2nd summit focuses on task force, goals

The Daily Star reported that a festival, calendars and media promotions could help Oneonta develop its arts and entertainment sector, participants at a summit said Thursday night.

Members of the newly formed Oneonta Arts and Entertainment Task Force and other supporters of local cultural organizations were among about 60 people at the Foothills Performing Arts and Civic Center.

Mayor Dick Miller convened the Mayor's Arts and Entertainment Summit No. 2 to review an organizational plan for the task force and its goals. The panel exists to "coordinate, enhance, facilitate, communicate, translate, represent, include, initiate and implement" ideas, resources, programs, educational activities and other missions, he said.

The task force is designed to be inclusive of artists, arts and cultural organizations and is not intended "to direct," he said.

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