The meeting was called to order at 6:11 PM. Commissioners present: Chair Rush, Vice Chair Platzboomer, Robert Ferguson, Lisa Martin, and James Mark. Staff included Walker Toma, Dwayne Dahlman, and Jack Denham Conroy. The meeting addressed the approval of previous minutes, public comments, and the review and selection of 17 grant proposals for the 2025 Cultural Arts Programming RFP. After a technical delay in scoring, the commission successfully calculated weighted scores and voted to fund eight grants, increasing the total budget by $10,000.
There you go. All right. Okay. Yeah, try it out. All right. This meeting is being recorded and watched by many folks. Most I've seen in the small room for a while. Can you check the number of remote participants? Yes. Four. Yes. We'll go with four. All right. We currently have four remote participants. For those who are remote, please make sure you're using the most current version of Zoom. An updated web browser, certain functionality may be disabled if the apps or browser are not updated. You must register using the link at the top of the agenda. Click raise hand when you wish to speak upon an item and click unmute once you've been called on to speak. You may also submit written comments by emailing me, Walker Toma. Hello, everyone.gov, but we also have access to Jackie's email for people usually email. All right. So if if you're if you have emailed uh a public comment and uh you sent it to Jackie Kobiya, who is your usual host here, um I would ask that you resend that to WTOMA at Alameda CA.gov, and then I will check my email to see if it comes in during the meeting. Uh comments submitted during the meeting before the conclusion of public comment section will be read into the record. And my meeting, my email address is also on the meeting's agenda. I'm not sure that's true, but okay. Uh if a remote participant is having difficulty, I suggest you call using the number 669 444 9171 and meeting ID 896 42081044. This information is also on the top of the meeting agenda. People participating via telephone have to press star nine to raise their hand and star six to unmute for in-person participation. Hello. A speaker slip must be submitted to speak on in-I think the second we have more somewhere. There's some in the middle. All right. So if anyone wants to speak on an item, please submit a speaker slip. We will do that. Uh if the commissioner would like to speak, please physically raise your hand and the chair will acknowledge your request. The chat function has hopefully been turned off on the Zoom meeting. And now it's your turn. Okay, uh, the meeting is now called to order. The time is 6 11 p.m. All right. Uh I'll do a roll call for the record. So uh Chair Rush. Present. Uh Vice Chair Blasboomer. Here. Uh Robert Ferguson. Here. Lisa Martin. Here. James Mark.