TO: Board of Supervisors
FROM: Anthony Halstead - Director of Library Services
REPORT BY: Anthony Halstead - Director of Library Services
SUBJECT: FY 2025-26 Arts & Culture Grant Agreements for Recipients and Arts Council
RECOMMENDATION
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Approve and authorize 17 agreements with 14 different organizations totaling $242,132 recommended by the Napa County Arts and Culture Advisory Committee, and Agreement No. 250145B with Arts Council Napa Valley for $60,870 to be the Napa County Local Arts Agency and implement the Napa County Cultural Plan for the term July 1, 2025, through June 30, 2026. (Fiscal Impact: $303,002 Expense; General Fund-Community Investment; Budgeted; Discretionary)
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BACKGROUND
In April 2023, the Board named the fund to the "Community Investment Fund" (CIF) to better capture the purpose of the fund and amended CIF allocation formula as follows:
* 80% - Parks and Open Space
* 20% - Arts and Culture Programs or Services
Of the 20% arts and culture allocation, 20% of that amount is annually allocated to Arts Council Napa Valley for operating expenses, and the remaining 80% annually distributed through a competitive grant process to arts and culture organizations in Napa County.
BOARD-APPROVED ARTS & CULTURE GRANT GUIDELINES
The purpose of the Arts & Culture Advisory Committee (Committee) is to conduct and oversee a grant program and make recommendations to the Board of Supervisors regarding grant awards made to non-profit arts and cultural organizations in Napa County. The goal is to grow and promote arts and cultural offerings in Napa County for residents and visitors, include more diversity of cultures and voices in the arts, and foster more collaboration among Napa's arts groups.
The Committee met on October 24, 2022, to discuss amendments to the Arts & Culture Grant Guidelines for the FY 2023-24 grant cycle and the guidelines were approved by the Board in November 2022. The guidelines, which remain unchanged for the FY 2025-26 cy...
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