Cultural Council Minutes 2007 03 08

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Louisville Cultural Council Meeting Minutes Thursday, March 8, 2007 Present: Wendy Phillips, Don Atwood, Kathy Martin, Julie Kovash, Maryan Jaross, Kathy Pollicita, Jim Pollicita, David Hosansky Recording Secretary: Maryan Jaross Agenda Approved Public Comments Not on Agenda: none Plan for work session with City Council on March 13, 2007 1. Wendy will speak for the first 5 minutes and will outline why we are there. Julie will act as moderator, distribute the agenda and slide presentation to City Council and keep us on point. Wendy will stress economic benefit to City, remind Council that the LLC voted unanimously last August to appoint a Steering Committee to study the subject of a new Arts Center and also point out past LCC successes. Wendy will address the mayor's comment regarding inclusion of the BVSD. 2. Julie will put together a skeleton slide presentation that will be handed out to City Council at the beginning, with speaker notes supplied by Wendy, Don and David. She will have that to them tomorrow and they will respond ASAP. 3. The main goal of the study session is to proceed with the Steering Committee. 4. Don will then speak for 5 minutes about the economic benefits, the Deloite Touche and Americans for the Arts studies. Maryan will help Don extrapolate the figures from those studies; Don will distribute the Deloite Touche brochures and coasters. 5. David will speak for 5 minutes to the expansion of the current Art Center. The architect has proposed pushing out the rear wall 20 feet toward the ally which would provide 70 more seats, a freight elevator to improve access to basement storage, and a potential fly. The door between the Arts Center and the Pool Building should be opened to make use of the bathrooms and lobby space. Costs would be approximately $400-500,000, based on $300 per finished square foot, which does not include the architect's 10%. We would have to make the bathrooms ADA compliant. 6. Don will speak for 5 minutes about the potential of the new Arts Center, and how it would draw paying customers from surrounding cities and stem the exporting of our arts constituents because we don't have adequate performance space.