City of Madison - File #: 16783

• File #: 16783
• Version: 1
• Name: Remaining Arts Grants Awards
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 12/2/2009
• In control: Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development
• On agenda: 12/8/2009
• Final action: 12/15/2009
• Enactment date: 12/16/2009
• Enactment #: RES-09-00998
• Title: Seeking Common Council approval of the remaining 2009-2010 Arts Grants awards as recommended by the Madison Arts Commission.
• Sponsors: Marsha A. Rummel

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
12/15/2009	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Adopt Under Suspension of Rules 2.04, 2.05, 2.24, and 2.25	Pass
12/2/2009	1	Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO ADOPT UNDER SUSPENSION OF RULES 2.04, 2.05, 2.24, & 2.25 - REPORT OF OFFICER

Fiscal Note
The Resolution awards $9,790 in arts grants. Funding is authorized in the 2009 Adopted Planning Division operating budget.
Title
Seeking Common Council approval of the remaining 2009-2010 Arts Grants awards as recommended by the Madison Arts Commission.
Body
WHEREAS, The Madison Arts Commission has the authority, by ordinance, to annually recommend arts grants for approval by the Common Council; and

WHEREAS, $8,000 in grants funding was not awarded and remains available for allocation in the 2009-2010 grant cycle from the 2009 approved operating budget, and

WHEREAS, the $1,875 grant awarded to the Wisconsin Youth Symphony Orchestras to produce "Side by Side" concerts with the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra (WCO) was declined by the grantee due to a decision by WCO to cancel this project and that amount is available to be reprogrammed at this time, and

WHEREAS, the total of the amount remaining in the approved budget for arts grants and the declined grant award amount leaves $9,875 available to fund the annual signature grant winner and additional arts projects, and

WHEREAS, at the Madison Arts Commission's October 14, 2009 meeting commissioners agreed that that Michelle Hatchell shall receive an additional grant award of $1,590 to complete work on a community public art project that will create mosaic murals for interior display in Villager Mall and; that Chris Murphy shall be awarded $750 for the creation of "Girl on the Ledge" a temporary luminous figurative sculpture that will be located on top of the new Madison Children's Museum while they are constructing their new museum; and that Graham Yeager shall produce brightly colored wooden beads which the Madison Arts Commission recommends the City purchase for $750 for temporary placement in an approved location; and that the Madison Arts Commission shall continue its partnership with Metro Transit for "Bus Lines," a program that places poetry by eight local high school students in the Me...