00:50:47.450 --> 00:50:50.069 Council Chambers: Does the art it funds 271 00:50:50.070 --> 00:51:14.639 Council Chambers: have to be on that location? No. Okay, so it can be… Probably not, yeah. Okay, it can be anywhere within the boundaries established here. As of a pretty recent code revision, we worked really hard to revise the 1% for the arts code, because it was unduly restrictive in that exact way previously, which is not standard yet for development. And then this new money 272 00:51:14.640 --> 00:51:17.590 Council Chambers: From the state, obviously, comes without 273 00:51:17.820 --> 00:51:28.100 Council Chambers: site restrictions… Other than where we already told them we were going to do the project. Oh, we did, okay. Yeah, it was a grant for a specific project. Yeah. Yeah. 274 00:51:28.390 --> 00:51:29.200 Council Chambers: Oh. 275 00:51:29.860 --> 00:51:35.129 Council Chambers: And the successful implementation of the, you know… No, no, no problem. 276 00:51:35.370 --> 00:51:47.450 Council Chambers: Joshua? Wasn't… wasn't this specific, skate park mural project, didn't an individual from town, like, apply, though, or was that… 277 00:51:47.720 --> 00:52:04.219 Council Chambers: No. I was… the city applied for that. Oh, okay. You were thinking of lighting. Oh, I just… I feel like, no, I was like, I, I'm gonna… this is so embarrassing. Her name did the… Alex? Yeah, Alex. I thought Alex… it was, like, Alex was the sort of, like… 278 00:52:04.220 --> 00:52:14.309 Council Chambers: No, not for the skate park. Oh, okay. There was a teenager who did their senior project on getting lights at the skate park, and I mean… 279 00:52:14.700 --> 00:52:30.520 Council Chambers: I believe she worked pretty independently to push that. Yeah. Sam. Yeah. Budget every meeting, do we have a municipal art fund balance? 280 00:52:30.520 --> 00:52:38.730 Council Chambers: Oh, I would love to see that! And we'd love to see it grow! 281 00:52:39.170 --> 00:53:04.130 Council Chambers: Yeah, let me ask… I can ask finance about that. I don't know, like, how, you know, often they update that. I wanted to say on the record that I think it is critically important that we see that number on a regular basis, considering the Municipal Art Fund, which was enshrined in the municipal Code for over 20 years, did not exist. Yeah, last year. So, I think keeping an eye on it is actually a thing. Go ahead. And look, last year we discussed the S Street project. 282 00:53:04.130 --> 00:53:04.940 Council Chambers: and… 283 00:53:04.940 --> 00:53:22.620 Council Chambers: there was sort of some regret that the code wasn't in place to get more funds, because there was just a small portion that was eligible, but a small portion should still be there. It's only, I think, $5,000. It would be great to see that added in. This is a project that just happened, down on Discovery, and 284 00:53:22.990 --> 00:53:29.359 Council Chambers: Mill Road, that's… see… Yeah, I was like… if you want… if you look at the, 285 00:53:29.840 --> 00:53:40.389 Council Chambers: If people want to see this information, if you go to the city webpage, and… let me see… and the, city budget. 286 00:53:40.730 --> 00:53:45.260 Council Chambers: Right. And then… go to the actual… 287 00:53:45.400 --> 00:53:57.559 Council Chambers: document, like, for each year, you can see, see, yeah, the Public Works has put, like, a line item in for every project as to what it should 288 00:53:57.770 --> 00:54:08.130 Council Chambers: throw off towards the 1%. Right. But those things… the money does not happen until the project is completed, so even if it's in 2026, all those projects won't 289 00:54:08.210 --> 00:54:18.570 Council Chambers: actually get completed for several years, but it'll give you an idea of, like, what's going on. And last year, there were… in the 2025 budget, I think there was 3 projects. 290 00:54:18.750 --> 00:54:27.039 Council Chambers: And I will follow up on this, because I have emailed about it many, many times, being like, hey, is that $750 gotten moved over there? So, 291 00:54:27.260 --> 00:54:35.120 Council Chambers: It is, there was maybe, I think it was about $1,200 or something. Every little bit helps. Yeah, no, for sure. What's the price tag on the skate park? 292 00:54:35.650 --> 00:54:37.090 Council Chambers: 40… 293 00:54:37.310 --> 00:54:52.110 Council Chambers: Almost $50,000. Wow, that's substantial. That's good. Yeah, and the grant is $30,000, and then there has to be a matching portion. We could install, like, an automatic skateboard washing machine. Voice activated. 294 00:54:52.110 --> 00:55:01.609 Council Chambers: Alright, well… are there any outstanding questions on public art before we move on to the star of today's show, which is… 295 00:55:03.070 --> 00:55:06.130 Council Chambers: Our deliberations about our upcoming events. 296 00:55:07.810 --> 00:55:18.030 Council Chambers: Well, thank you all for, for raising your hand to be part of Public Art Committee. It's a really good time, and, it's a great… it's a… 297 00:55:18.030 --> 00:55:37.829 Council Chambers: genuinely great time to be involved with public art. There is not only new, genuinely new installations and pieces coming, there are also new pieces in the community that we need to add to our inventory, because we missed… we overlooked them, because they… we didn't even know the solution. So, you've got some slam dots. It's a good thing. 298 00:55:37.970 --> 00:55:47.710 Council Chambers: Okay, let's move into our big discussion about the art awards today. We are going to be looking at… 299 00:55:47.780 --> 00:56:05.400 Council Chambers: Not really big. Oh my goodness. These are the giant scores! Everybody there. The value of having used a rubric, was we, custom numbers to look at. 300 00:56:05.400 --> 00:56:24.630 Council Chambers: Nobody else is playing this. I'm not very tricky. I don't know. It was hard, I had a hard time. It was hard, but I, like, I was grateful for the room. Can you touched the numbers, and thank goodness, because as soon as you get your paper, I am so pleased to share with you all that, 301 00:56:24.630 --> 00:56:27.670 Council Chambers: There are 5 individuals. 302 00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:37.280 Council Chambers: whose, scores… Exceeded 85 points, and… 303 00:56:37.280 --> 00:56:52.429 Council Chambers: with… with quite fair margins, I would say. So I'm curious, I'll let you all take a moment to… to look through. We're trying to do a little round robin. Real quick, 304 00:56:52.550 --> 00:56:58.319 Council Chambers: Unless we've made decisions as far as awarded the two, let's try not to use names. 305 00:56:59.190 --> 00:57:08.110 Council Chambers: We are being reported. Oh, okay. Curious about that. So, how… 306 00:57:08.560 --> 00:57:32.829 Council Chambers: I'm sorry, we can use names positively, we don't want to use them negatively. Gotcha. I think, the spirit in which I think Melanie and Sherry thought, let's speak affirmatively about our candidates, and I guess… 307 00:57:32.830 --> 00:57:34.800 Council Chambers: So that also, Yvonne. 308 00:57:35.270 --> 00:57:56.179 Council Chambers: If anyone else would like to make a public positive comment, I'm happy to just clear the slate by saying that we're engaging in this conversation in very good faith, with the recognition that all of these nominees were submitted for being really high-quality, valuable members of the artistic community in Jefferson County. 309 00:57:56.590 --> 00:58:00.890 Council Chambers: Best of the best. Yeah, these, these, like, being nominated is… 310 00:58:01.180 --> 00:58:12.880 Council Chambers: is an honor, it means that somebody thought of you when they thought of somebody who does something exceptional, outstanding, and noteworthy in Jefferson County in the cultural realm. And, 311 00:58:13.260 --> 00:58:32.440 Council Chambers: And we accept and recognize that, and there will be… the nature of making a decision like this is that it's not everybody, every time, and that those… a lot of those decisions are going to come down to the quality of the application, the nuance of the nomination, which… 312 00:58:32.660 --> 00:58:44.920 Council Chambers: the vast majority of these people have, I think they're able to influence over, so, so this is… I think that spirit should just create there, if we can level them on that level. Is that fair? 313 00:58:44.920 --> 00:58:53.080 Council Chambers: Yeah, I think this might have come up. Are we going to have a chance during the ceremony to mention the… all the nominees? 314 00:58:53.570 --> 00:59:06.899 Council Chambers: I think that's… let's make our… maybe… let's make our decision first, and then we do need to talk about the ceremony. So, let's table that. I think it would be cool. Or in the newspaper about it or something. 315 00:59:07.810 --> 00:59:13.939 Council Chambers: And we want to make it really special for the awardees as well. I will say that. 316 00:59:14.710 --> 00:59:22.740 Council Chambers: Great. There's kind of lots right off the top. Anyone feel like diving into maybe any specific, or… 317 00:59:23.600 --> 00:59:40.280 Council Chambers: just thoughts around the rubric, the nature of the rubric, and how these numbers sort of worked out. Joshua, you had your hand up? Yeah, I was just… I'm interested in, the categorization aspect of, now that we have the five, like, in terms of, like. 318 00:59:40.750 --> 00:59:51.599 Council Chambers: how we will present, like, it's… because it is the assumption… I'm making the assumption that these five that have been pulled that are in bold will be recognized for different 319 00:59:51.710 --> 00:59:58.370 Council Chambers: outstanding features of their work. So I'm… I guess I'm just… my question is, like, so… 320 00:59:58.370 --> 01:00:17.910 Council Chambers: who gets what. Joshua, I appreciate you jumping straight to, like, alright, let's name these points, because that's an important piece of context I did not mention for our newer commissioners. So let's… let me… let's context here, because Joshua's on the Arts Award Committee, so he was part of the whole thing. 321 01:00:17.910 --> 01:00:23.520 Council Chambers: There's kind of two things that we really need to decide today. We need to decide 322 01:00:23.630 --> 01:00:28.219 Council Chambers: Up to 5 winners, like, awardees from this list. 323 01:00:28.400 --> 01:00:29.470 Council Chambers: Up to 5. 324 01:00:30.230 --> 01:00:37.750 Council Chambers: And then we need to decide what their award titles will be, because we left it very responsive to the nature of their… 325 01:00:38.430 --> 01:00:43.940 Council Chambers: gifts that they brought to the community. So… 326 01:00:44.910 --> 01:00:54.530 Council Chambers: If you would like to make a motion, Joshua, around… I mean, like, that would open up the… if you would like to make a motion that these are the five that should be awarded, then we could have 327 01:00:54.780 --> 01:01:01.450 Council Chambers: per Robert's rules, we could open the floor for discussion and potentially move forward. 328 01:01:01.500 --> 01:01:15.000 Council Chambers: I'll make that motion, yeah. I'll make a motion for the five top-scoring candidates that are in bold on this list to be potentially the award winners. 329 01:01:15.310 --> 01:01:30.250 Council Chambers: Second. Thank you, Doug. Nice. Okay, now we can discuss. Cool. And everyone has to speak. 330 01:01:32.610 --> 01:01:48.999 Council Chambers: Yeah, yeah, it's not secret. Yeah. So we're not being careful about saying names? What's the… what's the motion? We're not trying to… my understanding is that the… 331 01:01:49.600 --> 01:02:03.420 Council Chambers: Arts Award Committee, and I think the Commissioner General wanted the names to be public so that people would be excited about coming to see their friends at the end of the month receive awards, not that it was gonna be, like… So should we just read these names? 332 01:02:03.420 --> 01:02:17.939 Council Chambers: We need… we're… we are discussing the motion that's on the table, which is approving these five… the five highest scoring nominees as awardees. I'm just wondering, is there any possible way that we could pull up the… 333 01:02:18.650 --> 01:02:43.620 Council Chambers: the, like, thing. Yeah, the description. Just because I'm like, I'm like, it's been the second, and I'm like… The rubric? Yeah, my… not the rubric, but the, like, yeah, just the reference, the references. I mean, I know who, like, everyone… Yeah, I wonder if… Yeah, I just pulled them up because I was having the same… I'm just trying to, like… Katie, can you recap the five projects, just for everyone? 334 01:02:43.620 --> 01:02:52.679 Council Chambers: Yeah, maybe that's what we should go in. I'd be happy to do that. Okay, so I'm gonna say their names. So, Alexandra Agnostopoulos, 335 01:02:52.680 --> 01:02:59.310 Council Chambers: is, the mastermind behind the Outsider Street Art Project on the Memorial Field Fence. 336 01:03:00.060 --> 01:03:09.510 Council Chambers: Daniel Furland is the, band director for Chinookum High School, and his band was just selected to 337 01:03:09.510 --> 01:03:25.240 Council Chambers: The band was selected to play at the American 250, celebrations in Washington, D.C. It was a big deal. Yeah. He's also been a band, and, like, orchestra teacher in Port Townsend for a long, long, long time. Cool. 338 01:03:26.740 --> 01:03:37.669 Council Chambers: Genevieve Barlow is the founder of Saltfire theater, and is, actor and director. She also works at Centrum and at KPCZ, she's, like. 339 01:03:38.400 --> 01:03:51.730 Council Chambers: a lady of all the arts projects in the community. Martha Worthley has been a working artist in Port Townsend for 40 years. She is currently the executive director of Northwind Art, 340 01:03:51.730 --> 01:04:00.989 Council Chambers: She also makes, like, very beautiful prints for a, like, a one-woman company called Mim and Pompi Designs that you might see at the farmer's market. They're really nice. 341 01:04:00.990 --> 01:04:16.069 Council Chambers: really cool tablecloths and stuff. And she was one of the founders of PT Artscape, and has worked in the schools, like, with kids for a long time and stuff like that as well. She does all the backdrops for fiddle tunes every year, those amazing backdrops in the Wheeler theater. 342 01:04:16.610 --> 01:04:20.489 Council Chambers: And then the Port Johnson Youth Theater is actually a pretty, 343 01:04:20.520 --> 01:04:43.699 Council Chambers: new organization, it's a new nonprofit, I think it's only been around a couple years. It's closely associated with Ocean, which is the, you know, alternative learning environment school that's part of the PT public school system. And they've put on several really incredible productions, notably The Hobbit last year, that was really awesome, and, they're really bringing a lot of 344 01:04:43.730 --> 01:04:52.119 Council Chambers: They are really getting opportunities to young people to do theater in a new way in town. 345 01:04:53.040 --> 01:05:09.530 Council Chambers: So those are the… that's the summary of those. Winnie and the Who this year. Yep, they did Winnie and the Who. Yeah. They have, like, an ensemble that's actually, going to be performing in here during township, which is exciting. So they're doing a lot of pretty interesting stuff. 346 01:05:09.770 --> 01:05:27.630 Council Chambers: I don't know if they're theater or FITRA, I just realized. Yeah, so those are the five, artists or organizations, I guess, that score the highest from everyone's 347 01:05:29.510 --> 01:05:32.220 Council Chambers: Paperwork. 348 01:05:32.430 --> 01:05:42.750 Council Chambers: Who would like to… And we can award up to 5, and I'm sorry. 349 01:05:43.100 --> 01:05:45.730 Council Chambers: We can listen to your motion clearly enough. 350 01:05:45.730 --> 01:06:06.569 Council Chambers: You said we should award all 5 of them. We have 5 awards. I mean, we… the Arts Award Committee agreed 3 to 5 awardees was realistic, and, we had 5 awards made. So we have 5 physical awards to award. 351 01:06:06.690 --> 01:06:13.159 Council Chambers: So, I would like to hear your thoughts and opinions. 352 01:06:13.780 --> 01:06:23.210 Council Chambers: No. Christine! I… 353 01:06:23.210 --> 01:06:46.420 Council Chambers: Do you think there's a way to take these five individuals and put them into some categories that could fit, like, public art, a, adult organization, a youth organization, a public individual, and a private individual, kind of? You know, those are just a starting point. Right, right. Yeah. So, and we… I'd love to get to that motion. 354 01:06:46.420 --> 01:06:54.729 Council Chambers: But first, we got to craft through this one. You are supportive of all five of them. I am supportive of all five, why not, right? 355 01:06:55.190 --> 01:07:03.370 Council Chambers: That's all important. Thank you, Melanie! I'm also really excited. I'd love to hear it, Simon, thank you. 356 01:07:03.740 --> 01:07:17.679 Council Chambers: I do not want to detract from any of these, but I did have… A question about, 357 01:07:17.750 --> 01:07:35.020 Council Chambers: Daniel Furland, because I think with his accomplishment is incredible, and what he's done, I mean, we're on the map. And the only reason he wasn't in my top 5 is, he's, like, 6, was, you know, the audience 358 01:07:36.260 --> 01:07:40.909 Council Chambers: Although it benefits Port Townsend youth, the audience is not portions. 359 01:07:42.440 --> 01:07:53.039 Council Chambers: You know, again, and I… I have no objection whatsoever. I don't want to sound like that, because I think this is an amazing accomplishment. 360 01:07:53.800 --> 01:08:07.599 Council Chambers: point of inquiry, since I don't know all our rules, but I did think we covered more than just the city of Port Townsend, and that we did cover the entire, kind of, eastern county area, and to that extent. 361 01:08:08.740 --> 01:08:12.100 Council Chambers: If that's true, then this would be in consideration. 362 01:08:13.010 --> 01:08:15.740 Council Chambers: And I didn't mean to say Chimicum's not. 363 01:08:15.740 --> 01:08:37.030 Council Chambers: whatever consideration it is, as I understood it. I meant to say the audience is Washington, D.C. Gotcha, gotcha. For the event itself. For the event itself. Sorry, I misunderstood that. The art being created is not for us. Fair. No, thank you, that helps me understand… Yeah, and again, I don't want to… 364 01:08:37.279 --> 01:08:47.339 Council Chambers: Yeah, so, my understanding, and I hope I wasn't speaking, is, like, looking at the kind of full picture of 365 01:08:47.380 --> 01:09:12.180 Council Chambers: the artists, too, and what they bring to the community, along with what was submitted. I mean, that was, you know, it was hard in some of the nomination forms to be like, well, there's just not a whole lot of content, I'm not going to go down, you know. But also to take into consideration the commentary about, like, what they've contributed over time. That was a factor for me, and I thought that was, you know, what to bring into the picture. I don't know if that helps with that kind of… 366 01:09:12.180 --> 01:09:13.889 Council Chambers: No, he's photoshop. 367 01:09:14.500 --> 01:09:21.189 Council Chambers: lifetime achievements. 30 hives. 368 01:09:23.069 --> 01:09:47.009 Council Chambers: Uniquely, PT Eastern in the county shows continued success, tangible connection to local arts community, promotes tourism, culturalism, fosters education, strong nomination materials, publicly nominated, represent a broad array of arts community, performance, music, supporters, advocates, visual, and as submitted by the… 369 01:09:47.010 --> 01:09:49.229 Council Chambers: Guidelines. 370 01:09:51.430 --> 01:09:52.670 Council Chambers: Well… 371 01:09:53.560 --> 01:10:03.180 Council Chambers: I think everyone's spoken about their… so, is there any… I guess, are we ready to take a vote on these five? Does anyone want to chime in? 372 01:10:03.660 --> 01:10:28.590 Council Chambers: Are all five equal, or is there, like, a top dog? I mean, I think that when we get to the part where we decide their titles, we could decide that. Top Dog Supreme Artist. Or we could always, like, if there is a 373 01:10:28.590 --> 01:10:32.930 Council Chambers: a nominee or awardee at, truly, like… 374 01:10:33.600 --> 01:10:44.730 Council Chambers: you know, was so far ahead. You can always add, like, distinction to the title. Like, there's creative ways to… Some loud? Yeah, add some special… 375 01:10:45.030 --> 01:10:51.129 Council Chambers: Special buried us tonight. 376 01:10:51.350 --> 01:11:15.650 Council Chambers: Sounds great about, though, which is pretty cool, because that, how do we feel about rubrics today, guys? Yeah, right? Okay, let's, let's do it. Let's call a vote on, awarding Alexandra, Daniel, Genevieve, Martha, and the Fort Tanzania theater. 377 01:11:16.000 --> 01:11:19.770 Council Chambers: As our five working word E's first title. 378 01:11:20.370 --> 01:11:21.720 Council Chambers: That's excellent. 379 01:11:21.990 --> 01:11:24.629 Council Chambers: Great. Ready? 380 01:11:24.740 --> 01:11:40.960 Council Chambers: All in favor? Aye. I apologize. It was your name, I promise. Check the thing. 381 01:11:40.960 --> 01:11:48.020 Council Chambers: Okay, well, let me send the Dr. Heidi. Heidi, are you… Hi, Heidi. 382 01:11:48.530 --> 01:11:52.999 Council Chambers: Heidi, would you like to vote? 383 01:11:53.380 --> 01:11:55.990 Heidi Tullmann: I'll… I'll raise my hand for that one. 384 01:12:00.360 --> 01:12:05.659 Council Chambers: Thank you! Thanks for being here! 385 01:12:06.320 --> 01:12:07.380 Heidi Tullmann: You're welcome. 386 01:12:08.010 --> 01:12:27.510 Council Chambers: Okay, we'd love to hear it! Cool! We should have added a ID update to the agenda. No, we're just kidding. Okay, well, now it's our fun creative part, where we're going to talk about the titles from these awardees. 387 01:12:28.120 --> 01:12:29.275 Council Chambers: So… 388 01:12:33.410 --> 01:12:43.969 Council Chambers: I like your line of thinking. Yeah, me too. It gives us a starting point, at least. We can make a more exciting. So, for Alexandria, it was public art. 389 01:12:45.260 --> 01:12:55.640 Council Chambers: For, Daniel, it was public individual, because he works with schools. For Genevieve, it was private individual. 390 01:12:56.970 --> 01:13:03.930 Council Chambers: For Martha, it was organizations, and for Port Townsend Youth theater, it was Youth Organization. 391 01:13:04.710 --> 01:13:25.209 Council Chambers: You had said adult first. Yeah, adult org… I mean, I think that actually Northwinds, like, they take children for certain programs, so I thought about that after, we just can call them sort of… I'm sorry, could you repeat the last two for Martha? Yeah, Martha would be an organization, and Fort Johnson Youth theater, a youth organization. 392 01:13:26.050 --> 01:13:32.899 Council Chambers: You know, or maybe it's an arts organization in the youth arts, or something like that, but just, again, a starting point. 393 01:13:32.980 --> 01:13:55.860 Council Chambers: I'm a brainstormer, too. Or Genevieve, like, Saltfire is one of the first that said that. Yeah, well, Salt Fire, I said, private individual, because she's not nominated as Salt Fire, right? She's nominated as Genevieve Farla, so that's why… 394 01:13:55.890 --> 01:13:58.790 Council Chambers: And what did you say for Alexandra? 395 01:13:58.900 --> 01:14:00.910 Council Chambers: Public Artist. 396 01:14:01.960 --> 01:14:03.790 Council Chambers: Public art, public artists, yeah. 397 01:14:05.800 --> 01:14:12.830 Council Chambers: And there's a reason she scored highest, right? Her art has been very impactful on the community. 398 01:14:13.170 --> 01:14:16.050 Council Chambers: I'm gonna share with you all, 399 01:14:16.520 --> 01:14:40.399 Council Chambers: a reference point that I've used in the Arts Award Committee, which is the City of Everett, which is where I grew up, has an arts and work program that's pretty robust, and is also responsive with their award titles, so just to, like, churn some inspiration, would it be helpful to read some of the past titles that they've used? Sure. So they've got, 400 01:14:40.400 --> 01:14:49.760 Council Chambers: I mean, Organization Making an Impact, Arts Educator Award, Artist in the Community, an Arts Catalyst. 401 01:14:49.760 --> 01:15:00.140 Council Chambers: Arts educator, and… Let's see… our entrepreneurs, 402 01:15:02.060 --> 01:15:16.020 Council Chambers: In 2019, this… an individual was awarded as an author and storyteller, for enriching children's lives, arts changing lives, catalysts for Emerging Artists. So these are kind of… 403 01:15:16.060 --> 01:15:31.499 Council Chambers: I don't know, ways we can think about taking these… Yeah, no, those are way more, like, sort of participant things. Making them more creative is absolutely what we should do. 404 01:15:31.580 --> 01:15:55.059 Council Chambers: Any ideas jumping to anyone's minds? We've got the time. I mean, Alexandra seems like Art's catalyst. Yeah, that was the thing that came right to mind when you said that. She made a change with that, and brought, you know, something, a vision to light. Could you run through that list again, please? Sure, sure. I'm just reading through this on their, the Arts Catalyst seems to be an award that they… 405 01:15:55.540 --> 01:15:59.920 Council Chambers: seem to give out almost every year. Organization making an impact. 406 01:16:00.470 --> 01:16:04.320 Council Chambers: This is another title they have. 407 01:16:04.420 --> 01:16:11.249 Council Chambers: I don't know if you're allowed to be able to selfish screen if it's not a dark packet, but you can. Arts educator… 408 01:16:11.600 --> 01:16:14.590 Council Chambers: Arts entrepreneurs… 409 01:16:14.720 --> 01:16:21.529 Council Chambers: Artists in the Community, Legacy of Honor is… I know this person who was awarded their, like. 410 01:16:21.530 --> 01:16:37.569 Council Chambers: a person who's, like, a real stalwart in the community and, like, has committed to the city of Everett for, like, 30 years, so Legacy of Honor is a nice one for that individual. Author and storyteller for enriching children's lives. 411 01:16:37.650 --> 01:16:44.460 Council Chambers: Mute Catalyst for Emerging Artists. I like that title, that's cool. 412 01:16:47.800 --> 01:16:54.520 Council Chambers: Artists in the community, emerging artists… You said something about, like, youth in the community, or… 413 01:16:54.520 --> 01:17:09.109 Council Chambers: Yeah, Young Artists, they seem to give that one… the Young Artists Award is one they've given out, or, I feel like you said something that could fit the Port Townsend Youth theater, potentially enriching youth, enriching children's lives. 414 01:17:12.150 --> 01:17:14.480 Council Chambers: So nitpicky, but should it… 415 01:17:14.580 --> 01:17:23.730 Council Chambers: I wonder if it should be children's lives or youth lives? Youth's lives. Yeah, people's lives, people, thank you. 416 01:17:24.010 --> 01:17:27.319 Council Chambers: Lives of young people? Yes, lives of us. 417 01:17:27.720 --> 01:17:33.090 Council Chambers: Or organization making an impact. I know you just had the criteria up there again. 418 01:17:34.190 --> 01:17:35.450 Council Chambers: The… 419 01:17:36.200 --> 01:17:43.880 Council Chambers: Judging criteria, is there anything that would prevent someone from what we put out there this year from being nominated posthumously? 420 01:17:43.900 --> 01:18:08.680 Council Chambers: We've had Angel of the Arts, and that could be a new category. Yeah, I think all of our nominees this time are alive, but down the road. And another question, whatever we pick this time, I don't have to maintain those in the future. No, in fact, we should, just applicable to this year, right? Yeah, and that's the… We've been, for years, stuck with decades, stuck with two. 421 01:18:08.680 --> 01:18:16.620 Council Chambers: of the arts, patron of the Arts. It looks like, since… Lonnie's gonna pull it up for you. 422 01:18:16.690 --> 01:18:19.020 Council Chambers: forward slash, I'll read it. 423 01:18:29.540 --> 01:18:34.760 Council Chambers: I like Tom Doggle. 424 01:18:34.760 --> 01:18:56.220 Council Chambers: A little nice crystal dog. With a pen. There you go. Top dog. Congratulations. Not that one. 425 01:19:00.520 --> 01:19:13.549 Council Chambers: I get dog food. See you next year. Mayors? 426 01:19:25.670 --> 01:19:44.169 Council Chambers: Oh, we got fun with it. We used a rubric panel. Rubric award. I feel pretty good about it. Yeah, you should. 427 01:19:44.870 --> 01:19:46.110 Council Chambers: No maker. 428 01:19:48.730 --> 01:19:50.730 Council Chambers: Okay, so now we can look at… 429 01:19:51.000 --> 01:20:01.550 Council Chambers: tend to do 4, 5, you know, there's years between about 4, 3, and then you're gonna have… Yeah. 430 01:20:03.880 --> 01:20:15.960 Council Chambers: These are some of the titles that they are using over it. But this could be added to the record, we can pull this up next year. Yeah, as a reference, just to get some ideas going. 431 01:20:16.050 --> 01:20:22.720 Council Chambers: So there are fitting ones, like Arts Educator for Daniel, or, 432 01:20:22.740 --> 01:20:26.330 Council Chambers: Like we said, the organization making impact or a difference. 433 01:20:26.340 --> 01:20:51.250 Council Chambers: Art Educator would be cool. Yeah. Art Catalyst for Alexandra? Yeah. I wish that hers had more… broad public. Catalyst is a great word, but… 434 01:20:51.250 --> 01:20:53.670 Council Chambers: Okay, so wait, can we… 435 01:20:53.910 --> 01:21:08.520 Council Chambers: Well, I can… that aligns with what I've heard. So, I'm hearing… I'm hearing Catalyst rise to the top for outs. Are we pretty much agreed about that? Yeah. Arts Catalyst. 436 01:21:08.810 --> 01:21:17.149 Council Chambers: Okay, for Daniel… Arts educator? Yes. Do we like that? 437 01:21:17.760 --> 01:21:25.309 Council Chambers: Next is Genevieve, 438 01:21:26.110 --> 01:21:51.070 Council Chambers: Artists in the community, artists in the community. Yeah, I like that. You like that? It's gonna happen. Okay, Martha, oh, there was one, that Legacy one I thought of for her. She's been, like, holding up on 40 years. That's why I was like, wait, there is somebody in this list, too. Is it, like, Art's legacy? 439 01:21:51.070 --> 01:22:06.790 Council Chambers: Yeah, I'm waking up. I was really tired before. I love celebration! Or just the love of honor. Because it's arts. That one's hierarchically above the others for some reason. 440 01:22:06.810 --> 01:22:28.950 Council Chambers: I think it is a distinction to have persevered for a long time. Yeah. Wait till you hear top dog. Those are all presented as equal. Yeah, absolutely. And then… Honor could be… a different word could be considered. Like, legacy of artistic achievement, or something like that. 441 01:22:28.950 --> 01:22:34.559 Council Chambers: Top of water. 442 01:22:34.560 --> 01:22:35.729 Council Chambers: We walked in here. 443 01:22:36.490 --> 01:22:46.990 Council Chambers: It could be, I guess, or, like, Community Arts Legacy Award, or something? Yeah. Playing with that. Community Arts Legacy Award. 444 01:22:47.460 --> 01:22:58.260 Council Chambers: I didn't mean to derail. Legacy. Do we wanna… how does Legacy of Honor land for anyone else? 445 01:22:58.690 --> 01:23:01.570 Council Chambers: There is a legacy of a woman. 446 01:23:01.680 --> 01:23:15.439 Council Chambers: Arts Legacy Awards Legacy. Arts Legacy. Oh, yeah, let's just, yeah. Arts Legacy. Arts Legacy Award, we love it. I love having the word Arts in. Yeah, yeah. And then, Fort Townsend Youth theater… 447 01:23:16.250 --> 01:23:18.660 Council Chambers: enriching young artists. 448 01:23:19.510 --> 01:23:32.470 Council Chambers: Organization? Something like that. It'd be organization enriching? I mean, I don't know if that matters today. 449 01:23:32.470 --> 01:23:40.470 Council Chambers: Enveraging children's lives? 450 01:23:40.750 --> 01:23:45.930 Council Chambers: Oh, yeah, 18. Youths. Yeah. Youths. 451 01:23:45.930 --> 01:24:03.249 Council Chambers: What's the children-youth thing? Hang on, just… Port Townsend Youth theater. Oh, okay. Cool. It's worked with, like, teenagers and stuff. Oh, interesting. Okay. 452 01:24:03.360 --> 01:24:09.920 Council Chambers: arts organizations. What is that one of catalyst for emerging artists? 453 01:24:10.940 --> 01:24:31.500 Council Chambers: That's a nice one. They are. Yeah. It is changing lives. I'm just going to say from a personal experience of a kid I know in this theater, it has been life-changing. It is the one of all these that is strictly used, though. Yeah. 454 01:24:31.630 --> 01:24:45.829 Council Chambers: Yeah, but it has youth in its title, I don't know that it's… Yeah. And my kid who's been in all their programs would probably now say she's emerging. Okay. Protecting lives is cool. I like that. 455 01:24:46.130 --> 01:24:48.410 Council Chambers: I like that a lot. Youth impact? 456 01:24:48.410 --> 01:25:07.729 Council Chambers: We didn't get… I don't think impact is anywhere else. No, impact, it's not. We coined a new term. 457 01:25:07.730 --> 01:25:11.590 Council Chambers: You're like, youth impact cards more? I do. 458 01:25:13.450 --> 01:25:28.300 Council Chambers: That's nice. Yeah. Okay, some of my goals written down? I do. I do. I will make up ocean. 459 01:25:28.310 --> 01:25:43.020 Council Chambers: I would like to make a motion that we, issue the following five awards to Alexandria, Arts Catalyst, to Daniel, Arts Educator, to Genevieve, Arts in the Community. 460 01:25:43.020 --> 01:25:49.410 Council Chambers: to Martha Arts Legacy, and to Port Townsend Youth theater Youth Impact Arts Award. 461 01:25:50.470 --> 01:25:52.049 Council Chambers: Okay, there's for a second? 462 01:25:52.370 --> 01:26:08.350 Council Chambers: Yep. Should we have the word award after each of those, since we had award after the last one? Oh, I didn't, yeah. Arts Catalyst Award. Yep, yep, yep. Okay. Could we maybe read them again, then? Yes. Arts Catalyst Award. 463 01:26:08.640 --> 01:26:10.900 Council Chambers: Arts Educator Award. 464 01:26:11.350 --> 01:26:13.889 Council Chambers: Arts in the Community Award. 465 01:26:14.470 --> 01:26:19.239 Council Chambers: Arts Legacy Award, and the Youth Impact Arts Award. 466 01:26:19.800 --> 01:26:21.290 Council Chambers: Great. 467 01:26:21.530 --> 01:26:25.210 Council Chambers: He wrote down, I may have written it incorrectly. 468 01:26:25.210 --> 01:26:45.869 Council Chambers: for Genevieve, Artist in Community. Oh, Artist in the Community Award. Did I say arts? You said Arts. I think either one is… No, I did write down Arts, sorry, thank you. The Artist in the Community Award? Artist in the Community. They're all Artist in Community. 469 01:26:45.880 --> 01:26:53.240 Council Chambers: What, what do you think about that? It just doesn't stand out. Yeah. No, I hear that, yeah. 470 01:26:54.140 --> 01:27:05.860 Council Chambers: Arts Impact Communitarian awards? It's a cool word. Yeah, like, 471 01:27:05.880 --> 01:27:28.870 Council Chambers: I feel like it could be, like, a qualifier at the beginning, like, notable, or just… I don't know, but some… like, would that give it a little more… I mean, that top dog… top dog artist in the… I would like to give that to Jenny. In 2019,something that stood out was the creative placemaking, because part of what 472 01:27:29.710 --> 01:27:37.239 Council Chambers: Genevieve's been… it's not that Salt Fire is nominated, but she is nominated partially for creating Salt Fire. 473 01:27:37.240 --> 01:27:56.799 Council Chambers: And creating that place… Creative Placemaking has kind of a specific… Oh, it's more like a, like a baker's… Yeah, it has a… that's given to a facility. Yeah, it's sort of, like, related to, like, urban design principles and stuff. Fair enough, but there's something maybe in my mind around that. It should be, like, a facilitator? 474 01:27:58.160 --> 01:28:07.410 Council Chambers: That's almost the word catalyst, then, so… Hmm… Creative Community Builder Award? 475 01:28:07.510 --> 01:28:16.080 Council Chambers: Something like that. Yeah. What was that? Artists Making a Difference? 476 01:28:19.380 --> 01:28:37.520 Council Chambers: It's true of her. What was yours again? Creative Community Builder? I like that one. She does. I like that, as it's actually very fitting to who they know Genevieve pretty well. 477 01:28:37.890 --> 01:28:47.999 Council Chambers: They were all the ones! Or you could say arts community builder. 478 01:28:48.170 --> 01:29:00.100 Council Chambers: Or Creative Community Builder. I mean, if you want to keep it consistent. Yeah, yeah. Arts Community Builder Award. 479 01:29:01.700 --> 01:29:20.430 Council Chambers: Arts Community Building Award? Arts Community Award. See which one sounds more normal. I mean, you're a builder, right? Arts Community Builder Award. 480 01:29:20.880 --> 01:29:45.699 Council Chambers: Creative Community Builder? Okay, I like it too. So, what is the land? I mean, the cool thing about the Inspire Washington 481 01:29:45.700 --> 01:29:52.250 Council Chambers: that he mentioned earlier is that it's Heritage Science in the Arts, and it's… I don't know, there's just… 482 01:29:52.250 --> 01:30:01.519 Council Chambers: we're not all one thing, but, actually the body… our equivalent in Everett is the Cultural Commission, and not the Arts Commission. So, 483 01:30:01.520 --> 01:30:26.449 Council Chambers: This works. Yeah. Good Creative Community Builder Award? Creative Community Builder Award is pretty cool. Yeah. We're thinking about… we should be thinking about it from that lens, because that is, like, something that you can carry forward. Hopdog is out. No, but I do think that Genevieve what 484 01:30:26.450 --> 01:30:48.430 Council Chambers: I'd love to win a Creative Community Fender Award, like, from a TV perspective, like, you just tapped into something, yeah, knowing her. So do we want… it feels, like, not, you know, bad to have one that doesn't have art style, it could just be Youth Impact Award, and then there's a couple… there's a little more variation, and they don't all say art, that doesn't say art. Yeah. 485 01:30:48.740 --> 01:30:53.980 Council Chambers: Yeah, yeah. 486 01:30:53.980 --> 01:31:12.789 Council Chambers: We want to try hearing… Katie, would you be willing to recite the titles that… including that last one you mentioned? That's helpful. So for, for Alexandra, the Artist Catalyst Award, Daniel Berlin's the Arts Educator Award, Genevieve Farlow, the Creative Community Builder Award. 487 01:31:13.300 --> 01:31:19.579 Council Chambers: Martha Worsley, the Arts Legacy Award, and Fort Townsend Youth theater, the Youth Impact Award. 488 01:31:20.570 --> 01:31:27.069 Council Chambers: Nice. Yeah, that sounds great. So, Madam Chair, point of… 489 01:31:27.180 --> 01:31:35.359 Council Chambers: procedure? Yeah. I don't know. I don't have one. I need to print that out. So, do we let the prior motion fail? 490 01:31:35.360 --> 01:31:54.080 Council Chambers: Do we modify the prior motion? Modify the prior motion. You can accept a friendly event. Yeah, so I can make a modified motion that we amend the titles to be for Alexandra Arts Catalyst Award, for Daniel Furland Arts Educator Award. 491 01:31:54.080 --> 01:32:04.190 Council Chambers: For Genevieve Barlow, Creative Community Builder Award, for Martha Worthley, Artist Arts Legacy Award, and for Port Townsend Youth theater Youth Impact Award. 492 01:32:04.230 --> 01:32:12.649 Council Chambers: Great. Any seconds or discussion? Second statement. Are you ready to call a vote? Nice. 493 01:32:12.900 --> 01:32:25.100 Council Chambers: Yeah, sorry, it was me. Second motion. 494 01:32:25.180 --> 01:32:45.179 Council Chambers: I do that all day long. Let's call our vote on those five titles. Are we ready to vote? All in favor of the amended motion? 495 01:32:46.270 --> 01:32:48.360 Council Chambers: Here's Heidi. 496 01:32:48.630 --> 01:33:11.479 Council Chambers: Our youngest arts commissioner… There's a baby there, I think, I appreciate it. It's okay. Yeah, no, you do, you… get the baby, that's all. 497 01:33:11.800 --> 01:33:22.039 Council Chambers: Okay, great, that means that we do… as exciting as it is, congratulations, what a… what a process. 498 01:33:22.040 --> 01:33:44.059 Council Chambers: Really, really pretty pleased with that. We do still have some time remaining, and as much as I'd love to cut you all loose a little early, we do need to talk a little bit about the ceremony details and information and the upcoming Arts Awards. And now we're all so energized about them, because we have real awardees who, are really worthy of 499 01:33:44.070 --> 01:33:49.939 Council Chambers: Our expression of appreciation and effort towards making a really special celebration. 500 01:33:50.330 --> 01:33:55.590 Council Chambers: Before we leave the nomination and the rubric. 501 01:33:56.810 --> 01:34:03.540 Council Chambers: Was there a reason behind limiting the description to 800 characters? 502 01:34:05.680 --> 01:34:15.180 Council Chambers: No, it just came over from the… it was, like, built into that form. Okay. Yeah. I found that… 503 01:34:15.440 --> 01:34:21.109 Council Chambers: Very frustrating, especially in light of some of the comments at the last meeting. 504 01:34:21.250 --> 01:34:32.369 Council Chambers: where there's… that we're lacking information. I don't think I would have fixed some of the lack of information, but it was very hard to get 505 01:34:32.460 --> 01:34:42.699 Council Chambers: pertinent information in 800 territory. That makes sense. That's really good feedback that I don't know that I, or many of us, were aware of. So, helpful, yeah, helpful. 506 01:34:42.920 --> 01:34:50.080 Council Chambers: Upload about a dozen others. Pitty enough? Yeah. Okay, that's good to be honest. 507 01:34:50.830 --> 01:34:52.850 Council Chambers: What's an appropriate amount? 508 01:34:53.810 --> 01:34:59.049 Council Chambers: 800 words? Yeah. 800 words is pretty lean. 509 01:34:59.510 --> 01:35:18.090 Council Chambers: 800 characters is, like, two paragraphs, maybe, yeah. Which, on some level, I can, like, understand if you're gonna… depending on how many applications you're gonna get, on some level, it's, like, not a bad thing to have that, and, like, and there is, you know, the ability to add as many other documents as you want that could support that, so I, you know… 510 01:35:18.530 --> 01:35:33.120 Council Chambers: I think you could go either way, honestly, on whether that is, like, a good thing to keep, just to make it easier for people to review, or… but, yeah. You need something for next year. Yep. 511 01:35:33.120 --> 01:35:40.739 Council Chambers: We go behind sooner rather than later. Oh, yeah, that's right. No, but this party don't stop, yeah. 512 01:35:40.740 --> 01:35:52.139 Council Chambers: Speaking apart, let's talk about our ceremony. Most fun meeting you, Clark. 513 01:35:52.140 --> 01:36:08.290 Council Chambers: Can I ask a quick question to the Commission? There's a full-page ad booked in… not this… in, yeah, this coming week's leader, so… 514 01:36:08.940 --> 01:36:12.639 Council Chambers: Is that right? No, it's the week after, sorry. 515 01:36:13.020 --> 01:36:25.330 Council Chambers: Let me double check that. I can't find dates for feeling confused. It's either next Wednesday or the Wednesday after. This will be in the paper. Is… 516 01:36:27.930 --> 01:36:40.110 Council Chambers: How does, like, the announcement to, like, telling the people… do people, like, we probably want the folks to know they won before that is publicly announced, I'm imagining? 517 01:36:40.110 --> 01:36:48.559 Council Chambers: Is, like, like, who… Yes, exactly. Yeah. Yeah. 518 01:36:48.960 --> 01:37:05.680 Council Chambers: And, yeah, that's my question. We all show up at all of their houses. In the past, we have, after the meeting, like, everyone was assigned somebody to call, just to let them know. 519 01:37:05.680 --> 01:37:18.670 Council Chambers: Hey, by the way, invite all your friends to this event. You won this award for Angel of the Arts or Patron of the Arts. That's a nice concept, especially… I mean, we can, 520 01:37:18.830 --> 01:37:28.929 Council Chambers: If we're open to that, we could look to see if any of us have a connection to the nominees in order to make, you know… 521 01:37:29.730 --> 01:37:38.890 Council Chambers: In the event that none of us do have a connection, one of the nominees, like, we can just draft a nice email, 522 01:37:39.950 --> 01:37:58.849 Council Chambers: That's like an official city wave, and it's kind of nice for you to call. I don't think there's any… We can't task city staff members with things, but we can politely ask you. Wait, can I tell Genevieve tomorrow, or do you… 523 01:37:59.170 --> 01:38:05.349 Council Chambers: I mean, this is a public meeting right now. I would call Alex. Do we want to divide any… 524 01:38:05.350 --> 01:38:28.039 Council Chambers: And do outside the bounds of this meeting, though, right? Like, is that what we're thinking? Like, as a task being assigned? Absolutely. Right? Like, nobody's tasked with having to do all of them. I mean, that seems like a nice way. Yeah, if anybody has a connection, that would make my job more enjoyable. Yeah. I would enjoy that. 525 01:38:28.570 --> 01:38:36.150 Council Chambers: If we test… 526 01:38:36.150 --> 01:38:47.659 Council Chambers: There's no way for us to make sure that it was done. Yeah, we need to make sure that we either report back, or that person can't make it, that type of thing, because 527 01:38:47.660 --> 01:39:12.610 Council Chambers: then that affects the ceremony. Sure. Yeah, I mean, I would say, I would say that. I would say we should plan for the city, from a cityofdt.us email to reach all of the awardees, so that there is… Yeah. Right. So no concern that you can't have any dream. If we're doing calls, what if somebody says, oh, I'm gonna be away then, and, like. 528 01:39:12.610 --> 01:39:20.330 Council Chambers: and someone to receive your award? Yeah, oh, okay. Could we get, Katie, talking points? 529 01:39:20.850 --> 01:39:36.560 Council Chambers: Let's make them right now. Okay. Because that would be better. Absolutely. Five points for… The calls. Yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah. Congratulations! Congratulations! We hope you can be there on the 27th for the ceremony. 530 01:39:36.560 --> 01:40:01.499 Council Chambers: Do you… does the Commission expect people to speak, or just to receive the awards? Like, is there gonna be, like, a Grammy moment? We'd love a Grammy moment. Okay, so be prepared to say a few words. We'd love it if you would say a few words. I mean, I don't know that all that needs to be… I mean… You guys have to fill that out. Like, that's kind of what the email for, like, logistics and, like, expectations should maybe be 531 01:40:01.500 --> 01:40:11.180 Council Chambers: Right, the time of the ceremony. Yeah, but the talking… but the point of having talking points is so you can answer the questions at the time. Right, right, right, yeah. Please invite everyone. 532 01:40:11.180 --> 01:40:30.149 Council Chambers: Everyone to come. You know, if they ask questions that we don't know the answer to, you can say, I don't know the answer to that question, I'll get back to you. Email to come. Yeah, email with more details to come. We're a student? Is this the… is this a call just to say, hi, we're from the… 533 01:40:30.690 --> 01:40:41.839 Council Chambers: Arts Commission, and we're telling you you've been nominated. Should they say… should they say, you should be expecting an email from us? 534 01:40:42.010 --> 01:40:52.709 Council Chambers: That might end all calls. I mean, that might end all questions. Date and time… 535 01:40:52.710 --> 01:41:10.110 Council Chambers: We just have over the ceremony… 27th, 5 p.m. 5PM, sorry, I know, I'm on the right side of the sound. I just forgot all of the exact time as well. We mentioned spaghetti. 536 01:41:10.910 --> 01:41:18.570 Council Chambers: Pension spaghetti, that helps. Mention spaghetti. Two kinds. 537 01:41:24.060 --> 01:41:25.440 Council Chambers: Oh, he's okay 538 01:41:26.710 --> 01:41:45.930 Council Chambers: Hopefully he looks, like, cool! But if they're like, a what? From who? I don't know. So we're doing both, we're calling in and follow up with email, so… I'd love to sign up for Alex, if I may. We'll do Genevieve. 539 01:41:45.930 --> 01:41:47.839 Council Chambers: I'll do their youth theater. 540 01:41:48.020 --> 01:41:48.720 Council Chambers: Saturday. 541 01:41:49.920 --> 01:41:50.909 Council Chambers: So then we've got… 542 01:41:50.910 --> 01:41:52.599 Heidi Tullmann: I can talk to Martha. 543 01:41:53.250 --> 01:41:56.590 Council Chambers: Hello, Martha, again. 544 01:41:57.620 --> 01:42:15.930 Council Chambers: Youth theater, is that Mark? Heidi, I heard her. Yeah. Yes, yeah, I'm trying to think. So, I mentioned to him his name, and see, is that now inappropriate, since he's in a… That should be. Isn't that awardee? Heidi. 545 01:42:16.170 --> 01:42:26.599 Council Chambers: I heard a rumor that Martha is not going to be around on the 27th, so if you call her, you have to pressure her to come out of this and come to the awards. 546 01:42:26.600 --> 01:42:28.380 Heidi Tullmann: Okay. 547 01:42:28.380 --> 01:42:32.600 Council Chambers: Okay. 548 01:42:34.020 --> 01:42:38.380 Heidi Tullmann: The title of her award is… tell me the wording of it again? 549 01:42:38.920 --> 01:42:40.359 Council Chambers: Arts Legacy. 550 01:42:41.470 --> 01:42:43.269 Heidi Tullmann: Arts Legacy Award, okay. 551 01:42:43.390 --> 01:42:44.860 Council Chambers: Legacy of the word. 552 01:42:45.420 --> 01:42:47.420 Council Chambers: Did someone say Daniel? 553 01:42:47.810 --> 01:42:50.800 Council Chambers: Does anyone know Daniel? Who's doing Daniel? 554 01:42:50.830 --> 01:42:56.719 Council Chambers: We don't have it, Daniel, we don't have it. His phone number's on the application, though. 555 01:42:56.720 --> 01:43:14.640 Council Chambers: Sure. Yeah. I could call him… I just… I'm a little bit, like, since I'm new, and also, like, since I potentially might, like, be gone for the awards, it's kind of like, hey, and then you're not gonna see me again, kind of thing, and that feels a little, like… Spell musician, you wanna call Daniel? Okay. 556 01:43:14.890 --> 01:43:32.030 Council Chambers: We don't want you to be a fresh fellow. Yeah, he would be like, I play chords on it. Break the ice a little bit. Okay. 557 01:43:32.220 --> 01:43:55.039 Council Chambers: And then report back that we've spoken with them? Is that what you were saying, Lonnie? Like, a quick, yeah, just to you. We can do that. We're not going to send this out tomorrow, so we're going to give them a chance to make the call, and that way we know when we can send the email. And there's a… there's going to be a full-page soundcheck ad. 558 01:43:55.050 --> 01:44:20.019 Council Chambers: next Wednesday, and it says, look for the winners in next week's paper! So the 18th will be the… I know, it's not fun. So the 18th will be the day that… well, I put it in actual paper. Oh, they're so… Are they dogs? No, they're not dogs. They are not… 559 01:44:20.020 --> 01:44:21.149 Council Chambers: They really are nice. 560 01:44:21.300 --> 01:44:39.709 Council Chambers: Is that something we should look at? Does that have graphics, or verbiage that we should embed, or anything? I mean, historically, what happened was the Poet Laureate one, I sent it to the Poet Laureate people. So, who are on that committee, so I will send it to the artists. 561 01:44:40.810 --> 01:44:49.729 Council Chambers: I was even okay with… Yeah. No, no, I like to at least have feedback, you know? Yeah. 562 01:44:49.760 --> 01:45:03.719 Council Chambers: Katie, because you are so entrenched in the details of this ceremony… Yes. Can I ask your leadership in the… in addressing what outstanding questions 563 01:45:04.230 --> 01:45:13.470 Council Chambers: Or plans you'd like us to plot through in the next, like, 10 minutes? Yeah. Well, I guess… so… sure. 564 01:45:15.070 --> 01:45:19.460 Council Chambers: there… so I think, basically, the ceremony is an hour and a half of… 565 01:45:19.490 --> 01:45:36.580 Council Chambers: like, right now, of empty time and space, right? And, to be defined by… I mean, the Arts Awards Committee has been working on that and stuff like that, but, like, I think that the main thing right now, in the next 15 minutes that the Commission has is to think through what 566 01:45:37.000 --> 01:45:39.289 Council Chambers: You all want that to look like. 567 01:45:39.290 --> 01:45:57.710 Council Chambers: take on the responsibilities for making those things happen, and, like, think about the things that are really important to say, like this question of whether or not how and when to, acknowledge the nominees who were not ultimately chosenas winners has come up several times. There's, 568 01:45:57.960 --> 01:46:09.080 Council Chambers: you know, an MC is still needed for the ceremony. Well, I have to invite the mayor. There is that, yeah. Right. The mayor's awards. 569 01:46:09.260 --> 01:46:32.699 Council Chambers: I believe we have some, musical… We do. How much and when and where does that one… do y'all want that to appear? We haven't really discussed that. We could do another email round and suss that out. I don't know the schedule. 570 01:46:32.700 --> 01:46:40.350 Council Chambers: That's a good question. I mean, you didn't mention it. 571 01:46:40.350 --> 01:46:52.340 Council Chambers: No, I… because I don't… I really don't know that answer, but… but yeah, let me… let me get back to you on that. Let me talk to my people, and I'm not sure. Oh, for the, 572 01:46:52.720 --> 01:47:13.379 Council Chambers: I mean, it should be, but I don't know, is there any… is there any component you're talking about, actually? Well, Simon's gonna perform, and we hadn't talked about, like, what the financial component of that was. I mean, we did a little bit. Yeah, I think we had about $200. 573 01:47:13.440 --> 01:47:38.320 Council Chambers: Yeah, I mean… I'll follow up about that. Well, yeah, and just my… I mean, you can also say no after I tell you the figure. No, it's fine. You know, I just think of principle. I book a lot of shows with other artists, I think. I believe in… it's not just because it's me. No, I totally agree. I'm 100% accurate. 574 01:47:38.320 --> 01:47:48.120 Council Chambers: exact same thing that… and also that you're volunteering a lot of time here, and it's the principle of paying artists. 100%. 575 01:47:48.120 --> 01:47:50.500 Council Chambers: Whatever they own. Yeah. 576 01:47:51.010 --> 01:48:15.949 Council Chambers: What's the other thing I was thinking? There was something else that I was just thinking about that seems important. Oh, there's also been some questions about, like, AV, and, like, we talked about trying to collect some information. This actually may be based on, talk to the awardees, but I'm trying to collect some information, some slides and stuff from the winners to be able to show. Yeah. Just, like, a lot of things to kind of line up and get done. 577 01:48:15.950 --> 01:48:18.979 Council Chambers: Not in the applications themselves. 578 01:48:19.520 --> 01:48:32.060 Council Chambers: I think for at least the youth theater, Genevieve, Alexandra, I don't know about Daniel. Well, something I just want to say about that is it's not them choosing their slides, it's the nominee, and so I think it's… 579 01:48:32.060 --> 01:48:41.630 Council Chambers: important that they get to choose what they're presenting. Also, that was my follow-up thing for… Right. So, is that going to be in the email, and then… 580 01:48:42.170 --> 01:48:57.349 Council Chambers: I can see… I will receive… I think what we put in the email is, like, we'd love to show some, you know, of your work during this ceremony to show, like, what you do, and how awesome it is, and, like. 581 01:48:57.350 --> 01:49:09.510 Council Chambers: Here or Sheila's email address, and she will be following up with you. Okay, well, I'll just follow up after that email goes in. Okay, thanks. Regarding the MC, and I had brought up Mark Weinblatt. 582 01:49:09.510 --> 01:49:22.289 Council Chambers: last meeting of how awesome he would be, and now I see there's a hesitation because the porting of the new theater is receiving an award, but the award isn't going to him. It's going to the theater, and he has other adults that could 583 01:49:22.290 --> 01:49:26.410 Council Chambers: Represent the theater group, or even some of the youth that received the award. 584 01:49:26.530 --> 01:49:30.580 Council Chambers: Danny or somebody, and… I can't think of anyone… 585 01:49:30.890 --> 01:49:34.090 Council Chambers: who would consciously avoid the limelight if it was… 586 01:49:34.120 --> 01:49:57.490 Council Chambers: the award is going to the whole organization versus him. He'd still be a really good MC. If we got a total shortage of MC… I mean, I just feel like if we were… if he's the only MC in the MC… I think Simon talked to him about it. Oh, sorry. I just mentioned… Right, yeah. Should just vote that he does it. He didn't say no, or yes. Oh, okay. 587 01:49:58.690 --> 01:50:04.779 Council Chambers: Surprised, I guess, but I think he's open to… I don't know if he's available. 588 01:50:05.750 --> 01:50:30.080 Council Chambers: We should nail somebody down. Yeah. I mean, it's very soon, yeah, yeah. Did you all say you had some ideas from… Yeah, well, I heard a positive response from when I originally pitched it to Genevieve. Did you have a DJ in mind that you were wanting to have? Like, is there a particular voice, or… I think, Doug, you had mentioned… I had mentioned Jim Burke. 589 01:50:30.430 --> 01:50:46.629 Council Chambers: Is he available? Because I, you know, Genevieve's comment was, gee, that would be a great way for KPTZ to participate. On the other hand, you know, it would be appropriate to have a KPTZ DJ 590 01:50:46.630 --> 01:51:03.219 Council Chambers: representing the Arts Commission. I mean, I could do it with Jim. Jim and I are good friends. That would actually be kind of a lot of fun, in a way. Oh, that would be great. And I DJ till 5, so then I would have to, you know… I'll just, like, I'm right there, and I'll put on a long song, and… 591 01:51:03.220 --> 01:51:12.250 Council Chambers: Mom will take care of it. Jon will take care of me. That's what 15-minute songs are for. 592 01:51:12.980 --> 01:51:15.530 Council Chambers: So, and I'll talk to Jim. 593 01:51:15.770 --> 01:51:40.050 Council Chambers: Yeah, try to line that up with him. I'm kind of surprised they didn't follow up, but yeah, I think it's great. We got a lot going on. He's a friend. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Danny would be cool to… he's just… the Production Alliance is doing a bunch of actual production for the event, so I… What are they doing? Like, AV and setting up all of that. 594 01:51:40.050 --> 01:51:45.659 Council Chambers: And all of the, like… They're bringing the sound. Yeah, and, like, setting up for the DJ party afterwards, and all that kind of stuff, yeah. 595 01:51:46.580 --> 01:52:02.490 Council Chambers: We are at 4.53, so I'm tempted to take Christine up on her offer, because she seems ready to act. She's got her phone in her hand. I was gonna ask Jim if she wanted to do it, so… 596 01:52:02.490 --> 01:52:10.269 Council Chambers: I kind of love how, like, having commissioners actually be, you know, making the same happen. I think that's kind of rad, so… Yeah. 597 01:52:10.270 --> 01:52:23.960 Council Chambers: Okay, so are we seeing it? You're tasked with some homework. And then, I'm working on the script, so we can get together, or I can confer with you, maybe? 598 01:52:24.520 --> 01:52:32.079 Council Chambers: That's like a solid MC plan? Yes. Do we want to take… Three, maybe 5 minutes? 599 01:52:32.440 --> 01:52:48.169 Council Chambers: to quickly talk about how to recognize all the nominees, part of my task for the arts org is also working on the brochure, or some kind of little pamphlet thing, so, I can definitely list all the nominees in there. That's one… 600 01:52:48.500 --> 01:52:52.169 Council Chambers: way we could do it. What other creative… 601 01:52:52.420 --> 01:52:57.869 Council Chambers: Alphabetical order, so there's no sense. 602 01:52:58.020 --> 01:52:59.520 Council Chambers: Make a note of that. 603 01:53:00.630 --> 01:53:04.120 Council Chambers: Are we paying, or otherwise compensating? 604 01:53:07.350 --> 01:53:26.190 Council Chambers: No, but it did… I'm blanking on… No, we did, we talked about that. Yes, we did talk about that. We, like, didn't we, didn't in our meeting we talk about, like, how much we kind of had for… We talked, yeah, but we, yeah, we didn't make any… We, we didn't. So, yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's in the… 605 01:53:26.210 --> 01:53:34.959 Council Chambers: I mean, it's quite a bit, like, but I think it's also worth noting, of course, that it's also… 606 01:53:35.280 --> 01:53:42.129 Council Chambers: It should encompass some work to set up the next year's award. 607 01:53:45.070 --> 01:53:54.560 Council Chambers: To buttress what Simon's been saying, we of all people, should really recognize with paychecks there. Oh, absolutely, yeah. 608 01:53:55.460 --> 01:53:59.400 Council Chambers: I had the best to play it and, yeah, and produce it. Yeah. 609 01:53:59.720 --> 01:54:10.909 Council Chambers: Rapina's also is planning to, do a poem. So, yeah, I think it's shaping up really great, y'all, and I'm even excited about it. 610 01:54:11.390 --> 01:54:12.740 Council Chambers: So… 611 01:54:13.000 --> 01:54:24.460 Council Chambers: Yeah, we don't have the breakdown, though, do we, for the… No, okay. That's something, as we… I mean, like… Yeah. 612 01:54:24.810 --> 01:54:41.500 Council Chambers: Any other ideas about recognizing nominees besides listed in the brochure? Does that feel good to people? I mean, the idea is, like, we want to recognize them, and we want to really make a special moment for the awardees, and 613 01:54:42.000 --> 01:54:55.029 Council Chambers: you know, the nominees can be listed as many times as their nominated. The awardees, like, kind of the idea is that they're awarded one time, that there is enough. There's so many artists in this community that still… Heidi! Heidi has an idea. 614 01:54:56.810 --> 01:55:03.299 Heidi Tullmann: What if they… all the nominees received a special invitation to Tech Arts Awards? 615 01:55:04.930 --> 01:55:07.889 Council Chambers: That's a great idea. A special invitation, yeah. 616 01:55:07.890 --> 01:55:10.219 Heidi Tullmann: card, I don't know, a special card or something. 617 01:55:10.220 --> 01:55:11.610 Council Chambers: Yep, that's my idea. 618 01:55:12.170 --> 01:55:13.859 Council Chambers: Yeah, I like that idea. 619 01:55:13.860 --> 01:55:38.849 Council Chambers: I sent all the nominees and the nominators, you know, an email saying, like, receive the awards, you've been nominated, so at some point, I think that, like, something in the mail is a great idea, and I can also send a follow-up, yeah, that says, like, here's the winners, because they're friends, and people get excited. I sent a calendar invite to them all, too. Well, yeah, and highlighting that it's an 620 01:55:38.850 --> 01:56:01.850 Council Chambers: So, I'm trying to picture it procedurally. We've got the MC up there, we've got maybe a little table with the awards sitting out, so which means we should probably have, like, packing materials handy for when they walk off. Walking around eating spaghetti, bonfire and everything, like… 621 01:56:01.850 --> 01:56:23.990 Council Chambers: We could have some prepackaging materials. I love the idea of them being up on stage, you know, beckoning the attendees to come up and receive, and, you know, like, at the Academy Awards and whatnot. I'm just trying to picture the event, fill in the gaps. Really? We may be able to mention that in the phone call, just in case they don't want to. 622 01:56:24.540 --> 01:56:30.610 Council Chambers: Well, I mean, maybe, you know… Oh, okay. It is receiving an award. 623 01:56:30.610 --> 01:56:55.550 Council Chambers: We're gonna be telling them to be prepared to say something, right? Yeah. The bonfire after? So it's the first, it's, you know, this event is… kicks off soundcheck, so it's the first event of Soundcheck, and right after it is, like. 624 01:56:55.550 --> 01:57:13.449 Council Chambers: community. It's free spaghetti dinner for everybody. I mean, there's a suggested donation, but, and then there's a dessert cook- off, mystery dessert cook-off, and then a dance party in the same space that they'll work in. Yeah, emphasize spaghetti and desserts. 625 01:57:13.450 --> 01:57:37.189 Council Chambers: Like, upstage, or is it gonna be, like, we're sitting down here, and we're looking at the warts at the barn fire? Barnfire's outside. Right, so… And the works are almost inside. Yeah. This is a late-minute app. Jim Burke is committed to doing it. 626 01:57:37.190 --> 01:57:38.830 Council Chambers: Yeah, true. 627 01:57:38.830 --> 01:58:03.769 Council Chambers: I just want to, should I… those of us that are on the, like, the awards committee, should… can I just… should I follow up, like, immediately, just to talk about the compensation issue? Because I just don't want to, like, do that. Okay, cool. 628 01:58:03.770 --> 01:58:10.850 Council Chambers: No, no, no, okay. So it would be a surprise rather than… a surprise and delight, rather than… 629 01:58:11.210 --> 01:58:19.610 Council Chambers: And… It is time, and what else? In the last 30 seconds, any final thoughts? 630 01:58:22.340 --> 01:58:29.379 Council Chambers: I have one… there's a cool, this is sort of, like, random, but there's a cool, screen printing… 631 01:58:29.380 --> 01:58:53.789 Council Chambers: thing that just opened in town that's worth checking out. It's called, like, PT Community… Oh, the PT Community Print Shop! Yeah, PT Community Print Shop. I went to the open house, it looks really nice, and the people that are doing it are cool, and it's, like, a cool new resource, just FYI. I do like ending these meetings with, like, a news around the block kind of update. Unfortunately, we are at time. There is a correspondence, a beautiful letter from Lindsay Whalen, our 632 01:58:53.790 --> 01:59:18.760 Council Chambers: from the chair, tucked in your agenda. I hope you'll take a moment to look at it. Our agenda for next meeting is grants, grants, grants, grants, how fun that will be. I hope it'll be getting inspired you to think about how excited you are about rubrics for potential grant meetings. And, our… March 5th, 2026. 633 01:59:18.760 --> 01:59:23.920 Council Chambers: of the enthusiastic group of Slim Lavin people.