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Arts Commission to draft letter asking Bellevue School District to clarify public rental of school performance spaces

Bellevue Arts Commission · March 4, 2026
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Summary

The Bellevue Arts Commission voted to organize a committee to draft a formal letter to the Bellevue School District asking it to reconsider public rental of school performance facilities after repeated community feedback about lack of available space. Staff said the commission will work with the clerk's office on protocol and will convene the community partnerships committee to draft the letter.

The Bellevue Arts Commission agreed on a process to draft a formal letter asking the Bellevue School District to reconsider making its performance and adjacent facilities available for public rental.

Staff said the request would summarize what the commission has heard from artists and arts organizations about a shortage of rentable performance space and ask the district to review its current rental practices. "We would like to reach out in a formal capacity as the arts commission to our partners at the school district," staff said (speaker S7).

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