Memorandum

City of Lawrence

City Manager’s Office

TO:	David L. Corliss, City Manager
From:	Diane Stoddard, Assistant City Manager
CC:	Cynthia Boecker, Assistant City Manager Amy Kelly, Chair, Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission
Date:	April 9, 2009
RE:	15^th Annual Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission Community Arts Grants

Please include the following item on the City Commission consent agenda for the April 28, 2009 meeting.

Mayor and Chair of the Arts Commission to present award checks for 15^th Annual Lawrence Arts Commission Community Arts Grants

Project Description/History:

The Lawrence Arts Commission-Community Arts Grant program began in 1995 with the expressed purpose of providing grants funds intended as start-off money for projects or special community art related ventures with a particular focus on encouraging the arts within the Lawrence community.

Since the Community Arts Grant program inception, the Lawrence Arts Commission has provided grant funding totaling approximately $67,000 to over 140 organizations and artists.

Project Status/Details:

The Lawrence Arts Commission’s 15^th Annual Community Arts Grant recommendations were selected based on the following five criteria: 1) proposal clarity, 2) benefit to the community, 3) support from community, 4) potential for increasing community participation in the arts, and 5) community collaboration & partnership.

The 2009 Community Arts Grant Awardees include the following:

Project   Title                     Organization / contact	Amount
Cottonwood Choir- Cottonwood, Inc.	$500
Youth & Family Programming- Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships-	$510
Functional Art Bike Rack for Lawrence Arts Center - Lawrence Central Rotary	$500
High School Musical –Lawrence Community Theatre	$1000
Out of Thin Air  - Lawrence Corporation for the Advancement of the Visual Arts	$500
Iron Pour - Ministry of Sculpture	$1000
Theater in the Park - Roger Hill Volunteer Center and Lawrence Youth Ensemble	$1000
Baby Blues - Thunderbird Theatre Club Haskell	$1000
Creation/Imagination based drop in childcare - Trinity In-Home Care	$500
Growing New Community Dance Series - Uptown Hoedown	$750
Total	$7260

Project Funding: Funding for this program is through the Special Recreation Fund.  Funds are available in the 2009 budget for this project.

Action Requested: The Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission recommends and request that the Mayor issue the 2009 Community Arts Grant checks to the grant awardees as shown in the table above at the April 21, 2009 City Commission meeting.