ATTENTION: Your April 23 Call AGENDA and MATERIALS for 10 a.m. ET Statewide Call

Monday, April 23, 2018, Statewide Conference Call Scheduled from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. ET

Agenda and Call Materials Below

Who is participating on today's conference call?

Go here for a list of registered participants.

Guest Speaker is Tony Carvalho,

President of The Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida & Co-Founder of Capitol Hill Group

Tony will review the work of the Florida Constitution Revision Commission ( C RC). He'll share why we need to pay attention to what we're voting to change in our state constitution in the November 2018 general election.

A. CRC April 16, 2018, Press Release

B. Information on the eight proposed revisions on the 2018 election ballot

A. Update on county and regional post-legislative meetings with arts and cultural

leaders and advocates to create strong, local follow up.

B. Review notes from conference call with Senate President Joe Negron .

C. Local strategies to engage in this year's elections -- see agenda item 3 below
to share your suggestions.

Quickly review a couple of local election materials for arts and culture
advocates to use:

Examples to review is Orange County:
Candidates Running and Campaign Contributions

D. Overall statewide goal is to RESTORE Florida's appropriation investments in
2019 to fully fund the Florida Department of State Division of Cultural Affairs'
matching-grants.

A. Click on the image above to add your thoughts and suggestions. We'll add your
ideas and thoughts to develop questions for a task force to review, discuss, and
develop future advocacy strategies for you and others to review on our May 14 and
June 18 statewide conference calls.

Please complete on or before April 30, 2018. Thank you for sharing your ideas.

B. Click on the image above to make recommendations on who you think would make
an excellent task force member.

Please complete on or before April 30, 2018. Thank you for your recommendations.

C. With your input -- click the image above -- (1) we'll update and revise these tools so we can use them to better focus our creative industry on key issues. (2) Encourage our creative industry constituents to use these two tools to reach out to incumbents and new candidates running for the Florida Legislature and Governor. (3) We need to inform candidates on our key issues that impact our creative industry, the value we add to our state, and assess their views on these issues.

c.1. 2016 Arts, Arts Education, and Culture Candidates' Survey

c.2. 2014 Gubernatorial Platform for Arts & Culture

Please share your ideas on or before April 30, 2018. Thank you.