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ACME funding guidelines near finalization; city staff target September council action and October application opening

5528701 · August 4, 2025
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ACME staff presented draft changes to grant guidelines, including lowering the venue operating-budget eligibility threshold to $60,000 and clarifying award levels; staff seek Arts Commission review in mid-August and aim for council consideration Sept. 25, with application intake via Submittable and a tentative October opening.

Office of Arts, Culture, Music and Entertainment (ACME) staff told the Music Commission they are finalizing funding program guidelines and intend to post application materials and intake forms ahead of a planned October application opening.

Morgan Messick, assistant director at ACME, said the department has collected community feedback through focus groups, surveys, listening sessions and meetings with commission members and city leadership and is incorporating that input into updated guidelines. Messick described governance and internal review steps and said the draft guidelines had been finalized internally and were in the director’s hands for legal…

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