YEAH IT WILL. BUT NO, I MEAN, IF YOU CAN SNEAK IN AND SEE IT, JUST STAND AT THE BACK. IT'S 
          [1. Call to Order]
          [00:00:05]
REALLY. WE'RE ALL HERE. I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AT 630 AND START THE MEETING. IT'S THE JUNE 24TH MEETING OF THE ARTS COMMISSION IS NOW IN SESSION. MARIANNE AND SARAH ARE GOING TO 
          [2. Receive public comments, limit 2 minutes per individual speaker]
BE LATE, AND TIFFANY IS NOT GOING TO BE PRESENT TONIGHT. ITEM TWO IS WE HAVE RECEIVED PUBLIC COMMENTS. WE ACTUALLY HAVE ONE PERSON HERE TO SPEAK TO US AND WE HAVE ONE EMAIL. SO I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND GIVE THE FLOOR TO CALEB MCGUIRE FOR TWO MINUTES. MR. MCGUIRE. OKAY. 
          WELCOME TO THE ARTS COMMISSION. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE BEING HERE. HOW ARE YOU DOING, SIR? SO I HAVE RECENTLY SENT A EMAIL TO WANI AT THE DUNCANVILLE OUTREACH MINISTRY, AND THEY JUST DECIDED NOT TO GO FORWARD WITH THE ACTUAL MURAL. HOWEVER, THE LOCATION CAN ACTUALLY BE AT ANOTHER PLACE, AND I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF WORKING WITH MR. KOONCE ABOUT SEEING. WHERE COULD I PUT THE MURAL AT? I CURRENTLY HAVE IT ON MY PHONE, BUT I'LL DESCRIBE IT. IT HAS A THE FOCUS OF IT IS DUNCANVILLE IS WHERE CHAMPIONS RISE. AND THEN I'M ALSO USING USING ROSES AS A, I GUESS, A SYMBOLIC MEANING. WITH THAT RISE AND ROSE. BUT ALSO THEY'RE ALSO, YOU SEE, TWO HANDS. ONE IS MORE A DARKER COMPLEXION, ONE IS MORE LIGHTER COMPLEXION. SO THERE'S LIKE A LEVEL OF DIVERSITY. AND INSIDE THOSE HANDS ARE THE CHILD THAT'S RISING, YOUNG BOY, WHO'S SMILING. AND THEN AT THE BOTTOM WE SEE WATERS SPLIT WHERE YOU HAVE CHILDREN, AT THE BOTTOM OF VARIOUS COLORS TO REFLECT THAT IMAGE. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO DOING THAT, BUT ALSO SENDING IN FOR THE APPLICATION. AND I'M JUST BEING A VOICE FOR THOSE TO BEING A VOICE FOR THOSE THAT MAY NOT KNOW HOW TO ACTUALLY START USING THEIR VOICE. SO I'M PRESSING YOU. THAT'S ESSENTIALLY MR. PERFECT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. NOT ON THE AGENDA, BUT MR. BREWER WAS ONE OF OUR PARTICIPATING ARTISTS FOR JUNETEENTH AS PART OF OUR OUR ROUNDTABLE. SO JUST REALLY QUICK ROUND OF APPLAUSE FOR HIM FOR THE ARTS COMMISSION. THANK YOU, MY FRIEND. THANK YOU. LITERARY AND LITERARY NIGHT. ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. WE ALSO HAVE A AN EMAIL I NEED TO READ FOR THE RECORD, IT'S DATED JUNE 23RD, 2025. IT'S FROM MARK GRAHAM. IT WAS SENT TO THE CITY COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER AND ME. THE SUBJECT IS ARTS AND CULTURE. BESIDES MY PASSION FOR CREATING A TRUE NATURE PRESERVE IN DUNCANVILLE, SEEING ARTS AND CULTURE BLOSSOM HERE HAS LONG BEEN SOMETHING I WANT TO SEE AS FAR BACK AS 2018. THE LAD PROJECT, AS WELL AS ATTEMPTING TO PROMOTE ART HERE. IT WAS TAKEN ON BY A HANDFUL OF LIKE MINDED RESIDENTS. IT WAS TOTALLY GRASSROOTS. ANY IDEAS WERE WELCOMED. IT WAS MAINLY CONCENTRATED ON DOWNTOWN AND MAIN STATION AND FRANKLY, SADLY, IT DID RUFFLE SOME FEATHERS. SHOCKING I KNOW. SO PROBABLY TOO MUCH HAPPENED TOO SOON IN GETTING DOWNTOWN BUSINESSES TO BUY IN WAS DIFFICULT. THAT SAID, NATURE PRESERVE DID HAPPEN DUE TO A LOT OF THOSE THAT JOINED US IN 2018 FOR PROMOTION OF ARTS. ALSO STAYED INVOLVED WITH THE NATURE PRESERVE EFFORTS. THE COMMUNITY NEEDS TO BUY IN AND HELP MAKE THE ARTS HAPPEN. 
          BONDING BETWEEN ARTISTS AND COMMUNITY IS VITAL. SO TO SHOW AN EXAMPLE OF THAT HAPPENING IN A VERY POSITIVE WAY, LET ME SHARE A NOVEL IDEA. DRIFT ON THE ROAD. THIS IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT BRIDGES THE GAP BETWEEN ARTISTS AND COMMUNITY. AS ARTISTS AND RESIDENTS, THEY CAMP OUT. THINK CEDAR HILL STATE PARK WHILE LEARNING THE COMMUNITY, DOING WORKSHOPS, CREATING THEIR INDIVIDUAL TAKES ON LIFE IN WHATEVER AREA THEY ARE WORKING ON. AND THEN HE PROVIDED AN INSTAGRAM LINK AND A LINK TO THEIR DOCUMENTARY OF THEIR WORK ON YOUTUBE. MY FAVORITE IS THE RIVER OTTER MURAL, WHICH HITS HOME WITH A NATURE PRESERVE. IN ANY EVENT, THIS IS A UNIQUE WAY TO BRING ART THE FREE THOUGHT OF ARTISTS WHILE TRANSFORMING A CITY CULTURALLY. THAT IS A WIN WIN IN MY BOOK AND IT SIGNED MARK GRAHAM AND HE PROVIDES HIS TELEPHONE NUMBER AND HIS PRESENCE IS WITH US TONIGHT. I'LL SUPPORT HIM TO. EVERYONE'S. WELCOME TO THOSE FINISHING UP. 
          [3. The Arts Commission to consider the following Minutes]
OKAY. IS THAT IT, MR. HANDY? THAT IS OKAY. I'M GOING TO MOVE ON TO ITEM THREE. THE ARTS COMMISSION NEEDS TO CONSIDER MINUTES ON TWO DIFFERENT DATES. ONE IS ON FIVE 1925 IT WAS ARTS COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL JOINT MEETING MINUTES. AND ON FIVE 2725 THE ARTS COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING MINUTES. ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS DISCUSSION? OKAY, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. I 
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MOVE TO ACCEPT. MR. BROWNING MADE A MOTION A SECOND, SECONDED BY ANGELA. RAISE YOUR HAND. 
          EVERYONE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION TO ACCEPT. UNANIMOUS. OKAY. ITEM FOUR IS COMMISSIONER REPORTS. 
          [4. Commissioners Reports]
I'M GOING TO GO. I'M GOING TO START. MINE IS GOING TO BE BRISK. THERE'S SOME IMPORTANT DATES THAT WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT RIGHT NOW. AFTER TODAY, WE HAVE BASICALLY TWO BUSINESS MEETINGS LEFT. WE HAVE A SPECIAL MEETING ON JULY 8TH TO JULY 16TH. SORRY TO REVIEW GRANT APPLICATIONS. OUR REGULAR MEETING, WHICH IS SCHEDULED ON JULY 22ND, IS ACTUALLY GOING TO BE THE SAME NIGHT AS THE COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING JOINT SESSION WITH CITY COUNCIL AND THE REST OF THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. SO WE HAVE AUGUST AND WE HAVE SEPTEMBER TO TAKE ACTION ON THINGS. I WOULD RECOMMEND IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT, ANY POLICIES, ANYTHING THAT YOU WANT THIS COMMISSION AS IT IS NOW TO CONSIDER FOR RECOMMENDATIONS TO CITY COUNCIL TO BE THINKING ABOUT PUTTING DROPPING THINGS IN OUR INBOX SO WE CAN REVIEW THINGS. SO AUGUST CAN BE A HARD WORK. WE MIGHT ALSO THINK ABOUT IF YOU WANTED TO DO. A SECOND SPECIAL MEETING TO DO BUSINESS IN JULY. WE CAN CONSIDER THAT. JULY 30TH I'M HAVING A MEETING WITH OFFICER ARIAS AND CURTIS FERGUSON TO TALK ABOUT ARTS AND PUBLIC SAFETY. AND THIS IS A RESULT OF THE ARTS AND COMMUNITY ROUNDTABLE. HE HE PITCHED A COUPLE OF IDEAS THAT SEEMED TO RESONATE WELL WITH THE COMMUNITY. AND SO WHILE WE'RE STILL HERE, I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE SOME OF THOSE DISCUSSIONS FORWARD. AND THEN I AM PROUD TO SAY THAT ARTS FUNDING AT THE STATE LEVEL MADE IT THROUGH THE VETO TIMELINE FOR THE 89TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION. IT'S OFFICIAL THERE'S 7.9% INCREASE TO THE TEXAS COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS. THAT'S A 5.9 MILLION ADDITIONAL TO THE ARTS ORGANIZATION GRANTS AND 2 MILLION ADDITIONAL TO THE CULTURAL DISTRICT PROJECT GRANTS. SO THAT'S SUPER GOOD NEWS. AND THAT IS MY REPORT. MR. BROWN, HOLLY HAGAN. AND SO THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THIS ONE IS CALLED A THOUGHT AND LIGHT HEWN AND CUT FROM WOOD OR STONE TO SHAPE WHAT MINE HAS DREAMED ABOUT, OF SHAPES IN LIFE AND ROUNDED CURVES ONCE THOUGHT ABOUT NOW BROUGHT TO LIGHT, BRUSH AND STROKE ON CANVAS, TIGHT FROM LAYERS LEFT AND SOME TO MIX OF LIGHT AND DARK AND SHAPE AND SHADE OF WHAT WAS THOUGHT IS NOW IN LIGHT. NOTE AND BEAT IN AIR'S DELIGHT. FROM DRUM AND FLUTE AND STRING AND HORN. THE SOUNDS THAT SHAPE IN THOUGHT AND HEART. FOR ALL WHO HEAR TO BRING DELIGHT. ANYTHING TO ADD, VICE CHAIR? DOCTOR PERRY IN LITTLE ROCK I ATTENDED TWO ART OPENINGS WHICH WERE WONDERFUL, ONE AT A MAJOR GALLERY AND ONE WOULD. IT'S KIND OF A AUXILIARY GALLERY THAT ARTISTS COLLABORATED TO SHOW, AND THAT WAS GREAT. JUNETEENTH WAS FANTASTIC, ESPECIALLY WORKING WITH COLLEAGUES WHO WERE THERE AND ARTISTS, AND IT WAS VERY INSPIRING. AND THE THEATER EVENT WAS REALLY WONDERFUL. BUT BE FUN AND I WISH I HAD BEEN MORE INVOLVED FOR YEARS AFTERWARDS. THANK YOU DOCTOR, YOU CATCH YOUR BREATH YET? YES. DO YOU HAVE A REPORT? YES. I WILL START WITH THE. WHERE ARE MY NEIGHBORS? IT WAS AN NEA GRANT. WE WENT ON SUNDAY TO LOOK AT THE PAINTINGS AND THE SCULPTURES MET THE ARTISTS. IT WAS REALLY WONDERFUL. HOWEVER, IT WAS AN NEA GRANT AND I ASSUMED THAT OF COURSE EVERYTHING WOULD BE GREAT. NOT SO. SO FOR THE PAINTINGS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED. THE DIEBOLD'S, THE FOUR BY EIGHTS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED AT THE DALLAS HOUSING AUTHORITY. THE OTHER FOUR ARE IN PERMANENT STORAGE. THE OTHERS ARE FOR SALE, AND THREE HAVE ALREADY GONE. TO GET THEM HERE WOULD NOT REALLY BE POSSIBLE, SO I'M SORRY ABOUT THAT. THE PLAN THING AND THEN ANOTHER. SO I HAVE A POEM AS WELL. WE HAD A SONG AT THE SHARING SACRED SPACES THAT CULMINATED ON ON SUNDAY AS WELL. AND THIS HAS BEEN SET TO MUSIC. I DID NOT SET IT. A FRIEND DID AND IT'S, IT'S ACTUALLY IT'S CALLED BLESS THE 
          [00:10:06]
SPACE BETWEEN US. BLESS THE SPACE BETWEEN US, THAT THERE MAY BE HOPE WITHIN US. BLESS THE SPACE, SPACE BETWEEN US. FILL OUR HEARTS WITH PEACE. BLESS THE SPACE BETWEEN US THAT THERE MAY BE LOVE WITHIN US. BLESS THE SPACE BETWEEN US. FILL OUR HEARTS WITH PEACE. BLESS THE SPACE BETWEEN US THAT IT SHALL DISAPPEAR. LET US SEEK NOW AND ALWAYS THE PATH TO PEACE, TO PEACE. NICE. SINCE YOU STILL HAVE TWO MINUTES LEFT OVER, I WENT TO THIS EVENT AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT. IT WAS SO COOL TO SEE MARY ANN AND HER AND HER. YOU KNOW, SHE'S BOSS. I WAS WATCHING HER FROM THE CHAPEL AND SHE CAME IN. THEY HAD THE CHOIR THERE. THEY HAD THE LADY WHO COMPOSED THEIR THEIR SONG. SHE WALKS IN, SOMEONE SAYS SOMETHING ABOUT HER. AND THE CHOIR DID THIS. 
          THEY GASPED AND APPLAUDED. I'M LIKE, ANYWAY, CONGRATULATIONS. CONGRATULATIONS. IT WAS WONDERFUL. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THERE ON THE END, TIM, TIM, TIM PERRY, NOTHING TO REPORT. OKAY. 
          WHAT? MAYBE THE THEATER DID HAVE ITS SEASON REVEAL YESTERDAY EVENING AND WE ANNOUNCED OUR NEW SEASON. THERE ARE BROCHURES IN THE LOBBY THAT DETAIL THE ENTIRE SEASON BECAUSE THE CITY ALLOWS US TO DO THAT. BUT I ALSO HAVE SOME WITH ME. SO AS WE LEAVE, IF ANYONE DIDN'T GET A BROCHURE LAST NIGHT, YOU WOULD LIKE ONE. I'M SURE YOU'LL WANT TO MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND EVERYTHING. THE OTHER THING THAT'S IMPORTANT AND THE ARTS COMMISSION DID HELP A LITTLE BIT THIS FRIDAY NIGHT AT 730 AND SATURDAY AT 2:00. THE KIDS CLASS AND TEEN SCENE THAT THE THEATER THAT HOSTS THE WORKSHOP. EVERY SUMMER WE ARE FORMING WILLY WONKA, DISNEY'S WILLY WONKA, AND WE HAD LEFTOVER CHIPS AND WATERS AND THINGS FROM JUNETEENTH. AND JUST AS WE DID LAST YEAR, THOSE WERE DONATED TO THE KIDS WHO CONSUME A LOT OF SNACKS. BUT IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO COME SEE THEIR PERFORMANCE, TIM IS CORRECT. THAT'LL BE WALL TO WALL PARENTS AND FAMILY AND EVERYTHING. BUT WE DO HAVE A VIDEO CAMERA FEED TO THE LOBBY AND IT'LL BE A PLACE TO WATCH IT. THOSE KIDDOS DO AMAZING WORK AND KEVIN AND SAMANTHA DO A GREAT JOB TEACHING THEM, SO WE INVITE YOU ALL TO COME. THANKS. 
          THANK YOU. HARDEST WORKING LADY IN THE ARTS COMMISSION. LET'S SEE. WORKED A LITTLE FAST. THAT WAS WONDERFUL. I HAD A FUN TIME WITH THE CITY AND WAS OUT THERE. MAC, TIM, AMY WAS OUT THERE? YEAH, EVERYONE'S OUT THERE. IT WAS HOT. I WASN'T OUT THERE, BUT IT WAS FUN. SO WE DID BALLOON FEST AND THEN WE ALL DID JUNETEENTH. THERE WAS SOMETHING ELSE I WAS GOING TO MENTION. I CAN'T I CAN'T THINK OF IT RIGHT NOW. I'LL TALK MORE ABOUT JUNETEENTH, OKAY. THAT'S FINE. 
          [5. Arts Calendar]
ALL RIGHT. THANKS, ANGELA. I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE ON TO ITEM FIVE, THE ARTS CALENDAR. 
          YOU'RE UP. DOCTOR WILL, AMY ANNOUNCED ABOUT WILLY WONKA, WHICH IS ON THE CALENDAR. AND THE ONLY OTHER THING I'M AWARE OF, ASIDE FROM OUR SPECIAL MEETING ON THE 22ND. SO THAT'S IN LIEU OF OUR REGULAR MEETING. RIGHT. WELL, OUR THE 22ND IS THE DATE OF OUR REGULAR MEETING. I KNOW, BUT IT'S BEING IT'S BEING CONSCRIPTED BY THAT. OKAY. SO WE HAVE WE HAVE ANOTHER SPECIAL MEETING ON THE 16TH TO GO OVER GRANT REQUESTS OR APPLICATIONS. AND THEN WE MIGHT DO THIS THROUGH EMAIL. IF YOU WANT TO DISCUSS HAVING A SECOND SPECIAL MEETING THIS MONTH, IF THERE'S ANY BUSINESS THAT WE NEED TO ATTEND TO, WHAT TIME IS THE MEETING ON THE 16TH? THE 630? OH, 16TH. IS IT 636 SIX? IT'S GOING TO BE HERE. OKAY. SIX. SIX, 6:00 AT THE DUNCANVILLE FIELDHOUSE. OKAY. FIELDHOUSE. OKAY. NOT HERE. THE ONLY OTHER THING IS THAT MARION STARTED A WRITERS GROUP WHICH IS ONGOING AT THE LIBRARY. IT'S THE FIRST MONDAY OF EACH MONTH. AND SHE WAS IN GERMANY LAST TIME. SO I LED THE GROUP. AND I SUPPOSE YOU'LL BE BACK FOR I MEAN, IT'S ONGOING, SO IT'S REALLY INTERESTING. OH, IT. WAS A LOVELY MEETING. AND SO THE LIBRARY IS EVOLVING AS WELL. LOTS OF PROGRAMS. IT IS. AND, YOU KNOW, WE DID WE DID JUNETEENTH AS WELL AS, I MEAN, A BALLOON FEST. WE DID THE CHILDREN'S PROGRAM WITH THE SUMMER READING GROUP. SO THAT WAS A BIG SUCCESSFUL ARTS. YOU KNOW, WE SHOULD NOTE THAT SOMEWHERE, YOU KNOW, IT MAY BE KIND OF LATE IN THE GAME FOR THIS, BUT, YOU KNOW, I MENTIONED THIS THE NEW. CALENDAR THAT THE CITY USES IS AMAZING. IT'S ROBUST. YOU CAN GO ON THERE, SET UP AN ACCOUNT, OR YOU CAN WORK WITH ALEX BECAUSE THESE THINGS ARE ON THE CALENDAR. YOU CAN PUT THEM IN THE CITY CALENDAR AND ANYONE CAN GO AND LOOK AT IT. AND IT'S SUPER HELPFUL. AND IF ANYONE I CAN PASS THIS AROUND, IF ANYONE WANTS TO ADD ANYTHING TO IT, ANYTHING ELSE OLD 
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FASHIONED, ANYTHING ELSE ON THE CALENDAR. THANK YOU. OKAY, I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE ON TO 
          [6. Steering Committee Discussion with City Manager Douglas E. Finch]
ITEM SIX. WE HAVE A SPECIAL GUEST, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE STEERING COMMITTEE DISCUSSION WITH THE ONE AND THE ONLY CITY MANAGER OF THE GREAT CITY OF DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS, MR. DOUG FINCH. WANT TO MAKE PEOPLE WANT TO COME TO ASK, DO YOU GUYS HAVE POETRY AND APPLAUSE AT CITY COUNCIL? SO I WANT TO PUT A PLUG IN. YOU MENTIONED JULY 22ND, AND I DON'T WANT TO STEAL BECAUSE COUNCIL MEMBER GOODEN'S HERE AND SHE'S ON THE STEERING COMMITTEE. WE ACTUALLY HAVE THE DRAFT OF THE NEW 2040 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. ALL RIGHT. AND THAT'S ACTUALLY WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT ON JULY 22ND. AND YOU GUYS, I'M SO EXCITED. THERE ARE SO MANY COMPONENTS IN THE IMPLEMENTATION MATRIX OF THIS THAT RELATE TO ART. I'M NOT GOING TO READ IT ALL, BUT JUST KIND OF GIVE YOU SOME HIGHLIGHTS. LAND USE ACTION SECTION FIVE ZONING UPDATES TO CONSIDER DESIGNATION OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT AND INCLUDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR DESIGN ELEMENTS RELATIVE TO THAT ACTION. ITEM EIGHT DEVELOP AN ARTS AND CULTURE PROGRAMING OPERATIONS PLAN TO ACTIVATE THE ARTS AND CULTURAL DISTRICT. NUMBER 11. DEVELOP A PUBLIC ART PROGRAM TO CREATE AND INSTALL PUBLIC ART THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 13 COMPLETE ARTS AND CULTURAL DISTRICT MASTER PLAN TO CREATE A UNIFIED VISION. STRATEGIC POLICY 17. WORK WITH LOCAL PARTNERS TO ACTIVATE PUBLIC SPACES AND CREATE AN INVITING DOWNTOWN ATMOSPHERE. AND IT GOES ON AND ON AND ON. THIS DOCUMENT IS SPECIFICALLY TO GUIDE US FOR THE NEXT 15 YEARS THROUGH THE YEAR 2040. SO, I MEAN, IT'S MORE THAN JUST TALKING ABOUT IT, BECAUSE NOW IT ACTUALLY BECOMES SOLIDIFIED. THIS IS STILL IN DRAFT FORMAT, BUT ONCE WE GET TO THE POINT WHERE COUNCIL ADOPTS THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, IT'S PART OF THE STRATEGIC ITEMS THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE FOCUSED ON. 
          WE'RE GOING TO BE BUDGETING TO WE'RE GOING TO BE IMPLEMENTING. SO REALLY EXCITED. THERE'S A LOT OF DETAIL ABOUT THAT. IF I CAN JUST COUNCILMEMBER, YOU WANT TO ADD ANYTHING. YOU'RE ON THE STEERING COMMITTEE. NO, YOU COVERED IT ALL. SO THERE'S A LOT EXCITED ABOUT IT. THERE'S A LOT OF EXCITEMENT I WOULD ENCOURAGE IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THE DRAFT, ANY OF THE DOCUMENTS, PARTICULARLY THIS DRAFT, IT'S CHOCK FULL OF ARTS. IF YOU PULL UP IN A PDF, DO A WORD FIND FOR ART. IT'S ALL WOVEN IN THERE. IT'S EXCITING. SO I WANT TO TALK TO YOU A LITTLE BIT TONIGHT ABOUT STEERING COMMITTEE, THE CULTURAL DISTRICT. AND JUST KIND OF LET ME START WITH HIGH LEVEL KIND OF HOW THIS CAME TO BE. SO WHAT HAPPENED WAS WE WERE IN A COUNCIL MEETING AND ACTUALLY, I'M GLAD SHE'S SITTING HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER GOODEN VOLUNTEERED ME IN A COUNCIL MEETING TO MEET WITH CHAIRMAN AND TALK ABOUT WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS FOR THE STEERING COMMITTEE. RIGHT. SO THE COUNCIL, BY RESOLUTION ESTABLISHED AT YOUR RECOMMENDATION. AND THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK. I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE REALLY THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN DOING. BUT YOU GUYS GAVE BIRTH TO THE LOCAL CULTURAL DISTRICT ESSENTIALLY, RIGHT? AND THAT WAS THE RESOLUTION THAT COUNCIL PASSED, I WANT TO SAY, IN FEBRUARY. IT ALSO THE SECOND PART OF THAT RESOLUTION CREATED A STEERING COMMITTEE. THE STEERING COMMITTEE IS KIND OF THE NEXT STEP IN WHERE THE CULTURAL THE LOCAL CULTURAL DISTRICT GOES FROM THERE. SO WHAT THE. LET ME GO BACK FOR A QUICK SECOND THERE, ALEX. SO WHAT THE WHAT THE COUNCIL ACTUALLY ASKED US TO DO WAS FOR ME TO GET TOGETHER WITH RON AND TALK ABOUT THE STEERING COMMITTEE AND MAYBE HOW THAT WOULD GO ABOUT WHAT WOULD BE THE NEXT STEPS OF THAT. AND REALLY ONE OF THE THINGS AND YOU FEEL FREE TO JUMP IN HERE AND DO THIS WITH ME. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STRUCK ME FROM THAT CONVERSATION IS THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS HAPPENING IN THE CITY RIGHT NOW. THERE'S THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, A LOT OF EXCITING THINGS. RIGHT? WE'VE GOT YOU GUYS, THE ARTS COMMISSION WORKING ON STUFF, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS, WORKING ON SOME STUFF. WE'VE GOT SOME MOVEMENT FOR HOT FUNDS AND ALL THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. BUT AND RON ACTUALLY SAID IT TO ME, THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME IN THAT CONVERSATION WHERE WE TALKED ABOUT STRATEGY AND WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS AND WHERE IT COMES. 
          AND SO REALLY MY TAKEAWAY FROM THAT DISCUSSION WITH HIM WAS WE NEED TO KIND OF LAY OUT LIKE A BLUEPRINT OF WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE TO MOVE IT FORWARD. AND SO REALLY AND THIS GRAPHIC KIND OF DEMONSTRATES AND I WILL TALK ABOUT THIS A LITTLE BIT MORE, BUT KIND OF EACH OF EVERY ROLE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ARMSTRONG PARK CULTURAL DISTRICT. RIGHT. OBVIOUSLY THE RESIDENTS OF CITY COUNCIL ARE LEADING US, THE ARTS COMMISSION. YOU GUYS ARE A HUGE PART OF THAT. THE STEERING COMMITTEE WOULD BE THE NEXT STEP IN IN TERMS OF MOVING THE CULTURAL DISTRICT FORWARD. WE HAVE OUR ECONOMIC ENGINE BEING THE DC EDC, WE HAVE THE CITY COUNCIL USING HOP FUNDS TO HELP ADVANCE INITIATIVES. AND THEN REALLY WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, A LITTLE OPPORTUNITY FOR A NEW NOT FOR PROFIT PARTNER. AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE IN JUST A SECOND WITH ALEX. 
          SO REALLY AND THIS IS VERY MUCH A DRAFT DOCUMENT. I HAVEN'T EVEN PRESENTED THIS TO COUNCIL YET. 
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COUNCIL'S GOT SO MANY BIG ITEMS ON THEIR AGENDA RIGHT NOW. IT'S GOING TO TAKE A MINUTE TO GET IT TO COUNCIL. BUT REALLY THE CONCEPT HERE IS TO BREAK OUT, MOVING THE BALL FORWARD FOR THE CULTURAL DISTRICT AND WHAT FUTURE BOUNDARIES WOULD BE OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT INTO A PHASING PLAN AND BASICALLY SOME KEY CORE VALUES OR PILLARS ASSOCIATED WITH THE CULTURAL DISTRICT. AND I BELIEVE WHAT I'M REALLY TRYING TO DO IS CAPTURE THE THOUGHTS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE SHARED OVER THIS PAST YEAR AND A HALF, TWO YEARS THAT YOU'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE CULTURAL DISTRICT, AS WELL AS WHAT I'VE HEARD FROM COUNCIL AND REALLY FOCUSING ON THE FOUR CORE VALUES BEING EQUITY, ECONOMIC IMPACT, PRESERVATION, CELEBRATION AND THEN COLLABORATION. AND THEN WHEN YOU REALLY GET INTO IT, BREAKING IT APART INTO THE FOUR DIFFERENT PHASES. IF YOU COULD JUST ADVANCE FOR ME, ALEX, I THINK IS THE NEXT. SO I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE IN A SECOND. REALLY KIND OF CREATE JUST A GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION, A SYMBOLIC REPRESENTATION OF, OF KIND OF EACH OTHER'S ROLES RELATIVE TO THE CULTURAL DISTRICT AND KIND OF GOING FORWARD. SO OBVIOUSLY, LIKE WE JUST TALKED ABOUT THE RESIDENTS OF CITY COUNCIL, THE ARTS COMMISSION IS A HUGE PART OF THIS OVERALL. AND, AND I AND WHAT IT'S MY CURRENT UNDERSTANDING. YOU GUYS, PLEASE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THAT AS YOU GO INTO THIS NEXT PHASE OF THE ARTS COMMISSION, YOU'RE REALLY GOING TO BE FOCUSED ON PROGRAMING, FINANCIAL SUPPORT, GRANT REVIEWS, ALL OF THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, TRYING TO ATTRACT ARTISTS TO THE COMMUNITY AND REALLY TRYING TO SUPPORT EVENTS AND, AND, YOU KNOW, MURALS, STATUES, THE SOME OF THE STUFF YOU GUYS WERE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT, ALL OF THAT KIND OF STUFF, THE STEERING COMMITTEE WOULD REALLY BE FOCUSED ON THE CULTURAL DISTRICT ITSELF, AND SPECIFICALLY, I BELIEVE FROM EVERYTHING THAT I'VE RESEARCHED, THE NEXT PHASE FOR THE CULTURAL DISTRICT WOULD REALLY BE TO FOCUS ON PLANNING AND ZONING. AND I THINK THAT THAT'S REALLY THE NEXT KEY SEGMENT FOR THE STEERING COMMITTEE. AND THEN WE TALK AGAIN ABOUT THE HOT FUNDS OF BCDC AND POTENTIAL NEW NOT FOR PROFIT PARTNER. SO THE PHASE AND SO I THINK THIS IS IN YOUR PACKET. AND YOU CAN KIND OF FOLLOW ALONG HERE AT PAGE TWO REALLY TALKS ABOUT THE FOUR PHASES. SO YOU GUYS HAVE DONE THE HARD WORK. YOU GUYS GAVE BIRTH TO THE LOCAL CULTURAL DISTRICT. YOU GUYS GOT US STARTED RIGHT. SO THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED WITH THIS FIRST PHASE. THE CULTURAL DISTRICT NOW EXISTS SURROUNDING THE BORDERS OF ARMSTRONG PARK. THIS NEXT PHASE WOULD BASED ON THIS BLUEPRINT, WOULD BE TO FOCUS ON THE PLANNING AND ZONING ASPECTS, VERY MUCH IN KEEPING WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. FAST FORWARD FOR A SECOND. BY THE TIME WE GET TO PHASE FOUR, WHEN WE WOULD TALK ABOUT A FUTURE POTENTIAL APPLICATION TO THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON THE ARTS, THERE'S ALL KINDS OF REQUIREMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT. AND I THINK THAT'S ON PAGE 13 OF YOUR DOCUMENT. YOU CAN SEE ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT REQUIREMENTS. BUT ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE KNOW, I THINK, FROM THE CONVERSATION THAT WE'VE ALL HAD, IS WE WANT TO ATTRACT ARTISTS TO THE COMMUNITY, RIGHT? WE WANT TO BE WELCOMING. WE WANT TO HAVE ARTISTS LIVE HERE AND MAYBE HAVE AN ART STUDIO HERE. WE WANT TO WELCOME ART MUSEUMS AND ART STUDIOS AND ALL OF THESE TYPES OF THINGS. AND I'M GOING TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, WE HAVE SOME WORK TO DO BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, OUR ZONING, OUR CODE MAKES IT DIFFICULT FOR THAT. WE RECENTLY, I THINK SOME OF YOU KNOW, HAD AN ART MUSEUM THAT WANTED TO COME TO THE CITY, BUT THE CURRENT CODE MAKES IT A LITTLE CUMBERSOME. THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH AND GET SOME SPECIAL USE PERMITS AND SOME OTHER STEPS. SO THAT'S WHY I TALK ABOUT PLANNING AND ZONING CHANGES TO REALLY SUPPORT WHAT IT IS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD HERE AND DEVELOP HERE. AND SO A LOT OF THAT WORK REALLY WOULD BE DONE WITH THIS NEXT PHASE. AND WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE TO ATTRACT AND BRING THOSE. AND THAT COULD POTENTIALLY INCLUDE ZONING CHANGES WITH THIS NEW COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT TALKS ABOUT IS A DOWNTOWN DISTRICT. AND INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, IN THE ZONING MAP OF THAT DOCUMENT AND YOU'LL SEE IT IN THERE, IT EXPANDS FROM BASICALLY, I WANT TO SAY CENTER STREET DOWN TO WHEATLAND, ACROSS WHEATLAND, ALMOST OVER TO WHEATLAND PLAZA, I THINK, IS WHAT'S CALLED THE DOWNTOWN DISTRICT. I KIND OF REMEMBER THAT SAME TYPE OF THING FROM A REALLY EARLY CONVERSATION WITH YOU GUYS, HONESTLY. RIGHT. BUT WE CAN DO IT THROUGH ZONING. WE CAN DO IT THROUGH THE ZONING CHANGES. WE CAN SAY, OKAY, IN THIS AREA, WE REALLY WHETHER IT'S AN OVERLAY OR ZONING 
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CHANGE, WE REALLY ENVISION A ROBUST ARTISTIC CULTURAL DISTRICT DOWNTOWN IN THIS WHOLE AREA. AND THEN WHAT ARE THOSE ELEMENTS THAT WE WANT TO ALLOW THERE? DO WE WANT TO ALLOW ART STUDIOS AND MUSEUMS IN THAT AREA AS A AS OF RIGHT USE, FOR INSTANCE, INSTEAD OF HAVING TO GO GET SPECIAL USE PERMITS, DO WE WANT TO ALLOW TWO STORY OR THREE STORY BUILDINGS THAT MAYBE IS A FLEX BASED BUILDING THAT HAS AN ARTIST STUDIO ON THE FIRST FLOOR, AND IT MAYBE HAS A LOFT WHERE THEY LIVE ON THE SECOND FLOOR? THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. ALL OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS STILL NEED TO BE TALKED ABOUT AND DISCUSSED. THE COMP PLAN LAYS THE FOUNDATION FOR THOSE, BUT THEN IT'S TIME TO GET INTO THE NITTY GRITTY AND REALLY START TO FIGURE THAT OUT. 
          AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT I THINK THE PHASE TWO, THE NEXT STEP FOR THE STEERING WOULD BE OF MOVING THE CULTURAL DISTRICT FORWARD. THAT WOULD REALLY END UP BY THE TIME WE GET TO AN APPLICATION LATER ON DOWN THE ROAD, IT COULD REALLY START TO LAY OUT WHAT THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT WOULD BE AT THAT POINT, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE HAVE AND I KEEP CALLING IT LOCAL CULTURAL DISTRICT, BUT THAT'S ESSENTIALLY WHAT IT IS, RIGHT? WE DON'T HAVE THE DESIGNATION. IT WOULD BE WE HAVE THE LOCAL CULTURAL DISTRICT. WE CAN START WITH WHAT WE HAVE. WE CAN THEN GROW FROM THERE, BUT THEN WE CAN START LOOKING AT THESE OTHER CHANGES THAT ARE VERY MUCH IN KEEPING WITH THE APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS AND EVERYTHING ELSE. AS YOU GET TO PHASE FOUR. 
          PHASE THREE REALLY KIND OF DIGS INTO FULL BLOWN IMPLEMENTATION. SO THINK ABOUT PHASE TWO WHERE WE SAY, OKAY, THOSE FLEX SPACE BUILDINGS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT THAT INCLUDES ARTISTS STUDIO. 
          THAT INCLUDES LOFT. WE WANT THOSE. WE WANT ART STUDIOS, WE WANT ART MUSEUMS. SO WE GO THROUGH AND CHANGE THE CODE. RIGHT. WELL THEN WE HAVE TO GO OUT AND IMPLEMENT IT AFTER THE CODES CHANGE. THAT'S ONE THING. BUT THEN WE GOT TO GO ATTRACT IT, THEN WE GOT TO BRING IT IN. 
          SO THAT'S PHASE THREE IS ACTUALLY PUTTING THOSE STRATEGIES AND THOSE CODES INTO ACTION. SO THINK ABOUT THIS. PROBABLY REALISTICALLY YOU'RE PROBABLY TALKING TWO YEARS, MAYBE THREE YEARS DOWN THE ROAD AT THIS POINT. BY THE TIME WE GET THROUGH PHASE TWO AND PHASE THREE, AT THIS POINT YOU HAVE A PRETTY GOOD SUNDAY. IF YOU LIKE A HOT FUDGE SUNDAE, YOU'VE GOT THE HOT FUDGE, YOU GOT THE ICE CREAM THAT'S WORKING. WE'RE ROCKING AND ROLLING. THERE'S EVENTS HAPPENING. THERE'S PRETTY COOL THINGS HAPPENING. THE CHERRY ON TOP RIGHT IS THE TCA DESIGNATION AT THAT. AND THAT REALLY COMES IN PHASE FOUR. THAT'S WHY IT'S DESIGNED LIKE THIS, TO LAY OUT A LITTLE BIT WHERE THE SUNDAY STILL GOOD WITHOUT THE CHERRY. RIGHT. IT'S STILL WORKING. THINGS ARE STILL HAPPENING AND THAT'S ALL GOOD. BUT THE CHERRY JUST ADDS THAT LITTLE BIT MORE TO THE SUNDAE. AND THAT'S WHAT COMES IN PHASE FOUR. AND THEN SO AT THAT POINT IN PHASE FOUR, THAT'S WHERE WE REALLY HAVE TO DETERMINE THE CDMI, RIGHT. THE CULTURAL DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ENTITY, WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHO'S MAKING THE APPLICATION. IS IT CITY COUNCIL? IS IT THE ARTS COMMISSION? IS IT THE CDC? IS IT WHOEVER? RIGHT. WE'VE GOT TO FIGURE ALL THAT. GO RIGHT AHEAD, SIR. JUST REAL FAST. AND THE REASON I'M INTERRUPTING HIM IS BECAUSE I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH TIM SEVERAL, SEVERAL MONTHS AGO WHEN WE HAD COFFEE AND WHEN WE WHEN WE DISCUSSED THE RESOLUTION AND HAD THE STEERING COMMITTEE, I DON'T THINK I MADE IT CLEAR THAT THE STEERING COMMITTEE IS A COPY AND PASTE OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ENTITY FROM THE TCA. IF YOU'VE GONE BACK AND LOOKED AT THE PRESENTATION THAT THAT I PRESENTED IN OCTOBER, YOU'LL SEE THAT IT'S THE EXACT SAME THING. SO WHILE ALL THIS IS HAPPENING, THE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A CDM, A CULTURAL DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ENTITY WILL BE IN PLACE. THAT WAS SOMETHING I DIDN'T REALIZE. THAT WASN'T CLEAR UNTIL TIM AND I HAD THAT CONVERSATION. SO I WANTED TO GET IN FRONT OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE AND THE CDM STRUCTURALLY ARE THE SAME THING. 
          I'M SORRY. SURE. NO PROBLEM. AND THEN WE'LL FIGURE OUT EXACTLY IF THAT'S THE ENTITY. RIGHT. THAT ACTUALLY ENDS UP MAKING THE APPLICATION. THAT'S CAN STILL BE FIGURED OUT BY. COUNCIL DOWN THE BROOKLYN AT THAT POINT. PAGE 13 I MENTIONED IT AGAIN. THIS IS REALLY PHASE FOUR IS REALLY ALL ABOUT THE APPLICATION TO THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON THE ARTS. YOU CAN SEE ALL THE REQUIREMENTS THERE. YOU CAN SEE THE STRATEGIC RATIONALE. BUT IF YOU FLIP THROUGH THE PAGES BEFORE THIS, AND WE'RE NOT ASKING YOU TO DO ANYTHING TONIGHT, THIS IS JUST TO INTRODUCE YOU TO IT AND THEN GIVE YOU SOME READING MATERIAL AND JUST START SOME CONVERSATIONS, THE PAGES BEFORE YOU REALLY START TO SEE HOW THERE'S A LOT OF ALIGNMENT WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, DUNCANVILLE 2040 AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS. THE CULTURAL DISTRICT ALSO ASKS OUR CALLS FOR CREATING SOME ADDITIONAL SUBCOMMITTEES. THERE'S A TYPO ON HERE. IT'S ACTUALLY IT WOULD BE THE STEERING COMMITTEE, THE ORGANIZATION AND EVENTS COMMITTEE, BUT A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT MARKETING COMMITTEE DESIGN COMMITTEE, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, SOME DIFFERENT SEGMENTS, AS THAT REALLY KIND OF GETS UP AND GOING. SO AGAIN, I TALKED ABOUT THESE JUST HIGHLIGHTED HERE FOR YOU IN THIS PRESENTATION. THERE'S SO MUCH ALIGNMENT WITH THE GOALS OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OF THE DRAFT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2040. THAT'S WHY IT'S SO 
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IMPORTANT. WE NEED YOU THERE ON JULY 22ND. AND WHEN YOU GO AND PLEASE DO ME A FAVOR. LOOK AT THE MURAL ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE AS YOU GO IN THE DOOR OF THE FIELD HOUSE. THERE IS SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY TO REDO THAT MURAL TO LOOK AT THE OTHER SPACES INSIDE THE FIELD HOUSE. WE HAD RECORD ATTENDANCE THIS PAST WEEKEND AT THE FIELD HOUSE. THERE'S SO THERE'S SO MANY GREAT THINGS HAPPENING AT THE FIELD HOUSE. THE CITY COUNCIL IS AUTHORIZED. WE JUST DID A $1.5 MILLION INVESTMENT IN THE FIELD HOUSE, NEW HVAC, ALL KINDS OF DIFFERENT EXCITING THINGS. 
          THERE'S SO MUCH OPPORTUNITY AGAIN FOR THIS STUFF TO ALL COME TOGETHER. SOME OF THE OTHER GOALS GO AHEAD, ALEX, IN TERMS OF THE DOWNTOWN VITALITY, SO MUCH OF THIS IS IN ALIGNMENT WITH ALL OF THE THINGS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE TALKED ABOUT FROM A PUBLIC ART PERSPECTIVE. SOME OF THE ACTION ITEMS, AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET A LINK TO THIS AND GET A COPY OF THIS. GO AHEAD. BUT I ALSO WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU TO BE CREATIVE, HAVE FUN. RIGHT. WE HAVE SO MUCH CANVAS IN THIS CITY, ESPECIALLY AROUND OUR AREA, FROM MAIN STREET UP TO CENTER STREET, POTENTIALLY OVER THE PLAZA. ALL THAT TO BE FIGURED OUT RIGHT WHERE WE CAN HAVE SOME FUN AND WE CAN MAKE IT UNIQUE, RIGHT? WHY NOT HAVE A GIANT MURAL AT THE MAIN INTERSECTION OF MAIN STREET AND WHEATLAND THAT TALKS ABOUT WELCOME TO DUNCANVILLE, CITY OF CHAMPIONS, OR EVEN WELCOME TO ARMSTRONG PARK IN THE CULTURAL DISTRICT. RIGHT? THERE'S SO MANY FUN THINGS THAT WE CAN DO WITH OUR CROSSWALKS AND OUR MURALS. WE CAN WE CAN TALK ABOUT SOME OF THAT KIND OF STUFF. I DID GO BACK FOR A QUICK SECOND HERE. ARE WE ONE OF THE THINGS WHEN I TALK ABOUT CODE UPDATES AND ALL THE WORK THAT THE STEERING COMMITTEE REALLY NEEDS TO DO, IN MY OPINION, IN THIS NEXT PHASE RELATIVE TO CODE AND ZONING, THERE'S A WHOLE SECTION OF OUR CODE 1639 MURALS. 
          I CAN PROMISE YOU IT NEEDS SOME LOVE. IT NEEDS TO BE UPDATED TO DO, I THINK, WHAT YOU GUYS WANT TO DO. AND SO WORKING THROUGH SOME OF THOSE, SEEING WHAT OTHER CITIES DO, MAKING RECOMMENDATIONS TO COUNCIL, BRINGING IT BACK TO YOU GUYS FOR FEEDBACK AND EVERYTHING. THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I THINK THAT REALLY NEED TO TAKE PLACE IN THIS NEXT STEP. AND THEN THE LAST PHOTO IS KIND OF A TEASER FOR BART, BUT WE'LL LET BART TALK ABOUT THAT. BUT AGAIN, HAVE SOME FUN. SO WHAT QUESTIONS? I KNOW IT'S ALL BRAND NEW TO YOU. ANY INITIAL THOUGHTS? QUESTIONS I SEE I HAVE A QUESTION. OKAY, SO FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR COMING. WE KNOW YOU'RE BUSY. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT ON A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT MEETINGS BUT REALLY HAVEN'T TALKED IN TO A GREAT DEGREE. THE VALUE OF CREATING A CULTURAL PLAN. HOW DOES IF THE ARTS IF FUTURE ARTS COMMISSION DECIDED TO INVEST IN ENERGY AND RESOURCES OR CULTURAL PLAN, HOW DOES THAT FIT INTO THESE DIFFERENT THINGS? ABSOLUTELY. GREAT QUESTION. SO A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT THINGS. SO NUMBER ONE, THIS IS REALLY JUST KIND OF A BLUEPRINT FOR MOVING THE BALL FORWARD. RIGHT. THIS ISN'T THAT FULL PLAN. NUMBER TWO WAS TRYING TO FIGURE FIND IT HERE REAL QUICK. YEAH. GOAL NUMBER 13. SO THE CITY COUNCIL WHEN THEY ADOPT THIS THEY'RE GOING TO REQUIRE US TO COME UP WITH A ARTS AND CULTURAL DISTRICT MASTER PLAN TO BE CREATED TO CREATE A UNIFIED VISION AND STRATEGIC POLICY AND PROJECT. AND THE PRIMARY STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVED WITH THAT IS CITY COUNCIL STAFF AND THE ARTS COMMISSION. AND IT'S GOT ITS OWN LIKE BUCKET OF WHERE IT'S GOING TO BE. SO THE MASTER PLAN SHOULD CREATE A UNIFIED VISION FOR THE DISTRICT AND OUTLINE POLICIES, POTENTIAL PROJECTS AND IMPLEMENTATION NEEDS. SCHEDULES TO ADVANCE ARTS AND CULTURE IN DUNCANVILLE. SO WE'LL BE REQUIRED TO DO IT. SO THIS IS JUST KIND OF LIKE A STARTER. HERE'S THE NEXT STEPS. THAT'S WHY I SAY IT'S MORE LIKE A BLUEPRINT THAN AN ACTUAL PLAN. 
          IT'S MORE LIKE, OKAY, DO THIS THEN DO WORK ON THIS, THIS TYPE OF THING, JUST KIND OF A ROADMAP. BUT THEN THE PLAN WOULD ACTUALLY BE THE DETAILED DOCUMENT THAT WOULD ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT EVERYTHING. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. YES, MA'AM. DOWNTOWN IS JUST A CENTER STREET. WHY NOT PUSHED A LITTLE FURTHER TO INCLUDE THE FEED STORE. AND AS PART OF THE DOWNTOWN OR ALL THE WAY INTO IT? ABSOLUTELY COULD. SO THERE'S A COUPLE OF OTHER THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON RIGHT NOW. RIGHT. SO WE HAVE A BRAND NEW REALLY EXCITED. OUR TIF BOARD HAS THEIR VERY FIRST MEETING TOMORROW NIGHT. THAT'S THE TAX INCREMENT FINANCE BOARD. AND SO THAT INCLUDES CURRENTLY CAMP WISDOM AND REDEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES. CAMP WISDOM I KNOW THEY'VE EVEN TALKED ABOUT POTENTIALLY DOING A NEW MASTER PLAN TO COME SOUTH ON MAIN STREET A LITTLE BIT AND MAYBE COME DOWN AS FAR AS SOMETHING LIKE THE BEN FRANKLIN, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS, ALL THAT'S VERY MUCH IN FLUX. THIS THAT WAS JUST THE RECOMMENDATION OR THE SUGGESTION. ALL THOSE SPECIFIC BOUNDARIES WOULD HAVE TO BE FIGURED OUT, BECAUSE WE'D ALSO HAVE TO LOOK AT AVAILABLE LAND. RIGHT? WHEN IT COMES TO LAND USE PLANNING AND ZONING, WE'D HAVE TO LOOK AT IF WE WANT TO WELCOME FLEX SPACE, FOR INSTANCE, AND WELCOME LIKE A COMBINATION ART STUDIO WITH A 
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LOFT. WHERE'S THE LAND AVAILABLE TO DO IT? AND SO WE'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THOSE PARTICULARS. I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE I DON'T HAVE THE LANGUAGE THAT HE HAS, BUT RECALL WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT BECAUSE I THINK WE FIRST STARTED TALKING ABOUT THIS 15 MONTHS AGO, AND I KEPT USING THE WORD CULTURAL CORRIDOR. SO WE HAVE TO HAVE A STRATEGY FOR THE WAY THAT WE ENTER INTO A COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISE, BECAUSE THE PARK IS PUBLIC. AND I KEPT USING THE WORD CULTURAL CORRIDOR BECAUSE THAT IMPLIES WE'RE GOING TO BUILD THAT STRATEGY THAT COMES TOGETHER. HE HAS BETTER LANGUAGE THAN I DO, BUT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT SOME OF THE STRATEGY, JUST NOT AS WELL AS THE STEERING COMMITTEE. HAS THAT BEEN? DO WE KNOW WHO'S GOING TO BE ON IT AND ANY OF THAT THAT'S REALLY, REALLY EARLY. SO THE RESOLUTION CALLS FOR THE STEERING COMMITTEE, AND I BELIEVE THE RESOLUTION CALLS FOR COUNCIL TO APPOINT THE CHAIR. REMEMBER, IT'S NOT MY HEAD. I MEAN, THE REST OF IT I THINK IS VERY MUCH STILL WIDE OPEN. SO. BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT, FOR INSTANCE, THAT PHASE TWO, IF WE'RE GOING TO FOCUS ON CODE AND PLANNING, I'D LIKE I WOULD RECOMMEND OUR PLANNER, PROBABLY OUR ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER COMMUNITY, WHO'S A CERTIFIED PLANNER, TO PROVIDE SOME GUIDANCE AND FEEDBACK ON THAT. THERE NEEDS TO BE MAYBE REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE ARTS COMMISSION. THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME ARTISTS. THAT NEEDS TO BE A CROSS-SECTION OF PEOPLE TO HELP WITH THAT. TONIGHT, LATER ON IN THE AGENDA, WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO GO OVER THE RESOLUTION AS A REMINDER, BUT WHAT'S IN IT? AND SO KEEP THIS IN THE BACK OF YOUR HEAD AND LOOK AT IT WITH FRESH EYES. I HAD A QUICK QUESTION. IT MAY BE REALLY MORE RELATED TO, I GUESS, ITEM 15 OR WHATEVER, BUT I KNOW YOU KEPT SAYING THE BOUNDARIES AND I KNOW IT'S CALLED THE ARMSTRONG PARK CULTURAL DISTRICT, BUT THEN WE DID THAT WALKING TOUR. IS THERE ANY. DISCUSSION OR AND I'M NOT WAVING ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. I THINK IT'S A QUERY. YOU KNOW, WE TALKED ABOUT THE ARTIST LIVING QUARTERS AND SOME OF THOSE THINGS THAT THAT WOULD BE LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY EXPANDING THAT A LITTLE BIT SO THAT WE CAN ACCOMMODATE SO THAT WE MEET THE GUIDELINES. IS THAT YES, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. SO ESSENTIALLY WHAT WE WOULD DO IN PHASE TWO IS REALLY FIGURE OUT THOSE AREAS THAT MAKES THE MOST SENSE. WE WOULD FIGURE OUT THE CODE UPDATES THAT NEED TO HAPPEN. THEN PHASE THREE PROBABLY ACTUALLY UPDATE THE ZONING. MAYBE IT'S AN OVERLAY, MAYBE IT'S A ZONING DISTRICT, AND THEN PROBABLY SOMEWHERE LATE PHASE THREE INTO PHASE FOUR, WE WOULD SAY, OKAY, THE ARMSTRONG PARK CULTURAL DISTRICT IS NOW GOING TO BE. RIGHT. OKAY. THAT'S BECAUSE I KNOW THERE WAS WHEN WE DID THAT WALKING TOUR, WE ALL RECOGNIZED SOME SOME COOL IDEAS AND SOME SOME OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY AND REMEMBER THE FIRST PARAGRAPH OF THE OF THE RESOLUTION IS THAT THE BOUNDARIES CAN GROW. IT'S ACTUALLY IN THE RESOLUTION THAT WE VOTED ON. BUT GOOD QUESTION. 
          BUT YES, THAT'S AIMING TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, THIS WHOLE THING WOULD BE SETTING IT UP SO THAT WE COULD GROW IT. THIS BLUEPRINT WOULD BE DESIGNED TO GROW IT AND THEN INCORPORATE ALL OF THOSE ELEMENTS LIKE THAT ARE LISTED ON PAGE 13 OF THE BLUEPRINT, THAT REALLY ARE ALL THE GUIDELINES ITEMS. YES, MA'AM. WHAT ARE RAILROAD FLATS? WHAT ARE THEY? SO IT'S A PIECE OF PROPERTY THAT THE CITY CURRENTLY OWNS, OKAY. THAT WE POTENTIALLY HAVE SOME INTEREST IN SOME MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT BEING CONSTRUCTED ON THAT PROPERTY. AND HOPEFULLY THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN INCLUDE RELATIVE TO THE HISTORIC PORTION OF THE CITY RELATIVE TO THE RAILROAD. RIGHT. AND SO THAT'S WHY EVEN IN THAT SILLY LITTLE GRAPHIC, RIGHT, IT'S JUST JUST CONVERSATIONAL TYPE THINGS. RIGHT. BUT THERE'S LIKE THE RAILROAD, THE OLD STEAM LOCOMOTIVE TYPE THING AND EVERYTHING JUST TO HONOR ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT ASPECTS OF THIS MEAN WE GET A LOCOMOTIVE FREE TROLLEYS, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, A DART STATION. I THINK WE DON'T WANT TO GIVE AWAY THAT ONE. SORRY. SO BUT WHAT A LOT OF COMMUNITIES, ESPECIALLY WITH HISTORIC RAILROAD PASS I'VE SEEN DO IS PUT UP THE SILLY AS IT SOUNDS, PUT UP LIKE AN OLD STEAM LOCOMOTIVE THAT ACTUALLY HAS A BICYCLE RACK, RIGHT? TO KIND OF HONOR THAT TYPE OF DIFFERENT STUFF, ESPECIALLY IN A DOWNTOWN BORDER LIKE THAT. SO, AND, YOU KNOW, THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE AN ARTS COMMISSION BECAUSE WE CAN PUT WE CAN PUT OUT CALLS TO ARTISTS TO COME UP WITH THESE IDEAS. WE'VE TALKED ABOUT MILLIONS OF TIMES IN FRONT OF CITY COUNCIL. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE COMMUNITY LOOKS LIKE, LET ARTISTS GO AT IT. SO ALL THIS IS GOING TO BE A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR THE FUTURE ARTS COMMISSION TO BRING NEW ARTISTS IN, CURRENT ARTISTS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE. SO IT'S NOT COMMITTEE DRIVEN NECESSARILY. YES, MA'AM. 
          THERE'S A NONPROFIT ENTITY MENTIONED. COULD YOU TALK ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT MORE? IT WOULD 
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SEEM TO BE IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT TAKES TIME TO PROCESS THAT. IT DOES SO. AND THAT'S ACTUALLY REFERENCED A LITTLE BIT IN THE DOCUMENT AS, AS A RESULT OF THE CONVERSATION I HAVE WITH RON, AND THEN THE ADDITIONAL RESEARCH THAT I'VE DONE, AS WELL AS WHAT I HEARD FROM DIFFERENT COUNCIL MEMBERS ON SOME OF THE RESEARCH THAT THEY DO. COUNCIL MEMBER KOONTZ, I'M NOT TRYING TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT, BUT FEEL FREE TO JUMP IN HERE IF YOU WANT TO. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE BIG THINGS WITH A SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION IS ALSO A PRIVATE PUBLIC PARTNERSHIP. SO WE DO HAVE ONE IN THE EDC IS A NOT FOR PROFIT ENTITY. BUT I THINK THE OTHER OPPORTUNITY HERE IS ANOTHER COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT, NOT FOR PROFIT REALLY EARMARKED TO RAISE MONEY FOR ARTS AND CULTURAL PROGRAMING IN THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA. AND THE DOCUMENT TALKS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE DETAILS OF THAT TO BE FIGURED OUT LATER. MAYBE THERE'S A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING, MAYBE IN EXCHANGE THEY GET TO USE THE SENIOR CENTER. I'M JUST GOING TO MAKE SOMETHING UP THREE TIMES A YEAR TO HOLD AN EVENT IN EXCHANGE FOR THE MONEY THAT THEY'RE RAISING TO BRING THE PROGRAM INTO THE CITY OF MCMINNVILLE. ALL THAT TO BE FIGURED OUT. BUT REALLY, WHAT IT WOULD BE IS IT WOULD BE A STANDALONE ENTITY THAT WOULD NOT RECEIVE MONEY FROM THE CITY. IT WOULD ACTUALLY BE IN REVERSE, WHERE THAT ENTITY WOULD ACTUALLY BE RAISING MONEY TO SUPPORT ARTS AND PROGRAMING FOR THE CITY TO BRING MORE IN. SO HOW DO YOU GET TO THAT SINCE IT'S PRIVATE, HOW DO YOU GET THEM? WELL, I THINK WE HAVE A PRETTY GOOD LEAD ON SOMEBODY WHO MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN DOING THAT ONCE THEY'RE OFF THE ARTS COMMISSION. AND SO THAT CAN BE ON THE AGENDA FOR A FUTURE MEETING. OKAY. THANK YOU. WOULD THAT BE SIMILAR TO LIKE, THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY OR THE FRIENDS OF TRI-CITY ANIMAL SHELTER? THAT KIND OF THING WHERE THERE'S AN ENTITY THAT RAISES MONEY BECAUSE AS A PUBLIC AS A CITY ORGANIZATION, THEY CAN'T VERY. SO I THINK IT WOULD BE SIMILAR TO THAT. I THINK VERY SIMILAR GETTING. YES, YES, YES. AND YOU CAN RECALL THE VERY, VERY FIRST JOINT MEETING WE HAD WITH CITY COUNCIL THE VERY FIRST TIME WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, WHICH WAS ALMOST A YEAR AGO. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS IS WHEN I ASKED FOR $1 MILLION. REMEMBER THAT MEETING? YEAH, I REMEMBER IT. IT WAS. I JUST LOST MY TRAIN OF THOUGHT, THOUGH. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A CONVERSATION. THERE NEEDS TO BE A THIRD LEG IN THIS TRIPOD. AND THAT WOULD BE THE NONPROFIT COMPONENT TO IT. ALL GREAT QUESTIONS WHILE WE HAVE THEM HERE. HE'S THE GUY TO ASK QUESTIONS FOR. IT'S HARD TO GET THEM. WHO'S CONCERNING THESE POSSIBLE GRAPHICS? TIM. NO, I LIKE IT. IT'S A LOT OF THESE WERE DONE THROUGH. I JUST TO KIND OF COME UP WITH BASIC THINGS. THERE WAS SOME STUFF I WAS PLAYING AROUND WITH AND WORKING WITH, AND SOME DIFFERENT SOFTWARE PROGRAMS THAT I HAD ACCESS TO AND, AND JUST TO COME UP WITH SOME DIFFERENT THINGS, JUST TO MAKE IT LOOK NICE AS WE'RE LOOKING AT REPORTS SO. WELL. I DON'T THINK SO. I'M SORRY. ANY OTHER THING? ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR MR. FINCH? SO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, WHICH SAYS 2040 IS THAT THE YEAR 2040. SO THE PLAN, YOU HOPE THAT BY 2040 YOU WILL HAVE ACCOMPLISHED EVERYTHING ON THIS PLAN. SO IT WAS BASICALLY IT'S A 15 YEAR PLAN TO COINCIDE WITH OUR 15 YEAR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN. AND IT KIND OF LAYS OUT THE CHART FOR THE COURSE. SO THE WAY I USUALLY DESCRIBE IT IS WHEN YOU WAKE UP, IT'S JANUARY 1ST, 2040, AND YOU DRIVE UP MAIN STREET AND YOU'RE DRIVING DOWNTOWN DUNCANVILLE, LOOK AROUND, WHAT DO YOU SEE? TELL US WHAT YOU SEE, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT WE'LL FOCUS ON BUILDING, RIGHT? WE'VE GOT TO HAVE THE VISION AND WE'VE GOT TO KNOW WHAT IT IS EVERYBODY ENVISIONS AND THEN MOVE FORWARD. SO IT'S REALLY THAT PLAN IS DESIGNED FOR TO GUIDE US OVER THE NEXT 15 YEARS TO WHAT DUNCANVILLE 2040 WOULD LOOK LIKE. SO ONE THING THIS, THIS BODY HAS ALWAYS TALKED ABOUT IS A SPACE, MULTI-USE SPACE FOR THE ARTS. AND THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN A QUESTION, HOW DO WE GET THERE? I USE THE ANALOGY WHO CLEANS THE TOILETS? BECAUSE I WILL TELL YOU, SHE CLEANED THE TOILETS, I DO. SO I WILL ASK YOU WHO'S GOING TO CLEAN THE TOILETS AND IF NOBODY RAISES THEIR HANDS, I'LL TELL YOU THERE'S NOT A PLAN FOR IT. SO THIS IS THE PLAN TO GET TO EVERY KIND OF SPACE THIS COMMISSION AND FUTURE COMMISSION CAN THINK ABOUT. AND I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE THE CREDIBILITY OF AN ARTS COMMISSION, BECAUSE REMEMBER, EVERYTHING THAT WE FUND, THERE NEEDS TO BE SOME METRIC TRACKING. IT'S IN THE POLICY AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT BOARD WANTS TO HELP. SO WHAT YOU DO WITH THOSE METRICS IS IT ALL GOES INTO WHAT THAT SPACE CAN LOOK LIKE, AND HOW CAN WE MAINTAIN IT. THANK YOU EVERYBODY, AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING FOR THE ARTS IN THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE. WE TRULY APPRECIATE IT. WE NEED YOU GUYS 
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TO REALLY JUST THANK YOU FOR ALL THE TIME AND ENERGY AND EVERYTHING THAT YOU PUT INTO THIS. IT IS VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. WELL, WE APPRECIATE YOU TAKING THE TIME TO BE. THANK YOU. THANKS. THANK YOU. NOW ITEM SEVEN NEXT UP I'M GOING TO DO THIS. THE ONE, THE ONLY BART 
          [7. Armstrong Park Sign Review]
STEVENSON, THE DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND REC, IS HERE TO TALK ABOUT THE ARMSTRONG PARK SIGN. THAT'S LIKE THIS UP, I GUESS. ARE WE DONE? EVERYBODY REALIZE IT, RIGHT? SO THAT'S WHAT I HEARD, SO. WELL, THANKS FOR HAVING ME TONIGHT. YOU KNOW, I THINK LAST TIME I WAS AT YOUR MEETING WAS ACTUALLY THE EVENING YOU GUYS KIND OF PUT IN MOTION OR RECOMMEND TO THE CITY COUNCIL ABOUT THE CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT, ARMSTRONG PARK. AND YOU WERE NICE ENOUGH TO ASK ME MY THOUGHTS THAT EVENING. AND I REMEMBER STATING THAT I AM 100% SUPPORTER OF ARTS IN THE PARKS. 
          AND SO THIS IS, I GUESS, AN OPPORTUNITY, I GUESS, FOR ME TO PUT, YOU KNOW, PUT MY, MY WORDS INTO ACTION. AND SO ABOUT A MONTH AGO, I RECEIVED THIS GRAPHIC FROM OUR CITY MANAGER AND SAID, HEY, BARTA, HEY, YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT DOING SOMETHING LIKE THIS WHERE I'M FROM? PARK. AND I WAS LIKE, WELL, NO, IT LOOKS AWESOME. AND I WAS LIKE, I'M DEFINITELY INTERESTED, YOU KNOW? AND SO NEXT THING YOU KNOW, WE STARTED, I GUESS I SHOULD DO SOME LEGWORK, WAS TALKING TO SOME SIGN COMPANIES. WE GOT SOME IDEAS AND SOME BALLPARK FIGURES OF WHAT IT WOULD COST. AND SO WE KIND OF HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE AS TO HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH SOMETHING LIKE THIS. THIS MAY OR MAY NOT BE THE EXACT WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE WHEN IT'S DONE OF CREATING SOME KIND OF WHAT I WOULD CALL A SOCIAL MEDIA OPPORTUNITY FOR OUR CROWN JEWEL OF ARMSTRONG PARK IS OUR CULTURAL DISTRICT, IS OUR IT IS TRULY OUR OUR OUR SHINING STAR FOR OUR PARK SYSTEM. AND IT'S WE GET LOTS OF VISITORS, NOT JUST FROM NOT JUST FROM THE SOUTHWEST, BUT FROM ALL OVER DALLAS FORT WORTH METROPLEX AND COME TO THIS PARK FOR VARIOUS REASONS. AND OUR DATA SHOWS THAT FROM ALL OF OUR EVENTS, WHEN WE DO OUR PLACE, OUR AI ANALYTICS, SO WE KNOW THAT. AND SO WITH THAT, I'M NOT HERE ASKING FOR MONEY BECAUSE THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS FOR YOU. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN USE YOUR MONEY FOR OTHER PROJECTS. BUT I THINK THAT THE THOUGHT IS WE WOULD USE HOT FUNDS FOR THIS PROJECT, BUT WE DO WANT TO BRING IT BEFORE YOU BECAUSE YOU ARE THE ARTS COMMISSION AND WE HAVE CREATED THE CULTURAL EXCHANGE. WE WANT TO GET YOUR THOUGHTS, FEEDBACK AND ULTIMATELY, PERHAPS YOUR SUPPORT FOR MOVING THIS IDEA FORWARD TO THE CITY COUNCIL. WE'RE ALSO GOING TO TAKE THIS TO THE PARK BOARD AT THEIR NEXT MEETING TO GET THEIR THOUGHTS AND IDEAS AND SUPPORT AS WELL. SO WITH THAT, I WILL OPEN UP TO ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE. JUST AS A PERSPECTIVE, THIS I IS FOR. THIS SPECIFIC GRAPHIC IS ABOUT FOUR FOOT TALL. SO THAT GIVES YOU AN IDEA HOW BIG THIS IS. AND YOU SEE THESE ALL OVER. CEDAR HILL HAS ONE GLOBE LIFE PARK. I THINK THERE'S A BIG ONE OUT FRONT. I JUST CAME BACK FROM KANSAS CITY. I SAW TWO VERY SIMILAR. YOU KNOW, I LOVE KC. I WAS TAKING PICTURES OF THEM AND I WAS DRIVING, SO I COULDN'T DO THAT. BUT I SEE THESE QUESTIONS LIKE, NEW YORK CITY HAS QUITE A FEW, BUT YOU SEE THEM IN INSTAGRAM, SNAPCHAT, FACEBOOK. PEOPLE GO TAKE PICTURES AND IT HELPS SELL YOUR COMMUNITY ON THE BEAUTIFICATION AND THE ARTS AND THE OPPORTUNITIES OF SHOWING REALLY WHAT DUNCANVILLE IS ALL ABOUT. AND BECAUSE THIS IS SUCH A BELOVED PART, IT REALLY ONLY MAKES SENSE THAT WE START HERE. I'M NOT SAYING IT'LL BE THE ONLY ONLY TIME WE'LL EVER DO, BUT IT MAKES A GREAT STARTING POINT. AND SOMEONE ASKED ME EARLIER WHERE WOULD WE PUT IT? AND I PROBABLY COULDN'T HAVE PICKED A BETTER SPACE THAN THIS. I WALKED, MY WIFE TAUGHT ME THIS IS THAT YOU ALWAYS WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S IN THE BACKGROUND FOR PICTURES. SO HAVING THE AMPHITHEATER AND KIDS IN THE BACKGROUND WHAT YOU WANT. SO IF YOU COULD GET THOSE IN THE BACKGROUND OR WHEREVER THE SIGN WOULD BE PLACED, THAT WOULD BE IDEAL BECAUSE EVERYONE WOULD SEE THOSE BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL AMENITIES THAT WE HAVE HERE IN THE PARK IN THE BACKGROUND OF THOSE PICTURES. SO. ANY ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE. THE COLOR PALETTE IS REAL DIFFERENT FROM THIS COLOR PALETTE AND THIS GRAPHIC, AND I'M JUST WONDERING IF IT SIGNALIZES THE KIND OF THE BRANDING, COLOR SENSIBILITY OF THE ENTIRE DISTRICT OR JUST THE SUN. I THINK IT DOES RESONATE PROBABLY WITH THE WATER PARK. NOW, IS THAT RIGHT? I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER AGAIN, I'M NOT SURE IF YOU GOT THAT DEEP IN THOUGHT AS TO HOW WE CHOSE THE COLORS, OR HOW MR. FISH CHOSE THE COLORS, OTHER THAN YOU PROBABLY WANT SOME BRIGHT, VIBRANT COLORS. I'M GUESSING THAT'S A THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. VIBRANT, BRIGHT, VIBRANT COLORS AND EVERYTHING, BECAUSE THAT SIGNIFIES THAT THE SPIRIT OF THE PARK IS A VERY VIBRANT PARK, VERY ACTIVE. AND TO ME, THOSE COLORS MAKE SENSE. AGAIN, I'M NOT THE ARTIST THAT YOU GUYS ARE HERE AT THE TABLE, BUT THE 
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LIMITED AMOUNT THAT IS WITHIN ME AND KIND OF HELPS BRING IT OUT. SO YOU GO, I SAW MARIANNE. NO. 
          YES. I SEE YOUR HAND UP. YES. OKAY. WELL, TO THAT POINT, I WONDER ABOUT COORDINATING WITH THE MOSAIC THAT'S BEING PLANNED FOR THAT, THOSE COLORS. BUT MY QUESTION IS JUST BALLPARK. WHAT WERE WHAT WERE THE FIGURES? NOT MY MONEY, BUT YEAH, YOU KNOW WHAT? THE SIGNAGE, YOU KNOW, THE BASE, THE LIGHTING, THE POWER THAT REQUIRES THE ELECTRICITY, ANYWHERE FROM 25 TO 30,000 TOTAL COULD BE A LITTLE LESS. SIR. SO WOULD THE WORDS BE LIT UP OR THEY'LL BE LIGHTS. OKAY, SO THEY'LL BE LIT UP. I'VE ALSO NOTICED, LIKE WHEN I'VE SEEN, LIKE, SIGNS LIKE THAT. LIKE. OR I THINK WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT GLOBE LIFE PARK WHERE IT SAYS TEXAS AND THE PEOPLE SPELL THE X. SO MAYBE LIKE WE SPELL THE I. YOU KNOW, IF IT WAS SPACE FOR THAT, LIKE INSTEAD OF HAVING THE I LET SOMEBODY STAND THERE AND HAVE LIKE THE PRINTS. YEAH. SO. I LOVE ARMSTRONG PARK I DON'T KNOW I JUST THOUGHT IT. IS IT WEIRD THAT YOU SAY THAT? BECAUSE THE FIRST TIME I SAW THAT HEART, I THOUGHT ABOUT DOCTOR PERRY STAYING IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. CAN YOU SEE HER? SEE HER DOING THAT? YEAH. TIM. WELL, THIS REALLY BRINGS UP THE QUESTION FOR THE FUTURE OF THE ARTS COMMISSION IN IN THE KIND OF THE OVERALL DESIGN OF THE DISTRICT, THE, YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WHAT ARE THE ART SENSIBILITIES GOING TO BE IN THAT DISTRICT CURRENTLY, ARMSTRONG PARK IS BEGINNING TO, YOU KNOW, WITH HEB DOING THE SIGNAGE AROUND THE KIDSVILLE AND, AND THIS KIND OF SIGNAGE AND ANY OTHER THINGS, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE THE EQUIPMENT NOW GOING ON. IT'S IT FEELS LIKE THE, THE ESTHETICS OF THE PARK ARE SHIFTING BY NATURE OF WHAT THESE LITTLE INSTALLATIONS ARE. THAT BEING BEING ADDED TO THAT TO THE PARK. AND I THINK IN THE FUTURE IS THERE IS THERE A REAL DESIGN SENSIBILITY GOING TO BE FOR, FOR THE DISTRICT, YOU KNOW, IN TERMS OF ARCHITECTURE THAT MIGHT BE ADDED INTO THE INTO THE AREA IN TERMS OF SIGNAGE, YOU KNOW, ALONG THE MAIN STREET OR THERE'S ALL THESE THINGS THAT SEEM TO BE UP FOR CONSIDERATION IN THE FUTURE. AND DO WE WANT TO HAVE AN AWFUL LOT OF THINGS THAT. WELL, WE DO RIGHT NOW? I MEAN, WE WANT TO ADD EXCITEMENT TO THE PARK AND ALL THAT, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO ALSO BE COGNIZANT OF ARE WE GOING TO CONTINUE TO BRAND OR LET SPONSORS COME IN AND DO STUFF, WHICH IS NICE, BUT IT'S ALSO A CACOPHONY OF VISUAL LOOKS START TO TAKE OVER IN THE SPACE. IT LOOKS VERY COMMERCIAL AT SOME POINT INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER WE WANT IT TO BE, WHATEVER THE CITY WOULD LIKE IT TO, TO REFLECT. SO THAT'S JUST BRINGS UP THIS IDEA THAT IT'S A. IT'S LIKE A CREATIVE DIRECTOR. 
          THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY. MR. WHAT'S YOUR HAND? OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? BART, WILL YOU COME BACK AND HANG OUT WITH US? ALWAYS. ALL RIGHT, I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. ROUND OF 
          [8. Juneteenth Debriefing]
APPLAUSE. THANK YOU. NUMBER EIGHT, I'M GOING TO TELL YOU I'M GOING TO GET IN FRONT OF THIS A LITTLE BIT. SO JUNETEENTH DEBRIEFING ANGELA AND ANN. LOOK, THIS WAS A SIX DAY EVENT. SOME OF US CAME TO SOME, ALL OF US CAME TO SOME THINGS. BUT ANGELA AND ANN WERE AT EVERY SINGLE THING. SO THEY NEED A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. I'M SO TIRED, SO PROUD. ASKS WHAT DO YOU MEAN? YEAH. SO. OH. FORGERIES. ANGELA. OKAY. THANK YOU. JUNETEENTH IT WAS. FOR. FOR THIS BIG ONE SINCE WAS LOOKED AT AS WE WERE TRYING TO. SHOW THE DIVERSITY THE ARTS AND WE DID. IN HINDSIGHT, I PROBABLY WOULD SAY I WAS CRAZY FOR HAVING ALL THOSE DAYS. I NEVER DO IT AGAIN. SOMEBODY NEED SOMEBODY SLAP ME. IF I COME UP WITH AN IDEA LIKE THAT AGAIN. BUT, YOU KNOW, WE HAD A LITTLE HICCUP IN THE BEGINNING THAT FRIDAY BEFORE, WHEN ALEX CALLED ME, I WAS WORRIED ABOUT ALEX AND HIS SANITY AND HE WAS WORRIED ABOUT ME, BUT I WAS FINE. I WAS LIKE, IT'S OKAY. IT'S GOING TO BE OKAY. AND IT WAS. I WAS UPSET FOR YOU. I WAS NOT UPSET. AND ANN KEPT SAYING, YOU'RE NOT 
          [00:55:01]
UPSET. AND I'M LIKE, NO, I'M NOT UPSET. IT WAS JUST A LITTLE HICCUP. BUT. MARCH CREW, NOEL AND DARREN, THEY JUST CAME THROUGH LIKE THEY WERE JUST GREAT. THEY WERE GREAT. THEY WE WORKED IT OUT. THEY TALKED TO ME. WE CONVERSED ABOUT IT. WE HAD NOT PLANNED ANYTHING DURING THE DAY. SO IT WAS NICE BEING A BENEFIT TO SOMEBODY ELSE THAT REALLY NEEDED THE SPACE. 
          ALTHOUGH I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT THE STAFFING BECAUSE I KNEW IT WAS GOING TO PUT A LOT OF EXTRA WORK ON HIS STAFF, BUT THEY DIDN'T MIND. AT LEAST THEY SAID THEY DIDN'T MIND. BUT IT TURNED OUT TO BE A BLESSING IN DISGUISE BECAUSE THEY SET UP EVERYTHING AND HAD EVERYTHING FOR US. SO THAT WAS NICE. APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S HELP, HAD GOOD ARTISTS COME OUT, SPOKEN WORD I THOUGHT WAS WELL ATTENDED. I THOUGHT THE. THE LITERARY CAFE WAS GOOD. PEOPLE SAID THEY WISH THEY COULD HAVE STAYED LONGER. AND ONE OF THE THINGS WHEN THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THE PARK, SOME OF THE PEOPLE, SOME OF THE ARTISTS HAD COME EARLY AND THEY HAD GONE AROUND THE PARK AND SAID THAT HOW MUCH THEY LOVED IT. ONE ONE ARTIST WAS TALKING ABOUT MOVING TO DUNCANVILLE ALREADY, THINGS LIKE THAT. SO I MEAN, THAT'S NICE. THEY DO. THEY DO LOVE THE PARK. I JUST FOR YOUR FOR YOUR REVIEW. WE HAD BUDGETED 6500 FOR THE JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION BECAUSE WE HAVE WE HAD 20,000 THAT THE CITY HAD. APPROVED FOR US. BUT FOR SOME OF THE THINGS WE'RE TRYING TO FINISH UP FOR THIS SEASON, WE SPENT 4700 ON PERFORMANCE FEES. WE PAID THE ARTISTS FOR TUESDAYS, WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS PERFORMANCE. THEY WERE ACTUALLY PAID FOR THEIR PERFORMANCES MONDAY. WITH THE ARTISTS THAT WERE THERE. THEY WERE ABLE TO NOT ONLY SPEAK ABOUT THEIR WORK, BUT SELL IT IF THEY HAD SOME TO SELL. WE HAD A JOVI'S GIFT CARD. WE HAD BUDGETED WELL, BUDGETED 1400 THINKING THAT FOR THE WEEK AND FOR OUR SATURDAY EVENT. BUT THEN SITTING IN THE OFFICE WITH ALEX AND HE WORKED WITH ME ON THAT, WE CAME UP WITH AN IDEA, WHEREAS GO BUY SOME EGGOS. YOU KNOW, I WASN'T TRYING TO FEED EVERYBODY A GOURMET BREAKFAST, BUT WE WERE TRYING TO PROMOTE CULINARY ART. WE HAD JOVI'S GIFT CARD. SO FOR ALL THE LITTLE TREATS AND STUFF, BECAUSE I WANT TO MAKE SURE I SAVED ENOUGH FOR SARAH. WE ONLY SPENT $205.19 ON WATER AND CHIPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, AND WE GAVE THEM TO THE KIDS AFTERWARDS BECAUSE WE DIDN'T WANT IT TO GO STALE BEFORE YOUR EVENT. SO IT DIDN'T MEAN IT DIDN'T MAKE SENSE TO HOLD ON TO IT. THE CHICKEN I WAS WORKING WITH A PLACE AND I HOPE ALL OF YOU ALL WILL GO THERE. SOMETIMES CALLED JJ'S CHICKEN, FISH AND CHICKEN. AND IN THAT PARTICULAR THEY THEY DON'T OPEN EARLY, BUT THEY DID. THEY CAME IN EARLY AND COOKED THE FISH. I MEAN I'M SORRY, THE CHICKEN FOR US. AND I KNEW WE WEREN'T GOING TO HAVE ANY CHICKEN LEFTOVER. I ALREADY KNEW THAT EVEN THOUGH WE HAD A MAYBE A SMALLER NUMBER OF PEOPLE AND IT WAS NOBODY, NOBODY WAS GOING TO LEAVE ANY CHICKEN THERE. BUT THAT THAT PARTICULAR AMOUNT WAS DONATED. SO WE SO WE ONLY SPENT THE 300 AND WHAT, $55? SO WE DIDN'T WIND UP DOING THIS WHOLE 1400 THAT I THOUGHT WE WOULD NEED. AND WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY INCIDENTALS AS FAR AS PROMOTING AND SO FORTH. I THOUGHT IT WAS GOOD. I THANKED THE LIBRARY AND THE REC CENTER AND THE CITY. IT WAS ON THE ARTS FEED CONSTANTLY OUT THERE. THE LIBRARY WAS POSTING AND PROMOTING IT ON AN ONGOING BASIS. ALL OF OUR EVENTS AND THE REC CENTER WAS TO BECAUSE I'M ON THEIRS. AND I APPRECIATE EVERYBODY'S HELP THAT THAT THAT CAME OUT BY WEDNESDAY. I WAS JUST LIKE MY CONFIDENCE WAS GOING THIS WAY. AND, AND ANNE STEPPED IN. AND AS FAR AS THE BEING AT THE FOREFRONT. AND THEN ON THURSDAY, WHEN RON CALLED ME WITH HIS SUGGESTIONS, I WAS LIKE, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO, I KNOW, I DON'T CARE. THAT'S ACTUALLY HOW THE CONVERSATION WENT. EXACTLY. WHATEVER YOU WANT TO DO, I GOT IT. AND THAT'S HOW IT WENT. YEAH, BUT NO. BUT FROM BEGINNING TO END. SO IT IT TURNED OUT GOOD. AND I DO APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU ALL HELP ME OUT. OH, I WAS YOU KNOW, THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE YOU'LL YOU'LL HEAR ME SAY THIS 
          [01:00:03]
ALL THE TIME. THIS THIS ARTS COMMISSION DOESN'T ALWAYS AGREE, BUT WE'RE ALWAYS GOING TOGETHER. 
          YEAH. AND IT WAS SO WONDERFUL BECAUSE SIX DAYS. BUT IT WAS SO WONDERFUL TO SEE THAT. LET ME ADD ONE THING, SARAH, JUST SO YOU KNOW, I THE PLATES AND THE NAPKINS AND UTENSILS THAT WERE LEFT OVER, I TOOK THEM TO THE THEATER ANNEX FOR YOUR EVENT. SO DON'T LET ME FORGET WHEN WE GET CLOSER TO. OKAY THAT THAT I HAVE. I THANK YOU FOR KEEPING A STICKER ON IT THAT SAYS ARTS COMMISSION. THANK YOU FOR KEEPING THEM THERE, BECAUSE OTHERWISE THEY'D HAVE TO GO UNDER HIS DESK. WELL, LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT. I THOUGHT WAS I WAS TRYING I WAS TRYING NOT TO GIVE ANYTHING TO ALEX. MAN. SATURDAY ROUNDTABLE WAS INSPIRED. THAT WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, I WOULD HAVE EXPECTED, BUT I THINK IT WAS BRILLIANT. I HAVE SENT THE NOTES THAT I TOOK TO YOU AND ALEX AND TO ALL THE ARTISTS. I HAVEN'T HEARD BACK YET ABOUT ANY, ANY CHANGES, BUT THERE'S SOME REALLY GOOD IDEAS AND VERY SPECIFIC IDEAS CAME FROM THAT. SO HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT OF THAT? KUDOS. THAT WAS GREAT. WE WANTED THE ROUNDTABLE. YOU KNOW, WHEN THINKING ABOUT IT, I WAS THINKING HOW THEY HAVE BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S. I WAS THINKING BREAKFAST WITH THE ARTS. THAT'S THE IDEA. AND THEN THE COMMUNITY AND THE ARTS COME TOGETHER AND DISCUSS IT. AND THEN RON JUST TOOK THE LEAD ON THAT. THAT WAS GREAT. SO, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO SAY THIS, I WANT TO SAY THIS ABOUT ANGELA'S IDEA THAT FOR THOSE WHO WEREN'T THERE, THE TOPIC WAS, WHAT IS DUNCANVILLE TO AN ARTIST? AND PART OF IT WAS I WANTED US TO BE ABLE TO BRING TOGETHER OUR ARTIST COMMUNITY. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID? THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT BRINGING THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER. AND SO IT WAS THIS WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. LIKE WHEN WE BRING OUR ARTISTS TOGETHER, THEY'RE THINKING ABOUT THE COMMUNITY. AND THAT WAS PART OF THE AND THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE NOTES. THAT WAS INSPIRED. THAT WAS WONDERFUL. I THINK THE WHOLE THING WAS PERMEATED WITH MEANING ABOUT THE JUNETEENTH, THE HISTORY, THE PURPOSE, THE UNITY IT INCULCATED. AND EVERY NIGHT WAS SPECIAL AND EVERY ARTIST WAS CONTRIBUTING WONDERFUL EVENTS. AND THERE WERE DIFFERENT CHARACTERISTICS OF EACH PROGRAM. DEMONICA WAS THERE FOR SEVERAL PROGRAMS, AND SHE REPRESENTED THE MAYOR. THE MAYOR CAME OH, ONE OF THE GREAT MOMENTS. THE MAYOR WAS ASKED TO BE A DRUMMER AND HE GOT UP. AND WE HAVE A GREAT PICTURE OF HIM, YOU KNOW, LIKE THIS. AND THAT WAS REALLY EXCITING. I JUST THINK IT THE WHOLE THING. SO I HAVE A PRESENT FOR ANGELA. OH. AND A THANK YOU CARD IF ANYONE WANTS TO SIGN IT. WE ALL DO. DON'T GIVE IT TO HER YET. FOR NEXT YEAR. I ORDERED THIS THING THAT COULD BE ON THE PODIUM BECAUSE IT SAYS JUNETEENTH AND IT HAS THAT JUNETEENTH FLAG. NICE. SO THAT'S FOR NEXT YEAR. OKAY, I'LL PUT IN THE BAG, AND ALL WE NEED TO DO IS REMEMBER TO GIVE HER ENERGY AND ENCOURAGEMENT WHEN SHE GETS TIRED, BECAUSE IT WAS A LOT TO CARRY FORWARD, AND IT WAS FUN TO WATCH. AMY WAS SCURRYING BACK AND FORTH WITH WAFFLES FROM THE TIME WE HAD TO COOK THE TOASTER. THE TOASTERS HAD TO BE IN THE REC CENTER KITCHEN. YES. THEY COULDN'T BE IN THAT AREA. SO HERE SHE WAS, RUNNING BACK AND FORTH WITH THESE WAFFLES COVERED UP TO STAY HOT. AND OF COURSE, RON WAS LEADING THIS INCREDIBLE DISCUSSION. HE WAS PART OF IT. 
          THE ART OF THE CALIBER OF ARTISTS WAS REALLY HIGH. AND THERE WERE SO MANY GOOD SUGGESTIONS, PARTICULARLY ABOUT THE NEED FOR PLACE FOR THE ARTS, NOT JUST TEMPORARY SPOTS, BUT THERE WAS SO MANY GOOD SUGGESTIONS. DO YOU KNOW WHAT CATHY WHITEMAN SAID TO ME WHEN WE WERE TALKING? BECAUSE BEFORE BEFORE THE ARTIST SET DOWN, I. THEN I TOLD THEM WHAT THE TOPIC WAS GOING TO BE, SHE SAID. AND I ASKED HER, I SAID IT'S IMPORTANT THAT DUNCANVILLE UNDERSTANDS WHAT ARTISTS NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL ARTISTS. THE ARTS ARE NOT A MEANS TO AN END. WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE OUR COMMUNITY IS BUILT FOR ARTISTS FOR ALL THIS TO WORK. SO I ASKED HER. WHAT? WHAT DO YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL AT DUNCANVILLE? AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, SHE'S A VERY ACCOMPLISHED, A VERY ACCOMPLISHED TV PRESENTER AND ARTIST. SHE SAID, NEVER IN MY CAREER HAS ANYONE EVER ASKED ME WHAT I NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL. AND SO WHEN SHE TALKED ABOUT DUNCANVILLE FOR THE ARTS, SHE THEY WERE ALL TALKING ABOUT HOW SPECIAL IT WAS. AND, AND THEN BECAUSE SHE SAW EVERYBODY HERE SCURRYING AND RUNNING AND I'M LIKE, WHERE'S MY CHICKEN? YOU KNOW. AND IT WAS IT WAS ANNOYING. YOU WEREN'T EITHER. THIS YOU YOU PUT SO MUCH EMPHASIS ON THE CONVERSATION THAT IT BECAME A REALLY ELEVATED EVENT. YOU KNOW, THAT MEANS A LOT COMING FROM YOU, I APPRECIATE IT. OKAY. WHEN YOU'RE READY. ANY QUESTION? OKAY. YES, SIR. DO YOU WANT ME TO ATTEMPT TO RESERVE THIS SPACE FOR NEXT YEAR? DID YOU GET. WE DON'T EVEN 
          [01:05:08]
KNOW WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO YET, BUT GO AHEAD AND DO IT FOR TWO WEEKS FOR HER. WE'LL DO. WE CAN RESERVE IT FOR A WEEK, AND THEN WE CAN DECIDE EARLY AND THEN RELEASE IT, RELEASE THE TIME THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO UTILIZE. AT LEAST WE'LL HAVE A LOCATION, BECAUSE THAT'S THE. THAT WAS THE WHOLE IDEA. YEAH. BECAUSE WHEN YOU CALL WHEN ALEX CALLED ON FRIDAY ABOUT THE HICCUP, I WAS LIKE, BUT AT LEAST WE FOUND OUT ON FRIDAY AND NOT MONDAY, BECAUSE THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN A DISASTER. ORIGINALLY, CURTIS FERGUSON WAS GOING TO BRING ART FOR THE WHOLE WEEK, RIGHT? AND IT WAS GOING TO BE PROTECTED AND EVERYTHING. WE WERE GOING TO MEET AT 11:00 ON MONDAY TO SET UP ALL THIS VISUAL ART AND SET THE ROOM UP. WELL, WE COULDN'T GET IN UNTIL FIVE SOMETHING, SO BUT FRIDAY WE FOUND OUT, WELL, THAT WAS BECAUSE OF THE HICCUP THAT THAT HAPPENED. YEAH, BUT THEY TOOK CARE OF IT. YEAH. THAT WAS THE ONLY THING WE COULDN'T DO WAS DISPLAY THE ART. BUT JEREMY AND OTHER CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, ANY OTHER CONVERSATION? YES. IF YOU COULD RESERVE IT. 
          ANY OTHER CONVERSATION ON JUNETEENTH? OKAY. I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE ON. NUMBER 
          [9. Independence Day Parade and Celebration Participation]
NINE IS INDEPENDENCE DAY PARADE AND CELEBRATION PARTICIPATION. BOTH ANGELA AND I ASKED THIS TO BE ON THERE. I THINK WE'RE BOTH HAVING LIONS ASK US IF WE'RE GOING TO PARTICIPATE IN THE 4TH OF JULY. AND SAYS, NO, THANK YOU. IT'S HOT BECAUSE OF BLOOM. FEST WAS REALLY HARD AND THAT WAS IN THE EVENING, WOULDN'T IT? I MEAN, THE HEAT, THIS IS SOMETHING WITH ART OUTSIDE. IT WAS MUCH EASIER IN THE LIBRARY INSIDE. THAT'S FROM MY PERSPECTIVE. BUT I'M NOT AN OUTDOOR PERSON. SUGGESTIONS? RECOMMENDATIONS? I KNOW YOU'RE PROBABLY GOING TO BE DOING OTHER THINGS THE THEATER HAS WILL HAVE AN ENTRY. IF I'M IN TOWN, I MAY BE OUT OF TOWN, BUT IF I'M IN TOWN, I'LL BE WITH THE THEATER WITH THEIR ENTRY BECAUSE THEY I MEAN, WE WILL DEFINITELY HAVE ONE. SO HOW DOES ANYBODY HAVE A COOL CAR THEY WANT TO RIDE IN THE PARADE. OTHERWISE I DON'T EVEN HAVE A CAR. THAT'S RIGHT. OR. DOES ANYONE. PAINT IN ADVANCE? YOU KNOW, WITH ART, RIGHT? CAN WE PAINT ON YOUR. WELL, YOUR CAR WOULD BE GOOD TO PAINT ON. I WASN'T I WASN'T INTERESTED IN THE PARADE, BUT I WOULDN'T MIND IT IF WE HAVE SOMETHING IN THE PARK IN THE EVENING. ALEX, CAN WE HAVE A TABLE IN THE PARK OR HOW DOES THAT WORK? KEVIN IS WAITING FOR THE RESULTS OF TONIGHT'S MEETING. OKAY, SO WHO WANTS TO MAN THE TABLE IN THE PARK? I CAN HELP, OKAY. WHAT ARE THE REQUIREMENTS? HOW LONG DO THEY HAVE TO BE THERE? IF IT STARTS AT FOUR, YOU HAVE TO BE THERE PROBABLY ABOUT 230 OR 3 TO SET UP. WE'LL ASK DEVON TO DO AGAIN A TENT FOR US. I'LL GO AHEAD. EXCUSE ME. LAST TIME I PUT A LIFESAVER IN MY MOUTH. WE JUST NEED TO DECIDE. WHAT DO WE WANT TO DO? WE HAVE THE EASELS. THE EASELS AND THE BOARDS ARE AT THE ANNEX AS WELL. AND OUR COMMISSION HAS A BOARD. THE BOARDS. THE BOARD. OH, THOSE BOARDS. THAT'S RIGHT, BECAUSE EASELS DON'T HAVE A BACKING TO THEM. SO I BROUGHT PIECES OF PLYWOOD TO PUT ON THE EASEL SO THAT THEY COULD. NOT POKE THROUGH. SO THAT WAS IF WE WANT TO DO THE PAINT. I THINK YOU SAID I HAVE THE PAINTS AND THE MARKERS AND OTHER SUPPLIES. 
          YEAH. I THINK IT WOULD BE EASY JUST TO GET THOSE, THOSE THINGS LIKE WHAT WE HAD AT THE LIBRARY, THOSE, THOSE THINGS, THOSE LITTLE, THOSE LITTLE CANVAS. CANVAS. THAT'S WHAT THEY CALL THEM. YEAH. THEY'RE JUST EXPENSIVE. SO THAT WAS THE REASON WE DIDN'T REALLY. YEAH, THEY REALLY WEREN'T. BUT NOW WE HAVE MONEY. SO WE GET, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEIR BUDGET WAS. YEAH. 
          YEAH I MEAN WE DIDN'T I MEAN THAT WAS BEFORE THE CITY HAD APPROVED THE MONEY FOR IT. SO WE WERE DOING THE LIBRARIES WERE REALLY SMALL. THAT WOULDN'T REALLY FIT ON THE EASEL. IT NEEDS TO THE BIGGER ONES, LIKE AT HOBBY LOBBY OR MICHAEL'S OR WHATEVER, THEY'RE THEY'RE JUST. 
          YEAH, I LOOKED AT THEM, IN FACT, BEFORE I SAW SOME ON AMAZON FOR LIKE A HUNDRED AND SOMETHING DOLLARS FOR MAYBE LIKE 100 PIECES, THAT WAS BAD. SO SARAH WANTS TO BE THERE. WHO ELSE WANTS TO BE THERE? I KNOW IT'S JULY 4TH, SO PEOPLE MAY BE OUT OF TOWN OR WITH FAMILY. OH, THE TIME THOUGH, SO IT'LL BE THREE TO. WELL, IT WOULD PROBABLY BE. IF YOU WANT TO AND YOU KNOW THAT IT'S GOING TO BE MANNED. SO I'M GUESSING THAT THE PARADE ISN'T FOR ME. I'M AFRAID I'M NOT PREGNANT. YEAH, OKAY. WHAT I CAN DO IS I CAN JUST MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THE TABLE AND THE TENT TAKEN CARE OF, OKAY? AND THEN YOU CAN BUILD IT FROM THERE. OKAY. BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE 
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SURE THAT YOU'VE GOT SOMETHING GOING ON. YEAH, YEAH. AND IF THAT FALLS THROUGH, I WOULD JUST NEED TO KNOW JUST ENOUGH TIME TO TELL HER. DON'T DEDICATE ANYBODY TO SETTING SOMETHING UP FOR THAT. OKAY. THAT DOESN'T PARTICULARLY ALL HAVE TO BE SORTED OUT TONIGHT. JUST THE IMPORTANT THING IS NOT DOING THE PARADE ARE DOING ARE INTENDING TO BE AT THE CELEBRATION. WOULD LIKE A TABLE TENT AND THEN WE CAN BUILD FROM THERE. OKAY. AND IF WE JUST WANT TO DO DRAWINGS OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WE COULD DO THAT. YEAH, WELL I'LL TALK, WE'LL TALK. OKAY. SO WE'RE GOOD FOR A TENT, NOT FOR THE PARADE. YES. THANK YOU GUYS EVERYBODY. ITEM TEN. HISPANIC HERITAGE 
          [10. Hispanic Heritage Planning]
PLANNING. SARAH FOR YOURS. OKAY. SO YEAH. SO I THINK WE'RE GOING TO GO WITH THE IDEA OF WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT LAST TIME AND HAVING LIKE A PRE-PARTY BEFORE THE ACTUAL SEPTEMBER 20TH EVENT THAT THE CITY IS ALREADY PLANNED AND THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE INVOLVING. SO SEPTEMBER 19TH IS A FRIDAY. AND AMY GAVE A GREAT SUGGESTION ABOUT HAVING IT AT MAIN STATION IN THAT, IN THAT, I GUESS, LIKE VACANT AREA IN BETWEEN THE THEATER AND THE RESTAURANTS. SO IT'LL BE GREAT BECAUSE AMY'S ALREADY HAVING A SHOW THAT WEEK. I'M NOT GOING TO HAVE A SHOW THAT YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE A SHOW. SO WE REARRANGED IT. SO BETWEEN THE LAST TIME WE TALKED, WE WANTED TO MOVE OUR DEMONS OF FLEET STREET INTO OCTOBER BECAUSE WE KILL PEOPLE, AND WE FELT LIKE IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT TO DO THAT IN OCTOBER. SO THAT'S FREED UP THAT WEEKEND. OH, THAT'S WHAT I LIKE TO SHOW PEOPLE TO KILL PEOPLE. AND I'LL GO, OKAY, WE'RE GOING TO KILL PEOPLE IN OCTOBER. 
          SO THAT FREES UP THAT EVENING SO YOU CAN HAVE THE BAND AND DO STUFF, BUT WE CAN STILL THE THEATER CAN STILL PLAY WITH YOU. I MEAN, WE OKAY, WE CAN HAVE THE OUTDOOR LIGHTS ON, YOU KNOW, ALL SORTS OF COOL STUFF, BUT OKAY, WE DON'T HAVE TO SHOW THAT NIGHT, SO. YEAH. OKAY. AND MAYBE YOU CAN TELL PEOPLE FROM THE THEATER THAT WE'LL BE HAVING REHEARSALS AND STUFF. WE'LL GET THEM IN. OKAY. YEAH. WE CAN. PERFECT. SO. SO BEFORE I KNEW THAT, I WAS THINKING, BECAUSE I REMEMBER YOU SAID THE SHOW STARTED AT EIGHT. YES. AND SO YOU WANTED US TO BE PRETTY MUCH DONE BY 730. BUT I THOUGHT THIS WOULD BE A BETTER WIN WIN FOR YOU. THEN WE DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT STOPPING AT EIGHT AND. OKAY. YEAH, WELL, I HAD REACHED OUT TO LOS HEIFETZ AND TALKED TO THE OWNER TO SEE IF THEY WOULD BE INTERESTED IN PARTICIPATING. AND, YOU KNOW, WE CAN PAY THEM FOR CATERING AND IT WILL BE FREE TO THE PUBLIC LIKE FOOD. SO ANYWAY, THEY GAVE ME A QUOTE AND SAID THEY COULD SERVE 200 PEOPLE, TWO TACOS AND SOME CHURRO BEANS EACH PERSON. AND THAT'LL BE $1,500. AND THAT INCLUDES SERVERS. AND THEY WILL BE OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, HANDING THIS FOOD OUT. I WAS LIKE, COOL. THAT'S A THAT'S GREAT. I ASKED FOR THE ESTIMATE OF 200 JUST BECAUSE I WAS, YOU KNOW, KIND OF THINKING LIKE, OKAY, WE MIGHT HAVE SOME THEATER PEOPLE THERE. 
          WE MIGHT WHEN WE PROMOTE IT. I MEAN, OF COURSE WE COULD HAVE MORE. AND I SAID, IT'S POSSIBLE. 
          MAYBE I'LL ASK YOU WHAT THE ESTIMATE WOULD BE FOR 300, BUT WE'LL START WITH 200 FOR NOW. 
          FIRST 200 PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, GET FOOD AND THEN AFTER THAT IT'S OUT. YEAH, YEAH. SO, SO ANYWAY, SO THAT THAT WAS, THAT WAS THE ESTIMATE HE GAVE ME. AND THAT WAS TODAY. HE GAVE ME THAT ESTIMATE. I HAVEN'T SECURED ANY LIKE MARIACHIS OR ANYTHING, BUT I KNOW MARY MARIANNE, YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT HAVING MAYBE SOME PERFORMERS OR YOU KNOW, DANCERS. DANCERS. YEAH. YEAH. SO I DIDN'T KNOW IF MAYBE YOU HAD TALKED TO ANYBODY OR WHAT HAPPENED, BUT I HIGH SCHOOL HAVE A FOLKLORICO TROUPE. I'M NOT SURE, BUT THAT GRAND PRAIRIE DOES THEIR AWARD WINNING, AND I DIDN'T KNOW. 
          YEAH. MY PERSON IS THE GRAND PRIX. YEAH. SO, I MEAN, IT'D BE REALLY COOL TO HIGHLIGHT THAT. 
          PLUS, IT ALWAYS BRINGS PARENTS AND FAMILY OUT AS WELL. RIGHT. LIKE IF YOU HAVE LIKE SOME KIDS PERFORMING AND STUFF. SO THAT'S THE 19TH TO THE 19TH. YEAH. SO MAYBE IF YOU DON'T MIND LIKE CHECKING WITH YOUR PEOPLE AND THEN I CAN CONTINUE LOOKING FOR MARIACHI BAND. BUT GOOD TO KNOW WE DON'T HAVE TO BE QUIET BY EIGHT SO WE CAN CONTINUE TO REACH OUT TO YOU LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE FINALIZE, ONCE WE START APPLYING FOR RIGHTS AND WE'RE, YEAH, TRYING TO FIGURE IT ALL OUT SO WE CAN SO WE CAN PUT THE MARGARITA MACHINE IN THE THEATER. ABSOLUTELY. WE COULD JUST FINALLY, FINALLY. SO, SO WHEN I HAD PITCHED IT TO LITTLE CEPHAS, I HAD SAID IT WOULD BE PROBABLY BETWEEN 4 AND 8. SO I CAN KEEP IT THAT WAY FOR NOW UNTIL WE KIND OF SECURE OTHER, OTHER THINGS. JUST, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A GOOD TIMELINE FOR NOW, I THINK. I THINK IT'S A GOOD TIMELINE 4 TO 8. WE'RE GOING TO HANG OUT LATER. BUT THEN, YOU KNOW, EXACTLY LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT ANYWAY. YEAH. SO THEY CAN DO THEIR THEY CAN VISIT THE OTHER RESTAURANTS OR WHATEVER AFTER 8:00. I MEAN I THINK, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD TIME UNLESS YOU GUYS FEEL DIFFERENTLY. BUT SOUNDS LIKE WE KIND OF AGREE. AND THEN OF COURSE LIKE FOR THE DAY OF THE 20TH, YOU KNOW, HAVING THE BOOTH OUT THERE, OBVIOUSLY, LIKE I'VE TALKED ABOUT LITTLE THINGS THAT THE KIDS COULD DO, LIKE MAKING LITTLE SOMBREROS OR PAINTING, NOT PAINTING, MAYBE COLORING SOME SKULLS, LIKE SOME ORNAMENT SKULLS, STUFF LIKE THAT ON THE 20TH. YEAH. SO, SO YEAH, I THINK 
          [01:15:01]
WE HAVE MONEY FOR THOSE THINGS. AND I KNOW WE HAVE MONEY ON THE CARD. SO I THOUGHT, LIKE, I CAN USE THAT FOR SNACKS FOR THE 20TH AND WE NEED TO ALEX HAS IT. ALEX OKAY. YEAH. SO I MEAN WE HAVE TIME BUT. RIGHT. AND IT'S GOT AN EXPIRATION DATE ON IT. SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE O EXPIRATION IS COMING UP. OH OKAY. SO MAYBE I BUY IT BEFORE. GOOD TO KNOW I CAN CHECK WITH YOU ON THAT IF YOU. OR YOU HAVE IT. LET'S GET TOGETHER SOON OKAY. OKAY. SO THAT AND THEN I ALSO THOUGHT ABOUT MAYBE HAVING LIKE SOME GOODIE BAGS LIKE ON THE 19TH THAT WE CAN PASS OUT TO PEOPLE WHO SHOW UP AND IN THOSE GOODIE BAGS WILL NOT ONLY BE LIKE MAYBE BUSINESS CARDS FROM LOCAL BUSINESSES, FROM DUNCANVILLE AND LIKE THE ARTS COMMISSION INFO, BUT JUST LITTLE, I DON'T KNOW, MAYBE SOME CANDIES, MAYBE LIKE LITTLE LIKE CHIPS OR SOMETHING AND JUST KIND OF GIVE SOMETHING, GIVE, GIVE KIDS SOMETHING FUN. MAYBE. YEAH. OF COURSE. YEAH. HISPANIC HERITAGE STICKERS OR MAYBE FUN FACTS OR SOMETHING. YOU KNOW, WE CAN PUT IN THERE. OF COURSE THAT WOULD BE LIMITED TO SO YOU KNOW, FIRST COME FIRST SERVE GET GETS THOSE. SO THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS. YOU KNOW YOU MIGHT ALSO I DON'T THINK I'M MAKING THIS UP, BUT I THOUGHT TIFFANY HAD CONSIDERED MAYBE DOING ONE OF THE BUSINESS MIXERS AT THE SAME TIME. BOLSTER BECAUSE SHE COULD DO IT THERE, I DON'T KNOW. OH, I SEE WHAT THIS COULD BE A PURE WORK OF FICTION, BUT I FEEL LIKE SHE HAD MENTIONED THAT AT SOME TIME, I DON'T KNOW, OKAY, I CAN GET WITH HER AND ASK HER AND SEE IF THE OTHER THING WE COULD DO IS THEATER, IF THE BAND NEEDS POWER OR WHATEVER. OH, POWER OUTSIDE. 
          I'M GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP BECAUSE I WAS THINKING LIKE, THAT'S ALWAYS AN ISSUE, A MICROPHONE OR SOMETHING. YEAH, NO, AND I CAN HELP MAKE THAT HAPPEN. OKAY. IF THEY IF THE BAND WILL HAVE THEIR OWN SOUND SYSTEM. PROBABLY. PROBABLY. BUT IF THEY DON'T OR IF YOU NEED A SEPARATE SPEAKER AND MICROPHONE, I'M ON IT. OKAY. YEAH. BECAUSE I THOUGHT MAYBE IT WOULD BE GOOD TO INTRODUCE OURSELVES AND JUST KIND OF GREET EVERYBODY IN THE BEGINNING. SO MAYBE HAVING SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BUT YEAH, WE HAVE OUTDOOR OUTLETS THAT I NORMALLY TURN OFF, BUT I'LL TURN THEM ON FOR US. OH, OKAY. SOUNDS GOOD. OKAY, A QUICK QUESTION. YEAH. YOU SAID THERE IS THERE FUNDING IN CASE. YES. YES. FUNDING. YES. SO YOU HAD PEOPLE THAT WERE PAID I CAN TELL. OH YEAH. YEAH, YEAH. THEY'LL BE FUNDING. YEAH. BUT WE'LL NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEIR BUDGET IS. IT'S COMPLETELY SEPARATE THING BUT IT IS RELATED. THIS WOULD BE YOUR LAST PUBLIC EVENT AS A GROUP. OH IS THIS CURRENT BODY. THANKS, ALEX. I JUST FIGURED THAT MAY BE THERE. COMEDY TO IT. YEAH. SO SOME SOME IMPORTANCE TO IT. OKAY. THANK YOU. I'M GLAD WE MAYBE WE'LL PUT PICTURES OF OURSELVES LIKE IN THE BAGS SO PEOPLE REMEMBER US. OH EACH ONE OF THE PAINTED SKULLS CAN BE US I LIKED IT, I LIKE THE SKULL IDEA. HAVE YOU LOOKED AT SOME SKULLS? I HAVE, I'VE LOOKED AT THEM. WELL, FROM AMAZON AND I HAVE THE LINK SAVED, BUT I JUST DIDN'T KNOW I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT THIS WHOLE BUDGET THING AND I DIDN'T KNOW. LIKE, IT'S BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WHAT WE HAVE LEFT WOULD BE SOMEWHERE LIKE ABOUT 16,000 OR 15,000. I'M SORRY. PROBABLY. OH YEAH. YEAH. 
          OH, YEAH. IT WON'T BE 15, BUT YEAH, IT'LL BE. WELL, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO IT FROM AMAZON. 
          YEAH. AND THE THING TOO I WAS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT LIKE WHAT, HOW HOW MANY TO GET, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? BECAUSE LIKE 200. IS THAT ENOUGH OR IS THAT TOO LITTLE. THAT'S TOO MUCH. YOU KNOW, IT'S HIT OR MISS. IT'S HIT OR MISS. AND WITH THE KIDS. YEAH, I KNOW WE DID PAINTINGS AND ALL THAT STUFF. THEY JUST NONSTOP COMING. I MEAN, WE JUST HAD TO REALLY JUST. WE FINALLY HAD TO CLOSE IT DOWN. YEAH, YEAH. STARTED THROWING ROCKS AT THE KIDS. I MEAN, I FIGURED IT WOULD BE LIKE SOMETHING SIMPLE WOULD GO A LONG WAY. AND I THINK IF YOU RUN OUT, THEN WE JUST FINISH. EXACTLY. AND THEN WE'RE DONE. SO WITH THE JUNETEENTH, WE DID DO A $500 AD BUY ON THIS. SO YOU MAY WANT TO KEEP THAT IN MIND. AND THEN WE CAN EXPAND THE WE CAN CONNECT IT AS FAR AS ADVERTISING AS SAYING IF YOU'RE COMING FOR THE ONE, COME FOR BOTH, COME FOR BOTH. AND OH YEAH, FOR SURE I THINK. YEAH THAT'LL HELP WITH. YEAH. MEETING THE QUALIFICATIONS AND EVERYTHING TOO OKAY. YEAH THAT SOUNDS GOOD. SO WHEN I HAVE LIKE THE LINK OR I HAVE LINKS LIKE TO WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO GET FOR THE 20TH FOR OUR BOOTH, DO I SEND THAT TO YOU OR. OKAY. SO AND I CAN ADD THE ESTIMATE WITH THAT. BUT YEAH THAT'S ALL FOR ME. OH GO AHEAD I JUST HAVE ONE THING. 
          REMEMBER WE HAVE ALSO IN SEPTEMBER IN SAW CORRELATION. CORRELATION WITH HISPANIC HERITAGE WAS THE MOVIE. AND IT'S REALLY. THAT'S RIGHT A MILLION MILES A MILLION MILES AWAY OR SOMETHING. YEAH MILLION MILES AWAY. AND WE'RE, WE'RE WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE CO-PROMOTING WITH 
          [01:20:07]
THAT TOO FOR THAT EVENING. AND I WAS THINKING THAT THE ACTIVITY FOR THE KIDS, WOULDN'T IT BE CUTE IF WE JUST HAD THE TENT OVER THERE AND WE HAD THEM PAINT IN MOON ROCKS? OH, THAT'D BE CUTE. ALL RIGHT. I DON'T WANT TO GET OFF. I DON'T WANT TO GET. NO, NO, NO, IT'S OKAY. IT'S PART OF THE HISPANIC HISPANIC HERITAGE. I SHOULD MAYBE IT'S ON THE CALENDAR. IT WAS. YEAH, BUT THAT WAS PART OF THE HISPANIC HERITAGE. OKAY. YEAH. AS LONG AS IT IS PORTION, I THINK I HAVE THE 13TH OF SEPTEMBER AS THAT. YEAH. THE FILM NIGHT. AND SO SOME OF US WILL NEED TO BE THERE FOR THAT. BUT WE NEED AN ACTIVITY TO, TO TELL THE REC CENTER BECAUSE THEY'RE THE ONE COORDINATING THAT. REMEMBER, WE SAID WE WOULD DO A COUPLE OF MOVIES WITH THEM AND WELL, WE SELECTED WE SELECTED THE MOVIE. SO WE NEED TO START. THAT'S A CUTE IDEA. YEAH. AND SO I WAS THINKING OF THE ART ACTIVITY, MAYBE MOON ROCKS PAINTING THE MOON, I DON'T KNOW, BUT I LIKE THE I LOVE THE ROCK THING THAT THAT IS COOL. SO THAT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. SO THAT'S ON THE 13TH. 13TH. THIS IS A FILM OKAY. THAT'S A BUSY TIME. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER 
          [11. Arts & Business Mixer]
BUSINESS ON THAT ITEM OKAY. WE'RE GOING TO GO TO ITEM 11. THAT'S TIFFANY'S BUT SHE'S NOT HERE. SO UNLESS ANYONE WANTS TO TALK ON ARTS AND BUSINESS MIXER. I HAD SOMETHING YOU WANT TO. 
          THERE WAS A LOCATION. OH. YOU KNOW WHERE THE PLAY PLACE WAS? THERE'S A NEW RESTAURANT. 
          BISTRO. THERE SHOULD. ANYWAYS, THEY ARE JUST OPENED. AND THERE'S A MUSIC OR ART OR SOMETHING NEXT TO IT. THAT MIGHT BE A GOOD LOCATION FOR A FUTURE MIXER. AND THEY ARE. THE RESTAURANT IS WILLING TO BE OPEN OTHER HOURS FOR LIKE SPECIAL EVENTS. SO, YOU KNOW, IT MIGHT BE A GOOD PLACE TO DO IT AND MIXER FOR THE FUTURE. EXCELLENT. WHAT'S IT CALLED? A BACHELOR. 
          CELLO. CELLO? YEAH. I'VE HAD SEVERAL PEOPLE COME UP AND SAY THAT'D BE A GOOD PLACE TO HAVE IT. YEAH. WOULD YOU WOULD YOU REMIND TIFFANY? WOULD YOU TELL THEM IF THAT'S OKAY? IS IT PLANNED FOR THIS SUMMER? I DON'T I DON'T THINK WE HAVE A PLANNED DATE ON IT. WE DON'T HAVE A DATE. WE DIDN'T HAVE A DATE, BUT IT WAS PART OF THAT 20,000. IT WAS. SO IT IS FUNDED. I KNOW THIS AGAIN. THIS IS. TAKE THIS ALL WITH A GRAIN OF SALT. I'M NOT SURE IF THIS IS ACCURATE. I REMEMBER HER THINKING ABOUT DOING BECAUSE THE ONE WE HAD THAT WAS A LATIN THEMED LAST YEAR WAS SUPER POPULAR WITH THE TANGO DANCERS, SALSA DANCERS. SO I FEEL LIKE SHE SAID SHE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING IN PARTNERSHIP WITH HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH. WITH WHAT YOU'RE DOING, I FEEL LIKE. AND THEN THERE WAS A AND I THINK WE ACTUALLY HAD FUNDING FOR THREE. OH. IN THE MINUTES. 
          SHE SUGGESTED THAT NEXT MIXER TAKE PLACE IN AUGUST AND ASSOCIATED WITH BACK TO SCHOOL FOR EDUCATORS. SHE WANTED TO DO IT AS A CARNIVAL AFFAIR WHERE PEOPLE COULD DONATE BACK TO SCHOOL SUPPLIES, AND USE IT AS A TOUCHPOINT WITH EDUCATORS. SO MAYBE AT THAT LOCATION, THAT'S A GREAT IDEA. ALL RIGHT. ANY OTHER ANYTHING ELSE ON THAT TOPIC? SO WE'LL GET WITH TIFFANY. ITEM 12. 
          [12.The MacMillan Institute Reception Update]
DOCTOR PERRY IS GOING TO BRING THE HOUSE DOWN WITH THE MACMILLAN INSTITUTE RECEPTION UPDATE. YEAH, IT'S A SOBERING REPORT. SO I GOT THE IDEA THAT MAYBE I'D REACH OUT TO CLAUDIA TO SEE IF SHE WANTED TO DO A RECEPTION IN JULY, SINCE WE DID HAVE SOME FUNDING THAT CAME THROUGH. AND SO I ASKED HER WHAT SHE THOUGHT, AND SHE SAID, I'M TORN BY THIS TOPIC. I REALLY DO LIKE THE IDEA OF THIS EVENT, AND I DON'T WANT TO BE STINGY ABOUT OUR WORK. HOWEVER, I HAVE TO CONFESS THAT I'VE THAT GIVEN HOW WE'VE BEEN COLD SHOULDERED BY DUNCANVILLE ISD, NOT IN A MEAN WAY, JUST FIRMLY TOLD NO, I'M NOT AS INTERESTED AS I WAS BEFORE IN HAVING A DUNCANVILLE EVENT LIKE THIS RIGHT NOW. THE TRUTH IS, WE WILL BE DOING A LOT MORE WORK WITH DESOTO ISD EDUCATORS AND EVEN WITH DALLAS ISD EDUCATORS THIS COMING YEAR. SO PROGRAMS TO WHICH WE INVITE NEIGHBORS ARE NOT REALLY GOING TO BE A PRIORITY FOR US GOING FORWARD. NEIGHBORS WILL STILL BE INVITED, BUT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF A FEW EVENTS, I BELIEVE THAT CONSTITUENTS IN OUR PROGRAMS WILL MAINLY BE THE PRIMARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATORS WE CAME HERE TO SERVE GOING FORWARD. THIS IS WHAT WE'VE ALWAYS INTENDED, BUT NOW IT LOOKS LIKE IT MIGHT BECOME A REALITY AFTER WE HAVE PROVEN OUR EDUCATIONAL MODEL ELSEWHERE, LIKE THE ACADEMY WORK THAT WE ARE GROOMING AND DESOTO 
          [01:25:02]
ISD, AND WILL BE STARTING IN DALLAS ISD THIS COMING SCHOOL YEAR, WE WILL COME BACK TO SHOW DUNCANVILLE THE PROOF THAT STUDENTS AND TEACHERS CAN DO THIS KIND OF EDUCATION. 
          HOPEFULLY, THAT WILL ENCOURAGE DUNCANVILLE TO SEE HOW THIS WOULD BE GOOD FOR THE DISTRICT TO. BUT RIGHT NOW, THE RATHER ODD RELATIONSHIP THAT EXISTS BETWEEN THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE AND THE SCHOOL DISTRICT MEANS THAT CULTIVATING AND INFORMING NEIGHBORS IN DUNCANVILLE WON'T REALLY HELP US MAKE HEADWAY WITH THE DISTRICT, SO I THINK I'D RATHER WAIT TO HAVE AN EVENT LIKE THIS UNTIL WE WERE IN THE POSITION WHERE WE CAN SHOW DUNCANVILLE ISD THE EFFICACY OF THIS VISION, THEN IT WOULD MAKE SENSE TO HAVE DUNCANVILLE CITIZENS AND NEIGHBORS AND ANOTHER EVENT LIKE THIS TO THE MAC TO SHOW THEM WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT. I THINK THAT WOULD MEAN NEXT SUMMER. THANK YOU FOR BUILDING BRIDGES. I LOVE YOUR SPIRIT AND HOPE. SO IT WAS IT WAS DISCOURAGING AND I GUESS I HAVE HAD SUCH GOOD EXPERIENCE OVER THERE AND WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN JULY IN THE SALON AND IN WHAT THEY CALL IT'S A COMMUNITAS. IT'S A IT'S A CONVERSATION ABOUT ESTHETICS. OKAY. SO IT'S WONDERFUL, BUT IT FEELS LIKE RIGHT NOW IT'S JUST REACHING OUT TO A FEW PEOPLE. THAT ARE AFFILIATED MORE WITH THEIR PROGRAMS. IS THAT HOW YOU WOULD CHARACTERIZE IT, TOO? YOU'VE BEEN INVOLVED. A LOT OF ALUMNI WHO COME BESIDES THAT TO TEACHERS. I'LL JUST SAY A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SCHOOL BOARD. I DID TAKE A MEMBER OVER AND HIS WIFE, THEY WERE AMAZED, LOVED THE PROGRAM. HIS WIFE HAD BEEN A TEACHER HERE FOR A LONG, LONG TIME. SHE WAS IN TEARS BY THE TIME THE PRESENTATION WAS FINISHED. AND SO IT'S NOT THE BOARD. I DON'T THINK THEY WERE VERY ENTHUSIASTIC. SO MAYBE THERE'S A WAY TO DO IT THAT'S NOT JUST CITIZENS TO, IF THAT MAKES SENSE. WELL, I WAS HOPING THE GENERALITY OF DUNCANVILLE WOULD WOULD COME TO KNOW MORE ABOUT IT AND ITS AIMS. AND YOU KNOW, IT DOES SPONSOR SOME FILM EVENTS AND SOME THINGS THAT ARE PUBLIC ORIENTED. WELL, YES, BUT THE MAIN THRUST IS TEACHER TRAINING AND A PROGRAM THAT'S UNIQUE TO HER. AND. WELL, AND THE REALITY IS SO WHEN WE FIRST STARTED HAVING CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM, THERE WAS NO ART TECHNICAL ARTS FUND. NOW THERE IS A FUND. SHOULD SHE CHOOSE TO APPLY FOR FUNDS AND BE READY FOR HER. AND WE'RE NOT THE SCHOOL BOARD, SO SHOULD SHE WANT TO BUILD THOSE BRIDGES? THERE WERE PEOPLE HERE WHO COULD ADVISE HER, BUT IT IS DISAPPOINTING. BUT SHOULD SHE WANT TO COME BACK AND REVISIT? THERE IS AN APPLICATION PROCESS THAT THERE WASN'T BEFORE, SO HOPEFULLY THAT WILL BE HELPFUL FOR HER AND ENCOURAGING. AND IT IS DISAPPOINTING. YEAH, AND LET'S TALK ABOUT SOME THINGS SHE COULD CONSIDER APPLYING FOR A GRANT FOR SOME CREATIVE THINGS THAT USE MONEY. I'M GOING TO GO. IS THERE ANY MORE ON THAT TOPIC? NO. MONICA MIGHT WANT THIS. YES, PLEASE. THANK YOU. SO ITEM 13 IS 
          [13.Arts Funding Grant Cycle Update]
ARTS FUNDING GRANT CYCLE UPDATES. IS THAT YOURS? AT THIS POINT IN YOUR PACKET, THERE ARE THE FOUR SUBMISSIONS THAT HAVE COME IN SO FAR. ON THE 30TH IS THE DEADLINE TO APPLY. I KNOW THAT THERE WAS A FIFTH APPLICANT WHO CALLED TO DISCUSS IT AND ASK SOME QUESTIONS. I ENCOURAGED. IT WAS VILLAGE TECH. I ENCOURAGED THEM TO GO AHEAD AND APPLY AS ANY DECISION WOULD ULTIMATELY BE MADE BY THE ARTS COMMISSION AND THE CITY COUNCIL. SO EVERYTHING IS ON TRACK AT THIS POINT. I'VE ONLY ENCOUNTERED ONE TECHNICAL ISSUE WITH IT, WITH ONE SUBMISSION, BUT WE WORKED AROUND IT. I WAS ABLE TO ADJUST ANYTHING THAT THEY ENCOUNTERED PRETTY QUICKLY, AND IT WAS RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING, AND IT SEEMS TO BE GOING PRETTY WELL SO FAR. SO THE INTENTION IS IT'LL CUT OFF ON THE 30TH. THESE ARE GOING TO COME BACK TO YOU ON THE 16TH OF JULY. I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I WALKED OUT OF HERE KNOWING IF YOU WANTED THE APPLICANTS PRESENT OR TO PRESENT ON THAT NIGHT, BECAUSE AT THIS POINT THAT IS NOT PART OF THE POLICY, BUT MAYBE THAT IS SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT. YOU WANT TO MEET THE APPLICANTS. I'D LIKE TO KNOW THAT IN ADVANCE SO I CAN LET THEM KNOW. I MEAN, THERE ARE FIVE. IT MIGHT BE INTERESTING, BUT. SO WHAT'S THE PRECEDENT? WHAT IF WE GET 100 APPLICATIONS? YEAH, I DON'T KNOW THAT YOU'LL GET 100 APPLICATIONS BETWEEN NOW. WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN. SO WHAT DO YOU GUYS WANT? DO YOU WANT TO SEE THE APPLICANTS PRESENT OR DO YOU WANT TO REVIEW THE APPLICATIONS? I WAS JUST READING THEM. YEAH 
          [01:30:07]
YEAH YEAH YEAH. WE DON'T NEED TO SEE THE APPLICANTS. IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? YEAH, I DON'T THINK SO. WHAT DO YOU THINK? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO SEE? WHAT DO YOU THINK? AN I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT HOW WE GOT TO KNOW CANDACE AND CEDRIC. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'VE APPLIED. I HAVEN'T STUDIED ALL THIS, BUT I SEE IT HERE. YEAH. YOU KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING TO GET TO KNOW PEOPLE. THAT ARE INTERFACING WITH US. IT IS INTERESTING IF WE HEARD THEIR LITTLE SPIEL OR MET THEM. IT IT SEPARATE FROM A DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER WE, YOU KNOW, MAYBE FIVE MINUTES EACH OR SOMETHING. THEY COULD SEND A VIDEO, MAYBE. TIM, WHAT DO YOU WANT? WELL, WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO? WELL, I MEAN, WHEN SOMEBODY APPLIES FOR HOT FUNDS IN FRONT OF THE CITY COUNCIL, DO THEY DID SOMEBODY GET UP THERE AND MAKE A LITTLE TALK OR HOW DOES THAT WORK? NOT ALWAYS. IT DEPENDS ON WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR, BUT TRYING TO THINK HOW FUNDS NORMALLY IT'LL TYPICALLY BE. 
          IT'LL TYPICALLY BE VICTOR OR SOMEBODY FROM THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TEAM WILL TYPICALLY GET UP THERE AND DO A PRESENTATION ON IT. AND THEN IF THERE ARE MOST IN MOST OF THE TIME THE PERSON THAT'S ASKING OR THE APPLICANT WILL BE THERE TO ASK QUESTIONS. BUT THERE HAVE BEEN PLENTY OF INSTANCES WHERE THE APPLICATION IS SUBMITTED BEFORE COUNCIL AND THE APPLICANT IS NOT PRESENT. SARAH, WHAT DO YOU THINK? I KIND OF AGREE WITH ANN. I'D LIKE TO SEE PEOPLE AND I THINK IT'S A GOOD NETWORKING FOR US, ESPECIALLY SINCE WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD THE ARTS AND REALLY ADVOCATE FOR THEM. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE SEE THEM FACE TO FACE AND, YOU KNOW, SEE WHAT THEY HAVE TO SAY. AND I MEAN, I THINK WE SHOULD GIVE THEM A TIME LIMIT, THOUGH I DON'T THINK THEY SHOULD GO ON FOR 30 MINUTES. BUT BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM. I LIKE YOUR POINT ABOUT ADVOCACY AND KNOWING. WHAT DO YOU THINK, MARIANNE? I JUST WOULD WONDER, FOR THOSE WHO COULDN'T COME, IF THERE WOULD BE ANY SORT OF DISSONANCE WITH THAT. LIKE, YEAH, IF THESE ALL WERE TO COME TO BE GREAT, BUT IF THREE CAN AND ONE COULDN'T, I WONDER IF THAT WOULD BE A AN ISSUE FOR THEM. IT'S NOT MANDATORY THOUGH IS IT? SO. YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO. 
          I'M JUST ASKING IF YOU'D LIKE ME TO PUT OUT AN INVITATION. I WASN'T GOING TO BECAUSE IT'S NOT IN THE POLICY. IT'S NOT MANDATORY. THE ONLY MANDATORY. ATTENDANCE PER THE POLICY IS FOR APPEALS. SO IF YOU DECIDE AGAINST AND THEN COUNCIL DECIDES AGAINST, THEY CAN STILL PUT IN AN APPEAL, BUT THEY HAVE TO BE PRESENT FOR THAT APPEAL. SO ANYTHING THAT'S IN PERSON, IF IT'S NOT MANDATORY, IS IT FAIR THAT SOME COME AND SOME DON'T? THAT'S AN OPEN QUESTION. WELL, I THINK I THINK IT'S OPTIONAL TO ME IF GIVEN THE OPTION. I GUESS MY ONLY CONCERN IS THAT SOME PEOPLE AREN'T GOOD AT GIVING PRESENTATIONS AND SOME ARE. SOME PEOPLE ARE ELOQUENT IN SPEAKING AND SOME ARE NOT. AND I WOULD HATE FOR A REALLY GOOD ARTIST TO LOSE OUT. ON HAVING AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET THE GRANT, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T PRESENT WELL IN FRONT OF US, BECAUSE WE ALL HAVE OUR BIASES WHEN IT COMES TO CERTAIN THINGS. AND I MEAN, WE DO. WE ALL THINK YOU HAVE IT OR NOT. YEAH, THERE'S SOME BIASES. AND SO I THINK BY NOT HAVING THEM HERE, IT JUST GIVES A PLAYING FIELD TO IN MY MIND JUST GIVE EVERYBODY A LEVEL PLAYING FIELD WHEN WE KNOW SOME OF THEM ALREADY. RIGHT. UNLESS WE KNOW SOME. BUT IF WE KNOW THEM THEN OR IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT'S GOING ON THAT WE ALSO KNOW TO RECUSE OURSELVES FROM. FROM THAT PARTICULAR VOTE OR WHATEVER. BUT I DON'T KNOW, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY COMES UP AND THEY THEIR VERBIAGE OR WHATEVER, WHATEVER, THEN I CAN'T SEE THAT PERSON BEING A PUTTING ON A PROGRAM BECAUSE THEY CAN'T BARELY TALK, YOU KNOW, OR THE OTHER THE OPPOSITE. THEY DO A REALLY, REALLY FABULOUS ONE. AND THEY'RE AND THEY'RE AND IT'S A MESS. YEAH. SO I GUESS THAT'S MY THAT'S JUST MY THOUGHT THAT THE BIAS IS THAT SOMETIMES THEY COME IN. IS THIS. AND I'M ASSUMING IT WOULD BE IF SOMEBODY DID SHOW UP, IT WOULD BE FOR THE SPECIAL MEETING WHERE WE REVIEW GRANTS APPLICATIONS. IS THAT SPECIAL MEETING OF PUBLIC WHERE WE BE TELEVISED FOR THAT SPECIAL MEETING TO GO THROUGH THERE. HOW CAN WE BE CANDID AS WE AS WE HAVE DISCUSSIONS CONCERNING IF WE ARE WELL, SO IF THIS IS OUR I MEAN, THIS IS I MEAN, THIS IS MY THING ON THIS, THIS WILL BE THE VERY FIRST TIME THIS BODY CAME TOGETHER TO DETERMINE THE FINANCIAL OUTCOME OF INDIVIDUALS. IT WOULD NOT HURT 
          [01:35:03]
IF PEOPLE SAW THE WAY THE SAUSAGE WAS MADE, YOU KNOW, FOR TRANSPARENCY SAKE. SO WE'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE. THERE'S NO PRECEDENT. SO IT MIGHT BE ENCOURAGING FOR FOLKS TO SEE HOW WE TALK ABOUT IT. WE DO HAVE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT HAS TO MAKE DECISIONS ON WHO THEY GIVE MONEY TO. IS THAT A PUBLIC PROCESS? WELL, WELL, THEIRS IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT BECAUSE WE'RE ACTUALLY APPOINTED FROM CITY COUNCIL. SO WE'RE PART OF THE CITY. THEY'RE THEIR OWN PRIVATE CORPORATIONS. BUT I MEAN, SO IT DEPENDS. I MEAN, SO, TIM, I MEAN, THAT'S A POINTED QUESTION. 
          DO YOU DO YOU NOT WANT THEM THERE BECAUSE YOU WANT TO BE REALLY DO YOU THINK YOU'D MAKE A BETTER DECISION IF YOU COULD BE MORE CANDID WITHOUT HURTING SOMEONE'S FEELINGS? I THINK OF JURIED EVENTS, THINGS THAT ARE JURIED, AND I THINK IT'S GENERALLY PRETTY DISCREET. THE JURIES ARE DISCREET AND THEY'RE AND THEY HAVE CANDID CONVERSATIONS OVER WORKS, AND THEY COME TO CONCLUSIONS. AND IF YOU HAVE A CAMERA IN FRONT OF THE JURY, IT'S, YOU KNOW, YOUR BEHAVIOR IS ONE THING VERSUS IF YOU DON'T HAVE A CAMERA IN FRONT OF A JURY, THEN YOUR BEHAVIOR AND WHAT YOU SAY AND YOUR FREEDOM TO SAY WHAT YOU NEED TO SAY AS A PROFESSIONAL SEEMS TO BE CURTAILED A LITTLE BIT. THAT'S THE ONLY REASON I BRING IT UP. WHETHER THE PERSON'S THERE OR NOT. IT'S IS THERE IS THERE A IS THERE AN OPEN RECORDS POLICY THAT WE HAVE TO ABIDE BY OR OPEN MEETING? SORRY. WELL, I MEAN, IT'S STILL GOING TO BE AN OPEN MEETING, BUT I WAS NOT INTENDING ON ADDING AN ADDITIONAL STREAM TO THIS BECAUSE OF THE CONTRACT WITH THE STREAMER, THE NUMBER OF STREAMS THAT WE HAD, AND THIS BEING A SPECIAL MEETING, AND YOU STILL MAY WANT TO HAVE ANOTHER REGULAR MEETING THAT WE WOULD NEED TO STREAM. SO WITH THIS BEING THE FIRST ONE, WITH THIS BEING YOU GOING THROUGH ALL THE APPLICATIONS WITH THIS BEING A SITUATION OF SEEING HOW THE ENGINE WORKS, FIGURING OUT HOW THE ENGINE WORKS ON THIS, I WASN'T PLANNING ON STREAMING IT, SO IT'S NOT IN VIOLATION OF ANY. NO, BECAUSE BECAUSE ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS WILL ULTIMATELY BE OPEN RECORDS. I MEAN, AT THIS POINT, WHAT IS SITTING IN FRONT OF YOU ARE ALL FOUR OF THE APPLICATIONS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN SANS ANY FINANCIAL INFORMATION. SO ANYTHING ABOUT THEIR VENDOR PACKET IS NOT INCLUDED IN THERE. AND THEIR DIRECT DEPOSIT AND ALL OF THAT STUFF THAT'S GOING TO GO TO PROCUREMENT TO ENTER THAT, THAT IS NOT IN YOUR PACKET. SO EVERYTHING IN THIS PACKET THAT IS SET IN FRONT OF YOU, THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO WIND UP BEING POSTED WITH THIS WITH THE MINUTES OF THIS MEETING. TIM, HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF THAT WILL BE THE SAME THING WITH THAT MEETING TOO? SO TIM, HOW WOULD YOU FEEL IF IT WAS OPEN FOR LIKE THE PUBLIC WHO WANTED TO COME AND WATCH? BECAUSE THEORETICALLY, IF YOU INVITE THEM TO COME AND PRESENT, THEY MAY, I DON'T KNOW, HOW DO YOU FEEL LIKE PEOPLE JUST. YEAH. HOW DO YOU FEEL IF PEOPLE JUST COME IN THE ROOM TO WATCH, LIKE, WELL, LIKE WE HAVE HERE. I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T KNOW, THAT MAY BE DIFFERENT. THAT SEEMS DIFFERENT TO ME. VERSUS IF IT'S TELEVISED. I DON'T CARE IF IT'S NOT TELEVISED OR IF IT'S NOT BREAKING ANY RULES OR LAWS OR. THANK YOU. I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT TO LIKE WHAT TIM WAS SAYING AS WELL. I THINK TIM AND I ARE MORE UNIQUE POSITION BECAUSE WE'VE BEEN IN WE'VE BOTH BEEN IN THE POSITION OF APPLYING FOR ARTS FUNDS, GRANTS IN THE PAST, AND WE'VE SPOKEN AND WE'VE PRESENTED A CITY COUNCIL, AND THEN WE'VE BEEN IN THE POSITION WHERE WE WERE ASKED NOT TO PRESENT. WHEN WE PRESENTED, WE WERE GIVEN AN EIGHT MINUTE TIME LIMIT. I THINK THAT WAS IT. 
          DON'T GO OVER, SIT DOWN AND BE QUIET. AND THAT WAS FINE. THERE'S PROS AND CONS. I KNOW WHAT HE'S SAYING ABOUT YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO HAVE A CANDID DISCUSSION? I MEAN, THESE ALL LOOK FINE, BUT WHAT IF WE GET ONE THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU WANT TO BE ABLE TO SAY, I'M NOT REALLY SURE THIS QUALIFIES AS ART. AND IF WE SAY THAT WE'RE NOT TRYING TO BE RUDE, WE JUST MEAN THAT'S OUR OPINION. BUT THAT CAN BE CONSTRUED DIFFERENTLY BY DIFFERENT PEOPLE. SO I THINK IT'S I THINK IT'S BEST THAT IT NOT BE STREAMED. I THINK WE CAN HAVE A CANDID CONVERSATION. I THINK WE'RE ALL PROFESSIONALS. I DON'T THINK WE CAN SAY ANYTHING UNKIND, BUT I DO THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE BE ABLE TO BE CANDID AS WE REVIEW THE APPLICATIONS. IF WE'RE FEELING THAT WE CAN'T BE CANDID, THEN THE COOL THING WITH CITY COUNCIL DID IT WAS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, VETTED THOSE BEFORE IT EVER WENT TO COUNCIL. SO IF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIDN'T THINK IT WAS WORTHY, IT NEVER MADE IT CITY COUNCIL. WE WERE CALLED IN AND SAID, YOU MIGHT WANT TO FIND HIM THIS YEAR JUST A LITTLE BIT, SO THAT WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT. I TEND TO AGREE WITH ANGELA. I LIKE THE NO PRESENTATION. I USED TO BE TOTALLY IN FAVOR OF THE PRESENTATION, AND I LIKED DOING IT, BUT I THINK THAT I LIKE THE BLANK SLATE THING, BUT I'M NOT AGAINST THE PRESENTATION. LIKE YOU SAID, THERE HAS TO BE A TIME LIMIT. I MEAN, IT WOULD HAVE TO BE. IS IT? WHEN THEY APPLY? THIS IS A QUESTION. IT'S A QUERY. IS IT? WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING ON THE APPLICATION THAT THAT THAT THERE WAS AN OPTION TO PRESENT. RIGHT. IS IT IS IT IF, IF THE IF THE COMMISSION WANTED TO INVITE PEOPLE TO PRESENT AND YOU SAID, OKAY, CONGRATULATIONS. YOU'RE 
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YOUR APPLICATION IS BEING CONSIDERED ON JULY XYZ, YOU CAN COME TO PRESENT TO THE ARTS COMMISSION IF YOU CHOOSE, YOU HAVE EIGHT MINUTES, BLAH, BLAH BLAH. IS THAT IS THAT THE RIGHT WAY TO DO IT? IS THERE A BETTER WAY TO DO IT? IS THERE A WRONG WAY TO DO IT? WELL, I'VE JUST READ ALL FOUR APPLICATIONS. WELL, OF COURSE YOU DO. I AM NOT SURE HOW WHAT THE PRESENTATION WOULD BE. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? OKAY. THEY, YOU KNOW, THEIR PERFORMANCE THINGS. THEIR. 
          PERFORMANCE THINGS. SO I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY WOULD DO THAT. I THINK THEY'RE REALLY GOOD AS FAR AS WHAT THEY YOU KNOW, THEY'VE PROFILED HERE. THE ONLY REASON I BROUGHT THIS UP IS BECAUSE THIS CAME UP IN THE LAST MEETING YOU HAD DISCUSSED ABOUT HAVING PEOPLE HERE, AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I KNEW WHAT THE DECISION WAS BEFORE THAT MEETING HAPPENS. I THINK THAT I LIKE WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS WE JUST NEED TO MAKE A DECISION BASED ON WHAT WE SEE HERE. IF THEY WANT TO MAKE A PRESENTATION, HAVE A LITTLE SHORT VIDEO OF, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE DANCE OR WHATEVER THE PROGRAM IS. THAT'S JUST WHAT I THINK. WE CAN DO IT WITHOUT SEEING, YOU KNOW, HAVING MAKE THE DECISION RIGHT THERE. I THINK WE CAN MAKE A MORE EQUITABLE DECISION AND WE CAN PIVOT IF THIS DOESN'T WORK. SO LET ME ASK YOU THIS. IS THERE ANYBODY HERE WHO WOULD BE OFFENDED IF IT WAS NOT STREAMED AND WE DIDN'T ASK FOR A PRESENTATION? DOES THAT MAKE SENSE, DOCTOR PERRY? SO IT WASN'T STREAMED SO PEOPLE COULD COME AND SIT IN THE AUDIENCE LIKE HERE, BUT IT WOULD NOT BE ON YOUTUBE SO THAT WE COULD HAVE CANDID CONVERSATIONS AND WE WOULDN'T HAVE IT. THEY WOULDN'T COME IN PRESENT. WE WOULD JUST LOOK AT THEIR APPLICATIONS AND TALK AMONGST OURSELVES. BUT YOU'RE SAYING WE WOULDN'T NECESSARILY INVITE THEM TO COME TO LISTEN TO OUR CONVERSATION, RIGHT? YEAH, THEY COULD SHOW UP, THOUGH. THEY COULD SHOW UP. THEY COULD BE HERE. THEY'RE WELCOME TO COME. IT'S LIKE ONE OTHER ASPECT OF THIS. I KNOW WHEN WE'VE DONE JURY DUTY FOR LIKE FILM FESTIVALS, WE'VE DONE IT INDIVIDUALLY. WE'VE WATCHED THE FILM AND THEN WE'VE FILLED OUT, WE'VE SCALED IT, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GIVEN POINT SYSTEM INSTEAD OF LIKE A JUST A CONVERSATION AND VOTING. I DON'T KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING. I THINK WE ALL SHOULD COME PREPARED. OF COURSE. SO WHAT? SO WHAT'S THE CONSENSUS? WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO? I MEAN, BECAUSE LET ME TELL YOU WHAT I'VE HEARD THE MOST OF. 
          AND TELL ME IF I'M RIGHT, WHAT I'VE HEARD OF. EVERYONE'S WELCOME TO COME, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO STREAM IT BECAUSE WE WANT TO FEEL LIKE WE CAN HAVE AN HONEST, CANDID CONVERSATION. BUT THE REALITY AS FAR AS THE PRESENTATION, THAT'D BE GREAT. BUT RIGHT NOW FOR THE FIRST ONE, WE JUST NEED TO TALK AMONGST OURSELVES TO FIGURE IT OUT. IS THAT KIND OF THE CONSENSUS? THAT'S WHAT I'M HEARING. SO WHAT DO YOU ALL THINK? IS IT SOMETHING WE COULD CHANGE IN THE FUTURE? LIKE, YOU KNOW, WE GOT A JAZZ BAND HERE. THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE COMING. BUT MIGHT IT HAVE BEEN GOOD TO HEAR WHAT THEY ACTUALLY SOUND LIKE? DO THEY. SO DO THEY UPLOAD, DO THEY PUT A LINK TO A YOUTUBE, OR IS THERE ANY WAY THAT SOME OF THESE ARE SOME LINKS? OKAY, SO WE COULD SEE MEDIA IF THEY PROVIDED IT. YES. SO A JAZZ BAND PROBABLY WOULD HAVE PROVIDED A AND I KIND OF I WANT US TO BE PREPARED. BUT SINCE WE'VE NEVER DONE THIS BEFORE, WE'VE NEVER WORKED AS A GROUP LIKE THIS. I WOULD LOVE FOR US TO COME TOGETHER VERY PREPARED AND TALK AMONGST OURSELVES ABOUT IT. IS THERE ANY WAY TO HAVE A CLOSED MEETING THOUGH THE PEOPLE THAT ARE APPLYING FOR GRANTS? IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THEY SHOULD BE HERE WHILE WE DISCUSS THEIR APPLICATIONS. THAT'S THERE'S NO WAY TO CLOSE IT. EXECUTIVE SESSION. THAT IS A PRIVILEGE THAT I JUST GOT CLARITY ON THAT I JUST CONFIRMED THAT THAT IS A PRIVILEGE RESERVED FOR DC, EDC AND CITY COUNCIL. SO WE HAVE TO BE NICE. SO LET'S LET'S TRY TO GET A CONSENSUS ON THIS SO WE CAN MOVE FORWARD. IS IT OKAY IF WE SHOW UP. IT'S NOT STREAMED. AND WHATEVER MEDIA THEY PROVIDE TO US IS WHAT WE USE TO MAKE DETERMINATION. SO IF IT'S A JAZZ BAND AND THEY SEND A LINK TO A CONCERT, WE HAVE IT. OR IF IT'S A THE OTHER DANCERS, WE GOT DANCERS DANCING, RIGHT? SO THEORETICALLY, IF THEY WANTED US TO SEE THEM DANCE, THEY WOULD SEND A LINK TO A RECITAL OR SOMETHING, RIGHT. AND THAT EVERYBODY'S. WELL, I CAN'T WELL AND I GUESS, I GUESS. COULD WE MAKE A DETERMINATION ON A DANCE GROUP WITHOUT SEEING THEM DANCE? YES. THEY MADE DETERMINATIONS ON 
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THE COMMUNITY THEATER FOR YEARS. WE JUST WE DIDN'T COME IN AND DO ANYTHING. WE DID A POWERPOINT AND WE WERE LIKE, OKAY, I THINK, I THINK, I THINK WE HAVE TO BE VERY CLEAR ABOUT WHAT KIND OF PERSON YOU'RE LIKE, HOLD MY BEER. HOLD ON. LET ME TELL YOU WHAT THEY CAN DO. I MEAN, WE DON'T NEED THEM TO COME IN AND PERFORM FOR US. WE NEED THEM TO GIVE US POWERPOINT JUST LIKE EVERY OTHER PEOPLE DO. DO A SHORT PRESENTATION. A PRESENTATION IS DIFFERENT FROM A PERFORMANCE. YOU'RE NOT ASKING FOR A PERFORMANCE. WE'RE ASKING FOR A PRESENTATION SO THAT WE'LL KNOW WHAT THEY'RE APPLYING TO DO. I WAS VERY SPECIFIC. I MEAN, THESE ARE VERY SPECIFIC. OKAY. 
          LET'S JUST GO. I WANT TO HEAR EVERYBODY AND WHATEVER THE CONSENSUS IS. MAC, WHAT DO YOU WANT? NOT SCREENING. AND I'LL LINK TO THE MEDIA. AND SO NO LIVE PRESENTATION. DOCTOR PERRY, WHAT DO YOU WANT? I WOULD WELCOME SHORT PRESENTATIONS, BUT I CAN LIVE WITH WITHOUT THEM. I WISH THE MEETING WAS CLOSED WHEN WE REALLY DISCUSSED THE REPORT, BUT I GUESS WE CAN'T DO THAT. IT SEEMS LIKE CITY COUNCIL MUST DO THAT. WHAT ARE YOU SAYING? IT'S A PRIVILEGE FOR CITY COUNCIL BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THEY HAVE TO GO BEHIND CLOSED DOORS TO CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY. AND THAT'S AS SINCE YOU'RE AN ADVISORY COMMITTEE, SINCE YOU'RE ADVISING THE CITY COUNCIL, ALL OF THAT HAS TO BE ON THE RECORD. OKAY? SO IT HAS TO BE OPEN DOOR AND WE HAVE TO HAVE THE MINUTES FOR THAT. SO, DOCTOR PERRY, TELL US WHAT YOU WANT IS HOW COMPETITIVE ARE THESE THINGS. WE'RE GOING TO FIGURE IT OUT. WE'RE JUST DOING THIS ON. WHAT DO YOU WANT. OH WHAT DO YOU WANT I. THINK WELL I MEAN SO IT'S HELPFUL FOR US TO KNOW, WOULD YOU BE OKAY IF IT WAS NOT STREAMED? PEOPLE CAN WATCH, BUT THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE A LIVE PRESENTATION. WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO MAKE A FAIR DETERMINATION BASED ON THAT FOR THIS FIRST ONE? I WOULD HOPE SO. 
          OKAY. VARIANT THING WITH FEATHERS. YES, I THINK THAT'S FINE. I THINK IN THE FUTURE MAYBE TO TALK ABOUT GETTING IT, THIS IS GOING TO GIVE US A PLACE TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE DO THIS OR FUTURE COMMISSIONS. SARAH. YES, I AGREE, I'M OKAY WITH NO STREAM AND NO LIVE PRESENTATION. TIM. 
          MY FRIEND, I AM. I'M IN AGREEMENT AS WELL. NO PRESENTATION AND SORRY. YEAH, NO PRESENTATION AND NO LIVE STREAM. ARE THERE BEST PRACTICES THAT OTHER COMMISSIONS, YOU KNOW, HOW DO THEY HOW DO THEY GO ABOUT IT? I'M JUST CURIOUS IF ANYONE'S SEEN ANY OF THAT. THIS IS MY FIRST ARTS COMMISSION. YEAH. NO. YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN COLLECTING DATA FROM OTHER COMMISSIONS. HE KNOWS. SO JUST JUST A THING LIKE 6 OR 7 GIVES YOU SOME EVALUATION CRITERIA. OBVIOUSLY ONE OF THE ONES YOU'LL SEE AND SAY, WELL, WE HAVE NO PRIOR ENGAGEMENT. NOBODY HAS PRIOR ENGAGEMENT WITH THE COMMISSION PROGRAMS AT THIS POINT. SO OTHER THAN THAT IT'S AVAILABLE FUNDING, ARTISTIC MERIT AND CREATIVITY, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT AND TOURISM BENEFIT. BECAUSE AGAIN, THIS MONEY IS COMING OUT OF HOT FUNDS, ACCESSIBILITY, INCLUSIVITY, APPLICATION COMPLETENESS AND CLARITY AND CONNECTION TO DUNCANVILLE. THOSE ARE THE ONES IN THE POLICY THAT YOU RECOMMENDED TO CITY COUNCIL. SO YOU CAN ALWAYS USE THAT AS A FOUNDATION FOR WHEN YOU GO AND EVALUATE THINGS. OKAY, AMY. SATELLITE FEED LIVE. STREAM, NO PRESENTATION STREAM. ALL RIGHT. 
          I THINK THAT'S A CONSENSUS. AND HERE'S THE THING, GUYS. WE'RE GOING TO FIGURE THIS OUT AS WE DO IT. AND THE FUTURE COMMISSION IS GOING TO REALLY FIGURE THIS OUT. SO GIVE US GIVE US A CHANCE TO WE'LL MAKE OUR MISTAKES TOGETHER. WE'LL FIX OUR MISTAKES TOGETHER OKAY. SO THERE IS ITEM 
          [14. Special Meeting to be Held July 16, 2025 – Grant Application Review]
14. THERE'S A SPECIAL MEETING TO BE HELD ON JULY 16TH FOR THE GRANT APPLICATION REVIEW, WHICH IS WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT OSTENSIBLY, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO CREATE A SPECIAL A SPECIAL REGULAR MEETING, BECAUSE AT THIS POINT YOU YOU HAVE YOUR 22ND MEETING IS TAKEN UP BY THE JOINT MEETING. THERE'S GOING TO BE TWO PLACES TO TALK ABOUT THIS, I GUESS. AND THEN YOU HAVE THIS SPECIAL MEETING. SO BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT YOU'RE RUNNING ON FEWER MEETINGS AND WE HAVE FEWER. SO IS THERE A BUSINESS THAT WE HAVE TO ATTEND TO IN JULY? IS THERE ANYTHING THAT THAT WE NOT NOT SHOW UP? OH, WE HAVE YOU AND THE BUSINESS MIXER. 
          IF YOU WANT TO DO THAT MIXER, DO YOU GUYS WANT TO DO THIS AS ZOOM. I'M COOL WITH ZOOM. OKAY, SO TO RECAP THE 22ND, THERE'S OUR REGULAR MEETING, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE THAT JOINT MEETING. 
          SO WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE OUR BUSINESS THERE. THE 16TH. THE ONLY THING THAT WE CAN TALK ABOUT IS THE GRANT REVIEW. AND IT'S NOT GOING TO BE HERE. IT'S GOING TO BE AT THE FIELD HOUSE. 
          SO A ZOOM MEETING, A SPECIAL MEETING TO TAKE PLACE AT THE JULY 22ND MEETING, IF YOU WANT TO ADD OTHER BUSINESS TO THE 16TH MEETING, YOU CAN I DON'T WANT I DON'T WANT TO. THAT'S TOO MUCH. I DON'T WANT TO. THERE WILL STILL BE PUBLIC COMMENTS. THAT'LL STILL BE AN OPTION. THAT 
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STILL HAS TO BE IN THERE. I THINK THE APPLICANTS DESERVE OUR FULL ATTENTION ON THEIR APPLICATIONS. DON'T Y'ALL THINK SO? YES. SO A ZOOM MEETING TO TAKE PLACE OF OUR REGULAR MEETING ON THE 26TH. DO YOU WANT TO DO THAT? SO WE CAN TALK ABOUT THE BUSINESS MIXERS AND WE CAN TALK ABOUT HISPANIC HERITAGE? ON WHAT DATE? YEAH, THERE'S SUCH A STRONG WORD ON SAY THAT AGAIN. 
          WANT IS SUCH A STRONG WORD. OKAY. CAN WE DO THIS CAN FOR THE BUSINESS MIXERS AND HISPANIC HERITAGE. DO YOU WANT TO BREAK OFF A LITTLE SUBCOMMITTEES AND WORK AND MAKE SOME DECISIONS AND THEN COME BACK IN AUGUST AND THEN JUST UPDATE THE COMMISSION? AND ANYONE WHO WANTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT ACTIVITY CAN BE PART OF THAT SUBCOMMITTEE, OR WOULD YOU RATHER HAVE A SECOND SPECIAL MEETING VIA ZOOM? IT SEEMS. OKAY. IS THERE A DAY THAT ANYBODY WANTS TO DO? DOES EVERYBODY IS EVERYBODY OKAY WITH THAT? I'M FINE. BUT IN THE INTEREST OF FULL DISCLOSURE, I'M PROBABLY GOING TO BE LIKE YOU ARE IN MAY. I'M GOING TO BE TAKING A LOT OF JULY AND I'LL BE AWAY. SO MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE ACCESS TO INTERNET IF I CAN. I'LL ZOOM IF I DON'T. IF YOU DON'T, JUST SAY, WELL, WENT DOWN. THERE'S ONLY ONE INTERNET SERVICE IN CREEDE, COLORADO. 
          WHEN IT GOES DOWN, THERE'S NO THERE'S NO INTERNET. HOW ABOUT JULY 29TH? JULY 20TH. WHAT? I WAS LOOKING AT TWO JULY 29TH. TUESDAY. JULY 29TH IS GOOD FOR ME IF Y'ALL WANT TO DO IT VIA ZOOM. YES. OKAY, SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THREE MEETINGS IN JULY. AND THAT WAS JULY 29TH. YES. SO 630 VIA ZOOM. YES. MAN WE WORK HARD. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO PENCIL THAT. OKAY. CAN I GET AN ALTERNATE DATE. 28. THE REASON WHY IS THAT'S A TUESDAY AND IT'S A THIRD TUESDAY. IT IS THE FIFTH TUESDAY. AND COUNCIL MAY WANT TO HAVE A MEETING ON THAT DAY. I'M NOT SAYING THAT THEY THEY DO, BUT THEY MAY I MEAN THEY HAVE PRESENTS ON US. YEAH. IF I COULD GET A IF I CAN GET A BACKUP, HOW ABOUT THE 28TH. I'M GOOD. I'M GOOD WITH THAT WHOLE WEEK AND I'M TOTALLY RUBBING OFF ON ANGELA. YEAH. 2028. SO IS THAT COOL FOR EVERYBODY? IT'S MONDAY THE 28TH. THAT WORKS. WHAT DO YOU THINK, DOCTOR PERRY? I THINK IT'LL WORK. 630 ZOOM. MONDAY THE 28TH. YOU DON'T NEED A RIDE. 
          DON'T NEED A RIDE. THAT'S THE SECOND. THAT'S THE SECOND OPTION. SECOND OPTION? YEAH. SO THE FIRST OPTION IS THE 29TH. IF CITY COUNCIL DOESN'T TOTALLY STEAL OUR THUNDER, THEN WE'LL HAVE IT ON THE 28TH. YES, THEY'RE ALWAYS VOTING IN. YES. OH, I HAVE A BIRTHDAY CARD FOR SARAH. I WAS GOING TO PASS IT AROUND. IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A SECRET, BUT. THAT WAS ON THE RECORD. YES. TIM. YEAH. SO, YOU KNOW, I GOOGLED HOW DO ARTS COMMISSIONS, YOU KNOW, EVALUATE GRANTS. AND ACCORDING TO GOOGLE. VERSUS A STAFF REVIEW TO MAKE SURE THAT I'S ARE DOTTED AND T'S ARE CROSSED. WE HAVE THAT. OKAY. WE'VE DONE THAT. OKAY. THERE'S ANOTHER EVALUATION OR PANEL REVIEW. WE DON'T DO THAT. WE DON'T DO THAT. PANEL IS COMPOSED OF EXPERTS IN THE FIELD ARTISTS, EDUCATORS, ADMINISTRATORS, REVIEW APPLICATIONS. WE COULD DO THAT BASED ON CRITERIA. RIGHT. 
          I'M JUST THROWING THIS OUT AS THIS IS GOOGLE. IT SAYS THAT SOMEBODY DOES IT. TECHNICALLY YOU'RE OFF. YOU'RE OFF THE AGENDA NOW. THANK YOU I KNOW THAT OKAY. NO I THOUGHT IT WAS REGARDING. OH IT IS I'M SORRY. MY BAD. YOU'RE YOU'RE RIGHT. I'M SORRY I'M OFF AGENDA ITEM. GO AHEAD I'M SORRY. SO. AND THEN AFTER THE PANEL REVIEWS IT, THEY MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE COMMISSION AND THE COMMISSION VOTES ON. OR THEY OR THEY REVIEW THE RECOMMENDATIONS OF A PANEL. 
          AND A PANEL WOULD NOT HAVE TO HAVE ANY KIND OF PUBLIC MEETING. A PANEL COULD MEET IN ANY WAY THAT THEY CHOOSE TO SORT OF DO THE PRE-WORK FOR THE COMMISSION. THAT'S HOW DALLAS DOES IT. YEAH, THAT MAKES SENSE, ESPECIALLY AS WE GET MORE GRANTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. BUT THE WORK WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING AS A COMMISSION IS WHAT REALLY A PANEL OUGHT TO BE DOING. I THINK IN THE FUTURE, IN I THINK IT CAN GET THERE. ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. YES. AT THIS POINT, YOU ARE ACTING AS THE PANEL BECAUSE COUNCIL IS MAKING THE FINAL DECISION BASED ON YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS THAT YOU SEND TO THEM. ANYTHING ELSE ON THAT TOPIC. SO THE 29TH AND IF THAT DOESN'T WORK, THE 28TH VIA ZOOM, AND THAT'S GOING TO BE TAKE THE PLACE OF A REGULAR MEETING, 
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WHICH IS NORMALLY ON THE 22ND HARDEST WORKING COMMISSION IN THE CITY. LET'S GO AHEAD AND 
          [15. Cultural District Discussion]
MOVE ON TO ITEM 15, THE CULTURAL DISTRICT DISCUSSION. I'M GOING TO STAND UP BECAUSE I'M GOING TO DO I'M GOING TO DO A LITTLE GAME FOR US. SO WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR ABOUT 15 MONTHS. 
          THE CITY MANAGER HAS OFFERED A MORE COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH TO WHAT THE STRATEGY WOULD BE. 
          THERE'S BEEN A WALKING MEETING. YOU HAD OTHER CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TALK ABOUT. OTHER WAYS THAT WE CAN THINK ABOUT THE CULTURAL DISTRICT. SO I'M GOING TO TRY TO GET US TO A REALLY QUICK, NOT A QUICK, BUT I'M GOING TO TRY TO GET US TO A POINT WHERE WE CAN COME TO COME TO AGREEMENT. SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE SOME ACTION ON THIS SO THAT THE CITY COUNCIL KNOWS WHAT WE DID. I'M GOING TO BE MY OWN SCRIBE BECAUSE SARAH'S ALWAYS DESCRIBED, THIS IS NOT FAIR, BUT SHE JUST HAD A BIRTHDAY. I KNOW SHE'S TOO OLD TO BE DESCRIBED. I'M STILL YOUNG. OKAY, SO WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO, I'M GOING TO GO AND TOUCH ON EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THIS. THIS IS A COMPLICATED, DIVERSE TOPIC. WHAT I WOULD LIKE FOR EVERYBODY IN THIS COMMISSION IS TO SAY THE ONE THING THAT THEY FEEL IS MOST CRITICAL FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT. I KNOW THERE'S MORE. I KNOW IT'S VARIED. I KNOW IT'S TONAL, IT'S OKAY, BUT I GOTTA, I GOTTA WRITE, I GOTTA WRITE SOMETHING UP HERE. SO IF YOU COULD SAY IT IN ONE, 2 OR 3 WORDS, WHAT DO YOU FEEL IS GOING TO BE MOST CRITICAL FOR THE SUCCESS OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT? I'M WATCHING THE LIVE FEED, AND I'M REALIZING THE CAMERA DOESN'T POINT UP HERE. 
          OKAY, SO YOU MAY WANT. THANKS, MAN. THANK YOU. OKAY, EVERYBODY UNDERSTAND THE INSTRUCTIONS. YES I'M GOING TO I'M GOING TO START WITH THE VICE CHAIR AND I'M GOING TO MOVE ALL THE WAY AROUND MR. VICE CHAIR. AND AS BRIEF AS YOU CAN, BUT BUT AS SUCCINCT AS YOU CAN. WHAT DO YOU FEEL IS MOST IMPORTANT TO THE SUCCESS OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT? FOCUSED, CONSISTENT PROGRAMING? I'M GOING TO USE ONE WORD NOW. I'M GOING TO PUT THEM ALL. I'M SORRY. THREE. YOU'RE FOCUSED, CONSISTENT PROGRAMING. INCLUSIVITY AND A PLACE FOR EVENTS AND EXHIBITS OR WHATEVER PLACE. WHO'S NEXT? MARIANNE. EXPECTATIONS MET REQUIREMENTS. I AM NEVER GOING TO ASK YOU WHAT YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE. WHAT? WHAT? I WOULD NEVER ASK YOU WHAT YOUR EXPECTATIONS ARE. I CAN NEVER MEET THEM. SARAH. DIVERSITY. FUN. FREEDOM. FREEDOM. NICE. SPOKEN LIKE AN ARTIST. MR. PERRY, PLEASE. MR. YOU'RE A MAN OF FEW WORDS. I LIKE THAT, AMY. JUST DIVERSIFIED COLLABORATION IN CONTENT AND. LOCATION. DIVERSIFY COLAB. IN CONTENT AND LOCATION AND LOCATION. I ACTUALLY REMEMBER THAT I WANTED CREDIT, AND YOU JUST STOLE MY CREDIT. ANGELA. SO I SORT OF THOUGHT ABOUT COLLABORATION, BUT HOLD ON. FOR THE CULTURE DISTRICT. I THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE TRANSPARENCY AND. COMMUNICATION. RIGHT? TRUST PROCESS. WHAT'S THE PROCESS? I LIKE THAT ONE. OKAY. I'M GOING TO ASK MR. HAMBY, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ WORD FOR WORD, THE RESOLUTION THAT WAS PASSED IN FEBRUARY? ARTS COMMISSION APPROVED. IT WENT TO CITY COUNCIL, CITY COUNCIL APPROVED IT. REMEMBER, MOST OF US ARE AT THAT MEETING. YEP. TALKING ABOUT IT, LOOKING AT IT PLACES. AND IF YOU COULD READ IT WHILE MR. HAMBY READS IT. FOR THE RECORD, WORD FOR WORD. THE RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL, THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS, APPROVING 
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THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A CULTURAL DISTRICT IN DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS, AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A STEERING COMMITTEE AND BOUNDARIES OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT. WHEREAS THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE RECOGNIZES THE IMPORTANCE OF ESTABLISHING A CULTURAL DISTRICT TO ENHANCE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, PROMOTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ENCOURAGE TOURISM, AND CELEBRATE THE ARTS AND CULTURE AS ESSENTIAL COMPONENTS IN THE CITY'S IDENTITY. AND WHEREAS THIS, THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON THE ARTS PROVIDES A FRAMEWORK AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT AND SUCCESSFUL OPERATION OF CULTURAL DISTRICTS WITHIN THE STATE OF TEXAS. AND WHEREAS, THE CITY COUNCIL OF DUNCANVILLE ACKNOWLEDGES THE NEED FOR A STRUCTURED APPROACH TO DEVELOP AND MANAGE THE PROCESS, THE PROPOSED CULTURAL DISTRICT ENSURING REPRESENTATION FROM A WIDE ARRAY OF STAKEHOLDERS INCLUDING CITY BOARDS, COMMISSIONS, STAFF, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, BUSINESS REPRESENTATIVES, DEVELOPERS, STATE REPRESENTATIVES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS, THAT SECTION ONE CREATION OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE, THE CITY OF DUNCANVILLE HEREBY ESTABLISHES THE CULTURAL DISTRICT STEERING COMMITTEE TO OVERSEE THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STRUCTURE RECOMMENDED BY THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON THE ARTS. SECTION TWO NAME AND BOUNDARIES OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT. THE CULTURAL DISTRICT SHALL BE NAMED THE ARMSTRONG PARK CULTURAL DISTRICT. THE BOUNDARIES OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT SHALL ENCOMPASS, AS DEPICTED IN EXHIBIT A, WHICH IS ATTACHED HERETO AND INCORPORATED HERE IN WITH CONSIDERATION FOR FUTURE EXPANSION AS OPPORTUNITIES ARISE AND AS DEEMED APPROPRIATE BY THE STEERING COMMITTEE AND THE DUNCANVILLE CITY COUNCIL. SECTION THREE MEMBERSHIP AND APPOINTMENTS. THE STEERING COMMITTEE SHALL CONSIST OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM CITY BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS, CITY STAFF, MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL, LOCAL BUSINESSES, PROPERTY DEVELOPERS, STATE REPRESENTATIVES AND COMMUNITY MEMBERS. THE CITY COUNCIL SHALL APPOINT A CHAIR. THE CHAIR SHALL OVERSEE THE ORGANIZATION OF SUBCOMMITTEES AND COORDINATE THE WORK OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE. 
          SECTION FOUR COMMITTEE RESPONSIBILITIES. THE STEERING COMMITTEE SHALL ESTABLISH SUBCOMMITTEES AS RECOMMENDED BY THE TEXAS STATE TEXAS COMMISSION ON THE ARTS, TO FOCUS ON KEY AREAS OF CULTURAL DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT. ORGANIZATION. COMMITTEE FOR GOVERNANCE, GOVERNANCE AND STRUCTURAL PLANNING. MARKETING COMMITTEE TO PROMOTE AND RAISE AWARENESS OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT. CULTURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE TO IDENTIFY AND ENHANCE EXISTING CULTURAL ASSETS. DESIGN COMMITTEE TO PLAN AND IMPROVE THE PHYSICAL AND VISUAL ELEMENTS OF THE DISTRICT. 
          BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE TO FOSTER PARTNERSHIPS AND SUPPORT ECONOMIC GROWTH WITHIN THE DISTRICT AND EVENTS COMMITTEE SHALL ALSO BE CREATED UNDER THE MARKETING COMMITTEE TO ORGANIZE CULTURAL EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES. SECTION FIVE IMPLEMENTATION AND REPORTING. 
          THE CHAIR, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE STEERING COMMITTEE, SHALL DEVELOP A DETAILED STRUCTURE AND TIMELINE FOR THE CULTURAL DISTRICTS ESTABLISHMENT. THE STEERING COMMITTEE SHALL PROVIDE A SHALL PROVIDE REGULAR UPDATES AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE CITY COUNCIL ON THE PROGRESS OF THE CULTURAL DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT. SECTION SIX DISSOLUTION OF DISSOLUTION OF THE STEERING COMMITTEE. THE STEERING COMMITTEE SHALL REMAIN IN PLACE UNTIL ONE OF THE FOLLOWING OCCURS. THE DESIGNATION OF THE ARMSTRONG PARK CULTURAL DISTRICT BY THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON THE ARTS IS ACHIEVED. THE CITY COUNCIL DECIDES TO DISSOLVE THE STEERING COMMITTEE AT ITS DISCRETION. UPON THE CONCLUSION OF ITS WORK. THE STEERING COMMITTEE MAY MAKE FORMAL RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A PERMANENT CULTURAL DISTRICT MANAGEMENT ENTITY OR OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO CONTINUE THE WORK OF MANAGING, SUSTAINING AND GROWING THE CULTURAL DISTRICT. SECTION SEVEN COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. THE STEERING COMMITTEE SHALL PRIORITIZE INCLUSIVE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT, ENSURING THE CULTURAL DISTRICT REFLECTS THE DIVERSE VOICES AND NEEDS OF THE DUNCANVILLE COMMUNITY. OKAY, AND SO IN REMEMBER THE STEERING COMMITTEE. THAT FORMAT IS WHAT THE TEXAS COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS RECOMMENDS AS A CULTURAL DISTRICT MANAGER OR ENTITY. SO, MR. VICE CHAIR, IS THERE ANYTHING IN THIS RESOLUTION THAT WOULD PREVENT FOCUS, CONSISTENT PROGRAMING? DOCTOR PERRY, IS THERE ANYTHING IN THE LANGUAGE OF THIS RESOLUTION THAT WOULD PREVENT INCLUSIVITY IN PLACES ON OTHER CULTURAL RESOURCES COMMITTEE. IT'S JUST CULTURAL ASSETS. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT INCLUDES ARTISTS AS ASSETS. THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. THE TEXAS COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS, YOU GUYS CAN LOOK IT UP IS A CULTURAL ASSET. ARE PEOPLE, PLACES AND EVENTS OKAY. SO IT ACTUALLY INCLUDES PEOPLE. THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. IS THERE ANYTHING IN THE LANGUAGE OF THIS 
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RESOLUTION THAT WOULD PREVENT INCLUSIVITY AND PLACES? MARIANNE, IS THERE ANYTHING IN THE RESOLUTION THAT WOULD PREVENT YOUR EXPECTATIONS FROM BEING MET IN THE CITIZENS AND THE CITIZENS? YEAH. NO, I THINK IT'S FINE. OKAY. SARAH, IS THERE ANYTHING IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE RESOLUTION THAT WOULD PREVENT DIVERSITY, FUN AND FREEDOM? TIM, IS THERE ANYTHING THE RESOLUTION THAT WOULD PREVENT PLACE? AMY, IS THERE ANYTHING IN THE RESOLUTION THAT WOULD PREVENT DIVERSIFIED COLLABORATION AND CONTENT AND LOCATION, NOT. AND YOU KNOW, I THINK I THINK WITH THAT THAT LINE THERE WITH CONSIDERATION FOR FUTURE EXPANSION AND IT'S OPPORTUNITIES ARISE. I HAVE SOME CONCERNS NOW THAT I'VE LOOKED AT MORE INFORMATION WHEN WE DID THAT WALKING TOUR, AND THAT IS JUST A CONCERN ABOUT THE LOCATION AND MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE ALL THE OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE THAT WE NEED. BUT WITH THE BUT THE WITH THE RESOLUTION PREVENT THAT. AS LONG AS THAT THAT IS IN THERE AND IT'S YEAH, IT'S A GRAY AREA BUT YES, I'M FINE WITH IT. 
          ANGELA IS THERE ANYTHING IN THE RESOLUTION THAT WOULD PREVENT TRANSPARENCY, COMMUNICATION AND TRUST THE PROCESS? NO. THE GREAT THING ABOUT THE STEERING COMMITTEE IS THAT MORE PEOPLE GET GET TO BE INVOLVED. SO WHAT CITY COUNCIL WANTS TO KNOW IS WHAT THE ARTS COMMISSION, WHAT THE ARTS COMMISSION FEELS ABOUT THIS RESOLUTION. SO WE NEED TO TAKE SOME ACTION. THERE NEEDS TO BE A MOTION TO WHETHER WE ASK THAT THIS GOES BACK TO CITY COUNCIL AS IS, OR WITH ANY CHANGES OR WITH ANY CAVEATS. IS THERE A MOTION? I MOVE TO APPROVE? SO WOULD YOU SAY THE MOTION FOR THE RECORD? MOVE TO RETURN THIS TO CITY COUNCIL AS IS? IS THERE A SECOND ON I SECOND THAT MOTION, SARAH. ALL IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION WHICH IS TO SEND THE RESOLUTION BACK TO CITY COUNCIL AS IS OR IS YOUR HAND OKAY? HOLD ON. I'M SORRY. HOLD ON A SECOND. YES. THIS IS OPEN FOR. YOU'RE RIGHT. YOU CAN ASK FOR DISCUSSION. ABSOLUTELY. I SHOULD HAVE. I HAVE A QUESTION. YEAH. WHY ARE WE. VOTING TO SEND THE RESOLUTION BACK TO CITY COUNCIL WHEN WE. 
          SENT IT TO CITY COUNCIL VOTED ON IT. SO WHEN I WAS READING, WHEN I WAS WATCHING THE, THE VIDEO FROM YOUR WALKING TOUR, THE MAYOR ASKED THE ARTS COMMISSION TO GO BACK AND REVIEW THE RESOLUTION WITH THE BOUNDARIES AND THE NAMES. OKAY, SO THE BEST WAY THAT I KNOW HOW TO DO THAT WITH THE WHAT YOU JUST SAW WITH THE CITY, WITH THE CITY MANAGER BROUGHT, IS THERE ANYTHING IN THE RESOLUTION THAT WOULD PREVENT ANY OF THOSE CHANGES? SO WE HAVE WE'VE HAD TWO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO HAVE RECOMMENDED THE WAY THAT THEY THINK THAT IT SHOULD LOOK. OKAY. 
          SO AND THEN WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT. MISS JACKSON'S TALKED ABOUT IT. THERE'S GOING TO BE OTHER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE GOING TO SEE WHAT THIS CAN WORK. THERE'S GOING TO BE SOME BUSINESSES AND SOME COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS AND ARTISTS. THE RESOLUTION NEEDS TO BE FLEXIBLE ENOUGH THAT EVERYBODY IN THE COMMUNITY CAN HAVE A VOICE, AND IT CAN CHANGE AND IT CAN ADAPT. 
          AND THE BEST WAY THAT I KNOW TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL KNOWS THAT WE'VE TAKEN DUE DILIGENCE BECAUSE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT FOR 15 MONTHS. AND IT'S A COMPLICATED IT'S A VERY COMPLICATED PROGRAM. AND MY HOPE IS WHEN THE STEERING COMMITTEE IS ESTABLISHED, THERE'LL BE LOTS OF OPPORTUNITIES TO FIND FOLKS FROM THE TEXAS COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS TO INVITE PEOPLE WHO'VE CREATED CULTURAL DISTRICTS, TO INVITE PEOPLE FROM PHILANTHROPY WHO LIKE TO GIVE TO CULTURAL DISTRICTS. THIS IS GOING TO BELONG TO EVERYBODY. AND I THINK WHEN THE STEERING COMMITTEE GETS CREATED, THEN ALL THOSE TRIGGERS CAN BE PULLED. OKAY. JUST WONDERING. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I'M GLAD THAT IT SAYS WITH CONSIDERATION FOR FUTURE EXPANSION. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE I WAS NEVER IN FAVOR OF. I KNOW YOU WERE RIGHT. YEAH. AND I THINK THAT'S I. I'M WITH YOU, ANNE. I MEAN, THAT'S MY CONCERN. I THINK THAT WITH. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S AS SUCCINCT AS I WANT IT TO BE OR IF IT'S. DO YOU RECALL WHAT? HEY, ALEX, CAN YOU PUT UP THE PRESENTATION THAT I GAVE FOR ARTS COMMISSION? AND I INTERRUPT YOU BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO READ WHAT WAS PRESENTED TO THE TO THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE ARTS COMMISSION. AND I THINK IT MAY HELP IF THE SUCCINCTNESS BECAUS, RECALL, TIM AND I WERE GOING TO BLOWS ON THE WALKABILITY. HE LITERALLY LET THE AIR OUT OF MY TIRES ONE TIME. NO, IT'S ON THE RECORD. IT MUST BE TRUE. OKAY. DO YOU HAVE A CLICKER? THIS IS 
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JUST NOT SURE IF THIS IS. OH, NO, IT'S THE OTHER ONE. SO RECALL WHAT I DID. THERE IS A PRESENTATION FROM THE TEXAS COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS. IS ARE YOU READY FOR REPLY? RECALL THAT I SHOWED THE COMMISSION AND THE CITY COUNCIL THAT PRESENTATION AND WITH IT REMEMBER THE GREEN, THE GREEN, THE YELLOW, THE RED, IT WAS IT WAS OUR ANSWER TO THOSE THINGS. RECALL WHAT I SAID WAS GREEN. WE GOT IT YELLOW. WE ALMOST HAVE IT. RED IS SOMETHING WE HAVE TO LEAN INTO. BUT THE COMMUNITY IS GOING TO BENEFIT. THE COMMUNITY IS GOING TO BENEFIT US LEAST LEANING INTO THINGS THAT WE DON'T HAVE. AND SO I WANT TO AND THIS WAS SHOWN SO LONG AGO, OCTOBER 23RD, 2024. 
          I'M SEEING IT RIGHT THERE. AND SO I HEARD THE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT WHEN THE MAYOR ASKED, DID YOU SEE THE APPLICATION? WHAT YOU SAW WAS THE FIRST TOOL IN THE TOOLBOX. IT WAS, ARE YOU READY TO APPLY AND RECALL? I PUT THE BIG RED TWO 2027. I SAID, IT'S GOING TO TAKE 2 OR 3 YEARS TO REALLY LEAN INTO THIS EVEN BEFORE WE CAN TALK ABOUT APPLYING. RIGHT. AND THEN I SAID, BECAUSE THE PRESENTATION BECAUSE THE APPLICATION IS COMPLICATED, WE TALKED ABOUT VIDEOS. VIDEO IS GOING TO BE A BIG PART OF THIS. WE TALKED ABOUT HAVING THESE THINGS TO DEMONSTRATE IN THAT APPLICATION. AND THEN SHOWED EVERYBODY WHERE TO LOOK TO FIND THE APPLICATION. 
          OKAY. SO THIS I'M GOING TO GO WITH THIS REALLY, REALLY QUICKLY BECAUSE THIS ALWAYS GOES BACK TO BECAUSE HERE'S THE THING. WE DO HAVE CULTURAL ASSETS ALL OVER TOWN. THE LANGUAGE. AND IT'S PART OF THIS. IT'S PART OF THE PROCESS. BUT WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE CREATING A PLACE. THESE ARE THIS IS THIS IS DIRECTLY FROM THE TEXAS COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS WEBSITE. YOU SAW THIS BEFORE. ARE YOU READY FOR A DISTRICT DESIGNATION WHEN THIS IS WHAT EVERYBODY VOTED FOR US A STRONG POLITICAL SUPPORT. WE GOT THAT DISTRICT PLANNING EFFORTS REFLECT THE DIVERSITY OF OUR COMMUNITY. WE ALMOST GOT THAT. SO THESE ARE THOSE THINGS WE TALKED ABOUT. WHAT IS CULTURAL TOURISM? ONE OF THE REASONS I GO BACK TO THE PARK RIGHT HERE. THESE MULTICULTURAL AND MULTIGENERATIONAL VISITORS MAKE THEIR TRAVEL CHOICES RELATED TO PERFORMANCE, ARTISTIC ACTIVITY. 
          THERE'S ARCHITECTURAL HISTORIC. WE ACTUALLY DO HAVE SOME HISTORY EPITHET IN RED. I GREW UP IN DUNCANVILLE. THIS IS MY HOMETOWN. I'M A HOMETOWN BOY. WHEN I WAS A LITTLE KID, WE HAD ZERO MONEY TO DO ANYTHING. EVERY 4TH OF JULY WE WENT TO ARMSTRONG PARK. IT WOULD LOOK MUCH DIFFERENT THAN BACK IN 19. IT WAS WAY, WAY DIFFERENT THEN. I USED TO STAND THERE AND THE HEAT WAITING FOR THE PARADE AND THE PEOPLE TO THROW CANDY TO ME. I DIDN'T HAVE MONEY FOR CANDY AS A KID. THIS WAS FUN FOR ME. THEY THREW THE CANDY AND I GOT TO RUN BACK. MOM, DAD, I GOT THE CANDY. 
          I GOT TO TAKE MY NEPHEW. I DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS. I'M 50 SOMETHING. I GOT TO TAKE MY NEPHEW BACK AND DO THE EXACT SAME THING I DID. JUST BIGGER. THAT IS MULTIGENERATIONAL VISITORS. I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO GREW UP IN DUNCANVILLE. I KNOW WE'RE ALL DOING THE SAME THINGS WITH OUR KIDS. SO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT SOME OF THESE THINGS, UNDERSTAND? THE VISION IS THERE. THE VISION IS IMPORTANT. BUT WHAT WE HAVE IS A 50 PLUS YEAR OLD PARK WHERE LITERALLY EVERYTHING IN THIS TOWN HAPPENED. IT BELONGS TO THE PEOPLE. EVERY SINGLE PENNY THAT WE RAISE, EVERY SINGLE PENNY THAT HAPPENED, GOES BACK TO THE PARK FOR THE PEOPLE AND WHAT WE CALL THE CULTURAL CORRIDORS AND WHAT THE CITY MANAGER TALKED ABOUT WHEN HE TALKED ABOUT HAVING THE OVERLAYS THAT BELONGS TO THE BUSINESSES. THEY CAN LEAN AND SAY, I WANT A PART OF THIS. ALSO, KEEP IN MIND WE HELP BUSINESSES MAKE MONEY. WHAT IS A DOWNTOWN DUNCANVILLE NEED? BUSINESSES NEED TO KNOW HOW THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE MONEY. HOW DO YOU KNOW YOU'RE GOING TO HOW TO MAKE MONEY? WELL, IF THE ARTS REMEMBER THIS IS ME. I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE ARTS ARE A MEANS TO AN END. I BELIEVE WE HAVE TO DO THIS FOR ARTISTS. WE HAVE 31 DEAD BUILDINGS IN DUNCANVILLE. OR IN ORDER FOR A, FOR A, FOR AN ENTREPRENEUR TO COME IN AND BUY A BUILDING, PUT HIS BUSINESS IN THERE, PUT HIS MONEY TO MAKE IT, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SHOW HIM HOW HE'S GOING TO MAKE MONEY, RIGHT? SO IF WE HAVE A BOOMING CULTURAL DISTRICT THAT'S FREE FOR THE WHOLE COMMUNITY, AND WE'RE TRACKING THOSE METRICS, AND WE KNOW EVERY TIME THERE'S GOING TO BE JAZZ, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GO TO THE THEATER AND BUY A TICKET, AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO GO TO THE STORE NEXT DOOR AND BUY, BUY SOME, SOME MEXICAN FOOD AND MARGARITAS. BUT THOSE THINGS ARE TRACKED WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. SO HOW DO YOU SET THE DISTRICT BOUNDARIES? WE'RE TALKING ABOUT BOUNDARIES, 
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CONTIGUOUS AREA THAT IS WALKABLE. THAT'S NOT ME, Y'ALL. THAT'S THE TEXAS COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS. I'M GLAD YOU WALKED, BECAUSE ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS IS YOU SEE INCLUDE LOTS OF ARTS ACTIVITY. THAT'S HAPPENING IN THE PARK FOR 50 PLUS YEARS. WE HAVE AN AMAZING COMMUNITY THEATER. THERE'S GOING TO BE A DOT TO CONNECT. BUT REMEMBER, THIS IS ABOUT CREATING A PLACE, NOT CONNECTING DOTS. WE'LL GET THERE. AND THERE'S LOTS OF WAYS. AMY'S ALREADY TOLD US HOW WE'RE ALL GOING TO WORK TOGETHER. WE'RE COMING TO HER. HOW CAN WE WORK TOGETHER? ARTISTIC RESOURCES SHOULD PLAY A VITAL ROLE IN THE LIVABILITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE CITY. THE CITY MANAGER JUST SHOWED US A 20 2040. IT'S ALL ABOUT THE ARTS. THE DISTRICT MUST BE ACTIVELY ENGAGED IN PROMOTIONS. HONESTLY, WHEN THIS WAS APPROVED, THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN PRESS RELEASES. THERE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ALL KINDS OF FUN THINGS TO ANNOUNCE IT, BUT WE'RE KEEPING IT SILENT. WE SHOULD BE TALKING ABOUT IT INCLUDE RESTAURANTS, VENUES AND HOTELS AND OTHER AMENITIES. THEY'RE NOT. THEY'RE NOT NEXT TO THE PARK. I GET THAT THOSE ARE BIG REDS, BUT WE'RE GOING TO FIGURE IT OUT. YOU KNOW, WHEN WE KIND OF FIGURE THIS STUFF OUT, THE COMMUNITY BENEFITS. SO I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT BECAUSE IT KEEPS GOING BACK TO THE BOUNDARIES AND WALKABILITY. THIS IS FROM THE TEXAS COMMISSION FOR THE ARTS. THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT IS FRIENDLY FOR PEOPLE LIVING, SHOPPING, VISITING AND SPENDING TIME. CHARACTERISTICS INCLUDE THIS IS THE EXACT SAME LANGUAGE. THIS IS HOW WE VOTED ON. WE DID THIS. THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT HAS A CENTER, A MAIN STREET AND A PUBLIC SQUARE. IT'S A PARK. ENOUGH PEOPLE FOR BUSINESS AND ACTIVITY TO FLOURISH. IT'S WHERE EVERYBODY IN THE CITY GOES MIXED INCOME AND MIXED USE WITH A HOUSING NEXT DOOR. IT'S GETTING THERE AND IT'S GETTING BETTER THERE. PARKS AND PUBLIC SPACES TOGETHER AND PLAY DESIGNED FOR PEDESTRIAN USE. LOOK, THERE'S A SIDEWALK THAT GOES ALL THE WAY AROUND. IF I'M IN A WHEELCHAIR, MY 82 YEAR OLD MOTHER WHO'S MOBILITY IMPAIRED, WE'VE DONE THIS. MY MOTHER AND I WALK THE PARK. IT'S NOT CONVENIENT FOR HER TO WALK TO THE THEATER. SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT POINT CLEAR. IT'S NOT WALKABLE FOR EVERYONE. THE OTHER PART OF IT IS WHEN YOU LEAVE THE PARK, YOU KNOW YOU LEFT THE PARK. SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO RECOGNIZE IT'S A SENSE OF PLACE CLOSE TO SCHOOLS AND WORKPLACES. CENTER IS NOW GOING TO BE A FINE ARTS ACADEMY. 
          I HAD A CONVERSATION WITH PAUL DOUCETTE. HE'S A DIRECTOR OF FINE ARTS FOR THE DISD. TOLD HIM WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE AT THE ARTS COMMISSION. YOU'RE RIGHT NEXT DOOR. HOW DO WE FIT THE SCHOOL INTO WHAT WE'RE DOING? HE SAYS. SENT ME AN EMAIL AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE DISCONNECT WITH THE HE SAID, YOU HAVE A NEW FRIEND AT THE ISD. STREETS DESIGNED FOR BICYCLISTS, PEDESTRIANS, PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES AND PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC TRANSIT. 
          I FEEL LIKE THERE'S SOMETHING FOR STAR TRANSIT HERE. THERE'S SOMETHING FOR EVERYBODY TO DIG IN. WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS IS GOING TO GO. WE TALKED ABOUT IT GOING TOWARDS WHEATLAND PLAZA. 
          WE'RE GOING TO LOOK LIKE NEBRASKA. AND IT WAS GOING DOWN TO WHEATLAND PLAZA. AND THEN TIM AND I WERE BEATING EACH OTHER UP ABOUT IT. WE HAVE TO START SOMEWHERE. COUNCIL MEMBER MATT BRUNET SAID, PUT OUR FLAG IN THE SAND AND MOVE FORWARD WITH IT. SO WHEN THE WHEN THE STEERING COMMITTEE COMES TOGETHER, THEY CAN DECIDE HOW IT'S GOING TO GROW BASED ON A NATURAL FLOW OF ACTIVITY. WHERE DOES THE MONEY GO? WHERE DO THE RESOURCES GO? WHERE DOES THE ENERGY GO? DO WE DETERMINE WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO GO AND EXPERIENCE ARTS, OR DO WE LET THE ARTISTS DECIDE? SO. 
          YEAH, I, I'M LIKE IN TOTALLY EMBRACING YOUR PASSION. SO I'M NOT I'M I KNOW YOU'RE NOT. NO I KNOW I WAS LIKE BUT THE BORDERS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN I KNOW THE BORDERS ARE I WORRY ABOUT THE BUSINESS. YOU KNOW THAT ENOUGH PEOPLE FOR BUSINESS AND ACTIVITY AND I DON'T SEE ANYWHERE FOR BUSINESS TO GROW IN ARMSTRONG PARK. SO I WANT US TO BE ABLE TO DO EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE ABLE TO DO. SO YOU KNOW ME, I GOT EYES PROCESS. I MEAN, THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR SO LONG. AND SO I WORRY ABOUT THAT. I ALSO WORRY, I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T IF IT'S I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S KOSHER TO ASK COUNCILMAN KOONS TO SPEAK BECAUSE IT'S IN HIS DISTRICT. WE WOULD WE WOULD HAVE TO DO A RULE. YEAH. TO SUSPEND THE WE HAVE TO DO A VOTE, SUSPEND THE RULES, VOTE ON IT, AND THEN HE CAN SPEAK. OKAY. WELL, AND I DON'T I DON'T KNOW THE RULES. SO I WAS I, I CAN'T SPEAK I MEAN HE WAS PART OF THAT WALKING TOUR THAT DAY AND I KNOW ANGELA WAS THERE AND WE JUST WE WERE ALL WE GOT SO EXCITED ABOUT THE BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES AND THE CULTURAL DISTRICT AND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT YOU PUT IN PLACE. SO I'M NOT BEING, YOU KNOW, THE NAYSAYER. I'M TRYING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE ALL OF THE OPPORTUNITIES THAT WE NEED TO FLOURISH. SO THERE YOU HAVE IT. SO ONE OF THE THINGS AND I'LL GET YOU, TIM, IT'S ABOUT THE RESOLUTION. AND WITHIN THE STEERING COMMITTEE IS EVERYTHING ABOUT THE BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. SO WE USED AN ANALOGY. SO LET'S SAY DAIRY QUEEN IS ACROSS THE STREET. 
          WOULD YOU EXTEND THE DISTRICT TO DAIRY QUEEN WHEN THERE'S SOME BUSINESSES THAT REALLY DON'T CONTRIBUTE TO THE LIVABILITY AND HAVE TO TAKE THEM IN, BUT IT'S DAIRY QUEEN? OR WOULD YOU MAKE SURE THAT THE ARMSTRONG PARK IS POPPING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND CITY STAFF CAN DO THE OVERLAYS 
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AND INCENTIVES THAT SAYS, HEY, DAIRY QUEEN, IF YOU CAN DO X, Y, Z, YOU CAN GET X, Y, Z, AND THEN YOU CAN FIND A BENEFIT FROM THE ACTIVITY. SO THEN IF THEY DO IT, THEY DO IT. IF THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T. AND HERE'S THE OTHER PART. LET'S SAY THAT WE DO ALL THIS AND WE DON'T GET A SUCCESSFUL APPLICATION. THE WORK WE'RE DOING FOR THE COMMUNITY. THIS ISN'T ABOUT AN APPLICATION NECESSARILY. IT'S ABOUT COMMUNITY BUILDING. AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING WHERE WE GET LOST. I USED TO HAVE A BOSS WHO WOULD SAY, LET'S NOT MAJOR IN THE MINORS. AND THAT'S WHAT I WORRY ABOUT BECAUSE WE HAVE A PARK 50 PLUS YEARS THAT HAS SO MUCH TO OFFER, AND THE THINGS THAT IT DOESN'T OFFER GIVES US AN OPPORTUNITY TO LEAN INTO AREAS WHERE IT CAN. SO. SO AMY AND I ARE AMY AND I ARE CUT FROM THE SAME THREAD. WE BUILD CREATIVE BUSINESSES. WHEN SHE'S NOT DOING THE THEATER, SHE HAS ANOTHER CREATIVE BUSINESS, AND WE KNOW THE TENUOUS PLACE THAT CREATIVITY DOES TO MAKE MONEY. MY EXPERIENCE IS YOU LET ARTISTS BE ARTISTS. THEY WILL FIND THE WAYS TO MAKE IT WORK. TIM, I'M JUST THINKING THAT WE HAVE A, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND AND THIS WAS PART OF DISCUSSION. YOU GOT A POWERPOINT IN YOUR DISCUSSION FROM FROM OCTOBER. THIS IS FROM OCTOBER. YOU VOTED ON THAT. YOU HAD A YOU'RE GOING TO LET AIR IN MY TIRES I THINK. YEAH. I THINK THAT BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE GETTING BACK TO WHAT THE VOTE IS, I THINK THAT THIS RESOLUTION ENCOMPASSES ALL THAT YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT. AND I THINK IT GIVES THE STEERING COMMITTEE AMPLE ROOM TO STEER WHATEVER DIRECTION THEY WANT TO GO IN. SO, YEAH, I'M READY TO VOTE. IS THERE ANY MORE DISCUSSION ON IT? YEAH. WELL, I JUST HAD A COMMENT THAT I, WHEN WE FIRST VOTED ON THIS AND WHEN YOU DID YOUR PRESENTATION, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I KEYED IN ON AND YOU HAVE IT IN SECTION SIX, WE CAN GROW THE CULTURE DISTRICT. THAT'S ONE OF THE KEY THINGS THE CULTURE DISTRICT CAN GROW. WE JUST NEEDED THAT BASIC STARTING POINT. I WAS I WAS AT A THIS WE'LL GET TO THE VOTE. THIS IS JUST FOR INSIGHT. I WAS AT A GALLERY SHOWING IN DALLAS THE WEEKEND BEFORE LAST, AND ONE OF THE PEOPLE WHO CREATED. WE HAVE THREE CULTURAL DISTRICTS IN DALLAS COUNTY. SHE CREATED TWO OF THEM. THE FIRST THING SHE SAID TO ME AND SHE SAW ME AND SHE SAID, HOW'S YOUR CULTURAL DISTRICT COMING? I LOVE THIS BECAUSE YOU KNOW THE WHO THE LADY IS. YOU KNOW HER. AND I SAID, IT'S GOING FANTASTIC. IT'S GOING FANTASTIC. THE CITY IS BEHIND IT, THE COMMUNITY IS BEHIND IT. WE'RE LOOKING FOR WAYS TO MAKE IT GROW. AND SHE SAID, WILL YOU DO THAT IN PHASES? AND THEN THE CONVERSATION WAS OVER. SO IT'S SO IF THERE'S IS THERE ANY MORE DISCUSSION ON THIS? WELL, I WILL VOTE FOR IT. BUT I DO WISH IT WEREN'T NAMED THE ARMSTRONG PARK. AND I WAS WONDERING WHO IS ARMSTRONG? SO I JUST LOOKED IT UP. YOU KNOW, ROBERT ARMSTRONG, I DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT HIM. HE'S BURIED AT LITTLE BETHEL MEMORIAL PARK, SO ANYWAY, SO IT'S THE MAIN THING, I GUESS IT'S LIKE, OKAY, I DON'T GET THE. YOU KNOW, THE CIRCUMSCRIBED AREA AND, AND THE NAME, BUT I WILL STILL VOTE FOR THE RESOLUTION. SO HERE'S, HERE'S A CONVERSATION ABOUT THE NAME. 
          WE'VE BEEN TREATING THIS AS A NAME CHANGE, BUT KNOWING THE RESOLUTION DOESN'T SAY WE'RE CHANGING THE NAME OF THE PARK. SO THEORETICALLY, WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE CREATED A CULTURAL DISTRICT WITHIN ARMSTRONG PARK WHEN IT GROWS, AND I FULLY EXPECT IT TO GROW, THE NAME CAN CHANGE, BUT RIGHT NOW, HISTORY IS PART OF THIS. AND WE CAN CALL IT THE CULTURAL DISTRICT. ALL RIGHT. TO BE CLEAR, IF I COULD JUST SINCE WE'RE STILL DOING OUR DISCUSSION, MY CONCERN WAS THAT THE GREEN WAS THAT ONE THAT YOU HAD WHERE IT WAS THE BOTTOM LINE, IT WAS THE GREEN WE TALKED ABOUT. YOU HAD A THERE WAS A RED. THERE INCLUDE RESTAURANTS, VENUES, HOTELS AND OTHER AMENITIES. AND I DON'T SEE HOW WE CAN. HONESTLY SAY THAT ARMSTRONG PARK. SO THAT WAS MY CONCERN. THAT'S WHAT I WANTED. EVERYBODY UNDERSTAND THE ROOT OF MY DOTTING THE I'S AND CROSSING THE T'S, AND WHERE MY CONCERN LIES, BECAUSE I WANT US TO BE APPROVED. I WANT IT TO I WANT US TO GET THAT DESIGNATION. AND I HAVE SOME SERIOUS CONCERNS THAT AND THAT'S WHY I WORRY ABOUT THAT. YES, THERE'S CONSIDERATION FOR FUTURE EXPANSION, BUT IT'S WHEN WE DEFINE IT SO CLEARLY AND THEN WE JUST PUT THAT CONSIDERATION. CONSIDERATION. I'M SORRY FORMER ENGLISH TEACHER HERE. THE CONSIDERATION IS NOT NECESSARILY AS SPECIFIC AS I MIGHT WANT IT TO BE. AND I JUST WORRY ABOUT THAT BOTTOM LINE, BECAUSE I REALLY WANT US TO BE ABLE TO BE APPROVED FOR THAT 
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DESIGNATION, AND I DON'T WANT IT TO BE A PROBLEM. WHAT IF YOU WHAT IF YOU LOOKED AT IT THIS WAY, IS IT HELPFUL IF I SAID. WE THIS MAY BE OUR ACHILLES HEEL. THIS MAY BE THE THING THAT KILLS THE STATE DESIGNATION, BUT HOW COOL WOULD IT BE FOR THE COMMUNITY IF WE TRIED LIKE HECK TO MAKE IT WORK? THIS IS AN EXERCISE AND THIS IS A REASON TO TRY SOMETHING NEW. SO I GUESS THE WAY THAT I ALWAYS LOOK AT IT TO ME, THE REDS, WHEN WE FIRST HAD THIS CONVERSATION IN OCTOBER, I SAID, IS THIS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO LEAN INTO IN THE COMMUNITY WILL BENEFIT FROM US LEANING INTO IT. BUT I WAS IN IN OCTOBER. I KEPT WANTING THEM TO IMPROVE THE SIDEWALKS, SO I HAVEN'T REALLY DRIFTED TOO FAR AWAY FROM IT. SO THERE ARE GRANTS THERE. SO THE CITY MANAGER TOLD US ABOUT THERE ARE GOING TO BE GRANTS THAT CAN FIX THE SIDEWALKS THAT WILL BE AVAILABLE TO THE CITY IN 2028. SO WE HAVE A LOT. BUT THAT WAS WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT THEN, IS I REALLY DID WANT IT TO BE LARGER. AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE WALKABILITY AND THE SIDEWALKS AND THAT KIND OF THING. SO, SO, SO THAT EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS. I'M NOT FLIPPING. I JUST WANT IT TO BE AND I AND I THINK AND NOT NECESSARILY IN THE THEATER, AS I WAS CLEAR THEN, THE THEATER HAS BEEN FINE FOR 38 YEARS WITHOUT A DESIGNATION, BUT THE WHOLE MAIN STATION AREA WITH THAT COOL COURTYARD AND THAT VIBE, OUTDOOR MUSIC AND THE THINGS THAT COULD GO ON THERE. WHAT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IS THAT WE DON'T, THAT WE LEAVE ENOUGH OPPORTUNITY. AND I THINK THE WORD CONSIDERATION IS THE IT JUST WASN'T SPECIFIC ENOUGH FOR ME. BUT SO I'VE SAID WHAT I HAVE TO SAY AND IT'S GOOD STUFF TOO. SO THAT'S GOOD. AMY AND I HAVE BEEN FRIENDS FOR 18 YEARS. THIS IS HOW WE TALK. IF WE DRINK WINE AND CUSS AT EACH OTHER. SO. ANY OTHER CONVERSATION ON THIS? SO I WOULD LIKE TO CALL FOR A VOTE. THE MOTION WAS TO APPROVE THE RESOLUTION AS IS AND RETURN IT TO RETURN. OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR RAISE YOUR HAND. OPPOSED? ONE OPPOSED. OKAY. LET'S MOVE ON TO. 
          [16. Block Party Comprehensive Plan Meeting – July 22, 2025, at Duncanville Fieldhouse (1700 S. Main St., Duncanville, TX 75137)]
ITEM 16. BLOCK PARTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN MEETING JULY 22ND, 2025 AT THE DUNCANVILLE FIELDHOUSE. THAT IS NORMALLY OUR MEETING. AND THERE'S A FLIER. AS COUNCIL MEMBER. GOODEN, YOU CHAIR. THIS COMMITTEE IS THAT CHAIR. I'M A MEMBER OF COUNCIL. THAT IS ON IT. DO YOU WANT TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? SO THIS PARTICULAR NIGHT WE WILL INTRODUCE THE DRAFT OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN 2040. AS THE CITY MANAGER SAID TONIGHT. AND WE'RE ASKING THAT ALL OF THE COMMISSIONERS WHO ARE PRESENT TO ALSO BE THERE TO GIVE THEIR INPUT ON READING IT. SO YOU WOULD NEED TO REVIEW. THE CITY MANAGER SAID HE WOULD PROVIDE YOU A LINK, AND I'M SURE THAT WOULD PROBABLY COME THROUGH. ALEX, ONCE YOU GET THE LINK, WE ASK THAT YOU SERIOUSLY GIVE TIME TO READING THROUGH IT. THIS IS NOT FRONT AND BACK. THIS IS JUST ONE SIDED PRINT, SO PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO READ THROUGH IT. MAKE NOTES, BRING YOUR IDEAS, ANYTHING THAT YOU SEE IN IT THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ADDED OR CONSIDERED BY COUNCIL. PLEASE PROVIDE AND I CAN'T STRESS ENOUGH. JUST BE PREPARED TO TALK ABOUT IT, BECAUSE HOW WE SEE OURSELVES GROWING BY 2040 AND WE ALWAYS HEAR CITIZENS WANT THIS, CITIZENS WANT THAT, AND WE TRY TO INCORPORATE AS MUCH OF THAT AS WE COULD IN OUR MEETINGS AND THIS DRAFT. SO IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT WE MIGHT HAVE OVERLOOKED, WE NEED TO HEAR ABOUT THAT. SO THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO DO SO. WHAT WILL THE MEETING ON THE 22ND BE LIKE? WHAT WOULD THE STRUCTURE BE? I HAVE IT IN MY PLANNER AS A BLOCK PARTY. THAT'S HOW IT WAS PRESENTED TO US AS A BLOCK PARTY. AND CITIZENS ARE ABLE TO COME OUT AND CONTRIBUTE AS WELL. SO IT'S KIND OF NEED SOMETHING LIKE A PARTY, BUT AT THE SAME TIME DISCUSSING AND INTRODUCING THIS TO THE PUBLIC. OKAY, SO IT'S NOT MY UNDERSTANDING. IT'S NOT REALLY A MEETING. MEETING, I DON'T KNOW. DO YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THAT? I HEARD IT'S A MEETING. MEETING, BUT IT'S A MEETING. MEETING WITH SPECIAL CELEBRATION, CELEBRATORY MEETING. THAT'S A WAY OF PUTTING IT. THERE WILL BE. IT'S OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. IT IS. THERE WILL BE PRIZES. THERE WILL BE SNACKS. THERE WILL BE. A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE. CANDY. FACE PAINTING. 
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OKAY. PLEASE TRY TO MAKE IT. I THINK I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO BE THERE. ANY OTH
* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.