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ACME funding update: 2,455 eligibility forms reviewed; Austin Live Music Fund to distribute $7 million across ~380 awards
Summary
ACME staff reported they processed 2,455 eligibility forms and expect roughly 380 awards from the $7 million Austin Live Music Fund; staff cited insufficient evidence as the largest reason for ineligibility and said award announcements will be made in March with first payments in April.
Laura Odegard, acting division manager for Austin Arts, Culture, Music, and Entertainment (ACME), told the Music Commission that staff have reviewed 2,455 eligibility forms across ACME programs and are in the scoring and evaluation phase.
Odegard said the Austin Live Music Fund totals $7,000,000 and staff currently expect about 380 awards overall. "For the music venue category, we anticipate around 22 awards; for the larger $20,000 award level we anticipate roughly 242 awards; and for the $5,000 level we anticipate about 120 awards," she said. She emphasized those figures are preliminary and will be finalized after scoring.
Odegard said staff manually reviewed eligibility forms and that 122 Austin Live Music Fund eligibility submissions were judged ineligible (120 English, 2 Spanish). The most common reason for ineligibility was "insufficient evidence" that applicants met the…
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