HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes_ARTAB_06.15.2010Minutes of the Meeting of the
Arts and Culture Board
Of Georgetown, Texas
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
MEMBERS IN ATTENDENCE: Charles Aguillon, Philip Baker, Steve Proesel, Dar
Richardson, Mandy Solin, Kaki Bassi, and Karen Lange.
ABSENT: None
STAFF IN ATTENDENCE: Eric Lashley, Library Director
OTHERS IN ATTENDENCE: None
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A. The meeting was called to order by Chair Charles Aguillon at 4:34 PM.
B. Charles thanked the Board members that attended the Festival of the Arts
concert in the park.
C. There were no citizens wishing to address the Board.
D. Dar moved to accept the minutes of the May 2010 meeting as distributed and
Philip seconded the motion. Motion passed unanimously.
E. CONSIDERATION OF AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE FOLLOWING:
1. Report on promotion of Sculpture Tour at Festival of the Arts Concert — Eric Lashley.
Eric reported that all of the brochures were distributed at the concert. Eric noted he
spoke to a number of concert goers that were curious about the sculptures and
overheard numerous people discussing the works.
2. Cooperative sculpture proiect with Southwestern University/Ben Pierce/3M grant —
Eric Lashley. Eric reported he had not heard back from Ben Pierce in regards to the
3M grant project. Eric e-mailed Ben a number of times and has not received a reply.
3. Report on budqet request to Paul Brandenburq — Charles Aguillon. Charles referred
to his letter to City Manager, Paul Brandenburg, regarding the Board's budget
request for next fiscal year. Charles noted he had not received a response from
Paul. However, Eric heard during a meeting of City managers, Paul announced he
would not be recommending funding for the Arts and Culture Board next fiscal year.
Eric noted that Paul's budget was not final and that City Council ultimately approved
the City's budget.
Charles announced he would contact City Councilmembers to relay his concerns
with regards to next year's budget. He will encourage grant recipients to sign up to
speak at the June 29, 2010 Council meeting to inform Council how grant funds were
spent and Charles would also have an agenda item to give Council an official report
on all Arts and Culture Board expenditures and activities.
4. Joint meeting with Main Street and CVB Boards on June 24 — Eric Lashley Eric
reported he met with Shelly Hargrove (Main Street Director), Connie Watson (Main
Street Board Chair), Cari Miller (CVB Director), and Ty Gibson (CVB Board Chair) to
discuss ways in which the three boards could work together in the future. Both CVB
and Main Street would like to focus tourism efforts towards arts and culture in the
downtown area. The City's Downtown Master Plan calls for the downtown to be the
cultural center of the City. To start the process of the boards working together,
members of the three boards will be getting together at the Wildfire Restaurant at
4:30 PM on June 24.
5. Application for Cultural District Designation — Charles Aquillon. Charles announced
there were no new developments to report.
The meeting was adjourned at 5:27 PM.
Respectfully submitted,
Steve Proe el, Secretary
Charles Aguillon, Chair
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CITY HALL
CITY OF GEORGETOWN
ARTS AND CULTURE BOARD
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Dear Mr. Brand.enberg,
Thank you once again for taking time to meet with Eric Lashley and myself
regarding future funding of the Arts and Culture Board. 1. know how busy you are and
really appreciated your interest in what we are working on to better our COMM till Ity.
As You mentioned in our conversation, I and forwarding you the official request
on behalf of the Arts and Culture Board for consideration of funding for the next fiscal
year begriming October 1, 2010. I will be outlaying two proposals in this letter for your
consldel'al orl. Version ��A" OUtI1neS the request t0 COnilllLlC the work- l'C have been d0lrlg
in regards to providing event sponsorship grants and general support for ail projects that
benefit Georgetown. This request takes into consideration the number of grant requests
we received and were unable to fund due to the grant window not being based on a full
year. Since we anticipate a full year grant window, we would propose $100,000 for event
sponsorship grants since we received requests of almost $90,000 on a shorter calendar
windo,w and some events (lid not qualify due to not being in that time frame. In addition,
to continue developing projects such as the new Georgetown Sculpture Tour in San
Gabriel Park, we propose all additional $30,000 for continuation of various projects and
collaborations. Version "A" total budget request is $ 1 30,000.
C' Version "B" is based upon the possibility of ]Roving into the direction of a city
owned arts center. While this is exciting, it will require sonic planning to be successful.
fn addition to the amount of.'$ 1 -10,000 in Version "A," we would request consideration
for the following:
1. Creation of a staff position to be the Arts & Culture Board
contact for the city
2. $50,000 to develop a feasibility study which will assist with the
overall planning of future arts related buildings in Georgetown.
We recor7vilend that if the city go into a direction of looking at an arts related center, it
will be necessary for a full time staff position to be created to begin planning. Personally,
having managed arts facilities for GISD, I have conveyed to the board that staff is key in
running arts Centeu ;S successfully.
Please let rile know if you need any additional information. Again, I appreciate
your time and interest in the Arts and Culture Board.
Si ICCIVIN, yc.)urS,
Charles C. Aguillon, Chair
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