quickly for me. I'm sorry. Oh, sorry. Oh, no. That's great. I can hear you. Thank you. Okay. Keeps in the background. Hi, everyone. We'll get started really soon. Just give the last few folks, I think we're missing two. Yeah, we're missing two. Just a few more minutes. And then we'll get started. And we are streaming to YouTube. And whoever has birds noises in the background, it's really pretty. So you can stay unmuted. Number Nathan, sorry, number Nathanson, if you would please go ahead and check your audio visual. Thank you. How is everybody doing well? Great weather this weekend. Definitely. Okay, Kristen, I would say let's wait one more minute and see if Lisa is able to join. Otherwise, at 330, you can go ahead and start the meeting as long as Eileen is ready to take roll. Okay, great. Ready on the sun. Okay, Kristen, it's 330. If you're ready, we can go ahead and start if you would like to call the meeting to order. Or if you'd like to wait another few minutes, it's up to you. Eileen, are you ready to take roll call or start the meeting? I am. We're gonna generally we start with you sort of read the disclosure information first. Right. Just wanted to make sure you were ready. Oh, great. Thank you. Yes, I am. Great. All right. I call this meeting of the art and public places for the city of Santa Rosa meeting to order. Due to the provisions of the governor's executive orders N2520 and N2920, which suspends certain requirements of the Brown Act and the order of the health officer of the County of Sonoma to shelter in place to minimize the spread of COVID 19, the art and public places committee will be conducting today's meeting in a virtual setting using zoom webinar. Committee members and staff are participating from remote locations and are and or practicing so appropriate social distancing. Members of the public may view and listen to the meeting as noted on the city's website and as noted on the agenda. Members of the public wishing to speak during item three public comment or during our public hearing items will be able to do so by utilizing the raised hand feature in zoom or by pressing star nine on their phone. Then they will be given the ability to address the committee. The recording secretary will now take roll. Let the record reflect that all members of the art and public places may be our presence. Great. Alright, next up we have next up on the agenda is number three. Public comments. If you wish to make a comment via zoom, please select raise hand button. If you are dialing in via telephone, please press star nine to raise your hand. Each speaker has three minutes. A countdown timer will appear for the convenience of the speaker and viewers. Please make sure to unmute yourself when you are invited to do so. Your microphone will be muted and it will be muted at the end of the countdown. Do we have any comments for the public who wish to make comments on the art and public places items that are not on the agenda? We have no raised hands at this time nor do we have any emails or voicemails for this meeting. Alright. In that case, let's move on to item number four. The approval of minutes copies of the March first meeting minutes have been distributed for your review. Are there any additions or corrections to the minutes? If not, do I have a motion to approve the minutes as written? I make a motion to approve the minutes. I second that motion. Then moving on. If the meetings meeting minutes have been adopted. Next moving on to the next item on the agenda. Number five. Hi, I'm going to just for a moment. If you could just take us and we'll just make sure that everyone is in agreement. Sorry. That's okay. So does everyone agree with the motion to adopt the meeting minutes from the March first meeting? Great. Yes. Oh, Jeff, you are on mute. I wasn't at the meeting, so I'm not going to vote. But I will mark you as an obsession. Great. So all I guess we just need to all in favor all in favor vote. So we got and it looks like if everyone could just raise their hands if they're in favor, I think that'd be the easiest way. Great. Okay. Thank you. All so Kristen, if you want to just recap that all in favor with Jeff, with member Nathanson abstaining. All agreeing with member Jeff Nathanson abstaining. Thank you. Great. Now we can move on to item number five on the agenda. APPC activation discussion. So the art in public play sorry, APPC art in public places is integral to the implementation of the goals and strategies outlined in the public art program strategic plan fiscal year 21 through 24. To strategically activate the APPC. The plan recommends the formation of ad hoc task force to enable an inert an iterative process in developing and defining the roles responsibilities and expectations of APPC members and the committee as a whole. Staff will present an outline for discussion. Great. Thank you. Thank you, Chair Kiefer. And might I just say congratulations on your appointment as chair. That was done just a few made official just a few days ago. So we will be working with you to continue that transition with Lisa can handing over the reins there. So I am happy to talk to you about this item today. This is a discussion item meant to kind of start a conversation about this process. And if you recall from our conversations about the strategic plan and the next steps for determining the art in public places committee members roles in the process of the implementation of the plan. This is a continuation of that conversation and a start for us to talk about various ad hoc task forces that may be formed to continue the work in a few key areas for a limited concentrated amount of time. So I prepared this activation outline, which kind of summarizes the goals, how it relates back to the strategic plan and the three proposed tax ad hoc task forces that we're looking at this at this time. All throughout this document, you will see the references to the strategic plan in the parentheses. So it'll be a Roman numeral a capital letter and then a number. Those are relating back to the goals, strategies and tactics that are in the strategic plan. So if you are looking at them kind of side by side, you can kind of dig a little bit deeper into each one. But generally, as you'll see in this document, Eileen or Kimberly, do you mind making that just a tiny bit smaller? So maybe we can see a little bit more of it on one page. I think that might be helpful. Maybe that's a little too small. Go back back up a little bit. Maybe maybe maybe maybe just 100% and then scroll down when we're ready. So you'll see that they the items that are called out in the strategic plan that their reference, you're kind of fall into these three categories, diversity, equity, inclusion, and access, engagement, and then project development. And so those though all those references relate back to specific tactics in this in the strategy in our strategic plan. So and as it's described here, the function of an ad hoc task force is to accomplish specific tasks on a short term basis that are not easily provided for elsewhere with the whole committee structure. And each ad hoc has a particular goal to achieve on behalf of the Public Places Committee. And when that task is completed, then the task force is dissolved. The Brown Act does not apply to ad hoc committees consisting of less of a quorum of the initiating body. So the task forces are made up in our case of two or three public places, committee members that meet to specifically address the items assigned to the task force. And then when those items are completed, the task force is dissolved. So that's kind of like the structure, the formality of how this works. And then really these categories are meant to start that conversation about the work that could be done within that structure. And I'm happy to answer questions, to kick off a discussion. I'd love to hear your feedback and figure out if there are addition additions or suggestions for each of these three proposed task task forces. Thank you, Tara. At this time, do any committee members have questions for Tara regarding this item? If so, please physically raise your hand. And just as a reminder, we're doing questions only at this time. No discussion. So while this is a discussion item, yeah, this is a discussion item. So we're open to discussion. I think the best format would be to have public comments at some point within within the within the item itself. And then there can be additional discussion after that if needed. Okay, I will initially take in bomb bomb gardeners question. I was curious about, do you see kind of divide like how many people would be on these from our committee? Like would everyone take one? Or would we be working together with another person? How do you see the structure kind of Yeah, in order to avoid brown act kind of violations in terms of having too many committee members serve on on them kind of co click conjointly or overlapping the we would recommend that each task force has two committee members except one would have three because that would be the seven. Well, and we only have six members right now. So two, two for each. And you know, there there's a it's up for discussion in terms of how best to sign up for that if it naturally there's just an inclination to have, you know, have it just come out in our conversation today. That's great. Or we can have like a sign up I can send a sign up thing that you can express your interest and then I can put some pretty names on on the list and then we can review it. So there's a couple ways we could go with that. I'm going to take any initial questions first, then we're going to pop over to public comment really quickly and continue our discussion. So questions first. Thank you. Member Nathan. Yeah, will there be kind of formal avenue for interfacing with city departments for these ad hoc committees? Or will that be facilitated in some way? Sorry, say your question again. Um, will there be any kind of like formal facilitation of of of interacting with other city departments for these for these ad hoc committees? Or are they kind of contained, discrete, separate, you know, groups that just sort of happen among ourselves? Yes, I see. So I think it's kind of both. I don't think there would be a formal formal relationship with other necessarily other other city departments or boards and committees, but I feel like there is work that that is being done through various city departments and on other various city committees that could inform our the this committees and these ad hoc committee discussions about it. So I feel like bringing in bringing in folks to to present information about what they're working on, things like that. I can help facilitate that and I would be a part of facilitating the ad hoc meetings as well. So there there is there's some support there. There's resources that could be brought to it so that there's an understanding of maybe citywide what what is being done on those issues. If that would be helpful. I think the there's some explicit tasks stated within each task force group that I feel like can be accomplished through the work of the two committee members, but being informed by maybe other resources as we can provide that. Thanks. And I I rise is on this meeting to please chime in if you would like to share any additional information since you have more experience working with task forces than I do. Sure. Yeah. And I actually appreciate that that question because I think the one of the things that we really want to do is streamline operations within the city and definitely not have you know, Tara being the sole person, you know, running information through other things. So where we could what we could do is depending on what the needs of the committee is or the task forces is make introductions so that you can have direct contact so that you can sort of get the the resources that you need in addition to what what Tara said. Thanks. All right. Yes. Thank you. Yeah, thanks. I'm actually following up. Hi, why you said nice to see you. Following up on Nathan's question. Will there be other members or people working with the task force? Members from our committee, you know, from the public or other organizations, just trying to get a sense of, you know, what these meetings are going to be like. Yeah. So so in traditionally for city ad hoc task forces, the the body itself is made up of just the members of the committee or council or whatever initiating body it is. So in this case, that would be just a PPC members. But like I said, I think there are other resources that can be brought to that discussion of the type of work that's going on throughout the city. There will be other opportunities for the members of the public to start participating more. You know, as you know, in our strategic plan, it calls for a lot of different engagement opportunities from, you know, just more rigorous outreach, but also through the formation of an advisory council at some point, I think that's called for next year and in the implementation plan. And so that engagement task force will be talking about some of those opportunities and providing some guidance there. So there's, you know, these task forces are meant to be committee member only. And then there's other opportunities for members of the public and others. Yeah. And it's just to add to that. It's it's committee members and staff as you need. So it's an opportunity for you to talk frankly and sort of figure out, you know, the next steps. But it doesn't mean that committee members can't be talking and be active in the community to seek information. So that's how we've done it most typically. So for example, if not related to this, but say we wanted to do a policy, we're the committee members are actively discussing issues or policy issues with community members. And they can bring that back and have a broader discussion within the group. But generally the purpose of an ad hoc first ad hoc task force versus a sub committee of this committee is to have those limited term discussions. So that's great. That's really helpful. And Tara and Ray says you're well aware that our museum has a sort of a parallel task force base process going on. So, Tara, I hope we can talk about where there's maybe, you know, some interface, you know, because I'll be on any one of these tasks task courses. But if there was really, you know, some kind of inter interconnection we can bring to the process that the museum is going through that would really be helpful, I think for both of us. Thanks, Jeff. Yeah, and to that point, I mean, I think that's the thing that's of value is identifying where it might be. And then pursuing that, that it's these aren't such structured things where you can't talk to people, you can't talk to people is to seek opportunity and to and to promote it. And then this it could in the end, to Tara's point, lead to a committee, a subcommittee of this committee. I mean, you can have it's just to get to the point where we can address the issues that she laid out. Great. At this time, I'm going to take public comment for this item. Eileen, do we have any public comments regarding item 5.1? Thank you, Cherokee, for we have no raised hands at this time. Great. Let's continue our discussion. Do we have any further questions or discussion topics to converse with Tara and Raisa at this time? And please, thanks. Because I'm new and not only new to this but new to the city. Is the objective of these task force is going to be compelling to outside people like is there like to each one of them have a is it just backfinding or is it is there a you know what I'm saying? Like when you're recruiting people, what are you recruiting them for? Like just I just need a little more language. Sure. So so since these tasks task forces will be only committee members, any kind of outreach you do at this point would be to gather information. It is fact finding resource gathering. The staff, myself, Raisa and others in the city can bring information and resources to the task forces to discuss and consider and help in to forward the accomplishment of the tasks laid out for each one. The the tasks for task forces, I don't know why that's so hard to say. I keep stumbling over it. The task forces will will ultimately be reporting back to the full APPC. Each task force can have updates on every meeting as regular as we need that to be for the length of these kind of assignments. And so any kind of recommendations to adopt certain selection criteria, for instance, or, you know, recommendations for certain types of outreach we might be doing or formation of advisory groups or et cetera, et cetera. All of those recommendations would come back from each task force to the full committee for discussion, consideration and any actions to be taken. And at that point, when those items are brought to the full committee, our committee member meetings are public, the members of the public, who maybe you have talked to different organizations that you have done outreach to and you're kind of fact finding and information gathering could be there present to make public comments to share their thoughts or in support or, you know, offer suggestions. So it's, you know, there's a certain amount of work that needs to be done on a task force. The reason I think we use this format is because it's maybe more efficient. We can move faster to start start a conversation about a topic and then bring it back to the full committee to further that conversation and to have it be approved or moved forward in some way. Or to make the specific recommendations, like Tara said, and then to have those discussed in public once it gets back to the committee and then it's an iterative process, but it allows to appoint to get process. So you can you can be as directive as you would like to be. So you're really going out and getting information. I mean, it's a relationship building, connective process that is going to find what it finds and then bring back and use that information to get. I mean, I'm not trying to be yes. Yeah. So I mean, really specifically, yes, it's trying to find us. So if you take, say diversity, equity, inclusion and access and you're looking at a credit, you know, create a specific criteria related. So you you want to get to well, firstly, I mean, it's helpful. You're not limited necessarily to the things that that are listed on the attachment. But it's it's the objective is to complete some of the items or the needs within those those task forces based on the input that you're getting from other places in the discussions, you're having to see how it's going to advance it. So where it's now just something on the list, we want it we want to actualize it. And and, you know, because those aren't public meetings, though you're speaking with the public, you're sort of figuring it out within your ad hoc, the place where it does come back and where people, it gets tweaked or their comments start coming or it gets more broadly sort of picked apart and then accepted, hopefully, is at the committee level once you're once you're sort of done with ad hoc. And that's why those are very specific sort of time sensitive not time to but time restricted. So that so that ongoing you're not doing everything in private. Yeah, got it. Thank you. I had a question about just the language here. As I was reading this, I kind of understood this as a starting place for where our task forces can go and how we begin making task forces and, you know, kind of start chewing on this work. And I think it's a great opportunity that these boards can kind of come together as needed and dissolve when it's not as relevant or necessary as our board focuses on different topics or projects. So I hope for an opportunity to kind of as we solidify who's who's going to be a member of these task forces that we kind of put forward a little mission statement or what we hope to do and it be aligned with these points here so far. And if I may, I mean, as suggestion, it's the interesting opportunity here with the with the task forces is is to increase also the level of discussion amongst this group. I mean, what's interesting is with committees and sub committees, you're confined by the Brown Act, right? And then eventually the Sunshine Ordinance, but it doesn't mean that the conversations have to be so rigid per se. And what we've found was helpful, for example, in the Economic Development subcommittee, it was a sub committee that's been longstanding and it felt very confined. But when we pause and due to COVID had an economic recovery task force, it was an ad hoc group and we met for a finite period of time. We found that we a better method in which to communicate sort of how to advance the projects and programs when we had to go back to a Brown Act structure. And so as you're doing this, I would suggest that if you can find ways to be less formal within the formal structure, this is also kind of an interesting way to start playing that out to build the relationships and to start poking each other as you present the outcomes of your task forces. So again, in the Economic Development subcommittee, we have a different kind of conversation. It's all under the Brown Act. It's all out in the open. But the interactions are better and that includes with the community. And so I think that's also something that you might want to think about as you're developing how you're relating to each other on these topics. And in regards to the strategic plan. Thanks, Raisa, for a little bit of that experience with Economic Development Task Force. I think that helps paint a picture for how different boards and task forces can take those conversations and really roll with them and but still be mindful of our our obligations to the Brown Act and Sunshine Act. So it's important to think about I liked the idea of Tara sending out a sign-up list. Would anyone else like to discuss any of these items on each of these task forces a little bit more? Or do they want an opportunity to sit and think about where they would where they would be most interested in putting energy and effort and signing up at a later date? Let's go ahead and send out the list and maybe if individually people want to have conversations with Tara, that might be an easier way to do it. And then at the next one, we can sort of formalize that the processor who's on which one. Because also the other thing that would be interesting to have in the conversations, Tara, if I may, sorry, I'm just jumping all over you, is to also seek those opportunities that member Nathanson, for example, brought up. And I think it'll be a little bit easier through those discussions. But did you have another? No, I was just going to say, please read each of you. If you have that same kind of question, where might there be the best kind of synergy or just alignment? I mean, or just you're wondering what really each one means. I'm please just reach out. I can chat with each of you about about those. And then but I'll go ahead and put out an email with the sign up this week, probably tomorrow, just so you can take a look at that, send me back your response, but also reach out with any kind of questions or if we can schedule a phone call, whatever work. Great. Thank you, guys. And we're wrapping up with our discussion here. Let's move on to the next agenda item. Next up, we have item number six, and that is committee member reports at this. Actually, we have five point two today, just quick project updates, if you don't mind. Thanks for reminding me, Tara. No problem. Five point two projects updates. Staff will present a brief quick update on current projects. Great, thank you. Just a few updates from the last month. The Imagine Art in Courthouse Square project. We are finally moving forward with the community engagement portion of that project. We are just now starting to craft how we will go about doing the collection of words and phrases that will be incorporated onto the surface of the artwork. So we are forming a community advisory group, which will help us with that process. So you I may be reaching out to some of you who participated on that selection panel for your input as well because you were aware of the kind of complexities with this issue through the selection process. But the goal is to start with a robust community outreach process sometime by mid, mid April, mid to end of April. So we're starting to really move forward with the project timeline. The artist would like to have the kind of engagement portion of this wrapped up by June 1st so that she is able to move forward with the fabrication next step she needs to take for the piece. So she and her community engagement assistant are working on the proposed language that we'd be using to solicit these responses. And then we've been working on gathering the outreach list and some strategies on how we might be able to get the word out there in a meaningful way in the community that will really get people interested in submitting their ideas for this. So I will keep you posted about that and the ultimate process here, the full circle will be that the proposed words and the final kind of design layout with the words on the piece will be brought back to the committee for your review before we move forward. So there will be the committee's eyes on that part of the process as well. For the Fifth Street parking garage. Oh, sorry. Did you have a question? I have a quick question about that. Tara, will you be posting the opportunities for engagement for the Imagine Art in Courthouse Square? Will that be on the project website under Art in Public Places? Yeah, so the project website is it had a short URL. So the best way to get to it is srcity.org slash imagine art. No spaces, just all imagine art all together. And so yes, they will be posted there, but we will also be doing a lot of direct emails to people in the community, different community groups and organizations as well as school schools we're hoping to have an interface with Santa Rosa City School District. So but yes, website, social media and then kind of those direct invitations. I think we're even talking about doing some kind of flyer and maybe if we can have some onsite presence in Courthouse Square sometime this summer, we would like to try to catch the population of folks that are downtown on a regular basis. So. But yes, that's a good reminder the website is a good place to check. So potentially looking at either the July or August meeting of reviewing. Yeah, I can't, you know, I don't have that her project timeline right in front of me right now. It may be it may be July, but I'm not positive. I can provide that information at the next meeting if you'd like. But there the outreach will be heavy over the months of well at the end of April and all throughout May. Thank you. For the Fifth Street Parking Garage project, we did end up extending that call for artists an extra two weeks. And so it closed on March 29. We received a total of 38 submissions. The selection process is expected to be completed over this summer with the final artwork installation early next year. So I will provide a more in depth in depth update at the next meeting because by then the selection process should be started at that point. The committee will have representative, I think two representatives on that committee. So that's another email that I will be sending out to make sure we get folks signed up to be on that selection panel as well. For conservation and maintenance, recently, in fact, just last week, the guardian of the Creek Fish Sculpture at Prince Gateway Park by art star Mario Uribe, Diane Shepansky and others was cleaned by our conservators. Art start actually did more extensive repairs to it two years ago, but now we're in a hopefully more regular cycle of annual cleaning, even though we skipped a year, but we're hoping to do annual cleaning to preserve its lifespan a little bit longer. It gets a lot of bio growth, meaning moss and weeds growing on it. And there's some moisture issues with the with the grout and the tile. But right now it's in really good shape. It's clean. And it had also been graffitied a little bit. So that's all been cleaned off. I hang over to by Charles Jennifer and Julliard Park was also cleaned recently. It had also been graffitied and then the city hall pieces in bronze and steel were also recently cleaned. They look great. The National Arts Program online. I know I mentioned this at the last meeting. It is still up that that exhibit is up until the end of April. So there's just a few more weeks left to see that online. Check out the winners and everyone who entered a piece in that show on our website insideoutthere.com. And then I I know that I've mentioned this in some capacity, but I wanted to give a little bit more information about our new program, which is the Musician Relief Grants. We launched launched this last month and the application deadline is next week, April 11. The purpose of the program is to support working the musicians in the Santa Rosa Arts community by providing a grant that will aid the musician to continue working through this time of economic hardship. The funding is aimed towards musicians who have lost income due to the inability to perform live. And the funding for this is not from the Public Art Fund. So it's slightly removed from the APPC's purview, but it's a part of the public art program. It comes from the Live at Julliard concert series, which could not happen last year because of covid. So those are all of my updates for today, but I'm happy to answer any questions. Yes. Yeah, thanks for that report, Tara, a question. Is the artist for Imagine Art and Old Courthouse Square blessing can talk making an appearance? Will she be coming to visit us? She will probably not for this initial outreach. She has a couple of ideas that you probably recall from the selection panel process. She had an idea about hiring local artists to do the outreach for her and kind of having them be mentees. And so we are trying to work on identifying David and I on identifying certain people who might be interested in that opportunity who want to kind of learn the process that she uses, but also be a connection to our local arts community. And so if you have if anyone on the committee has any suggestions for that component of the project, please let me know. But essentially, no, she will not be making a visit out here for this initial phase, but probably closer towards the end of the project. And she's willing to do, you know, virtual engagement type opportunities, but not here in person right now. Lisa had a question. Yes, I have actually have two questions for Tara. The first one when you're talking about the annual cleaning, were you regarding the fish? Were you mentioning annual cleaning for all of the public art pieces or just certain pieces? That was my first question. And OK, sure. I can answer that. Yeah, so each each artwork in our collection has like a slightly different maintenance needs. So in general, most pieces need attention annually or every two years. Some you can stretch that out a little bit longer, just in terms of cleaning, you know, not not extensive repairs or conservation, but just cleaning. If we keep up with that, then we are going to be in a better in a better position to not have the expensive conservation repair projects as we did when we first contracted with this conservation firm. So right now we are getting into a cycle of doing the annual or every two year maintenance on most of the pieces in our collection. There are still some complicated, more extensive projects that we have yet to schedule with the with the contractor. But we are hoping to tackle those starting this summer when we enter into our new budget season and have more funding available. OK, thank you. And then my other question was regarding the the funds that are being redirected for the Julliard Park music. And that was for twenty twenty. Was their funds set aside for twenty twenty one for the music for Julliard? And if so, are we directing those funds elsewhere? Are we are we anticipating maybe having some kind of music venue there more towards the end of the summer or fall or something like that? Yeah, good question. At this point, our message is that it's unlikely that twenty twenty one content series can happen as as usual. And so our proposal through our budget process has been to go ahead and redirect those funds to a second round of musician grants so that we can extend that opportunity to more musicians. We've we've already gotten many, many more applications that we could fund with the funding we have. So there's a lot of need in the community for that. There there we are looking at some other types of programming where we might have, you know, socially distanced, smaller type musical or theater or dance performances in the summer. There's some time this summer. So there's other opportunities for that kind of, you know, commission or I should say, grant opportunity to actually provide a musical or performing arts experience. But we are we are looking at trying to use the actual live at Juilliard funds for a second round of grants. Wonderful. Thank you, Tara. Is there any other questions for Tara about our department report? We're sorry, our overview of project updates. Nope. At this time, we can now move to item six, our committee member reports. Do any committee members wish to make a report at this time? If so, please physically raise your hand. Jeff. Hi, it's me again. Just want to quickly let you all know if you didn't see the news, Museum of Sonoma County is now open to the public as of last weekend on the weekend, Saturday and Sunday through the month of April. And then we'll be opening more extended hours starting in May. Right now we have an exhibition in our contemporary galleries called thirty five thirty five artists for thirty five years, celebrating thirty five years of the museum being open to the public and thirty five years of collecting and included in that exhibition actually is a mock-up for a sculpture by Mario Uribe who Tara mentioned in her report and the public sculpture which was created through a commission partnership with the the city and utilizing an NEA grant that lives in our sculpture garden, which right now is not open to the public but will be in starting in May. And then in our window gallery, we're pleased to continue to partner with the city on installations that are part of the open and out program. And so you can see that even when we're closed. So we're very pleased to keep that going. And if anybody has any questions about what the museum's up to and the exhibitions, just let me know. Great, thank you. To any other committee members wish to make a report seeing none. Shoot it over to Tara. Do you have anything for a department report at this time? Yes, the agenda included one attachment under this item. This is the follow-up document to the annual work plan and recommended expenditure plan. Yep, there it is on the screen. You can probably blow that one up a little bit bigger. Eileen, thank you so much for being on top of all of that. So this there's not much to say here. It kind of speaks for itself, but this was requested at the last meeting showing the budget detail for how each line item in the annual work plan and specifically in the strategic plan implementation, how that lines up and adds up, excuse me. And it also highlights the three line items that are our annual recurring budget that was not in our strategic plan budget because our strategic plan only captured new costs that we had never budgeted for before. And so when you subtract those three line items from the total down at the bottom there, you will get the same number that it shows for the fiscal year 22 implementation of the strategic plan. So I just wanted you to see this additional level of detail. There's no action that's required. This plan has already been approved by the committee at the last meeting, but I wanted you all to have it for your records. And if there's any questions, I can answer those. I'll just, I'm still happy to answer any questions, but under department reports while I still have time for that item, I just wanna thank Lisa for her time as committee chair. It was really a pleasure working with you. I can't even, I didn't even look up how long we've worked together. I think it was about a year, but I'm not a hundred percent sure COVID time does something here to your brain, so. But thank you so much.  So thank you so much.  And we look forward to continuing to work with you. Thank you. Thank you, Tara. I'm looking forward to continue to work with everyone too. Thank you, Lisa, for setting up some great shoes to slide into. So I hope that this is a seamless transition and please reach out to us if you have questions about what's going on, what's on the agenda or things that you would like to see on, come up in our discussions during our committee meetings. So thank you guys for everyone. And I'd like to announce that our next regular meeting of the Art and Public Places Committee is scheduled for Monday, May 3rd. And unless we have any other business, this meeting is now adjourned. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Great to see you all. Thank you. Thanks for everything.


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My name is Sonali and today I finally decided to get ready because yesterday I was just like not feeling it I wanted to straighten my hair today Um, because I just haven't done it in so long But then I decided to just put on makeup because why not? I think me and my dad are gonna run errands after work And he said he wanted to buy like a leather jacket So we might go to Avalon But it's kind of like rainy and gloomy outside today So it's just not the prettiest day But at least I'm getting outside of my house because I feel like the past two days I've just been cooped up in my bedroom Just like working in editing blogs and all that kind of stuff and watching the bachelor Bachelorette actually I left over Thai food for lunch and now I have a webinar that I signed up for For like to know it which is the platform that I use to like get all my links and make a commission off of my links So that is called reward style It goes hand in hand with like to know it like to know it is the app that You guys can use so you guys can have an account and Look up all your favorite influencers and bloggers and on their profiles. They post exactly what they're wearing You know their home decor Maybe similar items that look like it like dupes and everything But then reward style is kind of like the back end of like to know it like it's kind of Just where you can see all of your analytics and obviously how much you have made on commissions and stuff like that So it's really really interesting if you guys are an influencer trying to get into that stuff I highly recommend to try to apply for reward style and get started as soon as you can Because even if you don't have that many followers, but the followers that you do have are very loyal Maybe they will buy the things that you recommend So I do recommend starting early. It also always helps to have a referral So if you guys need someone to refer you to the platform I'd be happy to do it just instagram DM me your email and make sure you're following me on instagram And yeah, like I said, I'll be happy to do it because I know it's not very easy to get Into the reward style platform I mean, I think it got harder over the years because when I applied It was like years ago and I didn't really use it Except for like maybe linking a few products here and there but not like the like to know it app itself I feel like I definitely should have started that Long ago, but if you guys are interested you can follow my profile It's literally just my instagram username But you just search it through the like to know it app and anyone can get the like to know it app So it is so underscore gnarly without the g and i'm just posting all my outfit links and all that fun stuff So go and follow me there and i'm gonna get on this webinar. This is the fit I got my shop red dress coat on and then my abber homie and phich sweater Honestly, the best quality sweater I own because I've gotten Just like sweaters in the past from boohoo and all those like to be honest They're just trendy and not that great of quality and I got my splits 59 leggings and they look so good Just like perfect and very flattering and then my air force ones We went to an indian market and I got samosas. They were so freaking good But now i'm home and I need to ship out my boss's christmas present I got her a scratch off world map I thought that would be really cool because she always talks about how she like wants to travel Obviously she can't right now, but hopefully in the new year that can be something that she can do And then obviously she can cross off all the country. She has been to on her little map So I thought that was a cool gift. I feel like that's a really good present for all of the travel lovers out there Um, but now I want to like just make a little card for her I actually brought all of my little watercolor pens. I'll also link these down below. They are on amazon and Honestly for how many colors it comes with it should be a lot more expensive You can really just precisely color in and it can still look like watercolor and you can actually like have a little brush I think I'm trying to bring it. Maybe not Um, I usually just use like a makeup brush to like actually just blend it in Super cool. Then I have this pen which I love It's the faber castel extra small It's almost like a marker But like a really really small marker and then obviously you got my tool pen Ryan got me on these in high school. He was like obsessed with tool pens and then obviously I got my Mary's tea mac room pencils I if you guys didn't see my other vlog I went to this restaurant and when we were writing like what we wanted because it was kind of like a dim sum situation Where you write down everything Like the entrees or everything like that. I swear I've never had better handwriting in my life and I have not Written and so long because it's either I'm typing it on the computer or I'm like writing it on my ipad And I do not have the best handwriting when it comes to the ipad situation And I'm also getting a screen protector. I think it should be coming tonight So maybe I can put it on my ipad tonight, but it's supposed to feel like paper And I also got an ipad pencil grip So hopefully that just makes handwriting a lot easier on the ipad and like procreate But for now I have these pencils And so hopefully it wasn't just the paper and hopefully it was actually the pencils because that's another thing I was worried about it was kind of like interesting paper. So that could have definitely been it And then also I've been telling myself. I need to write in my journal. It's the super cute peacock journal It's actually like an indian design Um because it has like indian writing on it and everything But the paper on here is so like thick and like really really nice. So I'm going to use this for manifestation in the new year I want to start like ASAP but Just well, I tell myself I don't have time and then I just watch youtube all day So I think the reason why I've been procrastinating About writing in that journal is because I want my handwriting to look perfect and like all the doodles I draw to look perfect Because I want it to look pretty, but I know realistically not everything is gonna look You know amazing and there's just gonna be some mess ups. So I think I just need to get over that fear and just Write in it. Finally. I also need to come up with what I am going to write in I know it's going to be just like about manifestation But like specifically, you know right now I'm going to go on Pinterest find some inspiration.  It looks good, but I've closed it and um I could have used a little work, but I don't do this very often I think it's just fun and like thoughtful to make you know cards that are handmade I guess I mean, it looks kind of plain to be honest, but I wrote a little something in there That is that I think me and Ryan are gonna get pizza for dinner. That sounds really good I honestly haven't had a major craving in a while, but pizza does sound pretty good today You're at your pie and it's a pizza place It's funny because I used to work at an actual pie shop and people would come in and ask for like pizza And I'm just like no, this is a pie shop So I don't understand when people call pizza pie, but I guess it's just the thing like you're writing his new Coat that I got him for Christmas Patagonia super cute Do you like it? Yeah, it's not as warm as Eddie Gower, but It's not synthetic So it doesn't leak feathers everywhere and stuff Oh, that's nice because my North face like it there's like feathers. What?  What'd you get on your pizza? I got a pesto base artichoke hearts Time-dried tomatoes, ham, and chicken Interesting combination. I got a barbecue chicken pizza. Looks delicious Surprise, Ryan bought a Porsche in my dreams Okay, nice I want this car not that we have the money for it, but it's cute. It's so cool I think I have a very expensive taste unfortunately. We're at a car dealership and we're just Looking at these cars. I don't get why they're open. Can you explain this to me? Yeah, I actually asked a guy one time where they're all unlocked and he said That people break into cars and I can almost people sleeping on them and stuff So they'd rather them to be unlocked so you can sit in them instead of breaking the windows for the reason You can't really mess it up inside if you just sit in it. Yeah, geez That's weird to think a homeless person could sleep in here. I didn't think about that I went to I guess but it's so cold in here, but he showed me a car that he wanted to get Jeep Grand Cherokee or something Mm-hmm, so we'll see Oh, this is a Porsche, Grand Cherokee a Porsche Um, obviously this but like I said, it's not like we can't afford this This is $72,000. This is used, dude. Look at my new one. This is used. It's a 2020 Yeah, but it has 4,000 miles on it.  Yeah, this is better Looks more high-tech, but I wouldn't have a Porsche like this And I wouldn't have a lane assist. Do you like that type of cruise control? Less sun makes me less sleepy It's almost nine.  I don't know how people do it And like the northern states, I know it's snowing in New York right now, which snow is fun And like obviously you just have to stay inside.  Please let me know um, but You know the cold I just don't like to shiver like it literally like hurts me and I know I think I'm being dramatic but I also just hate sweating because that's so uncomfortable and also I remember in the mental all like Chris Harrison made a joke about it being really hot and I never Really noticed until the mental no until hometown dates And everyone was like sweating profusely while they were having these deep conversations and it was just like so like Could could the producer not just like Pat them down with the towel or something like it was just Crazy how much they were sweating. I'm gonna end today's vlog here. I hope you guys enjoyed it Let me know what else you guys want to see in my vlogmas videos because I'm kind of struggling Coming up with ideas, especially like on these work days when I really can't do much else I mean I get off it for so like I still have a little bit of daylight compared to some people But still I feel like I don't really have the whole day to just be doing fun things Let me know and I will see y'all in my next video. Bye


of AWS Public Sector Summit here in person in Washington D.C. for two days live. Finally, a real event. I'm John Furrier, your host of theCUBE. We've got a great guest, Howard Levenson from Databricks, regional vice president, general manager of the federal team for Databricks. Super unicorn. Is it a Deca-corn yet? It's not yet public, but welcome to theCUBE. I don't know what the next stage after unicorn is, but we're growing rapidly. Thank you, Jerry. Our audience knows Databricks extremely well. Ollie's been on theCUBE many times. Even back, we were covering them back when big data was, big data, now it's all data, everything. So we watch your success. Congratulations. Thank you. So there's no, you know, not a big bridge for us across to see you here at AWS Public Sector Summit. Tell us what's going on inside the Databricks Amazon relationship. Yeah, it's been a great relationship. You know, when the company got started some number of years ago, we got a contract with the government to deliver the Databricks capability in their classified cloud, in Amazon's classified cloud. So that was the start of a great federal relationship. Today, virtually all of our business is in AWS and we run in every single AWS environment from commercial cloud to Gov cloud to secret to top secret environments. And we've got customers doing great things and experiencing great results from Databricks and Amazon. The federal government's the classic, I call migration opportunity, right? Because I mean, let's face it, before the pandemic, even five years ago, even 10 years ago, glacier moving speed, slows, slow, then they had to get modernized with the pandemic force really to do it. But you guys have already cleared the runway with your value purposes. You've got Lakehouse now, you guys are really optimized for the cloud. Okay, hard core. Yeah, we are. We only run in the cloud and we take advantage of every single Go fast feature that Amazon gives us. But you know, John, it's the office of management and budget did a study a couple of years ago. I think there were 28,000 federal data centers, 28,000 federal data centers. Think about that for a minute and just think about, like let's say in each one of those data centers, you've got a handful of operational data stores of databases. The federal government is trying to take all of that data and make sense out of it. The first step to making sense out of it is bringing it all together, normalizing it, federating it. And that's exactly what we do. And that's been a real win for our federal clients and it's been a real exciting opportunity to watch people succeed in that endeavor. How are we had another guest on and she said those data center huggers, AKA tree huggers, data center huggers, you know, majority of term, people won't let go. Yeah. So, but this slowly, you know, dying away and moving on to the cloud. So migration is huge. How are you guys migrating with your customers? Give us an example of how it's working. What are some of the use cases? Yeah, so before I do that, I want to tell you a quick story. I've had the luxury of working with the Air Force Chief Data Officer, Eileen Vadrin. And she is commonly quoted as saying, just remember, as airmen, it's not your data. It's the Air Force's data. So people were data center huggers, now they're data huggers, but all of that data belongs to the government at the end of the day. So how do we help in that? Well, think about all this data sitting in all these operational data stores, they're getting, it's getting updated all the time, but you want to be able to federate this data together and make some sense out of it. So for like an organization like US Citizenship and Immigration Services, they had, I think, 28 different data sources. And they want to be able to pull that data basically in real time and bring it into a data lake. Well, that means doing a change data capture off of those operational data stores, transforming that data and normalizing it so that you can then enjoin it. And we've done that, I think they're now up to 70 data sources that are continually ingested into their data lake. And from there, they support thousands of users doing analysis and reports for the whole visa processing system for the United States, the whole naturalization environment and their efficiency has gone up, I think by their metrics, by 24X. Yeah, I mean, Sandy Carter was just on the queue earlier, she's the Vice President of the Partner Ecosystem here at Public Sector. And I was commenting to her that federal game has changed. It used to be hard to get into, you had to know everybody and you navigate the tripwires and all the subtle hints and the people who were friends and it was like Kogan Dagger. And so people were locked in on certain things. Databases and data now has to be freely available. I know one of the things that you guys are passionate about, and this is kind of hardcore architectural thing, is that you need horizontally scalable data to really make AI work, right? Machine learning works when you have data. How far along are these guys in their thinking? When you talk about customers, because we're seeing progress. How far along are we? Yeah, we still have a long way to go in the federal government. I mean, I tell everybody, I think the federal government's probably four or five years behind what Databricks top clients are doing, but there are clearly people in the federal government that have really ramped it up and are on a par or even exceeding some of the commercial clients. USCIS, CBP, FBI, or some of the clients that we work with that are pretty far ahead. And I'll say, I mentioned a lot about the operational data stores, but there's all kinds of data that's coming in. At USCIS they do these naturalization interviews. Those are captured in real text. So now you want to do natural language processing against them, make sure these interviews are of the highest quality control. We want to be able to predict which people are going to show up for interviews based on their geospatial location and the day of the week and other factors, the weather perhaps. So they're using all of these data types, imagery, text, and structured data all in the Lakehouse concept to make predictions about how they should run their business. That's a really good point. I was talking with Keith Brooks earlier, he's Director of Business Development, go to Market Strategy for AWS Public Sector. He's been there from the beginning. This is the 10th year of GovCloud, right? So we were kind of riffing, but the JPL, NASA JPL, they did production workloads out of the gate. Full mission. So now fast forward today. Cloud native really is available. So like, how do you see the agencies and the government handling replatforming? I get that. But now to do the refacting where you guys have the Lakehouse, new things can happen with cloud native technologies. What's the crossover point for that point? Yeah, I think our Lakehouse architecture is really a big breakthrough architecture. It used to be people would take all of this data, they'd put it in a Hadoop data lake, they'd end up with a data swamp with really not good control or good data quality. And then they would take the data from the data swamp or the data lake and they'd curate it and go through an ETL process and put a second copy into their data warehouse. So now you had two copies of the data, two governance models, maybe two versions of the data, a lot to manage, a lot to control. With our Lakehouse architecture, you can put all of that data in the data lake. With our Delta format, it comes in a curated way. There's a catalog associated with the data so you know what you've got. And now you can literally build an ephemeral data warehouse directly on top of that data and it exists only for the period of time that people need it. And so it's cloud native, it's elastically scalable, it terminates when nobody's using it. We run the whole Center for Medicaid Medicare Services, the whole Medicaid repository for the United States runs in an ephemeral data warehouse built on Amazon S3.  I want to just unpack that for a second. What you just said, to me, puts an exclamation point on cloud value because it's not your grandfather's data warehouse. It's like, okay, we do data warehouse capability but we're using higher level cloud services, whether it's governance stuff or AI to actually make it work at scale for those environments. I mean, that to me is refactoring. That's not replatforming, just replatforming. That's replatforming in the cloud and then refactoring capability for new advantages. It's really true and now, you know, at CMS, they have one copy of the data. So they do all of their reporting, they've got a lot of congressional reports that they need to do, but now they're leveraging that same data, not making a copy of it for the Center for Program Integrity, for fraud. And we know how many billions of dollars worth of fraud exist in the Medicaid system and now we're applying artificial intelligence and machine learning on entity analytics to really get to the root of those problems. It's a game changer. Yeah, and this is where the efficiency comes in at scale because you start to see, I mean, we always talk on theCUBE about how software's changed, the old days, you put it on the shelf, shelf where they called it, that's our generation. And now you've got the cloud. You didn't know if something was hot or not until the inventory, it's like, we didn't sell through. In the cloud, if you're not performing, it's, you suck, basically. So it's not working. It's really true. It's an instant report card. So now, when you go to the cloud, you think of Data Lake and Data Lake House, what you guys do, and others like Snowflake and who are optimized in the cloud, you can't deny it. And then when you compare it to like, okay, so I'm saving you millions and millions if you're just on one thing, never mind the top line opportunities. So John, years ago, people didn't believe the cloud was going to be what it is. Like pretty much today, the cloud's inevitable. It's everywhere.  Go ahead. And you can say you heard it here first. The Data Warehouse is going away. The Lakehouse is clearly going to replace it. There's no need anymore for two separate copies. There's no need for a proprietary storage copy of your data. And people want to be able to apply more than SQL to the data, and a Data Warehouse is just restricted. But what about an ocean house? Yeah. The lake is kind of small, or anything but, unless it's Lake Michigan, it's pretty big. No, I think it's going to go bigger than that. I think we're talking about sky computing. We've been at cloud computing. We're going to, and we're going to do that because people aren't going to put all of their data in one place. They're going to have it spread across different Amazon regions, or Amazon availability zones, and you're going to want to share data. And we just introduced this delta sharing capability. I don't know if you're familiar with it, but it allows you to share data without a sharing server directly from picking up basically the Amazon URLs and sharing them with different organizations. So you're sharing in place, the data actually isn't moving. You've got great governance and great granularity of the data that you choose to share. And data sharing is going to be the next breakthrough. I really love the lake house. We're fairly seeing data. I totally see that. So I totally would align with that and say, I bet with you on that one. The Skynet, Skynet, the sky computing. See, you're taking it away, man. I know, Skynet, I got it. Anything to do with computing in the sky is Skynet. That's terminated. So, but that's real. I mean, I think that's a concept where it's like, you know, what serverless and functions does for servers, you don't have a data. You've got to be able to connect data. Nobody lives in an island. You've got to be able to connect data. And more data, we all know, more data produces better results. So how do you get more data? You connect to more data sources. Well, Howard, great to have you on. Talk about the relationship real quick as we end up here with Amazon. What are you guys doing together? How's the partnership? Yeah, I mean, the partnership with Amazon is amazing. We have, we work, I think probably 95% of our federal business is running in Amazon's cloud today. As I mentioned, John, we run across AWS commercial, AWS Gov cloud, secret environment, C2S. And, you know, we have better integration with Amazon services than, I'll say some of the Amazon services. If people want to integrate with glue or kinesis or SageMaker or Redshift, we have complete integration with all of those. And that's really, it's not just a partnership at the sales level. It's a partnership and integration at the engineering level. Well, I think I'm really impressed with you guys as a company. I think you're an example of the kind of business model that people might have been afraid of, which is being in the cloud, you can have a moat, you have competitive advantage, you can build intellectual property. And John, don't forget, it's all based on open source, open data. Like, almost everything that we've done, we've made available to people, we get 30 million downloads of the Databricks technology just for people that want to use it for free. So, no vendor lock-in, I think that's really important to most of our federal clients and to everybody. Yeah, I've always said competitive advantage scale and choice, right? That's what Databricks. Howard, thanks for coming on theCUBE, appreciate it. Thanks again, John. Cube coverage here in Washington for face-to-face physical event. We're on the ground, of course. We're also streaming a digital for the hybrid event. This is theCUBE's coverage of AWS Public Sector Summit. We'll be right back after this short break.