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Good afternoon and welcome to the monthly meeting of the Public Art Commission. Today is April 16th, 2025, and we're glad to be with you. Let's get started with our Pledge of Allegiance. Commissioner McCommillan, which you would lead us please. Sure, everybody, stand please. Your hand, your hand. You have to meet. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God Invisible liberty and justice for all All right roll call please Share low-max present share pretend Brewer present commissioner Gello present commissioner Macmillan. Commissioner Gallow. President. Commissioner McMillan. President. Commissioner Pollywall. President. Thank you. Thank you. As always, we welcome public input. We don't have anyone here today. I don't believe we have anyone online as well. So let's move on. To our consent calendar, which includes the approval of our meeting minutes from the March 12th meeting, any gifted public art, which we didn't have any this month, and communication and correspondence, motion to approve. Second, all in favor. Aye. Thank you. All right, so our top priority today is the Centennial Park Sculpture Submissions and to select an artwork for that park. So, if I could turn the time over to what do I call you now? Deputy Director. Thank you. Okay. Well, thank you, Chair Lomax. I am going to defer to Alyssa Rojas to bring us up to date on the results Thank you As you know, we are going to be reviewing for Centennial Park our public art sculpture We had 14 submissions and we will be reviewing them now. Adrian Sussanet-Litman, Alicia Highland, Andrew Cobax, David Roberts. These would be the images presented on top of a bench. He'll sharling Todd, James Moore, Jen Rock, Jose Trejo Maya, Kat Trebino, Masha Nore, Oscar Rincón Yasso, Richard Becker, Roger Rice, and Seth Johnson. Those were all the submissions that we received, and we were able to narrow it down with your voting and the spreadsheets that you guys sent back to us. to us. And so we have the top three as recommended by staff. And those are Seth Johnson, Adrian Sysnah Lippman, and Roger Rice. And underneath each one of those is the value of the piece as they valued it themselves. So Seth Johnson's value of his piece is 13,500. Adrian Sysnah Lippman, each one of those three pieces is valued at 19,000 each and raw to rice. Valueed his piece at 45,000, but he does understand the maximum payment that you guys would be spending would be 20,000. So if you'd like to look at them further, this was the submission by Seth Johnson. These are the three options, and they were all grouped together in the one submission by Adrian. And this was Roger Rice. I'll turn it back to the commission to be able to discuss your findings from all of our fantastic submissions. Terrific. Thank you very much. I also want to just thank the commission for taking the time to review all of these artworks. It was a really good exercise I felt like in really listening listening to what our artists want. They we ask them to submit specific information based on the RFP that we sent out. And it gives us an opportunity to find out if they provided us with all the information that we wanted. So we could make some really, really good choices. The one thing I wanted to just double check on each of those pieces that was submitted is the sizing. Do they do each of those fit the pedestal that is in the park? That is what was asked and that is what they said would fit. Okay, great. All right. We can go back to the artist and make sure that it will or we'd have to ask them to scale down. Okay. Terrific. All right. Let's have a discussion. Those were the top three from our from our scoring. Got some paper flipping here in any comments. Yeah, through the chair. I feel like it was interesting that some of the artist submit images, didn't submit an actual proposal, just the resume, the three that we got that are top three are sort of weeded out because of following the instructions more than others, more than anything else. I would say we should put out, we don't have to make a decision today. There's no pressing need, I don't think. I would say we put another call and see if we get a wider net like we did for the last one. Okay. That's coming up. Yeah, it was, I will admit, it was challenging to find out, to look through all of these and determine who was really eligible. We had a number who submitted concepts for a work, you know, as if they were being commissioned, which they were not. We wanted existing work. Like you said, it was difficult to siphon out with some without images and without other information. Any other comments? Through the chair, I do think we are going to need to double check on litman's pieces because there was no installation plan included with that that I saw unless I didn't see it. And then I am concerned like I didn't see any sizes on Roger Rice's piece either. That looks like a large piece. So if we end up choosing either of those, I think there's further information that's going to be needed. But yeah, I appreciated the scoring process. I think that really helps. But yeah, I was also surprised that a lot of people did really provide the information that we had kind of asked for. Yeah, I do think it would be helpful for us in a future meeting to talk about the process and just refine it so that maybe the city could weed out some of the things that aren't eligible or that didn't follow the instructions or that just didn't provide us with enough information for us to review. That could narrow things down a little bit. One thing I was looking at as I was reviewing artwork was is this appropriate for near a playground? If a child did climb on it or attempt to, is there any danger in that? Some of the metal works, or even with the wings one, The wings one is it is it just large enough to fit fingers in but not large enough to get them out? Is it really safe? So I think that's a consideration that we need to make as well in the final decision we make is just to make sure that whatever we put there is gonna be safe for the public, too. Enjoy. Get through to Chair. I think this is our first time doing an RFP for sculpture. And I'm kind of glad that we're doing it on this one off before we do the whole walk, because I think we've learned a lot of other things to ask or maybe in the rating sheet, I was going through it, I might have wanted more categories. something that we can refine, just that too, quality of submission, I think there needs to be a little more substance there. I think it's something that we can refine. That too, quality of submission, I think there needs to be a little more substance there. I think it's, some people then follow the submission instructions. That's on them, right? We ask for certain criteria. We can evaluate the best as we can. We just have to decide based on what we were given, right? So I think, if we decide to exclude anyone who doesn't submit everything necessary, we can make that decision. But I think we got three that did completely follow the criteria or we were able to evaluate because they submitted enough for the criteria. I hear you, Commissioner McMillan, that maybe we want more submissions. I personally think these top three have some deserves some discussion. I think they'd be great candidates for that space. But I think we do want to think for our larger project how we can widen that net and get a bigger pool. I was really happy, though. I thought for our first time doing this, there were some definite quality pieces on there. Some of the top three and the others that aren't, just I was excited to see some of the creativity that people are willing to bring the test in. It's pretty cool. I do agree. I kept thinking, oh, that piece would be great for our sculpture walk or, you know, or another project, but maybe not in this potential project. Do you want to go ahead? Yeah, I think my comments will echo some of the comments already made to. I did just want to speak a little bit about the process as well. I did appreciate seeing all the submissions. I mean, we had, I think when we met last month, we said we got to start somewhere. So let's do that. And I think, you know, we got some, we got the ball rolling. And that was the goal to at least get that started. Do I think we're there yet? I think we can get there yet. But I did struggle, I would say, to, it was a tough balance to review pieces that we could potentially visualize in the park and the two proposed locations as standalone pieces versus what we were asked to sort of grade on, to score on as well. And I felt there was, that was a, that was a, that was a difficult task. Considering we did receive a lot of quite frankly and complete submissions, I felt a lot of missing information. I do think this was a very good exercise. I do agree with potentially exploring an adjusted scoring mechanism with a little bit more clarity, maybe more checkboxes, so to speak, because they were theoretically two buckets of areas that we were asked to vote on, but each of those buckets sort of had sub buckets. And so, you know, I kind of had a matrix of my own going quite frankly to check, check, check, well, a half check. Well, what does that end up being? But all in all, I just wanted to comment on that. But I think we're headed in the right direction in the approach that we're taking in terms of, putting a call out, getting interest. I do, I wish that folks spent just a little bit of time, a sentence or two, for writing a little bit more information or interest or motivation into why they wanted more interested in placing artwork in the city of Tustin. I felt like that was missing in a lot of pieces. I would have loved to have heard their story through that a little bit more. But all in all I think we're certainly headed in the right direction. And I just wanted to share those kind of general comments for now. Oh I think at least I do. I share some of that. I um you know we're used to just looking at artwork and saying you know artistically is this something that we feel is quality work that we would want in our city? And so this process, like you were saying, there was weight put into whether you check the boxes, whether you fulfilled the assignment for lack of better. I too would have liked to have heard more about why this work would be good in the city. That was definitely a spot that was missing but quality worked nonetheless. I understand and don't understand that piece. Obviously if somebody wants to bring that forward is an extra factor fantastic. But remember, these artists that involves them really getting to know our city and putting in that extra step. And I, as much as I would love for them to connect those dots for us, I can understand that they're trying to submit and sell their art. And it's on us to try to capture what we think can fit in our city and work that together. Because that's the piece that we bring to it in our evaluation criteria. Right? I read they did try to connect the test and maybe not the vibe or way that I might have. So I think we have to be a little understanding of that, that they're going broad to try to sell their pieces to as many folks. I connected to Tustin and maybe not the vibe or way that I might have. So I think we have to be a little understanding of that, that they're going broad to try to sell their pieces to as many folks as possible to make their living, right? Where I guess I'm a little more, you know, I care more you gave me what I need to evaluate my criteria. I don't need you to, you know, valet and white glove it for me. I just want to be able to evaluate it. No, the resumes were impressive. Yeah, definitely. We had people who have exhibited and who have work throughout the state and beyond that. And so it was quite an impressive group of artists to be sure. I think what we're saying is that when we do put out that RFP, if we ask for people to let us know just, you know, in a sentence what you would like to, why you would like to show work in our city and how this might fit in our oldest and one of our favorite parks that we would hope that you would do that. Okay, so why don't we just chat about these few, the three that were our top submissions? If we feel like we can select one today, that would be great. If we find that we have additional questions that we want to ask to these top three that would help us decide, we can always do that as well. So do we have any comments about these three works and do we have preferences? Through the chair, I think I have a similar kind of size question that Commissioner Sherpur has also raised. Not just in the Roger Rice piece, but in place for me if I'm wrong, but I thought the litman pieces were also two tall, 14 if we were, I believe in the proposal, we were listing 10 to 12. So does that does that put us over to beg on a pedestal? Does it still work? Those aren't questions I can answer, but I'm just using would it go into the trees? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Why do we why do we pick 12 feet? I guess this question was that based on Something above the area or just a general like let's go 12 feet I forget how we picked that I think that's a question for us and I think it was arbitrary right I think I think it was something to do with the weight of the pad looking at this I don't think this is really realistic of Weight challenges, right? Right. I think as we, again, as we grow our sculpture, we're gonna need to have a better answer. Well, Roger Rice's piece, I don't know if that is steel, or what it is, if it's steel, that might be really heavy. Does he do provide sizing? So I think- Through the chair, that would be, because it's steel, heavy and earth. But not that that it doesn't look like it's that thick of steel maybe three-centre half inch hard to tell from the picture, but I the weight wouldn't be At the max I want to think that's just a Laman's viewpoint The chair its name is celebration, although it didn't really elaborate why. I like the name. Through the chair, I think for me, I really like the gates, the wings. Reason being is I feel like they are going to be attractive for people to come and take a picture with, which is always great to engage the community. I like all of them. I also like the litman's pieces. I do wonder about those because they're kinetic. Do they make any noise? Are they gonna squeak in the wind or anything? Just because it's so close to someone's home, I think we need to be thoughtful about that. And I'm saying that because I had a neighbor who had a windmill for a while and it squeaked and it drove me nuts. So I just think we have to be clear. And we did ask for work that does not need maintenance and that does need maintenance. It would need grease and stuff, occasionally. Not sure what that would be. That would be in the installation plan. Through the chair, these finalists, when you look at wings, I like that in the sense that kids families, they're going to go play, they're going to take selfies, it's going to be like a thing, it'll be neat. The kinetic ones are really neat, but it's passive. Right, people aren't going to climb on it. You know, if the parents sit in there, they'll see it and enjoy it. It's beautiful. Celebration, that one, you know, kind of struck me. I like it. It's different. It's a little more in that more sophisticated art range, I might say. And I think the question is on us, is a kid's playground, our first spot, the right one for this piece. I think what I think the playground is something, although for the record, I love the Tustin' Tott. Maybe not for the playground. Oh. for this piece. I think what I think the playground is something, although for the record, I love the test and tot. Maybe not for the playground. But you know, the wings kind of seemed very interactive, playful, bright for the space. I did hear chairpersons, low max's opinion, could kids get stuck and I think that's what you should look at and evaluate. It's kind of hard to know the size and scale. but it seems like it's durable, playful, it doesn't move, right? So anyone who got stuck, I think it's what you should look at and evaluate. It's kind of hard to know the size and scale. But it seems like it's durable, playful. It doesn't move, right? So anyone who got stuck, I think it'd be a pretty recoverable. But I think the demographic for this park would, this would get a lot of traction there. I think looking at it again, the parts that were just that I was wondering about are actually at the top and turned a different way. So it was when I was looking at it in the back of the truck. Could you reach in there? But I don't think you can. I think it looks great. I'm going to take that back. Go ahead. Go ahead. Through the chair. I think that he doesn't give a size, right? Am I correct? I don't see a size anywhere. But it looks like in the back of a pickup, and that pickup bed is maybe six feet long and the tail gets another foot and a half, so you're looking to eight feet. Hi. Through the chart, imagine it's to stand in right maybe more for adults than kids, but In it is getting he had a very detailed installation plan. Oh, I don't have that with me. So sorry Now I'm now I'm getting it. So is it do you think people can stand in the middle? Yeah, I think a lot of those murals of wings. Uh-huh. Selfie. Well not selfie. You'd have to be further away. I think that's a trendy art piece in paint. I think to have it 3D is one of our first cultures could be really engaging. Great and to layer under what she said about the celebration piece I think that is more I like it I like it too but maybe not in a playground because also that one is gonna beg for people to climb on it. Yeah. Okay can we Can we see if I'm trying to open the file if he gave a size and his additional documents? I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't have a hand. Through the chair. Well, I'll ask one of them. I'll just, I did just want to add because we were commenting on a lot of the kinetics culture. I was absolutely envision as a takeaway a little separately that probably not for this part, but I was absolutely envisioning it for future projects. I think it could be really, I leaned a lot more towards some of the kinetic pieces absolutely and then just want some fun abstract stuff that would be great to explore, but not for this particular piece, but I just wanted to mention. The chair looks like any resolution on the size. He wrote the sculpture will be structurally capable and designed to be secured with steel plate to an existing ground level pedestal 7 by 7. So he replicated what we do in his installation plan. I don't think he put the size of it. I think he put the size of our spot. So Commissioner McMillan's estimate is likely correct. Around 8 feet. I'm just based on the image, yeah. Yeah. Great. A dish. Edish per, per wing. You're right, yeah, but the whole, the overall height of the piece. Right. Right. We have any other comments about, it sounds like we're really leaning toward the wings. Is that what, is that the title of the work? Wings? It seems like we're really leaning that way. Do I have any other comments about that piece? Are there any of the others, anything else that we want to just bring up before we perhaps make a motion? No. Okay. I did like that piece. I would say, and looking at the artist's background, I did note probably old selfishly as a dog lover, but also because a friend of mine actually did, I saw this sculpture through a posting my friend out in Rancho Cucamanga did take a picture of, but he did a big dog sculpture at the Rancho Cucamanga dog park that he noted in his, in his piece and I have actually, I've seen a picture of it through my friend and thought it was a little. Subdance of his, yes. Oh, I saw that a nice thing to do. Yeah, yeah. You know, in the future, a consideration, You've got a dark park here in Teston now as well. Great. Okay, well, would anyone like to make a motion? One question before we do that, the cost of $13.5, one thing that was unclear in some of them, is that the valuation of the piece or is that the cost with the install? Yeah, I don't think he specified. Spec. He acknowledged installation and his piece, but I think he put the evaluation is 13-5. Through the chair, I think that's a great question to ask, because there were some artists that noted this does not include XY and Z. And so I would like to have clarity on a total cost prior to commitment. Yeah. I mean, I think any artist that we're going to ask, if we select him or something else, we're going to have a number of questions about the size of the work, the final cost of it, including the installation. If there's anything that we need as far as maintenance or expectations on that. Through the chair, I think we need to know for our motion, though, because our motion will include... Yes. ...I'm saying like a cost to go back to the artist with I'm not saying I'm not saying it would preclude us from saying this is the artwork We like to select and we you know for a major Effecting we're gonna ask some questions before it's finalized. I can't imagine 13,500 would be the installation cost That seems very high. Well, does it include the installation cost? That's the valuation of the piece. Right. Not including installation. So he says through the chair, to me, that's what he's asking. This is what I got from it. This is this is the price I want for the piece. But it is unclear as to does that include him getting it here, which is part of the RFP, right? And then installation, were we, were we going to put that, help put that in? I thought there was some. He's, he had a detailed installation. He did, yeah. But it's just, I think the expectation is he does it, but I think we have to commission with that cost cost built in This statement is it would be 13 5 plus installation and engineering. Okay. Oh, okay. There we go Engineering do we do we need engineering through the city? You You may have to factor that in and that would have to be consulted with public works depending on on how the piece would be attached to the pedestal. So I would assume yes and be prepared for yes and Happy accident if no right. Yeah, I would agree. I'd assume that Engineering would have to be involved and then there's a cost for that. We need to know what that is, I guess, or he does. Well, it's well within our $20,000 budget. So I think there's some flexibility, at least, in making sure that we purchase the piece and then are able to install it, from the link. Okay. Would anyone like to make a motion? Trying to think how to word it. Motion to move forward with Seth Johnson's wing piece to purchase the art at a cost of 13.5 and then to secure details of what the cost would be on installing and how to move forward with that. I think we have to collaborate with the city so I think just yes. Good details. Great. Great. Do we have a second? Second. I get all in favor. Hi. Hi. Hi. All right. All right. I believe the motion passes. Congratulations to Seth Johnson. We're just really looking forward to our first sculpture in the City of Tuston. Yeah. Good luck. All right, very exciting. OK. All right, let's talk about summer event participation. If you can believe we're already back around to that. Our commission generally participates in a lot of events over the summer, including concerts in the park and movies in the park. Would you like to discuss that with us? Thank you. Okay, so again, we, as part of your strategic plan, do you want to raise awareness for public art projects and be out in the community? And what better way than returning this summer to concerts in the park with your full of awesome t-shirts and movies in the park? So we're looking to get some commitment from you guys to participate in both those events. Add our information booth, passing out our little goodies, our full of awesome swag. We have still yet to determine, but we'll have different things at the information booth for you to help with the public. And also pass out information about your public art projects. So we're just looking to have you guys discuss if you want to be involved in those two events. And the concert series runs from June 11th through July 30th. And the movies in the parks runs from June 27th through August 1st. And they're both once a week. And movies, Fridays, Fridays. And movies and Wednesdays of course for concerts. Who the chair is the movie theme waves? The movie theme is, yes, summer waves. Summer waves. So we have Lila and Stitch, Luca, Finding Dory, Surfs Up, and Moana too. So a great theme. And of course our concerts will be fabulous. Stephanie Finnell be running them as. And she's booked her bands and she's excited and we want to have you guys out there. So it's for you to discuss and let us know if you want to participate. Great. Well, I think one of the fun things about those concerts in the park is that it brings us together with Community Services Commission. We have opportunities to be engaged with the public. The park is always packed and full. And so the booth is a great opportunity for us to share information about what we're doing and... And just to be a creative element. It looks like last year they did their friendship bracelets for our community. Did you already say that? It's in the staff. Okay. You're good. For the creating community tour theme. So is there anything that we want to do specific this year for different the last year? Yep. Oh I don't know. I thought last year were good. Show up and engage with the public. We always have grand ideas and execution of them gets to be labor intensive. Yes. And intensive for staff. So as much as I like I wish we had some like gold star idea to proceed with, but I think getting us there being their representing public art and helping you know the city of that tends to be good enough. Through the chair my opinion, will it be chotchete's there to handle? Of course. what excitement we have on deck, but we will have full of taskings. That was the most like drab stain of excitement the history of Yes, we will be full of stuff to We will keep you busy and entertained and definitely give you a reason to engage so I'm excited to have you guys out there and look forward to having you. And we don't usually do much as far as movies in the park, but it is fun to just go to those and enjoy them and it's a great lineup this year too. And we can introduce you at the movies, usually if somebody, if any of you show up at before it starts, we'll introduce you. So people get to know who you are as well, especially at the movies before it starts. Would you like us to let you know who's going to be there each week or is? Yes, it would be helpful if you could let Katrina know. So we're aware of how many of you are coming. And that way we have kind of an idea, especially for movies. Okay. Thank you. All right. Great. So all we need now I believe is just a motion that we are going to be involved at these summer events. Would anybody like to do that? I will make a motion. Unfortunately, I will I will miss several of them as I will be home with my little one, but I fully support my commissioners representing us. And then the commission participating. So my motion is not that per se, but it is to continue to our participation in our 2025 summer events as noted in the staff report. Second that all in favor. Hi. Hi. Hi. Great? I would say that we are one of the most active commissions in the city and you can count on us to be there and to enjoy those events. All right so it's time for our open forum reports and I do have a couple of items to bring up on this. For our creative signals project I was able to connect with TCF. They for a couple of years have been trying to work through the process of getting three boxes covered and they've had a few roadblocks but we're hoping to remove those. So I had a chat with Chris Eurebi, who is the contact there. And she is going to meet with Chad Clanton, and Alyssa Rojas, the city in a couple of weeks, and work through that process. So I'm excited. I'm looking forward to seeing what they decide to do as far as the artwork goes and to solidify the locations. They have won for testing Community Bank and two for the Community Foundation. And they would like to be in Old Town, but also, you know, somewhere else in the city as well. So I just wanted to let you know that is actually moving forward. Fingers, fingers crossed. I would like to see us continue to build, build on that program and add additional locations to our creative signals program. To the chair, that might be an interesting thing to bring up to the Chamber of Commerce. I believe they have newer leadership. Okay. Maybe it's time to revisit that with them. You have a contact. No, but I know I know who it is. I know there's new leadership there and it could be an interesting way to advertise businesses. So great. I'll read it. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. The other item and it's also related to TCF is that the mayor's celebration is coming up next month and last year, Meg, you generously put a, was it you? Yes, and her idea. Okay, all right. So the Public Art Commission provided an auction item last year, which went for over $300. Somebody to do a public art tour. The TCF is interested in having us do that again if we're interested in participating. And they actually said if we wanted to put in a second item, we could, we can't spend any public art funds or any staff time on a project like this. So it would be on us to just to do that. But I wanted to check with you and see if you were interested in doing that again. Through the chair, I already recommitted that with her. Great. So Jen, I think it's not something as a commission we necessarily donate. Is it has to be more individual so I made that commitment great and Commissioner McMillan said if nobody else would like to join he would of course do it again but if somebody else would like to be welcome but if there are any additional ideas I know they're always looking for things to auction off. Perfect. I'm trying to get the last year of recipients to hype it up. It's pretty epic. Through the chair, who was the recipient last year? Angie Kardashian. That's right. It was fun. Good. On the hottest day of the year. It was hot. Well, we do have a calendar with 12 months worth of artwork. So you can make sure and show them everything on the calendar and the new things at the bidding area. There we go. Get a calendar with your bid. Really calendar. A year old half year old. Six months. Is there anything else that anyone would like to bring up on creative place making or fundraising strategy or the sculpture walk or if there's anything else on community collaboration Through the chair regarding the community collaboration. I know we'd been tossing around the ideal of the micro galleries and We were working with Tussin unified on that. I know they're just finishing up their mural, I believe, at the emergency homeless shelter. So maybe we start talking about that once the school year is ready to start up again in the fall. I just want to keep that on our radar. Through the chair on that, I have a friend who is involved with an organization called ACE. It's like a high school mentorship program, architecture, construction, and engineering. And every year, the like local chapters come together and have the high school kids do a build. And this year, they built tiny libraries for a firm. So I asked my friend to see if they could put maybe micro galleries on the list, where we would provide designs and materials and they would build them. And the person in charge expressed interest and said it could be a project in there next year. And we'll connect at a later date to find that out. But we might have a solution for that piece. Thank you. You said it's called ACE. ACE. Architecture. It's a mentorship program called ACE. I believe it's architecture, construction, and engineering. Great. And that's a great connection. And through the chair, if we're going to do something with the schools, I think we need to start kind of early. The teachers and school administration needs a quite a bit of lead time. If we're going to do something with them in the fall or spring, or that's just my thought. So if we're going to do something that we should move on quickly because next year is coming up fast. Catch them before the end of the school year. Is that what you're saying? Probably good, yeah. Through the chair, what was the C in ACE? I believe construction. Construction, thank you. When I get a proper contact with who can lead, If they decide to do that, I'll share that. Thanks. Anything else? Through the chair, this week I ran into Tony Wong from TACFA and he was curious. He said every year they just rolled a budget that they've committed to us on the larger sculpture walk. Maybe a question for staff. They're looking for, I know we're pending a grant and a bigger project. Any ballpark of timeline? Was there a ask? On the sculpture walk at legacy. When can we start? On our priority list for 2526. I know we pivoted to saying let's let the grant redo that whole area which could take two, three years. I will check and have it for you at the next meeting where they're at with that project. With that $700,000 grant. I know what you're talking about. Yes. Thank you. I think through the chair if I may add, I'm also remembering that we did talk about, now's the time to really get a little bit more of that long-term calendar of timeline for that particular project. So if we could be, yes, reminded of a timeline in mind so we can start thinking a little bit more strategically on fundraising and those asks as well and start putting that together now that we've got some experience and have the ball rolling on some sculpture art pieces and the movement there. So, and I'd like to also mention, I do agree with Chair Lomax on the Creative Signals project. I'd love to move that along too. The Chamber was a great idea. But if we, you know, we do also have budget for it as as well so we'd like to consider that as an artwork option in the next couple of months I think I think that would be a good one to target Do you use our public art funds to do another box like we have done in past years? Yes. Yeah. Yeah consideration What do you all think? I mean, I have I mixed opinions of course I'm in favor of anything we do I think in the past it's been easier because our funds don't roll over right now that our funds roll over it's not like hey let's let's spend it or lose it I think you know the purpose of this program was to involve more businesses or entities and if we just keep doing it we're not necessarily hitting that goal I think we learned learned that goal is a lot harder than we thought, right? So that's right. I think it's a balance. If we have a great idea, I want to put it to paper like by all means or a good reigning to do it to just put it on our agenda as the next project, I'm a little less in favor of that. And through the chair, I kind of agree. I like a balance would be good. We, the last two we did, we did, right? The last two boxes, so it'd be nice to get next to, they have that by a business or somebody else. Okay, and through the chair, we probably just, I think what's on the docket for our next project. It's true. Trying to remember what is on the docket next. I don't know that we have. Our priority list for next fiscal year has the youth and family center, a community engagement project. And we do have the sculpture walk coming up in next fiscal year. I don't believe we have a mural on the list for next year. But there's some big projects. And we've been so busy this past year. I think the production has been quite significant. We've done a number of projects, including some unexpected. So yeah. So we could likely fit something in. And I do think we need to keep it on our list. But yeah yeah yeah I'll not going on okay time for the directors report all right I'll try and get it it's exciting as I can it will be yes so we'll start with the egg hunt egg-siting egg-siting all five have RSVP so let's start there so you can give yourselves a round of applause, right? You will have your parking pass by Friday. Thank you. Kat has promised that to you. So we look forward to having you there and participating at the ACon. We expect thousands of children, the big event to last about 25 seconds. And then they will come and color with you and engage with you. we're just really looking forward to this Saturday. It's our coordinator Jessica Casprow. It's our first year that she's coordinating it. She was a huge part of last year's Easter celebration bringing in doors and she's detailed oriented. So remember all the detail that she put so we're really excited for what she's gotten store for us. So we look forward to having you and so we will see you on Saturday on that. We have a chair 73-degree day. It'll be beautiful. Oh beautiful. Beautiful. No rain. And next up we have our second season of Sunset Market. So, somebody's having sex. We are back Thursdays. Thursdays, Thursdays, May through September. We do have our Instagram at Tessence Sunset Market. If you're not following us, we have our own Instagram account. Follow us after the meeting. Our first band will be Guilty Pleasure Makers, and it's offering a mix of pop rock and dance music. It's not going to be super loud but a big part of that event as you know out in the middle of Old Town. We have free face painting this year by Mara's Church. Instead of dogs this year we have a cat adoption center coming so we're giving our feed lines some love. It happens. Lovely. Cats are. I'm catching people too. Cats are people too. We through the deputy director we opening a cat park next. No we're not that I'm aware of. I'm good luck with that. But I'm excited that we're you know we're we're shown love to the cats. And then Tuscon Community Foundation of course is returning with the Sparrow and Wine Sales and supporting our local nonprofits. So we hope to give a lot of money away like we did last year. So our partners, Test & Community Foundation, Test & Community Bank, Foothill Community Association, Orange County Farm Bureau, Test & Chamber of Commerce, Test & Public Library and Dreamers Market. So all the same players came back. So Vanessa Osborne will be leading it and she's got a team together, and I'm really excited for it. So we hope we will see you there, of course, at the first one. Not only do you have the Mayors celebration, but you also have public works night. So there's going to be the trucks and all the public, because it's public works week. So there's going to be jam packed. So the Mayors celebration is the same night? Yes. Oh. So we're going to get to the mayor's celebration. Next. No, not next. But it's in here. So next up, we have Tustin Citizen Academy. We want to cordially invite you to the Parks and Recreation Night. Our night is May 7th. We will be at Veterans Sports Park. Please let Katrina, Pinyan know if you're able to attend. We'll give you a purpose not just being there. You will be mingling and meeting the participants in the program. If forgive me, I can't remember right now if there's 40 participants, but it's a large class. It's a large class this year that are participating. We have a unique theme. It's a Lego theme. It's symbolic for like Legos, our department is made up of many unique pieces. So we have staff, volunteers, programs, and services, and each piece serves an important purpose. So when you put all the Legos together, you build something greater for the community. So we're really excited about the theme. That's going to be our theme too for our training for our summer camps, the summer, and for our staff. So there may be some building of Legos, as part of the joy and visiting different amenities at Veteran Sports Park. Similar to what we did last time, we did a summer camp at Veteran Sports Park, I think Janet was there last time, Chair Lomax and Scott. No meta, I think you came up. Meta was there, okay, thank you. It was a good time, so it's bigger better, but we'd love your participation, it'd be great. and you can like Katrina Noe, it's the seventh of May. So that's coming on board. The Test and Mayer celebration is next. Oh I have to hit the button. I'm looking at it like that it is the same night and that is because Aaron was able to secure the spot at Old Town, at Choc. I'm looking at it. I've been really sick you guys. Oh my God. Great, you're doing great. I ain't it. At Choc Kitchen. So if you would like to attend, the city will pay for your ticket. You just need to let Katrina know. So if you want to let her know right now it looks like mags in Erin Janet I'm potentially in potentially might be my last tour. Maybe so But do let her know so she can secure you a ticket. So there's so much going on that night So again, we're comfortable comfortable shoes because we have sunset market, near celebration, and we want to support public works. I'm in. So that will be happening and we look forward to seeing you there. And then next, we have that update on the temporary emergency shelter, Locker Mule, and I will pass it on to Elisirahas. They are going to start the mural painting tomorrow and it will be going on for about two weeks. They're going to be working in the evening during the weekday and starting in the morning and working through the afternoon on the weekends. And once they are completed with the design and the painting process, then we will have a small ribbon cutting unveiling. I'm not quite sure what we're going call it yet, but we will let you all know and we will invite you to the ceremony, so you can see the final product. This is not good. We've had that mural since we opened. That's interesting. So we did have some damage to it. Mike Tober, as you all know, who did the community projects to impress your partner. He was the artist I reached out to. And he was visiting such a stretch from there Tuesday. And I didn't give a good lesson to estimate. So we can see about big again as soon was possible. What happened to it? Not quite sure. I do know that somebody filed a police report so it was vandalism. Why I don't understand it, but it's been there for many, many years and it's beautiful and we want to fix it. So we'll be bringing that back to what that cost is. Maybe somebody needed a back splash. They wanted to say. It's so sad. The chair looks like it's in the center. Yes. And I have not personally visited? I can't believe we can't, you know, I hope we decide to fix it. But you can work with this. What a sad thing. I know. So that is a bad part of the director's report, but we sandwich things because the next thing... Oh yeah. It is our beautiful mural we could do at Rout of a Pluzz. Get excited about that. It looks gorgeous. You guys were all out there today or at least almost all of you. And we're so happy that we could show the pictures. And we all saw the social media. And Sophie Gade, am I saying that correct? What a delight, right? What a delight. She did a beautiful job and beautiful story. So we'll be posting and sharing this on social media. And it just looks gorgeous. So hats off to you all and it's another beautiful piece in Tesson and then Ah This is a huge thing to last night Tesson city council approved our plans to go out to bid for ballpark Tesson sports ball field number three. There's a lot of holes in that park It's really dangerous. So we are doing a complete re-grating and receding and putting a new turf and fixing it. It will be real turf, real grass. In fact, it's a to-home a 31 blend, and it's the same that the Dodgers use. So it's a ballpark blend. And we're only doing one field at a time because it is quite costly to do these fields. And also the sports participants would be upset if we closed all three for six months because it takes three months to do the project and three months for the establishment period. So we're going out to bid tomorrow. We're ready to go. I hit the button. It will open up tomorrow on open guv on the And then May 20th, the bids are due and then we'll go back to council shortly thereafter and July 1st award the contract and get started by mid-July hopefully and be done by mid-January. So it will be ready for the next baseball season and softball season. So we'll be doing them one at a time. One of the things to note with this project, in case you go to Tusson Sports Park during it, we will, because when you take a dirt out, if you take it off site, you have to actually clean the dirt, and it's a whole big process, very expensive, very expensive, like very expensive. So we are going to take the dirt and store it on site. So there will be a big pile of dirt but we found a spot that won't really impede but you will see it at A-Cunt the following year and the following year after that because we're taking more soil from field 3, storing it and then we're going to do field 1 and we're going to take some more soil and then we're going to fill it all in 2 because 2 needs a soil. So it's all planned, it's a mastermind. It's just very expensive to do all three at once. So it's approximately $650,000 and about $92,000 square feet of a baseball field to do it. So I'm really excited because I know this is something that all the players have been begging us to do. So more to follow, but it's opening up tomorrow. So that's exciting. Our latest CIP, our new one, Centennial Park. Gosh, there's so much excitement I can't think. Looks beautiful. So this is on the very, I guess, if you're looking at it on your left-hand side, is one of our playground pieces that are new. We don't have the poor in place, the soft rubber, because we're replacing all the playgrounds with the same soft rubber. So that's why there's no rubber there yet, but you can see the beautiful turf that's out there. It's just gorgeous. So hopefully we don't see people writing their bikes and breaking out of their houses and doing all kinds of things and so keep your eyes open if you live near that park and call the police. Do the chairs in the acclimation period? It's in the acclimation period that part. Yes so we will open on time. I sent the mayor a date but I don't have it confirmed so I can't share it tonight, but we will open before July 4th. That is just good news. Well, we always knew we would, but we will definitely open on time, and as soon as we have the opening by the next meeting, we'll know the date. I might even know the date by Friday. I mean by Easter egg hunt, if the mayor is available. So we're just waiting on his availability right now for the grand reopening of which you will all attend with our beautiful mural, our turtle. I saw the turtle today, we didn't share a picture of it, but the turtle looks good, he looks so cute. I think it's a he, I don't know, it's a he or she, but... Chair is the turtle back in place. The turtle is back in its final place. The interesting place. That's what it sounds like. That's where she was going. The... The turtle is back in its final place. The arresting place. That's what it sounds like. That's where she was going. The third picture is a fitness equipment. That's where the horseshoes were near the picnic shelter, so I'm really excited about that. So those are all in place. And then just another picture of the playground. Okay. And that concludes the director's report. Great. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. All right. I do want to just start my comments by thanking Anne Sophie Gado for this beautiful, beautiful artwork that is now at Veteran Sports Park. I, it was wonderful to be able to engage with her. She's just gracious and talented and came down from Northern California to do this for us and really had a very nice experience in our city. She was there for four or five days and, you know, at a very active park. And so she had a lot of people passing by and everyone was very friendly to her. I found it interesting that the minute we finished our photo this morning, that there was a group of school kids who wanted to take their picture in front of it. So I think that's going to be a common, a common theme. But thanks to her, she really went the extra mile. I know sometimes our timelines are very tight, and she really worked within that. I'm hoping that in the future, as we create some of these timelines, that we allow a little bit more flexibility so that if changes need to be made, or, you know, the artists need to work it out with their schedule, that there's little bit more flexibility so that if changes need to be made or you know the artist need to work it out with their schedule that there's a little bit more room there. I know she quickly provided us with the three designs that she had with three designs and then did some revision too. So thanks to her for just a gorgeous, gorgeous work. I think it's gonna be a favorite in the city. When you let us know when that park opening is, is there a chance for us to involve the artist and for Centennial Park, our heart wrote piece? Absolutely, we'll invite the artist and that will be part of the grand opening. Okay, great. That is for sure. Right. My hope is that we can continue to have really good relationships with artists. And in some ways I feel like we need to host them a little bit, especially like Anne Sophie. Like I say, came from Northern California and was here for a number of days it would have been wonderful to even just take them to lunch or have some kind of a swag bag prepared for them. When we mentioned t-shirts today, she was like, oh, can I have one right? So she really felt a connection to our city and I think that's something we should consider is that when any time an artwork is completed that or when when an artwork is being worked on we would love as a commission to know about it so that we can interact at some point in the process with those artists and host them properly. And then just I wanted to just repeat comments that we've talked about as far as our review process. Like the next time we create an RFP, let's work on that review sheet a little bit more and refine that process. So that any artwork that comes in front of us has met the eligibility requirements. They've submitted the proper information. They've provided us with artwork to consider, etc, etc. So for a future meeting, that would be welcome. Okay, that's all for me. Ms. Pollywall. I don't have too many comments today. I think I agree that we have been very busy and we've got a lot of great pieces that are coming up in the city between what we just saw today over at Centennial Park as well and you got a lot of great stuff coming up as well. So just let's keep the great work going. Thank you. I just want to echo what you said, Chairperson Wilmax about Anne, so if you could go. Pleasure meeting her. Wonderful work. I'm very excited to have that there. I was going over this morning to look at it. And I'm like, where is this big park? park and I couldn't see it and you can see it all the way across the park like oh there it is. So I'm very nice it's a nice anchor point I guess. And I do also like your idea of hosting that's a very a very nice idea. I we kind of tend to think that these artists are all just, and they have been, I guess, local artists in the past. But as we broaden our program and more artists are coming from other places, they're, you know, don't just send them off and do the artwork without, I don't know, meeting them, taking them lunch, I think it's a great idea. Make them feel a little bit more welcome. They're not just providing a work for hire, they're part of our community now. So, very good idea. And yeah, very busy looking forward to new projects coming up and that's all I have. Thank you. I want to take a moment to thank Alyssa for putting together the scoring sheet and gathering all the information from all the artists. I know that was a lot of stuff to sort through. So thank you so much for doing that. I want to thank all the artists that submitted because it really was a decent amount and it's exciting to be looking at sculptures and thinking about what we have on the horizon with our sculpture walk. And then I was recently near Chino Hills State Park and in Brea and there is a great sculpture walk over there in a neighborhood. I'll have to look closer but every sculpture was a mosaic tile encrusted sculpture and there must have been eight, and they were fantastic. So I kind of want to look up and see what those were, and see if it was all one artist or multiple artists, but it was very cohesive, very cool, something for us to describe to you. So I will figure out where that was, specifically in Send it to you guys if you want. Check it out. Great. Other than that that, that's all I have and thanks of course to Kusherina and Marilyn as well for everything you do as well as I already think to list of it. Most of my comments I've stuck in throughout the meeting as usual but thanks to staff for facilitating us getting through to this point of our first medium of sculpture That's a really big deal and thanks to the artist for those creative submissions I think maybe I like this conversation of a swag bag for the artist Maybe we start by sending miss go day some test and swag Happy to help with that. I think that'd be a neat way to remember it But thanks to everybody we've done some cool stuff All right well terrific meeting and shall I say awesome meeting and we'll see you again in May. Thank you. you you you