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Home My WebLink AboutHCAC_2026_0204_MinutesT�WN �F FDUNTAIN HILLS MINLJTES OF THE REGIJLAR MEETING �F THE FDUNTAiN HILLS HISTORY AND CIJLTURE ADVISORY COMMISSI�N �ebruary 4, 2D26 A Regular Meeting af the Fountain Hills Histary and Culture Advisory Commission was con�ened at 167�5 E. A�enue af the Fountains in open and public sessivn at 4:Q� p,m. Members Present: Chairperson Bob Burns; Commissianer Tim Yoder; Commissioner Peter Gallagher; Commissianer Chandler Harper; Commissioner Bonnie Kline; Commissioner TifFany Titus Members Absent: Vice Chairpersan Tvni �ePoer Staff Present: Community 5ervices Recreatian Manager Ryan Prestan; Administrative Assistant Stormy Mazeikis t��T A �N �1 Q � �- �� . � � , � � � � �� , D ' ' �` � ' z � � � �� o� - • � b �' � b • � � f��hat is A�'ti�� TOWN OF F�UNTAIN HILLS FE6RUARY 4, 2�26, HISTQRY ANO CULTURE AaV150RY COMMISSION MEETING Past-Prodt�Gtion File Tawn af Fountain Fliils History and Culture Ad�isory Cammission Meeting February 4, Za�fi Transcription Pra�ided 6y: eScribers, LLC ***** Transcriptian is pravided in order to facilitate cammuni�atian accessibility and may nat be a totally verbatim record af the praceedings. * * * * � Page 1 of 24 T�WN DF FDUNTAIN HILLS FEBRLIARY 4, 2026, H15TORY AN� CULTURE ADVlSORY COMMISSl�lV MEETING CHAIR BURNS: Calling the February 4th meeting af the Fountain Hills HiStvey and Cultural Ad�isory Commission together ta order. And we'll ha�e a roll call, Stormy. MAZEIKIS: Yes, sir. Chair Bab Burns. CHAkR B4JRN5: Here. MAZEfKIS: Vice ChairToni LePaer. CammissianerTim Yoder. YQDER: Here. MAZEIKIS: Commissianer Bannie iCline. KLINE: Here. MAZEIKIS: Commissioner Peter Gallagher. GALLAGHfR: Here. MAZ�IKIS; Commissioner Chandier Harper. HARPER: Here. MAZEIKIS: CommiSsionerTiffanyTitus. TITiJ5: Here. MAZEIKIS: We ha�e a quorum. CHAIR BURNS: Okay. And any presentations here today? No. Okay. ❑o yau kn�w where the minutes gv? I dvn't see them. Oh, there they are. Cansideration and possible action for approval af the meeting minutes fram January 7th. Oo I have a motion on that? GALLAGHER: I mo�e ta appro�e the meeting minutes as written. KLlNE: I second that. CHAIR BURNS: �kay. Motion and second. All those in favor? ALL: Aye. CHAIR BL1RN5: Any opposed? All right. Okay. ❑iscussion regarding the histaric registry for the fountain. Ryan, yau believe yau might ha�e something on that far us? PRESTON: Yeah. I'll jump in real quick, and I'I! turn it a�er to e�erybody here. 5a I Page 2 of 24 TOWN OF FDLINTAIiV HILLS FESRUARY 4, 2�Z6, H157DRY AND CULTUitE ADVI50RY COMM15510N MEETING believe at least last week, a couple of weeks aga, we were able ta, upon request, to send out our original submission, which again, was hea�ily influenced by the 5tate Historic Preservation �ffi�e, and then the final submission that they turned in. I'd like t❑ nate that the one we turned in was exactiy like the template. And then he taid me it was a bad format, and I reminded him it was his tempiate fram like 1975. But anyway, so he altered it fit the template, turned it in. And you should ha�e recei�ed both af thase. Again, that was upan request to look at. This does ha�e a possible action we are laoking at possibly -- we wauld lo�e a recommendation from this ad�isory board on whether ar not you ad�ise the town to push through and resubmit, and then we can talk steps from there. CHAIR BLJRNS: �kay. PRESTQN: Because I believe we've als❑ provided the nates, bath from the 5tate Histori� Preservation ❑ffice ❑n their re�ammendations. I think we'�e als❑ provided both Cvmrnissianer Burns and Commissioner Yoder's n�tes an the meeting as well. CHAIR BURNS: Any discussion ❑n ahout ma�ing forward? We're gving to hear with Tiffany answer me. TITUS: In that, you ha�e a working group for t�at committee. I recommend they get toget�er and present their findings and report next month, if that's okay with you, Ryan, in term5 af your timeline to support moving f�rward or nat mo�ing fvrward an that pracess? PRESTON: Yeaf�. At this point. the timeline is, I don't want tv say irrele�ant, but it is at the moment, and so that's up -- that's we could do ti�at. I don't know if the workgroup has had a chance to laok at it or nat. 5a yeah, that's ❑pen for discussian. CF�AIR Bl1RN5: Chandler, do you ha�e a comment there? HARPER: Yeah, I would be open to getting tagether with some falks and kind of hashing through that just genera�ly high level, though. I re�iewed the applicatian and the camments and I want to say, I do tend ta agree with a lot af the comments. f#hink the application, if we were to move forward, either needs t❑ 6e narrowed quite a bit, E think. Page 3 nf 24 TOWN pF fOl1NTAIN HILLS FEBRLIARY 4, 2026, HiST�RY ANp CULTLiRE ADVI50RY COMM1551�N MEETING And t�at's one thing that I think we can either discuss here through the working group is sort of the scope af what do we want out of it. Is it that we want the entire park to be a historic site, ar d� we want the fountain to he a historic landmark? Because ane would be a lot more #ailored and a lot easier to, I say, easier, potentially easier #o make happen than, for instance, the park, which has a lat a significant amount Qf noncontributing items. So just something for us to maybe work through in a wflrking group and come back to the table. PRESTON: Yeah. I mean, that's a higher �iew question as weil. 5a it's afcay to if anybady here wants t� discuss that, that way, the whafe Cvmmission does have the ability t❑ put in their two cents an that as well. So that's samething that �ould be discussed here instead o#just repar#ed an. And yeah, sa originally, the application wasjust for the fauntain. We were advised again to the State Histaric Preser�atian �ffice tF►at it'd be best ta include the park as wefl. We were kind of on the fence about that. And if it is a direction you want to ga, we're just pushing the fountain forward as well. That would 6e a directsan that would be acceptable as weil. So that's definitely a good thing t❑ consider and a good point to make. They mentioned, yeah, narrowing the scope. We did a lot of -- we're 5D years ❑Id right. It's a little different than a lot af rriany af the vEher �ities, yau know, putting forward samething within the 5tate ❑f Arizona. I#'s not a-- it's not as long of a history. In faet, it's a henchmark far certain things tQ have t� be 5� years ❑Id. So that being said, narrawing our scope, we had a lat of things from like the ��D, a lot of e�ents written in there that probably didn't really pertain ta the application in the end. 5o I think the directian, Chandler, you're talking about, it makes sense. And I think that's prabably where we would be akay with going as well. And again, it's open for discussion how you guys want to do that. CHAIR 6URN5: Bonnie. KLINE: Well, I was just trying to think what is impartant in the history af the town and the fountain is the attraGtion, but the park has also been used for events that really made it a community, I think, s❑ I feel it should be include the park. Page 4 of Z4 TOWN �F FOUNTAIfV HILLS FEBRUARY 4, 2Q26, H15TORY ANd CLILTURE ADVI50RY COMMIS510N MEE1'ING CHAN�LER: �he vnly ca�eat tv that is that particularly far natianal register listing, there is that 5a-year benchmark. So even if there were majar events that happened, you know, in 2�15 ar 20�fl e�en, you know, it's just -- it doesn't ge# you t❑ that quate unquote "historic threshold" generally. Sa that would be the anly -- and I think that's part of -- based on the camments that they pro�ided, I think that was kind af wha# they were trying to �on�ey is, hey, we realize it's an impartant area as a whale, hut it doesn't necessarily make it histaric yet. GALLAGHEft: Yeah. I would just like to pile ❑n and -- no ❑ffense ta anyane, but I think the park itself is irrele�ant. It's the fou�+tain that we're talking ahout. Thac's the real thing. It was the world's largest fauntain for many years, certainly when it was built. And that's w�rat has attracted people tv come t❑ Fou�tain Hills and make it a town. 5❑ I ihink we really should focus on that e�en though the park is an important place, it's nat what I wQuld cansider a landmark. The fountain is. YODER: I see the positi�es far both sides, more or less, but I'm certainly willin� ta just mo�e fQrward an the fountain. In a way, I think it's lcind of silly because in a way, the Ganversation -- well, let's put it this way. They were bath built tagether as ❑ne. �t wasn't like the fountain was put in there. And #hen like two ar three years later, they decided to grade all the area araund and plant grass. It was all �onceived as �ne thing, k�ut if that makes it difficult, then, you icnow, let's lea�e the grassy area ❑ut. I mean, grassy knalls ha�e been trouble far a long time, since the early 5a's, I think. KLINE: 5o is that something that can be done at a future time, maybe anather prQje�t? PRESTON: Oo yau mean adding the park? KLINE: Adding the park at a later time? PRESTDN: I mean, yes. I mean, it's -- yau can do anything at a later time. If you -- if we were t❑ do it, we'd do it as a package, I think. I think if it's a nade naw, it'll probably be a node down the rvad. I dan't think it would make sense daing it separately. I think that's where yau -- yau wauldn't get the park on its vwn. I don't think tF�e pass through. It's the #ountain, like you said, it's the draw. 5o if you're going ta attach one to the other, it would need to be the park with the Page 5 of 24 TOWN �F FflUNTAIN HILLS FEBRUARY 4, 2025, H15TORY ANo CULTURE ADVi50RY COMM15510N MEE�ING fountain ar the fountain by itself. I don't think y�u would e�er get the park by itself as a histaric an the historic registry. And just again, loaking at the feedhack from the council wha was �ooking at and wha# they pro�ided is, a fat af it was they wanted to know mare abaut the impa�t in Arizona. T�ey wantecf to icnaw ahaut -- and it's funny because it's what we had originally focused ❑n is the de�elopers, the C.V. Wood, the McCulloch, what was their �ackground, what made them want to do this, which, iranically, is what we had ❑riginally focused on in aur narrati�e, and we were actualfy encouraged to switch that, if you remember in kind af backpeda� ftom that a little bit. And you can kind af tell too, that the peaple there Q6�iausly know what they do. They knaw their history, and they also hit the main historical points right there like ❑rme dam needs to be mentiflned. You knaw, and then the native land needs tfl be mentioned. That's what they want. Whether it's a mention of basically it had nothing to do with the fountain, if that's what it cames up, at least it's still mentioned within the report. I think they were Ivaking fflr that, as well as did it ha�e an effec# of the native relations as well. So if it`s na, throw it in there faut make it a no. I think they're laoking mare on that side af e�erything. 1 think that's where we missed on ❑ur original submissian. And it's where we started kind of where we gat away frflm as well. KLINE: I ha�e to tell yau back in 1988, I was on a trip t❑ Europe, an� I saw a poster of the fountain in Switxerland. Sa I thaught that was pretty impressi�e. �REST�N: They were. They were very proud of their work be�ause they made the nozzle so, yeah. KLINE: Great. PREST�N: 1Jm-hum. CHAIR BURNS: Okay. Yau know, basically just, you know, my thaughts in general abaut inciuding tf�e paric, it's -- I'm kind of with Peter. I'm not sure haw rele�ant it is, but I think an important aspect t❑ potentially going farward with this is -- since they seem to make a point of the water, I think an important point to make going forward is the -- you Page 6 vf 24 T�WiW �F FQl1NiAIN WILLS FE6RUARY 4, 2U26, H15TORY ANO CLILTURE AOVISDRY COMM15510N MEETlNG know, �irtually no water is wasted from the park, the fvuntain. And I mean, that's -- and that kind ❑f brings me ta another thing here that, you knaw, a lot of that is, you knaw, not part of the lake. It's under the park. And you know, it's kind of -- the Fountain Hills, a little different in my mind from a lot of planned cammunities is because it's been more of an e�olution than, yau knaw, because the de�eioper was not a builder. And it kind af they came in and put in the infrastru�ture and it kind af build out from there with, you [cnaw, like the adQrs and th�se people like that, which, y�u know, ob�iously doesn't play inta this. But I guess I would suppart sitting dawn with mysel# and Chandler and Tim in gaing o�er that and going a�er the thing. And ! know you're busy, but I-- you know, I wauld kind ❑f like ta ha�e yau there, tao, Ryan. But I dars't knaw if you can work that into your schedule, but I think that might be where I'd go fram thi5 point, because I would agree. I dan't think it's time sensiti�e right now. Sa if we can take another month ar two to ga thraugh this and then make aur recammendatEan to the -- I mean, the council isn't going to be interested in hearing our re�ommendation fQr a few manths, I wauld say, getting througF� planning and bud�ets and all that stu�f right now. 5� I think let's start by see if 7im and Chandler and I and possihly yau, Ryan, can get Eogether and ga through this and come up with some ideas we can present to the Commissian as a whale and get same additianal feedback and then maybe make a recQmmendatian. CHANDLER: Yeah, I agree. And I think as far as the timeline is con�erned, f think we don't need to be too worried about that. ! think we need to, like yau're saying, get t�gether, make sure that it's done in a way that will make it happen -- CHAI R BURNS: yeah. CHANQLER: -- and reflect well. And hecause nnce it's on there, it's on there forever. Sa we we'�e got nothing but time. PRESTON: Yeah. And the ❑nly, the anly reason we pushed kind of faster than we probably shauld ha�e at the end was in hopes for our 250th un�eiling. And that window is gane. And sa that's what that's what I meant by the timeline is sart of irrele�ant at Page 7 af 24 TQWN �F FOUNTAIN HILLS FE6RUARY 4, 2U26, HIST�RY ANp CLJLTURE A�VI50RY COMM155iON MEETlNG this paint. Llm-F�um. YQDER: �a rnaybe we three slash four can get tagether, maybe towards the end of this montF� ar someth�ng ❑n a-- I don't knaw, �n a 5aturday or 5unday or samething for an hou r. CHAIR BURIVS: Yeah. 8asicaiiy, I'm apen any day. YDDER: Okay. CF#AIR 6lJRN5: I think Ryan would prabably prefer a weekday sin�e he's here. If he's �oing ta be here on a 5aturday or 5unday, he`s going ta be daing something else. YD�ER: Yeah. CHAIR 6URN5: 5a -- PRESTDN: We coufd do about 1 o'clock on March 14th. I'll fae at the park anyway, so -- Irish Fest, in case anybady is going. CHAIR 6URNS: 5o yeah, we can -- YD�ER: So we can arrange that by email or samething. CHAIR 6URNS: Yeah. We can discuss that -- YO�ER: dkay. CHAIR BL1RN5: -- and come up with a time and date. I'm fairly open, so I can probably hend to you guys' schedule. I've got a few meetings caming up, but they're -- I can work around pretty good, I think. PRESTON: Perfect. Yeah, I think that's a gaod direction, get affline and get together, and -- CHAIR BlJRNS: Yea�. PRESTON: -- we can figure out some presentatian moving forward, and then we can �ote an it ideally next time we meet. CHAIR SL1RN5: Anybody else? Any input on that, ar -- KLINE: Maybe you could talk abaut haw it changed fram being pure water to recy�led water and -- cHaiR auRNs: on. KLINE: -- maybe that would -- Page 8 of 24 TDWN �F FOUNTAIM HILLS FEBRUARY 4, Z026, H15TORY AND CULTURE AOVI50RY COMM1551�N MEETING CHAIR 6lJRN5: Yeah, I mean -- KLINE: -- tnterest him. �HAIR 6URN5: -- that would be part of the water thing, which I think is -- would be important, so -- okay. So we'll go on fram there. Historic art and essay contest. I guess that's kinci of -- PRESTON: I think we're on B, so I think -- oF�, no, sorry, C, 250th anniversary. CHAIR BURNS: Dh, i'm sorry. I got ahead Qf myself there. Yeah. 250th anni�ersary af the USA. Like I said, the f�anners are up and they look goad and -- um-hurn. PRESTQN: Yeah, I can throw ❑ut a �ouple updates. And sa I know the town put ❑ut a press release. I don't know if it was printed or seen yet, buE a �ouple of things we have going. There's a website, a landing page that's as discussed by this grQup here. Sa we have created a landing page that kind af talks about what the town has planned. As far as the 250th, it alsa has a link ta a form that any group or anybody can fill ❑ut with anything that they're doing for the 25�th and submit. I don't belie�e we`ve gotten any submi#tals for that yet. But if you plan on doing samething or, you knaw, a graup that's doing something submitting it to the town. We can get it up on aur websites and then the town may ha�e to be selec#i�e, but they'll be able ta push certain thin�s aut as well thraugh their channels. Sa I'd highly en�ourage anybody, any group who's doing anything. If you know anyone, ha�e tF�em fill aut that form Sa we can push it out thraugh our channels as well. We'�e got -- the banners are up on the a�enue, trying to think what else is going on recently. We did put some money behind a di#ferent aet for 4tF� of July. We can't really announce it yet, but 4th of July ceEebration. We're expecting to be a little bigger this year. It's going ta be some gi�eaways and things going aut. 5o we ha�e the essay cantest. I did push that aut to both the superintendent and his assistant, talked to them a little 6it akaaut that, trying ta get the schaal ta put a little mare emphasis behind it has been a challenge. Right now, theyjust have it out in their general what they cali their pea�� jar, their flier system are trying to get a little mare active involvement in this ane. Sa if anybody Page 4 of 24 TaWN aF FDUNTAIN HILLS FEBRIJARY 4, 202fi, H15TDRY ANO CLILTURE A�VISORY C�MM15510N MEETING wants t❑ reach ❑ut and try ta help with that, �therwise, I'll keep kind of pushing the school, but historically, I ha�en't had a lot of su��ess in that realm, but that is aut. And we actually did add in a little bit af �erbiage just ta incorporate it with the 25D as well. 5o we put the �50 logo, the town has on it, and then just kind of tied in wtthout changing any flf the actual prompts. Just the idea af aur focus an history t�is year, gi�en the 250th anni�ersary ofAmerica. So yeah, that's kind of -- and then we're also -- we just naw, we will 6e getting a-- we are warfcing towards a mant�ment-type sign "sn the park that says 250 an it. Sa for it's 6asi�ally a picture spot fflr people in the park to take a photQ with a�ig 250th sign. So that`s kind of the updates I ha�e right naw. Ef any6ady has anything to add ar any quest�ons or discussion, go for it. KLINE: Is there any deadline for submitting samething on that link? I did look at the link, and there's a �ouple groups I would like to mention it to. PREST�N: Yeah. I mean, ideally before your e�ent, we want to run up -- KLINE: Veah. PREST�N: -- ta be able to promote it. KLINE: Yeah, they wouldn't be gaod. PRESTON: So the mare time befare yaur e�ent, the beEter, but otherwise, no. Nv real timeline. KLINE: Dkay. PRESTON: And now we knaw these gvents are going to be gaing on throughaut the year, so -- KLINE: And are there any -- does it need to be a apen t� the public kind ❑f e�ent to be on there? PREST�N: We'll look at that through submittals. Yes, if it's a pri�ate group function, we probably wouldn't push it out because what we wauld push out wauld be an interest to the entire tawn. KLINE: Um-hum. P#�ESTQN: It's one of my people not just to a parti�ular group. 5a yeah, it wauld ha�e ta Page 1Q nf Z4 TOWN QF F�LJNTAIN HILLS FEBRUARY 4, 2D2fi, M15TORY AND CULTURE ADVI50RY COMMISSI�N MEETING be inclusi�e. KLI N E: �kay. PRESTON: lJm-hum. KLfNE: �n the shirts, I did see that an the website too. PRESTDI�: lJm-hum. KLI�VE: Are they gaing ta k�e available in just at the cammunity center, say, ar at different shaps araund town? PRESTON: Sa we're warking an that right n�w. They will be available at 7awn Hall, second flaor. Most likely, they'll be available at the visitor center at the Chamber of Cammerce as well. And we'll also ha�e them for sale at events. And it's mast likely we'll have a �ouple pop ups at the farmers market for sales of those shirts as well. KLI N E: ❑kay. PRESTQN: We have about -- we're expe�ting those in about a week and a half, two weeks to arri�e and be a�aiVable for sale. KLINE: If a stare wanted to sell them, is there a way to da that, or -- PRESTQN: I can conne�t them with aur economi� development departrnent. They're handling that. And it �ould be the same type af thin� that we do at the chamber. They just ha�e ta pre-purchase the shirts for a �ertain cast. lJm-hum. KLINE: Okay. RRESTQN: Yep. And then on that, I belie�e they're making the lvgo minus the town's logo, free to use on the website as well. If anyf�ody wants to add the laga that was de�eloped far this to their material, they �ould do that as well. And I belie�e that's on the lancfing page website as well. CHAIR 8URN5: ❑kay. Anybady else got anything on that? Comment on. Dkay. Now, the art essay contest. I guess that's just kind af in pracess. PRESTON: Yeah. 50 ! touch 6ase on it already, but yeah, it's been subtnitted. I was warking with our current superintendent on that. I'm gaing to work with some of the prin�ipals dire�tly as my next goal is ta reach out ta them. E�erything is due by Mar�h 19th, which is -- it's close. Page 11 nf 24 1'DWN DF FOUN�AIN FkILLS FEBRLIARY 4, 202fi, H15TaRY AND CULTURE A�VIS�RY COMM1551�N MEETING You iCnow, it's a m�nth, a little o�er a month away. So we're going t❑ do what we can t❑ get participation. With these, 90 per�ent ❑f out� participatian has been fr�m either kids at the schaal, actually, that live in tawn Qr the Inspiration A�ademy. We, histarically, don't get a whole lot �r�m the school �istri�t, and we're realiy hoping to work with them and change that for this one. 6ut the material is out. We'ii he doing a harder push here on aur end, an our sacials and in ❑ur press release -- CHAIR BURNS: I guess -- PRESTON: -- as well. CHAIR BURNS: -- you know, kind �f be up t� the school to, you know, like prompt English teachers ❑r samething like that ta -- PREST�N: Yeah. CHAIR 6L1RN5: -- some kind of an assignment or whate�er. PREST�N: And Tim mentioned it, I belie�e, when we were first starting this. You're nat -- yau're ne�er gfling to work it into the curriculum, teachers, I mean, it's -- CHAIR 6LJRN5: Yeah. PRESTON: -- you're nat going to get to that point. ft's tao regulated. And you know, teachers are busy. CHAIR BlJRNS: Yeah. PRESTON: It's not like we're paying them extra to #ry to weave this in. �HAIR BlJRN5: Yeah. PRESTON: And so it'll kind of be up to their discretian. Just mare tryin� on my end to make sure the teachers are a�tually hearing about it. CHAIR BURNS: Yeah. PRE5TnN: Make sure that informativn is at least making it to the teachers is the goal. CHAIR BIJRlVS: Yeah. Um-hum. PRESTON: And that's what I've struggled with in the past. CHAIR 6URfV5: Um-hum. PRESTON: Um-h�m. CHAIR BURNS: �kay. Anything else? Page 12 nf 24 rowN aF ��uNrA�N Hi«s FEBRUARY 4, Z026, H15T�RY AND CULTURE ADVIS�RY COMM1551QN MEETING PRE57�N: And on that, sa e�erything is due by Mar�h 19th. We're still -- we're most likely nat going to be able to get it in a council meeting. Instead we will most likely hold an event at the community center. We'�2 worked with the �ammunity center ta get 5pace for the art anc! e�erything t❑ be on display, so people can carne see it. Anr} #hen we'll hold a smail gathering where we will announce winners. Everyt�ody participating can come out and we'!i announce winners at the community center. We'll have refreshments and things like that as well. CHAI R BURNS: ❑kay. KLINE: And what abaut judging the entries? YDDER: Exactly. That was my ques#ian. Rre you going to need yau're going to need us to help with the judging -- unless there's -- PREST�N: ft`II mast likely be ihe work graup. The issue we ran in with the paetry contest last year is, you can remember, is ciiscussing, you kn�w, kids and their work on the record, was not prabably best practice at the time as I learned. We didn't use their names ❑r anything, but discussing thei�' wark on the re�ord is samething we probably want to a�oid this time. And the ❑rsly way to da that is to get a work group together, so it has ta be three or less, sa we can do it outside of a quorum and judge. And t�at can be the same work group or we can work into -- if there's a different work graup that wants ta help judge that. We may be able ta do it in two small packets o�three. 5o we're still kind of warking that �ut. And in fact, the Mayor's Youth CQuncil is going t❑ help with this as we#!. They're taking this ❑n as an assistance as well. 5o they're going to have a �ote in it as well, and it'll be e�ery�ady together. And that's haw it's ad�ertised, I belie�e, an the flier, bat#� the History & Culture Ad�isory Commissian with the help of the Mayor's Youth Council. And it turns out they had planned a project almost exa�tly like this, an art praject to da and display at the �ommunity center. 5o when the caordinators learned, I lcind af ste{�ped on their taes, they were asking to fae part of it. CHAIR 6lJRN5: ❑kay. __ ___ ___ Page 13 of 24 TaWN aF FDUNTAIiV HILLS FE6RUARY 4, �02F, HISTORY AN� CULTURE A�VI50RY COMM1551�N MEETING TITL15: I'm going to �olunteer immediately to be a part of that project. 1f you need a small working graup to be a part of the judges, I'd la�e to be a part af it. PREST�N: There's a chance we could just do independent judging when everything's �u#. And sa like I said, I haven't had to figure that aut before, sQ we'll work thrau�h that. We'ii get that figured out. We'il make sure e�erybady �►as a say. CHAIR Bl1RN5: Well, we'�e got another meeting before that deadline, so you �an fiil us in if you got more infarmation on that. ❑kay. Let's see, public art information. Toni's nat here. I don't know if you got any -- PR�ST�N: I actually have a quick presentation. 5a we ha�e an item that kind of falls under this. Sa unless anybady has anything on the public art, real quick update. I'm still getting our new websites set up with alf the CtR codes and e�erything. Centennial Circfe is �ompletely done as far as QR cades. They ha�en't gotten on the pieces yet, but they have be�n assigned. E�erything's up an the web and looking good. Currently, I'm abaut halfway through the avenu2 right naw on getting that updated as we11. And then we ha�e plans to da Fauntain Park. A5 y011 5�@� iE's going to tie in ac#ually to what -- I'm going to take a second. I'm gQing ta ma�e and kind of present this to you. I don't know if anyhody is still an the Commission from when we started this praject. This is the Fauntain Rark signage update. Anybody has walked around Fountain Park may have seen some �ery faded signs, some �ery old signs. And so vne of the first paints of arder for this Cammission was to wark an those signs, work on the verbiage for those signs and try to get those upda#ed. So we'�e had the �erbiage for a little whiie, and we finally had time to get with the designer and really try t❑ dial in what we want. And so that's kind of what I'm going to present to yau real quick here. All right. Sa you can see it there. And I think the presentation -- I don't think you have it in yaur packet. 5o you ha�e to either look F�ere or turn around behind you. I apologize. Is this working perfect. Much louder. A!I right. So we're gaing ta ha�e ane, two, three. faur, fi�e. There's six af these signs gaing up araund the park. And again, these are #he Page 14 nf 24 TOWiV �F FQUNTAIN HiLLS FEBRUARY 4, 2fl26, HISTaRY ANU CULTURE ADVISORY COMM15510N MEETING big signs that you see with the information. You are here. Here's some information about Fountain Park, so that's what each o#these are going ta be. And as you could see, the star here indi�ates the I�cation. 5o this is up top on Saguaro kind of near where one of those the disc golf pads are. And again, there's already a sign there and we're replacing it. The aici signs were printed in a way that was nat ideal. These are all printed on polymetal full color, and they ha�e a lot longer lifespan and alsa easier to reprint if we end up needing to. Sa we have signs out in the park that ha�e been there for years now that that loak fantastic still. So step Qne, they're gaing to laok good. And so you can kind ❑f see -- it's gaing t❑ be some#hing different on e�ery park. There's going to be same did yau knaw on there, it's �oing to point aut different landmarks. Sfl yau can see around the park. So you can see the "you are here" sign. If you laok from this pQint facing east, the great lawn, hvst events. Fa�ing south, it's the 5uperstition Mountains facing west. West, yau can see downtown, enjoy shopping, dining. So there'll be a lot af that. It's talking a lot abaut the different park features. And also just gi�ing you the F�istory of the fountain as yau ga thraugh each ane. 5o I`m not going tn read every single thing on here, but i just want ta let yau know, a lat of this copy was written by this Commission early an. We did ha�e to tweak same of it just to kind af fit the o�erall theme and idea that we ended up going with, but a lot af this wark was done by #his Cammission. 5o we wanted ta thank e�erybody. Again, a lat af them aren't here, but you guys are daing the same wark now and wauld ha�e done this as well, so we'd like to thank. This is part of the things you're actually doing you can actually see come to fruition. Here's another ane. 5a this one is dawn. Where is that? That's down just near where the pump hause is, it looks like, down on the lake side of that. It's a really fun picture of the lily. We always I'ske this phota. It's an angle yau don't see often of the 1ily. And again, it's going to point ❑ut, what �an yau see, wF�ere are you facing northeast. YQu could see Faur Peaks. Right there, there's the pride of 5wit2erland right there, 6onnie. where you wouEd ha�e Page 15 of 24 TaWN OF f�UNTAIN HI�LS FEBRUARY 4, 202fi� HISTQRY AND CLILTURE ADVI50RY CaMM15510N MEETFNG seen that. That's the nozile being lowered in. Sa a lat ❑f really fun histarical photos. And then yflu're going to see these QR cades. Sa these qR codes are obviously going t❑ be scannable. This ane goes to the EarthCam. But you also see some later that'If direct you to a landing page that has all af our art tours vn it and art walks. And that's going tv be with the updated ones that we`re working on now. 5o the updated �ersian of thase art walks. 5o this one is -- actually on the east side, where the east side parking lot is kind of acrass the parking lot an that sidewalk, there's another mflnument sign. And that's where this ❑ne's I�cated. And so it's talking again abaut events. The car shows #here's another qR Gode that leads directly to the town's main events page. And again, it jusE talks a�aut same ❑f the histary af Fountain Rark as well. Let me keep gaing. So this ane's over. All of you probably recagni2e t#�is art piece here. So it's right down there by that art piece at the amphitheater side. You can see here, it's right next ta the art piece. 5o this QR cac�e does talk about the self-guided art walk. And so that's really -- it's a really gaod system. We'�e purchased to get thvse art walks in and e�erything. Sa it's going t❑ be it's gaing ta be seamless. It's gaing to be all be cell phone friendly, whieh really nane of aur stuff is currently. Sa it's going to he all �ery mob+le friendly. And like I said, the Centennial Pa�ilion ❑ne is already done, and the rest of these a re i n the wo rks. All right. Couple more. So this ❑ne is down an the Great lawn right -- kind ❑f near where those new swings are. If you know those new bench swings, that's kind a#where this ane's lacated. Yau can see here the posed picture ❑f laying out the tflwn, again, cannects ia the EarthCam and it connects ta some -- it's actually a YouTu#�e �idea talking ahvut the 50th anni�ersary of the part of the tvwn. And again, more fun facts. And again, all these fa�ts were gi�en ta us by this Commissian and appro�ed by this Commission and recommend it to the town. All rigi�t. I think this might be the last ane. This is right there„ this is in the main area, pari of the �usiness area, the splash pad. We're patting oursel�es on the back a little bit, reminding e�erybody that we are gold medal award winning Parks and Recreation Page 16 of Z4 TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS FEBRUARY 4, 2pZfi, HISTaRY AND Cl1LTlJRE ADVI$QRY C�MM15510N MEETING Department, which is the highest recQgnitifln you �an recei�e nationally for parks and recreatian. So we had to throw that'sn there and we had ta put it in the busiest part af the park. And again, just more -- more, did yau knows. We got some flf nur bird friends that you can see ail ti�e time ouE there. And again, taiks about the water that we talked about here, what it's irrigated with and kind ❑f the early days. Talks about Nessie, which, yau know, leading up ta Fountain ta Irish Fest. Nessie is going t❑ became a thing again, possit�ly. You guys might be the first to krrow we're trying to bring Nessie back, not in the lake because it is not 1978 anymore, but -- and as we mentioned in the copy, a�tually, I just wrate, the sheriff's departme�t "ss much closer now of what you �an and ca n't d o. 6ut anyway, so we're kind Qf bringing a fot vf t�+at back. You might be seeing footprints a week leading up, caming back inta tflwn and everything. Alihough, again, we can't paint them anymore because they dvn't came off. We learned. If yau I��k I�ehind the cammunity center, you'll see a few af my test spats and some giant green footprints. 5a it's fun. We're bringing Nessie back, and you knaw, it's nat the Loch Ness Monster. Apparently, it's his irish cflusin, is what they had decided ba�k in 19 -- I dan't know when Nessie exactly first appeared. We'�e been trying to figure that out, but I think it was earlier in the $0's. It tflok them a few years before they braught Nessie ❑ut. But anyway, just wanted to give yau the presentatian, show you where the hard wark has gone, let you know that what we do. What y�u da submit to us. you may not see right away. We are the go�ernment. It's not -- we're not gaing ta be quick wsth anything, but it was used. We were able to put it in and we were -- yau will be seeing these go up in the parks nvt tao long from now as well. Any questions kind af about that pro�ess, or -- KLINE: If you need a picture af Nessie, I have one in the family phota album. PRESTON: Yeah. I shauld gi�e you -- I don't e�en know if I can f"snd it. Never mind. Sa no, we a�tually ha�e a lat of historical phatos. I'm sharing mare than I'm supposed to probak�ly be allowed. We did -- most people kr�ow we got the we got the Shamrvck Page 17 a# 24 7QWN DF F�UNTAIN HILES fEBRUARY 4, 2nzfi, H15TDRY ANQ CULTURE A�VISaRY C�MM15510N MEETIfVG Society back tagether last year, and wi#h the help of Dehbie Clausen, we did a videa series on it, which is going to be released arouncf Irish Fest in The Greening this year. And sn they braught a iat af phatos. 5o we have a lot of historical photo5 of Nessie. ❑id you know it actually ferried kids a�ross the fountain? KLINE: Yeah, my daughter was in ihat. PRESTON: 7here you ga. 5he might be ane of the photos. We gat a phato af it ferrying some kids. I had no idea people actually -- kids actually went in there and went across the fauntain, so I learned a lot because I had ta write kind of the orai history dawn far something we're doing right naw for some viral marketing, but -- YO�ER: Martin pawson haaked up the pro -- his propane -- PRESTON: Um-hum. YDdER: -- fire breathing apparatus to it. That was the -- PRESi�N: Df course. Yeah, yeah. And which is mentioned -- I'll see if I can share the landing page we got. 5o basically, the foatprints araund town are going to ha�e a qR code at the bottom, really small. I#`s kind of a-- if you notice it, scan it and it's going to kind af tell. What I hope is a humarous stary retelling of the 5hamrack 5ociety. I wrote it, so if it's terrible, don't teal me and it'll show the photos. And the fire breathing is definitely mentioned, af raurse, because why wouldn't Nessie's lrish cousin breati�e fire. Makes sense. Anything else? KLINE: ❑o you have any mentian of the pa�ilions and the benches that were made out af the recycled turbine materials? PRE5TnN: Those are ane af our dire�tors. Ke�in's fa�orite things. I don't know, off the top of my head, but I am sure they were mentioned. yes. LJm-hum. Yeah. He's very proud af thase as he should be. CHA#R BllRN5: Yeah. I'm glad you did thi5. I was getting rea! ciasQ to bringing that up and asking you far an update on where that was, because I'�e been walking around the fountain and seeing thvse things, and it's like -- PRESTON: LJm-hum. CHAIR BL1RN5: --yeah, I'm getting it replaced. Page 18 of 24 TOWN Of F�IJNTAIN HILLS FE6RUARY 4, 2026, HISTDRY AND C[JLTLJRE AQVISORY C�MMISSIDN MEETING PREST�N: Yep. CHAIR BURNS: And sa I'm glad ta see that. I like the QR code on the ❑ne with the camera, because you just kind ❑f brirrg it up and turn around and wave. PRESTON: Yeah. And there is one where it basically says, yeah, it's -- the Earth�am is right behind yau. You can scan it and basicalfy see yourseff on �amera. Yeah. 5❑ perfect. All right. Well again, thank you, guys, for your hard work an that. Again, yaur wark daes mean samething, e�en though you may not see it right away. Again, we're slow. Okay. Nat by design, but that's not our fault. We're bureaucrats. But work daes e�entually get done. This, far exampEe, went thrflugh nine iterations before we gat a final praduet, so there's a lot �f back and farth on it. CHAIR BURNS: ❑kay. Public art applicatio�s. Nathing right naw ar -- PRESTflN: 7here are no applications at this time. CHAIR BURN5: All right. PRESTnN: Kind af a quick note an that. There will be some most likely �aming in here saan. A lat af peaple ❑n this Commissivn haven't really seen thase yet. T�ose, we will get you ahead of time. It is really important on those public art applicatians that we get you ahead af time, that you read thraugh thase, you look thr�ugh those. It is -- your �ote's going to matter hea�ily an those appli�atians. So knowing which -- not loaking the day of a meeting is going t❑ be ideal anytime you get thase packets. And we'!I kind af reiterate that as well, because that's something that's gaing t❑ be permanent in town fflr a very long time. 1"here have been times where art F�as not been approved. So it's importani to take a clase loak. You da not have ta approve anything that �ames acro55 the desk, so just take a just making sure you take a critical view of it. And if it`s something you want to see in town far the next 5fl yea rs. TITUS: I have a questian related to that, Ryan. PRESTON: Um-hum. TITUS: Are we in a position or is it appr�priate for us, we're totally not appropriate for us to cr�ate. There are several artists that would be amazi�g and apprapriate and Page 19 of 24 TOWN OF FOIJNTAIN H1LLS FEBRUARY 4, 2026, H15T�RY AND CULTiJRE ADVISORY CDMMISSIQN MEETING wonderFul to ha�e in aur town -- PREST�N: Um-hum. TITl15: -- whether their selves starters ar otherwise, that are draws. econamic de�efopment draws tourist draws. Are we allowed t❑ recommend or create a list of thase p�tential artists and or pieces of art f�r companies ta consider, or your consideration for public art, ❑r should we reallyjust pull back and let the athers? PRESTON: Yeah. As a Commission, it wauldn't be ❑ur purview. The town does not commission art. 5o this art that we re�iew is develapers are required to submit public art. Either they can submit a monetary fee in lieu of the public art. But we don't actually cammission the artists. 5❑ if it's something you wanted t❑ put together and share with develQpers, but as far as is tt�is Commission`s purview, probabfy be outside af aur scope. TITUS: As a pri�ate eitizen, appropriate, then, is what I'm hearing -- PREST�N: Absolutely. Yep. TI7U5: -- not as a part af the Commission? PREST�N: Yep. Exaetly. TITUS: Thank yau �ery much. PRESTON: Yep. YDQER: I`m just feeling good. PRE5TON: Okay. Yeah. CHAIR Bl1RN5: Anything else an that? Okay. KLINE: I guess I ha�e a question. Is there a group stif I❑perating that selects or recommends art that they disca�er at dif€erent art shows. Like a lat af the pieces in Centennial Circle were selected by the art, and I'm forgetting the name af t�e group, �ut is there still same a group like tha# ❑perating? CHAIR 6URN5: Like the public art committee, I think -- PREST�N: Corre�t. The public art �ammittee is na longer araund. And so the public art applicatians used ta be under their purview as well, and that moved o�er ta this Commission, s❑ na. There isn't a group that will see art and then recommend it to the - .. . _.__ _ . . . . .. .... ... __ .. Page 2U v# 24 TOWN OF FOLINTAlN HILLS FESRUARY 4, 2026, H15TORY AND CULTLIRE ADVIS�RY C�MM1551DN MEETING town again, because the tawn's ne�er purchased art. KLINE: Right. I knew that. PRE57�N: Um-hum. KLINE: 5o I just want to float an idea, and we can talk about it more another time mayb2. But in Mesa, they woufci ha�e artists submit their artw�rk to be an display for a year, and people would vote an it and vote the one that they mast wanted to keep. And then the rest af them would ga k�ack to the artist after that year's period and they'd select new anes or get new artists with #heir artwork in. 6ut that was kind of ta get the public input on what would be the best art piece for the c�mmunity. PRESTON: And wouid that include the town purchasing or the City af Mesa purchasing the art piece? KLINE: I wasn't clear an whether the City of Mesa purchased it ar if it was a danation from the artist. PRESTON: I can talk to our community center manager. They d❑ a lot of different art dispiays and art pragrams where artists come and display their art. There's some gaing an almost aEl the time o�er at the cammunity �enter. A lot of it is paintings, k�ut there are sculptures and there are some other pieces of art that they get on display there. So I'If bring it up and see if it's something she's e�er encaunt�red. KLINE: Yeah. The ones I was thinking about where scuiptures and the center, �ery center af Mesa, sa -- CHAIR BURNS: City of Mesa has got a lot more room than Fountain Hills does. KLINE: Yeah, a lot mare people I know. I had another question an the 250#h anniversary. Are you planning on doing ane of those baoklets abaut upcoming e�ents that includes the centennial e�en#s, ❑r yau need a few more submissians? YO�ER: ❑a you mean like the community guide b�oklets that come aut e�ery couple few manths, or -- KLINE: Like -- PRESTON: I'm trying to tie that into the current agenda item, and I can't find a way to do it. 5o we probably can't talk abaut it naw, but if you want to talk t❑ me later aff Page 21 nf 24 TOWN OF FOUNTAIN HiLLS FEBRl1ARY 4, ZU76, HIST�RY ANQ Ct1LTURE ADVISQRY CaMM15510N MEETING record, I can talk to yau abaut that. KLI N E: ❑kay. PREST�N: Yes. Otl�erwise, I can't figure out a way t� talk about it currently. CHAIR BL1RN5: Okay. Next meeting date is March 4th, so mark that dawn. And has anybady got any thaughts for future agenda items? �ITUS: I have some�hing for consideration. Oh, da you want to go first, Bannie? KLINE: No. Go ahead. TITUS: Okay. 5pecifically in consideration of the Museum of Time being 50 years oid and the town in the past has pra�ided them a below market rate lease in exchange for the services that they pravide the tawn, that is caming ta an end this August. I wfluld -- it's been brought t❑ my attentian tF�at they're going ta be requesting the town extend the lease in exchange for the services that they pro�ide the town. And they've -- they're going t❑ be asking and presenting t� our Commission likely next month. Sv prior to them asking and us considering supporting an effart where they continue their relationship with the t�wn, I think it would be wonderful to hear fram Amanda Jacobs with E�onomic �e�elapment to hear whaC her pasition is an her continued suppart af this museum. And that it's our only museum in tawn, I'd like for us to be aware af what's happening and whether we need t� be supporting it or not supporting it in whate�er capacity is appropriate. And I think as an agenda item, might be nice ta discuss. CHAIR BURNS: Yeah. I'�ee been trying to get a one ❑n ❑ne with Amanda t❑ discuss her the town's potential futu�e public art program there, and !'m ha�ing a#�ard time daing that. 5❑ i dan't knvw, Ryan, whether yau �an kind ❑f twist aur arm or kind af sweet talker to try and get her in here far a presentation. Because like I said, I like -- I know the cauncil is -- and I realize it's prabably a ways aut, s❑ it's n�t urgeni, but is working on a policy far mural art and stuff like that, and I'd like to �+ear from her on that. Yau know, with Tiffany braught up, you know, if somebody's going to come and ask us for support, I guess we can talk about it. But �ther tharz that, I'm nat sure it's within aur purview, �ut maybe you can think about that, tao, Ryan, so -- Page 22 of Z4 7flWN OF FOUNTAIN HILLS FEBRUARY 4, 20�6, H15TQRY ANfl CULTURE ApV150RY C�MM15510N MEETING PRE5T�N: Yeah, I mean, that's the question, and I'd ha�e to go back an that. I don't knaw tF�at that is -- that's a little high �e�el. And whether we wauld tackle it, that's probably straight to �ouncil question -- CHAIR BURNS: Yeah. PRESTaN: And in fact, it proba�ly wili �ame up at some point. So let me get t�ack on that. And Tiffany, I'll reach out to you hased on that agenda item and what I hear back as well in tawn. And I'll reach aut to Amanda and see if there's a time that she has a�ailable and try to try t❑ b�ak her. 5he is an incredibly busy. CNAIR 6URN5: Well, I think I think all you guys are -- PREST�N: Yeah. CNAIR 6URN5: -- but it's a-- yau know, it`s kind af hard when we think af something or somethirrg we want tfl try and get same infarmatian on ta, to try and pin you down, and it's not easy, you know. Sometimes email works and sometimes -- PREST�N: Right. CHAIR BL1RN5: And I appreciate all the work you guys are doing, so, but yeah, that is something I want t❑ hear from her an far this group. And like I said, it's probably nat something the counGil will even get ta until a fall, s� -- PREST�N: And that's the thing with a lot af these things, they're kind of might be in limbo at the moment. 5he can present probably ta where -- CHAIR BURNS: Yeah. PREST�N: -- she �urrently is. CHAIR BURNS: Yeah. PREST�N: Yeah, yeah. Um-hum. Yep. And we'li reach ❑ut to her, see if she's available. CHAIR BURNS: All right. Appre�iate that. PRESTON: Yep. CHAIR 8URN5: Anything else for future ideas? KLINE: Well, I was just wondering i#there was a chance af having the Parks and Re�reatian Department da a presentation on the parks and plans for parks araund town be�ause I saw menti�n af the -- what's it called Pleasantville Park and -- Page 23 of 24 T�WN O� F�LINTAIN HILLS FEBRl1ARY 4, 202fi, H15T�RY AND CULTURE AflV15QRY COMMISSIQN MEETING PREST�N: 5ky�iew Park. KLINE: ❑h, that's much better. CF�AIR BURNS: �h, you come up with a new name. Great. PRESTON: I don't know. iCLINE: f wa� going to mention that -- PRESTON: I was making -- KLINE: -- pleasant �iew was in same kind af -- it was a mo�ie, and it was, like, retro 195fls. PREST�iV: Tohey Maguire is a fantastic mo�ie. KLINE: Et wasn't really a great name. PRESTON: Yeah. I cauld reach out t❑ i{yle, our new park superintendent, or passibly Kevin for an update. I don't know if t�+ere's a tan right naw, but I cfluld see what they ha�e for an update. KLINE: Is there any -- are there any plans for artwork in that park like sculpture? PRESTON: I'm nat sure. Yeah, that'll be somet�ing we -- yeah, we can -- yeah, I'm not 10fl per�ent sure abaut that. Um-hum. CHAIR BURNS: I would think that wauld he up to someQne wh❑ might want to �onsider a donatian. You know, ask the town. Hey, would yau be willing to take this for this site and then go from there. All right. Anything else? I thaught not being anything else, I'll ask for a matian ta adjourn. TITUS: I so mave to adjourn. GALLAG H E R: 5econd. CHAIR BURIVS: ❑kay. A mation and a second. All in favor? ALL: Aye. CHA1R BlJRNS: Opposed? Okay. !t's abaut 4:45, and we're dane. Page 24 of 24 Having no further business, Chairperson Burns adjourned the Regular Meeting of the Histary and Culture Advisory Cammission meeting held �n Fehruary 4, �D�fi, at 4:46 p.m. T�WN aF F�UNTAIN HILLS _ �� Boh Burns, Chairperson ATTEST AN� PREPARED BY: .!(L�.� �'YV1.�- 1 Y `��1:� � .[� `A� 5tormy Mazeiki� Admir�isf�ti�re Assistant CERTIFICATION I hereby certify that the foregfling minutes are a true and correct �opy of the minutes ❑f the Regular Meeting held by the History and Culture Advisory Cvmmission of Fountain Hills En the Town Hall Council Chamhers on #he 4�h of February 2Q25. I further �ertify that the meeting was duiy calied and that a quorum was pres�nt. DATE❑ this 4th �ay of March 20�6. _ .�i ��,� . �Yl �I � � �,A,� 5tormy Mazeikis�Administ��e Assistant ,/o"'T�f��': .� �r _�� o w � � �"y fj ` f �o� f�+sf is .�r'�