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Implementation Highlights
The Creative City cultural planning process was launched by Commission of Arts & Culture in FY23 with the following phases of work completed:
- Procurement (July - November 2023)
- Pre-planning and Research phase (December 2022 to May 2023)
- Public engagement (began June 2023)
This project will result in the City’s first comprehensive, long-term plan to advance arts, culture and creativity across the city. It will help set a vision for San Diego’s creative future based on listening and engagement involvement, plus research into the current situation and opportunities in San Diego.
In FY23, the implementation of the Far South/Border North grant program was launched by Commission of Arts & Culture. Sixty artists and cultural practitioners received grant funds to develop and implement public campaigns tied to program goals, including water and energy conservation and climate mitigation.
The Stormwater Department continued expansion of the Think Blue public education and outreach program in FY23 with a significant investment in paid advertising, continuous updates to the thinkblue.org website, a robust social media strategy, a renewed focus on earned media and educational activities/cleanups with nonprofit partners. In addition, Think Blue initiated an advertising partnership with the San Diego Wave professional women’s soccer team to expand audience reach in key demographics. Those combined efforts resulted in nearly 53 million impressions (the number of times viewed) for the Think Blue brand and more than 4,000 public service announcements.
The City Planning Department and the Communications Department developed Climate Resilience Social Media Guidelines to identify specific triggers for climate change hazard related communication and a compilation of resources to be shared over social media channels before, during and after climate hazard events. Climate Resilient SD Social Media Guidelines are intended to build upon existing messaging and social media posts from the Communications Department to provide more education regarding climate change hazards, share resources with community members, raise awareness of risks associated with hazard events and support community resilience action.
The City Planning Department regularly coordinates with local research institutions, universities, and other climate resilience experts and leaders. In FY23, the City Planning Department engaged with resilience research and workshops being led by Scripps Center for Climate Change Impacts, UC San Diego, California Sea Grant, California State Parks and Resilient Cities Catalyst.