Okay, this is a Mesquite Public Arts Commission meeting on Monday, September 15th at 10 a.m.

Um, I'll open the meeting with asking for public comment and seeing no public.

Um, we'll move on to number two, the consent agenda, consideration of approval of the Monday, August 18th, 2025, Mesquite Public Arts Commission meeting minutes, and Monday, September 15th 2025, Mesquite Public Arts Commission meeting agenda.

Any public comment?

Hearing none, uh, any discussion.

Can I have a motion to approve?

I made it a motion.

Sorry.

Okay.

Motion.

Who was that?

Uh I motion in George, I think.

George first George second.

Who first did it?

Judy and Steve.

I think Steve and I did it together.

Yes.

So Judy can uh have it.

Judy wins.

Okay.

Okay, all in favor.

Aye.

Aye.

Okay.

Uh any opposed.

Okay, motion passes.

Number three, administrative items.

Um 3.1 discussion on mesquite first Friday Family Art Walk update.

Um, first we'll go for public comment.

Okay.

And then we'll go for discussion from Judy.

Where are we at?

Okay.

We are making progress on the first Friday family art walk.

Uh we've had several sponsors who have agreed to sponsor, but we have yet to get their checks in, and that's going to help pay for the flags and some of the signage that we have to have.

The uh parks recreation department is very, very helpful with helping with uh a lot of the printing that we have to do, and also putting together a lot of the artwork that we have to do.

And we've have vendor forms going out on social media, pretty much.

And uh Mitzi has put together one that is um accessible via the uh Virgin Valley Theater website with a QR code to actually make payments through them and not having to walk in the forms to the say the art gallery, like the art gallery has to do.

So, which is really a big help, I think.

And um the parks recreation department is getting they are in the process, let me put it that way, of um cleaning up the Jimmy Hughes Center.

There are several areas that were needing to be tidied up, let me put it that way.

So, and they're in the process of doing that.

So, and that's pretty much all I have right now.

Mitzi, do you have anything?

Cynthia?

No.

So Mitsi, do you have um people coming to you to want to set up tables at your um at the Jimmy Hughes?

Yes, I currently have about seven nonprofits so far, and then I have the names that Judy sent me that I need to send out our QR code packet to vendors, but I will do that after our meeting that we will have at 12 o'clock today with the with our committee.

Um the city has offered, I I guess they refer to it as suite one, where they have their tables and chairs and and where voting takes place, and they've offered to help us set up tables and chairs for in our eating area.

Uh and the I just can't say enough about about Haido and Randy and the cooperation that you know.

I ask them something, and and it's just you know, they're so supportive.

So we appreciate that.

Now I'm hoping that uh all of the improvements will work on time, it seems, and I'm not I'm not gonna say that, never mind.

Um but anyway, I we need to keep getting updates on on the work um progress reports to make sure that we meet our date, you know, of the things that we need for the improvement of the patio.

Uh one thing I th I I'll share with you is that uh Jean Watkins has named her her side the plaza where the where the papers are.

That's the the plaza the plaza.

Our end she has named the patio.

So we're going to run a contest that on that first Friday and advertise a name for our patio and uh give a gift certificate gift certificate or something for you know, we'll put out the top 10 uh names and have the city vote and you know the public vote, and I thought that that would be fun.

So right now it's the generic patio, and um Jean has a name for hers, the uh something women's suffrage or something like that.

Yeah, it's it's very beautiful, it's very nice, but I thought how clever, yeah.