RESOLUTION NO. (XX)
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COTATI
APPROVING THE 2026 COTATI CULTURAL EVENT SMALL GRANT
AWARDEES
WHEREAS, the City of Cotati has a desire to bring more multicultural events to Cotati; and
WHEREAS, the City of Cotati approved the Cotati Cultural Event Small Grant Program in September 2024; and
WHEREAS, five completed applications were received for the 2026 grant cycle year; and
WHEREAS, two applications were identified by the review committee as the highest rated and best suited to be selected as awardees; and
WHEREAS, the two events selected to receive five thousand dollars each in grant funds are On Axis Productions and the Rotary Club of Rancho Cotati; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds that awarding grants to these events are part of a comprehensive economic development strategy in that new multicultural events may increase visitation to the City, promote the Cotati community and result in increased sales tax revenues; and
WHEREAS, the City Council further finds that the health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of the City of Cotati will not be jeopardized by the approval of these grant awards; and WHEREAS, the applications for this program are attached as Exhibit A; and WHEREAS, the scoring rubric for this program is attached as Exhibit B; and WHEREAS, the scoring rubric for the applications for this program are attached as Exhibit C; and
WHEREAS, a portion of the funding for the Cotati Cultural Event Small Grant Program requires a budget amendment to roll forward five thousand dollars ($5,000) that was originally budgeted in fiscal year 2024/25 but not expended due to the timing of a cultural event occurring in fiscal year 2025/26, and staff has prepared a proposed FY 2025/26 budget adjustment to reflect the use of these funds and to ensure the approved grant awards are properly encumbered in the fiscal year of the award; and
WHEREAS, the action of approving a Cultural Events Grant program does not constitute a project as defined by California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines Section 15378; therefore, no further environmental review is required.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that
Section 1. Findings. The above recitals are declared to be true and correct and are incorporated herein as findings of the City Council.
Section 2. Approvals. The Cotati Cultural Small Grant Program recipients for the 2025 cycle will be On Axis Productions and the Rotary Club of Rancho Cotati, with grants of five thousand ($5,000) dollars awarded to each organization.
Section 3. Budget Amendment. The City Council hereby approves a budget amendment for fiscal year 2025/26 to roll forward five thousand dollars ($5,000) in Cotati Cultural Event Small Grant Program funds that were originally budgeted in fiscal year 2024/25 but not expended due to the timing of an approved cultural event occurring in fiscal year 2025/26.
Section 4. Effective Date of this Resolution. This Resolution shall become effective immediately.
Section 5. Severability. Each portion of this resolution is severable. Should any portion of this resolution be adjudged to be invalid and unenforceable by a body of competent jurisdiction, then the remaining resolution portions shall be and continue in full force and effect, except as to those resolution portions that have been adjudged invalid. The City Council of the City of Cotati hereby declares that it would have adopted this resolution and each section, subsection, clause, sentence, phrase and other portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that one or more section, subsection, clause, sentence, phrase, or other portion may be held invalid or unconstitutional.
IT IS HEREBY CERTIFIED that the foregoing resolution was duly adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Cotati held on January 27, 2026, by the following vote, to wit:
Approved:___________________________
Mayor
Attest:______________________________
Kevin Patterson, City Clerk
Approved as to form:______________________________
City Attorney