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Committee recommends acceptance of NEA Our Town grant for Market Street Prototyping Festival
Summary
The Arts Commission presented a retroactive accept-and-expend request to accept a National Endowment for the Arts Our Town grant to support the Market Street Prototyping Festival; staff explained the award required retroactive action because contract paperwork and match calculations arrived after the grant cycle began.
Rachel Axel, director of public and private partnerships at the San Francisco Arts Commission, told the committee the commission solicited nonprofit partners and city partners to align the Market Street Prototyping Festival with city priorities and successfully secured an Our Town grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
"We were very happy to get this grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to support this public private partnership, for the Market Street Prototyping Festival," Axel said, noting the award process and contract timing made the request retroactive.
Axel explained a policy change and controller guidance meant the city must count the required 1:1 match toward the $100,000 threshold; when that match is included the project exceeded that threshold, prompting the accept-and-expend to come before the Board. Supervisors asked when staff first knew the award had been recommended; Axel said staff received the recommendation in September 2015 and administrative steps delayed contract execution.
There were no public speakers on the item. The committee voted by voice to send the accept-and-expend to the full Board with a positive recommendation.
The item will proceed to the Board of Supervisors for final action; the committee record does not include a roll-call vote.
