 This was partially changed at the beginning of the 2013-14 season, with the orchestra giving credit to "a collaboration between California State University, Fullerton (CSUF), and North Orange County community leaders led by Marcy Mulville" as founding the orchestra, before mentioning Clark as its first conductor.During this period, the orchestra and Spisto began to evolve the Pacific Symphony into what it hoped would eventually be a "world-class" orchestra.Its first move was to sign the musicians to a traditional orchestra contract, complete with tenure rights in line with typical American Federation of Musicians agreements.