(a) Except as provided in Subsection (f), contracts with organizations and individuals for cultural services shall be awarded in accordance with this section.
(b) Cultural services mean artistic and cultural services provided by individuals or organizations that have been recommended for funding by a review panel to the director of arts and culture. Eligibility requirements to serve on each review panel and a review panel process for recommendations must be approved by city council. Cultural services do not include any services described in Subsection (f) below.
(c) The director of arts and culture may procure services a maximum of five times per fiscal year for production, festivals, and exhibitions under $50,000 without panel review or recommendation by the arts and culture advisory commission as the director deems necessary to implement arts and culture programs when:
(1) timing of support needed is outside of the fiscal year's cultural support program application for cultural services;
(2) the support needed is from a Dallas-based 501(c)(3) cultural organization or individual artist;
(3) the service provided is less than one year in length; and
(4) the city manager, or designee, has issued a memorandum of justification establishing a special need that meets the requirements of Administrative Directive 4-5, as amended.
(d) Contracts for cultural services, requiring an expenditure of $50,000 or less, may be authorized by the city manager by administrative action, approved as to form by the city attorney, without further city council approval.
(e) If a contract described under this section requires an expenditure exceeding $50,000, the contract must be authorized by city council.
(f) This section does not apply to services that are required to be competitively bid under state law or subject to other state law requirements such as requirements to contact historically underutilized businesses or the special rules for architect and engineering agreements.