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<br /> <br />ECC <br />UGENE ITY OUNCIL <br />AIS <br />GENDA TEM UMMARY <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Work Session: Arts & Economic Prosperity IV (AEP4) <br /> <br /> <br />Meeting Date: February 27, 2013 Agenda Item Number: B <br />Department: Library, Recreation & Cultural Services Staff Contact: Renee Grube <br />www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 541-682-5067 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />ISSUE STATEMENT <br />This work session is a presentation of findings from the Arts & Economic Prosperity Study IV <br />(AEP4). <br /> <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br />In January 2011, the community officially joined Americans for the Arts’ latest national economic <br />impact study, Arts & Economic Prosperity IV, a year-long, two-part study that evaluated the <br />impact that spending by nonprofit arts organizations and their audiences has on local economies, <br />as well as analysis of consumer habits and trends related to the arts and culture. <br />Findings reveal: <br /> <br />Nonprofit arts and culture organization in Eugene are a $45.6 million industry. <br /> <br /> <br />Of that, about $29 million is spent by the groups themselves (on salaries, supplies, <br /> <br />promotion, paying local artists, etc.). <br /> <br />An additional $16 million is related spending by patrons of arts events (this amount <br /> <br />excludes the price of admission and shows just what is spent for things such as a dinner out <br />or a hotel room, related to a person attending the event). <br /> <br />All of this economic activity supports the equivalent of 1,730 full-time jobs in Eugene. <br /> <br /> <br />And it generates $2.4 million in local and state government revenue. <br /> <br />Eugene’s statistics compare favorably to other locales of roughly the same population (100,000 to <br />250,000) that are part of the AEP4 study, specifically: <br /> <br />The number of jobs in the community supported by this arts spending is about triple the <br /> <br />median. <br /> <br />Eugene ranks number 7 of the 29 similar-sized areas studied in the number of jobs <br /> <br />supported by the arts per capita. Many of those that rank higher draw larger audiences <br />from outside their local areas than Eugene does. <br /> <br />Direct spending by Eugene’s arts groups is about double the median of arts groups in <br /> <br />similarly sized communities. <br /> <br />The study also reveals that residents in Eugene engage in the arts in a much more all- <br />encompassing way than folks in other similarly sized communities. <br /> S:\CMO\2013 Council Agendas\M130227\S130227B.doc <br /> <br />