WEBVTT 00:00:00.290 --> 00:00:09.046 - Welcome, everyone. Thank you for coming to the meeting today. It is August 12th, 2026. It is 12.07 PM 00:00:09.046 --> 00:00:17.631 - by the clock on the wall. And this is the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association meeting. Taylor. 00:00:17.631 --> 00:00:26.816 - Thank you. Welcome, everyone. We'll need to do a roll call. So I'm going to start over here. Sure. Michael 00:00:26.816 --> 00:00:28.190 - Hover, B-U-E-A. 00:00:28.546 --> 00:00:38.486 - Virginia Guthrie, BUEA. Kate Rosenberger, BUEA. Katerina Ka, BUEA. I'm sorry. I was finishing something. 00:00:38.486 --> 00:00:48.048 - No one said it had to be in order. Heather Robinson, BUEA. Cheryl Gilliland, Deputy Controller, City 00:00:48.048 --> 00:00:56.190 - of Wilmington. Paige Sharp, City Staff. Dee Delores, City Staff. Brad Whistler, BUEA. 00:00:58.242 --> 00:01:05.574 - Lisa Spinelli, VUEA. All right, great. Thanks, everyone. Thank you for being here. All right, Dee, what's 00:01:05.574 --> 00:01:12.974 - the first minutes, probably? Yep, first up is approval of minutes for July. Did anyone have any questions, 00:01:12.974 --> 00:01:15.326 - concerns, or corrections on that? 00:01:27.394 --> 00:01:35.236 - Motion to approve the minutes from the July meeting. Motion. A second. I'll second. All right. And if 00:01:35.236 --> 00:01:43.461 - we could do a roll call to approve, please. Michael Hover. Yes. Virginia Gutierrez, yes. Katerina DeCalle, 00:01:43.461 --> 00:01:51.226 - yes. Kate Rosenberger, yes. Heather Robinson, yes. Remusler Rebstein. I was not at the last meeting, 00:01:51.226 --> 00:01:55.070 - so I can't tell you if they're record or not. OK. 00:01:57.442 --> 00:02:08.574 - Mrs. Benelli, yes. Okay, great. Thank you. All right. D, let's see. Actually, we have some financial 00:02:08.574 --> 00:02:19.596 - reports. Yay. Yay. All right. Gerald, take it away. Actually, I think I can give you a copy, so I'm 00:02:19.596 --> 00:02:27.422 - going to give you the first quarter one, and then my version for this. 00:02:28.258 --> 00:02:36.439 - All right, sorry. Yes, we apologize for the delay. I think we have gotten some of the banking issues 00:02:36.439 --> 00:02:44.538 - resolved. It's just very interesting that statements that were coming just stopped coming. So yeah, 00:02:44.538 --> 00:02:53.205 - and I don't know if they're actually coming now or if we're going to continue getting them. We're probably 00:02:53.205 --> 00:02:55.230 - just going to do a poll. 00:02:55.682 --> 00:03:04.454 - Just make sure that we have them. Whatever it is, we'll just make it work. All right. So I updated the 00:03:04.454 --> 00:03:12.970 - packet. So our Zoom user, I will tell you what has changed. And the overall number has not changed. 00:03:12.970 --> 00:03:21.487 - It's just like a category change. So you'll be able to follow along just fine. But I did print just 00:03:21.487 --> 00:03:24.638 - updated copies so that you would get 00:03:24.770 --> 00:03:33.844 - So confused. So we'll look at quarter one, which is the packet that says January through March. And 00:03:33.844 --> 00:03:43.099 - we'll look at the profit and loss first. So basically, it's the new year, so it's showing your income 00:03:43.099 --> 00:03:52.444 - is actually a negative because of a correction that had to be made, that it was posted in January, but 00:03:52.444 --> 00:03:54.622 - it was actually a 2025. 00:03:55.074 --> 00:04:04.151 - Corrections so it shows up on your financials as a negative and makes your overall Income show up as 00:04:04.151 --> 00:04:13.228 - a negative, but you actually earn twenty thousand nine hundred fifty one dollars and eleven cents in 00:04:13.228 --> 00:04:22.305 - bank interest for the first quarter Your Expenses for the administrative piece of it is also showing 00:04:22.305 --> 00:04:23.294 - a negative 00:04:23.618 --> 00:04:38.156 - because of that same correction that was a 25 error and got corrected in January. So we are showing 00:04:38.156 --> 00:04:53.566 - insurance expense of $7,059 and then program administration cost of $14,750. So your total administrative 00:04:53.730 --> 00:05:04.244 - expense is a negative at this point. For your grants, you expended $67,550 and that's broken down by 00:05:04.244 --> 00:05:14.967 - your arts and culture of $15,000 and education and entrepreneurship of $45,000 and education at $3,250 00:05:14.967 --> 00:05:22.462 - and your zone improvement grants is $4,300 to come up with that amount. 00:05:22.594 --> 00:05:32.389 - You brought in interest of $1,661.82, and that was from your CDs. So your overall net income is a negative, 00:05:32.389 --> 00:05:41.730 - and that is to be expected for a first quarter. Can you tell me what is project administration entail? 00:05:41.730 --> 00:05:46.718 - Is it like wages? So the project administration is the 00:05:47.458 --> 00:05:54.371 - the agreement between the city and the BUEA. That's the staffing of Cheryl and me and legal and all 00:05:54.371 --> 00:06:01.284 - of that. That is an annual agreement. The money got deposited incorrectly into a different account, 00:06:01.284 --> 00:06:08.198 - it had to get pulled out. That's why there's that correction that was made at the end of last year, 00:06:08.198 --> 00:06:15.387 - carrying over to the beginning of this year, and that's why it's negative. They've got process for this 00:06:15.387 --> 00:06:16.286 - coming year. 00:06:17.730 --> 00:06:26.380 - just it was quite interesting yeah I can see that okay we'll go to the balance sheet for quarter one 00:06:26.380 --> 00:06:35.543 - it's showing that your total assets comes to three million three hundred twenty seven thousand six hundred 00:06:35.543 --> 00:06:43.422 - thirty nine dollars and eighty one cents and as you can see it's broken out by each of your 00:06:43.842 --> 00:06:53.109 - accounts and your checking has that negative amount in it, which is sort of false because of all the 00:06:53.109 --> 00:07:02.285 - changes that happen to stuff. Your assets, I just want to make a note that everything, all of your, 00:07:02.285 --> 00:07:10.910 - all those RRF loans are still listed. DNI will be getting together in the very near future to 00:07:11.138 --> 00:07:18.622 - zero out everything that we need to because we've had a lot of, not a lot, but we've had some of them 00:07:18.622 --> 00:07:25.959 - have actually now made their final payment because everything was supposed to be due and then D has 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:33.369 - agreements that still need to be finalized and it's just gonna be so much easier to do it all at one 00:07:33.369 --> 00:07:40.926 - time instead of here and there. It's like let's do it all at once now that the loan period is now over 00:07:41.090 --> 00:07:50.678 - And we'll just get all that cleaned up. So probably by at least my third quarter, or third quarter, 00:07:50.678 --> 00:08:00.363 - we should have it. Cleaned up and you'll, these all go away. And then get adjusted. So then you just 00:08:00.363 --> 00:08:11.006 - have your total liability and equity total of about $3,417,023.77. When you look at your budget versus actual, 00:08:11.362 --> 00:08:28.480 - You're going to see, again, this negative $50,022 because it happened in 2026, final lines, it's affecting 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:39.358 - your 2026 budget. So your numbers are a little off, but in terms of 00:08:41.186 --> 00:08:49.224 - is you're just going to, you know, have to manually adjust by 20, about 29. I mean, you're going to 00:08:49.224 --> 00:08:56.941 - end up with $2,900 basically as your administrative total for expenses. And yeah, so it's very, 00:08:56.941 --> 00:09:00.478 - you know, it'll be difficult to explain it. 00:09:01.570 --> 00:09:08.672 - Well, that'll just carry through. It's essentially $50,000 that we'll need to just kind of. Yeah. 00:09:08.672 --> 00:09:16.063 - So when you, um, cause it'll skew the, all of the membership fees for the full year, it's going to be 00:09:16.063 --> 00:09:23.745 - $50,000. So if we have $550,000 at the end of the year, then it would be 600, you know, it's just because 00:09:23.745 --> 00:09:27.006 - it's a $50,000 negative that we're carrying. 00:09:27.362 --> 00:09:35.515 - And as well as on your expense side, your management, you've got $89,073 balance as the budget. And 00:09:35.515 --> 00:09:43.912 - you're going to go over that because of this. Or actually, you're going to be under. Well, I was going 00:09:43.912 --> 00:09:52.309 - to say it will be $49,000 under because it's the opposite. Yeah, because in 2025. So it kind of washes 00:09:52.309 --> 00:09:56.222 - out, essentially, at the bottom line. OK. Yeah. 00:09:56.322 --> 00:10:06.028 - Okay, so yeah, so your budget to actual quarter one really doesn't have a lot of excitement, but you 00:10:06.028 --> 00:10:14.869 - have been handing out, you paid some bills with it, which I mentioned earlier. Your grants, 00:10:14.869 --> 00:10:24.094 - this is kind of, you can see the breakdown that you did, 11,000 with your Lincoln Arts project. 00:10:24.258 --> 00:10:36.001 - You know, your city arts program was $4,000. And then your education and entrepreneurship grants, you 00:10:36.001 --> 00:10:47.629 - get a $45,000 payment. Under education, you've got the Lemonade Day and the Resonant Scholarship. So 00:10:47.629 --> 00:10:51.774 - it's pretty straightforward. Again, 00:10:54.786 --> 00:11:06.118 - $4,300 under your zone improvement grants. So your total expense is showing $39,337. So you've started 00:11:06.118 --> 00:11:18.001 - off really quite well, which is good. Is that order one? No, it's two. And do you need to do your approval? 00:11:18.001 --> 00:11:22.622 - Let's just do them together if that's OK. 00:11:24.098 --> 00:11:32.082 - We can keep rolling here. Okay So your next packet and I'm gonna actually come over here to Brad is 00:11:32.082 --> 00:11:40.225 - it I'm gonna just let you see mine so I could speak from it. You don't mind Because this one actually 00:11:40.225 --> 00:11:48.209 - has one of the edits on it that D asked me to make because I did a mistake so under your profit and 00:11:48.209 --> 00:11:49.886 - loss for quarter two 00:11:50.210 --> 00:11:58.871 - you're gonna see $76,000 come in from the period of April to June. And that's from bank interest and 00:11:58.871 --> 00:12:07.703 - zone membership fees. You have expenses for quarter two and a total amount of $150,000. And that comes 00:12:07.703 --> 00:12:16.536 - from 30,000 from your arts and culture grants and 45 from your zone improvement grants and 75,000 from 00:12:16.536 --> 00:12:19.966 - your education grants. And that's where 00:12:20.226 --> 00:12:31.155 - there was a mistake in what I said previously. So the zoom user that was it on the first packet it was 00:12:31.155 --> 00:12:41.978 - under the seal grant. And so I corrected that. So it's under the correct school school grant from MCC 00:12:41.978 --> 00:12:47.390 - SC. So and so when you look at your net income for 00:12:47.554 --> 00:13:04.379 - quarter two, you have a loss of a negative income of $71,424.42. When you look at your balance sheet, 00:13:04.379 --> 00:13:17.246 - your total asset is $3,259,590.57, and you can see each of your bank accounts 00:13:17.378 --> 00:13:27.255 - That was as of June 30th. Again, all your assets are listed. They will go away next quarter. So your 00:13:27.255 --> 00:13:37.426 - total liability and equity comes to three million three hundred forty five thousand five hundred ninety 00:13:37.426 --> 00:13:46.814 - nine dollars and thirty five cents. When you look at your budget to actual through June 30th of 00:13:47.010 --> 00:13:58.487 - which is quarter two. Your total income has been $47,897.10 and the specific breakdown is listed under 00:13:58.487 --> 00:14:09.853 - expense for. Yes, go ahead. Thank you. Just for the clarification. So this is where we're seeing that 00:14:09.853 --> 00:14:15.870 - from that Q1. So the P&L for Q2, this 56,328 does not 00:14:16.770 --> 00:14:23.916 - than when we look at a year to date, because this is a year to date on the profit and loss, so 6306.51. 00:14:23.916 --> 00:14:31.199 - So that's where we're seeing that $50,000. Just so everyone is clear on that, that's where the difference 00:14:31.199 --> 00:14:38.207 - is. So we've actually brought in in-zone membership fees a little over $56,000, but that negative. So 00:14:38.207 --> 00:14:45.216 - just so everyone is clear on that, because that's going to be carried forward with us the entire year 00:14:45.216 --> 00:14:46.590 - since it was in Q1. 00:14:47.170 --> 00:14:54.726 - So, okay. Thanks, Cheryl. Sorry. On, I'm just looking at, this is January through March, right? And 00:14:54.726 --> 00:15:02.660 - budget for membership fees is $413,000. Yes. And what I'm looking at here is January through June, which 00:15:02.660 --> 00:15:10.292 - is the same. So does that mean? The budget's going to stay. The budget was all in Q1? No, the budget 00:15:10.292 --> 00:15:12.030 - is for the whole year. 00:15:13.410 --> 00:15:23.243 - It's a YT. Oh, so this is just showing. So that budget number is the annual number. Exactly. It's not 00:15:23.243 --> 00:15:33.655 - relative to the period here. Okay. Yeah. So can you just maybe walk me through quickly on how that actually 00:15:33.655 --> 00:15:43.006 - comes in though? Because it looks like on this one we had $56,000 in Q2, which is much less than 00:15:43.138 --> 00:15:51.212 - One quarter's worth of the the annual membership fee specific. Yeah, it's so it's lumpy. I guess we 00:15:51.212 --> 00:15:59.367 - are. Yes. So the zone membership fees are different for each participating organization or member or 00:15:59.367 --> 00:16:05.342 - whatnot. So it is heavily weighted on the cattle at Novo Nordisk payment. 00:16:06.338 --> 00:16:16.012 - And so we are still waiting on that payment. And yes, I have been in contact with them. And yes, I am 00:16:16.012 --> 00:16:25.971 - not happy about it. So yeah, so the lion's share of that $413,000 for the year is one payment. So that's 00:16:25.971 --> 00:16:35.550 - why it looks very lopsided. Got it. And that's calculated as it's like a percentage of the deduction 00:16:35.650 --> 00:16:46.432 - that they get to claim? It's 20% of the total deduction. And that's, is that deduction like mostly payroll 00:16:46.432 --> 00:16:57.113 - tax deduction? It is actually improvement, so it's a deduction on the improvements of the assessed value. 00:16:57.113 --> 00:17:01.950 - Got it, yeah, so it's property tax, yeah, okay. 00:17:06.242 --> 00:17:16.650 - Thank you. Okay. All right. So expenses. Yes. So when you look at your total administrative expenses, 00:17:16.650 --> 00:17:27.363 - you've got that negative in there again of the twenty twenty eight thousand two hundred thirteen dollars 00:17:27.363 --> 00:17:35.934 - because of that fifty thousand. So you actually you in reality do not have a credit 00:17:36.130 --> 00:17:50.356 - On your grants, I did make one change. I originally put $4,000 in under zone arts grants, not realizing 00:17:50.356 --> 00:18:05.950 - that all that has been moved up to city arts program. So I made that $4,000 move up to city arts program from the 00:18:06.050 --> 00:18:18.354 - previous report I sent. So again, total dollar amount of $45,000 in expenditures for arts and culture 00:18:18.354 --> 00:18:30.900 - has not changed. Your total education and entrepreneur grants is $45,000. That's the same. Under grants 00:18:30.900 --> 00:18:35.966 - education, your total expense is $78,250. 00:18:36.098 --> 00:18:46.269 - Again, that total amounts, that amount did change because the $75,000 in the first submission that I 00:18:46.269 --> 00:18:56.540 - provided, it was listed under zone improvement grants. So that's where one change you will see if you 00:18:56.540 --> 00:19:05.502 - were to look back at the first version that I provided. So it is now correctly reflected 00:19:06.018 --> 00:19:20.042 - under the school grants. So your zone arts improvement grants total is $49,300 and you can see the three 00:19:20.042 --> 00:19:33.531 - different grants that paid out. So your total expenses end up being $189,337 through quarter two and 00:19:33.531 --> 00:19:35.134 - your income 00:19:35.426 --> 00:19:52.920 - is $3,311.93 for the end of June 30th. Did I lose anyone on any of this? Are there any questions? 00:19:52.920 --> 00:20:01.310 - All right, great. Good to see this, thank you. 00:20:02.370 --> 00:20:12.749 - Thank you for providing this for us and I'm glad you are very angry probably worked out. That's good. 00:20:12.749 --> 00:20:22.925 - Yes. All right. And I also come in for making some changes within the the way the expenses and some 00:20:22.925 --> 00:20:32.286 - of the deposits are recorded under ESD in their program because I reference that and it has 00:20:33.186 --> 00:20:41.246 - So when an expense or a deposit is made if the deposit ticket doesn't say what program or if I can't 00:20:41.246 --> 00:20:49.705 - figure it out I go to her list and she has refined that to Make it so much easier for me. So I appreciate 00:20:49.705 --> 00:20:58.164 - your work doing my hand Thank you Cheryl for that report appreciate it all right, were there any anything 00:20:58.164 --> 00:21:00.478 - else on financials will do a 00:21:00.610 --> 00:21:09.692 - approval of both Q1 and Q2. All right. We have a motion to approve Q1-2026, Q2-2026 financial reports. 00:21:09.692 --> 00:21:19.215 - I'll move that. Do we have a second? Second. Second. All right. And roll call. Michael Hover, yes. Virginia 00:21:19.215 --> 00:21:28.297 - Gethier, yes. Katerina Call, yes. Kate Rosenberger, yes. Heather Robinson, yes. Brad Musler, yes. Lisa 00:21:28.297 --> 00:21:30.590 - Spinelli, yes. All right. 00:21:31.458 --> 00:21:41.382 - Thank you. Okay, Dee. All right. Woohoo! If I've used the right computer, sorry. This gets really confusing, 00:21:41.382 --> 00:21:50.760 - guys. So, open that. Yeah, guys, I was on vacation the past week, so I don't have much of a director's 00:21:50.760 --> 00:21:58.590 - report. You can believe that I was actually on vacation. What? I know, it's shocking. 00:21:58.818 --> 00:22:11.974 - So really it is just an update of where we stand year to date on our grants at this point in time. So 00:22:11.974 --> 00:22:25.000 - committed and dispersed for education. I think that's reflected in these Q2 reports for $78,250 with 00:22:25.000 --> 00:22:27.838 - a balance of $14,250. 00:22:28.290 --> 00:22:40.315 - Entrepreneurship, we have expended several more business economic enhancement scholarship. That includes 00:22:40.315 --> 00:22:51.996 - the grant that we approved last month. So the total community dispersed is $55,710, leaving a balance 00:22:51.996 --> 00:22:57.150 - of $290 in that category. That might be off. 00:22:57.666 --> 00:23:05.889 - No, no, that's right. That's right. Well, good job, guys. We almost spent all that money. In the arts 00:23:05.889 --> 00:23:13.950 - category, we have committed to disburse $30,000, leaving us with $180,000. I just asked her a quick 00:23:13.950 --> 00:23:22.253 - question. Yes. That does not align with this. For some reason, the art stuff just doesn't align. I was 00:23:22.253 --> 00:23:26.526 - just curious about that. There's $45,000 on the P&L. 00:23:26.626 --> 00:23:33.847 - here today. So I was just wondering if there's something maybe missing in there. There are some payments 00:23:33.847 --> 00:23:41.342 - that also carried over from 2025. Okay, so we have some 2025 payments. We do have a couple of 2025 payments. 00:23:41.342 --> 00:23:48.425 - I can clarify that in the next meeting if you'd like for me to do that. But yeah. Just because we just 00:23:48.425 --> 00:23:55.646 - saw this number and I'm noticing that. Okay. I will make sure that that's clarified in the next meeting. 00:23:55.874 --> 00:24:05.308 - But what we've actually disbursed this year is $30,000. For zone improvement, we have the business building 00:24:05.308 --> 00:24:14.044 - improvement, the accessibility modification grants that were approved last month. And I think there 00:24:14.044 --> 00:24:23.478 - was, let me just check again. Yes, and then the safety and security for friendly beasts. So we've committed 00:24:23.478 --> 00:24:25.662 - to disbursed $85,543.16. 00:24:26.242 --> 00:24:40.776 - And the remaining balance that we have is, I don't know if that feels right. $124,400.56. $456.84. I 00:24:40.776 --> 00:24:54.302 - think that I may have overlooked that number. I need to fix that. Does that feel right? Okay. 00:24:54.498 --> 00:25:04.785 - Yeah, I guess so. It feels like I should have spent more at this point in time, I guess. We have all 00:25:04.785 --> 00:25:14.461 - of our grantees at the bottom if you want to double check those numbers. We're spending money. 00:25:14.461 --> 00:25:17.822 - That's great. Thank you so much. 00:25:17.986 --> 00:25:25.053 - We're a couple of grants. We have a couple of historic facade grants that are coming to us hopefully 00:25:25.053 --> 00:25:32.471 - next month and a business and business building improvement grants from Merth and CFC properties. There's 00:25:32.471 --> 00:25:39.468 - just some more information that I need to get from them before I can present those grants. However, 00:25:39.468 --> 00:25:46.046 - Merth is having their grand opening on Thursday at 1230. They're having a ribbon cutting, so. 00:25:46.722 --> 00:25:55.036 - Highly recommend that you go see the amazing work that got done over there. It's a really, it's a really 00:25:55.036 --> 00:26:03.350 - beautiful restoration and expansion of the building. So yeah, Merth, it's in Fountain Square Mall. Yeah. 00:26:03.350 --> 00:26:11.347 - Yeah. So pretty excited about that project. That's at 1230 on Thursday. So I'm going to stop sharing 00:26:11.347 --> 00:26:16.414 - that. Does anyone have any questions about any of those things? 00:26:19.362 --> 00:26:31.146 - No. Wonderful. Okay. Well, with that, I'm going to turn it over to our new AD of the Arts, Paige Sharp. 00:26:31.146 --> 00:26:42.704 - Great. Thank you. Hi, everybody. Hi, Paige. Excited to be here. I started at the end of May and I had 00:26:42.704 --> 00:26:48.030 - actually consulted for the city in the spring. 00:26:48.450 --> 00:26:54.885 - It was fun. I really enjoyed it and I thought it'd be really great to do this work. So I'm grateful 00:26:54.885 --> 00:27:01.385 - to be in this role. So a little bit about me. I actually grew up in Indiana, in West Lafayette, so I 00:27:01.385 --> 00:27:07.820 - think you know where that goes. And I've actually, fun fact, lived in five states. So I've left and 00:27:07.820 --> 00:27:11.102 - come back and left and come back many, many times. 00:27:11.778 --> 00:27:18.891 - My career has been almost entirely focused on arts administration, so spanning almost 30 years. I studied 00:27:18.891 --> 00:27:25.601 - at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. So visual arts is my background. And I ran education 00:27:25.601 --> 00:27:31.775 - departments in art museums, also with a local arts council in Indiana, serving 14 counties, 00:27:31.775 --> 00:27:38.687 - largely rural. So I'm very familiar with the rural space. And then I was recruited by the Indiana Arts 00:27:38.687 --> 00:27:41.438 - Commission. I worked there for 11 years. 00:27:41.538 --> 00:27:47.991 - And I oversaw all of the programs as a deputy director until I left. And I thought, well, because I 00:27:47.991 --> 00:27:54.574 - just wanted to do something different. And I thought, well, I'll consult for a while while I look for 00:27:54.574 --> 00:28:01.220 - something else. And I really wanted to be back at the ground level. When you're with the state, you're 00:28:01.220 --> 00:28:08.190 - in literally that ivory tower. And so I was excited about facilitating a long-term change across the state. 00:28:08.290 --> 00:28:13.098 - But I really missed being at the heart of where things happen, you know, with the artists, 00:28:13.098 --> 00:28:18.593 - with the art, with the communities. So this opportunity to afford to that. And so it's good to be back. 00:28:18.593 --> 00:28:24.087 - And yet here I am still doing grant making, which is a lot of what I did with state government for like 00:28:24.087 --> 00:28:26.782 - 16 years at both the regional and the state level. 00:28:27.490 --> 00:28:34.916 - So I come to you today on two different things, the first of which is funding recommendations for arts 00:28:34.916 --> 00:28:42.413 - project support from the 2026 cycle. There were a total of 78 applications, which was pretty monumental 00:28:42.413 --> 00:28:49.695 - for this program. Yeah, it was wow. It was like, that's a lot to sift through and download and oh my 00:28:49.695 --> 00:28:55.102 - God, can we get an online grant system? So that's a side conversation, but 00:28:55.490 --> 00:29:00.542 - 47 in total were recommended for funding, 15 of which 00:29:00.610 --> 00:29:09.226 - we're recommending for BU-EA funding since they meet the specific criteria which is to facilitate activities 00:29:09.226 --> 00:29:17.130 - in the BU-EA zone. Each of them I have confirmed that indeed the activities will occur in that area 00:29:17.130 --> 00:29:25.588 - falling under one or more of the bullet points that you see in the memo provided to you, like facilitating 00:29:25.588 --> 00:29:30.014 - involvement in arts and cultural activities, et cetera. 00:29:30.146 --> 00:29:40.108 - From what I understand, there's $50,000 that's been allocated toward grant funding. And so the recommendation 00:29:40.108 --> 00:29:49.165 - today is for 31,000. So I'll be, you'll be excited to know that I will be coming back to you likely 00:29:49.165 --> 00:29:57.406 - in December for the operation support program. Are there any questions that I can address? 00:29:58.754 --> 00:30:10.210 - So, that is, here let me open this up real quick, sorry. We will be taking that out of, yes, the Loomington 00:30:10.210 --> 00:30:21.242 - Arts Commission projects and operations grants. All right, thank you. Thank you, it's nice to meet you. 00:30:21.242 --> 00:30:26.334 - Thanks for coming. She's got one more thing to, 00:30:26.626 --> 00:30:34.394 - to update us about. Yeah, I think we're going to need to update, aren't we? Right. We just need to approve 00:30:34.394 --> 00:30:41.654 - the funding via vote. All right. So we have awardees listed here, the totals for each individually, 00:30:41.654 --> 00:30:49.059 - and then we've had some other information that was provided. So if there are no questions or comments 00:30:49.059 --> 00:30:55.230 - otherwise, I would entertain a motion to approve the $31,000 in arts grants. Motion. 00:30:56.738 --> 00:31:04.141 - Second? Second. Second. And roll call for approval. Sure. Michael Hover, yes. Virginia Gutierre, yes. 00:31:04.141 --> 00:31:10.818 - Kettering to call, yes. Kate Rosenberger, yes. Heather Robinson, yes. Right. Whistler, yes. 00:31:10.818 --> 00:31:18.148 - Melissa Spinelli, yes. All right. Great. Approved. All right. So we have another item. It's our arts 00:31:18.148 --> 00:31:19.454 - incubator, right? 00:31:19.714 --> 00:31:26.728 - That is right. So I come to the table to just request some minor changes to funding that was already 00:31:26.728 --> 00:31:33.743 - allocated. Specifically, it was $100,000 towards the arts incubator. From what I researched, $75,000 00:31:33.743 --> 00:31:41.244 - was going to go to construction infrastructure and $25,000 to professional development. So the modification 00:31:41.244 --> 00:31:49.022 - request is just $80,000 to construction and then $20,000 to professional development. And I'll explain why that 00:31:49.218 --> 00:31:57.100 - is a little bit different and also to extend the deadline for expenditure to the end of calendar year 00:31:57.100 --> 00:32:04.904 - 2027. So this funding has been on the docket for a little while and I'll kind of lead you through as 00:32:04.904 --> 00:32:12.785 - to why that happened. So the arts incubator was put into a 10,000 square foot facility. It was leased 00:32:12.785 --> 00:32:13.790 - by the city. 00:32:13.954 --> 00:32:20.880 - And indeed that is happening right now. There are artists in there and it's the lease space and those 00:32:20.880 --> 00:32:27.670 - leases end the end of December of this year. But as the city sort of understood things and got more 00:32:27.670 --> 00:32:34.595 - quotes, I think they recognized that there was more financial need than there were available dollars, 00:32:34.595 --> 00:32:41.589 - in particular on the long term. So I think that's why it continues to have been on the docket. So when 00:32:41.589 --> 00:32:43.422 - I consulted in the spring, 00:32:44.194 --> 00:32:50.474 - And I partnered with Indiana University on a REDI grant. I don't know if you've heard about the REDI 00:32:50.474 --> 00:32:56.755 - program, but IEDC does. And one of the focus areas the city was interested in is finding a place for 00:32:56.755 --> 00:33:02.973 - the arts incubator artists, since this was not going to be financially sustainable. And so, working 00:33:02.973 --> 00:33:09.315 - with the city identified, the Showers Admin Building, which is just up the street, and it had already 00:33:09.315 --> 00:33:11.678 - gone through a lot of rehabilitation. 00:33:12.386 --> 00:33:21.797 - And so we focused on building studios on the street level, street lower level, a total of 12 studios. 00:33:21.797 --> 00:33:31.024 - And so the funding, the $80,000 would go towards the infrastructure again, which is construction of 00:33:31.024 --> 00:33:34.622 - those studios and ready grant dollars. 00:33:34.786 --> 00:33:41.051 - we're coming alongside to ensure ADA accessibility for the building as a whole in order to get it up 00:33:41.051 --> 00:33:47.564 - to code to ensure that we can have those incubator studios up and running. It was a much better location 00:33:47.564 --> 00:33:54.076 - because it's going to be in the trades district, which its focus is entrepreneurship. And the cool thing 00:33:54.076 --> 00:34:00.527 - I love about artists, and I've been working with artists for many years, particularly with professional 00:34:00.527 --> 00:34:02.078 - development programming, 00:34:02.306 --> 00:34:09.776 - one of which won a national award for its outcomes its first year. And that is artists love to create, 00:34:09.776 --> 00:34:17.029 - but also collaborate. And it's just organic conversations by running into other people. And they're 00:34:17.029 --> 00:34:24.355 - like, oh, we could do this together. And they do. And so I love the idea of them being in a space in 00:34:24.355 --> 00:34:31.390 - this building where the main floor is where offices are, where you have a marketer, a podcaster, 00:34:31.490 --> 00:34:37.460 - And the property owner is going to really focus more towards creative entrepreneurs, but they're also 00:34:37.460 --> 00:34:43.723 - going to be around a larger cohort of entrepreneurs in the trade district. Which is where the professional 00:34:43.723 --> 00:34:49.342 - development comes in. So to make sure that the creatives, not just in these studios, but across 00:34:49.602 --> 00:34:56.921 - the community and inviting regional as well, because that's where you can furthers those collaborations, 00:34:56.921 --> 00:35:04.169 - those relationships and opportunities. So that really becomes an incubator. And so luckily, we received 00:35:04.169 --> 00:35:11.279 - we being the collective we there was like, I think, a nine total partners in the application that was 00:35:11.279 --> 00:35:16.158 - submitted by Indiana University Research Division. So we were funded. 00:35:16.258 --> 00:35:22.332 - $3 million out of the $3.5 million request, which is pretty phenomenal. It was a highly competitive 00:35:22.332 --> 00:35:28.467 - program. There are 320 applications across the state. So go team, go. I was very excited about that. 00:35:28.467 --> 00:35:34.602 - So I was like, yeah, that's cool because I started this position. So now I get to finish it through. 00:35:34.602 --> 00:35:40.190 - So that's super great. And then those professional development dollars will come alongside. 00:35:40.834 --> 00:35:47.753 - Dollars that are going to amplify as well for just general support and so will be partnering with amplify 00:35:47.753 --> 00:35:54.803 - or partnering with IU innovates and working with the region as a collective group and it can go in whatever 00:35:54.803 --> 00:36:01.460 - direction we're going to really getting needs assessment and communication from the community so that 00:36:01.460 --> 00:36:08.510 - what we provide is is indeed what is needed and so. I guess really the request is just those modifications. 00:36:08.770 --> 00:36:15.115 - timeline and a slight adjustment 80,000 because the building owner felt that that would likely be the 00:36:15.115 --> 00:36:21.585 - dollars needed in order to construct those studios and who knows at some point maybe there's more maybe 00:36:21.585 --> 00:36:26.686 - there's less but I imagine it's gonna be more just toward it and I was like oh my 00:36:27.106 --> 00:36:34.587 - So there's a lot of dirt still in that area of the building, but we'll get there. I'm just really excited 00:36:34.587 --> 00:36:41.787 - that this is going to be a greater opportunity, I think, for career advancement for the folks that do 00:36:41.787 --> 00:36:48.986 - participate in the program. Any questions? Just the studios in general, are these for visual artists? 00:36:48.986 --> 00:36:53.150 - When you talk about the collaboration piece, are these all 00:36:53.602 --> 00:37:01.135 - visual artists that are working in this space, but how do you envision like the incubator crossing multiple, 00:37:01.135 --> 00:37:08.046 - when you talk about artists, that's not just visual artists, obviously. It's such a broad swath. So 00:37:08.046 --> 00:37:15.510 - I'm curious, like, because I read the 800 capacity event venue, one of the challenges in the arts community 00:37:15.510 --> 00:37:16.478 - for is space. 00:37:16.770 --> 00:37:23.136 - whether you're performing dance or film and collaborations with that in music and all of that, it's 00:37:23.136 --> 00:37:29.757 - challenging to be able to find affordable space. You may get a grant, but then you can't afford to rent 00:37:29.757 --> 00:37:36.188 - the space and pay the musicians and the dancers. And so I'm just curious, how does that like play in 00:37:36.188 --> 00:37:41.790 - the incubator play into that? Questions. Yeah. And I really appreciate that. Thank you. 00:37:41.890 --> 00:37:47.860 - bring that up. At this time, we're really focusing on visual artists. There is, you know, the Trehan 00:37:47.860 --> 00:37:53.830 - study identified the critical need for affordable studios. And indeed, this is what this is. This is 00:37:53.830 --> 00:37:59.918 - a 10 year agreement with the property owner that we've already created like an MOU before, like during 00:37:59.918 --> 00:38:05.828 - the grant process to outline all these things. But I want to focus, I think, on visual artists with 00:38:05.828 --> 00:38:07.838 - these particular studios, because 00:38:08.418 --> 00:38:16.140 - There's very specific needs that they have, as opposed to audio, music. That's a completely different 00:38:16.140 --> 00:38:23.181 - lane. They're not going to want to be around a slop sink in paint, but they need sound needs 00:38:23.181 --> 00:38:29.086 - in an engineering studio of some sort. So that's a completely different lane. 00:38:29.154 --> 00:38:35.189 - of budget needs. And then there are myriad other disciplines. And even within the visual arts discipline, 00:38:35.189 --> 00:38:40.938 - you've got a lot of subcategories. You've got traditional arts, you've got contemporary arts, you've 00:38:40.938 --> 00:38:46.745 - got large scale painting, you've got fiber, you've got ceramics. So I figured, well, let's just focus 00:38:46.745 --> 00:38:48.510 - on this one. That's not ideal. 00:38:49.410 --> 00:38:55.243 - Ideally, we have artists from different disciplines and they're able to collaborate together. That's 00:38:55.243 --> 00:39:01.133 - where the professional development comes into play. That's where you also see a lot of collaboration. 00:39:01.133 --> 00:39:07.023 - When we talk about these particular affordable studios, this is what we have right now and what we're 00:39:07.023 --> 00:39:13.087 - focusing on now in constructing these, but it's like affordable housing. We don't just create affordable 00:39:13.087 --> 00:39:15.166 - housing and that's, oh, we're done. 00:39:15.362 --> 00:39:23.461 - And check off the box. It's a this and so right now Jane and I are also evaluating what studios opportunities 00:39:23.461 --> 00:39:31.118 - do exist in the city, and we've been networking and meeting with people. And, for example, Lauren would 00:39:31.118 --> 00:39:32.222 - the architect. 00:39:32.418 --> 00:39:38.325 - but he also has two studios available in his building, which who knew, right? And so we'll start having 00:39:38.325 --> 00:39:44.061 - those conversations and are there incentives that the city could put into place to ensure additional 00:39:44.061 --> 00:39:49.854 - studio spaces available. So while preliminarily I'm focusing, we're focusing on visual arts, but I am 00:39:49.854 --> 00:39:55.761 - like one person and I'm very focused ensuring that we're getting input from others. So we'll be working 00:39:55.761 --> 00:39:56.670 - collaboratively 00:39:56.962 --> 00:40:03.791 - to develop sort of the model and the paperwork, the call and all that stuff with IU as well as other 00:40:03.791 --> 00:40:10.621 - partners. And in the meantime, next week I have artists coming in to inform ideas on how we're gonna 00:40:10.621 --> 00:40:17.382 - construct this space. We've got a couple of different renderings, but we need their input. What are 00:40:17.382 --> 00:40:23.806 - their needs? That's my question was, I was interested to know the design of the space, asking, 00:40:24.194 --> 00:40:33.613 - if you'd be open to asking presenting organizations or festival organizations like Lotus, because we 00:40:33.613 --> 00:40:43.592 - interface with visual artists in a presentation style. So like if the, I'm gonna just give you an example, 00:40:43.592 --> 00:40:53.758 - the Broad Ripple Art Center in Indianapolis, they have their studios for like glass blowing and ceramics and 00:40:54.306 --> 00:41:03.912 - they open up to the outside and like a pavilion. It crosses into being able to host demonstrations of 00:41:03.912 --> 00:41:13.424 - studio artwork in with an event like the broader art fair, for example. I wondered if that's part of 00:41:13.424 --> 00:41:22.936 - what you're considering or if there's room for that kind of event presentation along with the studio 00:41:22.936 --> 00:41:24.254 - style models. 00:41:24.738 --> 00:41:31.970 - In the ideal world, yes. This space is not the ideal world, I don't think. It's an available space that 00:41:31.970 --> 00:41:39.133 - I was able to negotiate 10-year affordable studio terms for. And in terms of the build-out, one of the 00:41:39.133 --> 00:41:46.087 - key things was the higher priority was to be able to have a common area for them to communicate and 00:41:46.087 --> 00:41:50.398 - blend with one another. That may change based upon the input. 00:41:51.074 --> 00:41:56.840 - maybe they're going to prefer there at least is a carve out space for some sort of interactivity with 00:41:56.840 --> 00:42:02.662 - the community. So right now, this is kind of where my headspace is at. But I change all the time based 00:42:02.662 --> 00:42:08.767 - upon what other people say, because I think that's the heart of collaboration and community input. However, 00:42:08.767 --> 00:42:11.198 - the size doesn't really allow that broader 00:42:11.458 --> 00:42:16.795 - I mean, I know exactly what you're talking about with the Indianapolis Art Center. I've been there like 00:42:16.795 --> 00:42:22.287 - a million times. I bike there constantly because it's so cool, right? It's great. It's got all the outside 00:42:22.287 --> 00:42:27.470 - sculpture. And at this property, there's a big parking lot. I was just excited that they could enter 00:42:27.470 --> 00:42:32.961 - the facility right up just off the parking lot. To an artist, that's phenomenal. You got a big old canvas, 00:42:32.961 --> 00:42:38.093 - you get all your materials, and you don't want to be schlepping up and down stuff. You want to just 00:42:38.093 --> 00:42:39.838 - be able to get into the entrance. 00:42:40.738 --> 00:42:49.223 - It's smaller, it's more compact. There aren't going to be windows in each of the studios. But I think 00:42:49.223 --> 00:42:57.958 - 12 studios in a community where there's a critical need, this is a really good start. So I'm happy to... 00:42:57.958 --> 00:43:07.026 - An 800 capacity venue is a really nice size for... We don't have a lot of venues in the city, like downtown, 00:43:07.026 --> 00:43:10.270 - that can hold 800 people. Right, yeah. 00:43:10.850 --> 00:43:20.531 - a lot of like in the hunt, like under 500 and then things over a thousand. And a part of that agreement 00:43:20.531 --> 00:43:30.398 - that I made with the property owner was free use of that top floor 500 capacity facility 12 times a year. 00:43:31.714 --> 00:43:39.380 - So we will have that available to us. And I'll be renegotiating with him and bringing IU to the table 00:43:39.380 --> 00:43:46.896 - to make sure that their input is also heard. Because I just was like, well, what else can we add to 00:43:46.896 --> 00:43:54.863 - this to make it meaningful for the community? And it doesn't always have to be an event or a performance. 00:43:54.863 --> 00:43:58.846 - Lord knows it could be some sort of art fair if it's 00:43:59.394 --> 00:44:09.430 - Tenable for those who are going to be the users for it So it's nice that we have that available to us 00:44:09.430 --> 00:44:19.565 - at least 12 times a year because it's you know It is intended to be a revenue driver for that building 00:44:19.565 --> 00:44:26.846 - owner Yeah, any other questions So I think we need a motion to adjust the 00:44:27.682 --> 00:44:36.737 - So just how the full the $100,000 allocation will be used. And then you are also asking for a timeline 00:44:36.737 --> 00:44:45.529 - shift to the end of 2027. So I think what this will do will approve the shift and how the funds are 00:44:45.529 --> 00:44:54.584 - going to be used. But then this will just be part of our budget for 2027 as well. So it'll essentially 00:44:54.584 --> 00:44:56.606 - get approved again for 00:44:57.570 --> 00:45:08.300 - 2027 budget, it'll be in there. Okay, so do we have a motion to approve the allocation shift? Motion. 00:45:08.300 --> 00:45:19.345 - Second? Second. Second? All right. Roll call. Michael Huber, yes. Virginia Gethheri, yes. Katerina Call, 00:45:19.345 --> 00:45:26.814 - yes. Kate Rosenberger, yes. Heather Robinson, yes. Brad Whistler, yes. 00:45:28.866 --> 00:45:38.009 - Approved. Thank you, Paige, for all of that information. And you're off to a bang up start here with 00:45:38.009 --> 00:45:47.332 - all of this. Thank you. Hi. Do you have anything else for us today? I do not have anything else unless 00:45:47.332 --> 00:45:56.928 - anyone has anything for the good of the order. I have one thing that I love that they're doing affordable 00:45:56.928 --> 00:45:58.014 - art spaces. 00:45:58.178 --> 00:46:07.238 - And I think something we potentially we could look at too is the BUEA having a grant program for affordable 00:46:07.238 --> 00:46:15.963 - commercial spaces that is just very similar to that, but includes all commercial spaces for like little 00:46:15.963 --> 00:46:24.856 - startups or whatever that are doing cool things and can't necessarily afford a rent, a regular commercial 00:46:24.856 --> 00:46:26.366 - rent in the zone. 00:46:27.458 --> 00:46:33.820 - So like pop-up sort of situations or subsidy or? I don't have the guidelines or requirements. I can 00:46:33.820 --> 00:46:40.182 - think about it. I think it's just me wondering. I know some of us on city council have talked about 00:46:40.182 --> 00:46:46.861 - it that we do affordable housing, but we don't really do affordable commercial space and just like we're 00:46:46.861 --> 00:46:53.541 - missing. I just talk about like, where am I supposed to take like shoes that need to be fixed? You know, 00:46:53.541 --> 00:46:54.750 - like we had one on 00:46:55.202 --> 00:47:04.758 - Washington and they left and it's just like I don't feel like that type of service anymore can like 00:47:04.758 --> 00:47:14.506 - afford this own So just an idea that is We have the mill is supposed to be that for Information based 00:47:14.506 --> 00:47:24.062 - businesses don't have anything for space businesses that need any sort of you know sort of physical 00:47:24.258 --> 00:47:31.795 - And they've got some opportunities or some examples in Fort Wayne. I'm from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and 00:47:31.795 --> 00:47:39.482 - there's actually, I think it was the GE, is that right? The old GE building? I believe, one of the old 00:47:39.482 --> 00:47:46.870 - factories downtown, it's now an incubator. And it's mainly restaurant, but it's pretty impressive. 00:47:46.870 --> 00:47:51.198 - It's huge, like two levels. And then there's one in Indy. 00:47:51.554 --> 00:47:58.538 - Actually, I feel like it's around downtown, around IUPUI. I don't know. But those are mainly restaurants. 00:47:58.538 --> 00:48:05.258 - But yes, to your point, it's so cost prohibitive to create. And you might just want to explore a food 00:48:05.258 --> 00:48:11.847 - cart or a crafter station. And you don't want to have to necessarily go to the farmer's market. And 00:48:11.847 --> 00:48:18.699 - you want it to be seasonal friendly. So I think that can be good. But looking into that, because I have 00:48:18.699 --> 00:48:20.478 - friends that are in there, 00:48:20.770 --> 00:48:26.132 - it still can be kind of costly and they do hold you to certain, which you have to if you're running 00:48:26.132 --> 00:48:31.601 - that space, but there are certain requirements, right? I mean, it's not just like, try it out for six 00:48:31.601 --> 00:48:37.231 - months. I mean, you do have to kind of be strict on like three or five years. We have the kitchen chair. 00:48:37.231 --> 00:48:42.593 - So we don't necessarily, even though that's not really walkable or transit oriented, but I think we 00:48:42.593 --> 00:48:48.062 - don't necessarily need a commercial kitchen build out potentially because folks can go there and rent 00:48:48.162 --> 00:48:55.942 - kitchen space, either hourly or as their own physical space. But yeah, Detroit has pony ride that is 00:48:55.942 --> 00:49:03.953 - small makers that I think would not want maybe their own space necessarily. But right, you can go there 00:49:03.953 --> 00:49:12.041 - and get an iron work spoon, you know, you tend to like what it's very cool. There are a couple of people 00:49:12.041 --> 00:49:16.894 - I've spoken to that have been kind of working on some of these 00:49:17.282 --> 00:49:24.665 - this kind of project where it's kind of some service-based sort of things and more retail and product-based 00:49:24.665 --> 00:49:31.844 - sort of things because, you know, the restaurant situation is, that's a whole different beast, you know. 00:49:31.844 --> 00:49:38.885 - But yeah, I mean, it would be great to have cobblers. It would be great to have, you know, tailors and 00:49:38.885 --> 00:49:45.790 - things like that where, especially in a time where people are starting to reuse things as opposed to 00:49:45.954 --> 00:49:52.414 - going towards fast fashion or, you know, we're not being as disposable because our income isn't disposable. 00:49:52.414 --> 00:49:58.574 - So having those things, it's really interesting. I'm happy to look into it. Thanks for bringing it up. 00:49:58.574 --> 00:50:04.794 - I like to just, it doesn't have to be in the trades, but I'm like, can we put the trades in the trades? 00:50:04.794 --> 00:50:10.955 - What are we doing over there? Happy to explore. Yeah, interesting. All right, thanks everybody. Thanks 00:50:10.955 --> 00:50:12.510 - everybody. Appreciate it.