FY 2011 GRANT REVIEW PANEL MEETING MINUTES

Grant Type: General Operating Support – Small Budgets

Panel Meeting Date: May 4, 2010

Panel Members Present: Emily Baldwin, Wilmington

Michael Kalmbach, Newark

Rosemary Krill, Wilmington

Lacy Letonoff, Lewes

John Ranney, Lewes

Patricia Schectman, Dagsboro

Darlene Anita Scott, Milford

Lucinda Williams, New Castle

Gig Windley, Dover

Panel Members Absent:

Panel Chair: Lise Monty, Wilmington (DE State Arts Council)

Staff Members Present: Paul Weagraff, Division Director

Susan Salkin, Deputy Director

Program Managers - Kristin Pleasanton, Sheila Dean Ross, Roxanne Stanulis, Terry Plummer

Gwen Henderson – Administrative Specialist

Location: Delaware Technical & Community College

Corporate Training Center, Rm 407A

Dover, DE

Meeting Started: 9:00 a.m.

The grant review panel convened to evaluate applications for funding from the organizations listed below, based on pre-established criteria and scoring rubrics. Applications from arts organizations with budgets =<$50,000 were considered for support of annual operating expenses.

The grant review panel, made up of citizens from around the state, reviewed the applications in advance. At the meeting, the panel chair asked panelists to provide an objective and consistent evaluation of each applicant’s programs and operations and to measure each against the criteria in the grant application guidelines.

No. Grant Applications Reviewed: 26

Panelists/Staff recused from discussion due to a conflict of interest:

John Ranney – Southern DE Choral Society

Lucinda Williams – DE Chamber Music Festival

Applicant Name: (in order of review)

City Theater

Chesapeake Silver Cornet Brass Band

Children’s Theater of Dover

Concerts at the Beach

DE Friends of Folk

DE Photographic Society

Diamond State Chorus

Distant Voices Touring Theatre

écarté

First State Symphonic Band

Millsboro Art League

Rehoboth Summer Children’s Theatre

Capital Ringers

DE Choral Society

Dover Symphony

Mispillion Art League

Southern DE Choral Society

DE Charitable Music

El Centro Cultural

Wilmington Wintergrass

Chorus of the Brandywine

CoroAllegro

DE Chamber Music Festival

Melomanie

Milford Community Band

Rainbow Chorale of DE

Grant awards will be posted on the Division website at www.artsdel.org after the Delaware State Arts Council makes final funding recommendations and the FY2011 budget is adopted by the General Assembly. Panel comments for each of the applications will be available upon request.

Meeting adjourned: 3:15 pm