City of Mountain View  
Minutes - Final  
Performing Arts Committee  
Wednesday, January 15, 2025  
6:15 PM  
Atrium Conference Room and Video  
Conference, 500 Castro St., Mountain View, CA  
94041  
This meeting was being conducted with a virtual component.  
1.  
CALL TO ORDER  
Vice Chair Garcia called the meeting to order at 6:15 p.m.  
2.  
ROLL CALL  
3 - Vice Chair Carol Donahue, Committee Member Yao Yao, and Chair David Garcia  
Present  
3.  
MINUTES APPROVAL  
Minutes  
M/S Donahue/Yao - Approved the December 4, 2024 minutes with minor clerical corrections.  
3 - Vice Chair Donahue, Committee Member Yao, and Chair Garcia  
Yes:  
4.  
5.  
6.  
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC  
UNFINISHED BUSINESS - None  
NEW BUSINESS  
Election of New Officers  
M/S Donahue/Yao - The Committee nominated and elected Vice Chair Garcia as Chairperson.  
3 - Vice Chair Donahue, Committee Member Yao, and Chair Garcia  
Yes:  
Yes:  
M/S - The Committee nominated and elected Committee Member Donahue as Vice Chair.  
3 - Vice Chair Donahue, Committee Member Yao, and Chair Garcia  
Replacement of SecondStage Ad Hoc Committee Member  
Vice Chair Donahue volunteered to replace former Chair McAlister in the SecondStage Fee Waiver Program  
Ad hoc committee.  
7.  
COMMITTEE/STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, REQUESTS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS  
Performing Arts Manager Theresa Yvonne reported the Visual Arts Committee, Downtown Committee, and  
the Performing Arts Committee staff liaison's met to discuss collaboration amongst the three committees.  
Staff liaisons from each committee will present at each other's meetings, and ask for volunteers to form an  
Ad hoc committee to discuss collaborations.  
The following members of the public spoke from the floor virtually:  
- Barbara Miller  
8.  
ADJOURNMENT  
Chair Garcia adjourned the meeting at 7:46 p.m.  
NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC:  
The agenda and staff reports are available online at mountainview.legistar.com.  
Questions and comments regarding the agenda may be directed to the Performing Arts Division at 650-903-6565.  
The Committee may consider and act on items listed on the agenda in any order. Consideration of the matters noticed herein is not limited  
by the recommendations indicated herein.  
Pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), if you need special assistance in this meeting, please contact the Mountain View  
Center for the Performing Arts office at 650-903-6565. Notification of 48 hours prior to the meeting will enable the City to make reasonable  
arrangements to ensure accessibility to this meeting. (28 CFR 35.160 (b) (1)).  
ADDRESSING THE COMMITTEE  
Interested persons are entitled to speak on any item on the agenda and should make their interest known to the Chair.  
Anyone wishing to address the Committee on an item not on the agenda may do so during the “Oral Communications” part of the agenda.  
Speakers are allowed to speak once on any number of topics for up to three minutes. For any agenda item or for Oral Communications on  
nonagenda items, if there appears to be a large number of speakers, the Chair may reduce speaking time to no less than 1.5 minutes per  
speaker unless there is an objection from the Committee by majority vote.  
Pursuant to Government Code Section 54954.3(b)(1), at least twice the allotted speaking time will be provided to a member of the public  
who utilizes a translator.