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  <br />building creativity <br />Empire State Building I 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 4005 I NY, NY 10118 I t: 212.929.5040 I f: 212.929.5954 I webbmgmt.org <br />   <br />   <br />October 1, 2015 <br />Sunny Isles Beach Government Center <br />City Clerk’s Office <br />18070 Collins Avenue, 4th Floor <br />Sunny Isles Beach, FL 33160 <br />To Whom It May Concern: <br />Further to your Request for Proposals for a Cultural Master Plan, and our subsequent participation <br />in the pre-proposal conference, we are pleased to enclose a response. Our submission describes <br />our qualifications and potential approach to helping the City of Sunny Isles Beach and the Sunny <br />Isles Beach Foundation develop a plan to guide the development of arts and culture in the City for <br />the next 5 to 10 years. <br />Our approach is designed to foster a grass roots planning effort that gathers information from the <br />community and engages the arts and cultural sector, sharing ideas and results along the way. As our <br />materials show, we have experience working with similar planning processes and have particular <br />knowledge and experience in Florida. Over the last 5+ years, we have developed community cultural <br />plans for Virginia Beach (VA), Gladstone (MO), Oakville (Ontario, Canada), and Round Rock (TX). <br />For this project, we have teamed with Surale Phillips, a specialist in cultural research and <br />engagement. Surale lives in Palm Beach Gardens and is entrenched in the regional cultural <br />community, having most recently facilitated the engagement process for the West Palm Beach Art in <br />Public Places Master Plan. Her expertise would provide great value to your planning process. <br />We have closely followed the requirements outlined in your RFP—including information that <br />describes our firm, experience, staffing, methodology, and budget—to, first, assess the state of <br />arts and culture in Sunny Isles Beach, and then, develop a comprehensive 5 to 10 year plan to guide <br />cultural development that enhances quality of life for Sunny Isles Beach residents. <br />We certainly hope to have the opportunity to work with the City and Foundation on this project. <br />We’ll look forward to speaking further with you about our potential to help develop this exciting <br />plan. In the meantime, please do not hesitate to call with any questions or requests for additional <br />information. <br />Yours sincerely, <br />Duncan M. Webb <br />President