DEPARTMENT: Culture and Creative Development
DEPARTMENT HEAD: Felix Padr?n
COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: All
SUBJECT:
Arts Funding Guidelines for FY 2015
SUMMARY:
This is a briefing on revisions to the Arts Funding Guidelines, which were last adopted in September of 2011 by City Council. The proposed guidelines provide increased access to artistic and cultural activities in San Antonio by aligning with the vision of SA2020 and investing in arts and cultural organizations, festivals and community celebrations, neighborhood-based arts activities, artist re-granting programs and individual artists. It is expected that the increase of programs will expand community and visitor access to artistic and cultural excellence and awareness.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
One of the traditional functions of the Department for Culture and Creative Development (DCCD) has been the distribution of funds to local non-profit arts organizations through a competitive funding process in order to further artistic excellence and diverse public awareness of the role the arts play in San Antonio. The funding distributed through this process comes from Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT). As required by the Esperanza Consent Decree that was approved by City Council on October 18, 2001, all arts funding guidelines that relate to the distribution of these funds through a public process must be reviewed in a public forum, adopted by City Council and thereafter adhered to. By state law, up to 15% of the local HOT collections can be utilized to fund arts and cultural activities. However, this 15% allocation to the arts, per the Financial Policies adopted by City Council in September 2012, takes place after debt service payment from the overall HOT collections occurs from the Convention Center Expansion Project.
On January 6, 2014, DCCD presented the first draft of the proposed FY 2015 guidelines to the Cultural Arts Board (CAB), which was followed by four public hea...
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