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the official blog of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District

Since 1989, Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD) has distributed funds from a 1/10 of 1% sales and use tax to cultural facilities throughout the seven-county Denver, Colorado metropolitan area. The funds support cultural facilities whose primary purpose is to enlighten and entertain the public through the production, presentation, exhibition, advancement and preservation of art, music, theatre, dance, zoology, botany, natural history and cultural history.

Photobucket Learn about the interworkings of the SCFD and cultural happenings around the seven county metro area with your guide, Erica, Program Assistant for SCFD. Have a suggestion for an event? Are you an SCFD organization that wants to be reviewed? Shoot me an email at erica@scfd.org.

Colorado counties include Adams, Arapahoe, Boulder, Broomfield, Denver, Douglas, and Jefferson. Everything written here is personal opinion and not intended to infer official judgment on the part of the SCFD, board members, or other staff.

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Stakeholder’s meeting #1 was a success!

The Stakeholders meeting this morning at the Denver Botanical Gardens, facilitated by Engaged Public was a really excellent forum.  We had good turn out from many tier III organizations, county cultural council members, and county liaisons.  

So what is a stakeholder meeting anyway?  Here is a little history on how the meeting came to be:

At the 2011 board planning session it was concluded that the SCFD needed to gather input from all Tier’s to being the initial steps for reauthorization.  Executive Director, Peg Long, committed to the board that she would find a way to gather all the Tier III’s in a forum that provided for dialog and input.  She happened to attend another event facilitated by Engaged Public and was very impressed by the session and thought it could be the answer to engage Tier III. 

Why Engaged Public?  Well because they offer a forum that provides both clicker polling and table discussions.  In addition, items from the discussion can be generated into questions and the process really creates an open dialog, but also keeps a conversation with 100+ people, well… engaged.  95% of the people who attended this morning said that they felt their voice was heard, yay success!  Also I think this was very beneficial for staff as well, we all came back to the office energized with new ideas on what we can do better, thanks for the feedback Tier III.

Don’t worry, if your a Tier III organization, a county cultural council member, or a county liaison and you were not able to attend today’s session another Stakeholders Meeting will be offered on January 21 from 9am- 12pm at the Butterfly Pavilion.  Please come and represent the voice for your organization and/or your county! 

*for polling purposes only one person from each SCFD organization can participate in the meeting, but others are more than welcome to attend as an observer.

See you there!

Erica