DUTIES: The Arts Commission
advises the City Council on all matters relating to the arts and cultural
life of San Jose. The Commission reviews art acquisitions, arts programs,
public art projects, and grant applications from cultural groups and recommends
levels of funding for them to the City Council. The Commission also serves
as an advocate for the arts and for beautification of the environment
to the Council and the Staff.
RELATIONSHIPS: The City Council is
the final decision-making body. The Commission is advisory to the Council
on the distribution of City funding for the Arts and makes recommendations
to the Council respecting Arts and Festival grants. Arts Commissioners
serve as liaisons between the City’s arts programs, programs of
adjacent communities, the state and the nation, and arts organizations.
QUALIFICATIONS: Commissioners must
be residents of San Jose. It is helpful if Commissioners have acknowledged
accomplishments in the field of architecture, art criticism, art history,
choreography, crafts, drama, landscape architecture, literature, music,
painting, photography or sculpture, or a demonstrated interest in and
appreciation of cultural and artistic activities. Any expertise in business
or accounting would be helpful.
MEETINGS: The Commission meets on
the second Wednesday of each month at 5:30 P.M. in City Hall, Room W119.
Commissioners spend between 25-30 hours a month in Commission meetings,
study and preparation time, serving on grant review panels, and meetings
with citizens, cultural groups and others.
BENEFITS: There is no compensation
for the Arts Commission. However, from time to time, Commissioners may
be reimbursed for some expenses incurred on City business.
POLITICAL REFORM ACT OF 1974 AS AMENDED:
The Conflict of Interests Section of the Political Reform Act applies
to the Arts Commission. Commissioners are required to file a Statement
of Economic Interests, Form 700, to disclose investments, income including
gifts and loans, and business positions, but these are limited to persons
or business entities which are eligible to be applicants for cultural
grants from the City of San Jose.
APPOINTMENT PROCESS: All applications
received are submitted to the Project Diversity Screening Committee for
review according to the needs of the Commission as specified in a Needs
Assessment Memo. Applications will also be forwarded to the City Attorney
for a Conflict of Interest review and thereafter, the applicants will
be asked to appear before the Screening Committee Members for an interview.
Following interviews, the Screening Committee will develop a list of applicants
which will be submitted to the Council Member Liaison to the Commission.
The Liaison will forward the list to the Rules Committee of Council either
with or without a supplemental recommendation. The City Council makes
the final appointment to the Commission based on Rules Committee recommendations.
ATTENDANCE: Commissioners are expected
to attend all Commission meetings. San Jose Municipal Code Section 2.08.060
specifies that a Commissioner who has unexcused absences from any three
consecutive regular meetings, or 20% of the meetings in a calendar year,
is deemed to have resigned from the Commission.
Fur further information about the Commission, see San Jose Municipal
Code Section 2.08.800, and contact the Commission Staff at 408-277-5144,
x13.
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