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City efforts to ensure compliance with other stated goals. Specific tasks within this element include: A. Development of arts and outdoors related projects identified in the existing Downtown Plan; B. Creating a Public Art Plan to craft a community-wide vision for public art; C. Coordinating a community celebration of 100 Years of Parks and the Hendricks Park Centennial in 2006; D. Coordinating a community celebration of the Hult Center's 25th Anniversary in 2007; E. Development of arts and outdoors related projects identified in the Parks, Recreation and Open Space (PROS) Comprehensive Plan; F. Development of arts and outdoors related projects identified in the Cultural Services Comprehensive Plan; and G. Implementation of recommended planning, design, funding, or partnership-related policies to enhance our ability to promote an arts and outdoors economic development strategy. These policies will be evaluated and identified within the tasks under Opportunity Identification. As a reminder, a timeline for the implementation of the five elements of the Arts/Outdoors strategy is provided as Attachment B. E. Resource Needs In order to successfully pursue an arts and outdoors economic development strategy funding will be needed. Initial costs will include conducting partner meetings, hiring marketing consultants as needed, and staff time working on priorities outside of their existing work assignments. As a next step, funding will be needed to implement the marketing strategy. An estimate of these resource needs will be provided once a marketing strategy has been developed. However, the most significant funding associated with the realization of this goal will be for the implementation of key capital and non-capital projects that support the arts and outdoors concept. These costs will be identified as part of the work in Element V, Project List Development. F. Monitoring and Evaluation The promotion of an arts and outdoors strategy for economic development will be an ongoing effort. As the staff team works through the various action plan elements, periodic reports will be provided to the City Manager for presentation to Council. Key reporting periods will include completion of the Arts and Outdoors Resource Assessment (Element II); development of an Arts and Outdoors Identity (Element III); and development of the Arts and Outdoors Project List (Element V). Council Strategic Priority 5: Arts/Outdoors 5