- The meeting will now come to order. So first order of business is the minutes from the previous meeting,
- so January's meeting. The secretary's draft of the minutes were sent and distributed and the copy is
- in your meeting packet. Are there any corrections to the minutes as distributed? Okay, no corrections.
- I move to approve the minutes. Can I get a second?
- you. All in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. Okay minutes are approved. Next we will go over
- to the city for the BAC financial report. Jane please. Yeah so I'm Jane Cooper-Smith. I'm standing in
- for Holly Warren and Chaz Mottinger tonight and we
- Nick Lanford is also here, our CCC project manager, and Nick has the financial update and will deliver
- that. Yeah, so basically no changes from last month. As far as I understand, the 2026 grant allotment,
- the local income tax figure is still at $130,000. The BUAA zone art grant allotment still stands at
- $50,000 and other funds
- The emerging artists with professional development figure still stands at 5,000. Great. Thank you. Any
- more questions about that? I think pretty straightforward. OK. And then back to the city for any city
- updates. Well, as commissioners know, I sent an email message this afternoon that delivered a personnel
- update that is not welcome news.
- for anyone to let you know that Holly Warren and Chas Moniger are no longer with the city. And I notified
- you that I would be helping host your meeting this evening. Unfortunately, I cannot comment on personnel
- matters in any kind of detail. I know that's really frustrating. So I just wanted to acknowledge that.
- But that's just so that we're following HR policy. We have other items to comment.
- to comment on for arts updates. I don't know what's appropriate if you want to. Yeah, we can. We'll
- be covering public art, actually, updates. Christina can start with that. I think there's someone waiting
- to come into the waiting room. Yeah, I guess, Christina, do you want to start with what you've got?
- And then maybe you can join. Yeah. I don't have a lot. It's just, again, update on the convention center.
- So where we left off is that we had five finalists for the convention center. They've been notified.
- And right now, they are in the process of creating their proposal. And so that is going to be submitted
- on April 10. So the plan is that during the month of April, we'll have the proposal submitted, doing
- interviews, a few more community feedback sessions. And then we'll make an artist's recommendation
- at the end of May, around like the 20th. So that's kind of the status of where we are with the convention
- center. So yeah, that's kind of really all I have at the moment. Who will take lead with communication
- with those five artists now that Holly's gone?
- Well, it was the CIB. It's their project. So they've kind of taken the reins on that. And they've been
- doing that. And then they'll kind of bring it highly as needed. But yeah. So should we work that the
- CIB will do it? Yeah. I mean, they were doing most of it already. I mean, I guess the further logistics,
- those conversations are probably ongoing. But that's kind of how it was already kind of set up. I've
- got two questions.
- Are you aware if the artists when they were being contacted that, and some of the artists were really
- interested in the aesthetic of some of their pieces and others less interested. Not saying that they
- should do any of those, but we definitely focused on, wow, this is something that echoes the Bloomington
- Did you know if any of that was presented to them or was just simply a blind offer to come?
- I'm not aware, actually. And are you aware if any of them have elected to come to Bloomington? There
- was some artist meetings made already. I know Holly had met some people. And I know that they have given
- the option to come.
- Bloomington and have their own kind of organize their own way of like interacting with the community
- and then have that be reflected in their proposal. It's more so like highly encouraged but it's not
- like you know type of thing. I just wonder it might be an opportunity to chat with them. Yes. Yeah.
- Well I know there will be some artists coming like they've
- arranged a trip or they have plans to come. I think there was a conversation yesterday. I can't remember
- off the top of my head. I think there were details, but I can't remember them. So maybe the city has
- more information on that, but I think there are so far a handful, like I think two or three of the finalists
- that will be coming here. Well, let's hope that we, you know, an ad hoc group from here
- might be able to be on their agenda. Yeah, I think that was the intention. And if I can chime in, I
- did see that there was some communication today from an artist group about the site visit. So I know
- those conversations are happening. I notified John Weickart, who spoke with Galen Cassidy, who's the
- chair of that committee. And they were specifically saying that they wanted
- you know, the BAC to be connected and involved. And I think you're already on that group, aren't you?
- So just letting you know that I think that that gap will be closed. Great. Yeah, again, with Christina's
- help, too. She didn't mean to put your name there. Oh, no, you're fine. Have their names been announced
- publicly? Yeah, there was a press release. That's what I was told. But yeah. I didn't see that.
- I appreciate it. Well, that was the plan of like, because they weren't being notified the end of last
- month, beginning of this month. So it was supposed to be a press release once that happened. I don't
- believe that it's happened. I can follow up on that. OK. Jane, do you have anything else to add once you
- No, I mean, I just, just from a meeting management perspective. So the city's update, I think Holly
- typically would update you guys on what work she's been doing. And instead of that, I offered kind of
- a, you know, not very good news. So I don't know if you wanted to consider arranging your agenda such
- that public comment could come earlier in your meeting.
- if you wanted it to, or if you wanted to pause and if the board had anything that they wanted to say.
- I just wanted to offer to make space for that if that's what you might like as the chair. Yeah. I mean,
- what do you guys think? Move that forward? OK. Yeah. I think that's totally doable. We could pause.
- We won't go into the grants update yet. And then maybe we can, yes.
- move to open the floor for public comment first, and then maybe we'll have commissioners chime
- in. Technically, you need a motion, a second, and a vote to rearrange the agenda. I move to rearrange
- the agenda, as I described. Thank you. Floor open to public comment. If someone wants to say anything,
- it's open.
- Yeah, hi everyone, Natalie Almanza. I just mostly wanted to come here just to hear that. I heard a lot
- of rumors today and wanted to kind of hear that directly from the city or the commission. Obviously,
- it's really disappointing to hear that. I know that the city can't comment on the personnel issue much
- further, but as a
- a staunch arts advocate and someone that worked very closely with both of them. It's really concerning
- to see this and knowing the background of what has happened on the commission in the last few months,
- it just adds to a lot of concerns that I think I've experienced and that I think I've had other folks
- in my orbit also worried about. So I'm just here to hear more. Or I don't know, I don't know if there's any,
- any other action plans that can be shared about how any of these projects that are ongoing are going
- to keep existing or moving forward. But yeah, that's my comment. Yeah, I can say something. Deb Montanez,
- I think that with this loss, and it's a really big loss for the city, most artists really have
- come to trust Holly and as an organizer here like I come to trust her and I know stuff is going to happen
- and work because of her project management and because of all the outreach that they do with people
- on the ground. I'm really worried about what direction the city is going to go into with this and I
- think it is bad for public trust.
- Any comment? Are we allowed to say anything? Do we have to wait until it's the next thing? No?
- I don't know. I would just, I mean, we have the commissioner announcement section, maybe just in that.
- Should we ask for any comment online? Yeah. I mean, let's see if there's any. I have a question. Do
- the job titles still exist?
- It looks like we do have somebody's hand raised. Kale. I'm sorry if I'm pronouncing that wrong. I think
- I got it correct. Can you hear me? Yes. Awesome. I just wanted to also state, kind of bounce off of
- what Dev and Hannah had said, and say what our offices, Chaz and Holly, have been for the queer community.
- in Bloomington and how the intersection of artists and queer and the two great things that make Bloomington
- what it is truly will be affected by this decision. I know we can't speak on it further, but I do think
- in the interest of public trust and also the trust of all of us that we will want to know more and we
- will want to stand behind them.
- Thank you for your time. Thank you. I'd like to add a comment, too. I'm Bethany Hallbaker. I worked
- with Holly and Chas kind of under Holly and with the RU Arts and Humanities Council. And there were
- a lot of collaborative projects between IU and specifically those two people with the city.
- And now it's, yeah, I feel like
- There's a lot of confusion now, of course, with what's going to happen with all those things. And like
- people were saying, the trust in the city and the ability to keep doing what we're doing is definitely
- lessened or lost. And I feel like I'm in a spot where I'm not quite sure what is going on with my work
- and job other than what I do with the council.
- Very confusing. Very confusing. Yeah. I think, yeah, from Zachary. Hello. Thank you all for your time
- here. Appreciate you. Just wanting to kind of echo what's been said already as a queer artist here in
- town who's had the opportunity, I think, to work
- on many projects with both Holly and Chaz and the BAC. That's incredibly disheartening to learn of this
- news, not from the BAC, but just from the gossip mill around town. Being somebody who has a current
- project ongoing with the BAC with Holly and Chaz, learning about this in the community I think is incredibly
- disheartening. And to echo what's already been said, really does.
- work to kind of undermine any trust that, you know, we as artists here have with the BAC and with the
- city of Bloomington as a whole. Thank you. Okay, any, oh yes. Um, Alan Bully, also a local artist that
- has projects and works with Holly and Jaws and
- I think I've said publicly a number of times that the Bloomington Arts Commission is a force that makes
- Bloomington feel really livable for me. The work that Holly and Chad have done has been exponentially
- helpful for me and made me feel welcomed here. And I am really worried given the political nature of
- the rumors that
- are being widely discussed in discourse online that this is a really dark day for the city of Bloomington,
- and I'm afraid that it's no longer gonna feel very safe to be here. My name's Erin Kelly. I work for
- the university in research development
- in the arts and humanities specifically, a lot of the work that I do right now is focused on economic
- development around arts in the city of Wilmington, including a large multi-million dollar grant. And
- part of our getting that grant was pointing to public artwork that Holly did and accomplished in the
- city and naming her as a partner continuing in that work. I think this will cause most immediately a
- lot of reporting problems
- for some of the grants that she's involved in. And it will undoubtedly make our partnerships with the
- city weaker going forward, at least on paper in a way that I have to sell them to people to get them
- to invest in the city. Thank you. Any other comments from the public?
- Hi. Can you hear me? Yes. Okay, great. My name is Garrett Walters and I'm a pretty active person here
- in town and work with the college and I've done some work with the arts commission in the past and I
- guess I just wanted to also
- be part of saying that. I think Chas and Holly are two of the most reliable and upstanding and kind
- people I have genuinely ever known in my life. And I am so incredibly disappointed with the city's decision
- around this. And I fully expect to, yeah, just, I don't know. It feels hard that this issue could just
- come and go. Because there's such wonderful people
- And I think they've done so much for everybody, and I think they deserve better than that. But yeah,
- thank you all for your time. Thank you. We'll just give it a minute or so. If anyone else has anything
- to say, please let us know. If not, we'll probably move forward with the agenda.
- So I'm not seeing any more hands up online or in person. So let's go ahead and move on to the next part
- of the agenda, which is Commissioner comment slash announcements. So the floor is open to you all. Well,
- I don't really know what is happening. And I hope that we get some more information at some point. And
- I hope that it's
- clarified so rumors are what might start to happen to try to keep that at bay. I respect Holly and Chaz
- a lot. It's been great to work with them. I have literally no idea what is going on. So I hope that
- I'm glad to know that the title is still there and that we'll have some leadership at some point.
- I know decisions are hard to make, but they've been fantastic to work with for me as a commissioner.
- Over my career in the arts, I've sat at lots of committee tables and academic environments, art environments,
- collaborative environments. And I must say, Holly brings, and I
- Well, she's just incredibly ebullient and enabling and a force that's so incredibly positive and focused.
- And I rarely run into that, to that extent, from leadership. So I just really want to acknowledge her
- gifts. I read about this at 3.30 today.
- having that time to really digest this. I just want to put it on the table, an incredible force for
- good and for the arts. As somebody who also worked closely with Holly and Chas on multiple public art
- projects over the last few years, again, to continue to echo how deeply disheartening and disappointing
- and shocking
- this was to hear. And I will also want to just say, I'm very grateful for Chas and Holly and the work
- that they've done. And I mean, just seeing what had the changes that have been made in the arts community
- over the past couple of years have, or just as they've been here, just drastic, just a lot of changes,
- a lot of great improvements.
- and to be able to see, again, like Holly's leadership, to look up to her as, I've learned a lot from
- her, just watching her move, just observing her. And so seeing how she handles conversations, handles
- tough conversations, how she's not afraid to speak up of what is, just advocating for artists, advocating
- for arts organizations, saying the truth, best practices, best practices. So she's changed a lot.
- and implemented a lot in her leadership. I'm just very, very grateful for that. I mean, I'm echoing
- a lot of what's being said, but I just want to say that out loud. It is a huge loss, a huge loss. So
- I just continue to say, also echo, just like these projects that are in the works, that we continue
- to have leadership, organization towards those things and not let these things fall.
- because they're very important to the community. I want to add, endorse and add to the things that have
- already been said. Thank you all very much. One thing that I think hasn't been mentioned yet is how
- well Hallie has worked to make the commission effective, or the commission is much more effective than
- when I started, and it was already pretty good.
- There's a kind of infrastructure and a kind of community that didn't exist before among the commissioners
- and the people that the commissioners interact with. And both Holly and Chas have been remarkable and,
- as has been said, the law system.
- I will first acknowledge, I think, the comments that have been said. I think it's very clear that there's
- a lot of concern about the future, which I think is absolutely valid. I think there are no questions
- that Holly and Chas were forces in the community and were both very competent and worked very well to
- build and create.
- And I think the things I would add to what has already been said is the deep sense of caring that they
- both had. They both cared very, very deeply about arts and the community here and what the arts mean
- to the community here. And yeah, I'm at the start of another three-year cycle here, and it's kind of
- like it's just really sad that they won't be sitting across from us. Yeah, I'm very surprised and saddened
- by that. Yeah, and I want to say, from everyone in person sitting at this table, I am the newest member
- in the commission, and so I've been here for a year.
- and I remember when I first joined and I went on my first Friday walk with Holly and I actually went
- to a gallery and I met Chaz and something that amazed me about both of them is how well connected they
- were with the community. They know everybody and everyone really loves them and trusts them and I think
- that stood out to me so much. So I think that, you know, just added to everything that everyone has
- mentioned about them was something that I've
- thought was a really special part of this commission and of the work they were doing. I think for me,
- someone who maybe hasn't been at the city long enough and doesn't understand maybe the history of how
- things have gone with the city. But what I see in my year that I've been here is there's a really alarming
- and concerning kind of way the city has been moving without much care or like with fear is what it looks
- like to me. And I think that's something we all have to be concerned about.
- And as like the new chair that I'm really concerned about is what direction are we moving in as a city?
- And like, is it going to be helping us or is it going to be hurting us in the future? So that's something
- that I'm sitting with. You know, I really was looking forward to working with Holly and Chaz in my tenure
- as chair. So it's hard to,
- come to terms with but I'm glad at least we have some really amazing people on the commission and I
- hope that we honestly can get some answers and can get some clarification and I wish Holly and Chas
- the best and better than what they were given so. Thank you commissioners for your comments. If I may
- it seems to me that what I've heard also indicates
- among the commission and among people here from the community, a resolve to keep on with the good work
- that's been done. To say, yes, this is a sad one. We've got some big things ahead. Let's do them well.
- Yeah, definitely. Does anyone have any unrelated announcements or things they want to share?
- Who should we direct our concerns, comments, questions to now? If I may, the BAC address is alive and
- well. In the interim period, you can address anything to me, and I will run triage on it. In this period,
- I just want to say I share, Christina, you articulated it really well, but I share the desire to make sure
- the varied, numerous, and complex projects stay on track. And I think that I will also just ask for,
- I don't know, grace is overused, but your understanding as we're trying to work to launch the grant
- programs and everything that, you know, they have really great systems for, and they're not doing it.
- So we're gonna try to do our best to keep everything
- on track and just honor the ethos, the spirit under which they were driving this arts program forward.
- I have a question. If people come to us and say, I have a, I'm expecting a grant. Will I still be getting
- that grant? How should we respond? Yes. I mean, everything is.
- There's nothing, there's no change in the program. There is no, this was a personnel matter. It's not
- like a program is being changed or defunded. The city remains committed to the arts and I just appreciate
- everyone talking about trust. And I'm, you know, I'm hearing that and I know that's going to be a long
- road. So just acknowledging that, but there's, there's no, no change in the city's priority of, of having
- an arts forward.
- community, it just might take us a minute to get details. I can say I did just issue a round of arts
- grants payments two weeks ago. So I think that we're current on everything that has been obligated,
- but I don't know when the grant subcommittee meets. We can run some kind of report on that and provide
- more information. But yeah, everyone who's
- received an award, we'll get it. And the funding is there. Let's move on to update on the grant subcommittee,
- Gerard and Paul. Sure. So the first item that we have is the proposed grant cycle dates, which
- Again, these were developed. These have not yet been approved. These are tentative. And we're also,
- I think, created before the news of today happened. So there might be a little bit of flexibility here.
- Jane, if you have the meeting materials, yes, the grants timeline.
- Yes, so this is just a rough outline we put together and we're gonna sort of discuss and it follows
- very similarly what we've done in past years, starting a little bit later, like a week or two later,
- but I think maybe
- The key change here is trying to extend the amount of time between when the announcement goes out and
- when the expectation for disbursement. I think we learned this past year that that process is just taking
- a little bit longer. And so I think being realistic and transparent to the artists and arts organizations,
- just wanted to build in a little bit more time there. And yeah, I guess,
- Jane, that's something we'll be talking about if those timelines are still realistic. Yeah, so Arts
- Project Grant, we're looking to sort of, I think, announce the cycle as soon as possible and then launch
- that here in a couple weeks. And then, yeah, the windows are open for six weeks, six weeks for review and then,
- Announcement and disbursement. Two other quick things I'll just quickly note are, you know, end of May
- is when the artistic advancement grant would, is when that cycle would start. Pretty soon after, actually
- maybe even the same day as the arts project announcement. So yeah, these cycles are kind of coming one
- after another. And then the operations,
- Grant window would start in mid-August. Again, sort of right when those artistic advancements announcements
- go out. With the goal of hopefully having the windows and the review process, I think, could you scroll
- up just a touch? Yeah, with a lot of the sort of like decisions and packages sort of all set by early
- November, so that hopefully all funds are dispersed by the end of the year.
- So that's the general idea. Over the last couple of years, there's been a progressive refinement as
- to what the call is about. And so are you pretty happy with how it's sort of stabilized?
- Because there's always discussing the number of grants, the quality, changing criteria subtly. Yeah.
- So actually, I think that transitions us really nicely into the next point, which is Paul and I spent
- a bit of time over the last week or so. I think Paul doing a lot of the heavy lifting there, thinking
- about the arts project grants specifically, and the language and the criteria.
- And so, yeah, I think Paul and I developed something even more refined. And if you wouldn't mind going
- to, or back to the materials, or maybe Artie? Yes, and polling of the arts project details. Great. And
- actually, could you, yeah, go down?
- Okay, cool. So yeah, so again, these are all in the materials as well for the meeting. But yeah, so
- this is sort of like this, this part of the document outlines the eligibility criteria, which is similar
- in past years. There are two things that we're proposing that we change. One is that not doing retroactive
- reimbursements, but kind of like thinking of like,
- a defined period for when project costs are. And so that would be sort of like July 1 of this year through
- June 30 of next year. Because I think we realized that while the bulk of the projects we fund are one-offs,
- there are some that are kind of cyclical. And so I think we just wanted to acknowledge those in these
- eligibility criteria.
- but still keep the expenses sort of like limited to, you know, the funds of a specific grant period.
- And then another thing that I think we had kind of been working through in our meetings, but I don't
- think I'd like sort of formally acknowledge was like, you know, acknowledging the students, you know,
- we want to, like we see students as definitely like valuable members of the arts community here. And
- we want to support the public facing work that they're doing, but we,
- wanted to acknowledge that we are not going to fund specific things related to their studies or thesis
- projects. But if they are doing public art or want to do a public project, that would welcome that.
- And then, Paul, do you want to talk a little bit about the specific, I think, rubric questions that
- we developed? The rubric questions in the past were somewhat scattered and overlapping and had gaps.
- So we moved them into two categories, one of which has to do with engagement and impact and distilled
- into the ones you see. In addition, we thought about the question of what used to be called sufficiency.
- Or operational capacity. Operational capacity and figured out what we really were asking about.
- are people who are applying here, have they made a plan that will make things work? And so there are
- questions about the plan and other aspects that they're responding to when they make the application.
- So basically, we're trying to sharpen the sense of what the plans are for and then really sharpen the
- sense of what makes a good strong proposal for it
- completed in the post-project. Yep. And I'll add that what we're looking at here is the language that
- is, when someone's applying for the Arts Project Grant, there's like a link, they click, and they sort
- of get these guidelines. And the same sort of like guidelines that they're getting, that will exactly
- word for word match the rubric that we have. Which, yeah, again, that wasn't
- as clear in years past, but we're really trying to sharpen that. I think to emphasize the importance
- of being sure that the applicants know exactly what the criteria are, and so that the reviewers have
- a good sense of what criteria they're to apply. So alignment here has been a major focus. Great. Yeah. So this.
- has also resulted in some changes to the application questions, which Nick, those are a bit further
- down. A lot of the things are the same. The yellow highlights are, I think, there. Those are just sort
- of like slight tweaks to, I think, dates. I think that's what's changed. And just being more specific
- and asking sort of like if they received funding.
- And then we're looking to chunk sort of all the like contact and sort of like just like yes, those questions.
- And then basically asking community impact and engagement questions like chunked right off the bat that
- connect directly to the criteria. And then even further down toward the end is when it gets
- to the implementation questions.
- So there should be, as a review was a reading, it should flow really nicely with the rubric that we'll
- have. So we were able to do this for Arts Project Grant. I think what we were working on was sort of
- like getting this info as soon as we can so that
- So that Cindy can sort of build out the application and get that ready. And then we'll continue working
- on the artistic advancement and operations and do a similar thing. I think we try to keep as much as
- we can, but just maybe reorder a couple things and make a couple changes. There was an item earlier
- up where you were
- requesting the applicant to list prior awards from the city from 2023 onwards. What was the purpose
- of that? Is that for equity reasons or? You've always asked if they've received past city support. I
- think just, that does not weigh into whether or not they get funding. I think it's just sort of
- for data. Is this a group that we've continually supported? Yeah. I think it would be good to know,
- too, because it'll give you information about whether our funding is impacting the community and giving
- out funds. Yeah, it's just good to know. Or if they owe us a grant report. We haven't heard from you.
- Thank you. Yeah, that's great. Awesome. This looks amazing. Thank you for doing that work. Yeah. Yeah.
- Yeah. Jane, Paul, and I will be in touch about the next steps for this. Yeah. And I just emailed IT
- to find out where the application is in terms of it's being built. So yeah. Now, did you learn any new stuff?
- Did you need anything from us in terms of editing or comments specifically on the document, or do you
- feel? I think just comments and notes. We hadn't been able to get quorum for a grant subcommittee meeting.
- But we realized we were kind of up against a deadline here. So I think just wanted to present here at
- the meeting, get some feedback, and then get moving with the arts project stuff as soon as possible.
- I'll communicate with you.
- how far along that application is in more detail about when, how close we can get to this timeline.
- I hope we can be pretty close. Thanks for creating this clarity in the document. Yeah, great job. That
- looks really good. Thanks, yeah. I'll give another shout out to Paul for doing a lot of the like, us
- on the rubric side.
- of like mental thoughts into that. He's got to just, yeah. Yeah, I think it'll help a lot with going
- over the applications and having a clear idea. And when we discuss, we'll have a better idea of how
- to talk about things. It just makes it easier. When would you like us to, I guess, do you have thoughts
- about when you would like us to submit our final comments or edits or something?
- Probably by the end of this week, if you have any, just because on that arts project grant, like, yeah,
- we're getting going on that. Definitely. On the document itself is OK? Email or on? Actually, email
- is probably best. Sounds good. I mean, it looked pretty good to me.
- I think we would welcome any suggestions that you have. OK. Thank you. Oh, yes. I had one more announcement
- for public art. I realized I forgot. So we actually have a public art subcommittee meeting scheduled
- for this Friday because of recent changes. And it was basically just kind of setting the stage of what
- we want to focus on this year. So because of recent changes, I think it would be best
- possibly reschedule or maybe pause for a second, but I wanted to think over email regarding that, so
- I just wanted to say that out loud. Thank you. OK. Thanks, Christina. If I could say it real quick,
- maybe this is already known to the commission, but I did speak to our capital projects manager, Anna
- Dragovich, who's dealing with Hopewell, running John Racik's undulate piece. My understanding is he's
- speaking to a concrete contractor right now. That's yet to be scheduled, but once that happens, concrete will take
- four weeks to cure, and that will dictate the timeline that follows. Great. Look forward to seeing that
- implemented. And building is going on around it. OK. I think nothing else. So we can move on from your
- chair, so me. We have two things.
- to cover or that I wanted to talk about. So Gerard asked me to put the vote on the strategic goals for
- 2026-2028 on the agenda. Thank you for your work on that, folks who were part of that. And I think the
- final draft was shared in the meeting materials. So if you guys are ready to vote, we can do that. So
- I move to vote on the strategic goals for the BAC 2026-2028. Can I get a second? Second. Thank you.
- Okay, those in favor say aye. Aye. Okay, those opposed say nay. Okay, great. So the strategic goals
- for 2026-2028 are approved and I guess if they will live anywhere on the website, maybe we can figure
- that part out. Replace the old ones. Yeah, so maybe we can get those replaced.
- Meanwhile, there is another thing I wanted to bring up. So just sort of logistics on meetings. So I
- will not be available for our meeting that's scheduled April 9th, I think, April 8th or 9th. And I believe,
- Rob, you're going to be out, right? Yeah, I got to be in both of them. Yeah.
- Because of that, I wanted to just bring it to the commission to see what we would like to do in terms
- of like running the meeting, canceling it, or rescheduling the meeting. I missed the first part of that.
- For what meeting? Oh, April. Yeah, the April 2026 meeting. So not March, but April. And quorum is six.
- So we'd have to have six people that are going to be here. Um, and then someone willing to run the meeting or
- I was told we could reschedule as long as the public has 48 hours in advance, which they definitely
- do. We could reschedule or if we feel like we can get away with canceling, we can cancel. But just wanted
- to see what precedence is for this. Do you think we can get a forum? I don't know. I think when I've
- had the Miss meetings in the past, I think we have moved forward with
- Like having the meeting if we have quorum. And I think either Christina or one of us community chairs
- let the meeting. And then if we don't have quorum, then yeah, the meeting gets canceled. And I can leave
- that meeting. Does online participation count? Not to a quorum. Not as quorum.
- It's welcome if you can't make it, but yeah, it doesn't count to a quorum, unfortunately. I guess this
- is another plug for if you know you'll be here or not here, it would be really helpful if people fill
- out the attendance sheet so that we can gauge what quorum will be. So we're not sitting at this table
- waiting to cancel. So that would really be appreciative in general. OK, so we'll move with that then.
- Maybe when we get closer to April, we can decide. But if you're happy to do it, Gerard, I guess it wouldn't
- be too long since you've used to do it. So maybe you're the best for the job. All right. Well, thank
- you for humoring me on that. That's all I had for. Can I ask one clarifying question? So the strategic
- goals, those are replacing the 2020 to 2025 strategic plan currently. Correct.
- Thank you. Yeah. There were like two things, weren't there, on the website? Was this replacing both
- or just? We did the goals, the new strategic goals. OK. Yeah. I mean, this is something that we can,
- Jane, we can work through later. But on the BIC web page, there's our mission statement or whatever.
- We kind of tweaked that a little bit so we can. Oh, yeah. Right. Yeah. But I can send you some questions on that.
- But yeah, that was it. OK, good. So I think it's combined both of those things in a much more succinct
- and clear message. OK, great. All right, so now the last thing on our agenda is upcoming events and
- important dates. So we've got some things coming up in the next few months.
- so exciting things happening in Bloomington. If you have any events that you don't see up on here, please
- do add them because we love to be informed and hopefully some of us can be attending some of these things.
- Anything come to mind for anyone that's not up here right now? I know ACE is having their 50th anniversary
- of the African American Choral Ensemble on the 21st.
- Of April. Of April, right? No. There's a Black History Month, like February. It's just like they're
- getting all their alumni, whoever been part of ACE, it's like a whole concert on the 21st. Oh, OK. For
- Black History Month. This is like the normal April concert? Yes, outside of it. February 21st? Yes.
- Any other things? I haven't done it yet, but if you have it open, you can. Too many tabs right now,
- so I was just gonna write it down. Yeah, it's just February 21st at the Musical Arts Center.
- OK. If you think of anything, obviously, please feel free to populate the Google Sheet as you know of it.
- We're able to make as many of these as we can if you're interested. I think that's it. So if there's
- no further business, I move to adjourn the meeting. And I second it. Thank you. I mean, you have to
- ask. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Opposed, say nay.