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For the week of September 4 - 10, 2002

News

Needs study of valley’s arts facilities will proceed


The study is estimated to cost approximately $40,000, half of which will be paid by the City of Sun Valley and half by targeted donations from citizens.


By GREGORY FOLEY
Express Staff Writer

Sun Valley Mayor David Wilson told Sun Valley City Council members Thursday that the city plans to contribute $20,000 toward a recently revived study to determine whether a new arts complex is needed somewhere in the Wood River Valley.

The Sun Valley Arts Foundation, a group raising funds for and promoting the idea of building a new arts campus in the Sun Valley-Ketchum area, is moving forward with a "non-site-specific Needs Assessment" to ascertain the need for new arts facilities and the adequacy of existing sites, Wilson said.

Scheduled to be performed by the Duncan Webb Group of New York City, the formal Needs Assessment is scheduled to begin Sept. 18 with interviews of local city officials, arts administrators, artists and residents, Wilson said.

The study is estimated to cost approximately $40,000, half of which will be paid by the City of Sun Valley and half by targeted donations from citizens to the foundation and the Sun Valley Center for the Arts.

Wilson said the foundation so far has raised about $36,000 for the study, including the Sun Valley donation—which has been approved by the city council as part of the city budget—and pending checks from the City of Ketchum and the City of Hailey for $5,000 and $1,000, respectively.

"They’re going to get there," he said of the foundation.

The non-site-specific study was commissioned by the SVAF in late August, after it abandoned the idea of conducting a study to determine whether an arts campus would be suitable for location specifically on a five-acre parcel along Sun Valley Road that is owned by the city.

Dan Drackett, chairman of the SVAF, called off the site-specific study last month in response to substantial opposition from the public to development of the city-owned site.

However, upon doing so, Drackett said that backers of the arts-campus proposal were possibly interested in moving forward with the non-site-specific study.

Wilson announced at the meeting Thursday that city officials have tentatively discussed using the five-acre site for public events such as the Sun Valley Center for the Arts’ annual wine auction. The events would be held in tents, and no buildings have been proposed as part of the idea, he said.

 

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