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
Grant Req.
Rec. Grant
American Theatre Organ Society
$22,300
$17,000
Art Club of McKinney
$5,825
$5,825
Arts and Music Guild
$3,200
$3,200
Children's Chorus of Collin County
$10,543
$10,520
Elledanceworks
$4,239.50
$4,239
Junior Players
$5,000
$5,000
McKinney Community Band
$12,000
$12,000
McKinney Community Concerts
$20,000
$20,000
McKinney Musical Arts Society
$9,200
$9,200
McKinney Repertory Theatre
$20,000
$20,000
McKinney Youth Theatre
$20,000
$20,000
Ollimpaxqui Ballet
$15,750
$10,000
Teatro Dallas
$9,150
$0
Texas Performing Chinese Arts
$4,500
$1,000
Turtle Creek Chorale
$19,780
$10,000
Young Actors Guild
$15,416
$15,416
Arts & Economic Prosperity Study
$2,500
$2,500
Public Art Trust Fund
$12,000
Business Council for the Arts
$3,600
Arts Outreach
$3,000
Reproduction
$500
TOTAL
$199,403.50
$185,000.00
* The Arts Commission is recommending that $21,600 or 11.7% of the approved $185,000 go toward items outside of the grant process.
* $2,500 is recommended to provide the final payment of the Arts and Economic Prosperity Survey IV that was approved in Fiscal Year 2011.
* $12,000 is being recommended to go toward public art once the public art Master plan is completed. The Arts Commission proposes to match this level of funding, if approved, through fundraising efforts.
* $3,600 is being recommended to provide a membership and two participants into the Collin Coun...
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