Cultural Commission - Regular Meeting

Hey. Good evening, everyone. Today is Monday, 05/04/2026. Today is Monday, 05/04/2026. This is a regular meeting of the post. This is a hybrid meeting, and this meeting will be recorded. The Zoom application will notify you that this meeting is being recorded. Please press continue on the Zoom application to stay in the meeting. Use the raise your hand feature in Zoom when you would like to speak on an item and all, and to also lower your hand when you're finished speaking. Please unmute when called to speak and mute yourself when you are done speaking.

If you're calling in by phone, identify yourself by name before speaking on an item. Press 9 on your phone to raise and lower your hand, and press 6 if you are participating by phone to unmute. I now call to order the cultural commission regular meeting of 05/04/2026 at 07:07PM. We'll do a roll call. Commissioner Diaz, I'm present. Commissioner Garg? Yes. Commissioner Das? Yes. Commissioner Roy? Lent. Commissioner Pontius? Here. Commissioner Smaro? Here.

And commissioner Von Huehn is absent. So commissioner Von Huehn had notified us that she is absent. She is traveling on a family excursion. So since commissioner Monchune is absent, is there a motion to excuse her in the meeting? I make the motion. I second. So we'll take a vote. Commissioner Diaz, aye. Chair Mark? Aye. Commissioner Doss? Aye. Commissioner Roy? Aye. Commissioner Pontius?

Aye.

Commissioner Smara?

Aye. And

I'll vote for passes. Alright. So welcome to our cultural commission meeting. Our first item in the agenda is our consent calendar. There is one item on the consent calendar this evening, and that is the action on the cultural commission regular minutes of 04/06/2026. Are there any edits or comments on the meeting minutes last month? K. So I think we've got none. I should have approved

the agenda. That's it.

The minutes. Yes. That's. Okay. Is there a second?

Alright. Thank you. No discussion. I have commissioner Diaz. Aye. Commissioner Garg. Aye. Commissioner Doss. Aye. Commissioner Wright. Aye. Commissioner Panchez. Aye. Commissioner Samara. Aye. Okay. Motion passes. Yeah. So we'll now move to the public presentation section of our meeting. This part of the meeting is reserved for the public to address the cultural commission on any matter not on the agenda that is within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission.

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Beth, do we have any members of the public that would like to speak? Oh. So much. So now under general business, we have discussion and potential action on cultural commission work plan goals and activities for fiscal year twenty twenty five twenty six. Look. The first item, it is goal number one, to host and enhance multicultural events to encourage and acquaint Sinapphire residents with cultural diversity. First item under goal number one is for summer concerts. Do you

have any updates on that? So this is this current year, so you can just do this one as complete. And then the next one, we've carried over this year's concert onto the other 26, '27. Yeah. Okay.

So complete on the concerts. We're complete on, street dance. You have the MCCPA held for three days. If anyone wants to take this on in the New Year planning an event with nine twenty five held, ten nine held, and ten sixteen held. The subcommittee for that is or, tomorrow's last meeting is next month.

And, effectively, the committee the commission's subcommittee is full in the New Year at the beginning of the fiscal year. So our next meeting will be the last meeting of that subcommittee. Okay. And sponsorship's completed.

And then the Make Music Day, we said that we were hoping till next year. So we don't actually discuss ending the twenty sixth, twenty seventh?

I don't think that there's anything. Nebula Rider comes out this month.

Let's see what else.

Traffic box, is there anything to upgrade on the traffic box?

No. I mean, no. We have someone that started sanding, getting ready to paint. We have another one that will be painted just shortly, and

then the young man from college will do

it every summer, so not actively. Okay. So the site I saw the artist painting the Cypress one, and then I think last week, I just was fast. Like, it's really. The AR The AR. Yeah. Yeah. It looks pretty good on that. True.

Make music day is done. Anything on the special commemorative month special spaces that you that the committee was decorating. Yeah.

So we have vacated

the East Wings display case. Okay. Yeah. We vacated it last Monday. And for May, we do not have anything to display, but, I mean, we have not yet for Okay.

Yeah. So we just say we've got this one now.

Yep. Okay. Yep. That one's complete then.

And we're on the calendar to present July 7? Mhmm.

On the calendar to present July 7.

Next meeting, are we also going to do elections for Mhmm. Positions? Yep.

Questions. Shouldn't we re replace for?

Terms of the subcommittees?

That's it. You mean

the position? The candidate? Do we have someone?

We were actually just wondering that too. Yeah. So we don't know.

Like, when the deadline was or anything?

The deadline, I think, was in April. Okay. So I'm assuming the interviews are in May, and that means likely the candidate will be ready to go by July in theory.

Ten years? Ten years. Years.

I get it. We are nervous

about having you here. But one more meeting.

I have to say the last meeting is that hard. So

So it feels like we're

We're done with this, son.

We're done with this. Right? Does anybody else have any any comments on this year's work plan? What's your question?

We're we're gonna send the schedule of the concerts on the mailer for That's right.

Utility. Mailer insert. We

were yeah. We have You told pumps

I did. About it. Yeah. And then I think there was conversation about Which June 1? May or June. Yeah.

Okay. Either

I know.

So Yeah. I'll add it to our

because if new you are a new kinda. You're putting all dates.

Yep.

Dates. Might as well include Halloween and Christmas in there. Right? So then people know the dates.

Oh, yeah.

Like, in addition like, a whole, like, cultural commission, what's happened with

the calendar. Yeah. Yeah. It's a current. I mean, going out. Right? Someone

is Yeah.

Like, yeah, what's what's the space Mhmm. Look like.

We found out I think didn't we did the commission allocate funding for it? It's $2,800. They

said it was gonna be $3,000.

I think the last meeting oh, I wasn't here, and you guys had talked about it, and we weren't sure if it had been voted on or not. And it hasn't actually been voted on.

Okay. Oh, I

know you voted on like, we wanted it there, but I don't think we knew how much money it cost.

Did tell that it was gonna

$83,000.

Then That

was just me. I put that in because that was, like, a pro it's about paying approximately $5,000.

It was happening. So because we still have that budget.

Yeah. We still that budget.

Yeah. Maybe we can do that.

We didn't vote on it because you told me we didn't have to vote on it.

Okay. So should we do that when we move into our new

Well, that would come out of this year's budget.

So we

could do it. Come out of this year's budget. Oh. Have money. So

So would anyone like to make a motion? Spend $2,020,000,000 dollars on the mailing

of the cultural commission calendar. Right? That what it is, Louis? Yes. That's what it is. Commissioner tomorrow.

So So I make a motion that we commit to the mail meeting, which will cost on or around $2,800. That includes a clopper commission calendar activities.

Just so note. Cultural commission activities. Yeah. At least those this summer, and there's

Our concerts, Halloween. Oh, we're missing. Yes. Free dance.

So

They dance too. Yeah.

And decoration. Home decorating contest. Yeah. Is there a second?

D s I garg

at goddess I. Sorry.

Yeah.

So I guess that was part of this year's is college. Their series is up. They have only asked for a thousand dollars this year. Last year, the commission ordered 1,200. They opened it up to any concert you wanted to come to.

I think the first concert is the one where they have that sorry. Little presentation. Yeah. There and the little reception and stuff. That's this month. Right? May? June 3.

Oh, it's June 3. Yeah. June 3. For.

It's a salsa. Salsa Latin. And last year,

we just printed, like, concerts in the park flyers and left it at their information booth to pass out. But we can ask if you can have a little bit. Okay. Want to have a little bit.

06:30, it says it starts. The food trucks are at start at six, but the concert's at 06:30. So they're not inviting the exclusive for the reception or something?

They are inviting you. Yeah.

I think they only have the reception at that first

Yeah. Yes. They don't play.

Yeah. That was the one that you guys cosponsored. So we kinda told them that same date or that same like, doing the first concert again.

Wanna allocate a thousand bucks again? Yes.

That's what we did last year. K. Motion that would would give you a thousand dollars for a college concerts.

Is there a second?

I second that.

Commissioner Diaz,

aye. Commissioner Garg, aye. Commissioner Doss, aye. Commissioner Roy, aye. Commissioner Pontius. You

You said we had no business this current fiscal year. We just made two. Anything else on this?

No. I was just gonna make notes,

but I can make notes to go to the other one. That's fine. Anything else on 2526, anybody?

Okay. So let's move to our next item under general business. Our discussion of potential action on cultural commissioner plan goals and activities for fiscal year twenty twenty six, twenty seventh.

So let's go back. Summer concerts.

To talk about under the.

So other than the flyer is, like, probably ninety nine percent done. We'll send you a digital copy tomorrow. And this the one with the yeah. That one is the cultural commission's flyer. This one is mission colleges flyer, so make sure you have both electronically.

June. And then Juneteenth is the one that the library is sponsoring Cultural Commission is sponsoring that in name only for promotion of Juneteenth. That was part of the subcommittee work with the library. Yeah.

So we'll market it with our buyer as well. That's like a collaboration.

So I

was just at the park. When are they gonna finish all of that? Okay.

Hopefully Hopefully so. Probably not by Juneteenth. Yeah.

There will be some destruction still happening by the concert. Mhmm. We won't have the parking lot, And so we will have the bathrooms by then and most of the pathways by then, but we likely will not have the pavilion parking lot. So parking will have to be on the ISC side, library side, and then people walk through to get to the. So we'll help them market that.

Lots of construction going on in Central Park right now. Yeah. Supposed to be done in time for our July 10 concert.

Okay. Alright. So and then that's the concerts. About street dance? Do we have anything to talk about there?

We have go ahead, Robin.

Just the flyers work in progress. It is David Martin's house party, which I think I emailed to this all after the last meeting. And we're thinking of having it at the same location where we'll have, like, the the night markets, only on, like, the smaller it's actually the 900 Lafayette. It's a smaller parking lot, and I'm just figuring out, like, the logistics of having it there. So yeah.

It's open to your thoughts.

Open to your location.

It's a street dance in the parking lot. Parking lot.

So it's where the wrestling rink and car show was on that side. If you were down at Night Market, this this

He was pretty full. He dropped by twice on both days.

It was nice.

It was very it was very

It was very good. Mhmm. I couldn't stop, but I drove.

The two he drove by. Was because there's

At least you were busy.

There's lots going on the same scale. So Mhmm. You know, as the night market.

Where would the stage be? Not where the stage was this time.

Probably closer to where the sound booth for the wrestling rink was.

Yeah. It was like if you went to the Lunar New Year, I guess that's where they had the stage was. It was kind of like the back to Homestead and looking out.

K. Makes sense.

Do you like that?

I didn't go to the Lunar New Year. I did go to the night market.

And we still have, like, the food trucks, you know, there and the community, like, partners, like the city booths. But yeah. Just to

be our sponsors. So the back of it so the back of it would be facing the hall. Right? Yes.

American Legion. Yeah.

K. But is there enough space then still for people to sit and dance and stuff right there in front of the stage? If we put

the food trucks along the middle The food trucks.

Yeah. It could possibly be outside of that initial area more in the other.

Any streets this year then. Okay.

We'll save, like, $1,800 if we don't walk a street.

So Seems like it'd actually be nicer in the parking lot Mhmm. Because the area up in front of the stage is really narrow in the street, whereas there would be much wider.

So It will be much wider.

So people could get closer without being, like, right under the speakers. Mhmm. I was kinda awkward in the street dance because people were sitting on the curb.

Mhmm. Yeah.

Yeah. There's definitely more space to set up your chairs and all that kind of stuff and be present. I I think the only thing we were thinking of this weekend while we were at night market is, you know, do we put some craft vendors out there? Because people will have gone to three night markets Mhmm. By then.

Yeah.

And they'll come down the street dance, and they're like

Yeah. Wait. This is different.

Yeah. Yes. Yes. What

what happened?

And the shopping.

Then this year, then we do not have to distribute the flyers. That's okay.

We still have to distribute flyers, but we don't have to shut down the street and the stage. We paid double for the stage because they had to come and get it at midnight. And so it's really expensive. We wouldn't have to do that this year. So you've got some more money to play with if we were in the pergola. Okay. Cool. No. I think you could throw more money at Friday Night Live if you wanted to do Friday Night Live than you know, or do a winter concert or something like that. I mean, there was always talk of trying to do a winter jazz concert or doing something indoors. But, yeah, I think there would be money for another concert.

Or maybe, you know, a little bit for commemorative months because the supplies and all that we get for the book till now, we are just spending out of our our pocket. Oh, were you spending money out of pocket? Yes. No. No. No. You should be done. If

you have receipts budget.

You have to request it.

Do you have your receipts, we can help you process them with reimbursement. And

next year, let's plan. Yeah. Let's Yeah. Let's look at some funds. And then the other thing for the sorry. When we reach there, we'll I'll talk. Oh, okay. Okay. So street dance sounds good. Friday night live, that's dark, DOS, and Samara. So, I mean, as of right now.

Yeah. I I I have to say, I tried to reach back to the middle school band stuff. Maybe best it, the chair or court chair calls as opposed to just a regular member because they don't call return calls.

Okay. This is from Santa Clara?

Yeah. Book you're calling Booker's Group.

Oh, from Booker. Booker. Oh, Booker. Oh,

for the Booker Mariachi Mhmm. Group? Yeah.

They they got busy. They got some busy.

They got Yeah.

They got really busy.

They got really busy. They have been definitely making their rounds. Mhmm.

Which is good. They're getting

better. They're practicing any

That's a really bad night market. Had two vocal cordial groups and two or one Mariachi group. It's pretty

Were they getting pain? Yeah. We're getting pain.

Mhmm. Mhmm.

Yep. And one time when we did the Focalorico and Mariachi Mhmm. We they were paid. Right? Yeah. They were paid. A few thousand dollars of them. Yeah.

Yeah. But that that was a, you know, that wasn't stood in mariachi. That was our That old. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. That was perfect.

Actually, we ended up with the mariachi because it came with the perchlorico dance.

Yeah.

And then we ended up with the mariachi because they were so much better than the perchlorico. So

Yeah. Yeah.

You think we should have a banner, are we, for the street?

Wouldn't we have banners for, Robin?

We don't usually have a banner for

the street dance. A banner for the concerts. Are we having a banner for concerts? Mhmm.

Or maybe the wing what do you call them?

Standing. Sky banners?

Something that show people where it is. Maybe

the usual banner schedule.

Site.

Or where the street dance used to be. It says it's down this Oh. For the people that show up for the street dance but don't read anything?

Anything? Yeah. Yeah. Make sure in, like, all the marketing emails. And the

mailer should The mailer.

Highlight the location. Yeah. Yeah.

Highlight the

We could do some lawn signs down at Lafayette. Those are, like, $40 apiece, Robin. Like, 6 in there.

So should we allocate $2.50 for that? Probably. Would anyone like to motion to allocate $2.50 towards signage, pointing people to the street dance location?

I motion that we allocate $250

I second.

Towards signage for the street dance location.

Okay. And it was

Doss seconds.

Okay. Would you Das, I, Garg. Das, I, Roy.

Hi.

What's your Samara. Thanks. Okay. Who's second? Sorry. Das. Okay. And then sponsorships.

They are out. And then the commission was sent the packet, so you can feel free to forward that to businesses you know.

Check. Are you automatically sending that to SubQ? Or We

sent it to people who were Sponsored slash. Adult. And sub q. Yeah. I see.

And Edgecore and SVP obviously sponsored concerts in the park. They sponsored enough to get on the flyer.

Mhmm. It's a little bit.

Can't remember how much the package was, but it wasn't cheap. Okay. What do you wanna allocate money to a Friday Night Live, or do you wanna make a subcommittee for the Friday Night Live and work towards it? If just want one, you gotta start booking booking the groups because it's it would be this fall.

So we have September 25. Oh, the dates are sixteenth. I mean, it would be nice to do another Mariachi if we do it October for Hispanic heritage. But we can't create a we can create an informal subcommittee right now. Can. Is anyone interested? You can ask me. Ross and Garg. Is anyone else interested? So and if we could try to do, like, the October 9 or the sixteenth, that would be wonderful.

And if we can get ahold of that Mariachi group and see if they're interested in doing it or else finding someone else. Super night events. Or the sixteenth? Yeah. Hispanic Heritage Month. And, Luis, will you give us the contacts and all?

That was we booked it for Which one? The the students one or the one that you have? Professional. Professional. Professional. We should have that contact information in the contract that we did.

The contract. Yeah. Just email me if need to, and I'll get it to you. It's probably in an old contract. I'll have to fish it out. But

it wasn't the Etchy Bargas, but it was pretty good. Mariachi vargas is one of the top tier.

Yeah. It's that It's really good. And then was there a date you said you Well, either the October ones. Okay. Either the October ones.

They're looking for this in October because of this. It's just about a. Wanna do the primary months.

And you cursed my computer. I do. Oh, shit. I'm working to see.

Yeah. So what about the make music day? I know we're on hold for this year, so we have it on our account our calendar for next year. And there's nothing to do right now. Right? Are we a

lot of money for Friday night? Well, I think we

need to figure out how much it would cost. Right? We're meeting next month. Yeah. We'll have the figures we can allocate for next

Yep. We we can look it up, Robin, and present it to the commission next month. Okay. So for make music day, I think it would be wise to set a subcommittee to start making contact with, like, music schools, start thinking about locations, go to some events in San Jose, and kinda get your heads wrapped around what might work for Santa Clara, and then we can identify some locations. Do

we already have something?

It's just listed conscious.

Are you afraid you haven't been able to get into your dry are you trying to get into your dry? Can't

So we have a subconscious. Is

there anyone else interested in helping with makings a day?

What's the sorry? Did Deborah Right.

Conscious and Roy I was there. Oh, you were on there? So you would be on there again? Yeah. You can go. Okay. Conscious, Roy, and Das.

Perfect. Then you guys can meet and figure out what music schools you wanna identify, what locations in town you wanna identify as potential. We could talk about parks might be the location. There's a business plaza that you wanna make contact with businesses and see if they wanna be part of it or something like that. But definitely go to as many as you can on the twenty first in San Jose just to understand what's happening out there.

Yeah.

I don't think I'll be here.

On June 20 June 21.

My daughter is with Father's Day.

That's nice. Oh, that's right. That was Father's Day. That's what it was this year. It's gonna be a grip.

Oh, no. That's a big deal.

Thank you for letting know it.

That's fine.

Okay. Alright. And our next goal number two is to develop an encouraging interactive art opportunities to provide temporary reform in political and public art from the city. Advise or recommend public art to seek health for benefit. That's

kinda like all. Yeah. Like, all the stuff. All and if something gets referred Mhmm. To the commission. Okay. And then traffic boxes is hopefully finishing the three we have pending. Two? Three. Three pending. Finished three pending. Good question. Yes.

But those are allocated, though, this past year. So are we gonna do this every year, or we're every other year still? It's up to the commission to decide.

Do which?

It's traffic boxes.

That's from the previous one, advise and recommend public heart. I have a question. Do we have contact with anyone on the San Jose?

San Jose what?

Parks Commission.

Just s p creates.

Well, I was downtown for the opera on this past weekend. And when you go down to that California where the California theater is, you know, it's it's in 4th Street is whatever. There's all this. I you know, there's all these murals in public art. I'm kinda curious that whole section where where they where they do their art, you know, the Friday night

I think

it's a first on 1st Street.

Where they do the first Fridays. Yeah. It's 1st Street. That's all highly decorated. I'm wondering how they got that going. So I was wondering if we had a I thought maybe a first step might be asking them how they did that. No. But so the question is, do we have any kind of formal contact with any other neighboring commissions? I

don't. I do have You do have in Saratoga.

Oh, Saratoga.

They've got library announced commission.

But not San Jose.

San Jose doing that. Have to look if I've got some.

What's that? Do you have anything, ma'am? Can you give it to me? I will kinda unilaterally just kinda reach out to them. Okay.

I think I will in some they did something about the murals, so I'm not so sure.

I just don't know what that was since we don't really have it downtown. I'm not sure where we would do it. No. Right.

I can't quite find. So when we go to the train station and you know how we go down the ramp, would that a city's place or b t sorry. BTS. Like, what who The top is the bottom. City Of Santa Clara. They're working on that as part of the now they're doing that makers or the green green space. What's the committee that we were on? Oh, we don't have a

Stationary. Stationary

is fine.

They're planning that. We don't have a rep on that right now.

I thought Oh, you are. Oh, that's right. They canceled the meetings. Oh, they're not meeting anymore? They've but I

they met after many months in March, and I was traveling at that time. So, yeah, April got canceled. Now May will be

They're never wondering May. Okay.

I think the problem I mean, I think that because the new city manager wants to move the downtown over to Niagara, it kinda threw the whole stationary plan into a a turmoil because Yeah. It was sort of built around that being the downtown where the city hall itself is gonna be the new downtown. They were talking about moving to City Hall over to 900. I know this would be not the Old Quad residents. We're in the Old Quad, so this is like more like Jonathan was. So he recruited me.

Mhmm. Okay.

So I hear about all those things. And so that's kinda I think that was what think for that reason, the station plan here by Scottsdale, you know, don't know what's going on. Yeah. I

think they have a grant, though, for art. Mhmm.

But whenever you touch the topic, of it, no one responds to it. And I don't know numbers because it looks like every time they have got a budget deficit that they're trying to Mhmm.

What's happening there?

Right. But you're still our rep then for that? Yeah. For normal.

We should add something about stationary plan rep Yeah. Under one of these goals. I don't know which one it would fall under. You should get credit for me too based on that.

I think it's the goal number four, enhanced communication and media strategy towards community awareness. Okay. Four. Makes sense. We'll add it to four then. Yeah. And so the traffic boxes, I don't know if we wanna move that because we're doing that every other year just because we never had money.

But, I mean, we could theoretically do

it every year. No. There's definitely

no boxes and you have money. Do

we have to if we

wanna add a line item, can we do that now, or can or that's not adding a line item?

It's just allocating monies to that. Yep. How much did we allocate? It was a thousand dollars It was

a thousand. 6 plus 400. Wise stuff like paint. Yeah. Plus 600 because of that graffiti paint's a $100 of paint. I still

have four. Okay. So I have three. I have three, yeah, for the three

of the remaining. How many boxes do we have?

This a million. A million? Every intersection has a box.

So would it

make sense to, like, pick a couple designs and have them vinyl printed, and then you could do all of them?

What did you do them all at once, you mean?

Doing vinyl. The vinyl wrapped. Instead of having them ground and vinyl and each one kind of being a bespoke work of art, have one kind of pattern you could put on a whole bunch of them. Like, you know, a vinyl strap. Like, I I don't know what I'm talking about, but I've seen

No. I know. Yeah. And that's when I went was out at the conference, San Luis San Luis Obispo. They do vinyl wraps.

But I guess it was because there was a law that passed, and it was if you were paying an artist over a thousand dollars for artwork, then they needed to have, like, a, a contractor's license or something like that. So this was their way of getting around that where they could pay the artist to do or they needed to have, yeah, a contractor's license to be on-site to paint it. So they would just give them the design, and then they would get the final wrap and final wrap that. And then they were able to use those images for a lot of other things too. Like, they ended up putting them on playing cards and things like that.

They because they had those images digitally. Yeah.

Perfect. So I don't know

if it's something to look in. Like Yeah.

I'll get to out of the office.

Actually a good program to kinda think it through because, you know, if you do get the heart, then you can use it for many other things. Mhmm.

Something sort strategy. Yeah. No. No. I'm making

me out of, like, finding out, like, who comes and does the actual final rep process. Was just a signed company. I'll I'll reach out. I have

a signed company that I can ask. And I think city of Fremont is also doing the same because just I've seen many vinyl reps around the rapid boxes and stuff. But, personally, I like this original. I I I mean, I do, and I think it I think it's also part of the community thing. Because, you know, I think those like going out and talking to the artist and doing all that kind of thing. But

I'm not actually proposing we don't do that.

Oh. Oh.

I'm saying maybe we do both. Mhmm. And maybe we can have, like, a, you know, simple simpler design that we could do all the others with and then have our, you know, original ones at certain choice locations like we do now.

And city of Fremont also, I think they involve middle school children in it. So a few of them yeah. Because we had talked about that several years ago, but that's why we had it over 18, and then we we reduced it to 16. It's because of insurance. Yeah. Yeah. We'll have the minors get involved. Yeah.

And any artist could bring others along. So if it's but it's usually such a long process that if the to have the same group of kids involved in the design as involved in the paintings, it crosses over school year sometimes. So it's almost like a teacher would have to design it and then get their class involved in painting it, something like that. But it's possible. And there's no there's nothing in the rules to say it couldn't happen that way.

Yeah. Okay. I'll I'll I'll I'll also just for curiosity find out how much the vinyl wrap costs. I'll figure it out, and I'll bring it back. Art exhibition, this was on. We don't have anything for that. Right? So we have not. And

we edited this just to say host art exhibit. Mhmm. So because it wasn't defined. Mhmm. And so that way, the subcommittee could define what they wanted it to be. So if you wanted to do another temporary installation, like Nebula Rider or a different type of Indoor. Or a different indoor. Indoor just didn't get a lot of legs last year, but it's not to say it couldn't in another cycle. But people really enjoy Nebula Rider.

I like how you left it open. Yeah.

Yeah. So the subcommittee who's on the subcommittee? One. One. For the. Yeah.

Over here.

I don't know why it's doing that automatically. Yeah.

Well, no. That's good because we have to finalize them next month that you Oh, okay. Who? Don't

Traffic box, anybody wanna join Diaz on that? Or just

I guess because I have so many good ideas.

And you wanna do research before you allocate any money. Okay.

And then we don't need to do anything. Do we have a date for Halloween and Christmas? Oh, so then we need that if we're going to put that in the mail receipt. Did we so last month last year but

we did have some dates. Yeah. This one.

You get to update the date.

Release October I feel like this was for

That was holiday, and then the other one was Halloween.

Yeah. So we need to figure out the dates for Halloween.

Wouldn't they be the same, though?

Yeah. Just Ish. October. Just

Halloween and while Halloween moves a little bit, Christmas doesn't.

Yeah. Twenty twenty sixify them.

Oh, so we just went into a friendly kind of thing. Yeah.

And that was the last year,

but it was really good. We got the beacon. The beacon. It was nice. Yeah.

Yeah. That was nice.

So it'd be October 26.

So it's like a push.

Like a bush. Was, like, panicking. Yeah.

Oh, you've never done that before.

I was trying to leave on vacation. Yeah. And then Last thing, the center was closing, and I was trying to get you guys signed.

It was in twenty fourth.

It's You have

a great time.

I had a good team.

So it'd be November 23 for holiday.

Sounds right.

October 7 is a Wednesday. So

and then October, like Twenty sixth is a Monday. Yeah.

The deadline for submissions. We could still keep the same release date. And then judging due, obviously, we have to have that the thirtieth.

Do we have people on that that wanna do that this year?

Well, I think we wait till next month. Okay.

Fair enough. Yeah.

Get the new person a chance. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Then holiday. Holiday, it was November 23.

That's Monday. December. So '18.

And it's about The eighteenth is the Friday. And then the judging is due

By the Monday? Monday is the twenty first. Okay. And the announcements on the Tuesday. Alright. Yeah. That's good. And I think on the cost for the signs, Robin, it's about $70 a sign. So, yeah, I think it's, what, six plus two? So eight signs per per contest. So 16 times 70. You just do

$5.60. If we just do 600 just so we have that buffer. Buffer. Yeah. Does anyone want to motion to allocate $600 for signage?

I I motionally allocate $600 to

Thank you. Six.

It's about d s I garg Best. I Lloyd. I. I'm just. Aye.

6 four.

I don't think that's right. What's what did we say? 70? 70.

Times 16. Oh, you said 16. I thought you said 8.

There's there's 30 each.

To be Oh. For each.

Oh, that's a $70 times 16. 16 is $11.20. 20.

That's a different story.

Never mind.

Certainly double tier.

It's such a double tier. But, I mean, you do two contests. So that's resale value.

Okay. So would you like to revotion for $1,200? 1,200. So we're changing it to 1,200. And then Yes. Garg seconds.

I guess 600 per.

So they're still 1,200. Yeah.

Okay. Still the same. Yeah.

At money and the sign

and It's just a picture.

I don't look simple, but it's just

K. So It's a bit slippery slope. Let

me reboot again. Diaz, I. Garg, I. Das, I.

Roy, I.

Sanchez, I. Samar. I. Okay. Votes unanimous for 1,200. What's for 12?

We're spending money late.

Okay. So we have that so we have

the dates now. I know.

So now you have it ready then, Robin, for the alert. Yep. Okay.

That's awesome. Got the quotes. I'm looking forward to see the mail.

No. Okay. And then the web map is just ongoing.

Yeah.

Goal number three, raise the visibility of months.

And you said that we're

just gonna talk about that next month. So yeah. We can talk next month, but the the coloring pages,

so they have to be ADA compliant or something. Any PDF that's posted on the website Okay. Yeah, has to

be Yeah. Those. Can we recycle the ones that we made before? Because we were planning to give them to elementary school for COVID. You can

give them you can email them to people. We just can't post on the website.

Yeah. That's nice. Right. So tell me, how is how is something ADA compliant a drawing? That's why. Oh, because it can't be? Mhmm.

You can do, like, an alt text on it, like a photo does. You know how you alt text a photo? You can do something like that. But the way they were, they weren't compliant. Or, like, if

you hover over it, it'll describe what the image is so somebody who can't see can can hear what it says. But if so if we were to put some kind of caption on that, we could post it online? Is that how you work?

Yeah. There's a team that's been going through all of the PDFs and making them accessible. But any ones that aren't or weren't sure if they were gonna be using them, because we kinda just took them down because you weren't really using them anymore. But if you want to, then I think we'd just have to go through that Process of making that. No. Well, maybe I would have to brush up on my notes and do it. I can help you with that. Thanks.

Yeah. If you want to make them accessible, then we can do an alt alt text on them and then repost them. You'd like

them back up there?

Pages comply ADA compliant. Is it still DOS and Garg? Yeah. Money. Ask away, darling. You need

to do my right now. Or if you wanna wait till next month. Yeah. Yeah. I think we'll Let's let's see. Next month. Yes. Okay. It's just the goal number four to enhance communication and media strategy to increase community awareness of the cultural conditions. So we have that date, July 7, I guess. When we figure out who the chair is,

we'll figure out. We also have the chair.

Yeah. The dinner, August 25. And some people let me know that they were gonna be going. Can you

add the dinner there too? As a line? No. Just add it Here. Under the date, the July date, just add and This twenty eighth. '28. If you don't when you do your present so we'll bring you a draft presentation next month If you don't get through all your discussion, because you'll only have, like, three minutes to present, you can save the discussion for the August. Yeah.

And, also, on May 27 council's meeting to develop their council goals, priorities. So then we would have those goals by the next meeting too, if there's anything you wanna add or change. So happy August 25. That's my birthday.

Oh, I can have a birthday dinner.

It's a tough choice. I don't know you'll

get to request what you get to eat. Family and

loved ones.

Decision. Okay. So we have August 25 and then July 7 for the meeting. Yep. And then develop, maintain, and grow partnerships. We can continue that next month. Yep. And then you're adding the stationary task force there too. That's another line item.

Okay. Yeah. So, yeah, tell me

what that You would send a representative to attend and participate in the stationary area. Sorry. Station area task force. Station area task force. Yeah. Just need to

She said for now. For now. We'll wait till next month.

I have to continue. Okay. Resentative.

Right? K. Goal number five is the art semester plan. We have to develop so the submission college concerts, we already allocated that money. With all the promote and implement. So

So we got three proposals back. The purchasing department is vetting them right now to make sure they're compliant with the bid, and then we get to review them hopefully this month. Select one. So who is selecting that? The final person. Me and Robin and an artist that we are trying to find.

You and Robin and an artist. An artist? Why an artist? Is it

an art master plan? Okay.

So how do I know that that person I mean, they have a qualification to show that they've worked on a price mastermind or

how does that No. That's why we're talking to you about it. Should

it be us that's on it? Or, like, Deborah? Or No.

They didn't. They said no. Nobody from the commission. Oh. Somebody from art community,

but nobody from the commission. So someone from the art community that is just an artist with no other qualifications is just like they're an artist. It could be anyone, a painter, no matter who it is. They just get in input on the master

plan for the city? They also don't have to. It could just be Robin. I

yeah.

No. Why is Parks and Rec doing the arts master plan and not the cultural commission?

You guys are gonna do the community engagement piece. That's what how it's been explained to us.

It was dictated to us.

It was dictated to

us. I

don't like that.

He knows. That's quite interesting. Yeah.

I will. I mean, not that it matters. Not that anybody cares, but I

don't I

don't Well, the scope was sent out to the commission. Yeah. There was no feedback given to staff from the scope. Who was the scope sent to? Good question.

Three and whoever was on

the subcommittee. So that was Yeah.

Me and me too.

So did you receive the scope for that? And then we so then without so since we did not respond, we get no input into this. Was it sent?

And now the now the proposals are back.

Yeah.

K. So this is So now we're evaluating the proposals.

We haven't seen them yet.

Alright. So this is Yeah.

I don't think I received the scope, but I do think we should be able to evaluate the proposals. Okay. We'll go

back and ask.

Don't you?

Well, I would think so. I mean

And we have it on our work plan.

You know? But

with the time constraints that you're under anyway, there's not much that need formally that we can do. It would

be an informal input. Yeah. It's just reading the three proposals for against what was pushed out on the scope of work.

And Deborah is not here too.

And Deborah

is on. He's good.

He's good. Good. Yeah.

Can I play? Deborah, which is good news. Okay. Yeah. For all this time, and we

get no input into select weekends. Definitely. This is a big you guys and, you know, a note to meet with us. But

Yeah. But you guys are making a decision. Okay. It is what it is?

No. But if if if you send it to the subcommission, then and I think they worked on the scope before. Right? So this this is this is not new.

It should be familiar. Yeah. It was sent to Anshas, Deborah, and Nietu on the seventh. April 7? Mhmm.

Wasn't it, appointing the the coach or something or someone?

This was the draft scope of work for the arts master plan before it went out for bid. It was sent

for you. The selection process was in there. Mhmm. Okay.

Do you think now?

I guess what it is now.

So they'll still be that's just all it is is selecting the the comp company isn't the right word, but the consultant Yeah. The consultant.

Yeah. It's just one step. This is this is

To develop that. Right? So develop.

There still has to be a large community outreach process, and Yeah. That's intended to happen at all of the concerts and activities over the summer. And so there's still a ton of outreach and, input to be received. Just because the vendor is hired doesn't mean that our master plan is done. Yeah. Like, they're just the purse they're just the group that's going to engage the community and do the analysis. So really

that due till next year.

Yeah. Really, the intent is for them to come and give you guys a presentation too and say,

you know Actually, say, like, staff. Staff.

There you go.

Is there anything else anyone would like to add on our work plan? Ready? Next on.

The Robin? Sure. That's well up.

Nebula Writer reads on May 27 if you wanna say goodbye. August will be there around 9AM too. Think Deborah was gonna come by and say talk to them. The FIFA flag raising, we have sent that out if anyone's available, May 12. Some of you let me know that you would come. That was at it's at 9AM at. Asian American stories is this Saturday at the Mission City Center for Performing Arts. They put some flyers out there. Some of you RSVP'd that you would be attending. If anyone else wants to attend, you know, I can add you to the list.

Special order of business, July 7. Council dinner, August 25. Yeah. Juneteenth. And the mission volunteer, That's what

I had on my list. It's a lot of stuff. Didn't have anything. That's all the stuff. K. And our final agenda item is our commission reports.

Remember we talked about what we did in Saint Jude? Okay. Thank you. There is a benefit at the Detroit Museum for the of the Santa Clara City Library Foundation team on May 16, Bright Museum.

What was that again? Sorry. Sixteenth.

Yes. May 16. There's a benefit for the library foundation.

And that guitar player will be you? Mhmm. There you go. That

guitar player gets around. It's fabulous.

Does anyone else have anything to report? I just went for a trip to India to attend my niece's wedding. That's it. Just to reconnect with the country. Yeah. The betting rituals

and all.

Mhmm. Where? Britain.

Well, how was your event?

Yeah. It was fantastic. It was really good. We had a twenty sixth year anniversary. We celebrated 600 people, 250 artists. It was it went really well. Yeah.

Or did it to some people I know that are do the classical dance, but they were busy next year. Let's say 250 yards. Yeah. More than yeah.

So it's basically you must heard about ethnic dance festival happening in San Francisco. Right? We follow that model. So we invite dancers from all different culture. There was flamingo. There was all different, including all Indian classical dance and hip hops and Bollywood,

some drama. So yeah.

Yeah. I have attended Saturday, I think, the Sunday market the night market, and I canceled the beach. And I think there is a one more event was there in Sunnyvale Earth Day that was canceled, I think, on April 22 or twenty third. I was RSP before that, but that canceled. I think they canceled it.

Yeah. Great job. You didn't put that. Mention the night market in your stock report.

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Another night market coming up.