ZAP Event Attendance Program

The Salt Lake County Council approved a new program for distributing ZAP recipients tickets to elected officials involved in the ZAP program. This program is designed to assist the County Council in their capacity as final authority on ZAP funding. Attending recipient events will assist the Mayor, Council and appointed officials in the review and evaluation of exhibitions, programs or performances, and to officially represent the County at the event. Here’s how it works:

• Once a year each ZAP organization may invite the Mayor and Council to attend an event. Please only one invitation per organization.
  
• Send the invite via letter or email to the ZAP program at least 4 weeks in advance of the event with the following information 1) Name of the organization sending the invitation, 2) title of event with a brief description, 2) date(s), 3) location, and 4) rsvp deadline.
  
• The ZAP program will distribute your invitation and collect the responses. We will inform you of the response and assist in distributing the tickets.
  
• If you have several types of events throughout the year, you may give the Mayor and Council an option for what they can attend

The ZAP program is also working on a system to receive from those attending events, feedback on the event through a survey or similar manner. The official program description as approved by Council is located on the ZAP website on the Recipient/Applicant pages under ZAP Event Attendance Program. Read the full details approved by the Salt Lake County Council.

REVISION Budget Wisely:
2009 ZAP Revenues Less than Projected

The ZAP revenues collected so far this year are much less than originally projected. If this trend holds throughout the year, revenues will be about 12% less than in 2008. Please keep this in mind as you budget for future ZAP funding. The ZAP program encourages you to be fiscally conservative as you build your 2009-2010 budgets.

ZAP Events featured on KCPW

The ZAP program would like to thank Nancy Boskoff, Salt Lake City Arts Council and Kirk Huffaker, Utah Heritage Foundation, for representing ZAP on KCPW's Public Square program on Friday, July 18, 2008. To hear the full interview click below...

KCPW Interview with Nancy Boskoff and Kirk Huffaker