1. Creative Pinellas Pinellas Local Arts Agency May 24, 2011

3. The PCCA served as Pinellas County’s Local Arts Agency (LAA)

6. Created an inclusive process and gathered input from the arts community, organizations, community leaders and education representatives through focus groups.

7. A total of 4 focus groups with over 100 attendees were conducted

8. Created Facebook page to update interested community members

9. Defined a corporate structure and name

10. Developed a strategic plan for the LAA

11. Developed a budgetTasks

12. Corporate Structure Organization’s Name “Creative Pinellas” Legal Structure 501(c)4 Board of Directors George Ann Bissett Bob ChurutiTerry HaasJoe Jimenez Peter Kageyama Nancy Loehr Doreen Moore Michael Pastrich Susan Reiter Lara Shane KateeTulley

13. Mission Statement Creative Pinellas connects and fuels the creative impulses that make Pinellas County a great community.

15. Create a network to engage artists, creatives and the community

16. Participate in the County Centennial Celebration to enhance awareness of the role of arts & culture

17. Improve the quality of life by increasing community participation in creative and cultural events

18. Grow tourism revenue by enhancing awareness of Pinellas arts and culture

20. Connector and Coordinator

21. Provide local and national “intelligence” to community

22. Spokesperson for the county’s creative community

24. Social media mavens

25. Producing over 3,000 pieces of content

26. Creating “Google Juice”

27. Building a following and a network

28. Continually remind arts providers to update Arts Tampa Bay calendar

30. Provide the seed funding to transition the Local Arts Agency from the Cultural Affairs Department of Pinellas County to the Creative Pinellas organization.