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City of Polo Alto
Manager’s Report
HONORABLE CITY COUNCIL
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FROM:CITY MANAGER DEPARTMENT: Community Services
AGENDA DATE: August 5, 1996 CMR: 348:96
SUBJECT:Arts Council of Santa Clara County Grant - Budget Amendment
Ordinance
The purpose of this report is to request Council’s approval of an ordinance amending the budget
for fiscal year 1996-97 to reflect the award of a $6,014 matching grant from the Arts Council
of Santa Clara County, Organizational Enhancement Fund grant to the Arts and Culture
Division’s Visual Arts Program.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Staff recommends that Council adopt the attached Budget Amendment Ordinance accepting the
Arts Council of Santa Clara County grant of $6,014 into the 1996-97 Arts and Culture
Division’s Visual Arts major activity budget for the exhibition and education programs at the
Palo Alto Cultural Center.
POLICY IMPLICATIONS
This report does not represent any change to existing policies.
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Since 1986, the Arts Council of Santa Clara County has awarded grants to the Visual Arts
program in support of exhibition programming at the Cultural Center. The most recent grant
is in support of the Cultural Center’s juried exhibition of local artists, Radius 1996, the spring
exhibition; Mingei & Merchants, Japanese folk art, prints, and furnishings, and The Intimate
Brush:. Contemporary Asian Women Artists, presenting small scale works and installations
exploring contemporary issues and identity. This grant has been received by the Visual Arts
program through the Arts Council of Santa Clara County PARTNERS program, made possible
in part by the Community Foundation of Santa Clara County. In the current fiscal year, these
funds have been designated for general operating support, to provide an ongoing exhibition of
the area’s emerging artists, and continuing efforts to reach a broad and expanded population.
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The funds will strengthen the quality and visibility of the exhibition and education program, and
thereby increase the audience for the visual arts.
FISCAL IMPACT
The Arts Council of Santa Clara County grant provides matching funds for exhibitions,
equitable artists’ and lecture fees, outreach and public relations materials, and workshop/studio
supplies and materials. The funds necessary to .match the grant have been budgeted in the
Visual Arts major activity budget for 1996-97.
ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT
The program is not a project as defined by the California Environmental Quality Act and is not
subject to CEQA requirements.
ATTACHMENTS
Budget Amendment Ordinance
Prepared By:Linda Craighead and Leon Kaplan, Arts and Culture Division
Department Head Review: ~-
PAUL TI-II-’L-TGI~N
Director of Community Services
City Manager Approval:
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ORDINANCE NO.
ORDINANCE OF THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALO ALTO
AMENDING THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR 1996-97 TO
PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION FOR THE COM}{UNITY
SERVICES DEP~RTMENT TO RECEIVE MATCHING GRANT FUNDS FROM
THE ARTS COUNCIL OF SANTA CLARA.
WHEREAS, pursuant to the provisions of Section 12 of Article
III of the Charter of the City of Palo Alto, the Council on June
24, 1996 did adopt a budget for fiscal year 1996-97; and
WHEREAS, the Arts Council. of Santa Clara County provides
matching grant funds for exhibitions, artist and lecture fees,
outreach and public relations materials, and workshop/study
supplies and materials; and
WHEREAS, the Visual Arts program was awarded an Arts Council
grant in the amount of $6,014 to support exhibition and education
programs at the Palo Alto Cultural Center; and
WHEREAS, appropriation of these funds will require an
amendment to the budget, as hereinafter set forth.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Council of the City of Palo Alto does
ORDAIN as follows:
SECTION i. The sum of Six Thousand Fourteen Dollars ($6,014)
is hereby appropriated to non-salary expenses in the Functional
Area Arts and Culture in the Community Services Department, and
Grant Revenue is correspondingly increased.
SECTION 2. This transaction will have no impact on reserves.
SECTION 3. As specified in Section 2.28.080(a) of the Palo
Alto Municipal Code, a two-thirds vote of the City Council is
required to adopt thisordinance.
SECTION 4. The Council of the City of Palo Alto hereby
finds that this is not a project under~ the California
Environmental Quality Act and, therefore, no environmental
impact assessment is necessary.
SECTION 5. As provided in Section 2.04.350 of the Palo
Alto Municipal Code, this ordinance shall become effective
upon adoption.
INTRODUCED AND PASSED:
AYES:
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ABSTENTIONS:
ABSENT:
ATTEST:APPROVED:
City Clerk Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:City Manager
Senior Asst. City Attorney Deputy City
Administrative
Department
Manager,
Services
Director of Community
Services Department