How do you or I know what the commission actually did? We are getting but one side of the story here.
I was actually on a statue Commission in my home town when I was in high school. We were supposed to meet on any proposals for new statues in town. I was the “youth” representative.
We met once.
My guess, if the commission was similar, they probably did not have the phone numbers for the members.
But it looked good on my college application.