Communication has gone dead
At the Oct. 27 meeting, Commissioner Penny Taylor told the county commission and audience she wanted 90 days to go through this plan with United Arts Council in collaboration and to work on this.
Asked if she had called the UAC, with whom she told commissioners she would work collaboratively on the changes, Taylor said, Oh, my goodness, yes. They still owe me a call, Taylor said. They definitely had conversations but they just didn t follow up.
Burns, however, said she absolutely did not receive any communication from Taylor after the Oct. 27 meeting.
Taylor said she worked with county officials and the plan s Florida-based consultants from The Cultural Planning Group to make changes over the 90 days. She said they talked with other counties or municipal districts with arts plans about their governance. All of those, she said, use a person or organization as executor that does not raise money from the same sources arts groups