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ACME outlines program evaluation, 'Elevate' guideline revision and Nexus timeline; commissioners press on ethics and final-report payments
Summary
City's new Office of Arts, Cultural, Music and Entertainment (ACME) described a year-long program evaluation, a community-engaged Elevate guideline revision with a July council goal, Nexus award timeline and questions about final-report processing and commissioner conflict rules.
Candice Cooper, interim chief administrative officer for ACME, and Jesus Pantel, cultural funding supervisor, briefed the Arts Commission on cultural-funding programs, timelines and an expanded community-engagement plan.
"ACME is a brand new office that was established on 02/24/2025," Cooper said, and she described a program-evaluation process and a parallel strategic-planning effort that will use community feedback collected between 2020 and 2025. Cooper said staff are processing that feedback through a tool being selected with the citywide public-input team and expect to return analyzed results to the commission.
Cooper said staff are revising cultural-funding guidelines to reflect the office mission and recent state and federal changes. She said the commission working-group recommendations have been reviewed and some are already incorporated into draft guideline language…
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