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HomeMy WebLinkAboutReso 2005-140 RESOLUTION NO. 2005-140 RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHULA VISTA APPROVING THE PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS TASK FORCE'S SELECTION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2005/2006 PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS GRANT RECIPIENTS AND THEIR MONETARY GRANT AWARD, TOTALING $35,730 WHEREAS, in 1997, the City Council approved a sublease with the House of Blues Concerts, Inc. (formerly Universal Concerts) that established a process whereby a portion of the ticket sales proceeds at the Coors Amphitheater would be paid to the City and utilized for a Performing and Visual Arts Fund; and WHEREAS, this fund is to be used for arts grants to the Chula Vista conununity for the purpose of promoting and stimulating the growth of performing and cultural arts grant awards; and WHEREAS, this year the Office of Cultural Arts received $36,116 from the House of Blues for the 2004 Concert Series; and WHEREAS, as called for in the sublease, a Performing and Visual Arts Task Force was established and annually makes reconunendations to the City Council regarding the arts grant awards; and WHEREAS, the task force is assisted by the Office of Cultural Arts, which formally conducts the grant application process; and WHEREAS, the task force has reviewed the Fiscal Year 2005/2006 applications and has made its reconunendations. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Chula Vista does hereby approve the Performing and Visual Arts Task Force's selection of the Fiscal Year 2005/2006 Performing and Visual Arts Grant recipients, set forth in Exhibit A, and their monetary grant awards totaling $35,730. Presented by Approved as to form by ~ Assistant City Manager /~ _/111 ~^. _ (A r VV.:T~ Ann Moore City Attorney Resolution 2005-140 Page 2 PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Chula Vista, California, this lOth day of May, 2005, by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers: Castaneda, McCann, Rindone and Padilla NAYS: Councilmembers: None ABSENT: Councilmembers: Davis C. Padilla, Mayor ATTEST: ~ 1 á I.. ~t-;::::::3..~ I to>----' Susan Bigelow, MMC, City lerk STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF SAN DIEGO ) CITY OF CHULA VISTA ) I, Susan Bigelow, City Clerk of Chula Vista, California, do hereby certifY that the foregoing Resolution No. 2005-140 was duly passed, approved, and adopted by the City Council at a regular meeting ofthe Chula Vista City Council held on the lOth day of May, 2005. Executed this 10th day of May, 2005. .ç -~L.u.6-<- -l~~ Susan Bigelow, MMC, City Cler . Resolution 2005-140 Page 3 EXHIBIT A Fiscal Year 2005-2006 Performinl! and Visual Arts Grant Recioients · Imagination Express.. .All-Aboard! $1,000 To present three assemblies in Chula Vista elementary schools using mime to discourage negative behaviors such as smoking, drug use and violence. Also to create a mime performance piece for the 2006 Chula Vista's Taste of the Arts. · San Diego Opera $2,500 To work with the Sweetwater Union High School District's middle school students in Vocal Education, Language Arts, and Theatre Arts. The goal is to develop students' ensemble-singing skills in preparation of high school level choir performance. · Playwrights Project $2,500 To work with SUHSD high school level students in Language Arts and Theatre Arts to produce new play scripts and poetry that will be submitted for the California Playwright's Project. Top judged works will be performed in workshop at The Old Globe Theatres in 2006. · Friends of the Arts $1,200 To provide scholarships for children living in underserved areas of Chula Vista for art, music and drama classes offered by local working arts professionals. · Southwestern College Concert Choir $1,000 To mount and perform the premiere of a new oratorio, Encounter With Our Lady of Guadalupe, featuring students and conununity members in a choral performance. · Old Globe Theatre $2,500 To present All Roads Lead to Rome in collaboration with the San Diego Museum of Art and the Chula Vista Elementary School District. This is an innovative new educational program aligned with the required 6th grade standards-based curricula on Ancient Civilizations. · Installation Gallery $1,200 To work with staff and students of Finney Elementary School in providing artist/teacher curriculum planning making the arts a lively, essential and ongoing aspect of elementary school education. · ChulaVistaArtGuild $1,030 Expanding Portrait of the Community concept and exhibition to local and regional artists using the City and its various neighborhoods and citizen as the sources of images that show Chula Vista in a positive manner and raise the awareness about the conununity. Resolution 2005-140 Page 4 EXHIBIT A Fiscal Year 2005-2006 Performinl! and Visual Arts Grant ReciDients · Bonitafest Melodrama $1,600 To provide funding for a community musical/melodrama based on local history appropriate for multigenerational, culturally diverse family audiences. · San Diego Junior Theatre $1,500 To provide increased local promotions for the Chula Vista branch/classes during the 2005-2006 season. · California Ballet $2,500 In collaboration with the SUHSD and Chula Vista's Office of Cultural Arts, to mount a new production of The Legend of Josefa, a historical love story between Doña Josefa Carrillo and Captain Henry Fitch, at Bayside Park. · Bonita Artists Potpourri $1,500 To provide free public workshops and painting demonstrations by noted local arts professionals and to conduct workshops for members of the Norman Park Senior Center and Pacific Point Senior Center. · Mariachi Scholarship Foundation $1,250 To provide promotional materials for the Mariachi Scholarship Foundation produced concert that will recognize local students, donors and sponsors (including the City of Chula Vista) and feature El Sol de México, a renowned mariachi group. · Chula Vista High School "Main Attraction" $1,250 To fund the cost of program design and printing for the Southern California Performance Show Choir Invitational that will be held in Chula Vista at the Ruth Chapman Performing Arts Center. This two-day event attracts large crowds and 20 schools participate. · Sound Unlimited $1,250 To provide funding for three adjudicators for the statewide competitive festival for women's show choirs held in February 2006 at Bonita Vista High School. · Music Machine Boosters $1,250 To provide funding for two adjudicators for a non-competitive festival for show choirs to be held in January 2006 at Bonita Vista High School. · Chula Vista High School for the Creative & Performing Arts $2,000 To increase promotion and awareness of the Chula Vista Band Review for 20-30 high school and junior high school bands to be held at Chula Vista High School in 2006. Resolution 2005-140 Page 5 EXHIBIT A Fiscal Year 2005-2006 Performinl! and Visual Arts Grant Recioients · Rosebank Elementary School $2,500 To provide funding for Artscape, an after-school program where K_6th grade students will study design and create landscape art sculptures. · Hedenkamp Theatrical Ensemble $1,250 To provide promotions support for the Winter and Spring Musicals that will bring cultural awareness and build self-esteem through literature-based original productions. · Hilltop High School Band Boosters $1,700 To provide funding for preparation of band students for solo and ensemble festivals and enhancing the band partnership with the Hilltop Middle School. · Chula Vista Cultural Arts Conunission $2,000 To provide funding for an artist stipend for sculptor Jorge Blanco and sponsorship of the Music in the Park Summer Concert series. · Chula Vista Downtown Business Association $1,250 To provide partial funding for the development of the new branding elements/icons to be used on Third Avenue banners.