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Parks & Recreation Department - Pete Mayer, Director
November 19, 2025: MINUTES FOR APPROVAL
Thomas McLeod, Mayor
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City's Arts Commission will meet on November 19, 2025, at 6 p.m.
This meeting will be held in person and on Teams in the Executive Conference Room at the Tukwila Community Center,
12424 42nd Avenue South. For questions, please call the Arts Commission Staff Liaison, Michael May, at 206-767-2342.
ARTS COMMISSION: Pat Bako (Chair/Position 1), Sheila Coppola (Vice Chair/Position 2), Pinky Estell (Position 3), Cynthia
Chcsak (Position 5), Kamla Kakaria (Position 6), Shawn Bclyca (Position 7), Angeline Peralta (Student Representative)
AGENDA:
Call to Order/LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: The City of Tukwila is located on the ancestral lands of the Coast Salish
people. We acknowledge their continuing connections to land, waters, and culture. We pay our respect to their elders
past, present and emerging.
• Roll Call
• Approval of Agenda
• Approval of Minutes
Commissioner Reports:
• Reports
o State of the City Update (Mayor McLeod request)
• Sheila Coppola met with the Mayor.
• The event date will be April 29
• No designer will be involved.
• Sheila will work up some designs to share with the Mayor/Commission after the
holidays in January
• Initial concept is to have 5 people holding hands (representing Tukwila's diversity).
Surrounded by the natural environment present in our City.
• Design should be wrapped up sometime in February/March.
• Sheila suggested "payment" could come in the form of an artist grant funded by the
City. The mayor suggested two $2500 grants.
• Mayor brought up inter -generational center at the future HealthPoint site. Sheila
suggested that the Tukwila Teen Art Collective be included in that.
• Sheila Coppola mentioned that she had a conversation with the Tukwila Historical Society about
the use of the old Fire Station 52 at Hazelnut Park.
• Pinky Estell mentioned that some work has been done privately on what it would cost to
renovate the space.
Tukwila Community Center • 12424-42nd Avenue South . Tukwila, WA 98168 • 206-768-2822
Tukwila City Hall • 6200 Southcenter Boulevard • Tukwila, WA 98188 206-433-1800 Website: Tukwil Agov
City of Tukwila Thomas McLeod, Mayor
Parks & Recreation Department - Pete Mayer, Director
• Parks & Recreation has applied for a grant to explore revitalizing the space as well.
Michael May will explore whether the funding has been approved.
• New Business
o Pinky Estell:
• Otter & Penguin Makerspaces did a fundraising activity at Sheila Coppola's studio.
• OPM has also toured a shop space in Pioneer Square.
• Pinky will bring a draft resolution/letter from the Commission to be sent to the City Council in
the new year. It will be presented at the Commission meeting in January.
o End of Year Gathering:
• December 17: All Commission Gathering
• Commission voted to gather instead of having a meeting
• Start time will be 6 p.m.
• Michael will reserve a space. Social Hall is the preferred location.
Staff Reports
• 1% Fund Balance
• World Cup Art Projects / Festival Street
• Fort Dent Park Sewer Lift Station
Agenda for Next/Future Meetings (5 min)
Adjournment / Next Meeting: January 21, 2026
Tukwila Community Center 12424-42nd Avenue South Tukwila, WA 98168 • 206-768-2822
Tukwila City Hall • 6200 Southcenter Boulevard. Tukwila, WA 98188
206-433-1800 • Website: TukwilaWA.gov