APPROVED AS TO FORM AND LEGALITY
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CITY ATTORNEY’S OFFICE
OAKLAND CITY COUNCIL
RESOLUTION NO. ______________ C.M.S.
RESOLUTION AWARDING GRANTS TO FORTY (4 0) OAKLAND-
BASED NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS AND INDIVIDUAL ARTISTS
PROVIDING ARTS AND CULTURAL SERVICES IN OAKLAND FOR
FISCAL YEAR 2022-23 (ROUND TWO), IN A TOTAL AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED SIX HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS ($600,000)
WHEREAS, in 1985, the City Council adopted the first arts funding policies and procedures for the City of Oakland (City), establishing a panel system of evaluating funding proposals and distributing City funds to the arts; and
WHEREAS, the Cultural Funding Program, housed in the Economic a nd Workforce Development Department, is the City’s funding mechanism to support Oakland -based nonprofit organizations and artists providing arts and cultural activities to the public; and WHEREAS, the mission of the Cultural Funding Program is to fund Oak land-based art and cultural activities that reflect the diversity of the City for citizens of and visitors to Oakland, focusing on the key areas of General Support, Neighborhood Arts, and Arts Education, through four grant making categories for Individual Artist Projects, Organization Pro grams, Organizational Assistance, and Festivals; and
WHEREAS, the Cultural Funding Program award s two rounds of grant funding in FY 2022-23, including supporting individual artist projects in Oakland’s neighborhoods and providing arts -focused program support to organizations during its second round of funding (Round Two); and
WHEREAS, in March 2023, the Cultural Funding Program convened review panels and forwarded recommendations to the City of Oakland Funding Advisory Committee (FAC) for commentary, and the FAC unanimously supported staff’s recommendation to City Council that these Round Two grants f or Fiscal Year 2022 -23 Cultural Funding be awarded in the amounts listed in the below table; and
WHEREAS, Fiscal Year 2022-23 funds for the Cultural Funding Program are available as follows: $550,000 in General Purpose Fund (1010), Cultural Arts & Marke ting Org (85511), Cultural Arts Grant Fund Project (1000166); $50,000 from the Transient Occupancy Tax surcharge, which will be reserved for arts grants in the Measure C: Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) Surcharge Fund (2419), Cultural Arts & Marketing Org (8 5511), TOT Surcharge:
Cultural Grants Project (1000458); and
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WHEREAS, staff recommends that the City Council award grants to specific individual artists and nonprofit organizations, as set forth in the below table:
ORGANIZATION and
INDIVIDUAL ARTIST
NAMES
Recommended Total
Not to Exceed Grant
Amount
(Funding Source)
General Fund-City
Promotions 53311
(Funding Source)
Transient
Occupancy Tax
Acacia WoodsChan $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Adrienne Oliver $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Christian Martinez $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Damon Taylor $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Edward Gunawan $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Elaine Chu $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Frederick Alexander
Alvarado $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Ipeleng Kgositsile $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Jacqueline Keliiaa $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Jasmine Stallworth $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Jose Alfredo Navarrete Perez $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Joseph Warner $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Kyung Lee $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Latanya D. Tigner $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Maria De La Rosa $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Rachel-Anne Palacios $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Reshawn Goods $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Samantha McGinnis $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Sheilby Macena $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Stephanie Hewett $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Sozo Impact, Inc. (for
Alphabet Rockers) $20,000.00 $20,000.00
The Bay Area Girls Rock
Camp $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Beats Rhymes and Life, Inc. $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Cantare Con Vivo $20,000.00 $20,000.00
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Filmmakers Collaborative,
Inc. (for Counting Salmon
LLC DBA Re-Present Media) $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Possibility Labs (for Cut
Fruit Collective) $20,000.00 $20,000.00
The Dr. Huey P. Newton
Foundation $20,000.00 $20,000.00
East Oakland Youth
Development Center $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Higher Gliffs (for
Endangered Ideas) $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Intersection (for Gold
Beams) $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Dancers’ Group (for Grown
Women Dance Collective) $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Joyce Gordon Foundation of
the Arts (for Lamumba, Inc.
DBA Geoffrey's Inner Circle) $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Museum of Children's Art $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Mycelium Youth Network $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Native American Health
Center, Inc. $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Oaklash $20,000.00 $20,000.00
St. Mary's Center $20,000.00 $10,000.00 $10,000.00
Peoples Conservatory $20,000.00 $20,000.00
The Oakland Public
Education Fund (for Youth
Beat) $20,000.00 $20,000.00
Youth UpRising $20,000.00 $20,000.00
TOTAL $600,000.00 $550,000.00 $50,000.00
; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED: That the Oakland City Council hereby awards a grant to each individual artist or organization listed in the above table for Fiscal Year 2022 -2023, not to exceed the amounts detailed therein, in a total amount not to exceed six hundred thousand dollars ($600,000); and be it
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FURTHER RESOLVED: That in the event any of the above grants are not encumbered, those funds shall revert to the Cultural Funding Program for use in other categories of support.
IN COUNCIL, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA,
PASSED BY THE FOLLOWING VOTE:
AYES - FIFE, GALLO, JENKINS, KALB, KAPLAN, RAMACHANDRAN, REID, AND
PRESIDENT FORTUNATO BAS
NOES –
ABSENT –
ABSTENTION –
ATTEST:
ASHA REED
City Clerk and Clerk of the Council of the
City of Oakland, California