Executive_Committee
2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Tuesday, July 20, 2004
4:00 p.m.
25 Van Ness Avenue, Suite 70
Minutes
Commissioners Present: Blanche Brown, Andrea Cochran, Ethel Walker, Janice Mirikitani
Staff Present: Richard Newirth, Nancy Gonchar, Jewelle Gomez, Jenny Louie
Call To Order: 4:07 p.m.
- Budget and Director's Report
Director of Cultural Affairs Richard Newirth reported that he and Rachelle Axel, Arts Education Program Officer, met with the School District and they do not feel they have the support of the School District leadership to develop the Arts Master Plan. He also reported that the details of moving on the issue of the merger of the Arts Commission and Grants for the Arts still needed to be worked out. In any case, the Arts Commission was interested in taking a lead on the merger. Commissioner Mirikitani felt that it would be a good use of the Arts Commission to feel out community concerns.
- Cultural Equity Grants Program Director Report
Cultural Equity Grants Program Director Jewelle Gomez discussed the Arts Loan Fund, a non-profit organization that would be making loans available to individual artists who have received grants from the CEG Program in the Individual Artist Commission category. The Fund would be responsible for informing CEG of failure to repay loans, which would result in the artist being ineligible for new funding from CEG.
Ms. Gomez discussed the refinement of language for the 2005 CEG guidelines. The editing was recommended by the panelists who served on the most recent Individual Artists Commission review. The effort was to make more explicit that the focus of the category was on individual artists not on organization projects. The guidelines were also updated to reflect a CEG policy that has been in effect for the past two years—applicants who fail to complete their final reports without signed consent from the program director forfeit the funds remaining on the grant after two years.
Motion to approve the following individuals as panelists for the Cultural Equity Grants panel pool:
Claire Aguilar, filmmaker and Director of Programs for Independent Television Service
LindaKay Brown, Director of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
Keina Davis Elswick, painter
Spenser Nakasako, film and video maker
Moved: Mirikitani/Walker
Motion to approve recommendations for 14 grants in the 2004 cycle of the Individual Artists Commission category totaling $139,900.
Moved: Walker/Mirikitani
- Adjournment: 4:50 p.m
Revision Date 7/29/04
Notices
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