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Orange County Arts Commission May 13, 2024, Minutes Attendees: Linda Williamson, Sec, Crystal Wu, Chair, Marc Miller, Katie Murray, Gideon Young, Wendy Smith, Josh Rosenstein, Denise Duffy, Vice chair, Heather Washburn, Lindsay Metivier, Saba Jordan, Alexa Velez, Krista Bremmer Absent: John Claude Bemis, Sadie Allen Meeting Location: ArtsCenter 1. Call to Order at 6:35pm by Linda Williamson, Sec. Denise Duffy, V took over as chair at 6:45pm 2. Marc moved to approve the April 2024 Board Minutes with corrections reviewed at the May meeting and Gideon seconded.All approved. 3. Board Updates: a. The board welcomed Alexa Velez to the board as our new member.Alexa is a dancer and film maker. She is also a teacher at Cary Academy.She works with Durham Arts Council as well as other arts organizations. b. Remaining at-large vacant seat—we have one remaining opening. Katie asked for any suggestions for individuals that would be good for our board.The board, as the official NC Arts funding organization, is supposed to be representative of our community. However,we do not have representation from the African-American community at this time. c. FY25 UNC Student Liaison Celia Gibbs—Krista made the motion to approve Celia Gibb's application to be our UNC student liaison board member and Josh seconded. She is a rising senior at UNC Chapel Hill. Katie will present her application at the next county commissioner meeting. 4. Director's Report a. FY25 Budget Update-The update has good and bad parts. Good,the County has agreed to add the funds to Katie's budget for the additional %salary for one FTE. However, as a result the programming budget will stay flat instead of applying the expected dollars targeted from increased County Occupation tax, which is typically used for programming. The FY25 Programming budget is currently$16,469.This is a 58%decrease from FY24 and the lowest amount since it began in FY18-19. OCAC Program Budget History (began in FY18-19): FY18-19 FY19-20 FY20-21 FY21-22 FY22-23 FY23-24 FY24-25 18,306.44 34,366.55 53,482.37 22,814.21 42,407.80 38,787.50 16,469 The OCAC Programs budget funds the following established programs: • First Fridays at the Mill $15,480/annual • Piedmont Laureate contribution $1,500/annual • Emerging Artist Grant Program $1,500/annual • Arts Educator Grant Program $2,000/annual • Monthly featured artist articles$6,000/annual • Monthly featured artist videos$3,600/annual • Honorariums for Coalesce$2,000/annual • Honorarium for Weave &Spin $2,400/annual TOTAL: $34,480/annual Hopefully,the shortfall between established programming and the new budget can be addressed through other Orange County budget options or grant funding. It will be very difficult to keep our current level of programming. b. Eno Mill i. June—volunteers needed for 2nd shift—NC Pastel Society show with the Triangle Jazz Orchestra performing. ii. August-an open call just went out for"Art of the Book" asking artist to submit work inspired by Daniel Wallace's book"Big Fish. It closes the end of May.