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Arts Commission hears strategic-plan update; city begins talks to combine arts agencies
Summary
At its June 2 meeting the San Francisco Arts Commission received an update from consultants on a multi‑phase strategic planning process and heard city officials say a proposal to bring the Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts and the Film Commission into a single structure is a preliminary plan to be studied.
SAN FRANCISCO — The San Francisco Arts Commission on June 2 received an update on a multi‑phase strategic planning process and heard city officials say the mayor's office has opened a preliminary process to explore bringing the Arts Commission, Grants for the Arts and the Film Commission into a combined arts department.
Consultant Bill Blake of AMS Planning and Research told commissioners the planning process began in August and has engaged almost 1,000 people: 38 stakeholder interviews, a stakeholder survey with about 109 responses, 730 responses to a broad community survey and roughly 110 participants at open houses. "We are currently in the midst in phase 4, which is the envisioning the future part," Blake said, describing the next months as the period when governance will set high‑level goals and staff will draft objectives and strategies.
The consultants presented a fiscal and program overview of the commission, saying the commission's fiscal 2025 operating budget…
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