Sorry.

Okay.

Kerima Skimmons, Chair of the Musquite Public Arts Commission calling the Musquete Public Arts Commission meeting to order at 10 a.m.

on Monday, October 20th.

I open the floor up to public comment.

Seeing no public, I close public comment.

Number two, consent agenda.

Consideration of approval of the Monday, September 15th, 2025 Musquete Public Arts Commission meeting minutes, and the Monday, October 20th, 2025 Musquete Public Arts Commission meeting agenda.

And seeing none, I close public comment.

Any discussion and public comment.

Okay.

Can I have a motion to approve?

Move to approve.

George, second.

Okay.

The motion is moved and passed.

Going on to number three, administrative items.

Okay.

First one is discussion on America 250 project update.

Open it to public comment.

And being there's no public comment, discussion and pop possible action.

Steve, do you want to report on where we're at with this for right now?

Yeah, sure.

Well, really, nobody ever came to the city or to us to talk about this.

All right.

Um applied for the grant.

And there wasn't any specifics, it was just apply and we'll tell you what it's gonna be.

So with that, I jumped ahead of things and I got hold of Tony Manfreddy, who's uh the um director of Nevada Arts Council and um told him my idea.

He said great.

He said, let's come, let's talk to the city and the community and see and um Karen, you've taken it from there.

Okay.

So I um did have a discussion with Martine and asked her um if we could um do this and you know what would be the best way to do it.

Um I also had a discussion with Christine uh Pichor over at the Mesquite Fine Arts Center, um, and we decided November 6th uh at 8 a.m.

Um Tony is going to be in the area.

He's coming into Vegas on November 5th.

He said he'd come up here in the morning on November 6th, um, and we are gonna try and have a gathering of people from Musquite um and see if he could get some input as to what the community would like to see or do so that he has a better idea as to where he can give these grant funds to for America 250.

So I personally invited Martine and City Council and the mayor um and Martin put the invite out to them.

Um and with Christine, we invited um the board from Musquite Fine Arts Center.

I also put a call into Austin, who's the new person in charge of the Mesquite chamber, and asked him to invite his board, um, which he has done, and he said he's had one person interested.

Um let's see who else did I talk to?

Uh City Council.

Um I sent a note to I was gonna talk to Mitzi if she was here for the Musquite Community Theater.

Um anyway, um, that was about all I got to, and I can't because um Christine's gonna let us do it over at the art gallery, and there's a limited amount of space over there, so I didn't want to like put a big public notice out there and have everybody in the world show up.

Um, so but I was thinking that you know some of the community leaders coming in could give him the input maybe that he needed.

Um Steve and I are definitely going to be there according to Julie and the laws of the state of Nevada.

We can only have three of us there.

So we're looking for one more person from our commission to be there with us on November 6th at 8 a.m.

Any volunteers from the commission.

I I would be interested, but uh we have a scheduling conflict.

I have a scheduling conflict because the tourism grant is gonna start on the 6th and 7th.

There's state staff will be here to have a steering committee meeting and then a public meeting.

Okay.

I'm not sure of the schedule, just we just know it's the 6th and 7th.

Okay.

So I think that's a pretty close to first Friday.

I think Cynthia should be back.

Okay.

I'm I and what I'll do is um I will call Synthia and Bonnie and I'm here.

Oh, you're here?

Yes.

And yeah, uh, I would I would like to come.

Okay.

So I could either be an alternate or well, just we'll just plan on you.

That way we have our three.

Okay.

Yes.

Okay, thank you.

So anyway, and this way he can get some feedback as to who, what, where, when, and why about Mesquite.

Um, and we can also hear a little bit more about the project from Steve on that one too, which he has already submitted.

Uh, did I forget anything?

No.

Okay.

What time, please?

Pardon?

What time?

8 a.m.

Thank you.

Okay.

Also, Martin did mention that um she was going to see if um Nancy could get some breakfast treats together for us or have something over there.

So I'm still working on that one.

So okay.

Um, and I don't think we have to have any action on this.

We've had discussion.

Um, does anybody have any other comment about it?

Okay, hearing none, let's go on to 3.2 discussion.

Oh, I did in the beginning.

Oh, did you in the beginning?

Yeah, my apologies.

Okay.

Um 3.2 discussion on First Friday family art walk recap.

And I'm definitely turning this one over to Judy, who did an awesome job.

All right.

Well, first of all, I'd like to thank our volunteer committee, Mitzi Bender, Cynthia Delaney, Gene Watkins from the uh women's uh historic center, Christine Picor and Dottie from the art gallery, and Richard Cook, he's also from the theater, and Mary Phelan from the museum, Randy and uh Heido from the Rec Center, and Steve from Impact, the Mesquite Show Girls, and the police department volunteers.

They all everybody worked together to make it run very smoothly, and I appreciate it.

And also our sponsors, Reliance Connects who don't donated $500, Mesquite Entertainment $300, and Councilman Karen Felding from ERA was $150.

And our total expenses to date are $3,457.78 cents.

And that includes our flags and flag poles, our solar lighting, our tables and chairs, miscellaneous supplies, and I think that was all that was in there.

The city has agreed to pay 2600, 2640 from the original submitted budget, and additional expenses are $816.76.

And that amount will be paid from the sponsor's donation, and Morph has offered to help pay for some of the expenses.

Who was the last one?

What's that?

Who did you say?

Also volunteered to pay.

Morph.

More.

Okay.

Yeah.

And additional costs this month we need signage.

Signage was a big issue because people didn't know where to go or they didn't really know to go to the Jimmy Hughes Center.

They didn't know how to navigate over to the classrooms at the uh art center.

So we came up with an idea to do a post style sign with arrows pointing different directions, put in a huge pots anchored down with cement, and the cost of those are actually approximately $90 a piece.

And we're gonna need eight of those.

So we have to come up with money for that.

And one of the biggest complaints we had, and I think it was a valid complaint were food trucks because they were such a disappointment.

The corndog company had agreed to come, but she had some family issues at the last minute and had to cancel, but fixology and chubby's were there, and they did a great business that night, needless to say.

And they um have all three agreed to come back.

I've sent out a confirmation.

I haven't gotten it back yet for uh November uh first Friday.

So hopefully they'll all be there.

I would like to get one more, and I've exhausted about every avenue I can think of except for the fire department to see if they will come, do hamburgers, hot dogs, and I will contact them today because I thought we had one of the uh taco um guys coming, but he can't now because of some overcommitment.

So, but I thought the fire department, I mean, if they charge, they could actually earn money for their some of their charities, some of the charity work that they do.

So anyway, I will contact them and see if that will work for us.

So our ongoing advertising are social f uh social media, and anybody that sees the flyers on social media, if you would just share them, I would appreciate it because that that really expands our exposure out there on social media, and we've got flyers all over town.

We have a new gal on our uh committee, Gina Thule, and she's helping with a lot of the advertising, which will be a big help.

And one of the things we like to do this month is expand the kids' zone.

And Steam Center had a table, and they did the um not silly putty.

Some kind of petty yeah, anyway, they did that, but we would like to see that expanded.

Mitzi has just suggested a bounce house, but we would have to get money for the mount bounce house.

So I'm not sure about that.

But things that were um she's also has a stage for a mic on for the kids at that um parking area right by the city um uh the college.

And um also face painting we thought of Hannah Tats for kids could be something, but something to draw the kids because it is supposed to be a family art walk, and we just need a lot more for the kids to attract them.

So anyway, we're working on it, so we'll see how we do with that.

Another thing, we really appreciated the uh mosquite show girls, however, information instructions were lacking in getting them to know what to do and how to do it, and so what we thought would be a better solution to the information table was to have impact representatives at both the Jimmy Hughes Center and at the uh call at the um fine arts center and have them greeting people and explaining things to them and have the mesquite show girls just be walking around um uh taking pictures, being uh um show girls, being show girls, right?

Yeah, so anyway, uh we still want them there, and I appreciate it, but in the beginning they just didn't know what to do, and so and I didn't realize that until we were like half hour into the program and by then and the wind was blowing, it was hard for them to stand in one spot too with that wind.

So that was a not a welcome thing.

But one of the other things we like to do is do a 50-50 raffle, and that would be at the information table, and what would happen is that they would get six tickets for a dollar, and then they would have to go to six different visit six different exhibits and drop their ticket in each one.

That way they could do three at the at the college or at the um Jimmy Hughes Center and three over at the Fine Arts Center, and then at the end of the diet, we would draw a thing for a 50-50.

That half of it would go to the uh uh participants, and then half of it would go back to a um scholarship fund for young artists.

So that would, and it could be either the theatrical music, voice lessons, or an art scholarship, art lessons, whatever they needed.

I think they would just take a committee to decide how to use that money.

Did you say six tickets for a dollar?

So it would be six tickets for a dollar, six tickets for a dollar, and there would be three at the college and three would be deposited at the Jimmy Hughes Center at different various locations, and that's to get them to actually participate in going to both um locations and walking around and seeing all of the exhibits.

And that's to get them to actually participate in going to both um locations and walking around and seeing all of the exhibits.

What's that?

Talk up.

Instead of six for a dollar, six for five bucks.

Six for five dollars.

Yeah, it could, yeah, that could be decided.

We just said six four dollar because it was a round number.

Yeah.

Well, and I think and I think more people would do it if it was a dollar.

And if if over the course of the next eight months, that could build up to a nice scholarship fund for the and I think if it's only a dollar, people are gonna buy a lot more than uh than six.

But also, um, if you did like two different colors, and only the blue ones, say a blue and pink, only the blue ones get deposited over at the art center, and only the pink ones get deposited over by the theater.

Good idea.

Yeah, yeah.

That way you get them to go to both places, and and it would be a very general way of getting a head count, because it was hard to get a head count because people going back and forth.

You don't know if they were newcomers or if they been if you're counting both locations, you know.

So anyway, um then we have an issue with the reporting the sales tax.

It's not really an issue, it just needs to be have a decision made of of who needs to report it.

And the sales tax, the Jimmy Hughes campus literally did not have any vendors that sold anything, so there they didn't need to report any sales tax, but the fine arts center, of course, did they had I think 16 or 17 vendors there.

Some of them had their own sales tax uh number, so they were exempt from this, but the other ones needed to fill out a form and then pay their sales tax to the um fine arts center at the end of the night with along with that form.

Well, the fine arts center uh collected that, but they thought that perhaps MPAC should be sending in the form, filling out the the uh all of the forms with the vendor information and sending it in for um for reporting the re that's required, and there I process was that they collected the vendor fees, they they made the profits, and that they should go ahead and just pay that tax, and they said, well, that's fine for now, but what happens when we expand down Yucca Street and we have a lot more vendors and they're not right on their campus?

Who controls all that?

So it is a valid question that needs to be decided, and how we handle that.

Have you discussed it at all with um sales tax department with the state as to whether or not MPAT, I mean, I don't think MPAC can get a sales tax ID.

They can they can't, yeah, they can even though you call in you you two weeks ahead of time, you can go directly to the SACS and get the the number for the special event okay from it.

You can get that number, they actually will issue you that number, and then for that event, because it's called a one-time event, even though it's a repeated event.

We have to do that every month.

Every month, uh-huh.

Okay, question to Marco, then on this uh aspect.

Um, and I know you're gonna have to check with Julie or Martin or whomever.

If we were to get that license number, if we were to collect those funds, the sales tax funds, um, and then we need to submit them.

What's the process for us to have to go through with the city to get the city to release those funds and write a check to the department of revenue?

That you're right, that's something I would have to look into, and I'll I'll follow up on that.

Okay.

Do you understand what I'm saying?

Yes, yes, because I know it's we we haven't had um it's not always that easy to spend the city's money because we have to go through city council, but in such this case, there's a timeliness factor that has to be complied with.

Right.

So yeah, and I'll I'll look into that because if MPAC has their own nonprofit account, getting that sales tax number on that same account should be pretty easy, but if it everything has to go to the city, then it compensates things a little bit.

But if it everything has to go to the city, then it compensates things a little bit, but I'll look into that.

Okay.

So I understand where you're coming from, and I understand where Chris is coming from.

If it extends down all of Yucca, it's very hard to control those people unless she has a form from everybody to start with, you know, so she knows who is out there and who to follow up with.

We do.

We would actually have to have one person handle that because it's because you you have the vendors bring in their vendor forms, you make a list of the vendors, we turn that into the city, and three days before the event.

So we have all of the vendors and they have the tax information when they re when they get to the event.

Okay, they're given that.

And then at the end of the day, they being somebody collects their their tax that is due along with that tax form.

They get a copy, a copy goes to the state, and the umpact or whoever could keeps a copy to for their records.

Okay.

Okay.

Go ahead.

Sorry.

Okay.

Okay.

So is this something that we should ask them to do from now until December through December, so that we can work out all of the issues.

Is that can I I comment, Judy?

Yeah.

Karen.

Yeah.

Um, okay.

So I I didn't know that we were what I would suggest is is that um the vendors all belong to a particular organization there.

So the vendors who are not members of the art gallery, E VAA.

Um, they belong to the art gallery.

They're paying the art gallery.

Art gallery's charging them $20, right?

Okay, well, if that's the case, then the art gallery takes care that they're getting revenue from those vendors, then they take care of the sales tax.

Same way with Mid C.

Okay, if there's vendors up there and the Jimmy Hughes Center that are associated with the theater, then the theater would take that $20.

And I don't think MPAC should be doing any, or the city should be doing any of this handling of the money.

I think it's just getting it's gonna be too hard.

Their thought process, however, is that we are the sponsors, they are not the sponsors.

Yeah, okay.

They stay open late, they get the benefit of making more money.

You're also agree that they're making twenty dollars a vendor and that you're also forcing people though to join an organization, and then you're I mean, I don't know how they would join the theater.

Well, well, that's that's not what they did at at the art gallery.

The art gallery has their their people, but yeah, but those people, not all those people there were members of the art.

Right, yeah, but they charged them 20 dollars.

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, and they didn't have to be members.

No, and they were supposed to get ten dollars and then tell ten dollars went to the city, however, the city waived that and let them keep the full 20.

Okay, then I guess I'm having a hard time figuring out why they don't want to deal with uh the sales tax.

I I just think I'm really having a hard time now.

I'm sure that they will handle it from now till December, but as we grow and as we expand, then I think we need to answer to the Yucca Street.

What happens when we go down Yucca Street and get bigger?

I mean, we still have that tax issue that we have to deal with.

Well, well, right now for the art gallery, it's it's strictly what's on well, it's it's the city's property, but we'll say the art gallery's property, it's on their campus.

That's where everybody should be.

So what you're talking about is eventually we'll we'll put tables, we'll grow big enough that we'll put tables all the way up Yucca Street, and I guess that's something we're gonna need to um to think about.

So for now, can we just say that they should pay through December and that we need time to coordinate this with the city?

I would make uh I would make the motion that for right now we ask the art gallery to continue with um the collection and payment of those sales taxes through the December um first Friday while Marco investigates what we can do from our end of it, and then um we can have another discussion once we find out what the city says.

And that we should really make sure you say any Bonnie, before you say anything, there's a motion on the floor.

We need a second before we have discussion.

Are you seconding?

Okay.

Okay.

I'll second.

Okay, now you can discuss.

Thank you.

Um, all I'm saying is I think we should probably let them know that we don't feel comfortable doing it, that it's not really what we're there for.

But I think it's it'll get sticky.

Unless we just have one person do it.

So anyway, first of all, we have to first of all, we need to find out what the city requires.

Correct.

That's all.

Okay.

All right.

We have a motion and a second.

So I call for a vote.

All in favor.

I anyone opposed?

Okay, motion passes.

Okay.

Okay.

And then just our inaugural event on October 7th attracted a large crowd of locals who enjoyed live music, theater performances, art exhibits, food trucks, and artisan goods throughout the evening.

The energy, enthusiasm, and strong attendance proves that our community is eager for more opportunities to gather, connect, and celebrate creative creativity.

Okay.

Okay.

Um on my side, my comments were it was an awesome first event.

I've never attended anything like that that went as smooth as it did.

I know there were glitches like with show girls and things, but and the wind.

Um, but I mean the planning that went into it was fantastic.

Everybody on that committee did a great job.

I also know that Judy is looking for more volunteers to help on this committee.

Um, unfortunately, none of us can do that.

Um, but if you know of anybody who can come forward and and help them out in any way, shape, or form, and I know a couple people that I'd like to ask.

Um we need to let Judy know.

Is that a true statement, Judy?

I hope.

Um one couple things that I noticed for your next meeting or anything, if you want to um jot it down.

Um, I like the idea of impact being the greeters, some at one campus and some at the other.

Um that to me, I think would make uh and we need to be stationed someplace close to where people are entering into that campus area.

Um it makes a good impression for us, for everybody involved, and for the whole um community.

Um you also um talked about this is an art walk.

Um it would be nice if we could um in the future maybe eventually have somebody guide an art walk, um, maybe once or twice during the course of the evening and put that like on a schedule of events or something.

Um the other idea I had was oh um the what do we do when it turns dark because it started to turn dark at the end.

Well, we know by December it's gonna be dark by five o'clock.

Um the lighting that's out there on the streets, is that gonna be enough?

Are we gonna have to augment the lighting system?

I know that the vendors, if they don't have light, they can't sell their goods, and I do remember that the art gallery said that they would not supply any power.

So um that might be something that needs to be investigated.

That that is where a goodly portion of our budget went was for additional lighting for there are standalone um rechargeable lights for the um museum, and the art gallery has three of those.

I had some for the steam center, but I gave them to the art gallery because the steam center wasn't out in the parking lot, so those need to be replaced, and those run around a hundred dollars a piece.

And so, and Randy is looking at the lighting also to see what they can do.

There at the Jimmy Hughes Center, that center where they had the theater, uh behind the theater in the pavilion that area, that is very well lit.

Okay, yeah, that's very well lit.

What we have a problem with is the um parking lot in at the art gallery, and those standalone lights will help, but there's also um the overhead um string lights, and that gives a lot of when the lights when it got dark uh last month that actually helped a lot.

Yeah, it helped a lot.

Yeah, I'm just thinking, but they are aware of that, and they are they're gonna try to work on something.

Yeah, okay.

Ums on first Friday from Steve, you were there.

Oh no, Judy, great job.

It was just a great job.

George?

Lots of people, lots of people.

Bonnie, you were a latecomer.

Did you enjoy it?

Uh I I got lost.

You got lost.

Well, I expected, I think, to have more uh decorations or that's really not the right word, but just something that to call me to walk all the way down the street to the other place.

Okay.

And uh I didn't, you know, I I found the table and everything when I got there.

That wasn't a problem, but there's nothing near the street that helps me know that there's something happening down there, too.

Okay, yeah.

Maybe the signage would help with that.

Well, your suggestions are welcome.

They are working to see if we can get the um golf carts, the the multi-seated golf carts from the Eureka for that event to help people get back and forth, and also uh hopefully those signs being placed strategically will help people.

Yeah, because we're we are aware of what you said, Bonnie.

That is a problem.

Okay, cool.

All right, any other comments?

Okay, um if I hadn't opened it up to public comment, which now I can't remember if I did or not, but I think I did.

I opened it up, and there's no public, so no comment.

Let's go on to three three discussion on our community piano update.

This one's definitely Steve.

Okay, so um several months ago, I don't know how long, um, we approved that we could go out and try to get a piano or pianos um to place around the city for the public to use.

I happened to find one.

Um, thank you to Irma at the Winchester Dundaro Um Culture Center in Las Vegas, that's part of uh Clark County.

Um she gave us one.

Um approved um $540 for mesquite moving to go down and pick it up and deliver it.

Okay, and since we really didn't have any place, it was delivered to the steam center, right?

Where it's at now, and it's already being used a lot.

Actually, as I left this morning, Emma was playing.

Um so what we would do we would like to place it.

Well, I'm proposing, and we can do a motion on it at the minute, um, that we move it to the art gallery in the pavilion.

And I think the pavilion right now is the only place I can think of in Mesquite that will cover it from the sun and the rain.

Okay, um, the art gallery is excited about it.

Um, you know, Chris is really excited about it.

So what I'd like to ask for is well, we'll have to ask, I guess we're gonna have to ask the council for approval.

Okay, and then I'd like to ask for um I want to estimate 400 to have it moved.

Okay, it's a little bit because they're gonna have to get four people to lift it down those steps.

And I'd like to ask for another six hundred dollars, so a thousand dollars overall for the project um to prep it once we get it down there.

Although everybody who's played it, who's a good piano player says it's very much in tune.

But once we get it down into there, we're gonna need to prep it.

Okay, which I think means we should have it tuned, which I think is about 150 bucks.

Um, but there should be some other things we should we'll need to get a key um so we can lock the uh the little thing that comes up over the I guess there's a name for that, right?

Um so a thousand dollars to get it in place.

Um that would also include to purchase some paint, and we'll let the art gallery figure out how they want to paint it.

I think painting it would be pretty cool.

Um, we'll need to get a couple signs that'll say um please don't abuse and a little advertisement.

And I don't believe that I was somebody said, Well, what about the noise in the neighborhood?

Well, that's there's pretty much no houses around there.

The ones that would have been in hearing shot of it are blocked now because of the art gallery's expansion with the pottery studio.

So I'd like to make a motion that we move it to the art gallery and we appropriate um max a thousand dollars from our MPAC account to move it, and that's my motion.

And what is a thousand dollars do?

Move it, um $400 to move it.

Okay, and then another six hundred dollars to do whatever else we need to do.

We'll buy some paint.

It needs to be tuned once it gets down there, okay, and and maybe some other things.

We'll need to get a key, and I would assume that whoever tunes it can probably find a key.

They they couldn't find a key for it down there, and some signs.

You know, I was just thinking, uh, I wonder if we could make a cover for it.

But if we make a cover for it, then nobody the people can't play it.

Just pull it off.

Yeah, I don't know anything about pianos.

Yeah, I don't either.

I thought about that too, but then the cover would I I I would prefer, well, we could look into a cover, but otherwise it's just there.

And I realize that it gets hot here and it's gonna get out of tune, and you know, we'll probably try to keep it in tune best we can.

Um that one day it's going to not be usable anymore, and we'll just have to find another piano.

And we can have a going-away party.

We can have a gone away party or something, that might need to be voted on.

Steve, could you itemize what you want covered in that thousand dollars?

Only because if we go to city council and ask for that money, it would be better if it was a line items were on there.

Okay.

Um, do you want it right now?

Right this minute, no.

But I think before we go to city council, we need to have that line itemed.

Okay.

Um but we're okay to vote on a thousand, max a thousand dollars.

Max a thousand, right?

Yeah, hopefully it'll be under, but first you're gonna need a second, you need a second on that motion.

So do I have a here's here a second for Steve's motion.

We're looking for a second.

Is that what you're saying?

I'm looking for a second.

Okay.

Thank you, George.

Um, okay, is there um I think I think the cover is necessary if you want to keep that thing.

But maybe only let's say, for an example, the person who has to take down the flag if they do, they can put the cover on at night um as they leave.

It doesn't have to be on all day, but they don't they don't they don't take down the flag.

I know I knew that it was like a an example.

But I would consider uh that just at night that would be a lot of that would put some pressure on the um art gallery, but then again, it's on their premise and it is a draw to their premise.

So you know, the person who is closing up at night at four o'clock um can go out and put the cover on it, perhaps.

That that would be a detail that we need to work out with the art gallery.

Yes, yes, I I agree with that.

Um and it may be something they don't really want to do, but okay.

And I'm sorry, but I'm against that because it's just there and it's there to be played.

And if somebody wanders by at midnight and wants to play it, let them play it.

I have to well, you asked for a key, so you were gonna lock the keyboard up.

So how are they gonna play if you put the cover down and put the lock on the key?

Well, I think we'll lock, we'll have that key just in case.

Okay, all right.

Um but but I wouldn't, I I think it should where I've been, the couple places I've been, and that's only Smithers, British Columbia and Las Vegas Arts District.

They sit out there in Smithers, they take it in for the winter, but we don't have to worry about that.

Um they just sit out there to be played.

Yeah, and the one in Jackson just sits out on the sidewalk too, Jackson, Wyoming at the Art Center.

So, but I I'm sure they take theirs in in the winter too.

So we don't get a winner, so I know.

Well, uh just I would not be offended if you don't put a cover on it at all.

I was just really trying to save money, Bonnie.

I got it.

I understand.

Okay.

So basically, um, as part of this discussion, too.

You mentioned the fact that we would need the council to approve us putting that piano there.

Um, as long as I think we have approval from the Mesquite Fine Arts Center who leases that land from the city, we're okay putting it there.

We'll need council approval to pay for it, you know, through our funds.

Does that make sense?

Yeah, and I do want to say, I think I said that Morph paid the 450 dollars.

And you know, maybe more could spring for the rest, but we have money in our account as MPAC, so I think we should utilize it.

Yeah.

Okay.

For such a great project.

Uh is there any more discussion about the piano going to the fine arts center?

Okay.

Um any more discussion about the um the proposal to um spend a thousand dollars of our funds to help um get this all set in place.

Okay, with no more discussion, I call for a vote on the motion that was made to move the piano that has been procured and move it to the Mesquite Fine Arts Center um in the into the pavilion and um allocate a thousand dollars from our funds in our trust account with the city um to help P to get it there and get it tuned and um make certain improvements to it so that it can reside there permanently.

Um all in favor.

I mean okay, hearing none, motion passes.

Um public comment on this.

I think I forgot that in the beginning.

And seeing no public, there's no comment.

Okay, discussion on dance mesquite project.

Uh I open that up to public comment, and there's no public here.

So discussion and possible action.

Um Dance Mosquite, is this um Steve or George?

Steve.

Steve, I'm I'm sorry.

I'm sorry, I'm dominating things.

Um so Judy, thanks to Judy Judy got council approval on this.

What's that?

On dance mesquite, the little red square with the dance.

Yeah, you did that months ago.

Um, so we're we're ready to do it.

Um we're gonna it'll go um Mitsi wants it over by the theater, although I think it would be good to go anywhere.

Um Miles and Emma are gonna do it if that's okay.

Um, and I've asked Miles that they're going to look into creating a template so they can just go spray it on, put the template down, spray it on.

And they he didn't get me a dollar amount yet.

So I just want to say that since it's approved.

Um once we find the money, maybe I should ask.

I don't know, MPAC or or Morph.

Um I'll we're we're gonna vote for um pack to fund that as well.

But we don't have a cost on it yet.

It'll be uh under $500, and I'll get the cost.

Okay.

So let's table this until the next meeting so we have a figure to vote on.

Okay, unless Morph will pay for it, then we can just do it.

Okay.

Yeah, uh, as far as I'm concerned, MPAC has already approved it.

The the project.

Yes.

Okay.

Um being there's no further action at this time, we'll go on to 3.5 discussion of the current impact brochure.

And I open it up to public comment.

Seeing no public, um, we'll go on to discussion and possible action.

And I kind of brought this up.

Um Steve, of course, has done our um trifold brochure, but as I was looking at it the other day, um the first Friday on the back side.

Um everybody should have one of these in front of them.

Um it says coming soon.

So if we go to print again, we need to get rid of coming soon.

Um the other thing we need to do that I think would look better is um if we could box in not just the verbiage that's around that coming soon first Friday mesquite, but include the logo in that box.

Do you know what I mean?

So that it's all one item right now.

Mesquite First Friday is just that logo's there.

It does it's a it's just a design thing for me.

And I guess I just wanted everybody else to look at it and see if there are any other changes you could see in it.

Um take it home with you, read it.

Um if you think of anything, um, then we can vote on some changes, or we can just have Steve make the changes after the next meeting, if that's okay.

Any comment?

Yeah, Karen, so I'm I'm I'm good with that.

And I guess I have the master, so um why don't why doesn't everyone send maybe you send the Marco then send it to me?

I'll make the changes.

I'll send um a draft to Marco and Marco can circulate it.

And then we'll print it.

Okay.

Sounds good to me.

Any other comments on the uh brochure?

Okay.

And we already did public comment, so um not taking any action at this time.

Um 3.6 discussion of the power box wraps that the sun is discoloring update.

Um I think at our last meeting.

Um I'm gonna open it to public comment.

Seeing no public.

Um at our last meeting, Judy brought this up because they are, and now that you said that, I'm driven around and usually the side that's facing the the sun the most, it is discoloring at the top.

Um you um in my notes, um I had that George was gonna check with um some people up north about um wraps and if there was anything that could be done about them.

Um about the if on the we gotten the money for those in the 2021 Main Street grant.

There is a new Main Street grant coming up.

Um we didn't know if maybe we could go forward and um do another Main Street grant with Morph so that we could um get the repairs done to the ones that are just coloring.

Judy had gotten some prices for us.

Um that's does anybody have any updates other than that?

Yes, I I talked with Clark County printing, and they can they they still have the the model, I guess there's the the original design, and they can redo that um and they can put it on top of what's on there, they don't have to take everything off.

Okay, they may have to sand it or pull some pieces of it off so it's smooth, but that's uh they they don't seem to be bothered by much by that.

So um I think that's probably the easiest way to do it, but uh I think what we need to do first is put a team together to do an inventory and decide which panels we're going to we want to replace and then get a quote and then do we have a map that tells us where all of the wraps are at?

I don't know of one.

Uh yes, we do somewhere.

Um I'm unable to get to it at the moment, but I believe I have one.

Okay, if you find it, could you um send it over to Marco?

I will be back closer to you on Wednesday.

That's fine.

That's fine.

And then he can share it with us.

Yes.

Um and I'll gladly go around and do an inventory.

I mean, I can drive carefully.

I do I'll do a one-handed inventory.

Yeah.

No, I'll just take a picture and I'll I'll try and I'll pin it on my map on my phone, and then somebody can look them all up.

Karen, if you want help with that.

Okay.

All right.

So anyway.

Okay.

So any other updates?

Okay.

So we're gonna try and get this worked out.

Um, but you did say that some of the later ones that were done did have a coating on them that protects them from the UV.

The new, the new ones have the coding built in into the material.

Okay.

It's a different material.

Okay.

And right now the only new one is the one that's in front of fire station number one, right?

Yes, right.

Yes, there you go, Steve.

Good to know.

Okay.

Because George told me when I asked him a couple weeks ago.

That's the only reason I know it.

I assume that's new material.

I don't know that for sure.

Yeah, that was the new and just a question.

Did do we need to talk to the artist about using the same patterns again?

Yeah, she's good with that.

Okay.

George, that is Yeah, because she's the one who bought it up that they were George.

They they have a whole new uh product that they use.

They don't use the old product anymore at Orange County Printing.

I'm sorry.

They they have a new product with the UV uh protection built into it.

Yes.

It's much better than what they had before.

And that's what Orange County Printing is using.

Clark County.

Clark County.

I'm sorry.

We're still back in California.

So yeah.

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Is there any other um discussion on that?

So we're gonna leave that one with right now.

I'm gonna do an inventory.

I'll help you with that if you can.

Okay.

So you because you got the map, so yeah, that'll be a good thing.

We could go do that then.

Okay.

Okay.

All right.

Um, and going on now to number four, commissioners' comments and reports.

Uh 4.1.

Any commissioners' comments and reports.

I will start with Judy.

I'm done.

She's done.

She did all our talking.

Okay, Bonnie.

Yes.

Got any reports or comments?

No, thank you.

Okay.

George.

Steve.

Of course.

I saved the best for last seat.

I had a plan.

So if if Frank will turn on the overhead there, um, I just want to say, as um, what am I?

Um brown bag chairperson, brown bag cultural chairperson, still for the Virgin Valley Artists Association.

And um, I just want to say that this coming first Tuesday, whatever it is, uh we are November 4th.

Um Kay Asbridge will be talking from noon to one at classroom B at the art gallery.

And it's free.

It's in classroom B now, not in the work in the classroom.

Yeah, because that's called now.

There's multiple classrooms.

Okay.

It has a big B on the side of it.

Okay, got it's in classroom B.

And Kay's uh, you know, she's just uh um full of a lot of great knowledge and fun, so it should be a really good, and I'd advise everybody to come.

You caught me when you put the word tarot in there.

I was ready.

So and that's all I want to say.

Thank you.

Okay.

Okay.

Um done with the comments and reports.

Number five, public comment.

Seeing no public and there's no public comment, I call for an adjournment.

Meeting adjourned at 10 53.

Wow, we went through all that in less than an hour.