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EXCERPT of Petition Overview:
Creative Sonoma, a division of the County of Sonoma Economic Development Board, has awarded the project of Development and Implementation of CreativeSonoma.org to Silicon Valley Creates, Artsopolis, an organization for which the interim director of Creative Sonoma, Nancy Glaze, was once executive director. This is an egregious conflict of interest as Nancy Glaze has also acted as consultant for the last four months with Creative Sonoma during the RFP process. We also feel that Creative Sonoma withheld critical information in the RFP—a budget with a clear scope of project.
Creative Sonoma, an entity that plans to “represent the creative sector of the community, effectively advocating for its growth and development,” misrepresents itself by bringing an outside vendor in to develop CreativeSonoma.org, the “hub” for its growth. It is absolutely necessary that a Sonoma County creative team or teams develop the website for Creative Sonoma as this truly represents Sonoma County’s creativity. This decision to use an outside vendor takes money out of Sonoma County and takes jobs away from the local creative sector Creative Sonoma claims to represent. ...