ABSTRACT: Coucours on the Avenue’s charitable donations to The Carmel Foundation amounted to $25,000. In an unrelated announcement, SCC Chairman Perry Walker announced that the $120,000 “Working Capital Advance” was returned in full to the City at the end of the 4th quarter. And interestingly, he stated because of the “realities of the marketplace,” SCC is now the major producer at Sunset Center and “I have to put the praise where it belongs and that sits with Jack Globenfelt,” SCC Executive Director.
City Council Agenda
Regular Meeting
August 7, 2007
V. Announcements from Closed Session, from City Council Members and the City Administrator.
C. Announcements from City Administrator.
• Car Week update
• SCC, Inc. year end financial report
• Charitable Donations to The Carmel Foundation from Carmel-by-the-Sea Concours on the Avenue includes $15,000 from unsolicited donations and $10,000 from sponsors.
Doug Freedman
Carmel-by-the-Sea Concours on the Avenue Organizer:
“And something really fantastic. We received more than $15,000 in contributions to The Carmel Foundation that came with our entry applications, which is no fee, write a check to The Carmel Foundation, and on top of that we have our event patron program which is generating an additional $10,000 on top of that for The Foundation.”
(Stated by Doug Freedman, City Council meeting, August 7, 2007)
• “Praise where it belongs and that sits with Jack Globenfelt...”
“As you remember, when we took over Sunset, we really assumed we were going to be putting on 10 events, that would be Performance Carmel. But because of the realities of the marketplace, many of the presenters that were in the theater prior to the renovation either did not come back or they reduced their performances, so Sunset Center has had to step in, as you can see by these numbers, we are the major presenter now at Sunset, we are taking that risk. And that is a huge change in what our original mission was and I have to put the praise where it belongs and that sits with Jack Globenfelt who came in and his strength was presenting and finding those kinds of performances that we could put in Sunset, keep the utilization up and come out with a positive number.”
(Stated by Perry Walker, Chairman, Sunset Cultural Center, Inc. (SCC), City Council meeting, August 7, 2007)
• $120,000 “Working Capital Advance,” given to SCC in 2004, was returned as SCC did not spend any of the working capital advance and as stipulated in the Agreement.
“I’m happy and proud to say that we returned $120,000 Working Capital Advance back to the city this quarter.”
(Stated by Perry Walker, Chairman, Sunset Cultural Center, Inc. (SCC), City Council meeting, August 7, 2007)
Note: Originally, the $120,000 was to be the second year start-up grant; but because of delays, at the inception of the Agreement between the City of Carmel-by-the-Sea and SCC, the City gave $105,000 to SCC in the form of a “Start-Up Grant,” $120,000 to SCC in the form of “Working Capital Advance” and an Enabling Grant for the management of Sunset Center.
2 comments:
$25K doesn't seem much of a recompense for the inconvenience all of Carmel's residents, who are not classic car fans, had to put up with.
The Sunset Center used to be a community asset that could be utilized by all kinds of local groups and organizations. Now the rental fees for a room or the auditorium are so steep that few can afford them. Organizations that traditionally performed there have had to go elsewhere or been driven out of existence. Those that remain from the smallest to the largest are looking for alternatives because the Sunset Center is no longer interested in supporting the community and has said it will be jacking fees even higher. Even trying to maximize its profit at all costs, the private organization that has run the Sunset Center (and has just been given a new three year contract by the city after three years of poor performance) is not living up to the promises its board made in order to get the original contract. It still costs the City of Carmel $1,500,000 a year, give or take a few dollars, to support Sunset with no real end in sight.
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