2026-10-02 - Commission on Cultural Development

02:12We are

02:13>> all right. Good morning. Happy October.

02:17Yay. Okay. Um, it's probably going to be

02:21for those meetings, but through a couple

02:24of the other things also.

02:27um

02:29meeting minutes. Anybody have any um

02:36[clears throat]

02:38packet

02:40in a moment?

02:47>> Oh, I'll take him as a show.

02:59There we go. I found it. Okay.

03:03All right. Does anybody have any

03:05questions on the meeting list from

03:07September?

03:12Okay. Can I get a motion?

03:20Second. All in favor.

03:22Great. Thank you.

03:24Um, we need to approve the ZA meeting

03:28minutes as well.

03:30>> Yeah, we're trying to do some of the

03:31ones that hadn't been in the past. So,

03:34thank you.

03:35>> I just remind them back.

03:39>> All right. Does anybody have questions

03:41about the May meeting minutes?

03:49>> Questions. Cool. Was the door unlocked?

03:53Oh.

03:56Um, any questions other

04:00cool

04:02motions?

04:05>> Is that second?

04:05>> Sorry. Second.

04:06>> Great. All in favor. All right.

04:12>> Is that Maria?

04:17Perfect.

04:22Hi Maria.

04:30Hi Maria.

04:32>> Hi.

04:35>> Um

04:37let's keep going. Um

04:41I

04:44I don't think I have anything for

04:46report. Um, and I want to make sure we

04:48have time for all the October stuff. So,

04:52let's

04:54move right on through to the financial

04:56report. Does anybody have questions

04:58about that?

05:02Um, it still is the bigger

05:05listing from the budget. Um,

05:08I'm assuming that means it's just not in

05:10our account, but everything's still on

05:13here. Anybody have any questions?

05:17Great. Okay. Don't for that. Let's be

05:21good. Um grant committee.

05:24>> Yes. So we have received I think five

05:27grants. Um

05:30>> did you receive one from the Bangor

05:32Symphony Orchestra?

05:33>> Yes.

05:34>> Perfect. I think that's the only one I

05:35don't have. Um because I think she

05:38emailed it. So if I can get that one. Um

05:42so our plan is going to be to set up a

05:45meeting here in the next probably 2 to 3

05:48weeks for the grants committee to go

05:49through the grants. We will then have

05:52them ready to present to at our November

05:56meeting so that we can present on the

05:5913th to the budget and then the 23rd to

06:02the um city council of November.

06:05>> Great. So,

06:06>> do we now need to do that or is that

06:08still a you are taking it once it comes

06:11out of the commission to the

06:13>> budget and I work on getting it on to

06:15committee on council.

06:18>> I appreciate it. Um Kaylee sent me all

06:20of the dates for the upcoming meeting so

06:22that I could like work backward.

06:25So, that was incredibly helpful. Thank

06:26you so much for that. And um

06:29>> I I have all of the grants

06:31>> as well. So, yeah.

06:32>> All right. People on the deadline. Uh

06:35just a question. Um so uh the PTC folks

06:38asked me if you'd received theirs

06:39because it came only by email.

06:41>> Yes. Wasn't clear whether they had to do

06:43a paper copy.

06:44>> Oh no.

06:45>> Do we confirm receipt when people send

06:47it in?

06:48>> Um I haven't been because a lot of times

06:50they come to the cultural commissioner

06:51to Sarah and then it's been forwarded to

06:53me. But I think that would be good

06:56>> especially with the um because we're

06:58allowing them to only submit digitally

07:00now.

07:01>> Yeah.

07:01>> It probably would be helpful for them to

07:03know. um that we've received it.

07:06>> Okay, cool. Have we decided how much

07:08we're allotting for each?

07:11>> We did. We decided to double both. Um so

07:15the uh organization grants are up to

07:19$10,000 and the individual grants are up

07:21to $2,000.

07:22>> That's what they Yes.

07:25>> Um they did not

07:27not all five of them applied for they

07:29were all organization grants. They did

07:31not all apply for $10,000. I think there

07:33was one that applied for less or two

07:36that applied for a smaller amount. Y

07:42um any other questions on grants?

07:47I think as usual the grants committee

07:50will take a look. We'll vet and then

07:52we'll make a recommendation to the full

07:54commission.

07:55>> Yes.

07:56>> November November meeting. Yeah.

07:58>> Do we have the meeting times to pull up?

08:01We don't yet because um my brain was

08:04thinking a month ahead of ahead of time

08:06and I started to panic that like we just

08:09got them in yesterday and how could we

08:11possibly discuss them today. Um but no,

08:14so I will send out a doodle poll to the

08:16group and we'll get something set up in

08:18the next two to three weeks so that we

08:20can be ready for November. Yeah.

08:24All right. Um, other questions on CR

08:32cultural author committee.

08:35Um,

08:38we're at a little bit of a standill

08:40and

08:42I could use some help

08:44>> figuring out how to jump start things.

08:47>> All right, great. Um, I think my first

08:51question is, have the RFP been posted?

08:53Um, I didn't get a chance to check this

08:56morning. They were hoping to get it up

08:57this week. So, it'll

09:00>> Yeah. I mean, we have very low staff in

09:03finance right now. They're down I still

09:06I think they're still down three

09:07million. So,

09:09>> yeah. Yeah.

09:10>> A lot.

09:10>> So, but a lot of this culture asset work

09:12is going to get pulled into that

09:14project. So,

09:15>> Exactly.

09:16>> Yeah. So, there's not much the committee

09:18can do until

09:20>> the city hires the person. I hate to

09:23double double do things, you know,

09:25there's already overlapping

09:27>> with what's up there,

09:29>> right?

09:30>> Yeah. Yeah.

09:32>> Yeah. Which is fine. Um

09:36>> and

09:39we can all take a look at the city

09:40website. RFPs are posted publicly and so

09:44then we'll know what the due date is and

09:46then we can extrapolate a likely start

09:48date. But my guess is at this point

09:50still it's going to be sometime January

09:52this person starts um with this work.

09:56>> Okay.

09:56>> Um and then we will need to form

10:01a committee and we we will need to

10:03invite a few other local organization

10:06members to join our ad hoc strategic

10:10plan committee

10:12>> um to review the work that this person

10:14does.

10:18Yeah.

10:20Um, is there anything and that the

10:23cultural asset committee or this

10:24commission needs to do before

10:28the city hires someone?

10:30>> Um, I don't think so.

10:33Wait to see.

10:36So, yeah.

10:40Uh,

10:41I think the other [laughter] so much for

10:44making like a calm, quiet.

10:48Oh, good. Um,

10:52I think the other thing technically

10:54under the cultural asset committee

10:55purview is the panels

10:58and how we want to display, but I think

11:00there's still a question about whether

11:02they're waterproof or not and therefore

11:06what we might want to put in there. You

11:09don't want to put original artwork in

11:10there if there's any chance that they're

11:12not waterproof.

11:14>> Yeah. So, Sundance and I today are going

11:16to go get some of the Artober flyers.

11:19And since those are like low stakes, if

11:21they get damaged, I think that's a

11:22perfect pilot to see. Yeah. Check on it

11:24after it rains and how they held up.

11:26>> Yeah, that's great.

11:27>> Yeah, there's one that's been unlocked

11:30um most of the time, which I guess

11:31doesn't matter, but I've been curious

11:33and looked at it. Like my my strong

11:35suspicion is that you wouldn't want

11:37original art there. I just don't feel

11:39like it's weatherproof,

11:41>> you know, like it's going to take

11:42humidity over time. But

11:43>> we'll find out to your point.

11:45>> Yeah.

11:46>> Then

11:48maybe one thing we can do once we have

11:52more evidence um is also see where the

11:58bids come in for the RFP and if there's

12:01potentially any budget for making prints

12:05or laminating prints of work to put in

12:08those. Um, and we can see if like give

12:12us the discount. Um,

12:15>> I was just going to mention I've already

12:17had two people ask me what's going to

12:18happen.

12:20>> All right.

12:20>> There's some interest in what

12:23>> that's good.

12:23>> Yeah, I thought that's

12:24>> that's great. I mean, we do want to put

12:27pretty in here.

12:29>> Um, yeah, if you have a budget to make

12:32some prints,

12:33>> you know, in terms of student art,

12:35teachers can scan things and make

12:37prints. Yeah, [snorts]

12:39it just is some extra steps.

12:41>> Yeah. And the city still has

12:45the printer, the in-house

12:48>> printing office, right?

12:50>> Um

12:51>> cuz that always was also more affordable

12:54because it's not

12:57>> there's not a sales price. So,

12:59>> right,

12:59>> that could also be a good option for

13:02>> making

13:03>> prints. And I guess then, right, if

13:04they're prints also, they don't have to

13:06be wearing

13:08But we can probably do it in a pretty

13:11cost-effective way.

13:15>> Cool.

13:17I mean, we'll get more interest if

13:18people can submit digitally.

13:24>> Yeah.

13:25>> But then somebody has to take it

13:28to that.

13:29>> Yes. And we will just need Kayle's help

13:32for that because Kayie has a key.

13:36Um, and so, right, we can talk about how

13:38frequently we might want to exchange

13:40them, but I don't think more than once a

13:43month is something any of us could

13:47commit to. So, maybe we do like

13:50quarterly.

13:51The work stays up for a while.

13:54>> All right.

13:55>> Has everyone been by to see them by any

13:57chance? I mean, the the amount of like

13:59surface area you have to cover is quite

14:02like you can get a lot of art.

14:05So that some ways might even chat.

14:10>> Yeah.

14:10>> I mean it could be multiple people,

14:12right?

14:12>> For sure. For sure.

14:14>> It's a good It's a good problem to have.

14:16Build a lot of

14:16>> art.

14:18So at the library when we're collecting

14:21work for exhibits,

14:24we have people apply with art,

14:28but we might set up a system whereby

14:32those who are interested in displaying

14:33things get in touch with some key person

14:37in order to facilitate.

14:40Yeah,

14:41>> I think we can probably set up a Google

14:43form for the submissions.

14:46>> We can put a copy of that in the panel

14:49so that people can see

14:53>> like a QR code in the kiosk that says,

14:55"Do you want your art here?"

14:57>> Yeah, maybe too.

15:01>> Yeah.

15:03>> Not everybody

15:04>> press all folks. [laughter]

15:07>> Not everybody wants to do the QR code.

15:09Yeah.

15:10>> And right, we can put an email address

15:12too if someone needs support in filling

15:14out a form.

15:16>> Yeah.

15:18Okay, that sounds real. That does sound

15:20real.

15:21>> Okay. Um,

15:25let's

15:27start

15:29collecting the information we would want

15:31to put on a form. Um, maybe I can just

15:34start a draft of a form.

15:37I'll send it around.

15:38>> Steal the library.

15:41>> That's fair enough.

15:43>> Just use it as

15:46Absolutely. That's not stealing. That's

15:48taking inspiration from

15:52>> Perfect. That's a great idea. Um,

15:57>> and that's on the library website. I can

16:00>> I filled it out last year.

16:02>> I know.

16:04>> Um, yeah, that's great. And then we can

16:06start a draft of ours. We'll send it

16:08around and people prefer to take a look

16:10at it. Maybe we publish it in the next

16:12month and see if we get submissions

16:15and we say the first

16:18might be the first display might be Q1

16:21of 2027.

16:23>> That gives us time to figure out a

16:25system for selecting and printing.

16:29Um but right if we print in house and

16:32it's not like it's 50

16:35pages it's going to be a few

16:40take that out.

16:42>> Yes.

16:43>> Okay. [clears throat]

16:44Awesome.

16:45Cool.

16:47Any other cultural asset or art panel

16:50questions?

16:55All right.

16:56Arttober.

16:58All right, fantastic. Um, so, uh, thanks

17:02to a really hardworking committee,

17:04committee and Kelly, Cal, Ben, Sarah,

17:08uh, and anyone else who participated,

17:10but they were, you know, the probably

17:11only people with perfect attendance at

17:13convenience. I'll I'll highlight their

17:16commitment to it. I think we're really

17:17in good shape. If we start with, uh,

17:20maybe the award and the award event, and

17:23then we can talk about how it's being

17:24promoted. So, the jury met last week,

17:28this this week, this week.

17:30>> Just a reminder one more time because

17:32this is public to not say who,

17:34>> right?

17:35Yeah. You can't take that back once it's

17:37happened, right? So,

17:39>> so I, you know, I'd say that the jury uh

17:42was able to come to a

17:45unanimous decision about what to do. It

17:48felt very uh strongly that we had a

17:50really deep pool. everyone was worthy of

17:54an award but in the end highlighted one

17:57person. So with that in mind that the

17:58jury had asked and I'm happy to do this

18:00as long as everyone else is happy to do

18:02it that we take even more time to

18:04highlight maybe individually recognize

18:06each of the nominees. I I can't tell you

18:09the exact number of nominees. It was not

18:11the 38 we had last year. It was probably

18:1415, you know, give or take. So um you

18:17know again a strong pool but easier to

18:19recognize 15 people and not lose the

18:22attention of an audience than to say

18:24well please you know give me the next 30

18:26minutes to talk about 38 people. So

18:29we'll take some time to highlight them

18:30early in the event. Uh so the event is

18:33at the stage door which is part of the

18:35you know attached to the Bangor opera

18:37house at the mcot theater company. I

18:40think most everybody knows where that

18:41is. Uh that's next Thursday 8 o'clock. I

18:44think I've given conflicting dates along

18:47not 8:00 next Thursday 8 pardon me

18:50Thursday October 8 to 7

18:55but I think I've the time said it was

18:56Wednesday maybe at this meeting so

18:59please know it is Thursday

19:03and so look forward to that event most

19:06of you can make it

19:10last year

19:12allies

19:25Yeah, good question. So,

19:33>> we can't hear you guys. I don't know if

19:35Hello. Hello.

19:41>> Nicer than that, but early guys. So, um

19:44yeah,

19:46ask responded they weren't going to be

19:48able to. I'll follow up with everybody,

19:50but um you know, with you know, ballpark

19:5215 nominees, it'll be easy to kind of

19:54reach out individually. Uh if there's a

19:56desire to reach out to the nominees to I

19:59can do that. I'm not sure we have emails

20:01for all of them because we don't request

20:04that in the nomination.

20:05>> Yeah. Yeah.

20:10anything

20:11>> the last few years we also printed sort

20:13of a networking sheet

20:15>> with all the nominees names and websites

20:17or Facebook you know whatever they

20:19shared

20:20>> um and a little sentence about them

20:22>> do you want that file do you want to do

20:24that again

20:25>> that'd be great we will do that again uh

20:28along with a map of some cultural assets

20:31a certificate for each of them which we

20:34did last year I don't know if we did

20:35that in previous years also

20:40is bringing flowers. Can't remember if

20:42there's much else to know about the

20:43event will be great.

20:45>> It's the promise.

20:46>> Oh, yeah.

20:47>> Yes. Do you want to unveil the

20:50be

20:53pumpkin?

20:58[laughter]

20:59>> There's some artic

21:01the other day about glass pumpkins.

21:04>> Glass pumpkins. Really?

21:05>> And

21:08October photos

21:12tag on it that's got

21:16>> everybody feels comfortable

21:24>> since Artober 2026. I think the colors

21:26are amazing.

21:29>> So that's

21:30>> cool. Love this one too. The

21:34cool

21:35>> that's great. That was such a good idea.

21:38>> Right.

21:40>> What's the main?

21:43>> All right.

21:46Um maybe we can also then when we give

21:48that say where it came from. So then

21:51it's a local artist in some some of the

21:54cost.

21:56>> Yeah. Like they would have charged more

21:58essentially.

21:59>> Cool.

22:00>> And so Thursday is not a good day for

22:02you. So, Thursday is also the library

22:06opening.

22:06>> Oh, yeah.

22:07>> Um, library always does first Thursday

22:10and I am I curated one of the shows.

22:14>> So, I have to be there from 6:00 to

22:177:00.

22:17>> Okay.

22:18>> I don't have to be there much earlier

22:19than that. So, I can be there for the

22:20first maybe 45 minutes of the arts work,

22:23but that usually won't be there probably

22:25for the actual celebr.

22:30When during the five to seven are you

22:32planning to do the presentation?

22:34>> Um, you know, open to suggestion. I

22:36think if we're going to take time to nom

22:37and you recognize all the nominees,

22:39that's probably like 5:30 and then give

22:41people a chance to mingle for a bit and

22:43then maybe 6:15 6:30 do the

22:47uh, you know, make the award.

22:49>> Yeah. I like I think this is one thing

22:52we did last year is we recognized all

22:55the nominees earlier on in the evening

22:58>> and then waited and did the announcement

22:59of the winner a little bit later and

23:02that helped people stick around and

23:03mingle more on top of a point. So I like

23:06that idea.

23:08>> Yeah.

23:09>> Means I won't be there award but that's

23:12all right. I'll catch you later. So, let

23:14me know. We can talk offline if you want

23:16to be, you know, have a moment to stand

23:18and acknowledge some things.

23:20>> Sure.

23:21>> Commission chair.

23:22>> I think that would be great. Yeah. And

23:24if we start that at 5:30, then I can say

23:25a few words.

23:28>> Okay. Okay.

23:29>> Awesome.

23:29>> Cool.

23:30>> Yeah.

23:31>> Um All right.

23:34>> Think we have the event covered. Any

23:35other questions, though?

23:37>> So, you know, I'd like to get an

23:38invitation out to city uh folk too, so

23:41maybe I can connect with you guys later.

23:43get that done. Y

23:46>> I kind of think maybe I also will send

23:48an email. We have a list of previous

23:50nominees and I'll cross check it to

23:53current ones, but maybe invite people

23:56who've been to this event in the past.

23:58>> Sure.

23:58>> So we can always do a blanket if you

24:01were a nominee in a previous year wave

24:04or something.

24:08>> Yeah.

24:08>> Okay.

24:10>> Fantastic. So, uh, you know, in terms of

24:11promoting our materials to promote, uh,

24:14so special thanks to an for keeping us

24:17moving on and to Ben, uh, keeping us

24:19moving on the new poll banners. They

24:21look great. I'm sure you've seen them.

24:23>> A great job organizing that.

24:26>> Thank you.

24:27>> Yeah, they're fantastic. Um, you know,

24:29in part because that happened late in

24:31the process, which is great, and we kind

24:33of had to rebrand all of our materials,

24:36so don't um, you know, don't be too

24:38harsh on me. We used AI to do some of

24:40that. Uh I know it's very controversial

24:42in the world of art to do that. I guess

24:44I'd say in my defense well so I mean to

24:48be practical in our last meeting as a

24:50subcommittee um it was clear that no one

24:52had the time or expertise. Maybe someone

24:55had expertise but not time. Maybe

24:56someone had time no expertise. So we

24:58just wouldn't have had any materials

25:00just we wouldn't have. So spent some

25:02time did use AI but you know used the

25:04color palette used the fonts that were

25:05created by an artist on this committee

25:07to try to create some things in the

25:09future you know if we decide we're going

25:10to have a no AI policy you know

25:13certainly can live with that um you know

25:15if we have that discussion I'd say you

25:17know maybe questionable whether

25:18sparkling things can come from there but

25:20that's a discussion probably for another

25:21day and an important one certain I'll

25:24pass out some of what we have uh all of

25:27what we have to just grab one and send

25:29it

25:33saying going in the other direction.

25:38>> Yeah.

25:40>> Talk about it.

25:41>> Yeah. And I don't mean to make light the

25:43city has an AI policy

25:45>> conversation. Yeah. We don't Yeah.

25:47>> Okay. And then also just kind of what

25:49our commission thinks overall.

25:51>> Somebody have a chance to voice

25:54opinions.

25:55>> Somebody probably gonna be short because

25:56I counted before. So,

26:03>> oh, awesome.

26:06>> So, listen, somebody's going to be short

26:09stuff then because I think I passed

26:10around seven or eight more than that.

26:18>> Once they all go around, we'll see. So,

26:19does anybody need something that look

26:21like a map?

26:25>> Maybe it just ran out on me as well.

26:28>> Okay.

26:30>> All right. Well, we'll go over. Is

26:31anybody shy something with a staple?

26:33>> Yes.

26:34>> No staple.

26:36>> Anybody shy something with the staple?

26:39>> Oh, I am.

26:40>> I have more over here for it.

26:44>> All right. Then there's two that look

26:45very similar. Anybody shy? one just as

26:48an announcement uh October

26:52Fan's month of the arts.

26:57>> Thank you.

27:00>> Then there's one more that looks almost

27:01exactly like that announcing the stage

27:03door event.

27:10>> All right. So, um nonetheless, I mean,

27:12some fairly nice graphics. I don't know

27:14what it is about um AI. By the way, this

27:17is an aside and you can always tell it's

27:19AI, right? Like I you know I tried using

27:21the prompt like don't make this look

27:22like AI. Um and maybe it did a good job

27:25but maybe it's the depth of the colors.

27:26Either way I mean pretty sharp things

27:29that we are using and uh they're

27:32certainly better than using nothing in

27:34my opinion. What else be sophisticated?

27:36>> Yeah,

27:37>> I like I love the thought.

27:39>> Yeah. And then again that was chosen by

27:41ultimately by Benj for it. I don't

27:44remember the name that was specifically

27:45chosen for it

27:47>> and then the color palette with the

27:50city.

27:53>> So you know we can move forward next

27:54year. So I I don't know how much time we

27:56need to spend on these things, but I'd

27:57say I mean a lot of the prompting for

28:00this piece that just announces things

28:02was not only do we need to post things

28:04on our own, you know, city and our own

28:05social media um but uh the Bangor

28:08downtown Bangor partnership has been

28:10posting things too. Part of you know

28:12they have some grant money uh to do some

28:15promotions that are more citywide also.

28:17So like their events calendar is not

28:19just the downtown Bangor district but

28:21the whole city. And so they're looking

28:23to do more of that with us for our

28:25October.

28:26Again, it's a capacity issue. I don't

28:28know that we have anybody that's in

28:29position to, you know, reach out, try to

28:32collect every event that's happening

28:34along with graphic content and then get

28:36that to Betsy. So, who knows? Maybe

28:38there's opportunity for that in the

28:40future. We're doing as much as we can.

28:42Uh, but you know, that's a full-time

28:44job. you know, it is for a month anyway

28:48trying to collect everything which was

28:50um you know evident to me when I you

28:51know tried to pull together a guide that

28:53you know just sourced all the publicly

28:55available uh information about events

28:57that are happening. So you know you'd

28:59see on the staple document does stay at

29:03the bottom this is public source

29:04snapshot you know from about a week ago.

29:07So, if we choose to use this for

29:09anything, I don't know what else we'd

29:10use it for other than maybe a handout at

29:12the event, uh, you know, somebody were

29:14to say, you know, why am I not on here?

29:16You could say, well, we we sourced what

29:17we could public websites,

29:20uh, best efforts kind of thing. But

29:22amazing how many things there are, I

29:24suppose, is the point that I was getting

29:25at. I mean, that's just what we could

29:26pull off the internet uh, from a variety

29:29of sites, different arts and culture

29:31events going on in the city this month.

29:33So I think that'll be helpful for us to

29:34use to remind people just how much is

29:37actually going on in Bangor even even I

29:40don't know about all of you but I'm

29:42always find it surprising you know the

29:44depth of artistic talent events we have

29:47in the city

29:50>> I would love to hand this out at the

29:51event.

29:52>> Yeah.

29:52>> I also wonder if we can print some

29:54extras to give Ann. Are you going to the

29:56sidebar art festival tomorrow? Are you

29:59tableabling?

30:00>> No. I'll be there. We'll have all day.

30:03>> I have a wedding this week down the

30:04door. I

30:06>> I'm gonna go, but I'm be there all day.

30:08>> Yeah, if you needed me.

30:10>> If I had if I had you have extras or

30:12maybe like

30:15But that it would be a nice thing to

30:17have.

30:18>> Yeah, I don't mind making some and

30:19trying to get them to I live in Boston,

30:22too. And in future years, maybe we can

30:24um you know, target as a subcommittee

30:26having a table that aren't over. got

30:29lucky to have an ango the last few

30:31years, but we can't count on that every

30:32year.

30:33>> This is great. We used to try to do

30:35this, but because people weren't using I

30:39think the downtown partnership didn't

30:41have an active calendar yet and Spangler

30:437s didn't exist yet, so people weren't

30:45hosting their events as much. We had to

30:48go out and email each organization to

30:51ask what they had scheduled for October.

30:53And it was difficult. We didn't get

30:55nearly as much information. Um, so this

30:59is awesome.

30:59>> Yeah. So, I'll get a bunch of these to

31:01the Chamber of Commerce because they do

31:02have walking.

31:03>> Cool.

31:03>> Traffic, a lot of tourists come in.

31:06>> Yeah.

31:06>> Find out what's going on.

31:07>> Great.

31:08>> Get the arts and culture map out too.

31:10Little okay with that.

31:12>> Yep.

31:15>> You did fantastic. I like it.

31:17>> I was thinking about what um, you know,

31:20what you said about the seventh calendar

31:22and us working with downtown production.

31:25Didn't we grant them to do their version

31:27of their online calendar at one point?

31:30So years back

31:32>> because I think maybe three years ago we

31:34printed dates and then the sidewalk art

31:36festival was was postponed because of a

31:38storm. So immediately after we printed

31:40them they were all completely out of

31:42date. Um and so instead the last couple

31:47of years we printed a map and we printed

31:50the links to the town partnership

31:52calendar and mangro sements on the map

31:55and then posted it also on our page on

31:57the website.

31:58>> Um I think definitely going to still do

32:00that even if we have a map that just

32:03lets Yeah. And I mean this links to our

32:06page and so from our page we can link to

32:08those event calendars. That's easier

32:10than like a PDF file of this I think for

32:14people to download. I wouldn't post this

32:16on our website.

32:17>> Oh, sure.

32:18>> But handing it out the people have it as

32:22>> and in the future like working together

32:24with downtown partnership. We already

32:26have, you know, different versions of

32:28event calendar. We have the downtown

32:31sevens and we can pull all that together

32:33in one spot. You know, that may be a

32:36starting point for us going forward.

32:38>> Absolutely. Yeah.

32:39>> Yeah. Because they also have different I

32:41mean downtown only covers the actual

32:43downtown area and so seven is a little

32:45broader

32:46>> and I think they go out as far as you

32:48know or know the whole area. So yeah.

32:50Yeah.

32:51>> So this what we have uh related to the

32:54kiosk. I sent out an email to like 40

32:56some odd organizations asking for

32:59content asking to deliver to my office.

33:02A few did. Quite a few more send me

33:04things I can print which is which is

33:05okay too. So, okay, we need to thank

33:08you, by the way, for responding to my

33:09email yesterday with the answers. I

33:11don't think I replied to you, but thank

33:13you. And, uh, so we're going to find

33:14time today to get over and load a bunch

33:16of this in. U, however, if anybody has

33:19access to more posters announcing events

33:22and things, not just today, but like in

33:24the next week, week and a half, you

33:26know, please figure out how to get them.

33:27I think we'll get them in the in the

33:30kiosk. Okay,

33:32I think that's it.

33:35I'm really impressed how um professional

33:38these these all look. I like so much

33:41that they're unified by by color and

33:44style.

33:45>> Yeah.

33:47>> Do banners.

33:49>> Well, that was that was the challenge.

33:51We got the banners at the last minute.

33:52So then up. So

33:54>> I noticed some were up this morning.

33:58>> They look great. Yeah. I'm quite

33:59pleased. Yeah, like any pictures of the

34:02Sidewalk Art Festival this weekend.

34:05Yeah, probably have them in the back.

34:07>> The last question I have is related. I

34:09think we're still chasing down

34:11credentials to get into our is it our

34:13Facebook page?

34:14>> Yes.

34:14>> Maybe are owned by uh someone who was on

34:17the commission in the past. Julie,

34:20>> don't remember the last name. Does that

34:21ring a bell if anybody's been around a

34:23while?

34:24>> Yeah. I mean, it wasn't staff.

34:27>> Yeah. Okay. I can follow up with Holly

34:29and

34:31>> send a message to that person who owns

34:33it

34:35>> and we can try.

34:37>> Sounds good.

34:37>> Yeah.

34:38>> Great.

34:38>> But we do have access to the Instagram

34:42account that Paul made that I think it's

34:44just called Bangor Arts and Culture.

34:46>> Gotcha.

34:46>> I'm just not great at posting things

34:49very frequently.

34:52Few things a lot of things to do every

34:54day. But if anybody is very interested

34:58in social media and excited about

35:00posting about art things on Instagram,

35:04yeah, let me know. You don't have to

35:06commit today. Um, but I would love a

35:08little work in that regard. Um, Holly

35:12was great at like highlighting random

35:14things that would come up around town.

35:16Um, and so I'd love to pick that back up

35:19as a commission project. Um, and maybe

35:24that's one or two people just split it

35:27up and but I can show the An'sbody's

35:29interested let me know um maybe by the

35:32next meeting or after the meeting we can

35:35I can show the

35:37>> it might be nice if we had somebody who

35:40I was just looking at the Bangor and

35:42folder based on

35:44um and since uh

35:47>> the October the presentation on Thursday

35:50will hopefully be heavily attentive

35:52things like that might Good. If somebody

35:55I I'd be happy to take some pictures and

35:57post on there while we're

35:58>> going. So, if you wanted to send me blog

36:01information that I will.

36:02>> Yeah. Perfect.

36:04>> Um I think we should also probably

36:08Well, I guess we don't have to align the

36:10grant like the propo image with the

36:12marker,

36:13>> but we certainly could. I think actually

36:16that might be really nice.

36:17>> Yeah.

36:18>> Leading up to Thursday. So if you could

36:21send me the um

36:25>> square

36:28right now actually

36:29>> let me send it to the group.

36:31>> We can always also encourage grantees to

36:34tag

36:36>> some coaching from their event that they

36:38got.

36:40>> I have that that's a great way for us to

36:42not have to

36:46>> That's true. Absolutely love that.

36:48>> Yeah. have any other organizations

36:50tagged?

36:51>> Yeah,

36:52>> I'm assuming it's okay to scan this and

36:55send it out to

36:58>> Oh, sure. I'll send everybody the PDFs

37:00of the, you know, the look a little

37:02clearer.

37:03>> Thanks.

37:04>> Yeah.

37:05>> Anything that I see online from the

37:08Facebook, I've been sharing to like the

37:09Vanguard area groups and stuff. So

37:12because I don't have a lot of, you know,

37:15friends and followers from all over the

37:17country, but I mean as far as these

37:18Bangor groups have like 17,000 people on

37:21them, so I just keep posting them and

37:22hoping they approve them and they have

37:24so far. So

37:27I'll keep that. Thank you.

37:30>> Yeah. Um and right if you can make it to

37:33the arts version and bring that would be

37:36great, too.

37:40Okay. Any other still have time, no

37:43rush. Any other October questions,

37:46ideas,

37:48things to discuss about what's coming up

37:50next month.

37:53>> Do we have any media context? Put it on,

37:56you know, come from the news or anything

37:58like that. Could have some fun city

38:00things on the network. been on WABI with

38:06but I've been on WABI with with the

38:08first Friday of Heartwalk.

38:10>> Yeah.

38:11>> We don't have like a specific contact.

38:13>> No, I mean our um public information

38:16staff um he can you know send a press

38:20release to all about especially about

38:23the the arts award. It would be great to

38:26have one of the stations there.

38:28>> Yeah.

38:28>> And I bet you one of them will come for

38:30sure. Yeah, that's appropriate that

38:33>> I can also send an email, an invite to

38:36Emily Barnum. Maybe she'll write about

38:38it on her

38:39>> substack.

38:40>> Um,

38:42yeah. And then

38:46does the BDM still have an arts and

38:47culture writer? We have tried to invite

38:50them in the past to the event and they

38:52haven't attended. But I think that

38:55doesn't mean we should not continue to

38:57try to invite them.

38:59>> I thought that I guess

39:02>> and when the city sends out a press

39:04release, we send it to all of the

39:06stations and all the

39:08>> Yeah.

39:10>> But I think maybe a a direct invite.

39:13>> I'll find out if the paper has

39:17been

39:19Okay.

39:23Other

39:25she's exactly sure,

39:28>> right?

39:29>> Yeah.

39:30>> Um, okay.

39:31>> I think we're good.

39:32>> Great. All right.

39:35Any other

39:38questions about any of the committee

39:39stuff?

39:41>> Cool. Stat updates.

39:44That's it. We're hoping to get the RP

39:46out. um as soon as possible. Um

39:49hopefully it'll go up today. Um and

39:53Kayla's working on the getting these

39:55into the function. So yeah, it along

39:59>> Yeah. And we went to the farmers market

40:02a couple weekends ago. So I scanned in

40:06in the packets for some of the feedback

40:08we got there. Um it was a little bit

40:10gloomy. There wasn't a ton of people

40:12that day, but it's still nice to get

40:14some feedback. Cool.

40:17>> I was looking over all that stuff and it

40:19it seems to be the same kind of themes

40:21coming up as a as a you know small or

40:23mediumsiz concert venue arts like we

40:25used to have the Baywatch exchange or

40:27some type of facility like that folk

40:30festival. There's a common theme with

40:31these things coming back. So definitely

40:34something you want to look at in the

40:35future.

40:36>> It's amazing the number of people that

40:37want the folk festival to come back.

40:40>> Even people I mean it was amazing.

40:43Maybe not even at that large of a scale,

40:45but a smaller,

40:46>> you know.

40:47>> Yeah, you start out small. Those

40:49festivals

40:50>> one stage as opposed to five stages,

40:52right? One stage, you know.

40:54>> Yeah.

40:55>> Kind of get I know this was through what

40:57the American Folk Festival was like.

41:00Yeah. But I mean it could be something

41:03>> anyways. Yeah.

41:07>> Except that square graphic is a reply to

41:10>> Great. Thank you.

41:14Once the RFP is posted, what's the

41:16window approximately for people to

41:18reply?

41:19>> Um, I think they gave 30 days for people

41:23to reply. Yeah,

41:24>> it's usually the minimum.

41:27>> Yeah.

41:31>> And then we're not involved in the

41:32actual hiring of the person, are we?

41:36>> No, we're going to have um I thought you

41:39wanted to

41:43Um let me know if anybody else is

41:45interested. Um probably shouldn't be too

41:47many people so we don't have enough be a

41:50public meeting but yeah

41:52>> yeah um cool

41:55>> great

41:57excited.

41:58>> Yeah.

41:59I think it's going to be really a

42:01project.

42:03Okay. Anything else? Um, as we just

42:08talked about, there's lots happening in

42:09town this month. Um, I think you all

42:13have a first Friday slide, lots of work

42:15to say.

42:17>> Um,

42:20>> can I back up on one question really?

42:22I'm just the time frame. So, like it's

42:24about a 30 to

42:26this. So, you mentioned an ad hoc

42:28committee. Are we tasked with like

42:29determining the makeup of that or will

42:31the city essentially say no no the

42:33makeup's going to be eight people from a

42:36variety of places?

42:38>> No, I think we thought it was going to

42:40be the cultural asset subcommittee and

42:43then but some things brought to the full

42:45commission. We had talked about inviting

42:48some other

42:49>> and other stakeholders,

42:51>> local stakeholders, not as part of the

42:53interview process of hiring the person,

42:56but as a part of the strategic planning

42:59process after that, like reviewing the

43:01drafts and

43:02>> like discussing the actual outcomes. Um,

43:06>> so ultimately the question I or what I'm

43:09thinking about is like does the

43:11committee or the commission have some

43:13work to do to like figure out what that

43:15body like the makeup of that body and

43:17what it is? Is it ad hoc? Is it cultural

43:20or is that all fairly well vetted?

43:22Because if not, we'd have to figure that

43:24out over the next.

43:25>> What we could do is we could bring um a

43:28recommendation to your next meeting

43:30>> and then um for you to look at and edit

43:33and it's easier to react to something so

43:37we can we can um pull together something

43:40for you to look at.

43:41>> That sounds good. So it would be kind of

43:43a job description or

43:45>> it's just sort of like a a stakeholder

43:48group. So it's sort of like now you have

43:50the core group of the culture asset

43:52committee kind of working with us and

43:55the consultant to do the project but

43:59then at certain points you're going to

44:01want to bring in stakeholders, right?

44:03you know, both people in culture and

44:06arts um or you know, around the city,

44:10but also you know, consumers of you

44:12know, people that live here that go to

44:14those things and what should they want?

44:18>> So, I'm just wondering how we connect

44:20with those people. Do they

44:23apply? How do they hear about

44:26>> We would do outreach to that. Yeah, that

44:28would be our role.

44:30>> Yeah. Right.

44:33>> Yeah. Yeah.

44:34>> So there'll be some time the city will

44:36come with maybe some parameters.

44:38>> Yeah.

44:38>> Look at because then that way like you

44:40might think of somebody that we hadn't

44:42thought of like oh don't forget this

44:44person type thing.

44:45>> Yeah.

44:45>> Yeah.

44:46>> For sure.

44:46>> Yeah. And then the city does the

44:47outreach to see if they're interested

44:49and then we pull together a meeting.

44:51>> But there'll be time to do that like

44:53>> I mean right the RFP gets posted any day

44:56now. The deadline is likely early

44:58November. That means interviews will

45:01happen in November. Um, the city will

45:05probably select someone by early

45:08December.

45:09>> Um, and then contracting and all of

45:11that. I think it's I think the project

45:14start will be January

45:16>> and therefore you don't really need a

45:17steering committee established,

45:19>> right?

45:19>> Yeah.

45:20>> Maybe another month or two.

45:21>> Yeah. And I'm afraid that we're like

45:22going to have to make decisions three

45:24and a half weeks from now.

45:26>> We have time.

45:29Um, and obviously this is not just you

45:32as chair of the grants committee, uh,

45:34the agricultural committee's task. Um, I

45:37think this is going to be a bit more of

45:39an all hands on deck kind of process

45:41overall. Um, but also I will make sure

45:43that I'm at all the um, cultural asset

45:46committee subcommittee meetings.

45:48>> Not to be too vocal today, but last

45:50question. Do we have new committee

45:51members coming up next year?

45:54>> Um, great question.

45:56We have a few people who were asked to

45:59renew. We have a couple. I know one

46:01person is le not renewing capacity. Um

46:08I don't know. We may not know until

46:10January.

46:10>> Oh, okay.

46:12>> I know. I heard

46:15>> Yeah, I applied renewal accepted.

46:21>> Everybody.

46:22>> Yeah. Um, I know we also still, this is

46:24maybe another reminder we should send

46:27from the city over email. Um, there's

46:31still a commission member on the emails

46:34who hasn't been to a meeting.

46:38>> Since they joined,

46:39>> okay,

46:40>> um, and if that's an open spot, I think

46:44we should

46:46>> okay,

46:46>> let that be an open spot. Um, obviously

46:49I don't want to kick anybody out, but

46:51the expectation is that you join the

46:53commission and that you also show up to

46:55meetings um within reason, of course.

46:58And so,

46:58>> okay,

46:59>> I think we adjusted the schedule to

47:02hopefully make it more possible for more

47:04people to come to at least, you know,

47:06every other meeting. But [clears throat]

47:10>> yeah, and if you still have concerns or

47:13conflicts, then we can always revisit

47:16the meeting schedule. Um,

47:19this is working a little better for

47:20people even though it's slightly

47:22complicated with the first Friday and

47:24then the first Wednesday. Um, but

47:29it

47:31>> exactly.

47:32>> Yep.

47:35All right.

47:37Um, cool. I hope you can all make it to

47:40first Friday. I'll be at the rocket

47:42arch.

47:44Um there's also lots of other great

47:46things happening. Um

47:48you know, former city councelor Gretchen

47:50has quilts at Ouring

47:55happening at the public.

47:56>> Yeah, that's the rap.

48:01>> Yeah,

48:07>> always got their stuff.

48:09>> Yeah,

48:10>> Sunshine, she's always got their stuff.

48:11for I'm not sure the artist.

48:15>> Yeah. And then hopefully also some of

48:18you go to cyber arts festival tomorrow.

48:20>> All right. Um I

48:25>> thank you guys. See you next week.

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