Title
Arts and Culture Coronavirus Relief Program - Organizational Support Phase II (Ordinance S-46844)
Description
Request authorization for the City Manager, or his designee, to enter into grant agreements with nonprofit arts and culture organizations throughout the city of Phoenix. Further authorize the City Controller to disburse the funds for purposes of this ordinance. The total value of the agreements will not exceed $1,885,000. There is no impact to the General Fund.
Report
Summary
The federal government allocated $293 million to the City of Phoenix in the Coronavirus Relief Fund component of Section 5001 of the CARES Act. During its May 12, 2020 meeting, the City Council approved allocating $2.6 million for an Arts and Culture Coronavirus Relief Program. Of that $2.6 million, $1,885,000 was designated for grants to nonprofit arts and culture organizations negatively impacted financially because of the global health emergency.
Organizations that completed a FY 2021 Community Arts Grant application and were recommended for support by the Phoenix Arts and Culture Commission would be immediately eligible to apply for emergency relief funding and received a simple, supplemental application to complete. Nonprofit arts and cultural organizations that did not apply for a FY 2021 community arts grants can be considered for emergency relief funding on a case-by-case basis and needed to complete a Community Arts Grants application and submit the supplemental relief form. If recommended by the committee then these organizations would be eligible for emergency relief funding only and not a FY 2021 grant; however, they could apply for a FY 2022 Community Arts Grant next spring.
Award amounts are based on the Community Arts Grant category the applicants originally applied for in FY 2021 funding. The Community Arts Grant Program has two categories that nonprofit arts and culture organizations can apply for annually. One is for operating support to organizations with budgets greater than $25,000. The second category is project support that funds arts and cultural projects by smaller organizations across the City of Phoenix. Eligible organizations that applied for operating support were eligible for the maximum Coronavirus Relief Grant award per their budget size. Eligible organizations that applied for a project support were eligible to apply for a minimum award. If an organization was recommended for both an operating support and project grant, the organization could only apply for one relief grant, which would be based on the organization's budget size.
Out of the 72 organizations recommended for FY 2021 Community Arts Grants support, 61 applied, and seven new organizations that did not apply for FY 2021 submitted applications. Organizations and award amounts are listed on Attachment A.
Concurrence/Previous Council Action
The Mayor and Council discussed and approved the plan to implement the full $2.6 million Arts and Culture Coronavirus Relief Program at their Policy Session on May 12, 2020 by a 6-2 vote. The Phoenix Arts and Culture Commission reviewed and approved the Arts and Culture Coronavirus Relief Program for Organizations applications and allocation recommendations at its meeting on June 16, 2020.
Department
Responsible Department
This item is submitted by Deputy City Manager Karen Peters and the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture.