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Fountains at �:U� p.m. in a�� open and public session.
Mcsnbcrs Pr�se�lt: C"h�ir Tim Yi�d�r; Vicu-Cllair Susan [7hst-�wnricis; C`c�mn�issiniler Bob Buri�s;
Commissit�ner Peter Ciallagher; Commissit�ner Bonnie Kline; Commissioner �I�oni LePoer; Vacant Seat
StaffPr�sent: Recrcatinn Mai�ag�r Ryan Preston; ExGcuti��e Assista�zt Patti Lopus�anski
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HISTOAY �1ND CiJI.TURE �LDVISf3RY CQMMFSSION
MAY 7, 2Q25, VERBATIM MEE'1'1NG MINUTES
YDDER: I'd like ta call May 7, �Q25, meeting of #he History and �ulture Advisary C�mmissivn t� arder
at 4:fl4 p.m. May I get a Roll Call, please?
LQPUSZANSKI: Chair Yoder?
Y�DER: Here.
LDPUSZANSF(4: Vice Chair, ❑�st-Dworkis?
�BST-OWORKIS: Here.
k.QPL1SZAN5Kl: Cvmmissianer Burns?
BURNS: Here.
L�PU5ZAN5KI: Commissioner Kline?
KLINE: Here.
LDPIJSZANSKI: Camm+ssioner Gallagher?
GALLAGHER: Here.
L�PLISZANSKI: Commissioner LePoer?
LEPOER: Hare.
LQPUSZANSKI: Thank yau.
Y�DER: Next item is a Cail ta the Public. �a we have anybQdy far a Call ta the Public?
L�Pl15ZANSKI: W� have no Call to PuE�li�.
YDDER: �kay. Next up, we have Reports hy Cvmmissioners.
LEPQER: I attended the Music on the A�enue, alI faur of them, we keep aur affi�e open, and obviously,
the team and the REMAX are big su�parters af it. It's always very weEl attended, and it's aiways
amazing to watch the people and al� four of them, even the last one that was, you know, a little bit later
in April, was extremeiy well attencfed and gat a Iot af goad comments, so there was a lot of fun and
energy.
YDE3ER: That's great. Anybody else?
KLtNE: I attended the River of Time Museum �vent abo�f their new exhibit, and i# lavks like a �ery
interesting one that will entertain pevple. It's about the big t�and music and the park, and Peter, I think
you were there as well.
GALLAGHER: Yes, I was. It's a�l the famous performers that have cQme to Fountain Hills and played in
the park, no# just big bands, but archestras as well. The last ane, I think, was mare of a popular music
group, but yeah, it's an interesting little exhibit that has six different f�uttons you can push and listen ta
the music pfayed by #hose different perFormers.
6URN5: For work, E got a little bit af a hard hat for h�r at the ❑iscavery Center, and I carr�e along pretty
good. I talked to Joe and Nancy briefly about the plans for publi� art araund the ❑utside, but yau know,
nothing is too definiti�e at this point. Inside> it sounds like it's going to be a great place.
YDDER: If there are no ather camments, let's move on t� the next i#em, which is a Presentation by
Ryan Preston: 5ee My Legacy.
PREST�N: That's me. ! think a presentation may be a bit of a stretch fvr this ane. �n {�age six in front
af yau in your agenda, if you want to scroll down, what I'm gaing to dv is click and kind of take you to
the website. I was gving t� da tha# on the hig screen. LJr�fort�nately, due to my tardiness, I did not have
a c#�ance to set that up. 50, 1 apologize. I'f� kinci af expfain how we're using #his and what we're dving
with it. We haven't purchased it yet. We d❑ have a meeting this week to kind af ga ❑ver and make the
final decision vn exa�tfy what and haw much we're gtiing to purchase, and i'il talk abaut that here in a
second. 50, iYs page fi, yau see the link, see rr�y legacy.com when you click that, it should take you.
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To their web page. Yvu can al4aw it. And i'li kind of just talk my way througf� this brieffy. It's basic�lfy,
yau can kind of scroll around while I do a quick o�erview. It's, i#'s in the stafF summary as well, but it's,
it's a way ta get informafion quickly abaut peopie where and wh�n they want it. 50, �ne of the main
things you'll see is QR code plaques and things like that. So, if yau cii�k on QR plaques on the top tab,
the QR plaques are the main thing; that's where a Iot af pur focus is. And if you see here, they use it a
lot for Memorial b�nches and t�ings like that. �ne of the firsi things we're gaing fa do with it is to use it
as aur public arl. And sa, peQ�ie will be abie to click the C�R cade, anci it wiEi go right to infarmation
about that art piece. And the great thing about this, the saf#ware is it's all integrat�d. It's all linked to
their end. It's nat us on their gavemment website. This is heid on the 5ee My Legacy website, and sa it
will immediate�y say, da you want to take an art tour, for example? And it'll pul! up a map of every singEe
piece of art that we have 1abeled and caded with this, and th�y'll be able to walk from one piece to
anather. ft'll heip direct them from ane piece ta another. And e�ery QR code will be unique on each
plece, and it will pop up inf�rmat�on ahou# that art, which is informatian that our public art group is going
ta be F�elping me put together. We da have a few pamphlets and printouts ❑n #hat already. Some of it
will want to expand upon same of it. There's very fittle to begin with. nthers wilf probably just keep it as
it is and add it ta this software. This is also possibly wha# we're iaaking at for yaur Paints of Interest as
wel�. If yau re�all, we ha�e 5 Points of Interest. We ha�e not forgotten that these plaques can most
likeiy �e used for that purpase as well. But we're loaking into whether we want ta use this ar go a
different direction with that. In addition, also there be your signs that yau came up, for example, for
Fauntain Park, this will be, there wifl be QR cQdes assaciated with that as weli. They can get you
infarmatian about where you are ❑n time, ak�out what you're looking at. �r what you want. And all that
infarmati�n wi11 be housed in one spot and easy to navigate. Yau know, we'�e e�en talked about it, so
again, Tim, your idea with the averlays of the maps, this is probably where we wou#d put that within
spots where you can see thase, that in time as well. And sa that's our main use far this. You'll see an
fhis website, there are a fot of likes, donor things, and things like that, which prahably won't push too
hea�y in that direction. It's going to be a lat of aur art pieces and things like that. And Tani, what your
group is going t� help us with, as well, is figure out what is gaing to he aur first X amount that we're
going #o start with these, which anes do we want ta highkight? Are we gaing to dfl 20, 30, 5fl, ofF the
bat? Whi�h is one of the reasons we haven't purchased this yet. We kind af want to have a bulk price
for as many af these plaques anci QR cades as we want to order ahead of time. And s� that's what this
is. That's the, 5ee, My Legacy, that's a�out this art taurs inf�rmatian and way above and beyand that,
right? They'll be able ta s�an at a Ramada and see when it's reserved. They'll be able to scan at a
pickleba4i cvurt, see w�en those are reserved, and be able to haok #hemsel�es intv a league from
there. So, it's all this just infarmation at yaur fngertips, vne ciick away, that is the goal �f this prvicess.
So, daes arsybody have any questiflns abaut what we're loaking at with that, or anything in relation?
BURNS: Is this something yau've already acquired?
PREST�N: No, we're waiting, but it will �e before July 1. We are waiting to get tagether and �igure ❑ut
how many of the plagues and things we want ta order, because we wan# ta d❑ all that in the same
purchase, as it will be discounted, a bulk dis�aunt that way, anr� trying t❑ save a little maney. Apalogize,
I didn'# have anything formaf set �p for you guys. But fhe big ❑ne is if yvu click, like l said, Qn the C2R
plaques, and then, if you }ust hover o�er tf�at an the tap, and t�en, as you're hovered, ga ta the left and
click an QR plaques again, yau'll kind af see what thvse laak like. The little square ❑ne by the tree,
we're gaing ta use that for a lot of just the art thaf already has information ❑n it.
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And t€�en anything where we want to have a story alon� with it, like paints af interest, wil! be the larger
plaque with the details an i#.
Y�DER: It loaks great. 1 am impressed by the concept. And it just brings to mind lots of questians
a�out these cQmpanies that do this and that kind af thing. Coal.
PRESTQN: Yep, and we've had a lot vf conversatians with the campany already. We'�e had
�on�ersativns about, if they g❑ �nder, wh�'s the awner of these links and everything, and we ha�e
estabiished that thase are held far us, either way, in the clvud. So even if the company goes under, we
have a 1 Q-year windvw where we awn websites and things like that, so they wfluld turn o�er to us. So,
langevity and everykhing ha�e been ivvked at wi#h #F�is as well. Thank you.
YO�ER: Any other cvmments ar questians abaut that? Sounds great? Thank yvu. Qkay, mo�ing right
alvng, the next agenda item is Appro�ing the Verbatim Minutes frvm the last meeting, April 2,
2�25. ❑oes anybady have any commer�ts? Can I get a matian to appra�e?
�BST-�WQRKIS: I make a motivn tv appr��e the minutes.
GALLAGHER: E second the m�tian.
Y�DER: A!i those in favar?
ALL: Aye.
Y�D�R: Any ❑ppositivn?
LOPl15,ZANSItI: Matian passes 6-�.
YDDER: All right, next to the agenda is the Historical Registry far the fountain. Think we ha�e same
things ta say about that. BaE�, would you like t❑ start?
BLJRNS: f guess looking f�r a little direction at this point. 1 know we still have same time that we're
working, but the item that I ha�e written is righ# now, about � DDO words, and i# brings me up #o about
where we �an make a transition into the listings that you ha�e. And I wan#ed some dis�ussion as to
haw we wanted ta approach that, be�ause, yvu know, mine is a narrative writing and not a list. Just
trying to figure out haw to make a segue there, and if I �fon't know if we need to get tagether and look at
what yau'�e gat and see if it needs to be pared dawn, ar what, or anything like that. I als� had a
question. I dan't knaw if Ryan can pro�ide directions or anything there, but I know you and I talked
ab�ut including information about the Ve#erans Memariai, and then 1 got ko thinicing abaut that, you
know, that's been 2Q years since there. Dves that cut into the legacy af #he fountair� in the park that
have been around for 5a and I don't know haw that might impa�t, the thinkir�g af svrneone wha's
IaQking at that and cansidering, I mean, it's a great Veterans Memvrial, k�ut it doesn't have q�ite the
same historical legacy that the �ark and the fvuntain do at this p�int. I'rn wondering how somebody
might iovk at this, as it isn'# part vf the Qverall landmark thing. But, I mean, it's part of the ❑verall
landmark, but it daesn't ha�e that same iega�y.
PREST�N: 1 would prabably lean toward agreeing f� leaving it vut, lt's also just gi�en when the town
was incorparated, as well as the t+ming vf #he wars and things like that. I think, as far as the historical
significance, like yau said, it daesn't carry a lot of weight, specifically, if you're laoking at the Town vf
Fountain Hi�ls. 5a, I would say it wauld �e good. I don't think you woulrf need ta highlight that. Ar�d
again, if anybady has a different opinion.
BURNS: No, akay, like I said, I Eo�e the facility, and i think it's nice and warm, prohably one of the
nicest ones in the cauntry, but it doesn't really fit for somebady who's trying tv cansider whether t�is is a
50-year-old Historic Landmark.
GALLAGHER: In what year was the Veterans Memorial constructed?
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BURNS: 20fl5.
GALLAGHER: Thanks.
BURNS: This May is the �ath anniversary of the dedication.
LEP�ER: Would it just �e considered an enhancement, like sv many other pieces af the park, like the
Instrument Museum and the kids' water thing? I would just think it wauld be considered an
enhancement, like a!I fhe additions that they'�e made.
PR�5T0l�: I tF�ink i# c�uid be a mention, iike i said, # wa�al�n�t see ii as Tar as it �eing a highiignt.
GALLAGHER: Bah, is your 1��Q-ward story going ta tell the story of the park from beginning ta end, ar
jusf the founding of the town?
6URN5: Nv, it doesn't get into ihe founding af the town at a[!.
GALLAGHER: I'm sorry, I'm missing the point.
6URNS: !'m sorry. k got Tim a copy, but I was having problems with my email, and I don't kr�ow
whether I sent Ryan and Patti a �apy af it or not. No, l guess not. 50, I guess it is a�ailable for
disfri�utian.
GALLAGHER: My questivn is, if fhis stary had a headline, what would it be?
BURNS: I'm sorry.
GALLAGHER: If your stary had a headline, what would tha# headline say?
BLIRNS: Basically, and I kind af took a cue from a comment Ryan made ta me, t�asically started with
#he peaple who were hehind it, Robert McCullough, C6 VIlood, Larne Pratt, ta some extent, and talked
about their invoEvement and these guys wh� ha�e a much broader Hisforic Environment in the
Soutf�wesf, and as an industrialist and community designer and i got into, you knqw, haw that led to the
d��elopment of #he fountain, and then that kind of fed of#, you know, McCullough's imagining the
London Bridge at Lake Ha�asu and bringing it aver. And then just kind of turning around when the
apportunities showed themsel�es or the idea came up far the fountain, how they seized on that and
took it to some peaple who cauld make it spectacuiar, and then that is kind of an �verall, broad picture
of it.
GAL�AGHER: �kay, thank yau. With that understanding than m�ntianing anything ather than haw the
Fountain Park came to be is irrelevant.
BURNS: No, I'm thinking, yeah. And I did get into, you knaw, fram Lvrne Pratt's aspect, get inta,
because I think it's signifiGanf, is the marketing af the community. Because you're talking at�out
samebody starting with di�t and turning it inta a city, and, yau know, using the fo�ntain as a drawing.
Y�DER: I had a few #houghts I'd like ta share, and I don't care either way, �u# E waufd feef negligent if I
didn't speak ta the subject. 50, if you loak at the application, ta have some piaces listed as nat�onal
landmarks. It talks about property, and so the property of the fountain is nat, you knaw, it's not just the
water in the lake. I think it's always been one unit, the park and the Eake, and t�e fQuntain itself as a
unit. That's my �{�inion, and so based on that, if you examine some af the other narrati�es that you
guys were kind enaugh to share with us, tF�at were written abvut certain buildings back East or in
Boston ar whatever. It's my opinion that the evaluators are interested ir� bo#h what yau are putting
together, Bob, but alsfl what it Inoks like taday, and how it gets there. 50, like paraphrasing it down ta
the real thing relaied to this, this timeline that was just a fancy af mine. You know, I think that same of
what exists at the Fountain Park shauld �e mentioned. I don'f think there's any �eed t� talk about this
guy who did a concert there. That person did a cvn�ert there. But a p�rase like, there have been many
Arizona Phoenix Symphony con��rts, flr i# has been a venue for entertainment at ali levels. YQu know,
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The park is a spat far dis� galf. It's ranked number ❑ne or twa in the world, or at least in the tap five
now, and there's been the Warld Champivnships have been held there. I think that's the only athleti�
thing at the park. It seems like it should be mentiorred that it was installed vn this date, and that the
park continues ta be a host of athletic championships, yvu kn�w? And then the art, for example, the
park is used as a venue ta display public ar#. And then maybe, I don't know, whate�er somebac�y thinks
is the most na#ab{e first piace that was put there, or first praject, I just off the top of my hea�, I think vf
the Presfdent's. It also hosts bronze art of the presidential #�rvnze art that was star#ed in 1996 or
whatever year it was. 1 don't know that. So that's just, yau know, the big things, it seems to me like this,
the storefront there tav, #hat's technica}ly an the property. And somebody in Washington, ❑C, to me,
would want to know what this place laoks like, you 4cnow, on paper. Buf I, you knvw, disagree with other
thaughts on this. That's just my opinian.
GA�LAGHER: I guess my confusion comes from, are we suppased to bE talking about how the park
got to be where it is taday, or are we jusf talking abaut how the park originated? Yeah, and I dan't knvw
the answer ta that question.
KLINE: I wauld just like #a maybe point out that ariginally, F�untain Hslls was gaing to be called
Chaparraf City, and it was going to be based vn OrerrF Lake, which, you know, was fflr it would tae
formed by Qren �am, untif that gvt defeated, and that the organizers of the tawn needed a new fa�ai
paint, and sv if gave them a chance to pi�ot and choase a new fo�a1 paint ta bring the town into being.
And ha�ing the world's highest founta{n. kt was a big enaugh attraction ta fly people in from all o�er the
country and attract warld-renawned perFarmers, nat just lacal perfarmers.
6URN5: Tim, I have nvt had an vp{��rtunity to read what you have there, and I'd �o�e ta be able to sa I
don't know, t�ut, I'm nat sure how broad a range o� stufF y�u're looking at there, but I can see A
considerable difference between a structure building back east and this fountain and park, because I
can se�, okay, what daes this building laok like tvday? As ir�, has it been restored? Was it restored as it
should ha�e been? That kind of stuff, and we dan't ha�e that to work with. 8onnie, I unc�erstand what
you're saying fram the t�is#oricaf standpaint. But again, you kn�w, fram what kind of what Ryan was
thinking here tao, going hesitating to go too far afield, from what we're talking ahout the fauntain in the
park, and nat necessarily getting started wandering off into the hist�ry af Fountain Hills taa much. I'�e
been trying to avoid tf�at. And sv, yvu kr�aw, that's my thaughts on that.
PRESTON: To add to this. And I think, you know, obviously the histary vf the fountair�, the faund in the
histvry af the town are tied closely together, and I think w� can, we cauld puil thos� strings. But like yau
said, nvt going too far. The good news is, this is no# a test, and we have access to samebvdy at tf�e art
histari�al registry, wha I'm pretty sure woufd be very wiiling to help loak at, look at drafts and see if
we're gaing in the right direction and pravide sugg�stions. I'm going ta rea�h out ta him, probably
t�mvrrvw, and see if mayk�e Tim, who's in tt�e work grvup again. flkay, so maybe Tim, I'll put you in
contac# with him as a paint of contact, he seems �ery wil�ing to bounce ideas ofF him aS far as what
should work with this fountain and the park. He's the ane suggested ta da the whole park, r��t just the
�auntain. He's alsv the ane who suggesteci that maybe the personality of the peaple t�ehind it was a
gaad angle to take their historical significance thrvug�aut the southwest, fike yau mentioned, and jusf
the people wha braught this tagether. This is historically signifi�ant, specifically M�Cullough and CV
Wood, and sa he prvvided a Ivt of these suggestians in the framework, which ! knvw Bob and I talked
about, an�i that you're gaing ❑fF n�w. Sa, I'll do my best to put you guys in contact as a gaod reference
to check if we're on tl�e right track.
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YaO�R: Thank you. That sounds good.
BURNS: And I think what Ryan's just saying there Tim mlght in my, from my perspective anyway, is
why is it, ❑r why it might nat be a bad idea or kind ❑f a gaad idea to, you know, name drop ❑n some of
the people tha# have pertarmed at the park, because thvse are same pretty bkg names. Yoca know that
no# toa many yaung people prabably recognize them. but, from a historicai perspective, significant in
my mind.
KLfNE: So, Bab, yau may icnow the answer to fhis, but fhere w�s a farr�ous carr�peiltion be#ween 3ilfie
Jean King, was fhat in Fauntain Park?
BURNS: �inaudibie recording}
YQ�ER: akay, any otfi�er comments ❑n that? I'm trying to think if I have something,
KE.lNE: ❑o yau have an idea w�en this might be �ompleted, and wauld it be next year? And couid an
e�en# be made araund the presentation af that st�tus?
PRESTflN: Yeah, it's a great questian, �ne that was brought up by somebody else recently as well. I
think the gr�at timing would be July 4, 2a26. 1'm not qui#e sur� of the timeline for this. That is a questiQn
I alsa have for our contacf, and, you know, it wouldn't be a bad time to shoot for hasically, yau know, a
year and a coup�e mvnths from naw, the state was a quick turnaround. I'm sure the national is a fitt�e
different, and so I'EI in�estigate that for you guys when we touch base.
BURNS: I guess !'d be inferesfed in there, As far as timing go�s, when should we plan to sulamit? Yvu
knaw?
PRESTQN: Yeah, I think it's eariy faf�, by the end of the year, w#�at, you know, I kind of
right. Well, I mean, our meetings are limited at this �aint. What we have before fall, we have just ane
mflre, ancf then we're ❑ut till 5eptember, ! believe. And sQ, I think, the end ❑f fall would be a good time
frame to aim far. Maybe hy No�ember, we're reviewing as a �ommission, and then looking #o push it
forward thraugh #hat.
Y�DER: Another thing, I'I! ask this, this cantact, yau know, we da kind vf a cool, techni�al water sa�ing
thing with this aquifer storage and recovety. Well, that makes us loak smart. f�nd I think one af th�se, at
least, is an the fountain praperty, in the park property, three of them are so that, like, along the lines
with maybe name dropping like this is, seems ta me samething that shauld possibly be cansidered fo
go in.
BURNS: I did touch on that in the narrative. I dan't recall how mu�h I spoke abaut it.
Y�O�R: Very good. Okay, rr�oving right along. Let's ga tv the 25Uth Anni�ersary U�date. Anyhady
want to speak on tha#?
BURNS: I received something, and I triecf to get it to my caharts here in the cammunity. But this is the
250th Natianal and 1, you knaw, I looked this ❑ver, t�ut I thought we probably ought to try ta get #ogether
in a meeting sametime. And, yvu knaw, kind of bounce same of these ideas, because it goes in
somewhat spe�ific as to what kind o# pragrams theyYe hosting anci sponsaring, and different ideas that
we might be abie #o latch an ta. I think I�orwarded this ta Pafti.
KLINE: Sa, I recei�ed it, Bvt�, �ut I ha�en't had a c�ance to loak through it in defail yet.
BURNS: You did get it? �kay?
LDPIJSZANSKI: No, I didn't recei�e it because I would have attached it tQ the packet, so if I may, I'll
take that, and then l'I! send an email to everybody.
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PREST�N: That was going ta be ane flf my notes for this. This agenda item is, you know, looking at
what is t�eing dane r�ativnalfy and what maybe we can adapt t❑ locally, or just spark ideas #or things
that we want to maybe tackle here as welf.
KLINE: f talked ta the regent of the local DAR and I know they're planning an e�ent at the c�mrnunity
�enter on February 7 next year, and it's Tvast t❑ L.iberty, and they're going to have a well-known au#hor
as a speaker and a silent auction and kind af a U5� theme as a happy birthday to the country, hig
banc� music and that kind of thing. 50, and I knaw I di�n't get a chance tv talk t4a much #o the Ri�er af
Time Museum, but I know thay're planning same e�ents, and it saunds like different graups in town are
planning events, and maybe the town could take a, y�u know, gather them all tagether under ane
heading or program, sa like a year vf e�ents,
BllRNS: Give me same information, Bonnie, and you �an send it ta me an email at the affice, and I'll
put sorr►ething tagether today that we can put on the paper and say, "Hey, you knaw, if yau're planning
some#hing, reach ❑ut," ❑kay,
KL.INE: i'm thinking the VFW and the American Legion may aisa have e�ents that would tie in. I dan't
know if we want ta include state e�ents orjust iceep it to what's happen4ng within the boundaries af
Fountain Hills.
PREST�N: Yeah, if y�u guys want ta �egin compi3ing that infarmatian, that �ould be great. Just abaut
the note in fF�e paper. �bviously, if it's caming fram you, i#'s fine. 1f it's under the name of the
Comm�ssian, we want to appro�e any postings that would go in there first.
GALLAGHER: What makes sense is the suggestivn tv have the tawn weigh in.
PREST�N: Just, you knaw, if it's coming from the commission or the paper, just making sure if it's from
the Cammissian, that we just have a quick look at it.
LEP�ER: There are alsa different things arour�d town that have lacal e�ents, like y�u'�e got the Desert
Vibe, and I think I love Fountain Hills and experience Fvuntain Hills. Sp, we cauld work with those
people, t�v, ta see if it could get posted on their ciifferent e�ent calendars.
PRESTON: �xperience Fountain Hills is our version of the �atch-all, everything, and that's any�ody can
put an that at any giv�n time. 5a, we can always d❑ what we da if we encourage the e�ent organizers
to put that an themselves, to add it to that �alendar.
KLINE: 5a, I was alsa Ivv#cing intv like reenactvrs ar�d that kind af thing, if there's still an interest in
having #hat, either for the President's Day and something revQl�ing araund the Presiclent's statues vr
rnaybe svme other e�ent. I'm just wondering whether tv go ahead and pursue talking to people like the
Arizana Historical Society and differen# speaker organizations.
PREST�N: Yeah, it ne�er hurts tv talk #o them. I think I don't ha�e your �ision. f dor�'t know what that
wQuld 4aok like as or within an event ar as a sEandalane event. 50, if you have same mare details, you
could share same thoughts that you put tagether, we'd �e �appy to hear, I think, as a grQup.
f{LlNE: I was quite excifed abaut ane graup, and then I 6aund aut tt�at it's only for schaol kids Qr home-
schvoEed kids. it's n�t that they dan't go �ut and do events, but it's all about the 18#h �entury, mainly the
Ci�il War or the Revolutionary War, and they ha�e Gearge Washington as a speaker, and colanial
ladies and a whvle bunch af e�ents that wo�ld E�e nice ta tie intv, and they have them at 5�hnepp
Farms. I didn't knvw if they branched ❑ut and braught it aut to other places, but it sounds #ike it's mainly
for school children and not the public.
YODER: Let's move o� to the next suhject, then, and that is Puhiic Art {dentification. �aes anybvdy
ha�e anything about that?
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LEPDER: A�ouf all I can say is k ha�e all kinds af inf�rmatifln. I've got pub4i� art, some puhlic art
infarmation, and I can pull it all as weli as I ha�e a baok. I ha�e, like, tans that we already regist�red.
What I'm more �uriaus about is that there's also a lat of big private pieces. Is that something we're
�ansidering ar noi, maybe not the first round?
PREST�N: No, we wauldn't. We wauEdn't da any#hing with the pri�ate pieces. Most likely I can, I can
confirm that, but i'm pretty sure we wauld stay with the public art. So, our side wauld �e campletely
public ar#.
LEP�ER: flkay, we{I, I have a full list of aii that. I ha�e a bnok that lists every piece af public art, fram a
palnting to everything. And so, I'�e gat ali #ha# already.
PRESTON: Dkay, pertect. And a question, have you been able to look through the descrip#i�ns, see if
any of them need a iittle updating, if any of them need a little h�ip?
LEPQER: I think they all couid use a litt4e bit of help. And I knaw tfi�at there are also new pictures that
were taken, and that I don't have y�t, but ! know that we had a new Jenny Willigrod who had new
photos taken. And I'rn goir�g ta have to rea�h out to Jenny to se� where those are stared, and I'll grab
all that.
KLINE: Is that the �acent Handboak?
LEPOER: I'm not sure if it's a Dacent Handbaok or nflt, but I know thaf we ha�e a fu�l list pf, I mean, I
think she had all the new public art photas taken af all the public art af#er it was cleaned last time. Is it
the docent Handbaak of that?
KLINE: I ha�e Docent Handba�ks, but they're not up to �iate.
LEPOER: Well, I mean, a!at af art, l mean, it`s about it, doesn't change. We ha�en't had anything new
in a while. 50, I think it's probabfy abo�t as up-ta-date as it can be. And I think if we puil it all tagether,
we could pr�bably look at, if w� want to fluff, some Qf the capy about each pie�e, descriptions.
LOPUSZANSKI: Do you know the date af your book? We'�e had same pie�es that have heen
decomrriissianed. So, I was just wonder�ng, haw current is it?
LEPDER: I'm not sure. I know. 4 just got it like in the fall. So, I mean, it may still have some pieces tha#
ha�e been decommissioned. I mean, it's nat like a formal book. It's just fike somebady puts it tagether,
like little descriptions abaut all the �ieces vf art, and puts it all togefher. So, I ha�en't walked around
and made sure thaf, yau know, every ane of #hem is still there. Yet. I ha�en't verified that. But wh�n
put�lic art was then brought info the town. I was given this book, iike, here, you're going t❑ need this
now.
L�PIJSZANSKI: So sorry, because we do have a listing as well, like, yau knpw, past �Cind ❑f, again,
kind of, in paper form that pictures taken. But we have gone through, we did have same, quite a few
pieces tha# ha�e been decommiss+oned, same pieces returned to tY�e ariginal artist if they wanted it,
and then also same that just were ill-repaired, just we couldn'# do anything witt� them. Sa may�e we
can, yvu know, bring that tn, ar we can take a look and see how �urrent it is, and then we can go there.
LEPOER: Ahsolutely, I thin4c that's a goad idea, yeah. And like I said, 4 have ali kinds. I have some
infarmation that was pulled tageth�r the last time thai they did the QR cndes that are, yeah, obviously
no longer working. I'�e gpt recnrdings from �ideas vf same af the aKists that were dane. I've got a lat vf
informatian.
PRESTON: Per#e�t, I encourage everybady who's in the work group, or anybody who wants tv �heck it
ou#, ta have a public ar# web page. There are a few P�F links ❑n there. One of tf�e things I think is the
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T#�e town has the full list of public art in the descriptions within that. And that's probably what we'll laok
to kind of may4�e base a Iot �f this off, as far as updating things like that. So, on the public art page,
there
is a P�F with the full listing, at least at the time af the creatian af puh�ic art, and informati�n about each
piece as well.
YODER: Re�ated to this, it fooks like the next agenda item is Public Art Appfications.
LflPllSZANSKI: 50, at this point, we dv nvt have anything coming farward as an appficatian fram a
d��eloper.
Y��ER: All right, then m�ving on ta Future Agenda Items and Presentations, I'd like to me. Ta make
a nvte t�at I think, I think this is pertinent to this. Peter and I went #o a schaal hoard mseting iast month
a�ter aur cammiss�an meeting, and it was sa delayed. We sat there, I think, for about two haurs, and we
left withouf ha�ing the ability ta speak to the baard. 5a, unfortunately, the schaal bvard meets ❑n the
first Wednesday of e�ery month, and they have another second Wednesday. Well, since ! missed I
personally, maybe Peter can join me again. I've, I'm gving ta ga to the June 18 s�haol board meeting ta
propose next year's essay and art �ontest. That's the last meeting of this year hefore, you knaw, the
summer �reak far schoal. And I think that shauld be adequate, and hopefuily nvt taa crazy busy. The
one late, I asked the superintendent abaut may not today, but the next vne in two weeks, and he said
tha#'ll be, that'll be crazy, because it's just it's right befvre graduation, and there will not be a gaod
oppartunity for the publi� ta speak there. Sv, !'ll da that on June 18, and if yau want ta jain me.
�ALLAGHER: I'd be happy ta we can get oursel�es put an their agenda so that we have space
reserved for us to speak to.
YDDER: Let me talk ta the Superintendenf.
GALLAGHER: Not sure how their process warks.
YDDER: �kay? Any vther camments at�out future agenda items and presentatians, so t{�at rny report
will be at the firs# meeting hack in September.
L(]PItSZANSKI: Toni, did you want tQ be put an the agenda for J�ne, for the art baQk, and bring that
forward? ❑ther things. ❑kay,
LEP�ER: And yes, please do All, I do same gaod I've all figured out, okay?
YODER: And can we da, do? 5hould we da another cantinued update an the historicaE registry and �50
anniversary and all that just rolls over without being said, akay, all right, then, if there's nvthing further,
the next history and culture Ad�isory Commissivn meeting will be June 4. 2025, I'm loaking at it.
Any ather further comments? akay, can I get a mfltion ta adjourn?
❑BST-DWORKIS: I am making a Motion to Adjourn the Meeting.
KLINE: f'll secand that motion.
YDOER: Afl in fa�or?
ALL: Aye.
YO��R: Any appasitian?
L�PLISZANSKI: Mation to adjaurn passes 5-Q.
Ha�ing no furthcr business, Chair Yoder ad�ourned the Regular Nleeting of the History auid Culture
Ad�isory Cammission on May 7, 2�25, at 4:48 p.m.
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1 hereby certify that the fe�r��nin� minutes are a true and cc�rrect capy nf t13c �•erbatim miziutes t�f
the History and Culturc Ad�•isc}ry Cnmmissinn he:]d in the Town F��11 Cnui�cil Cryhambers �n May
7. ?U?S. I certity that th� meeting was duly callcd, a�zd a qt��zruzn was pr�sent.
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