The following definitions shall apply when used in this
chapter unless otherwise noted:
"Advisory committee" means the committee
comprised of at least three representatives from across the state with
expertise in the arts, history, and economic development. The advisory
committee shall review each application and make recommendations to the
director for funding of eligible projects.
"Application" means an official ICCG
application form as provided by the authority.
"Authority" means the Iowa economic
development authority.
"Community group" means an Iowa nonprofit,
tax-exempt organization which is open to the general public and established for
the promotion and development of one or more of the following disciplines or
activities: the arts, history, culture, ethnicity, historic preservation,
tourism, economic development, festivals, or municipal libraries. "Community
group" shall not include a school, college, university, political party, labor
union, state or federal government agency, religious organization, church,
convention, or association of churches operated primarily for religious
purposes, or operated, supervised, controlled or principally supported by a
religious organization, church, convention, or association of churches.
"Community group" also shall not include any organization whose primary purpose
is to support any excluded type of organization.
"Director" means the director of the
authority, or designee.
"Eligible activity" means a qualified
festival; performing, visual, or literary arts project; historic preservation,
museum, tourism, or ethnic heritage project which will enhance Iowa's cultural
climate, and which will provide jobs for Iowans while serving the general
public.
"Eligible applicant" means an incorporated
city in Iowa, county government, tribal council, or an Iowa community group
which is federally tax-exempt under United States Internal Revenue Code Section
501(c)(3) and incorporated under the Iowa nonprofit corporation Act. Iowa
community groups may apply for ICCG funds through a fiscal agent which is
federally tax-exempt and otherwise eligible to apply.
"Fiscal agent" means an organization which
meets the definition of eligible applicant, and which serves as the legal
applicant of record, redistributes the funds to the intended receiver, and is
responsible for all published requirements of the ICCG program including
contracts, budgets, fiscal records, and reports.
"Grantee" means any applicant receiving
grant funds under the ICCG program.
"ICCG" means the Iowa community cultural
grants program as administered by the authority.
"In-kind contribution" means a noncash
contribution provided by a grantee as a part of the grantee's matching share of
a project.
"Matching funds" means those funds which are
locally contributed for the specifically funded project and which, when
combined with in-kind contributions, shall equal at least 50 percent or more of
the total project cost. Matching funds shall be provided by the eligible
applicant and shall not include any portion of another authority, Iowa arts
council, or state historical society of Iowa grant.
"Proposed project" means an eligible
activity for which an eligible applicant has submitted a single application for
funding of a single project.
