HomeMy WebLinkAboutFine Arts Grant Funding Memo 12-07-07CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO
CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE
INTEROFFICE MEMORANDUM
To: Esther Estrada, Council Member
From: Lori Sassoon, Assistant City Manager
Subject: Fine Arts and Civic and Promotional Costs
Date: December 7, 2007
This memo is in response to your request during the Ways and Means Committee
meeting on November 13, 2007, for information on the fine arts and civic and
promotional expenditures.
According to Chapter 15.57 of the City's Municipal Code, "A cultural development
construction fee is imposed on the privilege of new commercial construction or
reconstruction.... Such fee shall be equal to one-half of one percent of the construction
cost."
To account for the funds collected, the City's Municipal Code states, "The funds derived
from this fee shall be deposited in a separate fund with identification as to the source, so
that the Mayor and Common Council may consider appropriate expenditures in its annual
budget for allocation to cultural development activities in the City. The funds shall be
reviewed annually by the Mayor and Common Council."
Each year, funds are transferred from the Cultural Development Fund to the General
Fund for fine arts and civic promotion costs. The funds are expended each year through
the General Government department, through the Arts & Cultural Affairs and Non -
Departmental functions. Historically, funds have been spent on funding for arts, music,
and cultural programs provided by local community organizations. The funds are spent as
recommended by the Fine Arts Commission and approved by the Mayor and Common
Council. Currently, the funding is used to assist community organizations and city
departments with costs including, but not limited to, the 4th of July celebration, Black
History Parade, YMCA Christmas Parade, Western Regional Little League and the San
Bernardino Symphony.
Summarized below are the transfers from the Cultural Development Fund to the General
Fund.
Transfers In - General Fund from the
Cultural Development Fund: For
funding Fine Arts and Civic and
Promotional Costs
1998/99
$
50.200.00
1999/00
$
76,000.00
2000/01
$
60,500.00
2001/02
$
80,000.00
2002103
$
115,000.00
2003104
$
304,000.00
2004105
$
304,000.00
2005106
$
453,000.00
2006/07
$
357,000.00
2007/08 1
$
357,000.00
Attachment A summarizes a ten-year history of the revenues associated with the Cultural
Development Fund.
Attachment B summarizes the total expenditures from the General Government
department through the Arts & Cultural Affairs and Non -Departmental functions, with
respect to the Fine Arts Funding and Civic and Promotion accounts. Please note the total
amounts expended may not be equal to the amounts transferred from the Cultural
Development Fund to the General Fund. In six of the last ten years, the total
expenditures exceed the cultural development fee revenue. As a result, the General Fund
subsidized these expenditures.
The Cultural Development Fund revenues are subject to the provisions of AB 1600 -
Mitigation Fee Act. Generally, development impact fees are expended to fund expansion
of the City's current facilities, construct new facilities and acquiring equipment to meet
the growth needs of the City. The cultural development fee revenue falls under the
provisions of AB1660. All expenditures from the fee revenue need to have reasonable
relationships between nature of the fee and the type of expenditures.
During the Ways and Means Committee meeting it was indicated that the Council might
have taken action to set a policy concerning the dollar amount and uses of the funds from
the cultural development fee revenue. The City Clerk's Office could not find any record
of such a policy being adopted. I inquired with Jorge Carlos about any proposed
recommendations from the Ways and Means Committee to Council in regards to the
dollar amount and uses of the funds from the cultural development fee revenue. No
record of such recommendation, requesting formal action from Council, could be located.
If you need any additional information, please let me know.
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