Cultural Council Agenda and Packet 2016 09 15

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Cultural Council Meeting Minutes 18 August 2016 Page 3 of 4 that the process be open, with a wide reach, and no preference or bias shown. Listing on Craigslist fits. Jennifer said that she would take the action to find the piano a new home. Chris Leh provided an update from City Council. Just finished a citywide survey and tallying responses. Steady at around 37-38% of folks surveyed had attended a function at the Art Center. Street paving had a high importance (89%) and maintaining city attractiveness was important (51%). (July 12 packet has the survey). Aug 9 has the special meeting packet. Chris recommended that we keep an eye on the budget, and encourage folks who have specific concerns to come to council and voice their opinions. FACE will headline a fundraiser for Heat Relief 1-14-2017 at Louisville Middle School. As an aside, Chris recommenced Tapestry theater's current performance. Marketing Update — The last marketing meeting had nearly the entire LCC in attendance. Branding efforts will continue. Attendance at the summer concerts suggests that marketing efforts were successful. We are now ramping up for Fall series marketing. We will include art grants awardees in our overall communication efforts. Chip Ross's Vocal Jazz program fits thematically with three jazz concerts that the LCC is hosting and will be included on the jazz poster. Other poster creation is on track. Events may be packaged together in posters, so there may not be individual posters for every event. Summer Concert Debrief — Set up/Execution — liked how we collected money (buckets and working together). Clearly designating sections for each collector would be helpful for increasing coverage. Some survey comments asked for enhanced sound, particularly on the sides and in the back. This would be expensive to address and could be addressed by concert goers moving forward and in toward the center. Ethan's sound mixing and equipment enhanced the sound. FACE drew a crowd larger than the bathrooms in the park could accommodate. We guessed on attendance for SHEL and ordered 4 portable bathrooms at $250 each, which turned out not to have been needed. $1,000 spent like this is a lot for our budget and negative to our intent to spend money on artists. Handicapped parking went well. Paul fine-tuned system and signage after the first concert and received positive comments from handicapped participants. The FACE concert generated illegal parking that got the police involved, but no subsequent concerts had these problems. To assist hauling from closet to set-up area, we will request next year that the city lend us a dolly. Several members mentioned the difficulty of struggling to put up the tents. We may need 10 chairs for our set up. Marketing was effective based on attendance, but newspaper ads cost more than anticipated and along with costs of portable toilets, may affect our ability to -- For review --