PRESENTER: Presenter
Gayle Wilkinson, Assistant City Secretary
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SUBJECT: Title
Approval of the Arts Commission recommendations for allocating grant awards from hotel occupancy tax (HOT) to various arts organizations of the City and authorizing the City Manager to execute contracts with the aforementioned organizations for the purpose of disbursement and use of funding.
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DEPARTMENT: City Secretary
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COUNCIL DISTRICTS IMPACTED: City-Wide
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
The City Secretary’s Office made available August 1, 2021 through October 31, 2021, via our website, the application for hotel occupancy tax (HOT) grants as well as an application guidelines and instructions. The Arts Commission met on December 7, 2021 and December 20, 2021 to review qualified applications and make recommendation to the City Council.
The commissioners reviewed and scored all applications for funding. Based on those scores, the commission has made the following recommendation for 2022 funding awards.
ISSUE:
Allocations require City Council approval.
FISCAL IMPACT:
City ordinance requires that 15 percent of the previous fiscal years Hotel Occupancy Tax (HOT) collections be allocated to the “enhancement of arts and cultural organizations and programs”. Customarily these proceeds are divided equally between the Arts and Heritage Commissions, who then make recommendations to City Council on disbursements of their respective halves of the funding. This year, $329,708.00 was made available to the Arts Commission based on Fiscal Year 2021 Hotel Occupancy Tax collections.
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RECOMMENDATION:
Approval of the awards as recommended by the Arts Commission.