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File ID: 2022-01672 9/20/2022 Consent Item 4.
California Creative Corps Organization Grant
File ID: 2022-01672
Location: Citywide
Recommendation: Adopt a Resolution: 1) accepting the California Arts Council California Creative Corps program grant in the amount not-to-exceed $4,750,000; 2) authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to execute all documents necessary to implement and secure payment; 3) establish the California Creative Corps Program grant (G17610000); and 4) authorizing the City Manager or the City Manager’s designee to establish related revenue and expenditure budgets in the California Creative Corps Program grant (G17610000) in the amount of $4,750,000 (Operating Grants, Fund 2702) to implement the grant award.
Contact: Mannylyn Timoteo, Administrative Analyst, (916) 808-3982, [email protected]; Melissa Cirone, Program Manager, (916) 808-3983, [email protected]; Megan Van Voorhis, Cultural and Creative Economy Manager, (916) 808-5979, [email protected], Convention and Cultural Services Presenter: None
Attachments:
1-Description/Analysis
2-Resolution
Description/Analysis
Issue Detail: The California Creative Corps program is a $60 million one-time General Fund allocation for the California Arts Council (CAC) to implement a media, outreach, and engagement campaign designed to increase:
· Public health awareness messages to stop the spread of COVID-19; · Public awareness related to water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, and emergency preparedness, relief, and recovery;
· Civic engagement, including election participation; and City of Sacramento Page 1 of 3
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· Social justice and community engagement.
The CAC looked for Administering Organizations with the capacity to administer regranting funds to arts and social service organizations and to individual artists and cultural workers throughout the state to develop media, outreach, and engagement campaigns that speak to the program goals. The intention of this program is to provide as broad a geographic reach as possible and serve all 58 counties, while prioritizing communities that demonstrate the highest level of need as indicated by the California Healthy Places Index.
Funded Administering Organizations and sub-grantee organizations, artists, and cultural practitioners must demonstrate strong, ongoing relationships with Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities and other historically marginalized groups and will support meaningful engagements with those communities through this grant.
The City’s Office of Arts and Culture (OAC) received the highest award amount for a single organization from the program. OAC will work with its regional partners in Sacramento, Yolo, El Dorado, Alpine and Solano counties to redistribute grants to artists collectives, nonprofit social service/civic organizations, arts nonprofits, units of local government, and tribal governments for creative campaigns.
Policy Considerations: The recommendations contained in this report are consistent with City Council Resolution No. 2022-0198, which requires City Council approval to accept and implement grant awards of $250,000 or more.
Economic Impacts: This program is seen primarily as a job creation and infrastructure development opportunity that will increase the ways in which artists are engaged in public work so that they can continue to support the realization of these goals beyond the funding timeline.
Environmental Considerations: None.
Sustainability: None.
Commission/Committee Action: None.
Rationale for Recommendation: The OAC was selected to receive $4,750,000 from the CAC to implement the state’s new California Creative Corps program for the capital region, which includes Sacramento, Yolo, El Dorado, Alpine, and Solano counties.
OAC plans to redistribute funds to artists, art collectives, nonprofits, and local and tribal governments for creative campaigns to increase public awareness of health, social and environmental challenges facing the region.
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Financial Considerations: The project will be fully funded by the grant award received from the California Arts Council. No matching funds are required. There are no General Funds planned or allocated to this project.
Local Business Enterprise (LBE): Not applicable.
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RESOLUTION NO. 2022-
Adopted by Sacramento City Council
September 20, 2022
California Creative Corps Administering Organization Grant
BACKGROUND:
A. The California Creative Corps Program is a $60 million one-time General Fund allocation for the California Arts Council (CAC) to implement a media, outreach, and engagement campaign designed to increase: (1) public health awareness messages to stop the spread of COVID-19; (2) public awareness related to water and energy conservation, climate mitigation, and emergency preparedness, relief, and recovery; (3) civic engagement, including election participation; and (4) social justice and community engagement.
B. The City of Sacramento’s Office of Arts and Culture (OAC) was selected by the CAC to receive the highest award amount for a single organization for the California Creative Corps Program Administering Organization grant in the amount of $4,750,000.
C. OAC will work with its regional partners in Sacramento, Yolo, El Dorado, Alpine, and Solano counties to redistribute grants to artists collectives, nonprofit social service/civic organizations, arts nonprofits, units of local government, and tribal governments for creative campaigns.
BASED ON THE FACTS SET FORTH IN THE BACKGROUND, THE CITY COUNCIL RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to accept the grant award from the CAC in the amount not-to-exceed $4,750,000.
Section 2. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to execute all documents necessary to implement and secure payment.
Section 3. The City Manager or the City Manager’s designee is authorized to establish the California Creative Corps Program grant (G17610000), and related revenue and expenditure budgets in the amount not-to-exceed $4,750,000 (Fund 2702 Operating Grants) to implement the award.