TO: Mayor and Commissioners
FROM: Jeffrey L. Oris, CEcD, Assistant City Manager
THROUGH: Terrence R. Moore, ICMA-CM
DATE: December 8, 2025
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FUNDING AGREEMENT INVOLVING CREATIVE CITY COLLABORATIVE OF DELRAY BEACH, INC. D/B/A ARTS GARAGE FOR $275,000
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Recommended Action:
Recommendation
Consider a motion to approve the Funding Agreement in the amount of $275,000 with Creative City Collaborative of Delray Beach, Inc. d/b/a Arts Garage.
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Background:
In an effort to insure continued funding of key Delray Beach cultural non-profit organizations that are tenants and caretakers on city-owned properties, the City Commission included continued funding for several such non-profits, formerly funded through the Delray Beach Community Redevelopment Agency's (CRA's) A-Guide program, in their FY 2025-26 budget. As it had been determined that the CRA is no longer able to provide funding to these non-profit entities due to changes in the state statutes that govern their operations, the CRA was forced to end this program as it had been implemented. All of the non-profits that had been funded (except the Delray Beach Community Land Trust who can continue to be funded by the CRA) were included in the City budget at the level of funding received from the CRAS in FY 2024-25.
Since the Creative City Collaborative of Delray Beach d/b/a Arts Garage was the only of these non-profits whom did not have an existing funding agreement with the City, the attached agreement has been prepared for the Commission's approval. Due to certain legal requirements, the agreement (and future such agreements) must be limited to annual agreements. The new agreement has also been set up such that the non-profit will received funding as soon as possible and are required to submit receipts or proper proof of payroll or other expenditures at the end of the funding term. This avoids the need for compilation reports and other such reports that several non-profits indicated cost them add...
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