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SaveECPACMeetingReport25Jun2012

Met at Cocos Restaurant on Fletcher Parkway

Released proposal to the city

Had several reporters at the event.
UT Reporter is following, will release a story when we do a presentation (Is on vacation).
Spent 1.5 hours with the City Manager after scheduling a 15 minute meeting.
Not enough people have contacted him about the theater.
Said there is some opportunity to improve the house lighting with help from SDG&E.
He says the city needs to have some skin in the game -- a set subsidy that is not a surprise at the end of the year.
Maybe have a set maintenance subsidy
Made a clear statement that many of the renters would have a hard time making the commitment to come back to the theater given the history of shaky support and commitment by the City.
We haven't tried the HVAC
GCCA: Live On Stage says GCCA is rebranding themselves.
Lost 50% of their membership when they moved to Joan Kroc
They don't trust the city council. City first said that GCCA would have to sue Art Beat Management.
Executive Board is leery of actual commitment of the city council. The don't have a good history of supporting the arts.
Changed a performance date due to "Emergency Repairs" and forced the GCCA to change their date in September in 2007. *

* La Jolla Chamber Orchestra has always wanted to play at ECPAC. *

Followup:
Should reach out to Tony Ambrose -- He is the scheduler.
Need to generate a power point presentation for a future workshop with the City.

July 9 is a meeting at the Ronald Reagan Center to review the activities for the centennial.
Two weeks from now will not be able to have our meeting.

Ray looked into theatrical lights. $25K for hardware / $25K to install.
He can come back and look into the lights in more detail.
Cyc lights can be LED.
Piano review
did not bring piano up to the stage.
Gaffers tape all over it.
Probably very humid down in the basement.

Fire Marshall can tour the theater.

City Council 3pm Tuesday June 26 -- Tomorrow.
Corporate Sponsorship? -- Wait until we have some agreement with the city.
Conversations with Borona, Viejas, Sycuan, etc.
Taylor Guitar / Deering Banjo.

ACTION ITEMS * Send out request for people to communicate with the City Manager and City Council to save the ECPAC Theater and that the ECPAC Foundation is the right way to go. * Need to talk to Tony Ambrose and invite him to the meeting & find out about the schedule -- contact through Williford. * Ivars is meeting with the sign company, making a proposal for a sign to be placed near the freeway. * Ivars just got the report from the piano people. * Meet with rep from California Center for the Arts -- subsidy is a difficulty. * Would not be able to present the same sort of mix we are thinking of. * Ivars has already had a long conversation with him. * Need to have a letter from the GCCA that they are interested in the theater, but they are concerned about commitment, etc. * Contact Clayton Anderson again about referral to an attorney that can help. * CPA -- need to have one on the board.

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