Minutes
Commissioners Present:
Gloria Polzin, Jami Berry, Angel Austin, Mauragrace
Healey, Lesley Atlansky,
and Rochelle Shibahara
Guests
Present: Kathleen Wyatt and
Nina Hamilton
The meeting was called to order at 7:00 pm.
The February minutes were read via email prior to the
meeting and approved.
Lesley stated that there was nothing new to report – the
project is still in the works. We need
to find three more sponsors for the last three medallions, or write a grant.
Steven Amick has shown interest in learning to write grants, so Mauragrace is
going to ask him to try this one.
Angel reported that she, Jami and Gloria met at
Mauragrace’s house for a meeting concerning the Art Fair booths for the Summer
Celebration. Lesley sent an email
regarding her input and suggestions. The
subcommittee made some important decisions and between all of Mauragrace’s
hardwork already put in and Lesley’s great suggestions, the committee felt it
was off to a very good start.
Jane sent a report stating that she, Jami and Lesley met to
create a task timeline for printed materials and publicity. Jane and Katsy also met to discuss art tables
and created a timeline and tasks chart.
Donna Weber has agreed to help out and she will probably work on this as
well. Katsy will run the art table
volunteer check in and be a gopher for the event. Pete has contacted everyone we talked about
at the last meeting but is still waiting to hear back from a few of them. Norma will be meeting with Thriftway soon.
The next Summer Celebration meeting will be held at Jami’s
on March 16th at 6:30 pm.
Katinka had sent out emails regarding adding two more of Mimi’s tiles to the library through the 1% for Art using the monies that were left over. It was discussed and decided that protocol would have to be followed. Angel would email the 1% committee regarding this and will work through the correct steps that would have to be taken prior to being able to make a decision.
Jami reported that Jane requested help at Estacada
Together’s next event – DoJump. It was
well advertised and should be well attended.
Rochelle, Jami, Gloria, and Lesley volunteered to assist that evening. The next and last event will be the Writer’s
Night in April. Jami will be contacting
Steven Allred regarding publicity and will be getting a basket together for a
raffle for this event.
Angel stated that she had to reschedule her latest meeting with Mary Cooper and will report at next meeting.
Mauragrace reported that the Estacada Tourism Committee has
set aside $1,000 out of their $32,000 grant for new mural brochures although it
had not been verified just yet. Jami
will proceed as if it had and contact a photographer to take new pictures of the
latest murals and will be the liaison for Artback in recreating a new
brochure.
Due to time constraints, this was tabled until next month.
Estacada Tourism Committee – Mauragrace reported that the
Tourism Committee is sending out RFP’s for interested individuals and
organizations for July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2007 for funding of tourism related
projects. The Tourism Committee expects
to receive $30K in funds for local grants but to date there is no absolute
assurance. For additional information –
you can contact Mauragrace.
City Council Meeting – Gloria reported that she attended
the last City Council meeting to give a “state of the commission” report to the
Council. She spoke about the upcoming
Arts & Culture events, the Summer Celebration, the mural brochure, the
mural art walk, the 2006 mural, and thanked them for their support in the
arts.
Library Teen Advisory Board
Jami reported that she had spoken with Rhonda and all was
going well. Someone said they saw a
flyer up around town for their event.
Jami had still not heard back from the school but Rhonda said she would
contact them.
With Jane leaving the commission, it was brought up again
about giving thank you gifts to those commissioners. It was decided that for service of between 1
and 3 years, the commission would spend $25.
For 3+ years of service, the limit would be raised to $50. It was also brought up that we should have
all commission-created policies be placed in a separate notebook for easy
access. Jami agreed to review past
minutes for policies and create a manual.
The commission has received Kathleen Wyatt’s statement of
interest to be a commissioner and after meeting her, the commission has agreed
she would be a fine commissioner. We will
put through her application to the City Council.
It was decided to have it at the Whispering Pines on May 13
from 9 – 12 pm. Jami will make
arrangements.
The meeting was adjourned at 8:35 pm.
The next meeting will be held April 5, 2006.
Respectfully submitted,
Jami Berry, Secretary