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POR 2017 #299 · Agenda item attachment · Oct 30 2017
That the City Manager is requested to convene a large and inclusive Comprehensive Arts Working Group, comprised of people from across the broad spectrum of ethnic, cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds in our community, in order to begin drafting a Comprehensive Arts Planning Framework that shall help better incorporate the Arts into City planning and update the City Council on progress made toward appointing the members of this working group by the final City Council meeting of this term
City of Cambridge
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ORIGINAL ORDER
IN CITY COUNCIL
October 30, 2017
MAYOR SIMMONS
WHEREAS:
The City of Cambridge has long prided itself as a culturally vibrant community,
continually working to incorporate the Arts into our public spaces and public projects
to ensure that this city remains a truly warm, inviting, and inspiring place for all; and
WHEREAS:
The People of Cambridge understand that the incorporation of the Arts into the fabric
of our community should never be viewed as a mere luxury, but rather should be
understood as being part of the very essence of what constitutes a healthy, successful,
livable city; and
WHEREAS:
In order to ensure that our commitment to the Arts is not haphazard or relegated to
being tacked on to projects that are already underway, it would be wise for the City to
develop an overarching vision of the role the Arts can and should be playing in
Cambridge in the decades ahead; and
WHEREAS:
In recent years, the City has undertaken a number of public discussions to establish
frameworks to guide our policy decisions around development, affordable housing,
budgeting concerns, and other ongoing concerns, and in keeping with this spirit, the
City would be wise to convene a working group charged with developing a broad
outline to help guide important City decisions around the funding and more cohesive
incorporation of the Arts into all future City planning; now therefore be it
ORDERED:
That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to convene a Comprehensive Arts
Working Group, comprised of people from across the broad spectrum of ethnic,
cultural, and socio-economic backgrounds in our community, in order to begin drafting
a Comprehensive Arts Planning Framework that shall help better incorporate the Arts
into City planning going forward; and be it further
ORDERED:
That the City Manager be and hereby is requested to update the City Council on
progress made toward appointing the members of this working group by the final City
Council meeting of this term.