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iii. Juneteenth Celebration for the county on June 14th from 6-9pm will be held at the Mill. Katie's team will <br /> be providing operational support for the event. <br /> c. Arts Day 2024—Katie asked if other board members could attend Arts Day 2024 which is happening May 21 & <br /> 22. David Heinen, VP for Public Policy, and Advocacy at the North Carolina Center for Nonprofits will speak on <br /> the impact of new rules around salary limits requiring overtime pay and the impact to arts organizations. On Day <br /> 2 of the event,the group will be meeting with legislators. <br /> d. Grant Updates <br /> i. Reviewed 24-25 OCAC Grants Program— <br /> 1. Reviewed Orange County Outside Agencies awards funding over the last few years, which has <br /> dropped from $45000 down to $29,711 because last year the County earmarked $16,000 for <br /> KidZu without adhering to the OCAC grant review process.This year we are still only seeing <br /> $29,711, and not the original $45,000, even though the $16,000 is not being awarded directly. <br /> Outside Agency funding for the Arts was just 3%of the total Outside Agency budget when it was <br /> $45,000-- now it is only 2%. <br /> 2. Our available pool this year for grant funding is S24,000 less than last year and lower than pre- <br /> Covid years. <br /> 3. Multicultural requirement for FY25 grassroot grants is 67%of the state allocation,which is <br /> $31,572. It will be very hard to meet that with organizations requesting operations support vs <br /> programming support where multicultural artists are hired. <br /> a. Question discussed with the Board for Grassroots was should we alter our 2024 <br /> guidelines.The Board discussed funding programming vs operations and how we should <br /> divide the Grass Roots dollars. <br /> b. Last year,we had an $8K max for operations and $3K max for programming. <br /> 4. Katie presented survey results from the recently completed 2024 Artist Grant Survey. Summary <br /> results attached to the minutes. Many of the results matched what we expected. However, we <br /> did learn several key items. Katie is going to use this information to make the application <br /> process better. <br /> a. Board discussed funding available ($28,000) and what our guidelines should be this <br /> year.The board discussed changing the max amount that can be requested. <br /> b. $2K has been the max for the last three years. <br /> • Heather made a motion that artist grant max request be increased this year to $3,000 and Marc seconded <br /> • Josh made the motion to change the Grassroots Grant max to$5,000 for either operational or programming <br /> requests and Krista second. <br /> • Both motions were approved. <br /> 5. Crystal closed the meeting at 8:12pm <br />