Arts and Community Services Commission

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The Community Services Commission was established in 1998 and was renamed in 2024 to the Arts and Community Services Commission (ACSC). The ACSC is coordinated by the Community Services Department and is comprised of five members appointed by the City Council.

Meetings

The Commission’s regularly scheduled meetings are held quarterly on the 2nd Monday of March, June, September, and December at 4:00 p.m.

Functions

The Commission’s primary functions are to serve in an advisory capacity to the city council to identify community needs for all matters pertaining to social services, community programs, public art, and public recreation as listed in detail in the ACSC Road Map, maintained by the Community Services Department, as may be amended from time to time. The Commission Road Map focuses on the following three (3) main categories:

A. Art

  1. Recommend services and programs pertaining to cultural arts, including but not limited to, literary, performing, and visual arts, thereby promoting cultural enrichment and art appreciation within the community.
  2. Recommend funding opportunities for cultural programs and activities.
  3. Work with city staff to develop a list of potential sites for public art.
  4. Work cooperatively with city boards, commissions, committees, and other organizations to promote art and cultural activities within the city.
  5. Maintain a list of pre-qualified artists for the city.

B. Events

  1. Recommend public events, including lifestyle, contracted and signature city events.
  2. Review and assess city recognition and acknowledgement programs.
  3. Identify opportunities to establish a youth commission or board.

C. Recreation

  1. Recommend recreation services and programs, including programs for outdoor amenities and public spaces, such as city owned parks, and biking and hiking trails.
  2. Facilitate coordination with local recreation and service organizations, including nonprofit agencies and outdoor groups.

The powers and duties of the ACSC shall be advisory to the city council and the ACSC shall provide recommendations to the city council in the following areas:

  1. Research and solicitation of grants, donations, loan programs, and other available     funding mechanisms for cultural arts.
  2. Assess and review parks and recreation facility operations.
  3. Recommend recreation and social activities and programs.
  4. Promote community services programs and events.
  5. Serve as stewards of the public interest and community.
  6. Assess and review park and community service masterplan updates, if assigned by the city council.
  7. Foster mutual understanding and respect among racial, religious, cultural and nationality groups.

Contact

For more information about the ACSC, contact Michael Calderon at mcalderon@laquintaca.gov or (760) 777-7014.

Apply

Applications are accepted all year long and kept on file in the Clerk's office until a vacancy needs to be filled.

Application to Serve on the CSC

Members

List of Current Committee Members

Agendas, Staff Reports and Minutes

The minutes for the ACSC meetings will not be available until they have been approved at the next regular meeting.

The regular quarterly meeting agendas are typically available not less than 72 hours prior to each meeting and may be downloaded by clicking on one of the Event links below. The City reserves the right to make changes to the order of items listed on the agenda.

For copies of staff reports, as well as any accompanying attachments, you may contact the Community Services Department at (760) 777-7014 or mcalderon@laquintaca.gov.

For agendas for current meetings, go to the calendar.

Meeting Calendar

Community Services Commission Meeting

COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMISSION - REGULAR MEETING 

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COMMUNITY SERVICES COMMISSION
AGENDA

 CITY HALL COUNCIL CHAMBER
78-495 Calle Tampico, La Quinta

 REGULAR MEETING
MONDAY, MAY 11, 2020 AT 5:30 P.M.

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SPECIAL NOTICE
Teleconferencing and Telephonic Accessibility In Effect

Pursuant to Executive Orders N-25-20, N-29-20, N-33-20, and N-35-20, executed by the Governor of California in response to the state of emergency relating to novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and enabling teleconferencing accommodations by suspending or waiving specified provisions in the Ralph M. Brown Act (Government Code § 54950 et seq.), members of the Community Service Commission, the City Manager, City Attorney, City Staff, and City Consultants may participate in this meeting by teleconference. Additionally, pursuant to the above-referenced executive orders, the public is not permitted to physically attend at City Hall the meeting to which this agenda applies, but any member of the public may listen or participate in the open session of this meeting as specified below.

Members of the public wanting to address the Community Services Commission, either for public comment or for a specific agenda item, or both, are requested to send an email notification to the Community Services Commission secretary, Lisa Chaudhry at LChaudhry@LaQuintaCA.Gov and specify the following information:

1) Full Name, 2) City of Residence, 3) Phone Number, 4) Public Comment or Agenda Item Number, 5) Subject, 6) Written or Verbal Comments

The email “subject line” must clearly state “Written Comments” or “Verbal Comments.”

Verbal public comments – requests to speak must be emailed to the Community Services Secretary no later than 5:00 p.m. on the day of the meeting; the City will facilitate the ability for a member of the public to be audible to the Community Services Commission and general public for the item(s) by contacting him/her via phone and queuing him/her to speak during the discussion.

Only one person at a time may speak by telephone and only after being recognized by the Community Services Commission’s Chairperson.

Written public comments, received prior to the adjournment of the meeting, will be distributed to the Community Services Commission, incorporated into the agenda packet and public record of the meeting, and will not be read during the meeting unless, upon the request of the Community Services Commission Chairperson, a brief summary of any public comment is asked to be read, to the extent the Commission Secretary can accommodate such request.

It would be appreciated that any email communications for public comments related to the items on the agenda, or for general public comment, are provided to the Community Resources Department at the email address listed above prior to the commencement of the meeting. If that is not possible, and to accommodate public comments on items that may be added to the agenda after its initial posting or items that are on the agenda, every effort will be made to attempt to review emails received by the Community Resources Department during the course of the meeting. The Community Services Commission’s Chairperson will endeavor to take a brief pause before action is taken on any agenda item to allow the Community Services Secretary to review emails and share any public comments received during the meeting. All emails received by the Community Services Secretary, at the email address above, until the adjournment of the meeting, will be included within the public record relating to the meeting.

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