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children activities, vendor booths, and a silent auction, etc. The funding request will be used to partially fund the event and paying for putting together the outdoor stage, marketing, equipment rental, and hiring performance artists. Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center (Art in the Schools with Cheza Nami) and Arts in the Schools Livermore Amador Symphony, Denise Bridges and Denise Leddon — provided information about their funding request of $6,030 to be able to provide three (3) in- school cultural performing arts assemblies at two high schools and one middle school in Pleasanton. They also discussed the $4,520 grant request to be able to provide a one -year Art in Schools program. They advised that the funding would allow them to produce two performing arts assemblies at local schools (Vintage Hills and Alisal). They provided information about the success of a similar program that had been provided in Livermore. Livermore Valley Opera (LVO Pleasanton Student Outreach), Jim Schmidt — noted that the LVO Student Outreach Program has been able to bring professional singers and musicians to students at local schools, introducing and demonstrating opera to them and provide them with details about the history, performance and production of opera. Commissioners reviewed all of the applications, discussed in detail the funding recommendations that had been made through Zoomgrants, and commented on the fact that the allocations were in excess of the available funding. After much discussion regarding the funding application requests and whether they met the Commission's criteria and funding guideline statement, several funding recommendation changes were made by Commissioners with the result being that suggested funding amounts were still in excess of the amount of funding available. Representatives from both the Pleasanton Community Band and the Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center came forward and informed staff and Commissioners that they were willing to reduce their funding requests to help the Commission meet desired allocations for other agencies, and by doing so would still be able to provide the programs for which they had requested funding. LVPAC confirmed for members of the Commission that with a reduced funding amount they would still be able to offer three assemblies at three school locations in Pleasanton. Commissioners and staff thanked both of these agencies for stepping forward and generously offering to accept reduced funding amounts. After reconsidering all of the funding applications and the changes in funding requests made by the Livermore Valley Performing Arts Center and the Pleasanton Community Band, Commissioners agreed to put forward and recommend to City Council the following funding allocation amounts for a total of $45,011.81: $7,046.00 Cheza Nami Foundation, Inc. — Taste of Africa - Festival $4,200.00 Livermore Valley Opera — LVO Student Outreach $5,413.00 LVPAC — Art in Schools with Cheza Nami $2,800.00 LVPAC — Arts in the Schools with Livermore Amador Symphony $4,913.00 Pacific Chamber Symphony — Assembly Program for PUSD $2,613.00 Pacific Chamber Symphony — Middle /High School Instrumental Clinics Civic Arts Commission Minutes March 7, 2016 Page 3