Hi Roberta,

Thanks so much for sharing! Would you mind sharing a sample of your 5-year strategic plan? That format could be a useful supplement to our master planning documents and sounds a lot like what I’m looking for.

Thanks!

Sarah Bluvas

Arts & Culture Coordinator, Mercer Island Parks and Recreation

Staff Liaison, Mercer Island Arts Council

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From: public_art_network@americansforthearts.simplelists.com <public_art_network@americansforthearts.simplelists.com> On Behalf Of Bloom, Roberta
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Subject: RE: Examples of public art acquisition guidelines and long-range spending plans for 1% for Art programs

Hi Sarah,

We work with two different documents. Our Master Plan covers a specific five year period and our new one covers 2019-2024. This is a big picture aspirational document about broad goals and potential steps to achieve them, without getting too specific. It helps ensure that the work that is being done addresses the broad programmatic goals as they are tied to City Council goals. It also has many photos of recently completed projects and it a great tool for celebrating accomplishments and putting your best foot forward. It is the sort of document that can be very helpful in terms of prioritizing one opportunity over another. This is a public document that was reviewed by City Council.

We have 5 Year Strategic Plan that is a fluid document that can be updated as needed. This is a tool for internal program management that includes goals and objectives as well as specific projects from those already in progress to potential projects and estimated budgets 5 years out. This is helpful in terms of workload management; financial management; ensuring that, over time, we are addressing public art opportunities through a city that covers a lot of mileage; ensuring that whenever possible we are working together with construction timelines and those sorts of things. While this covers 5 years, it changes annually. We review it our monthly AIPP Meeting and at our Annual Planning meeting in January.

I hope that is helpful.

Regards,

Roberta Bloom

Roberta Bloom, Public Art Coordinator

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Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2019 3:18 PM
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Subject: Examples of public art acquisition guidelines and long-range spending plans for 1% for Art programs

Hi PAN,

Our local arts agency plans to embark on updating its guidelines for acquisition and selection of public art as well as develop a recommended long-range (3 to 5 years) spending plan for our 1% for Art in Public Places Fund later this year. I’m reaching out for examples of other cities’ acquisition guidelines. I also wonder if other communities have developed a long-range spending plan for their public art program? We are less concerned with developing a strategic plan with vision, goals, etc., as we are already working on some versions of that with the community. I’m mostly looking for a way to organize projects that the Arts Council has already loosely committee to but don’t have a specific timeline or priority level. Perhaps an annual workplan or something else like a one-page strategic plan approach?

Any guidance or examples you all can provide are greatly appreciated.