CHOCVB Board Meeting Minutes 061621

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DocuSign Envelope ID:A5C43050-883B-4209-B5DE-5EABBCF50A2E New Business/ Roundtable • Katie Murray—Program Coordinator, Orange County Arts Commission - The Orange County Board of County Commissioners approved Katie's grants proposal, Restart the Arts Grants,from ARPA funds during their meeting last night. Katie believes Orange County will be the first county in North Carolina to allocate some of the ARPA funds to the arts. - We just sent out the final round of relief grants for the Orange County Art Support Fund. This was the relief program that we set up back in March of last year. In total, we gave out $134,150 through 175 grants. The bulk of these grants were to individuals in the Orange County community. Creative Industry workers of all types. We were also able to provide 16 grants to our non-profit arts organizations. While this was the final round and we will be ending this program, it has made us realize that there is a need for some sort of similar fund going forward: An emergency fund for crisis. Our board is talking about what that is going to look like going forward. Katie thanked Dan and the ArtsCenter because the ArtsCenter was the fiscal manager of that fund over the last year and it has helped the Arts Commission process the donations and get the checks out. - At the end of May,the Arts Commission moved into a new space at the Eno Mill. Based on the success of our artist studios that opened last year, the commissioners approved this new space. It will allow us to have a larger office and a conference room as well as class space, which is a really big need in Hillsborough. We will also have a gallery that can double as a small event space. We will have five offices that we a hoping to make available to local arts organizations that have either lost space over this last year or are wanting to expand into Hillsborough. The Mill is a fabulous partner and they are making this space affordable for us so we are able to extend that to other organizations. - A new event,Art on the Hill, has been in the works for two years. It is a massive, public art festival happening throughout the month of July 2022. This is closely being modeled after ArtPrize in Grand Rapids, MI. The big difference being,we are financially supporting all the participating artists. It will be held in the downtowns of Chapel Hill, Carrboro, and Hillsborough. We have fourteen community organizations on-board. I've applied for support through the National Endowment for the Arts and Mary Duke Biddle foundation. Many of you have allocated resources and I am looking for other funding sources. • Mayor Pam Hemminger—Town of Chapel Hill - We are poised to approve the new Putt Putt Fun Center in North Chapel Hill. - We are also poised to approve the final vote on the new parking deck. Demolition is scheduled to start the first week of July. - On the docket tonight is the Aura proposal on the corner of MLK and Estes. - The Estes Drive Connectivity Proiect begins in July and it will take over a year. Estes Drive will be limited to one-way traffic only. - I40 widening from 15-501 all the way to the 85 merge is slated to start this September. - The Town of Chapel Hill plans to return to in-person meetings in September. • Matt Gladdek—Executive Director, Chapel Hill Downtown Partnership - Unfortunately, we lost Crooks Corner. We are working on a way to possibly save Crooks Corner in some way, shape, or form. - Brandwein's Bagels just announced they bought their building and are expanding into the next building next door. This is a great example of the investment coming from local businesses. - Big Belly Que is quietly coming out that they will relocate from Blue Dogwood Public Market to the white house behind Al's Burger Shack on N. Roberson St. 2 1 P a g e CHOCVB BOD Meeting June 16 , 2021