Thank you.

It's 4 30 on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2025, and I am calling the Bellevue Arts Commission meeting to order.

And first item on the agenda, I'm going to ask for a motion to approve um the agenda that is before us for this meeting.

Do I have a motion to approve the agenda?

Yeah, motion to approve.

Do I hear a second?

I second.

Moved and seconded.

All those in favor?

Aye.

Motion carries.

And then I would also like to ask for a motion to approve the July 9th, 2025 special meeting minutes.

Do I have a motion?

I motion.

Motion is on the floor.

Do I have a second?

I'll second.

Moved and seconded.

All those in favor signify by saying aye.

Aye.

Motion carries.

Oral communications.

Do we have register?

We do.

We have one person signed up for oral communications, Sarah Wagner.

Please press the button on the microphone in front of you until it's green, and then your three minutes to start.

No.

Hi, my name is Sarah Wagner.

I'm the executive director of Bellevue Symphony, and I just wanted to take these couple of minutes to um raise our profile a little bit, let everyone know what we're doing in the community.

We are applying for this uh Bellevue City grants grant cycle.

So very exciting stuff in the works for us.

Um, like I said, I'm the executive director.

I'm here with Brian Davenport, who is our conductor.

Um he actually is uh has quite the history in our area.

He helped to establish um Federal Way Symphony and was there for many years before establishing uh Bellevue Symphony in 2019.

And we've been having two concerts a year at the Maidenbauer Theater ever since.

Uh of course, there was a pause for COVID.

Now we're sort of back on schedule, and we're hoping to expand that in the coming years.

Um, I also wanted to announce that we are having our next concert October 25th.

That's a Saturday, 7 30 at the Maidenbauer uh theater.

And of course, as many members of the community as can make it are welcome.

We are um heavily involved in trying to strengthen kind of community ties beyond just symphony.

So uh one thing that we'll be offering at this coming concert is a uh digital visual arts exhibit that will be accompanying our first piece of the orchestra.

So these are artists that were at the Bellevue Art Fair this year, who we invited to partake.

Four artists are going to be featured.

Um there are 50 plus professional members of the orchestra who will be performing this October.

Um the thing I think though that makes us unique in our area is that we really really liaison heavily with uh young artists.

And so we have six annual competitions a year in which young artists apply.

Uh it's quite prestigious by now.

There's about 75 entrants for each of those competitions, and then the winners are actually featured with Bellevue Symphony.

So to solve kind of this problem of where do young artists go once they have developed their skill set and want to perform with a professional orchestra, that's kind of what we're trying to bridge.

And this is often actually their very first experience with a full orchestra backing.

So in this uh coming um concert, we have two featured artists um along with then our major symphony, which will be Brahms Fourth, which will be the second half of the program.

Uh, just a word on Brian Davenport.

He um actually studied music extensively in Europe, first at Harvard, then in Europe.

He spent um two years at the Cologne Opera House and then six years at the um uh state theater and opera house in Darmstadt, where he was the Kappenmeister.

So basically, he was the head of that opera house.

He brings all of that back here to the Pacific Northwest, and so his passion is really bringing that musical repertory and the understanding of it, that penetration of the music to this community, and that really is um sort of unique in our in our local area.

So basically, uh Bellevue Symphony is the city symphony for Bellevue.

We have this long history of classical music expertise, but then trying to pass that on sort of to the young generation and open an avenue where they can perform with in a professional setting while simultaneously connecting more with that community and bringing more of the arts into our arena.

Uh, the only other thing at the same year, that's fine.

Oh, thank you.

Thank you.

Look forward to receiving your application this year.

All right.

So next item on the agenda is uh new member.

Welcome.

And Laurie, maybe you can tell us something about our newest commissioner.

I'm so concerned about like doing the meeting things today.

I'd like to welcome Charles McIntyre.

I'll hand over to him to mostly introduce himself and our as our newest member of the Arts Commission.

Thank you.

Thank you.

It's a pleasure to be here.

Thank you to Laurie and certainly to Manette for uh the introductions over the last few weeks, but um very pleased to be here.

Uh my name is Charles McIntyre.

Um my family has a long uh background in Bellevue.

My grandfather uh settled here in the 50s um and founded the Seattle Lumber Company down in Renton and commuted from here for many, many years.

My uncles took over that business.

Uh I spent many years of my childhood here in Bellevue working at that lumber yard.

Uh my mother grew up here, and she and my father were married uh at the um Sacred Heart Church on Main Street.

It's now in the uh parking lot of uh Toys R Us, but it's it's still there.

And we live just three blocks south of that in in uh Surrey Downs.

So my wife and I settled here in '96 or '97.

And so we've been here 2028 years now.

I've raised four children and have just loved uh being in Bellevue.

I was president of our Surrey Downs Community Club for several years, uh, and so have uh been interested in uh being part of the Bellevue community.

And now I'm very interested in being part of the larger Bellevue community.

Um, and uh saw this advertisement for the arts commission and thought that would be a perfect place to start.

So um have been um proud member of Bellevue for many years.

Uh uh artistically, uh I've started off life as a comic book artist and filmmaker.

Um, but uh uh transitioned to being a writer, have a master's degree from the Iowa Writers Workshop, and um have most recently through the pandemic, uh uh kind of reconnected to my artistic roots and have set up a Etsy shop and have been a painter for for many years now and have really gotten into that.

Um, and then importantly, my children, all going through the Bellevue School District have been very much involved in the um uh music department, uh, both in jazz and in uh marching band, and then most recently our youngest is uh is a bassist.

Uh uh, he's now at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.

And so music in particular has been uh a lifeline to my kids through the difficult high school years, certainly, and especially through the pandemic, uh, just a real lifeline.

And so both musically and then uh through visual arts of have participated in several programs at the um botanic garden.

And so I'm looking forward to uh just connecting with the arts community in the in Bellevue and being a strong supporter of it.

Thank you.

Welcome, welcome, welcome.

It's great to have a full board again and to have someone with such deep roots in Bellevue.

That's really appreciated.

All right, we have a partner presentation as the next item on the agenda.

I'd like to welcome Evergreen City Ballet.

Great.

Uh thank you.

My name is uh Brian Wallace, and I'm the board president for Evergreen City Ballet, based in uh Renton, Washington.

So um thank you for giving me the opportunity to talk about our organization and the benefits the grant from the Arts Commission uh has provided us.

So um, you know, our mission we've uh is to pro enhance and enrich our uh community with dance.

Uh we are a dance school.

If you want to go to the next slide, I'll go.

So this is ECB at a glance.

So we're a nonprofit dance studio uh located in Renton.

Uh we were founded in 1994 by Wade Wathel, who is a former PMB principal.

That's a picture of him on top there.

Um we offer classes three to adult.

Um the adult classes in recent years have been really growing.

It's great to see adults getting back into to dance.

Uh we offer both professional quality performances in Auburn, Renton, Federal Way, and Bellevue, as well as a pre-professional ballet uh school uh and training program for our dancers.

Uh we're mission-driven.

We're providing excellence in artistry and teaching, uh, and also balancing that with a very positive and encouraging environment for our dancers.

Um, we employ about 12 full and part-time staff and teachers overall.

And then we have an army of volunteers that helps make things happen as well.

Last year we had over 1,800 volunteer hours that were helping us do performances, costumes around the studio, just everything.

Uh, and then one thing we also want to make sure that never happens is we never want a dancer not to be able to come to our studio because of cost.

So each year we offer uh over $10,000 in tuition assistance or scholarships to make sure that all of our dancers are able to dance at our studio.

And that's really important to us.

Um the grant itself that we've been receiving.

So the Bellevue Arts Commission has been supporting ECB for many years prior to COVID.

We would do performances at Maidenbauer.

But in recent years, since COVID, we've really started a neat collaboration with the Newport High School Orchestra.

So in the spring, we've collaborated with uh Barney Blau, who's the orchestra teacher at Newport High School, and um essentially had uh full performances of Capellia, Hansel, and Gretel, um, and then some other pieces that we've done.

And each year it's involving about 150 youth, high school students uh and younger coming together, orchestra, live dance, uh, and putting on three to four shows each year in the spring.

And it's just been a great collaboration, giving these dancers and the musicians a great opportunity and very unique opportunity, in my opinion.

Also, as part of this, we do a free show.

Um, so we did we bring in students that feed into Newport High School uh and they attend a free show.

Usually it's uh we pack the as much as we can into the theater, and it's about 450 uh up to 650 if we open everything up.

So they really enjoy this opportunity to see the arts and uh we love sharing it with them.

So thank you.

Um so in talking to Minette, one thing we talked about is just you know, are there any feedback for the arts commission or ideas?

And um, one thing I have to say is the grant itself is perfect for what we do.

You know, we're doing an event in Bellevue.

We're not located specifically in Bellevue, but we're coming into Bellevue doing this event, and it's a tremendous help for us to be able to do it and support us in doing this.

You know, from an arts organization, uh, you know, we're always looking to collaborate more and more.

Um, you know, raise awareness.

So one thing we've uh always looking to is how do we reach the audiences, say in Bellevue or wherever we're performing, what's the best way to reach them?

And always looking for ideas there on how to increase the awareness, you know, make sure people have access and can attend.

Um the other thing, so when we go to Newport High School, um, we notice uh it's mostly student run.

So we bring in our own professional techs and that type of thing, which you know, in school districts like Auburn and Renton, uh, they have actually one theater that's professionally run within their district, which is kind of nice.

And I don't know if that's anything that Bellevue school districts ever considered, but um, you know, I'm kind of and I don't know if you guys have any influence on that, but it's it's one of those things like gosh, you know, it would be wonderful to have another location where we can perform with a professional uh organization.

Um connecting with sponsors and uh connecting nonprofits with arts organizations and donors and sponsors is always something we're looking for.

And then I also wanted to put this out there if the arts commission ever wanted to speak at the start of one of our performances or shows to uh be able to um, you know, provide to the audience what the art commission does, the help you provide us and what you do in the Bellevue community, that opportunity is always there for for you as well.

So uh and just if we're looking that we're start school next week, uh so all our uh staff is getting ready for it.

Um this season, the big show we have is uh Wade Wathol's Nutcracker.

So this is the original choreography from our founder.

We perform in Auburn and Renton over two weekends and been doing that for over 30 years now.

It's very affordable, family friendly.

Um we do both uh one-hour shows and full performances.

Um following that in this uh February will be Elevate, which is a student-run choreographer showcase.

So this is where our upper level students uh will choreograph pieces.

They are in charge of costumes, of lighting, of everything, and they'll be uh using the next level down students to do their pieces.

It's actually a lot of fun, a lot very creative and a great experience for the dancers.

Ballet nights is the um what I was speaking to, uh, what we've been doing with the Newport High School Orchestra.

So that'll be in uh the May time frame.

And the other thing we started last year is the Evergreen International Dance Festival.

So this is where we brought both professional and student uh schools together for a weekend of dance.

And we tried to bring in as many different styles of dance um and also bring in uh from as far as wide as we can.

It was our first year last year.

I think it was just a success, and we're looking to build on it each year to come.

And then lastly, we finish it with a season finale, which is our showcase of our uh entire school from the little ones all the way up to the pre-professional levels.

Yeah.

So thank you again so much for uh giving this opportunity to come speak to you about ECB and um, you know, thank you again for the support through the grants.

We really appreciate that.

I have a question.

We heard from several of our um groups that we provided, especially performant groups that we provided support to that they find there's a lack of performance venues in Bellevue, you know, at the right size to sort that in fact maybe something slightly bigger than Newport Auditorium, but smaller than Maidenbauer.

And I'm just asking that question to learn more about performance needs in our community.

Yeah.

So I would say that for us where we are right now, the high school, like a new port that holds about 500 is a good size for us.

Um Maidenbauer, I think is smaller.

Um, if I recall, it's a very nice theater, but it is on the smaller side.

Um we recently last year we did our season finale in Federal Way um at their new uh performing arts center and and um venue and it's an event center as well.

It's very beautiful.

I can't recall how many it holds, but um, it would be fabulous if you know every city had something like that.

I mean, they really did a phenomenal job combining it into an event center and performing arts center so they can do receptions and workshops, and it's very flexible with the walls and things like that.

What's the seating on the theater?

They do have a balcony, so I want to say it's 700.

Um, so 700 plus, it sounds like so.

Um but yeah, I mean, we I think Bellevue would be a wonderful place considering how big a city is to have a larger facility, you know.

I mean, I imagine, yeah, yeah, it would be great.

So piggybacking off of that, but I was curious, what do you feel is your largest challenge to be in Bellevue?

Um the largest challenge.

So, you know, being based in Renton, we try to focus a lot of our our performances in the community there.

Um, I mean, we're literally 10 minutes on the freeway, though, right off.

Um, but we like going to different communities.

Um, probably the barrier for us is getting into the venue.

Um, so for example, we used to do nutcracker at Maidenbauer, but another uh organization now has that essentially booked all December.

Um, you know, uh we will probably look if if we didn't have the Newport collaboration, we'd probably look back at at uh Maidenbauer for you know another event, that type of thing.

So but I don't think there's any necessarily right now barriers.

Um I would say the only challenge is when we come into say a high school, it's making sure we have a tech crew and everything that can run it professionally, and so we can put on a professional level production.

Cost is always a challenge, but yeah.

Question.

Well, thank you.

Thank you very much for such good use of our grants.

Next on the agenda is our committee assignments.

And Lori, I'm assuming you're going to just share those with us.

I am.

I'm also going to uh invite Manette, come on off mute.

We will tag team this uh presentation.

So it is that time of year again.

We do refresh our committee assignments every year.

We are looking to um trim our committees to three.

We want to make sure that we are being thoughtful with your time and that there are substantive work for all of the committees and to not just have committees for the sake of committees, um, but make sure that there is um robust work for each of these committees to do.

So we are looking at three committees for this next year.

Our grants and alley communications committee.

Those of you who've been on the commission for a while are familiar with this one.

It's it's some work.

It is really looking at those grants, reading all those amazing proposals, learning about the organizations in our community, the work they do and what they are proposing for the future.

We are looking for at least two commissioners there and one alternate.

Our public art committee is at least three commissioners and one alternate.

It's going to review and inform a public art policies.

This committee had quite a bit of work in the last few years.

It is also usually our first line where our commission chair will look for folks to serve on selection panels.

And it is usually a committee that has a good chunk of work throughout the year, too, from here and there.

The third committee we're looking at is a community partnerships committee.

As we have heard more and more from our presentations from our partners, there might be some work for the commission to do in terms of reaching out to community partners if we wanted to formally write a letter to any other organization request that they open their theaters for use, things like that.

That would require some committee work who would then maybe bring that letter back to the commission for approval and then submission to the council for approval.

So that is a third uh committee that we are proposing this year.

We do see some work um arising within the next calendar year for that committee as well.

Looking for three commissioners and an alternate.

Um a note for the grants committee this year.

We're just reviewing project grants.

So we are in the middle of our biannual cycle for EAP.

Our current EAP awardees will get their same award next year.

Um, this cycle we are just looking at project grants.

All right, Manette, what have I forgotten?

Um, I think you covered it.

Uh, the one note for the grants and allocations committee um, and I feel like I've talked to new members about this.

Um, we do like newer commissioners to serve on this committee, um, just to get familiar with what's out there.

Um, so our two newest members, hopefully, Laurie, if you go to the next slide.

Um, I have, oh, this is old.

Uh, this is an old presentation.

I did include um, no, you're okay.

Um that is an old one.

Yeah.

So, well, this is this is also just so who's in the room and has served on this before.

Here's a reminder of who has been on um the committee in the past.

Um, but let me pull up a different presentation that has the schedule, just so we can confirm um that the schedule works um because this the grants committee does have uh already a locked in review timeline.

So let me share.

Hopefully, this works, and you can all see.

Okay.

Um, so the grants committee, um, we would love to have um our newest members join this.

Um, Charles and Sandra, if you are both available, um would be the time to uh be volunt to be on this.

But if if this schedule absolutely does not work for you, um, we have you know plenty of years down the road where we'd be more than welcome to have you.

This is an easy year, so it's uh a good dip into the grants um without seeing the full picture, which you can get in future years.

I will note too that the the grants committee does have a pretty strict schedule.

It moves pretty quick in the next few months.

The other committees are much more fluid and dynamic ad hoc.

Um, maybe before we go into uh folks' preferences or would the commission like to have some conversations, especially for those of you who've served out on some of these committees before, what you liked, what you thought about them, notes for our newer staff, our newer commissioners to consider as you think about your committee assignments.

Well, as someone I think I served three cycles on the ground, I know at least two, but I think three on the grants um committee.

And I was there was such a depth of culture and Bellevue and such a variety of diverse cultural organizations in this city that I had no idea of.

And you know, and to me, that was sort of the delight of being on that committee was reading in depth about what the not just actions, but the goals of of these organizations are and the communities they reached out to.

And um it made me feel um very positive about W's art scene, that it was so active and so diverse.

And so both the sort of project grants, more specific, the sort of EAP grants give you more of an organizational sense.

So this year it's just gonna be the project grants, which tend to be smaller, but I think we've added to the budgets of those also from the past.

And in that, I think um there's a lot of interest and discussions, a lot of between the committee members on how to award the money, what projects will really serve the community well.

So I think it's a really exciting, and then it's kind of great to be on the other end of that a year later and have people come in and talk to you about how how that grant is played out for the individual or the organization.

No, I'd be pleased to to take your guidance and join that committee.

Thank you, Sandra.

Thank you, Charles.

I have you both down.

Um can we get if there is someone else in the the room that's interested to be an alternate?

This is just if something happens and maybe Charles or Sandra can't make it for whatever reason, we don't have to scramble and um Erica.

I see your hand up.

I will put you as an alternate.

Thank you so much.

I'll just add to what Lydia said.

I was well and told to be in the grants committee.

It was scary.

I come from corporate.

I thought it's easy, but when I'm sitting in this chair, it felt super scary.

But the good part that you mentioned is we have a healthy discussion amongst ourselves, and that makes our job a lot more productive and conducive because there are some applications that are only one of their kind.

And having a diverse committee actually helps all of us support that individual or the committee or that organization that needs support.

So that was the proudest moment that I felt that there was one applicant who wanted to play uh while in music with a Nintendo game structure.

So when I talked about video games and art and music, I thought, you know, these are the kind of complicated things that come in, but they come out in a simplistic way, like yes, Bellevue would like to support you.

Um shall we move on to other committee assignments?

Yeah.

Um is there interest um in the public art committee?

Erica, I know you sent me an email and said you were interested.

Um I'm happy to put you on that committee.

Thank you.

And I think I expressed interest, didn't I, Manette?

Yes, I have you.

Um any other members?

Um, we can have one and then also an alternate.

I like to know, I mean, express interest for public art committee.

I think that's one committee I haven't done.

I've done all the others.

Okay.

Um is there other interest?

This is not a first come first serve, by the way.

I will mark everyone down and then I will talk to Lydia.

Um, and we'll we'll come up with a final version.

I'm okay to be well and told whichever support.

Okay.

Anybody else in the room interested in the public art committee.

Joy Deep, I'll put you as an alternate.

How about that?

Thank you.

It's for commission, it's for commissioners only.

Thank you.

Um, and then uh the last one is um community partnerships.

This is the one Lori mentioned um that might involve some letter writing.

Um, so I would say if you feel really passionate or if you feel like your skills um would align with that, or more broadly with um other potential community partnerships.

Um, this could be working with the Boward Arts District Alliance, it could be um many different things that fall into more of those partnership, but um letter writing now.

I would like to participate in this happy down.

I would like to participate in that partnership committee.

Joy Deep, happy down.

Yeah, community is always um dipping my heart than uh part of it.

Thanks, John.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Oh, I thought you already met your number.

If you don't have enough, I can also they need an as well.

If if yeah, we can um, I mean, we yes, we have three, but um if there's always four, then um staff will talk with the chair to to figure out who they think is the best fit.

Okay.

Bob, now I'll put you down as an alternate for community partnerships.

Sounds good.

Okay.

Well, thank you all.

Um, this looks good.

Uh Lori and I will have a um either an email exchange or uh a talk with Lydia and finalize this, and then you'll see this at the next meeting.

Um Charles and Sandra, I'll be uh in communication with you pretty soon, starting early October to get you all ready for the grant review.

Um I hope you enjoy it.

Thank you, Manette.

So, next item on the agenda is our next meeting date.

So we uh will likely have uh no meeting in October.

We're gonna go ahead and cancel um simply to save some time.

We know that the grants committee is going to be heavily at work during that month.

And our next meeting we want to really confirm does November 5th work for everybody.

That would be our normal time.

Does not work for me.

Does not work for you.

Let's see if we do have quorum though.

Um we have a tight schedule to turn around the grants.

So we want to just confirm that we would have a quorum on November 5th.

If we do not have a quorum, we would look for an alternate date.

I'm hearing a yes from Charles, a yes from Sandra, Joy Deep Chong.

That's a quorum at least.

Erica, we see your hand.

Are you available to run the meeting then?

Yeah, I can be in person.

Awesome.

All right, thank you so much.

Well, I am sorry to miss it.

We'll miss you.

All right.

Project updates from staff.

All right.

Um the 2026 project grants have launched.

Our um grandlines are published online.

They are now open.

The application to apply is October 10th.

We are seeing folks coming in, getting their application started.

Um, we have a handful of our applied.

We do see them right up through the deadline.

So we will expect a pretty healthy pool.

As a reminder for the commission, we did raise the grant awards this year.

So previously our awards were one, two, and three thousand.

This year we have raised to three, five and seven thousand.

So we're very excited for a significant increase in our grant funding.

Um has it reduced the number of people who are eligible for the file.

We have a slightly larger pool of money this year.

So um, not only do the amounts that we award grow, the amount of money that we have available to award has grown as well.

So, of course, it will depend on how many awards at which levels for the number of awards we give, but we do have uh more funds to distribute.

Great.

Um, the Bell Red Arts District Community Alliance hosted their first night market on August 23rd.

I saw a few of you there.

It was a really fun night.

Um very hot day.

It was exciting to see the community come out in 90 plus degrees heat.

Um, city staff were there with three different booths.

You can see uh Manette was there with our creative crosswalks project, getting feedback from the community to help inform our artists and as they design their crosswalks.

Um we were also there with a pirate ship doing snail races and infusing some joy.

Um, and we were sharing information about our grant program.

So we had our grant outlines available in seven different languages, had a lot of great conversations about our project grants, and then our peers in um development services were there talking about the Bell Red look for our.

I'm sorry, I'm gonna say this wrong, the land use code update.

So they're there getting information from the community about what they want to see in the land use code in Bell Red.

Some lovely photos here.

It was just a very gorgeous night.

I encourage you to check out the um various Instagram posts and social medias about it.

Um, our artist Matthew Mazzota for the Grand Connection Art Crossing Plan is coming to Bellevue in September.

They are starting to work on that plan.

We're very excited.

They'll be meeting with community partners, including um the Grand Connection Friends of Grand Connection Group, organizations across the city.

They will also just be taking a lot of very purposeful unstructured time to explore our community.

They're staring in one of our hotels that has the Bike Hop program that the tourism promotion area board has helped fund through our TPA.

So our artist will be zipping around Bellevue in an electric bike, learning about our community, getting ready to ask questions.

There will be a lot of follow-up meetings, but those like one-on-one meetings.

He's going to do a lot of those via Zoom and spend his in-market time really focusing on experiencing the community, listening to the community members out and about.

So very excited for that.

Yonder Sky, our artwork by Po Shu Wang has been installed.

We are very excited.

Please go check it out.

Today and tomorrow, our electricians are finishing up the interactive components.

So we were really hoping we could say it was dun dun done for this meeting, but it's almost done dun done.

And through a motion sensor, you can use your hands to compose music.

And it will play for you through that cornucopia.

So very excited to have that done.

We do have an opening event preliminarily scheduled for October.

We will share more information with this commission when that gets finalized.

Gotta gotta put it through its paces first.

Our artwork installation for Annabelowski has been rescheduled for October.

It took a little longer for the pieces to get shipped to us from the fabricator, but they're all here in her garage.

They're assembled, ready to go.

She will be installing them October, and we'll be very excited for that.

Um I ask a question on that one.

Did she wind up needing additional funds because of tariffs?

She did.

The tariffs were fairly substantial coming in.

We did go ahead and amend to help cover those extra costs because they were really truly unforeseen.

Um, and the amount of the tariffs was far in excess of any profit she would have made on the project, and she would have, in fact, lost quite a significant amount of money if she had to cover them herself.

Um did that come out of a general out of the general fund.

I'm just trying to figure out how that affected us.

Yeah, the city of Bellevue will cover those costs.

It did come out of our art budget.

Okay.

The art panels along 124th um Avenue Northeast, adjacent to Safeway, that ice cream plant there, um, are being installed in the next couple weeks, whether permitting that our work is done.

We're just waiting on the right condition conditions for install.

Um, and then we will have an opening for that as well in common in conjunction with the Bell Red Art Sister Community Alliance who helped us through that project.

So two openings coming soon.

We have a lot of artwork we're wrapping up in the next couple months.

We're very excited about it.

It's a nice phase to be in.

And we'll make sure to invite you all.

Great.

And as much notice as possible, please.

Um, Laura, if you want to mark down the um, I'm not sure about post shoes, but I know for the um art panel wraps that are yet to be installed.

Um, we're thinking October 3rd at around the Ladvin AM.

Yeah.

For post you wing, we're coordinating with transportation.

So there's a few more moving parts for that one.

Art collection maintenance.

The collection is um going through its standard maintenance.

We're kind of wrapping up our end of summer here.

We'll have a more full report on the works that were maintained in our next meeting.

We'll give you some updates there.

We're very excited about this year, our multi-year contract, so that we are investing continuously and annually in our maintenance.

We don't let the things slide.

We are doing the projects as they come up.

It's also really nice to have someone on call.

We did have a piece of artwork, I believe it was raincatchers, um, get some graffiti.

It was nice to have somebody on call.

We could get out there, fix the graffiti right away.

Um, so it's been really nice.

We are now um looking to quote out more fully our larger restoration that we are looking to take on.

So there's our ongoing maintenance.

Lovely.

But then we do still have some pieces that need a more intense bit of maintenance, particularly the route, which is out in City Hall Plaza.

You'll see that the water's back in, our plaza um reflecting pond is full right now.

And it is time now to drain it again so we can fix the route.

Um after all this time.

That one is going to be fairly um involved, most likely meaning tenting it there on the plaza.

So we are quoting that one out, um, hoping to get that done before World Cup before next summer.

Before next summer.

So we will keep you updated.

The ECR Artist Restor is transitioning away from our SurveyMonkey Apply as staff looks at other technology for accepting our applications in future years.

We have a slightly smaller version of SurveyMonkey Apply right now.

We don't want to use one of the limited slots we have in the program for our e-sight artist raster.

So we've moved that off to in Microsoft Form.

We mostly maintain that on an Excel sheet, but there is still a place where folks can sign up.

They can still get their information.

So if you see that looking different, that's why.

But all the information is there and moving forward.

I also want to note that our mural call, you might have read on the screen.

Our mural call received over 90 applications.

These were from California, Oregon, and Washington.

Our panelists are currently reviewing those, and they'll meet in a few weeks to select a final artist or artist team.

So you'll get an update at the next meeting on where we stand with that project.

This is the large mural outside of the PB school in Bell Red.

Any questions?

Thank you, Lord.

Well, that was a very quick meeting.

It is.

Let me look at the time.

It's 5 11.

And I am adjourning.