Cultural Council Agenda and Packet 2014 04 17

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Louisville Cultural Council President's Notes for April, 2014 meeting: Park Hill Brass concert at Arboretum, progress report: • Front Range Community College music program will be unable to donate funds.The date is too early in the school year to reasonably send students to the event and so they can financially contribute. • We did request $1000 from SCFD for 2015 (only because that is the time period for the SCFD grant). We won't know the outcome of that request before the concert, but I will have my review with the County Cultural Council on April 29 and I suppose if they intend to reject that portion of our grant request entirely, I may get an inkling from their comments at that review. • I did present the project to the Horticulture and Forestry Advisory Board which oversees the Arboretum and they are very enthusiastic and will make a referral to the Friends of the Arboretum which may contribute a small sum to the project.They also suggested a few other ideas for raising funds that I have not yet had the time to explore. This would include asking the City to consider funding a portion as an alternative to Fourth of July that won't be held at the Golf Course and asking Oscar Blues for keg donations, then selling the beer (would have to then be a FOB event, in collaboration with LCC, not an LCC event) They also agreed to help us figure out the funding piece (meaning what local givers might be tapped to help out) • Jackie Victor, one spokesperson for Park Hill Brass is applying for a $500 grant from CU from their music performance funds and is confident it will be awarded..the award is made in late May. Food Truck Ordinance • The planning board's first review requested the City consider carving out special consideration for events at Louisville Center for the Arts which is in a residential zone and subject to residential limiations on food trucks (eg, no by -right use, only as allowed by special permit) • The City Planning Department has decided that treating the Arts Center differently than the rest of the properties which are zoned residential is inconsistent and not a policy that they can support. They do maintain that private parties can engage a food truck if they meet the proper permission requirements. By the time of our meeting I will have written a note to the Planning Board asking that the LCA, as a unique property, have clearly designated permission to engage a food truck vendor when that use is connected to an event at the arts center. Udate on Old Town Cinema Events: • By the time of our meeting, the latest event, Deceptive Practices, will have been held. The liquor license was not problematic. The food truck event permit (normal fee of $200) was waived by the City. A permit fee of $200 would have made the use of a food truck economically impractical. The lowest guarantee Jill could find for vendor