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Docket #0347 - Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Two Hundred Sixty-Six Thousand Five Hundred Dollars ($266,500.00) in the form of a grant for the FY22 Local Cultural Council Program, awarded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council to be administered by the Mayor’s Office of Arts & Culture. The grant will fund innovation arts, humanities and interpretive sciences programming that enhance the quality of life in our city
A
Sorry
all
right,
counselor
counselor
jean,
is
also
here.
My
apologies.
We
haven't
started
yet
so
to
the
counselors.
I
thought
it
would
just
make
sense
to
go
ahead
and
let
the
administration
well
we'll
say
who's
here.
Let
the
administration
go
ahead
and
start
and
explain
the
grants.
They're
not
controversial.
The
amount
is,
you
know,
less
than
half
a
million
dollars
and
I
think
it
makes
sense
to
just
you
know:
let
them
go
ahead
and
break
it
down
why
we
should
support
this.
A
A
This
is
for
the
local
cultural
council
program,
and
this
was
awarded
to
us
by
the
mass
cultural
council,
and
this
is
going
to
be
administered
by
the
mayor's
office
of
arts
and
culture.
The
grant
will
fund
innovative
arts,
humanities
and
interpretive
sciences
programming
that
it
will
enhance
the
quality
of
life
in
our
city.
This
was
introduced
by
the
mayor's
office
and
we're
holding
this
hearing
to
simply
hear
from
the
administration
what
the
grants
will
do
where
they're
going
to
go
and
ultimately
we
will
let
them
speak
and
have
their
part.
A
And
then
we
will
ask
any
questions
if
there
are
any
from
the
counselors.
Afterwards,
I've
been
joined
by
council
at
large,
aaron,
murphy
and
counselor
at
large,
rusty
luigi
louis
june.
Excuse
me,
and
so
I'm
going
to
turn
it
over
now
to
the
administration
who
is
going
to
be
represented
by
cara,
elliot
ortega,
naida,
faria
and
jennifer
falk.
So
I
will
turn
it
over
to
you
now.
D
Great,
thank
you
so
much
and
thank
you.
Counselors.
We
we'll
do
a
little
I'll
do
a
little
overview
of
the
program
and
where
the
funding
is
going
and
then
nida's,
the
director
of
administration
and
finance
for
the
mayor's
office
of
arts
and
culture
and
jen
fock
is
the
current
chair
of
the
boston
cultural
council.
D
D
As
everyone
here
knows,
the
pandemic
was
very
severe
to
the
live.
Arts
live
events
and
arts
industries
in
the
cultural
sector,
so
this
is
a
sector
that
generates
over
a
billion
dollars
in
spending
by
nonprofit
arts
and
cultural
organizations,
and
their
audiences
contributes
over
two
billion
dollars
in
total
economic
impact
and
generates
over
900
million
in
household
income
to
local
residents,
and
those
are
the
economic
impacts.
Of
course.
D
In
the
last
two
years,
the
city
allocated
an
additional
2.78
million
dollars
of
arpa
support
and,
at
the
same
time,
the
boston
cultural
council
voted
to
spend
down
all
of
their
remaining
funds,
really
allowing
the
city
to
make
more
impactful
grants
and
to
make
up
for
that
lost,
earned
and
contributed
revenue.
That
organizations
are
experiencing
right
now,
so
really
trying
to
put
some
funding
in
place
to
create
a
pathway
to
cultural
work,
reopening
people
being
able
to
restaff.
D
There
were
a
lot
of
furloughs
during
this
time
as
well
so
trying
to
give
people
that
on-ramp
back
to
doing
their
work.
So
this
this
year
we
combined
the
boston
cultural
council
and
that
arpa
support
into
one
streamlined
application
process
to
make
this
as
accessible
as
possible
to
applicants
and
I'll
share
a
little
bit
more
about
who
applied
and
who
these
funds
are
being
granted
to
you.
So
we
are
funding
192
applications
of
the
241
applications
we
received
and
the
majority
of
those
applicants
are
receiving
a
combination
of
boston,
cultural
council
and
arpa
funds.
D
The
most
represented
categories
of
work
were
in
music
and
arts,
education
and
grantees
are
coming
from
and
serve
every
district
in
the
city
and
around
23
of
the
applications
were
first-time
applicants.
So
we're
always
trying
to
make
sure
that
we're
reaching
new
people
and
making
sure
that
these
resources
aren't
just
going
to
the
same
organizations.
D
So,
lastly,
I
just
want
to
give
a
sense
of
the
timing
of
this
request,
because
it's
a
little
bit
unusual.
Our
funding
cycle
begins
september
1st
of
each
year
and
we
make
grant
decisions
in
january
and
get
funds
out
around
this
time
in
march
march
to
april
so
this
year.
That
process
is
about
a
month
behind
due
to
a
delay
from
the
state
funds,
and
also
it's
only
after
making
grant
decisions
that
we
receive
funds
from
the
state.
A
Yeah
we,
but
to
my
counselors
we
should
have
gotten
the
deck
and
the
all
of
the
recipients
in
our
in
our
individual
emails.
I
you
know
this
is
I
don't
know
I
mean
this
is
a
regular
recurring
grant.
I
understand
we've
to
accepted
these
funds
before
I
really
appreciate
that
you
have
changed
and
as
much
as
making
sure
that
the
smaller
organizations
are
seen
first
and
giving
more
capacity,
and
that's
very
smart
and
honestly
coming
from
a
small
non-profit.
A
I
think
people
really
money
shouldn't
just
attract
money,
so
sometimes
you
don't
have
it
and
it's
and
then
they
give
you
smaller
amounts
of
money.
It
makes
it
harder
for
you
to
even
maintain
your
mission.
So
I'm
I
don't
really
have
any
other
questions,
because
this
is
something
that
we've
done
every
single
year
and
we
need
this
money
as
soon
as
possible.
A
C
C
Where
can
we
get
more
funding
knowing
coming
out
of
covid
and
we
always
need
a
lot
of
arts
to
you
know,
help
everyone,
but
especially
through
covid,
with
the
mental
health
and
isolation
arts,
really
support
and
help
that,
and
I
did
like
to
hear
that
a
lot
of
art
education
foundation
organizations
were
provided
money
also
as
a
kindergarten
teacher
for
over
20
years
in
bps,
I
have
to
say,
music
art
class.
We
always
would
want
to
like
sign
up
for
extra.
C
A
B
D
And
being
like
hey,
you
might
want
to
apply
for
this,
and
we
also
have
tried
different
marketing
things.
In
the
past
we
did
kind
of
bus,
shelter,
mbta
kind
of
print
ads.
We
did
kind
of
like
a
text
to
find
more
information
campaign,
but
at
the
end
of
the
day,
because
we
do
ask
people
in
the
application,
how
did
you
find
out
about
this
and
no
matter
what
we
do
every
year
word
of
mouth
is
still
somehow
the
number
one
thing.
D
It
would
be
great
to
connect
over
this
summer
about
who
else
we
should
be
connecting
with
in
your
districts,
and
you
know,
citywide
who
we
should
be
getting
the
word
out
to,
because
when
we
have
this
hearing,
the
decisions
from
the
previous
year
have
already
been
made.
So
it
would
be
great
to
to
talk
before
when
we're
getting
the
application
out.
B
Awesome
yeah
and
I'm
happy
to
help
also
obviously
promote,
and
I
looked
at
the
list-
and
it
is,
it
seems,
like
a
pretty
broad
cross-section
of
the
city
and
of
cultures,
just
always
want
to
make
sure
that
we
are
being
like
language
sensitive
to
especially
some
of
our
arts
groups.
That
are,
you
know
or
english
is
not
their
first
language
and
they
may
need
technical
assistance
with
an
application
process.
B
So
I
just
want
to
make
sure
that
we're
plugging
and
representing
our
you
know,
recipients,
and
it
looks
like
it's
a
really
great
robust
list
of
you
know
different
cultures,
but
you
know
making
sure
that
we're
translating
the
application
and
that
folks
are
or
in
information
about
the
the
grant
process
so
that
they're
aware
of
it.
So
thank
you.
A
E
A
So
again,
this
is
just
for
244
thousand
dollars.
255
000.
Excuse
me
to
go
out
to
various
organizations,
and
this
is
a
regular
recurring
grant
that
we
see
received
from
the
mass
cultural
council
every
year
and
we're
re-granting
them
out
to
organizations
that
have
applied
and
very
excited
to
do
that
this
year
and
we
will
be
working
to
make
sure,
as
counselor
luigi
just
asked
how
we
make
our
partner
to
outreach
and
make
sure
even
more
organizations
know
about
this
opportunity
for
next
year.
A
E
Yes,
sorry,
I
I
I'm
glad
that
a
council
illusion
asked
about
the
accessibility
piece
around
like
how
do
we
make
sure
that
we're
more
diverse
in
terms
of
who
are
the
usual
suspects
that
often
have
access
to
this
information?
So
I'm
just
curious
in
terms
of
outreach
efforts,
I'm
I
heard
that
we'll
be
sending
this
information
out
in
multiple
languages,
but
I'm
also
curious.
E
D
So
we
do
feel
like
there's
been
some
success,
just
in
being
more
targeted
about
who
we're
trying
to
reach.
And
then
we
do
offer
translated
versions
of
the
application
in
different
languages.
When
we've
done
that
in
different
ways,
I'm
trying
to
see
you
know
what
gets
the
most
uptake
and
we've
seen
some
use
of
the
translated
applications.
D
In
those
languages
with
with
people
who
want
to
apply
in
a
language,
that's
not
english
and
help
them
with
the
application
process,
and
that's
something
that
we've
talked
about
in
the
past.
But
I
think
it
would
be
great
to
focus
on
that
this
year,
specifically
with
with
language
access
issues-
and
I
don't
know
nida
if
you
wanna,
if
you
have
any
other
thoughts
on
that,
we've
talked
about
that
on
and
off.
F
Sure
a
lot
of
our
advertisement
on
social
media
was
translated
into
the
five
languages.
We
do
I'm
the
only
spanish
speaker
for
our
office.
So
if
somebody
comes
up,
I
can
translate
the
application,
but
we
didn't
get
much
has
like
for
like
the
written
application
to
be
in
another
language.
In
the
past
pre-code
we
had
advertised
like
in
the
dorchester
reporter
the
haitian
reporter,
so
those
were
other
ways
to
get
the
grant
information
out,
but
this
time
around
we
really
didn't
have
everything
mostly
was
on
social
media.
E
Thank
you
for
that,
and
I'm
just
curious
in
terms
of
just
a
quick
follow-up
on
the
outreach
front.
There's
also
the
use
of
multicultural
media
like
radio
shows-
and
you
know
other
outlets.
You
know
haitian
creole
has
a
huge
broadcast
channel.
So
that
could
be
something
that
you
know
you
may
want
to
consider
and
then
I
would
also
recommend
looking
beyond
just
social
media,
because
not
everybody
is
on
the
internet.
These
days
I
mean
you
would
think
that
they
are
right.
E
Whatsapp
has
become
my
favorite
bff
for
all
things,
immigrant
communities,
because
you
know
we
call
in
our
peoples
out
in
the
different
caribbean
countries
through
whatsapp
for
free,
and
so
it's
become
a
really
good
place
for
community
engagement
and
dissemination
of
information.
So
if
you
do
have
any
infographics
or
any
links
that
we
can
help
disseminate,
please
share
them
with
my
office
and
I'll
make
sure
that
we'll
get
them
out
into
the
community
and
then
I'm
also
just
curious
about
youth
engagement
in
the
in
this
specific
area.
D
Yeah
and
thanks
so
much
for
those
suggestions,
counselor
in
terms
of
getting
the
word
out,
that's
great.
We,
I
was
mentioning
that
one
of
the
biggest
categories
of
work
that's
funded
through
this
grant
is
arts
education,
so
creative
youth
development
organizations,
arts,
education
organizations-
definitely
are.
D
We
definitely
want
to
do
that,
because
I
do
think
that
there's
a
lot
of
there's
still
a
lot
of
organizations
out
there
or
groups
that
could
be
fiscally
sponsored
and
we
could
help
them
figure
that
out
to
support
the
work
that
they're
already
doing,
but
they
might
not
think
about
themselves
as
like
arts
and
culture,
but
would
totally
qualify
for
this.
So
that's
the
other
thing
that
we're
always
trying
to
kind
of
expand.
The
definition
of
that
work.
G
I
also
just
wanted
to
clarify
that
the
on
behalf
of
the
boston,
cultural
council,
you
know
it's
a
volunteer
group
of
11
of
us
that
are
intentionally
recruited,
boston
residents
that
are
intentionally
recruited
through
different
neighborhoods
and
so
just
to
kind
of
make
a
point
about
the
word
of
mouth.
I
think
the
individuals
that
serve
on
this
kid
on
this
council
are
committed
to
helping
engage
their
local
communities
and
we
are
actively
looking
to
recruit
some
new
openings
as
well
moving
forward.
A
H
A
Thank
you.
Well.
I've
seen
that
there's
not
really
any
more
questions
from
the
counselors.
I
appreciate
your
thorough
presentation.
Thank
you
all
from
representing
the
administration,
as
well
as
the
cultural
council
as
well.
Thank
you
for
your
work
and
I
look
forward
to
presenting
this
on
wednesday
for
a
vote
to
make
sure
you
get
the
money
as
soon
as
possible.