City of Mountain View  
Minutes - Final  
Performing Arts Committee  
Wednesday, June 18, 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  
Chair Garcia brought the meeting to order at 6:17 p.m.  
2.  
ROLL CALL  
5 -  
Present  
Committee Member Antara Bhardwaj, Committee Member Valerie Fenwick, Committee Member  
Yao Yao, Vice Chair Carol Donahue, and Chair David Garcia  
3.  
MINUTES APPROVAL  
3.1  
Minutes Approval  
M/S Fenwick/Bhardwaj - Approved the May 20, 2025 minutes.  
Yes:  
5 -  
Committee Member Bhardwaj, Committee Member Fenwick, Committee Member Yao, Vice  
Chair Donahue, and Chair Garcia  
4.  
5.  
6.  
ORAL COMMUNICATIONS FROM THE PUBLIC - NONE  
UNFINISHED BUSINESS - None  
NEW BUSINESS  
6.1  
Performing Arts Committee FY2025-26 Workplan  
M/S Fenwick/Bhardwaj - Drafted revisions for the committee work plan for the upcoming 2025-26 fiscal year,  
and made a motion to add an agenda item (Item 6.2) to create an ad hoc committee to plan and participate  
in the upcoming Mountain View Arts and Wine Festival in September.  
Yes:  
5 -  
Committee Member Bhardwaj, Committee Member Fenwick, Committee Member Yao, Vice  
Chair Donahue, and Chair Garcia  
6.2  
Arts and Wine Festival Ad hoc  
No action taken.  
Committee members Fenwick and Bhardwaj volunteered to join the ad hoc.  
7.  
COMMITTEE/STAFF ANNOUNCEMENTS, UPDATES, REQUESTS AND COMMITTEE REPORTS  
Performing Arts Manager Theresa Yvonne provided an update on scheduling the first Visual Arts - Downtown  
- Performing Arts ad hoc committee meeting with a goal to meet by end of July.  
8.  
ADJOURNMENT  
Chair Garcia adjourned the meeting at 7:55 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.