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A balanced grants program

A balanced grants program. Today’s presentation. Overview of City Life grants Consider three dimensions: Whole of city through to local Big impact or spread Our responsibility or someone else? What would an unbalanced program look like? Some reflections - no conclusions.

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A balanced grants program

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  1. A balanced grants program

  2. Today’s presentation • Overview of City Life grants • Consider three dimensions: • Whole of city through to local • Big impact or spread • Our responsibility or someone else? • What would an unbalanced program look like? • Some reflections - no conclusions

  3. BCC grants within City Life

  4. Balancing act 1 • Whole of city & high profile or emerging:Festivals

  5. 3 tier festival grants • City signature • City wide and community • Developmental

  6. Tier 1 • 3 year funding in budget • At the ‘high end’ • Riverfestival $768,000 • Brisbane Festival $512,000 • Through to: • Brisbane Writers $25,000 • Buddha’s Birthday $20,000

  7. Tier 2 • 3 year funding in budget • More focused interest • Things like: • 4MBS Classics $10,000 • Moorooka Street Festival $10,000 • Valley Jazz $5,000 • Billy Cart Capers $15,000

  8. Tier 3 • Single year funding • Competitive process • 2005/06 budget of $270,000 • Things like: • Zillmere Multicultural Festival $15,000 • Sherwood Community Festival $10,000 • Vietnamese Tet $5,000

  9. Issues • Getting on and off ‘the list’ • Alternative supports for developing festivals • Commercial pressures

  10. Balancing act 2 • Having an impact with limited funds or spreading it around:Affordable housing

  11. Brisbane Housing Company • Joint partnership BCC and Dept of Housing • $2 million annually from BCC • Offer of vacant land • Good relationship with planning and development assessment • Dilemma: complementing not supplementing public housing

  12. Private developers incentives • $750,000 available annually • Grant in exchange for 10 year covenant to provide affordable housing • Maximum of $100,000 per developer • Low take up rate: • covenant • timing • $ amount?

  13. Community providerincentives • $400,000 available annually • Average of $900 to 144 groups • Important to some groups • Maybe not all?

  14. Balancing act 3Our responsibility or someone else’s? • Traditional ‘demarcation’ between levels of government • Long standing issue of cost-shifting • Different levels of government better placed for different things • Community doesn’t distinguish - just want results

  15. When a level of government might go outside its arena • To get things started • To fill a high priority need • To pressure other levels • To encourage change/new direction • Disputed space • A ‘new’ or significantly altered policy area

  16. Works better when • Cooperation with other levels of government and community • Purposeful and planned • Scope of role clear and communicated • Solid political commitment

  17. So, what would an unbalanced grants program look like?

  18. Failing to detect and react to movement • Unbalanced program would fail to: • monitor targetting • review relationship to other activities (yours/others) • enter, stay, exit • Solve the puzzle, then start again!

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