City of Madison - File #: 51382

• File #: 51382
• Version: 1
• Name: accept funds not to exceed $20,000 from the Madison Community Foundation
• Type: Resolution
• Status: Passed
• File created: 4/24/2018
• In control: FINANCE COMMITTEE
• On agenda: 5/15/2018
• Final action: 5/15/2018
• Enactment date: 5/21/2018
• Enactment #: RES-18-00391
• Title: Authorizing the Planning Division on behalf of the City of Madison, to accept funds not to exceed $20,000 from the Madison Community Foundation to facilitate a grant program for Madison area artists using ash wood and amending the Planning Division’s 2018 Adopted Operating Budget to appropriate these funds in revenue and corresponding expenditures.
• Sponsors: Sheri Carter
• Related files: 53210

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
5/15/2018	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Adopt - 15 Votes Required	Pass
5/7/2018	1	FINANCE COMMITTEE	RECOMMEND TO COUNCIL TO ADOPT (15 VOTES REQUIRED) - REPORT OF OFFICER	Pass
5/1/2018	1	COMMON COUNCIL	Refer	Pass
4/24/2018	1	Department of Planning and Community and Economic Development	Referred for Introduction

Fiscal Note

The proposed resolution authorizes the Planning Division to accept $20,000 from the Madison Community Foundation in order to administer a grant program that will repurpose felled ash trees into art. Ten artists will receive $1,500 grants to repurpose the wood and the remaining $5,000 will go toward expenses related to exhibition of the projects and toward an internship to help facilitate the grant program and exhibition. The Madison Arts Program in Planning’s 2018 Adopted Operating Budget will be amended to reflect the donation and expense. The Parks Division has also approved this program and no additional General Fund appropriation is required.

Title

Authorizing the Planning Division on behalf of the City of Madison, to accept funds not to exceed $20,000 from the Madison Community Foundation to facilitate a grant program for Madison area artists using ash wood and amending the Planning Division’s 2018 Adopted Operating Budget to appropriate these funds in revenue and corresponding expenditures.

Body

WHEREAS, the City of Madison is felling hundreds of ash trees in response to the Emerald Ash Borer infestation, and

WHEREAS, as part of their 75^th anniversary, the Madison Community Foundation (MCF) identified an opportunity they are calling, “Phoenix from the Ashes,” to retrieve felled ash wood and provide ten (10) artists with $1500 grants to repurpose the wood into art, and

WHEREAS, they are also contributing $2000 towards expenses related to a final exhibition of the projects developed through this grant, and

WHEREAS, MCF is also contributing $3000 towards an internship for someone to help facilitate the grant program and exhibition.

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Planning Division, on behalf of the City of Madison, is authorized to accept funding not to exceed $20,000 from the Madison Community Foundation in order to administer the Phoenix from the Ashes grant program and exhibition.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Madison Arts Program Administrator will administer the grant project.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the Madison Arts Commission will select the artists who will receive the grant funding.

BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED, that the 2018 Adopted Operating Budget of the Planning Division is amended to appropriate these funds from the Madison Community Foundation.