25B - AGMT - ARTS AND CULTURE MASTER PLAN

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Teams Experience The following projects Illustrate our team's successful experience In projects relevant to the Santa Ana Arts Plan. They include communitywide cultural master plans, cultural facility and district plans, feasibility studies, Impact studies, arts research, public art master plans, and assessments. Links to work samples are provided for most. All projects were completed during the agreed on schedules (none were delayed) and on budget. The Cultural Planning Group City of San Antonio, Texas 1) Cultural Collaborative (2005) 2) SA2020 Vision Survey (2013), and 3) Downtown Arts Facility Study (2014) Our first project for San Antonio was a comprehensive cultural plan, which is among the first of its type to focus on development of both the cultural community and the overall creative economy. The year -long planning process directly Involved more than 1,000 people and included three related studies, 1) an economic impact study, 2) a creative industries study, and 3) a bilingual, random household telephone survey. Building on the Ideas of economist Dr. Richard Florida, the plan encompasses economic development strategies for cultural and heritage tourism, arts - related businesses, the creative workforce, and cultural districts and facilities. It also encompasses more traditional cultural planning issues, such as access and participation, cultural equity, funding, public art and arts education. Since June 2005, San Antonio's Office of Cultural Affairs has implemented nearly the entire plan. This agency received major increases in Its City budget and secured additional implementation funding each year from the City, throughout the economic recession. In addition, new resources have been provided by a ballot initiative, a. new united arts fund, a new foundation providing fellowships for individual artists, and other Implementation partners. In the past year, CPG was re- engaged twice, to help realign the City's cultural efforts with its new communitywide vision plan, SA 2020, and to conduct a study for a downtown arts facility. Americans for the Arts Local Arts Index (2010 -2012) g httN 11www.artsndoxi{sfl 2rgllocal -arts index i e We assisted Americans for the Arts in the A Project of Americans for the Arts research, development and launch of the Local Arts Index (LAI). LAI Is an innovative approach to understanding the vitality and character of a local arts community through a set of 51 indicators that measure resources, activity, competitiveness and character. Maryland is included in this index and CPG has unique familiarity and insight into the use of this local data. LAI allows for comparisons among any of the 3,143 counties In the United States. 25B -34 27