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Home My WebLink AboutHCAC.2025.1105.Minutes1� T�WN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS MINUTES ❑F THE REGULAR MEETING �F THE F�UNTAIN HILLS H15TQRY AND CIJLTURE ADVISORY C�MM4SSION N�VEMBER 5, 2D25 A Regular Meeting af the FQuntain Hills Histvry and Culture Advisvry Commissi4n was cvn�ened at 16705 E. Avenue af the Fauntains in open and publi� session at 4:Q0 p.m. Members Present: Chairperson Tim Yoder; Commissioner Bob Burns; Commissianer Peter Gallagher; Cammissioner 8onnie Kline; Cammissioner Bonnie LePoer; Commissioner Chandler Harper; C�mmissioner Tiffany Titus Members Absent: Nane Staf# Present: Recreation Manag�r Ryan Preston; Executiv� Assistant Paula Wv odwa rd � ��AI��1 � ,� �,�� s�, ,� ,� � , � � � � o r �t� z z , �, r� C' , 'i l e � . � b • � � . ��J �.�+'� O�`� �ha t � s A'�iti � T�WN �F FDUNTAIN HILLS NOVEMBER 5, ZOZS H15TORY AND CULTURE A[]VIS�RY CDMM1551�iV MfETING .:��.. PDSt-�I'OdltCtlDll Fl�e Town of Fountain Hills HiStary and Culture Ad�isory Cammis5ion Meeting No�emher 5, 2025 Transcription Provided By: e5cribers. LLC * � * � * Transcription is pra�ided in order to facilitate communicatian accessil�ility and may not be a totally verbatim record of the proceedings. ��*�* Page 1 of 23 TpWN DF FpUNTAIN HILLS NOVEMBER 5, 2025 HIST�RY ANa CULTURE AE}VISORY CflMM1551�N MEETING YDDER: -- twa new memhers ❑f the commissian, Tiffany Titus and Chandler Harper, and wauld in�ite yau to gi�e a brief introduction of yvursel�es, if you wouid fike. You ha�e tv first push the red button dvwn and -- PRESTON: The buttan an the rig�t is the -- will be red. TITL15: I prepared some things. I knew it was going t❑ be recorded. Thank yau, council members -- or cammission members. This is s❑ exciting. Sa my name is Tiffany Titus. And I don't necessarily feel like reading all af this, but I'm just �ery happy tv be here. I'm an executive baard mem�er �f the ilovefountainhills.arg group, Fountain Hills Cultural & Ci�ic nrganitatiar� [sic], and recent Leadership Academy graduate in 2024. I've lived in Fountain Hills for almost six years now and absolutely love our tawn, and it's just an honort❑ be abfe to serve on this cammEssion. ihank you �ery much. YDDER: Thank you. And now for Chandler. HARPER: I dan't have any prepared remarks, but I'm Chandler Harper. k've li�ed here � since 202fl, here in Fountain Hills. I'm also �ery happy to be here. Very ex�ited to work with you all. 5�me background on myself, I`m a licensed attorney here in Arizona, hut worlc primarily on transactional items throughout the country, mainly dealing with high net worth individuals and real estate de�elapers. specifically on a lot �f historic de�elapment projects and things like that. 5o hoping ta bring some ❑f that knowledge to the table here. And I'm also a certified finaneial planner. I have my CFP designation as we�l. 5a a lot af financial analysis that I utilize with the legal side and h�pe that I �an be of some use here as weil. So looking farward t❑ it. YD�ER: All right. Thank you very much. With that, Ms. Paula, couid we i�ave a roll call, please? WQQDWARD: Chair Yoder? YDDER: �ere. W��pWAR�: Commissioner 6urns? BURNS: Here. WD�QWAF2D: Cammissiot�er Gallagher? � Page 2 of 23 T�WN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS N�VEM6ER 5, 2�25 H15TQRY AND CULTURE A�VISORY C�MMIS510N MEETING � GALLAGHER: Here. WD�DWARD: Cammissianer Kline? KLINE: Here. W�ODWARD: Cammissianer LePaer? LEPDER: Here. WO�DWARd: Cammissioner Harper? HARPER: Here. WOD�WARD: Commissianer Titus? TiTUS: Here. YD�ER: A11 right. �hank yau. ❑ur next order of business is to welcome Ryan Preston. who is here always, and going to gi�e us a presentation taday. Thank you. PRESTON: All right. This one wilf he pretty quick. Just as promised, this is about the new qR code system we're using for the public art walks an�f tracking that and adding stories and kind of bringing that into, I would i��e to say the 21st century, but I think we're getting inta the 2�th at this point. We're still catching up, but we -- right now, our website basicaliy has a Google map on it with pinpainted locations with some information abaut all the public art pieces. Yflu can find #hat on the town website. We recently started working with a grQup called SeeMyLegacy, who kind of jus# has a neater way to house these art walks, and we're also adding points af interest t❑ that. So the ones that yau guys have designated, we're alsa adding ta this walk, and we'll be adding mflre things as we go. Right naw, the town has purchased abaut, I think, a hundred QR �odes, which won't even co�er all the public art that we have in town. All those QR codes will f�e placed on -- whether the art statues or the plaques we end up creating for our main points of interest and historica� places that this �ommission has identified arvund town t❑ be recognized. 5o this is just going to be a quiek IQok at that. This is kind of our hor►�te page. Mast people won't see this. We're going to link directly ta a lat of our campaigns and �ommunity stories. 6ut let's da the SeeMyLegacy. We're going to look at Qur campaigns here. These are the anly twa public anes we have right now. Right naw, it's just the Centennial Circle Art Walk and then a few flf the Page 3 nf 23 TaWN flF F�UNTAIIV HILLS NOVEM6ER 5, 2025 H15TaRY AND CULTURE AOVIS�RY CQMMI$SIpN MEfTING histaricaf markers. Anybady re�ognize what that is? Yeah. 5❑ that's the dam there. So what will happen is -- let's go ahead and -- ❑h, I'rn logged in. Let me !�g out of this campaign, actually. Let me go on the user end here, if it'll !et me. Nope. So I'm just going to Iog aut. Dkay. So this is what the user end is going t❑ loak like. You can begin the tflur. S❑ there'll be one qR code at each main lo�ation that we have everything. So there'll be ane main pEot QR, main plaque at Centenniaf Circle, that'll be for the informativn that is abaut the art walk, the art in that area, and then all the smaller QR �odes on ea�h indi�idual art piece. There'li be one for e�ery main area that we're attacking, and that's Centennial Circle. That's our -- that's the avenue, that's Fountain Park right now, our three main targets. 5o as you zoam in, as I zoam in, so what yau're looking at now is our a�erlook ❑f Centennial Circle. Again, yau can zoom in as much as you want here. �here are tw❑ that are swapped, so if you noti�e twa in the wrong p�aces, I am aware and wiEl -- knvw that. Sa y�u cli�k on it, you can open it up. And what it does, it gi�es you the art piece. � It gi�es you the history abaut the artist who made it, ar as much infas-mation as we ha�e right now abaut the artists, and then about the piece as well. Yau �an always go back tv the tour averview. You can 7C out and continue, kind af, yaur walk thraugh. And this is pretty much just what it looks right now. We are adding a few mare things to it. Toni will be working tflgether with your work graup an any information I'm missing for a{ot af these, or if we want ta add more information. A 1ot af the artists are repeat artists, so yau'll see them appearing a few times. And then yau alsa see this if yau scan any vf thflse indi�idual aR codes. 5o right now, if you scan the QR cade that will be an this piece, entitled Truth, this in�ormation will pop right up in ir�nt of you, and then we'11 have a link ta go ta the main map to be able to see where e�ery#hing else is as well. 5o that's ane of the many uses we'�e gat for this. The qR codes are also going to be associated wiih thase -- the verbiage and the maps and the things that you guys created far Fountain Park as wefl. 5o these are being added to those, which are acti�ely being worked an right now. And sa these QR codes you're gaing #a start seeing papping up e�erywhere. And that'll !�e the idea. We want \ Page 4 af 23 TpWN OF FOUNTAIN HILES NOVEMBER 5, 2025 H15TORY AND CULTURE ADVISQRY COMMIS5I�N MEETIiVG to train e�erybody wh❑ lives here if you see this QR code, if you see the town lag�, the Parks and Rec logo an it, scan it, yvu're gaing ta get some greaC infarmation and hopefulfy a way we can disseminate all that information to every�ne. Let me gfl back real quick and see if I can get ta i�istorical markers. Right now, we just have the five. We are still warking on cor�tacting a few of the places just for pri�acy issues, as well as willingness t❑ put a plaque up �n or near their business. They are privately owned, right? 5o the first hause, far example, or the -- I think a few of the ather locatians. Sa if we loolc here, these are kind of the spQts around town. Anyhody tell me w�ich ane tF�at one might be? �r that one might be. Does anybvdy remember the fi�e that we targeted for the �rst go-raund? UNIDEN�IFIED SPEAKER: Is that the elementary sch�ol? PRES��N: 5❑ this ane's going to be the first house, I belie�e. So that's the first hause. 11NIQENTIFIEO SPEAKER: Across the street. PRESTON: Yeah. �From the old elementary schoal. Yep. 5o and a lot af these we don't have a ton af information yet. A tan af it put aut just because we ha�en't been able to go and seek permissian to get e�erything ❑ut for svme of these. 5a that's the P-Bar Ranch at the high scho�l. First developer, sales and reception center. I'm just kind ❑f -- t don't know what I just did here. Go ba�k ta the map �iew. We'�e got the madel home center, and I keep somehow clicking out Qf it, and the dam. Yep. 5a they're all there, and they will e�entually all ha�e their own plaques and e�erything. Again, we're just working �ut a few details with that. 5a I just want to let you icnow it's samething we're doing. We're a�ti�ely working on the art. Work group is gQing to help us identify more infarmation about same pieces Chat are lacking informatian as well. 5o any questians on whai we're doing so #ar? We'�e gat mast af the a�enue done. We just don't have them really geolocated �ery well yet. So we have samebody gaing outjust making sure we're mapping exactly where all the pie�es are so we get the maps accurate. GALLAGHER: Sa haw daes one access all af this infarmatian? PRESTON: 5a this informatian will at some paint be on ❑ur public art website. Right Page 5 of 23 TDWIV OF FDUNTAIN HILLS NDVEMBER 5. ZOz5 H15TORY AND CULTURE ADVI50RY CDMMIS5I�N MEETING 1 ' now, the public art website still has all the ❑Ider stuff on it. The informatian is still a�curate, it's just a little outdated as �ar as the technalagy in�ol�ed with hQw you access it. There wikl alsa be -- you can scan a q,R �ode with yaur phone at any af the art pieces, and this will pull up as well. LEP�ER: Sut nat yet, right? PREST�N: Not yet. They're nat on there yet. The ❑nly anes that actually has the qR eocle right now are -- t�e entrance to the Botanical Gardens has one, and I'm not sure, hut we -- if it hasn't gone up, it will be soan. The dam will have ane. Obviously that's town praperty, so we can put that withaut any permissions. TITlJS: Is there a way I can get ac�ess ta that? So when I start working with the group, we can start loaking thraugh the items and the infarmation that we have? PRESTDN: 5o yeah, I'll send you the link. I don't know if I can give you the back-end access -- TITUS: Okay. � PRESTON: -- so you may ha�e ta just send me -- TITlJS: Oh, yeah. PRESTON: -- the updates and I'll add it, but I'll get yau the link fflr this so that you �an -- TITUS: Thank you. PRESTON: Yeah, defini#ely loak at e�erything. KLIlVE: 5❑ I ha�e a questi�n. How hard wauld it be to put this onto an app that people could cfick on ❑n their phone? PREST�N: Yep. Very difficult. We don't have an app. And so to ha�e -- we don't ha�e an app t❑ host it. And the �ompany itself does nat ha�e an app tha# will be branded t❑ us. It is very mobile friendly. That's why we use it. When -- if yau laak it up an a mobile de�ice, it's �ery clean. It'il read and play like an app, but there is no, no app currently associated with itjust because, again, the town daesn't ha�e an app. Anything else? Perfect. YOdER: Thank you. Ryan. PRESTON: Yep. No problem. We'll close ❑ut vf that and we can mo�e on. Page 6 of 23 TflWN QF FQUNTAIN HILLS NpVEM6ER 5, 2a25 H15TORY ANO CULTIJRE AQVISflRY COMM1551DN MEETIlVG � YDDER: Very gaod. Maving ❑n ta reports 6y commissioners. Anybady ha�e anything ta offer up? First off, I'd fike ta mentian I recei�ed a nati�e that Michael Gant wilE be dQing a presentation next week, I befieve, at the community �enter on the history of Fountain Hills. I wrote it dawr�. No�ember 12th at 1:Ofl p.m. at the community center. Sa that -- that's I�aked interesting t� me, and I`m planning c�n attending that. Anybady el5e gflt anything coming up or you heard of here in Fountain Hills that's not an the agenda? ❑kay. �ur art fair is �oming up, too, i befieve. Right arQund the corner. LEPOfR: I think it's the 16th. YD�Ei2: T�e 14th thraugh the �6th. LEPOER: ].4th through the 15th. YO�ER: Thank yau, Toni. GALLAGHER: As af next week. YD�ER: All right. Naw, consideratian and actifln. Excuse me? PRESTON: I would --just a quick call ta tf�e publi�. YD�ER: �h, I missed tF�e call ta the public. I'm sorry. Seeing that we didn't have any members af the puhlic present, I-- fargi�e me. No merrsbers of the public want to speak? WD�DWAR�: No, Chair. YO�ER: All right. Next up, the appaintment of a�hair far the History and Culture Ad�isory Cammission. Can we ha�e a nomination, ❑r d❑ I just g❑ int❑ naminations? I'd like ta naminate, for example, Bot� 6urns to take a�er the position. KLI N E: I' II second that. BURNS: IS #hat just an example? Y��ER: Oh, my gaodness. LEP�ER: I'd like t� secand that motian. YQDER: Anybody want tv nominate anybody else? Can we take a �ate an this? WQQdWAR�: YeS. YDpER: All in fa�ar af 6ob 6urns taking over as chairman? ALL: Aye. Page 7 0# 23 TQWN aF FOUNTAIN HILLS NDVEMBER 5, 2025 H15TORY AND CULTURE ADVI50RY C�MM15510N MEETING YaDER: Any oppased? All right. WDaDWAR�: Se�en-tero. YaDER: 5e�en-zero. Next item will he -- PRESTQN: Qkay. Well, actually nQw we'll do our -- YDDER: Now we do the -- RRESTQN: -- our swapping af chairs here. Yes. We're actually going to ha�e -- B�b, you get to take ❑ver -- or Commissioner Burns, you get ta take a�er right away. There is a littie }�aper there t� help guide you. YDaER: Bob, I'm gving to lea�e my piece af paper right here -- PRESTQN: I feel like I shauld -- YDaER: -- in case you want to remember who was here 6efare yau. PRESTON: I fieel like I should maybe hum same theme musi� or svmet�ing, but. Bl1RN5: Want your water? YDQER: I've got my awn. � BLIRNS: �h, ❑kay. PRESTQN: Perfe�t. And Chair 6urns, you can either say a cauple of things if yau'd like, or carry an with the next agenda item, it's up t❑ yau. BURNS: Well, let's just ma�e vn. And consideration -- da I ha�e any nvminatians ar mations for vice chair? TITUS: I'd like to naminate Toni LePoerto ser�e as �ice chairman. KLINE: I can se�and that. BUR�15: Any ather n�minations? ❑kay. All those in favar? ALL: Aye. YOD�R: ❑kay. Any oppased? W 00 dW A R D: 5e�e n-ze ro. BURlVS: Rerfect. PRESTON: You're techn�cally already in the right seat -- LEP�ER: Yeah. PRESTON: -- I believe, so yau're gaod ta go. You d�n't have ta go anywhere. 4 Page 8 of 23 rown� oF �vuN�AiN Hi��.s N�VEMBER 5, 2025 HISTORY ANO CULTURE AOVISORY CDMMISSI�N MEETIMG BURNS: Okay. Mo�ing on. Cansideration of appro�al af Histary and Culture Ad�isory Commission minutes from October 1st. Da we have a motian an that ar any comments? GA�LAGHER: I'll mo�e to appro�e. LEPDER: �'ll second that. BURNS: Okay. We ha�e a mation and a second. All those in favar? AL�: Aye. BURNS: ❑pposed? W OD D W A R d: 5e�e n-ze ra. BLJRNS: ❑kay. iVext, update ❑n the historic registry for the fauntain. Ryan, do we ha�e anything an that? PRESTON: Yep. Na, I left that up. Just a reminder that we da have aur hearing for that fvr the State on November 21st. ❑owntown. I think I sent that informatian out. If � didn't, l will send it again follawing this meeting. You're welcome ta attend, if you'd like, in persan. There's als❑ a-- you can attend �irtuafly as well. lust if yau are going to attend, let me know. Just so if there's fvur of you, I need to ha�e a quarum notice for it. 5o j�st let me know if you want ta go dvwntawn and attend that. That will be deciding w�ether or not we're gaing t❑ get ❑ur 5tate approval and mo�e an to -- re�Qmmended #�r National approval. LEP�ER: What time is it? PRESTQN: I believe it is 9:3D. HARPER: What date was that? PRESTON: November 21st. I belie�e it's a Friday. W�DaWARD: Yes. PRESTON: Arsd I'!I send that out again, and I'll send the virtuai link out as well sa you have that. Other than that, I have no updates on that. YDQER: Would you thinic that it's im�artant if we can try to he there in persan? Qr is this an administrati�e -- BURNS: I have p[anned to ask Dr. Caflins (ph.} that exact question. I'll reach out t❑ him. I don't know if Cammissioner Harper has dealt with any of this �Oefore. But I don't know Page 9 of 23 TOWN OF FQUNTAflY W1LLS NOVEMBER 5, 2025 H15T�RY AND CLILTURE ADVI50RY C�MMISSI�N MEETING [ that it'll affect it one way or the aiher. It can't hurt for somebody to �e there, h�ut I don't t�ink it's going ta affect the outcome at all. 6URN5: A!I right. Well, let's Ioa�C forward to that. And hopefuily they can get that ma�ed an. All right. ❑iscussion, possible action regarding 250th anni�ersary af the USA. I know that work group has not had a �han�e to get together, but Bannie, did you ha�e anything? I think I saw an email from you. PRESTON: I �oufd pro6ablyjump in real qui�k first. 5o I was --we'�e 6een working with economic development and tourism on that as well, ❑n doing -- planning a few things. And we went �a�k in to start applying for the Passpflrt25[3 and it was clvsed. KLINE: Oh. PRESTQN: They didn't announce an en� date. They ne�er had an end date. But apparently, the submissions have ended. KLI NE: ❑h, that's to❑ bad. PftESTON: It is. So we weren't able to get anything in for that. I don`t know how big it's � gving ta be. The Secretary af 5tate hasn't really -- office hasn't pushed it out �ery much. There's nflt a lot, I think, of press on it quite yet. 5❑ I dan't know hvw many actually got submitted, but they did clase. And sa yeah. lust to update yau ❑n that ane. KLINE: Dkay. Well. we'll work on something else then. But if they do extend it, hflpefully the copy that I submitted will help. PRESTON: And tfl update you, we are meeting internally again on Monday with the town ta come up with more ideas. I`ve discussed a!ot of our ideas. Far example, the banners up along the a�enue. We are haping to be abfe to ma�e forward with that idea. So getting 250th celebration banners up. We ha�e discussed reaching out and trying to put out some sart af source of material for all the different groups who are going to be pUttlfl� SOITlEti11f1g pll. IN� {ik5C1155ed Li18t 85 WEII, like, putting like a one- ar twa-sheeter t�gether of all the different groups in tawn wha are trying tQ do Qr who are putiing on e�ents so that we have ❑ne place everybady can go to see all the different e�ents that are gfling orr, even if they're not town-run. Sa we will be maving forward with that. And that might be som�thing I might be asking with help on in the up�oming meetings as \ Page 1� vf 23 iQWN aF FOLINTAIN HILLS N�VEMBER 5, 2�25 HIST�RY AND CULTURE AaVISORY COMM1551�N MEETING l ►n,�ii. TITUS: Is there an opportunity for commissianers ta participate in that w�rking group, ❑r is the warking graup closed? RRESTON: The working group right naw, sa that wark grvup -- da we ha�e three members af that work group is a great questian. GALLAGHER: Bannie and I. PRESTON: We ha�e two. 5a we can -- it has possible actians. 5o we can ha�e another member of that work group jain. ! dan't know that we need to do anything formaE far a work group, so we can add you ta that w�rkgroup. Perfe�t. 5a I'll make a note that now it'll be the three members. TITUS: Thank you. PREST�N: And I can share whai information. And just so you kn�w. for �ur new members, you �uys can ha�e an emai! string of the three of yau. Anything more than that is considered a quorum, so you wouldn't be able to cammunicate autside of that, which is why a!I of our work groups are in groups af three ar less. So just keep it ❑n the wark group, and yau can include myself on any communi�atinn. And if ! do need to get it tfl anybody else, we probably wan't do that. It'll be within a meeting. E�en me then sharing it with a�aurth rnemk�er would be c�nsidered a quorum farthat email string. So just be careful with emails. KLINE: Okay. So that -- the three peflple dfles nat include yau, right? PREST�N: Yes. You can include me an that informatian. Yeah, because I'm not part of yaur quorum. KLl N E: �kay. BURNS: Ryan, vn that and just laflking for a suggestian here or an idea that rnaybe the work group gets tagether and maybe brainstorm some ideas on who ta �antact as far as groups go ta ask if they would plan or would like ta plan some#hing. Is -- yau know, da yau think that's an appropriate direction? PRESTON: Yeah, that would he fantastic. If we can do that that way, we -- from the town side, we ha�e directian on who might be daing something. It wauld be easier to Page 11 of Z3 TQWN OF FDUNTAIN HILLS NflVEMBER 5, 2025 HISTORY ANO Cl1LTl1RE AOV150RY C�MM1551�N MEETING � reach out and then get the infarmation from them. 5v that would be -- that would he a lot of help. BURNS: Okay. PRESTQN: And I knaw a lat of you are members af those groups, which is help�ul as well. BURNS: ❑kay. Anything else on that? PRESTQN: And if anybady has any new ideas anybody wants t❑ present anything, naw's the time. You can da that as well. 5o with this agenda item, we'�e just been trying ta think ❑f ideas af things that bath the town can do and maybe ather groups can do to �elehrate the ZSDth anni�ersary of America, which is next year. We'�e discussed a few ideas. I don't knaw if you ha�e any aff the top of yaur head. I dan't think they made it to the staff summary this time. KLINE: We #alked abaut maybe ha�ing speakers at the cvmmunity center, rr►aybe a parade marshal or some cannection with the theme af the parade next year that would tie in. These are ones that in�ol�e other graups that we wauld want ta talk ta, so -- PRESTQN: ExGellent. And then I think, like yau said, you guys had the idea for the banners, and I know the tawn liked that idea. Sa they're running with that. And the idea ❑f kind of being a catchall far all the different acti�ities that are cvming. 5o do you guys think of anything ar ha�e any ta �ontribute just let me know. And Chandler nat heing in thai wark �raup, yau can send them directly ta me as well. LEPOER: Mayfae any af the veterans ❑r military groups in town -- PRE5TON: Yeah. LEPOER: -- might be -- KLINE: Yeah. Definitely VFW, Ameri�an Legion, and alsa the DAR. LEPQER: ❑AR wauld be a good one. KLINE: Yeah. PRESTQN: Perfect. And t�at's something that I'll 6e relaying mast af this informatian. I think tourism and economic de�elopment will be taking a big rale in that with the town, so I'll just be able to push that information tfl them as well. � Page i2 of 23 TQWN OF FaUNTA1N HILLS NOVEMgER 5, 2025 HES7flRY AND CLILFURE ADVISDRY COMMISSION MfET1NG TITUS: Towar� preparing far that, the hope that I'd be able io I�e included in a working grQup, otherwise I would ha�e passed the information an. I ha�e aggregated all ❑f the town argani2atians and grat�ps and programs in town and their media, the way that they share information. Sv I can bring that to the wvrking group, and we can kind of work from that to move forward. And I wauld like ta share ❑ne idea that I just t#�ink is the most fun thing. But of course, everybady will �hime in. I wanted to propose a Pony Express mural on the post flffice wali nearest the main baxes. It's a histaric tradition that is unique ta our state, but alsa t❑ Fountain Hills in particular. and with the �conomi� development Graup having a mural program and we being in charge of history and arts. I just thought it would be a really interesting thing to faok at and consider. They ceEebrate, of course, with the Pvny Express. They larrd there at the post office e�ery year, 6ut there's no commemorative anything. Sa that was the one thought I had. PREST�N: No, I like the idea. Just an update that the -- this will be the second year af the Pony Express that the Post affice has decided not t❑ have them -- TITUS: Oh. PRE57�N: -- in their location, m�st likely. And it's also a federal buifding. 5a as �ar as us being able ta do any art on the actual building itself, that wouldn`t be a possibility for us. But there's ather possibilities to incorporate that in, and so yeah. 5o great idea. Got it down. But as far as Pony Express, recer�tly, and the post affice ha�en't been an the same page. 6ut yeah. KLINE: So the Pony Express is not going to be �aming into the post office this year? PRESTOIV: Veah, same as last year. So instead of the post offi�e, more than likely, I'm currently work'sng out the detai�s with them right naw. Because they are coming a# a slightly different time this year. It's laoking like they'll be using kind of the parking lot by the sheriff's office there. We`II ha�e that space a�ailable for them far their end spat. Same as last year, if you were here. And last year, yes, i# was a whQle thing with their infighting with the Pony Express. I'm sure -- I'm sure Chair Burns is aware. 6ut so it was a �ery quick announcement last year. So a lot of you probably weren't �ut there for it, Page 13 of 23 T�WN aF FflUNTAIN HILLS N�VEMBER 5, zU25 H15TORY ANQ CULTLIRE ADVIS�RY CQMM1551�N MEETING but they weren't able ta use the post office parking lot last year, and it's probably going ta be the same again this year. KLINE: 5till would be great, you icnow, if they came into town. PRESTON: Yeah, they're still gaing to be coming intv town and they'll be just vutside of tawn hall using that parking spa�e -- KLINE: Yeah. PRESTON: -- as parking spaces. KLiNE: Well, maybe there's same other way to -- besides the wall in the post affice, maybe -- I'm thinking like ❑ne af those utility boxes ❑r something el5e that would be neari�y. YdDER: I'd like to speak ta that real quickly. it just came ta mind. jhe Maricopa County Sheriff is fram Fountain Hills, and he is a big fa�er of horses and used ta own horses. And I think that that mural idea is really �reat, and I bet lerry Sheridan would be interested in hearing ideas af�aut p�ssibly in�arparating something that they p�ssess. � 5a just a thought. Yau guys might want t❑ reach out to lerry 5hertdan and see. 6lJRN5: And I hadn't thought af that, Tim, but I was just -- yau know, just wondering be�ause a�er the years that they ha�e dane this, I fQund that the Hashknife Posse is not ihe easiest people ta rnaice conta�t with. 5❑ maybe Jerry knows samebady up there that we Gan work thr�ugh him, but yau knaw, thanks far that idea. And if anybody else ICf1pW5 i1pW t0 ��t � i1QI{i p�til�l'1'1, ]IpU I[i1pW, that's -- PREST�N: I have their cantact information. I've heen in contact with them o�er the past couple of weeks. YODER: And it is a great kind �f nld West connectifln that we could foster. KLINE: There's a great statue down in 5cottsdale far the R�ny Express. It's by the I�y restaurant [sic] near the canal. PRESTON: Yeah, I belie�e that's part af the Parada Qel Sof raute as wel�. S❑ I think where they finish -- KLI N E: Yea h. PRESTON: -- every year. � Page 14 of 23 TQWN OF FaUNTAIN HILLS NCIVEMBER 5, 2025 HISTORY ANd CULTURE ADV15�RY C�MMf55t�N MEETING l I(L.INE: S❑ I dan't know if there's any way ta duplicate that statue. PRESTQN: Yeah, nfl, it's a great idea, and I think the Pony Express �onnection and the sheriffs and the harses is a great connection. And I'll definitely have -- and pursue that. KLINE: ❑kay. Bl1RN5: All right. Anything else on that? I think I'd like to cammunicate with Bannie and Tiffany here, see if we can get tagether to put together same kind af list and ga frflm there, maybe ha�e samething ready to present in ❑ecember here, as far as here's what we thi�k, and then we can start first of the yearjust reaching out, so okay. Update, historic art and essay contest. It laoks like we've got a flier here in front of us, but Tim or Peter, one ❑f yflu want to discuss where we're at on that? Y�C]ER: Well, I missed the last meeting. I read thraugh the minutes. It fooked like Ryan was mo�ing forward with this. 1`m pleased to see this flier here. Ta me, it's eye �atching and laoks great. And I think, yau know, I see this is a raug� draft. A C�R code is ta he added and such, but -- PRE5i0N: Carrect. We d�n't ha�e a website yet far this, so that's why yau`II see there's na link for -- YODER: Right. PRESTON: -- submission and no qR cade yet. YDDER: 5o Cft�t's my comment abaut the flier. It �aaks great. I saw you asked about raising funds for the pri2es. I think I ha�e same canne�tiQns that might be interested. PRESTON: Yeah, I think i#'s an easy thing ta get a sponsor for, especially if we could try to tie it in with the 25�th, which I know, again, tourism is trying to dv right now is kind of try and see if we can tie this in with, again, the 25�th. Nothing in the contest really points to that, and I honestly, I don't really want to change the cantest. So we're working an that right now. YO�ER: You'll take a-- yau know, if samebody wanted t❑ dnnate $2�� or sflmething. PRESTdN: Right. We can add that. Usually, so we -- sa we warked out the prize money to be right around $90�, and for us ta find $1,Dflfl sponsars is nat -- ! dan't think is going to be very difficult fflr this. I was just -- what I was asking if y�u guys had any ieads, any Page 15 nf 23 TOWN QF FpLJNTAIN HlLLS NOVEMBER 5, Z025 HIST�RY AN� CULTURE ADVISORY CDMMISSION MEETING [ groups that yau think may be interested in this for any particular reason, you could let me know and I'll do the reaching out. I can reach out ta them as well. KLIIVE: So are you only loo�Cing at monetary prizes, ❑r wau4d #here be some ather things like maybe memberships ar entry tv museums or samething as an additivnal -- PRESTON: We can definitely add that. And that's another thing about getting sponsors. If the sponsars want ta donate things like that. Yau know, I don't know. We'd ha�e t❑ ha�e a mark where -- because ob�iously, the spansars want same sort of recognition. 5a we'd have -- KLINE: Right. PREST�N: -- ta figure aut different le�els fvr recognition and being fln wehsites and things like that. So I ha�e to come up with a little sponsorship package for it. 6ut that's definitely something we �an do. And just to update as well, there wil! be a third page with this, which is a�tuaily the suhmissifln form that's not on this. We �ouldn't fit #hat an two pages. There will be a paper option, although we will encourage everybody -- � we wil! ha�e an ❑nline farm that will en�ourage them submitting. And then later they can turn in their actual project wi#h it. Sa t�+ere wilf be a website, there will he a digital farm with this. We are trying to add a picture of the fauntain there. We ran flut af time. So the f�untain will he there, but in case you guys want to know the photas, that's them putting the na2zie in for the first time. That's the fountain from abave. And actually, Chair Burns helped me identify the three men in that photo. My firs# run through here. ! don't know if yau remem6er getting that picture from me. The one ❑n the battom, asking to F�elp identify who those three people were. BU RNS: Oh, yeah. PRESTON: Yeah. And that's just an old picture. We had a couple af cowfooys riding horses in the park, s❑ it's kind of jus# another histaric phato. All these were a�sa submitted, actually, with aur applicatian far the Fauntain Park as a histvrical landmark as well. KLINE: Wasn't that picture af a fellaw that was visiting Fountain Hills an his way across � ca u nt ry? Page 16 of 23 TaWN OF FOUNTAIlV HILLS NOVEMBER 5, 2025 H15TQRY ANQ CL1Li'URE A{7VI50RY COMM15510N MEETiNG 1 BURI�S: It could be. Yeah. There were twa riders. PREST�N: Yeah, there was tw❑ riders in that picture and we pulled one nut. BURNS: I dan't recall seeing pictures of them individual[y, but that doesn't mean one of them wasn't cut out far this, but -- PREST�N: Yes, that picture ariginally had tw❑ people. We cut one out. BURNS: ❑kay. PRESTQN; And then you'll see the Mayor's Youth Cvuncil loga an there as well. So aur Mayor's Youth Councif is a graup af high schoalers here in town. They were planning an art p�'oject as their graup pr�ject, and they may just kind of help us get the word out and things like that ❑n this. 5a we have thrawn their logo out as kind of a partner an this, and I hape that's akay. For those of you who started worlcing on it, I know Peter and Tim, so they are kincf of our eyes and ears in the schoals, and #hey're going to help us disseminate this inforrnation as well. BURNS: I was gaing to ask abaut that, seeing that lago there. I wondered if they had a specific role, but -- PRESTON: Yeah. 5o basically, withaut knowing it, we taak almost their entire idea far their year project. I told them we'd started on working an aurs earlier, sa that's on them. So they want ta be a part of it, and sa we'll work them in as well. Y��ER: That's great. One more final thing. ft accurred t❑ me you mentioned samething about -- you know, you wondered about the curriculum in the schaol district, and I thought what I might do when it's time to go back to the Distri�t and say hell❑ and present this affer to them, maybe the high school and the middle schoal, if they wauld like to ha�e -- you know, I �ould come in and speak to same about ha�ing been a teacher there. Fauntain Hills histary and kind ❑f if they want, I could be a"rah, rah, Fountain Hills history is really coal" message gi�er. We'll see about that, but it was an idea. PRESTON: Yeah. And so I'll be reaching out to the superintendent here shQrtly. f think our goal was to get it after the winter break. I believe in the hancis of the students at same point after that. Was that kind af the timeline we were laaking at? Page 17 of 23 iOWN DF FaUNTAIN HILLS NOVEMBER 5, Z025 H15TDRY ANO CULTURE AOVI50RY CQMMISSIQIV MEETING � YDQER: Yes. PRE5TON: And I did change your -- the submission date a bit, because I think it was the Monday after spring break. So I pushed that to the, I belie�e, the Thursday after that to gi�e them an extra week after spring break to turn it in. And so that was adjusted. And then from that, we also adjusted the grade le�els a litile bit to expancf an those. So yeah, now's a gaad time. Any comments an this before we make it ga kind of public with the school district? As far as ihe prizes, the age ranges or any of the infarmatian abaut it? I think we did clarify that the high schoolers can only submit ane ar the other, nat both. I belie�e that was in the original write-up as well, but it was a little vague, so we made sure to make it clear that it's -- because the high s�hoolers ha�e an option to do an art piece ar an essay. The rest af the groups just ha�e the art piece, I belie�e, the �isuaE art piece option. KLINE: Sa I know we talked ❑nce before ahout where yau would present the -- PRESTQN: Carrect. � KLINE: -- winner5, and we talke�! ahout the town cauncil meeting or -- PRESTQN: It's all a�er the place right now. 5o as I mentioned, getting on the town council agenda in May is incredibly difficult far us. I'�e been told by a couple people that it's probahly not going to happen. 5o there's twa vther options that we can do. �ne is we can do it here at a History and Culture meeting. I helie�e ❑ur last meeting is June, so we ha�e a meeting in May. Another �ptian is svmething similar we'�e done with the recycled art contest, where we ha�e all the submissions up at the commur+ity center, which is the goai. In May, we can hald a smail event there as well �flr the families and everybody, and e�erybady who su6mitted art can came. We can eit#�er announce the winners there and then we can ha�e a, you know, snacks and things and sadas and wafers for the kids. And we can in�ite the mayor and maybe we can -- yau guys can all 6e there as well, if yvu'd iike. And we could do it t�►ere as well. KLINE: What abaut doing it at the at Fountain Rark with the presidents' statues area? PRESTQN: Lvgistically, the ability to display the artwark there is quite diffieult. It's � already going t❑ be on display at the cammunity center -- Page 18 of 23 TDWPV DF F�l1NTRIN HILLS NOVEMBER 5, 2025 H15TORY ANd CLILTURf ADVISDRY C�MM15510N MEETING � I(LINE: ❑kay. PREST�N: -- cfuring that time, sQ that's why kind af thinking about that one. KLINE: Yeah. Community center proba�ly would be better. PREST�N: Yeah. And so that's kind of the thought now, because I'�e basically been tald it's not likely that we're going to get an the cauncil agenda for it just because af the month, how busy that month is. KLlNE: Yvu notice i keep trying to get the presiclents inval�ed in this? PRESTOPV: f have, yes. HARPER: With respect to the art and the essays, especially with the art more for any sort of digital media that could be submitted, are we working with anyane as far as, li[ce, the website gaes, to in�orporate things to weed out any artificial intelligence-generated items? PRESTDN: That is a great question. i think on there, it says dan't use ii. Whether or not people submit it, yes. 5a that`s a big thing, 6ecause I know yau had written that inta yaur �riginal plan that no -- HARPER: I wander -- the school shauld ha�e a system in pla�e already. I wonder if we cauld partner with them to utilize the so�tware that they already ha►►e an hand. PRE5TnN: Yeah, that is a good idea. I mean, right naw, as f�r as di�ital art, it's pre#ty oio�ious right naw, still, what is AI, but as far as writing, it cvuld fae a lot more diffi�ult to dis�ern. �uring our poetry contest, l actually used AI ta write a paem, and then I wrvte my awn poem, and I asked an AI checker to tell me which one was A!, and they said my poem tha# I wrote was AI, and that the other orse was not. So hopefully they've impra�ed a little since then, but yeah, tha#'s a great idea. KLINE: Yeah. You would wonder if that was a compliment fve yvur writing or nflt. PRESTON: I think it wasn't. Yeah. Na, I think it was the ather dire�tion. Yeah. BURNS: Okay. Anything else an that item? �kay. And where are we? Public art applicatians. I guess we don't ha�e anything to consider this week -- flr this mflnt#�. PRESTON: We do not. BURNS: Okay. An� anything loaking forward in the future on presentations ar -- Page 19 of Z3 TQWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS 111DVEMBER 5, 2U2S HIST�RY AIVd CULTURE AdVISORY COMMIS51pN MEETING � PRESTON: I think we got one mvre, item H there. Public art. ❑h, no. We didn't. I think you missed the public art -- yeah, we missed G. GALLAGHER: Public art infvrmation. PRESTON: The work grvup for public art updates. I know, it's two �ery similar agenda items. LEPDER: Not really, not yet. Not until we �an start �igging in and start I�oking at what's going to be out there. PRESTDN: Perfect. Okay. BURNS: Oh, okay. PRESTON: All right. I think now we're on future. BlJRNS: All right. Sarry about that. WQQQWARD: Na, it's afl right. Kind of order -- 8URN5: And it's probak�ly not -- probably not the best way to do this to keep track, but all right. Well, future agenda items and presentations? � PRESF�N: Again far our newer members, if there's anybody you can think af or would like to came see a preseniation by, that's what the presentations are. Yau can request them and then we can -- if it's a town staff, we'll loak in to see if they can get it -- came vut. !f it's n�n-tawn staff, then that we ask you to be able to reach out to them ta get their contact information and ha�e them eantact us if they �an gi�e a presentativn. I knQw we'�e had same in the past. We ha�en't had any real presentations lately. Yau have me, which I don't count, I don't think. 5o if you ha�e any ideas or anybody yau want to see, yau can talk about them here. We can make a list and then mo�e forward with that and then any ifems yau want ta see on the agenda mo�ing f�rward. Pretty much everytt�ing you see an the agenda here will be included again, unless there's no business for it. But anything you might want to see, now's a good time t❑ hring it up, and we �an add it to next m�nth's agenda. HARPER: Just as a point of questianing, i guess, what is typically braught up an thase items fvr presentations, or -- � PREST�N: It's really anything yflu want to see, anything you want to hear abaut. I Page 20 nf Z3 TaWN OF F�t1NTAtN HlLLS NaVEMBER 5, 2025 H15TpRY AMp CULTLFR� ADV15�RY C�MM155EQN MEETIN� � mean, we'�e talked about having somebody fram the reservatian came and present, kind of from there. We'�e talked about having members of the museum came and talk abaut histary. We've had, l think, like, Jim pickey �ame and talk abaut that. We'�e had econamic development and taurism talk about kind af what they're dving to promote the art and the history in town. YDpER: The parics. �he parks man was F►ere. PRES��N: Yeah. Y��ER: A couple times. PREST�N: So we'�e had the parks -- so our community services director talk about the parks and the things in that and wF�at we`re doing with those plaques as well. 5o if there's anything you want to knaw about or anything you want to learn abQut or any questians yau ha�e, we can find samek�ody who can come. I ha�e very little answers, so we �an find presenters that either can just interest us Qr they can gi�e us infarmatian. KLINE: E'd be interes#ed in hearing from the museum. I'm not sure if it's underyour pu rvi ew o r-- PRE57�N: It's nat. Anything specificfrom the rnuseum, or-- KLINE: Just what their -- they ha�e a new museum director within the last year, and so what their plans are ar just kind of an update an it. PRE5TON: 5ure. And that would be samething that we wauld request that you try t❑ set up the contact with and then ha�e them e�entually reach out to me. KL[NE: �kay. PRESTON: That'd be great. BURNS: I'm sorry, 6onnie. What did you bring up? KLI NE: The Ri�er of Time Museum. 6URN5: ❑h, okay. KLI NE: Maybe Reter cauid help with that. GALLAGHER: I'd be happy to speak to the dire�tar. I meet with her regularly. KLI NE: Okay. LEPQER: Are yau sure, though? Page 21 of Z3 TOWN OF FDEJNTAIN HILLS IVOVEMBER 5, 20Z5 H1570RY AND CLfLTURE AOVISpRY CQMMISSIDIV MFETING � SURNS: My cQmmen# wauld be. da yau think -- it's kind of becaming a �ultural thing with the tawn of Fountain Hills, with regard to the Dark 5ky aiscfl�ery Center. Interested in �ringing them? I know they were here previously, but that was far an art installatian. 5a they'�e got staff on board naw and trying to get things together. If they think that, I've been in contact with them fairly regularly, sa I c�ulo� probably reach out and see if they're interested. PRESTQN: Perfect. Yeah, ! know -- I think Michael Weber might be in that pasition of kind af cammunity outreach as well, so he might be a gaod one. I'm nat sure. 6ut sure. Yeah. 1f yau want to reach ❑ut to them. And then basically, once you get canfirmation or just let me know, I could take a�er the �ommunication and make sure to get them on the agenda. BLfRN5: ❑kay. PRE5TDN: Yeah. BL1ftNS: All right. � GALLAGHER: Actual�y, I'll be meeting with the directar af education tamarrow. The new one, pr. Dania Wright, I could ask her. BL1RN5: ❑kay. Aetually, I ha�e samething lined up tomorrow afternaon with them, s❑ -- GALLAGHER: Dh. Well, then I'll iea�e it in your gQod hands. Yn�ER: And I'm working with Michael Friday, s❑ I'll put the #humb screws to h�m. BURN5: I guess we ha�e plenty of contact #here, so akay. And where are we? YODER: Letter J. BURNS: Was there anything else on presentations or fu#ure agenda items? �kay. I guess we're seeing the next meeting De�ember 3rd? An� if that wflrks, e�erybfldy enjoy their Thanksgi�ing. And -- PRESTON: Qon't forget t� sign up for the Turkey Trot. BURNS: Yeah. KLINE: What's the deadline on that? PRESTnN: !t'll probably be full by Na�ember 21st. BURNS: And if we can get a motion t❑ adjQurn, then i guess we're pretty well set. Looks Page 22 of 23 TOWN OF FQLINTAIN HILLS NflVEMBER 5, 2025 HISTORY AND CULTURE AOVI50RY tOMMISSIQN MEETING like 4:44. YadER: I'If make the mation to adjaurn. LEPQER: I'll second that. Bl1RNS: All in fa�ar? ALL: Aye. BURNS: ❑kay. I guess we are adjourned. Page 23 of 23 Having no further �usiness, Chairperson Burns adjourr�ed the Regular Meeting af the History and Culture Advisory Commissian meeting held ❑n Novemb�r 5, 2D25, at 4:44 p.m. TOWN OF FOLlNTAIN HILLS �;E� ,[ � -- ��. J Bob 6urns, Chairperson ATTEST AND PREPARED BY: .�,�: v-v�: ��('-{�1��'�� ,� �.�F�- 5tarmy Mazeikis;�Administr'�tive Assistant � CERTIFICATI�N I hereby certify that the faregoing minutes are a true and c�rrect copy af the minutes af the Regu�ar Meeting held by the Histvry and Culture Ad�isary Commission of Fountain Hifls in the Tvwn Hall Coun�il �hambers an the 5 vf November 2a25. I further certify #hat the r►-�eeting was duly calied and tha# a quorum was present. ❑ATED this 3 Day ❑f December 2025. ,�,��r�r1,i , <<�l:�l�� ?. � y�- Stormy Mazeikis,�dministr#t�ve Assistant � h� �E� � �7ti; ; ' �� :� {f, 3 � � � t- � � v �yI �--i. �90 �har is �<'i�