The Soldotna City Council enacted an ordinance accepting grant funds from the Alaska State Council of the Arts Community Arts Partnership Grant and increasing the estimated revenues and appropriations by $20,000 in the Parks and Recreation Capital Project Fund for the development of an arts and culture master plan.
Stephanie Queen, Soldotna City Manager, on accepting grant funds;
“One of the concepts was to work with the community in a community-engagement effort in development of a plan that would look at existing culture resources and organizations, existing opportunities and potential next step. We had applied for two separate grants; one was through the State of Alaska’s Council on the Arts and that’s the grant we recently were notified that the city’s been awarded.”
The proposed budget for this project included $20,000 in matching funds from the City’s Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds under the American Rescue Plan Act, which were previously appropriated.
Queen on original grant as matching funds.
“ The original grant of $20,000, we had proposed in our original grant application a matching amount of $20,000 from the ARPA funds which was already appropriated.” We will put out a competitive RSP for a consultant. I think this grant has a fairly quick timeline so I anticipate that work would start immediately and I believe has to be completed by the end of June.”
These funds will support the development of an Arts and Culture Master Plan for the City of Soldotna.