City Council gets Confluence Task Force Rolling

Tom Giffey |

The Eau Claire City Council recently approved the creation of a task force to choose the board overseeing the planned Confluence Center, a multiuse, public-private performing arts center. The Confluence Council Task Force will be composed of two City Council members, two representatives of UW-Eau Claire, three representatives of local arts groups, one businessperson, and one patron of the arts. City Council President Kerry Kincaid, who pushed for the task force, said the group is needed to form a road map for a future entity – the Confluence Council – that will oversee the center, which will be owned by the university and a subsidiary of the Eau Claire Regional Arts Council. “It’s a unique opportunity to create this shared governance model that could be replicated throughout the state,” she said. Kincaid said the City Council will choose two members for the task force in October, and that the other entities involved should pick representatives soon too. She hopes the task force can begin to meet by Nov. 1.