FAC 10-22-02APPROVED MINUTES
City of Cupertino
FINE ARTS COMMISSION
Regular Meeting
October 22, 2002
CALL TO ORDER
At 8:02 p.m. Chairperson Hema Kundargi called the meeting to order in Conference Room A,
10300 Torre Avenue, Cupertino, and led the pledge of allegiance.
ROLL CALL
Present: Chairperson Hema Kundargi, and Commissioners Nancy Canter, Janet Mohr, Carl Orr,
Barbara Phelps, and City Clerk Kimberly Smith. Commissioners absent: Shirley Lin-Kinoshita,
and Rita Young.
APPROVAL OF MINUTES
1. Minutes of the regular meeting of September 24, 2002.
This item was continued to the next meeting.
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS - None
WRITTEN COMMUNICATIONS
The commission received the following items:
· Thank-you letter for the grant funding from the Euphrat Museum of Art
· Thank-you card for the certificate to appreciation from Diane Agrabrite
· Courtesy copy of the Cultural Arts Master Plan for the City of Santa Clarita
COMMISSIONER AND LIAISON REPORTS
Monthly Mayor's breakfast meeting
· update from Lin-Kinoshita regarding October meeting
· confirm Canter's attendance in November meeting
· select commissioner to attend December meeting
The City Clerk distributed a written report from Lin-Kinoshita, who was not in attendance this
evening. Nancy Canter confirmed that she would attend the November Mayor's breakfast, and
Hema Kundargi will attend in December.
NEW BUSINESS
Fine Arts Grants - fall cycle
Receive recommendation from ad hoc committee (Canter, Lin-Kinoshita, and Orr)
Carl Orr said the ad hoc committee recommended the following grant awards:
$1,500 for the Cherry Blossom Festival, $1,500 for the California Youth Symphony, and
$1,000 for Judy Gregory's musical play for 16 preschools. He said that they also
considered Janlyn Dance Company, but since that group had recently received a grant, the
subcommittee recommended a grant to Judy Gregory.
Carl Orr moved to accept the committee's recommendation. Nancy Canter seconded, and
the motion carried with Orr, Canter, Mohr, and Phelps voting aye, Kundargi abstaining, and
Lin-Kinoshita and Young absent.
October 22, 2002 Cupertino Fine Arts Commission Page 2
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Public art loan policy & agreements · Receive comments & amendments from commissioners
· Adopt loan policy & standard right-of-entry agreements
· Consider policy for city acceptance of gifts and/or loans of art
The commissioners discussed the loan of the sculpture Torque, which was recently installed
at the Quinlan Community Center. An ad hoc committee (Phelps, Mohr, and Canter) was
formed to publicize the event, and the committee will contact the Mercury News and the
Cupertino Courier about the sculpture. Discussion on the remainder of this item was
continued to the next meeting.
Fine Arts grant - high school category · Status report on Teen Commission input (Mohr)
· Make revisions to grants program or table item
Mohr reported that she would like to make a presentation at the next Teen Commission
meeting. The purpose of the presentation would be to find out if the Teen Commission is
interested in participating in already established grants. Furthermore, the Fine Arts
Commission would like to make the teens aware of the grants available to them and the
process involved in acquiring a grant. The primary goal of the Fine Arts Commission is to
determine the Teen Commission's interest overall in participating in and/or promoting the
program. The commission concurred that Janet Mohr shoudl attend the Teen
Commission meeting to present their grants proposal.
STAFF REPORTS
6. Committee Roster (information item)
This item was continued to the next meeting.
NEWS ARTICLES
ADJOURNMENT
The City Clerk discussed the upcoming holiday schedule and the Fine Arts Commission concurred
to adjourn to November 21 instead of their regular November 26 meeting, and to cancel the
December meeting.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:10 p.m.
Kimberly Smith, City Clerk