Arkansas Legislative Arts and Technology Boot Camp

Everybody and thanks for showing up for this last boot camp up many of you have been to several of of our meetings and we are going to be today going through this report you've got a copy on your at your seat and I want you to know this is a really this is a rough draft I try to make that clear. It's up to you and but and the other reason I think is really important you're here because it's been hard to get everybody together this is been an unusual season there's no doubt about that and yet many of us have persisted anyway to get us to this point this is going to be more like a work session in a committee where we will actually have discussion as we go and I hate it when I was we sent out the message. To remind everybody that this is the last meeting we will have because we have a deadline we've got we've got to meet and this is it came up to be in this close and we just couldn't help it but the motion that will be working on today if we have any amendments it will at the very end it will be recommend the report as amended so you have the opportunity today to present amendments and we have to vote on them and discuss them to to this report and we will do that probably kinda as we go along and so this is a real work session but that's what it's going to look like today and thank you for being here not turn it over to Mike I co chair representative one for any comments you'd like to make. Thank you senator Elliots I'm glad to have everybody here today. Senator Elliot Nye talked I think it was almost four years ago about the need for this and I am so thankful that we have done this. The arts in Arkansas is so different from what it used to be. years ago it was just go perform on the stage or very rudimentary type of filming or whatever the project was today there is an intersection of technology with the arts. And that was something that we really worked at as we planned going across the state was to see where that intersection of technology was with the arts and it is an industry in and of itself. So we we got to see a lot of that in our meetings across the state so we want to make sure that Arkansas is cutting edge on making sure that we are. Working to recruit that business to Arkansas that we are aware of what all that involves and I think we had several eye opening sessions where we're able to see a lot of the intersections and opportunities where we can grow the arts and technology economy in Arkansas so thank you for each of your involvements in this I think this is a beginning point we're we take advantage of what we've seen there to people that I want to recognize they're not here maybe they're watching but Lenore Schultz and sandy Martin are two amazing ladies who. Have. Been working behind the scenes. They have done so much and they have been paid nothing for their time they have been at every meeting they have done incredible amounts of research. to help make this a success so I want to go on record is it knowledge in them and thanking them for all their amazing work on this project and helping us to have a success with what we've done so but thank you guys I think we've got some good things that will be adding to the report to give to the governor to A. L. C. and other bodies that will benefit from our report shall thank you very much thank you Jeremy. Thank you but does anybody have any questions about our procedure today and if not we are ready to begin So let's I need a motion to approve the minutes from the last meeting please motion second all those in favor I hi opposed a motion passes meant so approved The report. You have also on your at your seats there at our districts in in our state and they're sometimes we're referring to districts and this reference for you have to you know we're talking about. Okay. I'm not quite there but they certainly are on their way. Let me that much bonded. We got a patient who in this in this Big summary out of out of a a little bit out of order. One. so we'll start with the executive summary and the whole notion of the executive summaries to give people some ideas of what's motivating us and and to include I recommendations and our challenges and that in the included but on the executive summary where you when you have that paragraph thing I noticed this one thing here I if if somebody sees something else you think that needs to be fixed but if you look at the the third paragraph. This doesn't say substantively exactly what I you can be misinterpreted that last sentence in addition we foresee stopping or meaningfully curbing the brain training from Arkansas we we we foresee stopping that. If you get in it is it almost could be interpreted as we want to stop attracting others to the state so that needs to be fixed and it to make sure that it is clear that we are talking about. Stop in the the first part of it but not the second part of that so I don't know that that needs to be an amendment if you'll accept it as just a a change for clarity is all we're talking about here yes we do need to be telling people we don't want to hear if anybody has seen anything else in this that in that part of it you have a better way you want to say something or something you think should be there that's not there before we start talking about recommendations okay I've got a quick question okay what is that it seems like everybody we talked to in the technology field. We say. These will fix the problem but one of the things that they talked about was. Process the technical aspects of any kind of technology we were they were having to re thank you Matchett piece of it yeah yeah we don't have arts in elementary school used. Is there some way to add that. Yes I. You know it's just it's kind of an overall. And a lot of recommendation for talk about implementing those seats that that's right so I think that's a big problem but. I mean everybody we talked to in the technology field said they were having to re. Each kids are or even how. I appreciate if that is true and I and I totally agree with that because when I was when I was putting this together I kept thinking about. I want to see something about re imagine I would want to find a different way to say it do I need to say re imagine a some other way some of the word but I speak reimagine is the right word and because it is very clear I was teaching eleventh graders many times by the time they had gotten to me the imagination was kind of out of them because we were just do this this this but that's true about our I think we've worked so hard to just make things happen to people get disillusioned a we just get into a rut but that kind of position and won't work with what we're talking about here so I think it's proper to have a sense they're just. Yeah yeah. Seven yeah yeah yeah making sure that that's a part of it well okay well we talk about some yes. technology. Persons that I have read teaching meditation. Just taking that so what I think something that I've seen I work with all seven superintendents and Garland County and one thing that I've seen is when you have a creative individual that starts a new program. The others are like tell me about the program so some help if we can reward. That creative person because I've seen the other schools in my county that jump on that program the really. Is unique and then they start doing it and it spreads but we you know that that's something I think we we need to make sure we get the word out about successful programs like that. For the spring. Yeah as much as we. At out. There somewhere I thank you it should go with that very first sentence because you know we can we say from in this land from its people land waterways in open skies we're you know we endowed with all these natural yes and this would be the place I think that to take advantage of. Realizing everything they can they can that bring us to status may I don't want to bring us to we have to re imagine how to use these gifts that are handed to us and we can do that through the process the creative economy I think that that. Yeah because it really was something on my mind is you know you can use the word so much to say but it is about reimagining somebody kind of take downs part of what I said. Okay go to all right okay now I need to ask well if if is there any. Any objection to that or somebody one on promotion but I'll recognize you first. If no objection I was just thinking about it was unclear about where representative garner was wanting to put that but I I was just quickly thinking about it there on the second paragraph in that very last words is the banking the minute there's nothing there's just nothing here but have the answers through the creative economy and the re imagining or or something like that maybe that would be a good place I think it's a good idea I just yeah I want sure we are wanting to put it is finally question but yeah I don't care where it goes I just want to be in there yeah if either one either that the second sentence of very opening all right there either one of those And good place for it to go up that's all I had I was just thinking about that. I the other thing I want to stress about this that I represented in words here that that we are saying aye as the boot camp is just making sure people know when we talk about the creative economy we're talking about every corner of the state and and very heavy emphasis on rural areas because it is very possible with all the work that we do and the places we went to talk with folks and hear from experts as well that it is so doable what we're talking about here in the rural areas which of course is happening in other states but one of our big problems and you're going to see this over and over is broadband broadband in most of the groups they talk about that and that's one of would be one of our recommendations as well. And for those people who may be watchin who don't know what this boot camp was comprised of when we got ready to start talking about this representative one an active and talking about creating a caucus and we had this notion that we start bringing another legislator or is this is something we're not taking advantage of it but we didn't know all the things that the attendance for the arts no so they connected with us as less referred to a doctor to shelves and sandy Martin and others need to give us the hard data to show us what we could do in points possible so I do want people to know this was a bipartisan group of folks in the **** and we work we are bipartisan here sitting before you and we were careful to get for each one of the H. R. the eight art districts we did everything we could to get a Democrat Republican from both those and I think that was one district we were not able to but we still ended up with that with this same number of Democrats Republicans in that. In the H. R.. Charter caucus and some of the books here or part of the original charter group and that's that. So we will get that added in and by the way when we get on this stuff added and will vote on it today but will make sure you see it before it becomes a big crazy thing that that was out under the legislative recommendations Somewhere. The legislative recommendations We extent because we had such a hard time with COVID and everything else and and some issues as well with with attendance we're recommended because we certainly couldn't get to anything and everything we ended up there are places we intend to go we just have time places where people thank you Matt you do remember we had quite a bit of time in session this time in our usual way that took a lot of time as well so we're recommending the extent of the work to move campsite to more fully explore parts of of the Arkansas for example Senate Gilmore reading get weighed down in that corner the way we wanted to as as close as we got it was of was down that way was I'm glad we did get over into a corner intakes can and that way but we didn't do that and there were some places up in north east that we didn't get to the way we want to and and directly over to the west so there is more work to be done and I think as we go through this report you can see how that is true because we were real intentional about not missing anybody and not trying to grow an economy without including everybody in the state so that's number one. Anybody have any questions about that. You're going to have to turn the page you're gonna see content and then you turn again so that's one of the things because we are working hard and hurriedly trying to get everything together and that that's one of the things will have to fix and get in the right place I don't worry about that worry about it just the content. One of the things that was that was a real regret for us last night anyway we engage our Kansans for the arts as a consultant to work with this because they work with us all the way through this process of trying to get us to where we are and actually did so much work in these boot camps. And we did not include in that which is one of the challenges we did not include enough and the legislation that we would have a paid consult a consultant for which we should have that was a big mistake and we just didn't recognize it was not there until I started working and they did all of this work without pay that's a real commitment to us so we are recommending going forward that we make sure that they get paid later later on this one number two is also a money and that would be a money item number two is also a money items one of the recommendations in one of the requirements that we have in the legislation itself is for us to create a database what's what's possible an inventory of what we have in Arkansas already that will help us bring forth with the creative economy we're going to get to that inventory I thank actually our Kansans we aren't actually didn't inventory it is toward the back of of the report and they did it but they did it by our districts and you can see when we get there we'll explain further but we need to have that kind of been in a database and in the legislation says that we were supposed to come up with the amount of money needed to maintain that database that are Kansas where the arts would possibly be a keeper us so it be ongoing and it would be dynamic because you can't just create a database on a one time and that's it you have to keep it going something this dynamic so that's what back recommendation is is is about Because it's going to take a lot more work than what we can do in you know in the in the boot camp so that's what it recommendations that represent file in there there was a specific content with the breaking this down by the our districts so we're hoping for collaboration with the counties in each our districts so that when people come to your area of the state. You can try to keep him in that area and say Hey we we've got some other things round here and you you've got an inventory of those other things if they're interested in the arts I mean you can direct them to other things in your areas well but here's a an inventory of March items in your county and surrounding counties so. Right does anybody have any. Anybody have any questions about about that one. If not we'll move on to number three in a straight ahead funder Kansans for the arts to continue work with the legislative art caucus and the boot camps. When it orders you're going to see table contents trying the first page and then turning again. Behind the Legislative art technology boot camp committee at this pace got switched over to using it. Page three. Well okay okay. We started that what number ones at the bottom of page zero. Of course number and the number two is going to be on page three. Yeah okay. Yes. Where you just got one How did this all right I'm services written Garner anybody else to did you since you weren't there do you want to look at the number two that we talked about to be sure you're. Numbers two and three. Yes. Just a thought maybe on that number two the we also encourage collaboration between the. The counties within the art districts going kind of harkening back to what representive warm warm just said is there anything that maybe we could put in there to so we you know we encourage all stakeholders or maybe that's not a good word but we encourage all all. All counties in each of our districts you are up you saw senator I do It just so that you know we whatever it is to let it be known that we want everybody in there and we want everybody working and it's not just me Arkansas are canceled for the arts or the arts council because of the eight districts but we need yeah cities counties I don't know how to put that but I wanted to maybe save we can encourage with the legislative committee encourages. All stakeholders all entities whatever item I think that I think that's probably worthy of a standalone recommendation okay and I think we should do it that way that we. He clarity of it so what you want is all and we'll just city. Collaboration we're yes four five. Well you know what I was going to I had three others that I remembered last night and and it was like what you're saying regional cooperation I was that's what I that's that's the way I was thinking about it because we did talk about a lot there was the sleep woke up and thought about this I'm embarrassed to admit but that's what happened so reason corporation is the encourage record encouraged regional cooperation because in a lot of places what we don't want to say for example As they were in and representative doll this area of the state you and there's Texarkana Texarkana can do a lot of things on its own but if we don't do it recently all that we are caring about in the deep rule areas can't do it by themselves so we want to encourage that regionalism because that's how it's going to work and work well so we'll we'll pass that. Eight. Okay we talked about number three finding the our Kansans for the arts to continue working with the legislative our caucus and boot camps because I if if we don't have them they cannot do this again or help us continue without some some compensation. A number for a recommit to maintaining a bipartisan legislative or art that's on all of you. Social I ask you to raise your hand and commit I won't but you know do it in your mind's. Seven o'clock in the morning we had two good I know. This is where it worked to have this caucus it really did and there were two other ways so there are two other recommendations that I want you to consider because these are two things we talked about a great deal that that are not on here And I think a broadband that's in some of the other recommendations but I think the the body needs and because these are specific recommendations from this group and so we need to act to add the language about broadband So everywhere that is good sufficient broadband so that people can take advantage of the creative economy it will not work that's not the case and it is the I hope and dream of doing it well in our rural areas in particular we've been working on this for so long trying to get broadband everywhere you know the time is just up because we keep on saying things are just trying up there's nothing here we're gonna be saying it forever if we don't get together to get the broadband there for people so one and that one and the other the other one that. We talked about a great deal with adding that two people to appointments of folks who have knowledge of the creative economy to the Arkansas Economic Development Commission. Because we're going to do it I think we need to be serious about putting people there who know what they're doing and what will be advocates for the creative economy. All right so that's it then for the recommendations unless somebody else has something for okay I I think. Just what you said about making sure that people understand that we're serious about this the appointments I'm wondering if there's a way and. to think about not just the caucus budget subcommittee if the develop of economic development I think it's just because it's so hard it's so difficult to get people to caucus meetings so hard to find time during the session four caucus meetings we were actually if we actually had a committee to work. So I'm wondering if. Besides in our office. Or instead of an Arkansas because we actually recommended a. Subcommittee of economic development. For the arts in the economy. I think that would be great if if we became just. A normal part of economic development because it's really a good thing when you're not treated like an add on and when you're a caucus you certainly aren't any at all right I think that's a that's a that's a good idea. Thoughts from other people because we're gonna need a motion on this one. Thank. Well represented a written Garner I'd recognize you for that motion okay I I move that we. That we. At the recommended that is a recommendation that we add a subcommittee to economic developments on art and technology and the creative economy are gonna okay. Is there a second. The second is there discussion. All right all those in favor than say aye aye those opposed. The motion passes we will lead thank you now. I'm going to go ahead and leave in here if if if if unless shall object maintained in the Caucasus in case we came because there be you know there be limited number of people who want to subcommittee okay yeah all right. Okay that's going to the challenges. As we have we have we have you. And and number one is about the time to meet and because of so much so many things that interfere that we didn't anticipate. You want to do color commentary on that one. So we had a few challenges. and we you know we preferred to as I said earlier meeting all in all the geographies in the eight districts about time just in the did not allow for us to do that and and so that's why the report is. It is not referred as reflective as we intended it to be for every single one of these areas and and it was a matter of time and things that were going on that we had no control over since we couldn't fix that. And number two that failure to include a formal process for compensating Arkansas for the arts of paid consultants that's that was a that was a challenge because it got to be a challenge for them that they had other jobs one person it just had to back out at one point if you run into them police say thank you I mean I I can't tell you how many hours they put in an order and sandy were great. And they drove her home cars. Good thing gas prices have gone up as much then and number three we had a problem with attendance and people just had conflicting schedules And just couldn't make it to so many meetings and then some people were indeed dealing with COVID and other parts of life or they just couldn't get there but that was a challenge we would love to have had more participation from committee members but as I said I think some of you actually did some making up for that some of you came to almost everyone of the meeting maybe even all of them some that's appreciated those were the big challenges and if you have other ideas about any challenges that you observed so. Let us know. Otherwise. The rest of what we're going to be looking at here was put together by the Arkansas where the arts group they were subcommittee to do that technical stuff out there and talk to the experts and gather it and write this report right up this report as a part of a report to the to the legislature and and to the governor and so forth. And so that's in their introduction there that gives us all the you know kind of the overlay what was driving them they adhered strictly to what the what's required in the lands of the legislation. And these things that I mentioned in the introduction are talked about later on in the report. Any questions about that for the result page by page here real quickly to see if you have any questions about anything. And then on the methodology that's laid out there what they did how they did it and later on there is there is much more about responses as well and and recommendations and so forth but they actually did surveys of all of these people that they know or connected to the arts and technology the creative economy and have a specific report about the groups as we go through here there's no way we could have ever done this first of all you know we wouldn't have the time or know how to do it without somebody teaching us about all the have had to do all this so if you turn the if you turn the page for that and They talk further about the survey results in and what's the respondents included as recommendations this is a large body of folks and you can see and you're going to see. Again and again the need for broadband access across the state I I want almost put an additive in there but we can't we can not just broadband but it but it needs to be you know something that's that's that's really good but this is their report and I think I think that people will get it. And after that they may list all the groups that participated in this survey so you'll know where the data came from and who the who the folks are. on page eight. Where they identifying The types of industries that we have that they are Surveyed to and talk to folks about later I think these interesting representative Warren because with that started out with agriculture. We keep saying people creative economy is not just sing and dance music that's part of it is great but there's so much more and when we had the opening I think boards to present the charter group for the caucus we had an advocacy day here and we had folks come in each one of these areas to show us what is possible in the in the creative economy and agriculture was one and agribusiness that I was most interested in sure enough they showed up and showed what's possible and things that people already doing but they need a way for us to be involved to make it real and somebody's always concentrating on and that's why I think that such a great idea a representative garnet but having that subcommittee along along with the caucus but anyway these are the enters industries and this first two ones people tend not to think about but people are paying money to get an opportunity to go spend the weekend on a farm they've never seen before we are people across the state I forgot who was telling me this with somebody on this committee was telling me about a dining D. Y. T. I. N. G.. Business that somewhere I think up around St Joseph but these people have a business where they're selling their wares all over the world this is why this is a good broadband is so important and they're all kind of in yeah. So. But anyway the rest of those or or if the what they're gonna be talking about going later on here and then they list. For example agar agriculture and agribusiness you can see they've got people there who are in that business and and. **** information to show you we've got things we need to work on and look at that health and wellness we're gonna talk about that later on these are folks that they talk to. And if you get the page ten the creative community review recommendations so they talk to the people in the that talk to the people in the community and these other recommendations the people made from the community. So about education they have these recommendations so if you haven't had a chance to take a quick look at it won't take you long to just you know look at it real quickly see if you have anything you want to say about. And then after that there are workforce development recommendations but it is about work in the economy and people making a living and being prepared to do this so. And. The next to their or also about education CT career training because if we're going to do all these things we've got to have a rethink correct training we're not exactly real big on our career technical training and things about the creative economy that's something we've we've got to change for example and same thing with K. twelve thank you for talking about people forgetting how to imagine so we need to make sure the kids get an opportunity to study in a in a creative and critical way. And they go on to the next page so um. You're mistaken a motion to take the time to look at that and see what you think and see if there's anything you want to pull out for us to discuss. But the. I'm on page eleven right now. I just turned about ten at the bottom ten that's where the case will stop once then I just turned. And I think there's some common themes that as legislators we we see what we're talking career training workforce services when you get to arts and technology incentives so I mean we've been working on broadband I think this is just a reinforcement to keep working on that of film music and digital media What we had a and I know we'll get into that later in the report but. Was a very eye opening meeting that we had in Northwest Arkansas the film's they're coming to the state we're getting ready to have the Film Festival in hot springs I mean we're talking people coming from all over the country for that and just people that are looking at Arkansas for a place to shoot fails so just trying to get people in Arkansas equipped to handle the business so Good areas that can be addressed but just adjusting the curriculums to meet the needs of the job opportunities in Arkansas representative resented Dalby you're recognized a manager I don't know that this is something we need to put in to. The report but it just struck me when you looked at number four on page eleven for the introduce legislation for music and sound design incentive rebate program seems like this would be not that necessarily but for this committee maybe to break down each one of these and have some research done prior to the session so that if there are some of legislative tweaks to the law that we need to make like when you look at consumer products and cottage industries of on page thirteen what are the barriers to that where do we need to change of law maybe maybe that's something that this committee could. Then look at I mean people say you know I'm really interested in that maybe I could get BLR to say here what here are. You know what we have now maybe it could be changed so that we can foster some of these things are just a thought but when I saw that I thought you know in each one of these we probably ought to break each one of them down and see where legislative are there barriers that have been created over the years right right we need to look at to foster this is just a thought okay that's great because it all their spare time running legislation but it it seems to me that if we're going to move this forward we need to also look and see how we can foster that through legislation that we've we've made it one of our recommendations to say something along the lines of We're recommendation that the. Arkansas legis. I don't see the Arkansas legislature. This. Create a study or are to determine where the areas exist for implementation of any of these recommendations something along that lines or to talk. Share this. You know the sense that does not yeah yeah well. It depends. Yeah. yeah the study yeah. You know. I was just sitting in each one of the first page yeah the Are there. Agritourism. Category. Yes. Yeah that's what we need to do to foster that. Stretching. Image from the I. R.. As with all that in the future the past piece of legislation. Committee members right. I thought I know I I think it's a good start I'm trying to think of a way to do it does it need to be could it be something that folks who on it on our committee in family get together and look at it because I I think it would be useful but not when we say that we want to recommend I don't know if we need to have it as a recommendation is or are we just committing to do it. I have committed to it yes. I. Mmhm. Your. A lot of legislation already under. Yeah okay well then then I would suggest that we surely some of your not just look at me and later on go like what are you talking about are you a. And we could create an informal group to take a look at those things so that we don't need to get to the bottom here but I think that's a very where the suggestion Rep. The representative right. Yes. As chairman you know what representative care somebody on this for a you know we know that in certain places you're going to have items like music and sound design. Like in the state of Missouri you know you have Rantzen and all that area but I don't know what we have for Arkansas that we may need to create. Because you really need to a go to person in that situation got a separate that from maybe some of the other things that are out there. Because you know you're you're actually talking about doing you work in technology like Steve was working on and the same time you that fine arts at school be mixed with that and I just wonder of Senator Joyce who we could maybe get to help us with that kind of situation I well that's that's one of the things that the R. Kansas for the arts and and can help us do. Because to do this report and see even get this far as I said took everything we had to get this car but there is no doubt we're going to have to do some more drilling down to to make things clear up so people can see how what can be done and what needs to be done you know to make it possible because right here you know we're full of a lot of ideas and a lot of research but putting it into into implementation to implement is going to be the big thing that you guys are going to have to take it you know take the reins and work on that that's that's very true. I want to call to your attention some things just because of for people who might be watching have been a part of this because some of these ideas if you look it up three D. I think people normally maybe have been thinking about as part of the creative economy. and this is one of them developing GIS trails and and then the committee this is on the parks and tourism remember that's one of the industry's and and they must assess somebody says develop GIS trails for what and then you some ideas of the kind of things that we can have and do that really are created and and they can be a compromised and this at this but this does not mean that it's limited to what's there but that's just to get from some lotion and want to get representative garner I think this is one of those things we're talking about re imagining and stop saying there's nothing here it doesn't have to be right here it may be how I get connected to a representative tosses District whether something is and from here to here there's a trail that's the kind of creative and imaginative things we're talking with thinking about wellness another thing that I was part of that conversation and what we were talking about was if you had a university program or high school program that was looking for a project here's some things we could use some help on. Create an arch trail or a church's trail music trail mural trail so if any of your community schools or. Anybody you're looking for GIS the project. they could help us out. And in the end of our re port the one that's active if you see it on online and when we were doing this we got a represent it was a doctor so I think you got with them some folks in GIS and did like the old churches trail just some samples of what that would look like because people fascinated by that kind of thing all right so the next part of this if you want to look at What Page thirteen you might take a look at that and see if there's anything there you because those things I talked about a little bit further on in in the report in a more specific way. So that was part of the report for each boot camp where the folks for their part of our Kansas where the arts and of course we had our staff there and for each one of the bill camp that we did. They did this report that included what happened in the boot camps. So some of the recommendations even reflect some of the things we learned in the boot camps so on page sixteen that this is the first one happened here the first meeting happened here that they got the agenda there and then beginning on page sixteen you've got the background of of what went on and and the boot camp because the first one was here for organizational purposes and just think about how we move forward that was someone here. and on page thirteen. Are they data dies that we do the research to force a figure out whether or not this is something really cool that the Arkansas for the arts actually did this there's something call right to your left a compared created by tell the potential a creative vitality potential is about what what is actually here what kind of industries a possible and how are we performing on a one hundred percent basis so this is just a sample of what's here what we what we will do what is online this is actually in color but we just could not based on the need to put all of this. It just didn't seem right that's why it's black and white here but this is an example where you see is real little so we have that it's better than that when you see it online you you get the potential and and that it will tell you for example when you there's this is highest large also in the back so the idea is they have the research on say if it's it's District eight or say it's your county here are the industries that are in your county or in your arts district think about a hundred percent okay so you should be performing the potential maybe sixty six percent but you're performing only at sixteen percent because once again what we not done that imagination seeing things connected. And that's there was a report in here for every county and there's a report in here for everyone or district but this was just put here as a as an samples of what you see what things are like if you turn that page. where it says if you look at the second sent that second sentence the chart below represents the number and percentage of employees working in the creative economy secretary in a moment planning districts as well. So for numbers I'm on page ninety. Page nineteen. So if you look down below that if you look below this is for that at the top the second sentence represents the percentage of employees working in creative economy and economic development planning districts and it gives you each one of them and tells you what kind of industries and their that's that's what that's all about and the percentage of. What what industry makes up what percentage like the first one twenty one point four percent. The fourth behind in education I think and guess what that means yeah. And it's laid out further as we go and then on November second that's we have a meeting in where was this when we were in that universe of Arkansas pine bluff. and this is the report from universe of Arkansas pine bluff I don't think there's anything for us to do with it but we may want to make sure you have the full report from that stuff Committee. And go look the next one we were in Bentonville on December sixteenth. That was a big meeting there where you can see there are a lot of people there on the agenda. And it was a very robust meeting and. There are recommendations you know if you look at page twenty six the film music and visual production and recommendations there are actually recommendations that came add up that committee out of that meeting and some discussions also with the survey and. They're there for your. Use when we decide what we're going to do with what we're gonna side we're going to do our legislative committee that's how it's laid out and if you turn the page there are some further recommendations that had to do with especially the film industry because everyone that we had a lot of discussion about the film industry who were when we were up in Bentonville and a lot of discussion about potential for gain and and other and and the industry and technology was a big discussion things that we're missing that we're not doing a for example there was a lot of consternation that at our flagship university that we have not put in place much of what we need to to take advantage of the creative economy especially for technology and the arts that's that there needs to be some changes at the university itself to prepare students. So that was. Really important. Hot Springs we got on page thirty we got to hot springs. Of course that was representative Warren's hometown so you know he did it up well over there it was great at and. Following that. The agenda is their report of what we would have been in hot springs we we met at the national park college and a part of that discussion to was certainly about workforce but workforce was a part of all of these if you think for example of a two year college and and and hot springs and we tend to think a great deal about workforce we think about community colleges but just prior to that we were in Bentonville and we were talking about the work force through the creative economy and what we need to do to make sure we have a better infrastructure for job creation at the university of Arkansas our flagship so it's throughout the is is K. twelve through college and then we went to Texarkana and. There it's laid out and representative Dalby was our guests there it was I think we're all still thinking about the kids in the robotics and the way they showed off to us and so there is that report and then we got to the point we could not get meetings together In person and so we try to get to the we've got to some things that were imported by the creative economy online the reason. And so the first one of those was Out. Wellness and the health and wellness but can't and people go like well what does that have to do with health and wellness and it was pretty phenomenal I just I just highlighted some things I want to point out to you so if you turn to page thirty five. And. Dr Brooke shield Dr ritual of rent was a person who was presenting to us about health and wellness she was the first one issues the one who really put all this together but if you go down about five lines where it says Dr will rent facilitated the conversation do you see that on page thirty five. In middle the page about five one Sam Dr Lawrence facilitated the conversation focusing on community based arts and wellness programs the use of the arts and health communication. And public health and arts in the health the healthcare outreach. What we normally don't do we tend to think about arts and technology maybe technology but not the arts has been a part of health and wellness but they are are doing this and AS in using art and technology as part of their therapy people and particularly for people have the experience drama drama I should I meant to say trauma but I guess drama can go with it to. Maybe we need a lot of drama and they're trying that they're working to bring that an art therapy program to Arkansas state university and that would be a boon for them if they can get that stuff out there representative I'm sure you know like let's get it going at Arkansas state and and they gave examples of of what people are actually doing and Health using art and technology particularly art. So and I will Leslie on this and I'll ask you look at the page thirty six because this is what I found the most fascinating. the application right in the middle where it says the mission is to. Cultivated thank you ecosystem for neural arts. Defined as trans disciplinary and extra disciplinary study of how the arts and static experiences measure weight change the body of a it measures late changes the body. The brain and behavior of how this knowledge is translated to advance health and well being. That's the kind of thing is sponsored through the arts and they get some really good examples of that. and art at the very bottom promoting opportunities for socialization between groups many times that don't come together a and just because people need to be around other people are can bring it to him they have those those three things they talked about. I'm sure the other state. Yes so. Was. Past. Okay I get the microphone yeah so that the. That are committee on health we'll see this yes okay yes because what the legislation required certain folks we had to give it to and then to anybody else that we thought I thought I thought we would taxes can remember getting out yeah yeah because if we don't get into the health that and and that's what's really important about an economy where we're looking at across the board yeah so we'll do that all right I will go through the rest of it was fascinating things like that and then on may twenty fifth We had a the see what we the community development You can't. And. On over one. And that was all about what we can do you know working with the community to bring people together and so forth that these entities that need to be working together and that was a really good presentation because folks from different parts of the state talked about what they done to bring the groups together rather than the going along type thing on page forty. No that can't was about making sure that when we implement anything the weird thing about this whole state in terms of diversity equity and inclusion just being deliberate about that and we had presentations from the folks that are listed here about why that's important how to go about it and that it's important to making sure we are serving people in all parts of the state. And. That was that. Now this is just the appendices so you know what's here the appendices that will tell you what's on the back of this we'll this is what being will be included in the report and I just want you to go to. Page forty eight just for your I told you about the the data that will tell you about that your potential. And when you see our district one if you look up turn to page forty nine you see in the upper right hand corner our district one. There eight districts this information is here about that district for for all eight of the district just page after page that goes down to Page. C.. Our district eight on page fifty six. and then after that those of the art districts that's the potential for the art districts on page fifty eight is I'm sorry fifty seven is when we start that same data information county by county. And we don't have to discuss all of those so you can turn off all the way over to page one thirty. One thirty one thirty nine C. one one thirty one Celeste one directives one thirty two is weighted voting. The arts and the Arkansas arts and cultural Asset inventory remember the beginning one of our recommendation is that we create this dynamic database that will keep this inventory and somebody to manage it the database. What what the I Kansas for the arts did they went through these for the districts and if you look at page one thirty three they looked at the art district and said okay what are all of the things that are happening here and now that we need to be thinking about how can we connect them how can we amplify them how can we make them better what do we need to do that's the database of what's here and now and that's what all of the rest of this Ian's they do make a disclaimer that they are not saying that everything here is still exactly the way it was when they did the reports on some of these things may be into my eyes and they don't claim to have I thought of everything. But I'm telling you they did a really good job of capturing all of this. So. That's the end of it that that's the that's the end of the report on the backside on the back pages of bibliography of all of the. And from of the research that they did to show where they got information. Anything else anybody this is a. Questions questions you. If not. If there is no is there anything else we knew before we got it all if not we need a motion to accept this report as amended because we do have an amendment okay motion to accept the report as amended Is there a second. Okay all those in favor except in the report to be distributed as noted by the legislation say aye aye those opposed. Thank you all so much I don't know but you know but I'm tired. Thank you. Yeah I'm very. Been waiting for this for a long time all right thank you we are adjourned.