Parks, Recreation, and Arts Commission

Meeting begins at 5:36. A change in the Parcs master fee schedule and will be removed from todays meeting. Item will return on the January 9th agenda. Motion is approved - unanimously

Meeting minutes have been approved - unanimously

Commissioner – Jose Leon Barraza made a comment for the Christmas event that PARCS held. “It was nice for families and the community to get together.”

Commissioner made a comment on tree Fresno achieved of planting hundreds of trees at malaga community center. A good way for the community to have beautiful trees along the trail.

Commissioner – Maiyer Vang encourages the public to join the Hmong cultural event for the new years event. Hosted at the Fresno fair grounds.

City Administration makes comments for working on the funds for FY24 and she explains the critical fee for their services. On behalf of the City manager staff “they wanted to expressed their appreciation of the board for helping the PARCs of Fresno and also to the public.

Director of parcs Aaron said, “Last Thursday, annual audit and was submitted and sent to council. We will sent that copy to the board for your files and review. Wanted to highlight of our warming center that was initiated last Tuesday. 336 members visited those centers. “

Brandi N, Fresno resident, wanted to ask if the agenda could be sent earlier. She wants to more time to evaluate the agenda. She explains she helped host the warning centers and wanted to express her concerns of the marketing. She explains that social media is not very inclusive

Brandi explains if it’s possible to ask for more funding for the warning centers. She explains her and her team worked hard on passing out flyers for the community members that need it. She also would like the centers to be open winters for the public and possible serve food?

Latanya Beamon, Fresno resident, she explains how she should apply for funding of measure p and the community event. She explains you could get funding up to 30,000 a year.

Dr. S, Fresno resident, explains her concerns with sunset community center. City of Fresno is taking a lead role of the after school program. Her son is actually very involved with the program and loved the program. The city with the new funds from measure p changed the program https://t.co/RMREHPkXFp

Dr. S explains urges the boarf with a better logical program with better structure program and support as well as community building.

Update of the cultural arts plan, a presented by Jennifer solis. She explains the update of the phase 1 of the outreach program. Phase 2 will began once we release it to the public for review.

Jennifer explains the multiple methods of research of outreach parcs have done. She explains they also offered multilingual outreach. She said, “ FAX bus interior cards: reached 729,839 riders.” The research the team did was door to door outreach and as well as flyers/banners. https://t.co/pYZla30g0M

Jennifer Solis gives an update of the scored based survey. The demographic of people who participated. https://t.co/ZIOnDHNtma

Jennifer Solis continues the top 3 reason why Fresno engaged with art and culture. “The most answered reason was learn or experience something new.” Team also interviewed 18 local artist and cultural practitioners. The takeaway of the interviews showcases art engages Fresno. https://t.co/RiMP7FKzJM

Jennifer continues to explain their impact with hosting community meetings to get the public’s opinions of the significance art and cultural activities in Fresno.The rest of the presentation is offered online and select the link for in depth information.

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Dr. Carolina S. Is explains her gratitude of the art council. She says she was able to take her first grade class on a field trip at Arte Americas. She wanted to note that school based events is important for students and something to keep in mind.

Latanya, Fresno resident, explains that the children love to be very active in arts and music and kids loves sports and being active in their community. She is concerned about the kids in west Fresno that certain parks do not offer bathrooms.

Brandi N explains that the board should listen to the public comments and a lot more investments with artist themselves. She urges that underserved communities should have art. It would be nice for more programs for kids ages k-12th.

Commissioner – Jose Leon Barraza explains that the city council is allocating of money to be made for arts culture programs. He asked, “what is the funding exactly for? How will you capture the arts to represents the underserved communities.”

Aidi Ramírez answered the questioned that the survey did answered the arts council questions in regards to what the public wants to see. She said, “ Once we do analyze our results and the plan, we will give a list of potential items that would be funded for.” https://t.co/Whzb5HfG6Q