It is the purpose and intent of the City Council in establishing the Cultural Arts Commission to create an advisory body to serve as a resource to advise and make recommendations to the City Council and the City Manager on cultural arts issues citywide, as well as exchanges and activities with the City and its sister cities. The focused efforts of the Cultural Arts Commission will be to identify cultural arts needs and issues.

The purpose of the Commission is to focus community energies and resources on developing a highly visible City with a cultural arts personality and to develop, support, and nurture those ideas that expand and enrich arts and cultural opportunities for the entire community in addition to promoting cultural exchanges and activities on the basis of mutual friendship and amity between the City and its sister cities. (Ord. 3539 § 1(C), 2022; Ord. 3211 § 7, 2011; Ord. 2403 § 1, 1990; Ord. 2362 § 1, 1990).