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MINUTES �F THE REGIJI.AR MEETING
�F THE FDUNTAIN HiLLS H15TDRY AN❑ CULTIJRE A�VI50RY ��MMISSIDN
January 7, 2�26
A Regular Meeting of the Fountain Hills History and Cuitur� Advisary Commission was
con�ened at � 6705 E. Avenue af #he Fauntains in open and pu�li� sessivn a# 4:00 p.m.
Members Present: Chairp�rson 6ob Burns; Vice Ghairperson Tani LePver;
CQmmissi�ner Tim Yad�r; Commissioner Peter Gallagher; Cammissioner
Chandler Harper; Cammissioner Bannie Kline; Cammissioner Tiffany Titus
Mem�ers Absent: none
5taff Present: Cammunity 5ervices Director Kevin 5nipes; Administrati�e
Assistant Starmy Mazeikis
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CHAIR BURNS: it's 4:�Q. 5o I'm going to call the January 7th meeting of the Fountain
Hills Histary and Cultural Cammissian t�gether and to order. And can we get a roll �all,
Stormy?
MAZEIICIS: Yes. Chair Burns.
CHAIR 6URN5: Here.
MA2EIK15: Vice Chair LePaer.
LEPOER: Present.
MA2EIKIS: Cammissioner Yoder.
YDDER: Present.
MAZEIKIS: Cammissioner Gallagher.
GALLA�HER: Here.
MAZEIKIS: Commissioner Kline.
KLINE: Here.
MAZEIKIS: Commissioner Harper.
HARPER: Here.
MAZEIKIS: Cammissioner Titius.
TITIUS: Here.
CMAIR BURNS: ❑kay. All present and a�caunted for so mo�e on. We'�e got na
presentations today, so go ta the regular agenda, consideration and possible action,
approval of the minutes frvm the Septemk�er 4th, 2025 meeting. Do I hear a motion on
that or any corrections?
VICE CHAIR LEPOER: I motion ta accept.
YODER: I'll second that.
CHAIR BURNS: Dkay. We have a mvtion and a second. All thase in fa�or?
ALL: Aye.
CHAIR Bl1RN5: Any opposed? And then consideratiQn of appro�al af ti�e minutes of the
❑ecember 3rd, 2a25 meeting. Do I ha�e a motion an that ❑r any corrections?
GALLAGHER: I move ta accept thetn as written.
HARPER: 5econd.
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CHAIR 6URN5: Motion and a secand.
YDDER: 5econded already.
CHAIR BURIVS: ❑kay. All those in favor?
ALL: Aye.
CHAIR BURN5: nppased? nkay. Now we've got discussion and passible action
regarding the historical registry for the fauntain. Kevin, do yau ha�e anything new on
that? I know Ryan was dQing same af the legw�rk and taEking to the people, but yau
have same information in the packet here.
SNIPES: Yeah, that's the only thing that we have right now is, is the informati�n that
Ryan had gathered. I ha�en't heard anything since he's been out.
CHAIR BURNS: Yeah. Okay. And na rea�tion yet from management or council on how
to go forward.
SNIPES: Basica4ly, we're looking far -- given the informatian that's shown, kind of that's
seeing where you guys are at on it and what you think abaut what was brought back t❑
see if this is something that you want ta continue warking on, ar do you think that the
infarmation that they're asking for is beyond what makes it a useful taol far the Town.
And so that's kind ❑f where we're at rigF�t now is, is seeing what the committee's
opinion is an where we're at.
CHAIR BL1RN5: Yeah. Well, from my perspecti�e, I think tl�ere is room ta wark with a lat
af this. You knaw, getting same adciitional informati�n might be a little harder than we
first went into it. I don't know -- we had a suggestian from the last meeting ta consider
a consultant ta wark with us ❑n.
HARPER: A historic �onsultant. Do we ha�e -- was it the State Historic Preservation
Offi�e that denied the application, ar --
CHAIR 6URN5: Yes.
HARPER: Do we ha�e their camments on the application Somewhere?
CHAIR BURNS: Yeah, they're basically outlined in the packet for this meeting. Laaks like
page 39.
HARPER: �kay. I will take these. I know this isn't super helpful for today, hut I'll take
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these and take a loak at those and see kind af what they're comments were. And see,
based on my experience with shippfls �phoneticJ throughaut the country kind ❑f what.
CHAIR BURNS: And again, my own question, as far as -- I'�e personally got no problem
going fvrward working on same of this, but I would want dire�tion from staff and
�ouncil on their thaughts regarding the ❑rme ❑am. That's a complicated issue. And I`m
not e�en sure hQw we can connect the twa.
SNIPE5: 5o that was kind af vne of the things #hat I thought, as well, was that's going
beyonci the histary of the fountain itself inta a different class, I think, than what getting
historical recagr�ition for the fvuntain is not based an something that's befare the
fountain.
CHAI R 8URN5: Yeah.
SNIPES: 5o that was ane of the things that triggered me as well, is that.
CHAIR BURNS: Basically, e�erything I read, it indicated it was --had really nathing t❑ do
with the decisivn to put the fauntain.
SNI PES: Exactly.
GALLAF#ER: ! have read in same places that, be�ause the Qrme Dam was not built, that
they had to come up witi� some idea of haw to sell real estate. And putting the fountain
in was the selling point. 5o perhaps there is a connectian between ❑rme Dam and the
f�untain, ir� that the failure af the dam caused the idea ❑f the fountain to happen.
YDaE#i: I think thai's the -- in my opinion or what from what I knaw, that's the cart
before the hvrse hecause the Drme ❑am was speiled out in -- at some point in time in
the very late'6�s vr early `70s that it might or wauld passik�ly come inta existence. But
the fvuntain was already up in 1970, and the dam wasn't canceled afficially until 198D.
GALLAGHER: Yes, but one might think a de�eloper as astute as Mr. McCulloch
�phonetic} would have foreseen the failure af the dam, since he was de�eloping
Fountain Hills originally as lakeside projeet.
YO�ER: I dQn't know --
YO�ER: Perhaps da we ha�e e�idence and pr�of of that, that he knew and that that was
his intention? Or do we just --
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YODER: I don'# think that's -- I've never seen -- for certain.
GALLAGHER: I have read in some a�cvunts that he initially was gaing to build a lakeside
cQmmunity, and when that didn't happen, he came up with the idea of the fountain.
CHAIR BURNS: We11, again, that'S kind of what we're up against in additional research.
YOaER: Right. I dan't think -- when I read this first bullet point here, I think 1'm like you,
Bab. The ❑rme ❑am is a contra�ersy or was a controversy and complicated, hut I don't
think that the wvrding here, the cvntext of the fountain's complicated history. I don't
think the fountain's history was camplicated at all. It was built on private land by a guy
that wanted to build a fountain.
CHAIR BlJRNS: Yeah.
KLINE: I be�ie�e it was inspired by a newspaper arti�le. 5o I think that shauld be the
starting paint.
CHAIR 6L1RN5: That's Gorrect. And I'd lo�e to find a copy af that, but I haven't been able
to thus far. But I'm going to lceep laoking, or I car� keep loaking.
GALLAGHER: Perhaps the way t�at bullet is written is not exactly ane hundred percent
correct. It might be that #he campli�ated history was that of the �rme Dam.
Y�DER: Sure. And I�oncede that that's just a written line that might be �ut of whacic
there. But on the ather hand, it's passible that they imbued the whole existence af
Fountain Hills with some kind of negati�e energy, sQ to speak, when it was basicallyjust
a business decisian.
CHAIR BURN5: ❑kay. All right. Wefl, I think I'll wait. When Ryan gets back, we can talk
ta him some mare and may6e take some dire�tion and g❑ from there, this one point and
explore the ❑isney Imagineer element af the narrative. It conne�ts the idea of planned
communities and explore what is gaod about America. I think digging into, particularly
C.V. Wood's backgraund, I'm not sure yau would find aut what's good ahout America.
So you know, basically what we'�e done, if we included a iat af thase details in that
narrative, they might be samewhat surprised. S❑ anything else, can we move on here?
Y��ER: I think so. I mean, I �ould spend about an hour breaking this stuff dawn, and so
that's going ta bring us nawhere.
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GALLAGHER: I would like tv review this further because these bullets are, frvm an
editor's perspective, they're �ery poorly written. It's actually hard for me to understand
the intent of same of these bullets be�ause of the way they're written, in partiGular the
vne abaut �isney. The second sentence doesn't make any sense whatsve�er.
YODER: Yes. And the whole D�sney project, the histary af Disney is fraught with
troubles, even in the recent de�ade or two. There's all kinds oi problems about holding
pisney up, the Disney Imagineer as, I dan`t knaw, as a hero. I mean, yau �ouid d❑ it. but
they'�e alsa pro�en themselves ta be not heroes.
CHAIR BURNS: Yeah.
GALLAGHER: I just find it difficult t❑ understand what it is that they're laoking far based
on this set of bullets.
KLINE: S❑ I'd ha�e to g❑ back and ta nates to find aut exactly what it was. But there
was something that the ga�ernment did with the tax situatian that made de�elflpers
loak at Fountain Hills and alsa a community up in Colorado, and that made it look like a
tax. Yau know, the tax would make it a money-making �enture for them.
CHAIR BUftNS: Yeah. Actually, there was a fairly di#ficult discussion between the
de�eloper and state legislators and the City of 5�ottsdale to get the de�elopment going.
Althaugh I'm not exactly sure what that has t❑ do with the fauntain. Yau know, we're
not trying to make the whole town a histariG 4andmark.
HAl�PfR: Could a �opy the appli�ation be circu#ated after this meeting as well? I don't
thinlc I ha�e a capy of the application that was suk�mitted. I think that would be really
helpful far me to be abie t❑ Ivak at that alongs+de #hese comments, just if anybody has
that.
YO�ER: That's a good question. Li1ce is +t past the cammittee phase naw? When we
were warking on it, it was, oh there's a committee. It's three peaple there. 6ut now it's
nat in the committee. I wander i#that's ❑ffi�ially -- like, we could do that and share it.
CHAIR BURNS: Yeah, the way I see it, Tim, it's still pending.
YD�ER: Okay.
�HAIR BURNS: 5a. You and I, well, 5usan was the third, sa it was just you and that kind
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of toak it. 5o if we want ta pick up a third, there's no problem with that.
TITl15: I wfluld naminate and recammend Chand4er to he the third then an the
cvmmittee, with his his#ory and experience. Pete, if you dan't rnind just pro�iding
informatian and resources and suppart.
GALLAGHER: I think that's a great idea.
CNAIR �URNS: ❑kay.
YODER: Well, if that can he done, I'd se�ond that motian.
CHAIR BURNS: pkay. We need a vate on that. All in favor?
ALL: Aye.
AL�: Aye.
CHAIR BURNS: Any6ody opposed? Qkay. 5o we'll add that and we'I! see about hQw we
want to pi�k this up again.
YDDER: 50 let's takk abaut it again next meeting in Fehruary.
CHAIR BU#�NS: 5ure. Yeah. I think it'll still be on the agenda.
YDdER: All right. Good.
CHAIR 6URN5: And I`II try and get with Ryan between then, now and then and see what
his direction or thaughts might be.
Next item disc�ssion and passible action 25Qth anniversary ❑f the USA. Ke�in, can yau
gi�e us an update an what t�e coun�il action was in ❑ecember that mo�ed this along?
SNIPES: Sure. We now ha�e secured funding. Some af the funding is spoken for. 5ame
of it is not. Up on the big scre2n yau can see -- or the screens behind us. These are the
banners that will !oe being installed. I belie�e it's next week or the following week. 5a
we are moving f�rward with that.
They have been ordered and are supposed to came in, end of this week or early next
week. 5a we're excited to get that ball rvlling. And s❑ i just wanted t❑ bring them down
to sh�w you. No one's seen tF�em, but we'll let you guys see them so you can at least
get an idea ❑f what we're looking at, and the angle that we used for the IQgas kind of
blending ours with the US. And so I think they did a gaod job with them, and it'll laak
good going down the avenue as well.
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We ha�e 1Da,ODd that's been ap�ra�ed. We're going tv be securing a— I'll �all him a
middke-of-the raad artist far our 4th ❑f July. And we have tfi�at finalized, but we ha�en't
pushed aut wha it's going to be yet, s❑ I'fl keep ihat a secret far Ryan to share later. 50
that tovk part ❑f it, and this taak part of it.
And then we're laoking at a11 sorts of other options. And sa it is a rapidly ma�ing trying
to get some ideas together for what we purchase, how we da i#, you know, fram
tchotchkes {phoneti�} to e�ents that we're running, and how we can in�orparate
different things. And sa, as there is ideas that Game forth, malce sure that yvu share
them with us. I knaw there's a �ommittee working on it. 5o anytime we get
information, if we want to share it, the quicker the 6etter always because it is a mo�ing
target. And when we see opportunities, we try and jump on it before the money
disappears ta where we �an get what we feel is the best things that we �an afford to get
with the money for it.
But it is going to be a big year next year with trying to tie in and see this tie-in thraugh
our e�ents that we'll be doing all year long. So I think it'll be a fun year of daing things
like this. �ne that we got kind of cheated ❑ut af for the 5�th of the fauntain with C�VID
stealing our thunder. So it was a lot af planning and zera action, and that was not fun.
So we'If see what we can do with this.
KLf NE: So talking about that, ❑ne af the things that you had far the 50th anni�ersary
was that giant 5� c3own by the fountain. And ! knaw I took phatos down there, and if we
cauld do something like that, where you can get the fountain in the picture and the
25Dth and Fvuntain Hills name, and it would be good publicity far the Tawn and for the
e�ent.
$NIPfS: Yeah, I know that that's one af the things that has been being discussed is
figuring out a way t❑ redo that. But stealing this loga's impressivn fln it so that I know
that that's samething that's being talked abaut right now.
CHAIR BURNS: I see here that in this Caurscil staff report, there's discussian of branding
stuff regarding to T-shirts and cammemarati�e items, branded materials to distributed
e�ents, and expanded event pragra�ning like kind of a historical mo�ie night or
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something like that. Those are all an tF�e tai�le, but nothing realiy firm.
SNIPES: We've started dis�ussions with State 48, who's dQne aur town shirts and
warking an a new design far the 4th. And so that's where the shirts come from. 5❑
that's a good ❑ne that I'd fvrgotten abaut, but yeah, tF�at one they are warking on
a�tively. And I know that like doing a ma�ie in the park with a themed mo�ie, but the
ma�ies hasn't been selected. We`re just compiling a list. And then once we get that list
campiled, then we'll beat each other up until we figure ❑ut which one seems the best
and go #rom tF�ere and trying to make sure that we're farnily friendly.
As we laok f�ackwards, we realize that PG didn't mean the same thing as it daes today.
And s� you got to really watch the m��ie and ga, yeah, we really can't show that mo�ie
and say it's kid friendly. 5o thase are kind of the obstacles that we're loaking at as we
loak at th2 list as well.
CHAIR BURN5: 5a samething like The Patriots probably nat really on the list.
ICLINE: i asked Setsy LaV�y about the Thanksgi�ing parade. And she said that they
announced the theme is going to be Happy 25�th birthday for the Tawn. Sn if we could
get samebady, a marshal €ar the parade. And I would really like to see us get local
media attention and maybe national, fooking at the Macy's parade.
CHAIR BURN5: That that's kind of up to ti�e �hamber.
SNkPES: Yeah, that's a chamber event. 5o we wou�d nat ha�e any input or any way to
help out with their e�ent, as they're the anes that are one hundred percent in charge of
everythin� that happens at it.
KLINE: ❑kay. Including publicity on that?
SNIPES: Yeah, one hundred percent.
CHAIR BURNS: 1"iffany, did you have anything to add ❑n this?
TITIU5: I did, Chairman Burns and Town representati�es. Regarding the 250 America
25� initiative, I wanted ta thank you for creating the working group, recagniring that the
America 250, the 250th hirthday is +mportant. I la�e that yau did that, and fflr including
us, and for listening ta our advice and ideas to allow that warking group -- us as a
warking graup to come together and present ideas, and tf�en to see that yau're actually
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putting money behind the initiative is really ex�iting ta see. So I want to thank you for
that.
And then number twa, I lo�e the fact that yau're asking and saying, hey, we need ta
connect with other partners, community, regianal e�ents ta see who's dving what,
who's daing what acti�ities, and ta �oordinate that and ta feed you infarmation as we
ga.
My cancept was to extend noc the working group necessarily, but create a new
initiative by our commission that is a sart of a raund table, ❑r I'm gaing to pass it aff t❑
Chandler, like alm�st like an alliance, as yau �alled it, but an ahility for us as, as
cammission cammissioners to reach out to partners, potential partners and cammunity,
other regianal communi#y leaders ta say, hey, what are you guys doing to caordinate
dates, times, e�ents, artists patential just to coordinate better.
And I'd Ifl�e ta affer us as a �ammissian t❑ be that party that helps dv that in a
nanpolitical, nangQ�ernment, nonGammittal way, if that makes sense. But �handler, �'m
going ta pass it off to him. Beyond the working group of the America 250 initiati�e, his
idea broadens that whole can�ept a lait. Thank yau.
HARRER: Yeah, and I plan to discuss this maybe in the future agenda items patentially,
but just t❑ maybe jump around a little bit and kind af g❑ off of that. Yeah. I did want to
discuss taday -- either today or next meeting patentially how we could go about
partnering with ather towns, historic commissians, or iacal histarical societies or e�en
shippo and sort of building a relatianship with thase other --
CHAIR BfJRNS: Yeah, I agree with that discussion, but I belie�e that would be a separate
agenda item, so we'd probably be loaking at that for a future agenda.
HARPER: That works for me.
YDaER: Let's add that ta next meeting.
KLINE: Sa I ha�e one ❑ther -- I think Tiffany had this idea about the 250 trees, and
there's that new little park down at the end of EI Lago that loaks a little sparse, and I
don't kn�w what the lands�aping plans are for that, but that seems �ike an ❑pportunity
there.
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CHA1R BURNS: What park is that?
KLINE: The ❑ne �s you go dawn EI Laga.
SNIPES: Panarama, the new Pocket Park --
KLINE: Panorama or Palisades.
CHAIR 6URN5: I think Ke�in's dane with that.
SNIPES: Yeah. So the way that that's planted is so that all thase plants can grow to full
size. They're small right now, but they wan't he when they grflw up. And so it's one of
the biggest prablems we ha�e in the industry �f landscaping and architecture is
e�erybody likes to see it Ioak full when it's new, and then alE the plants grow tagether
and no one can tell the difference between one plant and another, and they end up
shearing them e�ery other day to make sure that nv blvoms e�er happen on a ny plants.
We're against that.
And so we �alant them at a distance that makes it so that when they're full grown, they
can be stx foot w'sde and eight foat tall, ❑r they can be three foot wide ar�d twa foot tall,
depending on the type of pfant. Sa we try and use the type of plant to det�rmine our
spacing in the plants that are #here. And by starting with plants k�eing smaller, they cfo
way better than if you start with plants that are iarger because they're more adaptable.
No different than a kid rebounds way quicker than what I wouEd if I got F�urt. And s❑ by
making sure that we're — in ❑ver a year ar two, thase plants will outgrow plants that are
much larger when they're planted. Sa yeah, as far as that space gaes, 25a trees in that
area would end up being a jungle, not a pocket park.
KLINE: Thank you.
CHAIR BURN5: �kay. Are we set ❑n 25�? ❑kay. Historic art and essay contest.
Anything new there? That will he getting pretty clase to initiating that and getting the
kids in action.
SNIPES: Yeah, I don't ha�e anything new on that. I just knaw it's out.
CHAIR BL1RN5: And Tim or Peter, yau got anyEhing?
GALLAG�IER: No. What I remem6er from our last meeting was that there was same
document that Ryan was finishing up farthat.
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Y�DER: That's right. I recall that, and he was gaing to have a con�ersation with the
superintendent, if I remember carre�tly.
GALLAGHER: Yes.
Yb�ER: And get back to us after the break. Tha#'ll be February, I guess.
5N1 PES: And I know that those are all vut. And sa we're just waiting an those ta �ome
back. And as they come back in then, then we'If start sharing them with the graup to ga
o�er. 6ui I know that he did mentian the school and got everything passed out. And
they'�e been sharing it around to get people in�al�ed with it.
�ALLAGHER: Yeah, I'm just reading the wards in the agenda here. It says we plan ta
start pushing the project in I�te lanuary.
SNIPES: Yep. We're there.
GALLAGHER: Excellent.
SNIPES: 5a thank you.
CHAIR 6L1RNS: 5a basically it's on schedule. All right. Discussion and passible action on
public art information up�ates. Kevin or Tony, yvu gvt anything yau can add an that?
LEPDER: I don`t have anything new. I know that Ryan -- I don't ha�e anything new. I
know Ryan's been diligently warking on it. He was gaing to send me the link to try and
go back, if F�e caufd, ta see what's gaing ❑n, but I haven't gotten that link yet sa. Qo you
lcnow ❑f anything new?
SNIPE5: Well, we ha�e a few different things �oming. 5a ane is the Internatianal Dark
Sky qiscovery Center artwark that you guys appro�ed. bidn't turn aut ta he as valuable
as what they thought it was, and it was the stipulation that we had when it was voted
on and approved is that as lang as it meets the guidelines. Well, it didn't. 5o they are
going back aut ta procure another piece of art t❑ meet their match that they need to do.
�nce that happens, they will be bringing it back to you for appro�al before it goes ta
Town Cauncil. And I haven't heard anything lately. I haven't seen anything as to if they
found anyihing. So I don't ha�e mare information than the fact that they just needed ta
ha�e more artwarlc ta mee# their numbers that they ha�e ta match. 6ut outside af that
f dvn't ha�e a whole lot.
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� know Ryan was definitely warking an the SeeMyLegacy stuff to add in the art walk ta
it's something that we're in�orporating through aur �arks and our trail systems, using
those Qfi codes with the company, SeeMyLega�y. We'�e just started touching the tip of
the iceberg, sa to speak. We ha�e one hundred QR codes to put aut. We put se�eral in
the b�tanical garden when we had their anni�ersary earlier this year or last year. Let'S
go backwards. And they worked really well for that as well. 5o I know he had been
working on the Centennial Circle area, and he's warking his way out from there. Sa I
think we`II be able to da a lat af really cool things with this thought pra�ess of adding
things.
Kind af art related is also we're doing the informational signs, just kind of a heads up
around the fauntain. And those wiil have RR Gades that guide you to the art as well. ❑n
certain anes, each one's a little different, I knaw there was a lot of activity that was
supparted here with this group on getting thase going. We're in aur final phases af
re�iew right naw.
We have a designer that started helping us aut with those maybe a manth or month and
a half ag�. It's a praject that we'�e been warking on for, I don't know, I think it's been
three or fouryears naw. It feels like fore�er. And I was kind ❑f spearheading the push
of it. And then through staffing issues, multiple, and then starting a�er again, that ane
kind of fell to the wayside a littie bit. So I`m excited that we're finally at a spat where
we're getting ready ta get thase printed out.
We're haping t❑ have those out into January. ear4y February, Dnce we get ti�e final
renditions, we can send it out ta this committee so you guys can see it. I knaw that you
�uys were acttvely involved. And s❑ I want ta make sure that you guys get a chance to
see it, toa, before e�erybody else daes. So we'll share that with you.
CHAIR BL1RN5: ❑kay. Na public art applications on for this meeting, I guess. And let's
see. Next meeting date for February is Wednesday the 4th. Future agenda items, I'�e
got a cauple �ere I'd like t❑ see.
I discussed this with you earlier, Ke�in, ahout maybe presentation from Amanda
regarding the Cvuncil discussian regarding the mural program ar proje�t, the
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puk�lic�pri�ate admiration {phoneticj. So I'd like ta hear from her an just exactly what
they're planning and what, if anything, is the rale for this group going forward on that?
just to gi�e you an idea, it`s gat to da with warking with �arious building owners in town
ta consider mural projects on their prvperty, an their walls and stuff.
And I don't knaw if there was any other presentations we had scheduled far Fe#�ruary ar
not. I seem to recall some discussians, hut I dan't know. And Chandler's idea on
infvrrnation ❑n interacting with flther groups so we can get some clarity and ideas with
regard ta that. And I was trying to think whether I had something else. Yeah. It escapes
me if i did. Any6ody else have anything they'd like t❑ put up, propase?
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Other than the ob�iaus re�iew of the cantest and such, no,
nothing new.
CHAIR BURNS: Dkay. Yeah. The regular items that are an here are fine. ❑kay. That
being it, I'll entertain a mation far adjournment here at a6aut 4:35.
HARPER: 5econd.
CHAIR BURNS: Did we ha�e a mation and a second?
MR. HARPER: I thought yau were the mation. I'll motian for ac�journment.
LEP�ER: I'll second that.
CHAIR BURNS: ❑kay.
CHAIR BURN5: All those in fa�or?
ALL: Aye.
CHAIR B11N5: ❑kay. We are adjourned for now. Thank you all.
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Having no further k�usiness, Chairpersan Burns adjourned the Regular Meeting of the
History and Culture Advisory CornmissiQn meeting held an January 7, 2026, at 4:35 p.m.
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