Joe Medwood, Lacey Bradbon, Steven Memorial.

And Randina Sequels.

Yeah.

And Stephanie's roll call for the up there.

That's how we yeah.

Oh yes, you're right.

Okay.

Um and Stephanie say spinning it and to Thompson are absent.

And I will update the next is approved minutes.

We all be as good to point out we have an error on the roll call.

So call the order and the roll call.

So I'll edit where I say chair Susie Merhar.

Oh yeah.

You need to change it.

I make a update.

I think we'll I make a motion to which one update the roll.

Um yeah, to update the call to order and the roll call.

I'll make a motion to update.

Oh we tweet like the current chair and question roles.

I second problem.

Do we vote?

Um all in favor.

Yeah.

All right.

Now approved minutes.

I motion to approve the minutes.

With the uh uh change.

So we just did that.

Yeah.

Second.

We just got it done.

Right.

Yeah, we just approved the minutes.

Oh okay.

We did everything.

Yeah, so now to or open the public on the panel.

And then we move to oral communications from the part of nobody online.

No one online.

All right.

Let's move on to five upcoming agenda topics.

Um I was wondering but I guess you guys do that, right?

Like uh big opening for the data station and yeah, we'll talk about alerts and all that.

That's not something we need to no, yeah.

Well give an update on that.

Um I think this time we need um six unfinished business six one capital improvement program public art project okay.

So we have um a few in progress uh capital improvement projects.

So the Evelyn Park uh that includes the butterfly and reference uh art was selected, they're still going through the uh design process for uh with the engineering team uh next shoreline boat.

Do they have a date and a date when that's I think it will be ready?

I think they're all um slated for fall or um by the end of the year.

Yep.

Yeah, yeah.

Uh shoreline boathouse.

So we're working with Stephen Galloway uh and uh and the initial design.

So he's uh going to be getting some input uh soon from our shoreline manager and um some of the uh um people who work on in the community services department and the shoreline park team.

Um we'll get some input from them uh and kind of floor and fauna to potentially include in um the panels that he'll create to put on the boat house.

And so I know the constructions happening right now on the boat house, and um that's expected to be done um by about November, and then the art will be installed um once the building's ready and permitted for the art.

So we're working with James Tin similarly and just finalizing the design.

And I think that one may be a little bit sooner.

Potentially this summer, but um I think we'll just keep kind of the contingency of fall.

Um were you able to confirm the Evelyn park location?

Oh, I'm sorry.

No, I'm I just wasn't able to.

Yeah.

Remember that was something that I said.

We noticed uh last month that there's no space where we thought it's gonna be.

Yeah, it's it's really and but the the board says January seven.

Yeah, I think it'll open.

Yeah.

They're working on it.

Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.

It's all fenced off.

I was surprised to see that.

I thought it's gonna be another year or something.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah, they're all started.

Yeah, yeah.

And I um for that project, I know Steven is all um scheduled out or um starting his design and getting his um he sends out his work for production and um so it's all apt into the timeline to be ready for install the end of these.

Okay, and then we have updates on the polyfustification project.

Umly a year and a half in the region.

Um so yeah, Sophie Godet was the first to uh start the bowls, and she completed them end of last week or maybe this weekend.

Um, but her they look so fun and whimsical and little planets.

Um that's at the hundred block by Eureka Nagame.

So just went really nice colors.

I I saw a nice little little six-year-old, just having lots of fun with it.

Yeah, just yeah, perfect.

Yeah, there's been kids every time I've gone out there to talk to them.

There's kids walking around and stopping to talk to the artists and wondering what Zoe Karen, she's uh she actually completed hers today.

Um I forgot to include the updated photo, but the um this first one is pomegranates, and they're they look juicy when you look at them.

So you have to go back, go down and see them in person.

But um, and then the second is the register.

Um so she's about um fully complete.

I think she just needs to hear them.

The booster is brilliant.

The rooster is amazing.

So good.

I talked to her when she was uh painting the rooster, and she said she got the client already by working there.

Like somebody who wanted in their house wanted to talk about it.

That's amazing.

Yeah, great story.

Yeah, that's really cool.

And she and she was so gracious that she put her email address.

That's clear.

Yeah, they uh I think they both put their Instagram handle.

Yeah, that was a question.

She's a few more codes out for follow them and keep up with them.

So that's really great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And then Catherine Liu, she's painting on weekends, so she started this past weekend.

Um weather's looking iffy this weekend, so we'll see if she's able to make it out.

But um she started one bowlard, and um, we'll finish it up in the next few weekends.

Those are over by Nick the Greek and Sonic's green.

Um is that in front of the flower shop?

Uh Kitty Corner.

Yeah, um, across this corner.

Because it would fit the flower shop.

Yeah.

Yeah, so human-shaped animals, um that's Rachel Barnes.

She'll be next to Bonesgiving Green Line.

Uh, and then John Patrick Thomas will uh be the bullards at the end over by Lemo and uh Butler's and so it'll be kind of a nice um he'll be on a book end.

Yeah, so his art will be uh Sky Lamon and then up at the train depot.

And so they're gonna start um in a few weeks, April 20th.

So it'll be a full month of activity and um being able to go out and see people on action.

We'll send out um another reminder once we're out there too.

Progress photos.

Okay, and this is just a reminder on the rendering of the mural.

So Bernanda completed her mural um a few weeks ago.

So it looked lovely um over at Ringsurf Park by the tennis courts and um magical bridge for the ground.

So that came out really well.

The the she improved the uh we'd ask her to relook at the features that she had on the right, which did a nice job of doing that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

I mean, she, yeah, it was very uh because I remember, yeah, at the end.

She took her like improved the next.

Oh, and just an update on her remote.

So um we're still still talking with her about kind of when she'll like when she's able to start.

She uh had a few other projects signed up.

I think she had just finished one, maybe in Palo Alto or Sunnyvale.

And um so we're trying to work uh with her schedule to get her done.

But when did we first approve that?

A few years ago.

I think so at least ago.

It's been a while.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah, that one was longer than maybe a year earlier than the bowlers.

So two and a half years.

Another year and a half from the making project.

But uh these this this is the final installation.

My photos don't do it justice, but it uh the colors look beautiful out there, and it just really frightens up the it's hard to take a picture from the back of the back side when we tried.

And really, really weird stuff.

Yeah, and as a designer, I know how hard it can be, like what you see on your screen, and it's bright and pops is printed much duller and much less contrast and all sorts of issues you can have when you go to print.

And I think this is an example that really well.

Really did a good job.

Really, really, really good.

So this is not as easy to achieve as it was in the visual.

Computer generated or is it what's it?

Yeah, I think he did that.

Yeah, you probably didn't photoshop, but then he scanded it.

Right, but but then it's a manufacturing process of the uh San Jose, was it?

That she was going to who had to print it.

And then blow it up, right?

So he I'm sure he he did illustrator for it.

Yeah, I'm sure he did that.

And then they could blow it up any size.

Yeah, they're all nicely nestled amongst the tubes and such.

Yeah, but it kind of visually hides that because the attention is drawn to the artwork and lots of the infrastructure.

And he worked around, we worked around the limitations, don't we?

Oh, we measured so many times.

That was rough.

And I think the Nanita went out of fifty times.

Yeah, so that's that's good, yeah.

Uh, can I ask about the barcodes?

Are they are the barcodes going to be installed?

Or um yeah, we're working with Anita, I think trying to figure out who's gonna be managing in host.

Like if they were putting QR codes gonna host it.

It's yeah that we're able to update that, keep keep it updated.

Right, right.

Yeah, I think she wanted to know if you guys would host, right?

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah so we're working on uh um ordering a plaque too to represent or to um show the the collaboration between the city, Arts Mountain View, VTA, uh so I think it's the same thing.

And will will there be um besides the barcode, will it be kind of like a label that kind of describes what things are represented each one, like a title.

Yeah, I don't know if we'll put a label out for each one of them, yeah.

Yeah, but it might just be the QR code that people can go online to see.

Yeah, yeah, and then we'll have the the black to say the art name, artist name, um city arts mountain view anything like that.

And it's it's all written already.

It's beautiful.

You can see it on a detail.

Yeah, descriptions for each panel.

And I just innovation like school class is coming out, and then right.

You can pull up the QR code and you can look at all the plants that are on it.

You can see all the kids from Lando's going by and the field trip here, and then you have the class almost.

Really, really nice, and it'll really as you know, it gives a chance to activate the millennium can also that's been said for the definitely makes a big difference.

Oh yeah, it's just wonderful.

Um, and so we're for a ribbon cutting celebration.

Um, so we just confirmed earlier this week um the mayor's availability to come and help speak to the project.

Um Thursday, May 7.

I'll send out details by email, but yeah, okay.

Yeah, Thursday, May 7, March 28th, 4 30 p.m.

March 28th.

Yeah, okay.

So and that'll be ribbon cutting in the whole whole thing.

Yeah.

May 7th.

Okay.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we're still working on a few details, but we'll send I'll send out a formal motor's issues at that.

You know approximately what time that will be uh 4 30 pm 430.

So we can sell our can exactly excellent networking.

Happy hour, happy LY time.

Yeah, so I mean Savvy Seller was part of the process too.

So that is the last bit of um updates I have for CIP Profess.

Any other questions or I just wanted to highlight another um prize that I have, which is a line with our art strategy that we heard from the public of creating whimsy.

I saw the planters of all things.

Black planters on Castro Street now have a design on them.

Shortword and uh the um the ones that I'll yeah I was I was tickle thinkle pink because then this is a mind shift change.

Who did that?

Um so it's a uh communications uh consultant, it's part of our downtown communication strategy.

Um consultant project that we have going on, and so there's it's kind of similar or aligning with like the downtown in motion, uh ribbons and the decorative street the decorative street treatment ribbons and the um you may see more signage soon for some of the construction projects that all lines of things make the big things in the memory right and I mean it fits perfectly with what we heard from this with the strategy, which will probably be in the strategy when we come and hear your steps.

The city's taking steps towards it's just wonderful.

Yeah.

We're wearing out that's what's yeah, we had to make sure.

Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I know somebody who would be happy.

We get lots of messages if it's not publicly.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's good.

Okay, let's move to seven new business visual asking fiscal year 26 and seven drafts watch time.

So just a reminder.

Um every year the visual artist studio, every advised advisory body committee and commission, we create work plans um for the next fiscal year.

Um I think I'm bringing it a little bit earlier than we normally have it, but um well, this is the draft version.

We can discuss it today, and then we'll come back to make a recommendation to bring to the city council in uh September.

And um so I did just want to highlight some of the accomplishments from this year.

Um so public art strategy.

I think I've may have forgotten to include that here, but in the um staff report, but the public art strategy is a huge thing.

We've launched all the the work around it, completed the community outreach, convenient engagement.

Uh I'm working on finalizing it by um by this fall uh for council adoption.

And then again, it's still good for to come to us in June.

Um we'll talk about that in a little bit too.

Um so and then the exhibition.

So we've um visual arts committee again selected um 10 artist exhibitions for the Mountain View Center for Performing Arts Lobby.

Um the next uh the next artist from this new group uh to exhibit is Cian Wang.

Um so she'll all start, I think it's two minutes from now.

Then obviously the Rangstorp Park Mural, the train depot project, bowler beautification, all those are on uh done or underway now.

Uh the pilot artist reception was another really big project um collaboration with multiple groups, which was a work plan item that we've had for a few years and haven't had a chance to um to get to yet uh this is going to be a uh I think that event will be a catalyst for future events too.

Um and then strategic outreach looking at um the applications for the exhibition uh this past year, it was a 60% increase from I think the previous two years, which had similar numbers.

Um same with kind of our social media reach.

Uh we've been able to we've collaborated on our posts with the artists that we're working with, and so we're we're able to see a greater reach and um help them kind of connect with some of our community members who follow us and and vice versa.

Uh I I would just add that it's great.

We had 60% increase, but also the quality of the art was significantly better.

My my perspective comparing it to pre previous previews.

So both quantity and quality would really improve.

Is the social media is that the city um that's spoken our bound view economic development page?

Yeah, yeah.

Okay, so now looking at the work plan, so it's probably really hard to read, but um, I just wanted to try and get it all on one page.

So I did uh shorten the work plan quite a bit.

Um so my suggestion to the committee is um essentially just to consolidate some of um the things that were in the previous year's work plan.

We were kind of repeating some of the same things, and um, so I I kept the nature of everything that we had before.

Um collaborating, I think there were a few items that talked about collaborations with advisory bodies with the chamber, with uh outside um arts organizations.

So it's just put into one um into one line item now and see and the milestones are those kind of different working with the different organizations, different groups, and then uh for the public art strategy, since we're still not to the point of adoption yet.

I did remove kind of the more specific items, not that they won't be included in the art strategy and and can't be done next year, but um, I think it's uh probably more appropriate to wait until the council adopts it, and then once that's adopted, we'll be looking at it in real time.

And um, what are the things that you know we're bringing to the digital arts committee and and um what are the projects that you're working on?

And so as as it's adopted, as you see it um in the coming months, and and once it's adopted, you'll be working on it.

So I guess that's what's basically year 26-27.

Yes, so final initiate uh implementation.

Okay, yeah.

Yeah, but that was my question.

So you you have it as initiated implementation but okay, and before we had like a couple of implementation items.

Yeah, yeah, I think there was more specific items on uh like reviewing council policy K5 and um like developing a work plan around it and um like looking at responsibilities.

I think some of those things may be done next year anyways, but um until we get that sign on from council, I just want to make sure we're we we can come back and look at that.

The sign off is more most likely in the fall.

Yeah, exactly.

September um it's scheduled for October, October next, okay, which will be in 2020 next fiscal year.

Yeah, okay.

Yeah, but this is for next fiscal year, right?

Yeah, yeah.

So it will still go until June.

Yeah, and again, it doesn't mean you can't we can't do any some of these things that are in here, uh, but until we have the direction from council to do them, it seems more appropriate to wait until that point.

So then we don't have another work plan.

Sorry, yeah, since for then work, but for us this year it will be working with ABC kind of finalize what we're what we're advise council.

Um that's really our our work for this year.

Yeah, yeah.

And um, and city staff will have the entire strategy as their work plan.

So the visual arts committee, you know, do we kind of we use the annual work plan as a guiding tool for um how we're focusing efforts as an advisory body, but um once this strategy is adopted, that is staff's work.

And so there will be implementation items that are for the first year, um for like for two years for five years, and so um those things will all be looked at.

And so again, it's not that we're taking them away.

Um it's just kind of how we're strategically thinking about what the year to come is.

It's um it's really going to be guided by what the council ends up adopting.

We can't update it, right?

Um I'm just you know, we're getting closer to the implementation.

Like we're taking the specifics out because this is the work plan for next year, basically.

Yeah, but so my my view is is the meat's gonna be in what we're yes, what we're gonna work on to advise council review.

That's gonna be the meat of it.

That would be the guts of it.

Right, right.

What they do or the approve, assuming that they approve it.

Um that'll be what we work on on the implementation.

That'll be the rule cuts.

We don't have to maybe uh odd things like changing the whole funding model.

No, I understand one of the ideas.

What I mean is that the plan that this is true for now, right?

But the plan is for pretty much when the council meets going forward for the next year, right?

Right.

I mean from July on July to next, right?

So uh and the council will meet in the fall.

That's what I mean, right?

For now it this is true.

This we don't know more, but we we kind of we're leaving it very open, although there's a lot of space work plan left after the council.

That's what I mean.

Yeah, I'm just asking if that's if that's the two because we only gonna talk about this again next day for the next one.

Well, so so my my thought on with this is that we've got meat that we're we we have the meal cooking right now with the ABC, and we all know kind of what the the uh menu should be, but the meal should be and the the the the flavors of it and we're waiting for them to come, uh waiting for I'm hoping that they'll meet with you you two uh separately um just to get your feedback to kind of spurred on, and so when it comes to us, we kind of make sure we're all in alignment with what we present that and we know that's gonna be meaty.

Right, but we don't have it in the work plan.

That's all I'm saying.

Yeah, I can't really understand the work plan.

So we have it finalize and initiate implementation.

We're going to you know, as part of this review and provide input on the implementation plan.

So what the specifics are for next year, we don't know yet until I understand until the council.

But it depends on what the what the strategy ends up looking like.

But this sort of provides cover, so allowing you to yeah, yeah, it's pretty still pretty general.

I mean, the only thing I'm saying, right?

Like now that we're getting closer, we're getting less specific, right?

And we still need to cover, I mean, hopefully we implement things from October to June, right?

Which is still in this work plan.

And but you know, if if we feel like this covers whatever we want to do, I think it's just flexibility to figure out which pieces we want to implement.

Um I think it's more like identify, prepare, initiate.

It doesn't say we're gonna try to implement something, right?

Well, the the implementation says we we will do it, we'll implement something, but we haven't we haven't gotten council to fund it.

We all know what we want because we've wrote a strategy ourselves and EBC is kind of validating it.

So we kind of worried about the content, right?

Like what's gonna happen with it.

But it'll be what's what's funding available.

You will still have a lot of stuff to do in the coming year.

So yeah, I just wanted to say it's it's like Susie, is there different language?

Yeah, like it's just less specific, right?

It sounds to me more like what we're gonna do until next June is thinking about how we can next June.

And it in the previous iteration said more like this is the things we you know, like once we once the city council adopts the strategy, then we have the detailed explanation and um description of things that are in that next year work plan.

So once it's adopted, we have a year work plan essentially.

Um because in the implementation plan of the strategy, the goal is to is to define what are the near-term, mid-term, long-term items, and those near-term things are gonna be the right.

No, I understand that we still have a lot of work to do.

I just don't want to hinder us to if we could implement something until next June, right?

Or so we will have or something say, but that's not in the work plan.

I mean it will be in the strategy, so there will be a you know, if we start with this and then the I mean it says initiate implementation of a program.

Maybe we want to just change to implement.

No, no, no, this is it's just it feels a little bit like more we're gonna start it, less than we're gonna it's but if people are fine with it, it's fine.

So when we come up with the usually when they when you present something, a plan to city council will insist on and it's best practices, but it's near-term things that we can do.

Yeah, so what's two years?

No, no, I mean we're talking about because we talk about the work plan, right?

Um would you would you like things like um um I don't know what to do two to four-year plans of something like near near implementation was near term?

No, I mean it says initiate implementation, so I think I mean yeah, if I'm following correctly, I don't have any issue with these scientists no, I mean yeah, I I was more commenting on that.

We had more instruction before, and now we're getting closer with less instruction.

I think I just want to prevent that it doesn't look uh sound like we only gonna sort it out and not give us open it for us to also do like something if you put something specific and then council things, something else is more important to start with then.

That's true.

Yeah, that is overridden, so to speak.

That I I totally agree.

Yeah, I think it's just a timing piece, but probably I would say by next year we'll have more details, but we have more just a matter of timing this time around.

We don't want to re predetermine what council might try and do.

Yeah, yeah.

So this actually gives you the most flexibility by leaving it a little more high level.

Yeah, what about the new person that's going to be hired?

Is that come into the work plan at all or no?

I mean the the you the staffing will remain the same, you know, who's executing and providing support to the work plan.

It it you know this doesn't this isn't Kirsten's work plan, this is the VAC.

So whatever staff is supporting the VAC will be responsible for um yeah, so it does it doesn't affect this, yeah.

I mean, yeah, we can yeah, if it may affect, I guess, you know, if that person suggests new completely new strategies or something, but we can know they'll still be held to the public art strategy and the big council direction.

So they'll they'll be bringing in and no, so yeah, yes.

So this is the whole work plan, right?

So like that your beautiful one page.

That's amazing.

I'm gonna do the downtown committee one.

So vote on this.

Um I don't think we need to vote now.

I'll bring it back to um the committee again and presentation.

I think we just um I think we're supposed to take the bring you the draft, get feedback, and then we'll bring the finalized in the next meeting.

We'll bring it back.

And you present it in September.

Yeah, it ends up going to the city council in September after their brain.

With all the yeah, yeah, okay.

So it's fine.

So April is arts, culture, and creativity month.

Um, just an annual statewide recognition um of works in culture in California.

Um as part of this the city um to support all to support this month.

Uh the mayor will be uh presenting a proclamation to the community school of music and arts next Tuesday evening.

Um and so it's recognizing the work and uh yeah, all the work that they do to uh support and educate children and adults, people of all ages and arts and music.

So that'll be done next Tuesday.

Um, and just noting all the things that we're doing around art this month too, the bullards, um we've done some promotions on the rock and uh shared quite a bit in uh different city newsletters.

I know one went out today and uh talking about all the different projects that we got.

So if you want to see more information about that, you can go to CA for the arts.org.

Um you can post if you post anything online this month about art, use the hashtag joy action power proclamation at the CSMA uh the city council meeting.

Uh the city council meeting.

Ah just need photos of the planters.

Okay, so update.

Um so our next meeting uh May 13th and June 10th um for the public art strategy uh discussion with the visual arts committee.

We're looking at holding a special meeting on July 8th.

Um so I'll send out notice about that, so make sure that we'll have a quorum still, but um just putting that on your calendars now.

Um we'll try and hold a special meeting on July 8th, have the full discussion of the art strategy.

Um so prior to meeting on July 8th, I'd really recommend that the subcommittee that we had the plan.

Yeah, that's a plan.

I haven't heard though.

No, last week.

Okay, yeah, I sent an email outlining kind of the next step.

So it'll be a little bit until uh we're able to have that discussion, but um we will send you guys a draft before so we can that'll make me it'll make the July 8th meeting productive.

Yeah, yeah, like subcommittee way in um I have another question regarding um the um is it May 5th, 7th, the training depot um um inauguration.

Will the city give uh kind of recognition to Arts Mountain View for their work to give a proclamation of thank you or something like that for all the work that it needed to do because it wouldn't be without a need and um it would be nice city to kind of recognize Arts Mountain View for their work, yeah.

And of course she could also use that for some subsequent project, but given her tremendous work and dedication to it and the impact on the city, be nice if the city could have a little proclamation um thanking her for whatever the art form it takes.

She's fully involved, Arts Mountain View um is fully involved in the planning of this, and um she will be speaking, the mayor will be presenting.

Yeah, she will be speaking.

But that'll be nice if uh if the city manager, the mayor or council just gave up proclamation thanking them when we have when we have it.

We'll have to look at there's yeah, specific guidelines or the mayor has for proclamations, but certainly in their comments thinking I think you know the beauty of the ribbon cutting is going to be really highlighting just the multi-organizational partnership, the ETA will be there, the city will be there, obviously Arts Mountain View, we're all gonna have the artists there.

So it's really gonna be a celebration of the partnership, and certainly I can imagine the mayor's comments being highlighting and appreciating all those players.

Yeah, but yeah, we certainly I need to make this happen.

Yeah, I mean it wouldn't happen without yeah, no, very true.

Tremendous tremendous work by her.

Well, we'll it'll I guess also the historical society will be that because the work of PAN.

Great.

What was it?

Wow, so the meeting at 64.

We can all go listen to music downtown.

There's music tonight.