Acting Chair Olga Granda adjourns meeting after no quorum; board discusses curator job postings, special meeting and public-art invitations

Acting Chair Olga Granda said the board did not have a quorum and adjourned the meeting after members held a workshop-style discussion on staffing and public-art coordination.

The discussion centered on curator job postings, scheduling a special meeting to consider two agenda items that would otherwise roll over, and how the board could invite an artist to review a Freedom Park project in coordination with city staff.

"We do not have quorum," Granda said after roll call. A staff member told the board, "I will be circulating those links. They will have both been posted and, they're live. So the it's a part time and a full time curator position, temps for both." The staff member also said the posting would remain open only a short time and that members should email the board for details.

Board members discussed scheduling a special meeting because the board has no regular meeting in August. One member asked the board to run an email poll to find a date that would secure at least five members. "So can you do that this week and see... If you can come up with a date?" a board member asked; another replied that staff would coordinate with the hearing-board teams to send the poll.

On public art, a board member raised the idea of directly inviting an artist to "look at one of our projects," citing Freedom Park as an example. A staff member said invitations and artist selection must be coordinated with Freedom Park and with the city permitting process. "We will share the request with the developers... we've already shared the request with the special projects division in the planning department. They're handling the permitting, and coordinating for the public art, before it takes it, before we take it over and start the board process," the staff member said. The staff member also advised the board to "analyze what the MFP is proposing, because it's quasi judicial, based on objective criteria." The transcript did not expand the MFP acronym or detail the criteria.

With no quorum, members moved to adjourn; a motion to adjourn was made and seconded, and the meeting ended.

Next steps recorded in the discussion: staff will circulate job-post links to board members; staff will run an availability poll to propose a special meeting date (noted as possible in August, otherwise September); and staff will coordinate with Freedom Park, developers and the special projects division on artist outreach and permitting. The board agreed to revisit artist-selection procedures at a future meeting.