The Joint Legislative Budget Commission adopted on September 15 Florida's Long-Range Financial Outlook Report for Fiscal Years 2018-2021. Jim will quickly review the highlights of this important planning document in the development of Florida's annual budget, and review how this information impacts our statewide advocacy efforts to secure appropriations to fund DCA 2018-2019 recommended grants.
1.a. Financial Outlook Highlights for FY 2018-2019
1.c. Complete Florida Long-Range Financial Outlook Report for
Fiscal Years 2018 through 2021.
Please Help Determine the Impact of Hurricane Irma on Florida's Arts & Culture Industry and Review of Resources for Your Use:
Guest Speakers on this topic:
Deborah Margol
Deborah Margol is the deputy director of the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs and an expert on hurricane recovery for arts and cultural organizations.
Together, let's assess the damage Hurricane Irma caused to Florida's arts and cultural facilities.
Hurricane Irma Damage Assessment for Arts & Cultural Facilities Throughout Florida:
2.a. Go
here to quickly complete this short
Hurricane Irma 2017 Preliminary Impact Assessment Statewide Cultural Damage Report Online Survey.
2.b. Forms that will be updated for Hurricane Irma -- FYI only. Once updated, we'll provide those 2017 forms to you for your use:
2.c. Americans for the Arts, as part of the National Coalition of Arts Preparedness Response, provides the
following resources. If you have additional resources, please share them with
edorman@artsusa.org; so, we can all continue to grow these resources for current and future disaster responsiveness.
Please also spread the word that arts recovery resource information is gathered on a page on the Americans for the Arts website:
www.americansforthearts.org/irma.
2.e. Your invited to participate on the second
National Coalition for Arts' Preparedness and Emergency Response call to share information on Hurricane Irma arts recovery.
Monday, September 25
1:00PM EST
Call in 712-770-4010
Passcode 362647#
2.f. Other resources or information you want to share?
The 2018 Florida Legislative Session is around the corner. It's time to get ready to advocate for arts, arts education, and cultural funding and policies for FY 2018-2019.
2018 Florida Legislative Session Dates: January 9 through March 9
3.b. Please download this August - December 2017
Suggested-Advocacy-Action Calendar with three simple and easy action steps you can take each month that will make a difference to help secure funding and policies that support our industry.
3.c. Florida Division of Cultural Affairs' (DCA) grant-review-panels are meeting nowto review the 2018-2019 DCA grants. The Florida Council on Arts and Culture will meet in Orlando on October 4 and 5. Once the Council meets and reviews and approves the panels' 2018-2019 grant recommendations, its final grant recommendations will go toSecretary of State Ken Detzner for his review and approval. The ranked 2018-2019 recommended DCA grant lists, hopefully, will be available by mid-October.
3.d.List of All 2017-2018 DCA Qualified, Funded, Partially Funded, and
Not Funded Grant Amounts Organized by Applicants and Counties
3.e. Quick Look at Final
Analysis of 2017-2018 DCA Grants by Counties
3.i. There are changes in legislative membership in 2018 for both the Florida House and Senate TED appropriations' subcommittees. As you know, the two appropriations subcommittees that deal with appropriation discussions and recommendations for the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs' grants programs are the
Contact Curtis Young at the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs for details:
850-245-6337 or curtis.young@dos.myflorida.com
4.g. U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis Arts & Cultural Satellite
Florida Fact Sheet
Federal Arts & Culture Updates
and Action Requests
5.a.
Status of Florida's Members of Congress:
Know who in Congressrepresents your county and if they are members of the arts or cultural or STEAM caucuses.
Check. Thank. Ask.
Thank them if they are members of any of these caucuses. If they are not, please ask them to please join and send them the appropriate form to easily join:
Form to Join Congressional Arts Caucus for U.S. House Members
Form to Join Cultural Caucus for U.S. Senate Members
