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Office of Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment (ACME) Cultural Arts Funding Update JUNE 16, 2025 The Creative Reset Updates The Creative Reset: Community Engagement The ACME Program Funding evaluation is still underway Community Engagement that has informed the process • Focus Groups • One-on-ones • Meeting-in-a-box • Survey • Listening sessions (next one is tomorrow –June 17, 2025 @ the PDC) • Feedback via active Commission Working Groups ACME staff has been receiving, synthesizing, and incorporating the feedback into updates funding guidelines for FY25. The Creative Reset: Data Informed Additional Data the informs the Process • Historical Community Feedback (2020-2025) • Benchmarking look at peer cities • Information from The Long Center on Applications • Information from Law Department on HOT The Creative Reset Information Dashboard publicinput.com/a88770 The Creative Reset Timeline Goals Road to drafting guideline updates In progress this week First draft of updated guidelines: - - Next steps: Share with commissions and community for review and feedback Integrate feedback, review with Law department Send back to commissions to preview final version ahead of July Commission presentations - - ACME leadership plan to be back at the July meeting to present our final guidelines, requesting your support ahead of going to City Council at the July 24 meeting. AustinTexas.gov/acme/creative-reset Here’s what we’re hearing so far… - Historical feedback (2020- 2025) Focus groups - - One-on-one meetings Survey responses - Listening sessions - Stay in the Loop with ACME AustinTexas.gov/ACME Questions? Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment (ACME) Thank You For Your Partnership