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Do we have any comments from members of the public?

Any online hands raised?

Okay, there being no comments.

We'll move on to number five, new business 5.1 performing arts committee fiscal year 2026 27.

Work plan draft recommendation review and approve.

The working is attached.

Any comments on the revised plan?

I just wanted to bring it back to the group for those of Already who mentioned there was a lot of conversation about something that locked the meetings in very soon.

So we're going to make sure that everything got factored.

We have four ongoing work items and we have four um continuing and moving work.

Okay, on page two, under 2627, community connections.

Do we have a reason for uh to participate in the neighborhood community?

What was the rationale behind um participating in the neighborhood community meetings?

Then who is doing that?

We have members.

I think the Who would be members as they arise, staff would let us know.

Um someone from Mountain View, which is that would let us know when they're coming up, and um I had I think I suggested that as because it's an ongoing regular event as a way for us to make awareness about the farming art center and also this committee in front of the neighborhoods where we don't have to as a committee ask Teresa or anyone else from the city council to put on a special event for us.

It's something we can write on the coattails of that someone else is organizing.

And when I was on BPAC, we would often send a member there to talk about some of the stream projects and the committee, and it was pretty low effort for myself as a committee member.

I sort of rotated around, and uh the city is already through all the setup and invites to the new that was I think we as a committee we were open for other things, it just seemed like a easy start.

Okay.

So did you notify the city beforehand that you were coming?

Because they generally have speakers and whatever.

We were so um we were invited by our our staff to the phone, uh, which is um wouldn't be the director of work we'll see transportation, and we would sit at a table.

We didn't speak to it.

Um, and then after the council members speak, the college representative speaks and a couple more people speak, then kind of their answer.

There's like open QA and we'll see the answer, and then you also sit at a table, okay.

Okay, you have to confess I haven't been to very many.

It was so it was pretty low effort and um opportunity to put some of those beautiful flyers that we may be on the table and talk to people about what's coming up at the center and the work we do in the committee and so I'm all about it.

I mean, I pass off flyers in my bank, the last 10 minutes.

But that was yes, it was coordinated by the city, so that uh the whole committee doesn't show up, but right we don't break the act and if it's it's like hey, we already have too many people at tables, it's not gonna work with it.

Better than we as individual community absolutely.

So that was just as a lightweight get started community outreach.

Um, and then I see that we still have the art and wine festival um on here as well.

Just a comment on just thinking about history of we haven't we've we've tempted to do it for I think three years now and have not, um, and I'm kind of curious also as we move forward on initiatives to the leverage that they will produce.

I understand doing the R and Wine, I understand going to to um increase community increasing community community connections, but um I mean we can keep one thing that we'll review art and wine, we will review art and wine.

Um kind of curious if we will actually we should continue to put it on our work plan if we have not done it after three years.

I don't think we've come up with an idea either.

I don't think we've come up with um a next a next step other than we want to so it's kind of just in discussion of we have we haven't done it, but we haven't also quite located the benefit our our overall benefit in community connections that we would like to cultivate more deeply.

So that's just kind of the thought as we're talking about community connections as well.

I didn't realize that this has been three years of the action item.

Time flies, yeah.

Well, I haven't been here three years, so I only saw it one year, so this is the second year.

We just had it for a for a while.

When we get to the community connection things, we we tend to have a lot of great ideas and we approach them, but on the end of actually seeing them to fruition, we haven't quite necessarily that's what I'm saying.

We haven't quite found our our mouthpiece yet in the city, um, is the thing that I'm thinking here.

Um it's also the difference of we can go out to the community and have just analyzing our approach.

Um I see that the participating in community meetings, uh, neighborhood meetings as we are like pushing ourselves out, and also are we pulling people into the committee as well?

The date and time and things like that is kind of the interesting thing.

So doing a multi-prong approach as well as we're talking about increased community connections, so kind of a second order question, not just you know the what is increased community connections and how are we going to do that?

Um we have a series of first order titles and descriptions here, not quite a second order there.

So just kind of an internal kind of question for how we are constructing this.

Well, I suppose the only way to move forward at it is to have a sub.

Well, we created an ad hoc committee, yeah.

Right, but who was on that committee?