DEPARTMENT: Culture and Creative Development
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Felix Padr?n
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: All
SUBJECT:
Texas Commission on the Arts project funding for FY 2014
SUMMARY:
Awarding $32,000 from the State's Texas Commission on the Arts to local arts and cultural projects.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The Department for Culture and Creative Development (DCCD) applies annually to the state's Texas Commission on the Arts to seek funding that helps leverage the city's local arts investment. The TCA's application process is competitive and awarded to statewide local art agencies such as DCCD. As a result, this fiscal year DCCD was awarded $32,000 to support local non-profit arts and cultural organizations and awarded through the city's adopted arts policy and procedures. This process is competitive and governed by the Esperanza Consent Decree that was approved by City Council on October 18, 2001. The consent decree requires that all arts funding guidelines that relate to the distribution of these funds through a public review process and approved in a public forum before going to City Council for final approval. The organizations that apply for these grants and get awarded are subject to furthering artistic excellence and diverse public awareness of the role the arts play in San Antonio.
Furthermore, on June 6th, City Council approved an ordinance that extended the city's Arts Funding Operational Awards for 42 agencies for one additional year in order to help stabilize the arts and cultural environment and to enable the department to begin an extensive process to review all arts funding guidelines and procedures for FY 2015. No funding process for the city's adopted arts funds was implemented. In September of 2013, however, the Texas Commission on the Arts awarded San Antonio $32,000 to sub-grant to local non-profit arts organizations. As a result, DCCD issued an application process and received eighteen (18) appli...
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