Fiscal Note
The proposed resolution authorizes the Planning Division Director to execute agreements and expenses for the 2024 Artist at Work program in the total amount of $75,000. The 2024 Adopted Room Tax Fund Budget included a $75,000 allocation for the Artist at Work program. No additional City appropriation required.
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Authorizing the Planning Division to continue the Artist at Work program, focusing on destination marketing for Madison’s music sector, and to select and contract non-profit partners as grantees.
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WHEREAS, to support a full creative life for all, the Madison Arts Commission (MAC) commits to championing policies and practices of cultural equity that empower a just, inclusive, equitable City; and
WHEREAS, the COVID19 pandemic caused sudden and overwhelming losses of income for cultural sector workers and a steep decline in revenue opportunities for the sector as a whole; and
WHEREAS, on February 22, 2022, the Common Council approved a resolution RES-22-00138, File ID #69226 to establish the Artist at Work grant program; and
WHEREAS, the Greater Madison Music City (GMMC) team was created as a result of the Task Force on Equity in Music and Entertainment Report, which was accepted by the Common Council on February 26, 2019, under the resolution RES-19-00159, and file #53956; and
WHEREAS, the City of Madison Arts Program is an active member of the Greater Madison Music City team led by the Urban Community Arts Network, LTD (UCAN); and
WHEREAS, the Room Tax Commission allocated $75,000 of Room Tax funds in the 2024 budget to the City’s Arts program to continue support for Artist at Work grant program that specifically focus on promotion and marketing to increase Madison’s music sector tourism; and
WHEREAS, the 2024 Room Tax allocation of $75,000 will help support creative workers, continue the work of the GMMC in implementing their music tourism recovery plan, and market Madison's music sector; and
WHEREAS, Madison’s grant pro...
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