are you

Can you please please please please please please please please please please please

please please please please please please please please please please please please

We can set it to Lee.

And then,

Brian.

Good.

Ned Wood.

Present.

Nathom.

Yeah.

Babe.

Yeah.

And Allison.

I would like to share singles.

And Jared.

Yeah.

Let's move on to the number three.

the

well then next we'll get oral communications from the public okay we do have a few people online so

So if you have any public comments, you can raise your hand.

So no hands are raised.

Then number five would be upcoming agenda topics.

Any of you would have a suggestion for a future agenda topic?

So let's move on to number six, Unbeknown's Business.

It's like one capital improvement program published by Art Bays.

And the first one is the arts exhibit.

That's the next exhibit in the whole country.

Oh, is it? Yeah, I know.

Oh, because it was underlined.

Okay, got it.

Yeah, so let's see.

So for Capital Improvement Program projects,

we should have one big update.

Fernanda Martinez,

she's scheduling her art installation for spring.

So I think she's working out some of the dates right now,

but it should be within the next few months.

So once we know the installation schedule, we'll actually make that public

and invite people to come see her.

And, you know, she's totally comfortable and fine with people

and coming and engaging with her.

And while she's in the process of meeting her mirror also,

super excited to have that in progress.

And I know we're working so actively working with her

and

So I'm very excited to have

for work.

What is that going to be?

Yeah, that's going to be,

so that's Rigsdorf Park at,

there's two new kind of maintenance

and restroom buildings there.

So Fernanda Martinez will be

at the building that's closer

to Magical Bridge playground.

And then Harumo Saito is closer

to the parking lot and by the big

What are the dates? We're still working out the schedule, but it should be within the next few

months. So as soon as we have that determined, then I'll send out a notice to the group.

So she'll paint it in public? Yep. Oh, wonderful. Yeah, it's going directly onto the building. So,

yeah. So it should be about a two-week period that she's out there.

And then Haruma probably later in the day.

Yeah.

She's probably very busy.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, and then some other outstanding projects.

So we have the Butterfly Reflect by looking up arts.

I'm going into Evelyn Park.

So they're working through the design of the design

and incorporating that into the park and making sure.

I think they're going through their building permit process and working through that project.

We don't know exactly when the installation is going to be, but we definitely provide that

information to once it's once they're ready. And then Villa Chiquita Park, similar process,

their design and getting that in the project. And I think the timeline for the park is

um, for installation is here this fall, um, potentially.

Yes, um, I do have an update on that one.

I think you just show that now.

I saw in the word, we thought it was scheduled to .

Yeah, so, um, so working out an official date, but we have finished kind of the

administrative legwork. And I think there's just one final piece related to the building permit

that they're finishing up, their contractor is finishing up. And so we should know the schedule

for this. I think in the next few weeks, we'll have some dates worked out. And so again,

we'll send out notice, but I think March is going to be a really big month for our,

so we're hoping this will happen in March, but we'll send out notice.

And for this too, so there was so much coordination with multiple different groups.

We have the Visual Arts Committee, the VTA, Caltrain, Arts Mountain View, the Historical Association.

And so we want to obviously recognize all the groups that contributed to this and do a ribbon cutting for the art.

So we'll be working on that and making sure we can get everyone involved.

and yeah uh the bollards are they also option oh yeah yeah everything that was on hold last year

there's so much on hold right it seems like a lot of things since a year or more we're

where they're kind of ongoing.

Yeah, so as a reminder for, especially for our newer BAC members,

so this project was initiated in summer of 2024,

and the Visual Arts Committee selected artists to complete murals

on some of the safety bollards downtown along Castro Street,

And it was ultimately halted due to the contractor state licensing board requirements for muralists.

So we were told that muralists needed to get a contractor's license.

And then the Senate ended up passing Senate Bill 456 last fall, which exempts muralists from contractor state licensing board requirements.

And so we're able to move forward. And even better, we artists actually had agreed to work at a reduced rate at one point.

We're bringing the budget back up to what we originally proposed.

And so they're all going to get fifteen hundred dollars compensation to do the two bollards.

There are five out of the six who are able to complete the project.

But I think it honestly works out really nicely with the placement of the bollards.

the sixth location at the corner of Evelyn was the boards are a little bit awkwardly placed anyways

so I think this works out really nicely so we're working on scheduling with everyone

there's a few moving pieces with I'm priming the bollards and then we'll the city's actually going

to do the anti-graffiti coding too so kind of working on some of those logistical details and

making sure that everyone can get the work done when they're available.

And also within a timeframe that, you know,

we can do a lot of promotion and marketing and kind of activations around it

and invite people to come out and see them and kind of interact again

while they're putting the art up.

Really excited.

Again, a lot of projects.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So these are the proposals that came in.

And Zoe here and she had submitted some of her work examples.

I think the proposal was to kind of focus on animals and things that you'd see.

Just as a note, one of the artists is John Patrick Thomas, right, who's also doing the

main station.

Definitely see it.

Do we know already who's doing which section?

No, I think it'll be dependent on availability.

We're trying to get the sections done block by block.

So working out everyone's schedules

to try and just put them in to get them done

within a certain period.

Any other questions on CFP projects or other public art

projects?

everybody people appreciate it more than ever they're really overlooking at the ballards

yeah yeah they'll be i mean it's almost one of the most visible things we've done so far yeah

yeah and um so you know we had the mountain view football fan fest event this weekend

um and we're going to be doing kind of soccer activations for the big events happening in

June and July. So we have a fun idea to paint some of the bollards that are still white

by the soccer ball. So we may have some soccer balls. A couple of soccer balls throughout.

Inviting people to sit on them and take selfies.

There are a few people, a few attendees, so if there's any public comment on these projects?

Yes.

Let's move on to 6.2, the end of a performing arts exhibit.

The touring, so...

Wow, that was a lot of...

A lot of good...

Yeah, difficult.

A lot of good artists.

It was really difficult.

I think it pays off that we have more channels now,

where we distribute the things.

So we get good stuff.

Like what Kirsten's doing to go through all the organizations,

because we're getting new people.

I don't know many times. For a while we had a series of other people.

New people, good quality art.

It was not easy.

What new channel did we introduce?

So we've reached out to Silicon Valley Creates and Local Color of San Jose the last two years.

And I'm wondering if part of it is that we are just getting more exposure from those groups.

And then this year we reached out to Silicon Valley Open Studios, Artists Mountain View, and some of the local school programs, too.

So I did reach out to Freestyle and Community School of Music and Arts.

I had a feeling there were a couple of young people.

I mean, I love that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So I think there was a broader outreach for this latest call.

And then we've noticed, too, in our social media, the economic development team has a page.

And, you know, we post a lot of the information about the exhibits as they come up.

And we've been posting about calls for artists.

And I've noticed we've gotten more artists following.

Nice.

Yeah.

So we can get into it.

So just a refresher.

So every year we issue this call for artists for art exhibitions at the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts.

So we sent this out on December 15th or published the call on December 15th.

It closed on January 23rd. We ended up getting over 100 applications.

And I think 110 of them were ultimately eligible for the project.

So the Visual Arts Committee, you call jury, you review and score our applications from a scale of one to seven, seven being the highest, one being the lowest, and the evaluations based on artwork that's being proposed and then prior public experience.

So I'm going to show the top 10 selections.

The goal today is to choose seven artists to exhibit through about mid-May of next year.

And then there's three to include on a reserve roster, you know, in case anyone becomes unavailable.

Which seems to happen every time.

How many times did that happen this year?

We selected two last year and both of them ultimately participated.

Oh wow.

So Robin Bernstein participated in, I can't remember in place of who, but she exhibited at the end of last year.

And then Stanislava Chenning, she is going to exhibit next month.

Okay, somebody.

they were both selected as alternates are in the report.

That could be something we always offer, right?

That maybe they could exhibit the following season.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

Okay.

So these are the top 10.

So separated it out, obviously, by the top seven,

and then the next three following that.

After the 10th person, the score was below 4.12,

so it was kind of a cutoff point.

I put an asterisk next to two people

because they did both have two one scores.

You can see there's a range.

A full range.

Oh, this is crazy.

This is crazy.

On your boxing gloves.

Yeah, and you'll end up seeing too, as we go through the photos,

that there's a few people who are really similar

and the style of art that they have and kind of how it presents.

So I think the VC could ultimately just select to exhibit as you voted

or select to kind of ultimately.

Select somebody else.

Sorry, what does the asterisks mean again?

So I put the asterisks on those two.

Both of those artists had two one scores, but then they also had several higher.

Yes, and then it ultimately led to the higher scores.

So just kind of an interesting point.

And just in case, Kirsten, do you have more than 10 in the list?

No, because there was a kind of clear cutoff.

After the 10th person, the score was lower than that.

So it kept it at the top 10.

So the difference between 11 and 10 is significant.

in compared to 78.

Yeah.

Oh, wow, that's great, actually.

Yeah, that's all.

Keep having it.

Is this chowder?

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

That's fair.

Thank you.

So now this is starting to get into the...

Yeah.

Can you go back to them again?

Yeah, please.

I think the first ones were pretty similar, right?

Yeah. So before we jump into discussions, right, see if we have questions. Yeah, so

yeah, I thought the same thing. They're all great. And the first, we have like five, we have

first five, those two are super similar, and then the other three.

very good so yeah yeah i know i know but and then these are when they show though like can't you just

do like a you know any photo but photographers you know we have no photographers yeah they were

amazing photographers

Is this large pieces?

I think it's collage.

I think she's a printmaker.

It might be layered prints on other.

she used to be a coppery artist so i've seen her stuff

she's doing the bollard

which could be a nice tie-in yeah yeah it would be kind of fun yeah it would be kind of fun

those are super different the one before was quilting that's not painted right that was yeah

we've got a couple interesting like fiber arts yeah the fiber yeah we always get fiber artists

recently which is really great

any questions questions and then comments from the public

Is there any public comment?

So the first two were quite similar and then three to three and four were also very similar.

Yeah.

And we have no photography, fiber artist again.

She probably is like...

Sorry?

The fiber artist is number eight.

Yeah, she's number eight.

Oh right, she's not necessarily...

I almost feel like offering one or two and three or four a spot next year.

I would keep, I would go for the difference between

six, seven, and eight. It was pretty close. What do you mean?

scores on the score are all very similar to them in that same order bring the fiber optic up

or one of those but the the first two or three or four

five

group i wouldn't want i wouldn't want to disturb that so yeah i mean that's the goal you know

We scoring for it.

We score.

Or at least numerically, one and two are pretty big different.

Yeah, those.

Far beyond.

The one and two, one and two for me are different enough.

It's really three and four for me are quite similar.

And they have the same score.

Can we see those again? I don't want to jump to superficial judgments in the same domain.

And we can, as we're scheduling out the exhibits, can plan to separate the amount.

So it's not one of those first.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The schedule wouldn't necessarily be in this order.

It'll depend on availability and all that, but we can make sure that some similar exhibits are a little bit spread out.

So there's...

You mean, out of the seven that we eventually agree on, they don't go all at the same time?

No, there's...

So every artist will get eight weeks to exhibit.

And so that's how it's been.

So there's only one artist exhibiting at a time and they rotate.

Oh, okay.

Can you show four?

Yeah, much more traditional.

Yeah, it looks like nearly the same artist right there.

very similar. Well, I mean, you really have to get on the website and kind of see their

body because like they're not even necessarily going to present this, you know, so it's like

one's on rice paper. They're pretty different actually. Yeah, I mean, this is more abstract.

the other one is more traditional

yeah

yeah that's fine

another

observation

I mean is someone remembering

some like thing they want to bring back

and discuss

rather than going through everybody is anybody

saying ah I really wanted to see that

you know photography

and we can look at it but

otherwise you got 110 artists

to look at

no we shouldn't

I mean, we already scored, so let's respect that.

Yeah, I agree.

Yeah.

Put our effort into it.

I guess I would just say the only thing I would go to bat for if we felt like we wanted to, from our 10,

try to have a broader representation of mediums is the plexiglass artist.

Number eight, I think, is some really interesting stuff and is certainly quite different from the rest.

That's a significant...

Is that five or are you?

I'm sorry, nine, nine.

Sorry, my bad, my bad.

I'm at nine.

Yeah, I like the fiber artist as well.

I know the fiber artist too.

I mean, if you didn't know that was fiber or if you thought it was painting, you'd go,

man, but that's like pretty remarkable.

That is fiber.

That's pretty good.

I'd like to bring that one back up in terms of if we look at the scoring.

So this is number eight, correct.

So eight and nine, really.

I mean, who would you replace them with?

Can you just do those last couple?

Those are also the ones that are a bit more different.

That's the problem.

Then you would have to honor those people.

What's the five and six again?

Five, six, seven.

Okay.

And that's seven?

That's the one that has one of the bollards?

Well, I don't know if they have a bollard, then maybe.

Yeah.

It's yeah and this

Remember this is a chance for people to spell their work.

Oh there you go. Okay.

This one is a good point.

This is a commercial. This is time for them to sell their artworks.

So what's the difference in the score between that fiber art one and

nice media?

One? Maybe we should vote on seven and eight again.

They're so close.

And one is fiber art and one was the...

6, 7, 8.

What do you guys think? Oh, that's what I mean.

Maybe we should vote on 6, 7, 8.

Vote on 6, 7, and 8 again.

I feel like, I think she applied a bunch of times.

Servian.

Servian.

Oh, you remember?

Servian.

I would kind of hate to cut her.

I just feel like.

I tried a bunch of times.

She wasn't on the list a few times, I think.

Either way, she's going to.

And she is different, right?

She has media, arts.

Zoe is already getting a contract from us.

She's getting some.

I vote.

We vote for we do another.

Entertain that or play in some way of re-voting, looking at that.

So if you did go with the top seven, the three, they'd be included in this reserve roster.

So if anyone is unavailable to exhibit, which again has happened twice this year, and I

think happened at least once this year, in the order of how they're scored.

Yeah, because even like number nine and number 10 have the same score, so you can't even say that number 10 is actually 10.

They're very close.

I would actually propose to maybe re-vote on three and four, because they're so similar, make one of those a reserve.

If anything, it's six and seven.

If anything.

because three and four so far above

I would agree looking at them again

in more detail I don't think three and four are actually that similar

and just like separating I think yeah one and two and three and four

as long as they're separated temporarily throughout the year

I think we'll be fine

in my opinion

yeah I mean I feel like as long as we don't have

like you know we say one spot is for a photographer

one is for a

we never have

no no no i'm saying as long as we don't have that this will happen and nobody knows if when

they walk in what's submitted i mean where the ones that looked at all exactly well yeah and

because the vote is how it falls right i tried to actually vote a couple of photographers highly

because i thought we didn't have yeah we didn't have photographers we don't have them a lot so

and there were a bunch of really good yeah there were there were some fantastic so i mean it could

be something in the future right now before now that we would say um like a big pockets or something

i don't know how that's best done but you know you vote for your favorite is that internally or you

would you would have no no we would have to figure out public like or announce that or no no no when

when when we set up the rules just internal the call for artists goes out okay i mean you have

to make that. Could you say we're going to pay special attention to like one of the shows being

photography so you could entertain more photography? Yeah, there would be the ceramics and you have the

textile and then you have the you know so you could, yep. Look here, we've got oil, we've got

watercolor, we've got mosaics, media, I mean we've got actually a whole whole bunch of stuff which is

I think it's great.

So it's not really good.

Well, as I really feel three and four is very similar, we didn't have that kind of artist before.

That kind of visuals.

So in that sense.

But, yeah, I mean, we had in the past,

we had the problem that the same artist had exhibited three times already.

That was the problem.

And the person, because it's very good, he got a lot of work from us again.

It might be worthwhile, you know, to think about it,

how we make this not just highest vote, but also more curated

in the sense of, not in the sense of we pick certain artists,

of course, but in the sense of we have a bucket for fiber art.

Right.

We have a bucket for photography and fine art.

Different media.

Fine art, different media, yeah.

I see.

Yeah, I'll make note of that for...

To put a little bit of curation in.

I like that idea.

And not just what we like the best or what we value the most.

What would be nice is that once we get a new person on staff

who's focused on...

Could help with...

Because it's a tricky question how to do that, right?

That's a curator full-time.

Yeah.

You could work with the artist.

But you know what I mean, right?

Like put something in it that's more curation in this

so that we make sure the seven people are in itself

an interesting, exciting mix.

So when people come throughout the year,

that see something really new and different each time.

Yeah.

I actually took into consideration about a media.

I always like click the information, see what media it is.

Then I sort out my top seven.

That's like different.

Like I took that into consideration when I was shooting.

I did too, but pan out.

That's a little bit over.

So other than six and seven, which we've heard, are there any other kind of artists

that have meta considerations, like one is applied a lot, one is doing the bollards.

Are there any other things along those lines?

Serbian has applied a bunch of times, but never got anything.

So we're doing the bollards.

I don't know the first four.

Sean, so no.

Jen, um, Zoe, Karen is working on that.

Yeah, when I saw Aura, I thought...

We also don't have a limitation on Aura.

I don't think so.

That's so good.

Rhana Davies I think has submitted before.

For some reason I feel like I've seen those laser cuts.

Maybe.

Then 1601 was also super fun.

It's more like a comic book kind of art.

Oh yeah.

It was very different.

Yeah.

Well I'd suggest I'm...

Since this is how the votes end out, I'm going with this election, knowing that there is a chance that

we're out of Canada or I think Sushian could also end up participating.

Was there...

It's quite high likelihood, actually.

Was there any reason that 9 and 10 were in the order they were?

You want to get more sevens if you were willing to do anything like that?

You know what, I think it was actually just how they appeared in the list.

So yeah.

Oh, maybe that we could make a vote, like if they get too bumped up, then which one would...

That could happen.

Out of these two already.

We could look at the schedule and see, there is a chance we could have everyone on this list

exhibit um there would be a backup so then you know extend our timeline enough that it would

give us time for when we issue the new call we would be able to select

there's a chance you could extend

period.

If we like everyone on this list, right?

Let's do that.

Yay, Bonnie.

Because eight and nine are really interesting.

They are.

And it's helped to make this.

I like it.

You need a backup.

So if we do select to exhibit all of them, the timeline would push us far enough that

when we get to authorizing and issuing this next call of artists that if we you know if someone

does back out we would have to kind of maybe readjust some of the existing schedule with

this group of artists um but i think we can fill in the back end let's do that

so just understand the impact there some people might have more or less time than others slash it

might just be empty for longer if we do that no we would try and keep the eight weeks um for each

exhibit and then you know if someone in the middle says all of a sudden can't do it then i would ask

someone at the end who agreed to exhibit at the end and fill that space so we would always have

it yeah yeah and then we just pull in the the next call right yeah yeah i would essentially

just go down the list and call people it may delay the start of the next call yeah

Do we make a motion for this?

Should we make a motion?

I just, can I, no, can I, I mean, for a little bit longer, I'm still doing this.

No, I just wanted to ask, I wanted to say that, you know, there's always people we selected

and some we selected highly who couldn't do it.

That could also be part of the creation that we ask those people back.

Like, you know, when we have, like, if Aura can't exhibit this time, right, because she's an alternate.

Or in the past exhibit, we had people who were number two or three on our list, but they, for some reason, couldn't exhibit.

I just wanted to mention that could also be something that we'd be a bit more deliberate about, that we say we had those three people we actually wanted to come and exhibit.

it, but they couldn't make it. So we invite them at least to apply again.

I think in the process, we would want to invite them to apply again and then we would be going

through the same process because there may be applications that come in that the group

decides, well, is this preferable for whatever reason, where there are changes to the call

where you're holding space for...

And if you want to create...

Up to us to...

Different mediums.

Unless you want to create some kind of honorary role,

that'll be a new thing.

That'll not be this category.

Like each member of the committee say

that this four weeks,

each of us will choose the one that's really like the most,

but not necessarily the group like the most.

That'll be a new category.

Yeah, it would have to be a future discussion

about the future call too. We wouldn't be able to do that first.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That would be something for the future.

Okay, so we're in agreement. What's the motion? So who wants to formulate the motion?

Make a motion that will extend the exhibition time to allow all 10 artists, if available,

to get a chance to exit.

Second.

All in favor?

Faster than last year.

Now we get 10.

okay so 6.3

that's going to happen next week i hope you're all coming

next week right

next week

yeah

yeah I was

bummed

so what's

going to happen

I forgot my

notes sorry

I was out of

town so I

couldn't go

yeah you

weren't

yeah I

wasn't

so yeah

we so we

decided we

have first a

little mingle

and we'll

have some

refreshments

and then

we go in

to the

theater for

the talk

and then

who was going to do the emcee um so david garcia with the performing arts committee he's going to

moderate the talk um he's an artist and musician himself and i'm i think as an educator um and he

has an interest in the exhibit and was really excited and so i think it's going to be a super

interesting talk. Don Perchman is very energetic and just really interesting to listen to. He has

a background and exhibit itself. It's amazing. If you haven't had a chance to see that in person,

I'm always shocked by exhibits once you've seen them in real life. But yeah, the moderated talk

will be about an hour.

We probably could go longer than that.

He has a lot to say.

And there will be time at the end

to again mingle and talk

and look at the art

and talk with Don one-on-one

out in the lobby.

So we'll hold the discussion

in second stage.

Do we know how many tickets were ordered?

Last I checked last week,

there were over 70 that were sold.

So I think we have to account for some of those people not showing up.

The tickets are free.

This is our experience, at least with the technology showcase panels.

We've sold out and then probably half the people showed up.

But I think this will be a really good way to see or to gauge kind of the interest in

all these types of events and how we can proceed with that.

And the mingling starts at 530, the panel starts up.

Yeah, mingling starts at 530. There will be food and drink. One thing to note, too, no discussion of committee business at the event.

um just be mindful of kind of brown act rules and and how we're engaging but this is an open to the

public event that is unrelated to committee business and i'm solely focused on the artist

and i'm hearing about his exhibition and his experience so kids it allowed me yeah yeah colleges

we should distribute that in our networks

Any other questions?

There's no public anymore?

Any comments?

Yeah, we should put a post, there should be a post on the door to the theatre.

Yeah.

About the reception.

I saw there's postcards on the little tables inside, but not right at the door.

I did print some out.

Before you leave, I'm gonna go run in and grab those.

I can tell you have a lot going on.

All right, very cool.

I hope.

All right, so moving on to seven business, seven from Banke Lebson chair and vice chair.

So every year the committee elects a new chair and vice chair.

Susie has graciously dedicated two years to serving.

And is graciously passing it on.

I think typically the chair position has gone to the vice chair,

but there can be a nomination process.

and wanting to, willing to dedicate some time to running the meetings.

And, you know, we invite the chair and vice chair to join us at Silicon Valley,

creates roundtables and represent the media at certain cities.

And it's really not a lot of extra work, I would say.

once a month's agenda meetings, that's probably the most you do extra then actually.

So who's interested, who wants to nominate?

We should, I think, um, I already said to Susie and I don't know how you, how you feel,

I'm probably in trouble a lot this year.

I have a few preps plans, so I don't know how many meetings I'll miss.

I don't know.

When do you take the position?

Now, basically.

I think probably just the next, so that the assistant would run the meeting.

Or if you step in when she's coming.

The vice chair would step in.

So my feeling is, I mean, Vivina has a lot of experience.

She's done it.

Just two years already.

When are you going to be gone?

What months?

June, you know, in advance.

August.

There's probably not one in August.

Yeah, we don't mean one.

There's not one in August.

So one in August.

So that's why you have a vice chair.

And we pick a vice chair who's around a lot.

Or more.

because i felt like the two year is actually good it's good to pass it on i don't think

it should be longer no no no i think good too but i i'm just saying like whoever wants to do it i

think i would also be very in support of people for two years if they want to because that's nice

for i don't understand you hold the position for two years no no no no that's not that's not a

We were re-elected a year ago.

We were the vice chair for two years.

Oh, God.

So you've got the...

Yeah.

But in our part, we were also keeping...

I just wanted to say it's kind of nice.

The two years thing is kind of nice.

Especially because...

Vice chair for two years.

Oh, I got it.

Then it was easy for you to step in, is what you're saying,

because you knew the room.

Yeah, and I could step...

I usually come, I can step in as well.

Yeah.

That's a given girlfriend.

So,

I don't see why.

I don't see any element.

We're in full support.

We feel like...

We're on the whole slate or one at a time?

Who wants to be vice chair?

So, we're settling on the chair,

I hope.

Who wants to nominate

themselves? Who's interested?

For vice, you mean?

For vice chair.

I'm around.

I can do it.

The other veteran is Tutu.

You like to be vice chair.

The longest serving people are Tutu and Cliff,

then Regina and me.

I'm like running, I'm like half-half,

I'm thinking like what responsibility?

I think.

It's mainly to run the meeting.

Regina would run the meeting when she's here, right?

Yeah.

And you have once a month.

An agenda setting.

You almost need to think in the future, though, because if you take the vice, you're going to probably step up to chair.

So you should, I would think whoever takes vice needs to be ready for that.

And needs to be around.

I think that to me is an important.

Yeah, it's hard when I can definitely do it, but I feel like then we have a lot of back and forth if that happens.

It's good to get new blood, should we say.

Yes, I very much think so.

And have the knowledge of deep knowledge around.

I've got a situation where I'm taking care of my mom who lives across the country.

So I'm going to be around.

I'll be gone May and September.

So otherwise, I'll be going monthly.

The following year, I'll probably be here.

What do you think, Regina?

I mean, again, I think unfortunately I'm a bit in the same boat.

I definitely am interested.

I just don't.

I have a lot of potential travel this year that I don't think I have anything

locked in other than probably October.

Okay, I do want to say, remember

when you decided to join

the group? I know, we had, yes.

Not just to you, just to the group

and broadly that there was a

commitment. I wasn't thinking that, then it came up.

You said you were the same

one, right?

The only one is in a big deal, yes.

We'll make a motion for the rest.

It's nine meetings, it's nine meetings

a year. There's no January

and there's no July, and

And the agenda meetings are online.

I'll defer to Tutu.

I was going to say then you're happy to also next time be the chair, right?

you're happy to also next next time be the chair right yeah we we have

you and i have this year and next year oh correct are you coming out yeah you have this year and

next year because we have i think are you done in 20 years but 2020 is this the second year

or 30? Is this the third year? I think for me, so it's a third year. Because we did one year.

I've been longer than three years. But you were just your second. You guys are up at the same time.

We came on with two guys at the second. So this is our third year. Is this your third year? I think so.

Is it? No, that would be the second year. We started. I feel like it's a third.

and now we're in here a year her second your second beginning beginning of second beginning

a second this is the beginning of third for us yeah you came on with yes with two two and

five it's a four-year thing so you would be on one year and then you your last year you'd be

chair if regina doesn't do this is my second year second time you would still have two

um two more years two more years and if you do decide to be vice chair you have three more you

don't have to serve this year and two years of chair you could do two and then if cliff wasn't

gonna go on for after someone else could take vice yeah the following year that's what i mean

figure that out next yeah yeah yeah so that's you guys want to switch it around unless you took it

and then someone else takes place.

Whatever.

I'm fine.

Can you, can you,

it's a safe place.

Can you serve again or is it only?

No, only two terms.

You're out in two and you guys are out in two?

No, I'm starting my second year.

This is the second year of our term.

We have, we have a year more.

Oh yeah, that's right.

You came back on your second term with Stephanie

because they started a year.

That's right.

Three more years.

Three more years.

You have two more years.

Got it. Okay. We're all on our second term. So we got it.

Got it. Right. And I'm on my first. So I have another.

So before that happens, some of you guys should step up.

I'll definitely want to do it. And my travels are totally.

Remember, we're going to have the new art strategy.

That's going to change. That's true.

That would be exciting. That would be really exciting.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. I'm making a motion that we elect Regina as a second chair and Cliff as our last chair.

Second motion. All in favor. Aye. Sure.

Can I add just another question about this term thing?

So if you leave, because I know like city council, they leave and like come back.

People do that with the arts committee too?

sometimes it does i mean like jesse came back um in part i think because

weren't any in the applicants so we reached out to jesse because the visual because the strategy

was ongoing correct don and and jesse asked for stay on for a third term because the whole

strategy thing seemed to happen quickly and they wanted to stay on it that it didn't

I'm honestly not sure of the specific rules. It could be just the city council ultimately appoints whoever joins the committee.

So it would just be a decision.

Yeah, I mean, it's ultimately up to that subcommittee of the city council.

Of the city council, yeah.

Usually it's two terms and then you apply.

But usually it's two times.

So eight years.

All right.

I'm handing over to you.

You need to continue.

I remember that.

Yes.

Yes.

Did you pay attention?

Did you pay attention all those years?

I'm probably a little bit.

Spring for the Chinese New Year thing.

Aww, thank you.

Aww, they're so sweet.

They're the candy side.

Aww, they are very cute.

Look at that.

They're super cute.

Awesome.

I want to see all of them.

They're so sweet.

It's right now.

17?

17?

Is it the New Year today or New Year?

Thank you.

They're super cute.

Wonderful.

I brought one for each.

Yeah, they're seven.

All right, let's finish the...

Yes, business first.

So who wants to do a motion for the vice chair?

Oh, that's done.

That's done.

Yeah, you move on to eight.

Okay, we're done with the seven one.

So eight committee staff comments, questions, and committee reports.

Okay, so we have some.

new feedback on the public art strategy and I think all this information was in the downtown

digest if any of you received that but um so this is just a little snapshot of um some of the

the survey responses that we received so we ended up getting 306 total survey responses which I

think was fantastic um and um you know you can see 468 participants through the in-person engagement

Again, fantastic. And then this is a snapshot of the responses. So people really want to see murals.

And I encourage you to check out this unbelievable art at the end of the meeting, too.

You'll see murals written all over it. We will get a transcript of all the feedback that was given on these two.

Some of them are literally just kids names, but but there's a lot of fun ideas on there, too.

And then functional art being the second, so like garbage bins or benches or bike racks, and then sculptures being the third highest.

And then where to place art, people really want to see more art in downtown Mountain View, which I think we've heard in a lot of the discussions that we've been having with people too.

A lot of people are really interested in seeing murals downtown.

And then the second, third are parks and trails, and then transit areas.

So our bus stops, the train station,

downtown train station or San Antonio,

the big bus stops are probably one too.

And then role of art in Mountain View.

So the top response was providing opportunities

for people to experience art that enriches their lives.

The second, bring a sense of whimsy and delight

to everyday spaces.

And then the third, support the growth of the global arts community.

So this is, again, just a snapshot of the feedback.

So we will be, our BILTS community is working on kind of compiling some of the feedback that we got into trying to understand the themes and like across the written responses and how people responded to the multi-choice questions.

So we'll come back hopefully next month, if not by the following month, with just an overview of what those themes were, what they look like, and the direction that this strategy is headed.

And so we've also started kind of thinking about blending the Visual Arts Committee strategy with public feedback, with the stakeholder feedback that we've been getting.

It's been the stakeholder meetings have been really fun, really interesting.

And we just had the artist stakeholder meeting the other week.

And I think it was just really enlightening and hearing what artists are interested in, what kind of support they want, and kind of what they want to see in Mountain View.

And I think it really aligns with kind of what the Visual Arts Committee wants with what they said they want to see, too.

So I think it'll be easy to kind of combine these things.

But we're working through that now.

So we do have a new, a little bit of a new timeline update.

So, you know, there's a lot of competing things to bring to the city council.

So right now we're looking at fall of 26, and I believe it's going to be in September.

But as some of these agenda items and things get finalized with the city council, you know,

we'll obviously keep everyone updated on what the timeline looks like.

So that gives us spring through summer to really finalize and fine tune what the strategy looks like.

And so, you know, we intend to bring those themes to you guys to just think about.

And then we'll bring the draft strategy for your review before that goes to City Council.

So that'll be two separate meetings.

And then I just sent out an email today. This is fun. I know Multicultural Fest has been brought up at these meetings before. So the next festival is May 2nd. And this is held by the Community Services Department.

They do, you know, they have booths representing different cultures and they have performances and there's art that's going to be displayed in the city hall rotunda in the lobby.

And so I just sent out information about this kind of open art opportunity to our artist network, people who were interested in receiving news about the public art strategy.

And I forwarded information to the group too.

It was included in the same email that had information on Don Hirschman's event.

So if you just scroll it down, if you missed it, scroll down, you'll see it.

So there's an open application to include.

You can exhibit your art pieces or.

That's the community services team.

So they'll really look through kind of all the applications and see, I think, holistically,

making sure they're getting representation of different groups and for the exhibits and the performances.

and those are grown-up artists not for young artists um i think anyone anyone yeah but then

you're you know 11 year old is not going to compete and get ahead of a mature artist um no

well i think what they what they want to do is showcase people all throughout the community so

So, yeah, I don't think it's not necessarily based on the biggest level of experience that an artist has.

It's more based on just the representation of all of the cultures that we have in Mountain View, the diversity that we have in Mountain View.

So artists should live in Mountain View?

Yeah, there's going to be a preference for people who are Mountain View based.

Yeah, or they may expand it a little bit beyond there.

But yeah, there will be a preference for people in Mountain View.

Can you say one more time, which committee is looking after?

I'll just reach out to them.

There's no committee.

So it's the community services department.

They put on the event.

They're taking in all these applications and they're running this.

So the contact, the email would be recreation at mountainview.gov.

If you have questions.

Are there any ones who did that?

or if community services might take it on but it was spectacular just amazing yeah yeah and if you

think about how they had um exhibits through well they had the um the altars throughout um city hall

but they had some art pieces up in the rotunda too um and so you know they're just it's showcasing

just a variety of experience levels and just diversity and representation across the city.

It's a gender topic that you suggested.

Make a connection.

Especially in the East world, this is really important.

um the question um are you still on

for you propose and to your staff to prepare for an art is that still going forward yes i understand

that um i think it's i think the request to add a staff person is going to council

end of the month i think that's the mid-year budget update but it's still proceeding

I would imagine just knowing how long some things take, it probably wouldn't be added

until we wouldn't be able to finish the process of bringing someone on until maybe this year.

But it's moving forward.

Do you think no comments from the public? There's no other attendees online.

All right, then you can adjourn. That's 7.10.

So did you train the speakers on the method, the procedures?