Specifications - Creation of a Cultural Master Plan

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ARTS & CULTURE MASTER PLAN INTRODUCTION The City of Sunny Isles Beach is seeking the services of a qualified consulting firm /team to provide leadership for the development and creation of the City's first Cultural Master Plan. The Proposer is asked to assess a City's existing cultural resources and create a strategy (a 5 -10 year plan) to leverage arts and culture in order to increase civic engagement to create a better sense of community, create economic development and cultural tourism opportunities, and to improve the overall quality of life for all sectors of the city. The Plan should provide the City with a common vision for the future for the role that arts and culture should play in our City as well as to ascertain what pieces of that vision can guide policy and programming to enhance the quality of life for our residents, businesses, and visitors. The City would like to see arts and culture provide a medium to: • preserve, celebrate, challenge, and invent community identity; • engage participation in civic life; • inform, educate, and learn from diverse audiences; • communicate across demographic and socioeconomic lines. Specifically, the purpose of the project is to help strengthen, harmonize, and raise the profile of cultural endeavors through systematic planning. The development of this Plan will build upon the strong Sunny Isles Beach foundation and existing programming of cultural events currently provided by the Cultural and Community Services Department. Sunny Isles Beach has an extremely culturally and age diverse population, some of whom are transient and others of whom are year -round residents. The City desires to create targeted programming consistent with the desire of the City of Sunny Isles Beach's Commission and the Sunny Isles Beach Foundation to create a better sense of community. Additionally, because the Sunny Isles Beach Foundation and the City are separate entities that operate independently, a cultural master plan should facilitate a discussion on how each entity can be coordinated, what should each's roles and responsibilities should be to maximize productivity and expenditure of funds, whether taxpayer dollars or Sunny Isles Beach Foundation contributions through private donations or grants, and the best way to leverage these monies for the enhanced benefit of the citizens. As part of the plan, the Proposer will be asked to create the best method to pursue funding and identify specific opportunities for collaboration through strategic partnerships, alliances, and cultural organizations; and to help us organize to identify and assist with application processes for local, state, national and high level funding sources. Finally, this Plan once completed should help the City define how best to use its capital improvements including a magnificent beach, eleven (11) active local parks, and other identified venues or facilities that will best serve the City's cultural plan. City of Sunny Isles Beach I Request for Proposal No. 15 -08 -01