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City Council Staff Report
October 22, 2019
Agenda Item No. 11
TO: HONORABLE MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE CITY COUNCIL
FROM: Tim Hetherton, Library Services Director - 949-717-3801,
thetherton@newportbeachca.gov
PREPARED BY: Tim Hetherton, Library Services Director,
thetherton@newportbeachca.gov
PHONE: 949-717-3810
TITLE: Cultural Arts Grants FY 2019-20
ABSTRACT:
The sum of $40,000 is provided annually for specific cultural or artistic planning or projects
as approved by the City Council. The City Arts Commission has the responsibility to
review all programs and requests for support from arts groups and make
recommendations for funding to the City Council for final approval.
RECOMMENDATION:
a) Determine this action is exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)
pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) and 15060(c)(3) of the CEQA Guidelines because
this action will not result in a physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly;
and
b) Approve recommended recipients for FY 2019-20 Cultural Arts Grants as selected by
the City Arts Commission in accordance with City Council Policy 1-10 — Financial
Support for Culture and Arts.
FUNDING REQUIREMENTS:
The current adopted budget includes sufficient funding for this grant program. It will be
expensed to the City Grants account in the Cultural Arts Department, 01060603-821006.
DISCUSSION:
City Council Policy 1-10 recognizes the importance of promoting culture and arts within
the City and budgets $40,000 annually for a grant program. The funds are provided
annually for specific cultural or artistic planning or projects as approved by the City
Council. The City Arts Commission has the responsibility to review all programs and
requests for support from arts groups and make recommendations for funding to the City
Council for final approval.
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Council Policy 1-10 defines arts groups as those involved in visual, musical, theatre,
dance, crafts, performing and literary activities. The City Arts Commission considers the
following in order of preference for granting support:
1. Local arts groups located within the City of Newport Beach and offering
programs to City residents;
2. Regional arts groups located in Orange County and offering programs to City
residents; and
3. Arts groups located in California and performing or offering programs to City
residents.
Groups not offering programs or services to local residents are not eligible for support
from the City.
The Commission received written grant proposals from eleven organizations for
approximately $62,000 in free cultural arts programming for the Newport Beach
community in FY 2019-20. After careful deliberation, the City Arts Commission approved
grant funding for ten local arts organizations, totaling $36,000, at their regular meeting on
October 10, 2019.
ORGANIZATION
REQUESTED
-A
Balboa Island Improvement Association
Baroque Music Festival CdM
$
$
2,500
7,000
$
$
2,500
4,000
Chuck Jones Center for Creativity
Kontrapunktus
$
$
8,000
2,000
$
$
2,000
2,000
Laguna Playhouse
$
5,000
$
5,000
Lyric Opera of Orange County
$
8,000
$
0
Newport Beach Film Festival
$
7,000
$
5,000
Newport Elementary School Foundation
$
7,500
$
500
Pacific Symphony
$
5,000
$
5,000
Philharmonic Society of Orange County
$
5,000
$
5,000
South Coast Repertory
�TOTAL
$
$62,000
5,000
$
$36,0001
5,000
In past years, the City Arts Commission has retained a portion of the grant funds to
provide for its own programs. For FY 2019-20, the City Arts Commission has retained
$4,000 for City Arts Commission programming.
Balboa Island Improvement Association (BIIA): $2,500
The BIIA will promote cultural activities and musical appreciation by presenting live
classical musical performances throughout the year. The concerts will be held at St. John
Vianney Chapel. The BIIA will also stage free summer concerts of popular music at
Balboa Park, adjacent to the Beek Center.
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Baroque Music Festival: $4,000
The Baroque Music Festival will use the grant funds to bring opera singers, dancers, and
instrumentalists to Newport Beach for the zarzuela performance. The funds will also be
used to subsidize the cost of student tickets for this concert.
Chuck Jones Center for Creativity: $2,000
Chuck Jones Center for Creativity will use the grant funds for the continuation of "Food
for Thought: Creativity Workshops with Brain Health in Mind". The program goal is to
provide exceptional cognitive exercises for four different brain functions (memory,
executive function, visual function, and language). The program will be held at OASIS
Senior Center.
Kontrapunktus: $2,000
Kontrapunktus will use the grant funds to help produce a free classical concert at Our
Lady Queen of Angels Catholic Church on April 18, 2020, focusing on "The Bachs".
Laguna Playhouse: $5,000
Laguna Playhouse will use the grant funds for a performance at their theater for
approximately 420 Newport Beach students and to support ticket costs for field trips for
local Newport Beach students.
Newport Beach Film Festival: $5,000
The Newport Beach Film Festival is planning a multi -program series covering several
days of the Festival similar to the 2019 Seminar Series. Held in the Civic Center
Community Room and the Library Friends Room, past seminar topics have included
directing, screenwriting, production design, animation, and special effects.
Newport Elementary School Foundation: $500
The Newport Elementary School Foundation will fund the Arts Masters Program. This
program consists of full-day lectures and assemblies conducted six times during the
school year. Each lecture is a multimedia presentation assembly using art visuals,
images, and engrossing stories covering each artist and/or art subject. In addition, there
is an accompanying art activity for each lecture that enables each student to create their
own individual work of art in the manner of the master artist or art subject, using the same
techniques, styles, media, and disciplines.
Pacific Symphony: $5,000
Pacific Symphony's Frieda Belinfante Class Act partnership will enable three Newport
Beach elementary schools (Anderson, Harbor View, and Newport Coast) to participate in
this unique partnership program. Class Act strives to enhance existing school music
programs by providing additional musical experience through the Symphony. Focusing
on six main "contact points" with schools, the program works to increase awareness of
and involvement with symphonic music for elementary school students, their families and
educators.
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Philharmonic Society of Orange County: $5,000
The Philharmonic Society of Orange County will use the grant funds for youth music
education programs and concerts featuring professional musicians, as well as their Music
Mobile in -school program, which are provided free of cost to students of the Newport -
Mesa school district. The programs and concerts will benefit grades 3 through 12. The
5th Grade Concert showcases the Philharmonic's Orange County Youth Symphony with
200 student musicians, including budding musicians from Newport -Mesa high schools.
The Society also worked with Chapman University's dance department to create a
physical dimension to the music program.
South Coast Repertory: $5,000
South Coast Repertory (SCR) will use the grant to fund their Theatre for Young Audiences
(TYA) program, an annual series of three professionally produced plays created
especially for children. Initiated by SCR in 2003, TYA extends the range of the theatre's
offerings and makes available to the community original, SCR commissioned world
premieres and existing adaptations of popular and classic children's literature. As the only
professional youth -oriented theatre company in Orange County, TYA's main purpose is
to introduce the vitality and magic of professional theatre to all Orange County children,
especially those in underserved areas.
The City Arts Commission was unable to grant funds to the Lyric Opera as their grant
application was incomplete.
The City Arts Commission is granting $4,000 back to itself. The funds will be transferred
to the programming budget for use during the fiscal year.
ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW:
Staff recommends the City Council find this action is not subject to the California
Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity will not
result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment)
and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378) of the CEQA
Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3, because it has no
potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly.
NOTICING:
The agenda item has been noticed according to the Brown Act (72 hours in advance of
the meeting at which the City Council considers the item).
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