5. Determine available dollars for capital grants and other applications (action item?)
- Short order and capital grant awards will be allocated from the 2023 Cycle 2 budget.
- Awarding all grant applications from the yearly grant budget rather than private funds
demonstrates an accurate request to available funds ratio.
- Short order and Capital grants have been funded from Lussier funds in the past few
cycles. For consistency going forward, Director Fraire proposes funding all grant requests
from the yearly grant budget.
- Criteria for scoring the short order and capital grants is the same as project grants,
however, the application for Short Order and Capital grants is shorter than the Project
grant application.
- Chair Ritcherson proposed including Capital and Short Order grants in Commissioner
Curet’s discussion about grant process during the September commission meeting.
- The decision on the final Capital grant budget will be postponed until the October
Executive Committee meeting.
- Vice Chair Klehr will take the lead on reviewing the Capital Grant applications and
recommended that the Executive Committee review all Capital grants and discuss budget
allocation during the October Executive Committee meeting.
6. Update on panel review teams
All grant panelists have been secured and five panel review dates are scheduled:
- Panel 1: Music, Arts in Education - 8:30 AM – 11 AM, Monday, September 18, 2023
- Panel 2: Dance, Arts in Education, Local History - 8:30 AM – 11 AM, Wednesday,
September 20, 2023
- Panel 3: Visual Arts, Theater – 8:30 AM – 11 AM, Tuesday, September 26, 2023
- Panel 4: Multidisciplinary – 8:30 AM – 11 AM, Wednesday, September 27, 2023
- Panel 5: Music – 8:30 AM – 11 AM, Tuesday, October 3, 2023
- Chair Ritcherson will chair the September 20th panel, Vice Chair Klehr will Chair the
Sept 26th and 27th panels, and Commissioner Puleo Moyer will chair the October 3rd
panel.
- A commissioner is still needed to serve as chair on the September 18th grant review
panel.