City Council Meeting

All right, I show it's 6:00.
Let's go ahead and call to order tonight's meeting of the Corvallis City Council.
City recorder, roll call please.
Mayor Maughan?
Here.
Councilors Napack? Lewis?
Here.
Moorefield?
Here.
Olsen?
Here.
Ellis?
Here.
Bowden? Shaffer?
Here.
Mayors?
Here.
Kadena?
Here.
Eight councilors present, Your Honor.
Thank you.
Next up, looking for approval of tonight's
agenda.
I move to approve the agenda. I'll second.
All right. Any discussion? No? All in favor of the
agenda as written say, "Aye."
Aye.
Aye.
Aye.
Say no. Sorry, Paul, I'll try to remember to give you a
minute.
The Corvallis City Council asks community members to register in advance, but also
offers limited opportunities to sign up at the meeting.
The comm- community members may indicate their interest in providing comment this
evening by using the sign-up sheet in the back of the room, or using the raise hand
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Please remember to state your name and area of residence for the record and be
mindful of the three-minute timer.
We do have two presentations today, so community comments will be after that.
Up first, we have the Corvallis Arts Center annual report for the fiscal year
twenty twenty-four, twenty twenty-five.
Good evening, mayor and city council.
Uh, tonight I have the pleasure of introducing
Erin, Erin, Gavigan, as the executive
director of the Corvallis Arts Center.
As s- many of you know, the Corvallis Arts Center
is owned by the City of Corvallis, the facility itself, the
building itself, and it's operated by the nonprofit,
Corvallis Arts Center Incorporated.
And, part of their annual
ag- agreement with the city council and the city
is the city council provides fifty-four thousand dollars
annually to the arts center, to help operate the
arts center, and then in turn, owes an annual
report as well as financial statements to the city that
on-- starting on electronic page nineteen, you'll see the,
review from the city's finance department of their financial
statements, and a, and an approval for those, those
financial reviews. And up next is
Erin.
I'm excited to get to talk to you all.
Um, I also wanna thank, I have a couple of board members with me.
Thank you for being here.
Um-
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It just-
Is it on?
Is it-- No. No, it's not on. Is the green light on?
Sorry. How's that?
Perfect. Thank you.
Great. Okay. Um, the arts
center positively impacts the city of Corvallis' economic
vitality, quality of life, and visitor attraction
through the visual arts.
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Next slide.
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Um, so the city of Corvallis' strategic plan and twenty forty
vision call for cultivating community identity centered on
arts, culture, recreation, and celebration.
The arts center is a primary driver on this vision
action.
Through, free exhibitions, community arts programming,
artist entrepreneurship, development, youth education, and
str- and the strategic expansion of accessible arts
infrastructure, the arts center directly advances the city's goals of economic
vitality, social connection, and cultural
distinction. Our fiscal year twenty-five work reflects not
only artistic excellence, but intentional alignment with the city's
long-term strategy for a vibrant, creative Corvallis.
In many ways, the arts center serves as the city's primary visual
arts partner. Be helping to translate, to
translate the community's cultural, aspirations into
accessible programs, creative opportunities, and shared public
experiences.
Um, the arts center's curator and a twelve-member, community-based
exhibition committee work together to select each year's main
exhibitions and those mounted in our more emerging and experimental
career, Corinne Woodmen
Gallery.Um, this
is, just images from the six exhibits in our main
space for the fiscal year '25.
Arts education is a main part of the Art Center's work in the
community. Um, for the fiscal year '25, it was a really a time of
growth for us. We're, we're really starting to experiment with expanding our
arts education programs. We do this through community arts
programs that are free monthly events led by the Art
Center's learning staff with the support of volunteers, to
include things like Second Saturday and the Fourth Tuesday Craft Night at the
Corvallis Library. We also have project-based learning classes
for youth, which are fee-based, but we do have scholarships available for
those. Um, and arts, community part,
yeah, arts community, partners such as the City of Corvallis Parks and
Rec, the Corvallis Museum, and the Benton County
Library. In fiscal year '25, the Art Center
participated in fifty-six commu

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