I'll just go ahead and get us started in case they're running really late.

So I'll call the meeting for May to order at 601.

And I will ask Nathan.

Absolutely.

All right.

Kenny Ahmed.

Christy Rice.

One Mateo.

Not here yet.

Laura Tanner.

Yeah.

Paris Hazelmina was absent.

Heather Mullins.

Cindy Jen Rick Satter.

All right.

And then the next point of business is to approve the agenda.

Are there any changes to the agreement or is there a motion to approve?

I move to approve.

All right.

Is there a second?

Okay.

All in favor.

Approved.

And then a motion to approve the minutes.

Unless there are chambers.

Move to approve the minutes.

Is there a second?

All in favor?

I approved.

All right.

And then we'll start with um public comment.

That would be me.

That would be you.

Oh, you know what I'm sorry.

Can everyone click your things on too but you want one?

Can I have one?

Hello all.

I'm Barb Borden.

I'm the uh publisher of Golden Today, which I think most of you subscribe to.

Um I am also on the board of the Golden Cultural Alliance, and when City Council was discussing how this new arts and culture commission should work, they said you would want to talk to the Golden Cultural Alliance.

So here I am in case you want to talk to me.

Um little history on the Golden Cultural Alliance.

It was formed in 1984.

That was um during a time when Golden was still pretty economically depressed, and uh a number of organizations started at about that time.

The uh Leadership Golden was formed and the Cultural Alliance was formed, and they were starting to talk about getting a um a uh well, downtown development authority and later Golden Urban Renewal Authority to try and uh update downtown.

So uh the Golden Cultural Alliance formed so that the existing um organizations like the uh museums, the history museum, the Foothills Art Center, the Geology Museum, the uh and the non-museums like the Jefferson Symphony and I don't think the concert choir existed yet, but they're members now and many other cultural organizations could get together and talk about how they could kind of co-market and like know more about each other's organizations and maybe go visit each other so that when somebody came to their institution, they could say, you know, where else would be a good place to go is you should go over to the quilt museum or whatever.

So when they first started, they um put together a series of concerts, and um in addition to the concerts, they would always have some other art form uh available like uh display of paintings or a display of quilts so that people could get exposed to multiple multiple cultural organizations.

So um the group still exists and um they still get together approximately once a month to get to know each other to find out what's going on in the other organizations, and um probably the biggest benefit they receive from being members of the cultural organization or the cultural alliance is that I include all of their events in my daily calendars, and so that's why you all read so much about library events because they're a member of the cultural alliance.

So um I am as I said, I've been on the board for a number of years now, and now I'm part of um uh sort of loosely bound uh cultural organization of my own.

I um worked with a friend of mine, Pamela Gould, who was on uh state council at the time to form Golden Beer Talks, because at that time uh downtown was still kind of struggling.

Um we had gone through the streetscape, so it was looking much prettier.

Um we had pretty good traffic on weekends, but uh weeknights were still pretty quiet.

And at that time I was um maintaining the website for Windy Saddle, and I knew that Deanne, the owner, was thinking about uh trying to be open at night, and she was kind of concluding that there really wasn't enough traffic at night, and so Pamela and I discussed what would it take to get, you know, it would have to be residents because we were not getting that many tourists on weeknights.

What would make residents come downtown on a weeknight?

And um so we were both big fans of uh TED Talks at the time.

I still am, and um, we were thinking, well, maybe something like TED Talks, but we can't use that name because you know, copyright.

Um so what we golden, what we golden people like to hear instead of TED Talks, um, and that was about the time that so many of our craft breweries were coming online.

And we thought, well, maybe they could use you know some marketing help.

So we could call it beer talks, and we could bring in beer from one of those craft organizations.

As it turned out, none of those craft organizations needed any help from us, they're all doing just fine, but we still call it Golden Beer Talks.