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Special Meeting Minutes
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
5:30 pm
City Hall
CALL TO ORDER: Chair Terry Conner 5:00 pm
PRESENT: Babb, LeMieux, Davis, Palazzo
STAFF PRESENT: Brigitte Elke, Principal Administrative Analyst
1.CULTURAL ACTIVITIES-GRANT FUNDING 2010-11
The PCC Chair introduced the special meeting and welcomed the
representatives of the 19 organizations present. He introduced Lindsey Miller
from the Chamber of Commerce who will help the GIA funded organizations with
the promotional outreach through the City's events promotion contract with the
Chamber.
He then turned the meeting over to PCC and GIA subcommittee member
Palazzo who went over the preliminary funding allocations and committee
decisions. She reiterated Council's direction from the 2009-10 funding cycle and
the new guidelines the committee therefore established. The following guidelines
were highlighted:
-organizations not attending the mandatory meeting were not considered-production cost and staff time was not eligible for funding-An organization is eligible for two years of full funding within grant criteria.
From the third year on, the grant amount will be reduced if no new
elements or growth opportunities are presented.
Each organization had the opportunity to address the committee and discuss the
allocation. All representatives thanked the committee and the City for the
continued support and annual grant opportunity.
The representative from Central Cost Clean Cities Coalition mentioned that the
grant application will not come to fruition as planned due to the Savor event not
happening and Central Coast Magazine being out of business. However, the
members are working on a collaboration between several cities in California that
promote similar programs to encourage car-free travel between those cities. The
PCC encouraged the representative to come back to present the new program to
the PCC under events promotion once a concrete business plan is established.
Opera San Luis Obispo had provided a letter prior to the meeting that informed
the committee of a programming change the Opera board decided on one week
ago. The opera was moved from October to March and will collaborate with the
International Film Festival. The committee considered the new data and found
that the event remained the same and that the collaboration factor, already
strong in the previous proposal, was even more developed in the new proposal.
In addition, the event is now happening in a traditionally slow season for San Luis
Obispo that will greatly benefit from such events.
ACTION: Davis/Palazzo to maintain the current funding for Opera San
Luis Obispo based on the new information presented. Motion carried 5:0
ACTION: Babb/LeMieux to adopt the final 2010-11 GIA funding
recommendations as presented. Motion carried 5:0