Shoreline Regional Park Community - Regular Meeting

No. Good. Alright.

Let's start. I call the meeting to order at

06:02.

I

don't have my list. I know all your names, but I need the list. Regina Sakeles. Yeah. Susie Merhar. Yeah. Stacy Rathbun. Yeah. Joe Medwin. Present. And Stephanie Spade, absent. Tutu Thompson, absent. Alright.

Item three approved minutes from the meeting of February 11. I

motion to approve the minutes.

All in

paper.

And

now we could have oral communications for the public. Nobody there? No.

And then we go on to upcoming agenda topics. Topics. No. Then item six, unfinished business. Six one, capital improvement program and other public project dates. Six two is public strategy, community engagement updates.

There's some demos for 6.1. So we have a number of exciting public art project updates. So so these are the capital improvement projects that are have been in the works. Evelyn Park, Village Aquita Park, Shoreline Boathouse. So we're working continuing to work with all the artists, looking up arts on butterfly or flags, Stevie Galloway. This is just the rendering that So it may not be another butterfly just to notice that.

Yeah. I think we already commented on that. Yes.

On his panels and

He will.

And then James did on the bench paneling. So we're continuing to work with them on the design and for Evelyn Park and Village Aketa. The installation is still TBD right now. So as we get further in the design process, then we'll figure it updated on when that when the timing is for for installation on these projects. For the shoreline boat house, the project is set to be completed by November, December, and the art installation will happen right at the tail end of that.

So I'm expecting installation by the end of the year, maybe giving a little bit of into January year. But, but we're expecting for the Arda, shoreline boat house to be installed by the end of the year.

Will he submit the, a draft, like, a more final draft?

Yeah. So, I mean, he doesn't technically have to. He he will we'll continue to work with staff, or he'll continue to work with staff on the design. We do have a meeting schedule to do a site visit of Shoreline with the Shoreline manager and one of their team members who's I'm heavily involved in kind of the ecosystem at Shoreline, and and they'll be able to give some pointers on the flora and fauna to include in in his panel. So he's gonna be prepping the design. I think I think it'll be through early summer, and we should have a sense of what that looks like later. So happy to share that when we do get that. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

I'm glad he's back on board. I have a quick question about the Evelyn Park because I worked Sorry there last for your late. Last week. And I wonder if you could find out where it would go. Thank you. Because by now, the the a third of the park is completely landscaped and bound. Right? Has a has two play structures, has benches, has has

Yeah.

Vegetation everywhere. And there is a there's a long strip that faces Evelyn. Like, that's just long. And I'm I was just wondering, does it go there? Because it feels like the rest is over. And I kinda seem to remember where we wanted to put it is kind of in the corners in the back corner one of the back corners, so towards the housing, not towards the street.

Yeah. The right.

Yeah. Exactly. And there's no way that it can go there because there's a tree planted there and a play structure really close by. I don't think.

So We can double check.

Yeah. But we can be that seems to be misaligned with what we decided, so we should probably check that.

Well and they they may have made an executive decision to put it in a place that does make the most sense with how, you know

The the completion of the patch looks like might be designated for that.

And if we can see it from the street.

You know? No. No. It's not that I'm against putting on that lawn thing, but it's not where we said we have clothes, so we'll be good with that.

Yeah. Yeah. I can double check. I honestly can't remember. I remember they're talking about the would would be added for it. But Yeah. So I'll double check.

That sounds good. Yeah.

Have a question about the park. Yeah. Is that a run rate? So that's gonna look like. So it'll be black and white?

No. It'll the colorings. That's just an example of one of the benches that he's done. And so better vision of what the product final product would look like. But it'll be super colorful Yeah. Super colorful package. And then there were,

like, little images, I

think. Yeah. Yeah. So he's working with the Mountain View Historical Association and Club Australia. I'm not getting those images. So we can do copyright questions right now.

The image will stay black and white? What was that? The images will stay black and white?

I'm not sure. I think in this rendering, they they appear more colorful to me, and they have a hue over it. So yeah. I think they're I think the photos range from, like, the nineteen forties to present day. So the older photos are definitely in black and white, but and so I think I think they'll all have a little bit of a hue to them.

Another update. So the Boulder Beautification project, we've talked about this at the last meeting, but, we've, you know, been working with the artists and trying to revive the the project and and bring it to life. And we are looking at at least one of the artists is going to install starting, I think, by the end of the month. So as we finalize the schedule and and location, we'll be publicly sharing that information, inviting people to come out and talk with the artists and and watch them. And I think the installation is gonna be a little bit staggered too, so there's gonna be kind of continuous activation downtown, which will be really fun.

But just a a refresher on the artist renderings and where they're gonna go. They'll they'll be at the the two bollards at the the two white bollards at the inside of the fencing on the pet mall. More exciting news, Fernando Martinez. She is going to start installing her mural. We're we're tentatively next week.

We're adding tentatively to all of these, but we're we're looking at next week. I think she's gonna start going out and and sketching it out and and and start painting least by the end of next week, I think it should be. And then, again, for this, we'll go out, get some photos and and videos of her as she's starting to then share and invite people to come and just engage with her, and she's really excited about that too. We're still working with Arumo. She has had a really busy spring schedule, and so I'm I think it's it's looking like her art will be done a little bit later, but continuing to work with her and and check on her schedule and and see when we can get that done.

Very excited. So Fernandez are that's going into the it's the maintenance restroom building that's closest to the tennis court and, Magical Bridge playground.

What timeline did Haruma agree to work with us?

Well, the the project's been delayed quite a bit, for a number of reasons. The contractor licensing board and and senate bill for the going through that process of exempting your list. So, you know, originally, this was needs to be done last year, but we weren't able to do that. So we're still just trying to work with her and just make sure we we forget the art. And then Dream Depot art, this is another thing that we're looking at installation later this month, and I'm really really busy end of the month.

So looking at installation at the end of this month. So contractor will go out and do the installation. We're still working with VTA. I'm checking on there's a number of people we wanna, invite to do celebration and ribbon cutting, and, so we're working on scheduling that out. I think it would probably be about a month after the installation is done. But keep everyone posted when it's up. Thanks. Ready for viewing. We're very excited about this. So, Kristen, will you hand will you send out,

like, any announcements so we know, like Yeah. If this happens between now and the next meeting, like, so we can go check out. Definitely. Okay. Great.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. As soon as we like, so, Fernando, she should be installing next week. There were a few things that she was waiting on to to figure out exactly what day. But as soon as we know, I'll I'll send out an email to everyone. Same will go with the bollards. Same will go with this. I I probably wouldn't recommend going out while this is being installed. To be a contractor out there, drilling holes. It sounds exciting, but I'm on construction site at that point.

But then you're off the ball. It's getting fun. Grab some lunch. Watch the. Yeah.

Not there. Not there.

What is she doing like that?

I'm wondering if this wouldn't be an opportunity to bundle all three and make this a bigger thing.

Yeah. Yeah. I think

saying, you know, maybe tied to our art strategy. And and I think it's not March, unfortunately. I think it's April, but we got something from SVCreates. Right? If the city wants to make it an art month, you you you kinda get their support how you publicize that or something like that. But I think that's April, not March. Yeah. But I feel like since people haven't heard much from us, right, this will be such a good opportunity. Well, this is happening. This is happening. This is happening.

Bundle them. So Yeah. Definitely. And I was gonna let the group know this at the end, but we are the mayor agreed to do a proclamation to support the art it's arts culture creativity month for the month of April. So we're presenting the proclamation to community school of music and Arts, and just in recognition of, the work that they do and the education they provide to all ages.

So so yeah. So the council is recognizing that, and, we plan to have some kind of social media posts related to it too. Too. California Arts. They they provided a whole kind of social media package around how how to celebrate it.

We can start celebrating in March.

Yeah. Yeah.

Well Even more bundling could go. Right.

You you were just saying, like, this the contractor, the artist is doing some. So would that end up being like, the the month of April? So

it this should only take a few days to actually put up on the building. If they are able to get it done we're looking at getting it done at the March. I was waiting to confirm with the contractor their availability this week, but they they had gave an estimate of March. But then the ribbon cutting celebration, that'll come probably about a month later. There's cords

Which will be the April.

Yeah. Yeah.

Because it's printed panels.

Yeah. So so it

will But he's not painting. Right? Mhmm.

Yeah. So it'll be in April in art arts culture and creativity month. Then it's just an update. The latest exhibition is, I'm with Stanislava Chending. The title of her exhibition is variations on classics. She just installed her work yesterday. It looks so pretty and wobbly. The framing's really beautiful, and that looks really, really good. Her pieces are all really big too. So go check that out.

It's open from Wednesday to Saturday, noon to three, three, and one hour before public events. Those are my updates. Any other questions?

Don Hirschman. Yeah. Reception was fantastic. I know this all belongs to later, but just wanted to say that. It was so good.

Yeah. We had, think, over 90 people in the. It was eighty eighty five ticketed. That one plus. Yeah. Some some And

we heard super good feedback.

Like Yeah. People were like,

oh, how come we're gonna have this every month? This is so cool. We're so proud about new test. Yeah. So

Definitely looking at how we can bring those, I think, a year works fine.

Stat capacity and CPA available. Then, like, with the artist's. Right?

Mhmm.

Yeah. And David did a great job.

Yeah. Yeah.

Everybody. To Pick a number. Mhmm.

That was really fun. They're very lively, you

know, all these different things. They're engaging.

Yeah. Brush. Yeah. Yeah.

People really didn't get the message about microphone etiquette.

Everybody wanted to grab onto it. It's funny.

Alright. Next is public art strategy community engagement update.

Well, before I open up the presentation, we have Amanda Rawson on the call, with us from our community. So, I'll go ahead and get into the presentation. I'll I'll tag Amanda in when I need some help. So just, before we get started, so tonight really is, an update on what we heard from the community, the survey results, the vision board exercise, the general feedback we heard through conversations and stakeholder engagement and the workshops. So we wanted to provide kind of both really the specific feedback that we got, but also a little bit of a higher level overview of kind of the themes of themes from the conversations that we have.

So just a refresher on the timeline. So we've we're finishing up and and, you know, giving the update on this kind of synthesis and emerging from the outreach. We've already started to, draft and refine the public art strategy. I'm looking at both the BDC's strategy community outreach. I'm thinking of our staff and and team members who will certainly be helping them, but not in the people of the final product.

And then we're looking at tentative adoption in fall. And then I'll pull at the end of the presentation, we'll have a little specifics in steps into the month. So numbers, numbers of the outreach. This we all went feel like we were all shocked at how how well it went and, how how many, people we got to respond to and participate in our activities and the survey, through an event. So that's the pop ups, the workshops, the stakeholder meetings.

We would have over 300 over 300 surveys filled out, the 3,000 little dots put on those vision boards, and overall had around 700 people participate in all of our activities. Obviously, Monster Batch. The baby is leaking, though.

Is that a participant?

Is that what?

Is the baby a participant?

Yeah. That's we're taking that feedback seriously. How late

is Did we check the American citizenship?

Residents. No.

It was just joking all

My god. Recent. So then we felt this at the last one of our last meetings, but I'm just a a quick image of of the vision board. And so it's it's interesting as you look at the responses from the survey and the vision board exercise. They kind of align, but there's a little bit of differences. So from the vision board, light is the the most enjoyed type of art or the the preferred type of art. I'm gonna see if look at that. You can see the a the age of people who responded. It's it looks like people under the age of 18, but there is a good variety. That's just the nature of kind of the pop up events that we were at, and they're family friendly and family oriented.

So there are a lot of kids in any form of the age of 18 there. But functional art is the second second preference, followed by gateways. Temporary art's pretty close. And then interactive, people are at least interested in the images of of the interactive art. And then for the theme, so the image there were images on the vision board that showed examples of, kind of art theme.

So cultural, historical, natural environment, family oriented, and technology. So cultural, top preference, and family oriented, was the second preference followed by natural environment. And then a similar responses. So, our builds community put in a lot of work to create this fun little Google map. So let me see if I can pull.

Up. It shows where people put bins on the board. Zoom in and play around on all the different locations and where people put what tenants. The focus is really downtown, Ringsdorf Park, which is interesting given that there is already quite a lot of art there. But I think that I think it shows how, well well visited, attended it is.

And I think it was Questa Park, at least, the third. I don't think has any it doesn't have any public art. Yeah. And these the vision board, it really does align back to the survey results, which I think the top which are the top results. I think it was downtown and parks were at the top two.

Survey. So the first thing that comes to mind when think of Mountain View. So I kind of equated some of this to, to the vision where where as people are looking at things and using genes, which cultural, and the theme of culture was the number one to the vision board. So what people think about Mountain View. Family oriented was another natural environment for a vision board.

They're trying to pose. It was a little bit different from how people responded to the survey, but it might just go to show people are seeing these images as they were filling out the vision board. This is how you think about Mountain View versus when you see it, an example of some. We put in a few example, or a few of the responses for the write ins, and it's not all inclusive of, and what we provided for write in responses. But we get the, when we have the final document drafted, this all of the write in responses will be included as an appendix. So we'll be able to go through those. But, this is kind of a I mean, that's more of a a summary. Right?

Yeah. These are, the top four that we saw most consistently, from the other write in options that people provided. So when you do look at that, when the report is completed, you'll likely see these common four areas.

So where would you like to see art? Again, similar to the vision board exercise, so Downtown Mountain View is a top top contender, followed by parks and trails, and then transit areas. And near Civic Center followed by near Civic Center Plaza and then shopping centers.

This is one where we actually pulled some of locations out for the other ride in option. Just so that you all are aware, you know, Stevens Creek, Permanente Creek Trail, Westminth Sports Center, utility boxes, Those are kind of common in the responses that we saw as well.

Type of art. So people are really interested in murals, then sculptures, functional art, then just kind of goes from there. It's, like, a sound people are they really don't want sound art. But it is interesting. Like, the light and projection are pretty low on the list too versus the vision board. Like, seeing the images of the light art, it's really fun and it's cool. But when you

think about interactive, the actual picture was interactive too. Mhmm. Think of those thoughts. So I think it's always important to see the pictures that were used because it gives you a little bit of a more differentiated impression because that was also an interactive. I think people can't if they

just see it, they probably don't they don't have a vision what it could be.

Yeah. They may think it's annoying and blazers. Yeah. Exactly. Oh, yeah. Interesting. Yeah.

K. And then what do you think, the role of public art in Mountain View should be? So top response, I guess, kind of tied is providing opportunities for people to experience art that enriches their lives, which I think is really similar to the the mission that BAC created for the strategy. And then our economic development team's personal favorite is bringing a sense sense of whimsy and delight Mhmm. To everyday spaces and then supporting the growth of the.

It's striking that almost I mean, all of them are pretty similar at least that the last five Yeah. Are kinda interchangeable. Yeah.

This one's always a little tough for people to respond to, and we give them an option to choose more than one because of that tug and pull on what what role public art really does does have in a city. I'd also say, like, in all of the slides that we've been looking at, when you think back about what the council priorities are for the city, so of the 25, 27 priorities, they they they align with with these what what how people are responding. Right? That Right. Recognizing that the city of Mountain View is culturally diverse and making sure that it's a safe place for our community, being really thoughtful about public space and understanding the history of of of the city of Mountain View, and then recognizing that it is a it's an innovative an innovative city that's all constantly consistently trying to make sure that there's economic opportunities for businesses.

And that's my words, not theirs, that I'm using based off of what I've read. So I I think that there is a great tie in between what you as VAC has come to get has put together for us as we've started this project, what the council really sees for the city without thinking about art. Right? Because they probably weren't thinking about art, and it really does tie in. And then what the community members have provided us in their responses to the surveys, both through visual dots and through, through checked off surveys. So just wanted to provide that input.

And just a little,

actually, problem

who responded. So most mostly residents. And I think this was another one that was kind of a multi option question. But there were a lot of write ins too where people people kind of responded that they were a resident, but they were a past resident or they they visit there, but it's not visitors. Funny how people decide to do that.

But then the age range, it's a little bit more even on the on the survey. A lot less people 18 and in their early twenties. But, I mean, the the vision boarding between the vision boarding and the survey, we've got a really nice range of responses. Is this a summary of, some of the feedback that we heard at the artist stakeholder meeting? So just pulling some things out here.

I'm streamlining the public art processes. I'm doing perceptions and events for exhibitions. I'm supporting growth of local artists. I'm facilitating network networking and vendor search was specific. And another thing that came out of that conversation was with insurance.

It's kind of going through city processes using art as a conduit of connection. That was a a big point of discussion, during the meeting, and, you know, making sure that art is representative of different people in the community and that it, is a tool to help together.

How many artists were you looking?

Amanda, did we have, like, 20?

Yeah. It was around 20.

Yeah. Yeah.

It was it was pretty good. And I think I think everyone in the meeting spoke too, which was a big Yeah. Can be hard sometimes, but we had a chance, I think, to talk with everyone. Many people I think most people had, some connection back to Mountain View, whether they had applied for, a project or participated in the exhibitions or have done a public art.

Right.

Yeah.

But I think the the conversation was really positive. It was really good. And it felt like everything the artists were saying, we we understood we're in alignment with. And so that that was Yeah.

I feel that they had room to speak their mind, on things that maybe they've been frustrated with. Right? And I think that's always an important space to create for artists in situations like this. And so it was great to to hear them speak up about the permit process and what's happening behind the scenes and wanting to wanting more of a connection with the staff liaison. Right? So things of that sort that happen kind of even the behind the scenes from BAC, right, because it's staff that's working on that side of things. So to hear kind of where they would like to see changes was incredibly helpful when it comes to to specific parts of of recommendations and and and policy and process.

So just, we've shown this slide before, but just bringing it back up again. I'm taking all of all of the feedback from the community and seeing, you know, what what value can it add to kind of goals and action items that the VAC created, and then how do we make sure that those goals and action items are things that we feel, that staff have capacity to be able to do and not just capacity, but I'm really looking at, like, locality of it. And and, yeah,

so Alignment with other plans and work plans and strategies.

But for the other three stakeholder meetings, I don't know. The other three.

Yeah. We met with, the Downtown Business Association, the Developers. Stakeholder meeting developers, and, we we we did speak with community school music and arts student. Okay.

And staff. Right?

Yeah. And staff. Yeah. So this is kind of a high level look at how, what the feedback looks like, and kind of the direction it's it's taking us and and where how we're thinking of including the feedback strategy. You know, I think I have I was asked the question on what from the community outreach differs from the bidding wars committee strategy, and I don't think there was anything that was substantially different or in conflict with Cool.

The strategy that the VAC put together. And so, yeah, I think it's it's just reassuring that the community grows similarly, and and really wants to see nicer program. So we can walk through these. I'm gonna kinda go back and forth between two documents as I go through these summaries, and I mean, I'll have you help me help fill in the, any blanks that I'm missing or if there's any other comments that we have on on these items. But so as we're looking through oh, go ahead. Well, and

I just I just wanna just note about the public outreach piece. I think for me, it's been really exciting to see how much the community wants to engage. And so I really applaud the BAC's effort to engage with the community as part of this process because, clearly, the community's been hungry to tell us about all the stuff they want from art. So I think it's been just a really nice part of the development of this public art strategy and and all clearly, I mean, all the numbers of people that are. So it really

I think

it really further strengthens all the work that's all the elements that are coming together for the ultimate creation of the strategy.

I I think it also kinda reinforces why council said let's relook at the our strategy.

Yeah. And the new

And bring

the community in to the conversation.

Everybody's Totally. If it's great.

Alright. So I'll start walking through these. And, yeah, Amanda, if there's anything you wanna fill in, please. Just. And so first thing, making the program workable, streamlining it. This is talking about the operations of how we're working with artists, the contracting process. It's overall reducing administrative barriers. And we talked about mural permits at the artist stakeholder meeting and and what that looks like. And so we've heard from the we've heard from the community. We heard from the BAT, and we feel it too.

There needs to be some improvements on general operations and delivery. I'm looking at, so evaluating artist economic sustainability. So this is something this is related back to compensation. What are the fees for artists to participate in our program? I'm looking at the fees, insurance. You know, are we making sure that what we're painting artists is also reflecting kind of what what they're having to paint.

And first one, the whole room streamline, do they give us some, feedback suggestion?

Let's see.

When they if I heard that correctly, I think I heard did they give are you asking if the artist gave suggestions on how to streamline?

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

So yeah. So some of them provided examples of other experiences they had in different cities. And I I think for them, their biggest concern was a consistent maybe check ins. What and and and when I say consistent, it doesn't mean, like, weekly or or even monthly, but rather this ability of a bimonthly or something to that degree where there was a a would you agree, Kristen, what that you heard the same thing that they really were looking for that that connection with staff to make sure that there was an understanding of how a project was moving forward?

Yeah. You know, there there were comparisons with Palo Alto, which has a team of five people as part of their public art for four

and a half

to five people as part of the public art program. And, so they're able to

Reach out and ask.

Yeah. Yeah. And to me,

the word is not streaming. It's more transparency.

Oh, sure. Yeah. Yeah. And I actually think we have in the description and, in the memo. I mean, I think we say cost transparency in here, but I think, yeah, transparency is part of that. Mhmm. Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

And and most probably need to be addressed when you get higher.

Yeah. Yeah. So, the city council did a further week, the addition of an art staff, a full time art staff. So, yeah, they're having a single person focusing solely on arts will certainly add value and time to to be able to manage the the communication and kind of interaction with the city and and to be that that sole liaison.

But as is our process, like the call for artists or review, these are fine.

Yes. I don't think then. The

the strategy is gonna definitely provide some feedback on how to maybe better streamline it just based on what the best practices that we are aware we know of in the field on a national level, and that's something that we'll be working with Amanda and Christian on as we as they review the draft once we turn that in at the end

of the month.

Okay. Yeah. Yeah. And this is this summary is again, it's a high level kind of look at the feedback. Would it's too deep for us. No. It's okay. It's good good questions, though. Good questions. But Yeah. But yeah. And I I mean, I think the call for artists, the the process came up during the artist stakeholder meeting. I can't I actually can't recall what what was said about it if you do, Amanda.

I don't recall right now. I'm sorry.

Yeah. It's okay. Okay. But I think process in general. I mean, I think we may have asked the question on well, actually, no. I've asked Artis in the past if there's other programs that they've worked with instead of call for entry that they preferred. There's so many out there. I honestly haven't been able to get the answer. So but I think that's gonna be part of the the research that's done. Okay.

So so we talked about, operational streamlining, looking at fair pay, compensation for artists, and and just really, I think, supporting, I guess, growing the arts ecosystem. So supporting, art artist's economic mobility would be part of that. So some of the feedback we heard at the stakeholder meeting, when we're looking at, like, growing an arts ecosystem, similar to how we provide support to just our storefront business owners and businesses and commercial spaces across the community and, sending them to resources like small business development center, being able to provide some of that similar type of support and helping, especially emerging artists learn how to go through processes with cities or artists who are getting into, the public art realm, after practicing and doing different practices, previously, just being able to provide more hands on guidance or facilitating some sort of work. We're not with the

possible idea. Like, every year or twice a year, we do a webinar. Like, we're web webinar towards all the either in webinar and explain to them how how do we select arts

Yeah.

To to include them in the process so it it has some transparency to them. We show them the back end how how we look at the cafe's interface.

Yeah. I like that idea. We've talked about, I mean, we've we've done some outreach with businesses on, just how to how to participate in the public RFP process. That's been a little bit more of a general, outreach in doing that, but I think doing that with our decision. Yeah. How do we score? And the next one is so encouraging private space activation. So Amanda mentioned council work plan items. I know this is a council work plan item. This is something we talked about at the with the visual arts community and or at the meetings, and, this come up in in the strategy too.

Yeah. I'm so finding ways to partner with private property owners or businesses, and I'm holding some sort of activation to support. And then investing in experiential programming. So let me just add one thing because

I knew if I don't say, I forget. Recently, I saw that Los Altos High is conservative. Public or private. But the city didn't own them. It's the probably the school district owned them. They had a huge mural, and the principal was, like, very proud of it. And they I guess they paid for the material, and the artist came to came to it for them. And some of the art major student also got a chance to do something smaller assignments in this huge mural. So school would be like a because they have the wall. They have a huge wall. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. I think community murals is something we've heard from, in the outreach too, and I I think that would actually be a part of this, like, experiential programming and looking at ways to do, and, like, a temporary art activation or would be kind of maybe an event where inviting students or something. And yeah. And you

have to always imagine. I'm just saying that's the space. Like, where do we start? Okay. Mean, like, that's one one access point in this.

Yeah. Yeah. And

then aligning infrastructure or art and infrastructure integration. So, again, something we've talked about and something we heard from the community is, like, adding in that functional art. I'm making sure that if we're, you know, we're getting a public art piece for capital improvement project, the design, is done the art design is done at a similar time as the capital project design, and I'm just trying to make it work, seeing those integration.

That also the functional art? Yeah. Science with

Benches. Yeah.

Benches, etcetera, which you do have to mindset. Mhmm.

Yeah. And then, so using art to create identity and belonging. So this is really art as a place making tool. So what have we heard? Suggestions we heard were, like, painting, crosswalks, bike lanes, and shading and seating.

So this is kind of going back into functional too. But, and then I'm using art as a tool to help people feel like they belong, reflecting all the different communities in Mountain View, the history of Mountain View, mentoring stories, specifically, and we heard, you know, stories, but we do have, or discussion about displacement in the community too. Committing to excellence and quality. So this was one thing we heard. So just maintaining high standards for artistic quality, making translations are durable, appropriate for, the site.

Some of the comments around this talked again about some functional arts. I think that came up quite a bit. Yeah, and trying not to have things like pop art. So we've talked about and visual arts committee has as an action item in the thread here. Creating it, like, an inventory of the art and, having more more balanced look at how we're, commissioning art and how we're selecting it for different areas of the city.

Planning for maintenance and cleanliness. So just integrate integrating long term care and cleanliness plans into the life cycle of all art pieces. I think we've heard some comments about art pieces that are not in good shape, and and, you know, we we think the city needs to adopt policies around how how we're gonna look.

And that's something that we will also have as part of the appendices. So something around maintenance.

Out of curiosity, is that something that we have now?

No. We don't have we don't have a maintenance policy for Art.

No.

Really, the only policy that we have around art is the present for art policy. Right. And

because the The donation.

Yeah. There's the the policy on accepting gifts to the city, so how how we accept donations from private entities.

Yeah. And we'll be we'll also be providing an appendix item on donations and gifts as well. So and those are obviously will be samples of ones that this, you know, staff can either move forward within the quickly or in the long run.

So are we going to look at the the budget, the percentage, that 5%, whatever it is, we need to, like, come up with a percentage for maintenance.

Is that what we're talking about? Not necessarily. Okay. Yeah. Not necessarily.

So I don't

think we know yet. I think we'll be looking at there's a number of different our our is located in a number of different locations. Some are located in parks. You know, I I think we'll be looking at looking holistically at what the needs are and where where the funding is. It's possible we'd have to identify new funding or and a variety of things in the public art strategy.

I think, Amanda, maybe you can talk about this a little bit. But I know in in the VAC strategy, there there is a you identified the creation of a, like, a public fund or something, and I'm I'm to send our books community, and I have talked about that extensively and being able to build it. And, You know, we we have there's a variety of capital improvement projects. Is there a way to that part doesn't make sense in all of them. Is there a way to be able to use some of that funding for maintenance?

So it wouldn't necessarily designating 5% of a budget towards maintenance, but it would be you know, maybe there is a bucket of funding that's coming from other projects where it make doesn't make sense to be able to then maintain an update or that is now either broken or something, you know, something needs to be addressed if it's yeah.

Exactly. Yeah. You're absolutely right, Kristen, is that it's really identifying where funds we can be pulled that can be pulled, from to to put into the public guard fund that would support maintenance, ongoing maintenance, and potentially, collect collection, you know, depending on on how we move forward with it. So I think that one is, like, getting a little in the leads on that one, but there'll be much more part of that, actually, we're gonna have some of that conversation tomorrow when we when we meet with Kirsten. So

This is so you're thinking, like, going from a, project project by project specific funding to you you have a pool of funds that are available. These projects, however, attributed to let me decide how to express that use those funds across the city.

Yeah. Yeah. That that would be one way to be able

to do that. Think the pools could make better sense because each part will cross very differently to maintain. Some just dust it off, But then I'm thinking that butterfly, someone have to get on top of it to dust it off. Right?

I think it also has a deal with locations. Right? Because not every location at a CIP project occurs makes sense for public art. Right? And so if we if there is an understanding from the city, you know, internally that that pulling from from certain projects at a certain threshold budget budget threshold, and putting into a fund and then using that fund to maybe determine down the line, we'll we will do a public art project based from the public art fund that was derived from the CIP projects. You know? It it kind of just flows in that way. So that's what we've been talking about with with Christian.

Yeah. Then the last again, these are just themes. So how these how these themes are then integrated back into the strategy, there's gonna be a lot more detailed information. We're we're literally pulling items from the BAC strategy right now. I'm trying to align everything. So the last thing in here is building awareness and making public participation easy. So we've heard from people as we did the pop ups, there were a lot of people, unfortunately, who had no idea about anything. They've seen the public art in the city. They don't know what it's from.

Or Yeah.

Yeah. So there there isn't a broad understanding of what the City Of Mountain View public art program is and how it exists and lives in in the city. So just doing more public awareness. This could be branding. It could be, just, you know, how we engage with the community and and put information out and art and celebrate art and and and making participation in making participation in how we select art too.

Yeah. And it's a, you know, opportunity for opportunities to even, store future, BAC members, you know, encourage them to be at these meetings since they are public meetings, you know, experiences like that.

The city has a those festivals, those gatherings, the German market. I don't believe we ever had a boost in any of these WIC. So that's one way to do it.

Yeah.

So for us.

Any other questions, please?

I was I was just wondering, those 10 points, this is kind of the most important overlap the strategy or kind

of the first 10

things you identified, or how Yeah. I that weighed it?

We haven't weighted it, honestly. It hasn't been this hasn't been weighted. I think this is just the best way we could summarize the feedback that we got. I'm I'm sure there's some feedback that might not be bucketed into these items, but, but this was the

of a higher level.

Emerging trends. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Yeah.

And I know as we as we continue on and and finish up, the final document, there there's gonna be things we're looking at maybe a little bit differently too. But but this is, you know, as we finished up, summarizing all of feedback. These are the the things that we gathered. Yeah. But I I think it to me, it's just exciting to see how how in alignment everyone is.

And, again, like Amanda said, like, how excited the community is and whether or not they knew what the public art program was. People have opinions on art in the city, and and they were very eager to share them. And, so, yeah, it was to hear all all the feedback and fun to start looking at how how this all comes together too and how we take feedback and and just build on what you've already put together.

It's really reinforcing. Right? I mean, we did best practices. Right? Our strategy is a compilation of best practices of what we could find. Yeah. So I think that still stands, but it's still it's so great to see kinda okay. This is where we should put the spotlight on. Right? This is this is if people really identify. And they don't know don't have the whole picture that they But it's sort

of agreeing or enforcing or, you know, what we came up with. Yeah. Absolutely. The artist round table, everything came out of that. Yeah. I

think it's great because it shows that, like, the entire city is is in agreement, right, in in regards to, like, those who that we were able to reach out to and be at all those locations that typically the program has not been present at. And and then also being present with with council members whenever they would show up at tables and and and those kind of experiences. And, you know, just based off of I know we've said this before, but Barbara and I working on this in 2019, it sounds like this is the time that this was supposed to happen, that it was not supposed to happen in 2019 initially when we first started this, that there needed to be this more in-depth from from you all, from the VAC, to kinda do do what you do and show the city and council that this that we need to go to that next step. And so I think, really, that's all to say that it's come full circle, at least for me. And and I really I really am so happy that we've gotten to the point where we are and that we've been able to speak with the people that we've had because we weren't able to do that in 2019.

And and that along with with those outside of city hall and inside city hall, it's been such a positive response to moving forward and how the suggestions we have provided on how to move forward, whether it was staffing or financial steps, has been have been been positive for us.

So looking at next steps. So we're we're in the process of of putting this draft together, and, again, really taking BAC strategy seriously, and I'm thinking about how we can make sure that because you you did include all of the best practices, honestly, just making sure that, the things that are in in the final document are are things that the the different groups in the city. So we are working really hard to bring this back

to the visual arts committee.

And so this will be, at the June meeting, we'll have the draft for you to review. We'll go over and take comments and feedback. We're gonna refining the strategy from there, over the summer, and we are on the council agenda tentatively October.

So should we plan June to be online?

Yes. Yeah. June's gonna be online.

Would it make sense to do another strategy subcommittee meeting?

Yeah. We can look begin. Yeah.

Kinda We can

do that.

Yeah. So that we're kinda aligned

along the way. If you do that, I would recommend that

We have that already going.

Yeah. Okay.

You know, because it will be Jesse, Regina, me, but since Jesse is now

Jesse's not here. But

Not here anymore.

It's it's

the two of us with. Exactly.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. We'll yeah. We'll look

into That would be good.

Yeah. Yeah.

Any other comments, questions?

Great work. Yeah. Like the the presentation earlier for all these outreach.

Yeah.

That was really good. Thanks so much, Amir.

Thank you.

And, Kristin.

Thank you

so much.

Every outreach event within a lot of hours.

You you guys have made it easy for us because you you you had the blueprints already there for us to kinda move forward with. We just had to make sure that it moved forward. Yeah. That was great. We appreciate it.

But you added the ability to reach out to the community

Yeah. Yeah.

Rather than Right. Bring it on.

That's the part.

We we weren't able to do. So it's great that you're able to do that, and then everybody's singing the same same book, same same song, which is even more with the line.

I love it when it happens like this when it's a team effort because instead of it being roadblocks. Yeah.

Do you know the art person? Art art coordinator? Will that person come in during this process, or is that probably something

Oh, yeah.

What happens after the strategy?

When Yeah. We're we're not a 100% sure yet. They're still HR is doing their HR work and so I think we'll learn more and probably Because

that will be potentially important or interesting how that person pay in or Yeah. Yeah. What point that person?

It'll go slower than we will.

It will probably go much slower than I can imagine right now.

The the biggest milestone is having the position approved and funded by council. So that's a huge win. That's a big That's

big Yeah.

To win this. Okay.

And they'll have this plan to as as a, you know, as a as a as a book to use as a benchmark as they go along. Right? And that's really what the plan's for. Right? For them to check off, okay. This is the next thing. This is the next thing.

I I I would think it also would help worth it for doing. Oh, so to say, to recruit

talent for

this position.

Yeah. Mean,

to oh, this is gonna be an exciting position to have.

Yeah. So

so you get you'll get talent

at one. Yeah.

Hope it all works

out. Yeah. The

the multicultural festival is coming up in May. Any chance of us starting at the first booth there? Something worth looking into?

I I think I will be out of town for that. So, yeah, so I'm not sure if we'll I'm not sure if we'll be able to have

a new person here. It's a staffing thing.

A staffing. Yeah.

It has become a staff capacity, and we wanna be we need to have materials prepared and, you know, so I think right now, you know, our focus is on getting the strategy together, but certainly one of the action items can be outreach and, you know Outreach and Prioritizing a couple events to be at. Yeah.

Yeah. It's a good idea. Yeah.

Bye.

Bye. Thank you.

So moving on to new business.

Actually, I think I went through all the things. So public art staff added. Is arts for creativity month, and, we present the proclamation to the community school of music and arts, and do some more. So media pushing around that. Few other updates. So the Lot 12 affordable housing project, we have the ad hoc committee was selected for this. We haven't heard anything yet from the developer on the public art component of the project. Not to say that it's not moving forward. We have haven't seen they have closed off the Mhmm. The site, and they are starting to do some work.

There will be a groundbreaking ceremony in May. I expect there this the team is kind of fully engaged in getting those things done, and so we'll probably be a little bit behind schedule on what that public archival looks like, but it it's still going to move. It's the the Lot 12 affordable housing project is in the parking lot. Right? Oh, in Bryant.

And then, other exciting news. So last night, the city council approved some updates to the facade improvement program. We were, we did have a mural component to the facade grant, and it was a project that would be approved through the grant. They beat it hard last year with the contractor state licensing board issue, because they would be using public funds on on private property. So they would have to follow that process with the exemption now.

We asked council last night to, one, increase the amount of funding that the city is contributing to projects. So instead of a 50% match, we requested an increase to a 75% match from the city. So business property owner would be only 25% of the cost of the design project. And we asked to create a stand alone mural grant, to be able to market it separately, promote work work with people a little bit differently. So through this, we, are actually going to be able to work with an artist.

They they would need the sign off of a business and property owner, but an artist could come in and apply. Understanding that some business owners don't wanna deal with the the paperwork of it. They're running their business. So if an artist is interested in putting a girl up downtown, they get the sign off from the business owner or the property owner, and, we can provide them with a grant update for that. So it's

fully funded then?

Yeah. So we have, I think it was about a 120,000 in the in the project for the the grant funding bucket. So yeah.

And how much

can a business get?

It's up to $15,000. Yeah. And that would be 75% of their project cost. Yeah.

Certainly smaller projects. We've done smaller projects. Yeah. That's the math, but that's the maximum. Yeah.

That's great.

That's that's, again, I think. Yeah. Very exciting. Yeah. One of council's directions was kind of focusing on place make opportunities for place making. And, and so I think, you know, this would be a key component of having this meeting to different shopping centers and commercial areas.

So Which was with murals, I've in a couple of cities, like in Seattle, murals, but they're on frames. So you can change them. So it's not like you're

Yeah.

Frozen. It's it's a it's a it's an easel or or a gallery where large venues are hung up, and they can change an offer. The other thing I saw in Palo Alto recently is they've installed, meals, like, bills, a bookstore in that passageway that have an expiration date, a two year expiration date. So the idea is you're you're putting something up, and then we'll lay it'll stay there, but it will be renewed over a period of time. Okay. That's right. I take a look look at that because that that that I thought was really, really, really good because it allows to come experimental. And, again, this gets renewed over over a period of time. And then you can

take it away.

You can take it away.

You So paint over it.

You don't have to paint it over. Go buddy, put on something else. So that's well, that's once again, it's using the buildings as as a gallery wall. Uh-huh. And then they they they for for the stencil.

Yeah. And then we always have new art.

Yeah. Exactly. Fact,

because that is how stiff but it got steel.

Yeah. And it doesn't need all the maintenance either.

Yeah. Thank you.

And I assume we would anticipate having, like, a supply issue. Like, they would I don't know what the precedents are. Like, we would want to have enough people that would want to be making murals, I assume.

I don't

just wanna I just wanna caution you not to discuss items that aren't on here.

Oh, I'm sorry. Sorry.

So we're we're getting into a little bit of a discussion territory, but we can take that idea

Yeah.

And note it down. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. Okay. I know it's so hard when the ideas are good. Well, I'm good. Those updates.

Those updates. Okay. I have a question. I take a weekly hike in shoreline at shoreline and started at the kite lot and then walk out into the bay, and we noticed two new trails. One well, one old trail that got fixed because the bridge now connects back to shoreline.

And we always take that one trail that just ends with the bench, like, in the middle of the bay. But parallel to that is also a new trail, completely new, newly made that kinda loops around back into shoreline, not the bridge, but through the Bay. So two new trails, actually, and on one new trail and a new bridge. And I was wondering if we shouldn't shouldn't have been contacted when that was because now they're done. And I couldn't really find much on the city website about those two trails.

And I was I was just wondering, like, isn't that a CRP project we should maybe known about? Maybe not, but I was just wondering because they're brand new. And I don't know if they've even officially they're open, but officially dedicated or something. But

Yeah. I'm not sure

They're brand new.

About the trailer you're talking about?

Just describe it. It's it's hard to I cannot Okay. Because I think I went to

I was I think I was at the opening of that.

Because it's it's you know, when you walk towards Sunnyvale from the kite lot Yeah. Yeah. And then out into the bay.

There is a weird system

out there.

There. So could be that it's funded. It's not funded by Sydney.

It's it's Stevens Creek Trail, actually. It's the continuation of Stevens Creek Trail. So when it passed Google, right, when it starts going in into the bay, that there's an old part of the trail, there's a brand new trail

Mhmm.

Right in parallel to that. Plus, there's a new bridge that because there's a third trail that just loops back to Shoreline Park and immediately doesn't go out in the bay, does go back to the golf links and everything. And that was really muddy and a bit treacherous to pass in the past, and now there's a brand new, like, round birch, like, turns like this there, which is also brand new.

Yeah. We'll ask about it and see.

Yeah. So I I was just wondering

chance that it's just not funded through Cindy or there

Yeah. Exact yeah. Mean, I I just saw that since since I just saw that. Okay. That's if that's the case. But, yeah, that could mean that it's not a CIP.

Could I inquire about what is the status with the Chase Bank for or is it no. Don't happen. It's happening now.

You meant the 700, El Camino? Is that is that 700?

Chase Bank on before Euro? El Camino and the Castro. Yeah. The and and the bike not the bike shop anymore. It's the Ginkgo furniture store. I see it this time as moving sales, so they're moving. So I

believe that project is coming before council later.

So so those are two different projects.

Yeah. They're two projects. They can go the one on this, the downtown side of El Camino. Yeah. The the furniture store. Furniture store. That one, I believe, is going to council later this spring. We don't we I don't know the status of the Chase Bank project.

I believe it's still moving forward, but yeah. But we I don't know any I don't know otherwise, but I don't know.

Yeah. Because we Chase Chase Bank was Yeah. With an update, and and was approved and went to council a few months ago. Yeah. So they're preserving bureaus and keeping actually the the arches, the Stanford arches. Oh. So so the the developer listened and feedback and took action to preserve them,

both the mural and the Arch. Okay. Okay.

The arches or the theme of

the arches.

We can provide a link to the downtown updates that are provided to the downtown committee on some of these development projects.

Yeah. Because it didn't come up to into our discussion.

When when when

Yeah. It's private.

It is private.

Didn't we not talk about the mural on the on the facade? No.

They they no. They the people who wanted it came to us and alerted us to

They did public outreach on their own?

They yeah.

And Okay.

But but

we're not entitled to. Gotcha.

Yeah. It caused some members to to submit

Okay. Feedback.

Developer did hear and changed their edit positive.

Okay. So new business. Number seven.

You were just

nine. We had nine. Oh, great. Good.

Seven's seven.

Still stuck there. Oh, heck.

It stopped. It stopped again. I think the clock

I think it oh, it

look