Several board members and residents proposed using blank surfaces—particularly the underside and sides of pedestrian walkways and boardwalk structures—for murals or sponsored public art. One board member suggested dividing large blank surfaces into sponsorable panels and seeking community or corporate sponsors. "If you had sponsored murals ... Morgan and Morgan pays $10,000 this month and they ... to sponsor this particular mural and you had an artist do something on there," a speaker said during public comment, proposing sponsorship as a revenue stream.
Resident and frequent commenter John Nicholson and other speakers recalled that the pier and adjacent structures historically carried advertising from local businesses and urged a return to curated signage and murals. "That entire pier from front to the back used to have ... local businesses advertising up and down that pier," Nicholson said.
On lighting, staff and board members discussed accent or controllable lighting beneath the Main Street Coquina Arch. Armstrong indicated there are carved spaces for lights and that fit-and-finish work is underway; she said safety lighting exists in alcoves and that final fixtures are part of the project's finishing stages.
Regarding kiosks, Armstrong told the board the kiosk program is "on hold right now because we cannot install a kiosk when we are going to do a main street streetscape. That kiosk is part of that project." She said kiosks and the streetscape will be a single coordinated project once design work advances.
Discussion vs. decisions: The meeting recorded ideas and preferences for art, advertising and lighting but no design approvals or vendor selections. Staff committed to include kiosk locations and lighting considerations in the Main Street streetscape design process.
Ending: Staff will incorporate lighting and kiosk planning into the streetscape design and continue outreach about possiblity of sponsored art; no final decisions were taken.