Mayoral candidates share visions for Sacramento’s creative economy
Sacramento News & Review
By: Marie-Elena Schembri
Sacramento’s mayoral candidates presented their visions for the city’s creative economy at a two-part “Meet the Candidates for Mayor” Creative Economy meeting hosted by Atrium 916 in late September and early October.
Dr. Flojaune “Flo” Cofer presented her plan during the Sept. 23 virtual meeting, which allowed community members to ask questions and learn about Cofer’s personal connections to the arts, goals for the creative economy and views on why public policy around arts is important.
Kevin McCarty, lifelong Sacramentan and California state assemblymember since 2014, offered his strategy during the Oct. 21 virtual meeting while fielding questions about creative job creation, plans for revitalizing the city’s neighborhoods and how he supports the arts in his personal life.