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Hey.
Good afternoon, evening.
Welcome to this evening's Windsor Public Art Advocacy
Commission meeting.
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Welcome to the Windsor Public Art Advisory Commission meeting
for Wednesday, July 22.
We are convening at 5:00 PM at the Windsor Civic Center Council
Chambers, located at 9291 Old Redwood Highway, Building 400,
in Windsor.
I'm going to officially call the meeting to order.
Commission roll call, please.
Commissioner Pollard is absent.
Commissioner Ratliff is absent.
Commissioner Tacconi?
Present.
Commissioner Wall is absent.
Commissioner Reynoza?
Present.
Commissioner Rosales is absent.
Youth Commissioner Fuentes is absent.
Youth Commissioner Thompson?
Present.
Vice Chair Zaleski?
Here.
And Chair Robertson?
Present.
We have a quorum.
Now we'll do the Pledge of Allegiance.
Vice Chair Reynoza-- not Vice Chair.
Commissioner Reynoza, will you please lead
in the Pledge of Allegiance?
Please stand.
Begin.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands.
One nation under God, indivisible,
with liberty and justice for all.
Please be seated.
Do you have any changes to the agenda?
There are no changes this evening, Chair.
And starting with presentations, we
do have outgoing youth commissioners.
We do.
Thank you, Chair.
Nelle Herman, Recreation Division Manager.
And thank you so much for joining us, Youth Commissioner
Thompson.
I have a couple certificates.
We don't have Commissioner Fuentes here this evening,
but I did just want to recognize the both of you
for joining us this year on the commission
and providing feedback and insightful thoughts
and opinions on all of the things
that we did see come before us on the commission.
So we have a certificate here for you.
And also, if you know of any other youth in this community
who you think might be a good fit moving forward
on this commission, in future years,
please recommend them and/or tell them to check our website,
because we do often have opportunities for high school
students in our community.
Thank you so much.
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Thank you.
Thank you so much for your service.
We really do appreciate the youth
in our community, especially their insight
about what the arts means to them and to their peers.
Because as adults, we sometimes think
we know what our youth need and we can often offer suggestions,
but often they surprise us.
You folks surprise us because you really have the pulse,
and you know about what's up and coming and exciting and changing
in the world of the arts, for our community and beyond.
So thank you so much.
And one other thing I wanted to add too.
I think that you mentioned that you did get the opportunity
to participate in the artwork for the youth banners, which
is very cool.
So yeah, I'm very happy that you were able to do that.
And then you'll get to see some of the workup.
Those will be going up soon.
I want toi also thank Fionah.
She came out and helped us out a little bit at Cali Calmecac--
Oh, good.
--with our design project.
And that was really fun to see her interacting with our younger
students as well.
Wow.
That's great.
And now we have our announcements.
We're going to just do a around the table.
Let's start with Commissioner Tacconi.
We have a lot of them this evening.
Summer Nights on the Green Concert series
continues with Thursday Night, July 23 at the Town Green.
The band is Sacred Fire.
I think they're a Santana tribute band.
They're very good.
Farmers Market starts at 5:00.
Concert begins at 6:00.
Volunteer Day, Saturday, July 25 from 9:00 to 11:00.
[INAUDIBLE] Join your neighbors and help unify our community.
For details and RSVP, contact Parks and Rec, 707-838-1267.
The family movies.
On Tuesday, July 28, there's going
to be family movies on the Green.
The movie is The Goonies.
It's just PG.
It's a new LED screen and it begins at 7:00 PM.
Movies continue on Tuesday nights on the Town Green
through August 4.
Garden tours and small tool swap--
Saturday, August 1, 2026 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM,
Windsor Community Garden, 9291 Old Redwood Highway at Joe
Rodota Drive at Windsor Road, led by nonprofit Windsor Garden
Club.
This tour will showcase different gardening options
available to the community members, natural pest
control in the best hope of pollinator garden.
Garden tour snacks and non-motorized garden tool swap.
Tuesday, August 4, 2026, we have National Night Out from 6:00
to 8:00 PM on the Town Green Market Street,
presented by the Windsor Police Department.
This free, family friendly event features emergency vehicles--
get to touch that truck--
games and safety information from first responders
and local resources.
Native plant seed propagation is Saturday,
September 19 from 10:30 to noon at the Windsor Regional Library.
In this workshop, participants will learn from Habitat Corridor
Project many different strategies and techniques
for propagating native plants so that they may
start their own home nurseries.
Windsor Day Parade is on Saturday, September 26.
The theme of the parade is Fly Me to the Moon.
The parade begins at 10:00 AM.
The entries are due by [AUDIO OUT].
For entry into the parade and parade details,
please visit kiwaniswindsor.org.
Sunday, Farmers Market.
Every Sunday through December 6 from 9:00 AM to 12:30 PM,
there's going to be a Farmers Market on the Town Green.
Thank you.
Do we have any conflict of interest this evening?
No.
At this time, any members of the public
wishing to address the Commission on any item not
listed on the agenda may do so.
Pursuant to the Brown Act, the Commission
is not allowed to consider issues or take action
on any item not listed on the agenda during this period.
Each public comment is normally restricted
to three minutes in length.
And we do not have any members of the public here this evening.
Regular calendar items.
Those matters requiring discussion and/or action
by the Commission will be heard at this time.
Regular calendar items will be taken up
and acted upon separately.
First one we have is our approval of minutes.
By motion, we're going to approve
the minutes of April 22, 2026.
And we've all received a draft of those minutes in our packets
this evening.
So do I have a motion for the approval of the April 22, 2026?
Sure.
I have a motion to approve the minutes.
Do I have a second?
I second that motion.
All in favor.
Aye.
Any not in favor?
Motion carries.
And item 9.2, Commission work plan and meeting schedule.
Thank you, Chair, Nelle Herman, Recreation Division Manager.
I am here this evening to share with the Commission
the work plan and a proposed meeting schedule
for the next six months.
You have seen this before.
We did go through this practice in January,
but I wanted to revisit with you.
And so we could review what we've got coming up.
I'm sorry.
It's a little bit blurry, folks.
I'm sorry about that.
So to give everybody a little bit
of background, the Public Art Advisory Commission,
or as what I'll call it this evening,
the Commission uses a work plan as a working document
to help track projects and create your budget.
All of these funds used for public art
are held in a public art special revenue fund.
These funds are dedicated to the acquisition, installation,
lease, and maintenance of public art through the commission.
There's not a specific stream of public art funding.
All of the budget is supported by the town's general fund,
unless a specific grant is sought after and awarded.
The town budget was adopted on June 16, 2025.
And due to budget cuts in every town department,
not every item submitted through the Public Art Advisory
Commission budget was funded.
We've updated this work plan to show our actual expenses
for the '25/'26 fiscal year.
You can see here there's three columns on the left-hand side.
The first green one is the budget that was approved
for '25/'26, which we just finished out that year in June.
But right next to that was what was proposed by the Commission.
So you can see that we really did have to make some cuts.
And what you see on the actual expenses is what we spent.
Now if the Commission remembers, at the top there,
you can see you have $5,000 for the Annual Mural Program.
But the Commission did decide that our utility boxes were
in really good shape, and we were still waiting
for the Caltrans box approval.
And so we didn't move forward with that $5,000 in this last
fiscal year.
The next item there on the actual expenses is the $2,133
spent.
That SMART Station installation is our photo contest.
So that was the printing of the photos
that the commission recommended to council.
Council actually approved that.
We printed those photos and we hung those
along the SMART Station fence.
And then the next item you see is the $2,500 that was spent.
This was for the Bruce Johnson sculpture lease payment.
And then right above that, you can
see the youth banners is crossed out.
We rolled that forward into this year.
We're actually still waiting for our third quote
on printing of those banners.
We have to collect three quotes.
So we've rolled that forward into this current fiscal year
that we're in, and we're going to have
that project done this year.
And let's see.
Down below, you can see annual project total-- so the total,
$4,633.
And then you see $3,689.
That was site improvements.
So that was site improvements to Big Joe.
We actually had to install some lights there, according
to that contract that we have.
And then the $4,947, that was other expenses.
We had some legal fees associated with the contract
that we did for the Bruce Johnson sculpture
and also the contract or agreement
that we did with LBC for that sculpture that just went up.
And you can see there, the $13,268 is the total
of the $30,000.
So during these hard times, it really is nice to keep it tight
and show some savings.
And I can see that we did that here.
And those are the dollars we closed in June fiscal year.
Yeah.
OK.
Great.
And then moving forward to this fiscal year,
you can see that we do have the $5,000 for the murals
and utility boxes.
And that would be for a new project.
And then we have the $8,000, like I mentioned,
for the youth banners and then the $3,500 for the lease
payment.
Sorry, moving back up.
I missed something too, the SMART Station.
We have $2,500 for more photo contests.
And so you'll see on this next page, this tentative plan.
So for this plan, staff is suggesting-- of course,
we have our meeting today, August's
proposing to be canceled.
And then September 23rd, we will be bringing an update
on the financial sustainability work that this Commission was
invited to, a workshop back in May.
And so we'll have an update in the form of a report
out to the Commission, as well as
a report to the Commission to plan for utility box painting
or Connex box murals, which I know
has been a topic of discussion.
So staff's going to pull together
some ideas for the Commission and some timelines,
and present it in September.
And then staff's proposing that October be canceled,
and then a special meeting be called in November.
That normal day and time for November
is the Wednesday before Thanksgiving.
We weren't sure about the availability,
so we do have a couple meeting dates to propose
to the Commission this evening, and then the December meeting
canceled.
If the Commission recalls, we would usually
cancel December and reschedule November,
and do a special meeting and combine those.
I think our regular meeting day in December falls right after
Christmas or right around there, in between Christmas and New
Year's.
So the special meeting dates that we do have--
so there won't be any motion or anything on this.
We just want to present this to you.
We're not canceling these meetings right now
as we approach this date.
We will reach out to the Commission
and confirm the meeting, whether it's officially canceled.
But because these meetings are set by resolution,
we can't change the schedule completely.
But we do have two dates for the Commission
to consider and let us know what works
best for the special November meeting.
And that is Monday, November 9 at 5:00 PM or Thursday the 12th
at 5:00 PM.
And I'm sorry.
If the Commission has any questions for me,
that is the end of this report.
And then you can discuss that.
The 12th is a Saturday.
By looking at the calendar--
Thursday the 12th.
--I see--
That's September.
Look at November.
Oh, November.
Excuse me.
I do have a question.
Can you go back to the--
Yeah, I sure can.
Is this the sculptor loan payment?
Who's that to?
That one, it's the big brown one over here.
That is the Bruce Johnson sculpture.
It's called the offering.
It's right at the Oliver's roundabout.
Does that have an end date?
Are they going to take it back or are they
going to loan it to us permanently after this?
Did we make any agreement with them?
I don't think we have.
I don't think.
He died.
I know.
We do have an agreement.
The de-installation fees for that sculpture
are higher than the annual lease fees.
So it is something to consider, but let
me pull up that agreement.
A moment.
As she's doing that, can I ask a quick question?
I noticed by the freeway entrance
at the Downtown freeway entrance,
there's someone painting a mural on one of the boxes.
They were painting?
Yes.
That's in my updates tonight.
Oh, boy.
Good.
OK.
Hopeful we got approval.
That's why I was like, oh, they got the approval?
For a year ago.
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I was like, I didn't know if that was one of the Connex.
But with a recent we got, like, oh, did the Caltrans go through?
Are there any other questions while Katie's pulling up
that lease agreement?
What's one of the agreements?
They had to redo the agreement because he passed away.
And then it went into a trust.
And so they had to go and negotiate that one.
So over the last couple of years,
the entity has changed from the artist Bruce Johnson,
after his passing, to the Bruce Johnson Family Trust.
And then they have since also now established
Bruce Johnson sculpture.
So our current agreement is with Bruce Johnson sculpture.
And the new end date is June of 2030.
Oh.
But we still have to pay the annual fee, right?
Yeah.
OK.
Or not.
Does it say the fee in there, Katie?
There is a $2,500 a year.
And if there is a year where there is cleaning,
because occasionally the sculpture does have
to be cleaned, then the artist can invoice us up
to $500 per year.
Any other questions?
And then I guess if I could get some input
on the special meeting date, if that works for the Commission
or which one works better.
This point earlier in the month would be better than later
in the month.
November 12?
November 9 would be better.
Either for me.
I can do either, but I would prefer the 9th.
I'm fine with a Monday, so, OK.
Well, thank you so much.
We don't need to vote on that?
It's OK.
At this point, we have 10.1.
We have individual commissioner reports and comments.
Does anybody have any comments or reports at this point?
I do.
Tacconi.
Yeah.
I handed out earlier at the beginning of the meeting.
Last June, we had Art at the Source.
Two artists in Windsor were participants,
and they were in the catalog.
There were signs up around town, not very many of them,
so people couldn't really find anybody.
But it was a much smaller turnout
than it has been in years past for the town of Windsor.
There's more artists than actually showed,
or they joined with other galleries that were more popular
in other locations.
So that was the only thing that I wanted to point out
was a bummer for the people that participated.
Because they really want the community
to come to see real professional art in their studios.
And it's really thrilling for the artists and the community
to participate.
The next one of these is going to be art trails.
It's in October, the first two weekends in October.
I will be participating, but because of the lack of turnout
and I had it in my backyard, I'm moving mine
to a gallery in Petaluma.
Mhm.
I know.
And I can't risk the rain either,
because I don't have a space inside to do it.
Oh.
But we're at a disadvantage up here in Windsor.
Nobody really comes.
And I don't know what Tara's doing.
Tara has a little gallery in her, kind of, backoff room.
What about the space in [? Railey's? ?] Is that
currently in use?
No.
They moved out.
I wonder if that would be a space for our Windsor art trail
space.
That would be really nice if we had a space.
That was just a thought.
I mean, I wonder if that's somewhere that could--
Even the gym here.
No, but I'm wondering if that particular space
could be used for multiple artists at art trails.
That would be worth looking into.
This sounds like a future.
Yeah.
Our Commission would be the one that would help promote that.
Yeah, I'm wondering.
Because I just noticed that once people found me and got there,
they really enjoyed the art and the being in a part of it.
But it was difficult to find me.
And it was also--
Tara and I were the only ones here.
Well, I think also, if there was a dedicated Windsor space,
it might get more artists.
What are the dates for the October [INAUDIBLE]?
It's the first two weekends in October.
Let me look.
It would be the 3rd and 4th, and 10th and 11th.
Right now I'm set up to be in Petaluma
because I'll be in a real gallery,
but that all can be changed.
That's definitely worth having the Commission look into.
And then other than that, is anything coming up
that might be interesting to you?
There's a really cool metal art show in Petaluma that's opening
on the 23rd, which is tomorrow night.
And it's through the whole month.
And there's some local artists, some friends of mine
that are in that show.
And it's worth going to.
It's going to be cool.
That's all I got.
I applied for an arts apprenticeship for the summer
and I was accepted into it.
I've done various things.
I've made stepping stones for people to buy.
I recently finished a mural of a design of a building
on their backyard, which is 6 feet tall by three feet, which
is one of the biggest ones I've done personally.
And then everyone in the apprenticeship
is working on roses, to put on the fence facing the police
station for the roses.
Oh, really.
I forget how many roses there are total,
but the smallest ones are 3 by 3 feet,
and the biggest ones are 5 by 5 feet.
And it's going to go all along the fence there.
So we've been painting roses every day for the past three
weeks now.
Which police station, in Santa Rosa?
In Santa Rosa Police Station.
Oh, that's fantastic.
Congratulations.
Thank you.
This is a good time for a personal update that will affect
my seat on the Commission.
Yes.
OK, this will be my last day.
Not because I don't want to be here, but I am moving to Mexico.
Wow.
August 11, I will be starting my trip down there
to start the move and finish it by August 22.
I'll be making two trips back and forth.
I'm in talks with Angela [? Blum ?]
down there, who is the owner of the Palomas Art Gallery.
And we're in talks of doing an artist residency
and how that would work out for me down there.
So it's really exciting.
It was a choice that my husband and I
decided to make after my son decided to join the Marines.
Oh, wow.
I needed a life change so that I could live with that decision.
But anyways, it's happening really fast.
Wow.
Our condo has been sold.
What city?
Just 40 minutes south of Guadalajara.
It's called Ajijic.
It's on the Lake Chapala.
A-J-I-J-I-C.
A-J-I-J-I-C. So we're going to have to come a long way
for your gallery show.
Yes.
I mean, it's something I'm really looking forward to,
a new adventure in life at this point in my life.
So I can't wait.
Wow.
That's an adventure.
That's really cool.
Wonderful.
It's really, really cool.
Thank you.
I'm really excited.
I will miss you all, though.
And I'm going to be coming back to Santa Rosa area
probably once every two to three months for a few days.
So I will be back.
And if there's a meeting at that time,
I'll be peeping and just join the--
Public comment.
Yeah, the public comment section.
Let us know if there's a way for us to follow your adventures.
Absolutely.
Certainly.
Instagram or any kind of blog or whatever.
I am on Instagram.
I pretty much just post my work on there.
But since I'm going to be putting that aside
for at least the next three months
before I set up my new studio--
I'm not much to post a lot of personal information
on social media.
But I may just do a little bit just to--
To tell people where you're at.
Exactly.
Show off the new place.
I'll have to find a new vice chair.
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Good luck.
There's lots of wonderful people on this Commission, so yeah.
We have a very active local community.
For sure, definitely.
I know that Vice Chair Zaleski has been a wonderful addition.
So thank you so much.
I appreciate that so much.
I've enjoyed it immensely, honestly.
And we also had--
your son was on our Commission for a time.
So we'll be thinking wonderful things about him as well.
Thank you.
As he becomes a Marine.
And we're hoping for his safety as a Marine.
Thank you.
Yes, thank you for saying that because also, I'm
doing that same thing.
Tell him we wish him well, OK?
I will.
We do.
We really liked him.
So much.
So summer is the quiet time as an art educator.
Busy for me personally, but it's when
I practice everything and see what I want to do for next year
and build my own skills.
But since the last meeting, we finished up our pilot
of our Cali design challenge.
We went through the entire cycle of starting out from iteration
and thinking about, what could we
do to improve our Cali campus?
Students went through the empathy phase
of interviewing people and finding out the best
way to make Cali art and community more
visible on campus.
Students designed prototypes both through measurement,
photography, sketching, and then digital prototypes
as well using concept art, using AI.
They created proposals that they then presented
to a panel of community members and got feedback.
And then they worked with the Caleb McPhail
from the high school, who is the construction
teacher at the high school.
And students work, both students who are
in the program or designers.
But we also had students who just
came on for the construction phase, who
helped build the students' projects that they had imagined.
And so each of the projects was built. One of them
has been installed in the upper campus.
Students built a trellis and bench,
and then they painted a mural.
Most of the mural is complete.
There's a little detail to be added in.
One of our students, they did a mural.
Unfortunately, the mural, for whatever reason,
in that same conditions, that particular mural
decided to warp.
Oh.
And so we are going to start over in the fall,
but not as a mural.
We realized what we actually want
is vinyl to be placed onto a whiteboard,
because the student's vision is actually something that
can have magnets placed on it.
So we had a whiteboard donated, and we have in our budget
to have the student's artwork printed onto vinyl.
So we're going to have that done,
and that's going to be then mounted in the preschool and TK
yard.
And another one was students created a rainbow mural
and they built a bench.
And so those two things are going
to be installed in the fall.
But what was so exciting was every single part of it,
we as adults got to be the guides on the side.
We were the thinking partners.
We were not the lead designers.
We were not the lead of any part of it.
Everything came from the students.
When the students wanted to create,
we'd say, OK, well, what's your thought here?
Or we'd ask questions like, OK, well, how big is that?
Well, let's go look at that.
Is that really how tall you think it is.
I'm this tall.
How tall do you think that actually is?
A student said, well, I think I want this to be 13 feet tall.
And I said, well, how tall are you?
Let's think about how tall is the preschooler.
Let's talk about that.
It was really good.
It was good, actual design thinking,
that really good critical thinking.
We also brought in high schoolers
to work with students as well, side by side.
I think probably for me, the most exciting thing
was we became what was called cool detention.
Was we brought in students who, when they finished
the first hour of their school detention
for whatever they had done that they had earned detention,
they could come over and help with the design projects
as construction people.
Students, after that, were asking to come.
They said, well, I finished detention,
but can I stay for two more hours?
I love this.
And I had kids running up to me all week long asking,
when is that next building thing?
It is so cool.
Where is that cool guy who builds stuff?
Can I build with him?
And we got kids who felt disenfranchised,
who, because of this project, felt excited.
We put every single kid who participated,
even if they participated for 20 minutes on this project--
we put their names at open house.
And they were running up to it and showing their parents
that there's my name.
I did something with this.
So as a result, the program is going
to be not in this exact iteration,
but it's going to be expanded into a full-time class
for sixth graders in the fall.
Fun.
It's really, really exciting.
Go ahead, Fionah.
I also forgot to mention that I'm
going to be the president of my art club at the high school
next year.
Oh, that's great.
So if you ever need help getting more volunteers
or you just want to see what I'm up to, you can email me,
and I can send some people your way and come help--
Are you senior next year?
I'm going to be a senior next year.
You do senior project?
I am going to do one, but I'm not sure what it is yet.
OK.
I was the judge or one of the consultants for the last two
years, so if you need me again.
Actually, we're going to need you.
Sure, we can get art club in at Cali.
Oh, yeah.
There's tons of stuff going on at all times.
But no, it was just-- to me, the reason
why I talked about it so much at this
is because it was really exactly what this Commission is about.
It's combining our community, industry, and education.
And it was just a beautiful thing
that we're looking to continue at Cali
and really make a big part of our mission.
And just onward is what this is all about.
And then at this point, we have our--
do we have any requests for future agenda items?
I think we had one.
Oh, we did have one.
I'd like to put on agenda discussing
the idea of having the rally space or another space here
in Windsor for our art trails or art source.
Yeah.
I think it's really good to bring art to the town
when we can and if we have a space.
Yeah, having a centralized space because sometimes people
don't get up here.
They don't know where to look.
There's a woman that does looming, you know,
and beautiful work.
She's showing someplace else too.
She lives across the highway.
And she just didn't have the room to show, so yeah.
[INAUDIBLE]
And we have lots of artists that maybe aren't
showing because of limitations.
There's a place that is welcoming.
Maybe they'll be.
We also have empty.
Yeah.
There's lots of ideas that we can bring to the table.
And the only bad thing is we have
to get a space agreed upon and loaned to the art trails
participants six months in advance,
because they have to print the catalogs with an address.
So that's the only weird thing.
If not this one, then the next.
Exactly.
We shoot for June.
I think it may be too late for October, actually,
because we already had to get our stuff in.
I had to make a quick decision on my space.
And so I think it's too late for October,
but I think it would be great for June next year.
It's a really good thing to look towards.
I think that's great.
I think it's great.
I think more artists would participate,
I really do, in town.
We got the word out.
Any others?
Go ahead and take advantage of me being here.
Can you hear me?
There we go.
So I love the murals.
I love all the murals.
I just would really like to see something dedicated
to the Chicanos in Windsor.
We have a very large population, especially
with our lowrider community.
I think it would be [AUDIO OUT].
Next few meetings, I'll get a location and start brainstorming
[AUDIO OUT].
I will say on that vein, it's really exciting
to see that that is definitely represented
in the photo contest, which is really cool.
I love that you brought that up, though, with the murals.
That's wonderful.
And at this point, we have a recreation division staff
report.
Thank you, Chair.
I do have a few updates for the Commission.
As you asked earlier, we have started.
We have one finished, actually.
And so there's a social media post going up
about our first Caltrans utility box that has been completed.
This project has been, I think, at least two years
in the making--
at least two years.
After the Commission recommended to council and council approved
it, we did the contest.
We brought in-- I can't remember how many artists, eight.
At least.
And they did all of their art.
You guys recommended council.
Council approved the art.
And then staff took on the challenge
of filling out and working with Caltrans,
filling out the application to get the permits.
That was what took the longest.
We really had to jump through so many hoops
and meet all of the requirements.
And then on top of that, because time passed,
we had to make sure all of our internal artist agreements
were staying valid.
We had to make sure that that budget kept rolling over
to stick with those agreements.
And the artists were still here.
And that the artists still were staying,
keeping in touch with them.
So Katie is going to send all of the Commission
the link to the video of that first utility box.
It looks really good.
It's very bright.
It's very, very colorful.
It'll definitely catch your eye as you're driving past.
It's up by the freeway.
Yes, it was at the--
The entrance, right, the on ramp?
Oh, really.
Oh, wow.
Yes.
And it's very modern.
It's the dancing one.
Yeah, graphic.
And I loved it because it's very youthful.
So that's the update on that and that they're
because the timeline got so messed up.
We're just letting the artists come to us
or we're keeping in touch with them,
but planning a time that works best for them.
Good.
Not keeping them restricted to just a month time frame.
So we're trying to be very flexible with that
so we can get as many done as we can.
Youth banners, I did already mention in the last report.
We are waiting for or searching actually
for another quote for those banners
so that we can pick one of those quotes
and move forward for printing.
And then we will do printing and then install them,
which I'm very excited.
Those are going to be a nice refresh to our banners
that hang from our light poles.
Are they all going to get replaced?
All of the section, so around the Town Green
and then down from the roundabout down
to the high school.
So that's all of them.
Right?
Mm-hmm.
Oh, that's great.
Is there a time frame that you expect
them to be done by, roughly?
I know how this stuff is.
It's hard to say because it depends
on if we go with-- depending on the quote that we go with
and if that's a local printer or not local,
and then if they have to be shipped.
And so there's so many different factors.
But as soon as we get them, I think that we'll get them up
pretty quickly.
We'll just have to schedule it with our parks crew, and yeah.
But we had a timeline.
But the timeline was June, and that passed really quickly.
Getting back to the utility boxes for a second,
how many do we have, eight total that are going to go in?
That's what I was saying.
I thought we had eight, but I think
it might be more artists than that.
It's been so long.
It's been a long time.
And we've done all of the other projects.
It's all the numbers melted together.
And there's a couple that aren't available anymore.
We went to college.
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They went away.
To get that full update, staff can update the Commission too
on that.
And then one other update, I'm not sure
if the commission recalls, but in May, you
were invited to participate in a workshop
with the recreation staff regarding our parks, programs,
and events.
In this workshop, we reviewed the topic
of financial sustainability through the lens of recreation.
And each individual participating
was asked to rank recreation service categories
and their level of benefit.
I think Carol participated--
on a community benefit level versus an individual benefit
level.
So we've been working on this over the last few months,
and we have tentatively scheduled to bring forward
a report to the Commission and then
on to council for this fall.
And so we'll have that ready for the Commission in September.
And it's interesting and informative.
It's very interesting.
And that is all my updates.
Cool.
Thank you very much.
Well, I know Carol and I have been here, Carol longer than me.
You've been here for the entire process of the Caltrans boxes.
I've been here for quite a bit of that process.
I mean, I almost pulled my car over.
I was so excited to see that Caltrans box.
I forgot that we were even waiting anymore.
But then I was like--
Oh, it's never going to happen.
It was with my 15 and 1/2 year old on the car.
I'm like, look, they're painting on the Caltrans box.
They're painting.
He's like, what?
So what?
Like, no, you don't see how exciting this is.
Oh my gosh, the regulation you have to jump through.
Oh my gosh.
I'm like, oh, it's a cool one.
Look.
No, very exciting.
Yay.
So for those of you--
if you're listening, my friends that painted the Caltrans box,
right on.
It's really exciting.
That's great.
So at this point, we're going to adjourn.
The next meeting of the Public Art Advisory Commission is
scheduled for August 26, 2026 at 5:00 PM in the Civic Center
Council Chambers, located at 9291 Old Redwood Highway
Building 400 in Windsor.
We adjourn.
Have a nice evening.
Thank you.
Nice to see you.
Thank you.
This space over here in the lobby,
I work with a lot of the art teachers.
I got to come see you.