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painting on the blank community canvas. Good conversations were had at the table. Next year, consider a more professional presence with tent, banners, etcto increase the OCACpresence in the community. Upcoming Event: Saturday, Oct 15, 2016 Handmade Parade in downtown Hillsborough. Katie will volunteer for this event to represent the OCAC Website: Katie isworking on the OCACwebsite. E newsletter —A bit lengthy, but once website is fixed, this newsletter will be shorter with links to our website. Rease submit ideas to Katie for e- newsletter ideas. Social Media: Twitter, Instagram ,Google +andFacebook pages —Katie is trying to get #OCACarts going. Maybea contest of those who tag #OCACarts that photo will receive a gift card and picture will be uploaded to our Twitter, Facebook and website. The purpose is for the public to go to cultural art events in Orange County and tag the OCAC using hashtags. Facebook Group —Katie will create a dosed group for the" Orange County Creatives" , which will be a private group for local artists. Anyone can join, but will be dosed to those who joined. Thiswill enhance our marketing towards the creative community of Orange Co. Once this group is up and running, social events can be planned. Have "meet -ups" , town hall meetings, etc. for this population. Will need OCACfriends to join this new group. Arts Map —Katie said that it is intheworks. Grants— outreach to new applicants. Katie is meeting with Sonya Haynes with the Stone Center for Black Culture, 8 Centro Hispanico, and Orange County Arts Guild Katie mentioned that OCAnimal Services have met their financial goal and Katie will have the RFPprocess underway Emerging Artist Grant — still waiting on the Arts Council. Redmont Laureate — Ashley Nissler is serving as our panelist. 6 applicants and the concentration is poetry. Fundraising: Big topic at our Fbtreat. Combined giving campaign will be added to our agenda. Things to be thinking about before our retreat: Fundraising —think about creative ways to help promote our presence and grant funds like selling afront license plate to go towards the grant funds. Maybe send a call -out to area artists to announce a design competition for the license plate? The county commissioners want the OCAC board members to fundraise. Katie will have conversation with Bonnie Hauser, Orange county commissioner, on why is the county asking usto fundraise. Tim mentioned that we should raise money to grow to our grant funds and our program. Katie will meet with the Paleigh Arts Commission to see how they got to where they are now —the program is supported currently by a $5.00 per capita allocation, which resulted in grant awards totaling $1,792,930 for 2016 -2017. Snce we are not a 501c, we are restricted on what type of fundraising we are able to perform since we area government entity. We need to know our parameters. Daniel Mayer brought up do we create a new program and then fundraise, or fundraise first to build the program. Consider the staff drain on resources. Andrea Rfley questioned if we are in the business of providing programs vs competing with other local groups. Ian Bowater wants to brainstorm on ideas of how to achieve this. Katie will speak to Leigh Ann Wilder, Arts in Communities Director, to go over parameters of fundraising. Topic D Discussion %r t: Current OCAC Board vacancies. Decision/ Vote(s): Tim Hoke spoke about replacing Jennifer Shelton since she has only appeared at one OCAC meeting this year. Her term has been terminated. We now have 2 slots available — Jennifer Shelton and Scott VanManen. Joy Salyers brought up that fund raising needs to be addressed during the orientation meeting. Experience needed to serve on the OCAC board would include diversity, people with fund raising experience, and well qualified people need to sit on our board. Nominating Committee needs to be formed for filling the 2 vacancies spots. Action Item: Think about sub-committees that are needed for the OCAC Katie provided what is needed within our board. Sub- committees needed: Grants, Nominating, Fundraising, PublicArt and Community Outreach.