* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:04] SECOND, [CALL TO ORDER] 6:37 PM I WOULD LIKE TO CALL THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE MUSIC COMMISSION TO ORDER. UH, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMUNICATION? NO PUBLIC COMMUNICATION. TODAY, WE'LL MOVE ON TO STAFF BRIEFINGS. UM, JUST QUICKLY, UH, COMMISSIONERS, UH, FOR AWARENESS, UH, NUMBER SEVEN, UNDER DISCUSSION ITEMS IS GOING TO BE MOVED TO NEXT MONTH'S AGENDA. I UNDERSTAND THERE ARE, UM, LOGISTICAL ISSUES THROUGH, BECAUSE OF WHICH THEY CANNOT PRESENT TODAY. SO, UH, THEY WILL BE AVAILABLE TO PRESENT, UH, UH, EXPECTED TO PRESENT IN THE NEXT COMMISSION MEETING. [APPROVAL OF MINUTES] I'LL MOVE ON TO APPROVAL OF MINUTES IF EVERYBODY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO REVIEW THE MEETING MINUTES FROM THE JANUARY 5TH MUSIC COMMISSION MEETING, AND IF SOMEBODY COULD PLEASE MOTION TO APPROVE. I HAVE WON EDIT BECAUSE I, I WAS IN ATTENDANCE ON THE JANUARY 5TH MEETING. MM-HMM . SO IT SHOW DOESN'T SHOW ME AS PRESENT. IT SHOWS HERE AS PRESENT IT, IT DOES NOT. OH, OKAY. BUT I, I WAS HERE, SO, OKAY. THANK YOU. THANKS. THANK YOU. UH, WOULD ANYBODY LIKE TO MOTION TO APPROVE THE MEETING MINUTES FROM THE JANUARY MEETING? WE HAVE A MOTION FROM COMMISSIONER ENGLAND. DO I HAVE A SECOND? YOU RIGHT. I CAN'T APPROVE AS LONG AS HE REVIEWED IT. DENISE, HE'S, HE'S OKAY WITH THAT'S FAIR. BE PRESENT. YEAH. I GOT A SECOND. CAN WE HAVE A SECOND FROM, UH, COMMISSIONER PRICE? ALL IN FAVOR? I CAN, I I WASN'T HERE AS LONG AS YOU FEEL CONFIDENT ABOUT THE MINUTES. YEAH. YEAH. UM, OR HAVE REVIEWED THEM. YOU'RE OKAY TO VOTE? YEAH. ALL RIGHT. UH, HOW DO YOU VOTE? COMMISSIONER AGUILAR. ALL RIGHT. UM, ALL IN FAVOR. THE MOTION IS, UH, UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED. MOVING ON TO STAFF [2. Staff briefing on Live Music Fund collections by Kim McCarson, Program Manager, Music & Entertainment Division, Austin Arts, Culture, Music & Entertainment (AACME).] BRIEFINGS. UH, THE FIRST AGENDA ITEM IS STAFF BRIEFING ON LIVE MUSIC AND COLLECTIONS BY KIM CARSON, PROGRAM MANAGER, MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT DIVISION. ACME. THANK YOU, KIM. THERE WE GO. HELLO, KIM MCC CARSON, PROGRAM MANAGER. UH, SO I'M GONNA GIVE THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX COLLECTIONS REPORT FOR THE LIVE MUSIC FUND. UH, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. ALL RIGHT. SO YOU'LL BE LOOKING AT THE VERY LAST COLUMN ON THE FAR RIGHT. AND WHAT IT'S SHOWING YOU IS THAT THE COLLECTIONS FOR THIS IS UP THROUGH DECEMBER, UH, 2025 IS 18,226. AND THAT BRINGS US TO A TOTAL SO FAR OF 959,845. AND IF YOU ARE LOOKING AT THE ACCUMULATIVE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, UH, LAST FISCAL YEAR AND THIS FISCAL YEAR AT THIS POINT IN TIME, IT'S A 10% INCREASE, UH, OVER THIS TIME LAST YEAR. ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, KIM. UH, MM-HMM . COMMISSIONER, PRICE? UH, I THINK I'M GONNA ASK THE SAME QUESTION. IT WAS YOUR QUESTION LAST TIME. OH, YEAH. THEN GO. NO, YOU GO AHEAD. YOU PROBABLY ELABORATE. BETTER GO. GO AHEAD. ALRIGHT. COMM PRICE, COMMISSIONER PRICE. UH, SO, HI, KIM. THANK YOU. UH, I'M GONNA ASK ABOUT THE SHORT TERM RENTALS. UH, DO THESE NUMBERS, THEY DON'T SEEM, I MEAN, 10% IS, IS AWESOME INCREASE, BUT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE THAT IT, THAT FACTORS IN THE SHORT TERM RENTALS. SO, DO WE HAVE ANY UPDATE ON WHEN THOSE WILL BE ADDED TO THE REPORT? NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE YET. IT IS. OKAY. ERICA SAYS THAT IT IS INCLUDED. SO THERE WE GO. IS THAT MAYBE, DO WE HAVE ANY KIND OF UNDERSTANDING OF THAT, WHERE WE ARE SEEING THE 10% INCREASE FROM, OR WHAT IS IT ATTRIBUTED TO? THAT'S, THAT'S A GOOD, GOOD NUMBER QUARTER. HELLO, ERICA SCHAL, MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT DIVISION MANAGER. UH, I BELIEVE THAT HAS BEEN COLLECTING INTO THE FUNDS SINCE, YOU KNOW, LATE LAST YEAR. BUT WE STARTED REPORTING FOR OCTOBER ONE WITH THE NEW FISCAL YEAR. UH, WE'VE TALKED TO THE BUDGET PEOPLE AT THE CONVENTION CENTER ABOUT GETTING A BREAKDOWN OF WHAT THE STR REVENUE IS IN COMPARISON TO THE REST, AND THEY GET THAT REPORT QUARTERLY. SO WE'RE GONNA START GETTING COPIED ON THOSE REPORTS. SO AT LEAST WE CAN TELL YOU, YOU KNOW, HOW MUCH REVENUE WAS COLLECTED WITH STRS ON A QUARTERLY BASIS. THANK YOU. SO, UM, OKAY. SO IT'S PROBABLY THE NEXT REPORT IS COMING, LIKE END OF MARCH, OR, I DON'T KNOW. I NEED TO CHECK TO SEE IF IT'S QUARTERLY ON A, ON A, YOU KNOW, OUR FISCAL YEAR OR ON A CALENDAR YEAR. I'M NOT SURE. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. UH, PLEASE KEEP US POSTED ON THAT. WILL DO. WE'LL CHECK IN, UH, NEXT TIME. UH, THANK YOU. ANYTHING ELSE, COMMISSIONERS? THANK YOU. [3. Staff briefing on FY24 Austin Live Music Fund final reports by Erica Shamaly, Division Manager, Music & Entertainment Division, AACME.] THE NEXT, NEXT [00:05:01] AGENDA ITEM IS STAFF BRIEFING ON FY 24 AUSTIN LIVE MUSIC FUND, FINAL REPORTS, BAR MELLI, DIVISION MANAGER, MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT DIVISION. ACME, HELLO AGAIN. ERICA SHAMALI, MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT DIVISION MANAGER IN ACME. UM, LET'S SEE. JUST PULL UP THE, THE SLIDE PLEASE. OKAY. SO AS YOU CAN SEE, WE'RE MAKING GREAT STRIDES WITH THE TWO YEAR GRANT AGREEMENTS FOR THE LIVE MUSIC ONE FOR FY 24 OF 136 AWARDEES, UM, 135. YOU KNOW, FIRST PAYMENTS HAVE GONE OUT, WHICH IS AMAZING. 99%, UH, SECOND PAYMENTS, ONE HUNDRED TEN SECOND PAYMENTS HAVE GONE OUT SO FAR OUT OF THIRTY, A HUNDRED THIRTY SIX TOTAL AWARDEES AND 58 FINAL PAYMENTS ARE, HAVE BEEN PAID OUT SO FAR. SO WE, EVERY TIME I, YOU KNOW, DELIVER THIS REPORT TO YOU GUYS, UH, WE HAVE PROGRESS. AND SO I JUST WANNA SAY A BIG THANK YOU TO OUR AWARDEES OF THE FUND OF BEING SO DUE DILIGENT WITH THEIR REQUIREMENTS AND GETTING THEIR ACTIVITIES DONE. ANY QUESTIONS? THANKS FOR THE UPDATE, ERICA. UM, WHEN IS THE, WHEN IS THE FINAL DATE FOR SOME OF THESE, UH, DEADLINES? LIKE FOR THE SECOND PAYMENTS OR, BASICALLY THERE'S NO DEADLINE FOR THE SECOND PAYMENT, BUT THE FINAL, FINAL REPORT. YEAH. YES. THE FINAL IS A 24 MONTH CONTRACT FROM THE DATE THAT THEY SIGNED. SO WE WILL OBVIOUSLY BE INFORMING ANYBODY THAT GETS CLOSE TO THAT DEADLINE THAT THEY NEED TO GET THINGS FINISHED UP. UM, BUT, UH, SO FAR I FEEL VERY CONFIDENT AND COMFORTABLE WITH THIS PERCENTAGE THAT WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW. UM, I THINK THE FACT THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THAT FLEXIBILITY OF HOW THE FUNDS CAN BE USED IS WHAT'S MAKING THIS A MUCH EASIER PROCESS FOR OUR AWARDEES THIS YEAR. THANK YOU. COMMISSIONER CARDENAS, I JUST HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. SO WHEN YOU GUYS, I MEAN, THESE STATS ARE AMAZING. SO WHEN YOU'RE GETTING COMMUNICATION FROM THEM, IS THIS TYPICALLY THROUGH EMAIL? IS IT PHONE, OR WHAT'S BEEN THE BEST WAY TO COMMUNICATE WITH IT'S ACTUALLY ALL DONE THROUGH THE SUBMITTABLE APP, YOU KNOW, SO SUBMITTABLE TRACKS EVERYTHING FROM THE TIME THEY'RE AN APPLICANT TO AN AWARDEE AND THROUGH THEIR REPORTING. SO ALL THE REPORTING HAPPENS WITHIN SUBMITTABLE SO THAT WE CAN KEEP ALL COMMUNICATIONS AND ALL ACTIVITIES WITH REPORTING OR WITH ANY, ANYTHING IN ONE PLACE PER AWARDEE. THANK YOU. OTHER QUESTIONS? UH, COMMISSIONER PRICE? YES. SO I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHECK THE LIST OF LIKE, JUST PREVIOUS AWARDEES, AND THE LIST IS INCREDIBLE. MANY OF PEOPLE THAT WE, WE ALL KNOW, BUT NOWHERE HAVE I BEEN ABLE TO FIND JUST A CENTRALIZED HUB OF SOME OF THE AWESOME THINGS THAT THEY'VE DONE. IS THERE ANYTHING THAT KIND OF CONSOLIDATES ANY OF THESE PROJECTS, LIKE ANY ALBUM RECORDINGS, MAYBE SOME BEHIND THE SCENES OF THE STUDIOS THEY VISITED, ANYTHING? SO WITH THE FINAL REPORT, AND SO FOR THOSE 58 FINAL PAYMENTS, YOU KNOW, REPORTING HAS TO HAPPEN FOR THAT. SO WE COULD START GENERATING A REPORT WITH YOU GUYS ABOUT HOW, WHAT, WHAT WAS THE OUTCOMES? YEAH. UM, OUR GOAL WAS TO KIND OF WAIT TILL EVERYTHING WAS ALL, UH, IN PLACE AND DONE, AND WE WOULD DO ONE BIG FINAL REPORT ON THIS MANY ALBUMS, THIS MANY LIVE PERFORMANCES OR WHATEVER IT IS. SO WE DEFINITELY, I CAN WORK WITH KIM MCC CARSON TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S AVAILABLE FOR US TO START PULLING A REPORT TOGETHER OF THE FINAL, UH, REPORTS AND, AND THEN FIGURE OUT THE BEST WAY TO SHARE THAT INFORMATION WITH YOU GUYS. THANK YOU. THAT'D BE FANTASTIC. MM-HMM . THANK YOU. YEAH, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A GREAT IDEA. IT KIND OF REALLY, UM, YEAH, IT, IT'LL BE REFLECTIVE OF, UH, YEAH. YOU KNOW, WHAT'S, WHAT'S ACTUALLY GOING ON, ON THE GROUND. UM, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, IS, IS, UH, KIND OF THE INTENTION MEETING REALITY, AND IT'LL ALSO HELP IMPROVE THE GRANTS HAVING THIS KIND OF DATA OVER TIME. YES. SHELBY AND I HAVE ACTUALLY TALKED ABOUT A SIZZLE REEL, YOU KNOW, AFTER IT'S ALL SAID AND DONE, TALKING TO AWARDEES, INTERVIEWING THEM, TELLING US ABOUT THEIR EXPERIENCES AND WHAT THEIR PROJECTS ARE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A GOAL, YOU KNOW, WITH ALL OF OUR EXTRA RESOURCES. SO, UH, WE'LL SEE WHAT WE CAN COME UP WITH. DEFINITELY A REPORT THAT IS GONNA BE SENT TO YOU GUYS THROUGH PRESENTATION HERE AT THE COMMISSION, BUT OF COURSE, WE WOULD LOVE TO BE ABLE TO SHARE WITH THE COMMUNITY SOME MORE ENGAGING CONTENT TO, OF WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UM, ANYTHING ELSE? COMMISSIONERS? OKAY, MOVING [4. Staff briefing on Austin-Bergstrom Airport (AUS) live music performances/booking by Erica Shamaly, Division Manager, and Greg Gonzalez, Program Manager, Music & Entertainment Division, AACME.] ON. THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM IS STAFF BRIEFING ON AUSTIN, UH, AIRPORT LIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCES, BOOKING BY ALI, DIVISION MANAGER AND GREG GONZALEZ, PROGRAM MANAGER, MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT DIVISION. ACME. HELLO AGAIN. ERIC, MOLLY, DIVISION MANAGER. UM, MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT OF ACME. UH, SO, UH, INTERVIEWS HAVE BEEN SCHEDULED FOR THE FIRST ROUND, ACTUALLY HAPPENING THIS WEEK. AND THE GOAL IS TO HAVE THREE ROUNDS OVER THE NEXT THREE WEEKS SO THAT WE CAN GET SOMEONE IN PLACE, UH, BY THE END OF MARCH. SO [00:10:01] WE ARE IN A HEALTHY CLIP. UH, AND SO HOPEFULLY BY, I WOULD SAY DEFINITELY THE APRIL MEETING, WE'LL BE ABLE TO SHARE MORE NEWS. SOUNDS GOOD. UM, ANY QUESTIONS ON, UH, THE AIRPORT MUSIC BOOKING IN PROCESS? UM, COMMISSIONERS? OKAY. I GUESS I DO HAVE, YES. UH, COMMISSIONER CA I APOLOGIZE FOR, UM, MISSING THE LAST TWO MEETINGS, SO I FEEL LIKE A LITTLE BIT BEHIND. BUT IN TERMS OF THE INFLUX OF TRAVELERS AT THE AIRPORT DURING SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST, WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? OR, OR FELIX, WE'RE ALREADY BOOKING ALL OF THAT THROUGH THE END OF MARCH WITH THE CURRENT CAPACITY IN PLACE AT THE AIRPORT, WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH OUR PARTNERS THERE. SO THAT'S ALREADY BEEN BOOKED OUT. SO THE GOAL IS TO BOOK EVERYTHING OUT WITH THE CURRENT PROCESS THROUGH THE END OF MARCH. AND THEN THIS NEW POSITION WOULD TAKE THAT OVER IN APRIL. UM, WE HAVE A MEETING WITH THE AIRPORT TOMORROW JUST TO KIND OF GO OVER LOGISTICS, TOUCH BASE WITH EACH OTHER, UM, MAKING SURE THAT THE TIMING ALL WORKS. SO IF THE PERSON IS LIKE, MAYBE THERE'S A WEEK, 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR CERTAIN PAY PERIODS TO HAPPEN IN ORDER FOR IT TO GET THE PERSON ONBOARDED. UM, WE HAVE A, AN ARRANGEMENT IN PLACE WITH THE AIRPORT TO USE THE CURRENT CAPACITY UNTIL, UH, WE HAVE A PERMANENT POSITION IN PLACE. OKAY. SO, UM, IT, IT LOOKS LIKE THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF INTEREST IN THE AIRPORT POSITION, RIGHT? UH, UM, I DID I JUST MISS THIS A LITTLE DETAIL, LIKE, WHEN, WHEN ARE WE LOOKING TO WRAP UP THE INTERVIEWS? AND YOU THINK YOU'LL, WE'RE HOPING TARGET THE DATE, THE END OF MARCH TO HAVE SOMEONE END OF MARCH. UM, SELECTED AND ONBOARDED, HOPEFULLY. SO, UM, IT'S A, IT WAS A LOT OF INTEREST, LET'S JUST SAY THAT, WHICH IS DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW, IT'S GOING TO BE MORE TIME TO DO THE THREE ROUNDS OF INTERVIEWS. 'CAUSE WE WANNA BE SURE THAT WE HAVE A WONDERFUL REPRESENTATIVE POOL OF THE APPLICATIONS. SO IT'S GONNA BE A LOT OF WORK. AND, UH, OUR HOPE IS TO HAVE IT DONE BY THE END OF MARCH SO THAT THIS PERSON IS BOOKING BY APRIL. THAT'S THE PLAN. NOW, WE'LL JUST SEE HOW IT ALL GOES, YOU KNOW, WITH HOW SCHEDULING WORKS. THANK YOU. I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S A SAME STANDARD PROCESS AS PROBABLY ANY, ANY OTHER WORKPLACE I WOULD THINK. DOES IT GO THROUGH AN HR FILTERING AND THEY SHORTLIST, UH, RESUMES FOR YOU AND YOU ALL THEN, UH, WORK WITH THE SHORTLIST? WELL, WE ARE WORKING WITH THE CITY OF AUSTIN WITH OUR HR COORDINATOR THAT WORKS WITH ACME, DOING A WONDERFUL JOB FOLLOWING CITY PROCESSES. AND LET'S JUST SAY WE'RE GOING ABOVE AND BEYOND, UH, WHAT IS REQUIRED TO DO GOOD DUE DILIGENCE. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS? UH, COMMENTS, COMMISSIONERS. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. THE NEXT AGENDA [5. Staff briefing on AACME funding programs by Laura Odegaard, Acting Division Manager, AACME.] ITEM IS STAFF BRIEFING ON ACME FUNDING PROGRAMS BY LAURA OARD, UH, ACTING DIVISION MANAGER. ACME. THANK YOU, LAURA. THANK YOU SO MUCH, CHAIR. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. I'M LAURA ODEGAARD, ACTING DIVISION MANAGER FOR AUSTIN ARTS CULTURE MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT. UM, DOING A BRIEF UPDATE FOR YOU ALL ON OUR FUNDING PROGRAMS. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO SOME OF THIS IS GOING TO BE, UM, JUST REITERATING WHAT I SHARED LAST MONTH BECAUSE WE'RE STILL IN THE PROCESS. UM, BUT JUST WANTED TO REMIND EVERYONE THIS HAS NOT CHANGED. OUR TIMELINE HAS NOT CHANGED. WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EVALUATION AND SCORING PROCESS FOR ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS. UM, SO THAT MEANS THE AUSTIN LIVE MUSIC FUND IS BEING SCORED, UM, EVALUATED AND SCORED, UM, ON THE LONG CENTER SIDE OF THINGS. UM, CSAP KIM AND RALLY AUSTIN ARE CHARGING THROUGH THOSE APPLICATIONS. AND THEN FOR ELEVATE AND HERITAGE PRESERVATION, THOSE ARE ALL IN PANEL PROCESS, UM, PROCESSES THAT JUST STARTED TODAY. SO WE'RE STILL SCHEDULED TO MAKE AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR ALL PROGRAMS NEXT MONTH IN MARCH, UM, WITH THE FIRST ROUND OF FUNDS GOING OUT IN APRIL. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. AGAIN, THIS IS REITERATING, UM, FROM LAST MONTH, BUT JUST WANTED TO SHARE AGAIN, THE TOTAL BUCKET OF FUNDS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT FOR EACH PROGRAM UNDER THE ACME FUNDING PROGRAMS. UM, AND ROUGHLY HOW MANY AWARDS WE CAN EXPECT FOR EACH OF THESE PROGRAMS. SO, AS YOU ALL KNOW, AUSTIN LIVE MUSIC 7 MILLION, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT AROUND 380 AWARDS FOR THIS PROGRAM. UM, NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO, AGAIN, JUST WANTED TO, UM, JUST IN CASE YOU ALL MISSED PREVIOUS MONTHS, UM, JUST WANTED TO SHARE THE APPLICATION STATUS, UM, OF HOW MANY APPLICANTS WE RECEIVED IN TOTAL FOR ALL OF OUR PROGRAMS. UM, SO YOU CAN SEE IT BROKEN DOWN IN ENGLISH AND IN SPANISH, THE [00:15:01] NUMBER OF ELIGIBILITY FORMS SUBMITTED. UM, STAFF MANUALLY HAD TO GO THROUGH ALL 2,455 ELIGIBILITY FORMS TO DEEM FOLKS ELIGIBLE OR INELIGIBLE, WHICH WAS, UM, A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF WORK. UM, AND SO FOR AUSTIN LIVE MUSIC FUND, YOU CAN SEE THAT WE HAD 120 ENGLISH INELIGIBLE AND TWO SPANISH INELIGIBLE, UM, OF OUR TOTAL ELIGIBILITY FORMS SUBMITTED. AND THEN OF THE ELIGIBLE FOLKS, UM, WE HAD 806 ENGLISH APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED AND THREE SPANISH APPLICATIONS SUBMITTED. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO I WANTED TO SHOW YOU ALL, UM, A MORE DETAILED BREAKDOWN FOR THE AUSTIN LIVE MUSIC FUND APPLICANTS IN PARTICULAR. SO WHY THEY WERE DEEMED INELIGIBLE. SO THOSE 120, UM, TWO INELIGIBLE FOLKS. UM, SO SOME OF THEM WERE THINGS LIKE THEY WERE ON THE NON-COMPLIANT LIST OR THEY WERE UNDER THE AGE OF 18, UM, OR THEY WERE A FULL-TIME CITY OF AUSTIN EMPLOYEE. THESE ARE THINGS THAT ARE VERY CLEAR IN THE GUIDELINES AND WE CANNOT CHANGE. UM, I THINK THE THING THAT'S INTERESTING WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS IS YOU CAN SEE THAT, UM, THE LARGEST REASONS FOR INELIGIBILITY WERE INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE. SO INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE SHOWING THAT YOU WERE A PROFESSIONAL MUSICIAN OR A LIVE MUSIC VENUE OR AN INDEPENDENT PROMOTER. AND SO WE'VE ALREADY BEEN TALKING INTERNALLY ABOUT HOW WE CAN BETTER SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY LEADING UP TO OUR NEXT LAUNCH IN JULY, UM, TO SHOW EXAMPLES OF WHAT SPECIFICALLY WE MEAN FOR, UM, PROVIDING EVIDENCE FOR THOSE THINGS. UM, SO YOU CAN PERUSE THE DETAILS, UM, AFTER THE FACT, BUT THIS IS, THIS IS FOR YOUR AWARENESS. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. ALSO, THIS IS KIND OF AN EXPANSION ON WHAT I SHARED LAST MONTH. SO LAST MONTH I SHARED THE LEFT SIDE OF THE SCREEN, SO A DETAILED NUMBER OF APPLICANTS PER TYPE OF APPLICATION. SO WE HAD 46, UH, LIVE MUSIC VENUES THAT APPLIED. WE WILL HAVE AROUND 22 AWARDS ANTICIPATED FOR THE MUSIC VENUE CATEGORY FOR THE FOLKS THAT APPLIED IN THE $20,000, UM, SIDE OF THE LIVE MUSIC FUND FOR THE INDEPENDENT PROMOTERS AND PROFESSIONAL MUSICIANS. WE'RE ANTICIPATING AROUND 242 AWARDS FOR THE LARGER DOLLAR AMOUNT FOR THIS PROGRAM. AND FOR THE $5,000 LEVEL, WE'RE ANTICIPATING AROUND 120 AWARDS. SO STILL TO BE DETERMINED AFTER WE, UM, GET THROUGH THE SCORING AND EVALUATION STAGE OF THINGS, BUT JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU ALL, UH, A LITTLE MORE CONTEXT ABOUT WHAT, UM, WE CAN EXPECT THAT TO LOOK LIKE. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. SO, UM, LAST FRIDAY, YES, TODAY'S MONDAY. LAST FRIDAY, UM, WE SENT, UH, MESSAGING OUT TO ALL FOLKS THAT HAD STARTED THE, THE PROCESS OF APPLYING FOR FUNDING. UM, SO THIS MEANS EVERYONE THAT HAD COMPLETED AT LEAST THE INTAKE FORM WE SENT A MESSAGE TO, AND WE SENT, UM, A SURVEY TO, TO UNDERSTAND, UM, WHAT THEIR EXPERIENCES WAS WITH THE APPLICATION THAT WE HAD, UM, THIS PAST ROUND. UM, SO JUST WANTED TO SHARE THE, THE HYPERLINK IS HERE IN THE BACKUP AS WELL FOR YOU ALL. BUT THE MESSAGE AND THE SURVEY ITSELF ARE IN ENGLISH AND IN SPANISH. UM, WE SENT TO OVER 2000 FOLKS, UM, ON FRIDAY. WE'VE ALREADY HAD AROUND 120 COMPLETE THE SURVEY, WHICH IS REALLY EXCITING. UM, AND WE'RE ALSO DOING SOME INTERNAL RETROSPECTIVE MEETINGS, UM, WITH CITY STAFF AND LEADERSHIP AS WELL AS OUR PARTNERS WITH THE LONG CENTER. UM, AND WE'RE ALSO DOING SOME ONE-ON-ONE MEETINGS AND FOCUS GROUPS WITH, UH, A HANDFUL OF FOLKS JUST AS WE'RE TRYING TO, TO UNDERSTAND WHAT KIND OF ENHANCEMENTS WE CAN MAKE BEFORE, UM, WE GET TO THAT NEXT, UM, CYCLE IN JULY. JULY. AND NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. UM, THIS WAS JUST A HEADS UP FOR YOU ALL SINCE I'M TRYING TO DO, UH, OVERARCHING ALL ACME FUNDING PROGRAMS. UM, SO JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL THAT THE TEAM IS VERY HARD AT WORK. UM, DOING 36 PANEL MEETINGS FOR OVER 726 APPLICANTS, UM, THIS MONTH. SO WE HAVE TWO PANEL MEETINGS PER DAY ON ZOOM WEBINARS SIMULTANEOUSLY. UM, AND OVER 200 PANELISTS WERE TRAINED IN EARLY JULY TO BE SCORING AND REVIEWING, UM, THESE APPLICANTS. AND SO FOR, FOR ELEVATE, UM, IN PARTICULAR, IT'S BROKEN DOWN BY DISCIPLINE AND THEN PANEL TYPE. SO IF IT'S AN ARTS GROUP, A 5 0 1 C3, ET CETERA. AND THEN ALL, [00:20:05] OH, DID I GET KICKED OFF? AND MAYBE I'M BACK NOW. I THINK I'M BACK NOW. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. ALL RIGHT. AND THEN I KNOW CHAIR, YOU HAD ASKED, UM, PREVIOUSLY FOR, UM, SOME UPDATES ON THE MARKETING CAMPAIGN THAT WE DID FOR ACME'S JOINT LAUNCH. UM, SO SHELBY PUT TOGETHER AN INCREDIBLE, UM, YEAH, SHELBY PUT TOGETHER AN INCREDIBLE DECK, UM, THAT I WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL. HOPEFULLY I DON'T GET KICKED OFF THE INTERNET, UM, WHILE I TALK THROUGH THIS. SO IF I DO, SHELBY WILL HAVE TO POP UP. UM, BUT NEXT SLIDE PLEASE, PLEASE. SO NEXT SLIDE. SO SOME OF OUR GOALS, UM, AND AGAIN, THIS IS HOLISTIC, UM, PRIORITIZING OUR, UH, LAURA, SORRY, WE, WE LOST YOU THERE FOR A MOMENT. UH, IF YOU COULD PLEASE JUST REPEAT YEAH. OH, NO, MAYBE JUST, OH, NO, 10 SECONDS. YEAH, THANK YOU. OKAY, I'LL TRY TO GO QUICK. HERE WERE THE OBJECTIVES FOR THE MARKETING, JUST IN GENERAL WITH ACME, UM, TRYING TO COMMUNICATE WELL AND UNDERSTAND, UM, OUR EXISTING COMMUNITY AND POTENTIAL FUTURE FOLKS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. NEXT SLIDE. SO THIS IS THE VERY HIGH LEVEL TIMELINE AND APPROACH. SO AS YOU ALL KNOW, MAY THROUGH SEPTEMBER, THAT WAS KIND OF AN AWARENESS CAMPAIGN AROUND THE CREATIVE RESET, UM, AND GATHERING A LOT OF FEEDBACK FROM COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND SHARING BRIEFINGS WITH THE DIFFERENT COMMISSIONS AND WITH COUNCIL PRIOR TO THIS LAUNCH IN THE FALL. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. UH, SO THEN IN OCTOBER FOR ARTS AND HUMANITIES MONTH, THAT'S WHEN WE REALLY KICKED OFF OUR INITIAL SOCIAL MEDIA ENGAGEMENT PROCESS, UM, TO ALIGN WITH SOME EARLY AWARENESS BUILDING THAT WE DID WITH THE CREATIVE RESET. UM, SO THIS INCLUDED THE CITY MANAGERS, UM, MEMO THAT WAS ISSUED CITYWIDE THE FULL CAMPAIGN MATERIALS FINALIZED, UM, FOR CIRCULATING AMONGST, UM, CITY FOLK AND THEIR SUBSEQUENT COMMUNITIES, UM, INCLUDING A PROMOTIONAL TOOLKIT THAT WAS DEVELOPED, UM, TO HELP ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO KNOW WHAT THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT, UM, FOR DEPARTMENTS AND, AND GROUPS LIKE AUSTIN 3 1 1 TO BE ABLE TO ANSWER QUESTIONS AND KNOW WHO TO, UM, SEND PEOPLE TO. SO IT INCLUDED A LOT OF, UM, PROMOTIONAL, UM, COLLATERAL AND COPY AND THINGS LIKE THAT IN KIND OF THE FIRST PHASE OF OUR CAMPAIGN. NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THEN THE NEXT PHASE WAS THE PRINT AND EMAIL OUTREACH. AND SO THIS WAS, UM, PRETTY MUCH FROM THAT MID-OCTOBER TO THE VERY BEGINNING OF NOVEMBER, UM, THE DAY OF THE ELECTION. UM, AND SO THIS INCLUDED, UM, MULTILINGUAL PRINT. UM, SO THERE WERE 500 POSTERS PRINTED IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH. WE HAD, UM, OVER 2000 POSTCARDS PRINTED IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, AND CHINESE. UM, AND SO THESE WERE DISTRIBUTED ACROSS ALL ACME FACILITIES, UM, DIFFERENT CREATIVE SPACES, VENUES, COLLEGE CAMPUSES, ET CETERA. UM, WE WORKED WITH MOTOR BLADE TO DISTRIBUTE A WHOLE HOST OF ACT OF, UM, POSTERS AND POSTCARDS FOR US. UM, AND THEN WE ALSO DID A LOT OF DEPARTMENT WIDE AND PARTNER AMPL AMPLIFICATION TO SUPPORT THINGS. UH, NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE. THEN THERE WAS ALSO, UM, SO FROM NOVEMBER 5TH THROUGH DECEMBER 4TH, THAT'S WHEN WE WORKED WITH WATERLOO MEDIA. UM, AND THEY WERE FOCUSED MAINLY ON OUR PAID DIGITAL AND RADIO ADS. UM, SO WE CONTINUED DOING, UM, ORGANIC DIGITAL AS WELL AS PRINT AND EARNED MEDIA AMPLIFICATION. UM, AND SO THOSE GROUPS ARE LISTED HERE, UM, AND THEN YOU CAN ALSO SEE TOWARD THE BOTTOM THE DIFFERENT PAID MEDIA PLACEMENTS, UM, THAT WATERLOO IS ABLE TO HELP SUPPORT US WITH. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. NEXT SLIDE. SO HERE YOU CAN SEE, UM, WHAT THIS ENGAGEMENT ENDED UP LOOKING LIKE. SO THESE ARE THE IMPRESSIONS, UM, FROM RADIO, THE DIFFERENT BANNER ADS, AS WELL AS STREAMING AND META ADS. UM, SO OVERALL THE PAID MEDIA IMPACT WAS, UM, 1.12 MILLION IMPRESSIONS, WHICH IS EXCITING TO GET THE WORD OUT. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. AND THEN THIS IS THE GOOGLE ANALYTICS INSIGHTS. SO THE WEB TRAFFIC PIECE OF THINGS. UM, SO YOU CAN SEE THE NUMBERS HERE. WE HAD, UM, AN INCREASE OF AROUND 20%, UM, FROM OUR INSTAGRAM [00:25:01] AND FACEBOOK, PAID, PAID ADS. UM, OUR BANNER ADS, UM, HAD A 2% CLICK THROUGH RATE, WHICH IS MUCH HIGHER THAN A TYPICAL, UM, DISPLAY BENCH DISPLAY AD I CAN'T SPEAK TONIGHT, UM, OF KIND OF LESS THAN 1%. SO THAT WAS EXCITING THAT WE WERE AT A 2%. UM, YOU CAN ALSO SEE THAT WE HAD OVER 10,000 MOBILE VIEWS, UM, AND WE REALLY SAW A BIG SURGE ONCE WE STARTED THIS, UH, DIGITAL CAMPAIGN AFTER NOVEMBER 5TH. SO I THINK, AND NEXT SLIDE. I THINK THERE'S ONE MORE BEFORE I GET CUT OFF AGAIN. YEAH, SO THIS, UM, YOU CAN JUST SEE HOW, UM, HOW THIS IMPACTED OUR, UM, OUR APPLICANTS. AND AGAIN, THIS IS A SLIDE THAT I SHARED WITH YOU ALL LAST MONTH, I THINK JUST SHOWING THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, UH, THE NUMBER OF SUBMISSIONS IN OUR LAST CYCLE IN 2024 AND OUR NUMBER OF, UM, FORMS SUBMITTED THIS YEAR. AND SO I, I INCLUDED BOTH THE ELIGIBILITY FORMS AS WELL AS THE APPLICATION FORMS BECAUSE I THINK IT'S A, IT'S AN IMPORTANT DISTINCTION THAT WE'RE GETTING THE PEOPLE INTERESTED AND THEY START, BUT THEN THERE MAYBE SOMETHING HAPPENS. AND SO THAT'S THE PART WHERE WE CAN, UM, GET SOME DATA FROM THE SURVEYS AND FIND OUT WHERE THEY MIGHT NEED TO SUPPORT TO, TO GET ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE PROCESS. AND I THINK WITH THAT, I WILL STOP TALKING ABOUT THAT. BUT I ALSO JUST WANTED TO MENTION, UM, TO THE PREVIOUS, UM, THE HOT COLLECTIONS THAT ERICA HAD MENTIONED. UM, WE WILL BE GETTING, UM, THE SHORT-TERM RENTALS THEY HAVE UNTIL JANUARY 31ST TO SUBMIT THEIR FIRST QUARTER ONE PAYMENTS. SO WE SHOULD HAVE THAT INFORMATION THIS MONTH AND CAN SHARE THAT, UM, STARTING IN NEXT MONTH FOR YOU ALL. UM, BUT HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU ALL MIGHT HAVE ABOUT LIVE MUSIC FUND OR ANY OF THE OTHER ACME FUNDING PROGRAMS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH, LAURA. UH, AND ALSO FOR, UH, PRESENTING THAT MARKETING UPDATE, UM, I'LL OPEN IT UP TO COMMISSIONERS FOR ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS. COMMISSIONER ENGLAND. HI LAURA. THAT WAS FANTASTIC. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. COMMISSIONER ENGLAND HERE. UM, UH, I APPRECIATE, UH, YOU, UM, SIGNALING THE DIFFERENCE AS FAR AS THE, THE DECREASE, UH, FOR THE APPLICATIONS THAT WERE SUBMITTED. UM, AND I KNOW THAT AS YOU'LL GET THE, THE SURVEYS BACK FROM EVERYONE, I'M SURE PEOPLE WILL HAVE THINGS TO SAY OVER WHAT THAT EXPERIENCE LOOKS LIKE AND HOW TO WALK THEM THROUGH WITH THAT. UM, I'M SPECIFICALLY CURIOUS, UH, TWO THINGS THAT I HEAR WITHIN MY ECOSYSTEM. UM, THE INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE, UH, PERCENTAGE WAS NOT VERY SURPRISING TO ME. UH, I THINK MOST OF THE FEEDBACK THAT, UH, I, I INCURRED WAS THAT PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO GIVE YOU. THEY WANTED TO GIVE YOU EVERYTHING. THEY DIDN'T KNOW IF IT WAS THE RIGHT THING TO GIVE YOU. AND SO I SAID, WELL JUST GIVE 'EM ALL OF IT AND WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT FROM THERE. UH, SO, UM, THAT MAKES ME HAPPY THAT, UH, HAVING PROVIDED, YOU KNOW, MORE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, I THINK IS HIGHLY IMPORTANT, UH, FOR WHAT THE QUESTIONS ARE ASKING. UM, SO JUST TO NOTE THAT, THANK YOU FOR RECOGNIZING THAT. UM, I'M CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT YOUR THOUGHTS ARE BETWEEN THE, UH, SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF $20,000, UH, APPLICANTS VERSUS THE 5,000. UM, EVEN THOUGH I UNDERSTAND THE INTENTION, RIGHT, BASED ON THE, THE DIFFERENCE IN SUMS, UM, I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THERE WOULD'VE BEEN MORE APPLICANTS FOR THE, THE 5,000 INSTEAD OF THE 20,000. UM, AND I, I WONDER IF YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON WHETHER THE INTENTION IS DIFFERENT IF, UH, THE FEEDBACK FROM THE APPLICATIONS ACTUALLY SHOWS THAT IT'S NOT AND PEOPLE ARE JUST GOING FOR THE MOST AMOUNT OF MONEY THEY CAN POSSIBLY GET? YEAH, THAT'S A, THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION SLASH COMMENT. I THINK I'M ALSO REALLY INTERESTED TO SEE HOW THE EVALUATION SCORING OF THE APPLICATION, UM, FALLS OUT JUST TO SEE, LIKE EXACTLY LIKE WHAT YOU SAID, WERE PEOPLE JUST TRYING TO GO FOR THE BIGGER DOLLAR AMOUNT, EVEN IF MAYBE AS A MORE EMERGING MUSICIAN, MAYBE THE $5,000 WOULD'VE BEEN A BETTER FIRST STEP. UM, SO I DO THINK IT'S GONNA BE INTERESTING TO SEE THE DATA OF THE APPLICANTS ONCE WE KIND OF WORK THROUGH THAT PROCESS. UM, I THINK IT'LL ALSO BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW WE KIND OF TAKE THAT INFORMATION AND THEN HOPEFULLY CAN TALK TO SOME FOLKS THAT, THAT MAYBE APPLIED AT THE 20,000 LEVEL AND DIDN'T GET IT, UM, TO SEE IF THEY TRY AGAIN IN JULY OR IF THEY FEEL DEFLATED AND, AND THEY DON'T WANNA APPLY AGAIN. SO I THINK THAT OUTREACH THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO DO AFTER AWARD ANNOUNCEMENTS ARE MADE SO WE DON'T LOSE THESE, [00:30:01] LIKE, THESE PEOPLE THAT HAVE ALREADY TRIED SO HARD TO GET TO THIS POINT, UM, I THINK IS GONNA BE REALLY IMPORTANT FROM, FROM THE DEPARTMENT SIDE OF THINGS. UM, AND HOPEFULLY WE CAN UNDERSTAND, LIKE, DO WE SPLIT THE AWARDS IN A DIFFERENT WAY FOR THE NEXT ROUND? LIKE, SHOULD WE PUT MORE IN THE $20,000 BUCKET, UM, OR DOES THIS SPREAD MAKE THE MOST AMOUNT OF SENSE? 'CAUSE OBVIOUSLY THE DEMAND SEEMS TO BE THAT THE 20,000 IS, IS WHERE PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED. UM, SO MAYBE WE SHIFT SOME OF, SOME OF THE BUCKETS AROUND, UM, INTERNALLY ON OUR END. SO I THINK IT'LL, I THINK OUR JULY APPLICATION PROCESS WILL BE ABLE TO RESPOND VERY WELL TO KIND OF REAL DATA THAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS EXCITING. THAT'S GREAT. YEAH, I, LIKE I SAID, I'M SUPER INTERESTED TO SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, UH, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THE, UM, THE CRITERIA AND THE QUESTIONS AS FAR AS THE APPLICATION, UH, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, ARE THE EXACT SAME FOR A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF QUESTIONS FOR THE 5,000 FOR THE 20. AND THEN THERE ARE ONLY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS TO THAT. AND SO, UH, THE AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT, OR APPLICANTS THAT WERE APPLYING FOR $20,000 THAT MAY HAVE FROM QUALIFIED AS AN APPLICANT FOR THE 5,000, BUT THEN THEY DIDN'T SUPPLY, YOU KNOW, EFFICIENT, UH, UH, EVIDENCE, UH, BASED ON THE LAST FIVE QUESTIONS, I BELIEVE IT IS THAT WERE ADDED ON TO THE 20,000 APPLICATION. UM MM-HMM . I JUST THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE HERE THAT, UH, REGARDLESS OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, REALLY HIGHLIGHTING THE INTENTION BEHIND THE SEPARATION OF THE, OF, OF THE AMOUNTS OF MONEY, UM, SO THAT PEOPLE AREN'T JUST TRYING TO SHOOT THE MOON, UH, AND UNDERSTANDING WHAT THE QUESTIONS ARE, UH, KNOWING THAT, HEY, IN ANOTHER 12 MONTHS YOU CAN DO THIS AGAIN. UH, I KNOW THAT AS FAR AS THE VOCABULARY THAT IS LISTED ON THE APPLICATION, IT'S PRETTY CLEAR, RIGHT? AND I UNDERSTAND THAT. AND, UH, BUT FROM THE PERCEPTION OF THAT, I, I, I THINK IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT THE DATA SHOWS FOR THAT. HMM. AGREE. YEAH. THANK YOU FOR THAT. ON THE SAME TOPIC. YES. UH, COULD I JUST GET A COMMENT FROM, UH, COMMISSIONER CARDENA FIRST? YEAH. THANK YOU. JUST TO PIGGYBACK ON WHAT COMMISSIONER ENGLAND WAS SAYING, SO IS THERE A REASON WHY IT CURRENTLY, LIKE YOU SAID, IF, IF IT'S THE SAME QUALIFICATIONS BETWEEN THE 20,000 AND THE 5,000 THAT THEY WOULDN'T AUTOMATICALLY JUST GET THE FIVE OR QUALIFY FOR THE 5,000 INSTEAD, OR THEY CAN'T BE ON THE SAME APPLICATION VERSUS SEPARATING IT OUT AND LIKE, SO I KNOW IT'S KIND OF LIKE A TWO PART QUESTION TOO, BECAUSE THERE'S, I'M SURE THERE'S SPECIFIC REASONS WHY THEY'RE GETTING DENIED FOR THE 20,000, BUT THEN THEM GETTING SOMETHING WITHIN THAT APPLICATION THAT SAYS, OKAY, WELL YOU DIDN'T QUALIFY FOR THIS, BUT YOU DO QUALIFY FOR THIS, SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND SUBMIT IT FOR THE 5,000. THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. UM, WE'VE HAD SIMILAR QUESTIONS ON THE ARTS COMMISSION SIDE OF THINGS WITH OUR THRIVE AND ELEVATE PROGRAMS IN THE PAST WHERE IT'S LIKE, OKAY, I'M APPLYING FOR THIS BIG DOLLAR AWARD. IF I DON'T GET THIS, CAN I STILL BE IN CONSIDERATION FOR THIS SMALLER THING? UM, AND IT IS A, IT IS A GREAT QUESTION. I MEAN, TECHNICALLY THEY'RE TWO SEPARATE APPLICATIONS, EVEN THOUGH THE APPLICATIONS ARE IDENTICAL UP TO A POINT. AND SO THAT'S WHERE IT GETS A LITTLE TRICKY ON THE BACK END OF THINGS. UM, BUT THAT BEING SAID, I THINK I AM, I KNOW OUR PARTNERS AT THE LONG CENTER AND MYSELF WE'RE, WE'RE ACTIVELY HAVING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW WE CAN IMPROVE THE PROCESS BEFORE WE GET TO THE NEXT ROUND OF THINGS. UM, AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S COME UP A COUPLE OF TIMES MM-HMM . SO I THINK WE'RE GONNA BE EXPLORING MULTIPLE WAYS OF POTENTIALLY STREAMLINING THINGS BEFORE WE GET TO JULY, AND THAT'S DEFINITELY ONE OF THE, THE THINGS THAT WE'RE GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT. SO I APPRECIATE YOU BRINGING THAT UP. THANK YOU TODAY AS WELL. AND I JUST WANTED, JUST TO ADD TO THAT, UM, THE REASON WHY WE HAD SEPARATE APPLICATIONS, 'CAUSE THIS WAS PREVIOUS, THIS WAS EVEN WITH 2023, IT WAS A FIVE AND $10,000 AWARD. THAT WAS ACTUALLY A RECOMMENDATION OF THE MUSIC COMMISSION TO HAVE A SIMPLER APPLICATION FOR THE 5,000 SO THAT THE LIFT WAS LESS. SO, YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE A, JUST A DIFFERENT TACT ALTOGETHER, A DIFFERENT PROCESS IF WE WERE TO HAVE EVERYONE APPLY FOR 20, BUT THEY ONLY GET FIVE, OUR GOAL IS TO NOT MAKE PEOPLE DO LONG DRAWN OUT APPLICATIONS. IF, IF THEY ONLY WANT 5,000, THEN DO A SIMPLER APPLICATION. THERE'S A WHOLE SECTION OF SCORING THEY DO NOT HAVE TO ANSWER, WHICH IS THE MUSIC INDUSTRY ACCOMPLISHMENTS. SO THAT WAS ACTUALLY A RECOMMENDATION OF THE PREVIOUS MU MUSIC COMMISSION. A COUPLE OF YOU WERE ON THAT COMMISSION AT THAT TIME, UH, TO REALLY FOCUS ON A SIMPLER APPLICATION FOR THE LESSER DOLLAR AMOUNT. THANK YOU. UM, I THINK, YEAH, UM, TO WHAT COMMISSIONER ENGLAND SAID, I THINK THERE'S, IT'S BEEN SPELLED [00:35:01] OUT, BUT SOMEWHERE IN, UH, THE PUBLIC COMMUNICATION, I THINK THERE'S A NEED TO STILL, UM, PURSUE COMMUNICATING CLEARLY WHAT THE INTENTIONALITY BEHIND, UH, HAVING THE 5K VERSUS THE 20 K GRANTS, UM, IS, AND ALSO EMPHASIZING THE SIMPLICITY, UH, OR THE SIMPLER VERSION OF THE 5K GRANT COMPARED TO THE 20 K AND HOW MUCH MORE COMPLEX THE 20 K GRANT IS COMPARED TO THIS ONE. SO I THINK THERE IS DEFINITELY, UM, UH, A NEED, I THINK FOR, UH, FOR MORE AWARENESS AROUND WHAT, WHAT THOSE GRANTS ARE FOR. AND IT LOOKS LIKE OTHERWISE A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL BE APPLYING FOR THE 20 K. UM, SOME WOULD QUALIFY AND, AND PERHAPS SOME FOLKS WHO ARE BETTER FIT, UH, IN THEIR, EVEN WHERE THEY ARE WITH THEIR CAREERS FOR THE 5K GRANT WOULD INADVERTENTLY MAYBE JUST END UP, YOU KNOW, APPLYING FOR THE 20 K, BUT THAT DOESN'T WORK FOR THEM. RIGHT? SO I THINK THERE'S DEFINITELY A NEED, A STRONG NEED TO CREATE MORE AWARENESS, UM, AROUND IT. BUT YES, WE'D LOVE TO, UH, LOOK AT, UM, THE DATA. UM, AND OF COURSE, UM, UM, LIKE YOU ALL ARE SAYING ALREADY THAT, UH, PERHAPS ALSO PAID DUE CONSIDERATION TO, YOU KNOW, PROS AND CONS OF, UH, UH, DEFAULTING THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, ONCE YOU HAVE THE CUTOFF FOR 20 K, YOU KNOW, THE NEXT SET OF, UH, APPLICANTS TO THE 5K GRANT AMOUNTS, AND IS THAT A POSSIBILITY? WHAT ARE, UH, WHAT ARE WE LOSING IF WE DO THAT VERSUS WHAT ARE WE GAINING IF, IF THERE'S A, UH, ANALYSIS THERE? UM, AND IF YOU COULD LET US KNOW YOUR THOUGHT PROCESS ON THAT, UH, ONCE THOSE DISCUSSIONS ARE HAD, THAT WOULD BE, UH, GOOD TO HEAR. WELL, IT'S ACTUALLY SOMETHING THAT I, WE WILL TALK ABOUT BECAUSE SINCE THE LIVE MUSIC FUND ISN'T A PROPOSED PROJECT IN THE FUTURE, THAT'S WHY WE REALLY SHY AWAY FROM, SORRY, WE'RE NOT GONNA GIVE YOU THE 20,000. THAT REALLY IS WHAT IT COSTS. THAT'S WHAT THE BUDGET YOU PROVIDED MM-HMM . AND YOU'RE ONLY GONNA GET A FRACTION OF IT. AND SO IT'S REALLY DIFFICULT TO GIVE A SMALL GRANT FOR A PROPOSED PROJECT THAT'S MUCH LARGER, BUT NOW THAT LIVE MUSIC FUND IS, IT CAN BE ON ANY APPROVED, YOU KNOW, ANY ELIGIBLE EXPENSE, THEN IT IS MORE POSSIBLE, YES, SAY YOU DIDN'T GET THE 20, BUT YOU GOT THE FIVE AND YOU CAN USE IT ON THE APPROVED EXPENSES. SO THAT'S A POTENTIAL. UM, BUT IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT WE'LL NEED TO TALK THROUGH THAT IT WOULD BE LIKE A SCORING, YOU KNOW, FLOOR THAT THEN WOULD BE 5,000 UNDERNEATH A CERTAIN SCORE. UM, SO THAT SOMETHING TO DISCUSS. YEAH. UH, COMMISSIONER ENGLAND, THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT, ERIC, OBVIOUSLY BRING THAT UP AS WELL. UM, I'M, THIS IS JUST ONE LAST QUESTION. I'M CURIOUS, UM, WHY THE DESIGN FOR THE, UH, CRITERIA, THE QUESTIONS, RIGHT, FOR THE FIVE VERSUS THE 20, UH, WITH THE 20 BEING THE SAME QUESTIONS, BUT THEN AN ADDITIONAL SECTION, UM, WAS THAT TO KEEP THE CRITERIA, LIKE WHAT, WHAT WAS THE REASONING BEHIND KEEPING THE SAME CRITERIA FOR FIVE TO 20 AND THEN ONLY ADDING ON THAT ONE SECTION INSTEAD OF HAVING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CRITERIA? WAS IT A SCALABILITY, WAS IT A SCORING THING? WHAT I, I JUST DON'T KNOW. SO I'M CURIOUS, UH, COMMISSIONER ING ENGLAND, IF I MAY ALSO JUST, UH, AND MEAN ONE OF THE IDEAS WAS BECAUSE TO, THE IDEA WAS TO KEEP THE 5K GRANT SIMPLER. UM, THE FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCE IS THE ADDITION OF ACCOMPLISHMENT QUESTIONS, AS YOU SAW, WHICH WERE VERY SUBSTANTIAL IN, UH, IN THE 20 K RUN. AND THAT'S THE PIECE, AS I UNDERSTAND, IS NOT, UH, YOU KNOW, WITHIN THE 5K RUN. SO THAT WAS THE SEPARATION ESSENTIALLY TO KEEP, THAT WAS DEFINITELY A HIGHER BAR. UM, YOU KNOW, YOU HAD TO PROVIDE A LOT MORE PROOF OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS WITHIN THAT SECTION FOR THE 20 K GRANT VERSUS THE 5K, UH, WHICH WAS A RECOMMENDATION OF THE MUSIC COMMISSION. SO THE GOAL WAS THAT THOSE $20,000 GRANTS WOULD BE TOWARDS THE, THEY WANTED TO, THAT, THE COMMISSION WANTED TO PRIORITIZE THOSE WITH GREATER MUSICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS TO GET THE $20,000 GRANT. SO THAT'S WHY IT WAS A SPECIFIC DISCUSSION WITHIN THE MUSIC COMMISSION TO, UM, HAVE THAT SECTION BE FOR THE 20,000. YEAH. UH, JUST, JUST, UH, JUST VERBIAGE, MUSIC, CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS. YES. THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION. I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER, UH, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? UM, UH, SO LAURA, THERE WAS, UM, UM, THERE WAS A OWNERSHIP TRANSFER ISSUE THAT RECENTLY CAME UP. UH, IF YOU COULD THROW SOME LIGHT ON THAT AND, UH, UM, HOW FAR WE ARE IN GETTING THAT REF RECTIFIED, UH, HAVE WE RUN INTO ANY, UM, ISSUES IN, YOU KNOW, COMMUNICATING THAT OUT AND, UH, GETTING EVERYBODY ON BOARD? YOU KNOW, TAKING THE ACTUAL ACTION WAS PRETTY SIMPLE. UM, YOU KNOW, I, I DID THAT AND I'VE CHECKED IN WITH, YOU KNOW, FOLKS THAT HAVE APPLIED AND IT LOOKS LIKE THE CHANGE WAS EASY ENOUGH TO DO, UM, IN ACTION, BUT THE VERBIAGE AROUND IT WAS, YOU KNOW, IT SEEMED LIKE A LOT INITIALLY WHEN YOU LOOKED AT IT, SO IF YOU COULD THROW SOME LIGHT ON THAT. YEAH, THANK [00:40:01] YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP. CHAIR. I ORIGINALLY HAD A SLIDE IN MY DECK THAT I WAS GONNA DRAW ATTENTION TO IT, BUT THEN I GOT A REPORT FROM THE LONG CENTER THAT EVERYONE WAS ALMOST A HUNDRED PERCENT DONE. SO I WAS LIKE, OKAY, WE'RE GOOD. UM, BUT IN CASE FOLKS DIDN'T KNOW, UM, THE INTAKE FOR OUR PROGRAMS WAS FOR THE PROGRAM IN SUBMITTABLE CALLED ACME FUNDING PROGRAMS. AND SO EVERYONE APPLIED UNDER ACME FUNDING PROGRAMS. UM, AND THEN WE NEEDED TO DO A BACKEND DUPLICATION TO ESSENTIALLY SORT EVERY APPLICATION INTO ITS PARTICULAR BUCKET, SO INTO LIVE MUSIC FUND, INTO CSAP, INTO ELEVATE, ET CETERA. UM, WHEN THAT HAPPENED, EVERYONE RECEIVED A NOTIFICATION FROM SUBMITTABLE SAYING THAT THERE WAS GOING, THEY NEEDED TO APPROVE A TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP, AND THE LANGUAGE THAT SUBMITTABLE USED WAS TERRIFYING. UM, IF YOU DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING, IT WAS LIKE, WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? I NEED TO TRANSFER OWNERSHIP OF WHAT, WHO HAS MY DATA? IT WAS JUST THE LANGUAGE AROUND THAT WAS VERY SCARY LANGUAGE. UM, THE LONG CENTER THEN FOLLOWED UP WITH, UM, WITH EXTRA LANGUAGE AND THEY HAD OPEN OFFICE HOURS TO HELP SUPPORT FOLKS THROUGH THE PROCESS. UM, AS YOU MENTIONED CHAIR, THE PROCESS ITSELF WAS, IS BASICALLY JUST CLICKING A BUTTON, UM, WHEN YOU LOG INTO SUBMITTABLE, BUT THE COMMUNICATION AROUND IT A HUNDRED PERCENT COULD HAVE BEEN MUCH BETTER. UM, AND SO WE'VE TALKED, I'VE TALKED TO THE LONG CENTER, UM, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT HOW WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT SOMETHING LIKE THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN AGAIN IN THE FUTURE. UM, BUT LIKE I MENTIONED, WE JUST, UM, I JUST GOT A REPORT FROM THE LONG CENTER RIGHT BEFORE, UM, THIS MEETING STARTED, AND IT'S A HUNDRED PERCENT COMPLETE FOR THREE OF THE FOUR PROGRAMS. AND WE ONLY HAVE 40 PEOPLE LEFT FOR THE AUSTIN LIVE MUSIC FUND. UM, SO OF THOSE 109 APPLICATIONS, WE ONLY HAVE 40 LEFT THAT HAVE NOT DONE THE TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. UM, I HAVE SINCE TALKED TO THE LONG CENTER AND WE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE MORE COMMUNICATION TO FOLKS ABOUT NEEDING TO DO THAT BECAUSE IT DOES NOT IMPACT THE EVALUATION AND SCORING AT ALL. SO ONCE EVERYONE IS SCORED, IF FOLKS THAT HAVE SCORED HIGH ENOUGH HAVE NOT DONE A TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP, WE WOULD DO IT AT THE TIME THAT THEY'RE SIGNING THEIR AGREEMENTS. SO WE DON'T WANNA CAUSE ANY MORE CONFUSION AT THIS TIME. UM, IT IS MOSTLY COMPLETE FOR THOSE THAT HAVEN'T COMPLETED, WE WILL DO, UM, AT THE TAIL END OF THE PROCESS, BUT HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU ALL MIGHT HAVE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE ON THAT. AND IT'S GOOD TO KNOW THAT MOST FOLKS ARE CAUGHT UP. UM, UM, ALL THE 40 PENDING ARE FROM THE LIVE MUSIC FUND RIGHT NOW. YES. . OKAY. SURE. . ALRIGHT. UM, UM, COMMISSIONER CARDENAS, AND DID YOU STILL HAVE A FOLLOW UP QUESTION? THANK YOU. UM, COMMISSIONER KAAS, SO FROM THE EXTENSION, DO YOU KNOW HOW THE RESULTS, I GUESS THE DIFFERENCE OF WHAT IT WAS BEFORE? BECAUSE I DON'T THINK WE EVER SAW THOSE RESULTS, SORRY, THE RESULTS FROM GRANTING THE EXTENSION, SO SEEING LIKE WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS SUBMITTED BEFOREHAND AND THEN GRANTING THE EXTENSION, LIKE WAS THERE A NOTICEABLE DIFFERENCE? WAS IT JUST INCREMENTAL? JUST KNOWING IN THE FUTURE, SINCE I KNOW THAT WASN'T DONE VERY OFTEN. OH, UM, LIKE THE NUMBER OF APPLICATIONS THAT WERE SUBMITTED PRIOR TO THE EXTENSION VERSUS THE EXTENSION DATE MM-HMM . UM, I WOULD HAVE TO GO AND LOOK AT REPORTS THAT I RECEIVED THEN. UM, BUT I'M HAPPY, I'M HAPPY TO, TO BRING THAT BACK TO Y'ALL NEXT MONTH JUST TO SAY THIS WAS THE, UM, THE NUMBER THAT CAME IN AT THE TAIL END. I KNOW FOR SOME PEOPLE IT MADE A HUGE DIFFERENCE. FOR SOME PEOPLE IT WAS FRUSTRATING 'CAUSE THEY HAD ALREADY COMPLETED IT. SO I THINK, UM, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY WE HEAR IN THE SURVEY SOME OF THAT RESPONSE FROM FOLKS SO WE HAVE IT DOCUMENTED. UM, BUT AS FAR AS THE, THE NUMBERS THAT CAME IN IN THAT FINAL WEEK, I'M HAPPY TO SHOW SHOW YOU HOW MANY, UM, THOSE WERE NEXT MONTH, IF THAT'S ALL RIGHT. OH, THAT'D BE GREAT. AND THEN LAST QUESTION IS, UM, THANK YOU FOR THAT VERY DETAILED AND THOROUGH MARKETING REPORT. UM, IS THERE ANY TYPE OF REALLOCATION OF THE BUDGET THAT YOU'VE KIND OF NOTICED, LIKE, OKAY, WE MAYBE SHOULD BE PUTTING OUR EFFORTS HERE, MAYBE WE SHOULD REALLOCATE THEM TOWARDS SOMETHING ELSE? OR IS THERE, IS THAT STILL KIND OF TBD? UH, IT'S A LITTLE TBD RIGHT NOW AS A DEPARTMENT. WE'RE, WE'RE WORKING THROUGH OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, AND PART OF THAT IS OUR MARKETING AND COMMUNICATION TO THE COMMUNITY, UM, WHICH ALSO INCLUDES WHAT IS OUR SPEND, UM, AND WHEN SHOULD WE BE DOING WHAT SPENDS. UM, SO WE'RE, WE'RE STILL KIND OF LOOKING THROUGH, UM, THE DATA THAT SHELBY PUT TOGETHER HERE AROUND THIS FIRST ONE. UM, AND THEN, AND THEN WE'LL [00:45:01] FIGURE THAT OUT ONCE WE GET CLOSER TO THE SUMMER. SO PROBABLY AROUND MAY WE'LL HAVE IT ALL SORTED OUT. UM, WE DO HAVE A LAUNCH IN MARCH, UH, FOR OUR NEXUS PROGRAM, WHICH IS ANOTHER SMALL DOLLAR, UM, FOR INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS, UH, AND MUSICIANS AND ARTS GROUPS, UM, AT FIVE AND $10,000. AND THAT'S GONNA BE MOSTLY ORGANIC AND IT'S GONNA BE A SMALL SPEND. THERE WILL BE POSTCARDS, BUT NOT POSTERS AND WE WON'T BE DOING MOTOR BLADE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. UM, SO IT, IT'LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE THE, THE IMPRESSIONS AND THE TURNAROUND OF THAT VERSUS WHAT WE RECEIVED, UM, FOR THIS PAST FALL. AND THEN HOPEFULLY BOTH OF THOSE THINGS CAN HELP INFORM WHAT WE DO FOR JULY. AWESOME, THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. UH, OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, COMMISSIONERS? SO, UM, SO I SAW THE FEEDBACK MECHANISMS FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, COLLECTING FEEDBACK ON HOW THESE GRANTS, UH, COULD BE EVOLVED FOR THE JULY CYCLE, WHICH IS, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, COMING UP WITHIN A FEW SHORT MONTHS HERE. UM, WHAT IS THE BEST WAY, UH, DO YOU THINK THAT THE MUSIC COMMISSION CAN, UM, ROUTE, UH, FEEDBACK TO YOU? UM, IS THIS, DO WE DO ANOTHER WORKING GROUP AT THIS POINT, OR BASICALLY SHARE FEEDBACK ON THIS FORUM, UM, HERE? IS THERE ONE VERSUS THE OTHER THAT WORKS MORE EFFECTIVELY FOR YOU ALL? UM, IF YOU COULD TAKE ADVICE, BECAUSE I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE, WE HAVE FEEDBACK FROM COMMISSIONERS, UH, FROM THIS FORUM COMING IN AS WELL, UM, FROM, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE ARE HEARING FROM THE COMMUNITY AND YOUR OWN FEEDBACK, UH, BEFORE WE HIT THIS NEXT CYCLE AND UPDATES. YEAH, I APPRECIATE THAT. UM, SO I WAS, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT AS I WAS PUTTING THIS DECK TOGETHER THIS AFTERNOON. AND WHAT I THINK IDEALLY I WOULD LIKE TO DO IS TO TAKE THE SURVEY THAT WE SENT TO ALL APPLICANTS AND TWEAK THE QUESTIONS A BIT AND SEND TO ALL OF OUR COMMISSIONERS. SO YOU'RE ALWAYS ALL WELCOME TO SEND ME AN EMAIL DIRECTLY OR TO HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH ME DIRECTLY OR TO ANYONE ON THE TEAM ABOUT THINGS THAT YOU THINK MIGHT BE BETTER FOR THE FUTURE. UM, BUT AS FAR AS JUST COLLECTING THAT IN, IN LIKE A REALLY SIMPLE, EASY WAY, I THINK HAVING A SURVEY THAT I CAN SEND TO BOTH THE ARTS AND MUSIC COMMISSION IS PROBABLY GONNA BE, UM, THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT IF YOU ALL ARE AMENABLE TO SUCH THINGS LIKE SURVEYS. OH, SORRY, COULD YOU JUST REPEAT, REPEAT THE LAST SENTENCE AGAIN? UM, I WAS JUST SAYING IF THAT'S OKAY WITH YOU ALL, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT, THAT MAKES SENSE TO DO A SURVEY, UM, THAT I WOULD SEND OUT JUST TO THE MUSIC AND ARTS AND, UM, POTENTIALLY, UH, HISTORIC PRESERVATION AS WELL. GOT IT. GOT IT. AND IF, IF, IF THERE IS, UM, UH, INPUT BEYOND, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS AVAILABLE ON THE SURVEY, IF ANYBODY WANTS TO SHARE ANYTHING, OBVIOUSLY PLEASE FEEL FREE TO SEND IT DIRECTLY, UH, TO THE DEPARTMENT. UH, IF YOU FEEL, UM, GOOD ABOUT IT, PLEASE DO COPY ME. SO HAVE AWARENESS AND COPY MR. UM, COMMISSIONER CARVALHO, UH, VICE CHAIR. AND, UH, THE OTHER THING IS, UM, AS THIS TOPIC CONTINUES, I THINK MARCH WOULD BE A PRETTY GOOD TIME, MARCH AND APRIL. UM, AS WE ALSO GET OUTCOMES OUT OF THESE, UH, THE CURRENT ROUND OF APPLICATIONS WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO SHARE FEEDBACK, THOSE TWO MUSIC COMMISSION MEETINGS. UH, SO PLEASE, UH, DO BRING YOUR FEEDBACK, UH, TO THE TABLE. UM, AND, UM, YEAH, AND WE'LL GO FROM THERE. UM, NOT TO BELABOR THIS, BUT I REALLY HOPE WE ARE ALSO LOOKING INTO THE INTAKE PROCESS, UM, WHICH, UH, WAS A THREE STEP PROCESS, UM, VERSUS WHAT ON THE SURFACE IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS A TWO STEP PROCESS. SO, UH, IF THERE'S ANY WAY WE CAN STREAMLINE THAT, UM, THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL. I KNOW EVERY SOLUTION THERE KIND OF COMES WITH SOME PROS AND CONS, SO, UM, ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO STREAMLINE, UM, INTAKE VERSUS ELIGIBILITY VERSUS THEN, YOU KNOW, APPLYING. AND ALSO IF WE CAN LOOK INTO HOW SOME OF THE TRADITIONAL ARTS GRANTS ARE DONE, WHERE THE INTAKE ALMOST HAPPENS A MONTH OR TWO BEFORE, UH, THE ACTUAL APPLICATION COMES IN. UM, AGAIN, IT HAS TO WORK FOR OUR COMMUNITIES. SO, UM, IF WE CAN ALSO LOOK INTO SOME, UM, IDEAS SUCH AS THE, THAT IT'LL BE GREAT, BUT SIMPLIFY THE, THE PROCESS OVERALL. I THINK THAT DEFINITELY CAUSED SOME CONFUSION. UM, OVERALL, LIKE THE LIVE MUSIC FUND, I REALLY APPRECIATE THE DEPARTMENT GOING IN, UM, WITH THE CHANGES THAT THEY MADE. UM, I THINK, UM, A LOT OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE MUSIC COMMISSION WERE TAKEN IN, ESPECIALLY OUR EMPHASIS ON, UH, UH, MUSIC, CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS, INDUSTRY ACCOMPLISHMENTS WERE, UH, REALLY INCORPORATED. UM, ONE OF THE THINGS, UM, AND I SAY A LITTLE TONGUE IN CHEEK IS, IS THAT THE ARTS GRANTS, UM, SOMETIMES USED TO BE MORE COMPLEX COMPARED TO OUR MUSIC RUNS, WHICH [00:50:01] WERE VERY OBJECTIVE. YOU JUST GO PICK FROM MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS, ATTACH EVIDENCE, AND YOU'RE DONE. UM, BUT I THINK, UM, YOU STILL HAVE TO HAVE A GREAT IDEA, UH, BUT SOMEHOW OPEN TEXT OBVIOUSLY, UH, HAS BECOME A LITTLE EASIER TO DO. AND, UH, JUST COMPARING THE TWO AND KIND OF JUST GOING IT, GOING THROUGH THE PROCESS, UH, IT, IT DID FEEL LIKE THE MUSIC GRANT ENDED UP GETTING, I MEAN, FAIRLY COMPLEX, UH, BECAUSE THERE WAS A LOT OF QUESTIONS, A LOT OF ATTACHMENTS TO PUT IN WITH EVERY QUESTION. SO SOMEWHERE, UH, IF WE CAN LOOK AT SIMPLIFICATION, UM, IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL, UH, NOT TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE DIRECTION IN WHICH IT HAS MOVED, UH, NOT TO TAKE AWAY FROM THE FACT THAT WE ADDED ACCOMPLISHMENTS THAT WE, UM, ARE VALUING, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN ASPECTS AND ACCOMPLISHMENTS WITHIN THE INDUSTRY. BUT ANYTHING WE CAN DO ALSO TO LOOK AT KIND OF THE COMPLEXITY AND, UM, EASIER SAID THAN DONE, BUT REDUCE THAT, UH, GIVEN THE FORMAT OF THE MUSIC GRANTS NOW, UH, WHICH IS NOT OPEN TEXT, IT'S MORE MULTIPLE CHOICE AND ATTACHMENT, SO THAT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL AS WELL. UM, BUT THANK YOU AGAIN FOR, UH, THE EFFORT IN JUST REALLY MOVING THESE, UH, GRANTS, YOU KNOW, UM, IN, IN A HARD WAY, IN, IN, IN, IN THE DIRECTION OF, UH, ACKNOWLEDGING OUR, UH, COMMUNITY MEMBERS, UH, UH, CAREER ACCOMPLISHMENTS AND VALUING THAT AS WELL. YEAH. UH, THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS FROM THE COMMISSION? OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. THE [6. Staff briefing on AACME department objectives and goals for 2026 by Candice Cooper, Acting Chief Administrative Officer, AACME.] NEXT ITEM, UH, STAFF BRIEFING ON ACME DEPARTMENT OBJECTIVES AND GOALS FOR 2026 BY CANDACE COOPER ACTING, UH, CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER, ACME, UM, THIS, UH, AGENDA, UM, I, UH, CONTACTED, UH, AND I THINK STAFF HAS CONTACTED, UM, UM, UH, MS. COOPER AS WELL, AND THIS, THIS WILL BE MOVED TO NEXT MONTH'S AGENDA, SO PLEASE MAKE, TAKE NOTE OF THAT. UM, SO I WILL MAKE A REQUEST THAT I THINK THE LAST COUPLE OF COMMISSION MEETINGS WE HAVE HAD THE STAFF BRIEFING. SO I WILL MAKE THE HUMBLE REQUEST THAT, UM, IF WE ARE, UH, NOT GOING TO BE PRESENTING ON A CERTAIN DAY TO PLEASE GIVE US A HEADS UP. UM, AND, UM, UH, I WILL MAKE, THIS IS A FORMAL REQUEST, BUT, UM, UH, I WILL MAKE SURE TO MAKE THE FORMAL REQUEST OVER EMAIL AS WELL. BUT PLEASE, UH, UH, BECAUSE THERE ARE OTHER AGENDA ITEMS THAT WE'VE ADDED IN HERE THAT ARE RELATED, UH, TO THE STAFF BRIEFING. SO I THINK IT IMPACTS HOW WE ARE ABLE TO WORK ON THE OTHER AGENDA ITEMS WHEN WE, UH, DON'T HAVE A STAFF BRIEFING, UH, THAT WE ARE EXPECTING. UM, BUT, UH, WELL UNDERSTOOD, PLEASE, UH, LET'S JUST MOVE IT TO NEXT MONTH AND, UH, WE CAN GO FROM THERE. UM, ALSO, I WANTED TO ASK IF WE CAN ADD THE CREATIVE, UH, RESET UPDATE AS WELL THAT WAS THERE ON THE AGENDA IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER. AND, UH, IF WE COULD ADD THAT BACK TO THE AGENDA AS WELL FOR MARCH. THANK YOU. UM, ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS ON THIS BEFORE WE MOVE ON? COMMISSIONERS? THANK YOU. UH, MOVING [7. Austin Convention Center Project and benefits to Hotel Occupancy Tax and creative community following presentation by Katy Zamesnik, Acting Deputy Director, Austin Convention Center and Morgan Messick, Assistant Director, AACME.] ON TO DISCUSSION ITEMS. UH, NUMBER SEVEN, I'VE, I'VE BEEN INFORMED BY STAFF THAT THIS, UH, PRESENTATION ON AUSTIN CONVENTION CENTER PROJECT AND BENEFITS, UM, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER IN THE MEETING, IS ALSO GOING TO BE MOVED, UM, TO NEXT MONTH'S AGENDA IF THEY ARE ABLE TO PRESENT AT THAT TIME. UH, WE'LL BE CHECKING BACK WITH THAT AGAIN. [8. Downtown Commission update on priorities and recent actions by Parliamentarian Silva.] THE NEXT ITEM UNDER DISCUSSION ITEMS IS DOWNTOWN COMMISSION UPDATE ON PRIORITIES AND RECENT ACTIONS BY PARLIAMENTARIAN SILVA. THANK YOU, COMMISSIONER. THANK YOU CHAIR. UM, THERE'S ONE ITEM THAT THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION, UH, TOOK ON LAST MONTH, AND I THINK I MENTIONED IT BEFORE. IT WAS THE WHOLE ISSUE ABOUT CONVERTING ONE WAY STREETS TO TWO WAYS THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE DOWN, DOWN CORE. UH, LAST MONTH AT THEIR MEETING, THEY MADE A RECOMMENDED, THEY APPROVED THE RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL TO CONVERT ALL ONE WAY STREETS TO TWO WAY STREETS, INCLUDING SIXTH STREET. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S A MAJOR ISSUE. AND I'M NOT SURE, I, I THINK THERE WAS SOME ENGAGEMENT WITH VENUES ALONG SIXTH STREET, BUT I DON'T KNOW THAT FOR A FACT. UM, AND WE MAY WANT TO CONSIDER SORT OF MAKING SURE THAT THAT OUTREACH HAS BEEN DONE TO SEE HOW, BECAUSE IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT VEHICLES TRAVELING THROUGH A STREET, 'CAUSE SIXTH STREET IS VERY DIFFERENT THAN ALL THE OTHER STREETS IN THE DOWNTOWN CORE. UM, SO MAKING SURE THAT THEY ALSO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT [00:55:01] LOGISTICAL ISSUES THAT THE VENUES PROVIDE, PEDESTRIAN SAFETY, YOU KNOW, ALL THOSE THINGS THAT COME INTO PLACE, PUBLIC SAFETY. UM, SO THAT'S REALLY THE MAIN ISSUE THAT THEY WENT OF JUST, JUST, UH, APPROVING THAT RECOMMENDATION THAT GOES TO COUNCIL. THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU FOR THE UPDATE. COMMISSIONER. ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS ON THE TOPIC? COMMISSIONER ENGLAND? UM, SO, UH, THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION VOTED THIS PAST MONTH TO APPROVE THAT RECOMMENDATION TO SEND TO COUNCIL. IS THAT WHAT YOU SAID? THAT'S CORRECT. WERE, WERE THERE, WAS THERE ANYONE AS FAR AS, UH, PRIVATE BUSINESS OWNERS? VENUE OWNERS, UH, I MEAN, I READ A LOT ABOUT WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE, BUT I ALSO OFTEN THINK ABOUT LOGISTICS AS FAR AS NOT JUST EMPLOYEES FOR WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. UH, LOADING IN AND LOADING OUT, NOT JUST THE ARTISTS, BUT PRODUCTION TEAMS FOR WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. UH, AND I, YOU KNOW, UNDERSTAND THE ARGUMENT FROM GETTING RID OF PARKING OR ADDING MORE PARKING ON BOTH SIDES. UH, SO I, I JUST WONDER IF ANY, WHAT THE PUBLIC OUTREACH WAS SPECIFICALLY TO THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION. I DON'T KNOW. THERE WASN'T MUCH DISCUSSION LAST MEETING. UH, I THINK THEY HAD MUCH OF THEIR DISCUSSION THE PRIOR MEETING, AND THEN THIS LAST MEETING THEY BROUGHT THE RECOMMENDATION TO A VOTE. UM, I CAN GO BACK AND TAKE A LOOK AND SEE, UM, WHAT THAT ENGAGEMENT LOOK LIKE. I DO KNOW THAT THE TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT IS ALSO CONDUCTING AN ENVIRONMENT, AN ENGINEERING STUDY FOR SIXTH STREET. UM, BUT ONCE AGAIN, WILL THEY BE LOOKING AT IT SOLELY FROM A TRANSPORTATION PERSPECTIVE AND NOT NECESSARILY ALL THOSE OTHER LOGISTICAL THINGS THAT YOU'RE POINTING OUT. UM, BUT I'LL, I'LL GO BACK AND TAKE A LOOK AND SEE HOW MUCH INPUT THAT PROCESS HAD REGARDING VENUES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UM, I ONLY HAD ONE OTHER QUESTION TOO. I KNOW MOVING FORWARD WITH THE, UH, LIGHT RAIL PROJECT AS WELL, HAS THAT COME UP IN DISCUSSION WITHIN THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION, UH, AS WELL? UH, AS FAR AS ALTERING ROADWAYS, UH, I WOULD IMAGINE THAT PART OF THE DEAL FOR CHANGING THE, UM, ALL ONE WAY INTO TWO WAY AS WELL AS THE PARKING IS COINCIDING WITH THE LIGHT RAIL UPCOMING PROJECT. AND SO IT'S NOT JUST SIXTH STREET, BUT ALSO WITHIN THE DOWNTOWN DISTRICT, UH, THERE ARE MORE THAN JUST SIXTH STREET VENUES THAT ARE, UH, APPLICABLE FOR THAT ALONG WITH CONSTRUCTION AND REROUTING OF TRAFFIC. HAS THAT BEEN BROUGHT TO THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION'S ATTENTION AT ALL? YEAH, BUT A LITTLE BIT PIECEMEAL. I MEAN, THERE'S, THERE'S SEVERAL THINGS GOING ON DOWNTOWN. I MEAN, YOU MENTIONED LIGHT RAIL. THERE'S ALSO THE IMPROVEMENTS ON I 35, UM, WHETHER WE GO WITH CAPTAIN STITCH ON THAT, ON THOSE STREETS, UM, THE GREAT STREETS PROGRAM, WHICH IS SUPPOSED TO BE BEGINNING WORK ON CONGRESS AVENUE, UM, I DO, THERE IS A, AND STAFF CAN PROVIDE MORE INFORMATION IF THEY'RE MORE FAMILIAR WITH IT, A DOWNTOWN STRATEGIC INITIATIVES OFFICE THAT IS SUPPOSED TO COORDINATE A LOT OF THOSE THINGS. SO IT'S NOT JUST THIS DEPARTMENT IS WORKING ON THE STREETS AND THIS ONE'S WORKING ON THE SIDEWALK, AND THIS ONE'S WORKING ON I 35 AND THIS ONE'S DOING LIGHT RAIL THAT THEY HA THEY ARE WORKING TOGETHER, ESPECIALLY D WHEN CONSTRUCTIONS HAPPEN. UM, UH, I CAN TAKE A LOOK AND, AND SEE, THANK YOU. WHAT IT WAS, I, I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT, UH, SPECIFICALLY JUST TO KNOW WHAT WAS PRESENTED TO YOU ALL AT THE COMMISSION, UH, WHETHER THAT BE THROUGH, UM, PUBLIC RECORD IN SPEAKING OR, UH, WHO IS ACTUALLY ON THE AGENDA FOR YOU. I'D BE INTERESTED TO SEE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COMMISSIONERS. UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS ON THE TOPIC? ALRIGHT, COMMISSIONER SILVA. AND ALSO IF, UH, IF THERE IS ANY TOPIC EVER PERTAINING, UH, DIRECTLY TO THE MUSIC COMMISSIONER, THERE'S FEEDBACK THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO TAKE FROM THE COMMISSION, THEN YOU CAN ALSO ALWAYS ADD THAT BEFORE YOU HEAD OUT TO THE NEXT MEETING THERE ON THE, ON OUR AGENDA. SO, UH, PLEASE FEEL FREE TO DO THAT IF YOU FIND THE NEED. YEAH, THE, THE CHALLENGE IS THEIR AGENDA COMES OUT AFTER OUR MEETING, SO I'M NEVER ABLE TO, TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY'RE GONNA BE DISCUSSING. SO I CAN BREAK IT FORWARD HERE, HAVE A DISCUSSION AND TAKE BACK. BUT, UM, I'LL TRY REACHING OUT TO THE CHAIR AND SEE IF I CAN GET SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION BEFORE THE MEETING HAPPENS. YEAH, THANK YOU. UM, BEFORE, AFTER ANYWAY, IF YOU SEE A RELEVANT TOPIC THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO BRING HERE, UH, I JUST WANT TO, UH, MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE AWARE THAT YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND ADD THAT TO OUR AGENDA AS WELL. UH, YEAH. UM, ANYTHING ELSE ON THE TOPIC? WE GOOD? THANK YOU. THE [9. Music Commission strategic planning for 2026.] NEXT AGENDA ITEM IS MUSIC COMMISSION STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR 2026. UM, AND THIS IS WHERE, [01:00:01] UM, YOU KNOW, I WAS EARLIER SUGGESTING THAT, UH, EARLIER STATING THAT, UH, WE'RE HOPING FOR, UH, ALSO AN UPDATE ON THE DEPARTMENT OBJECTIVES AND GOALS AS WE LOOK AT WHAT IT IS THAT THE MUSIC COMMISSION WOULD LIKE TO, UH, DISCUSS AND TACKLE IN 2026. UM, I FIRST OF ALL WANTED TO ASK THAT. UM, I DID SHARE, UM, SHELBY, MAY I CHECK WITH YOU IF THAT WAS ALREADY SHARED AT THE ANNUAL REPORT FROM LAST YEAR, IT WAS SHARED, RIGHT? YEAH. SO THAT TALKS ABOUT 20, 26 GOALS AND HAD REVIEWED THAT IN THE DECEMBER MEETING, UM, IF EVERYBODY OR MOST OF YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK THROUGH THOSE GOALS FOR 2026. AND, UM, WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO DO IN THIS MEETING, UM, AS WE ALSO LOOK FOR AN UPDATE FROM THE DEPARTMENT IS, UM, ARE THERE OTHER ITEMS, ANY OTHER ITEMS THAT YOU DON'T SEE IN THAT LIST THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO, UM, ANY OTHER MAJOR ITEMS RATHER, THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE MUSIC COMMISSION, UH, ADDRESS IN 2026, PLEASE? UM, I THINK THIS KIND OF TIES INTO AS WELL THE DOWNTOWN COMMISSION. THERE ARE SO MANY DIFFERENT PROJECTS OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS THAT ARE GOING TO RECREATE A LOT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE MM-HMM . FOR WHAT THIS CITY IS AS FAR AS TRANSPORTATION, AS FAR AS, UH, TAXES IS CONCERNED. UM, AND I, I REALLY DON'T FEEL, THE REASON I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING ALONG SO CLOSELY IS I DON'T FEEL LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF ADVOCACY FOR PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND THE LOGISTIC PROBLEMS THAT MUSICIANS, VENUES, UM, CREATIVE SPACES, CULTURAL SPACES ARE ALREADY FACING. UH, I THINK THAT A LOT OF TIMES THOSE ARE KIND OF LEFT AT THE VERY END OF THE, THE CONVERSATION AS IT DILUTES ITS WAY ITSELF ACROSS THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS. UM, SO I WOULDN'T, UM, NOT PRESSURE, BUT UH, I WOULD ENCOURAGE THIS COMMISSION AND ITS COMMISSIONERS TO, UH, LOOK INTO WHAT THOSE INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES ARE GONNA BE, UH, HOW THEY'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO CHANGE OUR CULTURAL ECOSYSTEM AND HOW WE CAN ADVOCATE FOR THAT. BECAUSE THIS IS KIND OF THE TIME TO DO THAT. AND, UH, AT THE END OF NEXT YEAR, IT'LL ALREADY BE DONE. UH, AND IT'LL BE A LOT HARDER. UH, SO YEAH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS ON THAT OR ANY OTHER FEEDBACK COMMISSIONERS? I THINK WHAT, UM, WHAT WE CAN REALLY DO IS, UM, UM, LOOK AT THINGS THAT WE HAVE IN THE, IN THE ANNUAL REPORT FOR 2026, ANYTHING ELSE THAT THE COMMISSIONERS WANT TO BRING TO THE TABLE AND, UH, UH, START ADDING AT LEAST A FEW ITEMS, UM, THAT WE CAN, I WOULD SAY VIABLY ADDRESS, UH, AND, AND START WORKING ON THOSE. UH, I THINK THE MAJORITY OF THE FOCUS FOR A VERY LONG TIME HAS BEEN ON THE GRANTS. UH, AND THAT WILL CONTINUE TO BE THE CASE. UH, BUT I THINK WE, WE ARE AT A PLACE WHERE WE CAN START, UH, ADDING SOME NEW ITEMS TO OUR 2026 AGENDA, IF EVERYONE'S OKAY WITH THAT. YEAH. OKAY. SO, UM, YEAH, SO FOR THE NEXT MEETING, UM, IF I MAY, I WILL LOOK THROUGH THE REPORT, UH, PICK SOME STUFF. IF ANYBODY IS ALREADY WORKING OR WILLING TO PICK UP ANY OF THE OTHER ITEMS AND WOULD LIKE TO GET THOSE ADDED, PLEASE SEND A NOTE, UM, TO ME, TO SHELBY TO ADD THAT AS WELL TO THE AGENDA. IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU THINK YOU CAN PICK UP AND RUN WITH, UH, WITH EITHER A WORKING GROUP OR, OR, OR BY YOURSELF, WHICHEVER WAY. AND BRING IT BACK TO THE COMMISSION. UM, LET'S, LET'S, LET'S GET, UH, THOSE ADDED TO THE AGENDA, BUT, UH, PLEASE EMAIL. UM, JUST AS A REMINDER, THE, UH, AGENDA GETS PUBLISHED AN ENTIRE WEEK BEFORE NOW. UH, THAT'S THE REQUIREMENT. UH, ONE WEEK WEDNESDAY, THE WEDNESDAY, THREE TO FOUR BUSINESS DAYS. SO IT'S NOT A WEEK, BECAUSE FOR A WHILE IT WAS TO BE DONE THE WEEK BEFORE. ON THAT WEDNESDAY. YES, ON A FRIDAY AFTER THE, SO LET'S STILL FINALIZE ON THE FRIDAY, UM, LIKE TWO WEEKS BEFORE I WOULD SAY. AND THEN, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, MONDAY AND TUESDAY I THINK ARE THE FINAL WEEKS, UH, FROM STAFF AS WELL. CHECKING IN WITH THE CLERK'S OFFICE, MAKING SURE THAT THE AGENDA LOOKS GOOD. AND THEN THAT WEDNESDAY, UH, IT GETS POSTED. SO, UH, PLEASE JUST SEND YOUR, UH, ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET ADDED, UH, JUST, JUST IN ADVANCE AND WE'LL BE GOOD TO GO. ALRIGHT. UM, ANYTHING ELSE ON TOPPING NUMBER NINE? MUSIC COMMISSION STRATEGIC PLANNING FOR 2026 BEFORE WE MOVE ON? OKAY, THANK YOU. FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. UM, WE WILL OF COURSE HAVE PUBLIC COMMUNICATION APPROVAL OF MINUTES. [01:05:01] UM, STAFF BRIEFING ON, UM, LMF COLLECTIONS, FI 24, AUSTIN LIVE MUSIC FUND. FINAL REPORTS BY ELLI, STAFF BRIEFING ON THE AIRPORT LIVE, UH, MUSIC BOOKING AND PERFORMANCES. UM, UPDATE ON, UM, STAFF BRIEFING ON ACME FUNDING PROGRAMS, . THEN WE WILL BRING BACK STAFF BRIEFING ON ACME DEPARTMENT OBJECTIVES AND GOALS FOR 2026 BY CANDACE COOPER. WE WILL UNDER DISCUSSION ITEMS, UM, ADD THE CONVENTION CENTER UPDATE AGAIN, DOWNTOWN COMMISSION UPDATE, UH, BY COMMISSIONER SILVA STAYS. [FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS] AND, UH, I THINK WE CAN TAKE THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM OUT AT THIS POINT. IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET ANYTHING ELSE ADDED TO 2026 OR A PARTICULAR MEETING, PLEASE EMAIL. UM, AND AS LONG AS WE CAN GET A SECOND, WE CAN GET IT ADDED TO THE AGENDA. UM, WHAT ELSE? COMMISSIONERS, UM, FY 26 27 BUDGET PROCESS RECOMMENDATIONS ARE DUE NEXT MONTH AT THE END OF THE MONTH, END OF MARCH. MM-HMM . RIGHT, FY 26, 27. BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS RIGHT FROM THE COMMISSION. SO COULD WE, I, UM, COULD WE GO AHEAD AND ADD THIS AS A DISCUSSION AND ACTION ITEM? UH, SO I WILL, UH, PREPARE THE BUDGET RECOMMENDATIONS AHEAD OF TIME, UH, SHARE WITH THE COMMISSIONERS IF WE COULD PLEASE REVIEW AND IF WE NEED TO MAKE ANY UPDATES, WE'LL MAKE THE UPDATES IN THE MEETING LIVE AND WE'LL VOTE ON IT. SO LET'S ADD A DISCUSSION AND AGENDA. UH, UM, ACTION ON THAT. ANYTHING ELSE? ALRIGHT. UH, IF SOMEBODY WOULD LIKE TO MOTION TO APPROVE ALL OF THE ABOVE ITEMS, UH, COMMISSIONER ENGLAND, WE HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE, APPROVE ALL OF THE DISCUSSED, UH, FUTURE AGENDA ITEMS. DO I HAVE A SECOND? WE A SECOND FROM COMMISSIONER CARDENAS. UH, ALL IN FAVOR? UH, THE MOTION'S APPROVED. I THINK I DON'T NEED A SECOND ON THAT. I ALWAYS FORGET. UM, MOTION TO ADJOURN. . COMMISSIONER ENGLAND. I'LL TAKE A SECOND FROM, UH, COMMISSIONER POIS. UH, ALL IN FAVOR? COMMISSIONER POIS, HOW DO YOU VOTE? COMMISSIONER AGUILAR. ALL RIGHT. UH, MOTIONS APPROVED A UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU ALL. UH, THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH AND, UH, THANK YOU STAFF. THANK YOU, UM, MEMBERS FROM THE COMMUNITY WHO ARE PRESENT HERE TODAY. THANK YOU. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.