The village's Arts and Humanities Advisory Council heads into summer with a packed schedule of workshops, concerts and banner follow-ups — and a budget that members know will not stretch to every public-art idea on their list. According to the minutes of the council's June 2 meeting, the new budget totals $11,085 for ongoing and new projects. The largest single item is $7200 for six additional concerts at $1200 apiece, followed by $1535 for ten banners — a cost the village picked up last year — and $1175 for workshops. The remaining $1175 has to cover everything else, with benches and murals not yet assigned any dollar figure at all. The workshop series is first on the calendar. Anthony Lopez, who coordinates the workshops, has already distributed flyers for a June 14 sketching session. Chair Valerie Leis will lead a July 11 encaustic demonstration run in conjunction with CCoA, with a flyer still to come, and a photography workshop on capturing fine art is planned for late July or August. A certificate of insurance that would cover all council events for the year is still pending. To publicize its events, the council plans to assemble a checklist of promotional outlets for whoever is coordinating an event: flyers at the library, Black Cow, Matters, Bare Studio and the gallery, listings on the village calendar, and articles in the Chronicle and Gazette. Member Samantha Raines sent workshop information to the Champ board, and the council may pursue ArtsWestchester exposure through the village because membership in the organization is expensive. The publicity subcommittee also set its standing deadline for the CCoA newsletter — notifications go out a week before the end of the month prior to an event. Last year's artist banners could get a second life. The council discussed holding another reception, running a scavenger hunt, posting banner images on social media, adding QR codes to signage to lead viewers to artist information, and producing trading cards with an artist's image on the front and stats on the back, color-coded by discipline. Members cautioned that whatever is reused must be copyright-safe, guided by research identifying which images are clearly in the public domain. The bigger ambitions are in concrete and paint. A mural at Duck Pond, conceived as a link to the village's bike share, will move ahead as a proposal even though members acknowledged the budget will not cover it — the plan is to develop the concept far enough to encourage the village to co-fund it. Raines asked members for feedback on the proposal, and Jessica Sewell, a recent appointee to the council, offered to review it. Members want to define an artist-selection process, learn from other municipalities that have done similar projects, and inquire with ArtsWestchester; connecting the effort to schools could unlock additional funding. A garbage-can art project is also on the idea list. An overpass mural has a longer runway: repairs are scheduled for next year. Members weighed a themed mural against an artist-led or community-led one and sketched a middle path — consult the community on a short list of themes, with room for write-in suggestions, then have the council select artists by majority vote and manage the curation process directly. The council's business review reinforced its structure: Leis is the chair and the main point of contact with village administration, and the committee will be assigned an email address for Leis to manage. Attendance is expected, receipts are required for every expense, and members were urged to review the council's guidelines thoroughly. The minutes acknowledge a long-time member's service, and the village has posted the council's open positions. Members flagged dance and theater as gaps in the group's expertise to fill through new appointees or informal collaborators. The council also noted growing pains on the village side: onboarding for new members needs improvement — recent appointees learned of a professional training requirement by template email months after their interviews — and the village now has a new grants writer. An August hiatus is possible given vacation schedules. A village-wide inventory of art in public buildings was tabled until next month's meeting, where it returns as an item associated with ceramic artist Orit Daly.