County facilities director: Somewhere Fest requested Coleman parking-lot rental; county not asked to close streets

Tanya (staff) and Andrew Dilts, director of facilities, explained that Somewhere Fest is asking to rent the Coleman parking lot for staging and event activities Sept. 2129. Dilts said: "We were approached by the Somewhere Fest organization, and they requested to rent the Coleman lot. We have not been approached by anybody else, for the same dates on the Coleman lot." Tanya clarified that the festival rental covers the lot and staging days but does not encompass street closures or other off-lot work.

Commissioners raised concerns about an article reporting competing events and asked whether the county facility might be double-booked. Dilts and Tanya said the county had no concurrent rental on the Coleman lot and that any dispute over street closures (for nearby Saint Francis Street) was outside the county's rental agreement and would require city police authorization.