2009 Iowa Code
Title 8 - Transportation
Subtitle 1 - Highways and Waterways
CHAPTER 303 - DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS
303.3 - CULTURAL GRANT PROGRAMS.

        303.3  CULTURAL GRANT PROGRAMS.
         1.  The department shall establish a grant program for cities and
      nonprofit, tax-exempt community organizations for the development of
      community programs that provide local jobs for Iowa residents and
      also promote Iowa's historic, ethnic, and cultural heritages through
      the development of festivals, music, drama, cultural programs, or
      tourist attractions.  A city or nonprofit, tax-exempt community
      organization may submit an application to the department for review.
      The department shall establish criteria for the review and approval
      of grant applications.  The amount of a grant shall not exceed fifty
      percent of the cost of the community program.  Each application shall
      include information demonstrating that the city or nonprofit,
      tax-exempt community organization will provide matching funds of
      fifty percent of the cost of the program.  The matching funds
      requirement may be met by substituting in-kind services, based on the
      value of the services, for actual dollars.
         2.  The department shall establish a grant program which provides
      general operating budget support to major, multidisciplined cultural
      organizations which demonstrate cultural and managerial excellence on
      a continuing basis to the citizens of Iowa.  Applicant organizations
      must be incorporated under chapter 504, be exempt from federal
      taxation, and not be attached or affiliated with an educational
      institution.  Eligible organizations shall be operated on a
      year-round basis and employ at least one full-time, paid professional
      staff member.  The department shall establish criteria for review and
      approval of grant applications.  Criteria established shall include,
      but are not limited to, a matching funds requirement.  The matching
      funds requirement shall permit an applicant to meet the matching
      requirement by demonstrating that the applicant's budget contains
      funds, other than state and federal funds, in excess of the grant
      award.
         3.  Notwithstanding section 8.33, moneys committed to grantees
      under this section that remain unencumbered or unobligated on June 30
      of the fiscal year for which the funds were appropriated shall not
      revert but shall be available for expenditure for the following
      fiscal year for the purposes of subsection 2.  

         90 Acts, ch 1272, § 77; 91 Acts, ch 120, § 2; 97 Acts, ch 212,
      §32; 2004 Acts, ch 1049, §191; 2004 Acts, ch 1175, §393
         Referred to in § 99F.11, 303.3B