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Chair staff is ready when you are.

Good afternoon.

Welcome to our meeting today March 10th 2025.

It is 1 o 1 p.m.

And this meeting is now called to order.

Will the clerk please call to roll call the roll to establish a

quorum.

Thank you chair.

Commissioner please unmute for votes.

Commissioner Anderson.

Is absent.

Commissioner Eisenberg.

Here yes.

Commissioner Lemmele.

Here.

Commissioner Martino.

Here.

Commissioner O'Habeu.

Here.

Commissioner Smith.

Here.

Commissioner Tokolino.

Here.

Commissioner Wallace.

Here.

Commissioner Winlock.

Here.

And Chair LeVillot.

Here.

Thank you.

We have quorum.

Thank you.

I'd like to remind members of the public and chambers that if you would like to speak on an agenda item, please turn in a speaker slip when the item begins.

You'll have two minutes to speak once you're called on.

After the first speaker, we will no longer accept speaker slips and we will now proceed with today's agenda.

Please stand.

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Please rise for the opening acknowledgments in honor of Sacramento's Indigenous people and tribal lands to the original people of this land.

The Nisanan people, the southern Maidu, Valley and Plains, Mewok, Patwin, Winton peoples, and the people of the Wilton, Rancheria, Sacramento's only federally recognized tribe.

May we acknowledge and honor the native people who came before us and still walk beside us today on these ancestral lands by choosing to gather today together today in the active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation for Sacramento's Indigenous peoples history, contributions and lives.

Thank you.

I do not do the pledge of it.

Sorry.

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which stands one nation under God, Indigenous will with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

Our first business today is approval of the consent calendar.

Clerk, are there any members of the public who wish to speak on the consent calendar?

Thank you, Chair.

There are no speakers for this item.

Okay.

Item number one on the consent calendar is approval of arts, culture, and creative economy commission meeting minutes.

I have a motion to approve the minutes.

Motion to approve.

Seconded.

Thank you.

I would just like to clarify the consent calendar is two items.

It is item one, the approval of the arts, culture, and creative economy commission meeting minutes.

Item number two is the, excuse me, arts and culture, arts, culture, and creative economy commission follow-up log.

Are we doing a motion to pass one and two?

Or was it just for the minutes?

It could be either or.

I was just doing just the minutes, but if you guys want to pass for both the minutes for, um, for item number one and then item number two on the

consent calendar, the economy commission follow-up log.

Anybody want to pass one and two?

If anybody wants to motion that?

I think we should do it separately.

Motion to approve the second item.

Oh, I'm sorry.

I did not get who moved and seconded item one.

Okay.

I'm going to do the vote for item one.

Commissioner Anderson?

It's absent.

Commissioner Eisenberg?

Yes.

Commissioner Lemmele?

Yes.

Commissioner Martino?

Yes.

Commissioner Ohebu?

Yes.

Commissioner Smith?

Yes.

Commissioner Tokolino?

Yes.

Commissioner Wallace?

Aye.

Commissioner Wenlock?

Yes.

And Cherleville?

Aye.

Thank you.

Item one passes.

All right.

Item number two, art, culture, and creative economy commission follow-up log.

I move approval.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And again, we get a second.

Second.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Commissioner's please on vote.

Sorry.

Please unmute for the vote on item two.

Commissioner Anderson?

Absent.

Commissioner Eisenberg?

Aye.

Commissioner Lemmele?

Yes.

Commissioner Martino?

Yes.

Yes.

Commissioner O'Haybou.

Yes.

Commissioner Smith.

Yes.

Commissioner Tokolino.

Yes.

Commissioner Wallace.

Aye.

Commissioner Winlock.

Yes.

And Chair Leverlo.

Aye.

Thank you, item number two passes.

Thank you.

We'll now proceed to the discussion calendar.

Item number three on the discussion calendar, the first discussion, is 2025 Arts Culture

and Creative Creativity Month Programming and Sacramento File.

Okay.

And we have a guest.

And we do have a guest presenter.

Oh, is the presenter on here?

That's one of our slides.

Oh, sweet.

Okay.

Thank you.

Hello to the commission.

Thank you all for having me today.

Special thank you to Jason Drung for supporting with having me, making me present here today.

I'm here to speak with you all about the arts culture and creativity month celebrations that

we will be doing with California for the arts, but also across the state with partnering organizations.

I'm the director of programs with CA for the arts as we like to call it.

And you can see me there.

Please be sure to feel free to reach out to me through email if you have any questions after this presentation also.

And I'll also be sending some follow-up information to Jason to share with you all.

If you're not familiar, if you have not heard of California for the arts,

this gives you a little bit of information about our organization.

CA for the arts is in the orange there underneath CA arts advocate advocates.

Our CA arts advocates is a 501C for organization, sister organization that does our comprehensive lobbying.

I am here in representation of California for the arts where we do our programming, we're at 501C3.

We champion arts and culture as essential for the makeup of our state.

And we do statewide programming services and advocacy networks that we really focus on advocating for the arts and artists and creative economy here in California.

A little bit more about our organization.

I'm sorry for the little mess up on the slide there, but you can see the bulk of the information, the really important information is that arts culture and creativity month is celebrated every year.

It has been a concurrent resolution since 2019.

And we are expanding it and continuing to socialize arts culture and creativity month across our state.

In 2021, we were recognized, we were able to recognize artists as second responders, which was a very exciting step in our journey and our advocacy efforts.

And I'll also be talking about how we're expanding artists as second responders with our summit coming up, which will be in Sacramento in April.

Again, this is an annual month long celebration.

We do launch events across the state from San Diego to Fresno, which is where I reside Sacramento and beyond.

And so I'll get into a little bit more about that.

As I mentioned, our theme this year kind of expands on that second artist's second responders.

The idea of a second first responder, of course, we've seen it.

Unfortunately, for example, the LA fires.

First responders come in support, of course, and repair.

But artists oftentimes step in as second responders.

And we have seen that even on social media, more recently again, referencing LA.

But we've seen it across the state in various other spaces also.

And to expand on that 2021 resolution, we are celebrating this year with our theme being Health Healing and Hope, which you can see on the screen there.

Last year, our theme was artwork is real work.

And this is just expanding that idea that artists really play a crucial role in our society and in our communities.

And we bring Health Healing and Hope through the arts and our artists also need Health Healing and Hope to continue to do their work.

And that includes things like Health, Education, Housing, Climate Justice, Youth Development, and the economy.

I'm sure you all are very familiar being that this is the arts culture and creative economy commission.

Tell you a little bit more about our summit coming up every year for the last, well, this will be our third year in Sacramento.

We've done our California Arts and Culture Summit.

This is a statewide summit. We invite people from across the state to speak about the arts and the impact of the arts and creative workers and creative economy across the state.

This year we'll be doing it. Last year we had it at the, excuse me, the Sophia Theatre.

And this year we'll be at the, right around the corner at the Convention Center and the Memorial Auditorium working hand in hand with the City of Sacramento.

So we are appreciative of that opportunity to utilize the space, the Convention Center, along with the Memorial Auditorium.

And it's very emotional to make sure that we did it at the Memorial Auditorium to make sure we're at a creative space that houses so much of art and creativity here in Sacramento.

But we also were in need of, we're expanding. We've got about 500 people expected to show up for this summit.

And last year at the Sophia Theatre for familiar with the theatre, it's just a smaller theatre. So we needed to expand.

And the amenities of the Convention Center will allow us to really do that in house and have some really great breakouts.

Again, we have about 500 people coming to the city for this, it's a, it ends up being a two day event. We have the summit the first day.

And then we have Arts Advocacy Day, the second day. And we have a rally that we do right here.

Excuse me, not at City Hall. I'm going to slip to my brain as like skipping is hopping around.

And I'll get into Arts Advocacy Day in the next slide. But before I do that, we have scholarships that are available.

And thank you to the authors of Arts and Culture here in the City of Sacramento. We've been able to provide scholarships last year.

We had about 98 scholarships, scholarship applications. We were able to give out about 35 of those.

So 25 were in the city, or in the city for the City of Sacramento. And then the others were statewide.

We're really trying to make sure that artists and creatives are able to come to the summit. It is, it does come at a cost as you can imagine to have a summit of about 500 people.

Making sure that we have everything that we need for those people to enjoy the summit and have all the resources.

So a part of what we're doing is we also offer half price tickets for artists and creatives across the state.

And the ticket costs are plus $300, about $300. And the ticket, the scholarships will cover the costs.

They're up to that total cost so that we can have more artists and creatives in the space where we're really talking about Arts and Culture.

We want to make sure the artists are able to be there. And the scholarships are limited to the City of Sacramento.

For these scholarships, we have some statewide but the ones that are provided through the Office of Arts and Culture are limited to artists and creative workers and administrators that are focused or based in the City of Sacramento.

And they will open up on Friday. I will send out an email to Jason to share with you all with a link so that you can share out with your community.

And we can have as many artists from various backgrounds present at the summit.

And the deadline will be April 11th but I would recommend that people get in their applications as soon as possible because we will be kind of doing it.

Sort of on a first come, first serve basis so that we can really make sure that we get as many people signed up as early as possible and that we can begin to plan.

So just wanted to also shout out and thank the Office of Arts and Culture for supporting us with this endeavor.

And this is a very short, I don't know if it'll play but this is a short video from.

We'll play here. Nope.

All right, I'm not going to stress about it because I know we have a time limit unless.

Support can help potentially. But before if that's possible, if not, I'll send that video. It's a very short video of a recap from last year.

And again, this year we're going to be doing at Capitol Park. That's the word I was trying to think of earlier.

At Capitol Park will be on April 23rd at for Arts Advocacy Day.

Now this is a really fun time where we invite people that came to the summit to come out the next day and advocate for the arts.

We have a press conference in a rally in the beginning of the day. And then we feature legislators, artists as you see on the screen there, cultural workers and advocates.

Last year we gave out awards to some of our elected officials and we'll be doing that again this year along with some artists and cultural workers.

And then we'll we meet with our small groups with the state representatives. We go over to legislative buildings and we are able to meet with our legislators.

And so we we ask that people that came to the summit to come to the advocacy day, arts, advocacy day, let their voices be heard and get the practice and experience to advocate for themselves in their communities.

I just have a few more that sure. I don't even know if my clicker is I think I messed it up with this.

There we go.

Now it's okay. It must be something on my end probably the way that it was sent over. It's okay.

Thank you for that. And this is one. I tried to fix this slide before and I think I did it too late but where it looks like there's a gap.

This is application portal is open. That's today. So on March 10th today we just opened our equitable payroll fund.

Is there performing arts equitable payroll fund? And I just wanted to highlight this because it's something to share out with performing arts organizations that might fit under this and qualify for this equitable payroll fund.

It is in partnership funded by the state of California and administered by the California office of small business advocates.

And this is a great opportunity and something that we've really worked toward and advocated for for many years.

And so I just wanted to share that this is open today. I will send out more information. And if you know of small performing arts, small or large performing arts organizations that would be interested in this then please do share this information out.

And I think the last one, if there's any questions, I would love to take them. And if you take a moment and scan the QR code you can learn more about our work or 2024 impact report is there.

And I'll also send that over for you to review it in an email. Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Nefesha. Thank you in the California for the arts team for your hard work and advancing arts culture creativity.

I had a question around the scholarship opportunity where we are thrilled to co power with you all and offer what we hope to be a double double the amount of scholarships this year 2025.

And I was wondering if you wanted to share additional information about the opportunity for students.

Oh, yes. Yeah. Thank you for bringing that up. So we do often also have scholarships for students. If there are students that you know of that are interested, please share this information with them.

We also have health off tickets for students if we get if we run out of scholarships and there are students that want to be there.

We do provide health off which I think it comes to about $161 with the processing fees.

So and then we with the scholarships, we do ask a little bit of information, some demographic information, of course, to make sure that they're coming from the city of Sacramento.

And then also what their role is in the arts and culture community just so that we have a little bit more background and can make more informed decisions.

And we really want to make sure that it's people that have a need that have that work in the arts and have a need to financially but really want to be there at the summit.

And so if there are students that are interested, it's definitely open to them.

Thank you for your presentation. I attended the summit and advocacy day for the past couple of years and really benefited from it.

And I just want it to get props to California for the arts for putting together such a great advocacy toolkit and training for artists and arts workers to advocate.

It has been really helpful for me, someone who is fairly new to advocating and meeting with my representatives.

And so I just want it to encourage everyone here if you can to participate in advocacy day.

It's free. And I was wondering if maybe you could give a little more information about how that works.

Like I know you have group leaders and the toolkit if you could talk a bit more about that.

Oh, for sure. So thank you. Thank you just for showing up for the last two years and advocating for the arts.

We have, we do our toolkit and online. We have webinars that we prepare people leading up to arts advocacy day.

It is something that can feel intimidating if it's your first time or if you're young or if you're a student and you're learning how advocacy works, it can feel intimidating.

It's the perfect opportunity to get your feet wet and dive in a little bit and learn more about advocacy.

You're not alone going to these offices. You will be with a team of people.

Last year I think I was with about eight people and I was a captain for my location. I live in Fresno area.

And so our captains, we prepare our captains to lead a group of people. We have talking points. We have policy initiatives.

We have a very clear, very clear, like the things that we are working on as an organization.

And we also offer that people coming from the respective locations speak about the things that are mean something to them, that mean something to their community, that they tell the story of their community so that the legislators can understand what the needs are across the state.

The Arts Advocacy Day is a great opportunity for, again, anyone from beginner advocates to people that have been doing this for a long time.

And we often ask for our captains to, for people to captain. And that captaining position is basically just taking leadership to step into these meetings, helping to organize, helping to set up the meetings.

We train advocates. We have a program called Grassroots Artist Advocacy Program. It's based focused primarily in Oakland and San Francisco.

But that is kind of the process. And this just gives like a snippet of what that type of program would look like to learn how to advocate for yourself and your community.

I noticed that you said that you had student scholarships, but it was only at half off.

Oh, sorry, I want to clarify that then. Thank you for bringing that up. We have scholarships that are that will cover the whole cost up to the whole cost that can include students.

So if students are interested, I would recommend they apply for the scholarship if they don't get the scholarship because they are limited.

We have more than we had last year, but of course, we always have more applicants than we have scholarships.

And so I was saying that there's also the half off cost of $161. I believe it is that if students are not selected for scholarships, but would still like to be there, we do offer the half off cost for students and artists and creatives.

Perfect. Thank you. Anyone else?

If I can close by thanking you again for your presentation, Efecha.

Again, we have about 500 people come into the city. We're asking some of our spaces to open up so that people can go to the self-guided tour walk around and learn more about the city.

I think that the answers your question there. The day of the summit, we started at 8 a.m. We finished at about 6.30 and then we'll have a reception the same night at the Memorial Auditorium.

Perfect. Thank you.

I think we have one more question. I was wondering because I think it's really awesome that the summit focuses on our culture economy.

It brings everyone together. I was wondering if you guys are doing any specific advocacy to try to get more students to be aware that the event is coming up or to offer the scholarship opportunities, even the half-off tickets?

We've reached out to SAC State, the arts program, and we're continuing to reach out to other organizations and schools. It would be great to get the support of you all and others that might know students or that are connected with programs so that we can get the word out a little bit more.

We are, I will say, a nine-person team to work on statewide arts advocacy. You can imagine we're quite stretched. Getting the support and the collaboration with our community members is how we're getting the word out.

We will share that information and we'll continue to share it with our educational institution so that students can know about it.

Thank you. I think for students too, with advocacy, I think it helps to maybe it's like an easy way to bridge politics and city and their own lives and arts, what they care about, what they think is important.

I think that the more students that participate in those activities and being able to see, even if they're not team lead, being in a group, seeing what it means to be an advocate and talking about the issue, sharing their stories will be really important.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next item on the agenda is item number four, arts, culture and creative economy commission 2025 work plan.

Jason will be presenting on this one.

Thank you, Chair LaVuello. So as folks know, the 24 annual report has been approved by PNPE, the Personal and Public Employees Committee.

I want to thank Chair LaVuello and Vice Chair Martino for coming to City Hall and providing that presentation.

The draft was approved for the City Council for consideration that will be on the Tuesday, March 25 meeting.

And so this item really focuses the commission to look at the prioritization, prioritization that you all would like to see for this working document.

There are, to summarize, there are the five goal areas and each goal area has between three and I think seven objectives.

So I wanted to thank the folks who were able to respond with their one or two top priorities, which were returned to me just prior to this meeting.

But this is not the, be all end all. This is kind of just a guide.

I can share what those kind of highest priorities are if you would like to refer to the document.

In the first goal area, the first or the highest objective area with the highest number of votes was the objective letter E to build collaborative relationships.

With the mayor's office, Commissioner District Council members, other City of Sacramento departments and commissions to understand how its role intersects with other departments and commissions.

This entire initial goal is I think an inward look to see how the commission body would like to charge itself with moving forward through your roles and responsibilities.

Jason, would we be able to put it on the screen that it's on the right goal that we're looking at?

There are a way that I could advance. I think.

Okay. Thanks, Cecilia.

Do you know what page?

This is, yeah, this is, this is a good, let's see, when maybe one back.

It's page 12. We'll depending on what copy they have.

Sure.

All right.

So this is the 2025 work plan extracted from the 2024 annual report.

This is page 10 of 12. This is where the guts of your goals appear.

The first goal is to achieve greater clarity around ACC's purpose and role within the City of Sacramento government.

And again, not be all end all, but the objective that received the highest number of votes for a priority is to build collaborative relationships with the mayor's office commissioner.

District council members, other City of Sacramento departments and commissions to understand how its role intersects with other departments and commissions.

And we don't necessarily have to follow this path, but just as a gauge, these are the responses.

This is the objective that received the highest number of responses for this particular goal.

Now, I think it would be up to you all to determine if you want to address one or two objectives per goal area.

But I think there's still a lot to kind of discuss and you might have specific thoughts and ideas around some of these goals and objectives.

No, so I just went over goal one. If you like, I can also proceed and share with the priority objectives are for the remaining goals.

If that seems helpful, or if you have questions, feel free.

Anybody have any questions? I think Maya, yes?

Thank you.

Jason, I guess what I would like to know is what are the priorities that you think that the commission needs to focus on or where you would want support in addition to where folks sort of chose that they wanted to focus their efforts?

Yeah. So when we created these, it was a collaborative effort. I want to acknowledge Commissioner Martino and Chalivulo who did a lot of the work and Marricol Lamelli.

So there was, there were a number of weeks, really months that passed from beginning to the version that you see here.

And with the Office of Arts and Culture, I think that some of the most, I think, meaningful work can happen in goal area one when we're looking at ways of working.

And I'm making sure that all commissioners feel comfortable in their roles and responsibilities, sort of that inward looking lens.

Shall we go on to go to somebody has a question, Steven?

I was just in goal one. I was just so impressed about how we were looking at building some of the, what I believe are the structural parts of the commission in the issue about for one, the collaborative relationships and that issue about making sure that we're seeing that we're working in support to the mayor, to his goals, to directions that he's trying to set for the culture.

I think that's excellent in the sense. And to be honest, that's one of the reasons why I came back to the commission was in talking with where they're mayor.

It was interesting in having us make sure that the commission is kind of supporting the goals and the culture that he's establishing or wanting to establish.

So I was just really pleased around that. The other one that I want to just kind of point out, I love the idea about making sure that we constantly revisit the race and cultural equity statement.

Because the equity statement should be alive. It shouldn't be something that is like put there and never, you know, you blow the dust off of it when you pull it out to look at it.

But this community is constantly changing and involved. And I think that we have to keep constantly looking at making sure that the race and equity statement is really supportive of Sacramento.

And in the culture. So I just wanted to give a shout out to those things.

Thank you. Anyone else?

I want to encourage everybody on this commission that when we're going over any of these things to please ask any questions that do not seem clear to you.

Because that's really what this discussion is for. That's why we're going over this. I for one when we were going over this.

I was like, hey, when I first came into this commission, I did not speak at all. And I didn't know what the role was for a commissioner of the arts.

And also when I was looking at this, I wanted to make sure that in the same way that I didn't understand it, that when you guys come in, you guys understand too.

What is your role as an arts commissioner? And these do give you action items to kind of like make it more clear of what you should be doing.

But if there is something that's not clear, please, by all means, use this time to say, hey, I have a question on this. And I'm not quite clear.

Thank you. I have a question on this.

Thank you.

So I'm just wondering as we're going through these is today the time that we're talking about how we're doing these things.

Or we just deciding what the priorities are because one of the things that I was thinking when we were actually putting together this document is the hope that we could bring up these objectives.

For instance, this build collaborative relationships with the mayor's office, council members, et cetera, like how we're actually doing it.

Like I would give an example of how I'm trying to do it. I feel like I need to be better at building these relationships.

But I try to show up at places where my council member would be because he doesn't respond to my emails all the time.

So I'm trying to get FaceTime with my council member. So he sees me, you know, and like will hopefully respond to me more.

So yeah, are we giving, are we, because I think if we can each give examples of how we are doing these things that will support each other in our work.

I think that's a really good point. For me personally, I have a really good relationship with our council member, which is district eight, my vein.

The only reason why we do is because I did show up to her stuff. And so you got to make sure that they know that you're showing up for them so they can show up for you.

And when I started showing up to a lot of the things that she was doing for our district, then I was like, hey, I'm your, your arts commissioner.

Then she started noticing. So when I'm there, she does say we also have this commissioner here present, and then she'll recognize all of her commissioners.

It has opened up a really big communication because then she's like, hey, can you help with this and can, is there anything that I can help with?

We have set once a month appointments for us to speak. Sometimes they don't go all the way through, but at least they're standing appointments. So I would say if you guys are wanting to know how to build your relationships with your council member, make sure that you're showing up to any of their activities that they have going on.

Introduce yourself. Don't go once. Show up because that's your district too. She they are your representatives. So make it a point to make your district important.

Yeah. Anyone else?

Okay.

If I could just respond to that, I think that's a really wonderful example.

Chair and to get to Vice-Jose question around the what or the how, I think that we could go quite long if we were to identify all of the avenues and strategies that you would all identify.

I would suggest trying to look at the areas that you do want to prioritize. There are a number of strategies that we could employ to dig into the details of the work.

You're always welcome to reach out to me between the meetings. There is the possibility of establishing a NADHOC committee now, which we can talk a little bit at our next meeting about, about how that, how we might operationalize that.

So I think there are a number of strategies for the new commissioners. The commissioners who have been around a while know that as you're coming on board, I'll likely schedule one on ones with each of you.

I think May and I have one coming up. So that's an opportunity to also identify your, you know, your additional questions, personal priorities, things like that.

But I would suggest trying to identify maybe one or two objectives in each school area for the time being so that we kind of have a general sense of the direction that you want to go in.

Thank you, Miles.

I had another question for Jason because I was just appointed last week. I have not, I'm not new to the arts commission. People didn't know I used to be the vice chair.

And that was over four years ago. So now I'm back.

But I guess my question is because I didn't have a chance to, well, I did read it. I did prepare for this meeting.

I really, what, what was really apparent when I was on the commission before was how much the commission could really support staff, especially in building that relationship with council and being a bridge between the community and council.

And so whatever we can do to support staff, like I think those should be the things that we probably prioritize.

So I'm really looking to you and staff to help us because I know I want to work on the art, the race and cultural equity statement because that's my baby.

And I'm ready to see how we can refine and update it. But I also know that we have, we've been doing a really good job. And I know we have a lot of data that we didn't have when I was on the commission previously.

And so like some of that context and like where we really like have gaps, I think would be where I'd like to see us try to steer our efforts for each of these goals.

So if you could articulate that as we go through each one, that would be awesome.

Thank you. I really appreciate that commissioner Wallace. And I also just want to uplift that together with you and commissioner Winnlock.

I really led the charge in terms of work on the race and cultural equity statement.

Oh, so many years ago. And I want to applaud you for your work in that effort.

Yes. And yes, I really appreciate that sentiment that you would look to seek ways to support staff in our work.

I think that it's all related in that how the commissioners refine your relationship to your council members.

If you are a council appointed commissioner, that's also going to really help us tell the story of your work.

And also be better listeners to the interests of the council members.

So this would all in theory kind of work together. Right.

And I think that there are a lot of opportunities for us to do better at that.

So we go on or does the commission want to discuss, identify if indeed the objective in goal area number one makes sense.

I think that's the right.

Is that do you want to go in a different direction?

Does anybody have anything else they want to say is it okay for us to keep moving on?

Well, so then another strategy will be will be for those of you who don't know after each of these meetings.

The chair and vice chair and myself have a meeting where we can talk through the past meeting and maybe synthesize that might be an appropriate opportunity for us to think about a strategy to move forward.

So I think that's a good idea.

If that makes sense to you, vice chair Martino and chair.

So I'm going to go on.

Goal area two is to enhance community awareness and understanding of the commission as a supportive accessible resource dedicated to arts and culture.

So I think that's actually looks like it was a we had some I guess last minute additions.

So all three happened to get the same amount of votes cast as far as a priority objective.

I think I would open it up to the floor.

For those of you maybe who didn't have a chance to respond or look at these objectives.

I'll just share them out loud increase community engagement by pursuing opportunities for learning and listening.

I'm going to truncated it bit amplify the roles and responsibilities of the commissioners establishing yourselves as visible supportive advocates within the arts and culture community.

Build relationships with community partners such as arts and culture organizations small businesses young people and artists as well as the general public.

So I think that it was kind of a split emphasis that really no one area stood out at least as far as the votes that kind of were cast before this meeting.

I'd open it up to you all again to call out any areas that you would like to support for this goal.

Looks like we have some speakers. My air he's still on this.

All right.

Sorry, I just noticed my last name has a different bell on the end.

I think number three actually accomplishes one and two.

So I think for me the focus on number three would kind of naturally lead into the first two bullet points.

From from my perspective that would be the one I would focus on plus its action oriented.

So that's that's right land.

Anyone else?

Justina.

I would agree with commissioner Tocolino.

Because that first I was thinking that I would prioritize a well I chose a and see.

But to get out in the community and hear from artists here what they need here from culture bearers.

But yes, see totally encompasses that as well.

So I think I'd be happy to prioritize see as well.

Thank you.

Shall we keep moving?

One more.

I just wanted to echo what she said regarding see over a I initially bought it for a but yes see would encompass all of that.

Perfect. Thank you.

All right moving on to goal area three advocate for city of Sacramento policies and initiatives that value support and build the arts and cultural community and ecosystem.

In this area there was preference for a advocate for increased visibility and growth of the arts and cultural sector by encouraging targeted communities highlighting the creative economies value.

And our behind was see which is to foster collaboration and generate new opportunities for creative professionals creating strength and partnerships between arts organizations government agencies and community stakeholders.

I will say that as these are objectives and maybe not specific tasks you might find that there could be some overlap.

So specific tasks speaking to objectives within a goal area maybe even across goal areas.

So again this is not the me all and all but this is just an opportunity for you all to weigh in with your initial thoughts on prioritization.

And again for this goal area it was the first objective to advocate and the third objective to foster collaboration.

Any thoughts?

Thank you.

You know the when I read number three great goals in the work there's one word missing for me this should be look at as ongoing.

This is not just like a one time event it should be ongoing and built into that structure the communication about what's going on.

How are we want to make it ongoing but that's one of the things I think that has to happen in that one it's got to be ongoing.

Commissioner we not could ask could you clarify was it strength and ongoing partnerships is that where you're looking at?

No I was looking at the advocate for increasing visibility and growth and cultural sector by encourage target.

I was just ongoing communications highlighting the creative economy value so it was in that that realm.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I have a question about this because these are all great.

One of the things that I think we struggle with and we have struggled with in the past is sharing data about the impact and getting that from staff.

And so I think we collectively should work together to figure out like what our targets are and then we can speak to the work we've done and then the impact that we've delivered as a result of that work.

I'm not quite sure what that looks like yet.

I think I'm going to have a little bit more time to talk about what we're doing and I'm really looking forward to working with you on that but I just wanted to articulate that.

If we can all have shared talking points about the impact of what we're doing that will ostensibly make it easier for us to make the case for support.

On the impact it would be great for us to look at where do we want to make the impact in and those are the ones that we keep updated on and that involvement.

So like I was thinking about when you look at the creative economy value I think there should be an ongoing look at what is our economic impact because of the the

creative culture and how is it increasing our economy and how is it looked at on a regular basis ongoing we should be kind of mapping that.

And also I would say that some way that we have to look at how are we influencing the impact of the culture of arts and on an ongoing basis.

But those are kind of what I see that are really important that we look at it from the economic sense but we also look at the changes that are happening culturally.

Thank you.

What I'm hearing is that we want to focus on the impact the outcome does not talk about the impact on these sections.

ACC is seen as a valued resource playing an increased role in enhancing cultural competence fostering community engagement and recognizing the economic and cultural contributions of the creative sector.

So the question has an outcome is that not is that not the same as what you're referring to as what is going to be the impact of each election.

Can you clarify either of you.

Well I'm saying I think we're just saying we're just putting some more meat on the bones and what that means.

For contribution really me means also impact and so there'd be more meaningful to put impact in there.

I think it would be impact and contributions.

Thank you. Anyone else.

Thank you.

If I can ask the commission body to confirm is there one of the objective areas it sounds like there.

There's a desire to get us to the task space phase with data with a number of tools.

Whatever that piece looks like to be determined.

Is there an objective area that that that you all feel speaks to where we want to focus this work.

Just so that I have it clear for the record.

I think that the commission board I think that's something bringing people together is why I came on to be a commissioner around art and culture.

I think that is something that really sticks out to me and some of the commissioners have also mentioned the initiative about implementing race, equity and culture.

That is definitely a passion of mine and people in my district.

That sticks out to me when it comes to the objective space.

Thank you. Stephen.

I was just thinking if you pick one for me it would be advocate in the area underneath the objectives because I see in that advocate area of the visibility, the growth and culture.

What we would have to show what kind of impact we were making because of that.

We would have to show what the growth is in order to address that.

For me, Advocates.

Thank you for that.

I'm going to second commissioner, Winlocks, Choice of Advocate for increased visibility and growth of the arts and cultural sector.

Encouraging targeted communication, highlighting the creative economy's value.

I just wanted to read it all out.

We actually had two of my studio mates around the audience now and we had an artist coffee meeting this morning.

I was in the spirit of going to the commission meeting later.

What challenges are you guys having?

What are your needs?

The main need that came across is what I hear all the time which is that people aren't buying art or paying for art not valuing arts and culture.

I really think advocating for increased visibility and highlighting the value of creative professionals is really important to our community members.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

I'll move on.

Goal 4 is to collaborate with the Office of Arts and Culture to address a variety of infrastructure needs,

regarding to sustain a thriving and sustainable arts ecosystem.

There were three objectives.

The one that rose to the top in terms of desired priority is the third one.

Identify city departments and community-based organizations and Sacramento working towards similar goals to find alignment and potential partnerships.

I will say that the first one also received a number of votes, developed a broader understanding of arts and cultural community needs around safe, affordable, and sustainable spaces.

This is a starting point.

Again, I open it up to you all to discuss if there are any other thoughts on objective areas that you want to focus in for Goal 4.

I just wanted to advocate for objective A to understand the community needs around safe, affordable, and sustainable spaces.

We were looking for an art studio.

My studio mates and I for a year and it's a real bleak out there.

We're really lucky.

I'm so glad that we're able to have this place that we're able to inhabit now.

And also many of my clients are directors of arts and cultural organizations and they're constantly struggling with paying the rent.

Or not having ownership of their space, so feeling the instability of that, so that's my choice.

Jeff?

I just want to reiterate what Justina was speaking about.

You can't have arts develop in the city without artists developing and they can't develop without spaces to gather in.

And the cost of housing, the cost of renting, I think it's something that artists can't just be expected to creatively address.

I think we're past that point.

So I just want to kind of underline that point.

Thank you.

Stephen?

You know, it's a, I don't know if we can do some blending because in some ways development and identify the city departments and organizations to work around this alignment.

What's the partnership is one that could be very strong and identify the spaces for instance.

I think it's not only just within the community but it's also within the city, there are city spaces that we should probably look at trying to look at moving toward more of the arts and the culture within that.

So somehow I was just wondering if we could blend those two together in some ways because it would be a partnership that's needed to accomplish what we've talked about.

When can I ask you a question when you say can we blend them together? Essentially these are all things that we're focusing on right.

So do we have to blend them together when they are together anyway?

I was only speaking from the issue about would you advocate from one over the other? No, I support all three of them.

So I don't know if we could somehow just make the goal of that one is going to be all three.

I don't know.

Yeah, they're really connected and they need to be together.

Yeah.

So that's great that they're outlined in this way.

Thank you.

I was thinking sort of the same thing but just like I think that obviously we're saying like this finding space is important so that like art can be created in it of itself.

But then us recognizing that is important but I think like figuring out like being more solution oriented like how do we fix the problem.

I think that's where we're saying maybe the collaborations between partnerships, different organizations that are already doing the work or that maybe they need to be linked together.

Even with like you know like the city of Sacramento like I think that's where we could be more impactful as a commission towards that issue in general.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Thank you.

Okay, I'm going to move on to goal five.

I'll share it again for folks in the audience.

Goal five is to continue to work with the Office of Arts and Culture in uplifting the goals of the creative edge plan.

There were five objectives related to this acknowledging there may be some overlap in some instances.

The specific objective that spoke to most of you per the responses was to support the integration of community and artists voice in cultural planning efforts processes related assessment of the nonprofit arts and culture ecosystem.

Any other thoughts?

Reflections on the objectives.

Maya.

Thank you chair.

This looks good to me and I want to say I think this is like the best sort of encapsulates everything else in a lot of ways.

I want to actually commend the commission for finding a way to orient itself around the creative edge plan because that has been the struggle.

It was a struggle to develop it in the first place and then to figure out how to operationalize it and then figure out how the commission could support that and I just want to commend you all for that work on that because I know it wasn't easy.

Thank you.

Any anyone else?

Thank you commissioners.

So with that I think that we can wrap this section but as I mentioned perhaps Chair and Vice Chair will make sure to discuss this at our upcoming session.

I think that everyone is going to want to know how exactly are we going to move some of these objectives forward.

I think that is the next step as well.

You're coming to somewhat of a consensus on objectives.

What are some specific strategies that you would all want to undertake not necessarily together but knowing that there's so much on the table and we can accomplish everything all at once.

I think that it would be good to try and focus, identify some of those follow-up tasks and then focus and see who wants to take on which pieces of that.

I think that's going to be for a future discussion.

As I mentioned, if it turns out that an ad hoc committee might be desirable to create to facilitate some of these action items.

I actually have a presentation that will include some of the details on how to establish an ad hoc committee at our next commission meeting.

I think if you would like we can move on.

Hold on for a second. I just have a question because I've been in the commission for a while and new commissioners who come on may be feeling kind of like how I was feeling of like what do we really do.

I really liked the work plan and the way that it was built like this because it made me understand more as a commissioner what the commission wanted me to do out in my district.

So as you guys are looking over this work plan because one thing that I can't stand is I can't stand to talk about talking about talking about talking about talking about and if we can get past the talking to talk to talk to talk and get to a work plan where we're actually putting it into action would be a lot better so that everybody here up here will feel like you're actually doing something you're taking time off of work to be here to do something and not taking time off of work just to be here to talk about talking.

So if you guys have something that you guys want to say I encourage it to speak and let's try to see if we can move the work forward Stephen.

I would request that each of our commission meetings that there might be just a line item that's on there that would be maybe gold discussion or object discussion even though we have a hot committee that's going on in the other areas.

But I think publicly it would be great for the commissioners to have some discussion around the objectives and the goals so we can either from the sense about brainstorming what we might do around that to give some ideas to the ad hoc committee about things that can look at.

But I think it would you know one of your our goals was to make it visible and understand about what the commission does to the community.

I think having a discussion around the work that we're saying that we want to do is very powerful in the sense about for the public to see that the commission is working on these particular areas and this is how we're doing this is some of the discussion.

But I would just throw that out as a discussion to support the commissioners because this is really around just as you stated the issue about making sure that the commissioners understand their purpose and their roles and their discussion so that would be one of my suggestions.

Thank you. Anyone else?

I just wanted to say that I agree with commissioner win lock. It would be amazing if we had a if not an agenda item a time to discuss how we're working towards these priorities and if the public members of the public are here or they're watching online it could also encourage them to reach out to us if they're interested in helping.

What these initiatives so I don't know if that's something that could be agendized or if it's something that maybe we just share during commissioner comments of like hey this past month I did this in service of this goal or objective.

That's a great point I know that in the past it has always been in the comments commissioner comment section but it should be an agenda item just because we are part of the commission and what we're doing as work on this commission should be an open agenda item to kind of uplift that so that everybody has feels I because I know that sometimes you don't feel empowered to speak because this is an official space.

But everybody here should feel empowered to speak because you're sitting here for a reason you absolutely do represent that district that you're that you're here for so feel empowered to speak.

Right now.

Just to piggyback off of the comments I just say that we just leave it in the commissioners comments because I mean at the end of the day that's what we have the commissioner comments for and feel like if people have something that they want to say for the district or hasn't that they need to say for the district that's the appropriate time because if we added to the agenda it also goes off how many agendas are we going to have to put it on and are we putting on every single agenda every single month I feel like that just wasting a agenda time when we could just using in the commission comments.

That's good point. Thank you for your for your point. There's been also while you were gone there's also been a log that they have put for agenda items to be considered as well on that I still think I still think it should be an agenda item if there is something that commissioner should put on there it should where the commission for for the art.

But that would be a of course it would be a vote of course and then up to Clark and whoever else but thank you yeah and welcome back.

America.

I was just going to say I agree with you.

I agree with what you said.

Thank you. Anyone else.

I think that closes this one.

Any public comments.

Thank you chair. We do have excuse me two speakers for this item and for the record for item number three there were no speakers.

The first speaker for item four is Shira.

Hi commission. Hi friendly faces.

Congratulations. My name is Shira Lane. I'm with HM 916. We're a creative innovation center for sustainability.

We serve over 880 creatives in the region. We see 148,000 people in our location in old Sacramento and we have over 140 creatives on our incubator and accelerator kind of incubator program which is Sacramento dot shop where we invite creatives to make and we help them sell their products.

I really would like to do a presentation on what the age and the age impact in 2024 and how we have been forwarding the goals of the creative edge plan and that is on commission duty G I believe.

I would like to see the commission taking a proactive role in that and I have a few projects that I can suggest that I'm going to bring forward here which is one a cultural asset map so that is creating a map that will be more forward to tourists right now.

We have a cultural asset map but it's very internal and then more gear to tourism.

K Street project K Street is our downtown center very empty. I think we could create an economic development plan that would work with downtown partnership could work with economic development groups and that is to activate and actually pay creatives to activate that space to activate those empty storefronts.

That would be good for the landlords they'll be getting some revenue and that would be good for the artists giving them a two year program to kind of try that out.

Three sustainable old Sacramento that is to create tourism's old Sacramento right now they serve food and styrofoam there's no recycling.

A trim is one of the one location that is sustainable and some of our artists have gone on to open up other stores in old Sacramento so we definitely have impact there.

I definitely think that this is a place that we could invest in and that way we could highlight because a lot of people visit Sacramento and they only see old Sacramento and so we need to look at how we are impacting that and how we can encourage there to be.

District two tremendous advocate and I met Megan during a

meeting that was there a few years ago and I found her to be a person of integrity.

We own a cheesecake business and I was actually on my way out of town and my family and also we have a tremendous millennial following of different nationalities, different races, both sexes and they are tremendously protective of me.

They encouraged me to come down here today I said hey I'm on my way out of town and what I would like to say is when I hear reports say the staff those of you who are new you should be aware that there are some groups in Sacramento that have received a lot of funding under shady conditions and I'm not afraid to say them wide open walls has received.

I'm not afraid to say what's called no written agreement deals which means they couldn't audit them and when I hear you have problems with money for groups I think groups that are called in scandals like that should not be able to eat off the trough this city.

I don't know what you can do with a hundred thousand dollars but that probably would help some of those artists with their rent.

You should never have a second chance if you're caught with a no written agreement and by the way you can't pull or no written agreement off unless the staff let you do that.

So be aware of that and I'm going to come back for public comments to shake it up too.

Thank you for your comments Chair there are no other speakers for the site.

Thank you.

All right we'll move on to the directors report.

Thank you Chair. Just a few updates.

I wanted to share our excitement for the closing of the culture every day creative 12 week accelerator program.

This program is designed to support creative and impactful entrepreneurs whose companies are growing and ready to raise outside capital to fuel their growth 35 applications were received as of the deadline on the sixth and we intend to be able to support 15 15 entrepreneurs through this program.

So we're going to be able to participate in the process of the process and the participants receive mentorship and training network opportunities networking opportunities financial support access to a store for a residency and field trips.

So they receive this specialized professional development instruction and mentorship through culture and creative startups.

We'll be partnering with them on that program. I also just wanted to share my thanks to all of the community members who came out community members artists partners who came out to the floor and wrote community beautification project dedication last Sunday.

This project was funded with 1.2 million dollars in cow trans clean California grant funding. It was a place making it is a place making project improving a stretch of floor road between Tamashanterway and Franklin Boulevard's nearly 3500 square feet of new murals have been created 26 large metal sculptures.

You can now see along the stretch of floor and you can see dotted along this stretch some large painted chair sculptures and nearly 30 banners were designed by local area youth in addition to landscaping clean up engagement activities over 40 artists participated.

And again I just wanted to thank Mayor Kevin McCarty vice mayor Katie maple council member my van representatives from Sacramento regional transit forward partnership.

I'm Sean McDaniels course and sojourner truth African heritage museum staff from AARP and the floor and road partnership.

And again especially all of the artists who contributed their time and energy and their creativity to to see this work to completion.

And lastly to acknowledge our staff April Bryce who spent countless hours working on this April is our arts program coordinator and I just wanted to uplift that this piece ensures or this stretch of floor and road ensures that South Sacramento remains a place where folks see themselves on the artwork on the benches on the walls see themselves reflected and that's I think an important measure of success when community can actually see themselves in the

artwork that's being developed in their neighborhoods.

The 28th and B Street skate park free skate and paint day is coming up March 15th from 1 to 4 p.m. at the 28th and B Street skate park.

So again members of the community are invited to join artists live low sea hunger to celebrate her new mural the living balance is the title of the mural.

This is going to be a really fun day and it's going to include free skateboarding and art painting activities hands on activities we encourage folks to come on out.

And if you're interested in skating at the park there will be activities for you as well.

As a reminder all of these activities you can find out about them in our monthly OAC newsletter and you can sign up for that at arts.cityofsecremento.gov.

A couple of additional really important updates we have just released the employment opportunity for arts program assistant so we are a small and mighty team at the office of arts and culture.

This position is now available this is one of eight positions in our division and if you are interested and you haven't received notification if you're not already subscribed to employment updates through the city we're also going to be releasing

a update reminder if again you are subscribed to our newsletter this will also be posted on our website our staff pages at arts.cityofsecremento.gov.

And we are also still open we are still extending our call for panelists for the upcoming grant programs.

And as a reminder the panelists are really a critical part of the review process the expertise and the experience of independent peer review panelists really ensures that our process is equitable.

And it's considering all aspects of the specific grant program ensuring that there's a fair and transparent assessment based on the established and published review criteria and this altogether promotes accountability and responsible stewardship of public funds.

If you are interested you can go to our website as well and we'll be continuing to to make the the panelists positions available through our news letters.

My last update is really just I'm going to roll this into acknowledgement of our incoming commissioners I wanted to acknowledge Jeff Eisenberg who has joined us today and we're very grateful for your commitment and your interest in joining the efforts of this body.

I also wanted to acknowledge Maya Wallace who was coming in I should mention Jeff is representing district two Maya Wallace is representing district four and as was noted earlier really appreciate Maya's previous work on the commission body for the Sacramento Metropolitan Arts Commission and her work along with Dr. Steven Winnlock in guiding the race and cultural equity team or the race and equity task force which developed the race and culture.

We have developed the race and cultural equity statement that you have all adopted as well and then of course Dr. Steven Winnlock who is one of the mayoral appointees.

And so we do have a remaining seat open if folks in the community are interested then you are encouraged to go to our website our commission pages and this information is also available on the cities boards and commissions website.

There is one remaining position to join this body and we look forward to filling all 11 seats again the mayoral appointee position there is one remaining mayoral appointee position that is still vacant that wraps up my update.

Thank you Jason.

We are now on to commissioner comments and ideas anybody have any comments.

Thank you for the welcome Jason it's always great to be here but I you know I really the reason why I wanted one was as a mayor appointee that I'm involved very much with Kevin and kind of understanding what is his desires and his involvement.

And wanting to make sure that arts and culture are part of Sacramento so I just wanted to underscore that that's I've got my role in response to bill I'll be trying to meet with the mayor on a regular basis to bring back to the commission about what are his thoughts what are his areas what does he want to make sure that that's a part of it so I just wanted to say thank you.

It's it's you know I love the city and being involved in any part of it that's making it who it is the great city that I know it is is really an honor and a pleasure.

Thank you and Karuka.

Thank you. I just want to also welcome all the new commissioners new and returning commissioners. I'm excited to work with you all.

Also I'd like to invite everyone out to PBS KBE's be my neighbor day where they'll have arts and craft activities and getting to meet the community so it's on April Saturday April 5th from 10 to 2pm at the KBE studio of West El Camino in the Thomas.

Thank you. You say the date again sorry.

Thank you.

I'm excited to be back to you all and thank you very much for being here and I'm really excited to meet you all.

It's Saturday April 5th from 10am to 2pm.

Perfect, justina.

Okay I have a few things. Apologies in advance.

So first I'm so happy to have the new and returning commissioners welcome you all.

So I have some updates regarding District six.

She is very engaged in our community both with exhibiting her own art and supporting fellow artist at events.

This past weekend she participated in the Super Fine Art Fair in SF,

which is a fair that focuses on emerging artists.

She was the only Sacramento artist there and she sold eight original paintings,

which is huge. Artists are having a hard time selling their work.

So it is kind of pricey to participate, but you can share boots and you can actually apply now for next year.

So I encourage other Sacramento artists to look into opportunities like that.

My second update is an exhibit that you can see right here in the City Hall Lobby Gallery called Kids Collect,

which offers a glimpse into the diverse perspectives and histories of Sacramento's youth,

demonstrating how everyday objects can carry cultural and personal significance.

In this exhibit, fifth and sixth graders explored the deep connections between chairs, belongings,

and their family history. Each student selected an object that they found meaningful to their life and shared the story behind it.

And it was produced in partnership with Talik Village's Mark Twain Elementary,

the Center for Sacramento History with support from Eric Geur's office,

and it's on view to April 30th.

My third update is that there's always a great art and artist at Sac State.

University galleries, I've gone to multiple amazing artists talks there.

They bring an artist from all over the state and all over the country, actually.

Currently, they have two shows at their library gallery,

Feaching Art Work from their collection.

Rhyme and Reason is up until May 16th in the language of color, which I love color.

I'm really excited to go see that is open until April 12th.

Also at Sac State, the 2025 Student Awards Show opens out the L Scallery this week with the reception on March 20th.

Finally, I wanted to give a shout out to Solving Sacramento.

Thanks to them, there are articles about the impact will work that the city's arts organizations are doing.

I recently helped one of my clients, the Sojourner Truth African American Heritage Museum,

a platform grant, and luckily on that day I was able to find an amazing article about their museum that was published literally on that the day of the deadline.

So I was able to pull it and use that as a work sample, which is so valuable for our city's organizations to have that platform uplifting them.

Thank you.

Thank you. Anyone else?

I did want to echo the welcome back to Steve and to Maya.

Maya was here when I first came. So welcome back. Welcome back also Roy now.

It's good to see you. And then welcome in.

Jeff Eisenberg. Welcome in. I'm happy to see that these seats are full because they weren't for the past couple of meetings.

So it's good to see that we have a filling, almost full commission. Welcome everybody.

Thank you guys for coming in.

And I believe the agenda. No.

We have two speakers for matters not on the agenda. Our first speaker will be Lambert.

First of all, I would like to say that I am a native. And I was born here. So I'm very proud of Sacramento.

I'm from District 2, Grant High School, Pacer, a lot of pride out there, a lot of talent.

I just won the state championship recently. And these are teenagers who I know their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, I go back.

And it was devastating to them because the Sacramento B after they did all that winning, they named them number two in the city.

And they both spoke about them and never won anything that same year. They were devastating to the young people.

So because of that, I lobby for the teenagers there. They have a group there. They gave me this hat. It's called the Grant Drumline.

They go all over the world. And I met Megan. Megan is an icon out there because she told us she was going to help them with food, lodging, and travel.

And she has. Another thing she did was that she did that last year. This year they're going to Ireland. Why Ireland? Hey, they're globe trotters.

But I just wanted to say that I was glad to see Megan is in here on the commission staff because she's a person of integrity.

And that's what we want to see. And I'll end by saying that the name of our family own businesses call to the Bay and Back Cheesecakes.

If you look at on Instagram, these young people, I'm a baby boomer. These young people have convinced me they've taken it viral.

And now they're taking it global. Where they're taking it to Ireland.

As a baby boomer, I never understood it, but I do now. So support them through your budget, the Grant Drumline.

Thank you for your comments. Our last speaker today will be Shera.

Hi, Shera Lane with atrium 916. Once again, I wanted to say that Jennifer Part is also one of our artists. She has a show at the atrium right now. Please come and visit the atrium.

On April 16th, we're planning to have a creative economy meeting. Creative economy meetings. We started in 2018 as a way to extend the work that was created in the creative edge plan.

And just to continue these meetings, I would love to invite all of you, each one of you, to come and show yourself, tell them so you can find the artists that are within your community.

We do have pretty good attendance. We will be doing this on Zoom, so that way it's easy for everybody to attend.

And I did have a question about how will this commission address urgent matters. I don't know, but I think that is something to consider.

Budget being one of them and budget season is here. And then if you could, I know that there were a lot of people that did apply for this commission position.

If the commission, if they could get a response back, if they were not accepted, I know that some were waiting in the, yeah.

And then I think that's about it. Thank you. Please visit the atrium. And I'm happy to do a presentation on what we've done and how we're working with the creative edge plan. Thank you guys so much.

Thank you for your comments. Chair, we have no other speakers.

Thank you.

Thank you so much. Thank you for everyone coming. Meeting is adjourned.