Everyone's screen light on their microphone should be on and now it's four PM.

So I call to order the October second, twenty twenty-five meeting of the museums and cultural arts commission.

May we have the roll call?

Yes, of course.

First, we have Chair Kimsey.

Present.

Present.

Commissioner Evans.

Commissioner Sovereign, I'm told is no longer here, right?

No longer part of the commission.

Um Mike officially step down.

Do you know if he contacted her or if he's just not officially said he was going to, if he needs to come back because we don't have enough people, he will temporarily.

Oh, you timed out.

Yeah.

He timed out, but I think reapply.

So people haven't done the appointments just yet.

So we'll just cut their ball.

We'll connect on that.

Yeah.

I think they changed how they're doing it this year too.

Um okay, let's get back to the role for now.

Um, Commissioner Evans.

Yes.

I don't know if I got you already, but Commissioner Wachowski.

Great.

That is everyone who's part of the commission is present today.

For staff, we have the library meeting library and museum's director, artifact specialist, and myself, recording secretary.gov slash agendas or by telephone toll free at eight three three five six eight eight eight six four.

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This information is also on the meeting agenda.

Thank you.

Okay.

So is there any discussion on the consent agenda?

No discussion from anyone.

And as uh any changes to the minutes, can we approve the minutes as they were stated from the last meeting?

Yes.

Okay.

So could do I hear a motion?

I'll move.

Approval.

Approval.

I will second.

Okay.

Any against pros, cons?

Okay.

I have to abstain because I was absent.

You were at both.

So are there any comments online?

There are no hands raised online.

Okay, and we have uh did you wish to speak today?

No.

Okay.

Thank you.

We do need to um have a vote on the minute.

Um just by roll call.

Oh so if we have um Chair Kimsey.

A brief vice chair O'Neill.

Yes.

Commissioner Evans.

Yes.

And Commissioner Weshkowski, I have your abstention.

Thank you.

Now we can move on.

All right.

So moving on to the reports and comments.

Um there are a couple things I would just like to ask.

I think this is the appropriate point.

Is there any update from Commissioner Evans on the Colton Hall repairs and water set?

Uh no, we haven't had an NIP meeting.

Um I can stay on the there was the initial kind of NCIP meetings where they go over feasibility of programs of projects, and that was a pass as feasibility of it being an NCIP project.

Um, but the next NCIP meeting is actually a joint meeting between City Council and NCIP.

I believe it's in October.

I don't I'd have to look back at I can look at the date of that.

Um, but that's going to be looking at there's discussions on um, there's been discussions at council about let me see where the I was trying to see if it's on here right now.

If it's um there was one NIP meeting that was canceled.

Right.

It was another one that was postponed.

Right.

There was a couple that would have been postponed, but the next one is supposed to be a joint meeting on that one, and that one they're going to be looking at the funding and priorities for that, but they haven't gone over the the projects project by project yet.

So that's later this month.

I believe usually the and usually NCAP goes over the project's project by project, but they're gonna do a joint meeting between council and NCIP, and I have not seen it uh show up on the council yet, meeting agenda yet.

Okay, and the other thing are there any updates on the mayor's selection for the mission to fill us out.

I have not seen any updates on that either.

And I don't know as uh Commissioner Wikowski mentioned that he applied for reappointment.

Um, but we have not um heard when the if there's any banana interviews.

You will you will see online if you go to the city clerk page, all of the uh applications are on there and they are redacted in terms of the personal information of the people's address, phone number, email, that kind of thing.

But you can see all of the different applications for um people interested in the museums and cultural arts commission on uh the city clerk page, and it still shows that they're accepting applications at this time.

Okay.

Would be good if we filled in because the only four of us, it's hard to get a quorum.

So the next item is an update on the Colton Hall music series, and Brian, are you gonna do that?

Do you want me to do it or what?

I could just start it off and then um pass it off to you, uh, Chair Times.

But just to start with is that we um we held our um we held our concert series uh with uh Terrence Farrell over at uh our first um concert over there in the afternoon was about four o'clock to about 530 on a Saturday afternoon over there at Colton Hall.

There's a guitar um concert inside.

Uh we had 65 people on the register on the um museums library museums website.

So we did the registration and that worked with the um a uh a booking company, Kelly uh productions and actually worked uh to um hire the person.

And I know uh Chair Kimsey and Commissioner Sovereign were uh were both there to volunteer to help when we um put out you know snacks and drinks and then talked about donating to um concert series and all that.

So overall it was a um we did have two people on the museum site also.

I had one of our um museum attendance list, Jensen was there and a volunteer.

Um John Schubert was there to help out as well, just to kind of like track everybody coming in and welcome everybody and we got the room set up, we had the candles out, we had to put a new batteries for the candles to have the timers on.

And overall, I I think people were very happy with with it.

And I thought it was a great event and looking forward to our next one.

I know the next one um Chair Kimsey and I are definitely looking at was November 1st, and um, but we're looking at another date, hopefully late October, if I can with working with Kelly Productions, but uh pass it back to um the chair if you have any.

Brian, can I ask why why was it done at four o'clock?

Uh the old name of it was candlelight uh concerts, and there's not much candlelight at four.

So we talked about it at an earlier commission meeting about and there might have been one ones you weren't at, but it was just that we're getting the audience there is primarily 60 age 60, 70 and up.

There's quite a bit of an older audience, and then a lot of people are not driving at night.

I'm they prefer uh like to look at the earlier time, and then also it was just the staffing.

Um I had my son, and so I was you know, had to be there, and it's like getting the timing of us having the ability to have staff there too, with very limited staff and staff on the weekends too.

We need the staff to to do it, but also the driving time for people on there and to try this one this season out at around four o'clock.

So we have kind of that um around the the end of end of the the day, and then see how that works for 20 years.

We didn't do a survey, just observation that four o'clock would be better than evening it was needed for the audience, not the audience, but also what stuff is capable of doing.

Like what can we actually reasonably expect because like I've been working six days a week and I don't want to spend to be honest, I don't want to spend a Saturday night at seven o'clock and come in and work seven to nine.

Um I just don't want to do that.

So just if I'm working six days, I don't want to do extra time on that side.

I want to make sure that my time and my staff's time are actually going to be there to open up and tear down the building and everything.

So I think it worked out very well.

Umscribed 50 is what we're technically allowed, I think.

But uh the RSVPs came in at more than I mean I thought we were allowed way more than 50.

50 is what we're allowed.

And um to the fire marshal.

Yeah.

No, but in the past time when we had more than 50.

I thought we did because we had chairs way in the back.

This time it was limited to 50.

So that's we have that.

I will say we initially limited it to 50 on the website, but then I opened it up to 65.

So I did open it up to more.

It was initially, and then I went to buy what was on the waiting list and opened everybody else on the waiting list just to see how we could do.

We have 50 chairs, but then we added the additional benches in the back for that.

Okay, so it was really a nice concert.

Um we got a standing ovation.

And I had uh down that October 25th was our next one.

Is that tentative or is that for sure?

That's tentative, and that's because that was the one the the artist that you and I spoke of, and I can't no John Wade is November 1st.

Right, November 1st, but there was another person you and I spoke of that wasn't no longer available.

It's not available.

And that's where I was looking at the 1025 isn't as a alternate.

So I'm I'm just working with uh the booking just to make sure that they concerts possible.

Yep.

And I forget where are we?

Um are we making a request for uh funds through a mailer or we or we're not doing that just yeah because we don't need to.

We did um Chair Kimsey we put out envelopes at at the beginning, and then we we asked everybody if they wanted to um we asked everybody there if they wanted to donate to told them to drop it in the box, and then if if there was anybody wanted to mail a thing and we talked about sending it to the library, um, but it was we have a list of the emails right now.

So the the thought was is that we will probably work on after the concert series after the concert series, send out and send out something, those three when we do the three concerts and say if we want these, we're gonna that's a great approach, yeah.

Yeah.

I think I already received an email, a post-concert email.

No, I think.

Yeah, we have a post-concert email for that one, but I was thinking we can send out a Netherland.

Yeah.

Well, if you signed up for the concert, I suspect.

Oh, and you signed in for the concert.

No, it's candid, yes.

I can ask out on that, Commissioner Likowski, which was that the last time we had the the email list that we had was because the concerts was back in 2019.

So we actually had people that have that are deceased or have moved, and I did not want to mail out um letters to people to say, can you do you want to donate to the concert if people um pass away?

You know, so that was something where I said to Chair Kimsey that let's start, let's restart, let's start fresh, get the list, and then when we have the at the end of the concert, we'll send it an email that just says, like if you enjoy the concert, please think about donating.

And then after we do the series, we'll say if you want to see this in 2026, please think about donating to us again.

That and we will we'll do that one more time.

Okay, and we can now receive the library and museum's director activity report.

Sure.

And let me know if there's anything.

I'll just go through a couple of highlights on here, if there's anything specifically you want us to talk about.

Um, but just want to congratulate first off our artifact specialist, Brianna Schwerling, who received a groundworks grant.

Um, this is a grant regarding um our collections management and something we've been working on to up really store our collections.

So some of these things are um going to be additional shelves for the vault.

And I know some of our commissioners have been inside of our small vault and those things, but we're also going to be ordering a cold storage freezer, which is basically a commercial type of uh a freezer like you would get for your garage.

But this will track you know, temperature, humidity, and those kind of things, which are really needed for um negatives and film reels.

So when you have when you have film negative and certain types of of um role film, they are they're better kept at a specific temperature.

So we would that's where they're um having a number of of our old photos and objects stole stored in there, so that will keep them in longevity.

So we're happy about doing that.

So congratulations on that.

Um I'm working with a um artist, Joss Census and uh Televera Ceramics is in there, and that's figure one and the packet where you'll see the the draft of the replacement um tile map, which is the Deanza map.

And we are on track that the they will install a new map.

And the the timeline, my goal is to have that installed by March 2026 because that's going to be the 250th anniversary of the De Anza expedition.

And that map was it's a version of the Pedro Font map, who was the person from the church that came up with the De Anza expedition, and he mapped the state of California, which is now what we consider now the state of California, but he mapped the route.

And so that drawing of Alta California is based on Pedro Font's map.

So I thought it would be great to have that in installed by the 250th.

Um, but that's going um that we are working on that.

That is something that previously the commission had approved, making the replica and doing the funding.

So I'm really happy that we have that to go forward because that's going to be a great piece.

And we'll also have it installed on a metal mount and installed better, so it'll last a lot longer.

What I've what I found in terms of the reason I think it fell is because when they when they installed it, they put it on um stacks of uh kind of like mortar instead of a instead of like a a single layer of mortar, they put it on patches of mortar, and so the water would seep through the patches and the water collected and pushed the map out.

So instead, we're gonna put it like on a stainless tray with it'll have ability for the water to seep out and then put it in there for a lot much longer lasting uh map.

So very happy to see that going through.

Um, and also you'll see under the APA, there was American Planning Association, Northern California conference that was held here in Monterey, somewhere between a thousand and two thousand planners here.

Um it's a great conference.

Myself, um uh Brianna Schmerling and Melissa Mejia staffed a booth, which was a history booth about you know California history, but we also answered just a lot of questions, met with a lot of different planners throughout the area, talked about things like the recreation trail, how we do historic interpretation, how we do sign insurance along the city, um, talk about Prickett's lab, talk about Colton Hall, and we really passed out stacks and stacks of the map map for the path of history, postcards.

Um I co-led three different tours.

One was a bicycle tour from the conference center to Rickett's lab, and then passed them over to the aquarium.

Did a walking tour of the Lower Presidio Historic Park along with Tim Thomas, Linda Yumane, and uh Cameron Binkley from the Defense Language Institute, and then also did a walking tour with uh for Renetta Riveri here from our planning department, and I did just the component here on Colton Hall, the old jail and city hall complex.

So it was a really great way for us as a museums department to work with our um neighbors, which have you know, the neighbors.

So does the map you were handing out of the uh path uh include the Pearl Street editions?

Not yet.

What we had was we used the stack the stack map that they used to hand out at like the hotels.

We still had like one like or two little stacks of those things left, which we've been passing out.

Those need to go through.

The one for um Pearl Street and New Monterey, we have some of the content built on the app.

And to be honest, that's something that I haven't had the time to really work on because I've been in contact with a company that does map that that would actually create it and do the distribution, but it is a goal for us to do is to do a new map.

Like, do we do like a new print version of a map?

Um, one thought we've had was whether we do a print version of a map and distribute it the same way through like the hotels at the airport at the welcome center in Santa Cruz and Girl Roy, Salinas, like distributing more of those and then highlight that.

But that is something that uh yeah, it's it's something that's on a goal of something we're we're really interested to do, because I think it would might draw in more people on that way too.

And thoughts about when and how we're gonna uh label the physically labeled the spots on the sites on the Pearl Street or Monterey editions?

Yeah, well, so you may have seen or may have, I think I brought them in or before I had some smaller signs, and you'll see one like at the base of Colton Hall underneath, and you'll see them at the old jail or Vasquez Adobe where I made signs which have the audio tour, the phone number and the QR code.

And the same way I put on the new sign up there in front of Colton Hall, like on the street on Pacific Street.

I put um three of those have a fourth one coming, but the smaller ones, the metal ones, are much cheaper and easier to install.

And we've been going by doing them all around town in our current path.

Um it would just be funding all of those different sites, and because the majority of them are private sites.

So I did all the ones like I did at the Wharf, I did at Casa Serrano, other sites where we already had them on the path.

But it would be if we were to use those those metal signs, because we can't, I don't we don't have the funding to do all of the tiles, you know, because that would be like a lot of work in terms of streets and then setting that work.

But the metal tiles, I don't know if it would be something where we would say to personally, are you interested in a metal sign?

It costs $50, like, you know, here's a $50, and then we recoup the money, or do we go to a grant or a community foundation grant or something like that that says we've done this path of history, we've done the expansion.

Now we need you know, 30 to 50,000, and then we install one or two kiosks similar to what old Monterey Foundation did at Lower Presidio Historic Park, which is kind of like a this is a start point for it with additional signage around town.

And um the city or the library, um, get into Monterey Gibbs with a with a program.

So the Monterey Public Library Friends and Foundation will aren't going to fund museums programs, and they they they do the funding.

So it's like you have to be a nonprofit to do that to do the program.

So it's generally the nonprofits and not the city or the government agency itself.

So a um, for example, like Monterey California State Parks doesn't push forward anything.

Monterey State Historic Park Association is the agency that puts forward the project, right?

So it's it's generally the nonprofit arm of a government agent that it that does the MC Gives component off of that.

How about the old Monterey Foundation?

What are you gonna uh pitch for the uh path of history?

I think we yeah.

Um it the deadline is already over for this year.

Okay, but in the no, but in the future, uh we would do that.

We uh we did the MIIS mural, and we're looking at a mural on uh El Rado Mall.

So yes, we would do that as long as it's in the public right-of-way.

And I and I will point what I would say also because like if you look at the the map, the I didn't realize this until after I um actually created them, but you know, the path of history, the the 24-inch by 36-inch panels that they're on the decorative uh poles that we have around town in certain posts.

One was here at Colton Hall.

I didn't realize we had one at Golden State Theater.

So that one, if you go in front of there, that is an old sign that needs to be replaced.

And that is something that I think along the sign like that, it could be that was I believe done by the city.

That's also a city marker as well.

But whether that would be in downtown Alvarado Street marker with another site, like of a QR code and a phone audio tour or something like that.

So that might be possibility for organization like old Monterey Foundation, where we say this panel right here highlights old old Alvarado Street, and then we install the little signs uh PQR codes.

I think a lot of businesses are or private places would be might be more interested in smaller signs and something really you know, perm something very large or permanent or something very expensive.

But that's what I would see as a possibility moving forward.

So it's just it's it's definitely something for us to work on consistently.

Um so there's other things in here.

I'll I'll just um highlight our tours.

We had at the Pacific Biological Labs, we had 10 different tours, which may not sound like a lot, but for um Brianna or I are typically the ones there or leading the tours, but different schools from around and you know, whether it was Hopkins or Carmel, like we've had we had different schools and different private groups.

It was just a very busy month for that site, so I'm really proud of the work that we're doing there of highlighting that site, and a lot more people are are seeing it.

Um foundation isn't very active, are they?

No, no, they usually used to do tours for 10 or 15 bucks a person or whatever.

Yeah, so for us on our private tours, we are charging, so we are getting a little bit of revenue from our private tours, and it's basically it is around 15.

It's four four people minimum, so it's 60 dollars, and each additional person is 15.

And it used to be any group size up any group size, we would charge them 52.50 cents, and then last year I upped that fee to 60 for a minimum of four, and then 15 each additional person.

And we are not charging currently for uh schools like nonprofits, but I do think it's something that I've talked with my team about is we may come back and talk um to the commission early 2026 whether we should put in the master fee schedule an education fee um to our fee.

And part of that is I do know that our our partners at California State Parks they do charge a fee.

Some organizations do not charge a fee.

Um, or if it's a recommended fee, but I just would we should think about that because it does take staff time and it does take a lot of staff resources when you have uh schools saying we're gonna bring over four classes, and then you have a hundred kids doing it.

It takes a lot of for us, it's multiple staff, it's multiple volunteers.

It takes a lot for us to do that.

Um and I'll just and also to highlight we are planning on the survey for it to open this month in October for Lower Presidio Historic Park for the next steps on the park, and as a reminder that went back to council for us to talk about the next steps on the park.

We'll open up the survey, and then um my plan is for the next museums cultural arts commission is to bring back um the survey and bring back the discussion back to the commission, and then we uh sign a commissioner to work as like in this commission, parks and rec commission, historic preservation commission.

So get members from the three different commissions together and come to like host an event over at the Presidio Monterey Museum about what we recommend for next steps on the um on the park.

So we don't have our results yet.

Um I worked on the survey questions, and um ran them past parks and recreation, community development, uh city manager's office, just waiting for them to be translated into Spanish because I want the survey to be bilingual.

Once I get that, the survey will be ready to post.

And they'll send a copy of the survey to us.

Absolutely, yeah, yeah.

Yeah, and um yeah, and then we have a a third Monterey Angel ornament, it's gonna be coming out in the next week or so.

We are I've already received it, but it's a brand new ornament that I designed.

Um, those are going towards funding to our angel restoration projects.

And with that, yeah, we have some other signage.

You'll see um Monterey parking garage window.

You'll see that display was a four foot by six foot display that's in the packet.

It's the Canada Row Um the workers.

It's a George Robinson photo.

And I scanned in uh labels from our California history room, and I just put them onto the image.

We had we had to take down the private previous display about two years ago because it got sun damaged and it started to deteriorate.

So for now, what we did is just I printed that four by four foot by six foot image.

So it's bright right there on Wave Street right outside the parking lot.

And just looks very sharp after having just a really run down um display.

And also in figure three in the packet, you will see different images that we installed.

Um, these are about three feet by close to um a little bit over six feet um each one of the images.

So a total of like six feet by seven feet on the parking garage on Tyler Street by the parking garage department.

Um on Tyler near Del Mani, where the MST trolley stops.

We had some old display cases, and um what I what I had noticed was that the display cases had probably not been updated in 30 plus years.

There was it said the um Christmas and the Adobe's was held every year on Thursday and Friday.

Christmas New Doties is Friday and Saturdays.

It had photos of children that looked like they went to school with me, like in elementary school.

Um things like Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art, which is no longer that's the Monterey Museum of Art.

We had phone numbers that were out of date because there was old posters and signs for things like the lighthouse.

So we took out, we had to get the the site, we had to get rekeyed, new new lights installed.

It was just a just a pain because California State Parks had their own display, Monterey State's Park Park Association had their own display.

So I took back all of them.

We kept one display right now, currently, which has Colton Hall items, but the other objects you'll see, the other ones in there.

I took one of the photos there was from 1901.

Um, I really like that photo because it's facing.

If you look at the photo, that's the first one is figure three because you're facing custom house from the intersection.

And this is actually something that uh Bill, as we've talked about with old Monterey Foundation, what kind of photos work good.

I like this one because it it focuses towards the custom house down Calle Principal and Alvarado where they merge, but you have people on horses, you have people in cars, and you can see a version of the train track right there in the corner.

So I thought that was pretty nice.

And then the next image is we have our um a drawing of by Jose Cordero, which was from the Malaspina expedition, and that was a Spanish expedition.

And Jose Cordero drew things like the Carmel Mission, Jose Gardero drew um different Native Americans out there, and that was one of the images I felt that was be interesting there, and then also the um the purse singer, AA Ferrante, which was a 70-ton haul of fish coming in there.

So I thought that was really a great one being so close to the wharf.

And then figure five, there's two different photos of their Japanese Americans because it's also right next as we talk about that Pearl District, having photos of our Japanese Americans and their contributions.

So having the abalone, not only having the abalone photo there, but the abalone at just down the street is at the wharf at the municipal wharf.

That's where they still do abalone farming right over there.

And our abalone diver Roy Hittori, who was the only Nisei or second generation uh Japanese diver in this area.

So he found the we discovered the white abalone further south.

But those were the photos we looked at from our California history room.

We just ordered vinyl and me and the team went up there and installed it.

So it's a little, we didn't do, you know, it's a little bit a little messy, but we tried our best and figured it would be a good way to just highlight uh because the parking department had seen like those those displays had not been touched, up and cleaned for years, and just even if it was something uh like just the vinyl that we could put up to just make it a little bit brighter, especially as people come in off the MST trolley.

That's one of the stops, the troll, the regular trolley stops.

So we were happy to get those up and happy to answer any additional questions about anything.

I mean, the newspapers had several stories about the fiscal um issues facing the city.

Um, is there any initial impact on the museum division?

It's my understanding that, and then it wasn't covered very much in the newspaper, but it's my understanding that there's a freeze on uh replacement of employees.

Is that correct?

I think what what Hans has mentioned is more what he's called a chill, where they they've gone through chill, not a freeze, chilled not a freeze, which is essentially looking at every position that pops up because you'll see like they just hired a number of or they put out a number of different um positions, the parts of recreation directors.

It's another position that's actually being recruited as of right now.

There's other positions that are out, but I think there's a chill on positions.

This department, we just haven't funded, they haven't created the the petitions that we had pre-pandemic.

So it's not like we lost anything.

Um, but we just for the for right now.

And the other thing is that we haven't gotten any direction as of this moment, whether any other funding is changed for the the budget.

So I don't have any changes right now in terms of our budget for uh museums.

All right.

We'll give up two things coming up in October.

Yeah.

So yeah, so we have the California Constitution Convention reenactment happening on the Sunday the 5th.

There's two showings, 12 o'clock and 2 30, I believe that is.

Um the 2 30 was full, 12 o'clock.

We had availability.

I'll have to check that.

We'll we'll go through.

But that was a um uh that one happens pretty much annually.

We worked with Kevin Hanstick on that one.

So they've been practicing for that.

And uh looking forward to that program again.

And the other one, the California State Supreme Court, that's gonna be October 8th.

And there's gonna be very high security.

There's gonna be some limited seating.

So what we did is um basically the last time the California State Supreme Court were here in Monterey was 1959.

And what they're gonna be doing is they're actually going to be hearing four different cases.

They're gonna be hearing four oral arguments, real cases here in Colton Hall.

So the California State Supreme Court will be here.

So I've been in uh working with Monterey County courts and the California State Supreme Court for the past several months on all the logistics working with CHP, working with all their teams.

And that Wednesday, basically CHP will be doing security.

Monterey County Courts is going to be helping to coordinate the schools coming in.

So what we're planning is to basically have three overflow sites, watch cases because depending on how many, we're not sure how many, I'm not sure at least how many schools are coming by, but we booked the Irvine Auditorium over at Middlebury, just walking distance.

We booked um council chambers here for students to watch, and also the library, because if they're gonna swap out classes in between four cases, if there's two classes in each case, and then there'll be some public seating um of a photographer in there and that.

So what they'll do is in between each case, they'll probably swap out two classes.

So they'll have a total of about eight classes minimum that will view the cases, but it'll be up to the clerk of the Supreme Court how many public seats, but it does have to be publicly accessible and viewable.

But that would be Wednesday, October 8th.

And that was also picked up on the Herald.

Um there are two other October events.

A week after that, October 15th, our illustrious director Brian is speaking through the old Monterey Foundation at the McCone Center at MIIS.

On how California became a state.

So he's going to give some anecdotes about uh some of the representatives that came to the meeting, and we're gonna have a he's gonna have a display and other items there.

And then there's a wine and cheese reception afterwards.

Also, if you pick up today's Monterey County Weekly, there's uh uh art studio tour that's next weekend.

And I think for the very first time, I saw listed the library and Colton Hall as part of the tour.

That's right.

That's right.

If I thought I put it in here, but I forgot about that.

Yeah, there's we're gonna have two weekends where basically we're gonna have four artists in Colton Hall.

So that's also gonna be those weekends where we're gonna have um Colton Hall will have art.

And Brianna, do you remember the the dates again?

It's those two weekends.

Oh, I mean the art studio to it's 11th and 12th.

So it's actually two weekends, two weekends, 11th and 12th and 18th and 19th.

Oh, okay.

So we will have art here inside Colton Hall also on the 11th and 12th and 18th and 19th.

So come check that out as well.

Um and we have our some of the panels that we used for our that we got from our community foundation grant last year where I got the 50,000 dollars, and that's where I added the chairs.

I also added the expandable display.

So we're using those and some tables, but that way we can use it for more art displays as well there.

And my hope also for November, I'm hoping for November.

I gotta work with my team on this.

The display that we had at um yeah, it's Linus, thank you.

There is to bring those, I just brought that back yesterday, picked it up in Selena's yesterday.

So the thought is to bring that up and highlight some of the photos that we had blown up there and bring those into Colton Hall as well in November.

Because I think that'd be great for people to see some of the different photos of Monterey in 1840 now, 1850 year.

I have a question.

Do we need to do anything um for the 15th event?

Do we have to register in advance?

That's gonna go on on Brent uh event bright.

So that hopefully all the commissioners will get a copy of that.

Um Brian.

And so all you do is sign up, there's no fee involved or anything else.

Just to get a hold on the number.

Yes, thank you.

According to iSearch Monterey, the NIP meeting is on the 15th, also.

Oh, at 7 p.m.

7 p.m.

Wow.

So then I guess agenda.

But they're it's in the calendar.

It is okay.

Thank you for thank you for uh that one's well, that one says that the 15th, but that says the second review first half of projects.

But I don't know if they were I don't know whether we're in the first half or second half.

So I'll I'll be if it's the same night as a yeah.

I'll try to find out where we are.

Thank you.

Appreciate it.

Is there any need for commissioners to volunteer at any of those events?

Um the the artists will be there doing their own thing at the event, so we don't need the the artists on those um ones there.

If I think for the do have on the Sunday, let's see, the Sunday the 5th.

If we had a commissioner that would be able to be there for the entirety of that um that program date or from 10 to 4 or something within that time, so would be fantastic because we would the October 5th.

Um October 5th with having the you know the day.

So if we even had from 10 a.m.

starting at 10 a.m.

having somebody that could just open up, but then by 12, I think probably around 11 30 or so the crew is going to start coming in and getting prepped and everything like that.

So we definitely need that 11:30.

Um have definitely need it open by 11 30, and then 12 o'clock will be the showing.

So if anybody's there, but it would be really just to help the we'll have the room set up.

So it would just be somebody uh a commissioner there that could help out interact with the public coming in and helping out with the registry registrations, like we'll have a list of the registrants for both both the 12th and the 2:30 program.

So whoever's and I can email everybody after this too.

Okay.

I saw it in town that day, so I I have been checked.

Yeah, do send out an email.

I will send that everybody out.

Okay.

Is there anything else, Brian?

No, I well, there's others, but it's a little better.

Yes, time for commissioner comments.

So Commission O'Neill.

I am I am very impressed with how much you've done and your staff have done.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner Evans.

I compare with John.

Um I'm constantly amazed at how much you're doing.

Well, I wouldn't there's more, obviously.

So keep up the good work.

Thank you.

Same here.

Great.

And uh, of course, I would add my happiness to that, but you've done so many things, and I'm really thrilled that the music has started again.

And just we mentioned the De Anza thing.

There is a website, it's called Anza Historic Trail dot org slash explore.

It's really interesting.

The diaries from that time.

If anyone would like to look at that, I found it very interesting.

And can I add to that, Chair Kimsey?

Because I don't know if they've updated it yet or not, but I sent them an email because I told them their monterey information is partially incorrect.

Really?

Because they marked the Presidio location as the lower Presidio Historic Park.

Ah, but the Presidio at that time was actually located outside of the Royal Presidio Chapel.

And it wasn't moved up into the uh current position.

Current place until I think about 1791.

So I emailed them and I said, Oh, you just got to mark your GIS map to put it next to Lake Alistero.

Okay, thank you.

We're checking on all of that.

So I think I shall call um close the meeting.

No further comments.

Meeting is closed.