Arts and Historic Preservation Commission

Implementation

The Sandpoint Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation Plan provides a vision and framework for local action in enhancing the community’s cultural arts and historic preservation programs. The following section provides guidance regarding the consolidation of the Arts and Historic Preservation Commissions into one arts and historic preservation planning body, as well as potential funding sources for local activities. An implementation chart summarizes all arts, culture and historic preservation implementation actions.

Arts and Historic Preservation Commission

A key recommended initiative in this Arts, Culture and Historic Preservation Plan is the consolidation of the Arts and Historic Preservation Commission into one combined entity (Initiative #1.1). Ideally, a newly reconstituted Arts and Historic Preservation Commission should have the following composition and duties. The newly reconstituted commission should also encourage civic engagement of Sandpoint youth through a youth advisory group or committee.

COMPOSITION

The new Arts and Historic Preservation Commission should comprise nine member with threeyear terms and a limit of two terms for all members with the exception of representation of the Bonner County Historical Society and Museum. Do not limit membership by personal residential status. Ensure the Commission includes two people who meet the Secretary of the Interior’s Professional Qualification Standards for Historic Preservation. Recommended make up of the Commission includes:

• Nonprofit arts organization leaders (2)

• Nonprofit historic organization leader (2)

• People with professional expertise in fine art, public art, arts education or performance

• People with professional expertise in architecture, historic preservation, or land use development

• Regional tribal members or tribal artists

• Sandpoint business or property owner

• At-large community member

DUTIES

Commission duties include:

• Stimulate greater public awareness and appreciation of the importance of the arts, historic preservation, and local Sandpoint heritage.

• Encourage the growth of Sandpoint’s artistic and cultural community, and the preservation of historic resources by fostering a receptive climate for the arts, culture, and historic preservation.

• Provide financial and technical assistance to Sandpoint's artistic, historical, and cultural organizations in advancing arts and preservation planning goals.

• Regularly assess the arts and cultural heritage needs of the people of Sandpoint and make such information available to the City Council and all interested agencies and entities for planning purposes.

• Survey, document and preserve historic resources important to understanding Sandpoint’s heritage.

• Encourage opportunities for Sandpoint’s residents to participate in artistic, historical, and cultural activities offered by the City and other arts and heritage entities.

• Seek and encourage financial support, including grants, loans and guarantees to Sandpoint artists, arts institutions, historians and heritage organizations sponsoring arts, historic preservation, and history activities, subject to City Council approval.

• Represent the public interest by developing and recommending policies that pertain to arts, historic preservation, and history to the Sandpoint City Council.

• Advise the Sandpoint City Council regarding the costs, benefits and other issues of acquiring cultural assets and implementing cultural and heritage programming.

• Consider and recommend to the City Council such local laws and regulations, and ordinances necessary or desirable for the protection, enhancement and preservation of historic properties.

• Recommend to the City Council, within the limits of its funding, the employment of or the contracting with other parties for the services of technical experts or other persons as the

Commission deems necessary to carry on its functions.