Auburn Arts Commission Meeting Agenda Overview

This summary is based solely on the published agenda because no meeting minutes or transcript were provided. The agenda supplied for this session is dated Thursday, July 16, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. in Room 10 of City Hall; however, the meeting metadata identifies this session as 2017-07-13 14:00:00 UTC, and this summary uses that date. The agenda anticipated a call to order, roll call, quorum declaration, approval of the June 2026 minutes, public comment, agenda approval, ongoing business, new business, other projects, and adjournment. No votes, actions, or public comments can be reported without a transcript.

Agenda Items Listed for Ongoing Business

• Repair/upgrade of the Peter Hazel fish statue in Central Square, plus an update on the associated “fence” issue.
• Wind Phone project update.
• New Art Park signage update and Lee Buckingham tile fund.
• Leadership Auburn debrief.
• OT/High Street underpass path project update.
• Consideration of moving the meeting time back to Monday and recruitment for the vacant commission seat.
• Art Walk – Downtown August 7.
• City Hall back entrance improvement ideas, with renderings needed.
• Roundabout Public Art update.
• SPP summer movie series with State Theatre – update.
• A.R.T. Artist Resources and Training Workshop.
• Arts and Culture focus discussion/grants.

New Business

• Mosaic Project Ideas: an AFTA/Carnegie grant of $3,000 for a mosaic project was listed, and a downtown sidewalk mosaic idea was to be discussed.

Other Projects Listed

• School Park Preserve activities – mosaic mural.
• Freestanding 4x8 frames for public art for the OT/High Street path.
• Native plant garden in School Park Preserve (parking area).
• Public Art Sculpture Proposal – Katy Fries.
• “AuburnCA Out Loud Book Club.”

Public Comment

• The agenda provided an opportunity for public comment on items not on the agenda, with the usual limitation that commissioners could not act on non-agenda items and comments should be brief. No comments are recorded in the available materials.

Key Outcomes

• No final decisions, votes, or referrals can be identified from the agenda alone because the minutes and transcript are missing. The only scheduled actions were agenda-related: approval of the June 2026 minutes (as stated in the agenda header), approval of the agenda, and scheduling of the next regular meeting (date left blank as “Aug ___, 2026” in the agenda).