I'm ready, so it's the fact that you have a script.

I call the Arts, Culture, and Library Commission meeting of January 20, 2026 to order.

Bill, will you take roll call, please?

Chair of Scotland.

Present.

Vice Chair Miller.

Present.

Commissioner Acevedo.

Present.

Commissioner Alvarez.

Commissioner Guillory.

Present.

Commissioner Ridsdale.

Commissioner Smith.

Commissioner Velasquez. We have five in attendance so the quorum is met.

All right. Item two announcements. We have no announcements. Item three consent calendar.

Can I get a motion to approve the minutes of December 16th, 2025?

I have a motion of a second. Well, any discussion? All right. All those in favor say aye, please.

please. Aye. Any opposed? All right. Motion carries. Moving on to item four, library services staff

reports and announcements. I do have one item that I just wanted to draw your attention to.

I sent out actually two messages last week about the ribbon cutting of the Stephen Taylor

Sanctity of Life Pavilion. That is this Saturday. Of course, you're all invited. I did my second

message there was a RSVP form so if you are planning to attend please fill that

out so they know that you're planning to attend I don't think there's a form I

don't think there's a way to designate that you're a commissioner but then

anyway if you're planning to attend please go ahead and fill that out and

And again, it's this Saturday, the 24th, Marina Park, 14001 Wicks Boulevard.

And like I said, there's an RSVP, starts at 10.

It's at the end of the road.

End of the road.

At the very end of the road.

Okay.

All right.

Well, I've seen a couple of images of the artwork, and I think the book's fantastic.

So it really turned out to be a good selection.

Anyway, that is it for my report.

Thank you very much. Item five, public comments. We have no public. All right. Item six, presentations. No presentations. I'm just whipping through this. But item 7A, Arts, Culture, and Library Commission Project Planning. This is our chewy, meaty, delicious vegetarian burger item of the day.

Okay. Did everyone bring an idea first off? I did. Okay. Terry and I did it too, sir.

I got one in my head. Okay. Well, and Terry, you'd mentioned you're going to have to leave by 7.30, but it's only 6.35.

Who wants to go first? Or should I go first just to give you guys an idea of like the level of detail?

I can go first. Okay. Terry, you go first.

I've been wrapping my brain to think, what can we do without funding?

And so the only thing I really come up with is maybe, and with the indulgence of the library

and whatever, is to hold an art show that would be focused on, I was thinking it could

people who have been grant recipients, or it could just be basically open to all artists,

and I'm not quite sure, I haven't worked out any details, but it could be, I suppose,

out in the front like you normally do things, but sponsored by the commission.

And that basically means volunteer, I guess.

So that's really, I mean, that's the only thing I could really come up with.

Yes?

Is the idea for people to sell their art or would it be people installing it more like

a gallery?

That's up for discussion, but I was thinking more in terms of display, just to get their

work seen and then they could pass out cards or whatever they want, you know, people could

contact them later or something like that.

Great.

And so that wouldn't theoretically have a budget.

Did you sort of work out anything about the expected time for the library staff or…

No, I haven't done any of these.

Okay.

But I can if we want to pursue that.

I can kind of work out the details.

Okay.

Yeah, I figure we can just go through, talk about our ideas and then go deeper on some

of them also.

Great.

Thanks, Terri.

Who wants to go next?

I'll go next.

Great.

So, kind of piggybacking off of one of the grant recipients that you guys know about

that I know that did the writing workshops for Latinx youth.

Similar to that, because we have a lot of the same connections, I was thinking that

I could help lead, and obviously, like, I do think a subcommittee would be really helpful

for this.

Or as a commission, we could initiate it.

It would be exposure, inclusivity, and involvement for Latinx reading, possibly journaling, but more towards authors of the Latinx background and providing that environment for youth.

You know, it could be boys and girls, it could be the middle school age, maybe even the high school age, because I know a lot of the high school kids do require some type of credit system when they're in their junior and senior years.

And then I'm close to someone at the high school that is part of the Latinos Unidos club there.

And then I know Vianney that leads this type of program.

And I have connections at Cal State East Bay and other Latinx authors.

So it would be based on volunteer work and donations and something to just provide to the youth of our city.

and that type of exposure, inclusivity for kids of that background

or any kids that want to be a part of this program

that would expose them to those types of reading materials and authors and that background.

Can you tell me a little bit more about, would it be like a book club?

Would it be, maybe, maybe it could be.

I was thinking and hoping that the library would offer, be able to offer that space.

And if it does need funding, obviously I would look into donations for that.

That way it doesn't come out of the commission because I know we don't have the funding.

Honestly, I was thinking more along the lines of during the school breaks because February has a president's break.

Spring break comes after that.

There's a Memorial Day weekend.

There's other three-day weekends.

The summer, the summertime.

time. Yeah, my timeline was roughly as soon as possible until the end of the summer.

Would it be like an ongoing series of workshops?

It definitely works. Like if it works well and we could do it, let's say on weekends

or during breaks, then we could hit repeat and do it the next cycle. Really just to keep

are used connected to the library, but on that specific connection that I think I can

help feed.

Great.

Yeah.

That's what I was thinking.

That's a wonderful example of using your community and your resources.

Yeah.

Great.

Thank you so much.

Yeah.

Who wants to go next with their idea?

I can go.

All right.

So, I feel like I pitched this before, but maybe not.

So I was thinking like Tour de Bibliothèque, like Tour de France, but we do a group bike

ride between all the branches of the library in collaboration with the, what is it, the

Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Commission.

So this is a fellow commission of ours in San Leandro.

I think it's like new, maybe just this past year, and they're focused on pedestrian and

bike access in the city.

So it would be to kind of, I haven't been to all the library branches, so like kind of

activate all the branches as well as, you know, we would use a route that uses like

protected bike lanes or like highlights the bike infrastructure of the city.

It would be a one day thing.

I have here like we could do something like people have a passport where they get stamps

at each library to show that they went, whether they go as the group ride or individually

on that day, and then they can like trade it in for a sticker or something very low cost.

Or we don't do that because, you know, it costs money to print the stickers and the

passports, but I like the passport idea.

So the audience would be cyclists of all ages and abilities.

This wouldn't be a race or anything, you know, you could razor scooter if you wanted to,

obviously timing would be when the weather is good so I was thinking spring or fall like summer

might be too hot or I don't know our summer is weird but favorable weather hopefully when it's

not raining and when there's enough daylight outside and I think it would be great to be

able to partner with this other commission there's bike East Bay does a lot of bicycle advocacy and

I was looking at their calendar today and for events in San Leandro and I don't see any on

calendar for the next year. I didn't look at every single month, but that seems like an opportunity

if they want to have more of a presence here. I know they do a lot in Hayward and Castor Valley,

so it would be nice to be connected with them. And maybe we could get sponsorship. There's a

couple bike shops in town that either could donate prizes or just water. I was thinking

we'd probably need to have water stations at each library so people could hydrate,

maybe have a couple staff or volunteers there to give out water stamp the

passports if we do that but yeah it's kind of like intersection of library and

recreation as like since I don't know one of the what the quality of life

things is health and active living programs and celebrating community so I

think that's kind of like a cool combination and makes the library feel

sporty so yeah that's the gist yeah I like that a lot um I'm off the top of my head I know Ava

energy recently sponsored the e-bike like winner of the month type of thing we actually won well

We got to go get the e-bike and then we get the rebate.

So then you have to purchase it.

Because my 19-year-old doesn't drive yet, so I've been pushing her towards the e-bike.

Is Ava Energy like a San Leandro?

Yeah, they're San Leandro specifically based.

Is that right?

Yes.

They're highly connected to us, but I forgot why.

I feel like it is based.

I see them on sponsored lists a lot.

Yes.

That might be a really good resource for that.

Yeah.

And that's a great idea, too, about having a bike shop do a prize.

Because theoretically, like, we could print one piece of paper that could act as a raffle entry.

And if you get it stamped in all the libraries and then put it in a thing.

And then, like, what bike shop wouldn't want, you know, to have exposure to people who have bicycles?

Yeah.

So that's a great idea.

And that sounds like fun.

Neat.

Thank you.

Who wants to go next?

We're getting down there, people.

Is that me?

Yes, you spoke up, so it's you.

Okay, so I didn't fill out the form, but I can do that.

But I had a few ideas, and I don't know.

Some of them might be stupid, but I thought I would rather just throw them out

and then see if they spark other things.

Alana, I know you had talked in the past about having a map of where all the art is in the city

and doing something online, which I think would be cool.

But what I was also thinking is like, could we also merge that with like where there are

the free little libraries and other like places to have free exposure to arts library and

culture, like all the bits and pieces.

So whether even if it's like other things going on in the city, but just expanding beyond,

like if you wanted to have a free adventure for the day, here's some places you could

go.

I was thinking like could we do something where it's like one day everyone like gets out there chalk and does the sidewalks and I don't know if the city is going to be okay with that.

But like one day where it could just be sort of like everybody out doing something, some beautification that doesn't do any permanent damage or whatever, but just have a day where if you're walking around you're seeing cool stuff.

And then I was trying to think like something maybe that we haven't done before and like poetry came to mind as being kind of like an avenue that might be interesting to explore.

and I saw somewhere that they had people submit poems and then they would put them at that like

you know when you check out at the library you get the little receipt but they would do like

community members submitted poems like this little poem by somebody in San Leandro and like

if we did some sort of contest obviously we have a library connection but maybe there's other like

little places where you could just like you there's like little pops of art or murals but

where you could find a little poem that you didn't expect, almost kind of like your mushrooms,

you know, like here's some places we could have community poems hidden and we could put them on

the map. I don't know, I just was trying to think of things. Those are great overachievers, that's

fantastic. I love the idea of a map of the Little Free Libraries and all the things. I just read

about someone putting up like a cup exchange. So like, yeah, like what little bits of culture

and neighbors caring for each other do we have here in San Alejandro? That's a great idea.

The poetry idea is really interesting. I feel like there's so many angles. I love the receipt

idea, but I remember on the subway in New York, they would have poems in the ad space. So they

would just reserve some ad space for poems. So like while you're sitting on the train,

at least you can read the poem and i wonder like a bus like the bus stops or something like that

or like places where people are waiting and it's just like something for them to look at instead

of their phones right yeah nice i saw some of that in europe i couldn't read it though

well that's great three ideas over at jiva two of you left when he's gonna have to go um this is

really a half-baked idea but um maybe some kind of like a summer reader's theater book club so the

The idea would be to choose plays that could be appropriate for a large range of people.

And people would get together, they'd read them, and then at the end of the book club,

they could put together a short reader's theater performance.

Half the people could be directors, and they'd be short little scenes or little monologues.

Just be a challenge for people who don't have the time to do, like,

I want to do theater, but I don't have time for a full production.

I can't memorize all these things.

You can go up with a script in your hand, but you get one or two or maybe even three rehearsal periods

after you've all read through kind of the same texts.

And it could be, you know, stuff, you know,

titled on minority authors or California authors

or different things like that.

Again, really half-baked, but that's odd.

Nice.

That sounds fun.

Thank you.

That sounds fun.

All right, mine's a game of streams.

You guys have heard about that already.

Mine is also an idea.

I did not fill out the form.

I went to the Korematsu talk.

So there's a temporary exhibit here, which is amazing, about Fred Korematsu, who I did not realize apparently lived in San Leandro and was arrested at San Leandro when he was detained and brought to internment.

Just really concentration camps.

of Japanese Americans in the early 40s.

So one thing, oh, and also,

and so everyone should see this talk that happened on,

this was library sponsored, it was amazing.

Fred Korematsu's daughter is highly involved

slash runs the Fred Korematsu Foundation, I think.

and goes around educating the public about her father.

She grew up at San Leandro also, and she did not know that her father was detained and

was the subject of a Supreme Court case until she learned about it in public high school

at San Leandro because he never wanted to talk about it.

So it just seems like that San Leandro connection I think is very important.

And this is not my idea.

Someone in the audience suggested the idea of a memorial plaque where he was arrested,

which I thought was great.

I was not able to get his name or anything because I, the person who had this idea,

because I was there with my four-year-old and I was having to color with him.

So that would be an idea.

um and just generally this is half-baked but um

there the project works with states to work on doing a fred korematu day um perhaps that

there could be fred korematu day within the city um because it just seems like he's a major

culture, part of our

history and culture.

Great.

That sounds cool.

This reminds me of the

a while ago, I was talking about the

East Bay Yesterday podcast, and they were like,

we want to do something about

San Leandro, but what's unique about San Leandro?

This seems like a story that

is so timely, and

I'm going to email him,

invite him to check out the exhibit

and be like, hey Liam,

this is an idea.

I mean, that would be great.

Just spark that idea, so thank you.

Yeah, definitely.

Just a thought on that.

I know the library did an extensive amount of research on the internment camps, right,

Bill?

They did an extensive amount, because over at the theater they were always over there

working on it or something.

I don't know, in those offices they have.

But I bet there's a lot of information there, that the library or...am I...

There was a lot of work done to support the redlining exhibit.

That might have been what it was.

I think that's what you're thinking of, which was also an amazing exhibit.

But I don't remember a focus specifically on Korematsu.

I think they were doing interviews and they were recording people with their stories.

Yes, Terry, you are correct. Years ago, we did, I don't remember what initiated this,

but it was a series of interviews with people who had been in the internment slash concentration camps

and their experience. One of our volunteers had been in that situation.

and it's just a little

stories about

um

you know they were short

videos

you know we must have archived them

somewhere but anyway they were quite touching

in many ways because you

heard about their

something that would seem

sort of

normal but then you hear it

through the lens of someone who's forced to live in a place

and how

that and those normal activities took on this profound sort of representation of being confined

and then what happens when you're not confined.

I was just thinking that maybe that would be another tie to San Leandro's

because maybe those people that they interviewed were San Leandrins.

I'm not sure, but there was one gentleman who was a member of my breakfast club for years

and got to be good friends and he was an attorney.

but he passed away last year.

So, you know, but I think there were a lot of internees here in San Leandro,

so maybe that would be something along.

I'm not quite sure because it's just something I'm thinking about.

I think they were actually inspired to do that task by the Holocaust Memorial.

And how they have been doing that.

They've been doing it, though, in 3D and interactive, which is very interesting.

But anyway.

But I mean that does, I mean maybe there, not that I'm going to go do this myself, but

there seems like there's potential or it would be great if there could be an oral history

project around all of that because people who were interned are dying.

I think they're getting old.

So capturing that information seems important.

And their relatives are probably around.

Yeah, local.

That's good.

Neat.

We have a bunch of good ideas.

I applaud all of you for bringing ideas that don't seem to cost much money,

which is part of our brief and excellence.

Let's, Bill do you have any thoughts about next steps?

I have some but I want to defer to you also.

Yeah, I think that, I think it was Commissioner Velasquez mentioned a committee, and I think,

you know, I don't think it would make sense to have a committee for each one of these,

But perhaps a committee to make this project plan real, that might be worth doing to take

these ideas and figure out how to make them, which ones to prioritize and then pursue.

Because it's going to take every one of these, while not a lot of money potentially, some

it depends on how they're implemented, they are going to require a lot of work to be real.

So, and that, you know, it's going to take the folks on this commission working in collaboration

with the library, of course.

And we don't have to do them all this year.

I mean, we're probably not going to have much money next year either, the year after that.

So, yeah, it would make sense to figure out, you know, if you folks haven't done a project

plan for your idea, if you could do that and sort of think it through, write it down enough

so that you could hand it off to a subcommittee

and then sort of act as the subject matter expert for your ideas.

Natalie, I don't want to punish you for bringing three ideas.

So maybe we'll move forward with one of those

or sort of like I'll take one or something.

But I mean, some of you are more subject matter-y about some of these

and then some of these can kind of be handled by anyone as a point person.

So, yeah, if we can write up the project plans and then maybe come back next month and think about which one or two we want to prioritize for the next bit.

And we'd want to prioritize ones that specifically fit in with the...

Quality of life priority.

Thank you. I'm like, the life force priority.

Quality of life priority.

and then we can put some energy towards it.

And I think all of these are great,

and I love that it will keep us all invested.

You guys are all taking your life force to be here once a month,

and if we're just sitting and going through an agenda

and there's really nothing to do,

I mean, that's disrespectful to all of you.

So I love that we're coming together as a group

to figure out how we can do cool stuff.

So we could agendize it for the February meeting

and kind of do a prioritization,

is what I'm hearing you suggest,

and then talk about how we would go forward

based on that.

That's what I'm hearing.

Yeah, let's do an item that prioritizes

and then once we have done the priority,

let's spend that some minutes of that same meeting just brainstorming logistics you know

like stick up a couple sticky things and do like library needs you know commissioner needs volunteer

needs physical needs fundraising needs you know like can we reach out to someone who makes chalk

and donate some chalk stuff like that you know can we put a call out for where all the little

free libraries are. Can we

figure out all of the Latinx

authors we know that might come and do a talk?

Okay.

Great.

Does someone need to

do a motion to put the thing on the

agenda? You have the power to

add whatever you want on the agenda.

Yes, there you go. Great.

Does anyone want to

say anything else?

Bring up anything else?

think through anything else while we're in this very collaborative space um you mentioned the

the part that we're playing in the quality of life initiative is is this it or is this only

about the um library bike tour yeah i just had you a lot different this out because i don't have a

picture no thank you but this is not the part that we're playing right or is are we in like

explain a general part or a specific part with the plan oh well that's that's just alana's form

okay but if you go to the san leander website there's a quality of life thing and then the

library has sort of specific subsets under that okay thank you i couldn't remember if you guys

had it to us or if it's just on the website it's on the website so if i could elaborate a little

little bit on the quality of life priority and this is true for all the

priorities the priorities they're unreached priority different departments

have responsibilities the quality of life is so broad we have a section of it

the recreation department has a section human services has a section and the

whole idea is you come up with these the deliverables within those priorities so

So the library will be establishing a new set of priorities or deliverables because we've largely met the ones that were already established.

There's some that we're still working on.

So, and those will be coming out in March.

So, you could see if these would be built within that and then include them in the next set of priorities.

The deliverables, I should say.

So, any one of these could potentially fit that.

Oh, okay.

We don't have to be that formal, but it's a possibility.

Oh, so you're saying that we could sort of back end our projects into a deliverable rather than the deliverables and forming our projects?

Well, I'm saying that the library department, amongst the other departments, have to come up with new deliverables under the quality of life priority.

And if the commission is really committed to one or two of these ideas and feels comfortable,

we could add these as potential deliverables along with everything else that library staff will submit.

That we already deliver.

That we'll deliver in the future.

So this is the next set that will be, I don't remember when our deadline is for creating them,

but we're talking about March.

So it'll be going forward.

The whole idea is you don't, you know, take a broader view.

You can have priorities.

That sounds great.

but where the rubber hits the road is deliverables.

What are we going to do that make those priorities real?

And so any one of these, we could say a deliverable is to have a bike between branches

or whatever you want to call it, bikes and branches.

We could have many of these could be turned into a deliverable

And you have to work towards making that happen.

I almost wonder if there's like an umbrella priority or uber deliverable that could encompass several of these.

Like enhanced cultural participation in the library via unconventional means.

And then we could have five things underneath it.

Yeah, I think they're trying to just, from what I've seen so far, is just keep it to, you know, I mean, obviously the library has a certain niche in the commission in relationship to that.

I think the deliverable should fit within the scope of your work.

Like, we're not going to take on a deliverable that says build a new navigation center.

You know, that would be human services, for example.

Right.

So I think as long as it fits within that broader scope of what the library and the commission are working towards, I think we'd be fine.

Okay.

Can you just give some, like, very rough examples of deliverables from the library?

So a deliverable, for example, was to identify every space within the city, any city facility that could host an art display.

And we have a staff member who's been working on doing that.

So, you know, the deliverables, you know, you could have an overall deliverable or an overall kind of priority goal that says we want to encourage the display of artwork within the city of San Leandro.

And then within that, well, where are we going to display it?

So that's a deliverable.

Find out where we can host art.

And then how do we encourage people to display their art?

So, identify groups within the city that the city can work with to generate proposals from artists to display their work.

And there could be, you know, facilitate those artwork displays and receptions.

So, that's the whole idea.

Okay, nice.

And I think many of these ideas would fall within, obviously, the scope of what we do.

But then it's just getting down to the point where it doesn't have to be that level of

detail of finding necessarily a chalk donor, but it could be identifying sponsors for an

event or something like that.

I noticed on the deliverables dashboard on the website that the arts and culture grant

program is one, but it says it's only 70% done and I feel like we've done a year already.

I want to get the numbers up.

The dashboard is, and thank you for reminding me of that, the dashboard is available for

any of these priorities so people can go and check out.

Each department has to keep updating the dashboard with its progress towards its various deliverables.

behind.

Believe me.

Listen, I don't know why that was even added.

We did that two years ago.

Sometimes it's nice to

give yourself credit for things that

haven't even completed, right?

That's how we do goals at work.

What did you already finish?

And sometimes,

I think that's an excellent point. There's not

enough recognition

of everything that people are already doing

within the city.

However, just turn that into

like what we just did here. These are great ideas and then to, this would be new proposals,

but the grants program is one. We're already doing, we're refining it, but we're definitely

already doing it.

Laura, you had your hand raised and then that's up.

Yeah, I just want to add that something, speaking of things that are already being done.

The Korematsu event was like the perfect library experience for me for an additional reason,

which is that I walked into this kind of tailored for grown-ups event with my four-year-old

who immediately started wanting to talk about dinosaurs and like, when's it still?

So I left and went to the kids' area and was able to grab some crayons and borrow the crayons.

And I was like, can we take this to the Korematsu area?

They're like, yeah, sure, go.

So we borrowed them.

And then I was able to listen to the event while we're coloring and stay for the whole thing.

And then there was the, after that, after the talk, the exhibit is in the central area.

And my child, again, had no interest.

So he went to the kids area, grabbed a bunch of dinosaur books, and sat in one of those little kiosks.

so I could just watch him because it was plate glass.

So the bottom line is it was like,

this is just like such a family friendly,

just by virtue of like having an event here

where there's a kid section.

And if you know where things are,

you can go back and forth.

So anyway, I just wanted to say it's like,

there's more than just,

oh, it's just a presentation here.

There's a presentation and there's the life right next to the library with all the kids stuff.

It was just like lots of library joy.

So more food for them.

Double wins.

Yeah.

Oh gosh, I lost my train of thought.

Sorry.

No, you're fine.

That's good.

I think you did send a quality of life PDF to us in email.

Is that including deliverables or are that just departments?

It's been a few months.

Yeah.

But, yeah, I think that was at the point where we had created the deliverables

and we wanted to present them to the commission so that people wanted to participate.

Does that make sense?

What's that?

I feel like it was 1 through 26.

I can't remember correctly, but...

1 through 26?

Yeah, like items on that PDF?

Probably, because, like I said, the quality of life priority encompasses a lot of different departments.

Okay.

So, you know, some of them are more specific to a particular department, but the quality of life is so broad.

I mean, what does that mean?

So it does involve a lot of different departments.

So what we were, I probably said to the entire list, just to be comprehensive, but, you know, I don't remember how many we had, but I shouldn't speak from the top of my head, but we had a fair number.

We were even talking about not having so many because it diffuses your efforts.

Okay, thank you.

Well, I just want to say I love the idea that the work is almost done to identify all the places for art

because Terry had the idea of doing an art show,

and if we have a master list of where we could hang, we could take over the whole city.

Yes, yeah.

It's been an effort, but we're getting there.

So, yeah, that's, that's, those are the ones that are open and I think, again, something the commission could certainly help with.

Yeah.

We could help with filling it with art.

Sure.

All right.

Any last thoughts, comments?

I guess just to mention, they put on a beautiful memorial at the arts center at the high school for Cassidy.

Oh, nice.

Yeah, Commissioner of Cassidy.

It was really, really nice.

I was able to go.

We should share that for Commissioner comments.

Kind of felt like I was presenting, you know, representing our commission.

Yeah, thanks for having me.

I know.

So our next item.

Not to me though.

This would be Commissioner reports.

Yes, sorry.

That is concluding our thing.

We're moving on to Commissioner reports.

Item 8A, Grants Committee.

Do you have a report for the Grants Committee, Bill?

Sure.

Broadly at this point, but the deadline for the current grantees to submit their final reports on the work that they did was last Friday.

All of them submitted a report.

Of course, I was hounding them.

So all the reports are submitted, so the Grants Committee will need to review those reports

and then do a presentation as we did last year.

So that was, I think this is going to be very good, I think the report will be very good

based on what was accomplished in the work that the grantees did.

And then on the flip side, as I think I shared with everybody today, the publicity for the

coming cycle of grant applications has been created and our PIO team did a great video.

It's really fun.

And they really worked that team.

They really developed that team.

So that's out there.

It's already been blasted out, the press release, and I've already set up a plan, well, vague outline with our PIO team to boost all that publicity so that we'll spend a little money for that to make sure we boost the social media and posts and things like that to get the word out.

So then...

Quick question.

Did it go out to our artist list?

It did not, but that's on my list to do that.

I've been tasking people with a lot of different things related to this.

I want to get the broader publicity done, but that's on my mind to email that.

So we'll do that.

And then what's coming up, of course, and it's mentioned the publicity,

is that the applications will be available starting on February 3rd, which is Tuesday,

two weeks from today, and then we'll have the mixer on February 5th. So those are the two big deadlines.

Great. And you are all, of course, invited to the mixer. There's usually at least a couple of us

there just kind of answering questions, being friendly faces. You don't have to come say

anything if you don't want to. You don't have to stand at the front of the room, but it

is always lovely to meet the public and potentially answer some questions if you want.

What time is it?

Starts at 6 o'clock. It's in the CARP room, which is one of the larger room. If you go

that direction there's carp and Estadio and starts at 6. I'm sorry 6 6 o'clock

we've scheduled from 6 to 7 30 99% sure of that and you know it's just what else

today you know people come in we'll let them mix it up for a little while have

some snacks and then basically answer any questions they have about the

application materials the guidelines and things like that. I think we kind of

walk them through like the main points of the application to or we did we do

that last year just the first year I think we went pretty deep the first year

yeah my memory is that I still did that last year but maybe not as in-depth I

mean I think it was the right level of detail yeah yeah and let them ask some

questions. Yeah, and people had good questions that were very specific to their, you know,

their situation, but they're all some general questions. And if nothing else, it's just

good to mingle and put a friendly face, because when people are applying for an art grant,

particularly if it's their first time applying for an art grant, it's good just to have

people there just to be friendly and like, we're made of people, they're made of people,

you know, it's not scary.

February 5th?

Yeah.

Thank you.

And the grant's open February 3rd.

Okay.

Yup.

Okay.

So that's the report.

Thank you very much.

Any other questions or comments about that subcommittee?

I guess do we want to have a time for the subcommittee to meet to review the final,

or we can correspond over email about how to review the final reports?

I think we can correspond.

Yeah, okay.

It was at the time.

Yeah.

All right.

Moving on to commissioner comments.

Do we have any commissioner comments about anything that's not on the agenda that you

want to talk about?

Do you know when the bakery is going to open?

I know there's a QR code, but I didn't have time to scan it.

I said next month.

Asking the important question.

Yeah, it's an important question.

There's going to be...

She is very—Illana Berkowitz is her name.

It's as needed bakery.

I think everybody knows that.

She's very smart.

And she wants to have a soft opening and then sort of a bigger announcement.

And I think we're looking towards the middle of February for that soft opening.

Well, if she needs guinea pigs, we can come and touch her with the bread for her.

Right, yeah.

like soft opening just for the squishy soft ones there yeah i'm gonna i'm gonna have to keep

coming into the library through the back door so i don't put on 50 pounds because her stuff is so

good so thank you for asking more about this oh yeah so as needed is a bakery that is on victoria

circle on bancroft and my friend actually interned with her like when she it's a bakery she makes

amazing everything like savory breads and pastries and it's a pretty small space though and so they've

taken over the the cafe space at the library and you're going to be selling bread and sandwiches

and coffee yeah um we've you know i don't have an exact date um but the mid-february okay so

So, you know, I'm saying that it's being recorded in public media.

I know she wants to ease into this and then do a full announcement, you know, with press release.

All 30 of us show up.

We're from the commission.

Well, it's a smart, you know, as I say, it's a smart thing to do is to just look at a low-key open thing.

You know, new employees, new location.

But very soon, let's put it that way.

Well, when you see it's open, just send us a BCC so we don't violate the Brown Bread Act.

Oh, exactly. I will send you a message, 100%. It'll just be commission-adjacent.

I have something. There's Good2Go. Are you all familiar with Good2Go?

Oh, Good2Go is an app, and what you do is all these restaurants and bakeries and whatever

in the area you designate, like Sandland or Hayward, for example.

They have goodie bags.

They have grab bags.

And it's like $6.99, and they give you a bunch of stuff,

but you don't know what it is until you get it.

Good, as-needed bakery is on there.

And Michael, my husband and I, have been going there for about a year now,

and it's just amazing.

And they always put a treat in it.

And then his favorite is the walnut bread that they make.

Oh, my gosh.

Yeah.

And every now and then they'll do a walnut bread.

But last time I went last week, I had to buy a loaf of walnut bread in addition

because it wasn't in the back.

But yeah, so just for fun.

It's really cool because there's a place with cookies.

There's a place with Papa Murphy's, for example, New York pizza and pasta.

And they have these specials.

Nice.

So anyway, good snacks.

More snacks.

Any other commissioner comments, snacks or otherwise?

All right.

Well done.

That brings us to item nine, adjournment.

Do I have a motion to adjourn the meeting of January 20th, 2026?

Aye.

So moved.

Is there a second?

I second.

Any discussion?

All those in favor?

Aye.

Aye.

Opposed?

All right.

Motion carries.

The meeting of January 20th, 2026 is adjourned at 7.22 p.m.