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TOWN �F F�[]NTAIN HILLS
MINUTES OF THE REGLTLAR MEETING
HIST�AY AND CC]I�TURE ADVIS�RY C�MMTSSION
J�NLIARY 8, 2Q25
The Regular Hi�tory and Culture Ad�isory Commi�sion meeting was con�ened at 1b7U5
E. A�enue ❑f the Fountains at 4:D2 p.m. in open and public session.
Members Present: Chair Tim Yoder; Vice-Chair Susan Qbst-Dworkis; Cammissioner
Bob Burns; Commissioner Peter Galla�her; Commissioner Bonnie Kline; Commissioner
Tani LePaer; Vacant Position
Staff Present: Recreatian Manager Ryan Preston; Executi�e Assistant Patti LopuSzanski
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YdDER: Good day, e�erybody. I want to call the January S, 2D25, meeting of the
Histary and Culture Ad�isory Commission to order at 4:QZ pm. Happy New Year
��ery�ody! Right now, I would like ta a�knowtedge the new meYnbers ofthe
Commission. We ha�e next ta me, Bannie Klein, one seat further down, Peter Gallagher,
and on the end Toni LePoer. Did [ pronounce your last name correctty?
LEPQER: LePoer
YQDER: LePoer. �Lli right, if you ea�h could pl�ase gi�e a little shart intraduction ta
yoursel�es, it'd be great.
KLINE: I'm Bannie Klein. I'�e been a resident of Fountain Hills since 1986 and raised
twa kids here. �1Vorked for the newspaper for fi�e years. I was vice president of the
histarical society when we were in the process of building the museum, the River of Time
Museum, and been interested in history my whole life. Qur fami�y �acations are spent
gaing to museums and battlefields and graveyards looking for ancestors. I just think
history is real ly interesting, a series of staries, and I hope other peaple think the same
thing.
GALLAG�-�FR: Hi, I'm Pete Galla�;her. I came to Fountain Hills during the Twilight
Zone episode we called ��VID. Dro�e across the country and saw �ery few people
anyway. I'�e been here since 202�, I'�e bee� �ery, �ery int�rested in Ari�ana since the
day I set foot here. And I am particularly intere�ted in Fountain H i 1l s. The mare I read
about it, and the Ynore I see, the more I want to know about its history. I'in married ta the
woman who restarted the art tours on the Centennial Circle for the Museum of Time, an�
today I was told I'm a member of the Soard of Direitors of the museum. So that's wh�re I
am.
LEPQ�;�t: My name is Toni LePoer, and I'�e been in Fountain Hills for about nine years
now. I came to this town, drawrt here far a positian working with Dori Witirig as part of
her home team. 1've beera in that same role. I'�e grown my rale o�er the last years in real
estate. I wa5 born and raised in Washin�tan, DC, and my father still li��s on Capitol Hill
in Washington. I was raised running around the museums and all the art and e�erything
and the many art museums are always my fa�orites, but I was always �ery blessed to go
to t�e Ameri�an History Museum and alI the others were always ��ry fascinating. And I
was there when the Air and Space Museum opened. My father had a cammunity garden.
He was part af` a community garden behind where the air and 5pa�e opened. I had one of
the first camtnunity gardens in the city and it happened ta be in Washington, DC. I'�e
been in Ariz�na for 20 years naw.
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Yi]DER: Thank you ta each of yau. Sa may I ha�e a Roll Call, p�ease?
LaPUS"LA1�SI{I: Chair Yoder?
YQDER: Present.
1�OPU5ZAIVSKI: Vice Chair �bst-L7workis?
�BST-DWQRKIS: Here.
L�PLTSZANSKI: Commissioner Burns`?
BURNS: Here.
L�PLISZANSKI: Commissioner Kline`?
KLINE: Here.
LDP[]SZANSKI: ComYnissioner Galiagher:�
GALLAGHER: Here.
LQPi752ANSKI: Cotnmissioner LePaer.
LEPQER; Here.
I�QPUSZANSKI: Thank yau.
YQDER: All right. So next is the Call to the Publie.
L�PUS2ANSKI: T�here is na Call to the Public.
Y�DER: We'll just go down the checklist I�eports by Cammissivners is up next.
Reports by Commissioners will allow commissioners to share information about town
e�ents attended, and information related #o the History and Culture Ad�isory
Cammission. This time is purely for reporting. ThiS is nat a discussion time. Comments
ar� not allawed from the public and �annot be used tn address any other item on the
agenda. Dves anyb�dy have anythin�; ta repart other than me`? Peter go ahead.
GALLAGHER: I attended a meeting af volunteers at the Ri�er of Time Museum today,
and there were a nuYnber of' iteYns that they talked abvut that may be of interest to us
down the road, nat the least of w�ich is the art tour and maybe expanding that. And if
there's anything that the city wants to do to, or the town wants ta do to help that alang
might be ❑f interest later an.
YD�IER: Ail right, thank you. Anybc�dy else? Okay, I'tl tak� this opportunity to remind
the commission that �n lanuary �3rd i will be gi�ing a talk on the history of Fountain
Hills here at the Community Center. lt's going to �e a new presentation. I did one a
�auple of years ago and was happy they in�=ited me back again. It'll be at two o'cla�k, and
I'm lo�king forward to it. I'm going to use same things I'�e learned here on the
cammission, and I'm going to reference the presentatian part of my own grandfather's
presentatian to the historical society, where yau must ha�e heen in April of 1994 he ga�e
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us a talk, which I ha�e and same architectural focus on residences here in Fountain Hilis,
related to my family'S company. So, I'm really looking forward to that.
PREST�N: I just put it in my calendar to make sure I'm there.
YQDER: That's gaing to be, I think it's Thursday, the 23rd at 2 pm. �kay, mo�ing right
along, Cvnsiderativn and Possible Action Appro�al of the No�ember 5, 2d24,
History and Culture Ad�isory Commissian Verbatim Meeting Minutes is first up.
Does anybody ha�e any changes �o the minutes? Okay, I did natice an page six at the
�ery end that it looks like my dictation from rny statement was �ut off. I can't recall what
the 5tatement was, and it's not important to me, but I_just wanted ta l�t the town know.
L�PL]SZAI�CSI{l: W� record the audio and sometimes if it's inaudible for the
transcribing program to pick up, it'il end. If somebody isn't leaning farward towards the
mi� or stops talking it will stop with the la�t word and what is coming up in the �erbatim.
YUDER: Qkay, thank you, it wasn't important to me just for awareness. That makes it
understandable then. Can I get a motion, please?
BURNS: I move to appro�e the minutes.
Y�DER: C:an I g�t a second`?
UBST-DW�RKIS: I'll second.
V�DER: All those in fa�or say Aye.
ALL: Aye.
Y�DER: Any apposed`? All ri�;ht?
L�PUS2AN'SKi: Motion passes 6-Q. Thank you.
Yai]E�t: All right, thank you. The next item on the agenda is Consideration and
Passible Action the Martin Luther King Jr, Essay Poetry Contest.
PRESTUN: Perfect. I'll jump in on that ane. So first, thank you guys for agreeing. Some
af you are just here now and didn't agree, but you're part of it now to help th� recreativn
team take a look at these essays. It's a contest we started last year. It went well last year,
got a lot of really great submissions, and �ot a lot of really great submissions again this
year. So our team was able to narrow it down ta three for ea�h age gz-oup. SQ three for the
elementary age, three for the middle school age, and three �ar the hi�;h schaol age. I know
some of theYn got a chance to look at them. I know they couid turn them in up until today,
which is why you didn't ha�e them ita your hands earlier, but if you had a chance to look
at them, you guys are welcome to dis�uss your fa�orites. And then what you'll be doing is
you'1� be advisirig us, the rec team, specifically on maybe wha we should cansider first
for all three, one for each age group.
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Y�DFR: ��Cay, so I ha�e a question. I thought, you know, I read them already through,
and kind....were we Suppased to ha�e dane that already and formed thoughts or
opinions`?
PREST�N: Ideally, yes, I know rnaybe with the timeline, e�eryhody got thern, that
might nat ha�e happened, but ideally, yes, ha�ing them already ha�e read thr�ugh or
taking a brief moment, you can read through them. Now, we probably won't read through
them ajl �erbatim on the minutes, but if yau want ta just take a look at those so I can, as
you're looking at it, I can kind of des�ribe the campetitian a little �it, if`you want. I'm not
sure if e�erybody's h�d a chance to look at these or fonned an opinion, but basically, they
were gi�en an option af prompts or quotes on which to write their poems on. M�st of
th�m ha�e their prompts, I belie�e, Iisted in the title. I think there's one that may not ha�e
them written there. A lat of theYn were a thank you to Dr King. So writing a thank you
note ta Dr Ifing in the form af a poem. A lot of them chose a quote from Dr ICing on
which kind of put their pvem as inspiration, Make an example of one of them, I w'rll get
to it shortly. Or another prampt here was to write a poem about your dreams for a Better
America. And these were prompts that were discussed in a pre�ious meeting here at this
commission as well. I Yeah, so if anybody has any thoughts, anything they want ta share
specifically.
YQDER: I had some thoughts. And whiie I dis�uss some of my thoughts on these, this is
just for my awn thing. I wan't reference anybody's last name, and wha wrote these
poem5. And I guess I'll .just start with my favorite rankings for each of the age groups for
the third thraugh fifth grade. There were, I think, three submissions. I liked Grace'S as
my f rst choice. I liked the genuineness and the old--fashion of the handwritten and it just
seemed real like a third to fifth grader would create, with and aimost without any
assistan�e fram parents. Number two would be Marcella. I think I 1 iked that the second-
best is August, the sixth through eighth grade.
PRESTON: There, again, and real qui�k, Tim. Sa just ta paint out, as far as the
handwritten I knaw the teacher� got a lot of them submitted handwritten and they typed
them out for u5 so that they can then be ema�led, was part ofthe requirements I see. So,
most of them were als� handwritten. This one ju�t happened to be printed out the
handwritten �ersion.
YQDER: Qkay, just in case. Just so you know that's impvrtant for me. Yeah, it doesn't
n�cessarily mean anytl�ing, but it could so now.
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PRESTUN: Understood �ust wanted to let yau knaw.
YQDER: Dkay, than�C yau, boy, that's an interestin� stat�ment that you made there.
PRESTUN: That pertains mostly only to the third through fifth grade.
YDDER: So sixth through eighth grade, I found that more difficult, and I thought, almost
in my opinian, that all three of these submissions, I think, Hiram, Preston, and Auric were
again genuine. I like the siinple approach of Hiram's and well, they were all kind af that
way. And J appreciated that. And then from the ninth to the 12th grade submissians. My
ranking would be Nina first. I belie�e Shreyaan next and Aleah, third, it's t�ugh, but that's
it. Just want to say that, okay, yeah.
PRESTUN: And if' anybady else has an opinion too, you can let me know. Y�u can refer
to it by name, but if you prefer not to, you can describe it in other ways as well, but I
thank you, Tim, for that.
GALLAGHER: I'll be happy to ring in and I'I1 go backwards froin the older kids to the
younger ones. I thau�ht the third paem was my fa�orite af those that the high schaolers
did. Did you want me t� rank all three of them or just gi�e you a fa�orite?
PRES�,ON: You �ould just do a favarite.
GALLAGHER: The reason is, while simplicity is nice, I ihaught it at the high schovl
le�el, the third one had a little more depth to it, and that I appre�iated. For the middle
schovl le�el, my fa�orite was the first one, for both that reas�n and the �ontent Qf it, I
liked what it had to say mare than the ather two, not by much, but a little bit. And for the
third to fifth graders. While I dn appreciate the handwritten but ha�ing heard that many of
them might ha�e been, I like the originality of using Mr, ICing's initials to start each line
of the third poem. So that's what I thought.
PRESTflN: "f'hank you. I appreciate that. Does anyhody else ha�ve any thoughts on
these?
BURNS: Yeah, I'll, �'ll throw in an it like I said. You know, qualifying as I'm, I'm not
necessarily that good to �udge poehy in particular. But I thaught this was amazing work
across the hoard far kids at this age, particularly the youngest ones. I guess I singled out
The Kir�g by Nathan for the yaungest kids, is my fa�orite there. I don'k know of any
particular reason. It just, you knaw, spoke to me. I guess Middle 5chool was wha# I had
d�wn was a lot of these were thank yau so Auric is the one I kind af single aut as my
fa�orite there. And for the aldest kids, they just went with, with the real simple and brief
Alaya, is that how you pronaunce that? I don't know. But so I dan't know if that helps
you at all. I'm not sure we're getting any cansensus h�re for you.
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PREST�N: Nope it all helps me. I appreciate it. Thank you.
LEPQER: I can gi�e yau my perception, ha�ing obvious�y nat tharaughly read them, bui
kind ❑f madestly. My fa�orite af the nine through 12 was the last one by Cheri Ann. I
lo�ed her use, I think maybe her use af haw she �risualized thing5. T� me in the middle
the six through ei�ht, I liked my dream to America to make America a better place. I
thou�ht that was a �ery nice, well-rounded poem, And then I liked the king, the king for
third through fifth. Lots of beautiful thoughts.
PREST�N: Thank you.
YQDER: I think 5usan.
QBST-DW�RKIS: Yeah, the third through f fth grade, The King, I like that one a lat.
The sixth through eighth is Hiram. Thank you to Dr King and the nin� through 12 is
Shryann. I like that one #he most.
VaDER: Ms., Bonnie. Yau wish to chime in, yeah, all right,
KLIN E: 1 like the one by Shreyaan for the older children and then The King, I and the
one by Auric for the middle six to eighth grade. Did I get all of those?
PRESTQN: Yau did? Thank you. All right. WeII, I appreciate the feedback e�erybody.
S❑ we'�e got that all laid out. We'll kind af tally that up and prohably provide a little
update on that far you next week, but I appreciate y�u taking a look at those. �r sorry,
next time we meet, it's actually the winners will actually be announced.
aBST-DWURKIS: Susan, yeah, I just had a question. Are other people that are gaing
thraugh these gaing to �i�e you input`?
PRF5TQ1�1: Yes. S� the way it w�rk5, so we actually narrow these down, there was
probably closer ta about 15 per age group that ��ere submitted. So we did narrow down to
aur top three for each now we'll take your input with the team that's }�een loc�king at them
already, and use your ad�ice �n this to help us make that final decision. And those wil� be
announced. The winners will be announced at the �aext town cauncil meeting, which I
belie�e is �anuary 21 st that Tuesday, which I belie�e is 21 st and that'S when the winners
will be announced, and the kids wil! ha�e the oppartunity ta read them in front ❑f
e�erybody t�ere as well, We're not going to f'orce them, but they will have the
opportunity. And it is Shreyaan by the way. Yeah, he.
YUDFR: All right. Thank you. Thank you. Mo�ing right along. Then the next item on
the agenda is Considerativn and Pos�ible Action on the Pvin#s of Interest Plaque,
Verhiage Workgroup LTpdate.
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PREST�N: So I cauld proba�ly prn�ide a quick little just back star-y c�n this ane far
those, ifthat's akay, far those wh� are new to,joining us. So, this is flne that we've been
working on for a little while. I know Bob was on the workgroup, and I belie�e Bill was
fln the workgroup, anci I belie�e it was .lohn, wha was on the w�rkgroup as well. So they
�ame up. VVe've already �oted on the fi�e points that we wanted to highlight. First, we
were working fln �erbiage for it. I knaw John had started it, and then Bob had pro�ided
this for us to iook at last ineeting. We weren't able to take action last meeting, but I
belie�e we are now haping tfl take action to �ote far this to be what ihis commission will
submit ta the town, as far as the �erbiage gaes an these plaques and the website,
highlighting these Fi�e Points nf Tnterest within the Town vf Fountain Hil�s.
LUPUSZANSKI: If yau scroll down, yau can find the 5 Points af Interest with the
descriptions on Page 22.
PREST�N: I'm realizing now that three of you may not ha�e read through these before,
and if we wanted to table any action until our next Znee#ing, that ��ould be your cal�, Tim,
to go over as well.
YQDER: 5�, we're gaing ta need to confirm our wish for this spe�ific wording.
PREST�N: That's coz-rect.
Y�DER: �kay, well, I'll ask the commission, would yau all like us to put this �ate off
until next month`r
GALLAGHER: I ha�e no need to put it off.
Y�DER: All right, then, tet's nat table it. �kay?
PREST�N: I belie�e we'll just need a motion.
Y�DER: I would like tn get a matian to approve the I'm sorry, Verbiage f�r the
Workgroup L]pdate, far the Pvints Qf Interest.
�EST-DWQRKIS: T'll second it.
LQPLl52AN5KI: I need a m�tian.
OBST-DWORKiS: I thought he made the motion.
LQPLTSZAN5KI: No, a motian was requested to be made.
❑SST-DWURKIS: I apologize. Sorry.
flBST-DWDRKIS: I make a motion that we appro�e the Verbiage for the Points af
Interest.
KLINE: I'll second that motion all.
Y�DER: All thase in fa�ar s�y, Aye.
ALL: Aye.
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Y�UER: Any opposed`?
UgST-DWQRKIS: No, but I just war�ted ta make a paint, iike a clari�ication, or
possibly.. ..
LQPLlSZA1VSKI: You ha�e already motianed and �ated on this item and it was
appro�ed a� written.
PREST�N: So it'S not that we can't make edits. What you.just motioned is to appro�e,
it, to push this to the Tawn, and f'or the town, then re�iew it and hring it back to you if we
want t� make any changes at that point, whi�h is samething we can discuss within the
wark group later, but no# #oday. We finalized it. Yes, it's been tinaliLed becau�e the �ote.
L�PU5ZAN5KI: If you wanted ta ha�e a di5cussion, you do it before the motion.
PRESTQN: So, we'll take a look at it the town as w�ll, so we could bring it back at a
later date, once the town has a look at it. Whai's been pushed through`?
LDPLISLANSKI: Do you feel it's a 5ignificant change that we can address offline?
�BST-DW�RKIS: It was just in the in the second one about the de��elopers sale5 and
reception center, where it said that the prospe�ti�e buyers arri�ed from the Midwest,
there were also from the East Coast, as wel] a5 New Yark and l�iew .Tersey and stuff. Yau
know that they flew them out by plane. It wasn't just the Midwe�t and that was, that was,
I just didn't know if that needed to be added or wanted to be �hanged. That was all, thank
you, because that's how my friends came to Fountain Hills from New Yark.
YDDER: Okay, thank you. Thank you, e�erybody.
LUPL] SZAN SK[ : N ow I da ha�re it acknowledged that the mation passed 6-D on the
Appro�al af the Verbiage for the Points of Interest.
YUDER: Dkay, thank you. The next item on the agenda is the Hist�rical Essay
Cantest Workgrvup Update. I was in a workgroup, but I think I might be the only ane
an this. I cannat remember who was in my workgrnup.
PREST�N: I belie�e you are the only one left. I belie�e it was Dave Peterson, and I
belie�e it was Da�id as well.
Y�DER: 50, a lrttle background stary for aur new member5. lt was a few months ago,
that Ryan shared with us an interesting project that Mesa did, and it was a project
supported in the Mesa schools, where th� M��a kids were gi�en ❑ppartunities t� �reate
ar-t or art proje�t5 or write essays in support af staries af Mesa history. What I did, and it
was about a manth late, but I finally got it done. I basically used the Mesa design and
created and copied aff, typed it all aut, a rough draft of'the document that M�sa, the town
of Mesa, distributed to market their campaign. And that's where we are ri�;ht now. I
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submitted it ta you guys, I think, weil, a few weeks ago, I belie�e it was, and it's just in
rau�h draft form. Should I go a�er it �uickly or what? Anyway, that's my statement. I've
submitted that rough draft.
PRESTUN: I t�ink, we can da it under this agenda item is assigned a couple more
members, Cwo more members io the workgroup. So we can get two more people on that
work group with you. There'S s�mebndy that wanted to join you on that, and then we'11 be
able to you guys can dis�uss that draft within that workgroup, and then we'll send it out.
YaDER: Qkay? So that begs the question and a problem that I faced in typing up this
raugh draft, and that is if we want to do it. Well, I gue�s we need to ha�e some art and
somebody �ompetent in font work and art creation for this ad�ertisir�g thing. I guess it'S
not necessary. We could just hand out a typed piece of pap�r that looks iike this too. To
the kids in the schools or the teachers, but the one that Mesa had has lo�as on it, like the
T�wn of Fauntain Hills lago here, and big, artistic, billowy lettering and that kind of
thing, which I am not able to do at all. Would we need to create that? Or could somebody
at the Town do the crea#ian of the final documer�t with the flowery lago stufF?
PREST�N: Can't guarantee it will be flawery, but yeah, so if we can get all the
�ontents, I'm sure somebody that we �an get 5omebfldy to be able to create the actual
coZlateral f�r it. It's more the cantent, the prompts, and then the executian a5 well. But
yeah, as far a5 the creati�e we c�uld help with that.
YQDER: Excellent. That's what I was hoping. Well, in any ca5e, #hen I sur� would like
snme help, if somebady would like to look o�er what I capied aut and modified for
Fauntain Hitl's interest, I can send you an email copy of it, and we could present it next
meeting. I�auld take one or two o�her people.
KLINE: I'd be glad to help aut with tha#.
YUDER: AlI right. Bonriie, thank you. Anybody else`?
GALLA�HER: Are you laaking for edits or suggestians`?
YQDER: Yes.
PREST�N: So yeah, the w�rkgroups are. 5o it's when we want t❑ get together work nn
something together. We can't ha�e a group bigger than three, right? Because ihat would
he a quarum, And so it's a graup size that's allowed to get tagether and discuss agenda
items and things that the commission would like to accomplish. And so this wauld be a
workgraup for a�c�mplishing this essay contest for the Fountain Hill scho�l5.
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Y�DEI�: 1 had some help with ane of the former commissioners, or maybe twa ❑f them,
I can't remember, but we can do the meetings, you know, all by email. You knnw, it y�u
wish that'S fine and Sim�le that way.
GALLAG�iER: Qkay, I'm willing to help.
YODER: All right. Well, that's great. Thank you. Pete. Is it Pete or Peter`?
GALLAGHER: Whichever you prefer.
YDDER: S� now do I need ta ask for approvaj of the new members of the work�roup, or
is this okay?
LUP[]SZAtiSKI: Na we wil{ do a consideration. We'll da a matian, We'll recognize
who is gaing to be on the workgraup that way, as do�umented, it's �erbatim in the
minutes. And then what 1'll do is I'll send a�opy of your draft and cannect you with each
other's emaiis, and then that way you can correspond via email or meet up or w°hate�er
yflu decide to do.
YUDER: That's why we love yau. Thank you. All right, can I�et a M�tion t❑ Appro�e
the n�w members of the Histori�al Essay� Contest Wvrkgroup`r
�BST-DW�RKIS: I'll make a Mation to Appra�e. Not sure how to word it. Appro�e
the workgroup uinmm....
L�PtiSZANSKI: The addition ❑f Bonnie Klein and Peter Gallagher.
[lBST-DWORKIS: 1�ddition of Bonnie Klein and Peter Gallagher to the workgroup.
Y�UER: I'd like to second that motion. Al] those in fa�vr.
ALL: Aye.
YflDER: All thase oppased.
LQPUSZANSKI: Motion passes 6-fl for the i Iistc�rical Essay Contest Workgraup
increasing to three. Thank yau.
YDDER: Exc�llent. Thank you. The next item �n the agenda is other patential
��orkgraups,
PRESTON: Correct. Yeah, so now basically, we're dawn to one warkgroup, I belie��,
as far as actual items we're taking, and that is the Essay, the Points of Interest yau'�e now
�oted ta appra�e that the #own naw has that in their hands, and we could take t�at o�er
for naw, until something might come up, and we'll rec�uest a new workgr�up ta work an
satnething else. As of now, it's yaur time to discuss any possible things that yau would
like this commission to take on ar �r�ate a workgroup far. You dan't ha�e to come to a
deci5ian today. It's more just to start that can�ersation, and if we come to a consensus an
what we want to start, that's great as well.
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YUDER: Bob.
Bk]RtiS: Veah, I prepared a bit of a mema, I guess, if yau will, just to kind of spit
balling some ideas on what the commission might consider going forward. I don't know
what's in our tane and whai isn't some of it may be out of aur purview, hut I did find it
interestin� that of the ad�isory commis5ions to the council, this is the only ❑ne with a
�ision and a inission stateinent that at least was included on the tawn website. So I
included that in this. But you know, some of the things that ha�e been talked about in the
past, and some ❑f it is prabably significant. I guess one af the things that would be a
significant project would be an attempt ta update the tawn's history, ar take the boak
Rising abo�e the Rest. It was done by �11an Cruickshank Jerry Miles and Jean Lin�er.
And that ends in 2fl 1� so if you get anather I 5 years to put on it, and in kind of perusing
it, I thinl� there might be same apportunities to add to it to e�en in the pre�ious years. 5a
and again, that's a sigrtificant project, and I think we need to �ind out what the towns or
the �ouncil's interest in pursuing that might be before we get too deeply in�ol�ed. I had
heard there wa5 some interest there, hut things ha�e changed. I just, you knaw, and [
don't know if this is a workgroup or just kind of questions I�a�e as far as our now that
we're going to be inval�ed in the artwork. Is wondering, are there specific guidelines for
the review and consideration o# the pubiic art that i5 presented that we need to be familiar
with or aware of or included in aur ir�format�on?
YUDER: Is that the next item an �he abenda, when we're talking about the art?
BURNS: Qkay.
PRESTON: That's correct. �"hat's the next item on the agenda.
GALLAGHER: Question about the history update is that baok the ane that has sectians
by ea�h af the mayors �f the town Rising Above the Rest?
gVRNS: No.
GALLAG��ER: I've read so many boaks recently about Fountain Hills, that it's hard for
me ta remember whi�h was which.
BLTRNS: Yeah, it's and it's hard t� direct yau to it be�ause there aren't that many copies
out there. But it's...
Y�DER: It is on, excuse me, I don't mean t❑ interrupt. It is a�ailable. I think on
Amazon. I laoked today, belie�e it or nvt.
BLTRNS: Oh, really.
Y��ER: Well, I saw it listed there. I didn't actually see the "Purchase Now" button, but
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BURNS: That is samething that I in same dis�ussions with same �eopie, including Brent
Cruikshank, Alan's s�n, need to clarify who has the rights to it. And you know what we
need to do with them, 5o in working with them. Sa, I was also w�ndering about, are there
cnmmunity acti�ities that the cornmissian c�uld be in�ol�ed in that would help get the
word out to the community and get input from the community and some histarical stuff.
And I'm thinking in terms like you've �ot the upcoming Expo here in the next cauple of
week5. Now that's probably too short a notice to put something together for that. But, yau
know, possibly the spring art fair, and I'm not sure what it takes in dealin� with the
chamber on that, for getting possible booths set up there if we wanted ta go that direction.
And you kn�w, what are other optians like, you know, e�ents like St Patrick's Day or
things like that might be... and you guys might know this, you know, just you know, is
there a plan ta rededicate the Presidential statues now that they're pretty much in place
o�ver there, and what �an w� da to help on i If there is that's a really nice setup. I knflw it's
not tQtally complete with 5till some fencing around, buC the statues are back in pla�e, and
it's a really nice Aamada. Sa, these are just some of my thoughts. I don't know if there are
any work groups to l�e set up with this, with it, for any of this at this poin#, but this is kind
af and I don't know again, what, what's within our pur�iew to go? I mean, yau know, do
we need to hear back from the Cauncil on sorr�e of this or not.
YQDER: Thank you, B�b, that's really great, in furtherance of our cau5e, good ideas for
us t� think an, maybe come back ta the next meeting.
PRE5T4N: Yeah, and we can address that at Future Agenda Items as well, and we'll
ha�e some more to talk about durin� that agenda item, in additian to what kind of what
Bob said already. But yeah, about the "Rising Abo�e the Rest". That's something we
could discuss later. That's been brought up hefore, and I know the bigges# issue is
copyright and wha has the rights ta it. I know the town daes not ha�e rights to it, for
example. 50, we wouldn't be able ta touch it without, you know, this commission
wouldn't be able to do anythin� with that until that's figured ou#.
SIJ�tNS: Brett may I�a�e those rights, nr he may knaw, or Jean Lindser may be able to
clarify that because she was in�alved in the product and the proje�t administrati�ely,
originally. So those are same things there. I think I asked Brent and didn't get a clear
answer. So, i don't know.
PRE5TQIV: Qkay, and yeah, what I can do as well as take some of these ic�eas back and
see if there's any#hing that sticks that the C�uncil or anybody is in#erested in. It'S alsa
what you guys are interested in as well. If you want ta create a workgroup, basically, i
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�an let you know whether or nat it will geE anywh�re or not. 6ut it's more kind of you
guys to try to find that directian. Again, that's something [ think we'll talk about under the
future agenda ite�ns as well if nobody has anything really �pecifi� to nail down for a
workgroup at the inoment.
KLINE: I just had a couple of comments. 1 like all three of your ideas, Bob. For the
b�oth, I w�s thinking maybe that'S 5omething that couid be shared with the Ri�er of I,ime
Mu�euYn. Also, for the capyright, it may be the Ri�er of Time Museum on that as weil.
I'm nat sure if that was put together as part of the Historical Society, or if that was done
as part of the newspaper publishing company.
YQL7ER: Thank you, Bonnie, you know yaur �omYnent made me tlaink, is there any way
that we could link oursel�es with the Ri�er of Time? I� it part of the town`?
GALLAGHER: No, I asked that question today at the meeting, and they said they are
separate entities.
YQDER: I think that answers my quesiion. 1 was hoping maybe we could ha�e direct
dialog with them through aur emaiis and discussians or releases, as they wauld us, but
no.
PRESTQN: Correct as a commissior� as a whale, no, maybe as a separate wark group
where you're trying to get information or share information, that'd be a different story.
Sut as a tawn cammissifln, there wouldn't be a dire�t link there, But they, I know, I think
Da�id'S w�rked on trying to get presentations from the Ri�er of Time and things like that,
as far as dialog, and then vice �ersa as well. So it's not that there �an't be one. It's just that
as a whole commission, official �apa�ity wouldn't he where we wauld go with that.
LQPUSZANSKI: We did ha�e Cherie Kass come as a presenter, and I can send yau the
minutes where you can at least se� what she had shared with the commissioners, and I
think it was probably two years aga. I# was pretty early on, Da�id had set it up so that we
could ha�e her come and present some information, but I'm happy to send that out to you,
and we could do that.
GALLAGHER: Alon� thase same lines. There's another separate entity that'S gettirag a
lot aFattention right now, and that's the Dark Sky Disco�ery Center. Is there anythin�
that the tawn can do to en�oura�e those tw� organizations ta wark more �ooperati�ely`?
PR�;ST�N: Can't discuss that too mu�h now, it's nat an ag�nda item or anything. We're
j ust look ing at future work graups.
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YflDER: Sa we could, then, let me ask confirmation, we could �reate a workgraup,
possibly in the �amin� meetings, that ha5 the specific duty ar respon5ibility, or whate�er,
to go t❑ the Ai��r of Time and be liaisons, a�t with them on. ....
PREST[3N: You wauld want a specific diz-e�tion, right? You'd want an end goal for a
workgroup. Yau need to ha�ve an end goal in mind. What is, the purpase? Are you getting
infonnation ta create a pamphlet? VVhat do you want to do with those con�ersations? 1
think there wauld ha�e to be more questians and what the work �raup would be based on.
Tt couldn't just be a w�rkgroup wouldn't jusi be a standing con�ersatian, As far as sharing
information, it would need to be m�re goal-based, okay, outcome-based, I guess.
YUDER: Dutcome-based. So if I read an the paper that the Ri�er of Time was going to
have a specia] speaker ❑n South��estern �{istory or a special display for the �pringtiin� of
2fl25, that would he really pertinent ta aur group. Could we make our w�rkgroup? You
said it's outcome-based. Could it`? C:�uld a work group he created, I think the �erb is
liaise, to work with them in specific on that one project and nothing el�e. And then as
saon as that's o�er with, it's done.
L�PU52ANSKI: So you ha�e to understand #hat they are a nanprofit, and they d❑
charge fees. 5o far their presentations, #hat is something they're earning an in�oYne for
their entity. If you want to attend and then come back and report it under Reports from
Cammissioners, you �ould do so, or we can share that information, and anyane cauld go,
�ut we can't partner up and say that we're going to promote something that is based on a
fee with that. �kay,
LEPDER: I had one idea that I was originally working with public art on was to put QR
codes that would lead to the informatian abaut the art pieces that we had been in
dis�ussi�n with as it ab�i�usly, they kind of decided to �hift publi� art, but I w�uld like to
at 5ome point readdress that cancept and being able to ha�e it. I mean, I think the tour is
great, but I think that e�erybady's going ta be able to ha�e time ta go throu�h a tour, and
as they just happen ta be walking around, I think it would be a great thing for e�erybody
to be able to take out their phone and s�an a QR code and find the informatian, the name
and the maker and the what it's made af, and all that stuff just right there on the spat.
YODER: �kay, can I use this point to mo�e to the possible action on public art?
PItESTQN: Yes, if we're dnne with the warkgroup discussion. Did you guys want ta
establish a warkgraup on anything befare we mo�e past this item?
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Y�DER: I think we shfluld.
PRESTQN: Because public art will not be at the same le�el of discussion. There wan't
�� a warkgroup creation based on that. So if you wanted to do a workgroup, you would
ha�e to stay under the current item.
YODER: I would defer to my fellow Cammissianers, but I wnu�d say maybe we ��uld
think about that and maybe create a new w�rkgroup next meeting unl�ss there's urgency.
EURNS: I'm thinking, if you gi�e us a littie inore information on some of the stuff we
discussed here, maybe we cauld come up next m�eting or some time and say, Okay, let's,
you know, be a little inore focused on what a group, workgr�up might do.
PREST�N: Sure. Yeah, I think e�erybody cauld take that ba�k. I can take that back as
well and inaybe came up with some solid ideas, but you guys haVe some as wel1, as far as
a fa�used workgroup that we could do to maybe take on same of these ideas that we'�e
had here today if you'd like to do it that way. Again, it's your cali, thaugh, what you want
to da.
KLIN E: I just wanted to mention that at one time there were QR cades an same of the
art, but that was 2d years agn.
LEPQER: Yep, I ac:tually ha�e all that information. I sp�ke with the gentleman who
helped create it, and I got al1 of his information, so I ha�e all that. I ha�e pricing an the
metal plaque and everything. S� yeah.
Y�DER: �kay, ma�ing on ta the next agenda item �'ublic Art. So we j ust had Toni
dis�uss the fact that she's �ery supporti�e and s❑ am I of the idea of putting QR codes on
a�l of the public art here in Fountain Hills. VVhat other kind of comtnents are we coming
on with here Ryan?
PREST�N: Yes, I'll take this ane. So ihi5 ane is mainly on here, because that is now a
duty that seems like may fall to this commission. And by duty, I mean in the pa�t, and we
may be able t❑ ha�e Toni speak to this a litt]e m�re, as I belie�e yau were on, an that. 50
if anyb�dy do�sn't know, when a de�elaper builds samething here in town, there's certain
things they ha�e to do, �erkain fees. They ha�e t� pay certain de�elopment fees, and part
of that development fee includes a public art fee. And the de��loper will ha�e a�hoice.
�l'hey can pay a percentage to the town that goes into a fund specifi�ally for that, or they
can they can donate or th�y can create a piece of public art. Now m�re so on the side of' if
they decide to donat� a piece of public art that has ta be kind of talked ai�out, discussed,
�oted �n, and an apinion sent to the town from a commission, and that will b� this
commission at that point. And I think that's mainly what we wanted to bring up here.
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More than anything, we do not ha�e an iteYn far that at the mainen� that is something that
will be an �ngoing agenda item. In case something does �ome up, it's already on the
agenda, and that's something we can dis�uss as a cammission, And if I missed anything, I
think Patti can help ine with that as well. And like I said, if Toni, if you want ta add
anything on that pr�cess based on the fact that you ha�e been in that pracess,
LEP�ER: Realiy, you hit it pretty spat on. I mean, there are, there i5 specific regulations
and Stuff. I knaw there was a wh�le rale kind af infannation shee# that said I'�e got, like,
I'�e �ot al] kind5 of stuff'that I'�e acquired, and that keeps getting handed to me lately, in
regards to the public art. I'm �oin� to take it one day at a time right now because I d�n't
know that much. I.just kind o£ started when it sort of started.
PREST�N: Yep. And to gi�e yau an example, I belie�e if anybody's been by Fauntain
Park, the pump the pump house wall, you see the pieces of art on there. So those were,
those were submitted to the Public Art Cammittee. They were ahle to narrow it dawn ta
what they thaught was best, and they were able to put that in a package and present it #a
the Town Coun�il, and then the Town Council �ated vn the appro�al af that art that'S now
up an the wall there. So that's kind of an example of what that has, of wha# they'�e done
before, in the past, recentiy, in recent histary. If anybody has any questions on that, I
�ould try ta answer them, or I can come back to you with an an5wer on that, and I think
that's something Ba}a you mentioned before, as well as, what'S the criteria? What do we
do`? How do we �ote an that? And I think that's something we de�eloped.
I�DPLISZA:VSKi: To speak �o that we als� ha�e updat�d the Pub�ic Art Master Plan,
working with de�el�pment, because ther�'s such a partnership with that, so that
d�cumentation has just been appro�ed, I think about two inonths agv, i�y the Town
Council. So that is aisa the information I can share with you. It is a public re�ord. And sa
when de�elapers do c�me in and they get their permit, they ha�e to acknowledge that
they are aware that there's a public art requirement. Then I contact them, I pro�ide them
��ith the information, and that's where they make their choice. Will they be doing a
percentage, ❑r will they be daing the piece itself`? And they ha�e to go thraugh �ery
specific criteria, where the artists themsel�es ha�e to pro�ide a scope af work, and it ha5
to be really cleared out. You know, it just can't be a little sketch or something. It's �ery if
you've seen the Ha�enly, which is now Pillar o�er there, that was their puhlic art pie�e,
right on the corner by the roundabout. So, it takes months, and 5a we asked that these
de�elopers stay on top of it, because if they want to get their occupan�y permit, that
requirem�nt has to be met prior ta thetn getting that so did a little ba�kgraund.
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GAI�LAGHER: For clarifi�ation. Did you say you're goirig to provide that
dacumentation to us? The Publi� Art Master Plan?
L�Pi75ZANSKI: Yes.
GALLAGHER: Qkay. Thank you.
YaDER: �kay, ma�ing along then Future Agenda iteins and Speakers. Does anyone
ha�e anything they would like to add ta the Future Agenda?
PRESTQN: Yeah, I'll,jump in here. I know. So Bob's reached out and you ha�e
samething written up as well that we didn't include, I belie�e here, or that is wha� we read
a bit ❑f. But as far as looking at the mission staiement, Iaakin� at the role of this
cflmmission, with alI the new commissioners, is there ariy changes you want to make t❑
that`? Is there any specifics yau want to add to that? And I do, I think I said, like, Bob
5ubmitted something an that �ine. So I think we could that's something, if you wanted to,
we can add as a future agenda iiem to take anather look at.
BURNS: I just copied off what was on the website in what I presented t� you there. So if
you want to present ba�k and say, "Hey, da you want to make any changes to this" that's
a diff`erent discussian.
LQPI]SzANSKI: Perfect, and we can do that. I received that after I had already posted
the agenda, so we can add it ta the next I alsa brought ta Ryan's attention. We had
Policies and Pro�edures and guidelines that pre�ious commissioners had done ba�k in 23
that were appro�ed by them and �oted upon. So I will share that information as well, and
if yau see any changes that you want to make an any of that dacumentation too, we can
do that. So we'll put that on as a future agenda item.
YODER: Very gaad. Thank you. Yes, any other questions ar comments?
PRESTQN; Yep, ['ll jump in again. .And I be�ieve there's been a request far kind of an
update on the �ideo series that Debbie Clason �ame in and spoke ab�ut hriefly, and that is
being run through aur Econvmic Develapment Department. I belie�e Amanda Jacabs is
available to �ome in and speak. And I think Patti has that informati�n.
LaPLISZANSKI: Yes, she will be coming in to present on March 5, so I ju�t gat that
confirmation fram her. It would be helpful if you ha�e any questian5 or Specific
infarmatiart that yau're looking far and emaii me with those questions, �r topics that
yvu're laoking for her to address, that will be helpful for her to put her presentatian
together.
PRESTON: As a reminder she spnke on the �ideo series that they were doing of just
different parts of town history, whether it's the history of the greening of the fountain,
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whether it's the public art history in town. 5o that'S the �ideo series �hat has been hased
�n that as well.
YQDER: All right, �ery goad. Then, if there's... All ri�ht,
QBST-DWDRKiS: Where would it be:� Where would we put a questian about �'arks and
Rec and what's happening with the plaque� that was aur very initia� job or that we had...
PRESTQII: Sa when Ke�in braught that up last meeting, I belie�e you guys spoke in
length, a]ittle bit about that la5t meeting that he now has aIl the information. It's m�re of
a timing and budget issue, �nd it's, still there, it's still on the docket. It's still being done
and worked on. It's just nothing's ail that quick. It is 5till in the foresight �f e�erybady. He
5till has it on his list of things to get done and to finalize.
�BST-DWORKIS: Yeah, he had talked, but he had mentioned that he was going to get
back to us what the verbiage was going to be vn each of the plaques and 5tuff. I thought
that we'd ha�e that already. Since it's been almost tw❑ years,
PI�EST�N: The �erhiage, that is what you guys had submitted, ini#iaily, the �erbiage,
correct?
QBST-DWORKiS: The �erbiage, the design of them, as Toni mentioned the QR codes
added to it. So I'm just wandering what's happening. Because, like I said, it's been almnst
�wo years.
PRESTQN: Right and, like I said, it's something that is still bein�; acti�ely worked on.
It's not 1�eing worked an e�ery day. [t is something we ha�e, and we're �lad you were able
to put it tagether. Howe�er, just something with the staff, time, and res�urces we ha�e on
hand, we ha�en't been able ta push thraugh the finish line quite yet.
BllRI�IS: I think maybe, or my impression of what Susan might be Iooking f�r here is
be�ause you're right the impression I got fram Ke�in was that was a proje�t in pragress.
And I think maybe what Susan's laokin� for is kind nf an update on where it's at and what
kind of responsihility still ini�ht fall on us before that goes to the coun�il or whate�er for
appra�a�.
PRESTOhT: Yep, and this may be one that wauldn't e�en �o to the �auncil for appro�al.
This is the one where the Community Ser�ices Director wou2d be able to update those
signs within the park, and �hat i5 what we're looking at here, just to update the sign�.
F�erybady, including all the staff, would iike ta see those signs updated with the work
that yau guys did. And it is a wark in progress. I can try ta get some mare information
anc� narrow down maybe a bet#er timeline for you.
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KLINE: So I ha�e, I'm not sure where this fits in the agenda, but thinking abaut the
President's statues that Bob mentioned, I know the President's Day in February is way too
soon t� get something put together, but the next logical date to me wauld be th� Fourth of
July and as part vf the festivities since it'S the President's Independence Day, is it?
PREST�N: Then, is that an item we want ta add to the agenda next m+onth of discussing
a potential dedication that you mentioned for the statutes af rededication?
BLTRNS: Yeah, that was just a question whether ar nat you're going to do Yeah, and
that's,
PRESTQN: That's something I get back to you an if we'd like to dis�us5 that. We �an
add it to the next month's agenda.
KLrNE: Qkay, yeah, be interesting. Thanks.
L�PU5ZAN5KY: T would like to go ba�k to 5usan's re�uest about the signage because I
know that Ke�in had addre5sed it, and I did f nd it. It's on page l 6 and part flf the process
that he's going through is that we ha�e a lat af ditferent signage that we're also warking
to atta�h to Centennial Pa�ilion. We ha�e some trailheads and things like that. Sa he did,
he did apolagize for n�t being able t❑ ha�e that update, you know, sooner with all of that.
But it is that we are short-staffed, and so it is a matter of creating that marketing and kind
of ihe whole yaur infarmation is so �aluable, we're using it. We ha�� it, �ut it's a matter
of now it's the design of each of these signs and ag�inst material that we're going to be
at�le to u5e. We'�e had some difficulty with one of our vendors that we're tryin� to do
s�me replacements fr�r signage o�er at Fauntain Park that I've been dealing with. And so
it's �ust one of those supply and demand right now, but it is something that is on the
forefront of everyane's warklaad. It's just a matter ❑f getting that taken care of. 50, I do
want to let you know it was in the minutes from No�ember.,
UBST-DWURKIS: Yeah, I reread what he :�aid, and it was a lot af gibberish to me.
YUDER: In furtheran�e of a p�int that Bonnie made, I want us to alsa maybe try to keep
in the back �f aur minds not �ery 1Qng because it takes a long time ta get samething done,
you know, just the way things flow. Eut nex# year is the Nation's 254th �irthday an July
4, and I was here on the Bicentennial when we were became ZQ� years old, and that was
something else. What we did at the fountain and so here we are taday, a new, reiati�ely
n�w commission, and I think we need to talk about that in the �oming meetirtgs and see if
we can play a rate in some way on July 4, 2426.
PREST�N: Absolutely. I think it'S a great idea. It has been menti�ned by the coun�il, I
believe, at a meeting as well, that wa5 brought up what kind of what we would plan for
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]�1NL1A}ZY 8, ZQ�S, VF.RR�1�'iM N]�h:'l'[NG MINUTES
t11at. And I think th� Fc�u�-th of'J�zly i5 ob���ou5ly a �;ultural e�•ent. It'S cla5sified a5 a��e, ��n�
I tlzink thi5 ���c�ulci h� a arcat commission t« maybe ]lelp aui ��•�th somc: idea5 «n �lo��• tn
really �YZ�ke that 5c�rtl�t��ii�j dii`feret�t on the ?SO'''
Y'�I)E�It: �xceli�nt a«d tl�en regarciin� I�avid Cryvrlett, I think ]z�. 5aid he wo��ld 5tay on
the ft�unt�i�� r�co�niti�n �r��c�rk �or us, e��en thou�h he`s resigneci from tile C�nmmi5sian.
C:an we reach out to 11im arrd find nut if�he knows anything, ��r ii`that went thrc�ugh nr
not`'
I.UPL S7.ANtiKI: f can _�u5t Speak to his a� ailability, of wl�ich ��e h�5 none right na�� .
He is pretty siretclled. I reached oiit, aild so «e'll try to �ct � timcline of� ����at ]zis
a� ailahility laok5 like I kno�� 11e }Zad 5pakcn that he really tried to help and 5tay in��olved,
but I thiz�k �is work Schedul� ha5 kind c�f taken him a Iittle �it fiirther away frt�rn 5����1e od`
his hobbie5 a��d t��ings t11at he'4 really interested in. So just ��ant to �i��e yc�u an update nz�
that.
PREST�:V': If ��e want to add �t to the a�cnda, I �an prc��•ide an upd�te nn that n�xt
r��onth. T�1�t'S it'S �urrently in my harzd5 at the moment.
�'(]TIER: That's �reat for thc�5e of yc�u ���ho are new, we have applied to the state of�
�'1ri7ona to h��•e the fotintain rcgi5tcred a5 a llistori�al landmark in �ri�ona, � hich i5 the
first �tep that ���e're tryin� to do #G� gct it registered ���it�� t}�e r�ational �andin��rks. If'there's
no f�irti�er hu5iness, can 1 get a ti'�otivn to Adjaurn`?
GALI..aGI�ER: I so mc�ve
�'(]DER: A second alsc�,
BL� R� 5: Second,
YCii)FR: All th��se i�1 fa�•c�r`?
ALL: �'1ye.
l'f)DER: Elny� o�posed, �ll ri�11t, [he Hiti#ory and Culture Ad��isory L:�rnmis5ion meeting
is tloG�• adjotirt�ed at 5:U7 pm, thank yt�u.
I-fa�•iiig no t�urther ��asine5s, Chair Y'oder adjt�urr�ed t11e R��ular l�7ectin� af t17e I�istory
and C.'ulture Ad��isc7iy C'ammissian an January 8, ?L�?5, at S:tl7 p.m.
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that. And I think the Fourth af July is ob�iously a cultural e�ent. It's classified as one, and
I think this would be a great commissian to maybe help out with some ideas on haw to
really make that something different on the 254`�'
Y[]�ER: Excellent and then re�arding Da�id Corlett, I think he said he would stay ori
the fauntain recognition work far us, e�en th�ugh he'S resigned from the Commission.
C'an we rea�h out ta him and find aut if he knows anything, or if that went through ar
not`?
I��PL57�AN�K[: I can just speak to his a�aitability, of which he has none right naw.
He is pretty stretched. I rea�hed out, and so we'll try to get a timeline of what his
a�ailahility laoks like I know he had spokeri that he reaily tried to help and stay in�al�ed,
hut I think his work s�hedule has kind of taken him a little bit turther away from some of
his habbies and things that he's realiy interested in. So just wani ta gi�e yvu an update on
that.
PR�;STDN: If we want to add it to the agenda, I can pro�ide an update on that next
manth. That�S lt's �urrently in my hands at the moment.
YQDER: That's great for those �f you who are new, we ha�e applied to the state of
Arizona to ha�e the fauntain registered a5 a historicai landmark in Arizona, which is the
first step that we're trying to do ta get it regist�red with the nati�nal �andmarks. If there's
no further business, can I get a iVlvtion to Adjourn`?
GALLAG I� E R: I sa ma�e
�'�DFR: A seeond also.
BURIYS: 5econd,
Y(]DER: All thase in fa�or?
ALL: Aye.
YDDER: Any opposed, all right, the History and Culture Ad�isory Commissi�n meeting
is now ad�aurned at 5:07 pm, thank you.
Ha�ing na further b��siness, Chair Yoder adjourned the Regular Meeting of the Histary
and Culture Ad�isnry Cammi�sian on January $, 2025, at 5:07 p.m.
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JANCIARY 8, 2�25, VER6ATIM MEETII�G MiNUTES
HIST�RY AND CLTLTURE ADVISDRY CQMMISSIQN
Tim Yoder, Chair
ATTEST AND PREPARED BY:
Patti Lapuszanski, Exe�uti�e Assistant
CERTIFICATIQN
I hereby certify that the foregoing minutes are a true and carrect copy of the
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Tawn Hall Coun�il Chambers ❑n January 8, 2�25. I �ertify that the meeting was
duly called, and a quarum was present.
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