Good afternoon, welcome to Monday, January 12, 2026, 1pm meeting of the Arts, Culture

and Creative Economy Commission.

The meeting is now called to order.

Will the clerk please call to roll and to establish a quorum?

Thank you, Chair.

Commissioners, please unmute for roll call.

Commissioner Carter.

Present.

Commissioner Eisenberg.

Present.

Commissioner Gutierrez.

Present.

Commissioner Hershey.

Present.

Commissioner Ohebu.

Present.

Commissioner Orozco.

Present.

Commissioner Smith.

Present.

Commissioner Wallace.

Here.

Commissioner Winlock.

Here.

And Chair Lillulu.

Here.

Thank you. We have quorum.

Thank you.

I would like to remind members in the public or of the public in the chambers that if you'd like to speak on an agenda item,

please turn in a speaker slip before the item begins.

After the item is called, we will no longer accept speaker slips.

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

We will now proceed with today's agenda.

All rise.

To the original people of this land, the Nisan people,

a federal-recognized tribe,

may we acknowledge and honor the Native people who have come before us

and still walk beside us today on this ancestral lands

by choosing to gather together today

in an active practice of acknowledgement and appreciation

of the Sacramento's indigenous people,

history, contribution, and lives.

Thank you.

To the flag of the United States of America

and to the republic for which it stands,

one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Thank you.

We now welcome a new commissioner, Teresa Gutierrez.

Hello.

Do you want me to speak to that?

Hello.

Thank you so much.

I'm Carissa Gutierrez.

Pronouns she, her, ella.

And I'm a proud Sacramentan born and raised here.

And at this point in my life, I've pretty much lived in every single district.

It's really great to see so many familiar faces around the dais.

For many of us who are arts advocates or artists or creatives, this is very much the reason when we wake up in the mornings.

I'm very grateful to Councilmember Eric Guerra, who has appointed me, and to continue to serve in this capacity to better support the arts ecosystem here in Sacramento.

I think it's truly important now more than ever that we be in every single

space where decisions are being made when it comes to the people of this

community and knowing that arts and culture are at the heart of that so

thank you so much chair and I have a lot to learn thank you welcome welcome we'll

now move on to our approval of the consent calendar clerk are there any

members of the public who wish to speak on the consent.

Thank you, Chair.

We have no speakers for this item.

Thank you.

Are there any commissioners who wish to speak on this item?

And is there a motion and a second for the consent calendar?

I'll motion.

I'll second.

Thank you.

Okay, thank you.

So to confirm, that was a motion by Commissioner Ohebu with a second by Commissioner Wallace.

Commissioners, please unmute for the vote.

Commissioner Carter.

Aye.

Commissioner Eisenberg?

Yes.

Commissioner Gutierrez?

Aye.

Commissioner Hershey?

He's absent.

Commissioner Ohebu?

Aye.

Commissioner Orozco?

Aye.

Commissioner Smith?

Aye.

Commissioner Wallace?

Aye.

Commissioner Winlock?

Yes.

And Chair Lululeau?

Aye.

Thank you.

Motion passes.

Thank you.

We'll now proceed to the discussion calendar.

Is there a staff presentation today?

All right, first item on the discussion calendar

is item number three, selection of chair and vice chair

for the calendar of 2026.

Anyone want to?

Good afternoon.

My name is Heather Brantley from the office of the city clerk.

We have no staff presentation on this item.

All the information is detailed in your staff report.

However, I will remind members of a few things.

Members may nominate another member or themselves for chair or vice chair.

Typically, nominations will be heard for chair position and followed by nominations for vice chair.

a member may serve as the chairperson or vice chairperson for no more than two calendar years

the newly elected chairperson and vice chairperson will start their terms at the next regular meeting

of our current roster commissioner winlock is not eligible to serve as chair and we have no one that

is ineligible to serve as vice chair,

as they have served two calendar years in these positions.

Thank you, and I'm available for any questions.

Go ahead.

I would like to nominate Chair Lovulu

to continue as chair for the current year.

Thank you.

I was going to say thank you.

I thought you guys were going to say a different name.

I'll have a second.

Okay.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

Okay.

We will now go ahead and take a vote for Chair Levulo,

continuing as Chair Levulo for this year.

Commissioners, please unmute for a vote.

Commissioner Carter?

Aye.

Commissioner Eisenberg?

Aye.

Commissioner Gutierrez?

Aye.

Commissioner Hershey is absent.

Commissioner Ohebu?

Aye.

Commissioner Orozco?

Aye.

Commissioner Smith?

Aye.

Commissioner Wallace?

Aye.

Commissioner Winlock?

Aye.

And Chair Levullo?

Aye.

Thank you. Motion passes.

Shall we move on to the next nomination for Vice Chair?

Commissioner Wallace?

I would like to nominate Commissioner or Vice Chair O'Hebe to continue as Vice Chair.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

I second.

I'd like to second that.

It looks like we're going to take a vote.

Commissioner Carter, second.

Thank you.

and to confirm that was a motion to have Commissioner Ohebu continue as vice chair for this year

with a motion by Commissioner Wallace and a second by Commissioner Carter.

Please unmute for vote.

Commissioner Carter?

Aye.

Commissioner Eisenberg?

Aye.

Commissioner Gutierrez?

Aye.

Commissioner Hershey's absent.

Commissioner Ohebu?

Aye.

Commissioner Roscoe?

Aye.

Commissioner Smith?

Aye.

Commissioner Wallace?

Aye.

And Commissioner Winlock?

Aye.

And Chair Lovullo?

Aye.

Thank you. Motion passes.

Thank you.

Are there any speakers on this?

Of the public?

Yes, we have one speaker for this item.

Lambert?

I came down to speak because I'm a huge supporter of this commission.

because Megan and also I think her name is Melissa,

they do a great job helping Grant High School get funding for the drum line.

Those of you who aren't aware of the drum line, you Google it.

And I believe last year they went to Ireland.

And I'm not mistaken, but I think this department got them some money

to help them for food, lodging, and traveling.

And they've always brought back great reviews for Sacramento.

You can't put a dollar price on that.

What's the dollar price of a teenage group coming from a different country?

And they kept asking, where are you from?

Where are you from?

Because I know these young people.

I know their parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts.

I'm an alumni from Grand High School.

I know exactly. I don't see any time up here where I can monitor my time.

So I'll stop because I don't see time there.

You could put a minute up there. That's fine.

OK, you could tell I'm in a great mood because I just returned from on the road for the holidays.

and the millennials, this is tremendous millennial following us.

And they had me all over California.

I just got back last night and they begged me to come here because I'm going to make some statements on the record, not on this.

I think it's a great selection, the two people who were just selected.

You need different perspective.

You can't have the same people and then they get stuck in their views.

And as I make my statements when I come up here next, you'll understand that I really didn't come down here to play around.

The millennials in my family begged me to come.

I just got back in town, but I said I won't let the millennials down.

I know they're listening.

So that's it.

Thank you for your comments, Chair.

There are no other speakers for this item.

Thank you.

Any commissioners who wish to speak on this item?

Dr. Hibb.

I just want to say thank you to the rest of the commissioners for re-electing me as vice

chair.

It's truly an honor and I look forward to continuing in this position.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I want to second that.

I also want to invite you guys to step up to the plate because it is a plate that should

be shared.

And don't think that this chair is not inviting for you to be here.

Right?

I'm learning a lot being on this commission and being here too.

I'm happy that you guys think that I should be here.

I think that I should always share it.

So please, if you ever feel the need that you have questions

or you guys want to sit here and even conduct one

of the meetings, I'm open for it.

I am not against it at all.

I think that we're stronger in numbers

and when we're together.

And if you believe that you belong here,

then you'll believe that you belong here.

So it's not above you to be here.

So let's keep pushing.

Thank you.

Dr. Winlock.

When you came in first and you were thinking, I don't know anything to be the chair.

And I just want to say we've watched you over this, know a lot of things in the sense about how you question for the community.

how you really put arts forward, and you speak from a person that is involved in the community.

So I just wanted to thank you, really.

It's been great leadership.

Thank you.

Anyone else?

And we shall move on to the next item on the calendars, item number four,

California Arts Council Creative Economy presentation.

I don't know if you want to do an intro first or just launch into it.

I can jump in.

I just wanted to welcome Megan Morgan with the California Arts Council here to share a bit about a series of very exciting community engagements.

and this is part of a tour of sorts up and down the state.

Megan is going to share the work of the Creative Economy Work Group

and the new plan for the state.

There are two upcoming events specifically for the Sacramento region,

and we're thrilled to have you here today

and look forward to your presentation.

Thank you for being here.

Of course.

Thank you, Jason, and thank you to the Commission.

My name is Megan Morgan.

I am the race and equity manager at the California arts council.

I am happy to recognize a few faces on this commission from being and working in community

here and to meet those of you I haven't met before.

So thank you again.

I am just going to kind of walk you through an overview of the strategic plan process

and where we are in this stage of its development.

And as you probably already know we have been working closely with Jason as one of our creative

economy statewide work group members as well as with Carissa as part of our internal work

group at the California arts council. So hopefully I can get this clicker going. Perfect. So

this wasn't an optional thing that we just chose to do although we would have I think

if not given the choice but this was established as a work group through AB 127 and it was

designated by the legislature. They asked us to develop a strategic plan for California's

creative economy, the very first for the fourth largest economy in the world. And so they

wanted us to address these five goals, how to attract creative economy businesses to

the state, how to retain our talent within the state, how we can better develop marketable

content that can be exported both for national and international consumption and monetization,

how are we reaching marginalized communities and how are we going to incorporate the diversity

of all that is California. So we went through a very in depth process

that we're at the two plus year mark now but 18 months was really the amount of time that

we were actually given by the legislature to complete the bulk of the work in. And so

phase one formed the creative economy work group and the strategic plan framework. So

in order to do this we realized the limitations of the California arts council as a small

but mighty agency serving the entire state so we contracted through an RFP process with

an organization called Institute for the Future to help us develop this framework strategic

plan and to pull together the members of this work group. So that was in phase one.

And so this statewide cross sector of creative industries and interests had a little bit

of everything. There are gaps of course because no process is perfect but we interviewed and

met with dozens of artists. We involved those in advocacy, film, nonprofit arts and culture,

labor, philanthropy, government, academia, gaming, economics and business development.

Those were the key sector players that we got involved with all of this. And these are

their lovely faces. So you will see Jason up there. You will see several elected members

of the legislature, some senators. You will see arts and culture representatives from

all over the state as well as those represented in gaming, the nonprofit world, a couple of

our California Arts Council members, Roy Hirabayashi, known for San Jose Taiko, Roxanne Messina

Captor, our chair for the last two years, Kristin Sakoda, chair of arts and culture in Los

Angeles, of course our executive director Danielle Brazil was in charge of organizing

and gathering all these folks together and Leah Goodwin as well in San Diego just to

name a few folks and also Julie Baker the CEO of Californians for the Arts.

So our phase one project activities involved doing IFTF getting involved with a number

of interviews with individual artists nonprofits and creatives and gathering research and

looking at what is the foresight what are we looking ahead to and consulting with expert

and creative workers. The second stage of that was insight where they generated the

research report from all the information they gathered from these interviews. And then we

moved that into action. So each of these phases coincides with an in-person meeting that we

had. The first meeting was in Santa Monica. The second meeting was in San Juan Batista

in the Central Valley. And the third meeting was right here in Sacramento. We did that

purposefully because we wanted to reflect the geographic diversity of the state. We know

that so much takes place in Sacramento but to the rest of California they want to see

us show up in their communities. So we intentionally made those trips to involve the public in

all those opportunities. So leading all of this was our North Star.

How can we lead an inclusive, resilient, creative economy that empowers both artists, cultural

workers and entrepreneurs to drive culture, creativity and innovation. And one of the

things that's come up at all of these meetings, so I'm just going to bring it up again today,

is that we did not have a definitive definition about what was the creative economy because

we see so much opportunity and possibility for inclusion in that. We want to have the

public's input on what that means to them. So this was kind of our working definition

for the work group and the work that they were trying to accomplish. And so with IFTF

and we referred back to a theory put forth by Anne Markison,

framing the California arts and culture ecosystem

was the three main things, people, institutions, and places,

and how that could be reflected in this research,

in this report, and in this ongoing work.

So one of the things that IFTF, Institute for the Future,

helped us see was that there are these future forces

that are shaping California's cultural ecosystem,

and if we don't start thinking about

and talking about those things now, this plan is going to get very old and very irrelevant

really fast. So what are we doing to prompt thinking about mental health, well-being and

belonging? What are we doing to address affordability and livability in our climate impacted world

we see right here in California with fires, with floods? How is this impacting the lives

of artists not only but the entire creative economy of this state? Technology and tradition

a huge topic that came up at every single meeting that we had with the creative economy

work group and since we've been doing public outreaches about AI, right? What is the traditional

definition of arts, culture and ecosystem and what does that mean now that we're in

the age of artificial intelligence? And then access to capital and risk taking, right?

Funding is always the question. How do we support people with the funds to do what they

need to do within this ecosystem that works in a certain way.

So these are all the future forces, not all, some of the major forces shaping California's

cultural ecosystem and what can we do to think about that and put that into our strategic

planning.

This is a very busy slide so I'm going to go to the next one to get right to the six

priority action areas.

So one was to prepare and support the workforce for creative economy sectors.

Two was to stabilize and grow creative economy businesses.

Three was to increase revenue through promotion of cultural identity and tourism.

Four was to leverage all like state opportunities and incentives for cultural and creative development.

And so by leveraging all it's like what is already out there that is existing and doing

well that we can build upon instead of trying to recreate the wheel each time. So it was those

intersection points between industries, between organizations, state agencies, cities, counties,

y'all are doing amazing work. And so how do we get in connection with one another so we can share

those points with the smaller organizations, individual artists, nonprofits who are seeking

to go bigger with their work. Point five was to define and track return on investment for

creative economy and creative economy workforce. And return on investment was also referred

to as return on innovation, return on imagination. How can we think about a return on investment

as meaning something different and then how do we measure that? This past weekend as part

of our outreach tour we were in Watsonville and folks had all kinds of ideas on how we

could define a track return on how do you make something visible that's invisible with

something that's very meaningful to the community but we don't see at the state level because

they think of arts and culture in one way and not as place making and place keeping.

Instead it's like a tourist thing. So how do we make this place be by, for, and about

the communities it serves and who lives there and not just for export elsewhere.

And then number six was to develop state capacities and infrastructure to support the creative

economy. Of course all these things are related to one another but how do we prepare people

to talk about this when we can be very siloed in our thinking about what arts and culture

means and it can mean different things to different people.

So as part of this phased approach we are now solidly in phase two where we are socializing

this plan, doing 30 plus stops around the state to gather community engagement, public

comment and to help us with implementation planning otherwise known as operationalization.

And that's the biggest question we get.

This report is great.

It's like 60 something pages but what are we going to do next?

What are the next steps to get this to be alive in the real world?

And that's the stage we're trying to get to right now as part of phase two.

So as part of that engagement and implementation plan as I just said 30 plus town halls across

eight distinct regions which matches up with the governor's jobs first initiative.

We're gathering as much participant feedback as possible.

The town halls that we're hosting have work group sessions where we're gathering notes

from everyone who attends these sessions.

We're doing a community survey that's focused on their region.

We're also going to be doing a survey for the entire tour and feedback on this plan

for those who couldn't attend in person.

The majority of these town halls are in person, but we will have a handful, a small handful

of them virtual as well for those who cannot make it in person to these.

And what we're hoping to do is tell multimedia stories about each of California's distinct

regions.

We've also contracted with another contractor called Serotonin Creative Consultancy who

is showing up to about half a dozen of these distinct regional locations to film, do interviews,

take photos so that we can help tell the story of California from the Californians who live

in these regions and who consider themselves part of the creative economy. We've built

out with our public affairs team and with Serotonin a dedicated website to house all

this material so that it lives on beyond this report, beyond this tour. There's going to

be tool kits developed and an addendum. So officially this report was submitted in October

to the legislature. But what we're hoping to do, what we're planning to do is in the

spring submit an addendum with the gaps in the plan that the public identified, that

you all identify what is missing. We don't want to go into this with our blinders on.

And we want to encourage peer and field knowledge building, piloting, prototyping, what is working

in San Diego that might work in San Francisco.

And aside from the big cities and the ones we think of as like our cultural capitals,

what's also going on in rural areas that's really successful that we don't know about,

that we haven't been paying attention to.

So we're hoping to gather all that and then also give it back to the field.

So an addendum to the legislature, but also tool kits and prototyping and piloting to

give back to the communities that have been helping us all this time.

So yeah, phase three will be implementation and evaluation and that is the big question,

right, is what this is going to look like.

And I have to say this past Saturday, Senator Jim Laird, John Laird, sorry, came and spoke

basically said to everyone in this room, in the room at the time, come make my job harder.

Come tell me what you want. Come tell me what you need. He sits on the budget committee.

So let's put this into action. Make me do my job. And he was very passionate and very

genuine I think in that. And it was an invitation to all of us in all these rooms where we're

talking about the creative economy, figure out how we can be a part of this and contribute

to it so that it's ongoing work. And yeah, next steps are to finish this tour. We've

got five stops this week, five stops next week going right through to the first week

of February. As Jason mentioned, the Sacramento tour will be, I believe it's February 4th

or 5th, yeah, February 4th. So I invite you all of course and your constituents that you

represent to come down and do that because you can be part of the workshops, give your

specific feedback you will hear a little overview of the plan again but it probably won't be

by me. It might be by another of our team members so you'll get a different perspective

and have a chance to be part of the evolution of this plan. And I think I will leave it

at that and just thank you for being a state local partner of the California Arts Council.

It's been a pleasure to work with Jason and the rest of the city team. And thank you for

the work you're doing dedicated to the creative economy and we're happy to partner with you on that.

Thank you. Clerk, do we have any public comments?

Thank you, Chair. Yes, we do have two speakers for this item. Our first speaker is Lambert.

Sir.

This is an example of what I call integrity.

The person who just spoke, I would definitely like to get a card from you because I know a lot of people in California, and I'm glad it wasn't just Sacramento.

That's impressive.

When you can come here, it seems simple to come here and present your report.

There's a lot of people at City Hall that are reluctant to come in front of this podium and give us a report.

It seems simple, but there are people that we've documented that do not come up here that should be coming up here.

It's called the report.

When I saw the report and the millennials told me, I was impressed.

It was worth my time to come down here because that's very thorough.

As you can see in the audience, very few people attend your meetings.

Why? Because of the time.

Usually you have it at 530, but the millennials bribed me because they said,

if you come down here and attend the meeting, we'll take you to lunch and I get to pick it.

I said, I'll be there.

And that's why I'm here. I'm keeping my word. But this is this person right here and Melissa.

I'm not Melissa. Yeah, Melissa and Megan.

They inspire me because the youth at Grant High School, they they love Megan.

They love Melissa, too, because they know they've been on the campus.

They've been to different rallies.

Instead of going to these other schools that aren't bringing a lot of positive publicity,

these are teenagers.

They should be rewarded.

But definitely shout to this person right here.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Shira.

Hi, my name is Shira Lane.

is Shira Lane I'm with Atrium 916 we're a creative innovation center for

sustainability and we are currently located in Old Sacramento I want to

thank the Arts Council for doing such important work actually during this

process Julie Baker did reach out to me for consultation on the connection

between environmental work and the creative economy this is the

intersection of where the atrium thrives I did want to talk about and I would

love to bring this up, we did mention EPR, which is extended producer responsibility,

as grants are going to be declining soon with currently, you know, the situation with our

governments and budgets right now. Looking at EPR, extended producer responsibility,

what that is, and this is a huge opportunity for the creative economy. What that means is currently

producers of products currently will take packaging, for example, when they sell you a product,

they're selling it to you with the packaging.

You are now, as a constituent,

responsible for that product and that packaging.

Now you have to pay your jurisdiction

to get rid of that packaging.

Jurisdictions have increasingly had to increase the price

for their constituents,

and with that, they've come out with EPR laws saying,

no, no, producers need to be responsible now for that.

And what that means is that they're creating these organizations

that will collect funds from these producers

and those producers are now going to pay for education and outreach.

They're going to be paying to reduce the amount of plastic pollution

and this is where local creatives can step in.

They can be part of the education, they can be part of the outreach

and they can be part of the creative problem solving.

We're talking about millions.

Not only that, there's also a mitigation fund

which is half a billion dollars a year

that is going to plastic pollution mitigation.

also will include.

So there's a lot more to be said there

and I think that could be part of this plan.

I was not part of the group.

Thank you for your comments, Chair.

We have no other speakers for this item.

Thank you. Commissioner O'Hable.

Thank you, Chair.

Thank you, Megan, for your presentation

and thank you for the work that you are doing.

Is there a long-term plan to provide funding to local regions similar to California Jobs First?

I don't have an exact answer to that, but the senator on Saturday, who is now chair of the budget committee,

did say if there was going to be any kind of get it in as soon as possible.

But we can't, unfortunately, speak to it.

Right now there is nothing set aside beyond the funding was for this work alone.

what the future holds is fill up in question.

Thank you. Commissioner Carter?

Yes, so I do have a couple of questions, and I'll try to keep it sweet.

So I know in the report it mentions about community surveys.

What are some of the feedback that you're getting from the community about the surveys,

like from the surveys?

It's been interesting.

We did a call this morning, actually, that was reflecting on that a little bit.

Demographically, actually our public comment speaker did bring up a point in San Jose in

particular we had a youth voice that was very prominent at that in person meeting saying

they didn't see themselves as part of this plan and wanted to be invited in to more opportunities

to weigh in on what their future, what this future is for them as 20 somethings they were

having a hard time making head or tails of this very formal, as much as we tried to make

it accessible in plain language, there are other ways you could incorporate and bring

in the youth voice. So we're listening to that. Also in San Jose there was a request

for assistance with permitting. So they said we have all of this empty warehouse space.

They could hold artist studios, they could hold art galleries, they could be living spaces

for artists in an area where the cost of housing is astronomically high as we know it is all

over California but in San Jose in particular, how could you help us navigate with the city

and county to get access to those spaces so we can produce artwork.

Oakland actually was very vocal about mental health and well being and asked us if we were

thinking about third spaces. So churches, community centers, recreational

centers, how could this be part of this plan to provide cultural, creative health and emotional

well-being services to people in buildings and places that already exist and have historically

typically been safe spaces? Could we rethink about an approach to that and potentially

of course funding right behind all of that. Could we help with funding to support all

of that? And then Watsonville was the most recent

one on Saturday. I can't speak to the ones I haven't been to as thoroughly. For example,

San Bernardino. Watsonville was talking about a lot about the film industry and the changes

in tax credits even though we've had a boost in our tax credits they're still really struggling.

And then in I'll share one more important point before the thought leaves me. In Davis

actually one of the things that was shared was it's known for the university and that

That university umbrella is great but how can Davis identify itself culturally, artistically,

ecologically and with the land?

There was one nonprofit representative who was there who was really trying to do this

place based linkages to the local tribes, the local climate, the local ecology that's

very distinct as we know California is so huge and so how can we identify these different

regions by the specialness and uniqueness of their place?

not only for a tourist attraction but also for the people who live and work

there hopefully that answers a few questions

thank you Commissioner Wallace

thank you chair thank you for coming I just have a sort of general question

about the like the toolkits that are coming out so one could argue that

there is a suite of policies that we could provide to local governments that

would enable them to leverage things like housing, construction projects, and

things like that to create funding streams to address the needs of the

creative economy. And is there does this report include that or is that going to

be one of the toolkits that comes out of the engagement community engagement

process? Yeah it's gonna cut there is a lot of research behind the seeds that

that has some of that information in it,

but what we're hoping is to repackage

the most relevant feedback materials,

toolkits, frameworks, things that are already working

back into the communities and see what can be scaled.

As the state organizer, we can't tell anybody what to do,

but we wanna learn from what is already working for folks

and be able to share that back with the community

and allow them to cross share that information

with other regions, like if this worked,

it's not to equate everything as being the same,

but if something's working well in one rural community,

could it work for this other community?

Just idea generating and that sort of thing.

Like here's the steps we took,

this is the framework we follow,

this is the policy that's in place in our city or county

that might be helpful for yours.

I hope that answers your questions.

Perfect.

Okay.

Thank you.

Thank you, Commissioner Smith.

Thanks again for your presentation.

I love seeing that there was statewide work done in this capacity, particularly around arts and culture.

And I love in this presentation the different variations of what arts and culture is.

I think that's something that I love to see as a commissioner.

And I know I'm looking through, trying to find the answer,

but is there going to be a culminating kind of either kickoff or event that we could,

after the tours are done, is there going to be some type of culminating event along with the toolkits

that community can grab in terms of the resources?

Yeah, it's kind of the, we consider that sort of part of the ongoing work,

but also part of the implementation plan.

So internally we have a work group that's talking about okay when this is all over what's the timeline for these next steps?

And that is part of it.

And so one of the things we're considering it's not set in stone.

It's not confirmed.

It's to have at least one virtual potentially one in-person event that would be something like that.

But for now I can say for sure the website is going to house all that information.

The members of the team, the creative economy work group members,

A lot of them are attending these in-person events to continue the conversation forward.

And that's the hope, that at implementation that there will be a wrap up to all of this

besides the addendum that will come out in the spring.

And spring I know is nebulous, but it will depend on how long it takes us to gather all

this information into something cohesive as part of the addendum.

MS.

Thank you.

Commissioner Roscoe.

MS.

Thank you.

Commissioner Roscoe.

I wanted to thank you again for your presentation.

I think the work you guys are doing is extremely impressive.

And I thought that one of the most important parts about this is that this process is a statewide effort.

But I had a question about what goes into the decision for these tour stops.

What kind of, I guess, culture is considered around that?

Oh, that's a great question.

And right now there are eight, when we started this process, we did it through eight distinct

geographic regions throughout California based on the governor's office jobs first initiative.

But it's also informed by the healthy places index and where we wanted to be able to basically

meet as many corners of the state as we could like northern, central and southern California

that included, yes, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco, but also one of those cultural

hubs outside of that. As most of you may or may not know, the California Arts Council

also has something called cultural districts. And so this coincided this year with ten new

recognized California cultural districts. So there was probably three to four different

regional factors recognizing that the Central Valley often has been under recognized historically

and currently. So we were very purposely about going into the Central Valley and the Central

Coast as well as in Northern California. All the Northern California stops are happening

over the next two weeks. So we'll be going as far north as Eureka in Humboldt County

into Shasta. Yeah, just trying to fill in the gaps where we haven't heard from folks

as much as we have from the arts powerhouses that we know of in the big cities.

Thank you.

Welcome.

Thank you. Commissioner Carter.

Okay, so thank you, thank you, thank you for the presentation.

This is really amazing.

As my colleagues have mentioned, you know, having something statewide really helps the community.

And I'm super excited for the event that's happening in February here in Sacramento and then April as well.

And just another quick question that I do have is what are some of the things that you guys are looking forward to in 2026?

and in how can we as the commissioners help?

That's a great question.

I think formulating, once we get this addendum formalized and finalized in the way that we're all dreaming and envisioning,

I think I'm speaking a little bit for others here.

We want it to be in alignment somewhat with what the report lies out as our six goals and strategies,

but also to have a significant voice from the public and from these distinct regions.

What we have found in the last year, our executive director Danielle Brazell as well as Julie

Baker and Rick from California humanities testified before the committee on arts, culture,

entertainment and tourism.

Folks showed up at public comment to talk about the impact that the funding they received

from these three organizations, made on their lives,

made on their artwork, made on their communities.

And several members of the committee

basically said hearing that storytelling firsthand

made them really rethink differently

about arts, culture, the creative economy,

and the kind of impact that it could have.

So that would be our hope that we continue

with this storytelling narrative from Saratona

once we actually have the footage, the quotes, right,

the narrative that lives on besides a report

and a one-time event that it can carry this work forward

about the real value of arts and culture.

And to continue working closely with all of you

and with our state local partners across the state,

you really are the anchors in community

that help get us into the building,

get us into the conversation with the people

who are doing important work

that we might not always hear about.

So, yeah.

Thank you, Commissioner Gutierrez.

Thank you so much, Megan. Great to see you.

I think what I heard you say in the beginning is that you are working with eight sort of regional leads for this.

And so these are, and for us here, that would be the Office of Arts and Culture here in Sacramento.

So as commissioners, we really should be looking in this direction as to how we can leverage this plan to do further organizing

and being able to leverage some of the recommendations in the report,

but also what does that look like applied to this region or this city?

So in some of those, the slide where it mentions efforts around housing, efforts around these other things, how is this commission working with other commissions to actually push this forward so we don't remain as siloed in our decision making here in the city.

But that's also something that I heard and I would love to support.

Thank you.

Commissioner Carter.

So as I was listening, it reminded me of the question I did have before was, so I know you mentioned that in Oakland and San Jose, there were some abandoned warehouses and places that could be used for art studios.

Like how are you guys going about getting those secured for the community?

That is definitely part of implementation in the future and just perhaps being able

to this is what we were asked when we were at those places.

I don't know that the California Arts Council can make it happen but I think what we're

hoping to do is raise the awareness that I'm sure San Jose is not alone or Oakland is not

alone in wanting to utilize those spaces to be able to help arts and culture and the creative

economy. So in my brain if we can figure that out as part of the addendum as like this is

one of the strong top ten recommendations that we're hearing across the state that

that would be able to get the wheels turning on how potentially a statewide implementation

of that could happen and similar to what Carissa just said how could we help cities and counties

by sharing that information and having that be a focus of their work, right, working with

those other cities and counties to make it happen. If it's already happening

somewhere successfully what can we share about that policy, that process, that

implementation and rollout that could help other cities and counties.

Thank you Commissioner Heisenberg. Hi thank you for this effort it's amazing. I

don't really know how to phrase this as a question or I don't really know it's

just something that popped in my head. My day job is basically an art worker so I

I installed for other artists.

And it's definitely part of the creative economy,

but I was just wondering,

in terms of groups that you are meeting with,

were you meeting with, like, in film industry,

in music and all of that?

I just was curious what the feedback was

from the logistics side of the support

from the art laborers.

So not just the labor that goes into art making from artists,

but the ones who, you know,

hang the pictures for the artists and that sort of thing.

Yes, that industry was part of the groups of artists, creative economy workers that were talked with during the interview stage as well as on the creative economy work group.

I want to say IOTC, I'm not sure if you can remember, it's a gentleman that was representing the union for folks who do just that in Los Angeles.

my words might be failing me a little bit here now, but that was definitely a part of the

conversation of what is the reality of life beyond something that's presented on stage,

you know, like Hollywood actors, but yet also the people who are producing the films and lighting the

films and doing the sound. And yeah, that's definitely been a part of the conversation

and needs to continue. Thank you for raising that.

thank you I was looking at your slide deck here in this packet so to be clear

phase one is over as is finished we are in phase two as you guys are doing

community engagement how long does that take or do you guys have a timeline for

that because I'm looking here on this slide deck and it says it's from

California's creative economy 2025 to 2035.

So should it be done within that time?

That might be a slight typo.

Six priority action areas for California's creative economy 2025 to 2035.

The immediate thing that I can speak to, the tour,

phase two will be done by the second week of February.

And then phase three will start implementation

implementation after we've submitted the addendum into the legislature which will be before the

end of the fiscal year. So I'd say early summer we're aiming for spring. I think the 2035

you're seeing in there reflects how long we think realistically if we were to take all

these six priority action areas and all the side bars that are underneath it to actually

get into the implementation phase in real life so to speak, might realistically take

until 2035 to get going but it'll be a work in progress until then. Thank you.

Anyone else? Thank you so much. Of course, my pleasure. Thank you. We will now move on to item number five,

Sacramento Arts, Culture and Creative Economy Commission Annual Report.

I just wanted to take a moment to thank Megan Morgan from the California Arts Council.

It has been a pleasure working with them throughout the past several months.

I also wanted to give a shout-out to California for the Arts.

They are actually our anchoring regional partners,

so they have been the ones contracted by the California Arts Council

to actually support town hall convenings in four counties,

Yolo, Solano, El Dorado, El Dorado slash Alpine, and Sacramento.

And so the session, if you have seen our newsletter,

we share information about the February 4th session at Memorial Hall.

I'll mention it again later in my director's update.

But that is our Sacramento region convening,

and that is being spearheaded by California for the Arts.

And then following that, for folks who might not be able to make the in-person session,

is an online webinar that you can access February the 5th.

So I just wanted to share that out.

Moving on to our next item.

I can kind of help tee this up, but I just wanted to acknowledge that a lot of this work

for the format of the work plan, it has been informed by the city clerk's office,

but also speaks to the work of past commissioners.

Justina Martino, one, I think she was in the audience earlier today.

Just wanted to acknowledge some of that work.

And then a working group that was established after our last meeting in December 2025,

and that group included council members Eisenberg, Smith, Ohegbu, and Lavulo.

and so that is what you see here.

The 2026 work plan is part of the 2025 annual report

and this is a required document.

For those of you who have been around,

this is required by boards and commissions

and was submitted around this time last year.

So the task before you all today,

before I hand it off to Chair Levullo

and Vice Chair Ohebu, if they wish,

is to consider the additions to the format of the work plan.

I think that some of the significant changes

include a more specific outline

and action steps, action items,

and a bit of a prioritization to them.

So I think that is the task before you all

to consider how you feel about the additions

and the changes and at our subsequent meeting,

at your subsequent meeting in February

is when hopefully we would

incorporate and then

approve any changes.

With that, I'll pass it to

Chair Levullo.

It's also in your packet.

So we had met by phone and we had discussed some things that we thought would help us

as commissioners move the work along.

Some of the things that came up were that the way that it stands right now, it's fine.

However we needed to know exactly in plain layman's terms, now what do we need to do

as a commissioner?

What does that mean for me and this document?

And that is something that we're still discussing.

What does that action item look like for items one, two, and three?

Hold on.

And so because it is a commission discussion, everyone should have a say on what you think are some of your ideas that we can make this more a meaningful responsibility for you.

when you go out into the community as an arts commissioner?

What is something that you think you should be doing?

Or can others who have experience,

like Commissioner Winlock and Commissioner Wallace,

what are some of the things that they look like

for some of the newer commissioners

that they can actually do to put it into action?

Ready, set, go.

Commissioner Winlock.

You know, I think it's great that we're looking at what we need to look at to make our commission more powerful and more involved in the community.

One of the things I would suggest is I was thinking about how much that a lot of our work is around the creative edge plan in the sense about understanding it.

And I would propose that we have some kind of retreat with just the commissioners.

I know it would have to be public to have us.

We have new members.

We have new people that are involved to kind of understand the creative edge plan in the sense about, you know, the history behind it and just what's been going on around it.

Those kinds of things.

I also would propose that we give a somehow we get a status update about the work that has been accomplished in each of those goals.

Because I think there's been some incredible work that has been going on from the offices, from the community, as we kind of focused on the Creative Edge plan in a sense.

I speak a lot around the issue about goal one, which is around education, arts education in our schools.

We've had some great, great involvement in that area and improvement in making that happen.

And that's one of the things I think that, just to speak, that we should have, as commissioners,

have an understanding about where that's in, what's been accomplished, what's a part of it,

and then also allow us an opportunity to maybe think about where do we want to go with that goal?

What are some of the things that we'd like to make sure that we are saying as a commission

about what we would like to keep supporting?

But as we look at this work plan for this year, it's one of the things I suggest.

Thank you.

Commissioner Wallace.

I agree with Commissioner Winlock.

And I have a clarifying question. One of the things

that is a bit challenging about this

commission is that

it's advisory to the council, but the work of the Office of Arts

and Culture is adjacent to and somewhat independent.

And so when we think about what we want to do to support the work and then what we put in our annual work plan, having done this for the planning commission, in order to sort of say what the commission's priorities will be, we do get a report from the department that articulates sort of like what our work was for the prior year.

and what was accomplished and then what the staff are planning for the coming year.

And then the commission gets an opportunity to sort of say, this is a planning commission,

an opportunity to say what other priorities they'd like to see included if there's staff time

because we're cognizant of the fact that the staff have limited capacity.

and then the commission's job is also to sort of like reflect what the priorities for the community are

in those requests to the staff.

And then there's like some back and forth and then everybody sort of like

and then the commission chair actually writes a letter in concert with the planning director

sort of as a preface to the report.

and that really helps solidify like the top five things

that the Planning Commission's gonna put their stamp on

for the work that the Planning Department is doing

or the Community Development Department.

And so I think if that's possible to sort of align

with our goals, Jason, that would be really useful

because I think we kind of are spinning our wheels

about what we wanna say are our priorities for 2026,

which is what we're supposed to be setting up

our work plan for.

That being said, I think our sort of ongoing priority

is to be available and do outreach to the sector

in your district and in the city wide,

but your district is a manageable piece of the city.

So for mine.

And then sort of reflect those perspectives from the community.

Like people text me all the time to tell me their perspective on something like how California Jobs First did or did not support the creative economy.

And then other people are like, I really need help with getting this permit done so I can have this event.

and those things like and to the point about like interacting across

desiloing the work right like those like we can

share that here share that with the staff and they can

help us interface with other parts of the city

that are not under that purview but are their decisions are affecting

the creative economy in Sacramento so those are my thoughts

thank you anyone else

I don't know if you guys have gotten a chance to take a look at it.

It is on the agenda.

It is also up here, too.

If you click on your screen, Projector A, you can click on it again, and it will open up in full view.

So that way you guys can see what the current 2026 work plan is.

The additions that were added onto here were action steps.

but I don't know if they have to be that specific

I think because it's a lot

of action steps and I guess it could be you can do A, B or C

but I don't know what do you guys think

it's a lot of words right now

yeah

I mean does it have to be that specific

can we just say this is what this would look like

and then whatever you take from that example

go out and do or does it have to be

explained in the way that it is in action steps

Commissioner Roscoe

I actually think that the specificity of it all kind of helps with accountability and making sure that these people, us as a group, are doing very specific things and having a, I definitely did this and I am going to plan on keep on doing this kind of attitude towards our position.

Thank you.

Commissioner Carter?

I think you guys did a fantastic job.

Oh, I am muted.

This is my first day.

I think you guys did a great job with putting together the draft.

This is really great, and the actual items are concise.

I think that's the word to use.

It's not?

Okay.

It's very concise, but I believe at least taking a step forward with one or two action steps.

that we can really hone in on and focus on for the new year.

Thank you. Commissioner Heisenberg.

Well, I think some of the action steps we listed were more like opportunities for learning.

So, and some of them we were considering as presentations to actually occur during commission meetings,

which I think are doable.

and I think some of them too, I wonder again,

if we're talking about figuring out what our priorities are,

like do we have five, six priorities within these goals?

You know, what are the objectives?

Okay, there's like six objectives, eight objectives,

and some it's like, well, we're not going to get to every objective,

so what are the ones we want to focus on this year,

which is in turn going to make the action items more doable for everybody?

that that's where I think we could have a discussion I also like what Commissioner

Winlock said about I don't know how that everybody's schedule is but I'm

totally down with doing some kind of like yeah retreat everybody gets to know

everybody better everybody gets to kind of understand everybody's personal sort

of goals with the Commission because we all share goals but we all kind of are

coming with our own sort of perspectives and missions and I think that's gonna

helpful because we have each other to bounce ideas off of.

Again, we have to figure out how to do that in a way that's in accordance with the Brown

Act, but I do think it would be really helpful.

Also, it's a chance for some of us newbies to kind of really clarify some things for

ourselves.

Thank you.

Commissioner Wallace.

You know what?

No, I'm fine.

I yield.

Okay.

Anyone else?

Commissioner Gutierrez.

I'm new, so I may ask a silly question, but about 10 years ago there was an audit as far

as how funding from the Office of Arts and Culture was being utilized or leveraging arts

organizations of color here in the city, but it was paid for and covered by an external

party.

I'm curious, how can we get ahead of that and start self-auditing ourselves and set

that as a benchmark so that we can see how we can move towards more equitable

goals so I see really great strategies here I see like I actually really to

you Commissioner Orozco's point specificity actually helps here but I

would love to see as well some sort of threshold or data to inform where we're

at today not as a way to criticize the way things have done but rather to see

this is where we're at and then be able to set measurable goals for the next

five to ten years. Thank you. Anyone else? It is a living document so it can still be

changed and edited as we go along. Nothing is set in stone. Everything is a conversation.

Jason, did you want to add anything? I could jump in.

Thank you for that reflection.

I agree this can be utilized as a tool,

but I think the task in front of the body is to come up with a draft that can be approved

and forwarded on to the personnel and public employees committee.

That's a requirement.

That's an expectation.

Getting there, I heard a few things.

I do agree that prioritization of how you all feel you would like to move forward,

whether it's keeping all the objectives or shaving off, proposing to shave off a few,

let me do a three, some way to visually identify for accountability's sake,

but just for clarity's sake, which are the objectives in each of the goal areas

you're going to task yourself with doing.

I think that would be valuable.

I think maybe a next step is to reconvene those individuals who are still interested in being a part of small group discussions.

As a reminder, these would be likely in the form of a virtual call or a phone call session with less than a quorum.

and we can tighten up the language

that you want to bring forward to the next meeting

based on some of the notes

and the comments that you heard here today.

That's my suggestion.

I can also look into the possibility,

the mechanics of a retreat,

but in our planning session,

we can also discuss what might an appropriate time be in the year for such an event like that.

I wanted to address Commissioner Wallace's inquiry,

and I think that where the Office of Arts and Culture is now,

we are in the middle of working out the details for our own work plan.

I feel like we haven't, I realize that we haven't really synced up, you know, in the past.

This was a new requirement, I think, a couple of years ago to have commission bodies produce a report like this.

We want, I think, the overall goal is to not just sync with the Office of Arts and Culture,

but to provide this body with goals of their own,

with goals that you all can agree to,

and with being informed by community voices

and your knowledge and your expertise

in your respective council districts,

have a plan that it fills your own

and that it includes activities that you would like to engage with.

I regularly hear from some of you that have great ideas and are sometimes working on them with your council representatives

and also sometimes wondering how might better resources be brought to bear for those ideas that you have.

So I know that there are a lot of great ideas out there.

I think that where the leadership of the commission could consider is what next steps to tighten up what the final document would be, what it would look like, so that we can continue to move this forward.

It is always going to be a living document, and you can always reiterate.

But to have something that's submitted, I think that's probably the first goal.

So deadline for this should be.

Well, I would say it's up to you as chair and vice chair, but ASAP.

Let's have the deadline for this to be the next meeting.

And if you have any suggestions, email them to Jason.

And in our next meeting that we have our small groups meeting, we can discuss.

We should have a small group discussion probably within a week or two so that we can get that final version into an agenda report for February so that we're not kind of cramped and we're not being pressured to bleed into March.

Sounds good.

I guess I would ask, just so that I'm clear, are there other voices, alternate voices,

who would wish to be a part of these discussions or the next discussion around the final draft

of the work plan?

okay

commissioner Gutierrez is interested in joining the leadership uh the working plan discussion group

so then that brings the count if i'm tracking it to five and we're still below the quorum

How many do we have so far?

Five.

So we're kind of capped at five.

Are there any other voices that would wish to move on or off of this discussion group?

All right.

Well, hearing no comments on that.

I'm hearing that Commissioner Carter may want to hop on.

Oh, is that what?

And if you would, I can hop off so you can hop on.

Is that an option, Jason?

I think it's up to you.

If the members already contributed, then they couldn't hop off and give their spot.

That would make it a serial meeting.

It would be a serial.

It would be a serial.

I guess I have to stay up.

I mean, you could, correct me if I'm wrong, but you could, as a prior participant,

can roll back your participation,

but that wouldn't free up, for example,

a seat for someone else

because you've already been engaged in the conversation.

I'm just trying to let the love flow.

You guys want to contribute?

Please, if you have something to contribute,

send it over to Jason's way

so that the meeting that we'll have

in the next week or two.

That is your deadline, two weeks.

We'd like to have this done by next meeting.

Okay.

Any comments in the public?

Thank you, Chair.

Yes, we have two speakers for this item.

Our first speaker is Lambert.

just just a few suggestions for this commission because most likely after I make my statements

today, then you probably won't see me because I have a lot to go accomplish this year.

It's a family-owned business, so being the founder, you have to take the lead.

And there's no structural deficits with us because they would run me out of town if that

was the case.

That's what they should do here.

And there's structural deficits.

You study what that structure is.

Now, I'm going to tell you something. As I sat in the back, number one, I couldn't see the report.

And to the person that's new, the two people that are new, really pay attention to this.

Where I come from, if you study too long, you're studying wrong.

Now, I've seen small prints and things like that that makes me alert.

because why so small with all this technology?

This lady here did a report, and it was so big in the back you could see it,

but this one was so small.

And another thing, it's not a criticism, it's just a statement.

To the chair, not the chair, but to Mr. John,

you need to find a way to make this louder

because I sit in the back and I can't hear you.

And that's not a good look because I come here to listen.

So I'm just giving you a suggestion.

Whatever your situation is with the microphone,

try to get the decibels up louder.

You won't hear anybody say that to you

because you won't see me for a while.

But I'm saying that to me in 2026,

that should not be an issue.

to be able to hear all of you.

Even the lawyer should pay attention,

especially when I'm here.

Thank you for your comments.

Our next speaker is Shira.

Hi, Shira with Atrium 916 again.

I wanted to echo,

I think it's a great idea for you guys to do a retreat

and really connect and kind of go over.

I did want to talk about one goal that's really important, I think.

The Creative Economy Plan did talk about tourism,

and I would like to bring up Old Sacramento

and that this should be a topic of importance.

The atrium moved there in 2020.

We currently see 148,000 people a year.

We support 880 artists in the region,

and we have 150 makers in our shop,

and we write about 45 checks a month.

So we are a big provider,

and what we know about Old Sacramento

is that there aren't many places for local creatives.

There's not many places to find local creatives,

and this is really, really important.

The only ones that are, it's us.

There's one more artist gallery,

and then another store that is actually one of our artists

that opened their other store.

And I think that when people go to a tourist district, they're looking for local art.

Even if they're not into local art, that's what they're looking for.

And how can we include that in the plan?

Because Old Sacramento does not have a direction right now.

Old Sacramento, there's a lot of thoughts on what's going on with it.

And I think it's really, really important that arts and culture and the creative economy will be included in whatever plan is for Old Sacramento.

We understand the plan includes not having the atrium in the public market and that is fine.

But if we're not there, who is going to be and what is the plan for our local creatives?

The atrium has always stood up for the community.

That's what we're all about.

We were there to advocate for the CARES funds.

We were there to advocate for ARPA funds.

We are there always for the community and about the community.

And my concern here is there are a lot of barriers for the local creatives right now to create and be there.

Atrium has tried to overcome those.

How can we do more?

And welcome new commissioners.

Sorry, I didn't say that before.

Thank you for your comments.

Thank you.

Chair, there are no other speakers for this item.

Thank you.

We'll be moving along to our director's report.

Thank you, Chair Levullo.

I will certainly try to speak louder.

I also want to apologize.

I'm not sure if there may have been audio issues that made it difficult for those online to listen to,

to hear some of the commentary earlier in today's meeting.

The first item, I don't have too many items.

The first item I wanted to share was to circle back to the presentation from Megan Morgan with the California Arts Council and to reiterate that this is an important opportunity to engage with the California Arts Council's Creative Economy Strategic Plan.

The Sacramento meeting is February the 4th at Memorial Hall down the street.

before I

kind of go through some additional information

I think maybe one of the most

important pieces of information

to note is the website

creative economy

dot arts dot ca dot gov

creative economy

dot arts dot ca dot gov

and this

is where you can find the report

itself you can find

a schedule of

sessions in

your region. You can find a link

to RSVP for the session

next month at Memorial Hall.

And you can find a link to

if you can't attend the

town hall on the

4th, then

you can also sign up

to attend the virtual convening

there on the

website. February 5th

at 1pm is the

virtual convening.

February the 4th at 530 Memorial Hall.

Again, that's the in-person convening for the Sacramento region.

Absolutely encourage anyone in community to sign up.

Absolutely.

This is the whole point and the reason why we have a visit from the California Arts Council today in front of this body.

It would be wonderful to see as many commissioners as possible attending that event.

And this is the second phase, as was described.

So this is the opportunity for community to share how they see themselves or perhaps not see themselves in the plan.

So I just wanted to encourage folks to get out there, sign up, and RSVP and attend either of those two events.

I also wanted to share that some information around the Stockton Boulevard Plan Action Grant.

The city is dedicating $200,000 in grant funding to support actions that are consistent with the Stockton Boulevard plan.

This funding is provided by Neighborhood Development Action Team, or NDAT, as it's known, and the Office of Arts and Culture.

This grant is meant to invest in community-led actions that support the identified community priorities for Stockton Boulevard.

There are, I believe, six priorities or topic areas,

and the Office of Arts and Culture will be funding proposals

that include arts and culture-eligible activities.

For more information, you can go to this city's website

and do a search for Stockton Boulevard Plan Action Grant.

But for those of you who are receiving our newsletter,

this is an example of kind of really, really useful information

that you can find.

So I encourage folks to sign up if they haven't already.

But this is also, it has been included

in the January newsletter.

As a reminder, there is one remaining vacancy

for the commissioner's seat

representing Council District 7.

For anyone in the community that is interested in this seat,

you do not actually have to live in the district

in which you are hoping to represent.

You can find out more information about this process

on our website, arts.cityofsacramento.gov,

under the About section,

and then the Sacramento Arts, Culture,

and Creative Economy Commission.

Just as a reminder, again, for folks who are wondering

where they can find a lot of these events,

if it is something that is presented, supported,

directly out of this office,

like the Creative Economy Town Hall meetings, the newsletter is the best place to go.

You can also follow us and engage with us on social media, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram,

Blue Sky, at Sac City Arts.

The next meeting, which will be on February the 9th, just for the commissioners, I wanted

to note that we will have a presentation from the city clerk's office around roles and

responsibilities and this was this is in response to something that

commissioners had asked for in the past and the city clerk's office is is is

pleased to provide that for you all so so this is a good time top of the year

quarter one you'll have a presentation that will go deeper into the roles and

responsibilities of commissions in general and you'll have an opportunity

to ask our city clerk questions.

So you can look forward to that.

That's all the updates that I have.

Thank you.

Our next item is Commissioner Comments,

ideas, and questions.

Commissioner Eisenberg.

Hi.

I just wanted to use the opportunity

to make a few announcements

of some stuff going on in District 2.

First off, we just had,

back in December on the 13th,

the old North Sacramento Community Association hosted its first better get-together informational event to share with the district.

The new plans for the historic North Sacramento school in Dixie Ann,

it's going to be transformed into a cultural community center.

I want to give a special thanks to Director Chong and Commissioner Wallace for popping in.

That was really great.

I'm sorry I missed you, Maya.

I kind of got there right after you left.

the association will be hosting another one of these events later in the spring

and they'll be sharing these plans again as well as any new new things going on please check it out

go to their facebook page for information all north sacramento community association

hyphen uptown backslash dixie ann it's a long one um january news uh district two we've got some

really cool shows going on at the Rink Studios.

So go check them out,

including kind of a crazy

bingo party with DJs

and bingo and

comedians and, I don't know, it looks

pretty fun. And also

some pretty wild other shows

including some mayhem,

metal mayhem shows I might have to go check out.

Look for those events

on the Rink Studios,

SAC.com. Also,

Cynthia Brooks has been hosting poetry readings and shows art shows at her space at tap wine

lounge so go to tapwinelounge.com to find out more information I was at one not too long ago

it was actually pretty great poetry reading finally I'd like to share one more website

that Kim Scott from Toybox and Surreal Estates has been running for a while in our district

it is oldnorthsacarts.com backslash events she's just listing taking it on to just list what's

going on in our district one final shout out I just wanted to say if you haven't had a chance

to visit Richard O'Call's bookstore La Cultura bookstore on 2017 Del Paso please stop by it's

really cool I've been there it's a cool space also it's right next to Sammy's Diner great pancakes

a lot of good sugary pancakes sure to drive your insulin level way up I

personally like the corned beef hash that's all I got thank you Commissioner

Wallace yeah I don't know if I were to do what Jeff just did I would be here all

day so I will say that I have heard that abridged is working abridged org is

working on a arts and culture calendar and so keep an eye out of that for until

tell your folks because I think it'll be a really good resource for the community

and then speaking of resources for the community so mr. Davis commented on our

meetings being at 1 o'clock and I agree it's frustrating and it's hard for

people to make it here myself included but I wanted to note that there is an

e-comment feature available to everybody prior to the meetings that you can use

to put anything that you don't get to say like if you you want to say a lot

you can put it in there or if you cannot attend the meeting and we should all

make sure that we check the e-comments before we come here so that we can

elevate anything that gets discussed there that's not on the agenda or that

is relevant to the conversations that we're having

Thank you Commissioner Carter. Thank you guys for showing up today. It's the

second Monday of the month and then I know we'd much rather be somewhere else

but we're here and so thank you guys for showing up. I agree with Dr. Winlock on a

retreat. My suggestion would be either Napa or the Bahamas for various different

reasons, but, you know, anywhere

local to, you know, within

five miles of Sacramento is

doable.

But I do want to mention that I've been working with

the council member team

CAP, no,

wrong district,

team Maple team,

District 5.

I wanted to put together a

art event

to bring forth the

artists within the District 5 community.

I've been talking with

the intern and the staff of putting together the event at the community shop over on Broadway,

which I had the opportunity to visit, and they are fantastic.

The owner, Chad, is a wonderful gentleman.

And so I am in the works of putting something together, and I would like to invite each

council member to come down and show support to some of the artists within District 5,

and also in hopes to encourage my fellow commissioners to host something very similar

in their district.

because it's important to us, arts, culture, and bettering the community within Sacramento.

So, yeah, I will keep you guys informed.

Beautify D5 is the slogan.

Thank you.

Commissioner Gutierrez.

Thank you so much.

And thank you, Commissioner Carter.

I'd like to accept your challenge for some regional-based gatherings,

especially given April is arts, California Arts and Culture Creativity Month, so it could be a

really interesting activation for the region. I did just want to highlight, even though I'm new,

a few things. One is that this year, for those who are familiar, marks the 50th anniversary of the

Royal Chicano Air Force. That is a Chicano-based arts contingency that is still is here, and so

because of that, there are a series of activations in all of our districts, and you can see where

those are happening, which museums, which gallery exhibitions and pop-ups on lrgp.org.

Just a few of us were at the activation on Saturday, so it's nice to see some of the

commissioners there.

This is firmly in Commissioner Wallace's district, but I just wanted to give credit

where credit's due.

It's regional.

The second piece is on behalf of Council Member Guerra.

He is spearheading the Morelia Sister City Initiative between Sacramento and Morelia Michoacan.

He is leading four committees within that, including education, cultural tourism, arts and culture, and economic development.

And he and a few others will be going to Morelia at the beginning of February.

So it's a beautiful opportunity for us to be doing some asset mapping here in the city and meeting with folks across the border as well to have those discussions.

So I would love to expand the conversation around film, around theater, pop-ups, and cultural activations.

That is all I have for now. Thank you.

Thank you. Commissioner O'Hammel.

Thank you, Chair.

In D3, PBS KVIE is hosting a gallery reception for Keith Bachman on January 15th and would

like to invite everyone out.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Any public comments?

Thank you, Chair.

Yes, we do have several speakers for not on the agenda.

Our first speaker is Sally.

Hi, I'm Sally Shapiro.

I think Dino got me in here.

What?

Dino got me in here.

Anyway, I saw the ad for the fundraise fund for District 5 on TV, and I thought I wanted

to hawk one of my sculptures.

In 2004, I started a creative series called Woman in a Man's World, which ended up being

13 bronze and aluminum sculptures between 7 and 8 1⁄2 feet tall.

The subject was women's work and role that I feel is overlooked, birth and nurturing.

We hold up half the world, not in light of day, but dark and tightly wrapped, lest their

poisonous power decay. The number 7 piece that I was trying to get in a public space

possibly is called paper pistols and prayer. It's 8.5 feet of bronze and it looks like

this. Half, just to add, halfway through my creative process, Jason discovered me. The

meaning is it's kind of a mourning for the mass shootings, but it's also a message that

says we're taught to worship money, but when things go south we...

Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Lambert.

I would hope that the city clerk would definitely pay attention to this statement.

on April 14th. And those of you who weren't here on April 14th, you should go back and study this.

April 14th, I was here. I forgot about it. My family brought it to my attention.

I came down here and I made a statement that there was a company that received a no written

agreement and they were caught in an audit. And the reason I bring that up is because when I found

out about it, I said, well, wait a minute. If somebody can get $100,000 from City Hall

and they can't audit it, then I want to go in front of City Hall and ask them why.

And when I went in front of City Hall, I asked this question and all hell broke loose. I said,

I want to get a, for my company, which is Better Business Bureau accredited,

A-plus rated by the Better Business Bureau, can I get a no written agreement of $100,000?

I can hire a lot of people with that kind of money.

And I was told by somebody on the rostrum that that's highly unlikely that could happen.

Well, as a person who's in business, the way you check where some money went is you go to their bank.

And my bank will show you my statements of what money came in and where it went.

And they were allowed not to repay that money.

And it was a step. It was part of a staff that approved it.

How else could they have received the check?

So to the people who are new, make sure you study that.

It's called April 14th, this commission.

and we're going to be very active on finding out why money like that went out

and it didn't go to companies that are playing by all the rules.

Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Michael.

Hi, I'm Michael LaHood. I'm speaking on behalf of Prism Art Space at 2120 K Street,

which is a studio space with 10 resident artists, two galleries that are run by the resident artists,

and soon to be guest curators. We had an opening last Saturday called Art City, which is an art

exhibition celebrating Sacramento as a city where art is a core value and essential to our civic

identity. It featured interdisciplinary art and performance, including Rogue Music Project,

who had a 10-minute multimedia opera titled The Leader,

which they performed five times in our void multimedia gallery,

and Angela D. Alforque, who had an interactive theatrical

and spoken word presentation of fast girls in parked cars

about being a teen in Sacramento in the late 80s

in her teenage bedroom, which she has moved into the gallery.

There are also a variety of other works celebrating Sacramento,

inspirations, interventions, and visions for it, many of which extend beyond the gallery

into Sacramento itself in interactive and expansive ways.

It's on view until January 24th, Thursday, Friday, 2 to 6 p.m., Saturday, 10 to 2 a.m.

And there are two events I'd like to mention in conjunction.

We're having a roundtable discussion for artists and enthusiasts Thursday, January 22nd, from

6 to 8 p.m. to discuss what is working, what is needed, and to brainstorm ideas for moving

forward together on a grassroots level. And also, Dr. S.P. Coates and Kevin Zupanchik will perform

John Cage's harpsichord piece, reinterpreted on vinyl and accompanied by live visuals on as many

screens and walls as we can muster. That's Friday, January 30th from 7 to 9 p.m. with an artist's

talk. Thank you very much. Thank you for your comments. Our next speaker is Shira.

Sorry, I just got a gift. Thank you, Prism. I think we need more Prisms and more art studios

like that. I just want to say, Shira with HM916, part of our marketplace is an incubator. We have

an incubator, an accelerator. Our goal is to elevate creative businesses that are not only

just creative businesses but are sustainable.

That is our focus on January

26th. We are hosting an

accelerator pitch night

and that's going to be held at Aggie Square

where we will have local creatives

kind of talking about the businesses and what they're doing.

I would love to invite you.

Is there a way that I can invite the

whole

commission? Is there an email

that I can email that goes to everybody?

Hi, Sherry. Feel free to

email me and I'll make sure that the invite is

forwarded to the commission body.

perfect that would be amazing thank you so much and then we also are always open

to you guys to come we actually have no doors so you can just come five days a

week Wednesday through Sunday 10 a.m. to 6 and come and visit the atrium and see

what we're doing it's better to see it than hear me blab about it thank you

thank you for your comments our last speaker for this item is just Gina

Hello, most of you know me. I'm Justina Martino. I live in D6 and work from my art

studio at Prism Art Space with Hoodie and D4. Thank you, Carissa, for taking on the

role of D6 Commissioner. I think you are an ideal person for this role and would

love to connect with you about arts and culture in the district separately. So

I'm an artist and one of the directors of Art Tonic, a business that provides

community-engaged art projects for organizations and agencies and

professional development support for artists.

We're fiscally sponsored by the Capital Creative Alliance.

Myself and my now business partner, Julie Crum,

graduated from the Everyday Creative Accelerator,

led by culture and creative startups.

This program was extremely beneficial and helpful for us

as we strategically plan for the future of our business.

Leaders from both organizations have stayed in touch with us.

They've invited us to partner with them on proposals

that have community engagement elements,

and they have continued to provide us mentorship.

Thanks to the city funded grant we received

for completing the program, we were able to hire a lawyer,

Tiffany Sharp, who was one of the program mentors,

to formalize our partnership and register as an LLC.

So since I wasn't able to make it

for culture's presentation last month,

I just wanted to express how thankful I am

for this program and that I hope the city

is able to continue funding it and others like it.

Thank you.

Thank you for your comments.

Chair, there are no other speakers for this item.

Thank you so much.

Your meeting is adjourned.

Thank you.

Thank you.

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