Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on a Resolution Approving the Recommendations of the Arts Commission for Awarding Grants for Funding of the Arts
Summary
MEETING DATE: October 1, 2013
DEPARTMENT: Administration
CONTACT: Janay Tieken, Housing and Community Development Manager
Linda Spina, Arts Commission Chair
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
* Approve recommendation for award of art grant funds.
ITEM SUMMARY:
* Twenty (20) grant applications were received totaling $233,891.50 in grant requests
* Eighteen (18) applications are recommended for funding
Organization
Request
Award
American Theatre Organ Society
$19,775.00
$5,000.00
Art Club of McKinney
$5,927.50
$5,500.00
Arts and Music Guild
$8,175.00
$8,175.00
Chamberlain Performing Arts
$8,250.00
$8,050.00
Children's Chorus of Collin County
$11,000.00
$11,000.00
Friends of the McKinney Library
$7,175.00
$7,175.00
Junior Players
$5,000.00
$5,000.00
McKinney Community Band
$15,500.00
$15,500.00
McKinney Community Concerts
$20,000.00
$5,000.00
McKinney Musical Arts Society
$9,250.00
$9,250.00
McKinney Repertory Theatre
$20,000.00
$17,500.00
McKinney Youth Theatre
$20,000.00
$20,000.00
Ollimpaxqui Ballet
$18,070.00
$10,000.00
Plano Symphony
$8,750.00
$8,750.00
Southwest Bluegrass
$8,322.00
$8,300.00
Teatro Dallas
$5,300.00
$5,300.00
Texas Performing Chinese Arts
$7,000.00
$0
Turtle Creek Chorale
$10,000.00
$10,000.00
Young Actors Guild
$20,000.00
$17,500.00
Youth Ballet of Texas
$6,397.00
withdrawn
Subtotal: Arts Grants
$233,891.50
$177,000.00
Outreach Grants
$3,000.00
Business Council for the Arts
$3,000.00
Reproduction
$2,000.00
TOTAL
$185,000.00
.
* $3,000 is being recommended for Outreach Grants for new organizations
* $3,000 is being recommended to provide a membership and two participants into the Dallas Business Council for the Arts.
* $2000 is being recommended for reproduction materials related to promoting the arts in McKinney. $1500 of this expense will produce a pub...
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