Specifications - Creation of a Cultural Master Plan

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BACKGROUND The City of Sunny Isles Beach located on a barrier island in Northeast Miami -Dade County. While small in size (only 1 '/2 square miles), since its incorporation in 1997, the City's population has grown from 13,000 with many retirees to approximately 22,000 with enough young families and school aged children for the City to have found it necessary and desirable to initially contribute 12.5 million dollars toward the purchase of land to the Miami -Dade School Board to build a K -8 school in its boundaries and contributed an adjacent park as a field facility. The City is the home to thousands of new immigrants from all over the world, including Russia, South America, Middle East, Canada and Europe. It has both a summer and a winter tourist seasons. The City is an urban, world class destination that provides access to South Florida beaches, luxury living, dining and hotels, and eleven (11) "state of the art" park facilities that serve as venues for presenting programmed cultural events and other recreational programming. The City's Cultural and Community Services Department currently sponsors numerous musical events including an annual locally recognized Jazz festival and an annual Beethoven on the Beach concert. It has sculptures in several of its parks and has an Art in Public Places Program required for any new development. There is newly installed infrastructure, yet, despite huge initiative and effort, there is only a certain amount of community engagement. The City is seeking to create more. In February of this year, the Sunny Isles Beach Foundation, a private non - profit community foundation, began its operations with the following mission: to be a permanent charitable endowment dedicated to promote quality of life through multidisciplinary cultural arts and government initiatives designed to incite and inspire engagement of the City's diverse population, to focus on creative public space and place making and transform the culture of Sunny Isles Beach. The Foundation's first three projects are in process. The first project (to be unveiled this Fall) is the dedication and creation of an art wall which will display a mural of transposed works from the winners of a juried mural competition among our community's middle and high school students. The Foundation's second project also in process is the promotion of a March Music Month, a series of concerts to be performed in a month with the City's highest population numbers. Also, based on the Foundation's research, and with the City Commission's endorsement, there is a consensus that in order to create the best opportunity for community success in the arts, we need a long -term strategy for cultural development in City. In furtherance of the development and implementation of such strategy, and in partnership with the Sunny Isles Beach Foundation, the City and the Foundation undertake the development of a Cultural Master Plan. INQUIRIES All inquiries shall be directed to Lynn M. Dannheisser, 786- 202 -1133 or via e-mail at Iannheisser(a)sunnyislesbeachfoundation.org with a copy via e -mail to Jane Hines, MMC, City Clerk at Ihines(a)sibfl.net. Ms. Dannheisser is the Executive Director of the Sunny Isles Beach Foundation, but for purposes of development and execution /administration of this Cultural Master Plan she is acting as the City's consultant and liaison for the City and Foundation. Therefore, all communications with regard to this Proposal shall become public record. All written inquiries and replies thereto shall also be copied to all Proposers. It shall be the responsibility of each respondent to check the City's website for any supplementary information related to this RFP. City of Sunny Isles Beach I Request for Proposal No. 15 -08 -01