Parks and Arts Commission - Regular Meeting

Good afternoon. This is the City of Liberty Lake Parks and Arts Commission. Today is Monday, July 6, 2026, and it's 4 p.m. My name is Nancy Hill. We'll get started with our roll call. Commissioner Nancy Hill, present. David Heinbaugh, present. Laura Frank, present. Katie Ferris, present. John Barr, present. Noelle Otterson-Laparco, present. Anybody online?

No.

So Noelle's not here. Bob Schneidmiller. Joni Hay. So no one at all is online, correct?

No.

Okay. Joni is absent. Gary Edwards. Good to see you as always, Gary. Great music at the Farmer's Market.

Thank you.

Our student commissioner position is vacant, and we'll be working with Ridgeline High School when they reconvene in the fall to get someone for this next school year. Staff present, we have Jen McCann, Mikael Stevens, and I think that's it. We'll start out with the approval of the June 1, 2026 meeting minutes. I believe they're in your packet. If there's any corrections, let us know. Otherwise, motion to approve. Move to approve.

Seconded.

Moved by Laura, seconded by David to approve the minutes from the June meeting. All in favor, aye. Aye. Opposed? Please show the motion passes unanimously. Moving on to citizen comments. See any citizens in the room? Anyone raising their hand online? Thank you. Seeing no citizen comments, we'll move on to our action items, discussions, and presentations. And we'll begin with our budget discussion. You'll see in front of you that Jen has created a brand new, easy to read, fun sheet for us. So if we look down, just to make sure we're on track first, and then we can start fine-tuning and hopefully making some decisions on our next year and multi-year budget. The Community Art Town Square Goat is a work in progress. The Liberty Lake Carousel sculptures are completed. And Jen, you'll be making that final payment.

Yeah, when he sends it.

When he sends the invoice. The StoryWalk baseball fields, David, it's my understanding from the presentation, they've got the design work and they'll maybe start, but it won't be completed until spring.

Correct.

And would we be, and we'll be making the payment in spring.

Yeah, I reached out to them and I did not get a response as far as if they needed any funds to begin. So I know there's nobody there now.

Okay. Well, we'll hang on to that money, and if we have to spend a little this year for materials, we can. Otherwise, we'll carry over.

I'm sure there will be something in the fall.

Okay. Pavilion Historical Outlook. The unveiling was on Saturday, and it's all done. And, of course, that was a donated project. So we're doing pretty good for our yellow highlighted projects from 2025. Moving on to this year, the Pavilion Park Ticket Booth and Mural Extension. We decided we weren't doing the mural extension. Laura, do you have any idea on the budget for the ticket booth?

Yes, I would put $2,000. That would include contingency. $2,000. Okay.

So $2,000 out of a $35,000 budget. So that will leave us $33,000 extra from that project.

And I believe we, without the mural extension, we had already reallocated some of those funds for the Orchard Park mural. Is that correct? Or did that come from?

Yeah, some of that has come from that. Okay. So I'm just seeing where we are. But yes, it's it. And she put it in the notes there on the far side. Trailhead Beam Project, that money... is spent redirected for the surface prep and court line painting for the Rocky Hill mural. And it's my understanding they're gonna do that work this week and painting will start the end of the week on the mural. So, and I think she said four to five days to complete. So that's coming up quick. The community art for the city building, the 60,000, I think Karen, You'll probably be talking a little bit about that in your report. So we won't spend any time on it other than we're probably spending 60,000. The art consultant, we're so happy Karen's here. Glad that's a line item. Our beautification, we had talked about benches. Jen had checked for me and it's about $1,000 for a regular park bench, but we're unsure whether they need to be on a pad or or where they can be mounted because of ADA. So we'll kind of table that discussion for next time. But if we were to get five benches straight up, it'd be around half the beautification budget, give or take a little. Laura, you were checking into bike racks for the new city hall. What was the ballpark price on something like that?

The ones that I saw, and I apologize, I meant to email over some options with pricing. It ranged from 500 to about 1200 per stand. So I was looking at lower profile because there was a real estate concern in terms of how much area there was to mount it. So I found some options that mounted directly to the building and then kind of narrow, low profile ones that would mount close to the building. Looking at more artistic type options, if we did just kind of a standard bike rack, it would be less money, but I could say a thousand per stand and then we could decide how many we wanted.

Yeah. I guess probably, and I'm just brainstorming, our next step on that is maybe to send some samples of what you found over to Ben Turner in Public Works because he's going to determine the space allocation for that. Okay. Apparently it was already on their radar, probably thanks to Katie, I'm guessing.

He thought it would be a good idea.

Yeah, perfect.

I'll send them and I'll make sure I copy you on it, Katie.

Yeah, and then maybe you guys can work with Ben and come up with a design that will work and a cost associated. I mean, ideally, we'd like to pay that out of this year's budget so that it can be installed and ready to go if the building does open the first of the year.

Yeah. I'll send it and I'll make sure he's in the loop on it.

So beautification, it looks like that we'll probably be able to spend that. If we do, if the benches do need pads, that would probably create quite a bit more expense. But if we have some leftovers from somewhere else might be a possibility. So we'll just have to wait and see what the research is on that. Um, programming, um, I believe McHale is going to cover that in another agenda item. I'm looking, looking up. He's next. So we'll just kind of hold off on the programming understanding. He's going to make some recommendations for us to use that 10,000 this year. The Liberty Lake art, that's a work in progress with the mural at Rocky Hill, the public art maintenance. We've used roughly half of it. I don't know if there is any other maintenance that we need to do, but the artist at the unveiling of the carousel figure says there's annual maintenance for that. He, instead of bronzing it, he did a, I'll call in my non-industry language, a clear coating. And he said that that would probably need to be reapplied annually in the fall. on probably just at least the top. So I don't know what that would cost, but at some point we may need to raise the maintenance budget, but it would be interesting if we had spare time to create a maintenance schedule for all our art. I don't know how much art we have that really needs maintenance.

Is that something that he would want to do? He said he would do it or we could do it. Okay. The other item that was included with that 10,000 or kind of in mind with that 10,000 was the Hooptown mural at Pavilion Park. But I think as a commission, we probably just need to decide if it's something that's going to be redone every, was it five years? Do we want to invest in trying to do maintenance and repairs since we're every three years in on that already? or two.

Yeah.

I mean, I, I would probably just wait it out if, if I really, I think most of the, the damage, well, I mean, there's the obvious cracking just time and use, but it's the, the damage caused from the, I think the e-bikes and scooters and things like that, um, being driven on it. And I, I just don't know if it's I don't know if it's worth it, but you know what I mean? I don't know if it's something that we want to...

If we're going to redo the whole thing in a few years, is it really cost effective to just maybe make do? Yeah. Okay. That makes sense. So, I mean, we can keep using the $10,000 as a placeholder because right now we don't have a lot of... maintenance kind of stuff that we're aware of. I think it's very minimal on the carousel figures. Obviously, if we get more, it'll be more but and then we have the city birthday art is our next line item and that is going to have some leftovers because we made a payment out of last year and we don't have the complete payment this year. So if you see in the notes to the far right, it looks like we have roughly 22,000 remained. And again, as you mentioned, Laura, we have that leftover and then the 33 from above. So that's allowing us to do our two mural projects on Orchard Park, Restrooms Concession and the Harvard Road Trailhead. So if we add 33,022.5, So that's roughly $55,000 that we have left over and some change for right now. So let's just keep that in our heads. And I know we're going to talk about the murals in a different item and vote. So I don't think we're going to, we'll, we'll get to that and see what we're going to use out of the leftover. And then that'll help us with what other projects we need to do this year. All right. 2027. We've now made it there. We have the story walk likely carry over at least part of that. Um, Then we have the, okay. The 60,000. Does that carry over from this year?

It's going to, yeah. It's going to depend on when.

Yeah. That's going to depend on when payments are made for the interior art. Okay. I see that. All right. So that's, we're still going to spend it. We just don't know what year we're going to. Okay. Moving down.

Orchard Park.

Boulder painting. So. Last year, we spent $10,000 on painting the ones immediately in the vicinity of the splash pad. And those were identified as an area in which kids were running from cold water and going to trip. Jen's team said there's 75 more remaining boulders. I doubt all of those are hazardous. So... David, you said you would be willing to meet with staff.

I'm going to go out there Wednesday late morning.

So if we could identify what ones still need to be painted for safety hazards, we would do those and then leave the rest natural, potentially. So we have a placeholder for next year for $10,000, which would get us roughly $20.

Yeah, I think you can move that up if we're just looking for a placeholder to $15,000, assuming roughly a third or a little less need painting for safety reasons.

Okay, so conversation purposes change the $10,000 to $15,000? Okay.

I like that.

Yeah. But the artists did indicate that they have availability in the spring if we want to try to lock that in. Yeah. Or ask them to at least put a hold on it for us.

Yeah. Because, I mean, we'll hopefully get most of the budget finalized today and then we have to vote no later than August. So even though it wouldn't be passed by council, we could still have them pencil us in, I think.

Yeah.

Yeah. Public art maintenance, I don't see any reason not to leave that at 10. Do you, Jen? Not for now.

Not until we really start, I think, maybe in the next two to three, maybe four years, start increasing that to 15. That's kind of what we did with the 20-year plan. I think we went every five years, if I recall. We added 5,000. Okay. And we're early on.

Is this our second year of maintenance or first year?

I think this is our first year of having those as a line item. I think we took beautification before.

Right. And speaking of beautification, then we have beautification and 10,000, does everyone like that number? Programming, we can get some feedback from Mikhail when he comes up, whether that's a good number for next year. Yeah. The city Paul art, um, exterior 40,000. Um, and we can speak to Karen about it a little bit when she does her report, but I think she already had input on that number, the smarty board after the install of the new playground. And is that still going to be next year, Jen? Stay tuned. Yeah, we hope so. Okay. And then the Liberty Lake art we had mentioned last meeting carousel continued. I did talk to the artist at the unveil. He has the capacity to do two figures here and suggested if we didn't want to do the full 12, we go to 10. So it doesn't look like a compass with eight would make it look more true carousel. He also suggested that we put like a pole in the middle and some very minimalist structure just to kind of make it look like a carousel. And he said he would draw up a rough draft of that. And that would probably, I'm assuming, be towards the end of the project. Potentially.

We talked about 10 sets of two or 10 total?

10 total.

Five sets of two to complete the circle.

So I think 60,000 is a good number for that, because that gives 50 for the artist, and then we have a little contingency and maintenance. At some point, and the artist suggested Saturday, that towards the end of the project, we finalize what the circle, the ground stuff on the ground might be. For those of you who weren't there, they cleared out the sod and they put in wood chips under him and he suggested we just continue to do that until we're up to the point where we complete the carousel and then we might have to budget something if we want something other than that but he thought there was probably nothing wrong with the wood chips so are the wood chips safe in case a child falls off this carousel

Well, I think if they fall off, it was my understanding that they're going to hit the grass, not the concrete. But I haven't actually walked up and seen it.

The wood chips are over the concrete, but I think it's the same as what's in the parks. No. Is it different? Yeah. Actual bark. Okay. Yeah.

We'll have to follow up on that. I don't know. I haven't seen it yet.

Yeah. That's a good question, but... We'll have to see what staff suggests. I mean, there is no exposed concrete, though. Yeah, you can't see any. We have also budgeted for art consultant for next year at the same number this year. We, I mean, I love having an art consultant. If we do the carousels and the boulders, we've already have artists for those. So that will, should be an ample budget for us. The big thing, of course, would be finishing off City Hall. Then looking down to 2028, we just have basically the placeholders. We probably, Well, we have the 60 for the carousel art, if that's the route we want to go. Um, and I think the placeholders for 28 and 29 seem reasonable unless someone has a suggestion. So it looks like if we kind of go with what's on the sheet that we discussed last time that our big would be due to carousel pieces. the boulder and the exterior of City Hall, which are fairly significant projects. Two will kind of run themselves because we already have the artist for both those. But of course, City Hall is going to require a little more involvement. Is there anything that's not in here that you think should be in here?

Or is there going to ever be a plan to put a mural on the Orchard Park basketball court? Is that a single court?

I believe so. It is. What's the resurface schedule on that one?

We don't have it on a resurface schedule. We have the tennis courts on a resurface schedule and those are getting done this year. My vote would be do it right after it's resurfaced.

Well, I wouldn't say if there's a schedule for that, that I think whatever. We don't have it on us. Yeah. Whatever. I think it's just asphalt right now.

Oh, okay. So it would need a surface. Okay. So we can, it would be similar to what we're doing it. Rocky. Okay.

Is there any way you could give us an idea when that might be? Cause, and then we could move that project to. It doesn't have a surface. So it doesn't get resurfaced. Ever? No, it's asphalt.

It's just plain asphalt.

What's that pavilion part?

I think it's an asphalt court, but it's got the surface on it, a sports court surface.

Oh.

So you're saying we can pick whatever year we want to do it, add a sports court surface and a mural. And we may have to do a little different kind of prep work for it, like we're doing at Rocky.

But then it would get added into a cycle for needing a surface.

Yes.

Then you start a cycle.

Yeah.

Is there a downside to painting directly onto the concrete without a sport court surface?

It won't adhere. Oh, fair enough. And it's not, I shouldn't say it's a sport court surface. He's, he's etching the concrete to prepare for the mural. So this asphalt surface would have to be prep on whatever format that is. I don't. So you're saying asphalt has a prep as well as concrete. I'm sure it does. Yeah. Yeah.

That might be an interesting conversation. Um, If you could check in with Arrow just to see what it would cost to, if we were to do Orchard Park. And if we had that by our next meeting, then we could potentially plug it in.

Yeah.

Because would the cost be similar to Rocky Hill? I don't know. Rocky Hill is concrete. Yeah. Orchards as well. Yeah. I don't know the answer to that. So.

You said, is there any other changes? I'm going to make a proposal when it comes up to my agenda item.

Okay. We have plenty of time. We're not going to final until August, but I just want to go through everything. We'll probably hear something from Mikhail. We'll hear something from Gary. We'll get some information on prep for Orchard Park mural. Orchard Park.

Jen, are you going to research the concrete pad if we did benches in Orchard Park? Like who does that research?

Yeah, I'll do it.

Okay.

So I think we're, I mean, we've got a pretty solid budget here. We just need to tweak it a little bit after we get here some more reports and get some more information. Is there anything else you want to discuss about the budget before we move on to the other items? Okay. So next up is programming. This is on this year's budget. Mikhail? First of all, I want to say you are a rock star. Can you even walk today? Oh my God, what a day. Thank you so much for doing such a wonderful job on Saturday. And Jen, you too. I mean, that was a great event and people really enjoyed it. And It was a great way to celebrate our 25th year.

Well, thank you. It was a big staff effort. There was a lot of other hands involved as well. A lot of park staff that made it possible.

Yeah, everybody did a great job.

So a couple months ago, you'd all asked just to come up with some ideas for using your programming budget. And we've kind of talked a couple different times and kind of narrowed it down. You should have a piece of paper that says parks and arts programs that are more feasible for the finishing off this year. So we had talked about music in the park for one of these events or programs, a smaller activity in the park, like a picnic in the park where you'd have some type of entertainment. We did talk about the chalk art extravaganza. I need to ask for some pricing. So chalk is fairly inexpensive. For example, on Amazon, you can buy a pack of 48, each pack of 48 or each pack is five colors. So 240 pieces. So you could potentially give out a pack to a family or more if you wanted to. So it's just as an example, eight packs, which would be, five packs for each person be 384 people for $265. So you could potentially do quite a bit of chalk to hand out to the community if we did do something like that on a day of chalk drawing and throughout the community. And then we had talked about Battle of the Branches again. I had mentioned about potentially doing something with Christmas caroling during the Home for the Holidays event. And I did add another one that I had come across after we had met where People are always wanting, I've had the comment a couple of times about reindeer coming out. There's companies that will bring out reindeer. That is quite a bit spendy. So may or may not be to your interest, but I add that in there. So on here is kind of the pricing for each one of those. Roughly added up, it'd be about $5,260. So if that's something commission wants to proceed with and look at doing some of these, that's kind of the range of pricing to do what is presented here.

How much did it add up to?

$5,260.

And so far we've spent like $500. So we have $9,500 left.

Probably the tightest one would be that music in the park on August 22nd. It would just be band availability and... So that one would probably be the hardest one to pull off at this point, but it's still doable. The others I think would be pretty easy and straightforward to utilize the budget. Most of them, actually all of them would be pretty low staff needing time. So very minimal staff use. A lot of these would be either volunteer people coming out and decorating trees, for example, or a company that brings out the reindeer, things like that. Yeah. very minimal staff needed.

Now that you see the chalk art extravaganza going.

So I would have to plan it out a little bit more, but my thought process is do a registration, people register, so we can do like a map, kind of like we do with the Christmas night decorating, and then people can decorate their driveway with paint, with chalk, what they want. And then we just have a map, and then people can go out and look at the different art throughout the community. I think it would be a fairly simple, straightforward one.

So the music, these costs here, does that include everything?

Yeah, so those are just some examples. So Tamarack Ridge Band I put on there just as they're like a middling level band. So that's kind of like the middle price point. I probably wouldn't go much higher than that, but they would bring out the equipment and set up all their back lines and everything. The only thing that we would have that would be difficult is our risk management asks that everyone have a certificate of insurance. Most bands, every band I've ever talked to does not have insurance. They just come out and play. They expect the host to have that. So what we did, same thing happened with touch a truck. And so what we did is we found, well, the artist found a insurance company that would do in a one day general liability insurance for an event. It costs $65 for the day. So she just added that on. I told her to add that onto the invoice. And so then she was able to purchase the insurance. We have it, but we just covered the cost. So that would be my kind of thought process as well with most of these other bands where, like I said, I haven't met a band yet that carries general liability insurance.

I know a lot of people really enjoyed the music on Saturday, so it'd be fun to have that if it could be pulled off in time.

Like I said, that one, I think it's still feasible. We're getting close at this point.

I like the chalk. The only chalk extravaganza, the only thing I see is potential for rain in October.

Yes, that was my other thought as well.

Maybe moving that up.

Yeah, September, I think, would be the earliest that we could probably just get everything rolling. So that is a feasibility. I mean, that's possible as well. I would have to look at some dates, but once again, it's very limited. Staff doesn't have to do hardly anything for that.

I mean, one thing we can certainly, our expense is the chalk.

Yeah.

So we could get it, and if it doesn't work out with a date, then we'll have the chalk for next year.

Yeah. Or we could have a backup rain date. A lot of events will do that. So I was just thinking a little bit cooler in October, you know, fall, have that kind of ambiance of the red colors as well to go with the chalk, but September would be doable as well.

I really like the, I know it's pricey, but the reindeer in the park.

Yeah. Well, and that was kind of the overarching idea for Home for the Holidays, have one big event where you have different things going on at different parks and just slowly build up that for the next couple of years.

No and not rain this year, right?

Yeah.

If we had the reindeer in the park, would that be a one-time date you would pick for that? Yeah. Would it be in conjunction with... Christmas carolers or it would be a standalone?

I don't know yet. So probably a conjunction of something. That price point, they're already booked for all the weekends. That would have to be like a weeknight, like Monday through Thursday, which I think is still fine. Families would come to do that. Yeah. Um, so then having in conjunction with something else, I'd have to just do more digging and we're going to start planning for home for the holidays. Hopefully the next month start meeting about it. So I'll know more coming up soon.

Well, we have $9,500. Um, you know, we could approve all of this or part of this and understanding there'll still be monies left over, which we could dedicate any leftover money again towards the home for the holidays in general so that it can go to something that would enhance the holiday season here but what what are your questions for mikhail and what what do you guys want to do

At the last meeting, you mentioned, I think, a trivia night in November. Yes. Yes. I mean, that would be almost non-existent of a cost or staff time. We would do something probably in Trailhead, which we can get access to and use. Yeah, I think that sounds... Okay. I'll make sure to keep that on the thought process. Okay. As we start rolling in November, we start getting busy again with the home for the holiday stuff.

Do you want to approve everything and including leftovers monies not to exceed the programming budget to go the remainder to home for the holidays, like maybe you'd get caroling on more than one night or, you know, whatever.

You need a motion? Yes. First of all, I like the magic. Love magic. That was always, whenever we did that in the past, there was always a big group of kids in the park, even though it was a big audience there. I'd like to move that we approve the items on the programming feasibility for the remainder of the year.

Uh, as stated, do we have a not to exceed number.

That we want not to exceed like 9,900, 9,500 dollars for the record.

If I can, okay, it's been moved by David and seconded by. Laura, to approve the Parks and Arts Program's recommendations for McHale-Stevens for 2026 not to exceed the amount of $9,500. Any discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor? Opposed? Please show the motion carried. Thank you for the research.

Thank you. I'll try to have it mapped out by the next meeting so you guys have a more rough idea. Let us know how we can help.

And we have two volunteers that now want to help with programming. Yes. Thanks to the volunteer.

Thank you.

All right. Next up on the agenda is the Harvard Trailhead mural selection and funding. Laura, do you want to handle that?

Yes. So at, was it the June meeting or perhaps the meeting before, we had discussed meeting with Ellen Pickens. She submitted proposals really over the years for a lot of the projects that we've done, she does more geometrical style art, which we thought would be very appropriate. There's a new park, ripple park that will be going in that area and just thought the geometric ripple effect would be a neat fit for that building. I met with Ellen. She's incredibly interested in doing this project. The budget that she came back with was $9,000, which is within what we had allocated for it, as well as a contingency, right? Because I think we had $10,000 allocated for this project. At this time, we don't have a design proposal from her. We did receive her qualification packet and she was one of the top three in the Rocky Hill mural court selection process. But I would like to propose that we vote to move forward with Ellen. There would be an artist stipend, which is included in that $9,000 budget for her to develop a proposal. And I don't know, Jen, if this would be part of maybe a precursor to this voting in terms of we have the arts subcommittee. So when she... submits her proposal, having the subcommittee review it so we can keep things moving to be able to, if approved by the Commission, put forward to Council at the July 21st meeting. So that way we just keep the project moving along versus having to wait until August for full Commission approval and then later August for Council approval. So my I guess that's one clarification that we as a subcommittee wanted to make sure that we're all aligned on the part of the role of that subcommittee is to be able to put forward a design proposal to council. I don't know if that needs to be talked about before we vote to approve Ellen as the artist for this project.

You know, when we're to that point, when we're looking at redirecting money during the budget year, and especially without exterior painting like a mural, we're under a time constraint to be able to get that done by the time we go through the approval process. You'll see on our next agenda item, we actually have a design on that. So it makes it a little easier, but we don't. So I think the subcommittee is asking the commission, at least on this particular project, to give us the authority to approve the design for the Harvard Trailhead mural and then send it on the road to council.

So I don't know if that needs to be discussed and approved by the commission before we can vote on moving forward with, I think it might, change the motion of how we vote it hasn't we don't have a second so we're not i'm saying to even form the motion oh right so i think we just have to decide as a commission so does is does that have a is anyone concerned about that okay okay

I mean, everyone's seen the artist's work, so you know pretty much what to expect.

Yeah. All right. Well, with that being the case, I would like to move that we move forward with an artist agreement with Ellen Picken to do the Harvard Trailhead mural with the subcommittee receiving the proposal and sending it on to council for approval at the July 21st meeting.

With a $10,000? With a $10,000 budget.

Second that.

Okay. Any discussion on the motion? All right. It's been moved and seconded to move forward with a harm. Oh, I'm sorry.

One question. Could you address the priming of the wall? Or did you?

Oh, yes. So both buildings have an anti-graffiti coating on it. So part of the city's scope of work will be to clean and prep the building and remove that anti-graffiti coating. So that way the artists that paint will adhere to the surface. And then I'd have to go back and check the emails. I believe the artist's preference was that the city also reapply the anti-graffiti coating.

I don't remember. I don't remember specifically reading that.

Did we not? That's what I couldn't remember. I was like, I have to go check the emails again. I know we went back and forth on it of asking the question, do they want that included in the city scope or if that's something they prefer to do as part of the process.

But yeah, if you can confirm that, because I think Arrow is going to be out to provide a quote soon and I'll need to ask him to add that or for the prep. Okay. Well, at the end to apply. Yeah.

Will your team do the prep? No, no. That's the left arrow. So where is that?

Well, that's, I think between the two, then that's where we, I guess, need the clarification. So that's outside of the artist. But I think between the two, because we had thought that, skipping ahead, we had thought the Orchard Park would be 24,000 and she came back under 20.

And we also have, extra money in our maintenance budget so there yeah so i think there's plenty of wiggle room for the city to take on that scope of work but before we can do the artist agreement we have to have the clarification of what is city scope versus what is artist scope okay all right so any more discussion on the motion thank you no thank you all right so the motion on the floor is to approve the harvard trail head mural project for a cost of ten thousand dollars understanding that prep And might be separate from that. And that the motion also gives the subcommittee the authority to approve the final design and move that forward to council. All in favor, aye. Aye. Opposed? All right. Please show the motion is carried unanimously. And I, I feel pretty good about having our maintenance budget. I mean, we'll have, we have almost half of it left, so that could hopefully cover that. Well, that's exciting. So we have a little more to show you on our next agenda item, the orchard park concession, mural selection and funding. And you have a paper, so Laura.

So on this one, again, we selected from the artist group that had submitted for the Rocky Hill court mural. And Yelena, why am I blanking? Yunan, thank you. I was like, I don't know why. Elena Union was also a top contender in that project and so we had recommended at our last meeting moving forward with her for this project for the Orchard Park concession building mural. She provided several submissions to the subcommittee and what you have before you is kind of a compilation of those ideas into into one. There is still a little work that she's doing on this, but this is the general concept that the subcommittee has approved to move forward with. So her budget came back at, I think it was $19,850. So it's under what we had allocated And again, I would move that we move forward with an artist agreement for Yelena Yunin to complete the Orchard Park Concession mural in the vein of the proposal that you have in front of you for a budget of $19,850. Or do we want to increase that to have a...

I think we should increase it.

Do you want to go to $22,000 with contingency? Okay, so for a budget of $22,000.

Okay, we have 22. It's been moved by Laura. Do we have a second?

I second that.

Seconded by David. Any, what discussion on the motion? I just had one question. Is she still, because I mentioned this project to a couple people and a lot of people have said, is there going to be a train because of the Orchard Park? And is she still going to try to Give a nod to a train.

I will ask her because she was also I know there was a comment that the original proposal had some strawberries in it that was enjoyed. And so she's trying to figure out how to piece everything in it. So, yeah, so, so I told her what makes sense and what you can fit in, please do if it doesn't flow or feel like it works. If I need to re-communicate with her and say, okay, drop the cows and focus on a train, we can do that. I do like the cows. But we gave, there were a lot of fans for the cows. So that's why those weren't it because that was actually in a completely separate proposal. So we kind of took two ideas that she had and mashed them together with the elements that everyone liked. So I didn't want to be overly pushy on we need this element or not.

I just love the colors. I mean, she does such a nice work.

Yeah, so if the train's important and there's a different element that we want to remove, I can certainly go back to her, but I kind of left it in my communication to her as if it works, please include it. If you don't feel like it's working, don't try to force it in. Now, Karen, if you want to comment on any of that. Karen, if you do, I know you've been copied on all the communication and involved in it, so.

This was very email rich. I was out of town when most of it was going on. What I would say is, unless you want it to look like a Girl Scout uniform, where there's a little badge for every idea that everybody had, I think that you should let the design have the integrity of the design and not try to put every single one of those images in there because it's frankly not really that big of a building and she's taking a lot of the stuff around the orchard motif and the farm motif and I think she's got a pretty good thing going in terms of being able to unite those themes and those structures. Now, if you really, really want a train, my thought would be the train could go through the back of the farm. So it's like out there in the distance. So she doesn't have to restructure the whole thing. But, you know, I don't know. It's really complicated. And there were a lot of ideas. I think she did a beautiful job, actually, of taking all your brainstorming.

And that's what I told her. She gave us the wonderful problem of having too many things to choose from. Because all of our submissions were outstanding and beautiful. And she was very gracious in saying initially, you know, here are my ideas. If there's an element from one that you like and an element from another, I'm happy to try to marry them together into a new idea. So she's been amazing to work with in terms of that, but I also didn't want to.

I hear what you're saying, Karen.

Okay. We could also take train cars and put them in succession on the rocks to give the train, if that's even possible.

Oh, in the Boulder?

Yeah.

It's a separate project, but there's some laid out in the right place.

Yeah, if you had, so example, let's say that there was five rocks in a row that need to be painted. If we had a train car on each one, starting with the locomotive ending with the caboose would, you know, that's a possibility that we can incorporate the train out there.

Maybe keep that in mind when you go take a look at those and see if there's one that would work. But I guess to that point, if everyone is happy with this, because there was a lot of enthusiasm around the house, I won't push the train element. If that is a must-have, then something else we'll have to give. No, this is great.

Okay. All right. And any more discussion on the motion? All right. Seeing none, all in favor, aye. Aye. Opposed? We show the motion passes unanimously. We have a design and a budget.

On both of these, Jen, do you have everything outside of the graffiti piece of it still being worked out? Do you have what you need to draft an artist agreement? I know we had kind of talked about working a not to exceed.

Yeah, I need to work with legal on the language for that. But other than that, yes, we have everything. Okay, perfect. Thank you.

You know, I just think this is a great addition to the city. And people who come and visit will see those and say, oh. So this was done there.

Yeah, she did an amazing job. I will point out, given the current budgeting, depending on costs of prep and stuff like that, we could probably have enough to make the first $25,000 payment to the carousel artist so he could start the project over the winter versus waiting for the first of the year. So that's something to think about. I mean, we don't need to know that now, but it would just give a jump start on getting to carousel pieces for next year. All right, where are we? We are at the artist consultant update. Karen.

Okay. Well, I wanted to extend my appreciation to Laura because I was in Taipei and she met with the mural artists and kind of kept everything moving. And I really, I appreciate your taking time to do that. I would also say that both of the mural artists, both Ellen Picken and Yelena Yunin have been in contact with me and they're very excited about doing this work for you. And their enthusiasm, I think, will carry over with the community. It's very positive. I wanted to say a short thing about the Kramer Overpass. The last meeting, you guys talked about whether or not there was opportunity to do something with WSDOT. I reached out to the people I'm working with at WSDOT because I have a contract with WSDOT WSDOT for the north south three way, and they send all their policies and procedures through. I shared it with Jen and Nancy. Probably not a surprise to you. WSDOT is bureaucratically complex. And they were not completely like saying, absolutely do not try to do something, but they're really pressed to get the North South freeway done. And I got the sense from local staff that they didn't really want to entertain more complexity at this time. And so my recommendation to you would be to hold on to your big ideas and And revisit that after some time, because I don't feel like, to be fair, I don't feel like you're going to get great attention from them because of the pressure they're under with what they're doing right now. So anyway, I mean, I'm not going to say absolutely no, but I don't think you're going to get very much attention. traction quickly. And to be honest with you, you guys have a lot of stuff going on already. I'm not sure that you need a more complicated thing. Anyway, so I think we can just hold that information. We have all the policies. We have the recommendations of the kinds of things that they're looking at for adding to freeways, which by the way is quite restrictive. So if you don't get it integrated into the architecture, it's actually fairly complicated to do. Um, anyway, as far as the city hall art update, um, we're moving along the art submissions have been received. I have read all of them and I ask everyone who's on the parks and arts commission, as well as the two staff members that were recommended by Mark McAvoy and the two city council members to review the portfolios online. And I've been trying to, And of course we had the 4th of July in there, but I've been trying to schedule a meeting time for everyone to get together. And that last set of times I set out this morning, I haven't heard, I've heard from everyone in this room, but I haven't heard from all the other people yet. So I'm hoping to get the meeting time scheduled. pinned down, I think it will probably be the last week of July. There are two calls in there to be reviewed, and I'm hoping that everyone has a chance to go through and do their reviewing so that by the time we meet in person that we're ready to actually have more of a discussion. If you guys have any from the arts subcommittee, if you have any trouble with the software, let me know. Anyway, I think things are going along pretty good. I was pretty excited to see the number and the quality of applications for the commissioned artwork. The portable works, I would hold my reserve. A lot of that is very nice, but quite... I guess I may say representational and it may or may not be as exciting as everybody wants. On the other hand, there's not that many locations in the building. And I think that there are, there's some real, there's some good opportunities there. So I'll just say, wait and see until after everybody has a chance to look at everything. Anyway, I don't think I have anything else to say about all that. Do you have any questions for me? Great. Thank you very much.

Thank you, Karen. Appreciate it. All right. Moving on to our unfinished and new business, the Performance Arts Subcommittee. Gary, you have an update.

Sure. Yes, we had a meeting today, and the consensus was that we would like to ask for $4,000 from whatever portion of the budget is carried over the surplus to pay for three events next summer, 27. concert perhaps on the first Friday of each month from 6 to 9 p.m. And the breakdown on the budget is we figured an average of $1,200 per band plus $400 overall for the two types of liability insurance, general liability and child protection insurance. Yeah, the bands we've found out through research, you know, that they range, have a wide range of prices, but the kind I think that would be most appealing would be in the $1,200 range. We did consider other options, many other options, including um battle of the bands and featuring young children and so on but the uh obstacles uh and the complexities that that would cause with was uh too much for this time we just wanted to start off fairly simple for next year and then uh see what comes after that do you have any questions would they be in pavilion park because you would need the stage you were thinking or what were you thinking probably in pavilion park but uh Yeah. It could be in all three. We talked about putting on events in other places for children and things like that to spread it around. But go ahead, Katie.

Well, I was just going to say we could have one in Orchard Park, maybe Town Square Park. So it could be three different locations.

You said one per month for Friday in the summer. Movies in the park are also during the summer, oftentimes on Friday nights. Would you coordinate with that? Or do you see it being like a precursor to the movie?

We've discussed that the movies are on Saturday night, right?

I guess Friday's the only... There's Friday and Saturday some weekends, aren't they?

Or is it just... Mostly Saturdays.

Mostly Saturdays, okay.

Well, we've had to coordinate it on the Campbell calendar. So there's no conflict. Thank you.

Especially if you can bring it to one in each part so that people can, you know, in some summer families can walk and sure.

Yeah, that's a great idea.

So you said 4000 Yes. Well, I don't think we need a motion to pencil it in, and then we can vote for it when we vote for the budget. So we'll just pencil in into our 2027 budget to add a performance art line item in the amount of $4,000. How's that sound? Then we can, when we vote on the budget next month, we can... have our final discussion on it. Thank you for the report and the suggestions. It's great. Oh, back to Laura. Pavilion ticket booth update.

Yeah, so I reached out to the artist in May, I believe. Well, I heard back from him in May. He has the bandwidth to do that at this calendar year because it'd be similar to the concession building mural where it's on a a board that then he he would then install he can do it in a studio kind of at his leisure and it doesn't have to i mean it could be installed summer fall whenever um he had given me a budget of 1200 for the three panels and um i apologize this slipped on my list but i did email the mayor and mark today um just to see we had discussed having historical figures um depicted in along the same vein as the mural as part of the inset so i just reached out to the mayor and mark to see if they had an opinion on that or if we want to continue to consult with ross schneidmiller who was the consultant on the historical figures that were utilized in the the mural so everything looks like a go here um i don't know do we need Jen, do we need a vote to be able for me to, to reach out to Ralph about moving forward with an artist agreement? Or how do we? Um, or how would we want to proceed?

It wouldn't hurt to have a vote on that. Yeah. With maybe a not to exceed number.

Okay, any, I guess any discussion from the commission on the project and I think it's gonna look really nice.

I don't have a personal opinion of what the pictures should be.

Yeah, I think the idea was that it would look, it would be someone of historical significance to Liberty Lake as a ticket collector or a ticket salesperson in the booth window, similar to what you would have seen at the old dance pavilion. So that was the idea, and it's in the same vein as the carousel that's depicted on the concession building.

And that's three windows?

There's three windows, yeah. Yes, Karen. Is that $1,200 per or $1,200 total? I went back and looked at his email and it said $1,200 for the set. I was very surprised.

That seems very realistically low to me. Could you confirm that number?

Yes, I know. I was like, I went back and looked at it before the meeting because I was like, I thought it said for the set, but maybe he meant per panel. Do you want me to do a not to exceed with that number as a per panel for vote today? So then it's covered in the budget?

You know, if you want to. And I mean, it'd be better to have the correct number and just vote on that with the contingency. Although we probably won't need much contingency on this particular project, but.

He's going to do that inside and then it's just installed. So we don't have the weather concern. Correct.

Correct. I mean, we could do a vote for not to exceed 4000. And that would include contingency and cover as a per panel piece.

Yeah.

Okay, um, okay, so I'd like to move that we continue forward in discussions of forming an artist agreement with Ralph got singer to complete the pavilion park ticket booth mural panels for a not to exceed cost of $4,000.

I have a question. Yeah. We talked about the three sides of the ticket.

Just the windows, not the sides, just the windows. So the building as constructed would look the same as it is today. And then the window insert would have a historical figure depicted within as a ticket collector.

Okay. Do we have a second on Laura's motion?

I second that.

Moved by Laura, seconded by David to move forward with an artist's agreement for the Pavilion Park ticket. Booth mural, I guess I'll call it, for a not to exceed amount of $4,000. Any more discussion on the motion? Seeing none, all in favor?

Aye.

Anyone opposed? All right. Please show the motion has passed unanimously. Thanks for coordinating that. Appreciate it. Next step is the Kramer art dedication. The landscaping is in, the plaque is mounted, the art is in. I saw they still had piles of wood chips there in the area behind. I haven't been by for a few days. I don't know when that's going to be spread out, but we need to start thinking about a dedication where we could have the mayor and council come and just do some kind of quick little thing there. I see our city administrator, Mark McAvoy is here. Mark, if you want to come up if there's days and times that are better for attendance on something like this, or we just wildly pick a day and time.

Based on previous experience, I don't know if there's a recurring day and time that's better than another. We could, and we've done this before, just surveyed the council members to determine when over the next month they may have some availability. If you would like for us to do that, we can do that. But otherwise, I think I would probably just pick something where the majority of the commission is available and then we'll invite everyone else. But if you'd like for us to survey them, we can easily do that.

It's just going to be a pretty quick little thing, so maybe we'll just pick a date.

I think that'd probably be the better approach. Yeah.

Do you want me to check with the artists on their availability first and kind of let that be the selection? Yeah, you want to make sure that they can be there.

Good point.

So I'll start with them and get their dates that they're available and just shoot it out to you guys via email and then... Yeah, I mean, if they fix it... Jen, correct me if I'm wrong, but if Laura comes up with a date and time...

then you could just send that out to the commissioners. We don't have to wait for our next meeting to do that. No.

Yeah.

Okay. We'll do that.

Okay. Sounds good.

Thank you, Mark.

All right. You know, I'm looking at this, and I'm amazed how well you can make a very ugly building look like. But just...

That art is spectacular. All right. Next up on our agenda, the Bike Pedestrian Safety Advisory Committee update. That's a mouthful. Katie.

Yes, we had a fun meeting on bikes. A couple of us were biked around to look at safety, and especially around Selkirk Middle School, because we'd really like to promote biking to school next year. And it seems to where the Spokane Valley on Mission hits Liberty Lake on the west, just west of Barker. That's pretty sketchy, and there's some safety concerns. There's not sidewalk or bike lanes. And so I've sent an email to Ben Turner to see if he could collaborate with the city of Spokane Valley to improve that west side area. of Mission there, west of Barker. So the River District kids could bike to school, and at least we could start with that until Country Vista eventually is going to have protected bike lanes, but that's not going to happen tomorrow. So maybe this could happen for the River District side that's coming to Selkirk. We could have... more protected bike lanes entering into Selkirk, in and out of Selkirk. So sent that over to Ben to see if that could happen. And then we're just always thinking ahead to see if we want to have another community bike ride. And also we'd like to continue to promote bike safety at any Liberty Lake events. And it was so great being at Touch a Truck. And we're looking at possibly for next year's being able to offer toddler size helmets because there's so many young kids that are riding balance bikes. Even if it's just in their driveway, they can fall off of it. So that's something that we're looking at to improve for next year. So always looking ahead to see what events we can promote bike safety ads. Is that it?

Is there any kind of budget line item that we need for next year that's going to cost money that we should add as a bike safety line item?

Well, we could add some money for helmets for Touch a Truck since it's so specific to our Liberty Lake event.

I would need to look into that with the finance director to see if we can purchase helmets and then give them out.

Yeah. If that doesn't happen, there's a possibility we could do an ask for a grant from Kiwanis because they do do that kind of thing. So, yeah.

Okay. Well, you know, I can speak for the bonus.

Okay.

That I'm sure if that's presented to them, they would be very enthusiastic about participating.

Okay, that'd be great. So I'll find out when would be a good meeting to come to do a little presentation. Okay.

That's awesome. I mean, that's probably the easiest way to go if Qantas is going to support. I actually talked to them on Saturday at the concession stand and thanked them and everything. And the folks working the concession stand seemed very positive on wanting to help us with projects.

So I think it would be well received.

Well, if you think of anything between now and our next meeting that we need to add in the line item to the budget,

Yeah, I think we already mentioned about the bike racks City Hall. I think that's for sure a positive thing to do.

Yeah. Okay. All right. Next up, staff report.

So we... decided to, we've been busy and didn't do a staff report this month. I apologize. But the one thing I did want to highlight is on July 21st, there will be a workshop with city council on the Pavilion Park playground update. And essentially what we're doing is hopefully going to get an idea of what council supports budget wise to renovate that playground, because that's going to determine what the renovation looks like. So if you're interested, feel free to join us and zoom in, come in, whichever, however. But that will be sort of the beginning stages of kicking this project off for next year. And then at that same meeting, Parks and Arts report, is there anyone that... Nancy? Nancy? I checked my calendar. I can do the live report. Thank you. All right. So are there any questions? Do you have any questions for staff? If not, then that's, we've been in so much contact over the last couple of months and you, yeah, especially with the subcommittee, but yeah, I don't really have anything else much to report on beyond that. So.

Well, like I mentioned earlier, Jen, you and Mikhail and your whole team, what a phenomenal event. Everyone had nothing but positive comments to say about it. And it was a lot of work.

You're awesome.

If you want to talk about that, sure.

I just sent forwarded it so that you have the information. If it's something we want to discuss or if you have a question, feel free to. Yeah. But we're just trying to keep the engagement going through this process with the playground renovation. It's going to be a huge project and a very important one. So keeping the community, keeping them talking about it and continuing to get feedback. so that we can take that to council. And then at some point, too, to the commission for support and thoughts and ideas to hopefully come up with a full project.

It's going to be interesting because, I mean, if it's going to be all-inclusive, which it isn't now for all ages and abilities, it may change the footprint dramatically.

Yeah. But it's all going to come down to we need to start with a budget number, and we don't have that right now. All right.

All right. Any questions for Jen on the report? All right. Our next meeting is scheduled for August 3rd and we will finalize the budget at that meeting. So be thinking about everything that we've talked today and looking over the paper and then we'll get that completed and get that task off our plate. So there's nothing else for the greater good. We'll need a motion to adjourn. I move. Gary? Very moved. Seconded by David to adjourn. Any discussion on the motion? All in favor?

Aye.

Opposed? We're adjourned. Thank you, folks.