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GARLAND
POLICY REPORT
Work Session Item 4.b.
City Council Work Session Agenda
Meeting Date:
10/17/2022
Item Title:
Consider GCACI Hotel Occupancy Tax Revenue Budget, Sub-grant Recipients and Hotel Occupancy Tax Program Management Agreement
Submitted By:
Amy Rosenthal
Strategic Focus Areas
:
Commercially Thriving Downtown
ISSUE
Staff is seeking Council approval of the 2022-2023 budget of the Garland Cultural Arts Commission, Inc. (GCACI), sub-grant recipients and authorization of the City Manager's execution of the "Hotel Occupancy Tax Program Management Agreement" between the City of Garland and the GCACI.
OPTIONS
Council may follow staff's recommendation to approve approve the 2022-2023 GCACI budget, the list of sub-grant recipients, and authorize the City's execution of the agreement; Return the item to staff for further review and discussion; Do not approve the 2022-2023 GCACI budget, list of sub-grant recipients, nor authorize execution of the agreement, thereby canceling the $187,293.00 in revenues, which support cultural arts in Garland.
RECOMMENDATION
This item is scheduled for formal consideration at the October 18, 2022 Regular Meeting.
BACKGROUND
In February 1986, the Garland City Council created the nine-member Garland Cultural Arts Commission to serve as a liaison between the City and all community based arts related programs, and historical organizations. The Commission's primary goal is to increase the visibility of the arts and promote an active and diverse arts culture in Garland.
In 1987, the Commission created the private non-profit Garland Cultural Arts Commission Inc. (GCACI) to pursue various sources of revenue, contributions and support in order to grow a cultural arts grant program to provide funding assistance to meritorious arts and historical groups.
The GCACI administers this grant program, funded primarily through revenues received from Hotel Occupancy Tax funds. Since the program's inception in 1987, grant funds have contributed over $2 million towards the advancement of local cultural arts organizations. GCACI's extensive promotional efforts have been the foundation for building Garland's cultural tourism, which attracts thousands of arts patrons from throughout North Texas to Garland's arts facilities and activities.
The Cultural Arts staff reviews the applicants to ensure all organizations presented to the GCACI have met requirements for the granting process. The GCACI conducts interviews with each organization requesting funding, and then moves through the process with staff's guidance using a scoring rubric for applicants, followed by open panel discussion, and award granting.
CONSIDERATION
The attached "Hotel Occupancy Tax Program Management Agreement" in the amount of $187,293 provides the GCACI with fifteen percent of the hotel occupancy tax net revenue from Quarter 3 of 2020 thru Quarter 2 of 2021. As a provision of this agreement, the GCACI annually adopts a budget which details the proposed expenditures of the revenues provided by this program. Attachments include the GCACI budget and list of GCACI sub-grant recipients approved October 4, 2022 by the GCACI for this 2022-2023 fiscal year.
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