Title
Approval of a Resolution Appointing Members to an Ad Hoc Committee for the Inspire Olympia Cultural Access Program
Recommended Action
Committee Recommendation:
Not referred to a committee.
City Manager Recommendation:
Move to approve a Resolution appointing members to an Ad Hoc Committee for the Inspire Olympia Cultural Access Program.
Report Issue:
Whether to approve a Resolution appointing members to an Ad Hoc Committee for the Inspire Olympia Cultural Access Program.
Staff Contact:
Marygrace Goddu, Inspire Olympia Cultural Access Program Manager, Community Planning & Development, 360.480.0923
Presenter(s):
None - Consent Calendar Item
Background and Analysis
On August 16, 2022, the City Council approved the creation of the Ad Hoc Committee as a critical element of an early-start initiative for the Inspire Olympia Cultural Access Program.
The role of the Ad Hoc Committee will be to develop recommendations for consideration by the future Cultural Access Program Advisory Board. Recruitment for the permanent Advisory Board is now getting underway, and the new Board will be seated in spring 2023.
The Ad Hoc Committee is a strategic effort to address technical elements of the new program framework in advance, developing a set of operational recommendations that will allow the permanent Advisory Board to hit the ground running in 2023.
Goals of the Ad Hoc Committee
Through facilitated meetings, the committee will engage in strategic planning on program values and objectives and develop recommendations for fundamental program elements such as:
§ Basic operating framework for the granting program.
§ Criteria and methodology for funding categories and allocations.
§ Eligibility requirements for funding categories.
§ Data gathering for reporting on program impact.
§ Structuring mentor and sponsor relationships among cultural organizations.
§ Structure and phasing for a public-school cultural access program.
The committee will offer strategies to tailor these program elements to Olympia’s cultural non-profit organizations and the needs of the Olympia community.
Staff has now completed targeted outreach and developed a list of seven candidates who are willing and eager to take up this work.
The candidates collectively meet the goals for knowledge, experience, and diversity endorsed by the Council in August. Importantly, this is a group of deeply committed individuals with a passion for community service attuned to values of equity and inclusion at the heart of Cultural Access. Individual statements of interest and experience for each candidate are attached to this staff report.
The committee size has been extended from five members as initially recommended in August, to seven members. With a shrinking window of time for completing the committee’s work, this allows for continued group progress should individual members need to miss meetings during the coming holiday season.
Neighborhood/Community Interests (if known):
Community-wide interest.
Options:
1. Move to approve a Resolution appointing members to an Ad Hoc Committee for the Inspire Olympia Cultural Access Program.
2. Modify the list of proposed candidates for the Ad Hoc Committee and approve a Resolution appointing members to an Ad Hoc Committee for the Inspire Olympia Cultural Access Program as amended.
3. Do not approve the list of proposed candidates for the Ad Hoc Committee and provide direction to staff.
Financial Impact:
Committee members will receive stipends per the City’s policy for advisory commissions.
Attachments:
Resolution
Paul Knox - Statement of Interest
Tamar Krames - Statement of Interest
Janece Levien - Statement of Interest
Mariella Luz - Statement of Interest
Jean Mandeberg - Statement of Interest
Lee Lyttle - Statement of Interest
Anjali Silva - Statement of Interest