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I <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS <br />Action Agenda <br />Item No. V.,� <br />ACTION AGENDA ITEM ABSTRACT <br />Meeting Date: January 21, 1992 <br />SUBJECT: Orange County Arts Commission Presentation of Grant Awards and Report <br />DEPARTMENT: PUBLIC HEARING: Yes X No. <br />Recreation & Par -- <br />ATTACHMENT(S): INFORMATION CONTACT: <br />List of Local Arts Grant Award <br />Recipients for 1991 -92 <br />PURPOSE: <br />Wilma K. Tinny, Recreation & Parks <br />TELEPHONE NUMBER: <br />Ext. 2669 <br />Hillsborough - <br />732 -8181 <br />Chapel Hill - <br />968 -4501 <br />Mebane - <br />227 -2031 <br />Durham - <br />688 -7331 <br />1. Presentation of Orange County Arts Commission grant awards. <br />2. Informational report to the Board regarding activities and goals of the Arts Commission. <br />BACKGROUND: <br />The Orange County Arts Commission was created by a resolution of the Board of County <br />Commissioners on February 4, 1985. The Arts Commission is the official county -wide <br />advisory body on the arts. Its primary goals are: (1) To serve as the Local Distributing <br />Agent of State Grassroots Grants and local (Orange County) funds; (2) Serve as a <br />"clearing house" for information on the arts; (3) facilitate the development of self - <br />sustaining arts programs; and (4) advise the Board of Commissioners on matters involving <br />the arts. <br />R,rCOMMENDATION(S): <br />The Manager recommends that the hoard of Commissioners present the grant awards to the <br />recipients and receive the status report for information only. <br />