By JIM BUTLER

GAEDA commissioners will reconsider some actions taken at their December meeting at this morning’s January session.

The posted agenda calls for reconsidering four funding agreements approved by the Greater Alexandria Economic Development Authority, including reducing one award and increasing two.

The agenda, as is standard procedure for most public bodies, includes no references to reasons why.

Proposed reconsiderations:

Cooperative Endeavor Agreement with Alexandria Museum of Art, $10,000; CEA with Rapides Symphony, $5,000, $10,000 approved last month; Grant to United Educational Missionary Baptist Association, $20,000 for meals, advertising, marketing for National Baptist Convention of America International Great Commission Church Summit February 23-25 Holiday Inn and Riverfront, $2,000 approved last month; Grant to St. Matthew Baptist Church $10,000 for meals, advertising, marketing for An Evening of Spirituals, HBCU guest choirs, February 12 Coughlin Saunders, $2,500 approved last month.

A new grant request to be considered is from Resonance Cultural Arts Initiative Inc. for $10,000 for advertising and marketing costs for the Black Brillance Art Show 2026, April 17, at Lagniappe Theatre.

GAEDA funding comes from an occupancy tax on hotel-motel rooms in the defined district.

Also on today’s agenda is approving a new contract for Executive Director Angela Varnado as well as the 2026 budget.

Details of one or the other or both are not included in the posting, standard public agency practice.