The Syracuse Public Arts Commission met on March 31, 2026, at approximately 5:03 PM, chaired by Benny Guzman. The meeting began with a lack of quorum (one commissioner short), preventing official votes. Commissioners present: Lisa Lambert, Maggie Levis, Manuel Carter, Chris Abbott. The session focused on discussion of administrative and strategic items, including the public art coordinator position, outreach events, commission vacancies, and an executive session on open meeting law. No public comments were received.
I mean the roads are garbage. So this will also just be probably a shorter meeting. Um we don't have anything really in terms of business to attend to more discussion. So in order to kind of have it. Yes, thank you so much. When the time's right. Yep, welcome. Thank you. You also are bad, and I know a few people said they were coming. Yeah, we'll start at like five three morning. Just out of respect for people's time. Copies of this share. Oh, okay. Oh, you have it. Very interesting. One of my colleagues thing. Oh, nice. I didn't fashion. That's fine. We're citizens we review stuff. I mean, you know what I mean? It's not totally inaccurate. There you go. So yes, uh, just to out of respect for everybody's time, I will officially call this meeting to order. Uh my name is Benny Guzman. I am the key chair of the public arts commission. Uh before I have the rest of the commissioners and our representative from Parks introduce themselves. Um, one, we are one person short of quorum. I do think they might be coming today, uh, but that may prevent us from actually um doing any official business. Uh what we but on top of that, we also really don't have much business to attend to besides discussion um and some other things that again, if we have someone kind of for quorum, we might get them uh address. Uh additionally, too. Uh we do have an executive session uh this evening about open meeting law and discussion with legal. Uh, and in order to respect everybody's time for the first part, I would like to try to keep it to about half an hour so that we have half an hour dedicated to that. Um I don't like meetings for to go over an hour unless they absolutely have to, um, respecting everybody's time here. Uh, but that doesn't mean that we can't have some discussion uh based on our agenda and based on some of the stuff that um uh we just need to discuss as a commission. Um also additionally too, I am recording audio uh on my phone just for kind of my purposes for uh meeting minutes for the next session that we are attending. Um and this also is being video recorded uh via live stream through the YouTube. Um yeah, I think that's all the introduction stuff. So what I'll do is I'll just have all the commissioners uh and everybody on the panel um introduce themselves. Lisa Lambert. I'm a Raider. Maggie Levis. Manuel Carter. Uh Chris Abbott. Okay. Perfect. Um so uh we do have minutes from our last meeting in front of us. Um we cannot vote to approve them, but if we can at least just take a quick minute to look over them to see if there's any major issues. Um please again just let me know. We can mark that down, and then when we again, if we do have quorum tonight, we'll vote on it to approve it, or we'll wait till the next session uh to approve it.