“it was great. I think uh Tom did a fantastic job. He had some really great photos of the last couple of years of the commission and all of the work that we have created and put together so far um as a group. And then the plans for the penny press we talked about the council approved um that expenditure. So now we're in the process of getting the art collected to send to the vendor and have that uh go through that process.”

“So, we have proposed that we take advantage of our unique geographical location and put a monument that we are at the 45th parallel halfway between the North Pole and the equator. We've gotten a thumbs up on that. So, I'll go ahead with getting more of the details down, buttoning down um how to get actual monument made, design ideas and so forth and get that going with the city.”

“It kind of goes at an angle through the city and it goes through the southern part of Casey Park and it goes along the Gateway Trail. So, those are like three key locations that are like right near that line.”

“Okay, with the utility boxes, we are going to do one down at Casey, not Casey, I excuse me, Silver Lake, and that is going to be a photography project. So, it'll be something a little bit different than we have been doing recently. Uh, we've got the go ahead on that call for artists together and we will proceed with that.”

“We've got the another idea, the the good life in Minnesota. That is a optional media except for photography. Obviously, if you want to do photography, you do the photography one. So, it could be any kind of media, any kind of style, but it has to be representative of Minnesota in a positive way.”

“the the one thing I think we have I guess we have to decide or commit to what activity we're going to do for big truck night, right? If we're going to do rocks or something else. And then I think we need to figure out if we can um or how it would work to do the community art event for Autumn Arts Festival, whether there's budget to do that with the festival slashevents city budget. I guess that's a Tom question or Ashley or Ava.”

“oh, art night. We had um a lovely art night with Lisa Richie who um ran that. She volunteered her time and she had us do these uh canvases. She had a bunch of stencils and we painted on top of stencils which was very fun. Everyone got to do two canvases and she had the whole palette of colors.”

“Um, so I did send the proposal for that to Jordan and it came back that there is a preference that the spoken word happen at the Autumn Arts Festival instead of at the big truck night, which is fine with me. So, um, yeah, when that when I get together with Laura and Eliza, then we will work on some of the details for that and connect with it would be Tom and Ashley who would be the liaison to the autumn art festival.”

“I think too it'll be more of like a performance versus big truck night. you know, there's a lot of people and I guess kind of the festival people are walking around too, but we've got more of like a people usually expect that there's a sit down performance or something or the other.”