okay Chairman Scully at 7 p.m. please call the meeting to order.
Okay. I'm calling the meeting to order for the Cultural Affairs
Commission. Can we proceed with the roll call?
Commissioner Johnson here. Commissioner Moses here. Commissioner Gupta here.
Vice Chair Fleischer here and Chairman Scully here. All members are present
. Okay. Can I invite everyone to stand
for the Pledge of Allegiance? Put your right hand over your heart ready and begin by
thanking reasons people by the United States senior to which it stands One nation under God
indivisible with liberty and justice for all
. Okay, Moving forward with our next order of business, do we
have any public comment for items that are not on the agenda?
>> No, we don't. Well actually we have take this moment to introduce assistant
city manager Adam Troy who is just getting himself in as our public speaks.
>> Wonderful. Thank you Sally. >> It's been a day people.
Let's get to it. Good evening commissioners. First let me thank all of our
new members and thank each of you for being willing to serve Culver City.
I also want to thank those commissioners who are continuing their service.
You guys are giving your time experience and creativity to this community And listen, if
nobody's told you lately it matters as you begin a new year together I want to encourage
you to think broadly about the role of this commission and about the opportunity that sits
before us as a collective capacity In my short time being here I witnessed has
extraordinary cultural identity . We are a city of artists,
storytellers, filmmakers, designers, musicians, performers and creative
businesses. That means cultural affairs should not simply be something
that happens inside City Hall. Our opportunity is to increasingly connect the work
happening here with the creative energy that already exists throughout Culver City
throughout Los Angeles and quite frankly beyond that being said, I have the utmost
confidence in Sally and my entire management team. They are committed each day to
better understanding this community. They understand the work and
they care deeply about doing it well. >> My expectation is that we
continue to empower our professional staff to manage their day to day work While
this commission in its advisory role increasingly helps us think strategically about where
we are going. >> Part of that means looking at process and efficiency As
I'm looking at subcommittees and advisory councils structures across the board as
you review your work plans and establish your subcommittees tonight I encourage you to
continually ask a few simple questions Can we make this process simpler?
Can we make it faster? Can we make it easier for artist organizations and
community partners to work with the city while still maintaining the appropriate
standards and public accountability? >> Government processes exist
for important reasons but we should also be willing to examine them.
A process that made sense 10 or 15 years ago may not necessarily be the most
effective process today and I would encourage you to look beyond the walls of City Hall,
attend performances, visit galleries and studios, meet our creative businesses, build
relationships that many of you already have with our entertainment companies art
organizations, foundations, educational institutions and cultural leaders throughout the
region. Once you do those bring those relationships back to Culver
City. >> I'm encouraging Sally in fact and our entire management
team to do exactly the same thing to broaden our networks, increase our presence in the
community and region and cultivate relationships that can create new partnerships,
resources and opportunities for Culver City. >> I see this commission as an
important partner in that effort over the next several years.
>> We have some tremendous opportunities ahead of us our culture, equity planning work,
the continued evolution of our public art program, our creative economy and ultimately
the opportunity surrounding the 2028 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
So my challenge to you tonight is quite frankly a simple thing Bigger build relationships
challenge unnecessary complexity, empower our staff and help us make Culver City
one of the most creative culturally connected and welcoming cities in this
region. Without a doubt you all have my support.
You have my confidence And I look forward absolutely to working alongside you.
>> Thank you for the opportunity tonight
. Thank you very much for your statement and thank you for
making the time to be here. I'm sure you're probably brain fried from a full day of sports
now. Okay. Well yeah, you're on your your
your thoughts and your statements are much appreciated.
We we often hear we have a lot to say about how long things take and how sometimes we have
to temper the expectations of the people that deal with us because they're like wait it's
going to take 18 months to do this idea that I thought of. So yeah, definitely if if the
energy is there for us to try to move faster and to move bigger and to dream blue sky
thinking then we're definitely on board and we look forward to it And now's the time.
As you said, we kind of have like a 24 month to 36 month window to really kind of drive
the idea home that Culver City is the home of creativity And in greater L.A. So yeah, thank
you so much for being here. >> Absolutely. If I might add in addition to
that I ask Sally and a number of our other managers and directors for those of you I
have not had a chance to meet individually. We should do that.
What I'm trying to do across the board again not just with Cultural Affairs Sally and the
rest of the team I'm absolutely looking at how many staff hours I'm committing, how much time
is happening outside of the work that they have already given even part of what we have
shared with our council members is to channel your inquiries through the ACMs.
That way I can make sure that effective responses are happening.
I'm not taking Sally necessarily or any other directors away from the work
that they have at hand but we can begin to work more collaborative together and
quite frankly it gives you one person's neck to choke. That's my.
So I look again forward to working with you establishing some greater lines of
communication and spending some time with you guys individually so we can dig a little deeper
And where I think Cultural Affairs has the opportunity to go and I'll say this in closing
I've said this in fact in front of Sally with other directors as we are beginning to look at
L.A. 28 right now and we have a little pause on the momentum because quite frankly I need to
bring in a third party to assess what the risk association is, how much money
are we actually looking at spending And beyond the Olympics itself as an
accelerator of what gets left behind Essentially for Culver City right now cultural affairs
Objectively speaking it's the X factor I have every other city has everything else that we
have. They don't have cultural affairs not at the level that
we're operating. So I've said to her we need to begin to lean in to using
cultural affairs as the tip of the spear As we begin to sort of elbow our room into the L.A.
conversation early 28 conversations. So you'll be hearing more about
that as we go forward. And again, Sally, thank you for the opportunity to comment
tonight and and to welcome our new members to the commission. Thank you very much
. >> Okay. Moving on.
>> Are we in receipt of any correspondence? >> No, we're not.
Oh, sorry. >> Is there anybody else who is doing public comment?
Is hope going to address us now? >> Okay.
So no receipt of correspondence. Okay, Very well.
>> Moving on to consent calendar items we have one item C one correct?
>> Yes. That is 20 7-22 for Cultural Affairs Commission consent item
approval of minutes of the special meeting of June 2nd, 2026 and the special meeting of
July 28th 2026. >> We've already received one typo correction from Vice Chair
Fleischer. Does anyone else did anyone else note something in the
minutes that was incorrect or took
Okay if someone then could make a motion to approve as amended the minutes I'll make a
motion to approve as amended the minute approve as amended adopt approve as amended So can
you do it on your screen? Great. Do I have a second or okay.
>> Moved by Commissioner Moses and seconded by Chair Scully you should be able to vote if
all is going well. >> I've seen it. >> Oh my gosh.
Look at that technology. >> Yeah, as we have Gian it is because piano's here.
>> Technology I believe should introduce Jana Allen in the clerk's office a more resource
for our team. >> And so the minutes are approved five with five eyes
like Yes. Okay excellent. Moving on to the order of the
agenda we have a number of action items starting with a 127 dash 89 Cultural Affairs
Commission action item consideration of a concept for a permanent art installation
Frame line by Lawrence Scarpa towards fulfillment of the city's Art and Public Places
program requirement for a project by Rethink Culver LLC at 9810 Dash 9814 Washington
Boulevard Oak This is a familiar project to at least four of you but I'm going to go
through a little bit because one of our commissioners this is going to be a new proposal a
couple of meetings ago we and this has gone through a couple of iterations of the public art
subcommittee as well. So this proposal is related to the Rethink project and for our
new Commissioner Johnson that is the project that's going next door to the Kirk Douglas
Theater. That's the new developments many, many years in the making
And we are one of the last pieces of the puzzle here. This is a redevelopment project
that has gone up and down and scale and has come to city council in many different
iterations When it came to cultural affairs it was about how they were going to fulfill
their art requirement and their first proposal was to deem the building itself and a feature
of the building architecture as art which has an extremely rigorous process that's
dictated in our municipal code. When that happened the architects and the developer
proposed we convened an independent review panel of architects and other creatives
that are also outlined in our municipal code on how that process should go And the
process went through its motion and that independent review committee did not was not
inclined to recommend the project for as an architecture as art designation.
>> It came to City Council about two months ago and that was the recommendation for the
Commission to consider at the time there was a number of public comment related to the
project that showed the project within without the architectural feature and there
was some discussion back and forth with the commissioners about waiving the art fee to
allow for what was at the time deemed at the Commission at Dynamic and by several public
comments an architectural feature that they wanted to retain that would only be
possible if they were not also required to pay the art fee because this project has a lot
of different city crossovers that are make it very unique and did not go through the
traditional planning process. There was discussion also about this unique situation.
>> We left the meeting thinking that there was unanimous opinion by the Commission to
waive the fee and to potentially pursue a memorandum of understanding with the
developer to make sure that they kept the architectural feature and and their fee was
waived From there I went to the legal department in Culver City and approached them about what
this process would look like on upon legal advice and upon many conversations with the legal
department they felt that creating an exception by waiving the fee was the least
desirable process And what they recommended based on the fact that this project already had
an artistic statement and had artistic elements that would qualify it as an actual art on
site that they we go through and actually now show you a proposal as art on site rather
than architecture as art. This is an extremely complicated and very unique
thing that's coming back to commission now as an art on site proposal we have art on
site proposals a lot that go to this commission but usually they don't have the back story
that is necessary to bring you to this day. >> What I what I have in front
of you is the deck that you also received in your materials.
>> So I'm not going to go through it in huge length but I will show you a few of the key
elements that make this proposal something along the lines of what we usually see
again here is our art and a little bit about the project and then what is unique here
and what I think is important to highlight is that Lauren Scarpa, one of the architects
is the artist of this piece and he is proposing this as his own work of art And one of the
criteria we have is a rigorous understanding that the person that the artist meets a
criteria so Larry Scarpa has presented to this commission and then multiple times to the
public art submitted committee about his career This is just going to go through a few of
the more relevant parts of what his career and site specific art Here's shows and
exhibitions he's been in and this these slides have been seen by many members of this
commission before But for the new commission I wanted to make sure you see the type of
projects He's got a lot in Santa Monica so you can see if you want me to ask a question.
>> Yeah, Yeah. So everything you're I looked at everything and everything
we're seeing here is the art that he's done to other buildings.
>> Yes. Sometimes on his site Or were they actually some of them were
considered. That's a great, great question. So for instance, let's get
through to these are like shade and art structures. >> Some of them fit the classic
criteria of art on site. Some of them are different architectural projects.
This one is one that's a private one that is similar in the scope of what our project
is And then here we go to the actual development. >> So this is the building
itself as proposed just the exterior There's a pass through and the this is the interior or
Paseo and this is the structural staircase enclosures that are being proposed as the
art. Here's another image of it and the artistic statement is in
your packet of materials of his description. But the idea is it's it's a nod
to cinematic history through the idea of this structural staircase, these elements right
here. So this is the frame of reference he used when
presenting this piece of what he hoped the the artwork would convey and that There you go.
>> I'll just finish this and then we can go around for questions.
So here you these are the elements of the building that would you would see from the
exterior we would have if approved by you tonight we would have traditional art and
public places signage that would give contextualization that have the artist name an
artist statement and more about the piece and it would be something that was visible to
the public. So I apologize for running through this quickly but I do
know that many of you are super familiar and I'm absolutely happy to go back to any images
as you have discussion that you like too. >> So for you tonight is the
idea that this is coming to you now as an art on site proposal? I did bring this to the public
art subcommittee when they met last met and they voted to move it directly to commission
because they were so familiar with the project and felt that it was not worth more
discussion there. So it comes to you tonight And with that if there's any
clarifying questions and for sure I can go back and slides answer anything else I have so
so the distinction is art on site and what's the other distinction?
>> So there was the application originally came in as architecture as art.
So to give you a frame of reference of some of the buildings in Culver City that
fit that classification it's more Arrigo and Moss's buildings in the Hayden track.
We have a few other examples but they're usually that the building itself is is deemed
art This did not pass that threshold with the independent review panel And so then my
question is how rigorous is the threshold for art on site? >> It's fairly rigorous and I
can certainly let public art subcommittees comment on that because they review those
proposals frequently. But it goes through a subcommittee process.
They then recommend it or don't recommend it on to the commission.
But it's basically the process that's usually started when a development happens and they
choose to put art on site again There's many ways you can fulfill your art requirement.
Pay into the fee is one that is most frequently used Put art on site which does have pretty
rigorous criteria. It has to be over 75,000. The valuation for this piece is
also in your materials. It more than meets the threshold.
The valuation for the sculpture staircase is I think maybe 50,000 more than the actual
minimum requirement is at least that that's the audit on it right now and it has a series
of other criteria that it has to meet and this one does And if and if we were not to pass
it then they would it would not be built this way. >> It would be built.
Yes. And I unfortunately don't have the slide that they had brought
when public comment two months ago which showed you without the structural staircase So
just imagine this building without any of the flourish basically just a dark wall
pretty much So that was part of the discussion with the commission at the last meeting
was just how enhanced it is by this extra feature And what a shame it was that this art fee
was getting in the way of that element being there. So yes actually excuse me
sorry. >> I think it actually there is a diagram of the the the
structure without it in the in the slides in the attachments I saw it I okay because these
should be these should be directly the attachments that we gave you Now that's the
that's the front maybe that's what you thought No there was another one where it's just so
bland one bit that Yes I didn't see them That wasn't that was in the prior meeting.
It was something the architect brought when they went to public comment to show this
sort of with and without Okay And then the prior was not good I'm not that I'm here okay
There was also a lot of I think probably ten different speakers that came out to speak in
support of keeping these options and disappointment that it didn't pass the threshold
for the architecture class. >> I feel at a disadvantage because I have not seen the
prior obviously. >> I mean I you know I personally think it is you
know, it's pleasing to the eye the way it is now. I don't know if I see that as
art necessarily but yeah, it's definitely pleasing to the eye And if it was just going to be
a blank wall I think between the two I would rather have that to be frank.
>> Why? I just feel like is there not a process Like why is this This
is the process. So it's been this is actually like a seven month process So
this is going back and forth is a commission So other commissioners feel free to
weigh in on this because this is a project that has seen multiple presentations actually
. >> Anybody else want to weigh in on that?
Oh no. I'm here from the public art subcommittee.
Yeah, because Mr. Sakis okay. >> Yeah. No, I think this is this is
something we have deliberated over several meetings on and I think, you know, there's a huge
distinction having the building without and with and I'm sorry I thought it was in here but
just you can take our word for it. It's definitely it just really
lacks kind of an ambulance and it just looks so much better with Yes.
So I think that's why we had a joint consensus that it needed to come back to this committee.
>> So so then the question being then is it available to see at all times?
>> Can anybody in the public That is correct. So part of the requirement one
of the requirements is public accessibility So the person has to be open at least eight hours
a day which it's supposed to be far more than that. >> And then there should be an
exterior element that you can see the features because when I was looking it looked like
there was a gate that it does look like there will be the ability to shut down.
>> That could be so But the intention of the architect and the developers to leave that
Paseo So right where Cafe Vida is there will be now a more Paseo that will allow you to go
between those Where there isn't there any there isn't Now So there's no accessibility
between the two streets now. So this would open that up and be a public paseo of pass
through because it's and that will be there regardless of this project because you have
to be there You have to be standing on the inside to look out right like that's that's
you know there's views from Wash This is showing you views from Washington Boulevard and
from Culver Boulevard that you can see there what you can see that this imagery yeah can you
go to slide page 99 I think there's a Brooks and Scarpa there's a nice example of a
previous it's I love the homage to the film you know I love that.
>> I think that's the one Yeah They had a few more video projections when they did.
They're very quick but they sort of gave the element of the light pouring through those and
that was the effect I think of the film esthetic that they were going for.
Okay. Thank you. Thank you everyone.
>> Well me and Shawn are pretty You pretty much We were unified in our decision that it would
it would definitely benefit the project for this to stay the way it is now.
And the most important thing in our minds was, you know, whether or not you can make the
justification you know, in a serious way that Mr. Scarpa independent of his architecture
practice is an accomplished artist And the answer is yes. So we found that to be a very
important thing. There's architectural projects he's been involved in when he
where he was not the architect and he just provided the sculptural support so that
further supports the idea. So we felt that you know this is probably the best way to
move this forward in a traditional art on site and consider, you know, the screen
structure that's housing the staircase to be considered the art And we kind of had to coach
them a little bit along the way to be like Hey, you need to kind of give us a little bit of
more meat on the bone Conceptually we need to understand that this is a story
about, you know, film and cinema and like kind of these frames and light filtering
through and like tell that story a little bit more. He was always there but they
didn't really kind of like seal it in and they finally kind of came around to it So we felt
like it was ready to go to the full commission. >> We didn't need to deliberate
on it again for like a fifth time. What did the benefits to of it
if it if it passes as art on site is that it's required signage So that was something
that was not necessary. I mean it would have been an architecture as art signage but
this will actually be much more specific signage to the elements.
>> That's a great point Chairman Scully The fact that they actually came back to us
and really wanted to explain how this could relate to Culver City and weave that story
together was was really compelling. So it took it took a little
while but they finally got there and it was it's good to see it.
Oh yeah. I just wanted to just mention for your benefit that that's
part of the rigor of the public art subcommittee that it comes back to them and the experts
here are able to give them constructive feedback to help them usher the process through
in a positive way. So just so you're seeing a glimpse of that happening right
in front of you here right. >> And I appreciate all of the input and and completely do
trust that you guys have gone through this. It sounds like it's been seven
months so sometimes it's not usually this many back and forth And it was because it
sort of took a different path and now it's coming back in a in a more traditional way.
>> I think for me outside of clearly seeing that he is an artist outside of the
architecture and that it does look better this way than the other is is the process because
can someone else look at this and say well I'll either you know make it beautiful and if
not I'm going to show you a very hideous version of it and go with the beautiful version,
you know, so that that would be what I would be concerned with in terms of process anyhow.
But outside of that I see what you guys it doesn't cool. >> Yeah I'm excited about this
project and I'm totally trust you know the process So yeah I'm excited that we've gotten
here Let's get it done
So cool So can we move forward with the vote please?
The vote the the motion would be to approve frame line and that I to go back to the motion
I'm sorry I see the time that you got to approve the art concept frame line by Lawrence
Scarpa toward fulfillment of the Art in Public Places program requirement for a
development project at 98102981 for Washington Boulevard by rethink Culver LLC That's the
motion so moved by Vice Chair Fleischer and seconded by Chairman Scully one moment
others the motion
Can you see the motion on your screen? Yes the voting But is the
motion written there? Okay, this is a motion down. Okay.
I'll get a good That's good. Okay. All members have voted
and the motion passes with five yeses. Okay, let's get this.
>> Thank you. I really appreciate it. Your comments, Van.
I thought they were right on
. So I'm going to switch seats with Lee so that I can see the
screen from here as I present to you. Sure thing.
He's going to get them. They are topic Nope
. >> Okay. Can you call the next item?
Yes. Okay moving on to agenda action item 8 to 27 dash 90 four
Cultural Affairs Commission received report of Fiscal year 2526 Cultural Affairs Work Plan
updates and fiscal year 2627 Cultural Affairs were plan priorities and approved budget
and to provide oh sorry notes of feedback as appropriate. >> Okay so this is not a
non-voting item but for feedback. But traditionally in the past
we had done work plan presentations earlier in the year and then there was a
period of time where there was no work plan because we've had leadership transitions and
there was going to be a totally different process. I'm coming to you now a little
bit retroactively but with some important city updates and also just to go through the work
plan of what we do I'm focusing very much on our programs in this presentation but the work
of the Cultural Affairs division is much more than our programs.
It's it's the commission and working with you on all kinds of processes and decisions.
>> It's things that pop up all the time that are new elements that we have sometimes very
elaborate conversations about But for the purposes of today I wanted to cover a few things
especially given the many changes in the city that I think are important to kind of
base level for new commissioners and for returning commissioners about what's
going on in the city right now and what's going on with cultural affairs.
The first thing I want to bring up is the City council priorities.
This has been a major conversation and theme for the past year.
There was a retreat earlier in the year where the city council identified three major
priorities that have have driven the budget processes of the city and that have affected
how we talk and think about our work in the division. >> They are investing in art in
infrastructure, in public spaces, strengthening fiscal sustainability, enhancing
affordability and community support. On its face the three that were
chosen are a little bit of a hard fit for a cultural affairs division where metrics and
conversations about how you measure arts and culture are notoriously difficult And I'm
sure all five of you have been in positions where you've needed to kind of articulate
the impact of the arts and it's an often circular conversation in many ways But what we've
leaned into to make sure that we are in alignment with one of these is the investing in
infrastructure in public spaces as where we are focused but we do cross in the others as well
within this framework positions cultural affairs as a core civic partner and weaving our
creative strategy across departments and infrastructure projects.
>> The other thing that is very much being leaned into right now is key performance
indicators or KPIs. >> So that's another thing that's very difficult for the
arts in terms of measurability. If any of you have written grants for the arts it's it's a
very difficult we've used a lot of metrics. We've had a lot of internal
conversations about what the right key performance indicators are for our division
And again we're leaning into infrastructure because they make the most sense on how we
make our case. That said, I would welcome conversations at a at a later
meeting where we talk about what measurability looks like for cultural affairs and how we
talk about that going forward. But it's something that is happening and in a lot of
interdepartmental meetings right now are very much focused on these key performance
indicators and it's what city council will be using to measure the impact of things in
order to allocate budgets on the horizon is actually switching to a two year budget
cycle that's new for the city. Several other cities do it but it will change how we have
conversations as well. Many of you know especially if you've been involved with our
performing arts grant that's a one year cycle that we're often sort of estimating things We've
had a lot of talk about trying to do two year cycles on things but being hemmed in by our
budget. So I think and I'm hopeful that this two year budget process
will actually open things up And again to city manager assistant city manager's
comments be more efficient and that we're not spending so much time in the budget process.
We're doing it as a more streamlined two year process. But we'll see how this goes.
That's the baseline I wanted to start with because these are new city elements that factor
into our work plan. Just to let you I'll leave this up not read it all out to you
but the idea of these three priorities, some of these elements that are bulleted here
are how we're talking about how we fit into the strengthening fiscal sustainability
conversation and how we fit in to community support and inclusivity which is a very
easy sell for us And then again how we fit into infrastructure and community spaces.
>> A lot of it is activation activation, activation. >> So moving on to our major
work plan items of course you're all aware of our cultural equity plan and public
art master plan The ten year roadmap we're about midway through the data collection and
the community engagement sessions. We have more to come and we're
hoping that the next couple of months will be a lot of reporting out by MAG and civil
economics on what they've done and have the data they've gathered and the community
input they've gathered in the survey data they've gathered Obviously a lot of the outcomes
we hope from this will help map what decisions and how we prioritize projects within the
cultural affairs division where our art goes, how art is cared for, what art actually needs to
be taken out and is past its usable age. All of those questions how we
take in donations which is believe it or not something that happens on a weekly basis
of people wanting to donate various things and without having a donation policy in
place Currently we're hoping these are the types of elements that will work theirselves into
the public art master plan and the cultural plan. Also our ordinance which is a
frequent conversation in this commission about just the rules that govern us and where there
needs to be updates and flexibility and what can actually realistically happen.
Just a couple of pictures here. The upper left is the community engagement and one of the World
Cup events. The other on the right hand side is are from Meg NOia who
did an activation at the summer concert series and at another World Cup event they will be at
Westfield Mall on August 30th and they will be at Fiesta Love Iona So you'll see them again
and again. Then the Performing Arts Grant program This is one of our
longest running programs and a Gold Star program in my mind as I'm sure I and others provides
essential financial support to nonprofit dance music and theater organizations and it
delivers accessible, high quality public performance across a diverse community of
venues and public spaces throughout Culver City. >> We anticipate running the
program we've already announced grant availability this week. Thank you to Lee who works very
diligently on all the materials and all of the orientation sessions that go into this for
the applicants and just many, many moving parts. >> And then the idea once we
transition into this two year budget cycle there's the opportunity to think about this
program Maybe differently whether it becomes the two year program we've had sort of
initial conversations for years about potential changes to the way that they're structured So
we'll have that opportunity again and then again whether the program pivots or has some
special emphasis for 2028 during the Olympics is a possibility that will be
discussed in subcommittee and back into the Commission Music and the Chambers is a program
that went away and then came back thanks to Vice Chair Fleisher and a number of others
who were able to do a pilot concert last fall. We have another concert
scheduled for October 18th. >> I will let Vice Chair Fleisher report out because
she's been having some conversations during hers at the end of the meeting.
But the idea for this program is that we grow it. We do what we figure out if
there are fundraising offsets we can do how many and we can reasonably add into the
concert. >> The chamber's meaning This is where the concert happens
and whether or not there is another Olympics opportunity in 2028 we don't know.
But all of these could pivot in that direction as well. The Artist Laureate program I'm
going to show a few more pictures of how just because they're so beautiful But thank
you to all who came to hug our artist laureate program has run in two year cycles except for
during COVID where our artist laureate was renewed for a third year We are proposing for
this program that we go through our current artist laureates term will expire at the end of
June 2027 and like we did the last time after when the artist laureate we we really don't
want to have the idea that an application cycle for a new artist laureate overlaps with
the current artist right? It creates confusion and it takes a little bit of the the
glitz away from the current person doing all that work. We'd like to take another pause
to do some evaluation to get feedback from the current artist laureate as well as
consider models about what we might do to supplement enhance this program whether it's
artist in residency, is there studio space, are there opportunities and
collaborations that now exist that didn't exist before that create more opportunity for
this person? Do we want a more structured program?
Do we want to say that this involves five city events or you know these are the kinds of
conversations we go through in that evaluation period and our hope is to have a go through
that and go through the selection process of the latter half of next year and have a
new artist laureate in place for January 2028 who would begin And obviously Olympics
again plays heavily into the conversation of the next cycle of artist laureate.
There are some pictures you can see Jim Clark is in there who did a very brave hug moment and
Commissioner Moses is in there . It was a really lovely event
that photographed very well colorful communities. >> This is a new program for us
that's just finishing. I have some exciting reveals for you that I'll go through
fairly quickly. >> We need to still commission the remaining ten neighborhood
posters we are currently The original artwork is now out The framers we hope to have it up
at City Hall and then eventually a bigger show and the posters should be ready for
distribution this fall too. We've been working out some fun ideas about poster distribution
as we get everything together. A couple of photos here These are engagement events with each
of the artists. There is Chairman Scally at the Blair Hills event.
>> We've got the Sunkist of Vine. We've got Bueno Johnson in Fox
Hills and then some of the signage that was I think a few of you at least were at the
cover West Activation which was wonderful and really interesting way that they set
up community and feedback. >> So I'm going to give you a little precursor to the reveals
because we do have the digital images available. This is our Sunkist Pak by
Deborah Ash Time former airport and all of the backline there are actual community members
that she went out met and photographed and contributed to this poster design So you'll
see the airport at the hangar. The Blair Hills Story by artist Laurie Escalera Lots of history
incorporated in there Lots of the flora and fauna the animals that you encounter up and Blair
Hills Then you see the Lucerne Higuera community which is I See you by artist Steven
Holeman There are many many fun things that as you stare at this piece come to life
including King Kong in the background there But he did a lot of and I just want to give
you know obviously it goes without saying you see the his city historians fingerprints on
a lot of this so she's spent an enormous amount of time with these artists working on the
past and sort of nods to the past. So you'll see Harry Culver on
his bike right there front and center But the artists all unilaterally just discussed
working with the city historian as one of the highlights of this project.
Here we have Wayne Johnson's Fox Hills Forward together. I know Chairman Scully you were
on a number of this sort of midsize goal and it's interesting to see them when
they're done. She did a great job the past of Fox Hills looking into the
future of Fox sales There's lots of stories to tell here. And then finally a place called
Culver West was the Quinn Knight Group. You see Ginger Divine there
over it's there but there's also nods to history to indigenous culture, to the
neighborhood feel. I show all of these to say that there are so much that went
into this in terms of the community conversations, the histories, the imagery that we
hope to have a few artists talkbacks this fall as well as this comes out and we would
look to the commission to maybe facilitate some of those conversation whether they're
online speak backs or something that we host so that the artists can convene in the
public and come see the artwork and they can talk about their imagery.
But hopefully we also see that this program these posters are now part of our digital assets
as much as they are part of our permanent collection in physical form.
So we are already having multiple meetings where I talk up these posters to become
banners and signage and imagery and empty storefront wraps and all kinds of things.
And so this is the drama I continue to be in Every city meeting I have is have you seen
our five initial neighborhoods get ready for more of the public art collection and
acquisitions To Commissioner Van Johnson's point of process .
So this is definitely where process comes into play But probably the biggest process
that came into play that is you know seven and a half years in the making is the Charles game
sculpture I left you to sort of factsheets about the project that you can keep and use as
reference for some of the bigger talking points related to this project But it is now a
biweekly meeting with lots and lots of detail going on. So that's a major thing that
will be going in between September and the end of October.
>> Please do read three of those sheets because they answer a lot of what I think
will be commonly asked questions from the public And obviously as we're waiting for
Meg and Seville to kind of give us their data, the public art master plan is going to play
very heavily into how we take care of and acquire and put up new artwork and they're going
to propose to us citing and a lot of interesting models for us to consider for how we have
conversations to spend our cultural trust on art from the ground up sculpture program is
one of those We have not launched it yet and we probably won't launch it until we
officially have a new public art coordinator who really can dive into this as well.
But this is also going to play heavily into the public art master plan And then the games
I'm calling in the 2028 games and most of this but the image on the lower left is a World
Cup event in television park that was did incorporate some performances and was quite
beautiful and packed and was one of my favorite of the World Cup activations that the city
did. And then if you do know the actors gang that is Adam
Jeffries the Jeffries the head of the Education and Actors gang who is out this is my
favorite photograph so I have to throw it in there and that is actually the street is
Greenland five okay So it is not one of our programs but the idea here is we have the
refugees that are due at the end of this month will be picking a cultural producer and
dance and music collaborators. >> But as assistant City Manager Troy mentioned there's
a lot of shifting sands going on regionally in L.A. National be around the conversations
about capacity in the Olympics and that's affecting this But we are a go with our cultural
framework that is published and passed through city council. >> So we're really in good
shape I think to do some really great things. >> And then finally last but
not least historic preservation. So this comes in front of this
commission several times about reengaging historic preservation is work that is
very important and under the purview of the commission but is not something that is funded
through the cultural trust. It is something that has sort of been a ball that's been
kicked many, many times sometimes due to funding conversations but a lot of it
due to sort of bringing our municipal code up to speed. We have approval to work on
some code revisions which I think was the recommended first step prior I will be making
later on a recommendation that we don't form this ad hoc subcommittee yet because I'd
like to have a redlined document and then form it so that there's something to look
at but something that also comes up I get flagged when any kind of work happens on a
historic building and it's something that I have to review historic code standards and
decide whether the building is affected or not by the alterations or and so it's
something that is part of my job and part of the Cultural Affairs Division's purview as
well. I often consult with Hope about questions we have about certain
buildings or certain neighborhoods and historical elements all the time.
This brings to the question of the larger concept of what is the scope of historic
preservation? What is the appetite that exists from the public from
this commission about what conversation we really should be having on this.
And I would like to get to that point. Hopefully this year but
certainly within the next two year band where we have a revised municipal code and we
talk about what Culver City really wants and needs and in historic preservation so that
we can finally have some kind of defined scope that this commission considers related to
this topic. >> And with that that's the bulk of our programing.
I will stop talking and I can answer any questions or clarifying comments
if But thank you so much for the summary.
>> Does anybody want to start have any specific questions about any of the stuff that was
addressed? >> We don't have a copy of that presentation in here.
>> Right. We know you don't. Okay.
Just check. >> I went back and forth Sorry I went back and forth with how
much detail and I felt with new commissioners I wanted to really highlight our programs.
But you do have a summary description of what is published in the proposed
budget book that is basically a summation of what I just went through and some of the other
elements preferably as some general questions nothing. >> Okay.
So just generally I feel like there's so much going on and I mean I mean you just went
through so many programs and so many things that you know, obviously I know about now
because I'm here How much do we feel that the general population of Culver City
understands and knows about all of these things And does the ten year plan is are we looking
at marketing it beyond this bubble, if you will? Absolutely.
Not only are we looking to market it publicly and the deliverables that we have in
this long range plan be much more publicly accessible, we also will be hoping to weave it
in internally where I think you know, traditionally at least when I came here I felt it was
a lot more siloed than it is now. So that are all of the
departments within the city understand what we do which is something that I felt was a
challenge when I was first hired. So we do a lot by social media.
We do what is an email blasts related to our programs but you know part of the
recommendations I hope that we get from the cultural plan is how to dig deeper and create
even more advocacy and awareness about the work we do. >> Okay.
Because you talked about KPIs and yeah, I mean how how do we really judge that right When
we're talking about art and people we're in early days as a city as a KPI thing.
So I will say that we're having probably what every other week meetings on that subject Many
of them relate to the capital projects that are happening around the city street paving
obvious things that are measurable things. Our work with the city
manager's office has been really to kind of come to terms with that It is difficult to
have measurable KPIs for the arts and we're looking at a lot of different models and
hopefully that will be discussion that we continue to have both here in the
Commission and internally so that we have a few key things that are talking points about
what our measurable items are. We don't want to lean too heavily into Oh our performing
arts grant program needs to have a certain threshold of audience in order to be
considered successful because then we miss out on some of the smaller programs.
So there's a lot of conversation around what are the appropriate ways to measure
our arts impact And some of that even floods into the creative economy in general
because that's kind of what led to my initial question because it seems like public sentiment,
right? The idea of how people are viewing perceiving, knowing it
exists and whatnot and baselining that and then maybe percentage of increasing that
or whatnot in terms of certain KPIs. But yeah but I understand Well
one of the things that we definitely have is that the whole point of our ten year
plan is to align very closely with the Parks plan That was a passed plan about a year ago
and that is a lot of infrastructure, a lot about activating our public spaces
And so we will go hopefully hand in hand to that conversation at least in terms
of how that's measured as well. >> Okay. All right.
And last thing in terms of speaking to the artists, I mean those images that you showed,
those painting that those were gorgeous, gorgeous and to be able to yeah, openly have the
artist speak to the public about those and why they did it ,you know, the ways that they
did and whatnot would definitely be something I'd like to talk to you more about
. Yeah, go ahead, Tony That's so yeah.
Regarding cultural communities I'll just pick up where Van left off.
There are five coasters, there are five commissioners and I would like to request that each
one of us do one of those talkbacks or demonstrations or whatever they what was our hope
is what you would say would kind of talk this through as well.
>> Let's do it. Yeah, I think that sounds good. I think we should kind of come
up with a variety of type of programing and obviously different times of day and
maybe different formats because of people just being able to access it you know during work
after work kind of thing. So we can talk through that a little bit more to what is your
timeframe for wanting to accomplish these? You know, I think it depends on
capacity. It depends on the new hire. But I'm looking at the late
fall when we really start rolling out and have the printed posters available so
that we can have giveaways as well. We have a really interesting
idea that we're tossing around for National Arts and Humanities Month that we think
will maybe be a kick off To have one of these we could do a combined panel to we have a lot
of ideas so we'll kind of noodle that around But yeah and with that those ideas go
through the Public art subcommittee. Yeah we'll probably present
what we have as a framework but we want to make sure I mean we need to add money to pay the
artists to engage as well. We don't want to just have an expectation that they would
attend and do another program for free. So that's another thing that
we're working on is just realistically how we can do that as well.
>> Great. And then regarding those performance indexes, we did a
Creative Economy report back in 2014 and then an update in 2017 and I think I might be getting
my dates wrong. So that's part of how we do the measuring So one of the reasons
that the Chair and I were so excited about civil economics doing this plan is because they
are superstar was in the creative economy field and so I'm hoping they really will be
able to help us out on how we do these performance indicators and how we can quantify it.
So I think that will be a big boost for us And this is all coming to me at the right time
that we really are This is all happening now so I'm looking forward to that and to that
conversation with that as well And I'm not sure this is the right time to say this but
since we're talking about the cultural planner, I'm talking about the cultural plan just a
note that at some point the we're choosing subcommittees but the subcommittees should
perhaps meet with them or have some kind of a meeting before they come to the full
commission because we haven't met in a really long time And I think it's it's time to touch
base There And then I just want to give a shout out to Hope for all the assistance on the
Colorful Communities program. Obviously your input was beautifully seen there So I
just want to thank you for all that work. I had a second that Heather or
Shona would you like that? >> Sure. I also want to third, fourth,
fifth the colorful communities they came out so good. I'm so excited about what is
what is next and and kind of one of the thoughts that I'm having was really excited about
Adam Try talking to us just the way he is framing the work of the city and creativity and
culture is very exciting to hear and the way you are connecting the the work to the
goals of the city I think is super important to put it in there until you know connect
connect it for them so they see it And I think that all of this is going to help with the
communication. >> It's just I've got a lot of thinking of like how this can
also help the school district and like so I'm but it's really exciting.
>> I think that's all for now. Sure. >> Shauna thank you.
Just a few things So I'm definitely interested in discussing KPI's.
That's kind of my wheelhouse but I'm but I would like to just say I mean I for one have
seen an uptick and kind of the general consensus of the community and folks out in the
city they're just super excited about the work that you're doing.
So thank you And I think it would also be a really interesting thing to review
some data around some of the traffic we're seeing on the, you know, Instagram pages And
you know again like this all kind of flows very nicely into KPIs so you can kind of see
them from multiple channels and multiple threads. So let's see So what else I'm
definitely excited about the activating public spaces loved seeing kind of that slide on
Victoria's work and excited about kind of her next few months and that was a wonderful
activation. So for those of you who participated I photographed it
and I was very moved by it just from you know, being a an observer and just you know,
shout out to Sam he's not here But all the work that he worked with you guys on in terms of
colorful communities, great to see that from conception to inception and thank you Hope as
well. It's really amazing to see all the posters come to fruition
and excited about how we can activate the artists and you know share the stories And so I
guess we'll discuss that more in public arts and excited about that brainstorm.
So thank you. Really a great presentation of cool Well I second everything
that was said. I'm also curious about the KPI discussion.
I think it's an interesting one again because of the nature of art and it being subjective and
not wanting to tie it too much to data but then actually being forced to do that to support
our existence and argue for our funding. So yeah if you guys do come to
a conclusion based on these meetings that you guys are having every couple of weeks we
would just be curious to see a smile presentation. I'm like where you guys are
headed There may be like down the line a month or two from now.
I think we would all be interested to hear about that because all of us unfortunately
have had to deal with that in our daily roles as creatives. >> But yeah, I also am really
excited about the idea of being in communication with the artists who did the poster
program. I'm I'm really impressed with the with the outcome.
I'm super excited to see the rest of them And I especially as you as you guys all know I
think this perfectly dovetails into all the different kind of branding needs that we're going
to need for the city moving ahead into the Olympics and stuff.
So we could we could definitely use these resources to kind of enrich the visual language of
the city in a way that's meaningful and make sense. I, I really like the idea of
communicating with the artist and doing those kind of storytelling and let's pick
your brain type of content. >> I think it might also be outside of that or maybe
concurrent to that In parallel to that or something I think it would be interesting to kind of
present all five of the artists in a panel and have a moderator kind of discuss with them and
that could be at a maybe larger event further enhance and spotlight the program overall
potentially at our creative Economy mixer we could have you know, an hour long discussion
during the mixer because I think those are all the right type of people in the room to
kind of be exposed to the high level work that we're doing in the commission.
So I think you know a thematic creative economy mixer focused on illustration where we invite
the right type of people. We have a very expert moderator and then all five artists are
brought on stage and we have like a discussion with all of them I think would go a long
way and it would kind of speak to advance talking about of like you know how many people
in the city really know the cool stuff we're doing. I think those are the good
opportunities because there's so many people in the room already and we can take
advantage of that momentum to kind of highlight our our own successes and achievements in
the city. >> I also think this kind of ties back to the KPI discussion
. I think one good KPI, I always think that we can potentially
focus on and it might not be it might be difficult or it might not be difficult to figure out
is how many people have heard about our programs. So just literally how success
will have we been identifying the various siloed communities that have their own
communication channels and their own email list and their own social media on their own
like the Culverts Foundation and the AVP and this and the exchange and the Rotary and the
Historical Society and like how like how many of those thousands of I guess you know
eventually it's going to eventually be thousands of people are consistently
informed at least like we don't like let's not get into how much money that they spend and
how many tickets were bought and how many people came to the show because that's that stuff
can get a little testy But if if we just kind of understand from a a base level perspective
how many people heard about us officially and were introduced to the events that we do, I
think that could be an interesting and kind of neutral thing if we know in month one
like 10,000 people heard about our events through a formal channel we can kind of have a
baseline and see if we can grow that and any capacity. >> Yeah that's great.
The only last thing that I wanted to add was do you guys have any I wanted to ask Adam
but I didn't want to put him on the spot. >> Do you have any idea or
timeline on when we can find someone And for Sam's position although we all know Sam was
not very easy to replace irreplaceable? >> Well yeah.
I'm not sure Adam could advance on that because that's actually going through us so it should
go online next week Usually it's posted for a few weeks and then it goes down to the
process of winnowing down to do interviews. There's usually the way that
the process works for hiring is picking peer from the city field to consult on and with
commissioners on the interviews and then we make a selection. >> So I'm hoping if we move
fast through that and we have the right candidate that we're in a good spot by the fall.
>> That's cool. Thank you so much for that update And again thank you so
much for putting that presentation together and thank you for all the hard work we
always during these meetings when we get updated on the full work plan that we kind of
understand all the different stuff that we're actually achieving And I think it's a
it's great. Thank you. >> Okay Are we ready to move
on? We don't have to vote on this, right?
We're just we don't have to vote on it. >> It's just a receive and file
report. Okay, cool. So I will motion the you don't
have to motion. Oh okay cool. And we're done.
>> Okay, Moving on to action item three and action item a 327 dash 87 Cultural First
Commission action item Acknowledgment of reappointment and newly appointed members of
the Cultural Affairs Commission and selection of the Chair and Vice Chair for Fiscal year 2627
okay I'm going to switch again just because it's a presentation that I didn't
really plan to do a presentation but there are so many moving parts with the way
that this will work. This is a presentation for both a three and a four based on the
work that you'll need to do and then I'll be quiet and you can all deliberate But what we have
in front of you are the commission reorganization and subcommittee assignments.
So you've already received this information. You probably already know this
but here are your expiration dates, your appointments, who was reappointed, who was newly
appointed? You know the trainings we went through to get us to this point
What will happen on a three is the nomination for chair and vice chair chairman KISQALI
We'll start that process and then if there are changes to the seating then everyone will
actually get up at the end of that and move to the appropriate seat.
So we will take a couple of minutes if there are changes to the way that our Vice chair and
chair are depending on your conversation then that will actually that person if it's a
new chair that person will assume that role tonight a change that we wanted to
propose to you that I've hinted at it several meetings is the idea of converting our
performing Arts subcommittee to a standing subcommittee. As you will recall, every year
we have an ad hoc related to this but the work of the Performing Arts grant program
as well as now music in the chambers and we think live music events and other kinds of
multi disciplinary live programing will be a bigger part of our purview and need
more standing official transparent committee that would be publicly noticed just
like the public Art subcommittee is. So it would be something that
would be publicly notice This is a staff recommendation for you to consider when you're
having your conversations about what sub committee structure we ultimately go with.
Another thing is that this would be a Brown Act compliant subcommittee or as the other
ones are ad hoc the Standing Public Arts Subcommittee we're proposing in keeping that the
same again a Brown act There's a lot of processes There's already been discussed that go
through this art in our public places the community colorful communities poster program and
the implementation of the public art master plan which we imagine to be sizable work this
year What we are proposing as well and this is for a staff capacity issue going back to
the efficiency of committees and just the available t of space.
I hinted at that at the last meeting. We're having fewer public
meeting spaces available to us so we are hoping to put these dates on the calendar.
Now if you are going to join one of these two subcommittees as recommended again this is a
conversation you will have about ultimately what ends up as our subcommittee structure
But this is what we're proposing for the dates the first one does begin in October
so that we can get hit the ground running where we think we have capacity for both
performing arts standing committee and public art subcommittee.
We're making the recommendation that as a commissioner you don't serve on both of these
committees since they're both standing and substantial work that you split up between you
so that there are two people on the standing art performing arts and two people on the
standing public art. That's our recommendation And this is the proposed meeting
schedule. It basically follows an every other month structure on a
Wednesday and we bring this up now and with hope that this is a consideration as you have
your conversations about your availability is subject to change if needed But we would
really like to lock in these kind of standing meetings because they require a lot of
extra admin to publish agendas and to adhere to the Brown Act With that the streamlining
conversation about the ad hoc that we hope to wind down for now the Fiesta Lab Ion and
Performing Arts grant subcommittees would naturally go down there work is done and
then be now both absorbed into this new standing performing arts the arts foundation we
have a different structure that we would like to propose one that is in keeping with our
Parks department that uses a liaison structure for Culver Arts where one person is a vote
is appointed as the liaison and then there's an alternate But it would not change much of the
scope of how this commission is activated with the Arts Foundation in the past.
But it would be more in line and would not break Brown Act rules which we realize if you
have a parks commissioner and two cultural affairs commissioners at a Culver Arts
Board meeting as per their previous arrangement that's actually in violation of the
Brown acts. This would be that we would allow for a Parks commissioner
and a cultural Affairs commissioner to be attending those key meetings if that was
part of the scope. But I know that for those of you who have served on that
subcommittee it wasn't every board meeting but you tried to kind of alternate there would
be an alternate for this structure. But again this is in alignment
with how the Parks Department has structured their relationship with the Culverts
Foundation. >> We would temporarily wind down historic preservation and
communications and outreach for capacity right now and reengage with those if we needed to in
the future to focus on the core committee work that we proposed to you today.
So if based on your discussion this is what we are presenting to you that we would have two
standing committees, three ad hoc committees and an outside body and the outside body being
the new structure for the culverts Foundation In this we have still retaining an artist
laureate subcommittee, a Olympic subcommittee and a creative economy and cultural
plan subcommittee and then the two standing subcommittees as I've described and then moving
forward the motions for both a three and a four would be to move a certain person as chair
and a certain person as vice chair for fiscal year 2627 And then again the motion for
subcommittees would be to create the subcommittee the Standing Performing Arts
Subcommittee. If that's you so choose confirm the schedule of that committee
and for the Public Art Subcommittee if you so choose And then the delegate structure
for Culver Arts if you so choose and then dissolve the ad hoc if you so choose And then
finally approve member assignments And with that I can move back and forth to any
slide if you'd like to see something And that concludes my staff report for both items and
the communications and outreach plan. Can you explain to me it seems
like something that we need that it seems to come up often is like how do we communicate
but why is it not important right now or it's a staff capacity issue to be able to
focus on the things we have to focus on. But it can definitely happen.
Any of any ad hoc can be formed at any time if the need arises But we are proposing this just
based on staff capacity now. So again you guys can go through subcommittee
assignments. Just another note that what we've started to do is actually
have subcommittee reports at every meeting that we hope to start again at the next
meeting. So depending on your subcommittees committee
structure we would ask you to report out. But this is by no means means
that we're ignoring communications or we don't think it's an important thing.
It's just really based on and we could actually throw up a slide that I have thrown up in
the fall of just how much staff time is devoted to special meetings, commission meetings
and agenda izing things And it's we I think have an average of well over a quarter of our
time goes to meeting in rather than programmatic And so something we talked about a
couple of months ago but we're just trying to streamline it so that our pie is a little bit
more even as we go into the short staffed part of our existence.
I would like to see this slide with the list. Yes
. >> Do you all know how to switch back and forth to see
that? >> Okay. Yeah I guess you could for this
presentation if you want to see that on your screen in front of you.
>> Yeah but if we want to But if you want to switch it we have to ask you guys right for
the person at your own computer with that the slides. >> No I see you don't have
control of the slides so yeah we don't and we don't have this presentation after we do it If
you go to your present, if you click the presentation button it doesn't show up which it
does but we can't switch it ourselves, right? >> You can't I can I can switch
the slides though if you want to be to go back and forth. >> No that's on this slide.
And so a question about this All of these are filled at this point and we are going to
reassign today There's people who've been in these So you're going to talk through if you
remain or if there are new members that are interested in this committee.
So as it stands now, there are an open forum for discussion. >> Okay.
Thank you. That is Agenda item for those. So I will say that the next
agenda item once Chairman Scally calls that is is the chair and vice chair vote which
will come first and then again depending on that the if there are changes there those take
effect immediately But I'm going to put it back so you can see the actual agenda item on
the agenda. >> Okay. So first right now we're
deciding the chair and vice chair. Yes, that has to happen first.
Okay. Sure. I would like to nominate
Chairman Sally to stay on as chair. >> I second that.
Okay. Sorry. And I would like to nominate
Tonya to continue as vice chair . I second that.
Okay. Do we vote think you can have discussion or anything you want
to do? >> This is kind of your your show now say this is yours So I
am happy to remain on as vice chair. I really enjoy serving on the
commission. I've definitely enjoyed working with Chairman Scally.
However I will give you my experience from being on this commission for as long as I
have that not having been vice chair before I was chair was was scary and a little
overwhelming And so I am happy to relinquish that to somebody else who's going to be here
past next year so that they can begin to learn the process and you know Brown Act is the Brown
Act but I'm happy to help people out if they want and other commissioners.
>> So if if someone would like to Yeah thank you Actually I am interested in learning about
the process and seeing as I'm I think my term ends in a in a couple of years So if I mean
only if you want to relinquish Yeah I wouldn't have said anything if I say well thank
you I don't know Yeah well would someone like to nominate Shawna.
>> Yeah I'll nominate Shona to be vice chair. >> I'll second that.
>> Okay great. So the act the actual motion would be to select a Sandra
Scully as chair and Shona Gupta as vice chair until the next reorganization in July.
I'm going to put that up for yet make sure if there's any other discussion that you want
to have about that because I don't want to cut anybody's comments off.
>> The only thing I want to say is that I'm going to allow you guys to do what you guys do
because since I am near here so I agree think of what's happening Trust me we're all
going to get things done and that's going to be the van is definitely the moment for you
guys as much discussion or as little discussion as you want. >> So I don't want to cut any
of that off. >> Yeah, no, we are all open to everybody taking on leadership
and yeah Shona I think is more than qualified and has shown a lot of enthusiasm for the role
and I think I'm super excited for her to kind of peel a little bit behind the
leadership role and kind of be able to understand what goes on behind the scenes A little bit
more. So I'm totally in favor of both of both of these decisions and
I'm also honored to continue in my role. All right.
So now I need someone to move for the two things for the official vote.
That's what do you see? Yes. Do you see a option to make a
motion? >> I'm still I'm stuck at this. Okay.
Huh? Oh, you got to go back to your PC press member PC on the
console bottom right here on the button Actual. There you go.
>> Thank you. Yeah. So when you press presentation
you can see what they're showing And when you say all the second data that worked
right? Yeah I think I'm stuck. Okay so moved by Commissioner
Felicia and seconded by Commissioner Moses I think it was the other way round.
Sorry. You're right. Other way round.
Hold on. I'm sorry. Moved by Commissioner Moses,
Seconded by Commissioner Fleischer. So that's going to record and
vote
as the chair okay. >> All members have voted can be heard and the motion passes
with five yeses so don't tell them to change things. Well Mark, if you were back
there and can hear me if you wanted to change the notation for Commissioner Gupta yep he'd
already doing it right now. >> So the actually the most recent chair is supposed to be
in that seat and the vice chair is supposed to be in that seat. But when you were both things
you had the choice of which seat to be in. So nobody moves the fabulous
right And the only thing that's been updated you can't see it which is your nameplates now
say your new title So you stay where you are and you now have different nameplates, right?
>> You lost the building, right. Okay.
So
okay. >> Okay. Are we ready to move on to a
four? Yes. >> Okay.
Action Item eight 427 Dash 88 Cultural Affairs Commission Action Item one Dissolution and
Creation of Subcommittees to reflect the fiscal year 2627 Cultural Affairs workPlan and
two Assignment of Commissioners to Standing and Ad-hoc Subcommittees and Outside
Association. Maybe now would be a good time to put that slide back up.
It's there. Yeah. Okay so Gama Scally do you want
to go committee by committee or do you want to talk about the ones that we're going to
dissolve first And I don't know what the what you would like to do.
>> Yeah, maybe we're coming We're making decisions on both of those, right?
>> So maybe we figure out Yeah. So I gave you it kind of all is a big package and you can
dissect that However you want but this is definitely your time to discuss the proposal in
front of you And I'm happy to move slides back and forth. >> It sure Can you go back to
the slide where you guys were making those suggestions and bullet point?
Yeah. Okay. So first one for us so I my on
and performing arts all getting absorbed into a standing I agree with that I agree with
that You know everyone can can chime in after we're done in your discussions the arts
foundation ad hoc turning it into a liaison structure that's what that means I like that if
the parks people are doing it that way then I'm totally on board And it also avoids the
Brown Act situation which is great communications and outreach.
I'm going to let the Commissioner speak about that. We might come to the conclusion
that we have enough people now that it might not be bad to start at least casually getting
that up and running. So that's my personal thought. You guys are welcome to agree
or disagree. I'm kind of 5050 on that. I'd like to hear everybody's
opinion and historic preservation. I agree with staff.
I think until we don't have, you know, some kind of agenda item or you know, an actual
task at hand from regarding the ordinance I'm totally cool with keeping on on the backburner
for now So that's that's my opinion. Let's keep this slide up and
maybe let everybody give their comments about this kind of combination, you know Right up
down situation And then would you like to start? >> Yeah, I mean I think that
this is the recommendation from staff and to make things more efficient and they're already
utilizing so much of their time I think you know these recommendations make a lot of
sense. I'm not sure exactly when the historic piece of preservation
would then begin. But I do I do agree with the list here.
>> Okay. So I'll say something about the communications and outreach
plan that was requested a couple of years ago I believe and we never had a meeting I
was on that committee because staff just didn't have time and I think now with one person
short, one staff person we still won't meet and therefore we have the subcommittee.
So you know, one of my what I felt like my role was becoming a commissioner is to let people
know what the Cultural Affairs Commission does because people just do not know to your point
earlier right. And so it is extremely important.
However, there are a lot of there are a lot of moving parts to that conversation including
other departments. Right. And so I think until we have
enough bandwidth to be able to do that to be able to really have a substantial substantive
conversation about how to move forward with the communications plan, it would involve Dustin,
it would involve econ dev, right. I mean I just I don't see it
happening any time soon knowing how long things take Even though Adam wanted things to
move along faster. So as much as it pains me because I never got to have a
subcommittee meeting of the communications I think it's the right decision for now because
just in reality I just don't think a subcommittee meeting would happen anytime soon Given
staffs constraints. One thing I will add to that that I forgot to mention before
is that they're adding two new communications positions to the city as well.
One is the chief communications officer who's starting soon and then support staff for that.
So there will be changes internally that will increase communications capacity in the
city And I thought that's something that you should know as well.
>> And also I mean Dustin is the one who's running our social media and he's a person
you can reach out to him and talk to him and so we can do our own outreach as much as
possible And help out as much as we can and then eventually get to the point where we're
formalize and things. Shona Exactly, yeah. >> So I had one quick question.
>> The artist laureate is that an ad hoc or Sorry I missed that.
Yeah. And let me just move forward here.
This would be the proposal so it would stay the same. >> Okay.
>> We call it ad hoc because it's during the term of this particular article then we'd
have to dissolve it and create a new one for the next. But this would also encompass
the selection process and the evaluation process Once the artist laureate is done in the
end of the year. >> Okay, great. Thank you.
Yeah. So I think in the kind of you know kicking off the meeting we
heard about streamlining and efficiencies etc. So I think you know this proposal makes a
lot of sense. >> It's going to be hard to say goodbye to certain committees
but I think it definitely makes sense. >> So I'm all for it.
>> Thank you. Thank you, Heather Yeah, I'm just going to agree with
everyone that I that I go with the recommendation of staff. Okay, great.
So moving on to the assignments I guess everyone can kind of give their opinion on where
they stand and where they feel they might want to be involved or shift around.
>> I'm starting with me. I am currently on public art. I'm currently on the Olympics
and the Cultural Olympiad. I'm currently on Creative Economy and I'm also currently
on the liaison for Culver Arts . I'm willing to continue on all
of those and I'm interested to continue in all of those just for the benefit of the city and
having some continuity because there's a lot of institutional knowledge and a lot of history
over many years for each one of those committees and I just I would like to keep an eye on
them But if someone else is extremely passionate about being the main Culver City Arts
Foundation delegate, I'm willing to move into the alternate position for that.
But yeah, that's just me at a glance. Does anybody else have any?
Tanya go ahead. >> I'm going to be a little simpler than that and say that
I would like to continue serving on the Performing Arts Subcommittee and on the
Creative Economy and Cultural Plan and call it a day. Okay, Fair enough.
Yeah. >> Shannon Okay. So I'm so I'm on the call The
Olympics and Fiesta which I think is getting combined with performance I'd actually like
to So currently I'm on Fiesta Olympics and artist laureate and I would very much like to
stay on Olympics and I'd really like to join performing arts if possible which I think Yeah and
those are the two I feel strongly about China Yeah I think I would be willing to
step away from performing arts because I think Heather you would be an amazing addition to
the committee So I would love to stay on public art though That's something I'm very
passionate about And then what else What where else does that leave me?
>> Artist Laureate Oh yes, yes. I want I'm also very interested in that continuity with our
artist laureate And then in terms of the foundation the you know I was thinking I would
just be here, you know alternate but I could also be I wouldn't mind being a delegate.
>> Sure. So we can we can decide that we can decide later or we can
decide later I guess so we'll vote on it tonight So you probably do.
Oh, okay. Oh, Sally wants us to decide. >> Okay.
We need to arm wrestle. Let's just keep it the way it is.
Yeah, let's just keep it the way it is for now. So don't you be the delegate
The alternate. Yeah. Yeah.
Thank you. And just to clarify moving forward with this structure if
I'm at the meeting then I can't be and have shows at the meeting I can't be So we'll
just go back and forth then. >> Yeah. I think the idea is that the
delegate is the delegate and then when I can't correct she goes okay that's fine we can
But it's not it's not equal structure. >> One person is appointed to
what It's a little different than the other one. One person is appointed to the
outside body The other is if they can't serve that function okay So it's not quite the
same. It's not quite the same But you know no one's policing how you
do it. >> I'm just telling you how it's supposed to be and we have
to decide tonight. >> Yes. You know I mean if it's not the
not cut through it doesn't have to be formed or any of these could just not get formed
tonight. Oh, okay. So that could be the option to
think you just put it off in a week So Yeah so that means I will step down from performing
arts but I'll remain on public art and artist Laurie Correct. >> I think you should all the
way and first before you Yeah you need to have that larger discussion before your official
in any of this. >> Sure So so the two that I am interested in are performing
arts and the Olympics and you Yeah I would I think I would really like to be on the
Olympics and performing arts the same I'm I'm unsure about the time commitment there but
interested in that and I know so I think right now Heather you are on both of those well I
mean I would like to be on both of those You're currently on Olympics so I don't know if we
horse trade or whatnot but you know if you really want to performing arts and were
willing to allow me to be on Olympics I would you know appreciate that And yeah those
are the two right now that I'm I'm really looking at I don't know if we need someone
somewhere else but I a witness to them that I'm interested in as someone who's not in not in
this race I'm wondering Heather, if maybe you would want to do the artist laureate
with Shona so that van could do the Olympics or I know that's because I think you are perfect
for a performing arts subcommittee. No, you know, no disrespect but
obviously you have a big laugh And just to say one of the reasons for Olympics I know you
know Wasserman will now the A-Team is on the board and to be able to communicate with
them and especially with like the artists that they have I which I have communicated with
them before to maybe do something here locally I think would be phenomenal.
So there are some things I think I can do on the Olympics committee that you know and
coordinate with people and speak to people that I've already spoken spoken to Just
and just for clarity on the scope of that that committee we do have an approved cultural
framework from city council that sort of defines the guardrails of what we're doing.
So I don't want to suppose that the new there will be a ton of new things although definitely
there is room for that. But I just want to clarify that we do have an approved
framework for how we are going to cover Okay. >> Yeah, whatever that is.
>> Yeah. I mean I it's hard for me because I feel very strongly
about the Olympics partially because I've been involved in it and working with you know,
preliminary The RFP is that we have been going out and also just with the connections that
I have with like different cities and stuff and how you know so someone else needs to
weigh in here. Yeah, Yeah. I don't know what to say at the
moment And there's nothing else that you're not not particularly no.
I think I can add great value there And yeah in the performing arts I could as well
But you're there you know you would like that as well So I was thinking giving up one to
let you have you know take the other I would give up the artist laureate although I do
love the artist laureate
because it's me. Yeah. I don't know who else is on the
Olympics as well. Yeah it's it's me. I've kind of been there from
the beginning. I don't necessarily think it would be the wisest decision to
step down from that so but I'm open to all any and all discussion.
>> Thank you. Are you up? Oh, sorry.
No, I was going to say so at this point where are we with people's desires anyhow?
So are we all Are we aligned except for this at this point Is this everybody?
So we're aligned So except for this So yeah because artist laureate at this point is not
something that I mean not to say I'm not interested in it but as far as the two that I
that I'm really looking at it's probably performing an Olympic and and again performing I
would completely do and I'm excited to do a little questioning about the time but
that's definitely something that is in my bailiwick as well.
I would ask it was so just balance I'm trying to see which ones even have space right now
. That's it. Right?
And just one point because I stepped away from performing arts so okay Yes So that's this
year that one of and you're not a you would be okay taking performing arts if I wanted to
stay on the Olympics I well I would prefer to take the Olympics I was saying that I
would give you the maximum but if you wanted to take performing arts instead of the
Olympics just so you had one that you that you wanted So how do we figure this out?
>> We just discuss it. Yeah. I'm not trying to I'm trying to
see And again between the two because of the time I'm a little bit more unsure about
performing arts So I know I could commit the time and I think that the value to the
Olympics and so that's why between the two that's where I'd be first
. >> So I haven't been on performing arts although I'm
very familiar with the grant program but I have been on the Olympics and that's the one I'm
really not willing to give up. >> Like if like So if you're saying I guess for me I've been
involved in this process and I'm really excited about it So I'm I'm kind of yes I want to
do both but I feel a little bit stronger about Yes, I'm I'm very familiar with grant
writing and performances but a lot of what we've been doing with the Olympics I feel is
about like cultural producing and dance and music and that is something that is very much in
my wheelhouse. So I feel like I would be like leaving it when I was like We
haven't really even gotten going, you know Like we just started it.
>> Yeah I have a question Are can can you have three members now I know Figure it out.
Yeah Again I mean I, I think between the two I would be stronger in the Olympics than
you know the idea of grant writing to be honest I don't know much about, you know, to
be frank. So again it's just the idea of performance and performing arts
generally that that brings that that makes that interesting to me.
Yeah. So between the two I just think that it would make more sense
for me to be in the Olympics. You know I don't know how important it is as far as what
you've done, how that affects what we're going to do for the Olympics are so many years away
at this point. So I do think that whatever happened then I'd be able to
catch up on and I don't think it would hurt that subcommittee in terms of me taking that
position again. >> And if if we were looking at another one in terms of like
artist laureate or whatnot, it wouldn't change my desire I think to be in the Olympics.
>> Could we hear from the chair because you've been on this committee the longest, the
subcommittee what what have you been doing If you could be really brief and what do you
expect that work to look like? >> I think it might help us make a decision Which one for
four Olympics? Yeah. >> And especially what what's
going to come up because you've been there the whole time since it was formed.
>> Yeah, yeah I've been there from the beginning. There has been a I think having
a degree of continuity is definitely beneficial so I understand what others saying
especially with all the different groups that we have to interface with and also that
there's a bit of variety and it's a dynamic conversation surrounding City Hall.
I'm sure most people know if they're following the the major city hall meetings.
So I, I do agree that having that momentum with existing group and all the super
committees and the joint committees that have been have happening with city Hall is
beneficial. So that's that would be what I would weigh in for for the same
reason why I feel some of the committees that I'm in that I've been in for years just
because there's so much back story and so much existing kind of trajectory and the the
Olympics right now majority of the discussions are happening surrounding the hospitality
houses that are coming in and and building cultural programing around that and the
arts And so there's a lot of moving parts there so that I that would be just my opinion
So yeah that's that's what I that's me me me One of the one thing I mean and I'm 100% sure
that you would be able to jump in and contribute I definitely I appreciate that And I mean I
don't think that that would stop my ability to be able to jump in.
But it is good to know that you've that you feel a bit of continuity is good there And
and I would say that I know you and I know you can do anything So I'm I'm perfectly confident
in that I we're we are in the process and it's weird because I know that this is going to
come up again before the Olympics if I'm understanding this right that the the
committees are going to change again in July of next year. >> Is that not true?
Yes, That's traditionally how it is. I mean we've had committees
change based on a number of factors even throughout the year.
It just depends. But this is the sort of level set for the year And then if
there needs to be changes, additions, deletions those those do happen organically
through the year as well. >> But every July this happens again would normally be the
July meeting. Yes. Yes And so we're we are in the
process right now. >> So we worked on getting the RFP piece out Right And it's
been delayed a couple of times as far as like the deadline of it And I've personally and I'm
sure it's on as well and all that everyone has been working really hard to get people to
apply for the RFP is that I would like to go through through the process of seeing
it through and that's and it is very similar honestly to at that at this point.
But the work is that I'm understanding at this moment is very similar to the the
performing arts Grant Right. Like it's there's going to be there's going to be a request
People are going to apply for the grants and then the grants are going to come in and you're
going to look at them and there's going to be a whole process.
So that's kind of where we are and that's that is kind of what I'm really interested in
staying and seeing this through understanding that I have every confidence that you could I
this isn't about like me thinking that you can't do anything and I understand that.
>> I think this is just purely a desire at this point. I mean it's like we both want
to be in it. You know, obviously you'd be able to do a good job.
You've been doing a good job already. I completely am confident in my
ability to do the job. >> So it's not about that. >> You know, ultimately I guess
if we are just in this group making the decision I definitely wouldn't want to say
well in July I will change. You know, I don't think that would make any sense either.
I think if it's something that we want to do, we definitely want to do it through the
Olympics. You know, all of us are on the commission through the Olympics
that we would want to do it do that again. I think my my concern is that
yes, I'm interested in the performing arts and I'm sure I'd be able to do a good job
there as well. >> The time commitment is a concern of mine.
You know, it just it just is that the time commitment is a concern of mine there.
So that's why I'm a little bit I'm even though I'm interested in that a little bit I'm
willing to say well I'll take that instead of I think right now looking at both of them
it's it's really the Olympics or I don't know about anything I personally don't think you
need to be too worried about the time for me because I'm on four of these and I'm still
making enough time So And you know you're kind of just getting your feet wet into this
process. So I think you know, when I was in your position I was only in
one subcommittee maybe two. >> So I think and performing arts subcommittee is not just
the grants program anymore As you saw we consolidate at it. >> So you're actually going to
be contributing probably one of the one of the biggest contributions to the whole city
because now you're going to be weighing in on performing arts top level umbrella level across
the whole city including syllabi including the grant program and creating music in
the chambers including the summer concert series including all the other performing arts
that we're going to be doing overall. So I think also knowing your
background and managing talent and being involved in cultural production, I think it actually
makes sense for you to contribute There. So I wouldn't discourage you
because it might be one of the more important And now standing committees it could actually be
an excellent opportunity for you to kind of really dive in. That's just my mind and I
appreciate that And I think that because I'm interested in both and if what I'm feeling is
a consensus is that maybe performing arts and you really want to do the Olympics I don't
want to you know, I don't want to keep beating a dead horse here so we can move on.
I will go ahead and go to the performing arts if everybody's if you're open to that because
you would have to also relinquish that one as well. >> So I think they did it How
much to relinquish but I guess I relinquished it So she so she she could do it.
>> Yes. So now you relinquished her and she was she basically
relinquished it for you Now it's like it's a gift. >> Give Yeah.
Yeah. So and actually I just have to say since this was my first
year I was on performing arts and I found it incredibly rewarding And I think now
there's so much more under your purview so I think it's going to be amazing.
So yeah so I'm very excited for you and that's what I think kind of makes the interest
there. So yes, I was saying if it feels like the consensus is
that's where it should be, Let's let's go ahead and do that.
We can move on. >> A quick clarity to that. I just want to contribute to
this. I don't have any horse in the race here but just that all of
our programs will likely pivot to the Olympics So there will be Olympics conversations
happening across the board with the cultural affairs and the performing arts is actually
named in the cultural framework as a key element of what our programmatic agenda will be.
Good to know. Good to know. All right.
So awesome. >> So that's where I stand then.
So then I'm fine with performing arts Cool. Any last thoughts?
>> I think we still need somebody for artist laureate. Yes, another a second person.
I'll so I'll go I'll say on it were you. Yeah Yeah I was going to
relinquish it if somebody else Okay so you're giving your you're relinquishing performing
arts for artist laureate So I think then we're good. >> Yeah, we're good.
Okay so can you who is on the Do you want me to do this. >> I think that Got it.
I got it. You got to go unless you want to do it Chair Do you want to
do it? Who's on the creative global control planners?
>> So the way I understand it please correct me if I'm wrong Performing Arts subcommittee is
that and myself Public art subcommittee remains Shona and sign artist laureate is Heather
and Shona Olympics is Heather and son Creative Academy is a son and myself and cover Arts
Foundation board Do you need to decide on your delegate and alderman I'll remain a delegate
and yeah Sean will be the alternate All right I got it. That would So Commissioner
Johnson's on one subcommittee? Yes. >> Okay.
So unless we want to resurrect a communication and outreach and put them on there to
perhaps the on performing arts I don't want staff to get a heart attack right now, but I
was thinking that we could open that up and put that on it for now it just me like four times
a year but I know it sounds going to murder me Well and just for the record we can
request that we have another subcommittee at any time that is that so we won't do it now
I'm fine with being on the right but but it is something that to me anyone that should
be open for discussion perhaps as we get closer to the Olympics.
So I think we're going to really need it And then Well right So yeah it's coming since
Chairman Scully and Commissioner Gupta are in a standing subcommittee you just
need to be very careful with this Culver City Arts Foundation that you don't
overlap this this is a different kind of a of a of an appointment.
Okay That's all. But otherwise I think Chinese and to this for miscounting how
many each person is on okay I think that works I would point out that foundation for the So
would you like to make a motion to accept this assignments do you need me to read them one
more time? >> No I think we're all on the same page.
Okay. So thank you. >> Drama Oh, yeah, I Oh my God
. I'm still trying to find my So moved by vice chair Gupta and
seconded by Commissioner Moses to accept this to appoint this this slate is their password
for these computers is the address. >> How did it go to sleep.
Yeah it's at the address. I know it's different. It used to be the address is
now so that was fine. You didn't have options. Okay.
Very good
. Yes. >> Oh no, no
, because
I've been here
. >> Oh
, we'll have to do a manual load on that. Okay.
Commissioner Fleisher, how do you vote? Yes.
Yes. Okay. All members have voted and a
motion passes with five yeses. Okay. Next is
he pending? Nope. Nope.
Okay
. His chair Miskelly texting. >> I voted.
I know, I know The voting is is concluded Okay Yeah awesome. >> So moving on to the next
item do we have public comment for items not on the agenda. We don't We do not.
Okay. Do we have any items from members and staff?
Yes. Shall we go first? Okay.
>> Um the grant application guidelines and notice of funding availability for 2027
performing arts grants are now available on the Culver City website.
We have two scheduled grant workshops on August 25th and 26th and the grant application
deadline is September 23rd. First time applicants are required to attend a grant
workshop and you're all invited to attend one as well. There are only two more
opportunities to attend the actors gatherings to Gentle Bats of Verona at Media Park
Free performances are on Saturday and Sunday August 22nd and 23rd at 11 a.m. Immersion
music Presents Currents Composers in Motion On August 27th at the Venda Museum's
Community Center and Angel City Chorale will be returning to perform at Fiesta La Bayona on
August 29th at 12 p.m. then in October will be performance by Helix Collective Los Angeles
Women's Theater Festival and Heidi Ducker Dance. All of these are performances
that are supported by the Performing Arts Grant program So Commissioner Johnson it's a
pretty good program. Details and ticket links for all grant sponsored events are
posted on the city website in the Community calendar promoted by email and are posted on
city's social media accounts. >> The full entertainment schedule for Fiesta Love Iona's
75th anniversary on August 28th 29th and 30th is now available and was was selected with the
assistance of our support of our ad hoc subcommittee. Fiesta does have its own
website Fiesta love iona.org so you can find all the information about performances
there. We also have a new shipment of Red Tour booklets I've been not
distributing them widely because we were running out but now we have a lot more.
If you want any for display or distribution please let me know.
Thank you. That's all. >> I don't really have anything
I've covered a lot tonight and what we're doing and what we're up to.
You have fires to disseminate. >> Please, please, please continue to promote the survey
that was out there for the cultural plan. We have not had the response
online to the survey. We have a lot of in-person response but we're lagging
there. So we're really going to start doing a real push to get more
online answers to that. Thank you to Commissioner Moses who has done a great job of
continuing putting it in the Superintendents newsletter twice going out to all students
and any kind of newsletters or public gatherings Please please please encourage bring a card
have people fill out with the US with the code here. I think that's pretty much it
for me. Okay. Any items from members other
you guys kind of set everything I I I really want to thank. >> Well I was going to think
Edgar Varela and his team but summer concerts have been awesome and actors gang always
always always yeah I get to see a lot of the performing art grant recipients and they never
disappoint and it was really fun being part of the hug activation.
I know you already talked about it but I think that it was, you know, out of love and support
for Victoria that I was like I'll sign up and it was a little uncomfortable at first
but it actually was it turned out really cool and I if you didn't see it I'm sure there'll
be something for you to see And I did want to thank security and the superintendent for
promoting really all of our events when they but I send it to them when they think it's
appropriate they pass it along which I think it's great. Yeah And I think I sort of yeah
. >> Thank you. Just to note that both of
Victoria Mark's videos which was brought up at the last meeting are now on our website
and on our YouTube channel. So that was something that did happen in the last week.
Shauna Yeah so I did have a call with and regarding the cultural plan so I did do that
and just want to echo Heather Commissioner Moses's statements about the summer concert series
truly amazing And then the hug activation and again just I was thrilled to witness that and
really excited to see more of what is going to come from our artist laureate, what else we
have a couple of great shows going on in the city right now .
Okay. And K Gallery has had a small opening this past week.
I also went to a really wonderful Activation Helms Bakery on the weekend the
Italian festival. But you know they actually activated one of the spaces
into this very cool gallery. And Sally I think you made a great post about that.
And last but not least I'm excited about she has to coming up and seeing all the
performances so thank you Wrapping up summer exciting Tanya Yeah well we live in this
wonderful community and we all go to the same events because we're such a wonderful
community. >> So yes, I went to the actors game last weekend and the
weekend before because my daughter was visiting this past weekend and even though she's
25 she wanted to go so it was wonderful as always I was at the very first one I think was
King Lear like 17 years ago. So it's a tradition in my family, a tradition in Culver
City and I've known Adam for a very long time and seen him grow with the program as well.
>> I've been to all the summer concert series really great this year and I encourage
everyone to come out to the last one on Thursday which is Tatyana Tate.
She's a fantastic jazz artist Jazz drummer sorry, jazz trumpet player.
So so I'm hoping for a great enthusiastic audience to come out before we all have to
return back to school and back to serious work in the fall of and the Vienna Festival.
Yes, Heather and I worked really hard on that on the programing.
So if you can go and take a listen to some of the great bands that we found and we were
just so impressed with all the talent and I think we that Jill came up with a great lineup for
both days plus Friday nights. So try to attend those That would be great.
You know in between Beers sessions I guess And I'll tell you a little bit about the
music in the Chambers which is coming up October 18th We have brought on the Faber and
Quartet which is this incredible up and coming young string quartet.
They were formed in 2022 I believe. And in fact the cellist is
somebody who was in Sikora as well because as you may know it's a very small you know six
degrees of separation is way too much in the music world And she is one of the best cellists
we have here. So anyway, they're all fantastic musicians.
I had the opportunity to hear them just a couple of weeks ago and they are really an
incredible group. They're storming the international scene and we're
bringing them here to Culver City for a free concert. So we're very excited about
that. >> They're still working on the program a little bit but their
specialty is the the music Oh, sorry. I'll be a little bit nerdy here
of the second Viennese school but they will be performing probably none of that music.
I'd rather stick to the first Viennese school and maybe some some favorites of the chamber
music literature. So I hope you'll all come to that on October 18th.
We'll have more information about that and hopefully some social media coming out about
that as well. >> And thanks to the Music Guild for working with us and
for helping to secure this incredible ensemble. So it's bringing this extremely
high quality chamber music to Culver City And that's it for me.
>> Thanks. Right With them Would you like to?
>> Yeah. So you been out of town A little bit back and forth but
yeah I did. I was able to stop by the game the the actors gang I was able
to stop by that And the wonderful thing about the actors gang is that not only is
it the performances but they actually take the students and use them as volunteers.
So it's so wonderful to have all the students that are interested in the arts even if
they you know, they normally perform. I think regularly there.
But even if they're not performing they're participating in their learning
. >> So it's a wonderful thing. The Actors Gang is such a great
group and then to echo everybody's sentiment about the festival, the Iona phenomenal
again having kids in the community, seeing them running around watching the
performances Actually my my kids actually had performed I think last year the year before
as well. >> All the performances are wonderful so really enjoy for
us a lot down and excited I will be back so excited for that.
One thing I did want to mention I don't I think people here have been in it but I was in
the leadership chorus in the cohort and this last year and they are accepting applications
. It's a phenomenal group How I met Hope and you know teaches a
lot about really in depth in terms of what's going on here in Culver City And one of the
main reasons that I applied to do this so very exciting and they are exceptional.
>> Can you give us a little bit of background about leadership Culver City like what it is and
what the program entails? >> Yes. So so the program it's about a
six month program. They have an event a month It's on Fridays And again every
session goes into in depth about something about Culver City whether it's
transportation, whether it's about the education you actually get to go to the
facilities and whatnot. So it's it's a very good education in terms of
everything that's going on here in Culver City And that's how I met Hope because she came and
presented the history of Culver City. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah And then
and so the group they take about 24 people and I and I think you know over over 80 or
100 people generally apply and they break that group up And so the 24 they break them up into
about groups of five And each of the groups are actually set to do some sort of community
engagement. So our community engagement was that we actually had hope come
and give a presentation at three taps. So we had we invited the
community out. She gave a presentation. It was on a Sunday afternoon as
a beautiful afternoon And so it's a way of bringing the community educating the
community actually. And then we brought a little bit of finance to hopefully to
the historical society hopefully and as well to a business to a local business.
So that's our leadership. Culver City So yeah they are accepting applications now so
so people should apply. >> Heather mentioned this on the way in the Culver City
Education Foundation had a phenomenal year last year, raised about $1 million about
600,000 a little over 600,000 of that went to programs in US .
The again, the Culver City Education Foundation raises money for the arts STEM and
student wellness when they're big events is a taste of Culver City But yeah so so through the
annual campaign through smaller campaign and to the taste of Culver City they raise about $1
million this this past year So very exciting career city needs it the students needed arts
needed so it's a wonderful thing to be a part of that And you can always donate you know
go there and you can always donate there. >> Last but not least, I didn't
get the chance to say it when Adam was here but Adam and Otis are doing a phenomenal job.
It is so great to see them not only be so dedicated to this community that they're new to
but be so visible and be so accessible. >> You know it is amazing that
the community outreach that they're doing and being able to actually get input from the
community in some of the decisions that are being made and so it's just great to have
them here. And you know, I really I really wanted to say it and I didn't
when he was here but really appreciate them And that's it And I hope and thank you and
thank you. >> That's it. So sorry I forgot to say
something about the survey. Do you think we could I know you did a post sadly with the
mayor but I'm wondering if maybe we could have another social media post about the
survey and have it be all over, you know, Facebook and wherever there was to this week There
were two this week and we have 15 that will be you know, at least 15 more So you'll be
seeing this I did not see it any other Yeah. Yeah.
Okay. So that's my bad. I'm sorry about that.
Yeah. Okay. Don't worry.
We're firing at lots of different channels. >> It'll come up in multiple
ways both on social media and through e blasts Very just come out through an E glass.
Not yet. That'll be That's why I missed it.
Yeah. Yeah. That will come out probably
next week. Yeah in some ways as well Those will reach people who might
actually click on it rather than on independence Instagram. >> Okay Thank you.
Okay. Well I also went to the summer concert series two weeks in a
row. I was very impressed by the numbers there although as you
probably wanted even more people there, I don't really know where they would fit.
>> Yes, people were like up to the sidewalks and I was I was really excited to see the level
of enthusiasm and engagement with the community. I enjoyed it from the comfort
of the patio at the Culver Hotel alongside there a few nights.
>> Yeah it was great. It was it was really really great.
I have a question Is the Actors gang show is this the two gentlemen's one that we're
talking about? >> Okay. So I still do have a chance to
see it. >> Okay. But it does get very crowded
the final weekend but then for the first time they're going to Burbank at the end of the month
which is really exciting for them as well. So they're going to be
performing in Burbank at the end of the month. >> Oh, okay.
Interesting. Cool. Well yeah, I think that's it.
From me to Culver City Arts Foundation did have a meeting but it was just a potluck and
not much I think agenda wise happened But they have a lot going on behind the scenes that
I will be updating the group on as it kind of comes to fruition And yeah thank you so much
everybody for sharing all the happenings around the city. >> Cool.
If we have nothing else on the agenda we can adjourn Somebody like to make a motion to
adjourn so please come sign on your way out. >> Yes but you know it.
Mind taking a second for a photograph to now that we've got all five of you and I just
want to wish 6 USD of good first day of school tomorrow afternoon.
Okay, We will move over to you guys. We have an adjournment Didn't
that I hope I hope we haven't adjourned yet. Oh, we haven't adjourned yet.
>> Give me a minute. Hold on. Hold on it.
>> Okay. Moved moved by Vice Chair Gupta and seconded by chair Scally to
adjourn the meeting. Okay. Please vote on your screens Or
if not I'll call you out. Commissioner Fischer, how do you vote?
Yes. Okay. All members have voted and the
motion passes. >> Thank you. Okay.
Hope you can go. All right