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Santa Ana Arts Future <br />Community Arts and Cultural Master Plan <br />Summary of Goals and Recommended Strategies <br />The plan provides both a bold roadmap and a City and community agenda for success. There <br />are eight goals with accompanying strategies and initiatives. Each goal includes recommended <br />implementation partners, timelines, and metrics. <br />Goal 1: Foster a citywide culture of equity, inclusion, and access. <br />1.1: Explore cultural equity initiatives taking place in other cities and develop and implement an <br />appropriate cultural equity effort in Santa Ana. <br />1.2: Work to eliminate access barriers to arts and cultural programming for all residents. <br />Goal 2: Work collectively towards a robust infrastructure for the arts in Santa Ana inclusive of <br />City policy, staffing, and sustained funding. <br />2.1: Organize the City arts program and organizational structure in alignment with best practices <br />in the local arts agency field. <br />2.2: During the initial phase of implementation of this plan, the current structure and placement <br />of the Arts Commission should be retained, after which time it should be reevaluated. <br />2.3: Develop a staffing plan to allow for the incremental implementation of the arts and cultural <br />plan. <br />2.4: Explore long-term funding options for arts and cultural investments and to ensure <br />implementation of this arts and cultural plan. <br />Goal 3: Create the conditions where artists and creatives thrive professionally and arts and <br />cultural organizations have the resources required for sustained success. <br />3.1: Support and strengthen the burgeoning creative economy in Santa Ana. <br />3.2: Develop a capacity building initiative for arts and creative enterprises. <br />3.3: Develop a capacity building program for the nonprofit arts and cultural sector. <br />3.4: Raise awareness of the positive impact of arts, culture, and creativity on Santa Ana's overall <br />economic development. <br />Goal 4: Support and expand arts and cultural programming to engage all populations <br />throughout the community. <br />4.1: Develop a Neighborhood Arts Program facilitating arts and creative opportunities for every <br />neighborhood and community group, ensuring equitable distribution of resources. <br />4.2: Create life-long learning programming that is available to under -served constituencies <br />including homeless, veterans, seniors, and disabled populations <br />4.3: Ensure greater long-term success of traditional, historic and contemporary festivals, and <br />events <br />65B-11 <br />