Fiscal Note
The Resolution awards $9,790 in arts grants. Funding is authorized in the 2009 Adopted Planning Division operating budget.
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Seeking Common Council approval of the remaining 2009-2010 Arts Grants awards as recommended by the Madison Arts Commission.
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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 Metro Transit busses, and that the program shall be funded at $1,700 and;
WHEREAS, by the annual October 15 Signature Grant application deadline the Madison Arts Commission received 7 applications for the single $5,000 Signature Grant award; and
WHEREAS, members of the Madison Arts Commission met on November 9, 2009 to evaluate the Signature Grant applications received for the 2009-2010 grant period and their recommendation to award William Turnbull the $5,000 Signature Grant for the creation of a small series of kinetic sculptures he calls "The Industrial Menagerie" was vetted and accepted at the November 18, 2009 Madison Arts Commission meeting; and
WHEREAS, the Madison Arts Commission requests permission to spend $9,790 of the remaining $9,875 in arts grants funding and the previously allocated but unused grant money as outlined above:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Madison Common Council approves the aforementioned proposed uses of the remaining 2009-2010 grant award funding and authorizes the Planning Division Director, the City Comptroller and the City Attorney to execute the agreements on behalf of the City of Madison to effectuate said grants.