Bangor Cultural Commission approves doubled grant budget, plans Arts Strategy RFP

[0:22] Jennifer Snow: All right. Great. Good morning, everybody. Sorry that I am remote again this morning. I will be there in September. And also, advance apologies that I have to run at 8.10 today. Day, so at that time we're going to switch over and Kelly as vice chair is going to finish up the meeting. I want to say thank you very much. We've talked about it before, so I appreciate that very much. All the things always happen at the same time, though. I would like to propose switching around the agenda and pulling the staff updates to the start. Hopefully that means, I mean, I don't have much report. We can do the meeting minutes in a moment, but I just wanted to chat through that so that hopefully some of that can happen while I'm in the meeting, and then the Artober section, I know Sunday has quite a few updates, and so those can happen when I'm off the call. So I think those will be slightly more straightforward since we've done it before for. Don't think we need a vote on me changing around the agenda. Great. Cool. Meeting minutes. Does anybody have questions on the July meeting minutes? Cool. Can I get a motion? [1:57] Kelly Chenot: Motion to approve the July meeting minutes. Great. All in favor? Thanks, [2:12] Jennifer Snow: everybody. I don't have anything to report. We'll skip that. Let's do spend a couple minutes on the financial report, because we didn't know this yet totally officially in July, but our budget has been updated, and I am very, excited that our grants budget has been doubled for this next season next year right yes let's take a moment to celebrate that because it's a fantastic achievement and I'm really pumped about it. So I would like the grants committee, obviously not today, but the grants committee to think about how we may want to, if we want to make any adjustments into the fall cycle and whether we may want to increase the amounts organizations and individuals or one of those two can apply for. I do think this gives us at the very least the option to fully fund a lot of our applicants, hopefully all of them, which would be great. So we may not want to increase it very much, but something for the grants committee to consider before our next meeting or as we go into fall. Does anybody have any questions about the financial report? There's a whole lot of financial information in the packet. Any questions about any of that? Do we know why they doubled the budget? Because we asked for it. [3:44] Speaker C (unidentified): Oh, sorry, I said you did an excellent job advocating for us and showing that we weren't [3:50] Jennifer Snow: able to fully fund grants thank you they haven't yeah yes big props to ann because without ann none of this would happen they haven't increased our budget in many years and so we have been asking for several years for an increase and this year luckily the tiff adjustment worked in our favor so we were able to dip into a different budget and that's where that increase came from any other finance questions no [4:31] Kelly Chenot: I definitely think that will, I'll send something out to get the grants committee together here in the next like two weeks so we can talk about that and figure out how we want to proceed and have that ready for the September meeting, since we'll need to get, if we're increasing the amount that people can apply for, we'll need to get that information out right away. Yeah, that [4:58] Jennifer Snow: sounds great, thank you. Staff updates? Yes. [5:08] Sundance Campbell: I just wanted to kind of start a discussion about the Pickering Square Park space. These, those kiosks are ready for shows, for what you want to put in there, so it would be good to come up with, you know, some kind of, I don't know, criteria or at least process of how you want to decide, you know, what to put in there and for how long. Is it like a quarterly thing or, you know, seasonal? I'm not sure, but it's, but they're ready to go, and what I was going to ask the commission, if it's okay, because it's going to take you a little while to get this moving along, and I know our stormwater group wanted to get some information out about, you know, storm water and the waterfront, and so I was wondering if we could put some of that in there just as, so that there's something there while you come up with the process, or, you know, or we can leave it as is until you get something in there. [6:27] Jennifer Snow: Great, thank you. I definitely think having the city fill those panels with something in the interim is a great idea. Hi friends, happy to have a little chat. I wonder if it makes sense to, not that I want to form a million committees or subcommittees, but I do wonder if it makes sense to build a small Pickering Square subcommittee, for, and ideally it would be someone with headed up who isn't currently heading up one of our existing committees. I know that this would make sense to fit under cultural assets, but the cultural assets committee is about to be quite busy with our strategic plan. And so this would be a great committee for maybe three people to head up to bring ideas and kind of start setting the strategy for this into the fall and then we can submit that way it's not we're not all 11 of us trying to make a decision together any thoughts about that i'm gonna assume that means everybody's in favor and someone who doesn't currently head up a committee will volunteer to head up this new pickering spirit committee i don't think we have to decide today though if someone is in the room virtually or they're in person who's interested in doing this. Obviously, heading up a committee doesn't mean you do all the work. It means you are the one who coordinates and brings people together, and happy to support as needed. [8:39] Sundance Campbell: We are the keeper of the keys in our department, so we have the keys to open those up. So we, you know, working with Public Works maybe if necessary, whatever items you wanted in there. Because that will make a big difference in how things are organized. You can't change things every week. Yeah, I still think that's realistic. Right. And you could work with the art programs at the different schools, colleges, maybe that's more for spring after they've had the full school year of their artwork. And then I read somewhere about some moisture. [9:34] Speaker C (unidentified): Yeah, I'm thinking I read that too, that they said there was some moisture getting through [9:38] Sundance Campbell: the foundation. A couple of them, yeah. Yeah. So when you're talking about art and laminating it, that's a whole different thing. It can be a whole different thing. Yeah. [9:51] Kelly Chenot: I'm sorry, could you guys speak up just a little bit? It's really hard to hear. [9:58] Sundance Campbell: I was, I had concerns about laminating the materials that go in the cases. That sometimes that could damage an artwork. It would be better not to always have to run. And then if you do, where does one run me? Yeah. Or maybe there's something we can put inside to look at. [10:30] Speaker E (unidentified): those little silica taps do they do they do anything you know you get a shoes or the drinking suck up the moisture could that be anything to keep the water out yeah maybe [10:40] Sundance Campbell: there's something else that we can do to them. So if you're out and about, you know, take a look at it. [10:46] Jennifer Snow: Maybe you can see what you think. I definitely think that's a very valid concern, and I think we should monitor it. If the city puts some stuff in there, we can pay attention to that over the next few months as we work on a plan of what our ideal kind of schedule and, you know, approach would be. I definitely don't want to put any artwork, original artwork, in there if there's any moisture concerns, both for damage from mold, for, you know, all the things. I don't know that the city, we don't have any budget for like making prints and laminating them of work, so I think that would be something to consider if there's maybe budget available from the city to do something like that. We'd have to get some cost estimates. I don't know if Print Bangor laminates, obviously they print, but that would be something the subcommittee could figure out. [11:46] Speaker E (unidentified): Bangor Sister Store Atlas Wraps definitely has a large laminate. Okay, yeah, that's true. [11:53] Sundance Campbell: Sorry, one [11:59] Jennifer Snow: more time. Could you all speak up in the room a little bit? It's hard to hear. [12:05] Speaker E (unidentified): We were just saying that Print Bangla is sometimes very far behind. [12:12] Jennifer Snow: Okay, that's good to know. [12:18] Sundance Campbell: Okay, so we'll go ahead and put some city information in there, and actually that is a good thought that if we put that in there, we can kind of see what happens when it rains in the fall or now and all that, so kind of see what happens, box. Okay, and then the other thing is beginning to, we're preparing a request for proposals for a consultant to work with you on a favorite arts and culture strategy, and I just wanted to kind of give you what is typical in a strategy document. It's very much akin to a planning strategy process for anything. You know, you sort of see what do we have right now, which has got cultural assets, and then, you know, going out to the public and talking about, you know, what, you know, what do you want to see for arts and culture in Bengal, you know, what are we missing, or what do you love about what we have right now, what's your favorite things to do and to see, so that, and then that kind of helps create that vision statement about where we want to go, and then working with a consultant coming up with some kind of goals and how do we get to those goals and what are the implementation steps that we have to do so yeah so we're finishing up that rp to get that posted probably in the next couple of weeks we are down a lot of staff in finance right now and they're the ones that host our keys so but we're working with other departments that can also post RFPs in the Google Office, so we'll be able to hopefully still get it out quickly. [14:19] Jennifer Snow: And do we get to see the RFP before it gets posted? [14:24] Sundance Campbell: Sure. I mean, it's gonna really follow these steps that I have in here in this memo, but yeah, there's no reason why I can't circulate that before it goes out. [14:39] Jennifer Snow: Great, thank you. I [14:48] Speaker C (unidentified): have a question for you Ann, so you had, you were at the sidewalk art festival and had the board, with all the things, yes I have it, and I'd love to see what the public [14:59] Sundance Campbell: said, but I will, I'll PDF that to everybody, yeah, it was great, it was, and it was a great day you know everybody was already out looking at you know local regional art you know in our downtown and so it was a great space to ask that question and people really got into it and I heard everything from bringing back roller derby to you know we need more a movie theater downtown yes all types of stuff so it was really good I'm looking at my schedule to go to the farmers market and do the same thing on a Sunday just kind of hang out and kind of see what people you know ask that same question what do you want for arts and culture in Bangor and see what see what people say I think I find during public outreach the more the most successful interactions I have are when I leave this building you know asking people to come to a meeting, it's pretty daunting for people. People are very busy. It can feel intimidating for people to get up at a meeting, and we don't want people to feel that way. So I find I get a lot better conversations going if I go to existing events where people already are. They're more apt to stop. You know, like we always are at the polls in November, and we'll do that again this year and this will be the question again you know the arts and culture question I was just so pleased when I arrived to see you and [16:55] Speaker C (unidentified): I mean the whole board was full I was just like wow this is great yeah it [17:01] Sundance Campbell: Is it was it was great because often you know we'll ask when they're asking questions about like the downtown streetscape design and you know which is a great project I'm so excited about doing that someday but you know a lot of people are a little bit more like you guys really need to you know that kind of stuff which is fine I mean that's why we're here is to hear that but it was so wild to have a day where everybody was like this is so great this is a great question and yeah I love that yeah So yeah I will I will get that to you I meant to bring it in. [17:37] Jennifer Snow: Does anybody have any questions about the strategy the RSP the process for working with consulting I [17:51] Speaker F (unidentified): Do and at what stage do you want the start forming the steering committee [17:56] Sundance Campbell: That you mentioned yeah that's a question for you folks like do you want to run this through the full commission at a regular at your meetings or do you want the subcommittee or cultural assets to be sort of the lead on that or do you want sort of a hybrid where we pull in some local stakeholders you know people in the arts community but also people who support the arts or purveyors of the arts you know how do you think you want to run that I [18:44] Jennifer Snow: Think I think it makes sense because given that we have a cultural asset committee and this kind of falls within that review I think it makes sense to instead of forming a separate new steering committee to have a cultural asset committee be that group I will say I do think it's a great idea to work with like to bring in some of the some other residents of Bangor and the ideas in your doc like downtown partnership and go beautiful someone else I think are great ideas so I don't know if Including other people means we have to make a new steering committee or if we can use the existing committee for that. [19:34] Sundance Campbell: I think you can use the existing cultural assets committee and then and then bring in you know bring in stakeholders on a regular basis you know to meetings or are as needed you know kind of come up with a list of people and people that are interested in being part of it and just inviting them you know to participate yeah that sounds good this [20:04] Jennifer Snow: Is again one of those things where the chair of the assets committee is not the person who is solely responsible for all of this work. This is a big project, and I do want everybody to be involved in this in whatever capacity you may have, and I know everybody has different amounts of capacity. But if you have not joined a committee yet this year, this is definitely a good one to join, and I will definitely be part of this also, and I'm excited for that. And on that note, I have to run, so I'm officially handing the meeting over to Kelly, and I will watch the recording of the rest of this meeting later, and I'm excited to hear the October updates. Thank you all, bye. Okay, [21:04] Speaker C (unidentified): I guess we go on and video reports. I don't know if you could hear me. I guess we'll go for the committee reports next. [21:18] Kelly Chenot: Next, Jen, do you have any report from the grant committee? Nope, no new updates, but I'm working on getting the email ready to send out so we can get our next meeting on the books. Thank [21:33] Speaker C (unidentified): you. Cultural? Oh, [21:37] Sundance Campbell: yeah, I spent some time online looking at the Bangor website and others and tried to make sense of what's already in place. It was very informative. Am I talking loud now? [21:55] Speaker F (unidentified): I think that the room just lacks some, you know, good audio for things like that. I'm [22:03] Sundance Campbell: just saying I spent some time online and looking up what's already in place for cultural assets, and there was also that the link to four different sites that were examples of implemented programs elsewhere, which was interesting. I'm not sure, I mean, there's just a lot of different decisions that need to be made, and clearly having a consultant to help lead the path, well, not lead the path, or once we've been defining some of the paths, having a consultant to help guide us would be really helpful. Any questions from anybody? [23:00] Speaker F (unidentified): So I don't know how many people are on the Zoom, but I just can't hear anything that's going on. Can you hear me? I mean, I can make you out a little bit. Yeah. [23:15] Kelly Chenot: Yeah, I had my volume, like, maxed out. It's still really hard to hear. [23:25] Speaker G (unidentified): I think that's more for speakers. I just changed the audio input. Did that change anything on y'all's end? [23:32] Speaker F (unidentified): Well, I can hear you really well. I can hear Kelly, like, barely, and then Cal not at all. So I think it's, you know, speaker volume probably. Like, the person speaking may need to articulate a little more. [23:43] Speaker H (unidentified): I don't know. I'm increasing our volume. No. [23:51] Speaker C (unidentified): Can you hear me now? Absolutely. Okay, Carol was saying that she's looked online at things that were already in place and looked at the examples from other cities, what they were doing, and that would be very helpful to have a consultant to work with because there's a lot of things to go through. I was going to bring up that I spoke when I went to the last Downtown Partnership meeting because I'm a liaison to that for this commission. I spoke with Monique because they already have like a website online that has a lot of cultural assets already in place for the city and that's kind of my job is to partner with them and if that's something that we can access through the city also i'm trying to find it here she had sent me a link to it so i could tell you what the name of it is you know because i think i was telling you about it 's a bangor culture and arts collective.com so they already kind of have a like collection of our assets for the city on there oh No, I didn't send it to a group, I can forward it to everybody if you want, but it's Bangor Culture and Arts Collective.com, Downtown Bangor Partnership, I think, so are they part of the city? The Downtown Partnership is a private organization outright, but it used to be part of the city's [25:51] Sundance Campbell: business yeah well that's it used to be the downtown manager as a position in the city yeah and then they went on their own to be a non-profit so they're separate from [26:04] Speaker H (unidentified): to have an arts and culture walking tour map that has street art, statues, sculptures, yeah. [26:11] Sundance Campbell: There's already a lot of stuff that's been developed, right? I don't, you know, hopefully we can, as Kelly said, mesh with something longer in the place rather than doing like, you know, so where do we start? And when I liked and listed eight steps, planning steps, can you hear me, Sundance? [26:59] Speaker F (unidentified): Yes, things got a lot better somehow, thank you. Okay, I turned up the volume. [27:06] Jennifer Snow: Do [27:11] Sundance Campbell: we do this as a as a subcommittee or do we start at the top for like a broad picture first? What are your thoughts? And to do the, to do the asset, the inventory itself, well, that's something that the consultant will be working with you. I'll say we can't really start until someone gets here, right? I mean, you, I mean, if you want to, you know, start it so that they have a base and they, so they're not spending all their time doing inventory work, you know, that definitely gives them more time to work on Strategies and goals and implementation. So I mean as much assembly as we can do will help, but I would think starting off with goals, what our goals are. I mean that's what they're going to want to know anyway, right? Seems like that would start the process. So that the things that a consultant will do, we won't rely on the consultant to do, is to fine tune things, but also update the inventory. Right. And the inventory is developed from what's already out there, or we don't have to start over. It's what's already out there. Sounds like there already is a decent inventory, so it would really be checking the information that we already have to make sure it's complete. Yeah, okay, so [28:53] Speaker C (unidentified): and we may need to update the city's web page with, oh thank you, with the with this information from them. We can kind of draw from what they already have from the last time. We should update the city webpage with that when we have the cultural assets. Yeah, I don't know who has access to that. It's through, so you guys would do that if we forward. Yep, okay. [29:22] Sundance Campbell: Guys, where do you think you want to start? Where should we start? Where is the like, how [29:30] Speaker H (unidentified): how are the cultural assets like inventoried right now from the city? Like is there like an Excel spreadsheet? Is there like a Word doc that just has a little? Awesome. Yeah, you know, I'm not [29:46] Sundance Campbell: sure where that webpage came from. I mean, it's sort of like it migrated from previous web pages over as we updated and did new websites with city, so I'm not sure, but I mean there's no reason [30:02] Speaker C (unidentified): why we can't find out and download, you know, the source document for it. So on our, yeah, on our web page, the commission's web page, there is interactive and Story Maps. There's a cultural asset survey map, and then there was a story map, and then Things to Do at Bangor story map. Those are what are already existing on our website for the city. Yeah, there's [30:32] Sundance Campbell: a mission statement from 2021. Right, and that'll be part of the discussion is that still, is that still the basic mission? Is that kind of a check-in? Does that kind of influences how you move forward with [30:51] Speaker H (unidentified): you know strategies and rules? Okay, I feel like the first step is to get everything in one place that we already have, right, and [31:03] Sundance Campbell: it's it's scattered. Yeah, from my from my investigation it's kind of scattered, and some of it's the city and some of it's the other group that Kelly mentioned, downtown partnership even. [31:22] Speaker H (unidentified): If it's like a Google Doc and a Google Sheet, that's like the document, like this is how the mission statement is, and then like a spreadsheet, that's like these are what the cultural assets are that we have, in some usable format for the consultant eventually, like maybe like name, description, you know, category, GPS coordinates, I too saw [31:45] Sundance Campbell: the need for a spreadsheet that any brands would give you a list of all the things, and then there would be, you know, an adjoining math or something that would show you, is so I just [32:00] Speaker C (unidentified): tried to log on to that, it says it's a retired item type and we can't get on to the cultural assets met at all, when we put on the cultural assets survey public view has been retired [32:12] Sundance Campbell: it says, and it's the replacement not available, okay, we'll find out what's going on, that's the Bangor being that of 48401 [32:25] Speaker C (unidentified): it was nothing there and it was for me, okay, I just can't do it, yeah, it doesn't like it, I didn't know that, but that's where it wasn't, any thoughts [32:39] Sundance Campbell: in particular moving forward, what are our first steps, I just support what you said, let's put everything together, see what we have, see what we're lacking [32:53] Speaker H (unidentified): and then move forward from there, I think it'd also be good to have a historical record of what we've, you know, like what the past mission statements have been as like a starting point, so this [33:06] Speaker C (unidentified): things to do in Bangor was the second link on there, you can get to that, and that does have that little kind of like mission statement, it does show like some things like the public art on monuments, like museums, galleries, like I think it does have cultural events, so very beginning kind of, now that doesn't really have a mission statement, but so we have like a [33:30] Speaker H (unidentified): like a Google Drive thing now, right, this happened while I was turning, but there's like a Google [33:42] Speaker C (unidentified): I don't know. Nina would know for a fact that you would know that, yes, it does exist. I know. [33:50] Sundance Campbell: I think there was a great action statement for the commission in January, like the cultural commission. Do we need a different one for the subcommittee, or are [33:59] Speaker H (unidentified): you talking about the food? For the strategic plan, they're asking for like an overarching [34:09] Sundance Campbell: Yeah, and there is a culture. I mean, you do have a sense of culture policy. I'm sorry. No,, no, it's okay. You do have an arts and culture policy, and part of the process of the strategic plan to, you know, it's like a typical planning process. You look at what you already have, which is the culture assets. assets and then you look at the policy that you have in place and say is this, you know, does this [34:38] Speaker F (unidentified): meet what we want to do our vision for the future and so maybe we just meet it as a as a cultural assets committee and start to kind of evaluate where we're at you know kind of I think what everybody's saying is kind of defined where we stand at the moment and realize you know just kind of realize what policies are already in place what our mission statement's been and do that through the committee does that sound right yeah I think that's a good approach yeah Cal definitely glad to be a part of that me too what's on the end so just letting you know I'm definitely glad to be a part of that committee and be helpful where I can thank [35:22] Speaker C (unidentified): you me too I think it's a very positive thing for the city of our I'm happy to help [35:29] Sundance Campbell: what kind of timeline are we looking at should we have a meeting before our next committee meeting or would be good to start assembling the inventory because when a consultant responds to the RFP, it's good for them to know what's already done. So they can kind of figure out, okay, where does their time need to be dedicated to? We want them to dedicate a lot of time to looking at the policy, looking at doing those visioning discussions with you about what you want for the future, and then coming up with implementation steps. They sometimes say they won't do inventory, but if we can, as much as we can assemble, it's just going to make that process still that smooth enough, because we're the way we have. Perfect. I'm just concerned that we have October coming up, but that's going to involve a lot of energy just right now so do we have energy to start this now or put it on for months yeah put it to September that's fine yeah for the end of the year let's make that a good long breeze I think we want to get started before that yeah and October is like [37:04] Speaker C (unidentified): first week in October so I mean yeah it's right around the corner yeah I think that will be [37:11] Sundance Campbell: Okay. So I'll plan to have a subcommittee meeting early October, early in the month of October. Okay. [37:21] Speaker F (unidentified): Can I ask a question? Number one is, since I don't participate on Zoom very often, should I be raising my hand or putting my hand up, or should I just bark in whenever I have a question? I don't want to be rude. [37:33] Speaker C (unidentified): Barking would be nice. Yeah, bark. I don't know if Robert's on that one. [37:37] Sundance Campbell: You can use the raise hand function if you want. [37:39] Speaker F (unidentified): but we don't want to see it and so just one question to Ann do you know what the loose timing is with the city around the post in the RFP and within that defining what kind of timeline [37:53] Sundance Campbell: Yeah, it'll probably be done, you know, over this next month, and then typically you give respondents a month to prepare their proposal, and then after that, you'll meet with us at a staff level to kind of decide which consultant we're going to use. So we'll use the subcommittee to review the proposals. Gotcha. Yeah. So it's three months, probably. Yeah. [38:27] Speaker C (unidentified): Yeah, and that's that's my laptop. Yeah, and [38:33] Speaker F (unidentified): So are there. I'm sorry, I've been able to hear everybody pretty well, but I mean, I'm just want to be clear on the timeline. Are there things that you'd want from you know from this group, whether it's the cultural commission or the subcommittee, they'll be helpful, you know, during the you know those next 2 months where you know you're doing the rfp and reviewing rfps like does our meeting schedule line up with what you'll need from us is the only [39:01] Sundance Campbell: Question I have. Yeah, I can work with the existing commission schedule, that's fine, or the k, yeah, we'll make it work, I [39:12] Kelly Chenot: Have to drop off the call. I will watch the rest of the meeting after it's done, but good luck everybody, you guys are doing great. Anything else [39:25] Speaker C (unidentified): About the cultural assets that subcommittee and how about the Artober subcommittee and updates there we go sure I [39:38] Speaker F (unidentified): Think I think you know I'll try to resist here just to read through those minutes I sent out, but using those maybe as a guide, so the committee met last month, I think we're well on our way to having the responsibilities of Artober under control, you know, as we talked about throughout out the year by really following the model that we used over the last two years. So what that looks like, you know, we've asked the city to post the nomination information, though I only did that a couple of days ago. So I don't know where we're at with that. Kaylee, is that posted [40:14] Speaker G (unidentified): Quite yet? It is updated on the webpage and we're in the process of getting it out on the city be socials as well so that should happen if not today then early next week [40:27] Speaker F (unidentified): Amazing, so you know keep an eye out for those posts on social media because those are often well like what I think we've used informally as members of the cultural commission to kind of push it out on our own social media and you can't count on me to be much of an influencer there, but I'll push it out on my side and hopefully some of you have people that respond more to your you know your repost things like that, so we'll want to get that out there, but glad that step's taken, the original plan is For those nominations to close on the 26th, I believe, or 27th of this month, you know, for some reason we haven't had a great response. We do have time on the calendar still, extend that a week if we need to, but I don't expect that we will. Each year for the last three years we've gotten more and more nominations for, you know, the Bangor Arts Award. And so we'd expect this year to be the same. So there was another open question as we're looking to, you know, the print materials we're going to use to promote the event. The city has some assets in place already that live on, you know, throughout the city on, I think, like light poles, maybe on the parking garage, things like that. And you had mentioned, I think at some point maybe two or three meetings ago, that there maybe was money to refresh those. Is that, am I remembering that right, or am I misconstruing [41:53] Sundance Campbell: a comment that you made? Yeah, I did park some funds in the tour, we have a small tourism some budget, you know, to replace banners this year. So yeah, I mean, if you, if you have a new design for an artuber banner, get that to us quickly because we have to get that ordered. [42:20] Speaker F (unidentified): Yeah, we're wondering if we're starting to run out of time on that too. So with that in mind, you know, Ben had done some initial work on maybe themes around the logo, and we can, we can move forward to try to push through that a little bit time wise to see if we can get a full design together for some of those things. Maybe we have time, maybe we don't, but we certainly want to try. I don't know if we're in a position for Ben to share some of those logos the committee had settled amongst the three on you know what we're calling design number two. [42:56] Speaker G (unidentified): I was wondering if I made you a panelist on Sundance, would that be something easy for you to share screen on your end, or would it be easier for us to look at it in the room here? [43:07] Speaker F (unidentified): No, I might be able to share that. All right, let me upgrade you to panelists and see if that works. [43:25] Speaker G (unidentified): Okay, your permissions should be changed there, so all [43:31] Speaker F (unidentified): right, so this is happening live in real time, so I don't think I have anything confidential on my desktop, but well, let's see where we land. They're able to see my screen at this point, I can't tell from this end. [43:50] Speaker G (unidentified): You're not sitting at your screen, I'm [43:54] Speaker E (unidentified): going to email it to you. Pardon me, I'm emailing it to everybody as attachments to the previous email, so they're just, it's just, I'm sending it to everybody now, all [44:07] Speaker F (unidentified): Right here we go, let's see, we'll go where, oh there we go, yeah. So Ben, do you want to talk through some of this since you're in the room, you can hear better and tell me if you want me to scroll around? Absolutely. I don't want to talk. Yeah. [44:34] Speaker E (unidentified): So I came up with three designs originally for the Arctober rebranding if we're doing it. And this is the one that we liked as a subcommittee. I haven't included the other three designs. I think that it speaks to the Art Deco nature of the town. I think that's very important to represent that. It's all in this writing here and then read later. But the color palette is themed around sort of October changing leave colors and around the colors of the buildings in the town. Just sort of like the bricks and the different kind of like colors that I was inspired by when I was walking around thinking of this. But I really like the big O in the middle. I think it breaks it apart in such an interesting way because it sets it sets art separately and then it kind of like you have burr afterwards what does that mean like oh burr oh arctober that's for me to think about that kind of thing yeah and I liked that do [45:35] Sundance Campbell: You have a design for that 's vertical because the banners are oh the pole thing yeah I don't know if you'd want to just turn it okay yeah but I don't have a vertical design I [45:52] Speaker E (unidentified): I mean, I hadn't thought about how it would go on hold there if I hadn't anticipated barriers and stuff. Stack it, you think? Oh, going this way. Perhaps I can do that. I don't have a straighter here, so I can't do that. [46:12] Sundance Campbell: I think as long as we get it, like in the next couple of weeks, we'll be able to get them printed. [46:18] Speaker E (unidentified): In the last couple of weeks over the last. [46:23] Speaker F (unidentified): So comments from the full commission, maybe on the color scheme, the kind of the concept, everyone, anyone have comments? [46:34] Speaker H (unidentified): I think it's great. They just need to work with flags. Yeah. [46:38] Sundance Campbell: It's a good concept, yeah. Yeah. [46:41] Speaker E (unidentified): Yeah, that was fun. It's an opportunity to do these all. [46:47] Speaker F (unidentified): Yeah, it seems like a nice refresh fresh and it seems like it's probably time for that some of those banners are faded anyhow just from the sun or whatever other elements are out there so if it's okay with the commission we'll ask Ben on behalf of the subcommittee to come up with some you know this was more conceptual but now we need to get to the practical side like that to Ann's point if the banners need to be vertical at least most of them you know Ben why don't you get to work on that if That makes sense to everybody, and then we can, you know, run it through the subcommittee and then to the full commission over the next week or so. [47:26] Speaker E (unidentified): So I look at the full time again, like a sense of the dimensions, because I think they're like 20 inches by like 40 inches, something like that. Yeah, 2 by 1. [47:35] Sundance Campbell: One or two. [47:38] Speaker F (unidentified): Great work, you guys. Yeah, great. So, you know, really everything's kind of lined up to go from there based on the timeline of the nominations, meaning our next meeting happens to be the day after nominations close. We have a list of potential jurors. We don't want to finalize that until we, you know, find out whether some of those folk have been nominated, because certainly wouldn't want nominees to also be jurors, or we wouldn't want to ask someone to be a juror only to have to change that. So we'll be prepared to move quickly at the end of the month to select jurors, to begin the process of determining who the winner is. We've looked at some designs for what the award will be. We have a history of trying to do something fairly interesting and artistic for what the actual award that is presented will be. We've seen some nice ideas by a glass artist. We've also asked committee members to bring to the next meeting any other ideas that they want, so that we can finalize that here at the at the meeting at the end of the month. I think we'd mentioned before also that the, you know, the evening that we celebrate will be on Wednesday, October 7th. Minutes mentioned that we hadn't confirmed with the Stage Door that date, but we have since confirmed that, so that, you know, that'll be the location again for the second year, the Stage Door, associated with, you know, Bangor Opera House, Penobscot Theater Company, on Wednesday the 7th. And we'll follow essentially the same template we used last year. So still plenty of things to do, you know, you see those listed in the action items in the minutes. Committee is prepared to do those, and really hoping that, you know, anybody that was, has not been able to join but still wants to be a part of this committee, you can jump in with us on Friday, August 28th. We'll meet at 9:00 a.m. We need to arrange with the city a room, but it'll be at City Hall. Any questions for the committee? Well, I'll take that as a no. Grateful to all the committee members, both on the subcommittee and then the Cultural Commission, for your help with this. It should be a great year. Thank [49:51] Speaker C (unidentified): You, I'm not sure what is next. I think we've gone through just about everything on here, so unless anybody has anything else, I don't know. Do I need to take a vote to adjourn, or I can just adjourn? All right, so I can.