Fiscal Note
There is no fiscal impact associated with accepting this report. However, implementing specific recommendations called for in the report may have fiscal impacts in the future and will require Common Council approval at that time.
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Accepting the Phase 1 report from Any Given Child Madison and authorizing the City’s continued participation as Any Given Child Madison proceeds with Phase 2 - Capacity Building and Implementation.
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WHEREAS, on September 3, 2013, the Common Council adopted Resolution 13-00692 (ID 31129), authorizing the City's participation in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts' Ensuring the Arts for Any Given Child initiative and identifying City representatives to serve on the Community Arts Team; and
WHEREAS, Any Given Child Madison is a collective impact project between three primary partners, the City of Madison, the Madison Metropolitan School District (MMSD), and Overture Center for the Arts, along with many other partners including: community artists, arts organizations, philanthropists, businesses, parents, and others who believe arts education is an essential part of a well-rounded education for all students and that ensuring children in Madison have equity and access to arts education benefits our City as a whole; and
WHEREAS, Any Given Child Madison is divided into three phases: Phase 1 - Strategic Planning, Phase 2 - Capacity Building and Implementation, and Phase 3 - Sustaining; and
WHEREAS, the Community Arts Team met from September 2013 to June of 2014 to complete Phase 1, which included conducting a community audit, creating a vision and developing goals and action steps; and
WHEREAS, Phase 1 of Any Given Child Madison identified opportunity gaps in arts education that exist among K-8 students in MMSD; and,
WHEREAS, the Community Arts Team concluded that some students in MMSD have the opportunity for multiple arts experiences nearly every day while others have very few; and
WHEREAS, the Co...
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