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Community Arts/Cultural Activities Grants (including Youth Program <br />In 1992, the City Council established the City Grants Program. This program offers <br />limited funding to community-based non-profit organizations that provide needed human <br />services assistance and arts/cultural activities to Pleasanton residents. In FY 1995/96, <br />the City recognized the need to address youth services, and a youth category was <br />established. The arts/culture and youth components of the former City Grant program <br />were combined to form the current "Community Grant" (CG) program. For many grant <br />cycles, the City Council has annually allocated $40,000 in General Fund dollars each to <br />the arts/cultural activity projects and to youth projects. This year, there are unspent funds <br />from prior years, enabling the Civic Arts Commission to recommend more than $40,000 <br />in grant funds. Community grant awards are typically limited to a maximum of$7,500 for <br />each individual grant. <br />Information on the CG program was provided at the required virtual application workshop <br />on December 7, 2022. In response, 10 applications were received in the arts/culture <br />category with an aggregate request of$63,000, while six applications were received in <br />the youth category with an aggregate request of$40,000. <br />Arts/culture applications were reviewed by the Civic Arts Commission at its meeting on <br />March 6 (Attachment 4). Youth applications were reviewed by the Youth Commission at <br />its meeting on March 8 (Attachment 5). At each meeting, specific agency representatives <br />made presentations and addressed commissioners' questions. <br />Table 5 provides a summary of the programs reviewed by the Civic Arts Commission and <br />its funding recommendations. The four submitted application requests by Pacific <br />Chamber Orchestra totaled $25,000. Due to the cost per resident and total funding <br />request of$25,000, the commission recommended not funding one of the four <br />applications for the Holiday Concert program. <br />Table 6 provides a summary of the programs reviewed by the Youth Commission and its <br />funding recommendations. Teen Esteem did not attend the March meeting. The Youth <br />Commission recommended Teen Esteem receive the full amount of its request, but <br />further recommended a representative attend the City Council meeting when a vote to <br />approve funding is held. <br />Page 12 of 16 <br />Docusign Envelope ID: BAF64511-C271-4FC1-BBE9-5AF1BC605D95