STRATEGIC PRIORITY: Quality of Life
AGENDA DATE: December 9, 2020
COUNCIL DISTRICT(S): 1, 2, 6, 7, 9, 14
DEPARTMENT: Office of Arts and Culture
EXECUTIVE: Joey Zapata
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SUBJECT
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Authorize a contract for expenditures related to COVID-19 which include but are not limited to medical and protective supplies, capital expenditures, training, social distancing equipment, and related expenses with (1) Anita N. Martinez Ballet Folklorico, Inc. in an amount not to exceed of $17,658.00; (2) Big Thought in an amount not to exceed of $25,000.00; (3) Creative Arts Center of Dallas in an amount not to exceed of $10,841; (4) Dallas Children's Theater in an amount not to exceed of $50,000.00; (5) Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum in an amount not to exceed of $50,000.00; (6) Perot Museum of Nature and Science in an amount not to exceed of $50,000.00; (7) TeCo Theatrical Productions, Inc. d/b/a Bishop Arts Theatre Center in an amount not to exceed of $28,946.00; (8) The Shakespeare Festival of Dallas in an amount not to exceed of $25,539.00; (9) Theatre Three, Inc. in an amount not to exceed of $21,855.00; (10) Undermain Theatre in an amount not to exceed of $11,149.00; (11) Kitchen Dog Theater Company in an amount not to exceed of $11,141.00; (12) The Writer's Garret in an amount not to exceed of $10,629.00; (13) The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, Inc. in an amount not to exceed of $3,791.00, for the period from March 1, 2020 through December 30, 2020 - Total not to exceed $316,549.00 - Financing: U.S. Department of Treasury - Coronavirus Relief Funds
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BACKGROUND
The Cultural Organizations Program (COP) provides funding for cultural services with established Dallas-based non-profit cultural organizations to support an array of programs that include concerts, plays, exhibitions, performances, workshops, and other cultural services, including virtual cultural services, over a twelve-month ...
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