Ed Orosco he's a wonderful young man very excited to get involved in civil service and giving back to his community so I was really impressed with him his essay I think speaks for itself he's got a great letter of recommendation from his AP social studies teacher I think all we need to do is do an official vote on yay or nay.

I'll make a motion to have Ed or I don't know how to say the middle of name Garcia on the as our student representative to the city's arts and culture commission.

I think in general what it sounds to me like you're saying is there needs to be a outline and described overall policy of how we proceed with if we have X type of project we will proceed this way if we have Y type of project we will proceed this way and I think that that is a good methodology to use to have set in place rather than backtracking to it.

She said Rachel actually knew more than she did about Henry Castle which is not exactly that was my reaction too uh so I I contacted Rachel um she is not a muralist and did not think this would be a good fit for her but she gave me a list of names she was recently on a panel looking at muralists for a City of Minneapolis project.

I mean part of it was the discussion that we had here was already um we need a selection process for the artists because I found people but yet how do we go forward and Laura and I need to get together to discuss the budget because there are three concepts in process.

I don't think it can be a spring event and I know she doesn't Eva would prefer it not be summer because of all the other events so I think at this point it's definitely into October November whatever it is if we had a building like a community Center for example that'd be wonderful.

If there were at least 10 businesses interested then we could do a second round because then we could afford with the the molding and the whole process yeah then we could do it but if there's just one or two then we can connect them to the shop to get the to get a snowy.

Like this year I think is too soon to just you know you can't just like every year oh yeah we're going to do you know it's a lot of work.

The money that people are paying to attend can we not use that money to pay the artists you mean rather than have it as a budgeted item no more like Can it can it be on top of the budget so the city's paying a portion but also people who attend are paying a portion do because do you think we the artists there would we would have more artists available if they were paid more yes.

I mean I can talk to Dan Winnick the city finance manager and just see you know could that money could the money that's brought in from these events be earmarked at least for you know in 2025 be year marked for 2026 arts and culture commission events things like that.

I think everything has to run through the government system so that they can track even when we do surveys it has to be through the city website and you know I love many things about the city and our website is not one of them it is incredibly difficult to navigate and manage and I think that that's a real barrier for people that want to participate in our events and activities.

Ava wanted to wanted me to run by you guys the project snow cards oh yeah um she was wondering or she thought maybe it would be a good idea to give them out at the C show and put them in little like envelopes so they're like kind of surprise like a Pokémon card so you don't know what you're getting and make it maybe a little more collectible.

What if we had like a I always loved when they had the fish pond at those things where they just pull over and they pull out of oh we could do that easy something yeah just so we're not just handing them to kids maybe they're doing some they throw their thing in the art cart.

It came from some several of the businesses brought up the point of it would be nice to have the you know events like that where they can you know some events don't make sense to have downtown but um events like the Autumn Arts Festival could it be could we shut down sth street and potentially set up the the vendors and things on Seventh Street and then that would encourage everybody who comes to the autom Arts Festival to stop in at sweeties or stop in at you know the local businesses.

I will keep saying it to have that September weekend to be just like a North St Paul Pride Celebration weekend you have the parade and then the car show and then the Autumn Arts Festival that same weekend and it's just craziness that sounds great.

Excel art fair is an excellent example of it and that's one that an art fair that I've done the last five years and as artist we're allowed to set up on Friday so the road is shut down by Friday and marked for where we can put our tents uh so we set up Friday evening Saturday all day we're there Sunday all day we're there and we tear on Sunday and they get their street back Sunday night love it so it happens.

Are there any updates uh last I heard uh city manager and Riley met with the uh consulting company to start initial discussions about their assessments that they're going to do.