WEBVTT 00:00:00.994 --> 00:00:08.109 - Hi, everyone. The meeting will now come to order. If we can just pull up the agenda. Perfect. So first, 00:00:08.109 --> 00:00:15.293 - roll call, I guess, is this new? Should we ask everyone to? Oh, yes. That was something that was brought 00:00:15.293 --> 00:00:22.339 - up a lot. I think, Adrienne, you mentioned this. And maybe Nick did. But to start the meeting, we have 00:00:22.339 --> 00:00:28.770 - to do a verbal roll call. OK. Start with me, or? Sure. All right. So I'm Neda. I'm the chair. 00:00:28.770 --> 00:00:30.686 - Gerard Panathok, president. 00:00:31.234 --> 00:00:40.550 - here. I'm Becca Pio. I'm present in here. And this is your first meeting? And this is my very first 00:00:40.550 --> 00:00:50.146 - meeting. You're welcome. I'm Rebecca. I'm Rob. Hi. I'm Rob Shakespeare, who's present. I'm here, Betsy 00:00:50.146 --> 00:00:59.742 - Stewart. Paul Anderson. Christina Elam-Hugh. Staff. Staff. To change. And Jane Coopersmith, staff. OK. 00:00:59.842 --> 00:01:10.824 - Do we have to do that with just folks that are in person or? You do it for everyone. Do you have anyone 00:01:10.824 --> 00:01:21.701 - online? OK, just want to double check. No, I think it's just us. All right, great. So that's our first 00:01:21.701 --> 00:01:27.614 - thing on the agenda. Second is approval of the minutes. 00:01:27.970 --> 00:01:36.736 - The minutes were distributed. Are there any corrections that anyone has here? No. Okay. There are no 00:01:36.736 --> 00:01:45.589 - corrections. I move to approve the minutes as distributed. Can I get a second? Second. Thank you. All 00:01:45.589 --> 00:01:54.702 - in favor say aye. Aye. Those opposed say nay. Okay. The minutes are approved. Thank you. Betsy as usual. 00:01:54.702 --> 00:01:57.566 - All right. Next, we will go over 00:01:57.762 --> 00:02:06.956 - the BAC financial report. I think that's our folks at the city. Yeah, and there's no activity to report 00:02:06.956 --> 00:02:15.884 - this month. We did pay out a 2024 grant that for some reason hadn't been paid out and we had to iron 00:02:15.884 --> 00:02:24.990 - out some contractual challenges. So I guess technically there's 1,500 that had to come out of the 2026 00:02:24.990 --> 00:02:26.846 - grant allotment, but 00:02:27.842 --> 00:02:37.315 - It should be fine. I don't think that will be a problem. Sorry, it's not notated here. But otherwise, 00:02:37.315 --> 00:02:46.602 - the other arts activity was all outside of the BAC budget, but we have been moving money along. Hi. 00:02:46.602 --> 00:02:56.446 - Hello. Hi. So yeah, so that's it for financial. Okay, bye. Great. All right, so I guess back to the city. 00:02:56.802 --> 00:03:05.596 - If you guys have any updates? Do you have any other updates? I wanted to give a hiring update and just 00:03:05.596 --> 00:03:14.647 - say that we have an accepted offer and potentially a start date of 526 but HR doesn't want us to announce 00:03:14.647 --> 00:03:23.612 - until it's official so we'll wait but we're really excited and looking forward to onboarding that person 00:03:23.612 --> 00:03:26.430 - and introducing them to you all. 00:03:26.754 --> 00:03:33.884 - Yeah, I think it'll be good. And then I think Christina had an item that she was going to share. Um, 00:03:33.884 --> 00:03:41.297 - yeah. Do we, do they need to say the roll call? Yeah. Well, we can just say for the record that Gretchen 00:03:41.297 --> 00:03:48.286 - and Nal and Austin. What? Yeah. No, I just was double checking. Did this start at 515 or 530? 515. 00:03:48.450 --> 00:03:57.722 - Yeah so the item that I had was just the boards and commissions in general so Jennifer Crossley she's 00:03:57.722 --> 00:04:07.085 - the dedicated person on city staff that does all things boards and commissions and so what she's doing 00:04:07.085 --> 00:04:16.448 - is doing a training for not only the city liaisons but also she'll be doing a training for all members 00:04:16.448 --> 00:04:17.630 - and it'll be 00:04:17.922 --> 00:04:25.197 - you go through this annually, like an annual thing. And then there's a lot of things that are going 00:04:25.197 --> 00:04:32.690 - to change as far as rules and how we meet and all this stuff, just like technicalities. But I did want 00:04:32.690 --> 00:04:39.456 - to say that there's also going to be changes towards requirements around attendance, quorum, 00:04:39.456 --> 00:04:43.966 - things like that. So the member trainings will start in June. 00:04:45.250 --> 00:04:52.530 - you know, be mindful of that and they'll reach out so you can kind of schedule a time to come in and 00:04:52.530 --> 00:04:59.809 - go through all of that. So, okay. Do you know what the duration of those sessions are? The session I 00:04:59.809 --> 00:05:07.233 - went through was like an hour and a half. Okay. Yeah. And the three of us were off in December. Should 00:05:07.233 --> 00:05:11.774 - we still do that? Betsy, Rob, and I, our turn is up, isn't it? 00:05:12.866 --> 00:05:21.544 - I would say yes, just because you're still a standing member now. We've got Rob through, oh, 131.27. 00:05:21.544 --> 00:05:30.910 - Yeah, same for Betsy, same for Gretchen. Oh, no, no. 27. January 31st, 27. Yeah. So coming up. And honestly, 00:05:30.910 --> 00:05:40.190 - I think there's a rule that if there's not a replacement appointment, I think you can come after that date. 00:05:40.578 --> 00:05:49.843 - We can look into that since three of you are going off at the same time. Yeah. I think I'm overhearing 00:05:49.843 --> 00:05:58.118 - something. I think it's like 30 days or something like that. What would we do? So we don't, 00:05:58.118 --> 00:06:07.742 - I don't know, but I'll find out. Okay. Yeah. So that's my update. Great. Thank you. All right. So I guess, 00:06:08.866 --> 00:06:17.673 - Next is public art subcommittee chair, but currently vacant. So I guess, would you be able to give an 00:06:17.673 --> 00:06:26.911 - update, Christina? Sure. So public art, the only thing that came up so far was just the convention center. 00:06:26.911 --> 00:06:35.546 - So we did the public feedback. We were able to go to the farmers market, as well as Blooming Foods. 00:06:35.546 --> 00:06:38.654 - And then we had the online portion. 00:06:39.202 --> 00:06:46.550 - The meeting with the CIB for them to vote on who they want to choose would be tomorrow, and that's where 00:06:46.550 --> 00:06:53.688 - they will discuss the results from public feedback, so I'm not really aware of the results from that. 00:06:53.688 --> 00:07:01.036 - But from the in-person, got a lot of interest, and people were engaging. It felt like the Benjamin Ball, 00:07:01.036 --> 00:07:07.614 - the snake, got a lot of popularity. Forsteria. Forsteria, sorry. Forsteria. Snake. I'm sorry. 00:07:08.130 --> 00:07:17.887 - It gives me like a reptilian vibe. But yeah, Wisteria and the How to Sosa got a lot of popularity. That's 00:07:17.887 --> 00:07:27.092 - the one with the bridge and with flowers and had two spots in which it manifested in the Convention 00:07:27.092 --> 00:07:32.062 - Center. So that was from Public Feedback and then the 00:07:32.354 --> 00:07:39.421 - Public art subcommittee met yesterday and we kind of deliberate and give our recommendation to the CIB. 00:07:39.421 --> 00:07:46.216 - And we, it seemed like, not me, but seemed like it was unanimous around the same, the Benjamin Ball 00:07:46.216 --> 00:07:53.487 - wisteria installation. So, yeah. Can I say, we also took our sandwich boards on the road to the convention 00:07:53.487 --> 00:07:59.806 - center during a big economic development conference and then to first Friday at the Waldron. 00:07:59.906 --> 00:08:07.048 - So it was really fun to get it out in the community. And we had a date for Kroger, but it didn't work 00:08:07.048 --> 00:08:14.120 - out with the timing of the CIB, so. Yeah, well done. Yeah, but next time. I mean, it's great to know 00:08:14.120 --> 00:08:20.912 - that Kroger will let us do public engagement there as long as we're not selling stuff, so. Yeah. 00:08:20.912 --> 00:08:26.654 - And Rob, you were able to go to all the interviews with the artists? I did. Yeah. 00:08:27.426 --> 00:08:38.294 - And it was very insightful. And they all went back into their history and showed lots of very successful 00:08:38.294 --> 00:08:48.956 - projects and then put the presentation of their project in context for Bloomington, their site visits, 00:08:48.956 --> 00:08:56.926 - and what they responded to. So each one of them gave excellent presentations 00:08:58.018 --> 00:09:05.252 - Did all of them come? All of them did come, right? Well, there was one disqualified submission. Oh, 00:09:05.252 --> 00:09:12.558 - there was? So we had four instead of five. Okay. It had to do with engineering, so. Yeah. Oh, I see. 00:09:12.558 --> 00:09:20.227 - Okay. And I don't think they did all do site visits, but. Yeah. I thought all of them won. Well, besides, 00:09:20.227 --> 00:09:24.350 - I don't know. I thought maybe the groundhog didn't come. 00:09:24.674 --> 00:09:33.463 - I think that's right. Right, and you got disqualified, or they got disqualified. So, yeah, so that's 00:09:33.463 --> 00:09:42.427 - kind of the update on Convincing. Okay, great. Thank you. Also, I realized that I have my agenda mixed 00:09:42.427 --> 00:09:51.390 - up. I guess the chair agenda item is before the subcommittee, so I'll just go back to that. So for me, 00:09:51.554 --> 00:09:58.229 - One, I want to say welcome to our new commissioners, Becca and Austin. I know Austin, you were here 00:09:58.229 --> 00:10:05.172 - in the last meeting, but since I wasn't there, welcome anyway. So first, welcome. And then we also have 00:10:05.172 --> 00:10:11.914 - subcommittee assignments. So both of you express which subcommittee you're interested in. And Becca, 00:10:11.914 --> 00:10:19.390 - you are interested in public art. Austin, you're interested in the grant subcommittee, which is perfect for us. 00:10:19.586 --> 00:10:27.695 - So first, I guess we need to vote to approve the new assignments. And also, Becca volunteered and is 00:10:27.695 --> 00:10:36.126 - interested in being subcommittee chair for public art, which we love as well. But I wanted to give Becca 00:10:36.126 --> 00:10:44.235 - a chance to just kind of share why she's interested in the position, and then we could probably move 00:10:44.235 --> 00:10:49.534 - to get them in there. All right, go ahead. Yeah. So hi, everyone. 00:10:49.794 --> 00:10:56.856 - So I, excuse me, I have an art administration background, so I'm working on getting my art degree. I 00:10:56.856 --> 00:11:03.848 - also have a studio art background in photography, so I love art, love being around public art, so I 00:11:03.848 --> 00:11:10.909 - would love to just kind of be more around public art and just kind of steering the committee, if you 00:11:10.909 --> 00:11:15.454 - would let me. So that would be my first time doing it, and yeah, 00:11:15.554 --> 00:11:23.418 - would just love the opportunity to kind of get my feet wet on that in front of it. So what do you currently 00:11:23.418 --> 00:11:31.064 - do? Oh yeah, I work at IU. Right now, I'm an assistant director of on-campus recruitment for the O'Neill 00:11:31.064 --> 00:11:35.870 - School, which is SPIA. And I'm working on hopefully getting a job 00:11:36.002 --> 00:11:42.511 - either at the museum or I just recently applied to the Eskenazi school, which is where I graduated from 00:11:42.511 --> 00:11:48.833 - with my undergrad. So we'll see if I get a call back for an interview next week. So hopefully trying 00:11:48.833 --> 00:11:55.280 - to get my way back there. So SPIA runs the Arts Administration? Yeah, they run the Arts Administration 00:11:55.280 --> 00:11:58.910 - program and I graduate next spring, so any year. So yeah. 00:11:59.618 --> 00:12:07.409 - In arts administration. In arts administration, yeah. So I'm currently on a student advisory board for 00:12:07.409 --> 00:12:15.124 - the Eskenazi Museum and I'm going to be an inaugural leader of that board come fall because it's very 00:12:15.124 --> 00:12:22.991 - unorganized and not structured and there's no governance of that board. So I sort of volunteered myself 00:12:22.991 --> 00:12:29.118 - to run that. I'm getting a nonprofit management certificate on top of my degree. 00:12:29.314 --> 00:12:35.748 - So I really love community engagement and advocacy. So that's really kind of like why I'm also here 00:12:35.748 --> 00:12:42.376 - as well. So, cool. Perfect. Yeah, exactly. I think you're a perfect fit. So, OK, this is my first time 00:12:42.376 --> 00:12:48.939 - doing this. So how does the process work? Do we just? Can you just ask the board if anyone would like 00:12:48.939 --> 00:12:55.438 - to make a motion? I move to accept her as head of public policy. Approve. OK, we'll start with Becca 00:12:55.438 --> 00:12:58.462 - then. OK, thank you. I guess we need a second. 00:12:58.914 --> 00:13:06.375 - Okay, those in favor say aye. Aye. Those against say nay. All right, perfect. Becca, you are officially 00:13:06.375 --> 00:13:13.764 - the subcommittee chair for public art. Thank you so much for volunteering. We really appreciate it and 00:13:13.764 --> 00:13:21.225 - I think you're gonna do amazing. Okay, and then now Austin's turn. So Austin is going to join the grant 00:13:21.225 --> 00:13:28.542 - subcommittee. So can I just make a motion? Can somebody make a motion? Yep, okay. Can I get a second? 00:13:28.706 --> 00:13:38.867 - I second. OK. So many seconds. OK. Are you a musician? Yes. All in favor, say aye. Aye. Those opposed, 00:13:38.867 --> 00:13:48.930 - say nay. OK, great. Austin, you're in the subcommittee. Thank you so much. Thank you. And the work is 00:13:48.930 --> 00:13:57.118 - about to begin. I know. Just in time. Yes. OK, great. So I think that's all I had. 00:13:58.050 --> 00:14:05.909 - on my end, so let's move to the next agenda item, which is from Gerard and Paul for grant subcommittee 00:14:05.909 --> 00:14:13.845 - co-chairs. Can I just say something? Yes. I'm on the committee, and I want to thank these two gentlemen 00:14:13.845 --> 00:14:21.857 - for their fantastic organization of all of this stuff. For real. Because it is so well done. And I mean, 00:14:21.857 --> 00:14:25.214 - because just adjudicating all those grants, 00:14:25.410 --> 00:14:28.958 - You guys did a great job. 00:14:29.250 --> 00:14:36.009 - Gerard did all the work. Thanks, Gerard. Thanks, Gerard. I did all the organizing, but Paul did a lot 00:14:36.009 --> 00:14:42.702 - of the mental work. Well, the mental work is important, too. Very important. Yeah. I think also Jane 00:14:42.702 --> 00:14:49.329 - and Paige and Christina, as well, I think helped us get all that stuff organized on the back and on 00:14:49.329 --> 00:14:55.690 - the staff end. So yeah, it was definitely good. I think there is. Paige, Paige. OK. Sure. Well, 00:14:55.690 --> 00:14:59.070 - it's great. OK. Thank you, Betsy. Appreciate that. 00:14:59.554 --> 00:15:07.230 - Well, yeah, Paul, I have a couple things to share and then we didn't collaborate on our report. So I'll 00:15:07.230 --> 00:15:14.611 - just I'll say my stuff and if you have anything to add Okay, so yes the Arts project grants I think 00:15:14.611 --> 00:15:22.139 - I think this was included in the in the midpoint email, but we got a lot of them I I think maybe more 00:15:22.139 --> 00:15:25.534 - than ever I know I know last year we had like 00:15:26.114 --> 00:15:33.102 - I think before that we were somewhere in the 60s, but yeah, we have like 78, I think, grants, 00:15:33.102 --> 00:15:40.610 - which is a lot. And so thanks to everyone here for hopping on board to help us review those. It kind 00:15:40.610 --> 00:15:48.192 - of makes a more manageable load for everyone. So yeah, this is just a reminder that those reviews are 00:15:48.192 --> 00:15:53.470 - gonna take place next, I messed up the dates, next Monday and Tuesday. 00:15:53.858 --> 00:16:01.537 - And so yeah, make sure you're starting to go through those. Make sure that you're doing the first and 00:16:01.537 --> 00:16:08.990 - second readers that you're assigned to. I think everyone on the committee, so me, Betsy, and Paul, 00:16:08.990 --> 00:16:16.970 - and Austin, you weren't on the committee previously, but you are now. And when the four of us have grants 00:16:16.970 --> 00:16:19.454 - that we're viewing on both days, 00:16:19.554 --> 00:16:25.626 - I think Gretchen, you are just on Monday, and Rob and Austin, you are on Tuesday. So you can check there 00:16:25.626 --> 00:16:31.640 - for your assignments. A thing I want to emphasize as well, and this is gonna be really hard to do, I'll 00:16:31.640 --> 00:16:37.423 - qualify it there, but we're gonna need to move pretty quickly through these. In order to accomplish 00:16:37.423 --> 00:16:43.264 - all this in four hours across two days, we're gonna have to keep each review to about three minutes, 00:16:43.264 --> 00:16:49.278 - which means first reviewer kind of gives a very succinct kind of report on their scores and the sort of 00:16:49.410 --> 00:16:56.544 - general project description, second reader adds some context, and then there's maybe a little bit of 00:16:56.544 --> 00:17:03.678 - time for feedback and discussion there. And yeah, we'll rip through and do our best to stay on time. 00:17:03.678 --> 00:17:11.024 - So yeah, so all that's to say is make sure that you've sort of like prepared those, not like form, like 00:17:11.024 --> 00:17:15.262 - just have a sense of what you're gonna say at this meeting. 00:17:15.906 --> 00:17:25.350 - Those meetings are going to take place here in McCloskey, I believe. Well, I just noticed that we were 00:17:25.350 --> 00:17:33.694 - kicked out of McCloskey for Monday. So how many people are there? There will be five, six. 00:17:33.694 --> 00:17:41.854 - Kelly is available. It's small, but we can have it. Or it's also, I'm sending an updated 00:17:42.082 --> 00:17:50.000 - Thank you all. It's also possible to reserve a room at the mill as long as we advertise it. So if you 00:17:50.000 --> 00:17:57.763 - want me to look into that, if that feels like it would be more pleasant. Kelly is fine. It does get 00:17:57.763 --> 00:18:05.681 - a little hot, so. Where is it? It's next door to ESD's suite. It just has one little conference table 00:18:05.681 --> 00:18:09.950 - in it. Okay. Where do you park there? Same. Here? Yes. 00:18:11.746 --> 00:18:17.664 - after five? Well, no, I mean, the Kelly Conference Room's in City Hall. No, I mean for the mill. 00:18:17.664 --> 00:18:23.704 - For the mill, you would park on the street. Or up here. You could park here and walk up there. OK. 00:18:23.704 --> 00:18:30.110 - Just sorry, not to make it out of complication. Sure, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it can get kind of stuffy, 00:18:30.110 --> 00:18:36.455 - and we'll be moving kind of quickly. I think if there is an option to have a nice room, that'd be good. 00:18:36.455 --> 00:18:41.214 - I'll see what I can do. But if not, we can make do. Would you be using video? 00:18:41.314 --> 00:18:47.784 - Yeah, so that was actually a second question I had here is, will we have any tech support? Because I 00:18:47.784 --> 00:18:54.191 - know these meetings have to be public. To my knowledge, no one is joining on Zoom. Everyone on both 00:18:54.191 --> 00:19:00.661 - days is coming in person. So I don't know what our obligation is in terms of making it available via 00:19:00.661 --> 00:19:07.452 - Zoom. But it can certainly be open to the public. And kind of like what Christina was alluding to earlier 00:19:07.452 --> 00:19:09.758 - is that we're having more stringent 00:19:10.210 --> 00:19:17.219 - requirements with accessibility in a meeting so we'll on the item of just making sure you guys have 00:19:17.219 --> 00:19:24.297 - what you need okay and you'll have a staff member there okay and we obviously won't participate okay 00:19:24.297 --> 00:19:31.166 - and I think it will get denied but I'm asking for permission to purchase food but I'm pretty sure 00:19:31.330 --> 00:19:37.935 - If you get denied, just know I'm trying. Sure, that's fine. I mean, yeah. That will definitely get denied. 00:19:37.935 --> 00:19:44.355 - That sounds great. Just some stuff to keep the blood sugar, like popcorn and something like that. Yeah, 00:19:44.355 --> 00:19:51.022 - something. I mean, Cheez-Its was kind of our tradition, but yeah. Just something simple, yeah, if possible. 00:19:51.022 --> 00:19:57.504 - OK, yeah, so that'll be Monday and Tuesday. The plan is to kick off right at 530. And hopefully, wrapped 00:19:57.504 --> 00:19:59.294 - by 730, we have a little bit 00:20:00.162 --> 00:20:07.113 - on those reservations, I think we have rooms held or soon to be held from five to eight, but. And I 00:20:07.113 --> 00:20:14.273 - just want to say, what Paige said about this process is that you were super valuable in getting things 00:20:14.273 --> 00:20:20.877 - organized and working on that, the eligibility guidelines and stuff, so. Oh, yeah, Paul and I. 00:20:20.877 --> 00:20:28.037 - You and Paul. Yes. Yeah, so. I just wanted to bounce that back your way. Yeah, thanks. Teamwork. Yeah. 00:20:28.037 --> 00:20:29.566 - And that, well, that, 00:20:29.826 --> 00:20:37.777 - is a great setup for the next item on the board, is that the artistic advancement grants are on the 00:20:37.777 --> 00:20:45.727 - horizon. And I think we have some similar work to do in terms of, I think, adjusting the rubric and 00:20:45.727 --> 00:20:54.076 - some of the things there. I know, I think we were initially set to open those up in end of May. We might 00:20:54.076 --> 00:20:58.846 - need to push that back a week or two just because of, like, 00:21:00.418 --> 00:21:07.861 - scheduling conflicts and getting folks on board and things like that. But just just to note that that's 00:21:07.861 --> 00:21:15.375 - that's just around the corner. So yeah I know I know Paul and I were in a little bit of I think a crunch 00:21:15.375 --> 00:21:22.747 - to get the project grant sort of like up and running and out the door when we did. I think if possible 00:21:22.747 --> 00:21:28.830 - it'd be great to get the committee more on board for the artistic advancement grant. 00:21:29.410 --> 00:21:37.286 - So, yeah, we'll have an update on that timeline and kind of the needs there shortly. Paul, 00:21:37.286 --> 00:21:45.941 - anything else? Thank you. All right. Well, yeah, I'll simply reiterate, thanks again, everyone, for 00:21:45.941 --> 00:21:54.855 - answering the call to help us out with these, because, yeah. Can I say something? Those grants, if you 00:21:54.855 --> 00:21:58.750 - haven't started, they took me hours to read. 00:21:59.394 --> 00:22:05.986 - Oh, no. I mean, I'm just saying maybe don't wait till like that morning to try to do it. Yeah, yeah. 00:22:05.986 --> 00:22:12.709 - They're pretty wordy. OK. Yeah. Is there a way we can limit the amount of words in these applications? 00:22:12.709 --> 00:22:19.432 - Is there just laborious? OK, yeah. And they're repeating themselves a lot. And maybe it should be like 00:22:19.432 --> 00:22:26.090 - 200 words. Yeah. Sure. You can say that too. Any question can be answered in that. And every question 00:22:26.090 --> 00:22:28.766 - seems like they're repeating themselves. 00:22:28.962 --> 00:22:36.723 - There are a couple questions where I think we we do have have Suggested word limits on them, but yeah, 00:22:36.723 --> 00:22:44.936 - it's true. We don't have it. We don't have them for all of them and Yeah, maybe have a character A character 00:22:44.936 --> 00:22:52.696 - or word count on this. Okay. I also think coming from a grants background myself sometimes and knowing 00:22:52.696 --> 00:22:58.046 - that I've been on a review board for the NEA NEA reviewers tend to say 00:22:58.722 --> 00:23:05.209 - just sometimes it's helpful to know that they provide guidelines to be consistent throughout grants. 00:23:05.209 --> 00:23:11.890 - So they always say to be something that I've known just from being on the back end of like an NEA grant 00:23:11.890 --> 00:23:18.698 - and then also arts commission grant that they say to be consistent throughout grants. So when I've helped 00:23:18.698 --> 00:23:24.222 - like people, I've helped people submit grants before, not for these grants, but like, 00:23:25.218 --> 00:23:33.318 - they say to be consistent throughout. So there'll be people repeating themselves throughout all of the 00:23:33.318 --> 00:23:41.339 - grants, just FYI. Oh, okay. That's advice that's given to applicants, okay. Yeah, so. Okay, but yeah, 00:23:41.339 --> 00:23:45.822 - thanks for that, Rachel. Thank you. And thanks for that. 00:23:51.426 --> 00:24:10.520 - other thing come to mind but it was no it was it was not important and I think okay sure okay so next 00:24:10.520 --> 00:24:20.254 - we have upcoming events and important dates okay so 00:24:22.242 --> 00:24:28.691 - I guess we don't have anything from May. Anybody have anything coming up they want to share? This is 00:24:28.691 --> 00:24:35.203 - not the document. I feel like this feels wrong. It is not the document, right? Yeah. Huh. I feel like 00:24:35.203 --> 00:24:41.780 - there was other stuff on it. We had trouble finding it, and that's what turned up under that name. But 00:24:41.780 --> 00:24:48.548 - let me look for it. OK. Let me look again just to see. If you go to the midpoint email, I think it should 00:24:48.548 --> 00:24:50.910 - link to the direct, yeah, that link. 00:24:51.362 --> 00:24:57.796 - Or it's also linked in the agenda. That's the one that I clicked. Oh, the agenda. OK. Oh, it is? Because 00:24:57.796 --> 00:25:03.494 - I was like, I saw first Thursdays for a second, and I panicked. I was like, what? It's like, 00:25:03.494 --> 00:25:09.683 - surely not. Oh, Deja Vu. Yeah. Didn't we do that? Yeah. It's in the agenda. That last first Thursday 00:25:09.683 --> 00:25:15.810 - that was. Well, you say it's linked in the agenda. Yeah. Yeah. That last first Thursday that was up 00:25:15.810 --> 00:25:17.342 - there. That makes sense. 00:25:17.666 --> 00:25:30.578 - Yes, it was awesome. You guys did such a good job. It was a big success. 620 is the Grand Balloon Waxahachie 00:25:30.578 --> 00:25:43.134 - Kathleen Edwards concert at Switchyard. So I'll say it for the room, but IU and the City Parks Department 00:25:43.330 --> 00:25:50.872 - are investing in some pretty awesome concerts this summer to try to make Bloomington really a destination 00:25:50.872 --> 00:25:58.200 - for our region. And so it's Waxahachie Kathleen Edwards on June 20th, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings 00:25:58.200 --> 00:26:01.758 - on July 18th. And then I think you should say it. 00:26:01.858 --> 00:26:07.352 - Yeah, well then the August 29th overlaps with the Secretly 30th Anniversary. At Switchard Park, Duran 00:26:07.352 --> 00:26:12.899 - Jones is, I know it was the headliner, Duran Jones and the indications are the headliner. I'm blanking 00:26:12.899 --> 00:26:18.447 - on who the supporting acts are that evening. But yeah, that's part of that whole sort of like Secretly 00:26:18.447 --> 00:26:24.210 - 30th. Oh, it's the Magnolia boys? Yeah. And I can't remember who else. Yeah, but Duran Jones is headlining 00:26:24.210 --> 00:26:28.734 - at Switchard Park, and that'll kind of like wrap this Grand Full Moon music series. 00:26:30.530 --> 00:26:40.152 - I'll have to get some dates too. There's some family friendly art summer camps at the Eskenazi Museum 00:26:40.152 --> 00:26:49.679 - too that I'm helping out with that I could probably give too. I have another thing I can contribute. 00:26:49.679 --> 00:26:59.678 - The city is sponsoring some different Kirkwood activations and so there's buskets, dusk is being revived. 00:26:59.842 --> 00:27:12.087 - We can get these added. I'll just state them for the good of the order. Third Wednesday of each month, 00:27:12.087 --> 00:27:24.450 - downtown shop night, Busket Dusk, 4 to 7 p.m. So that's fun. We can put some of these other events down 00:27:24.450 --> 00:27:27.422 - there. What is it, Jane? 00:27:27.938 --> 00:27:33.769 - Activations for downtown and Kirkwood, and then the busket desk where buskers are invited to post up 00:27:33.769 --> 00:27:39.831 - at different spots so there will be music in the streets. I don't know who's playing. Did you say Family 00:27:39.831 --> 00:27:45.777 - Night Out already? Family Night Out is the second Wednesday, 5 to 8.30, in partnership with the Monroe 00:27:45.777 --> 00:27:51.550 - County Public Library, invites families to spend an evening downtown with family-friendly games and 00:27:51.550 --> 00:27:57.150 - activities, entertainment, and opportunities to visit businesses and restaurants along Kirkwood. 00:27:57.890 --> 00:28:03.961 - Will they be closing a street down for those days? It says the street will be lined with tables and 00:28:03.961 --> 00:28:10.092 - chairs for community style dining. Is there still cars running along it? So that language is kind of 00:28:10.092 --> 00:28:16.163 - ambiguous. I don't know if we're shutting it down or not. Sorry. I would imagine that they probably 00:28:16.163 --> 00:28:22.234 - have, they'll probably shut down parts of where they have the table. They may just shut the library 00:28:22.234 --> 00:28:25.694 - block down. Yeah. Yeah. So that's actually going on now. 00:28:26.786 --> 00:28:38.301 - Today's the first day we can head out. Oh, you mean till 8.30? Mm-hmm. But we can share that information 00:28:38.301 --> 00:28:49.486 - over email and get that spreadsheet populated. Mm-hmm. I think you should have access now, Christina. 00:28:49.486 --> 00:28:55.518 - OK. Yeah. Maybe try refreshing. It was shared with me? 00:28:56.290 --> 00:29:03.166 - Okay, so are you logged into your BAC email? Yeah, I think I saw true and true. Okay. Yeah. Okay, I'll 00:29:03.166 --> 00:29:09.775 - kill that other one. I don't know what that is. Okay, anything else in terms of events or? If not, 00:29:09.775 --> 00:29:16.517 - I mean, yes. So you guys have access to the document. So please continue to add things, even if it's 00:29:16.517 --> 00:29:23.260 - just like in between sessions and you're like, oh, there's this event I want to add and I don't want 00:29:23.260 --> 00:29:24.862 - to forget, just add it. 00:29:25.218 --> 00:29:35.339 - when you have a chance. All right. So next, let's move on to commissioner announcements. Any announcements 00:29:35.339 --> 00:29:44.797 - from commissioners? Okay, great. Perfect timing, George. Okay, so thinking about our project grants 00:29:44.797 --> 00:29:53.310 - and the timeline, so yeah, we're reviewing next week, and then the week after that at our 00:29:54.082 --> 00:30:00.873 - I think normally scheduled meeting, which is scheduled for May 27th. That's when we'll present a funding 00:30:00.873 --> 00:30:07.535 - package and vote on that. And then I don't think they'll, hopefully in the next week or so after that, 00:30:07.535 --> 00:30:14.261 - funding notifications will go out. Money won't have been moved by then, but at least we'll have a sense 00:30:14.261 --> 00:30:21.246 - of our budget. We'll have some financial information to report. So yeah, just to give a sense of that time. 00:30:26.978 --> 00:30:36.827 - I guess I should have said this earlier. I was unable or I wasn't present at the public art subcommittee 00:30:36.827 --> 00:30:46.394 - meeting last night. I unanimously support the reverse choice. I just wanted to get that out. Okay. If 00:30:46.394 --> 00:30:55.774 - no other comments, let's move for comments from the public. If there's anyone, there's no one here. 00:30:55.970 --> 00:31:05.440 - Anybody online? I don't think so, right? Yeah, okay, so no public present today. So we will move on. 00:31:05.440 --> 00:31:15.004 - So I think actually that's it. If we have nothing else to say, if there's no further business, I move 00:31:15.004 --> 00:31:22.974 - to adjourn the meeting. Can I get a second? Thanks. All right, all in favor say aye. 00:31:23.682 --> 00:31:31.614 - Opposed say no. Okay great meeting adjourned.