7-30-25 Boulder Arts Commission Meeting

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• Indigenous peoples, tribal relations and Indigenous arts0:00:05at this moment

  The city of Boulder acknowledges the city is on the ancestral homelands and unceded territory of indigenous peoples

• City budget0:05:05at this moment

  city Budget Staff have been presenting details of departmental budgets to several of the commissions and boards across the city

• Arts funding and the 2A tax0:06:05at this moment

  We also have allocations in the arts budget. So it's something to pay attention to the remit from the Arts Commission is somewhat different.

• Sundance Film Festival0:07:01at this moment

  many leaders in the community have now realized the significant economic contradiction which can come from the Sundance film festival

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures0:07:01at this moment

  Boulder's General fund should support the city of Boulder Arts staff, and overhead allocations

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures0:11:00at this moment

  since we are on a sales tax, these are all going to be estimates, too, so we can estimate our fund balance

• Long-term finances and tax ballot measures0:12:08at this moment

  like we had to make an update 2 months ago, because sales tax has gone down pretty substantially

• City budget0:17:10at this moment

  every department had a few pages to talk about their different programs and their budgets

• Arts funding and the 2A tax0:20:02at this moment

  a lot of interest from the community about the direct relationship between 2 main money and the Arts Commission and Arts Budget

• Public art and percent for art0:23:01at this moment

  I did get to go on the Streetwise Arts Mural Tour a couple of weeks ago

• Federal funding cuts and arts organizations0:29:04at this moment

  It also sounds like ecoarts has been affected by Nea Fund changes and some grants that they're not able to apply for anymore

• Sundance Film Festival0:29:04at this moment

  They are excited about sundance and are making really great connections with sundance

• Public art and percent for art0:32:00at this moment

  But there is another experiments of public art lecture coming up tomorrow night

• Arts and culture plan (Arts Blueprint)0:37:05at this moment

  I just skipped right over it. Bulgar arts blueprint.

• Arts and culture plan (Arts Blueprint)0:38:02at this moment

  we wanted to give you an update on the builder arts blueprint before

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan0:39:07at this moment

  we also are working next to the Comp plan to both inform their policies and make sure that we're reflecting their policies

• Arts and culture plan (Arts Blueprint)0:40:16at this moment

  and this blueprint and these summaries, and this information that you'll see both from me

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan0:41:15at this moment

  It's actually remarkable timing and overlapping with the Comp plan

• Disability access in city policy0:47:13at this moment

  you're going to see things like accessibility, lifelong learning, climate adaptation, experimentation already built into the Grant program

• Climate action and emissions0:47:13at this moment

  you're going to see things like accessibility, lifelong learning, climate adaptation, experimentation already built into the Grant program

• Boulder Valley Comprehensive Plan0:48:02at this moment

  Our comprehensive plan, too, has a recommendation to try to infuse funkiness

• Arts grants0:55:15at this moment

  recertification of one of the 2022 to 2025 general operating support grants

• Federal funding cuts and arts organizations1:02:00at this moment

  having their nea funding defunded, and the support of county commissioners

• AI and the arts1:06:09at this moment

  I just encourage you to think of an AI way to help you with the pre application

• Arts grants1:21:00at this moment

  This we currently offer supplemental materials for our project grants

• Disability access in city policy1:22:11at this moment

  I think additional city topics like disability, access and sustainability could be encouraged to view our grants a similar way

• Arts grants1:30:07at this moment

  funding tiers for general operating support award should incentivize impact rather than just budget or growth for its own sake

• Minimum wage1:42:01at this moment

  What does commitment mean? What does a living wage in Holder mean?

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