§ 118.606. Application for cultural service grants.

(a)

The Cultural Council shall develop and be responsible for the administration of the Cultural Service Grant Program. Administrative and operating procedures shall be established and amended as necessary to meet the mission of the program and current needs of the community. The Cultural Council may classify the cultural organizations in reasonable classifications for the purpose of this program. The procedure prescribed herein, as further developed by the Cultural Council, shall be the only procedure available to cultural organizations for requesting public support.

(b)

The following components shall be included in any administrative and operating procedures developed and implemented by the Cultural Council:

(1)

The Cultural Council shall publish each year in a newspaper of general circulation in the City, at least one month before the last day on which appropriation request must be submitted to the Cultural Council, a notice that it is accepting Cultural Service Operating and/or Capital Grant requests for the ensuing fiscal year, stating the place where the appropriation request forms may be obtained, the last day on which the completed appropriation requests must be returned to the Cultural Council and when and where the Cultural Council (or a duly authorized committee thereof) will hold a hearing on the appropriation requests (which may include a statement that the hearing may be adjourned from time to time and from place to place until all the appropriation requests have been heard).

(2)

The Cultural Council shall promulgate a written procedure for the submission of operations and/or capital appropriation requests by eligible agencies, which procedure shall be made known to each requesting agency, or its agent or representative, at the time the appropriation request form is supplied to the requesting agency.

(3)

The Cultural Council (which, for the purposes of this subsection, includes the duly authorized Cultural Service Grant committee thereof) shall consider appropriation requests returned by the requesting agencies. The Cultural Council shall afford the requesting agencies an opportunity to make an oral or written presentation to justify or explain their respective appropriation requests, and no requesting agency shall be denied this opportunity solely because it has never submitted an appropriation request before or because a previous appropriation request has been denied.

(4)

All meetings and sessions of the Cultural Service Grant Committee shall be held in a publicly accessible location and shall be noticed and open to the public.

(Ord. 2009-868-E, § 2)