What we know
Documents related to the PAC, called Smart Frisco, were filed with the city Feb. 5. As of Feb. 18, Smart Frisco is the only PAC related to the propositions listed on the city's website.
Smart Frisco’s members will advocate for the two Frisco Center for the Arts propositions—titled Propositions A and B on the ballot—which ask voters to approve using city funds to build the facility, according to city documents.
- Proposition A: Asking voters to authorize using Economic Development Corporation sales and use tax funds to pay for a city-owned performing arts facility
- Proposition B: Asking voters to authorize the city to issue up to $160 million of those funds for the facility
Other plans for the Frisco Center for the Arts include a community hall to be used primarily by Prosper ISD students and local groups. PISD officials also signed a letter of intent with the city pledging to contribute $100 million of past bond funds for the project.
The details
State law requires voters to approve using EDC funds for non-EDC projects. Performing arts facilities like the Frisco Center for the Arts are considered to be Community Development projects and do not fit the EDC’s criteria for approved projects.
Neither of the propositions will officially approve the Frisco Center for the Arts, just one of the funding sources for the projected $300 million-$340 million facility.
Frisco Council members during a Feb. 4 meeting approved placing two propositions on the May 3 ballot with a 5-1 vote. Council member Brian Livingston was the sole vote against.
Official ballot language for the two propositions can be found here.
A council vote on the project itself to determine whether or not to continue with the designs and eventual construction is expected to come after the May 3 election.
