City of Laredo, Texas Fine Arts and Culture Commission, 21 Oct 2022

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FINE ARTS & CULTURE COMMISSION 102022

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Regular monthly meeting of the City of Laredo, fine arts and culture, Commission notice of I guess we can skip the Pledge of Allegiance since we don't.

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A I have a quorum here and I just get a roll call.

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Julio absent Armando.

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Lopez president.

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Absent Dr Colin, Campbell, absent, Jesse Shaw, president Dr Martin. We don't have a quora.

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All right um do we have and anything that we discussed today. Obviously, we can't think it evolves or taking the action. Is there anything that you would like to discuss with this I.

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Would like for guidance or.

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Information, yes,.

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I would like to bring up the call for artists. We have a call for artist that was published a couple weeks ago for the letters it's in your package. It's the four artists RFQ for the Loreto letter, sculpture, sculpture, painting I, mentioned it on the previous uh meeting and we didn't have any artists, submit any um proposals, and so I wanted to bring you to the commission to see. If there's any ideas, I have a meeting on Monday with Elias. Who do you know and start consultant to brainstorm and what we can do.

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But I don't know if there are any ideas of the community, maybe working with a with a school, maybe with one of the districts or a higher education. Institution.

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Yeah I have something I'm looking out for like an email or something like that. If is this, is there like a is this something I can just photograph and just share on Instagram and just email artist directly like hey, you might want to hit it so.

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This has coached, but what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna reopen it. I didn't want to do it until I sat with you and with Elliot, so most probably by the end of next week, I'm gonna re reopen it and I'll. Let you know I'll send the information through through Angie to let you all know uh that this is open and uh the only thing that there's gonna change is the dates. Okay, so I'll send you this um just with the updated dates, so you can share it. Yes,.

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I can share like, as it is now up. Close I cannot give can I um I.

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Don't know you can share it, it's just that dates are.

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Going to be here, yeah, okay, but the.

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Rest of the information will be the same. You.

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Can also find this on the city city bid.

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uh It's an attachment, so it's still there. It's.

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Still there get up here, some so there's three Taps one that says open and process. I, don't know, there's another one that says closed. So, if you want go to the one that says closed, it says uh call for artists, uh Loretto letters, something like that.

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Okay did and maybe I can make up a mock-up of like where you know some kind of that digital flyer, because I think it's a regular Cultural District and cultivate shared it and I share it in the right of center of the art shares it and Tammy. You shares it. If there's some kind of additional thing and then you know, it'll just pray right and you just I I. You know I uh I,.

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Guess I was, it was, on my mind, I think I.

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Was looking for it, but better than.

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So now I'll do that I'll work with Aria, maybe Eddie can help us with the flyer and uh and um or if not, I'll have people some of the staff to to work on it. Because I think that's a great idea and we can.

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That's like social media, shareable, yeah, okay,.

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Okay and I'll re-share with well I'll, share it with the updates and the dates.

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I think I think you won't have an issue. I, don't know you know. I just hit like I said that just flew under my radar, I guess I'm. Sorry about that.

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No and and those those um the comments I'm sharing it with cultivate and the arts district. Those are great ideas, so.

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Where he's gonna go.

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uh We have out of the eight we already have two locations, one is at the McKendree Cultura Salina, Valley library and the other one is in downtown by El portada by Bridgeport.

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um The other six were still um working on the locations.

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And it is on the City of Laredo.

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So the city of Colorado website on the bottom there's a ticker like a like a banner that has different squares with different information departments and there's one that says: C CDE bits. It's c-I-t-I-e.

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um And if you click on that one, that's where all the rfps rfqs uh for the purchasing department are so what I'll do is I'll work with purchasing to resubmit. This.

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It appears again on the open, with the updates on the face that way. How is this being funded? This is being funded with uh CBB money, Hotel occupancy tax.

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Tell everyone well, we'll start. We will do all that and send you all the information.

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Thank you so I guess. That's it right.

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That's it. Thank you. It was so nice to see you again.