Who owns the Sausalito Art Festival?
It’s had many producers over its 55-year history. For decades, the Sausalito Chamber of Commerce has owned the festival. Since 2000, the nonprofit Sausalito Art Festival Foundation has licensed the festival from the chamber. The foundation has negotiated a purchase of the festival starting with the 2008 show. How is the city of Sausalito involved? Former mayor Robin Sweeny has chaired the “Mayor’s Blue-Ribbon Select Garbage Committee,” which picks up garbage, since she was on the city council. She continues to gather current and former members of the council (as well as other Marin mayors and politicians) as the core of a very effective recycling program. Benefits to the city include sales tax (both at the festival and the boost in sales citywide), business license fees and parking income. Why Marinship Park? Having been built from a junkyard by the Chamber of Commerce, Lions Club and the Rotary Club, the Marinship Park has been a great asset to the festival. It provides us hundreds of
