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OMAC tables LEAP dance grant request pending revised budget and restriction clarifications

5546528 · August 6, 2025
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Summary

The commission tabled a $2,000–3,000 grant request from LEAP (Launching Equal Access to the Performing Arts) for free youth dance workshops so the applicant can submit a revised budget removing pageant-related items and clarify timeline and 501(c)(3) status.

The Ocala Municipal Arts Commission on Thursday voted to table a grant application from LEAP, a locally based performing-arts outreach project led by teen organizer Nysa Tureen, after commissioners asked for a revised budget and clarification of permissible uses.

Tureen and her mother, Judith Carrasco, told the commission the program intends to offer five to six free community youth dance workshops in underserved parts of Marion County and to provide costumes, choreography…

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