With the City of Fishers planning a new arts center as part of a new city hall complex, the Arts & Culture Commission is signaling it wants to be part of the process.

The city’s Director of Public Relations, Ashley Elrod, provided a brief summary of the city’s process to construct a new city hall with an arts center as part of that complex.  Arts & Culture Commission President David Decker asked Ms. Elrod how involved the commission can be in the new arts center.

That will be driven by which group is selected to handle construction and programming for the new arts center.  Elrod said the commission can be involved in the work of the consultants for the project once that team is selected.

“Let’s keep an open door for us on that,” Decker said.  “I think we would probably want to be involved in making sure that some of the…feedback we get from the Creative Council and the other surveys gets put into action.”

The city had an RFP (request for proposals) recently close for a team to plan for the construction and potential programming for an arts center.  The team to handle the project is expected to be named soon.

The commission welcomed a new member at the Wednesday evening meeting.  Ben Yoder, orchestra teacher at HSE Intermediate/Junior High, replaces HSE High School Social Studies teacher Jamie Follis as a commission member.