HomeMy WebLinkAboutFIN-10-076 - Musagetes Arts & Culture FundREPORT
REPORT TO:
Councillor Berry Vrbanovic, Chair, and Members of the
Finance and Corporate Services Committee
DATE OF MEETING:
May 10, 2010
SUBMITTED BY:
Dan Chapman, General Manager of Financial Services
PREPARED BY:
Dan Chapman, General Manager of Financial Services
Ingrid Pregel, Manager of Cultural Development
WARD(S) INVOLVED:
n/a
DATE OF REPORT:
April 14, 2010
REPORT NO.: FIN-10-076
SUBJECT:
MUSAGETES ARTS & CULTURE FUND
RECOMMENDATION:
That, on the recommendation of the Musagetes Arts & Culture Fund Advisor, the
following grants be made from the Fund as outlined in staff report FIN-10-076:
The Museum $ 269,037
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery $ 200,000
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony Foundation $ 100,000
University of Waterloo School of Architecture $ 100,000
Perimeter Institute $ 50,000
Canadian Clay & Glass Gallery $ 25,000
Total $ 744,037
That, on the recommendation of the Musagetes Arts & Culture Fund Advisor, the
following grants be made from the Fund as outlined in staff report FIN-10-076, subject to
the recipient qualifying as a registered charity or identifying a registered charity willing
to act a sponsoring organization for their program:
CAFKA $ 50,000
Open Ears Festival $ 30,000
MT (Multicultural Theatre) Space $ 20,000
Total $ 100,000
BACKGROUND:
In 2005, the City of Kitchener entered into a Deed of Gift Agreement with the Kitchener and
Waterloo Community Foundation (KWCF) and 1258703 Ontario Limited to receive a gift of
property from the KWCF in the amount of $1.1 million. This gift established the Musagetes Arts
& Culture Fund as a trust fund of the City. The agreement required the gift to be disbursed
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within five years from the date of the agreement to support registered charities within the City of
Kitchener carrying on charitable activities in the areas of arts and culture.
The City entered into an Advisor Agreement with 1258703 Ontario Limited (the original donor of
the funds) concurrently, so that the original donor could provide advice to the City with respect
to the use of the gifted property.
The City must disburse the remaining funds in 2010. This report provides detail with respect to
proposed grants to nine organizations in order to distribute the balance of funds on the
recommendation of the Advisor.
REPORT:
As outlined in the background section, the City received a gift of property in 2005 to establish
the Musagetes Arts & Culture Fund. The purpose of the fund is to:
Advance the arts in the community by supporting the visual, literary, performing and
media arts;
Advance the arts in the community by supporting research on the arts and on the role of
the arts in the community, and by supporting arts education at all levels of education and
in the community at large;
Assist arts organizations in developing their arts programs and in pursuing their
objectives by providing financial support for their operating programs and their capital
projects;
Assist meritorious individuals in the development of their artistic skills by providing them
with scholarships, fellowships, bursaries and grants that will assist them in their pursuit
of formal programs of study at qualified educational institutions;
Assist visual, literary, performing and media artists by awarding grants to support their
artistic activities and prizes to reward their artistic achievements; and
Advance the visual arts by purchasing artistic work of merit and donating it to
organizations and institutions that are qualified donees.
Of the original $1.1 million gift, $844,037 is available to be granted as of this date. The Advisor
has recommended that the balance be distributed to the organizations identified in Appendix A.
Staff has reviewed these recommendations against the fund’s purpose in the appendix. Three
of the proposed grant recipients do not have registered charity status. Staff recommends that
the grants be withheld until these organizations achieve charitable status or identify a charity
willing to receive the grant and sponsor the program. Staff will report to Council with alternative
recommendations if neither of these conditions can be satisfied prior to the end of 2010.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS:
The proposed grants totalling $844,037 will expend the balance in the Musagetes Arts & Culture
Fund, in compliance with the timeline outlined in the Deed of Gift Agreement.
ACKNOWLEDGED BY:
Dan Chapman, General Manager of Financial Services & City Treasurer
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Appendix A
Musagetes Arts & Culture Fund – Proposed Grants
Organization Proposed CharitableAlignment with Fund Other Comments
Grant Status?Purpose / Anticipated
Use of Funds
The Museum $119,037 Yes Operating grant to assist
(formerly Waterloo (operating) with current operating
Regional Children’s shortfall and pay for a
$150,000
Museum)senior development staff
(endowment)
person for 6 months;
Endowment to support
ongoing operations
Kitchener-Waterloo $200,000 Yes To establish an
Art Gallery (endowment) endowment named after
Allan Harding MacKay to
cover the cost of a
special exhibit to be held
at the Gallery as income
permits
Kitchener-Waterloo $100,000 Yes To help cover costs of
Symphony(endowment) operations at the Conrad
Foundation Centre for the
Performing Arts
University of
$100,000 Yes To support ongoing Regional residents benefit
Waterloo School of (operating) operations at the from collaborations such
Architecture Musagetes Library as Symphony of Design
regional city building
architecture highlights
video and show
Perimeter Institute $50,000 Yes To support arts and Regional residents benefit
(operating) culture outreach from participation in the
annual Quantum to
Cosmos program
Canadian Clay and $25,000 Yes To support forthcoming Collaborates with City of
Glass Gallery (operating) exhibitions Kitchener based venues
such as The Waterloo
Regional Children’s
Museum on programs
CAFKA $50,000 No To support 2010 and Will require charitable
(operating) 2011 operations status or sponsor
Open Ears Festival $30,000 No To provide ongoing Will require charitable
(operating) operational support for status or sponsor
the organization
MT (Multicultural $20,000 No To support ongoing Will require charitable
Theatre) Space (operating) production work at the status or sponsor
organization
Total $844,037
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