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Arts, Culture & Special Events Hearing- Docket #0118- Message and order authorizing the City of Boston to accept and expend the amount of Two Hundred Ninety-Seven Thousand Two Hundred Dollars ($297,200.00) in the form of a grant, for the FY23 Local Cultural Council Program, awarded by the Massachusetts Cultural Council to be administered by the Office of Arts and Culture.
A
A
My
name
is
Gabriella
Coletta
and
I'm.
The
chair
of
the
committee
on
Arts
culture
and
special
events
I
want
to
remind
you
that
this
is
a
public
hearing
and
is
being
recorded
and
broadcasted
live
on
Xfinity
8,
rcn82
and
FiOS
964
and
streamed
on
boston.gov
forward,
slash
city,
slash,
Council,
slash,
TV
and
will
also
be
re-broadcasted
at
a
later
date.
Please
silence
your
cell
phones
and
other
devices.
We
will
ask
to
take
public
testimony
and,
if
there's
anybody
in
the
audience,
please
be
sure
to
sign
up
to
the
left
over
here.
A
Anyone
that
would
like
to
testify
virtually
on
this
matter.
Please
email,
Juan,
Lopez
at
excuse
me
juan.lopez
boston.gov,
with
your
fine,
with
your
full
name
for
the
zoom
Link.
At
the
start
of
your
testimony.
Please
State
your
state,
please
state
your
name
address
and
affiliation,
so
today's
docket
is
on
docket0118.
The
matter
is
sponsored
by
the
mayor
and
referred
to
the
committee
on
Arts
culture
and
special
events
on
January
11,
2023
I'm,
going
to
read
the
docket
in
full,
just
so
that
it
is
on
the
record:
zero
docket,
zero
one.
A
One
eight
is
a
message
in
order
authorizing
the
city
of
Boston
to
accept
and
expend
the
amount
of
297
200
in
the
form
of
a
grant
for
the
FY
23
local
cultural
Council
program
awarded
by
the
Massachusetts
cultural
Council
to
be
administrated
by
the
office
of
arts
and
culture.
The
grant
will
fund
Innovative,
Arts,
Humanities
and
interpretive
Sciences
programs
that
enhance
the
quality
of
life
in
our
city.
I
am
not
joined
by
any
of
my
colleagues.
A
Today,
however,
Ed
Flynn
sent
counselor
Ed
Flynn
sent
a
letter
of
absence
that
I
just
would
like
to
read
into
the
record.
Dear
counselor
Coletta,
please
be
advised
that
I
am
unable
to
attend
today's
hearing
on
docket0118
a
hearing
regarding
a
grant
for
the
FY
23
local
cultural
Council
program,
arts
and
culture
are
integral
into
elements
that
make
our
city
vibrant
and
have
positive
impacts
on
the
quality
of
life
for
our
residents.
I
will
review
the
tape
of
the
hearing
when
it
becomes
available.
Thank
you
for
your
leadership
on
this
matter.
A
Sincerely
Ed
Flynn
Boston,
Boston
city
council,
president
District
2.,
okay,
and
we
have
some
folks
from
the
administration
here
from
the
office
of
arts
and
culture.
If
you'd
like
to
introduce
yourselves
for
the
record
name,
title
and
affiliation
and
then
feel
free
to
commence
with
your
presentation,
and
we
can
start
with
chief.
A
B
So
I
thought
I
would
just
start
by
giving
a
little
background
on
the
cultural
Council
program
that
we're
looking
at
reviewing
funding
for
today.
So
this
is
the
annual
process
of
accepting
the
Massachusetts
cultural
Council
allocation
to
Boston
for
cultural
Council
grants.
This
is
an
annual
grant
that
supports
small
non-profit
organizations
and
fiscally
sponsored
groups
in
Boston.
A
B
Definitely
see
it
as
a
sign
of
success
that
27
of
this
year's
grantees
are
first-time
applicants,
and
we
continue
to
update
the
application
and
Communications
process
every
year
to
make
these
funds
as
accessible
as
possible.
This
is
also
a
reflection
of
our
values
as
a
city,
as
well
as
the
values
of
the
Boston
cultural
council,
with
the
vision
of
a
vibrant
and
creative
Boston,
where
everyone
can
access
and
participate
in
art
and
where
opportunities
for
Creative
expression
are
available
to
everyone.
B
The
Boston
cultural
council
is
a
city
commission
staffed
by
the
mayor's
office
of
arts
and
culture.
So,
while
the
Arts
office
has
a
set
of
Grants
programs
workshops
and
other
support
that
we
provide
to
artists
and
creative
businesses
and
non-profits
and
community
members,
it's
really
the
Boston
cultural
Council
that
oversees
this
grant,
in
particular
that
we're
talking
about
today,
which
is
the
only
annual
grant
for
non-profit
organizations.
B
B
B
This
is
a
little
bit
of
a
double-edged
sword
in
the
sense
that,
on
the
one
hand,
it's
a
great
sign
that,
after
a
few
years
of
making
some
intentional
changes
to
the
applications
into
our
Communications,
we
keep
getting
more
and
more
applicants.
On
the
other
hand,
oh
and
in
particular,
we're
getting
the
most
applications
consistently
now
from
the
smallest
organizations,
which
is
something
that
we
were
really
trying
to
make
sure
we
were
reaching.
B
We
also
have
some
additional
funding
this
year
from
the
Red
Sox
fund
that
we
were
able
to
allocate
to
organizations
in
Fenway
or
that
we're
serving
Fenway
and
there's
still
funding
in
that
pot
as
well.
So
we
look
forward
to
working
with
councilor
Bach
on
determining
how
to
continue
allocating
those
funds
for
Fenway
cultural
work
and
I.
Think
with
that,
that's
all
I
have
and
happy
to
answer
any
questions.
A
B
Yeah,
it's
it
can
be
used
for
really
to
up
to
the
organization's
discretion,
there's
some
things
that
it
can't
be
used
for
and
we
outline
those
in
the
guidelines,
but
for
the
most
part,
it's
pretty
flexible
and
that's
also
an
intentional
part
of
the
program
design,
because
we
know
that
it's
the
hardest
thing
to
do
to
find
funding
for
that
stuff
that
you
just
need
in
order
to
do
your
work
every
day.
So
there's
some
programmatic
funding
out
there.
That's
open
application
for
specific
kinds
of
things.
B
A
Excellent
and
I
do
appreciate
that
approach,
especially
for
the
smaller
organizations
and
I
love.
The
fact
that
you
teared
it
up
right
to
the
smaller
organizations
with
budgets
less
than
a
hundred
thousand
dollars,
I'm
sure
this
will
go
a
long,
a
long
way
for
them.
I'm
curious
about
the
the
selection
process.
You
said
that
you
have
grantees
in
every
single
neighborhood.
Is
there
a
framework
in
which
you
you
look
at
these
these
applications
and
are
you
considering
if
there
are
minority-owned,
women-owned
and
and
just
basically
their
work
in
general
in
the
community.
B
Yeah,
we
have
made
rounds
of
updates
to
the
application
questions
every
year
and
we
did
an
equity
kind
of
audit
of
the
process
a
couple
of
years
ago
and
added
questions
specifically
to
get
at.
You
know.
How
are
you
surveying
the
communities
that
you
say
you're
serving?
How
is
that
reflected
in
the
makeup
of
the
organization,
including
like
staff
and
Leadership?
B
So
we
have
asked
in
the
past
to
try
to
get
a
sense
of
like
what
community
are
you
really
impacting?
And
it's
you
know
it's
just
like
hard
to
kind
of
capture
that
all
the
time
so
I
think
that
might
be
something
that
we
want
to
do
this
year
is
to
like
go
back
through
the
applications
and
do
a
little
bit
more
of
an
analysis
of
like
really
which
are
the
communities
that
are
being
served.
A
And
I
was
that's
where
I
was
going
yeah
with
all
of
this.
Do
you
do
an
equity
audit
like
what
does
that
look
like
getting
the
demographic
data
was
something
I
was
going
to
encourage.
So
if
there's
an
opportunity
to
do
that,
I
know
it's
onerous
and
we
don't.
These
organizations
are
already
doing
amazing
work
with
with
little
time
they
have
but
capturing
that
demographic
data.
B
A
Great
and
then
obviously
disaggregating,
you
know
certain
ethnic
groups
and
all
of
that
making
sure
that
we're
we're
going
census
and
Beyond,
because
the
census
also
had
its
issues
with
the
aapi
community
and
Latin
and
Central
American
populations
as
well.
The
other
just
last
two
questions
that
I
have
is
about
reporting.
What
do
these
organizations
have
to
do
to
come
back
to
you
and
let
you
know
how
they're
using
this
money
and
who
sees
that
and
then
also
Outreach?
How
did
you
get
this
message
out
there?
B
Yeah
so
for
reporting
we
follow
up
with
some
pretty
high
level
questions
just
about
how
the
work
has
gone,
because
these
aren't
programmatic
grants.
We
don't
ask
a
lot
of
like
program
breakdown,
but
we
have,
and
with
kovid
we
tried
to
keep
the
reporting
a
little
bit
lighter
kind
of
coming
out
of
the
pandemic,
to
not
be
too
burdensome.
B
But
we
ask
questions
about
how
the
money
was
used.
Anything
unexpected,
that's
going
on
for
the
organization
and
I
think
that's
where,
if
we
wanted
to
add
more
kind
of
reporting,
specifically
to
who
was
served,
that
would
be
the
place
to
do.
It
would
be
in
the
follow-up
report.
So
that's
something
that
we're
thinking
about
this
year.
B
Communications,
so
this
year,
we've
well,
we've
tried
every
year
we
try
some
different
things
to
see
how
they
work.
We've
tried
having
print
ads
on
the
T,
we've
tried
having
radio
ads
and
every
single
year.
We
also
do
ask
a
question
in
the
application
about.
How
did
you
find
out
about
this
application
and
at
the
biggest
category
is
always
word
of
mouth?
No
matter
what
we
seem
to
do,
but
we
do
translate
the
advertisements
we
post
them
on
all
of
our
social
media.
We
get
them
out
in
newsletters.
B
We
also
have
a
list
of
organizations
that
we
go
to
to
help
us
get
the
word
out
to
people
they
work
with
so
trying
to
go
through
some
community-based
organizations.
That
way
to
make
sure
we're
reaching
folks
who
might
not
be
hearing
from
you
know
an
Arts
office,
and
it
seems
to
be
working
well
in
the
sense
that
we
keep
getting
a
lot
of
first-time
applicants
who
don't
know
us
from
other
work.
So
I
think
that
that's
going
well,
it
tends
to
be
around
25
every
year
who
are
new
and
that's
always
exciting.
B
A
A
I
did
have
a
question
about,
of
course,
I'm,
forgetting
it
I
think
I
think
that's
it
on
my
end,
I'm
happy
to
see
that
there
are
oh
actually
I
do
have
what
I
was
going
to
say
to
you.
So
the
fact
that
we
now
have
this
Treasure
Trove
of
applicants
so
250
ish.
Are
we
actively
engaging
them
and
providing
more
opportunities
to
them
for
for
money,
especially
for
those
that
didn't
get
this
grant
round
or
this
amount
of
or
this
pot
of
money,
yeah.
B
That's
a
great
question:
every
year,
there's
a
certain
number
of
applicants
who
are
a
better
fit
for
maybe
another
opportunity.
So
when
we
reopen
our
grant
for
individual
artists,
that's
often
a
way
that
a
lot
of
those
groups
can
get
their
work
done
if
they
didn't
receive
a
Boston
cultural
Council
Grant.
So
we
have
I
think
two
applications,
maybe
three.
B
A
I
think
we're
all
set
okay,
so
I
think
moving
forward.
I
will
recommend
that
this
come
out
of
committee
and
it
passes
in
the
council
and
the
next
upcoming
council
meeting
and
if
there's
any
other
information
that
you
think
I
need
to
know
ahead
of
my
report,
I'm
happy
to
put
it
in
there,
but
thank
you
all
so
much.
This
meeting
is
adjourned.
Thank
you.