So, wow. We have our cultural plan. After months of hoopla it arrived in near secret last week from Canada (where it was crafted) as a Monday-morning pop-up event at an elementary school.
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They sang and played for the few folk who’d been passed the word to get there, along with some Perez school kids, for whom it’ll no doubt be a memorable if somewhat mystifying event, a star-studded launch for a plan that’s literally out of sight.
But in fact the finished product is barely changed from the bloated draft version we saw in “ground-truthing sessions” conducted by Lord Cultural Resources, the consulting firm in charge, back in July. There are still ten “equally paramount” priorities and 36 recommendations, each with its own list of four to eight initiatives—or enough to make your head explode. And there’s still no real clue about how this incalculably expensive wish list could be financed.
But one of those superexpensive initiatives has been classified as doable in the next 18 months. That’s the “Mayor’s newly formed Infrastructure Trust to place focus on cultural projects.”
