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 We'll open the meeting for March 4th at noon and let's go over the item one of the minutes

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 for January 28, 2021.

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 Motion we approve the minutes from January 28, 2021.

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 I think I'm the only one who can second so I'll second.

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 All in favor.

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 All right, next item on the list is receive report and hold discussion and give staff

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 input regarding the status of the following public art committee projects.

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 One the North Lakes dog park to the G Villa complex three the tennis center for their

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 fire station number three, five the foundations of our history mural six MLK Jr. recreation

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 center sculpture and seven the interracial women's fellowship.

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 Able to aid John Whitmore here and I will be sharing my screen to be able to cover that.

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 Okay, that should all be great.

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 All right.

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 Sometimes it takes a second to be able to move.

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 All right, North Lakes dog park, we've been working a little bit more than we're on our

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 third time that we have gone out to try to get some proposals for this, I know that we've

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 had a couple of proposals in the past, but they were not leading to the scope of work

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 And so what we've done is we've now listed those on a variety of different of the local

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 as in Texas based sculpture associations, and we've already received one proposal so

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 far and they've got another couple weeks to be able to get those in.

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 So we'll, once we got those in, we'll meet with the subcommittee, evaluate those, and

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 then be able to have those brought forward to the whole committee.

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 Okay, I'll keep moving along unless anybody has any questions.

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 Okay, the Vela athletic complex is the Vela monument.

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 What we have is it's under fabrication right now, and they're going to complete the fabrication.

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 We've already issued the second month, the second milestone check to them.

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 And we're currently working on the redesign of the base area.

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 So that's going to be a little bit softer for it.

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 So also to have people so that they're not going to be touching it if it gets a little

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 So we're going to have something around there.

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 We're still in the design phase of doing that.

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 I did have some communication with the artist yesterday, and they sent me some pictures

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 of progress, which is great.

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 So for those that haven't seen the whole upper area is in shape of a soccer ball.

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 And inside that soccer ball are quite a few different spheres.

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 And so if you can see one of those brackets that you see where the soccer ball is made

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 of, that's in the center section, and you can see progress on making multiple of those

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 Looks very substantial.

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 Looks very cool.

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 I like this.

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 And the whole thing is supposed to be done right about June, and we're trying to make

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 Again, if anybody has questions, we can stop and deal with those.

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 Tennis center, lots of work happening out there.

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 It's not ready to pick a site yet until they finish some of the other work.

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 So we're still holding off on that.

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 Still the same budget, next steps.

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 We just have to have the subcommittee kick off meeting once we have a general location

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 of where we think that will end up going out there.

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 Fire station number three, they're getting quite a bit of work done out there as far

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 as they've really built the whole other one, and now they're going to demolish the old.

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 And once they've got the demolition done, that's when they start to put in their landscaping.

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 And with all the other issues due to COVID and other things, they're a little bit behind

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 on some of that, but it'll be very quick once they do the demolition from what I've talked

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 to the project managers over that.

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 This is done.

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 It's just the official slide to say that project's been completed and looks great.

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 We were really pleased with how it turned out.

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 I think the best compliment we ever see is when people slow down and drive by it real

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 slow to that, and probably clog up a little bit of traffic, but it's a great compliment

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 to that particular project.

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 This is moving right along.

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 They're still in the stage where they are taking those large pieces of stone and getting

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 it all roughed out, and then the final artistries, it'll be done by Madeline Weiner for that.

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 And that, she says, is all on track, so we should be good.

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 going to be improving the front area and some of the other side areas around that and moving

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 the flagpole, that type of thing, before they can actually install this particular piece.

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 DWIF monument, Michelle has been working very diligently with the artist, gathering information,

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 particular time and kind of what it meant to them.

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 So Eddie Valdez, management analyst.

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 So in your attachment, you'll see the meeting schedule for this year for 2021.

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 It doesn't include the time, just the day that we're going to be meeting.

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 Eddie, this is Gary.

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 Our typical meeting was Thursdays at 4 o'clock.

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 And and just try to keep it to an hour until we go back to in-person.

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 Go with you, Mary, does that work with you, Mr. Stuhl?

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 That works fine with me, Miss Franklin, it works and it works for you.

233
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 Still want to meet on a Thursday, your schedule.

234
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 We did set a record.

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 Our last meeting was 30 minutes.

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 So I did let Gary know that he was gone.

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 So and it went really well.

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 We make good decisions.

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 So we just wanted to make sure that we accommodate everyone, you know, like, like what you said

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 before, we don't want to lose members because it it's in conflict with with your day to

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 day.

242
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 It was it was brought up prior, so I'm a little disappointed we're only just having this discussion

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 now that we actually had to lose someone and potentially a second person for this to be

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 a pain point for it to be discussed.

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 So maybe next time we can actually address this in a more timely fashion would be great.

246
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 I think we did on September last year's meeting.

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 But I think it it still was kind of on a beta test doing this every six weeks meeting at

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 noon.

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 And you know, I apologize that we didn't rectify that a little bit earlier time.

250
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 You know, we really hated that we ended up losing one or two members.

251
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 But on that note, since if four o'clock is the best time for everyone, do we still want

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 to keep it on a Thursday or do we want to move it on a Friday between now and May?

253
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 Because I'm assuming that we're still going to do virtual for now.

254
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 So we can put it down for four to five.

255
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 I think we were able to do it in under an hour for most of the meeting.

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 It seems like that's been the average time.

257
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 So four p.m. to five p.m.

258
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 Is that all OK with you?

259
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 That's fine with me.

260
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 They're safe.

261
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 Four to five.

262
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 Yeah, that's fine.

263
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 Thursday, four to five.

264
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 One question is if we're at risk of losing Alicia or I don't know if Nick leaving was

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 finalized or whatever, but should we check with Alicia or both of them just to make sure

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 that if we're all open to Thursday or Friday, just to kind of make sure until we're in person?

267
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 Yeah, that's a good question.

268
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 Or does it have to be decided now?

269
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 Yeah, well, I mean, what we can do is we can make the decision now.

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 If you guys are all OK for Thursday, I will reach out to Alicia.

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 I'll also try to reach out to any members that aren't here, like Michelle.

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 And if it needs to be brought up, we can also amend the schedule so we can do all the amendments.

273
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 And I just had to put a cancellation ahead of time or I could speak to the city secretary

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 and ask if we can just bring this up in the next meeting and you guys can re-approve another

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 meeting schedule time because or I'm sorry, if you look at the actual attachment, it doesn't

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 show the time.

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 So we're flexible with the time.

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 It's really the day that you need to choose.

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 You know, it could be Thursday or Friday.

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 So for an example, if Alicia says, you know what, Friday is going to work best for me

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 at four o'clock, then I could probably send out an email.

282
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 And if we had to re-approve this on the next meeting, then we can do that.

283
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 Does that work for everyone?

284
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 So can we just go in and make the approval right now?

285
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 Are you all OK with the meeting schedule as it is?

286
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 And then if we had to revisit that in the next meeting, we can do that.

287
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 Yes, yes, yes, yes.

288
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 And let's make a motion that we keep it as proposed by Eddie with the ability to change

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 it based on the new information that he's going to gather.

290
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 And I'll second.

291
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 Everyone in favor?

292
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 Aye, aye, aye, aye, yes.

293
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 And item D is received for nominations and elect chair and vice chair for the Public

294
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 Art Committee.

295
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 All right.

296
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 So on an annual basis, very similar to the calendar.

297
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 I know we're a little bit off on how members were on board.

298
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 Basically, normally they would be on board around August or September, and new members

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 would start around September.

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 But since COVID, everything got pushed back.

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 So on an annual basis, we had to elect a new chair or vice chair.

302
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 And I don't know if you've all seen the attachment.

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 I believe it's on the second attachment.

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 I believe it gives you a little bit of a guideline.

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 So if we're going to start with the chair first, and then once when the nomination everyone

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 approves of, we'll go to the vice chair next.

307
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 So anyone can nominate, anyone you can nominate yourself within this meeting right now.

308
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 And then we're going to do it by the order by nominations.

309
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 And once when we get the majority vote, then just assuming, I don't remember how many members

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 do we have in here, but to say we have five or six members, if we have way beyond three

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 or four votes, then that would be the majority vote, and we can stop from there.

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 So once we identify the chair and a vice chair right prior to the conclusion of the meeting,

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 the chair will be taking effect immediately, and they're going to close out the meeting

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 from here on.

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 So I guess the first step is for Monet to ask if there's any nominations, and then everyone

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 will start voting on them.

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 There's not going to be a second or someone meets you second, you know, or it at all.

318
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 It's just everyone just kind of votes yea or nay.

319
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 Any nominations for chair?

320
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 I'll nominate myself.

321
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 I'll second your nomination for yourself.

322
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 You don't need to second, just.

323
00:25:16,680 --> 00:25:25,080
 Okay, well, I guess Monet nominated herself.

324
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 I vote Monet.

325
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 Are the current chair and vice chair, are they present?

326
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 Forgive me for not knowing.

327
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 Michelle isn't here, she's vice chair.

328
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 So it's round robin, we all go round vote?

329
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 Yes.

330
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 If there's no other nominations, there's no other other nominations than a day you can

331
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 ask one more time, then you can go out and close it out and ask for everyone to vote.

332
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 Okay.

333
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 Are there any more nominations for the chair?

334
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 We just need a vote from everyone now.

335
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 All in favor for Monet?

336
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 Aye.

337
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 Aye.

338
00:26:33,360 --> 00:26:34,360
 Aye.

339
00:26:34,360 --> 00:26:35,360
 Aye.

340
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 Aye.

341
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 All in favor?

342
00:26:39,360 --> 00:26:40,360
 Aye.

343
00:26:40,360 --> 00:26:41,360
 Aye.

344
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 Aye.

345
00:26:42,360 --> 00:26:43,360
 Aye.

346
00:26:43,360 --> 00:26:44,360
 Aye.

347
00:26:44,360 --> 00:26:45,360
 Aye.

348
00:26:45,360 --> 00:26:46,360
 Aye.

349
00:26:46,360 --> 00:26:47,360
 Aye.

350
00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:48,360
 Aye.

351
00:26:48,360 --> 00:26:49,360
 Aye.

352
00:26:49,360 --> 00:26:50,360
 Aye.

353
00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:51,360
 Aye.

354
00:26:51,360 --> 00:26:52,360
 Aye.

355
00:26:52,360 --> 00:26:53,360
 Aye.

356
00:26:53,360 --> 00:26:54,360
 Aye.

357
00:26:54,360 --> 00:26:55,360
 Aye.

358
00:26:55,360 --> 00:26:56,360
 Aye.

359
00:26:56,360 --> 00:26:57,360
 Aye.

360
00:26:57,360 --> 00:26:58,360
 Aye.

361
00:26:58,360 --> 00:26:59,360
 It wasn't my preference.

362
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 Well, Fred, you do have the option of not accepting the nomination.

363
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 I think I will decline the nomination at this time.

364
00:27:11,760 --> 00:27:12,760
 Okay.

365
00:27:12,760 --> 00:27:17,640
 But thank you for the consideration.

366
00:27:17,640 --> 00:27:24,720
 Do we have any other nominations?

367
00:27:24,720 --> 00:27:38,640
 Do we need to nominate -- I was going to nominate Meredith Bowie if she would be willing to accept.

368
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 I was too, I declined.

369
00:27:41,280 --> 00:27:46,360
 I tell you what, I'll nominate myself if Monet promises to never miss a meeting.

370
00:27:46,360 --> 00:27:47,360
 How about that?

371
00:27:47,360 --> 00:27:48,360
 I should.

372
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 At home working.

373
00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:50,360
 Meredith, are you interested?

374
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 Meredith, are you interested?

375
00:27:54,920 --> 00:27:57,560
 I was going to nominate you as well.

376
00:27:57,560 --> 00:27:59,560
 Hold on for a second.

377
00:27:59,560 --> 00:28:01,560
 Meredith, are you interested?

378
00:28:01,560 --> 00:28:02,560
 Meredith, nominated?

379
00:28:02,560 --> 00:28:03,560
 No, thank you.

380
00:28:03,560 --> 00:28:06,600
 I would -- Ed would be lovely.

381
00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:07,600
 Thank you.

382
00:28:07,600 --> 00:28:11,120
 But who nominated Meredith just for meeting purposes?

383
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 I did initially.

384
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 And then I, Georgina.

385
00:28:13,920 --> 00:28:16,120
 We're playing hot potato here.

386
00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:17,120
 Yes.

387
00:28:17,120 --> 00:28:22,200
 All right, so we have Ed Steele as the nomination for vice chair.

388
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:26,640
 Do we have any other nominations?

389
00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:33,760
 I was thinking Jody, but she's not here.

390
00:28:33,760 --> 00:28:35,880
 My understanding is Jody's no longer on the committee.

391
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:36,880
 Okay.

392
00:28:36,880 --> 00:28:41,080
 And you can still nominate any members that are current right now.

393
00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:44,160
 So if they're not here in this meeting, you know, for example, Michelle, you can nominate

394
00:28:44,160 --> 00:28:45,160
 her.

395
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:54,360
 Well, since we do have Ed Steele as a vice chair, we'll give it a couple of seconds.

396
00:28:54,360 --> 00:28:58,360
 Do we have any other nominations?

397
00:28:58,360 --> 00:29:00,560
 Thanks for the vote of confidence, by the way, Monet.

398
00:29:00,560 --> 00:29:02,680
 I'm going to vote for you.

399
00:29:02,680 --> 00:29:10,920
 All right, do we have a -- let's take a vote on the vice chair, everyone, for Ed Steele.

400
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:11,920
 Aye.

401
00:29:11,920 --> 00:29:12,920
 Aye.

402
00:29:12,920 --> 00:29:13,920
 Aye.

403
00:29:13,920 --> 00:29:14,920
 Aye.

404
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:15,920
 Aye.

405
00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:16,920
 Aye.

406
00:29:16,920 --> 00:29:17,920
 Aye.

407
00:29:17,920 --> 00:29:18,920
 Aye.

408
00:29:18,920 --> 00:29:19,920
 All right.

409
00:29:19,920 --> 00:29:31,920
 I think we have it.

410
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:43,000
 Any concluding items?

411
00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:47,800
 The one thing that staff has for -- I wouldn't say it's concluding items, but an update that

412
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 we will have for you or we hope to have for you at our next meeting will be the rendering

413
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 of industrial park for the marrying of the DWIF -- excuse me, the DWIF sculpture with

414
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 the reconstruction of industrial.

415
00:30:10,760 --> 00:30:16,640
 I don't know if anyone, if you remember, I remember bringing it to you years ago, I think

416
00:30:16,640 --> 00:30:21,320
 it was two, two and a half years ago, the original rendering of industrial, we had talked

417
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 about maybe some art pieces on the side wall, now we have this beautiful sculpture and art

418
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 piece that will be really in the middle of the park, and if you remember right, you know,

419
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 we had that small kind of, you know, one person, two person kind of stage, kind of almost in

420
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 the middle of the park.

421
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:43,360
 We're going to kind of keep that same concept and really make the art piece the backdrop

422
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 for that area, and I think you're really going to like it, but we definitely want to bring

423
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 it to you.

424
00:30:49,000 --> 00:30:52,960
 It hopefully -- it looks like it will be ready in six weeks, so we'll be able to bring it

425
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:58,320
 to you for your vote on that, so it will really -- I'm really excited about it.

426
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:03,400
 I know I'm kind of mumbling, but it will really make that area pop and really enhance the

427
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:10,440
 DWIF sculpture that way people can access it, they can get to it, they can experience

428
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:17,000
 it, and really it just be a destination for all of us to be able to go enjoy plus everyone

429
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 around and hopefully nationally be able to come see it, so -- and of course be looking

430
00:31:25,680 --> 00:31:32,120
 out for emails to volunteer yourself to sit on those subcommittees for those other two

431
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:38,280
 art pieces for the tennis center and the fire station.

432
00:31:38,280 --> 00:31:46,160
 >> Any more questions, concerns?

433
00:31:46,160 --> 00:31:49,760
 >> And if you -- I just wanted to give you an update.

434
00:31:49,760 --> 00:31:57,040
 I did speak to Mr. Finch, Carl Finch from Brave Combo.

435
00:31:57,040 --> 00:32:02,000
 We talked about last meeting, and I know, Ed, you had to miss last meeting, but we kind

436
00:32:02,000 --> 00:32:09,040
 of -- we talked about the artwork and the stamp concrete that's going to be in stamp

437
00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:16,200
 columns that are going to be on the new I-35, so when they finish the I-35 merge and I-35

438
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:22,880
 north and parts of I-35W, instead of hanging medallions on those walls, they're going to

439
00:32:22,880 --> 00:32:31,000
 be stamped, stamped panels like what they have on I-35E along, you know, Lake Louisville,

440
00:32:31,000 --> 00:32:38,800
 so that was thought of as a music theme, and so we are -- you know, I've had several conversations

441
00:32:38,800 --> 00:32:43,200
 and meetings with him, and so we're going to sit down in person soon and kind of go

442
00:32:43,200 --> 00:32:48,400
 over some different drawings, so we'll be -- that'll be a future, granted, that's probably

443
00:32:48,400 --> 00:32:54,040
 about five years out, the construction of I-35 that TechStop is selling us right now,

444
00:32:54,040 --> 00:33:01,200
 so that will be a future task that we'll bring to you on kind of us picking out a artist

445
00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:08,040
 to be able to help us with those stamped concrete and walls, so I just want to give you an update

446
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 that we're continuing to work on that.

447
00:33:10,120 --> 00:33:13,600
 I know five years seems like a long time, but it'll be here before we know it, and we

448
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:17,760
 need to be prepared, so.

449
00:33:17,760 --> 00:33:28,160
 Any more questions?

450
00:33:28,160 --> 00:33:29,160
 Nothing else?

451
00:33:29,160 --> 00:33:30,560
 We can conclude the meeting at 1233.