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Home My WebLink About2025-07-22 H&A Regular Meeting Agenda Packet Town of Tiburon 1505 Tiburon Boulevard Tiburon, CA 94920 Heritage & Arts Commission Tiburon Town Hall Tuesday, July 22, 2025 | 5:30 p.m. Regular Meeting HERITAGE & ARTS (H&A) COMMISSION REGULAR MEETING AGENDA | JULY 22, 2025 The meeting will be held in person and will be televised live on Zoom. Members of the public have the option of participating in-person or remotely via Zoom at: Webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84479211239 Webinar ID: 844 7921 1239 Call-in Number: 1 669 900 6833 Submit public comment by: 1. Email mmiller@townoftiburon.org before 5:00 p.m. on the Monday prior to the meeting. Written comments received will be saved as part of the record of the meeting. 2. Attend the meeting in person at the Town Council Chambers, 1505 Tiburon Boulevard, Tiburon, California 94920 and provide public comment. 3. If on Zoom, during the public comment portion of the agenda item, select the “Raise Hand” option or *9 if using a phone. Please be advised that those participating in the meeting remotely via Zoom do so at their own risk. The Heritage & Arts Commission meeting will not be cancelled if any technical problems arise during the meeting. CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL Commission Members: Chair Gupta, Vice Chair Etemad Commissioners Ferrin, Feibusch, Fong, Mujica, Noguez ORAL COMMUNICATIONS Persons wishing to address the Heritage & Arts Commission on subjects not on the agenda may do so at this time. Please note however, that the Commission is not able to undertake extended discussion or action on items not on the agenda. Matters requiring action will be referred to the appropriate Commission, Board, Committee or staff for consideration or placed on a future Commission meeting agenda. Please limit your comments to three (3) minutes. CHAIR REPORT CONSENT CALENDAR All items on the Consent Calendar may be approved by one motion of the Commission unless a request is made by a member of the Commission, public or staff to remove an item for separate discussion and consideration. CC-1. Approve minutes from June 17, 2025 special meeting. DISCUSSION ITEMS DI-1. Native American Arts and Culture Event Update. ACTION ITEMS AI-1. Fiscal Year 2025-2026 Budget and Upcoming Expenditures. Hear a report on the status of funds overseen by the Heritage & Arts Commission and consider any upcoming expenses. AI-2. Artist Laureate Wall Update. Members of the Ad Hoc committee will present images of the newly installed Artist Laureate Wall and update on next steps and future potential expenses. AI-3. Art Exhibition Dates. • Cedars of Marin Reception Date. Review and consider available September dates for Cedars of Marin reception. Currently, the reception for Susan Katz (upper gallery) and Cedars of Marin (lower gallery) are scheduled for the same evening, at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, September 9. • November 2025 Artist for Lower Gallery. Consider inviting past Artist Laureate and longtime Heritage & Arts Commissioner, Jaleh Etemad, to host a retrospective exhibition and book launch during the month of November. Cedars of Marin is scheduled to exhibit September and October, and the Landmarks Society has requested December and January, so November is currently available. AI-4. Artist Laureate Update. Review and finalize dates for Town Council confirmation, conferring of the laurels, and reception dates. Define and approve a budget for invitations, a gift, and reception costs. AI-5. Public Art Proposals. Discuss current proposal from Scott Froschauer. Consider requesting additional proposals and suggestions from the community and local artists for a temporary public art installation in town. AI-6. Election of 2025-2026 Chair and Vice Chair. Per the bylaws of the Heritage & Arts Commission, hold election for Chair and Vice Chair for the July 2025-July 2026 period. CALENDAR DATES Fri., Jul 25, 4:00 pm – New West Guitars – jazz guitar trio at Old St. Hilary’s Landmark Sun., Aug. 10, 1:00 to 4:00 pm - Tiburon Jewish Festival, Zelinsky Park Tues., Aug. 19, 5:30 pm – Regular Meeting of the Heritage & Arts Commission Tues., Aug. 19, 6:00 pm – “Tiburon Together” Reception hosted by H&A and Chabad of Tiburon Tues., Sept. 9, 6:00 to 8:00 pm – Artist Opening Reception, Susan B. Katz, Town Hall ADJOURNMENT GENERAL PUBLIC INFORMATION ASSISTANCE FOR PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, if you need special assistance to participate in this meeting, please contact the Town Clerk at (415) 435-7377. Notification 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the Town to make reasonable arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting. AVAILABILITY OF INFORMATION Copies of all agenda reports and supporting data are available for viewing and inspection at Town Hall and at the Belvedere-Tiburon Library located adjacent to Town Hall. Agendas and minutes are posted on the Town’s website, www.townoftiburon.org. Upon request, the Town will provide written agenda materials in appropriate alternative formats, or disability-related modification or accommodation, including auxiliary aids or services, to enable individuals with disabilities to participate in public meetings. Please send a written request, including your name, mailing address, phone number and brief description of the requested materials and preferred alternative format or auxiliary aid or service at least 5 days before the meeting. Requests should be sent to the Office of the Town Clerk at the above address. PUBLIC HEARINGS Public Hearings provide the public and interested parties an opportunity to provide testimony on these items. If you challenge any proposed action(s) in court, you may be limited to raising only those issues you or someone else raised at the Public Hearing(s) described later in this agenda, or in written correspondence delivered to the Heritage & Arts Commission at, or prior to, the Public Hearing(s). TIMING OF ITEMS ON AGENDA While the Heritage & Arts Commission attempts to hear all items in order as stated on the agenda, it reserves the right to take items out of order. No set times are assigned to items appearing on the Heritage & Arts Commission agenda. EXHIBIT 1 TOWN OF TIBURON PAGE 1 OF 1 STAFF REPORT To: Heritage & Arts Commission Members From: Staff Liaison Miller Subject: FY25-26 Budget and Funds Status Report SUMMARY For Fiscal Year 2025-2026, the Town Council has allocated $15,000 in General Funds (101) for discretionary use by the Heritage & Arts Commission. These funds will support operational needs including promotional banners, reception supplies and refreshments, and additional operational requirements throughout the year. This fund corresponds with the Town of Tiburon’s fiscal year, July 1 of the current year to June 30 of the following year. As of July 15, 2025, one expense has been posted to this fund, two cases of Pellegrino to support upcoming receptions. The current fund balance is now $14,946.49. The Public Art Fund (252) contains resources designated for public art exhibitions and opportunities to benefit the town. As of July 17, 2025, the current fund balance is $54,561.85, which comprises the initial Town Council grant of $50,000, private donations, and accrued interest. All expenditures from this fund require Town Council budget amendment approval. Private donations specifically designated for Public Art are deposited into this fund. The Heritage & Arts Project Fund (382) was established to manage funding and expenses associated with Heritage & Arts Projects, as documented in the FY22 audit. This fund receives commission fees from art exhibition sales and donations designated for the Heritage & Arts Commission and accrues interest. As of July 16, 2025, the current fund balance is $10,239.17. A corresponding budget line item will be established for FY2026, granting the Commission discretionary authority over these funds that were generated through their artist promotion and exhibition efforts. Prepared By: Marissa Miller, Staff Liaison, Heritage & Arts Commission, Administration TOWN OF TIBURON 1505 Tiburon Boulevard Tiburon, CA 94920 Heritage & Arts Commission July 22, 2025 Agenda Item: AI-2 EXHIBIT 2 AI-5 Scott Froschauer Art The Word on The Street for Tiburon Thank you so much for this opportunity to present The Word on The Street for installations across Tiburon. I am overwhelmed by the amount of beautiful public space in Tiburon. There are so many amazing spots that I am inspired to want to place as many pieces around the peninsula as possible. So my proposal is to install signs in various locations throughout the municipality. Placement When considering placement there are several factors to consider. First is to eliminate spaces that are dangerous to automobile traffic. Any site that is easily observable by a motor vehicle driver should be ruled out. This means not only places like road sides, but also less obvious spots. A great example of this would be a city that requested a red octagon START sign of mine to be placed near the entrance of City Hall. It was far enough away from the street that one might assume is was “safe” to place a sign there. But once I saw their proposed location, and saw the wide sidewalk that led from the street to the front steps of the building, it was clear that the placement of a red octagon sign might indicate to a driver, from a distance, that the sidewalk was a street. We want to surprise and delight viewers, not confuse drivers. The next factor in considering placement involves thinking of the project as a whole and how people might interact with the multiple pieces spread out across the municipality. I like to produce an online map that indicates the locations of all the installations. We can choose to provide a QR code at the base of each installation that links to the map, we can promote the map through city social media, etc. The goal of the map is to draw viewers to various installation sites, so if there is a park that is lesser known, for instance, the installations can work to draw more attention to that particular site. While we can place individual signs in various locations, there is also the option of grouping several together to create an intentional space or to highlight particular languages. Some examples of placemaking using multiple signs: This is an installation of 8 sets of Peace Signs in 8 different languages. My Peace Signs installation is currently translated into 12 different languages and I am open to adding any language that I might not already have. Once we have eliminated sites that aren’t appropriate and picked out places that will be best suited in the larger project, then the last factor in considering placement is how photogenic the piece will be. Not only are we looking for a beautiful backdrop when viewers photograph the signs, but we want to consider how the viewers might be able to get into the picture with the sign. I consider this work to be a social media magnet. People love getting their picture taken with the signs.   Time period The signs are durable. They are fabricated to Department of Transportation Speciﬁcations, so they are “real” street signs. They withstand the weather and have a graffiti resistant coating on them. I like to put pieces up for one year. That gives people time to relate to them and grow to like them. It also gives the project time to be “discovered." After a one year installation we can consider several options. Perhaps some of the signs would like to become permanent installations, so at that point we can discuss a purchase price that is discounted based on the rental serving as a partial payment. The signs that don’t ﬁt with a permanent plan can be offered to the public for sale, to be installed in their yards or converted to wall hangings. The sale price of these pieces would include a commission to the City. Installation Process All signs are fabricated and installed to Department of Transportation Speciﬁcations. This means that the signs themselves are made of .080 Aircraft Aluminum and faced with 3M Engineering Grade Vinyl (the kind that reﬂects headlights at night) with a graffiti resistant coating. These are “real” signs in every sense except for the words on them. The same font. The same colors. The same materials. The same hardware. They are what I refer to as “counterfeit signs.” The signs are installed using the same materials and techniques (if not better in some cases) that the signs in Tiburon are installed with. This is typically a material called Telespar, which is the square steel post with the holes in it. The signs are attached to the post using industry standard tamper-proof hardware (this is the part that might be better than the “normal” signs that are currently installed, since those are often installed without tamper-proof hardware.) I have installed these signs in municipalities across the country, from Glendale, California to Deland, Florida to the tip of the mitten in Elk Rapids, Michigan. The harsh heat of Aldeen, Texas to the frigid cold of Evergreen, Colorado. Major metropolitan centers like Downtown San Francisco to quiet towns like Danville, Illinois. Never a single failure. Well, except for Laguna Beach, California. I was commissioned to install 5 signs in a beautiful waterfront park. There was an unveiling ceremony with the mayor scheduled for Sunday afternoon so I had installed all ﬁve signs on Saturday (they go up pretty quickly.) The city had informed the Park Staff that this was happening…the weekday staff. But the weekend staff didn’t know. They came into the park early Sunday morning and saw what they thought was guerrilla vandalism in the form of street signs installed around the park. So they got their equipment and pulled the signs up out of the ground. Luckily we were able to track the signs down and I was able to reinstall them (at least visually) for the ceremony. The cities insurance covered the cost of replacing the elements that were damaged by the equipment that was used to extract the signs (it’s not easy) and I needed to pour a small amount of concrete at each installation spot because pulling the signs up had taken some of the earth with them, but we got the signs back in by the end of the week and the exhibition went off without anyone knowing what had happened. So I learned something valuable from that installation. ;) We would also want to ensure that the spots we choose don’t have sprinkler lines or gas, telecom or water pipes, as the anchors that go into the ground are 30” long. In California we can cover all of that by using DigAlert. We can also mount to concrete with standard hardware plates that are designed for that purpose, which you might see in some places around Tiburon, particularly for No Parking signs that might be mounted on existing sidewalks.  Possible pieces A sample of 20 signs that I believe would make a great cross section of work: 1 Innerstate/UROK 2 Yield Heart 3 Inﬁnite Clearance 4 You Are Enough 5 You Are Amazing 6 Start 7 Dream 8 The Peace Signs 9 Breathe 10 Attention: Take Note 11 One Way Heart 12 Wonder 13 Wander 14 Planning 15 All We Have 16 Do Your Best 17 Celebrate Mistakes 18 Be 19 Relax 20 Grow   Pricing My standard signs work out to $1000 each for temporary installations of up to one year, including installation costs, with a “start up” cost of $5000. This results in the work being ﬂexible to ﬁt within a budget. For example, for a one year, temporary installation: $15,000 = 10 Signs $20,000 = 15 signs $25,000 = 20 signs This pricing would include either the creation of a google map or working with the city to produce a map using whichever tools they are accustomed to. There are also larger and more complex pieces that we can consider that are possible, but they can require site inspections and pre-planning, which can take up more of the budget. These are priced on a case-by-case basis. For this sort of work we would want to identify a speciﬁc location that would beneﬁt from a larger, iconic work and then consider which work is the best ﬁt. Examples include: Large “How Far To Now?” Large “Peace Signs” in multiple languages  